Re: session re****t

In article <epbaf4$1c6$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Gary Johnson  <zzjohnsg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Justin Fang <justinf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Gary Johnson:

>> >IIRC, one of the reasons it's supposed to be "okay" to have such 
>> >powerful summoned creatures is that a summoned creature can be sent 
>> >away with spells like dismissal and dispel magic <snip>

>> Except that the angels in question were from a Greater Planar Ally 
>> spell, which calls, not summons, creatures.

>Fair enough - I'm surprised the Balors didn't have any luck with
blasphemy 
>(they have a 55% chance of overcoming the Planetar's spell resistance,
and 
>if they do the Planetar is paralysed, weakened and dazed), but I guess 
>that's just how the dice fall.

If this was being run under 3.0, Blasphemy wouldn't do anything more than
daze a Planetar for 1 round.  For that matter, under 3.0, you don't even
need
the 8th-level Greater Planar Ally to call a Planetar; the 6th-level Planar
Ally will do it.  There isn't even an XP cost.  Cast a 6th level spell to
call something that can cast 9th level spells; I'd forgotten how
unbalanced
that was.

>We're facing a similar decision in the last part of SCAP - we're about to

>go face off against the last set of big bads, and we're trying to decide 
>whether or not to gate in a Solar. We figure we'll get back the GP 
>"donated to a church of the Solar's choice" from the treasure of the
first 
>big bad we defeat, and then the rest is gravy. :-)

Ah, that brings up another potential hole in the system: the "gate
cascade",
where the first Solar casts Gate to call in another Solar, who Gates in
another...

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Justin Fang (justinf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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