Ji's topic - Friendly Plotstrike inbound, find cover!

Heh heh heh heh... So much planning. I'll/You'll need to remember that, since I don't think I'm getting the Essentials book...

The essentials are the newer ones, so unless you straight up guided your parents in showing them to them, they might get confused, mind you. Though, of course I'll remind you, I like making sure you guys understand what you're doing and are well geared for working. You know... not like freaking neckbeard the cleric... clerics aren't ment to specilize in doing damage... grumble grumble...

So, this guy should have been a Paladin, I presume?

Not really, paladins themselves are supposed to be tanks first anyway, what he should have been is a fighter. Atleast, an essentials fighter (encounters demands that you use essentials), and even then, the one that specilizes in harming people instead of tanking. However, because he played a cleric, he counted as a cleric when the tables were having the who was what being assigned to them, so I got shafted with the defective cleric. I am sooo glad I took heal as a trained skill, is the gist of this whole rant.

Wait... You're playing the defective cleric because of idiot friends?

Encounters is run by WotC, well.. ran by anyone who volunteers at the store that agreed to run it for WotC, though I digress. No, they sort people to tables so that the parties are atleast coherant, however, our cleric, was very defective, and focused on doing damage. Though I guess you could call me the defective cleric, if you mean the fact that I revived 3 people out there. 5 if you count any the cleric healed after I healed him. This makes me defective because I did all of that, without actually being able to do any magic that would heal someone. Note that the party itself only consisted of five players, and I never got downed once. As a matter of fact, the cleric, was downed thrice.

I'm so very confused, but I think I have some idea of what you're saying...

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So, what needs talking about?

I was very confusing, I just reread that.

Simple version!

Ji healed basically the whole party. Having revived as many people, as there were in the party, including himself. The cleric only managed two, which Ji claims as byproxy, because Ji had to revive him before he did the first one, and then revive him agianst before he did the second one. The cleric was terrible for those reasons. Well also because he charged into battle, and repeated hit an enemy who it was shown hitting immediately triggered a counter attack from, which kill him, each of the three times the cleric died.

What needs talking about, though? Absolutely nothing. Though I'm going to start setting up plot hooks for you. Both with shift man, outside. And a few others soon to arrive.

Hooray for plothooks! Also, hooray for Mounted Combat feat.

If you get a horse, and take that feat, I might be willing to throw you a lance.

Mind you, the "assured horse" is no longer assured, you need to take a specific starting quest hook.

Curses! Oh well. I'm sure we can pick up a mount later, regardless of which plothook we follow... Right?

Oh yeah, I mean, it's just a horse. You want a hippogriff or anything like that, you'll need to be higher level, and under take a quest in and of itself.

I think a horse will be good enough for now...

For now of course. you're just level 1, man, most of what you'll do will be solving local problems. Doesn't exactly demand a damned horse either.

Well... Horses are cool. But yeah, I understand (and I didn't really expect a horse at level 1 anyway).

Well, you basically can, though. If I'm paying you in any way that is actually worth it, and would let you buy food, you can save up for a horse fairly immediately. Hell, encounters handed my character enough money immediately, as it was the down payment for my groups services.

Huh.

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What feat does Corthana have right now?

Cold adaption. This lets you deduct 5 damage from any source of cold damage. This is helpful because you already ignore 5 fire as a tiefling.

Oh, right, I remember that now. Excellent. Now I'm going to continue staring at lists of Feats...

I gave you all feats from the essentials books... but screw that, take feats from either set.

Oh, by the way, there are more feats in 4th edition players handbook 2, though I'm sure you knew that. There's also some in the third, but seriously, no, that one can burn. I hate psionics.

I don't have 3 on my iPod in PDF form... But I am looking through the 2nd Feats.

The 2nd is more geared for races and classes from the second book, however.

Good, don't, don't ever get the third one. Psychics just don't fit fantasy in my opinion, because that means it's something other than magic, which therefore baffles me as I try to get an explaination as to what it is, then.

I've noticed... But there are some feats in there I like.

Tell me any you like, and if you really want it, we haven't started combat yet, so you can have it now. And when you level up, you're allowed to retrain 1 feat, 1 attack power, and 1 skill.

Oh, no, I'm good with the resisting ice for level 1. I'm just looking for future levels.