The Areas of My Expertise
...now include radio and the utter breaking of D&D.
I accomplished two wonderful things this weekend. The first was my participation in OGRE vs. Squirrel, Oberlin College's traditional test of who can create the single most broken D&D character, under a loose set of restrictions. Here's what I came up with:
Class: Druid 5/Master of Many Forms 10/Lion of Talisid 5//Swordsage 20. In case you are unfamiliar with Gestalt rules, that double slash indicates that at each level I'm taking two classes at the same time, getting all the abilities of each class. So, this character is not only capable of shapeshifting 13 times per day into any 20 HD or fewer , Gargantuan or smaller creature (excepting constructs, outsiders, undead, and magic beasts), casting spells as a 10th level druid, full attacking at the end of a charge, etc., he is equally capable of executing a wide array of wuxia-type moves, and gets full progression in all his saves.
Abilities: Strength 10, Dexterity 12, Constitution 20, Intelligence 22, Wisdom 31, Charisma 10. The physical scores are low, but since I'll be spending all my time in various battle forms, they don't matter. Wisdom, on the other hand, powers my spellcasting, and adds to my AC.
There was really only one Feat that I took of particular consequence: Vow. of. Poverty. At 20th level, this provides me with the ability boosts I needed to so absurdly boost my stats, a total of +15 to my AC, Energy Resistance 15, Immunity to Fear, permanent True Seeing and Freedom of Movement, no need to breathe, DR 10/evil, and made any attack I made the equivalent of a +5 Good-aligned weapon.
I may have accidentally bent a few rules, however: I later read that errata I had missed changed it so that Wild Shape cannot let you turn into a templated creature--so technically, I shouldn't have been able to turn into a Half-Dragon Hydra. While I understand that this was probably necessary from a game balance perspective it strikes me as kind of odd. Ah well.
My other accomplishment was the participating in the first episode of the new season of The Dead Hear Footsteps, Oberlin's weekly noir radio show, chronicling the adventures of Hardin Lovelace (pronounced 'Loveless'). It's an off-the-wall, surprisingly bawdy show, with zany plots, fake commercials, and a very, very talented cast. For all of you back in California, you can listen in by going to www.wobc.com, where you can listen to the webcast when the show broadcasts at 2:00 on Sunday. (That's 2:00 California time, 5:00 for me.)
I accomplished two wonderful things this weekend. The first was my participation in OGRE vs. Squirrel, Oberlin College's traditional test of who can create the single most broken D&D character, under a loose set of restrictions. Here's what I came up with:
Class: Druid 5/Master of Many Forms 10/Lion of Talisid 5//Swordsage 20. In case you are unfamiliar with Gestalt rules, that double slash indicates that at each level I'm taking two classes at the same time, getting all the abilities of each class. So, this character is not only capable of shapeshifting 13 times per day into any 20 HD or fewer , Gargantuan or smaller creature (excepting constructs, outsiders, undead, and magic beasts), casting spells as a 10th level druid, full attacking at the end of a charge, etc., he is equally capable of executing a wide array of wuxia-type moves, and gets full progression in all his saves.
Abilities: Strength 10, Dexterity 12, Constitution 20, Intelligence 22, Wisdom 31, Charisma 10. The physical scores are low, but since I'll be spending all my time in various battle forms, they don't matter. Wisdom, on the other hand, powers my spellcasting, and adds to my AC.
There was really only one Feat that I took of particular consequence: Vow. of. Poverty. At 20th level, this provides me with the ability boosts I needed to so absurdly boost my stats, a total of +15 to my AC, Energy Resistance 15, Immunity to Fear, permanent True Seeing and Freedom of Movement, no need to breathe, DR 10/evil, and made any attack I made the equivalent of a +5 Good-aligned weapon.
I may have accidentally bent a few rules, however: I later read that errata I had missed changed it so that Wild Shape cannot let you turn into a templated creature--so technically, I shouldn't have been able to turn into a Half-Dragon Hydra. While I understand that this was probably necessary from a game balance perspective it strikes me as kind of odd. Ah well.
My other accomplishment was the participating in the first episode of the new season of The Dead Hear Footsteps, Oberlin's weekly noir radio show, chronicling the adventures of Hardin Lovelace (pronounced 'Loveless'). It's an off-the-wall, surprisingly bawdy show, with zany plots, fake commercials, and a very, very talented cast. For all of you back in California, you can listen in by going to www.wobc.com, where you can listen to the webcast when the show broadcasts at 2:00 on Sunday. (That's 2:00 California time, 5:00 for me.)