Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Formal vs. informal diction

I was bored, so like any D&D dude, I was totally all like: "Bored man. Lets like, see the SRD, word?" I did it, and went to SRD. Was a great time. Mostly I remembered this one thing, because recently I had talked about LotR, and though about some thread over at OotS where they talked bout' all the cheesy PrC's you could use to make an actual elvy Legolas and pull of those stunts. I could have read DM of the Rings and got it all, but hey. So I looked at the arcane archer PrC. Kind've useless amirite? I thought cane arch' would let me pull all of the crazy stunts. Lego just seemed like he'd have been using magic, y'know? Right? Right? Nope. You get... +5 arrows? Seriously? Thats it for a bloody 3 bad feats, terrible race req. (even though L. is an elf anyway...) Bad MC'ing if you want to do it at all, and bad skills? Elves would pretty much be bad anyways, DEX for CON being the trade it is, I'm glad my DM added CHA bonus, though the thought of basically saying "elves are hot" is sort've.... akward, y'know?

Plus, I don't think L. shot through any walls. Though he did 1HKO alot of dudes, though that may be the +5 arrows coming in. Besides, he'd have been able to cast feather fall on the way off the... the... ele... elephhhh... Sorry, big word. Whateveh. Uh... Oh, yeah, either he's some none-core cheap munchkin, an epic MC bard/ranger/monk,  or he files his D20's. I'll guess the last one. Serious business aside, he goes OVAH 9000 way to many times for his ECL. I say hax, rocks fall, its over. Thats what shoulda happened. Would made a better ending anyway, y'know? I can see it. Frodo: "Look, I saved the world!" Gandalf: "But Legolas was killed!" Everyone else: "Who?" Lawl.

Naturally once I concluded my long shenanigan, I speeled for a while about it on my blog post, considered a universe where I was actually unable to pronouce any word with more then two syllables, and created an ending for this. Very enlightening. Now I'm tired. Dinnertime.

Until we meet again,

-Aaron

3 comments:

  1. This is hysterical! "Uh... Oh, yeah, either he's some none-core cheap munchkin, an epic MC bard/ranger/monk, or he files his D20's. I'll guess the last one," made me laugh x)

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  2. Great post, and it's pretty sad that i understood most of that

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  3. nice informal diction.. I have no idea what any of those acronyms mean. lol

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