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kessukoofah wrote:

Just in case anyone wants to know, I got to the last boss in the Slime Hole if anyone far stronger then me with some kinda slime resistance wants to take him on, and I opened up Hobopolis again. Didn't know it had closed up. I plan to work on that now until someone tells me to do otherwise.

You shouldn't be able to "open" Hobopolis. It's been "opened" quite a number of times in the past few months. Every time it gets "opened" you need to find your way back there through the sewers.

Make an announcement in the clan hall to kill off the slime mother. I think Frumious B is high enough to take it out. If you are interested in learning more about the slime tube, take a look at the KOL Wiki. The key to that dungeon is to GREATLY increase monster level. I think you get the top items by increasing the ML +1,100 or more. Not easy for many people and a number of us in the clan are trying to get the accordion thief buff to help with that. (I am. Just about done and then I plan on going to level 30 as a disco bandit.)

Things that are new to check out -- There is a ton of stuff in "the sea". You need your makeshift SCUBA gear to get there. And I haven't explored it much yet -- too interested in the clan dungeons and getting a good number of ascensions under my belt. They have expanded the Nemesis quest a little bit. There is more in the dwarven mines. I have enjoyed the "memory" quests quite a bit -- you need agua da vida bottles to go there and you probably missed getting the sandworm that gives them out. If you need some, shoot me a message in game and I'll hook you up.

Not sure what your class is -- they recently added a lot of new turtles to find for the Turtle Tamer and they've made some seals to club for the Seal Clubber. So you might consider ascending anyway just to take a look at some of the other classes.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else.

Just in case anyone wants to know, I got to the last boss in the Slime Hole if anyone far stronger then me with some kinda slime resistance wants to take him on, and I opened up Hobopolis again. Didn't know it had closed up. I plan to work on that now until someone tells me to do otherwise.

PsychoticWarrior wrote:

kessukoofah wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

PulpCruciFiction wrote:

Back to the Future.

Damn.

Damn. Damn.

Damn. Damn. Damn.

I'm confused. What do you have against such a great movie?

That's a Dr. Brown quote when he, in 1955, is waiting for Marty to show up for their attempt to send him back to 1985. He looks at 3 different watches muttering 'damn' more and more times.

/end nerd mode

:-D

Yup! I love Back to the Future, and typically I will stop and watch whenever I find it on the air (particularly if it's near the end - I absolutely love the climax).

Also, that make much more sense then you disliking the movie.

PulpCruciFiction wrote:

Back to the Future.

Damn.

Damn. Damn.

Damn. Damn. Damn.

I've done this for both Blazing Saddles (Once watched that 3 times in a row in one sitting. Kinda proud of that) and Hunt for Red October (Actually did stay awake until 4am when I had work 3 hours later). Either of these two movies will make me immediately stop channel surfing. Not really sure why.

Hey, so turns out that if you play something regularly for 6 months, then stop for like 9 or 10, then start again? Ya, you get really lost. I've totally forgotten what I was in the middle of. I mean, I wrapped up the two outstanding guild quests I had, but other then that the only thing I could think of to do was meat farming at the Castle in the sky. If anyone has any recommendation on where I should head (like, do we still need hobo adventuring under the clan hall?), I'd welcome it. Any newcomers want some help? Just ask. But please give me some direction or I'm just gonna keep farming.

And what's the story with this slime hole thing? Is it something I should be considering?

I just found this on the net and
really like it the concept.
Has anyone played this game?
Still not certian how it would play
out. For example, how D&D classes would
translate and what combat would be like.

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

Hankichi wrote:

You know that you can get 5 by 8 index card holders that will hold all the map cards

Here's a link

I think I get what you mean here (I have a picture in my head), but the link is only good for the USA, so who knows whether that picture is right.

That said, it is a great idea and I will be heading down to our stationary shop with some maps in hand to see if I can find something.

Ok, I put up a quick sketch of the hobgoblin character to see if I could get a pose down. This is not the finished product, but I'd like KC to comment on the pose itself or the outfit to see what he'd like different. Please. Whenever you have time.

