Lords of Gossamer & Shadow (diceless) (Inactive)

Game Master Johnny_Panic

Hi Guys here you can talk over ideas and other OOC stuff,
I like OOC to be done here over walls of Text blue in Game play thanks.

Great guys going to see if we get that 4th post then I'll get started.

Could you all please make ALts that is a PC alternative PC under My Acount.

So I can track who is who in game play thinks

Place all your PC info under that.

use Spoilers for the 3 subjects.

PCs

1: Personality
[Motivations, aims and goals, Think a hero's journey where are they going, points of personal conflict.]
2: Description
[How dos your PC look, how dos their stuff look, you have a star ship, sports car or flying house, what dos it look like, what dos it do?]
3: Items
[what things do they carry and/or have of power]
4: Ability's
[What powers are they showing]

PC History

1: Personal History
[Think hero's journey, where are they from - Link to Personality]
2: Enemies and Rivals
[List any Enemies and Rivals your PC has, minimum 3]
3: The Precious Things.
[List any loves or things your PC counts a Precious to them, minimum 3]

PC's World/cosmos of Origin:

1: Description
[Like Our world, magic world, Sifi world. what's its Level of tech, population, races etc]
2: Key locations
[The holy city, The Empire world, the magic wood, Minimum 5 Locations]
3: aces
[Just Humans, all kinds, magic Cats, fay, Robots, thinking Black holes, just the key ones will do]
4: Danger
[Something bad is going on, war, plague, the end of days, evil AI's, there is a clear and present danger, what is it.]

We can't have Alternate accounts. Paizo does not allow multiple accounts, JP. Do you mean aliases?

No an alt PC, you make the under the same account

Click My Account at the top.
You will see it says.
Sign in _> do so

Then under -> MESSAGEBOARD ALIASES
you can make a new MESSAGEBOARD ALIASES.

That will be your ALT PC,

To make one Click -> Create New Alias
Give it a name, pick a image and save.
This then will show up in.
Alias

Click it and go to Profile, -> make Profile.
And then there you are an Alt ALIASES that will be you PC.

Then cut and past the over, headers and fill in.

Below you will see
How to format your text [Show] click on show and that tells you how to format. On here and in Alts.

Check out mine under my Alts.

:)

Is Chiana familiar with the Witch's Keep?

No this is news to her, who ever this is, she has not been talked about or know about by any one Chiana has meet.

But they seem very intent on destroying her

No to a power that tells other players how their PC will act.

No to Calling bad stuff at will.
Yes to a name that has an Impact to the unaware and who's writing Fu is weak.

Johnny, I'm sorry I wasn't clear. None of that was what I was intending.

What I'm looking for is similar to elements of Trump and Invocation. I don't want a power that forces anybody to do anything.

I would like Nuuskin's voice to be charged with enough power to make it easy for things -- maybe only things already in the Gossamer World, to find him. It's like sending up a flare in the real world, or firing a gun in the woods, or Gordon teleporting in Agents of Shield, or casting spells in Castle Falkenstein.

I'm intending for it to be a handicap if Nuuskin is trying to be stealthy, or trying to communicate through the air during a battle. (But I'm also intending for some sorcerous work-arounds out of combat, like his audible-illusion pipe-smoke.) He's only a flare when he chooses to be: when he speaks aloud.

It's not intended to be Bad Stuff at all. (Again, I'm intending for him to be a Good Stuff character.) It doesn't make shopkeepers distrust him, or the other members of the party. It doesn't make it more likely that arrows will strike to do damage. Rather, if he's careless, it makes him noisy to sensitive creatures.

I'm not sure what you mean by "dumbed". He's not dumb, or mute.

I'm fine with that if you take it as bad stuff,
That is precisely what bad stuff is for,
like Flows and drawbacks in other game systems.

Dumped I meant, Dumped PCs with trouble for the party Flows and drawbacks
tend to get Dumped or used a bait. Just so your aware of how the other players may act.

As the GM I will make a call of if anything reacts and how it reacts to your bad stuff.

:)

Soon as I have three players in one place I will have the Bidding start, so have a thing about what you will be bidding on.

We will be using just the core book as that's the only one I have.

you get 100 points +/Bad stuff if you take it.

Once that is done I will keep ranking scores as in Points
i'm not even going to tell you your ranking, your going to have to find that out in game hehe.

Ill only say your High or low in the rankings.

because in real life [well fantasy life] you don't go around with numbers above your head.

FYI.

I'm in the UK, I can't post at the rate of everyone else because it seems most of you are posting in what is for me the early morning hours, like 3am, I'm at GMT+1 ( as an example I'm posting this at 8:35 am UK time). Also I can't post at work since there's a gigantic firewall stopping access to all game related sites. As such I have a 5 or 6 hour window to post which obviously doesn't coincide with that of folks outside of my time zone.

Auction/Bidding

Attribs as per Recruitment: Focus, Eminence, Incarnation and Warfare?

