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An aboleth slime mage prefers to have its underlings fight
for it. When pressed into combat, it relies on its mucus haze to
keep opponents away while it blasts them with ranged attacks.
It uses slime orb and slime burst to slow its enemies’ approach
and tries to dominate one of them as soon as possible. Nesting fail last post. *sigh*
Reason 1245632 to love Minerva…
Where is that from, 4th Edition? I’m lost in all those monster supplements…
Unless she is reading something I am not, I think that is 3.5. However, rereading it does shed evidence towards it being 4.0 instead which I haven’t read into yet. I just recognized a bit of it from Lords of Madness.
It was 4.0 pasted from monster manual, but I don’t think it’s that different from 3.5 aboleth. It was the first thing I came across as I was pressed for time. i think so far i like 3.5 better after playing 4.0 a bit.
That is what I was thinking when I saw the attack routine you posted. And I have to agree, 3.5 feels more like D&D than 4.0. 4.0 feels like the manual for a video game. A video game worth playing but way too pigeon holed for table top.
I still run 3.5 in my games and my players prefer it.
*sigh* I’m in a 4.0 campaign with a power gamer for a gm. plays like a video game. The characters play too similarly to each other IMO. “Ok now I use power x with result y.” At least with the defined “roles” you get a certain play style defined, but doesn’t allow for as much creativity in some areas, though we’ve found sometimes they work together well, like when you use a power that “pushes” back through a wall of fire, etc.
I still like the individuality of the 3rd editions though.
While I am a power gamer GM, I do prefer individuality and cleverness in my games. Sure, the players are tough but they have a ton of choices while they create their characters.
Lynn’s personal favorite was her bard/healer combo. She basically made an Evey mock up from The Mummy movies. Even played her clumsy but damn could she heal…
So yea, I agree with you.
“4.0 = New Coke”
– Jim Butcher
So far that is exactly how it seems. Though I prefer to just call it WoW tabletop.
heehee, good analogy on the new coke and WoW
One of my players and I were reading through it and that was the conclusion. It is basically making a pigeon hole video game into table top. You don’t get much character diversity, just a set of skill trees to go through.
Damn, now I want a Cherry Coke.
See, now that’s how I know I’m not a gamer. I assumed that post 2 described the battle habits of some sort of combative mollusk. Aaaah, the world of slugs and snails is a fascinating one.
A combative mollusk with minions and Slime Orb spells? :0
It’s not a world so fascinating that I actually know anything about it.
I’m just yanking your chain. Though I would think that if there was a real combative mollusk with minions and was called a slime mage, it would at least hit CNN once.
I was actually pretty excited and already planning a summer’s eve in the yard with a bottle of gin and a flashlight, awaiting the epic snail v. slug battle. Too bad.
I hate when that happens. We need a good animal invasion to occur.
Sounds like a great new show for Animal Planet.
I like to play clerics too. I played about every build possible in Neverwinter nights. 4E has its good parts, but all you get to build are power types, noo variations in skill usage, etc. IMO it doesn’t allow for much personality. I need a new campaign. I’d run one, but not sure when I’d do it and need more players.
Well if you were in IA, I could accomodate ya. My main is an evil gestalt Spawn of Tiamat campaign but we plan to run good aligned next run, whenever that is. Right now they are having a blast being bad. Then again we mostly run evil campaigns.
I personally haven’t gotten to play in buttfu(k forever but I also want to play a level of power that I personally would run and that takes things up a few notches so I probably will resign myself to running games til I die.
Hard to play from upstate NY
That it would be. :/
I need a couple more serious gamers. Lynn and our other player are pretty dedicated so they show up regularly. So far, any others have been a flop for a variety of reasons and that just wastes my time. :/
too bad, my hubby and I would show up.
Curse you physical distance!!!
Actually the healer class isn’t a cleric. It was a base class out of the Miniatures Handbook with a huge focus on simply being the cure bitch of the party. One of the class features is adding your charisma bonus to cure spells. Lynn was a bit adorable being perky about being able to heal 8 damage with just cure minor wounds.
Prove it.
The monster manual said so. If you mean the “first” dude, He’s on his own.