Thank you all for the great and varied sad stuff...and kessukoofah you almost won with your amazingly sad entry, but now I pull out the big guns: Baby of Mine from Dumbo. I cant even verify if this clip has the song. I just queued it up to see if the link worked and hit 'stop'. There is no going back if you click it.

I think I can win this with A Boy and His Frog, performed here by Tom Smith. Warning: have tissues handy. Makes me tear up every damn time.

1) Do find caffeine (cup, bottle, can or pill) significantly improves your ability to keep the game running full steam?

2) Do you prefer having less then, more then or the exact recommended number of players for the game system your running?

2) I like having 4 players regardless of the system. I never do though. i always end up with 3 or 5, but i like having 4.

so? any takers? any new art?
je I suppose everybody is busy, so I will just bump this up

When I write out an adventure I usually do it in 2 phases. The first is to write the story/descriptions/events as I see them in my head and as the adventure will unfold. Then I go back and write on post-it notes (Essentially like your cards) The names and locations of the most important 3-4 people and what this particular "thing" bottom lines to the player. basically, one of these notes would look like this (And I'm copying from one, so it's been in use already):
"Library Encounter:

Thaddus St-Alma: Librarian, behind the counter.
The Caliphors: Mother and Son, at a table.
Sedgewick Nicklenime: Gnome Thief, In the basement.
Assorted Guards: At positions around the library.

Bottom Line: You need the map in the basement, the Gnome is stealing it."

My players are usually all about the metagame though, so I can get away with explaining it like that if they don't pick up on the ingame clues and everyone still has fun. I don't usually get questions like the ones you proposed, with the most complicated usually being "what's the average pickpocketing value in this city?" Otherwise, I just handle my city descriptions the same way. No more then 5 important people or families that might interest my players and 2-3 lines of adventure seeds if they ask for them (I sort of assume at least one of them passes their knowledge: local check). Then I'll just describe things as the players ask for them. Of course, I cam to this process after years of managing the same 2 groups and learning that the bottom line is all they really care about. They don't want florid descriptions, and they don't really care about metagaming. So telling them "the library is haunted, go there" is perfectly fine and they'll still roleplay it.

Hope I answered your questions after all that...

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Currently reading:
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (for the billionth time)
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My player's favorite line, which started with one player and spread to all 4 gradually. IT goes something like this:

"Dear [sir/madam], is that a challenge?"

This has the added benefit of being an inside joke, an adventure seed and a group quirk that can spread through the world. Lot's of laughs and fun.

I am loving this art style. The actual conversation writing needs some work, like it doesn't seem ... real, i guess is the word I'm looking for. I don't find it flows well. (And no, I can't do better, I'm just giving some critiquing like you asked for). I would reccomend carrying around a tape recorder and listening back to conversations with people to get a feel for sentence structures. Just seems a little stiff to me.

Overall though, I think I'll add this to other 44 I read daily and I can't wait to see where it goes.

And as a meta comment to the whole webcomic thing: DO try to keep a schedule. Whatever one you set, stand by it. I know it's difficult, but that's really what separates the comics that hold my interest with the ones that don't. The ones who make an effort to post something, anything on the days they're supposed to update. It shows me they respect me as a reader. Even an apology and explanation for why it isn't going up.

I have it on good authority that "Paizo" is from an old Latin dialect and means "Those who devour your wallets, and thoroughly enjoy it."

Cthulhu's Cradle. secret portents and instructions are passed along in the symbols in the string...the string of course being stretched between and manipulated by the hands of three reanimated blind triplets and you.

I have a request:
Hobgoblin alchemist, by the name of Drahdic. Was banished from his tribe for practicing magic and various other minor and not-so-minor crimes. He went to Magnimar, but found that he was not welcome there, either, and his unsavory alchemists's shop was unsuccessful. Eventually, he left for Sandpoint, hoping to get better business there.
He has sickly greenish skin, long, thin black hair, and beady blue eyes (unusual for a hobgoblin). He has a similarly bizarre familiar, a tarsier by the name of Fig (for the food which its previous, more ignorant owner fed it). Fig sleeps in a pouch attached to Drahdic's backpack, as the creature prefers dark places.
Drahdic is the ultimate mad scientist, although he is considerably tougher than Frankenstein. I would compare him to the gnome tinker in the latest KQ online article when it comes to morality.
Thanks, all.

