Comments on: DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 2

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:02:45 +0000

LoL!

Point well taken!

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

Cursed Giant indeed…

By: Cayzle

Cayzle — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:00:13 +0000

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

ChattyDM — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:08:33 +0000

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

Graham|ve4grm — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:42:39 +0000

Cayzle - wrong type of Lamia.

By: Cayzle

Cayzle — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:41:17 +0000

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

ChattyDM — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:37:29 +0000

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

Graham|ve4grm — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:27:52 +0000

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.