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Dungeons & Dragons – Cleric

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Apr 132016
 

The week progresses! Yes, she progresses. Soon, it will cease to be Wednesday and we will be one day closer to Friday. But for now, let us have fun with a mash-up.

Clerics are the life blood of any party. I can scarcely even imagine going on an adventure without one. Healing is that important. In DDO you can buy hirelings from almost every class, but if you’re soloing, you really need a cleric to keep you alive (unless you’re a cleric yourself). I would be hard-pressed to tell you the names of most of my D&D characters. One that stands out clearly in my mind is Melina the cleric. I decided to give her an attitude and really played up the snottiness. She was engaged in a bitter rivalry with Fab’s NPC party member(Curse you Oonchers!). Well, she was bitter about it. Oonchers just said “Well” a lot and went about his business. I tried to be as creative as possible with her spells and had a lot of fun playing her. If I’m not mistaken, she was the last D&D character I played as we haven’t had a campaign since that one ended.

I picked the cleric class for Big Oonch because I figured I could use a helmet to hide his eyes. Big Oonch named after Fab’s cat who was also the namesake of an NPC who was a rival to my favorite cleric character. Coincidence? I think so! Other than the shield being held at a ridiculously awkward angle, I like the piece.

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That’s all for this week. Next week, we continue our delve (a dungeon delve if you will) with another class. Find out which next Wednesday!

Whereupon I Reflect on Vehicles That Rhyme With Quick

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Apr 112016
 

There’ve been a few things lately that have made me think about how time seems to sneak by sometimes.

It’s already April. In some respects I feel as though the year is still just starting.

I’m almost finished my set of Dungeons & Dragons mash-ups. I forgot I’d already drawn six of them before this weekend. With the rogue done, I only have two left.

The season at the Cric o Jeux is winding down. It’s been a lot of fun going out every Tuesday to play board games.

I’m approaching my 500th Funnies strip. That’s a lot of strips. The Love Letter storyline is over. I got five months of material out of the idea “Cyran has a crush on Chae”. The next storyline should start somewhere in May.

I bought a new game last Thursday. Big surprise, I know. It’s called Age of War. I’d seen Sam Healy talk about it on the Dice Tower a while back and thought it sounded interesting. I forgot about it for a while until I stumbled upon it at my local game store, Chez Guy. It turns out it’s a retheme of a game that served as a direct inspiration for Elder Sign. On your turn you roll seven dice and choose a castle to conquer. Each castle has a number of tasks which are completed by rolling the prerequisite number of symbols on the dice. The dice used to complete a task are put on the castle card and the rest are rolled again to try to complete one of the other tasks on the card. If after rolling you cannot (or do not want to) complete a task, you lose one die and roll again. This continues until you either complete all the tasks on the card (thus conquering the castle) or you no longer have enough dice to complete any of the remaining tasks. Play goes on to the next player who begins the same process. The game continues until there are no unclaimed castles left. When choosing a castle to conquer you can choose an unclaimed castle or go after a castle another player has already conquered (an extra task is added in this case). Each castle also belongs to a clan and if you manage to conquer all the castles that belong to the same clan, those castles are flipped over and can no longer be conquered by other players. The game plays rather quickly and is entirely luck-based. If dice-rolling games aren’t your bag, then I would recommend staying away from this one. I like rolling dice however and enjoyed it as a filler game.

That’s all for this week. Until next time, have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday! Carja V.

Dungeons & Dragons – Sorcerer

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Apr 062016
 

Mash-ups! You want ’em? I got ’em…well one. And here it is.

So if I was going to play a magic-wielding character, I think I’d be more inclined to play a sorcerer. Based on what I’ve seen, their magic seems a little less restrictive when it comes to having to memorize spells and the like. I also like that they use Charisma as their principal stat and that they get familiars. Overall, they just seem cooler to me.

Here’s Cyran in Sorcerer garb. To give a better look at his costume, I’ve included a version without the magical glow effect on his paw. It occurs to me looking at him, that the glow should make it so that the insides of his boots are in the light while the outsides are dark, but that’s my inability to keep the light sources straight in my head. Overall though, I’m happy with the piece. I just like his expression.

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That’s all for this week. What class will next Wednesday bring? Find out then!

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