Greek- Faces Trial

[Andy]

Yes, interesting to consider the enemy:

excellent missile attacks
better than average hit points (a nice max fireball may not slow them down)
crappy AC (compared to all the freakin demons we've been fighting lately)
excellent THAC0 and damage (a 2x crit WILL stun and drop someone hard or end a mage's life)
BIG - we should nearly always be able to get archer fire over the heads of the front rank, and we should forget about forcing doors that are barred against creatures with 20ST

Honestly, I don't think Kephalonia's really a great person to bring, but I just don't have anyone else.

[David]

Howdy folks,

Once again, Elf is making some EXCELLENT points. I don't believe most of the players realize just how DEADLY the more powerful kinds of giants can be. Although normally players hope for "just" multiple damage when they get crit, that is NOT the case when fighting giants (that's actually how most of the giant-slayers of the '80s died!)! In addition, they rarely miss...

Also, inside a glacier is NOT "in the shadow of the earth"...

[charbidge]

Okay. I'm convinced. Better we should just nuke 'em from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.

[Stephanous]

Hi All,

Remember, we won't be able to put together the absolute BEST team for each Pantheiad. For the Oerdians I would love to have David and KK play more than three characters each, but that's just not possible. So, even though Kephalonia might not be the best person to bring, for Andy she is still probably the best person to bring. Lets also not forget how resourceful Andy is.

Paul

[Stephanous]

Hi All,

I was going to post the left over treasure from the New Heroes Game. The problem is that there are scrolls to open and items to be played with. So, we are going to have to do this the next time we are all together which will probably be the Greek Game.

Paul

[David]

Thanks for doing this book-keeping for me and the rest of the group, Paul. I really appreciate it.

[Artec]

Same here Paul good work.

[Admin]

Thanks Paul for the treasure keeping

As for the greek game...I've FINALLY had a moment to think on it...

As for targets, the one we WILL NOT be aiming for is the one w/ women & children....we'd have to sedate Kephalonia in order to get that one completed...

My thought is either #2 or #3 on the list:

* The raiding base of the frost giant heroes and elite warriors. The base is within a floating iceberg.
--possible problems...any big, bang boom spells may fracture the iceberg? But hey, the Titanic ran into one and the iceberg won, so who knows...we may want some 'water breathing' spells, just in case! Everyone needs to BYOC= Bring Your Own Crampons...
* The palace of the frost giant rulers, the motivators and architects of this invasion. The palace is on top of a frozen mountain. I like this as a target because it takes out their leadership...I'm not sure of the alignment of Frost Giants, so I'm not sure how this will affect their hierarchy, but I'm not trying to look at this as a simple "game." I'm thinking we also want to severely cripple the "organization" if it's possible...It's still high on the list, so there should be a good number of giants with which to contend...Potential problems: again, big-bang-boom spells may cause avalanches, or other structural damage which may have SEVERE repercussions

With the use of Brand's cube & Kephalonia's dimension folding/probability control, we shouldn't have too much trouble getting to either location (please correct me if I'm wrong David...I don't know the entire parameters of the cube or the spell).

I don't think we have the manpower for taking out the "army" described in #1. What are your thoughts?? I'm happy to hear any and all suggestions...


The PC's I have as "for sure" are:

Xena-- 9th/4th (since she's split class she only counts as 9 yippeee! ) -- one drawback is that she doesn't dish a lot of damage!! And she doesn't get any extra attacks. She's best at taking out the smaller minions...
Bronwyn -- Age 1 dragon (dragon's have great saves, but Bronwyn can breathe 3 times a day!! counts as 3 levels
Brand -- 9 mage/ 7 fighter [10] His cube will GREATLY aid us in getting us right where we need or want to be...and without demons hanging around (hopefully) we won't have the same worries about who can see us [hopefully!! I realize there are no guarantees and would NOT be surprised if we ran across something that could see us ethereally]!!
Andorallan--6 fighter -- his mountaineering skills could be quite useful!!
Tony -- 8th Ranger-- He's quested to go by Xena, who recently raised him from the dead.
Rufus--9th mariner--it's RUFUS...of course he's going!
Vaughn--10 Ranger-- umm...I ain't no dummy! We'll need all the Rangers we can get on this one!! Vaughn is pretty damn tough and I think Persephone is a bit under-represented....GO TEAM PERSEPHONE (echoes a ghostly a voice which sounds remarkably like Cassandra )
Thera--7th cleric...ok, so we have to give her some bling in order for her to cooperate...small price to pay for AID spells, CSW and Death's Door
Kephalonia--9th Witch--what can I say...Keph brings with her the ability to dimension fold...a VERY helpful skill...in days after the first trial I'm hoping Keph can assist Arianna in getting to a few vital areas in order to purchase much needed scrolls, spells, etc...let's have cwoffee and twalk

Ok...that's it for the FIRST STRING....

