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Werevoles of London are mainstream how about some Roland the Heedless Thompson Gunner up ins.
Anyways the two remaining party members woke up the yapth hounds and panicked and fled Thistletop . . . one across the bridge and the other into the arms of a tentamort. Fortunately the one that fell discovered that tentamorts cannot swim, and since she was weighted down with armour she just sort of underwaterwalked to this little island. Then they found a rowboat concealed in the thicket (conveniently) and managed to escape.
They washed ashore on one of the Three Cormorants which basically don't exist on the pathfinder wiki. But they found some berries and thingsand stuff and also a tunnel thing with an ancient Bakhrahkan whatever outpost with some things and stuff. One of the ancient skeletons animated at night and was killed by the alchemist, who then claimed the cursed amulet responsible for the reanimation.
Anyway it's only taken us three years to get this far.
Pardon me if I ramble...
Lodi Carene, halfling summoner, is 7th-level.
He rides around on a flying rainbow-colored battlestorm of death eidolon named Samantha. She will f$~% you up, son. She used to have four attacks per round, but she gave up her wing buffet for perfect flight and now only has three. Unfortunately, we (I) almost always forget that she's supposed to be able to talk. So, she gets consulted on Knowledge (Planes) issues and stays quiet most of the time.
Lodi, himself is pretty badass. He's a young, enthusiastic kid who's made many new friends over the course of the campaign. He also had sex with a nymph. In fact, although he started the campaign virginal, he has since had sex maybe a dozen times over the past three weeks. In fact, he has found himself in a three-way relationship with Karina Lorrimor (from The Haunting of Harrowstone) and Shel Lupesco (from The Feast of Ravenmoor). He fights with a Lucern hammer, did I mention that?
Tsadok, aka Dok the Learned, half-orc wizard, is also 7th-level.
Tsadok is a quiet, well-behaved studious, nerd. He is a living example of the Christ-like ethos: he has continuously lived humbly and dutifully served a society that insults and degrades him daily. He also is a transmuter and he uses his magic in such a way that usually wins the battle but doesn't get mentioned much. Despite all this, he, too has recently lost his virginity with a bold sorority sister from the University of Lepidstadt who had drank a few too many. He can fly and he fights with a falchion. He has recently been offered a position as an At-Large Research Fellow at U of L. Oh yeah, he's also carrying around anevil artifact of necromancy called the Bone Ioun Stone, but he has never used it. He's such a good boy!
Avianna Silverplume, elven falconer, is 6th-level.
Avianna doesn't say much about herself or what she's doing or anything, really. But when there's something that you need shot in the f$@+ing head with three magic arrows a round, she's your girl. Her old falcon, Irc, was recently killed by a giant slug (I think) and during a 24-hour ritual to get a new bird, she was visited by a harbinger of Erastil, a talking, arrow-shooting eagle named Blackfeathers (or something) and was given a chance to serve the god by killing a rabid goblinbear. She, unfortunately failed,
There's two more, but I'm going to go take a 15-minute union coffeee break
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Father Varnalium, human cleric, is 4th-level.
Father Varnalium is a seven-foot freak priest of Pharasma who wears pallid white facepaint when he is in public. He has devoted himself
to the slaying of undead after his first venture into the haunted prison of Harrowstone. He had a crisis of faith after he treated a dead body with disrespect--i.e., he poked a skeleton with a stick. So Pharasma took away his spellcasting powers until he atoned. Later, he joined the Crooked Kin, a travelling carnival freakshow (from The Trial of the Beast) and learned the ancient art of pantomime. He discovered that he was a natural born mummer and now uses his skills at mime to bring greater glory to Pharasma's name.
And, finally, we have Tramora III Peasantsbane, halfling fighter, who is 6th-level.
Tramora lives only for two things: killing peasants and burning down buildings. On the first night of play, Peasantsbane tracked down Gibs Hephenus (from The Haunting of Harrowstone) and burned his shack down while he slept. During the riots surrounding the trial of the Beast of Lepidstadt, he earned the sobriquet "Bloody Bill the Butcher." I don't want to tell you what he did in Ravensmoor.
