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I don't think so but, the choice is permanent. Also for laughs... Alter Ego: Changeling.

Ok, so the question came up theoretically in our latest session, if you have the level 10 ability of the Explorer destiny:

Three times a day, you may forgo a skill check and treat the result as though you had rolled a natural 20. This natural 20 does not trigger a cutie mark critical though, that’d just be silly.

And someone else activates Jinx:

For the next 7 minutes, all creatures within 70 feet of you suffer from horribly bad luck. [...] In short, treat any skill check attempted by any creature within 70 feet of you as an automatic critical failure

Which would win? Jinx or Explorer destiny?

Obviously, I need admin/developer approval, but running directly from the wording, it seems that explorer skips the "make a skill check" step in the process of judging your effectiveness, so it should win. Put another way, Jinx activates when you attempt a skill check, and the explorer destiny explicitly lets you "forgo a skill check."

Which actually brings up a second question. In the metagamer destiny's level 10 feature, you get to treat a die roll as a 1, 10, or 20. Since jinx makes you automatically fail things, would you even get a chance to activate one of these?

As a general rule, Destiny > Utility talent.

This might've been answered before. But one's element can count for a spellchild's once a day for a magic point using skill, right?

More crescendo questions, because we all love crescendo questions!

1) For the purpose of abilities like meditate, or valor, or other stuff that boosts or alters your "next attack" or "your next X attack", are the damaging attacks from "Crescendo" considered all one attack, or is each separate?

For instance, with meditate, which boosts your next two attacks, would you end up boosting only two of the attacks that comprise crescendo, or all five of them + you can boost a different attack?

2) Is the order of the attacks you do with Crescendo self-chosen, or strictly in the order that's listed (weakest to highest)? Curious about this one, due to the above question.

3) Pardon if this was asked before, but how exactly does the "chronology" of crescendo attacks work? Which of the two is it:
-Target everything -> enact all the damage rolls -> See the results of rolls combined (this can lead do you wasting several attacks on a low-hp enemy, or even accidentally killing them via overkill)
-Target one attack -> enact damage roll -> see result of damage -> target next attack -> repeat (this lets you see if your attacks KO/defeat/kill the target, and can go for another target)

Zarhon wrote:More crescendo questions, because we all love crescendo questions!

1) For the purpose of abilities like meditate, or valor, or other stuff that boosts or alters your "next attack" or "your next X attack", are the damaging attacks from "Crescendo" considered all one attack, or is each separate?

For instance, with meditate, which boosts your next two attacks, would you end up boosting only two of the attacks that comprise crescendo, or all five of them + you can boost a different attack?

2) Is the order of the attacks you do with Crescendo self-chosen, or strictly in the order that's listed (weakest to highest)? Curious about this one, due to the above question.

3) Pardon if this was asked before, but how exactly does the "chronology" of crescendo attacks work? Which of the two is it:
-Target everything -> enact all the damage rolls -> See the results of rolls combined (this can lead do you wasting several attacks on a low-hp enemy, or even accidentally killing them via overkill)
-Target one attack -> enact damage roll -> see result of damage -> target next attack -> repeat (this lets you see if your attacks KO/defeat/kill the target, and can go for another target)

Each attack made with Crescendo counts as a different attack so Meditate of Valor would only trigger on the first two. The order is done in the order listed and it goes "target one attack, enact damage roll, see result, target next attack, ect. ect. ect."

So, I've been meaning to ask, and this is more to do with the forum than the game, but what's with the health bars beneath our avatars and whatnot? Is that related to how much we get banned or something?

Pretty much. Closer we are to getting perma-banned the less health we have

There's a list in the rules about what each level means. We haven't had to have anyone under 100% in... a long time.

Is it bad I kinda want to Challenge Accepted that?

Yes, because that means you'll be on the moderator's watchlist. *Mine at least.

Xel Unknown wrote:This might've been answered before. But one's element can count for a spellchild's once a day for a magic point using skill, right?

Yep. =)

Stairc -Dan Felder wrote:

Xel Unknown wrote:This might've been answered before. But one's element can count for a spellchild's once a day for a magic point using skill, right?

Yep. =)

Thanks. :3

Is there any intent to improve the Blood Weapon talent?

thematthew wrote:Is there any intent to improve the Blood Weapon talent?

I'd like to, as I just got done watching Deadman Wonderland and currently in love with Sangromancy and pay-life effects. However, we just didn't get around to it. We had higher priorities at our last design meeting.

I still have the improved version I threw together if you wanted as a starting point. I just still feel that Blood Weapon is kinda the redheaded step-child of the conjured weapons, and needs some love.

Cool. Feel free to PM it to Nehiel and Kindulas.

Here's a simple(ish) question. If I want to Ponykinesis something someone else is ponykinesis-ing, how is that handled? Specifically...

-For cooperative efforts, can we combine weight limits to lift something together? (IE: A party of unicorns combining their efforts to PK down a massive weight or something)

-For opposed efforts, how are opposing checks handled? Rolling Arcana? Would the challenger need It's Witchcraft?

Question: Must the Freaky Knowaldge given by the Archlich Destiny be in Necromancy? If not that'd make reflavoring the Destiny a lot harder...

Caden2112 wrote:Here's a simple(ish) question. If I want to Ponykinesis something someone else is ponykinesis-ing, how is that handled? Specifically...

-For cooperative efforts, can we combine weight limits to lift something together? (IE: A party of unicorns combining their efforts to PK down a massive weight or something)

-For opposed efforts, how are opposing checks handled? Rolling Arcana? Would the challenger need It's Witchcraft?

This is very much up to DMs. I'd allow unicorns to work together on objects so long as they succeed on skill checks to work well together using It's Witchcraft. Opposing checks of arcana or intelligence for ponykinetic hoof-wrestling would work too, though a DM could easily rule that the two ponies get a tie if they can both lift the same amount of weight.

Xel Unknown wrote:Question: Must the Freaky Knowaldge given by the Archlich Destiny be in Necromancy? If not that'd make reflavoring the Destiny a lot harder...

Absolutely. I've edited the destiny to make this clearer.

Why on Earth was Plague Eater designed so as to make you immortal?

thematthew wrote:Why on Earth was Plague Eater designed so as to make you immortal?

I know you're trying to get someone to respond to you asking "how do you mean" so that you can make a triumphant response but I'm not falling for it

Oh no, I'm just trying to make the designers look at what they actually wrote, and see that it will keep you alive throughout any fight where you have a single save ends condition on you.

thematthew wrote:Why on Earth was Plague Eater designed so as to make you immortal?

...Plague Eater?