A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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An honourable thing to do. You can't really fight as equals with a monk of all things.
Monks are a shitty class right? I try to be knowledgeable in D&D but I'm not.
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A contingency with a Mythic Spellbane set to stop it if anyone tries to warp time in our vicinity.
Various shenanigans Talon proposes.
Just having mythic ranks allowing you to perceive when someone is fucking with your timeline.
Going back to when they were infants and killing them with Teleport Through Time.
Vanilla PHB monk is shitty, yeah. At least into the midgame and forward.
A few levels of monk can make for terrifying unarmed builds, tho.
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In 3.5? Absolutely.
I think do is using Pathfinders monk however.
Possibly even unchained monk.
Goldfish
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Great fight, DP! Dagat's POV was nice, too.That Stones Might Shake
Twenty-First Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC
Dagat of the Blue Vault Clan was not one to think all those smaller than himself would make for an easy fight. After all, the very reason he was here was due to the defeat of his clan by the Dragon Lord and his oath-sworn company, but most of those were sorcerers and the dragon was... a dragon, even if he chose to squeeze himself down to the little silver-haired form. The man in front of him however was not a sorcerer... at least he did not think so.
He wore robes of an uncommon cut with wide sleeves of a sort one might hide daggers in, but he bore no weapons. The closest thing to one the stone-blooded warrior could see was a copper pin on his head, but that was so small and frail it was more likely to tickle him than break his skin. Even his three part name was unlike any he had heard in his new home. Perhaps he had come with a trader from far off realms.
Being that this was the field of glory and not war Dagat called out in the tongue of these lands: "Did you lose your weapon?" Only after the question had gotten past his lips did it occur to him that this may be taken for an insult if the other was as thin-skinned in spirit as he was in flesh.
"Many thanks for the question, but I have no need of weapons save my own two hands," the other replied softly, though the voice somehow still carried over the rumble of the crowd. "Good fortune, honorable one."
"Then I too will fight only with that the Earth Mother has given me," Dagat said as he carefully set his iron-banded club away to the surprise of the crowd, though not his soon-to-be opponent. "May the stone be strong under your feet."
With that the horns called and battle was joined in earnest.
The earth shook beneath Dagat's feet, proclaiming the truth of his Taken Name—Sunderer. A fist heavy enough to dent spell-forged steel came down on Ting's shoulders before he could move aside while a foot encased in boiled leather slammed into his legs. For most men that would have been a broken leg and mayhap a broken spine besides, but the warrior slipped aside, turning crushing blows to only bruising pain... and then he struck.
Fists and feet flew, the blows were so fast and sure they bewildered the eye to follow, each one somehow cracking stone-hard skin, like chisel blows that only grew heavier in the making. He is climbing my leg like a staircase, the better to hit my head, Dagat realized as he sank both his feet into the sand and roared a challenge like the voice of a sudden tumbling of stones in the depths of the earth.
Harried and bewildered, this time only one of the giant's blows struck as he tried to swat away his foe, but the easterner rolled side with the blow, bloodied but unbowed as he leapt back into the fight in a long low arc. Again fists wrapped in cloth and feet shod with simple wooden soles cracked skin harder than castle-forged steel and shook bones that aught to be as enduring as the roots of the mountains.
Yet the giant was not daunted, nor were his eyes tricked by the flurry of brown, for he had been a hunter in the depths of the world for one long life of mortal men. Now... now he had the measure of his quarry. As the last blow shook his jaw, Dagat smashed his head into the strange warrior's face, blooding him more, then with his left hand he pummeled his side. Two ribs snapped under his blows.
"You fight well, man of stone," Ting said, his voice holding not a trace of the pain he must be feeling. "Should I fall now then I will be content in having learned much from it."
With that the battle joined again, the brown-robed man launching into another of his leaps, this time to kick Dagat's head, but the giant had learned caution and warded his face with his right arm while ready to smash his foe down once and for all with his left. Somehow the flying warrior twisted in midair, swinging from the arm to strike with both knees into Dagar's chest, knocking the wind from him... and with a mighty crash pushing him over.
"I've learned something, too," the battered giant rumbled, amused despite his shocking loss. "If we ever fight for honor or blood, then I will surely use my club."
OOC: Ting is only level 8 for anyone wondering, but @Crake built him really well and he had some luck with his attacks and especially his damage rolls.
Hopefully he was built as a Pathfinder Monk. Better yet, an Unchained Pathfinder Monk. Otherwise, yeah, friends don't let friends become Monks.
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I'm still amazed how much multi-classing has infested me since joining this thread. I've never played anything except straight base classes and now I consider it the height of tyranny of the DM doesn't allow multi-classing.
Goldfish
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It's all but required in D&D for most classes, IMO, just to be viable, let alone powerful.
As I've said many times before, it's why Pathfinder classes are better. There is no need to multi-class, no matter what class you play.
