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Tweedledope 08-25-06, 10:24 PM	Yeah, that's right. I have a very complex question (IMO) that needs an answer that a two year old (myself) can understand. How the **** does the Crusader's abilities work? I really don't understand this whole "randomly granted" manuevers at the beginning of battle bit. Could some please, dear God, point me in the right direction for this!!! -=TD=- ToB = Ass kickin'
igotsmeakabob!! 08-25-06, 10:33 PM	I can help! Alright. As a Crusader you have your known manuevers. You pick the manuevers you want to ready. Lets say you write each of your manuevers down on an index card. You flip them upside-down and random them so you don't know which is which. Initiative is rolled. You choose 2 maneuvers randomly, and you now have access to them, can use them when you feel like it during this encounter. At the end of your first round you select another manuever randomly. You now have access to this manuever as well. The 2nd round ends, and you select another manuever randomly, which is now available to you. You keep doing this until the encounter is over or you have randomly chosen all of your manuever cards. If you recover your manuevers during combat (via adaptive style or your standard recovery method) they go back into the pile of random manuever cards. Hope that helped. Any other questions, just ask.
fil kearney 08-25-06, 11:28 PM	my question: is this just the most magic the gathering D&D mechanic ever or what? in DnD 4.0, the 20 sided die will be abandoned altogether, and all players will utiliz the genius revealed in the crusader's mechanic in the form of specially crafted "feat cards" and "spell cards" that you can purchase or your next dnd gaming session. to be balanced, casters will not be able to actually cast any spells until they accumulate enough "mana". mana will be accumulated once each turn, and when you have enough mana available, you can cast a spell... like a summon monster to attack your foes, or direct damage, healing, depending on what kind of "spell cards" are allowed in your character's deck... all cards will be assiged alignments which will be color coordinated in the cards for convenience... so if you have a lawful good character, be sure not to put evil cards in your deck. due to how fun this system is, they are converting all 4.0 dnd characters to magic users, and to keep game flow, all characters will have 20 hit points each.
igotsmeakabob!! 08-25-06, 11:37 PM	Wow.. I see someone has to work off anger in the form of forum ranting. How about a productive post?
Surreal 08-26-06, 03:16 AM	In attempting to determine the correlation between solute valency and liquid diffusional activation energy, I found that while the energies found matched those of theory, the overall magnitude of diffusion was off by a factor of 3. This suggests that the controlling mechanism in liquid diffusion is perhaps not the activation energy, but rather in the pre-exponential function of the Arrhenius equation. At this point is it still valid to assume a vacancy exchange mechanism, or would it be more prudent to switch to a vibrational flux model? Furthermore, can any of the rate discrepencies be attributed to the negative molal volumes displayed in the alloying elements? If someone has a simple answer for that, it'd be much appreciated. Incidentally that's also why I haven't been around very much the past few weeks (not that I'm around much to begin with). Hmm... It's a five man game and there are several global enchantments sitting on the table. Of note: confusion in the ranks & endless whispers. Most of the creatures on the table and in the graveyards contain many come into play effects, or leaves play effects. Of note: man-o-war, wall of blossoms, boneshredder, abyssal gatekeeper, hunted wumpus, Lord of the Tresserhorn, Phage, etc. Then I play Living Death... Oh wait, wrong game. edit: babble babble, thesis owns my soul...
fil kearney 08-27-06, 12:50 AM	Sure, this may be the wrong thread for this, but c'mon... draw maneuvers from a deck? Here's an exceprt from the next ToB web enhancement: New feat Brain Storm (general) Prerequisites: crusader initating level 6, int 13 benefit: draw three cards from your crusader's maneuver deck, place one in your hand and place the other two at the bottom of your maneuver deck. this ability is a free action and is usable once per encounter. special: this feat may be taken a maximum of four times. the effects do not stack; each additional feat allows for one additional use of brain storm each encounter. quote: "here's a random thought..." BTW... does anyone know when the Magic the Gathering Ebberron deck series is due to come out?
Schadenfreude_1521 08-27-06, 12:57 AM	In attempting to determine the correlation between solute valency and liquid diffusional activation energy, I found that while the energies found matched those of theory, the overall magnitude of diffusion was off by a factor of 3. This suggests that the controlling mechanism in liquid diffusion is perhaps not the activation energy, but rather in the pre-exponential function of the Arrhenius equation. At this point is it still valid to assume a vacancy exchange mechanism, or would it be more prudent to switch to a vibrational flux model? Furthermore, can any of the rate discrepencies be attributed to the negative molal volumes displayed in the alloying elements? If someone has a simple answer for that, it'd be much appreciated. Incidentally that's also why I haven't been around very much the past few weeks (not that I'm around much to begin with). Hmm... It's a five man game and there are several global enchantments sitting on the table. Of note: confusion in the ranks & endless whispers. Most of the creatures on the table and in the graveyards contain many come into play effects, or leaves play effects. Of note: man-o-war, wall of blossoms, boneshredder, abyssal gatekeeper, hunted wumpus, Lord of the Tresserhorn, Phage, etc. Then I play Living Death... Oh wait, wrong game. edit: babble babble, thesis owns my soul... Simple answer = Yes Maybe not the correct answer and certainly not a complete answer, but as simple as it gets. Hope this helped.
Surreal 08-27-06, 01:32 AM	Simple answer = Yes Maybe not the correct answer and certainly not a complete answer, but as simple as it gets. Hope this helped. Amusingly, that is actually the correct answer. The explanation of that "yes" however, is contained within an inch thick thesis.:twitch: (and to think I'm doing yet another degree after this... :looloo: )