When you attacked me, I teleported to attempt to avoid the attack. I moved to the top of the pillar (K11).

In reply to Levis Luna (msg # 972):

Whew, now I got it. Geez this has been a rules heavy match :D

As soon as I get to a computer (not my phone) I will post my next action.

Quite right.

Zar'Da:  A note on non-lethal damage - per the SRD, "When a spell or a magical power cures hit point damage, it also removes an equal amount of nonlethal damage."
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/comb....htm#nonlethalDamage

So whenever your aura removes 2 points of regular hp damage, you can also eliminate 2 points of non-lethal damage.

That's irritating, actually.

Ooooo, thanks Gareth :)
This message was last edited by the player at 00:01, Wed 20 Feb 2013.

Nice edit, but I saw the original anyway. ;)

I won! I won! Also.. I Won!(barely). Want to mark both the fights in the history?

So, Scrags in the water and a couple of ettins wandering around? Ooooh, was that an or? I missed that ;-)

Just everything. All the things and a torrasque. >_>

Yeah, nothing like the big T...

Yeah, it was an "or" - an XOR, to be technical ;P

Adamar, how are you managing to cast spells while wielding two daggers?  Still Spell, or is there some other trick?  (I generally don't have daggers in hand, but being able to cast spells while holding two wands - if there's an easier/cheaper way to do it than Still Spell - would be a very useful trick, so I'm curious.)

Somatic Weaponry(Feat):
   When wielding a weapon (or holding an item of comparable size) in one or
   both hands, you can use that item to trace the somatic component of a
   spell, rather than using your fingers. This allows you to cast spells
   with somatic components even while your hands are full or occupied,
   as long as at least one hand is holding an item of proper size.
   This feat does not allow you to use somatic components while grappling,
   regardless of the size of your foe.

That's actually really cool. I'll never use it, but it seems like a good choice.

So I think I'm going to lose this match. Poke tactics in closed spaces are a gaping flaw in my character.

It's not over yet :)

I played a  Shadowcaster 5/ master of shadow 5 in an arena once. Great fun but it got difficult only having one casting of each 1st to 3rd mystery up till 7th. Are you using the shadow magic creator's "fix" or do you have a bunch of orbs of shadow for bonus spells?

Also, hello all!

So, where does one find this Shadowcaster class? I might be interested in playing one at some point.

In reply to Adamar Venali (msg # 990):

Tome of Magic (also plastered across the Internet). It's the base Shadow Magic class. Also in the book are the Binder and Truenamer.

Shadowcaster is great for arena play, but difficult for a real game. Level 0-1 cantrip style "fundamentals" can be used 3/day each (and you ca select the same one multiple times for another set of uses). The attack spell is a ranged touch arrow that does 2d4 non lethal damage with a x3 crit mod.

Get one new Mystery per level. Wizard progression for when you can cast higher level mysteries. Unfortunately mysteries must be taken in order. Each exists in a "Path" of 3 mysteries. So. To take Flicker, a 3rd level mystery, you need to take the much less useful 1st and 2nd level mysteries first and be at least 5th level. Until 7th level all 1st to 3rd mysteries can be used only once for each time you selected it. So to cast flicker twice in a day you need to have selected it as your new mystery at both 5th and 6th level. No bonus mysteries for high stats and they need Int to cast (19 to cast 9th lv mysteries) and CHA for DC's.

At 7th, they can start getting 4th level mysteries, at which point 1st to 3rds act as Spell-likes and gain an additional use each. Same thing happens to 4th to 6th's when they get 7th levels. 1st to 3rds become 3/day SU abilities at that point.

The class had some promise but for a game with more than one fight a day it gets rough.

My favorite trick was extending or maximizing a "Reach" version of the 3rd level mystery "Umbral Touch". 5d6 max damage plus fort save r be slowed. The 2nd level mystery in that path was irresistible ability damage and the 1st level was non lethal damage, which at low levels I just loaded up on my dark familiar for touch attack bombs.

My guy was really fun at 6th when I had Umbral touch and Clinging Darkness (ref save or be immobilized, requires a full round ref save each round after to escape the area. It pulses each round, so if you fail the ref save at any point, unless a 5ft step gets you out, you need to make a full round ref save and THEN save again the next round (free action) or get caught again. That's the 3rd level mystery on that path. The second level one creates a wall of cold fire and the first level creates squares of difficult terrain.

So. Hit them with clinging darkness. Then Umbral touch so they are slowed and are unable to make a full round action save. Then set them on cold fire. Barbecue.

Good times.

They also get Shadow Evocation at 4th for 4th level evocations and below, which is better than the arcane spell!

Sorry for rambling. I miss my shadowcaster >_<

I've been allowed most of Ari Marmell's alternate rulings for this class.

Yeah. Much better class using the creator's homebrew fix than what ended up getting released. Still, Shadow Magic pretty much doesn't get any love from any other books besides the Tome of Magic. It can act as either arcane or divine for mystic theurge so it's possible to build a decent precocious apprentice wizard 1 / Shadowcaster 3 / noctumancer / mystic theurge for almost full advancement for both wizard and shadow caster... Still would have been nice for them to release more officially for the system.

According the the FAQ, the feat required to go Wizard 1, doesn't actually function in the way it's needed to. So it's Wizard 3.. So Noctumancer at 7.

I'd rather just keep taking Shadowcaster all the way to 20, since I get given a ton of awesome abilities. Having a hit die of D6 isn't bad either.

Still. I miss the noctumancer's ability to counter magic.

The central pillar is 20ft high, in the arena i'm fighting Adamar in.

A Bison is a large creature (10ft by 10ft) - as a quadruped it has a vertical reach of 8. Does that mean 18ft up (how tall it is, plus reach) or just 8ft up (2 feet below its head)?

How would the bison get up the central pillar?

Based on my rolls, the Bison succeeded in climbing the pillar and my high jump can reach 4ft, or 12ft with vertical reach if that is measured from its feet up.

So... if it jumped up 12ft and then climbed, would that work?

Also, nearing 1k posts in this thread.

Wait, bison's can climb?!