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As someone who's first character was a monk(stupid decision I know) I want to defend the Monk but considering how often I got bodied...maybe not.
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It's a fun idea with a less than stellar execution.
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To be fair the DM swore by 3.5 and 3.5 alone so...that was a thing. 3.5 is difficult to pick up, at least to me. 5e was a lot easier to pick up and how I got into dnd after that fiasco. 3.5 is still a head scratcher on the best days.
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Crake
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Yessssss.
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Try 'save game trick'.
DnD 3.5 core, yes. Splatbooks, now we are talking. Pathfinder Unchained, now ...
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He was at 8 HP, one more hit from the giant would have put him down
BTW here is the Warforged ritual. Keep in mind this is not the most efficient way of making them, just the first step on the research tree
Sallosh's Last Gift
School: Transmutation Level 8
Casting Time: 80 minutes
Material Components: 25 lb. of Living Brass to form the core of the construct, 55 lb. of hardened steel (or other more arcane metal for bones and armor), various woods and resins totaling 150 IM for the peripheral internal structures
Blood Component: None
Required Caster: Mage with the Craft Construct feat
Secondary Casters: Up to three
Skill Checks: Craft Metal-working (DC 18) 4 successes; Knowledge Arcana (DC 22) 3 successes
Backlash: Caster becomes lightheaded as the ritual uses his own language skills to teach the newborn war-forged, the jumble of half glimpse memories means they must pass a DC 20 Concentration check to perform any task requiring intense focus over the next day. Casting Sallosh's last Gift a second time is except from this price as the ritual smoothly resonates with the lingering effect
Effect: The creation of a Warforged. All Warforged begin as level 1 fighters though unlike most other beings they find retraining this first level relatively easy.
Failure: The tortured spirits within the living brass resist the transformation damaging the caster's sanity (2d6 Wisdom Drain)
School: Transmutation Level 8
Casting Time: 80 minutes
Material Components: 25 lb. of Living Brass to form the core of the construct, 55 lb. of hardened steel (or other more arcane metal for bones and armor), various woods and resins totaling 150 IM for the peripheral internal structures
Blood Component: None
Required Caster: Mage with the Craft Construct feat
Secondary Casters: Up to three
Skill Checks: Craft Metal-working (DC 18) 4 successes; Knowledge Arcana (DC 22) 3 successes
Backlash: Caster becomes lightheaded as the ritual uses his own language skills to teach the newborn war-forged, the jumble of half glimpse memories means they must pass a DC 20 Concentration check to perform any task requiring intense focus over the next day. Casting Sallosh's last Gift a second time is except from this price as the ritual smoothly resonates with the lingering effect
Effect: The creation of a Warforged. All Warforged begin as level 1 fighters though unlike most other beings they find retraining this first level relatively easy.
Failure: The tortured spirits within the living brass resist the transformation damaging the caster's sanity (2d6 Wisdom Drain)
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I've always liked monks that and ki masters there a great satisfaction in beating the shit out of things with ones fist.
I played a monk once in a campaign which went across planes and even other planets we even went to earth for a while it was satisfying to be so confused by modern technology and to punch the shit out of a car.
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Crake
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Misfits level-ups, if they happen, after they're recruited. If you suckers opt out of recruiting, that means I get to do them myself.
I mean, I was going to do the first write-up anyway, with the advantage of having access to the sheets already, but who said I had to play fair. :lol
I mean, I was going to do the first write-up anyway, with the advantage of having access to the sheets already, but who said I had to play fair. :lol
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Good man. Monk would be a cruel thing to inflict.
Edit: looks at vote.
PLAN HUGS AND POSSIBLE TAG GOT A VOTE! Fuck yeah! Cheers @bigbow
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It would have gotten 3 if you had booped that snoot.
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Want to hear something that will horrify the thread? I once played a character who was 20 levels of straight 3.5 phb monk. He was super fun and I did just fine. I wasn't the most powerful person in that party, but I carried my weight.
It helps that I was absurdly lucky with D&D dice until I was about 26 or so, to be fair.
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Good ol' Viserys Method: just roll straight nat 20s, and you will be fine.
It's that simple folks. Anyone can do it, really.
But 3.5 monk can be fine indeed with the right feats and ACFs.
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Goldfish
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Anything is better than Commoner, even an Adept or a Monk. And lots of people enjoy role-playing less powerful characters.
Back when I used to play Palladium games, I remember one group where I was playing a Mind Melter, along with a guy in advanced Power Armor, a Ley Line Walker (who is like a Wizard, kinda), and a super hero from another Palladium setting. And there was one guy playing a Rogue Scholar, which is like playing a Rogue or Bard, but with the combat power of a Commoner and no magic. He had as much fun as the rest of us as far as I can recall, and got really into his character. I would have hated it, though.
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Being the pack mule of very reckless PCs.