Freehold DM |
All my friends are getting married and having kids. And where the f@&+ am I? Stinking drunk in my student rent apartment.g
Dude, I only just got married at 30. I'm 33 now and we're grappling with the idea of kids. Marriage and kids are coming later and later in life as our world's level of technology and basic level of ed before you can find a "real world job" gets higher and higher. You are EXACTLY where you are supposed to be, figuring things out in life. And I'm sure there are a few of your friends who wish they could trade places with you.
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM wrote:Orthos wrote:DOOD! I played a centaur barbarian in a long running Ptolus game! He was nerfed statistically too!!!!Kingmaker confirmed starting next week.
Party confirmed: Human Spellscar Oracle, Human Magus, Druid (race undecided), all hiding behind a (statistically nerfed but still pretty brutal) Centaur Barbarian.
Hahah. Well you kind of have to, they're pretty busted powerful if you just pull them straight out of the book. I couldn't find PC stats for them in Pathfinder so I ended up butchering some of their 3.5 stuff instead. Cut his STR and DEX bonuses in half, removed his CON bonus and Nat Armor, and removed his racial HD (because let's be frank, racial HD are a pain). He still ended up with some pretty awesome stats, but he's gonna be puny compared to a pure centaur NPC, at least until he gets some levels under his hooves.
We're just considering him the tribe Runt. Which explains why he's out running around with a bunch of two-legs. ;)
Also the Magus is a Half-Elf, my mistake >_>
We did something similar, but my stats were INCREDIBLY low. My strength was a 13- AFTER bonuses. He was the tribal run too, and turned to the worship of Torksal to find true strength.
Orthos |
Orthos wrote:We did something similar, but my stats were INCREDIBLY low. My strength was a 13- AFTER bonuses. He was the tribal run too, and turned to the worship of Torksal to find true strength.Freehold DM wrote:Orthos wrote:DOOD! I played a centaur barbarian in a long running Ptolus game! He was nerfed statistically too!!!!Kingmaker confirmed starting next week.
Party confirmed: Human Spellscar Oracle, Human Magus, Druid (race undecided), all hiding behind a (statistically nerfed but still pretty brutal) Centaur Barbarian.
Hahah. Well you kind of have to, they're pretty busted powerful if you just pull them straight out of the book. I couldn't find PC stats for them in Pathfinder so I ended up butchering some of their 3.5 stuff instead. Cut his STR and DEX bonuses in half, removed his CON bonus and Nat Armor, and removed his racial HD (because let's be frank, racial HD are a pain). He still ended up with some pretty awesome stats, but he's gonna be puny compared to a pure centaur NPC, at least until he gets some levels under his hooves.
We're just considering him the tribe Runt. Which explains why he's out running around with a bunch of two-legs. ;)
Also the Magus is a Half-Elf, my mistake >_>
Yikes, nasty. He's still a horse dude, I can't justify crippling him that much. Though that's admittedly an interesting RP route, good on your for finding a way to roll with it =)
Gah I can't wait to start this thing. >=}
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM wrote:Orthos wrote:We did something similar, but my stats were INCREDIBLY low. My strength was a 13- AFTER bonuses. He was the tribal run too, and turned to the worship of Torksal to find true strength.Freehold DM wrote:Orthos wrote:DOOD! I played a centaur barbarian in a long running Ptolus game! He was nerfed statistically too!!!!Kingmaker confirmed starting next week.
Party confirmed: Human Spellscar Oracle, Human Magus, Druid (race undecided), all hiding behind a (statistically nerfed but still pretty brutal) Centaur Barbarian.
Hahah. Well you kind of have to, they're pretty busted powerful if you just pull them straight out of the book. I couldn't find PC stats for them in Pathfinder so I ended up butchering some of their 3.5 stuff instead. Cut his STR and DEX bonuses in half, removed his CON bonus and Nat Armor, and removed his racial HD (because let's be frank, racial HD are a pain). He still ended up with some pretty awesome stats, but he's gonna be puny compared to a pure centaur NPC, at least until he gets some levels under his hooves.
We're just considering him the tribe Runt. Which explains why he's out running around with a bunch of two-legs. ;)
Also the Magus is a Half-Elf, my mistake >_>
Yikes, nasty. He's still a horse dude, I can't justify crippling him that much. Though that's admittedly an interesting RP route, good on your for finding a way to roll with it =)
Gah I can't wait to start this thing. >=}
We rolled for stats, I rolled truly terribly.
