I apologize for any delays on my part. I am off this week, so will be limited in how often I can spend time on the computer.
The next three weeks I am on a work schedule non-conducive to steady posting, so I will try to post when I can (could be as bad as once a week), but my player posts will be likely more frequent than my GM posts based on the amount of time each one takes.
Mulluq will put his entire share of treasure toward the wand.
1. Because he will refuse reward as he already has a sword beyond any he feels even worthy of carrying.
2. Because any gear he may want to buy to upgrade is more money than he would have gotten for a share.
3. Because it is easier for me to just forego shopping in my limited time to post. (Unless someone buys something with his money and specifically tells him to carry it).
So we split the shares of the loot evenly and don't tell Mulluq he has some cash on account for later spending. What say ye non-Mulluq folk?
No way! I've got a holiday synced with Aubrey. I'll in Nova Scotia, slightly south of a little chunk of the Highlands called Cape Breton. Also gone about a week with web access unlikely.
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Hi all, I'm doing a sponsored walk round 13 of the bridges over the River Thames in London on the 9th of October. If you would like to sponsor me, the link is here. Many thanks for your generosity (and may worms coil in the privy parts of those who fail to sponsor me).
I have embarked on my annual autumn excursion to Someplace Else(TM) and so my availability and access may not be what they generally are. It looks like I should be able to post in the evenings, but can make no guarantees, so please feel free to bot Jod as necessary.
I should be able to resume normal activity after the 17th.
Sorry to hear it, Vattnisse. I hope things pick up.
Have fun! That's potentially a lot of energy to find focus for. Maybe you can give them a project - like raising a pyramid over the weekend.
We hiked a beautiful canyon trail yesterday along a stream with all kinds of charm and character. Lovely little bridges and some rock-hopping to cross in other spots. However, after 11.5 miles and 2700' elevation change, we may not be able to do anything more physically before we head home.
It was totally worth it.
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We get serious about hiking once a year and generally manage two or three good hikes in a week's time. We have done very well this week with three significant (at least for us) hikes.
We were very happy to discover that we felt up for another challenge today and took on our third hike - unplanned and suggested by a fellow we met in the park - to a mountain lake at 11,000'. (We started at a much higher elevation than yesterday, so the climb wasn't as drastic as that sounds.)
Tomorrow, I will be offline as we spend the better half of a day on the highway home. That I find much more tiring than spending the same amount of time with a pack on my back climbing a mountain. Go figure.
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Hey all, my brother Marty (Ash Walker when he occasionally visits these boards), long time role-player and gamer, has just published his first novel, a post-apocalyptic speculative fiction novel called Salvage.
Please visit his website www.martinrodoreda.com if you are interested in checking it out or ordering a copy.
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No, not really. I was being mostly facetious in the comment in the game thread about the moral high ground. BUT for those PCs who are Iomedaeans, and even for those who are not, doing right by her can bring some relatively minor, but possibly useful benefits. So there are possible useful effects beyond roleplaying ones to doing the whole Lawful Good thing for those so inclined.
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It was good fun, although I think we were all glad when it finished. The weather was good and it was quite pleasant, taking in a few nice spots along the way. Portions around Westminster and Tower Bridge were hard work due to tourists milling about and slowing us down. But we did the 10 miles in 3 1/2 hours.
I feel a bit tired this morning, though, but surprisingly un-achy.
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Guys, I've been thinking. I've had an idea for a potential campaign and I'm wondering if people would be interested or not. I've been trying to avoid over-committing myself, but I do find this idea intriguing - if people aren't especially, then I won't worry about it, but if they are, I might run it.
Basically, it's an orc campaign where the PCs are orcs. There'd be a campaign plot, but as a sort of overarching theme there would be also the notion of potentially becoming chief of the tribe (from starting way down the pecking order). It would effectively be an evil campaign, since this would be about life in Belkzen (primarily) rather than orcish paladins wandering about, and orcs acting orcish. There would also be the possibility of PvP, which I wouldn't normally countenance, but the fundamentally competitive requirement - there can only be one chief - and orcish nature might lead to that, so I've been thinking about how to handle that. Anyway, I don't know if this appeals or not, but it could be fun. I'd be curious for your views.
I am spread far too thin to take on a new game. I would be interested, in theory, in playing a shaman-type character for the tribe in such a game, though.
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I’m starting to get stretched a bit thin on pbp as well, but this sounds like it could be an interesting premise, particularly if run by Aubrey and played by the usual suspects. I’m generally not very interested in ‘evil’ campaigns – but I see this, as Aubrey said, as orcs acting orchish – being mean, stupid, cruel and brutal, but not necessarily going about killing babies, molesting women and trying to awaken Cthulhu, whilst laughing maniacally.
I’ve currently got in mind a mad-dog barbarian, played somewhere between Enga and Crowe in personality, but accompanied by a dirty great war boar (or something similar).
I am of a similar mind to Mothman on all counts. Stretched thin, evil campaigns, Aubrey as DM.
Still, maybe I could whistle up a ninja, and flavor him as a sneaky little bastard.
As long as we're talking about games -- Meowselworth is running a mafia type game set in a speakeasy. Recruitment is open til Monday. The key requisite is to post in the gamethread before then.
