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Yeah. If the hair wasn't so flat on top I'd probably like it.

Or if the avatars had smaller heads.

I made a pile of doom.

I'm pretty sure the Boneyard hasn't given rise to a single complaint yet. On the contrary, I think its a very nice touch and I think Darshendros has done an excellent job with his villain NPCs, throwing in a lot of cool and appropriate creatures to fight.

The high-level spellcasters bothers me the most, with some stuff we haven't encountered yet IC on the backburner of concerns. Its not that they just cast a couple 8th-level spells, its that there's a bunch more that can cast them, along with 7th and 6th end etc etc, most of which can kill 2/3 of our group with a single casting, with little chance to make our saves if we're even given the chance to at all if they wanted to. By wasting their higher level spells on more indirect stuff, they're litterally toying with us. I dunno about you all, but I generally get insulted when I'm toyed with.

You're getting closer to the issue at hand. Its not whether or not the good guys win. Its that good guys aren't being given the chance to succeed somewhat. If we fail, yes, the bad guys should get the city; hell, they probably already have it already. We're not trying to beat them into oblivion and stop all their nefarious plans. It's too late for that. We all realize that. Why haven't you?

Our objective in all of this is to rescue a bunch of faceless, nameless, RP-unimportant civilians who were taken captive. We don't have the forces or power to take back the city. We're there to salvage what we can. Think of it on the flipside for a second; when most generic villians are defeated by the forces of good, do they get defeated on every single front? Unless they're morons, no. They usually cause some damage, take some lives, sometimes even cut their loses and get away with a lesser share of the loot. There has to be some draw, or its the forces of good picking on incompetant bad guys who pose no real threat; and thats no fun for anyone, even readers or viewers if this were a comic book or show/movie, respectively.

We don't want to win. We just want this to be not as one-sided as it currently stands. As the good guys, we just want a fair chance to do some relatively minor in the grand scheme of this huge event that's going on. All the best stories have minor things that all combine into one huge climax at the end; not a one-sided linear storyline that only introduces things as they become convenient and have no significant bearing on the story on the whole (ie, everything between "once upon a time" and "the end" all becomes filler, like how things are shaping up to be now).

We're not asking for much. Yet it confounds me why you guys think that we are making unfair demands. Don't lay down and surrender/die. Just tone things down so we can make a thematicly cool contribution to the event. That's all we ever wanted.

Well, that and pie.

That or gasoline.

And then I've got a pile of fleshless bones.

Not sure what I'm going to do with them, but starting a fire 3 stories tall and fueled by the dismembered corpses of Bartonians has to be worth something.

@All of that: Then I don't know what the problem is. Even if what you're trying to do is something minor, that doesn't mean you should get to do it effortlessly. I don't know about the toying with thing, I'm legally blind and illiterate, so I haven't read Barton recently.

Could be worse. They could have antivehicle weapons that don't have casting time.

Then again, as I said, I can only pay so much attention before I get distracted and start tearing wings off of harpies.

Who's to say Kraun is strictly following D&D rules and doesn't just wants to use a multitude of spells for dramatic effect?

As far as I know when it comes to telling a compelling story the good guys usually get their asses handed to them initially to spurn them on to do greater things.

And let's throw in the the absurd argument of how this army would be able to conquer the world. How many Drow are there? Probably a couple hundred. A couple times that undead. And then Deity Inc soldiers when they show up to police the situation.

I'd say that's a good size force for taking and holding a city supposedly home to a large multitude of extraordinary powerful individuals. Not a global threat.

That's why I like Enki. He was created for Gaia, from Gaia. So really, he evolves every time Gaia does... XP

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