This sounds great! I second that some people do this and Solitude would be happy to be their canon fodder!

Good idea, I will maybe do one once I have more time to play and create it ! ;)

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'll be out of town from yeasterday until next Tuesday, so please pardon my absence for the time being. I'll get back to you guys once I'm back.

-Yangash, Jazal, and Soluna

NO problem.

expect updates tomorrow...

So here's something i just thought of.

Employing a Tower Shield imposes a -2 penalty to attack rolls because of it's encumberance. This is because a tower shield, while very effective at protecting you, is to large to wield easily because it is describe as being almost as big as you.

This correlates pretty much exactly to the rules for using inappropriately sized weapons, imposing a -2 penalty per size category you are outside of your own size.

What this means to me is that a Tower shield functions as a shield 1 size too large for the player wielding it as standard. What would happen then, if say i were to as a medium character, purchase a Tower Shield sized for a halfling? Would this mean i'm now using a tower shield of appropriate size and the -2 penalty associated with it is now removed, giving me all the benefits of the tower shield but none of the attack penalty draw backs? Or am i simply now down to -4 to attack because even though the tower shield is inappropriately sized to begin with, a medium character wielding a small tower shield is also considered inappropriate sizing.

What if i were Antaeus and had big hulky giant blood coursing through my veins allowing me to use weapons one size category above my size category at no penalty?

Another thing. If you use an armor, or a Tower shield for that matter, that you do not have proficiency in, you impose the ACP as a penalty to your attacks while using it. Even if a shield is animated. Correct?

What this means to me is that a Tower shield functions as a shield 1 size too large for the player wielding it as standard. What would happen then, if say i were to as a medium character, purchase a Tower Shield sized for a halfling? Would this mean i'm now using a tower shield of appropriate size and the -2 penalty associated with it is now removed, giving me all the benefits of the tower shield but none of the attack penalty draw backs? Or am i simply now down to -4 to attack because even though the tower shield is inappropriately sized to begin with, a medium character wielding a small tower shield is also considered inappropriate sizing.
Or it means that a tower shield is cumbersome to use due to its shape and design, not its size, which is why the proficiency for tower shields is separate from the proficiency for other shields. Thus trying to use a tower shield not sized for you would apply additional penalties. Shields and armor grant AC independently of the size of the user or the item, even though armor sized for a colossal creature would probably be many feet thick. Too much logic breaks D&D.

Another tract: If a tower shield's size is what granted the +4 AC, why would using a smaller shield grant the same protection? Wouldn't it drop down to +2, the same as a heavy shield (which is roughly half the size of a tower shield, following how size categories work)


Yes.

So.... this place kinda died off didn't it?

Feels like it.

That's unfortunate. It sure was a blast beating the everloving crap out of you time and time again.

Only on the plank, and only when you had the initiative advantage. And you bloody well know it.....

Hey, i take my victories where i can get them ;P

This game is not dead, only taking a pause as it always does in summer times. ;)

Will be back as soon as possible ! :)

WooHoo!1!!!

Can Antaeus and I go ahead and get our match closed out. XD

Duel #1259

Not Dead?
I haven't had a DM respond to me for months on this site.
Ever since the main DM left, this site his done absolutely nothing.
It needs a revamp of DMs or needs to close.

We added GM Gaius Primus to take over as lead GM.

To explain the situation, the original GM still handled quite a bit until the three of us took over. We had never planned on having exclusive control over the arena - we all initially helped in a limited capacity. We tried to step up and provide the maintenance this game required ourselves but due to school and our careers or military service we knew we were not able to sufficiently maintain things here and began looking for someone to take the lead from us.

We're going to attempt to resurrect this game when Gaius is ready to take over.

We don't plan on deleting the game. If you'd rather be removed to avoid seeing this pop up, I can certainly help with that.

I'm staying.

Is this site starting up again?
I will offer to be a DM to help keep it alive.
I would like to change the rules around a bit to make it more interesting. The biggest problem is fighting the same people over and over again. Don't know how but would like to brainstorm with the people running the site on how to get out of that scenario.

Maybe a character can exist at different levels. Takes out the character progression but may be worth it.

Maybe a person can have multiple characters but not have to start at 5th with every one. One could start at 5th, another at 10th, and another at 15th. These characters can gain experience but the player can always introduce another character starting at any of these levels. We could max out the number of characters a person has based on a level range. For instance, they could only have two characters within 4 levels of each other.

Thoughts?

I plan on sticking around.

hello?

Howdy!

In theory we were going to have someone try and revive during the summer. Not sure.

If anyone wants to try to revive, let me know.

Still around, but no way I could run this. Too many things I don't know.

It might be a bit ambitious to revive this game as is,, due to the declining player interest and fighting the same characters over and over. Might I suggest a tournament format, so that we at least have different characters to fight every season?

I wouldn't mind helping out in some of the GM roles, but really I'm mainly interested as a player.