Attribute Auction one round

Guidelines:
• Players are given 100 points to spend, as if an Attribute Auction were being conducted.
• Players can spend these points among Attributes as desired, as if it were the silent auction stage of a normal Attribute Auction.
• This process can be done as a preliminary to further character creation, or the process can be combined with the rest of
character creation (purchasing powers, items, Domains, Allies, etc.).
• Send the GM a PM with your bids
• Points spent on Attributes at that time are final.
• When players have assigned points to their Attributes, the gamemaster creates an Attribute Ladder based on the amounts of points spent.
• Attributes and their ranks on the Attribute Ladder are not announced to the player group.
• Because there is no subsequent round of points spent to secretly advance Attributes, the “.5” designation for ranks is not used,
and player character Attributes can be tied on the Attribute Ladder.
Secret or entirely-silent auctions work well for creating characters when the players cannot meet for an auction, or when the
focus of the game is not character conflict. This method is also ideal for generating characters who are strangers and whose abilities
are secret. Without the competitive nature of the auction, this style of character creation can also foster a more cooperative play style.

Note I may Change the rules a little

Folding Strength and Endurance Attributes together as one called
"Incarnation", (It will count as Strength/Dexterity/Coordination/Senses, etc.)

I will split up Psyche into

Focus - (to handle the mind-wracking powers/willpower/clarity of thought, etc.)

and

Eminence - (That will be the social stat, It does for peacetime/civilized settings what Warfare does for war/combat.)

Warfare stays. as is.

Players will also get "Warden Of The Grand Stair" free in game.

round 1

Bidding on

Incarnation:
Focus:
Warfare:
Eminence:

Then bids on other stuff.

Please resend all bids with round 1 as the header.

I'm am going to halt the Action there for the weekend.
I would like every one to think about their bids, Also I will be looking at posting speed, And who is in which time zones.

We all need sleep and to do RL stuff.

Severus of the Varen Imperium, I understand your point

I Am GMT+8, Your GMT+0/+1 and others I think are GMT-6/-8

so we will slow things down to let every one post.

I'm not looking to hold up anyone else, just asking for a chance to post in any joint scenes. If Severus is there he'd look like something of a dummy if the other players posted three or four times before I got to a keyboard.

Actions and out Comes
Guys when posting actions, it's worth me mentioning to you the players that unless I specifically say so and on a case by case basis, only I the GM decides outcomes of player and NPC actions, you the players just state the intended actions of your characters.

If not this could go south real fast,

Case in point, casting a spell that removes the pcs from the battle, and relocates them, outside of it.

I'm fine with stating the action of casting it, and how a PC hopes to get past. Block.
I'm fine with stating what you hope will happen if your able to.
But the then the outcome / result is for me to resolve, and post.

In this way, game flow, balance, drama and theme can be maintained

So that all being said, now I did ask for a halt in game play till Monday, so any actions posted will have to wait till then to be resolved.

But I can say now, I'm sorry but the teleport spell moves you all closer to the tent but your still some ways off,

Once I have all the bids in I'll move the game,

Two bids is in, pm spent to those plays to sort things,
we'll be back in game play once and when I have all 4 full PC 100 point spends in.

By the way, it's all looking very good so far

Nuusk you need to send me a pm with your full 100 point spend.

still waiting on a lost bit of info from one player on their point spend
But I think we can restart this little bit of action now.

Mmm!

Thinking on posting but logic tells me that Severus' army would engage the attackers, although I sort of feel that you expect Severus to fight them without calling the troops in?

Your are free to deal with this as you see fit, the thing is they are ignoring your troops, taking heavy losses as they focus there blind attack in the new comers

Ping

When you notify us of our relative ranks in attributes will that be by PM.

humm had not thought of that but I may
Still waiting on Nuusk to send me his full bid

JP,

In terms of powers, I need access to the complete rules, and I've just moved into my new city in March; about 50 of my gaming boxes are still packed, and I have to find the one with Lords of Gossamer and Shadow rules in it before I can figure out how much different powers cost.

Hopefully, later today.

Those costs are listed in the Campaign Info tab aren't they?

Yes guys, I have a PDF of the full rules but I'm not going to cut and past copy righted stuff onto the game info page, sorry, Any thing from the primer is fine as it linked to the publishers site and it can be reprinted as per limits of rights given buy the publishers for public domain content for the game.

All I can suggest is get a full copy of the rules V PDF, if you got A hard copy V the publishers site I think you can have a PDF copy as well but not 100% on that.

I have no hard copys of RPG games any more, sold them all even my DUNE RPG books. I just have 72TB of files now on 3 back up HDs.

hehe

Powers purchased.

and now in game INFO you will find basic rankings

Ok that should be every one
If I have missed any one or a new player PMing me,
please let me know.

Just a note on Good Stuff and Bad stuff.

The book doesn't
allow any amount of Good Stuff greater than 10 points.
And I will not
allow any amount of BAd Stuff greater than 10 points.

