Wednesday - D&D
Tonight we had our first session of our new D&D campaign at Josh and Megan's house. Justin is running the City of the Spider Queen.
I felt really bad because my character wasn't ready before I went over... but then I got there and nobody else's characters were ready either :)
Things are stabilized -- Cory is playing a rogue (with 2 levels of rangers), Mike is playing a half-orc monk (no joke), Josh is a badass fighter/cleric of strength&war, and I'm an eldritch knight. This is gonna be a great character because I have to figure out my instincts of wizard vs. fighter. In today's session I did a little of both... I mean I'm going around with essentially Greyhawk-Janthina's stats and equipment, down to the longbow and longsword and +2 elven chain. I was joking I should just name this character Janthina actually, but eh, that'd be silly. By my naming trend I think this character has to be Faustine because it's the most elven-warrior-sounding but I haven't quite decided. (So far used for characters: Calandra, Hannah, Janthina. Unused: Abigail, Faustine, Gardenia. If you know why, I will give you a cookie.)
Anyway we basically kinda just had the characters start off and we got into a fight against an undead wizard dude who basically cast improved invisibility and then we took 1.5 hours to defeat him. It got kinda ridiculous. I started off the battle shooting arrows, then went into combat casting mode and started counterspelling stuff. See, the undead dude kept casting lightning bolts and I had a few memorized so I was like "harr.. COUNTERSPELL!" Justin wasn't expecting that, but it worked really well, I countered the guy's lightning bolt and haste and TRIED to counter improved invis with a dispel magic but failed. Ah well. Still it was interesting to walk in as a fighter and walk out as a wizard. I may do that a lot.
I decided to specialize in Evocation, go figure (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
platypuslord would probly like this character really), nuking Enchantment and Necromancy. I haven't fleshed out my character's entire spellbook yet, but to give you an idea of her style, besides that she walks into a room in armor and carries a mighty composite longbow +2 and a longsword and looks like an elven army sergeant, my memorized spells were: 1 - (E) Burning Hands, Magic Missile, Feather Fall, Identify, Grease, Shocking Grasp 2 - (E) Scorching Ray, Invisibility, Levitate, Darkvision, Bull's Strength 3 - (E) Fireball, Lightning Bolt, Haste, Dispel Magic, Fireball 4 - (E) Ice Storm, Dimension Door, Lesser Globe of Invulnerability, Shout. Seriously... I'm telling you, this character likes to go out and blow shit up. If only they hadn't nerfed Spell Focus so it's only a +1... ah well. I'm thinking her alignment will be True Neutral, tending towards Chaotic Neutral. These guys have only seen me roleplay my wussy lawful good druid last campaign so it'll be a nice change. :)
I felt really bad because my character wasn't ready before I went over... but then I got there and nobody else's characters were ready either :)
Things are stabilized -- Cory is playing a rogue (with 2 levels of rangers), Mike is playing a half-orc monk (no joke), Josh is a badass fighter/cleric of strength&war, and I'm an eldritch knight. This is gonna be a great character because I have to figure out my instincts of wizard vs. fighter. In today's session I did a little of both... I mean I'm going around with essentially Greyhawk-Janthina's stats and equipment, down to the longbow and longsword and +2 elven chain. I was joking I should just name this character Janthina actually, but eh, that'd be silly. By my naming trend I think this character has to be Faustine because it's the most elven-warrior-sounding but I haven't quite decided. (So far used for characters: Calandra, Hannah, Janthina. Unused: Abigail, Faustine, Gardenia. If you know why, I will give you a cookie.)
Anyway we basically kinda just had the characters start off and we got into a fight against an undead wizard dude who basically cast improved invisibility and then we took 1.5 hours to defeat him. It got kinda ridiculous. I started off the battle shooting arrows, then went into combat casting mode and started counterspelling stuff. See, the undead dude kept casting lightning bolts and I had a few memorized so I was like "harr.. COUNTERSPELL!" Justin wasn't expecting that, but it worked really well, I countered the guy's lightning bolt and haste and TRIED to counter improved invis with a dispel magic but failed. Ah well. Still it was interesting to walk in as a fighter and walk out as a wizard. I may do that a lot.
I decided to specialize in Evocation, go figure (
platypuslord would probly like this character really), nuking Enchantment and Necromancy. I haven't fleshed out my character's entire spellbook yet, but to give you an idea of her style, besides that she walks into a room in armor and carries a mighty composite longbow +2 and a longsword and looks like an elven army sergeant, my memorized spells were: 1 - (E) Burning Hands, Magic Missile, Feather Fall, Identify, Grease, Shocking Grasp 2 - (E) Scorching Ray, Invisibility, Levitate, Darkvision, Bull's Strength 3 - (E) Fireball, Lightning Bolt, Haste, Dispel Magic, Fireball 4 - (E) Ice Storm, Dimension Door, Lesser Globe of Invulnerability, Shout. Seriously... I'm telling you, this character likes to go out and blow shit up. If only they hadn't nerfed Spell Focus so it's only a +1... ah well. I'm thinking her alignment will be True Neutral, tending towards Chaotic Neutral. These guys have only seen me roleplay my wussy lawful good druid last campaign so it'll be a nice change. :)
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I guess I'm just used to opposites cancelling each other out, not ignoring each other.
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Under Second Edition, where they had the opposing-schools system, the "opposite" of Divination was Necromancy, which makes no sense whatsoever. They were apparently using "opposite" to mean "most different from", which is a rather unintuitive thing.