And for shameless giggles I'm going to plug that kobold again. Always fun to look at.

Did this end up working?

Elves. I believe I've posted my dislike of them here before, the pointy-eared, tree-hugging excuse for Fae. My hatred got so bad that when my players kept insisting that they play elf I rdesigned them into warlike urban expansionists with british accents.

Ok, so I worked up a first draft of that Barbarian character. I really like how it turned out, but I have a feeling I'm going to need to change it. See, You asked for chainmail, and somehow I ended up doing tunic. I am also really proud of that axe, which managed to incorporate both Storm and Bull into one "great" weapon. Ha! Pun!

Anyhow, lemme know if you're going to keep it or if you want me to change it. If you dislike it completely then I can start from scratch I suppose. It'll just take as long as this one did.

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Stuff NASA. We need to shoot them for getting in the way or our Space civilization.

And it appears as though the best possible job in the future is roboticist/programmer then. maybe I should go back to school for that or something.

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One way to do that is to make "Space" more fun! :)

Or maybe I'm a desperate crackpot. you be the judge.

The strangest adventure that i ran (I know the topic says played, but I wanna participate :P) would have to be the night my players went on a trip through some demiplanes in a cupboard they found in the abandoned physics department of a univesity. (The setting was Typical homebrey fantasy at this point). The first stop, IIRC, was the 2d-plane of paper, where everything and everyone appeared to be drawings on whatever was behind them. It messed up depth perception very quickly and the entire time the characters were disoriented (Imagine that you could only see black and white outlines and had no depth perception. You'd be disoriented too). Then I had them fight the origami golems from that issue of Dragon, and I think a couple of modrons for the geometric shapes. IT was a blast.

The next stop on the trip was the inside of a giant eye. they didn't know if they had shrunk or if it was a really big eye, but the alien atmosphere and the fact that day/night was caused by blinking...lots of fun. i think I had plans to put an entire civilization in there, maybe like the worm people from futurama but my players got out of there all too quick.

There were a couple more where I think areas such as the inside of hourglasses and an island surrounded by forever amounts of blue goop which receded if approached, and then finally they arrived on this long stretch of black obsidian floating in space. Taking some quick observations they realized it's a mobius strip, and it's not obsidian (they couldn't identify it). turns out there was a giant ant (like ant the size of an apartment building) who walked along it constantly. Also turned out that he is the sole source for all the kinetic energy in the multiverse. Yup. forget your conservation of energy. This ant walking on a mobius strip for all eternity generates all the kinetic energy and potential energy is a myth perpetrated by the anti-ant. But you need never worry about forgetting this new truth about the multiiverse, not with it handily written on a t-shirt available from the giftshop on its back...

And then the cleric began to worship him as a god...ya. that's when it started actually getting weird.

Bit of a long post, so thank you for bearing with me.

"Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder and "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott. Both of these books succedded in making me not only look at the world differantly, but also new, differant ways of writing books and coming up with plots and characters. An entire society where the characters are geometric shapes? A plot where the laws of reality gradually break down along themes of philosophical evolution? Brilliant.

Or at least they changed my life. No other book can claim that.

Krome wrote:

...(I HATED those books)...

I wonder, how many, like you, hated those books, but still purchased them.

edit: Libris Mortis. That's the undead one I like.

Hey all,

I am rubbish at visual arts and want a good drawing of my Runequest character. Would anyone like to offer up a drawing?

He is a 21 years old human Wilderness Orlanthi (read barbarian), profession storm chaser, follower of Urox the Storm Bull, described as loud boastful and brave. He hates chaos and likes to hit things with his great axe. He has a buckler. He has a little magic, mostly spells that help him hit things, like fanatacism, strength, and berserk. He has a mail shirt covering chest, abdomen, and arms, leather greaves, and an open helm. I never envisioned him with much facial hair, but am open to such things.

Did I mention that he hates chaos and likes to hit things? :)

Please post links here.

Thanks!
D

kessukoofah wrote:

James Keegan wrote:

Blood Meridian- Like most Cormac McCarthy novels I've read, it wasn't so much enjoyed as endured. It's definitely an amazing book that deserves the praise it's received and there are some really beautiful passages of description before another horrific slaughter happens. Cowboys were terrible people, that's what I learned from this novel.

