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Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but Imps have Invisibility as spell-like ability, AT WILL. Have the Oracle stage an instance where the player pretends to banish the Imp and the imp feigns banishment and goes invisible. Then have the Oracle and the Fighter make amends. The imp stays invisible and quiet and stays around to learn to be good and the fighter thinks it's gone.

Mark Hoover wrote:

I use individually sized, hand crafted cases of leather and oak, cedar-lined and felted on the inside. Each is hermetically sealed and generally stored at a comfortable 42 degrees at a mere 6% humidity. They are removed only by my man, Timbles, who must wear gloves and a mask to handle them or else he spends a night with the dogs. In transport these cases are further sealed in plexiglass. I employ a fleet of temperature-controlled vans which are loaded and unloaded by robots.

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Or rather, I use a backpack. All my spines are ruined. It's not an investment - it's a lifestyle.

Well said, Mark Hoover

Also just a reminder that I will be flying by promptly at 2 o'clock to pick up both you and Timbles for our weekly meeting to drink six thousand dollar scotch and then spit it upon Timbles for basically no reason

Excellent! I'll meet you both there. We might be a little late though because Woodhouse FORGOT TO CHANGE THE OIL IN THE CAR! So I'm making him take me by rickshaw. I'll be sure to bring the bowls full of cobwebs and we can make Timbles and Woodhouse eat them.

Putting a layer of Sovereign Glue between the cross brace of his sword and scabbard or in his helmet.

Placing a stone of alarm in his room at the tavern.

Replacing his armor with an exact replica only one or two sizes two small. This is really only a flavor thing but still reall funny.

Obtaining a hand of the mage and knocking drinks on him as a barmaid goes by in the tavern.

Filling his boots with cold porridge, just enough to make it annoying, but not enough it will be seen when he puts them on in the morning.

And then there's the long con if you want to go for it, setting him up to ultimately fall and to have him loose his paladin powers. I strongly recommend against this one. But should make for a nice long revenge con.

One of the players that I killed, the sorceror, actually made a barb and is going the two-handed bast and forgoing the Ex wpn prof. I asked why and he said it seemed appropriate. I just shrugged and said fine by me.

*stands up*

My name is Chewie, and I'm addicted to making characters.

Why does the thread title read like a challenge to me?

Because it is. Question is whether or not you accept it.

Anyone else notice how this quickly devolved into a physics debate?

52) Dwarves, which lived unground for millenia and moved to the surface have no light sensitivity. Orcs on the other hand who were driven before said dwarves do.

53) No natural evolution/adaptation of a species. Orcs have been on the surface for hundreds of years and yet they still have light sensitivity.

Diet Coke and Mentos?

But something I liked was that I could tell people that played KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, and various other rpg video games that they played the 3.0 system of D&D and have the basics. Wanna play?

I'm gonna go the opposite direction and say my least favorite. And that is all the lack of d12 support. They're just so sad and lonely.

Haters and their Hatorade?

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. You cruel sick b@$^#%&*.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Before prohibition, Shlitz brewery owned more land in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic Church.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Add a pants slot. It's been missing for far too long.

Simple: nobody watched it.

FIREFLY bombed. Neo-BATTLESTAR GALACTICA sort-of bombed, but was held up by good wishes and healthy DVD sales. CAPRICA then bombed (but wasn't gritty space opera anyway). STARGATE UNIVERSE bombed as well.

The last successful 'gritty' space operas we had were STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (which has been over for 13 years) and BABYLON 5 (which has been over for 14 years). And arguably neither were consistently 'gritty' in the same way that Neo-BSG was.

There is hope, though. Bear McCreary - the BSG composer - revealed literally yesterday that he's just completed the soundtrack to the new BSG pilot, BLOOD AND CHROME, so SyFy are now free to show that whenever they want (this summer or September are possible, apparently). Given that series takes place right in the middle of the First Cylon War with multiple pile-ups between battlestars and basestars and tons of Vipers, it should have lots of potential to be gritty.

Firefly bombed because of the shenanigans that Fox pulled. Had they kept it at a consistent time slot and advertised it more it would have done a lot better.

Bullet+brain pan=best solution.

If you die you can make a new character. If you don't then you know you're invincible. Either way it's a win-win.

Those big purchase items fighters and monks always want are really tough to get into an adventure budget. Do you have any suggestions for other items which might appeal to martial type characters similar to the way a partly charged wand appeals to a caster?

Oils of bless weapon or other single use items at higher caster levels would be nice.

Also, I agree with this. More often than not I don't really look at the gear on the chronicle. I think one of the most interesting pieces of gear on one that I've seen was the Intelligent Ring of the Weary Sky from The Heresy of Man part 3.

I think that a way for people to get more excited about generic* magic items on a chronicle would be if they were at a discounted price.

*And by generic I mean items that we can/should be able to buy due to current fame level.

I'm surprised this isn't up there yet but The Great Mouse Detective. Nothing like a good Sherlock Holmes knock off.

On an unrelated note.

Is it just me or does this av look like Gary Busey?

I don't think standing in from of a reactor naked is a good idea. That said, I used to stand in front of a microwave a lot as a kid -I used to think it word give me superpowers.

This honestly explains so much now.

Play Superboy Prime AND PUNCH REALITY!

Orb of Crazed Dwarves
Summons 1d4+1 5th Level Dwarven Experts to build any non-magical building, siege engine, weapons, or armor upon request. The time taken to build the requested item(s) is 2d4+1 days. Upon immediate completion of the task the dwarves request 10 kegs of the finest ale in the land. If not received in 1d4 hour(s) the dwarves fly into a destructive fury and destroy whatever they built and vanish. One only building or siege engine may be built upon each request. Each dwarf can smith 5 weapons of simple or martial quality or 4 pieces of light armor 2 pieces of medium armor or 1 piece of heavy armor; each of masterwork quality and only of materials currently on hand. The ability can only be used once per week.

Edit: Added in how much of each can be made. You know in case anyone actually wants to use it.

There's also the Comfort property in the Pathfinder Society Field Guide. It's 5k and allows you to sleep in any category of armor and cool in hot climes and warm in cold climes, always stays clean, and reduces the armor check penalty. Worth every copper.

[for kicks and giggles and the trope lovers out there] 29. A shady old man sitting in the corner of a bar whispers of a secret treasure lost to time in an ancient dungeon.

Wow, an iconic backstory that isn't riddled with a haunting secret or something massively depressing. I like. Very refreshing and bright. Great job, Crystal!

As an addendum, I'm not saying I didn't like the other iconic's backstories. Most of them just seemed to be full of some sort of major tragedy that drove them. Kinda got depressing.

163. No matter how much Osirion is like Egypt, playing a cleric does not give you the excuse to tell the Ruby Prince to "let my people go."

Edit: number ninja'ed

Liked it. Very well put together and thought out. I just wish it'd gone into more detail regarding the other dwarven cities. It seemed really centered on Five Kings Mountain and very little on any of the other settlements.