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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #100 on: December 05, 2008, 02:57:33 PM »
Updated a fair amount of material here.
  • Reformatted Chronomancy Rules and broke them out.
  • Reformatted Slices and shifted them into A-L and M-Z categories.
  • Adjusted the Chronomancer and several abilities therein.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #101 on: March 03, 2009, 01:41:30 AM »
Strat, those are some interesting classes.

I'd like to ask something about the Historian. Are the spell/martial points given meant to be per day or per encounter?

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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #102 on: March 03, 2009, 11:38:52 AM »
Per day, of course. Same chart as used by UA spellpoints. Per encounter those would be insane totals.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #103 on: March 03, 2009, 12:49:56 PM »
Thanks. I just wanted to check.

Btw, how would you classify the three classes here on the tiers system?

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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #104 on: March 03, 2009, 01:16:27 PM »
Historian is Tier 2 or 3, as it can do most of the nasty spell tricks a sorcerer can.

Echocaller and Chrono are much more likely to be Tier 3, although overall play hasn't really placed them in a slot yet. It's at least where they were aimed.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #105 on: March 03, 2009, 04:27:33 PM »
Shattering Echo seems... REALLY strong, especially at 3rd level. Maybe have it start that the enemy becomes staggered (can only take a move or standard on its turn, not both), and improve it later so that it loses your choice of its next move or standard action?

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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #106 on: March 10, 2009, 10:19:41 AM »
Strat, so how have historians fared in your games here?

I'm planning to play one in the Let's Go Ultra Hero Super Burning Dimension Force! game and I want to know how it would fare versus high-end optimization in actual gameplay.

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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #107 on: March 10, 2009, 07:35:26 PM »

  Hmm, as one of the historian playtesters, a lot of out of game flexibility, in game your generally going to have one specialty to minimise MAD. At high levels they get quite flexible in play when you have 3 or more seeds. But ask your GM to houserule some sort of Detect Magic seed, it's been a missing element of a lot of Strats new system builds; hes not a fan detect spells :p
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #108 on: March 10, 2009, 08:56:08 PM »
So which of the three specialties have been performing well?

Also, I think that the Chronomancer can be more powerful than Tier 3 with the use of the Knowledge through Time slice since he can cherry pick any class ability he wants as long as its from the first half of a PrC or class.

Void Presence or Frenzy anyone?  :D

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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #109 on: March 23, 2009, 01:44:35 PM »
Melee has done well, as has casting (since it's slightly more powerful DDamage, which works well at low levels). Not seen divine that much, yet. He is right about the MAD though, as each requires a separate stat.

Chrono, not seen as much of, would like to see how it goes.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #110 on: March 23, 2009, 07:06:13 PM »
On a rough reading though, just means 1 specialisation(abilities and feats geared towards it), 1 secondary(one of the spellcasting ability scores being decent, at least), and leave the last mode for emergencies. Running the Historian as a true Jack of All Trades require a ludicrous point buy/ability gain rate.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #111 on: March 27, 2009, 12:51:57 PM »
Or tons of magical items, yes. Although do note that martial is based off of Con for points, so you can sort of fudge that a little. I suppose I should just make a Con to Attack feat to make everything simpler for it :P
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #112 on: March 27, 2009, 02:33:19 PM »

  .... I can't tell whether that would be awesome or insane   :p But do it!
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #113 on: March 27, 2009, 03:39:37 PM »
Broken, certainly. So I doubt I'll be actually making that feat. However, I might add it as a manoeuvre choice for the martial historian.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #114 on: August 18, 2011, 09:50:25 PM »
-reverses time to bring this to present!-

Has anyone ever thought about building a Chronomancer akin to the Chaos Mage from Mongoose?  Stratovarius here did something similar with the ancient casting, but I was thinking a more combined approach that wasn't even separated by arcane/divine, sort of like the Geomancer.  If people would be keen on seeing what it turns in to, I would be more than happy to hash something up here soon.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #115 on: October 03, 2011, 02:08:29 AM »
I have to say, high level Chronomancers make excellent melee fighters; they do get the ability to, by 10th level, get Full BAB, a bonus to hit and damage (not a big one, but still), and an extra two attacks at their highest attack bonus.

For two rounds.

Now, that might not be up to Cleric standards, but it is quite loverly, especially if you pick just the right PrCs...

Chronomancer's Blade just makes it better.
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Sounds fine to me.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #116 on: October 18, 2011, 01:18:03 PM »
Does anyone know if Strat still posts here?  I'll adopt-a-class the Historian if he's gone, and bring it all together, and even if he is still around, I'll do it just to have all the resources handy, so long as he's cool with it.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #117 on: October 18, 2011, 01:47:18 PM »
According to his profile, Stratovarius is still active, having logged in only last week. However, there aren't any recorded posts from him since 2009.
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #118 on: October 18, 2011, 02:03:33 PM »
According to his profile, Stratovarius is still active, having logged in only last week. However, there aren't any recorded posts from him since 2009.

I shot him a PM asking him if he's planning on doing anything new with the Historian.  At the very least I'd like to collect it all in one thread consecutively posted, and get clarification on the latest Ancient Martial Technique methodology, as it was massively updated with fusillades (meaning all the eras need new prerequisites made for them, or need rewritten entirely).  If that's all still to be done, I'm more than happy to pick up where he left off, as a fellow Twilight Legionaire (bonus points if you get the Stratovarius reference).  And if he does have a newer version, hopefully he'll share!
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Re: Past, Present, and Future
« Reply #119 on: October 18, 2011, 08:05:29 PM »
Same thing here with the Chronomancer; I've already started fixing up the wording for my own personal use, so...
[spoiler]Fighter: "I can kill a guy in one turn."
Cleric: "I can kill a guy in half a turn."
Wizard: "I can kill a guy before my turn."
Bard: "I can get three idiots to kill guys for me."

On a strange note, would anyone be put out if we had a post about people or events we can spare a thought for, or if its within their creed, a prayer for? Just a random thought, but ... hells I wouldn't have known about either Archangels daughter or Saeomons niece if I didn't happen to be on these threads.
Sounds fine to me.
probably over on "Off-topic".
might want to put a little disclaimer in the first post.

This is the Min/Max board. We should be able to figure out a way to optimize the POWER OF PRAYER(TM) that doesn't involve "Pazuzu, Pazuzu, Pazuzu".
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