If I started a thread about Tramora, everybody would ask why I bother to allow this character to live. He murders peasants. He borrows magic items and doesn't give them back. He stabs paladins. His player is often drunk and makes terrible tactical decisions. But, he is one tough m#$*!@~##*+~ and he is impossible to kill. He's got hit points out the ass and an AC that most mooks just can't hit. He also walks around with a pack of dogs. He's a DM's nightmare.
Anyway, he had gotten zapped by a ghost and aged 50 years, so he went down and paid beaucoup bucks to get the Bishop to cast restoration on him. While he was under, the crafty cleric also cast a geas on him so that he wouldn't kill peasants or lower-class people anymore. When Tramora learned the news, he immediately started plotting to get "the curse" removed. The party has tried to ditch Tramora on a couple of occasions, but it's never worked, and they are still hoping that he will just go away.
Well, they were passing by a place on the map called Clover's Crossing, which I guess was just some place that got one of those in-character paragraphs in one of the early Pathfinder books, I don't know which one. It was about hordes of ghouls coming out of a sinkhole where the church used to be...
So, I made up a quickie adventure that the town had been attacked by some evil necromancer because the church housed the BONE IOUN STONE an artifact worn by the Whispering Tyrant and guarded ever since by Sir Blahblahblah and his squad of super badass paladins. Yada, yada, yada, everyone's a ghoul. Or a ghast. Or a wight. I wanted to drain some levels off of Tramora, that a+!++%%, but I couldn't hit him.
Anyway, the Bone Ioun Stone allows the wearer to cast animate dead once per day. If the wearer could already cast that, it allows him to cast create undead 1/day.
Hee hee! The temptation to do evil was great, but the party overcame it. All except for Tramora, of course.
There was a squad of redshirt paladins who accompanied the party to Clover's Crossing (there were a LOT of ghouls) but only one survived. He knew he couldn't trust the party, who were travelling about with Tramora, with the BIS, so after they secured it, he lured them down to Paladin Headquarters and trapped them in grand hall.
Tramora's player was very drunk and this pissed him off mightily. After a truce had been called, Sir Lastmanstanding entered the room to parley and Tramora stabbed him. But it was pretty satisfactory, because then Sir LMS grabbed a steak knife and rolled a crit hit on his smite evil!
I think it did over 20 hp damage. Somehow the party restrained Tramora (I think Dok had to cast sleep) and convinced Sir LMS to let them keep the BIS so they could find a way to destroy it. (Very high Diplomacy rolls.) In the mean time, they promised to keep it from Tramora and to tell him that the paladins had held on to it.
When Tramora learned that the party had given up the BIS, he became so belligerently nasty that it became necessary after a half hour or so of his bullshiznit to tell Tramora's player that the party did, in fact, still had the stone.
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Ah, the jerkwad player. Perhaps you should throw some Greater Shadows their way have them "conviently" only attack the Fighter. If he complains, simply state that he is doing such a good job of holding aggro that the monsters can't help but to target him.
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What Dodobug Toenibbler fails to tell you is The Truth. I defended the honor of Karina Lorrimor when those unruly Peasants lead by the loud mouthed Gibs Hephenus attacked( The ring leaded!!!!!!!!!! ) If Gibs Heblabla (whatever) had not incited a riotous mob at my friends funeral He might still be alive? In defence of My honor and that of any of my companions... ANYONE is a target to by liquidated. My Great Granddad The First SkullCrusher had a saying ((Little Tramora "you should only have to hit someone once. If you have to hit a second time you didn't swing hard enough". )) Screw the peasant rabble!
Now burning down the home of a terrorist peasant! (Card carrying member of the peasant dirt eaters party or... people in support of people that don't have teeth!) Really who cares "No me not now not ever" It had to be done for the sake of Karinas honor and that of The Professor..
Ok now the whole court house thing....? There is no way I did anything wrong. The situation was out of control when we got there. I did what any servant of the state would have done "I made order out of chaos" Now some of the deceased peasant peoples families may not like me..? F them.. The wives of those dead peasants should have kept their men in Check...I saved the lives of many guards who (at the time of the riot looked terrified) call me friend now. I am a defender of Friends, Family, party members and the SkullCrusher way. Those unfortunate persons who don't understand this should stay way. It doesn't matter if your a Palidiot, King, noble, or lowly person. I will take you out or die trying. "Never afraid to die" There will always be a SkullCrusher out there waiting to take up the causes that normal people are afraid to. Or just drop a giant hammer or scimitar into your head!!!!!
