Tucker's Kobolds and Pathfinder

[Luna]

Got the first character sheet in my email.  The Rogue only took 5 ranks in disable device.   

If they have ANY clue they're going into a kobold lair, and the rogue only took 5 ranks, you need a new rogue, or they're gonna TPK on ya.

[Requia ☣]

Level 10

They have *no idea*.  This is a bit unusual for me.  Hell I think the entire last game I ran I didn't use a trap, unless you count when the hobgoblins rolled a boulder down a hill onto the parties carriage.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Level 10

They have *no idea*.  This is a bit unusual for me.  Hell I think the entire last game I ran I didn't use a trap, unless you count when the hobgoblins rolled a boulder down a hill onto the parties carriage.

Any rogue worth a shit will have a total score of 23 on disable device by then.  10 ranks + 3 in class bonus +5 dex, +3 for skill focus +2 for masterwork thieves tools.

Spreading skills around is a bad practice.  By level 5, you don't have enough ranks in any skills to keep up with the DCs.  Instead of doing it all, you do nothing.

[LMNO]

you don't have enough ranks in any skills to keep up with the DCs.  Instead of doing it all, you do nothing.

There's a life lesson in there, somewhere...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

you don't have enough ranks in any skills to keep up with the DCs.  Instead of doing it all, you do nothing.

There's a life lesson in there, somewhere...

...Right under the huge stone block that fell on the rogue.   

[Luna]

A level 10 Rogue with 5 ranks...

Christ.

Tell me he didn't put any in perception.

I want a webcam on this session.  I wanna be there LIVE.

[Golden Applesauce]

For the lions, there was an armor (I think it was Armor of the Rhino?) that was relatively inexpensive but made you deal double damage on a charge attack.  Giving that to the lions in barding form could get nasty when combined with their pounce ability.

[Luna]

you don't have enough ranks in any skills to keep up with the DCs.  Instead of doing it all, you do nothing.

There's a life lesson in there, somewhere...

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

On the other hand...  One should always save a FEW skill points to cover the avenue that nobody else in the party thought to hit.  OVERspecialization can be tough too.  (Always have TWO healers, of some type, in the party.  That way, when the cleric gets knocked on her ass, you're not totally screwed.)

[LMNO]

Yeah, but Heinlein was just a dirty old man who made up pithy statements in order to get young girls to pity fuck him.

[Luna]

Yeah, but Heinlein was just a dirty old man who made up pithy statements in order to get young girls to pity fuck him.

Sure, he was.  But his books were the first books that I, as an impressionable young girl, got her hands on that even vaguely resembled smut.  Therefore, I have a nostalgic fondness for the guy.

(Mom pitched a FIT when she caught me with one of those.  Made Dad reorganize his bookshelf so that the "safe" ones were on one shelf that I was allowed to read, the rest on a higher shelf.  So, I read the "safe" shelf ones in the living room, and smuggled the rest into the bedroom to read with a flashlight under the covers.)

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yeah, but Heinlein was just a dirty old man who made up pithy statements in order to get young girls to pity fuck him.

He was also a racist swine, and some of his ideas made Ayn Rand read like Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

 

I have to admit this no matter how retarded it makes me look....

Every time I see this thread title I see....

Fuckers cuckold the pathfinger....

[Don Coyote]

you don't have enough ranks in any skills to keep up with the DCs.  Instead of doing it all, you do nothing.

There's a life lesson in there, somewhere...

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

On the other hand...  One should always save a FEW skill points to cover the avenue that nobody else in the party thought to hit.  OVERspecialization can be tough too.  (Always have TWO healers, of some type, in the party.  That way, when the cleric gets knocked on her ass, you're not totally screwed.)

And how much of that shit can be done untrained well enough to function at it?

[Requia ☣]

you don't have enough ranks in any skills to keep up with the DCs.  Instead of doing it all, you do nothing.

There's a life lesson in there, somewhere...

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

On the other hand...  One should always save a FEW skill points to cover the avenue that nobody else in the party thought to hit.  OVERspecialization can be tough too.  (Always have TWO healers, of some type, in the party.  That way, when the cleric gets knocked on her ass, you're not totally screwed.)

It's a rogue, in pathfinder.  You can be a specialist *and* a generalist quite easily.  I've explained to him how that works (he's been on 3.5 until now) and he's redoing skills.

[Luna]

you don't have enough ranks in any skills to keep up with the DCs.  Instead of doing it all, you do nothing.

There's a life lesson in there, somewhere...

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

On the other hand...  One should always save a FEW skill points to cover the avenue that nobody else in the party thought to hit.  OVERspecialization can be tough too.  (Always have TWO healers, of some type, in the party.  That way, when the cleric gets knocked on her ass, you're not totally screwed.)

It's a rogue, in pathfinder.  You can be a specialist *and* a generalist quite easily.  I've explained to him how that works (he's been on 3.5 until now) and he's redoing skills.

I'm torn between, "ah, good, it wasn't just because he was a nitwit," and "Oh, damn, the stories would have been epic, if short."