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[chess]

I probably owe you all a LJ entry, although I'm still stuck at skip=100 right now. In case I hadn't told you, I'm
off to freeze my butt off on a campsite near Manchester this weekend, in the name of Live Action Role-Play. This is all phamster's fault. Should be fun,
even if my period decided to be a week late, in the spirit of 'turning up at precisely the wrong moment'. Technically
I should have expected it, with all the random swapping around it's done in the past to safeguard me from going anywhere near a swimming pool at a SU holiday.

I've spent the last week expecting to have a period and hence being very snappy and PMT-ish; I was meant to be leading at CH last Thursday but thought it was best not after having chewed several people out over the course of the day. I probably should stop beating up on Helena for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it doesn't seem to bother her, so I guess it's not too much of a priority.

We had Economics in the computer room yesterday and she discovered how to make Laura (the small one) jump, and then we sent a wheely chair over (express delivery) and declared that it was 'give Laura a heart attack day'. (The chair was originally aimed for a) the centre of the room, b) Mr Moore, but I decided it was altogether too obvious that I was the only one with a good angle to those places whereas as Helena had already been tormenting Laura she was the first suspect for the chair delivery.)

Yes, I'm mean. Did you have a question?

Anyway, Laura was playing Tetris and Pacman when we were meant to be working; at least we were pretending to be working while we talked about AD&D characters. The reason I'm at skip=100 is that I've spent an inordinate amount of time creating and messing with an 18th-level AD&D character for a random Rondak's Portal game Melody insisted we both applied for. I burnt two evenings trying to maximise her saves and AC. Her history is over 3500 words long - well, she *is* an eighteenth level elf, 170 years old, multiclassed four ways (Barbarian 1 / Fighter 4 / Order of the Bow Initiate 8 / Ghostwalker 5). And now her fortitude save is +30 and her AC is 41. She has four or five arrowshots (five if she
takes -2 to hit) at 1d8+13+1d6 per arrow, add another damage if she's firing masterwork or magic arrows. I still don't
give her thirty seconds against Melody's sorceress, though.

I am skipping school today. This is Naughty. Then again, I *am* in the 6th form and my parents are fully colluding
on the issue, so *shrug*.

Comments

[jaq.livejournal.com]

Have fun at your LARP thing. There's something I never tried, so I'll be a teeny-weeny bit jealous.

[naath.livejournal.com]

/goes off to look at LARP site.

is vaguely annoyed.

Why no alcohol? it's supposed to be fun? besides, it's supposed to mediaeval, and all they ever drank was ale.

And who cares what clothes you show up in? you have to wear a *costume* for it.

Gods! Who's running this?

I'm sure the actually LARP part is proably fun, but I wouldn't go to an event that I couldn't wear what I wanted to on the train over.

WOW COOL

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

Can you help me with my epic level charector when jimmy lets us play. i want to see him weep. and if you can that those good stats out of 18th level i cant wait to see a 30th lev char you can makeup. If you have the time that is. otherwise it will be half ork half deamon with 20 levs fighter and 10 levs barbairian. or ill be sick and put all 30 levs in barbarian. ;-)

And if my current char dies (the lev 7 fighter and lev 1 barbarian who has a +21 to hit with his +3 great axe) im comming back as a half drow necromancer whith as much presteage class in litch as i can have. Hey my gm is a crule man some times so i can be a crule player. And when the hole lot of us get together were so like knights of the dinner table its not funny.

OK inportant stuff. Whitch AD&D 3rd ED sorce book do you want?

And good luck with the live role playing. It can be fun just dont get a non throughing dagger right in the eye like i did its is really painfull and there was a bump and bruise fora few days.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Now I suspect some of those are prestige classes, but even so: exp penalties?

Do you know abouth those things.

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

I need to know exactly how to do what i want to do and what it actually does. so that my gm can decide weather he will let me play it.


Please educate me

Re: Do you know abouth those things.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Go out and buy a Players Handbook you cheapskate.

(The character descriped by you would incur a -20% XP penalty unless they were human, half elven, half orc or possibly dwarf (not sure about the last, my PH is packed).

Re: Do you know abouth those things.

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

i know that mate. sorry i was talking about the litch stuff.

And thanks i just re-installed win 2k and you have helped me test that my lj still works.

[chess]

There's alcohol on the Saturday night; it's just that if you're drunk while adventuring you're more likely to fall down places, or get carried away, and break things (yourself/equipment/other people). As for 'what clothes you show up in', you can show up in anything you like as long as you have the stuff to get changed into, it's just that it's easier not to have to lug an entire change of clothing that you'll have to change into immediately (they don't have *that* much costume to lend out, for example they don't have any trousers to lend out, so you're expected to bring as much as possible that could pass for costume).

Personally, I think it would be quite amusing to wear full kit on the train over, but my parents would kill me if I tried :).

Re: WOW COOL

[chess]

I got a sword in the eye, but it didn't do any particular damage; I did fall over onto concrete and skin the side of my right hand, though. All good fun.

I've got quite a few now (found somewhere to d/l them from) but if you can get your hands on the Epic Level Handbook and Magic of Faerun that would be cool (and would make it easier to create your Stupidly High Level Character).

[chess]

I'm playing 'let's see if they notice' right now (due to not knowing how to calculate the wretched thing), but I can lose a level or two of Order of the Bow Initiate without losing much of the coolest stuff, so it won't be a great problem.

Re: Do you know abouth those things.

[chess]

Mm. That could complicate my history, but I could make her half-elven at a stretch.

Re: WOW COOL

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

Epic Level Handbook and Magic of Faerun are yours ;-)

Sorry you got hit in the eye and fell over hope it didnt hert too much and glad you had fun.

Also where is it that you can down load them as i really need to find out about this liche master prestige class?


Have a nice day

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[naath.livejournal.com]

nah. They say you can't show up in biker leathers (unless with bike) or T-shirts with 'occult' stuff or band names.

Costume I get.

[chess]

I.e. don't make people more scared of us than they are already :). I mean, we did enough scaring-of-the-normals while on-site in costume; they don't want to scare people like, for instance, *my parents*.

Re: Do you know abouth those things.

[passage.livejournal.com]

I meant dr_vannacutt's character.

I can't work out the XP penalties for your character as you have several classes not listed in the PHB, which suggests to me that they're prestige classes and therefore might not suffer XP penalties.

However, you'll certainly suffer a -20% XP penalty for having 1 barb, 4 fighter.

Either go for 2 Barb, 3 Fighter, or pick a race which favours either to avoid the problem (Human or half elf (but half elves kinda suck) or half-orc or dwarf).

[chess]

I have to have 4 fighter for weapon specialisation. (Originally she was 5 barbarian, but then I couldn't have Order of the Bow.)

Half-orc almost works with the history, but she's meant to be a dex monster, so losing two points messes that up a bit.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Ah, look more carefully: you don't need level 4 fighter to get weapon specialisation, you just need some fighter and a base attack bonus of 4 or higher, now if you were purely fighter then that doesn't happen till fighter level 4, but a 3 Barb/1 Fighter could get weapon specialisation.

Personally I've been considering getting 1 level of fighter just for this, the XP penalties would hardly matter as if we advance another level it will certainly be the last of the campaign. However it would be deeply out of character, a clear act of max/mining.

How about 3 Barb/2 Figher, as you don't get an extra feat for 3 fighter?

[chess]

Ooh. Good idea. That would be more useful in general, too.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Oh pants, I'm wrong. I checked again and it is actually lv. 4 fighter rather than the base attack bonus (just about all the others run on base attack bonus and it seems I got confused), sorry.