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Stuff and D&D and stuff
Yesterday I had a pretty good day at work. I stayed until like 10pm -- I had to put together some files for a release. I ended up using up my Subway card points for a free foot-long sub for dinner, since I'm not sure how often I'll end up at Subway anymore. Arr.
Stopped by Sunset for one game of DDR. Wossname older woman I forget, she's got to be at least 40 (since I know she has a college-age son) but is blonde and built well so she looks like a teenager from the back, was there playing DDR too. I played like one game and my brain was just shot -- I did, and AA'ed, Higher Oni, BIMP, and White Lovers, with misses in every song. Yuck. Got Leading Cyber as an extra stage on random, and gave up 2/3 of the way through. I suck.
Sinlaeshel and I started a quest to go around the ocean and pick up all our stray money from random islands. We covered Sapphire last night with Dorien and Hatchetback and Nauta, and covered half of Coral tonight just the two of us. I'm back up to Ultimate in everything but Spades. Grrr.
Oh, and tonight I also had D&D. It was mostly a levelling/shopping session. We continued where we left off in the drow temple, and Cory snuck up and found the top of the spider thingy. We decided to go look in the spider head chamber, but triggered a magic trap. A big-ass demon spider appeared and smacked me for like 40 HP in one shot... and fortunately I beat its initiative after that and Dimension Doored us down to where Josh was with Mike's dead body, and we all teleported out. We got to level from 11 to 13 (since we hadn't come out of the dungeon for a bazillion sessions), which is exciting. I get 6th level spells now (since I'm 6 Wizard, 1 Fighter, 6 Eldritch Knight). It wasn't hard to pick out my two 6th level spells... I looked at the Evocation list and went "CHAIN LIGHTNING DUUUUDE" and then Disintegrate is an obvious second. Oooooh. As for my 5th level, I'm looking at Permanence and Wall of Force (to go with Teleport and Cone of Cold). Hey Carl, did you notice that in 3.5 they actually made a specific 5th-level wizard spell called "Baleful Polymorph"? I would have taken that and started turning opposing wizards into turtles, but I figured it really isn't this character's style.
Anyway, we all had like 15k to spend after cashing in our loot. I couldn't come up with anything to get except a Lesser Rod of Metamagic/Maximize for 14k. That'll be sweet though. I'll be able to cast maximized fireballs/lightningbolts three times a day without wasting extra spell slots. No rolling 10d6, just going "blammo! 60 points of damage to all of you! suckers!"
I should write about baseball one of these days but I've been too preoccupied. Whee.
Stopped by Sunset for one game of DDR. Wossname older woman I forget, she's got to be at least 40 (since I know she has a college-age son) but is blonde and built well so she looks like a teenager from the back, was there playing DDR too. I played like one game and my brain was just shot -- I did, and AA'ed, Higher Oni, BIMP, and White Lovers, with misses in every song. Yuck. Got Leading Cyber as an extra stage on random, and gave up 2/3 of the way through. I suck.
Sinlaeshel and I started a quest to go around the ocean and pick up all our stray money from random islands. We covered Sapphire last night with Dorien and Hatchetback and Nauta, and covered half of Coral tonight just the two of us. I'm back up to Ultimate in everything but Spades. Grrr.
Oh, and tonight I also had D&D. It was mostly a levelling/shopping session. We continued where we left off in the drow temple, and Cory snuck up and found the top of the spider thingy. We decided to go look in the spider head chamber, but triggered a magic trap. A big-ass demon spider appeared and smacked me for like 40 HP in one shot... and fortunately I beat its initiative after that and Dimension Doored us down to where Josh was with Mike's dead body, and we all teleported out. We got to level from 11 to 13 (since we hadn't come out of the dungeon for a bazillion sessions), which is exciting. I get 6th level spells now (since I'm 6 Wizard, 1 Fighter, 6 Eldritch Knight). It wasn't hard to pick out my two 6th level spells... I looked at the Evocation list and went "CHAIN LIGHTNING DUUUUDE" and then Disintegrate is an obvious second. Oooooh. As for my 5th level, I'm looking at Permanence and Wall of Force (to go with Teleport and Cone of Cold). Hey Carl, did you notice that in 3.5 they actually made a specific 5th-level wizard spell called "Baleful Polymorph"? I would have taken that and started turning opposing wizards into turtles, but I figured it really isn't this character's style.
Anyway, we all had like 15k to spend after cashing in our loot. I couldn't come up with anything to get except a Lesser Rod of Metamagic/Maximize for 14k. That'll be sweet though. I'll be able to cast maximized fireballs/lightningbolts three times a day without wasting extra spell slots. No rolling 10d6, just going "blammo! 60 points of damage to all of you! suckers!"
I should write about baseball one of these days but I've been too preoccupied. Whee.
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You get 6th level spells, and didn't consider Guards and Wards? or Legend Lore? or heck, Contingency?!
I'm reminded of a party we had of a paladin, and three specialist wizards. We had, by the time we were using 3rd level spells, -1- Direct damage spell among us, not counting cantrips, and two of us actually picked Evocation is a forbidden school.
3 Mages and nobody even -knew- Magic Missile, or Melf's Acid Arrow
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This spell is often less than useful for the adventuring wizard, since it takes hours to cast and requires that you have a home base to actually cast it on.
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Plus I have to take an evocation spell at each level due to specialization, it's in the rules. Chain Lightning was a given. Disintegrate was just icing on the cake. Or powder, as the case may be.
I have other spells in my list that don't blow things up. Really. Like Knock, and Web, and Dispel Magic, and Improved Invis, and Fly, and Identify, and Teleport/Dimension Door... oh, wait, those are all dungeoneering spells. Well, still. I'm a rocker. I rock out.
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i love you.
ROFL
Thank you! ^_^
I must say, Janthina is just about totally opposite of my mage, Doren... gnome illusionist (wiz 7, rogue 2), who has now started picking up Loremaster (got 1st in that a bit ago, near 2nd now -- so almost 11th level). He'd never even directly injured anyone until one session where we got backed into a corner, and he pulled (found) scrolls of cloudkill and then, later, transmute rock to mud... ended up directly killing hundreds of level 2/3 orc warriors, got by far the most kills of anyone in the group. And he had the psycological issues to go with it. ^_- (The fact that we were captured *anyway* did not help. Mind you, he was not the one who came away with the most issues, out of that....)
Obviously(?), evocation is his proscribed school.
Fun stuff... gotta love the different playing styles that are possible. ^_^