An aboleth slime mage prefers to have its underlings fight
for it. When pressed into combat, it relies on its mucus haze to
keep opponents away while it blasts them with ranged attacks.
It uses slime orb and slime burst to slow its enemies’ approach
and tries to dominate one of them as soon as possible.
Ouch. Sanctimony fail.
So I should have gone with a Beholder or Gelatinous cube?
Well, a transparent ooze of mindless, gelatinous matter in the shape of a SOMETHING would definitely be appropriate here…
Wait…wasn’t he President for the last 8 years?
No, we had an Otylugh in office with a Cancer Mage for VP.
Thanks for the clarification…
It is rare that I get to use my D&D “knowledge” for anything political, so I was glad to help.
Beholder.
I see…
(sorry)
We saw this photo, with a better caption, months ago.
That time it was accompanied by a shitstorm of outraged comments, i.e. “Too soon, you insensitive bastards! How dare you laugh at this tragic event! You mock our pain!” etc.
Whether or not it’s still too soon, time will tell.
It was full of rage from people who weren’t in Texas. And it was also accompanied by comments from Texans who got a well-needed chuckle.
Tis the usual Care troll nonsense.
Yeah but months ago there used to be funny captions here all the time rather than the complete crap we get now.
’struth!
you do realize, don’t you, that we, the readers and commenters are the supply for the captions. how’s your hilarity contributions these days?
This pic gives me the uneasy feeling that the house wasn’t originally there.
i am bleeding out of my penis
Well you should have said no to that 3rd “discount” hooker then shouldn’t you.
yurr gay madeline…go fk a kunt
???
wow lame..who posts this
thats what you get for sleeping with paris hilton! budm- bish!
This is my hometown, and the house was originally there. It was repaired after Hurricane Rita a few years ago, and the owners had it rebuilt to be more likely to survive another hurricane. Apparently it worked, because it is, in fact, still standing.
Did they get returfed?
any idea what company built it? i want them to build my house!
As in, “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more.”
We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto!
Shut the fck up!
You misspelled a word. It’s missing a “u.” It’s totally messing up your post, dude.
Looking at the way the topsoil is stripped, the house is still in Kansas, but the rest of Kansas has upped and moved state…
And the ocean has moved in next door!
That’s a ‘bad day’ in a landlocked state… but God Bless LEXCORP! Condos for all!
I blame my lack of caffeine but I totally saw a reference to Umbrella in there…
I never came to the posts before today.
So it’s pretty much just bash Bush, even if the photo has nothing remotely to do with Bush?
Look, I hated Bush, but sane peiople have moved on with life. Some of you people are either out of your tiny minds or six years old or both.
Or it’s people who say “the captions all suck now!” So…. why are you still here? When I get tired of something, I *move* *on* to other things. Can you see the theme here? So many people in this world need to move on and get over themselves.
Put the crack pipe DOWN.
…’cuz kurt WANTS IT! Nom nom nom!
lol
It’s a bit like anyplace else that becomes popular, a club, a park, a beach, etc. The people who made it popular were attractive in some way, smart, funny, sarcastic, whatever and they created a draw which attracted more people who may have been less smart or funny or sarcastic. Then word gets out and the place gets crowded with the masses thus diluting the appeal, first to the original crew who look for somewhere else to hang, and then to the 2nd wave, etc. until the atmosphere becomes toxic and no one shows up but tourists. Phil Ochs sang “the party must be over, even the losers are leaving”. Yogi Bera succinctly said “the place is so crowded that nobody goes there anymore”. ICHC has followed this curve but hasn’t reached the end of it yet, although many of the really funny folks have slipped away.
And were summarily replaced by asses like me.
like US
*gives terrorist fist bump*
this is not for the faint of heart, it takes brains and effort to be this stupid.
Hellz no, we has mad skillz. Takes long nights of punching old people and breaking and rebreaking our skull with a glass bottle to get to this level. I’m a hardcore fu(kwit.
Punching old people? where’s the skill in that?
