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Aug. 4th, 2004 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyLast night's D&D: Fun. Though I was quite drunk. Lizardmen almost murdered my doggy, which means I've used my Rage for the day. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
myki ruled in his new role as ORBITAL DEATH CANNON. Then he set off disarmed loads of traps (in the army camp that he'd just detonated) using some sort of flaming sphere, which just rolled over them casually, and they were all EL9-10 traps, which meant the whole pary gained about 7000XP. Huzzah!
Hmm ... looking through the SRD for the bit about activating a frost sword taking a Move action. Here's the part that seems relevant:
Activation: Usually a character benefits from a magic weapon in the same way a character benefits from a mundane weapon—by attacking with it. If a weapon has a special ability that the user needs to activate then the user usually needs to utter a command word (a standard action).
Cock. I was rather hoping there had been some confusion between "activating a magic item" (ie, a scroll or wand) and "turning on your lightsaber". I can't see that shouting a word is equivalent to an attack, after all you're allowed to talk to other people as a free action. Maybe "uttering a command word" is a more involved process that involves posing while the coruscating energies sweep across you. THUNDERCATS - HO! BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL! etc.
Interested by this bit under Icy Burst: "Even if the frost ability is not active, the weapon still deals its extra cold damage on a successful critical hit." Think we missed that... so, mixed blessings then. Now, must get that Keen in there too and we're sorted.
myki ruled in his new role as ORBITAL DEATH CANNON. Then he Hmm ... looking through the SRD for the bit about activating a frost sword taking a Move action. Here's the part that seems relevant:
Activation: Usually a character benefits from a magic weapon in the same way a character benefits from a mundane weapon—by attacking with it. If a weapon has a special ability that the user needs to activate then the user usually needs to utter a command word (a standard action).
Cock. I was rather hoping there had been some confusion between "activating a magic item" (ie, a scroll or wand) and "turning on your lightsaber". I can't see that shouting a word is equivalent to an attack, after all you're allowed to talk to other people as a free action. Maybe "uttering a command word" is a more involved process that involves posing while the coruscating energies sweep across you. THUNDERCATS - HO! BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL! etc.
Interested by this bit under Icy Burst: "Even if the frost ability is not active, the weapon still deals its extra cold damage on a successful critical hit." Think we missed that... so, mixed blessings then. Now, must get that Keen in there too and we're sorted.
