The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[Kaitou Kage]

I suppose it would be useful for Mage armor, Haste and Fly spells ... If no one else wants it very badly, I'll take it after all.

It's very nice with mage armor Cast mage armor with the rod at the beginning of the day and you're protected for 14 hours.

[The Whistler]

Otto already has a stake through his heart valued at 6000 GP, so I'll pass on magic items for the next long while.

[Nathan of the FoS]

I think it depends partly on who is mostly likely to have their hands free to use it--which certainly isn't Charles. It also has the biggest incremental benefit for the highest level casters, so Kuzan, Lia and Andre are the most natural choices.

We could have someone of those three (Kuzan, maybe? He does most of his combat work with Spiritual Weapon and Call Lightning) take the rod, and then whoever needs the extension buff can say, "I say, old fellow, hand me that rod, would you?"

[lostboy]

Alternatively you can give it to Khalil and then he can use Speak with animals (his only spell) 24:7....

Anyone? Anyone at all? Thought not...

Seriously Nathans idea sounds like a winner, someone hold it but pool the usage it will ponly help make all you magic using people more effective afterall.

[Kaitou Kage]

Oooh, extended spiritual weapon, extended ring of blades...*snickers*

[NeoTiamat]

Works for me.

I'll just take a third of the cost out of each of Andre's, Lia's, and Kuzan's treasure.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

o.o Oy! .... Wait, we have treasure now, other than what we looted* from Tarik?

(*: Why mince words about it?)

[Nathan of the FoS]

o.o Oy! .... Wait, we have treasure now, other than what we looted* from Tarik?

(*: Why mince words about it?)

Here now. That was a present from a grateful friend!

[Rock of the Fraternity]

o.o Oy! .... Wait, we have treasure now, other than what we looted* from Tarik?

(*: Why mince words about it?)

Here now. That was a present from a grateful friend!

Yes, it was. Except it became one after we'd already put our greedy, grasping mitts on the stuff.

[yalenusveler]

I actually have very few spells that would benefit from extension, at least at current. Unless of course, people want 12 round holy storms..

[Kaitou Kage]

Works for me.

I'll just take a third of the cost out of each of Andre's, Lia's, and Kuzan's treasure.

Erm...I'm not entirely sure that it works out quite the same. It's not always going to be available to all of the three of us, depending on where we are, and it may not be actively used by the three of us.

Having given it some thought, I personally believe Lia would make the best use out of it, and it should just go to her. This is mainly because she can make an all-day mage armor with it. That's pretty big and far handier than anything I do.

Just going off Nathan's examples, call lightning goes for 10 min/level, but it runs out after I call a certain number of lightning bolts, regardless of how much time is left on the spell. Spiritual weapon might be neat to extend, but it's up to 8 rounds now, and combats just generally don't last that long. Most of spells are in minutes or 10 minutes, which makes them fine for an encounter, bot not very useful when extended. Most of these are likely to wear off between encounters, even if extended. I can, for example, extend a spell to just shy of 3 hours if it's in 10 minutes, or for 16 minutes if it's in minutes. That's not really quite enough time to make extend metamagic worth it. I think of them more as spells I can cast for an encounter and not have to keep track of duration for. I have very, very few spells that last for hours, and most that do aren't as useful as all-day +4 AC (and more if Lia learns greater mage armor at some point). Plus, it is handy for protection from arrows and several other mage spells that'll help the squishy folk survive longer.

So, really, I vote for Lia. Even if it's just for the sake of all day mage armor, I think it's best in her hands. Besides, she could use as much protection as she can get If something happens and it'd actually be useful for one of the other casters to use it for an encounter, then Lia can pass it off at her discretion. But overall, I think it should just go into Lia's hands and be hers since she's going to make the most regular use out of it.

[Nathan of the FoS]

Just going off Nathan's examples,

Whoops. I didn't mean you'd want to extend those spells--just that, since you don't usually use weapons in combat, you could carry the rod without always having to put it away to do stuff like load your pistol or throw a spear.

[Kaitou Kage]

Oh no, I understand. Those were just the examples that were readily available, so I ran with them.

Plus, some discussion with NT and some perusal of the Spell Compendium and SRD, and I have some new ideas for playing Kuzan.

[NeoTiamat]

Someone who actually takes DM advice? What will the world come to next?

Anyways, since a few of you are concerned about treasure....

I should explain my last comment. I track everyone's treasure, and pretty carefully. And I try to keep things so that everyone is roughly equal. So when I say that I'll check it off the treasure, I'll just subtract that amount from the next treasure I hand out to the PCs.

Also.... don't worry about missing loot. I'll figure out how to get stuff to you one way or another, worst that happens is that it takes you a bit longer to get it.

[NeoTiamat]

Okay, money is distributed. And yes, I know it isn't even close to even, but I'm basically taking this chance to bring everyone up to the Recommended Wealth-by-Level for level Seven, since I'm not quite as careful when handing out magic items.