A long night of punching old people. Big difference. Takes stamina and the ability to time your punches in between laughing at their pain. It is a subtle set of skills not for those lacking a moral callous.
you haven’t noticed that people have been talking smack on bush for years? it’s going to keep going for quite a while so you just better get used to it…
and for someone who’s here for the ‘first time’ your generalizations are quite all encompassing which leads me to believe that you’re just another sock who fits a right wing mold…
would you be angry if i called you annie instead of x? it fits so much better…
Umm… the caption is “Contractor WIN”. How is that Bush bashing?
Maybe the problem is that every time you see a picture of flood damage you think of Bush. Whose fault is that though?
What I’ve never understood about America is why they build wooden houses in places where hurricanes and tornadoes occur. Sure a brick house is more expensive, but at least a brick house won’t fly off along with everything you own!
Sure, brick houses stay put, but they are also more likely to flood. At least when the wooden houses float away, some of your stuff survives. It brings a whole new meaning to the term “house hunting”.
Trust me, I’ve lived on the Gulf Coast my entire life. We’re all used to hurricanes.
Same reason as people on Volcanic Islands build houses of Tinder dry wood and tar paper…
Facilitating insurance fraud?
Which they do by sacrificing virgins in words not deeds…
Same reason there are so many trailer parks in tornado alley.
Because they’re stupid?
Din Ding Ding Ding! You’ve identified the secret disease!
Hot damn!
(ignoring all the flaming posts)
NEXT on the list… landscaping!
XD i think i actually saw this house when we went out there…
Contractor win.
Property value FAIL!
Hey, Gilchrist! I can see Gilchrist from my house. I live in Houston. I just visited Bolivar and saw some interesting stuff, including an upside-down house and a bar spray-painted “PARADISE HAS MOVED”–sad but ‘rotfl’.
…but there are still nine people missing. And no one is actively looking for them. Because the state can’t afford to pay the cost of sorting through all the debris.
Hazarding a guess, if they were any where near people, the smell would have attracted their attention. If it’s like most ‘no-go’ areas, the surviving dog packs or pigs will have sorted that ‘problem’, so they’re gone, in all likelihood…
Photoshop win?
This house actually exists. .-. Its in Galveston, Texas. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes. :v
Mike Holmes passed through Galveston?
Gilchrist, to be exact. It is real; please don’t mess with Texans. *eyeballs everyone*
No one wants to mess with Texas, other than build a big wall around the state to keep the buggers in there…
Well the people who live there are actually really gutted: everything around them is gone, including neighbours but also shops and whatever else they had there. And because their house is still standing, they can’t make a big insurance claim or whatever and are either forced to live there and make a HUGE trip to any civilized area, or try to sell the house (lol, who would buy that!?) and try to live somewhere else.
They would have been better off if their house was destroyed as well.
Or use it as a tourist trap for yuppie fools.
I hear the house stood but was so badly damaged, it had to be demolished.
No, it’s still there. They just had to replace some siding and straighten some beams.
Is this Crystal Beach?
If so, there is no way to the house without your own boat, I believe…
There used to be a ferry.
Bolivar Island. Only reachable by ferry.
I work for the Texas Com. on Env. Quality. You know we are still cleaning up from this. Crazy huh.. I went out to Bolivar the other day, looks just like this all up and down it. Some places are going to take years.
Only like 30% of the Island is back up and running and so much is just abandoned. Kinda sad and ironic, it got rid of a ton of homeless people.
ya.. just poof.. dissapeared homeless.. cuz that’s what happens when you get rid of the place they stay.. they just dissapear.. good thing you’re here or I would have assumed those homeless became homeless elsewhere..
and what exactly is ironic about it? I get the sad part, but ironic?
♫ California… super cool for the homeless… ♫
My dad’s company built that house on Boliver Is. I can’t remember the name of the contractor but the materials in the house are hella’ expensive.
Because it’s really funny when people die or lose everything they own. Even I think this is in poor taste.
This looks a lot like the house Mike Holmes and his crew built in the Holmes in New Orleans series. I think it’s a different house, but that design must have been pretty awesome after all.
How much are you willing to bet that guy paid full price for flood-insurance and didn’t see so much as mildew after the waters receded?