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Why I hate Spell Resistance
Jul. 22nd, 2005 12:27 amToday was Jack's last day at work for almost three weeks, because he is going off to Scotland for vacation and Worldcon and things like that. The scary part is how completely indispensible he is to our group at work. Today he tried to impart some of his brain to me. Hopefully I won't have to actually *do* the code rollout much while he's gone though :)
Unfortunately as a result I not only missed going to the gym but I even got home fairly late. Oh well. I mean, there'll be other gym days.
I was a little bit stressed out about it and all, but you know, after I'd been at work about an hour I looked up the Mariners game, which had started up at 9:37am PDT (!) and saw that Joel Pineiro was already down 5-0, and suddenly my morning didn't seem so bad.
We had D&D today, after pretty much getting the entire clan together for tasty pasta and tomatoes and whatnot for dinner. In D&D, we cleared out another floor or two of the castle. I did kick ass, but I had one particularly horribly annoying moment. I whined to Carl on AIM over my phone:
Me: Hi, can I whine at you for a sec?
Carl: Um, sure
Carl: Unless it's about metallurgy
Me: No, d&d
Carl: okay
Me: So we're facing a roper, which is huge and scary
Me: I cast disintegrate on him
Carl: right
Me: I roll a 20 to hit
Me: So I roll for crit, which succeeds
Me: And I get ready to roll 52d6
Carl: okay
Me: ...and Justin says, "wait, roll spell resistance"
Me: I roll a 7, for a 24
Me: It has SR25
Carl: ...
Me: Yeah
Me: I really needed to whine, but the battle is still going on
The really sad part is that a minute later I totally killed the roper thing with a Scorching Ray, since they're super-weak against fire. And then we had this awful huge creature that came after us right after, which had no spell resistance and would have been AWESOME to take down with Disintegrate.
Sigh.
(For the record, Janthina is a 15th level character but a 13th level spellcaster, with Greater Spell Penetration, hence the 52d6 for the Disintegrate crit, and the +17 to SR check)
Oh well. After the game I talked to people and it sounds like we'll end up having me and Megan and Colleen (and Heidi??) go to the Stitch'n'Pitch. Whee!
Unfortunately as a result I not only missed going to the gym but I even got home fairly late. Oh well. I mean, there'll be other gym days.
I was a little bit stressed out about it and all, but you know, after I'd been at work about an hour I looked up the Mariners game, which had started up at 9:37am PDT (!) and saw that Joel Pineiro was already down 5-0, and suddenly my morning didn't seem so bad.
We had D&D today, after pretty much getting the entire clan together for tasty pasta and tomatoes and whatnot for dinner. In D&D, we cleared out another floor or two of the castle. I did kick ass, but I had one particularly horribly annoying moment. I whined to Carl on AIM over my phone:
Me: Hi, can I whine at you for a sec?
Carl: Um, sure
Carl: Unless it's about metallurgy
Me: No, d&d
Carl: okay
Me: So we're facing a roper, which is huge and scary
Me: I cast disintegrate on him
Carl: right
Me: I roll a 20 to hit
Me: So I roll for crit, which succeeds
Me: And I get ready to roll 52d6
Carl: okay
Me: ...and Justin says, "wait, roll spell resistance"
Me: I roll a 7, for a 24
Me: It has SR25
Carl: ...
Me: Yeah
Me: I really needed to whine, but the battle is still going on
The really sad part is that a minute later I totally killed the roper thing with a Scorching Ray, since they're super-weak against fire. And then we had this awful huge creature that came after us right after, which had no spell resistance and would have been AWESOME to take down with Disintegrate.
Sigh.
(For the record, Janthina is a 15th level character but a 13th level spellcaster, with Greater Spell Penetration, hence the 52d6 for the Disintegrate crit, and the +17 to SR check)
Oh well. After the game I talked to people and it sounds like we'll end up having me and Megan and Colleen (and Heidi??) go to the Stitch'n'Pitch. Whee!