As for that Bishop...Only time will tell. Don't believe the lies about atrocities committed by Tramora. Brother and Sister fighters must stand united against those forces in the world that seek to control us for their own nefarious needs. Long Live The Peasantbane!
I like this Tramora seems like a decent sort.
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Thank you Anklebiter Humperdink. I knew taking the time to tell my side of the story would cause people to question the allegations forced upon me by certain segments of my party/the world. Yes I drink and fight. Yet never have I lost sight of what it means to be a team player. Um unless I blackout..Anyway back to it...The paladins? Who do they think they are. Running around all "I'm so good" "look at me glow" They didn't come to the defence of the courthouse! A lotally unlawful situation which they could have put to bed. Nope.. I had to take up the call and smash that dirty riotous mob. As for the "smiting incident" I call into question the ability of others to pigeonhole me into an alignment..Such as evil when I am clearly NG. One shouldn't be punished for doing the right thing the wrong way. Down with Paladins down with riotous peasants down with anything that try's to tell me what to do. Long Live the Peasantbane
...The paladins? Who do they think they are. Running around all "I'm so good" "look at me glow" They didn't come to the defence of the courthouse! A lotally unlawful situation which they could have put to bed. Nope..
Point of information: the paladins were about a week's travel away from the riot at the courthouse.
As for the "smiting incident" I call into question the ability of others to pigeonhole me into an alignment..Such as evil when I am clearly NG. One shouldn't be punished for doing the right thing the wrong way. Down with Paladins down with riotous peasants down with anything that try's to tell me what to do. Long Live the Peasantbane
I forgot to mention, when listing Tramora's negative qualities above, his infuriating, exasperating, and RAGE-PROVOKING insistence that he is Neutral Good.
By the way, you notice that he is Tramora the Third? You know what that means? Yup, The Black Goblin has played this character in THREE DIFFERENT CAMPAIGN SETTINGS!!!
But it's all good--because I am certain that he will not survive Schloss Caromac. I'm just afraid I'm going to have to take out the whole party to get to him.
Ah, the jerkwad player. Perhaps you should throw some Greater Shadows their way have them "conviently" only attack the Fighter. If he complains, simply state that he is doing such a good job of holding aggro that the monsters can't help but to target him.
I have tried this. He is a halfling with a 20 Dexterity and a Dodge feat and who knows what else. I couldn't hit him.
Of course, that was a few levels ago and they weren't greater shadows. Hmmm...
I keep trying to get them to go to Rappan Athuk, but they never fall for it.
Ask them nicely. You have to ask them nicely.
Then stab them.
Total Lies...."The Paladins where a weeks ride away". So what? They didnt help in any way At All (Bunch of Red Shirts) F Them. and as for sticking me in a bag and such...F U Ill drop my Hammer on your F@$%ing Head!!!!!!!PROBLEM SOLVED.....A HOLE. LONG LIVE PEASANTBANE.
Go ahead..Take out the whole party man..I dont give a sh@t>>>>Long Live Peasantbane/Skullcrusher.
Ah, the jerkwad player. Perhaps you should throw some Greater Shadows their way have them "conviently" only attack the Fighter. If he complains, simply state that he is doing such a good job of holding aggro that the monsters can't help but to target him.
Ya and why dont I kick you in the face and say "it was a ghost" Then level drain your ass and give you to some Slave trader.. Ha Ha Ha I bet that hurts going in.. Jerk. I am an upstanding citizen who defends the state and crushes the weak. Stupid Peasants!!!!!!JMD031 Ill be watching you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Enemy of the people....We are everywhere we are legion!!!!!!You R a tool. The Peasantbane is declaring you a target of opportunity. Long Live Peasantbane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How can you be a "champion of the people" when you make it your mission to kill them all the time?
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"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind." ~ Terry Pratchett
Oh yeah, Movies!!!!
Prometheus Okay, so I saw it and I thought it was awesome. But then I read a whole bunch of party-pooping naysayers and I start to second guess myself. But whatevs, I give it an A.
