4th Ed. D & D

[jack]

And oh, look :) I have signed up to a C. U. R. S. Roleplaying Game (TM), with DnD fourth edition. Do you have any General Advice (TM) for making a fun mid-level Warlock character before Friday?

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[jack]

And can you see the reference hidden in the post? :)

[simont]

I got as far as "ooohnooGnoonoohGonoo", but was sadly unable to parse any great amount of meaning out of that.

[jack]

:) That's the right track (though I guess that's fairly obvious -- ideally I'd have chosen a more subtle way of indicating the letters than bold, but it was very late at night :))

[simont]

My first thought, actually, was that you were making a sidelong reference to uneven printing quality in the 4th Edition rulebook :-)

[jack]

:)

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

I also got that far, but nothing further. 20 characters. Each block of 4 has either 2 or 3 "o"s. The other characters are "h", "n" or "G". I wondered about something in quaternary, but the most obvious mappings of {n,h,G} -> {1,2,3} yield [2 67 65 11 16] or [3 66 65 14 16], neither of which seem particularly meaningful to me.

[pizza.maircrosoft.com]

I got about that far ...

Also the link to from LJ dreamwidth is not a link. I wondered if there was some hidden meaning in this, but I can't think of any.

My best guess was that you had to change modes to make the bold work, into something that doesn't autolinkify, but that seems unlikely since many of your other posts have bolds in.

[jack]

Oh, weird. I think it's because I temporarily made it private when I posted it but noticed I had some errors. It's not of any specific significance :)

[fhtagn.livejournal.com]

Gnome Warlock - they become invisible whenever they move. Dark Pact is the way forward, especially if your DM lets you reskin things for flavour and frankly, if he doesn't, he's a shite DM. Fey pact otherwise. If you can get any magic items, you want a quickcurse rod if fey pact, or the rod which stores Dark Spiral Auras for Dark Pact. You also want the Bracers of the Perfect Shot - it adds to Eldritch Blast damage. Do not bother with your secondary attributes. Pick the three which max out your defenses and offenses as a Warlock and ignore the rest. Jack of All Trades is worth the feat slot because gaining training in skills is so difficult. If you can, get the Decree of Khirad daily power.

Oh, and be aware that the system has no flavour whatsoever. Anything in the game will have to come from the players and DM.

And no, save that the uneven effect makes reading the sentence mildly uncomfortable.

[jack]

Thank you!

[megamole]

... and why did they change 3.5, which seems a fairly workable system?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, (a) they have a natural incentive to WANT to upgrade the system every 10 years so they can sell more stuff and (b) whether or not one likes the direction they took 4th ed in, it apparently certainly does improve on 3.5 in many ways (whether or not one thinks they are worth it for the things that are lost).

[jack]

Well, (a) they have a natural incentive to WANT to upgrade the system every 10 years so they can sell more stuff and (b) whether or not one likes the direction they took 4th ed in, it apparently certainly does improve on 3.5 in many ways (whether or not one thinks they are worth it for the things that are lost).