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To all my games:

Unfortunately, I have to withdraw from this game despite the fact that I was greatly enjoying it. Due to changes in my work schedule and other real-life concerns, I no longer have the time to post with any regularity. I have had a great time and hope that you all continue to have a wonderful time.

Thanks for all the fun,
Bill

To all my games:

Unfortunately, I have to withdraw from this game despite the fact that I was greatly enjoying it. Due to changes in my work schedule and other real-life concerns, I no longer have the time to post with any regularity. I have had a great time and hope that you all continue to have a wonderful time.

Thanks for all the fun,
Bill

To all my games:

Unfortunately, I have to withdraw from this game despite the fact that I was greatly enjoying it. Due to changes in my work schedule and other real-life concerns, I no longer have the time to post with any regularity. I have had a great time and hope that you all continue to have a wonderful time.

Thanks for all the fun,
Bill

To all my games:

Unfortunately, I have to withdraw from this game despite the fact that I was greatly enjoying it. Due to changes in my work schedule and other real-life concerns, I no longer have the time to post with any regularity. I have had a great time and hope that you all continue to have a wonderful time.

Thanks for all the fun,
Bill

Sorry about my low posting rate, work has been murder and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. Please DMPC Azubah as needed.

I am! It's currently -8 F, but we are having a blast. My husband took us snowshoe hiking where it devolved into a snowball fight. :D

Wow. Where is that? We have been having unseasonably warm weather here in the Northeast.

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas to all!

Congratulations!

I will probably be able to post most days between now and then. I am sure that there will be a day or two, here and there, that I will be away from the computer.

Bring on the tryptophan-induced lethargy!

The great composer of the French Baroque, Jean-Baptiste Lully, died because of a tragic conducting accident.

Please elaborate.

The letter "J" is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of elements.

I am not favorably inclined toward most homebrewed games that I read about. They have the disadvantage of not being immediately familiar the way that published setting are. The few that have seemed appealing to me used something familiar as a major theme to make them easier to relate to. For instance, there is a recruitment thread for a wild-west version of Kingmaker set in 1860s North America. The familiarity makes it easier to some of us to create a character with a background that feels like it would have sprung from the setting.

502) I Will Destroy You All!!!, Rovagug's guide to life

Morbo the Destroyer wrote a glittering review of this.

What experience track are we using, slow ,medium or fast?

Welcome aboard!

940 - Schrodinger's Tiefling

You look normal (for a tiefling) when viewed directly. But whenever you are in a creature's peripheral vision you appear blurry and it is difficult for the viewer to tell exactly where you are.

Also, if you are under the effect of the Displacement spell its duration is extended for one additional round.

Have fun (to the extent possible in Kuwait).

Some butterflies never eat; they live off of the energy of what they consumed during the caterpillar stage.

A trigger-happy slayer is my initial thought. Now I just have to figure out a character concept for his personality.

My initial idea is that he has an Anglican father and a Jewish mother and that this caused him to locked out of certain positions due to prejudice against Jews. Would that fit?

I am interested. I am currently playing in a normal Kingmaker game in which we have reached 5th level. However, this looks significantly different that it should not be a conflict with my other campaign and I can separate player knowledge from character knowledge.

Was the Great War of the 1750s your version of the Seven Years War?

Bill you got the lowest PFS number that I ever saw! I joined in 2011 and it was already + 35000, nowadays they are at 140000...

Does that mean I am a hipster doofus?

I made four PFS character but have never used any of them. Here is the number for one of them, if it helps: 2064-1, Felix Reynard.

Is that a Twix bar in there?

I type out any but the briefest posts in a Word document and then cut and paste. This way you still have a copy if the site eats your post.

Gratulacje!

466 Dora Explores the Tomb of Horrors

“Anyone who sticks his head into a devil’s mouth deserves to be annihilated.” So begins Dora’s account of her exploration of the Tomb of Horrors. Readers who are familiar with Dora’s lighter, often airy, prose will be surprised at her terse and often biting criticisms of the adventurers who fell to the deadly tomb. “If an archway is completely obscured with mist then it is obviously a trap. What idiot does not know that?” is another example of her description of the tomb and how to approach it. “If you are not smart enough to know not to touch an altar there is no need for you to go exploring. Just stay home and kill yourself. The results will be the same and you will save yourself the trouble of making the journey.”

Sorry, I blamed you when it was the fault of Cuc and Those Damned Kids.

C'est la PbP.

That reminds me of Bill the Cat from Bloom County.

