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Spiker O2C2: I'm feeling the racial solidarity of this group, so long as that pointy eared druid is more human then elf.

Props to the guy in spiky armor chucking that guy off the roof, although yellow glowing eyes are such a telltale "I'm a bad guy, come kill me," marker. I even hear these guys called Sith get yellow eyes over time or if they are super-evil. If I my eyes ever start glowing anything but blue I swear I'll take a red hot poker to them.

I take it back, that was pathetic. All he did was snap the other guy's neck and chuck him off the roof. He was dead before he hit ground, lame. Any rock dumb ogre could have done the same. I bet he just uses a two handed sword.

O2C2, my new tag for Out of Character Commentary, like doing a meet and great with the character off plot/camera. I find it funny that it is a human party with exception. Well here's to hoping I can pull off a non-disruptive Chaotic Evil... goes very against my typically Neutral Good or Chaotic Good style.

I must say, that was quite interesting and awesome.

Hello, Shane. I'll look to see if I can get you into this game.

Once I finish some calculations it will probably be a yes. Hey, Brasten and I have the same alignment. Woot.

I'm assuming you ask this as you'd like to go for an evil character.

Although I really don't like this sort of partying, especially with the campaign that I'm trying to run, the campaign sort of lends itself to evil characters sticking around good ones for a purpose without the party developing into a large eventual time bomb.

For the most part at least from what I can see.

Seeing as how we already have two evil characters.. wait.. maybe 3.

We will be mixing good and evil.
Aside from that however, there is going to be 1 group hopefully. lol.

Awh, well I'm not the DM of the Drow Campaign, and honestly I'm not sure how sound that one is.

DM seems a bit busy >.>, but yeah, you'd have to ask him.

As for my campaign, once I run the numbers, we'll find out.

Be odd to have a NG druid, and CN/NE druid in group together >.>

Be sort of awesome!, lol.

I want to ask a question again; it got lost in the Character creation thread. I was wondering if you guys trust me enough to just tell you guys what Maneuvers I get? I can have it in a format like this when we battle:

Available Maneuvers
X


Incoming Maneuvers
X


Expended Maneuvers
X

I thought this up when I was thinking of traffic lights. ninja

The idea if we were playing this is real life is that I draw new Maneuvers from a small hand of maneuvers prepared beforehand, kind of like Magic the Gathering. I don't want to clutter up the main thread for the campaign by having to roll a number every 3 turns. I got the idea for Maneuver cards from Wizard of the Coast site:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20061225a

"Tired of flipping through your copy of Tome of Battle every time you attempt a new maneuver? The following web enhancement, courtesy of Mark A. Jindra, provides downloadable cards for each and every one: simply download the pages you need, and cut out the maneuvers you'll need to reference!"

You're gonna have to run that by me one more time with smaller words.

I would actually avoid reprinting Maneuver text if at all possible. The rest of us don't really need to know the particulars of those powers, only you and the GM.

Although that is a useful web enhancement to link.

I don't see a reason why rolling for maneuver recharge would clutter the thread. You'd get the same thing with Psionics trying to refocus or any number of other cases where special skills or powers come into play. Just make it part of your regular post to make the random roll. You don't need to tell the rest of the players as long as both you and the GM have the table for reference.

One of the nice things about Gaia is the ability to go back and edit posts after the fact (and not have it mess up the generated dice rolls). So you can always add the post action, have it roll, fill out the basics of your actions, then go back and edit right after the initial post.

If I had a chance to bend a Gaia developer's ear about what things they could do to make general table top RPGs play better on gaia would be the ability to roll mix dice on one post.... that and add a dice command to GIM.

What would be meta gaming would be for Spiker to tell Edward which maneuver to use the round after the random roll, if Edward doesn't some how communicate that. Most likely by Edward giving that maneuver's readiness away by yelling the fact at the rest of the party in the middle of combat.

What's boaderline meta would be me Brasten suggesting to ChronoWarrior what maneuver Edward should use next. The way around this particular problem is that lovely hour or so in the morning while the camp breaks up and casters ready spells. Martial non-casters can hob-knob about battle tactics and learn each others moves, and what to look for when allies "set up" for party combos.

For example by 6th level I anticipate Spiker getting the Shield Slam feat. After that point it would not be unreasonable to assume that Spiker won't work out some kind of visual queue about who he's going to try send flying and what direction....

O2C2 Spiker: That's assuming I even bother to telegraphy my strategy to the others like that. If they can't read my mind then they'll just have to guess what strategy I'm going to employ during a fight and adapt to what I've picked. If not there could be some unfortunate "accidents."