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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #40 on: November 27, 2010, 06:18:38 PM »
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #41 on: November 27, 2010, 06:21:37 PM »
Didn't rape his wife, far as I know.

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #42 on: November 27, 2010, 06:25:19 PM »
Nor is he mythological.

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #43 on: November 27, 2010, 06:26:34 PM »
What about Barack Obama?

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #44 on: November 27, 2010, 06:28:26 PM »
Him, yes.  Congress, no.
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #45 on: November 27, 2010, 06:30:43 PM »
There are people who still believe in Santa Claus too, so I think this might still work.

Also, Santa Claus. Or perhaps Santa Claws. He's a psiwar/thrallherd!
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #46 on: November 27, 2010, 06:31:35 PM »
There are people who still believe in Santa Claus too, so I think this might still work.

Also, Santa Claus. Or perhaps Santa Claws. He's a psiwar/thrallherd!
with elf artificiers as all of his believers.
I am constantly amazed by how many DM's ban Tomb of Battle.  The book doesn't even exist!

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #47 on: November 27, 2010, 08:10:26 PM »
By the most popular account Caliburn was the Sword in the Stone, Excalibur was his second sword. By other accounts they were the same weapon.

The sword was supposed to have been wreathed in flames which "shone like thirty torches" and terrified Arthur's enemies. And it may or may not have been the same weapon as Caladbolg, which was basically F/SN's Excalibur on drugs.

Okay, In that case Arthur is a Crusader 6 with a +1 Flaming Adamantine Longsword.  He has a sheath that makes him immune to con damage.  If you don't worry about it being the sheath that did it, then he's actually a Crusader 5/Binder 1 and he's binding Naberius, which makes him regenerate con damage as fast as it happens (con damage is the closest thing in D&D to bleeding).

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #48 on: November 27, 2010, 09:28:23 PM »
And with Stone Power he could even get a DR if you really want him to ignore damage itself.

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #49 on: November 28, 2010, 01:27:15 AM »
Well with regards to the sheath's ability it did seem more like converting most damage to subdual and preventing things like poison and other ills. Sources vary as to how awesome it was though.
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #50 on: November 28, 2010, 03:45:29 AM »
I think that it's fair to say that all of these people were myths in their own time
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #51 on: November 28, 2010, 04:47:07 AM »
Arthur would have levels in the NPC Aristocrat.

But Excalibur itself wasn't that great. It was a keen longsword with the shine like a torch ability. It was the scabbard that really amped him up. That thing is at least a minor artifact.

The original sword in the stone was broken when Arthur got into the original fight with Lancelot. After the fight, which Merlin had to intervene to keep Arthur's ass from being kicked, Arthur went to the lake on Merlin's direction and got Excalibur from the Lady.

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #52 on: November 28, 2010, 09:13:08 AM »
Arthur would have levels in the NPC Aristocrat.
NPC aristocrats go to fight armies by themselves?
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At that time a great number of Saxons were invading Britain and increasing. Then Arthur and the British kings fought the Saxons. He was there battle leader. The Pagans were put to flight that day and many of them were slaughtered. A twelfth battle took place at Mount Badon in which a single attack from Arthur killed 960. No other man took part in this massacre. In all those battles, Arthur was victorious.

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But Excalibur itself wasn't that great. It was a keen longsword with the shine like a torch ability.
Thirty torches, and carrying a fear effect. :p Though yes, the scabbard was stated to be more powerful (or at least more useful).
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The tier system in a nutshell:
[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #53 on: November 28, 2010, 09:14:22 AM »
A torch deals one point of fire damage... Excalibur deals +30 fire damage.
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #54 on: November 28, 2010, 09:16:42 AM »
A torch deals one point of fire damage... Excalibur deals +30 fire damage.
+8d6 fire damage?
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The tier system in a nutshell:
[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #55 on: November 28, 2010, 09:24:15 AM »
Isn't there an armor effect that shines like a Daylight Effect and causes a fear aura x/day? Clearly the weapon was mis-enchanted.
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They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #56 on: November 28, 2010, 09:28:02 AM »
Arthur would have levels in the NPC Aristocrat.
NPC aristocrats go to fight armies by themselves?
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At that time a great number of Saxons were invading Britain and increasing. Then Arthur and the British kings fought the Saxons. He was there battle leader. The Pagans were put to flight that day and many of them were slaughtered. A twelfth battle took place at Mount Badon in which a single attack from Arthur killed 960. No other man took part in this massacre. In all those battles, Arthur was victorious.

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But Excalibur itself wasn't that great. It was a keen longsword with the shine like a torch ability.
Thirty torches, and carrying a fear effect. :p Though yes, the scabbard was stated to be more powerful (or at least more useful).
The sword is probably so distinctive and at the hands of a guy so feared that they took one look at the sword and ran. It wasn't a magical fear effect. It was just just "OMFG! That's Excalibur. It's Arthur! RUN!!!!!"

Also, from the passage, he didn't personally kill 960. His leadership did. Not even DnD wizards can kill 960 mooks in one hit (I said HIT, not expanded fireballs or the like).

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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #57 on: November 28, 2010, 09:36:37 AM »
Chained Telekinesis...



Also, they were clearly using the Reknown rules, which do things like that after a while.
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A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
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Nine for Mortal Monks doomed to die,
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #58 on: November 28, 2010, 09:53:08 AM »
Arthur's just a Crusader with a half decent sword (+1 Adamantium Longsword covers it well enough).  Didn't excallibur break eventually?
IIRC, the sheath also prevented any of his wounds from bleeding so long as he had it on him. 
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Re: Mythological badasses
« Reply #59 on: November 28, 2010, 05:13:57 PM »
Hercules is already a consolidation with connecting material, Lost ala 600 B.C.
The previous mytho Big Dude stories weren't automatically the future Herc.

"Herc" vs. the giant that couldn't be beaten while his feet were on the ground,
is a Greco version of a myth from Berber North Africa, say around Tunis.
The Atlas mountains end there, and the greco Atlas titan myth is also very old.
This is perhaps 1500 years before the Arabs show up.
One can speculate a common origin, of these two separate stories.
Ptah and/or Thoth alternately come from the Atlas area,
sometimes from Sudan; always a hint of non-Egyptian.


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