Sir Poley's Blog, page 57

Once again your sage advice was useful in our campaign. My sorcerer was wondering what to summon using her summon monster III spell, and so since we were fighting a mummy lord who had just used Slay Living on our monk(successfully, unfortunately), I sugges

Nicely done! (technically, Skeletal Troll comes from Summon Undead, a Spell Compendium spell of the same level as Summon Monster, but if I were DM I could easily be convinced to amalgamate them into one spell—they’re pretty much identical except for the creature summoned, after all)

Shame about the monk, though. If it was a vampire that took him/her out instead, at least he/she’d maybe come back with a cool template. Honestly, monks have it pretty stacked against them, so I’m impressed they survived all the way to fight a CR 15 monster. Well done!

Once again your sage advice was useful in our campaign. My sorcerer was wondering what to summon using her summon monster III spell, and so since we were fighting a mummy lord who had just used Slay Living on our monk(successfully, unfortunately), I sugges

Nicely done! (technically, Skeletal Troll comes from Summon Undead, a Spell Compendium spell of the same level as Summon Monster, but if I were DM I could easily be convinced to amalgamate them into one spell—they’re pretty much identical except for the creature summoned, after all)

Shame about the monk, though. If it was a vampire that took him/her out instead, at least he/she’d maybe come back with a cool template. Honestly, monks have it pretty stacked against them, so I’m impressed they survived all the way to fight a CR 15 monster. Well done!

Once again your sage advice was useful in our campaign. My sorcerer was wondering what to summon using her summon monster III spell, and so since we were fighting a mummy lord who had just used Slay Living on our monk(successfully, unfortunately), I sugges

Nicely done! (technically, Skeletal Troll comes from Summon Undead, a Spell Compendium spell of the same level as Summon Monster, but if I were DM I could easily be convinced to amalgamate them into one spell—they’re pretty much identical except for the creature summoned, after all)

Shame about the monk, though. If it was a vampire that took him/her out instead, at least he/she’d maybe come back with a cool template. Honestly, monks have it pretty stacked against them, so I’m impressed they survived all the way to fight a CR 15 monster. Well done!

Once again your sage advice was useful in our campaign. My sorcerer was wondering what to summon using her summon monster III spell, and so since we were fighting a mummy lord who had just used Slay Living on our monk(successfully, unfortunately), I sugges

Nicely done! (technically, Skeletal Troll comes from Summon Undead, a Spell Compendium spell of the same level as Summon Monster, but if I were DM I could easily be convinced to amalgamate them into one spell—they’re pretty much identical except for the creature summoned, after all)

Shame about the monk, though. If it was a vampire that took him/her out instead, at least he/she’d maybe come back with a cool template. Honestly, monks have it pretty stacked against them, so I’m impressed they survived all the way to fight a CR 15 monster. Well done!

It's also worth noting that the wizard character I keep mentioning has been running roughly parallel with Milo for as long as I've been reading this story.

Cool! Although, as you’re posting anonymous, I’m not totally clear on which wizard character you’re referring to.

My group has asked me not to play Conjurers anymore after this story. My most recent character is a Pathfinder Diviner who forbade Conjuration, as a sort of self-inflicted challenge (I’ve been told there are spells in other schools). This has been very challenging. I’ve been relying a lot on Pyrotechnics, but I seem to blind more allies than enemies that way.

"The brig 'em Inn"... priceless! Stuff like that makes you the kind of master that you are.

Thanks! I was pretty proud of that name, actually. If you Google “the bring em inn,” I’m the only result. That’s a pretty sobering thought—I made a pun that’s never been made before. Not on the internet, at least.

Chapter Thirteen Posted

You can find Harry Potter and the Save-or-Die: Chapter Thirteen: “Passing Notes” here.

Uh, about your Harry Potter + D&D fic'. In 'Chapter 39', Harry doesn't see the Thestrals when he _should_ because as an infant he witnessed his parents killed. That's a.. pretty serious mistake for anyone that's read Harry Potter.

In canon, he doesn’t see the thestrals until after he sees Cedric die in book 4. Before that, he always refers to the carriages as ‘horseless.’ I guess he either didn’t have direct line of sight to his parents being killed, or it was so long ago that he didn’t really remember.

"Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed the rest of the school out onto a rough mud track, where at least a hundred stagecoaches awaited the remaining students, each pulled, Harry could only assume, by an invisible horse…" Prisoner of Azkaban, “The Dementor,” page 98 in my copy (the Canadian edition by Raincoast Books in 2004)

Why's it called the 'Chamber of Secrets' when the only secret in it is the massive basilisk? That's _a_ secret. One. No plurals to be found. (Unless one tries to argue that the Chamber of Secrets being hidden is another secret, which... I'm not sure counts

….

….Huh.

Maybe the second secret is that there’s only one secret?

Why's it called the 'Chamber of Secrets' when the only secret in it is the massive basilisk? That's _a_ secret. One. No plurals to be found. (Unless one tries to argue that the Chamber of Secrets being hidden is another secret, which... I'm not sure counts

….

….Huh.

Maybe the second secret is that there’s only one secret?