Hopefully, this will rise again when MiniGM can come out and play again.

Kiana would like to find her lost clan, or at least another clan of her own kind. Beyond that, she is sort of lost in the world, pushing herself along by using her revenge.

Basically, if she didn't have revenge, she'd just be completely lost.

Inigo Montoya: Is very strange. I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

Westley: Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.

Well done, Town Cryer.

*Tosses a handful of coppers*

I am going to withdraw; I have had difficulty adapting to games that are already in progress.

Good gaming, everyone!

Two days of posts and not one linking fusion to the villainous plot of the next Bond movie? I am sorely disappointed.

The Duchess of Northumberland wants to host a cagefighting event at Alnwick Castle gardens, which stood in for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies.

Really

The propeller-beanie should be a major artifact.

How would you feel about a neutral or chaotic neutral cleric of Urgathoa? His alignment reflects his selfish nature and inconsistent ethics rather than a bend toward lunacy. Also, his devotion to Urgathoa is born out a fervor for gluttony and hedonism instead of evil.

An insanity plea?

I am interested and will probably submit something soon. When is the deadline? I might be busy until Wednesday morning.

Yes, we were staying at an inn that is allied with House Cannith and preparing for the next leg of the adventure. It was mostly devoted to RP and plot advancement and as a means for the newest member, Kinad to meet up with us.

The swashbuckler player, Uriah lewis, had deserted the game earlier over disagreement with what the warforged, Servitor, did with a prisoner.

The events of the game are as you described. We met on an airship and were attacked by agents of the Lord of Blades. Provost Bonal was killed and we were contacted by Lady Cannith who tasked us with recovering a schema from a deserted forge belonging to the House. En route, we were attacked again by the Lord of Blades's agents and again inside the forge itself.

We secured the schema and a sword that whispers to its wielder. Then we returned the schema to Lady Cannith who advised us to pick up our monetary payment at a bank belonging to one of the other Houses. She intimated that more work would come our way and that we should check in with the House that handles communications. [ooc]I can't remember that names of the other Houses off hand.[ooc]

As for the sword, if fiction teaches us anything it is that whispering, rune-covered, magic swords are never a problem to anyone.

*perk* Umm.. I'd be happy to help if you are looking for a fourth. Conversions, research, etc.. Or a fourth for filler, if the other person does not respond. ^-^;

What might you need?

If the other player does not respond soon, and Thelemic Noun can commit, then we might well want to recruit another player. What kind of character are you thinking of?

The original recruitment specified no summoners, gunslingers or ninja and, personally, I would like to stick to that.

The oracle is a shifter/skinwalker, the alchemist is a half-daelkyr, the psion is human and I play a tiefling kensai magus.

What sort of tools do you guys use? Do you use standard treasure? Random treasure? Counted XP or handwaved XP?

I may or may not be able to commit very much time. When I catch up on the campaign thread, It would still be slow going for a while, since I would have to Pathfinderize the material, unless he had notes or something.

We used this conversion site to translate material to PF. The DM used GoogleDocs for maps but use whatever you like.

The DM seemed to use an approximation of WBL, I think, but whatever you feel is appropriate would be fine. Also, if it takes you a while to get into things there would be no complaints from the players' side, I am sure. we would just be grateful that you took over as DM.

Three of the four players responded that they want to continue the game. We are just waiting on the fourth.

Do you have any other questions about the game?

Wow, I had just about given up on this!

Here is the gameplay thread. We are using Pathfinder rules.

I will PM the other players to see if they are still game for this.

If you resurrect this then you will have my undying gratitude*.

* Bill Lumberg's gratitude has no cash value or value of any kind.

Birds seem to hate all my possessions. I don't truly feel that I own a car until a flock of birds uses it for target practice.

Desperation Bump!

According to what Connortheconman wrote, it looks like we completed Shadows of the Last War and got into Whispers of the Vampire's Blade. The posters are all good writers who get into their characters' personalities.

Please, please, please, someone pick this up.

PullNoPunch: Much as I would like to keep the same group together, I am not all that taken with Emerald Spire. I do appreciate the offer, however I will have to pass on it. Thank you, though.

Connor: Would it change your mind if I went full Hypnotoad on on you?

Mimes behind real Walls of Force to protect them from angry PCs.

I had to stifle a laugh to avoid waking my son in the next room.

American Bandstand and The Monkees

466. The villain is in the final stages of crafting a magic item. He explains some of its lesser powers to a nearby assistant. Then he theatrically alludes to its major abilities and is about to detail them when the scrying spell expires.