I've notice a fair few refrences to those comics now, Cerek, guessing you're a big fan? I've never read any myself, but i DID watch spiderman when i was younger [img]smile.gif[/img]

[EDIT] pardon my offtopicness.

[ 12-13-2004, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: TheGodThatFailed ]

Yeah - I hear his departure made the other guy in the Canadian Covert Operations really sad... [img]graemlins/evillaughter1.gif[/img] Thanks for the laugh, Cerek.

<font color=plum>Yeah, I'm a pretty big comic fan. My mom used to buy me a bag of 3 comics every weekend when I was little. I really liked Superman and Batman back then (I created a Jester and named him Joker). I enjoyed the comics in the bag, but it was almost impossible to actually get any consecutive issues. I didn't start THAT until college. I stayed at school one weekend, got really bored and went to visit the local comic shop. That started a loooong journey into comic-book collecting. I started with <font color=red>Daredevil</font> and quickly expanded to <font color=yellow>X-Men</font> and <font color=lime>The Hulk</font>. I collected most of the different "X-Titles" through the late-80's and early 90's. I also have all of the first-print titles from Image comics.

My favorite heroes have always been <font color=red>Spiderman</font>, all the various <font color=yellow>X-Men</font> (Longshot was one of my favorites, as was Shatterstar), and the <font color>Hulk</font> (for sheer raw power).

I have a total of about 3,000 comics (rough estimate) and I have several different titles mixed in the collection. The ones I've mentioned make up the largest portion of my collection, but I've read numerous titles over the years.

I've taken several of my ideas for AD&D from comics over the years. I even sat down one night and converted several key villains to AD&D stats for a high-level game (level 20+) I was planning to run. The characters I chose to create for the AD&D game were <font color=white>Spiral</font> (easily the nastiest of the group because of customized swords I gave her), <font color=orange>Juggernaut</font> (whom the group actually managed to defeat), <font color=deepskyblue>Bullseye</font> and <font color=yellow>Sabretooth</font>. I spent a lot of time converting their stats to AD&D, and then the group ended up only facing <font color=orange>Juggernaut</font>. We never finished the dungeon, so they never met the rest of my baddies. [img]graemlins/verysad.gif[/img] Still, it was a lot of fun and I have the basic stats for them if I ever do get a chance to put them in a PnP game in the future. ;)

BTW, I also liked the <font color=red>Spiderman</font> cartoons and I even have a few episodes on VHS for my boys to watch. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] </font>

Hehe, nice. I also intend to run a game where i creation a group of people, but inspired by musicians. I've never fineshed making soundsets and portraits though :D

[EDIT] Back to the topic at hand, I think you should run assasin to mage. I just think that'd be more interesting, and would make a nasty character over all.

[ 12-13-2004, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: TheGodThatFailed ]

And no one has mentioned... Energy Blade/MMM + IH and PW yet (toss in Time Stop for added fun)! I'm very surprised. [img]smile.gif[/img] Poison Weapon has the unique feature that it will poison, even if the target makes a save! . If the target makes his save, the damage will still be intense, but it gets even better if the target doesn't make his save. Since the poison stacks, you want as much ApR as possible. And the stutter-effect will take down any enemy that isn't immune to Poison.

Also, there's the traditional backstab thing that you've all beaten to death. [img]tongue.gif[/img] I would definitely go with an A/M, dualling at level 15/16. Why? That's the last poison 'level up' for the Assassin, you still get a healthy BS (who really needs x7? =/), and the experience required is minimal. Sure, you'll miss out on HLAs, but the game gets a bit too easy if/when UAI is picked, and it takes too darned long for me to get to 3 million experience.

[ 12-13-2004, 05:54 PM: Message edited by: Assassin ]

Tell me something: does Poison weapon work with Fireseeds or not? It was once just a theory but I don't remember whether it works or not? That would be something to cheese with. :D

Fireseeds works with Greater Deathblow, that I know. But Poison Weapon [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] I wouldn't see why not...

Haven't tried that combo yet, trying to avoid to much of the 'fromage du jour'. Althought I don't see why it wouldn't work. Might have to come into play in the underdark, who knows maybee sooner.

I do: Because there's no such thing as a Druid/Thief, that's why not.

[img]graemlins/doh.gif[/img] Of course. I'd like to see it (I mentioned the Druid/Assassin for roleplaying reasons as well)