BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Not touching this one without a 10-foot pole.

Hmm, 10-foot poles. A weapon YANI - can attack at a distance without needing to be thrown (assuming we’re taking the D&D notion of squares being 5x5 feet, they can be used to attack an enemy up to 2 squares away).

Do we have to do anything special to dodge it, or can we all just stand around the dungeon whistling, with our hands in our pockets?

Freezerbird: You can do that, but then you’ll stay in dungeon level 1 forever. And eventually I’ll get fed up and strike you with a wide-angle disintegration beam.

You can’t intimidate me. I’m getting out my +2 deck chair and going for a kip.

at this point the penalty for dying is mostly insignificant for people without kills, even for people with kills it isnt that big a deal. Yet I can’t attack for 24 hours….

Erm… this monster isn’t in the Basic Monster Table.

Hmm, interesting point. The RNG is allowed to create a monster, though the rules don’t specify that this has to be a monster in the basic monster table. As an aside point, DC hasn’t stated whether this ant’s 3d4 attack is ranged or melee. There is a monster in the basic table that has both ranged and melee attack, so I would infer that the attacks in the table are all melee?

Freezerbird: Monsters don’t have a ranged or melee attack. Also, the original point of the monster table, according to Bucky, its creator, is for scrolls of create monster and the like - when @s can create monsters independently of the RNG.

rolled and got 7+1 from enchantment, Solider Ant takes 8 dmg, yay for me…

Dealt 1 point of damage to Aunt the Ant. That 9 dmg overall

The ant attacks Galdyn, doing 6 damage, minus 3 due to Galdyn’s shield.

The ant attacks Darknight, going 8 damage, minus 1 due to Darknight’s armor.

ow.

Next time Darknight gets attacked I’ll FIAT the damage to the lowest possible value. (Though that’d still kill him if it’s the ant that does it.)

FIAT?

See rule 2.1.1.

I swing for 1 point of damage. (told you I used up all my good rolls in the last encounter.

Soldier Ant is at 40 HP.

second attack, rolled a 10 +1 for enchantment. Ant is down to 29 HP

DC: one of the monsters in the table, a Kobold, specifically has a special rule about it’s 1d2 ranged attack. Therefore its 1d4 attack must surely be melee?

Freezerbird: The basic monster table actually doesn’t, at the moment, define any monsters, since nowhere in the ruleset does it say that monsters can be created from the Table yet.

rolled a 4 this time plus my enchantment and the solider ant is down to 24 HP. Time for me to die, YAY…

—————— 
  /  REST IN   \ 
  /  PEACE   \ 
/          \
|    Galdyn   |
|  killed by   |
|  a soldier ant |
|          |
\/(\))()))\/(/(/))\(

Goodbye Galdyn the Valkyrie…

You died in the Dungeons of Doom on dungeon level 1 with 1 kill, and 0 pieces of gold, after 100 moves.

You were level 1 with a maximum of 10 hit points when you died.

Okay, EE broke the gravestone. Let’s see if this works:
    ——————    
   /  REST IN   \   
  /    PEACE     \  
 /                \ 
 |     Galdyn     | 
 |   killed  by   | 
 |  a soldier ant | 
 |                | 
\/(\))()))\/(/(/))\(

Not quite, but close enough.

I’ve got it!

    ————————————    
   /  REST IN   \   
  /    PEACE     \  
 /                \ 
 |     Galdyn     | 
 |   killed  by   | 
 |  a soldier ant | 
 |                | 
\/(\))()))\/(/(/))\(

well i would have been happy with living a little longer so i could do more dmg to it, but oh well. I do not believe I had 1 kill but again i’ll take it if you want to give it to me.

Testing something real quick.

  / 

(You know, it’s a real shame that in future dynasties without a fixed-width font, no-one will be able to appreciate my gravestones.)

According to the GNDT you killed me illegally. Not counting the fact that you magically gave me full health. A role of 12 wouldn’t kill me because of my +3 shield. Therefore, I am not dead and have 1 HP. Missed this before

Oh, you didn’t have any kills. Must have gotten you mixed up with lilomar; you both have that I-can’t-smell-you-because-you-are-on-the-Internet-but-if-I-could-you-would-still-have-that-new-player smell.

Ninja’d.

(The full health was because I thought you were dead, so I was resetting your HP to the default value.)

so you reset my health in the same GNDT action that you “rolled” the dice. I shall accept the death, and thanks for the gravestone.

No, no, no, you survived because of your shield, as you noticed.

Pardon my ignorance (I’m still new to both this game and nomics in general) but do armors do anything apart from holding an enchantment bonus?

I don’t see anything in the rules about it, but it seems odd to me that the Barbarian’s +0 Ring Mail and the Wizard’s +0 Cloak of Magic Resistance are equally as good as the Tourist’s +0 Hawaiian Shirt, defensive-wise.

Unfortunately, no, they don’t do anything when unenchanted, currently. They really ought to, but they don’t. (However, we are planning on making ways to change an item’s enchantment).

Note that this has lost its sticky, presumably because we’ve been procrastinating on the fight for so long….

It’s still sticky, it’s just dropped off of the front page - in ExpressionEnginge, “sticky” just means “if this would show up on a page, put it at the top”. I’ll add this to the FAQ.

I do 6 points of damage to the ant.

Remaining Monsters:
1 Soldier Ant (18 HP, 3d4)

That’s what I meant. Is there any way to take it back to the top?

The ant strikes lilomar for 8 damage; 1 is blocked by the armor.

attacked again, rolled 8 for 9 damage

Remaining Monsters:
1 Soldier Ant (9 HP, 3d4)

Qwaz: Change the date of the post.

Soldier Ant struck for 10, killing it.

The ant retroactively attacks Galdyn for 7 damage; 4 blocked by armor.

hmm guys, how am i supposed to attack the soldier ant?