So if you have spent more than that you have points to relocate

GOOD STUFF
For every 5 points of good stuff you get to pick 1 from.
"Know the way"
“Danger Sense”
“Always a Chance”
"Good Luck Magnet"
“Enemy Repulsion”
“Always help for Hero's”

So you could take 9 points of good stuff and then only have one good thing from the list. But then get that 10th point and BOOM! ya have two.
A note on good stuff, the only time me and others have seen a PC saved form BAD stuff death was been because of good stuff. You have ANY good stuff and the GM if he/she will offer you a chance to face a PC, Points bad Vs points good. Its nice to save others and they always pay you back don't they, they would not let you die right.

MOUUAHAHAHAHAH!!

BAD STUFF
For every 5 points of bad stuff you get to pick 1 from.
"Always getting lost"
“Danger Blind”
“Never a Chance”
"Bad Luck Magnet"
“Enemy Attraction”
"No Help for Hero's"

So you could take 9 points of bad stuff and then have only one Bad thing from the list to worry about. But then get that 10th point and BOOM! ya have two. A note on bad stuff, the only time me and others have seen a PC die was been because of bad stuff. You have ANY bad stuff and the GM if he/she so feels OFF your PC when they get into trouble. But bad stuff gets you more points and so more POWER!!!

MOUUAHAHAHAHAH!!

There is also a new power called

Glamory 10 points

under game play info

Ok thats me done for now,
Have a look at your rank
then have a think, things may change as players fix things I have asked them to v PM,

Ok we seem to have it all fixed now.
We may have another player joining us, once they have the rule book.

So game on

Had I noticed the Glamory power earlier I probably would have created a totally different character. Ah well...

You can still change your PC,
we are only at the start of the game.
The power come from another Play who ask if they could have it, I added it so others could get it with XP.

I'm fine. With xp then...

Re use of powers. You said we'd go through an [i]awakening[\i]. Does that only apply to the Warden of the Grand Stair? Looking at people's post that seems to be the case. If so Severus should be able to use Eidolon right now?

No what you are doing is using your powers but they fit to the logic of your world, you know nothing of writing, Shadow, Eidolon etc.

To you say using Eidolon is using you mind to affect the weave of reality.

Ah. Almost like its an innate ability, or one he isn't aware he's using, or which he doesn't consciously see as anything beyond the norm?

yep

Posting using my phone

I take it Severus' use of Eidolon had no effect?

Severus Caelio, it did but there was a real push-back in power, as you have no idea yet what Eidolon is you have no realy idea what the push back was or may be.

Guys I should have noted this,

About Artifact and powers locked to them with points.

If you want a power, you have to pay for ALL lower powers 1st.

What dos that mean.

Well lets take

Power Cost Description and cost

Pass -through -Door
1 Point Can open a Door that has not been barred, and pass through it.

Follow - Path
2 Points As above,
plus: an innate sense for the path left by a being through the Grand Stair, and can follow that path, even if it leads through multiple Doors.

Search - Through - Worlds
4 Points As above,
plus: an innate sense for what Gossamer world a particular subject is located in, and can follow that sense through the Grand Stair towards that subject.

I have a house rule of you must pay for the lower powers to get the higher ones.

So to get "Search - Through - Worlds" the cost will be 7 points
Pass -through -Door 1p
Follow - Path 2p
Search - Through - Worlds 4p
Total: 7p

:)

Is this specifically powers or does it apply to things like armour protective quality too?

The standard rule cost is 1 +1 +2 = 4 so there is already am increase built in. The house rule makes artifacts very expensive. If you were buying several properties the cost could massive!

When you think about it, some of the powers are up there with a 50 buy power, and they ramp, so having 1+1+2 for three powers is very cheap, if you did not get the powers before then I would say ok, but you do, so1+2+4 Ramps evenly and I feel reflects better the matched cost v a, 20 point 50 point power.

50 point spend on items, would give you a massive range, if the cost was 4 point to max dedicated powers, 12 max powers + one more at step 2'. Yikes.

Where as 7 points gives you a better limiter of 5 powers + one more at step 2,.
And makes players think more of lower powers.

So it is powers rather than qualities this applies to?

If you look at the exesample I gave that's most definitely a power, it dos an tactktive thing in the game.

Finding sucjects on other worlds, past other doors could be extremely powerful in game play. Having limits to its use other than the GM saying, "nope dos not work" or "do you don't know who your looking for" is good when I was to heel a big bad hidden. Cost of the power/ability/quality is one way, let's face it some of the 4point power/ability/quality or very powerful relative to other ieliments in game.

I don't strictly disagree its more that I'd like clarification. Some folks talk about item powers when they're talking about qualities like deadly damage, or resist firearms rather than something which replaces or mimics a power.

E.g. Deadly damage weapon with named & numbered forms 6 pts or 10 pts?

So the example would cost 10 pts!

Also, just checking: if an item can cast spells (Sorcery) the item would cost 15 points, along with the 1pt and 2pt. powers. Since a PC would have to have Sorcery already, in order to have an Artifact with that power, that would cost, at minimum 18 points on top of the 15 to buy Sorcery. Do I have that right?

Items with actual (Eidolon, Wrighting, etc) powers seem to be prohibitively expensive.

To the point of making them useless since an actual power or a ranked attribute is innate and therefore better anyway. Might need to re-examine Severus' build.