Can't be singing and speaking command words for spells which incapacitate or obiterate foes

But if you were to ask her nicely in character she just might oblige you lol.

I'm sure she could work the command words into the song. I can see it now:

"The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen...
DIE, YOU LUPINE CRETINS!"

...or something to that effect.

ok, I've posted.....*cringes* Kaelyn....please be nice to me! *ducks and covers*

does killing an innocent rat happily munching on a corpse count as an act of evil? or simply watching as your companion does the killing?

Is it not akin to murdering a small child because they could potentially grow up to be a serial murderer? I ponder these things in my idle time...

do you?

well killing the child thing is definately an evil thing. Because there is the possibility he will be good also. A true paladin will probably take him under his wing and raise him as a paige, if he is worried so much about it. the rat thing, not evil but not nice either. And watching your friend do the killing...well as long as their not innocents no its not.

and who has the right to deem an animal's basic instincts as innocent or otherwise? Is it simply not a means of survival?. The rat does not readiate an aura of menace or evil, it is simply enjoying a little "bone appetite" in the evening of another long day of scratching, nibbling, and possibly eating your own feces.

I'm not really going to denounce DM's paladinship over something like this it's just something my sleep deprived mind thought of. Sure, it's just a rat, but what if, it had been say... a emaciated unicorn struggling for nourishment in a barren setting where only corpses remained? Would one think to strike down the unicorn? no of course not it's a UNICORN! but poor ol whiskers over there doesn't deserve the same consideration

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Anywho, I'll likely not update tonight, but provided I'm feeling better tomorrow I'll post in the morning. Take care all.

Well I hope you feel better.

Regarding the whole paladin thing, it brings back a time when I played a paladin (in fact the only time) and had a huge argument over ethics. Basically we (as a party) were ordered by an agent of the King to clear to protect a village. In the course of our duties we found that the village was being attacked by a horde of nasty burrowing critters (bulettes etc.). In the course of investigating those attacks we found out that they had been displaced by a tribe of hobgoblins.

Now after defeating a few hobbo warriors, my paladin looked down upon a sea of hobgoblin children, and others who were unfit or infirm to fight.

So my paladin was left to decide whether to fulfill his oath to his liege and massacre hobgoblin children. Or fail in that oath and allow those children to grow up and (potentially) massacre human children.

Erk!

I'd hate to have to make a decision like that. Not even just in a game.

I almost forgot. I wanted to run something by the group.

As you may know by now, the crystals in Artanis' shield have begun to light up. If they all light up the shield will emit a 20' radius bolt of lightning, effectively frying everything in it's reach. If I remember correctly the blast does -20hp of damage. So basically only Xaris, and Artanis can potentially survive the blast, and then that is only if Artanis says the "magic word" in time, and if Xaris has enough hp left by the time the blast occurs.

So, here's my proposition. As it stands, Artanis and Xaris are up toward the north/eastern side of the clearing. The rest of you are around the middle, or down near the southern side. The lycan leader is also down on the south side.

So, if everyone in the group can manage to make their way to the Northern corners of the clearing, while Artanis makes her way to the middle of the southern area, by the time the shield discharges, ya'll will all be well out of the reach of the 20' blast (as the clearing has a 40' radius) but the blast should either kill or severly damage the Lycan leader and any other wolves that may be within range.

So, what do ya'll think? It can definately work. Even if there are wolves that are not within range, at least the blast will have discharged and the fight can continue without the added threat of the shield possibly killing or harming the group.

Let me know!

Is there a door so we can shut the dire rat inside the room. Is the corpse in the room with the rat in is an area outside the room.

Inquiring minds wish to know.

Does someone have to be wearing the shield for the crystals to light up? What if you kept the shield until most of the crystals were lit, then just drop the thing and move away and Linnix or I could shoot it while it's safely out of range of the group?

Sure, we might not kill all of them but we also won't kill all of us either.

EDIT: Lol... unless the hybrid decided to make use of the recently abandoned shield. That would be perfect.

One could potentialy use the shield as a land mine, though it might be wierd to watch everyone flee from the dropped shield which is glowing with each hit and firing arrows at it (not to mention the AC to hit it would be pretty darn high considering you're trying to strike a small or less object, plus you'd have to roll over 5 on the die roll to even charge a crystal, it might make more sense to simply hit the shield with a area effect itself, and compound the explosion with an extra lightning nova lol... providing you don't blow the shield up. it could be a reusable tactic.

I also told DA so I'l share with the rest of you as it's only fair though I'm not entitled to do so THe likelyhood of the lycan picking up the discarded shield is unlikely, AND I also indicated that the lycan seems highly intelligent, so don't think that should you all flee he doesn't move as well, especially with Artanis vocallizing the warning.

I also told DA that the shield will naturally lose one charged crystal at the rate of 1/hour of disuse as the energy dissipates.

answering your questions via msn

I noticed your character sheet has you at 75 hp

as a fifth level barbarian with a +3 con..
12 x 5 +(3x5) = 75
That's perfect health. When you leveled your character did you just change his health to max? because all the PC's are not using max HP / level rules.

I've rerolled your health, because I'm only now just noticing that your character has always seemed to have max HP (like 60hp back in the ogre cave at level 4)

Just want to keep things fair for everyone.

If you've successfully rolled 4 12's when levelling every time step up, let me know and so be it I'll leave it be, but if it's just a character creation miscommunication, you're new hit points are 61 (still the highest out of any pc)

Kaelyn, did you give Linnix 1 too many hp? I'm pretty sure she only has 37, rather than 38.

And, just wondering because I'm sure I've seen it somewhere before... where does the 'hitting oneself in the foot' come from?