The Sword in the Stone So, the DVD shiznit the bed pretty quick into this, but it was already enough to realize that I wasn't going to enjoy it as much as I did when I was 7. Unfortunately, I didn't get to the wizards' spellduel which I really wanted to see because it wasn't in the edition that was edited down to one volume. But I guess I can look for it later. I'm not going to grade this one.
John Carter This wasn't as awesome as the John Carter movie of my dreams, but it was better than I expected from a Disney flick. B+.
The Thing I found that my enjoyment of this film was inversely proportional to my sobriety while watching it. Sigh. I had high hopes. C.
Pushes red button...100s of nanobots fly off.
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Sounds a lot like a halfling fighter we had. I think halflings may be, more than any other core race, predisposed towards psychopathy.
I'd have Tramora's player run a game. Not because he'd change his ways but because it would be hilarious to hear about. Oh and it'd have to be a one-shot.
Or have a small child with sixteen levels of duelist take him out.
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I haven't gone to the store yet . . .
I am afraid of stores the same way a dretch is afraid of a church of Iomedae.
I'll probably check them out tomorrow.
Also, Hot Tips say that we may never know the reason for Aroden's death. Also uh . . . one of the James said that you can just go on the forums and ask for a list of age-appropriate products and I was like . . . no way . . . totes not . . . lol.
Also DA posted like a few minutes before I made that post up there so I mean he SHOULD have still been around.
I bet he's just avoiding me.
Why would I avoid my bestest goblin comrade?
(Watch out, Gark, I heard Patrick Curtin's gonna kill your character!)
Paizocon makes me sad because here in unionland we have to bid on our weeks of vacation based on seniority and there isn't much hope for me getting the first week of July off for another couple of years...
Speaking of Galt, the land of the Glorious People's Revolution, I was toying with the idea, if my Carrion Crown players all take a dirtnap, of a homebrew Galtic campaign.
Off with their heads!
Also, I'm almost done with my PFS society character, Ffiffiddllin "Fiddlesticks" Ffaffarnagan, gnome fey-bloodline sorcerer!
Hope to play him all weekend at the NH con.
I am rockin' and rollin' Howz 'bout yew?
Ah, damn. I've been way too inactive lately.
Not yet, that is the weekend of the 27th.
I think I'm going to try to play in PFS games all weekend and see if I can get Ffiffiddlin Ffaffarnagan up to the 3rd level.
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Paizocon makes me sad because here in unionland we have to bid on our weeks of vacation based on seniority and there isn't much hope for me getting the first week of July off for another couple of years...
Well that SUCKS. I guess they do shuffle around the dates now and then so perhaps you won't have to wait so long.
Hey Kelsey!
The Pathfinder minis were indeed cool. I might go so far as to say that they are f~&%ing awesome. The rune giant's sword was especially impressive I thought.
Hi, Gark!
I fully intend to post more work. Sometime.
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Paizocon makes me sad because here in unionland we have to bid on our weeks of vacation based on seniority and there isn't much hope for me getting the first week of July off for another couple of years...Well that SUCKS. I guess they do shuffle around the dates now and then so perhaps you won't have to wait so long.
Hey Kelsey!
The Pathfinder minis were indeed cool. I might go so far as to say that they are f&~!ing awesome. The rune giant's sword was especially impressive I thought.
A little late, but hey, why not.
I am stoked for my set come August. I hope I can unload some of the duplicates, possibly in trade.
Btw, check out roll20.net for a free, web-based virtual tabletop. Seems nice to me.
Well, tomorrow I leave!
I will of course be wearing my badge and proudly hiding it from fawtlians.
It was cool to meet you in person!
Ooh, a BT sighting!
I am currently cursing the name of Tim Hitchcock for the ridiculousness that is the fight against the Stag Lord in the first installment of the Kingmaker AP. Spoilered for your benefit.