We need more mages/fighters/clerics
I like the way Paul plays his mages, so I'm leaning toward Allyrion, rather than Stephanos...as both cleric & mage, that combo is pretty useful....plus, when Brand gets the crap kicked out of him [when, not IF] we won't have to worry about Allyrion coming to his rescue again, he'll aready be there...hehe Although I would also LOVE to see Theseus kick some giant booty, but I think we are more in need of clerics.

Mandar would make a great second for David...

For myself, I can play another cleric (Arianna, Gwen, Clara) or I can bring Meara (5th Ranger)...Gwen could MAYBE charm monster one? Arianna would have 5th level spells, but she can't really be healed and isn't known for her fighting ability...she can work with Kephalonia to play spell support and perhaps protect the mages a bit? Clara is pretty useless when it comes to fighting, but she is a decent healer w/ lay on hands, etc...

[David]

Howdy Kari,

I think you've well though this out. A couple of comments from Brand:

* I will probably NOT being using lance of disruption anywhere near any ice structures. I'm not too sure about fireball or even lightning bolt either. I do have sunfire which should pop a hole in any glacier.

* the cube is NOT effective at getting somewhere quick, since you have to literally walk across the Ethereal plane. It is, however, great at getting out of most any tight spot.

* although there are usually randon demons, devils, elementals, and undead lurking on the ethereal, frost giants should have zero ability to see us skulk about their lair.

* frost giants are CHAOTIC EVIL (hey, I lived for years in Klarr aka Little-Norseland!)

[Andy]

Thinking about it, every one of the fab 5 could handle straight-up combat. Contrary to my previous thoughts, Stephanous may be better than Alleryon...we just got to get him to drop that silly spell so we don't get in trouble.

Mages are almost a liability...I'm thinking Kephalonia needs an invisibility item or something just to have a chance of being safe. David's usually pretty good about remembering to roll grenade-like misses for the spare ones, and they annoying often hit invisible characters hiding around the back of the party. It's tough to out-resourceful a wall of 30 hp boulders that all hit AC -4.

[Stephanous]

I think you've thought this out pretty well KK. Here are a couple of my comments or suggestions;

We are going to need plenty of healing. It would be a good idea to bring someone like Clara or Stephanous who can do CCW.

Kephalonia- buy a potion or two of Invisibility, it will at least keep you from being a chosen target.

Also, Vladamir, Allyrion and Pandora would suggest that we pay Shay Shay a visit in Greyhawk. We all adventured together a long time ago and she might be able to sell us some personal potions at a discount.
(I also think the roleplay would be fun)

I would also like to suggest a good old fashioned Greek Magic Item Sawp Meet. I think that any interested Greeks and have been involved with the games so far ahould get together and see if they have any items that they might want to trade to another Greek. This would take place somewhere like Amazonia so little hobbit or elven thieves coulldn't spy. Of course we would use spells and/or ESP on anyone going to verify their identity.

Any other ideas?

Paul

[charbidge]

As the littlest kid on this particular block (how did Thera get ahead of me, anywy? pooh!), I'd like to make my felings known: aaaaaack! idonwannagoidonwannagoidonwannago...!

[Stephanous]

Hi All,

I believe that Andy might not be available until 4:00 this Saturday. If that is the case, I was wondering if everyone else would like to show up early. My reasoning for this is that since the Greeks are a pretty tight group, they will be sharing magic items with each other. I'm sure some of the higher level people could loan some of the lower level people an item or two. If people show up early we could have a lot of this out of the way before Andy shows up (of course keeping kephalonia in mind while we do this). What do you guys think?

Paul
aka Vaughn, Ranger of Persephone

[David]

I think this is a great idea, Paul.

Kari, have you chosen your team and your target yet?

[Andy]

We really need a horn of blasting....that'd fix their stupid ice structures...