Really? I thought it was a great book, very enjoyable. I was hooked from page 1 and I never wanted to put it down. I can see where you would get the "cowboys are horrible" reaction, but I found it to be a bit more general then that. more like "life is horrible", or "life is full of things we want to avoid". Anyhow, I found the prose and descriptions beautifully written and the conversations engaging. This is a book I recommend to most people who ask me for them.

It was a beautifully written book; I guess what I was saying is that it's not really a beach book or light reading by any stretch. I wouldn't say that The Road was a book you enjoy, either. It couldn't be called fun, which is why I say 'endured'. It's like going to see Schindler's List. Powerful? Yeah. Worth seeing? Absolutely. See it twice? Ehh, probably not.

...And to be honest, I don't know why i'm still going on about this. I'm probably just subciously procrastinating my term papers by trying to start a fight over a word...That's kinda pathetic.

Blood Meridian- Like most Cormac McCarthy novels I've read, it wasn't so much enjoyed as endured. It's definitely an amazing book that deserves the praise it's received and there are some really beautiful passages of description before another horrific slaughter happens. Cowboys were terrible people, that's what I learned from this novel.

I've read up to the Blood Knight and it's really good. I've just heard that the last book is pretty weak, so I'm likely going to wait until it comes out in paperback.

Finished up all my previous reading. Now I'm eating my way through Greg Keyes "The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone" fantasy series. It's fantastic! I'm only through the first of 4 so far, so it may change later, but so far it's the best fantasy I've read in a long time. My only real qualm is that he changes which group of people he focuses on literally each chapter. IT gets frustrating when you get really into a story, then there's a cliffhanger and it moves to a garden party scene that at the moment you couldn't care less about. But ya. All in all, check this one out. Very well written characters and a creative magic system that I can finally get behind.

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I know the argument has come up that 4E is desgined to be less work for the DM but does it not require a tremendous amount of further world building?...

Just my opinion as a DM here.

Pi is also a great movie. Did not get to see eXistanZ yet, though.

Seen it. Loved it. It's a great time travel movie, but I didn't find it as mind-bending or confusing as most of the people who told me about it claim. On the upside, at least the characters in it were smart about time travel for a change.

At any rate, as a movie it's great. Solid acting, great set design, well written. Definitely something to be seen.

There was a thread here a while ago full of great movies. It's where I first heard about this one. And why I spent one night last year watching this, Pi and eXistanZ one after the other. Good fun. (and if you were going to ask, My favorite on that list was Pi)

Ok...let's see what's on my docket. Just finished "The Summoner" by Gail Martin and I really want to read the rest of them. It was a pretty solid fantasy read. Just finished rereading "Soon I will be Invincible". Still a really awesome book at the top of my list. The "Bubba Ho-Tep" novel that the movie was based on. And finally "Prometheus Rising" by Robert Wilson. It took two attempts and I still don't know if I like it or not. I can't even really tell if it's new age mumbo jumbo or science-y psychology. But it was free so I read it.

Now, I'm working on "Thinking Critically" by John Chaffee, Machiavelli's "The Prince" and "Dune" because everyone keeps mentioning it. Maybe I'll throw in something less cerebral if something piques my curiosity. Or if chapters get's the other two novels I mentioned above.

According to Wayfinder #1, pathfinderchronicler.net is a "fanbased site dedicated to writing Pathfinder fantasy fiction". Check it out. And Wayfinder too if you have a chance.

My favorite to play is the game of Life. Hours spent enjoying that game. (Though Go is my favorite, I was never able to learn the rules, so I suppose I can't count that...)

hmm...tough decision...do I go with my internet username of Kessukoofah, or something much more general so i won't be hesitant to hand it out to anyone...hmm...

edit: I just realized that it would end up showing my real name anyhow, so I may as well just use that.

So it's http://www.facebook.com/corycase...Please ignore the slightly old and rather horrible picture. I don't photograph well, and this was the only one I had available. I plan to upload some more eventually.