Our plan was fairly simple, we have an alliance with the Sootscale tribe and we are eventually going to enslave them to be our minions. We developed this idea that we would use a small guerrilla force of Kobolds to sneak in the Stag Lord's Fort and set up some traps, do some scouting, and leave some poisoned alcohol for him because he's a giant alcohol. However, inadvertantly the GM hosed us because the Kobolds were in the process of "repopulating" their warrior class members because they sustained heavy losses during the purging of the mites. So we developed a new plan. This plan involved having two of our members go scout around and try to sneak in from the side or back while the rest of us try to sneak in on a cart and pretend that we were bandits trying to make a delivery of alcohol and other items from Oleg's. However, due to how long it took us in the game to get to the Stag Lord he had this new policy of "shoot first, ask questions later" as well as setting up a passphrase system. So as soon as we approach in the wagon, we get shot at. Meanwhile, hearing the commotion our other individuals use this the opportunity to try and sneak in on the side.
Which brings me to why I'm cursing Tim Hitchcock's name. Surrounding the Stag Lord's Fort is apparently a cemetary of some sort that as soon as you enter assaults you with Zombies. Now this isn't too big of a deal...except that the zombies also act as sort of an "early warning alarm" to the people inside the Fort that they are being attacked from the sides. Oh, btw, this "graveyard" surrounds the entire Fort on three sides and so the only way in without dealing with Zombies is through the front. Oh, one last thing, there are supposed to be several "clues" to let you know that this exist but like most clues they are cryptic and in this case different people got the clues and they either "didn't think it was important to tell everyone else" or "forgot". So, they fight the zombies for a few rounds but every couple of rounds more zombies pop up. So a new plan is in order, charge the wall and climb over. One extra piece of info for this story. One of the characters was bitten by a Natural Lycanthrope and is now an afflicted Lycanthrope...and this night was the first full moon since he was bit. Anyways, he took a few hits from the Zombies but made his Fort save to prevent himself from changing. He climbs the wall, takes like 1 point of damge from the top of the pallisade, fails his fort save and turns into a werewolf. This is hilarious for several reasons but in the end it really doesn't seem to matter, which I'll explain why in just a bit. So now we have two people inside and three people outside.
The three people outside include two people sitting on a wagon and a gnome in a lockbox under the seat of the wagon. We initially tried to continue with our plan but then we heard what sounded like a wolf howl and knew that all hell was about to break loose. Keeping in mind that our characters had no idea that our friend is a werewolf, we thought that something else had attacked the fort and saw this as an opportunity to attack. So we charge the gate. We have a Synthesist Summoner who tries to stay as Humanoid as possible when he's changed because he's setting himself up to be the Ruler of the Kingdom. He preps for combat by casting mage armor and enlarge person. He then grabs the gnome and tosses him at the tower of archers, where hilarity ensues. The gnome goes flying and smacks right into the wall of the tower, but manages to hang on and get inside where he makes mincemeat out of the archers. Meanwhile, our ninja is stalking the Stag Lord who has come out to see what in hell is going on. The Stag Lord sees our friend who has turned into a Werewolf cut down one of his men and proceeds to shoot the crap out of him. Now, we're 3rd level and according to the adventure guidelines we were right on track as far as level is concerned. However, it turns out that the Stag Lord is an 8th level character (Ranger 3/Rogue 5) with a magic item that lets him get his sneak attack damage once a day without having to catch his opponent offguard. So, he shoots the werewolf, crits (fortunately for the werewolf we were using the critical hit deck so he didn't do 3x damage and got a lousy secondary effect), and proceeds to send the werewolf into the negatives in hitpoints. The only thing that saved him from being killed outright is that he had DR/Silver. So the large guy and me climb over the gate, shove a potion down the werewolf's throat and continue beating on the Stag Lord. After he was surrounded he went down pretty quickly.
Oh, in somewhere there was an Owlbear, but we kind of just let that one go. So while we are fighting the Stag Lord the last bandit tries to take some loot and get away. After which we do what we always do and ensure there are no survivors. So even though we survived, it still irritated me. For starters there is the "graveyard" that surrounds this place. Any gamer worth his salt is NEVER going to go through the front door of any fortified position unless they have a way to bypass the defenses. Secondly, an 8th level BBEG for a 4th level encounter? What's up with that. Sure he was "drunk" but he was still ridiculous. Anyways, that's that.
Man, that was like one of my rants.
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Yeah, I know. Hee hee!