ogs begin picking off runaways.
The mage (who is a Dark Sun elf) quickly catches up to the target, begins dragging him back. Dogs are following. I recklessly throw javelins to draw them off the mage, and am quickly downed.
Mage returns the favor with Magic Missiles. I'm drug up onto one of the enormous wheels of the thing, stabilized. Mage has to run off to do something else.
My unconscious body falls off the wheel and is chewed on by dogs. The kobold-golem had emerged by this point and drives them off.
And, I quote:
Mage: Now that the dogs are off I'll climb down and give him the Dr. House treatment.
Me: Well, at least you'll know it's not lupus....no, wait, I was killed by dogs. It's lupus.
So there's that.
The game I play in is 3.5E -> E6 through Trailblazer, and the DM is trying out a new thing where we can start multiclassing in lieu of taking another feat, and gain other class's benefits, up to level 6 - for example, the wizard is a Wizard 6/Spirit Shaman 1 - he gets the Spirit Shaman 1 benefits that aren't overrun by the Wizard benefits he already has (which is none so far). It's a "best-of" gestalt.
I have my doubts about the long term validity. I don't necessarily see why everyone wouldn't have 6 levels of Fighter and Wizard, no matter their core concept, or at what point it becomes more complicated to manage than just leveling up past 6th - at some point (which is already here) your limited number of actions as a single character as opposed to your total number of options for actions available becomes unwieldy. Additionally, as 3E presents itself, you are going to come up against opponents who are more difficult than they really need to be simply because you've got an abstract power level that's not really anywhere near your applicable power level, and 3E really begs you to balance your encounter scales. I don't think I've met a caravan guard with less than 2HD.
But, hey. That's why this is an ACKS blog, and I'm not running that game.
We're a few E6 feat-slots into it by now, so I'm working up a:
Monk 6 + (Fighter 2+Hexblade 2)
which is so far ridiculous. I'll post it later, just to share the madness. I have my doubts I can make anything similar in ACKS, as I did with the previous character, but I'll sure try.
> I have my doubts about the long term validity. I don't necessarily see why everyone wouldn't have 6 levels of Fighter and Wizard, no matter their core concept
The Elder Scrolls problem. I'd actually be sort of curious to see how Trailblazer's numerical analyses are altered by that houserule (or E6 in general). But yeah, I agree that I'm a lot happier running ACKS these days :P
Exactly that - Full BAB, d10 HP, 6 levels of Wizard. Cleric might be even harsher, since there's no problem with armor and you get a lot of spells that can increase your staying power, if not your theoretical damage output.
Trailblazer actually fixes a major problem with stacking classes, in that the unified spellcaster mechanics don't allow for you having two or more completely different table of available spell slots, so there's that.
As far as TB's "Spine" analysis, I think the simpliest way to boil that down is that a PC only has one action set per round, so it's acting at the most efficient category in whatever it does, if it's maximally multiclassed. The big thing that happens (and this may have slipped under the DM's radar) is that if my 1st class has 2 good saves and 2 poor saves, per TB, and my second class chooses a *different* set of good saves, I can have all good saves once I have two classes of 6th level. (which is slightly redundant since the Monk gets a version of that already anyway)
Assuming at some point I end up Monk 6, Fighter 6, Hexblade 6, it'll be interesting to see what to do next. Probably Ninja, since it also gets a bonus to AC which stacks with the Monk's (only a +1 at level 6) plus Sneak Attack.
I am kinda using this to see how hard I can break it. I took Hexblade just for Arcane Mettle (Evasion for Fort/Will saves). I didn't know the Hexblade's spell list sucked so hard.
We had our first session Sunday morning, and this character is Super Effective. The streamlining TB did with Grapple/Trip/etc. means I can lay some people down and keep freedom of movement, without a bunch of opposed rolls.
We were still at that giant caravan temple thing, and I came in as one of the slaves on that ship (who remembered he had PC class levels all of a sudden :)) I grappled the main Templar that had escaped earlier from the poker game, and jumped off the building. Let him go with a free action, Monk-Slow-Fall'd my way to safety to the patio below. I did it again with a random guard just because I needed to get downstairs quickly.Since my last post, but a few hours ago, there have been several new developements. First of all, thanks for all of you that prayed... God was good to us. The momma cat returned (despite the fright she received two nights ago from my shrieking roommates) and climbed down the stairs proceeding to retrieve kitten number 1.
I wasn't using a flash on my camera for fear that the momma kitten would be scared and run off leaving kitten 1 on the stairs. Now what? Kitten 2 was out of the hole behind our shower and was now wandering around and crying IN the shower.
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Praying for a great solution, but being a cat lover and knowing cats pretty intimately, don't be surprised if the Momcat and babies return. Once fed, they think that is their home. If you can keep them, please don't feed them tuna. It is the worst for cats. Yeah, catfood with tuna is probably an exception, but regular people grade tuna can cause crystals to form in their urinary tract, blockages, resulting in urinary tract infection (UTI), much pain, and even death.
Loved the pics of the cute little creeters anyway.
God's blessings!
A fellow All Souls-er
Hey there! Thanks for the tips... we certainly can't keep them, no matter what... and they don't keep cats as pets here so there isn't any catfood. I have never owned cats...we were just happy to find something that got them out of the hole! Blessings!
I didn't think you could keep them, especially since you are coming home soon. :-)
No cats as pets. Wonder how they ended up over there. Makes me sad for the kitties but if they don't know any differently.....
I'm glad you found a solution to get them out of the hole anyway. We did the same (using tuna as bait) to rescue a cat from the top of a power pole.
Blessings! Stay safe and healthy.
Glad the critters are in their appropriate place again..at least, for the nonce. Like anonymous mentioned, once having eaten in a place, it looks like home to them. There is sound basis for the "plot" in that old folksong about the Cat came Back the very next day......now, one tactic that works VERY well in training cats to behave (yes, they CAN be trained...) is to get a squirt gun or spritz bottle (nozzle turned for stream, not spray) and very faithfully blast them with water whenever they transgress the determined limits..such as attempting to enter the house. The rebellious one might suffer half a dozen solid squirts before HE wises up...typically two, maybe three times suffices. For some adult cats particularly self-centred and stubborn, a Super Soaker, pumped up hard, will need to be employed....mainly because of the great range they have. Yes, we HAVE been given the Dominion Mandate...not all creatures are best let to do/go as they please. Interesting that cats are not kept as pets there....maybe they're read Kipling's hilarious tale of The Cat who Walked by His Lone..and taken it to heart. (it's in his Just So Stories......)
Yes, the possible return of kitties is a concern. We blocked off the little hole so that the kittens would be more easily caught, should any try falling down from the roof again. But none have tried entering that way, or any other way...yet... Most of the time, the cats stay on various roofs,walls, etc. We don't have a squirt gun... I think we have an AK and a pellet gun... but maybe we should invest in something milder. But for starts we are just praying that we don't have any problems at all.
Glad to know that the kitties are safe with their mommy. Fun adventure though, despite all the yowling!Parakalo is a Greek restaurant located on the Jaffa sea front and is in the style of the Mediterranean beach restaurant like in Greece and turkey where the dominant style is fish and seafood fresh