I am currently reading Perdito Street Station (China Mieville), Soul Music (Terry Pratchett), The Kobold Guide to Game Design (Wolfgang Baur), MiracleMan (Alan Moore) and Rule of the Bone (Russell Banks)...all at the same time. Probably not a bright idea, but there it is.

Incidental, every one of these books are worth whatever time you can devote to them. I am particularly enjoying Perdito Street Station while MiracleMan, though brilliantly conceived and written, is going rather slow due to me having gotten used to modern comic styles.

(All of this on top of 3 projects for school, learning the bass, rewatching 8 Simple Rules, napping 2.5 hours a day and restarting my Pokemon addiction by playing all 4 generations in order to catch them all...I'm starting to think I have either way too much energy or way too much free time...)

Ya. It'd be nice to get some closure so I can move on to the next project with peace of mind. As it stands, Everytime I go to start the next thing, I just keep worrying that I might have to redraw some bracers halfway through. Oddly enough, it's been so long I prolly coulda finished the next guy by now.

Do you mean the S.O.R.D.? I bought it and it is well worth the price, but it's not 1 or 2 pages. It's 30.

Still better then combing through the rulebooks.

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Just finished World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. I just started rereading some HP Lovecraft to get geared up for DM'ing. If you're in my gaming group, be afeared. Be verrrry afeared! >:D

I dunno...I'm running Google Chrome and everything seems to be fine. I haven't seen any missing pictures or even broken images yet. It all shows up...

lol. :) I recall having similar feelings about gauntlets at one point.

They look good. You did a really good job with the perspective.

Ok...I really don't like it much (but then again, when was the last time I said I liked my own work?), but here are the Bracers of the Blood Lords for MythrilDragon. I hope he likes them. I also remember giving fair warning that I suck at symbols and runes, but I tried. More explanation in the description.

Also, I will never take bracers ever again. Good lord did I have problems with these. You wouldn't think a simple tapered cylinder would be this hard, but I had extreme trouble with it.

Well, as I read that monks are supposedly being made psionic now or something, this does give me hope for Githzerai Monks! Joy! But ya. I know that you don't NEED all of the books to play, it's just funny how these are coming out so fast. One after the other, very little time in between. I just finished reading the second one, and now there's a preview for he third. Anyhow, our group decided when we started to only use the core three and PHB2. Our wallets just can't afford another wall of books.

Ok, the first off my commission list is the long awaited Necklace of Ears for MythrilDragon, the original description of which is here and more info on my version is under the picture. I hope he likes it. I took a lot of liberties where the description fell short, but if you don't like it I'll try again provided you give a better description. (Remember, you aren't limited to a word count here ;p). I chose to draw it sans-ears, but with a sample goblin ear underneath. Anyhow, as always opinions are welcome and encouraged.

(Also, MythrilDragon, could you maybe elaborate on the bracer description if you have anything to add. Again, if you don't then I will take freedoms. Which you may or may not prefer. Your call.)

If anyone has the time I'd like to have the two magic items I did for RPGSuperstar captured in a visual medium. My entry from last year A Goblin's Strand of Ears

and one I submited this year that didn't make the first round.

BRACERS OF THE BLOOD LORDS
Aura moderate evocation [evil]; CL 9th
Slot hands; 55,000 gp; weight 1 lbs.

DESCRIPTION
The Blood Lords of Ged commission these bracers to aid their agents who enforce the Dead Laws. The bracers are made of intricately worked brass emblazoned with necromantic runes depicting an evil ritual. The wearer gains a +3 deflection bonus to AC and a +3 resistance bonus against the attacks and effects of good creatures. As a full round action the wearer may invoke the ritual inscribed on the bracers causing disruptive pulses of negative energy to radiate out in a 50 ft. radius. The pulsating will continue for each round the wearer chants. While chanting the wearer can not move or take any other actions. The DC to resist positive channeled energy is reduced by -5 within the area affected by the negative pulse. Undead creatures do not take damage and living creatures are not healed by positive energy channeled from within the area of the disruption.

CONSTRUCTION
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, unhallow, creator must have the channel negative energy ability, creator must have 5 ranks in Craft: metalworking; 27,500 gp

Thanks in advance to anyone who can sketch these up for me. I am putting together a RotRL game and want to use the art for custom Magic Item cards