Comments on: DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 2 http://critical-hits.com/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/ The Journal of Gamer Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:43:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ChattyDM http://critical-hits.com/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47245 ChattyDM Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:02:45 +0000 http://chattydm.net/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47245 LoL! Point well taken! Actually the re-fluffing technique you refer makes for a great DM technique! Cursed Giant indeed... LoL!

Point well taken!

Actually the re-fluffing technique you refer makes for a great DM technique!

Cursed Giant indeed…

]]> By: Cayzle http://critical-hits.com/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47244 Cayzle Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:00:13 +0000 http://chattydm.net/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47244 Clinique calls it a lamia, but Cayzle calls it a yuan-ti! Unless it's part feline, it's no lamia in my book! :-) Which raises an interesting question of player expectations. A cruel and clever DM can spice up mundane encounters by renaming monsters. "Mutant Kobolds" for lizardfolk, "Fire-breathing Wyverns" for red dragons, "Cursed Giants" for goblins. Clinique calls it a lamia, but Cayzle calls it a yuan-ti! Unless it’s part feline, it’s no lamia in my book!
:-)

Which raises an interesting question of player expectations. A cruel and clever DM can spice up mundane encounters by renaming monsters. “Mutant Kobolds” for lizardfolk, “Fire-breathing Wyverns” for red dragons, “Cursed Giants” for goblins.

]]> By: ChattyDM http://critical-hits.com/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47243 ChattyDM Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:08:33 +0000 http://chattydm.net/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47243 Graham is right... If you define a Wemic as a humanoid/lionine centauric creature, the Lamia Matriarch is actually Paizo's adaptation of WotC's Lamia Noble: A 1/2 human female 1/2 Serpent creature. Graham is right…

If you define a Wemic as a humanoid/lionine centauric creature, the Lamia Matriarch is actually Paizo’s adaptation of WotC’s Lamia Noble:

A 1/2 human female 1/2 Serpent creature.

]]> By: Graham|ve4grm http://critical-hits.com/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47242 Graham|ve4grm Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:42:39 +0000 http://chattydm.net/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47242 Cayzle - wrong type of Lamia. Cayzle – wrong type of Lamia.

]]> By: Cayzle http://critical-hits.com/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47241 Cayzle Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:41:17 +0000 http://chattydm.net/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47241 Of course, "Lamia Matriarch" is just another word for wemic! But no one wants to fight sweet wonderful wemics, so we call then lamia when we want to kill them. Of course, “Lamia Matriarch” is just another word for wemic! But no one wants to fight sweet wonderful wemics, so we call then lamia when we want to kill them.

]]> By: ChattyDM http://critical-hits.com/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47240 ChattyDM Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:37:29 +0000 http://chattydm.net/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47240 Oh I can guarantee that players would love it. They agreed that it was a fun rule... But like you said, Cixi's build and loot stretches the base on which the rule is based upon way past it's limit. As a thought experiment on the forums (now secretly opened) we should check 9th level builds of vanilla Min/Maxed Critical Hit builds (and Rogues). Cheers. Oh I can guarantee that players would love it. They agreed that it was a fun rule…

But like you said, Cixi’s build and loot stretches the base on which the rule is based upon way past it’s limit.

As a thought experiment on the forums (now secretly opened) we should check 9th level builds of vanilla Min/Maxed Critical Hit builds (and Rogues).

Cheers.

]]> By: Graham|ve4grm http://critical-hits.com/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47239 Graham|ve4grm Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:27:52 +0000 http://chattydm.net/2007/12/06/dm-chronicles-session-7-of-performing-crunch-and-norming-fluff-part-2/#comment-47239 Yeah, a 2d6+dex damage, 15-20x4 ranged critical wasn't really considered when I wrote that variant up. (The +X to AC for confirmations wouldn't have worked either, based on what you told me.) But that kind of crit range/multiplier/damage breaks crits in general, anyways (especially since those wights have higher HP than most CR 9 creatures to begin with). I do wish you had encountered some crits from the more standard characters, so I could get some playtest feedback. But oh well. Yeah, a 2d6+dex damage, 15-20×4 ranged critical wasn’t really considered when I wrote that variant up. (The +X to AC for confirmations wouldn’t have worked either, based on what you told me.) But that kind of crit range/multiplier/damage breaks crits in general, anyways (especially since those wights have higher HP than most CR 9 creatures to begin with).

I do wish you had encountered some crits from the more standard characters, so I could get some playtest feedback. But oh well.

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