Sir Poley's Blog, page 62

Did you look at the dragon grafts? Particularly Dragonheart Presence and Glaring Eye would seem an acceptable loss of 6 hp for Blindsense and immunity to paralyze and magical sleep considering the nature of many non lethal spells used in the potter univers

I haven’t, actually. Those are powerful abilities for him, considering the setting.

My understanding is that you need actual dragon parts to make the grafts, though, right?

I wonder if it would work with Harry Potter dragons. Hrmm. This bears thought.

Thank you, Mr. Anonymous!

Did you look at the dragon grafts? Particularly Dragonheart Presence and Glaring Eye would seem an acceptable loss of 6 hp for Blindsense and immunity to paralyze and magical sleep considering the nature of many non lethal spells used in the potter univers

I haven’t, actually. Those are powerful abilities for him, considering the setting.

My understanding is that you need actual dragon parts to make the grafts, though, right?

I wonder if it would work with Harry Potter dragons. Hrmm. This bears thought.

Thank you, Mr. Anonymous!

Did you look at the dragon grafts? Particularly Dragonheart Presence and Glaring Eye would seem an acceptable loss of 6 hp for Blindsense and immunity to paralyze and magical sleep considering the nature of many non lethal spells used in the potter univers

I haven’t, actually. Those are powerful abilities for him, considering the setting.

My understanding is that you need actual dragon parts to make the grafts, though, right?

I wonder if it would work with Harry Potter dragons. Hrmm. This bears thought.

Thank you, Mr. Anonymous!

Did you look at the dragon grafts? Particularly Dragonheart Presence and Glaring Eye would seem an acceptable loss of 6 hp for Blindsense and immunity to paralyze and magical sleep considering the nature of many non lethal spells used in the potter univers

I haven’t, actually. Those are powerful abilities for him, considering the setting.

My understanding is that you need actual dragon parts to make the grafts, though, right?

I wonder if it would work with Harry Potter dragons. Hrmm. This bears thought.

Thank you, Mr. Anonymous!

Did you look at the dragon grafts? Particularly Dragonheart Presence and Glaring Eye would seem an acceptable loss of 6 hp for Blindsense and immunity to paralyze and magical sleep considering the nature of many non lethal spells used in the potter univers

I haven’t, actually. Those are powerful abilities for him, considering the setting.

My understanding is that you need actual dragon parts to make the grafts, though, right?

I wonder if it would work with Harry Potter dragons. Hrmm. This bears thought.

Thank you, Mr. Anonymous!

Did you look at the dragon grafts? Particularly Dragonheart Presence and Glaring Eye would seem an acceptable loss of 6 hp for Blindsense and immunity to paralyze and magical sleep considering the nature of many non lethal spells used in the potter univers

I haven’t, actually. Those are powerful abilities for him, considering the setting.

My understanding is that you need actual dragon parts to make the grafts, though, right?

I wonder if it would work with Harry Potter dragons. Hrmm. This bears thought.

Thank you, Mr. Anonymous!

Does The Dark Lord's body run on HP rules (since Riddle is the one inside of it) or D&D rules (since it's still Milo's body)?

MAJOR HARRY POTTER AND THE CONFIRMED CRITICAL SPOILERS AFTER THE BREAK

HP rules, because it’s not actually Milo’s body anymore. As described in Chamber of Secrets, Riddle, if successful, would have gained his own, completely new body, and Ginny would have withered away and died. In Harry Potter and the Confirmed Critical, Milo died instead of how Ginny would have if Harry hadn’t intervened. As a result, Riddle got a shiny new body using power he stole from Milo’s soul, and Milo died. But death is cheap for D&D characters, which Riddle didn’t count on. Boccob gave Milo a new body, so now, there’s a Riddle’s new body, Milo’s old, dead body, and Milo’s new body, courtesy of Boccob. Milo’s new body looks exactly like his old one, but Riddle’s new body looks like, well, young Voldemort.

I hope that clears matters up.

I'm unfamiliar with Rainbow Servant outside of its entry on dndtools. When, and more importantly HOW, did Milo take it, and what does 'text trumps table' mean in this case? (I'm sure you've answered this question before, so feel free to reply privately.)

I probably should have explained it better back in Confirmed Critical when he took the class, but as I explained elsewhere, my writing schedule is pretty rapid-fire and sometimes things slip.

So, Rainbow Servant is a Prestige Class from Complete Divine, and it’s the kind of class you can really only justify taking if you’re a munchkin and your DM is kind of dim.

It’s nothing particularly shiny, unlike, say, Incantatrix or some of the other PrC’s. But it has really light requirements (nonevil and nonchaotic, 4 ranks in Knowledge Arcana, capability to cast 3rd level spells? Seriously? Every Arcane Spellcaster meets those, barring alignment restrictions). There’s also a requirement that you’ve found some hidden jungle temples, but when you can rewrite your own backstory, that’s no problem at all.

You get a few minor goodies, like at-will Detect Evil, access to Good and Air domains, and the ability to fly for a few minutes a day. The main thing is that at level 10, you gain the entire Cleric spell list, but cast as Arcane spells, so you’re not beholden to any deity or external power.

The catch is that, according to the table, you lose 4 levels of spellcasting as a result. This prevents you from getting 9th level spells by level 20, so is basically the nail in the coffin of the class.

However, the actual text of the class says the standard “When a new rainbow servant level is gained, the character gains new spells per day as if she had also gained a level in whatever spellcasting class, etc. etc.” It doesn’t mention that you lose casting levels at 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th levels. The rule in Dungeons and Dragons is that if there is a conflict in a book, specific trumps general, and the body text always trumps the description in the table.

Now it’s pretty obvious what happened: the text has a minor oversight, and to balance the incredibly powerful access to all cleric spells, you lose some wizard powers. But that’s what the designers intended, and for a true Munchkin, as Milo is, intent has nothing to do with it.

As a result, he has a Prestige Class that isn’t the most powerful one, but it does have the easiest requirements, and it does nothing but good. He loses a few wizard bonus feats and Mordy stops gaining extra powers, but that’s a small price to pay for the ability to, one day, cast virtually every spell in the entire game.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.