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I read that campaign. It actually was reasonably well put together but both it and the previous "fighting Cheliax" AP didn't scream "Run me!" I think it's a bit of a Cheliax and devils overdose, frankly. Which is funny, because I really like the demons AP. However, that might be because the outcome of WotR actually has an impact on the world. The Silver Ravens AP sort created a new country, but nothing much happened to Cheliax other than that. And in the evil one, Cheliax isn't overthrown and, well, carries on as before, which is a sort of non-event. I know people complain when you are saving the world in every AP but, I dunno, they were a little bit downbeat.
I'm trying to think of the last Paizo AP that really got me going - the most recent Varisian-set one, where the PCs are Pathfinders plumbing various sites, has some really great dungeons in them. Other than that, I'm struggling a bit.
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Wow. That is a long way back. I like Shattered Star too, but I haven't read it in detail. If I had the opportunity to run one in the future it would be on the short list. Ironically I usually skim them and read the back matter, but the one thing I read in every issue is the fiction which they are discontinuing.
The only one I have run is Serpent's Skull, which unfortunately s!+&s the bed in Book three during what should be the coolest adventure of the AP. There were reasons for that outside of Paizo's control but it was really disappointing.
I don't know why, but Giantslayer never really piqued my interest, then I started listening to the Glass Cannon podcast where they do an actual play of it and it seems to be way better than I gave it credit for. However those guys have cracked the code of producing an AP as packaged entertainment where as a rule they are generally un-listenable.
Strange Aeons is really good so far.
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The only one I have run is Serpent's Skull, which unfortunately s@&+s the bed in Book three during what should be the coolest adventure of the AP. There were reasons for that outside of Paizo's control but it was really disappointing.
Damnit man, now I want to read that just to see what it does so wrong!
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The guy who was writing it vanished without any notice and turned over no copy. The project was turned over to multiple other writers who split it up into sections and wrote it way past deadline. It is the volume where the PCs finally find a lost Azlanti city. It should have been the coolest book in the AP and was an enormous sandbox but all of the sections are disjointed, there are more or less no maps other than the city map and all of the cool things you could discover about Azlant just don't really happen. I was having fun filling in so much material, but in the end between work and a toddler at the time it needed more time to continue than I had.
I have read that the experience led to AP projects only being given to writers who have been working successfully on smaller projects with Paizo first.
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I’m running Carrion Crown and Skull and Shackles – neither are perfect but they’re both quite good. I like the concept of Reign of Winter (though I haven’t actually read it), and I like what I’ve read of Wrath of the Righteous (hence wanting to play this game!), but I kind of gave up reading it, feeling a bit daunted by the mythic rules. I quite like Iron Gods, this one seems to divide opinion though. I thought Hells Rebels was quite good, although it does seem to cover some of the same ground as Council of Thieves and even Curse of the Crimson Throne. Hell’s Vengeance I just can’t get that into, the evil campaign just doesn’t really appeal to me.
I can't recall book 3 of Serpent's Skull, was it an issue with the adventure as written, or something about running it?
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Part of the issue may have just been that I had a different idea about what exploring a lost city by an ancient and magically more powerful race might be like. Instead you got a city map, 5 districts controlled by different racial groups who don't really interact, random monsters here and there and almost no details about the ruins or the lost society.
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Part of the issue may have just been that I had a different idea about what exploring a lost city by an ancient and magically more powerful race might be like. Instead you got a city map, 5 districts controlled by different racial groups who don't really interact, random monsters here and there and almost no details about the ruins or the lost society.
Ah, right I remember that one now. I'd forgotten about it, I think that was the adventure that made me realise I couldn't / wouldn't run that campaign. Pity, cos the first two books seemed quite good (from memory).
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Yes, they were. I wasn't aware of the background, but I remember thinking that the ruined city bit was a bit strange.
I found Reign of Winter started well but had some really odd bits. I really didn't care for the bit in Russia with Rasputin - I kinda know why they did it, what with Baba Yaga being from Russian folklore, but it was just weird and a bit unnecessary. I think the other bits were OK.
Giantslayer didn't thrill me either. I thought the first part was pants - let's kill some time solving a murder, which really doesn't matter if you succeed 'cos HERE'S A BILLION ORCS! who don't care either way, and the guy who did it just jumps around in front of you at the end going "Kill me and take the plot token!". And the idea of a human town in Belkzen that hasn't been razed to the ground decades ago is just daft - if the paladins of Lastwall can't keep them out, what hope have a few villagers? All pretty stupid. Part of the reason I fancied doing the orc campaign was how I felt they ballsed-up the orcs in Giantslayer.
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Without having read or played it (so it might completely suck), the bit where you go to Russia sounds AWESOME! But it's probably not ...
I thought that first adventure in Giantslayer was quite good in many respects (solving a murder in a town under siege, trying to drive back the rampaging orcs that had swept through town etc.) but yeah, having the town survive that long in Belkzen makes really no sense. The orc invasion in that story should have been a weekly event. It was nice to see an orc adventure that wasn't just delving into an orc cave and killing things, but yeah, it was a bit off.
Some of the subsequent adventures seemed quite good (not ground breaking, but good in an old school kind of way), but I imagine adventure after adventure of working your way up the hierarchy of giants (and KILLING THEM ALL!) would get tedious after a while. There's already a good AP about killing giants (RotRL) which probably does it better (by not being ALL about killing giants).