Orthos |
We rolled for stats, I rolled truly terribly.
Aaaaah. I feel for you man, one of my players has abysmal luck with rolls, practically begs me to use point buy in some games.
The group that'll be in this Kingmaker game are all pretty insane with the dice, plus starting at level 2, so I'll be running the 6-man expansion despite having only 4 players, and dial back or up as needed.
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM wrote:We rolled for stats, I rolled truly terribly.Aaaaah. I feel for you man, one of my players has abysmal luck with rolls, practically begs me to use point buy in some games.
The group that'll be in this Kingmaker game are all pretty insane with the dice, plus starting at level 2, so I'll be running the 6-man expansion despite having only 4 players, and dial back or up as needed.
6 man expansion? I'm actually finding my players are scything through some of the challenges quite easily, I may look into this. Is it the expansion on this board here or someplace else?
Orthos |
Orthos wrote:6 man expansion? I'm actually finding my players are scything through some of the challenges quite easily, I may look into this. Is it the expansion on this board here or someplace else?Freehold DM wrote:We rolled for stats, I rolled truly terribly.Aaaaah. I feel for you man, one of my players has abysmal luck with rolls, practically begs me to use point buy in some games.
The group that'll be in this Kingmaker game are all pretty insane with the dice, plus starting at level 2, so I'll be running the 6-man expansion despite having only 4 players, and dial back or up as needed.
Yep, it's one of the stickies on the Kingmaker forum. Here you go!
Jess Door |
Orthos wrote:6 man expansion? I'm actually finding my players are scything through some of the challenges quite easily, I may look into this. Is it the expansion on this board here or someplace else?Freehold DM wrote:We rolled for stats, I rolled truly terribly.Aaaaah. I feel for you man, one of my players has abysmal luck with rolls, practically begs me to use point buy in some games.
The group that'll be in this Kingmaker game are all pretty insane with the dice, plus starting at level 2, so I'll be running the 6-man expansion despite having only 4 players, and dial back or up as needed.
I used this, to good effect, but have some cautions:
If you don't have 6 players, watch the increased treasure amounts!!! My players are seriously overgeared and it just exacerabtes the power / nova every fight phenomenon!!!
Watch the stats - I did find quite a few mistakes. I generally reworked the spells and feats of big monsters to make them a better threat for my party.
Even with the six player expansion, I used max hit points to keep things from getting boring.
Orthos |
Freehold DM wrote:Orthos wrote:6 man expansion? I'm actually finding my players are scything through some of the challenges quite easily, I may look into this. Is it the expansion on this board here or someplace else?Freehold DM wrote:We rolled for stats, I rolled truly terribly.Aaaaah. I feel for you man, one of my players has abysmal luck with rolls, practically begs me to use point buy in some games.
The group that'll be in this Kingmaker game are all pretty insane with the dice, plus starting at level 2, so I'll be running the 6-man expansion despite having only 4 players, and dial back or up as needed.
I used this, to good effect, but have some cautions:
** spoiler omitted **
Will keep an eye out for mistakes. Reworking spell lists is a norm for me, but I might take a special poke at some of the monsters since you mention it.
I do max HPs every campaign heh, just something I do. This group's prior "warmup" game started with an encounter with a pack of weasels with maxed-out 8 HP apiece, drove the Magus (who will be returning in this game, de-leveled back to 2 to start) absolutely bonkers. I'm half tempted to sneak in a weasel encounter somewhere just for the look on his face....
Thanks!!
Urizen |
The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:All my friends are getting married and having kids. And where the f%@$ am I? Stinking drunk in my student rent apartment.gMarriage and kids aren't for everyone. Speaking for myself, I've no interest in either (or romance or sex in general, for that matter). And the worst thing you can do in either case is tying yourself to a spouse and bringing kids into the world when you want neither - it never ends well.
If it's not that, then maybe like Cornelius said it's just not the right time, and you'll (hopefully) meet the right person somewhere along the way.
Don't rush into it for the sake of "it's what you're supposed to do", do it because it's what you want to do and who you want to spend that time with.
When at a random job interview, I'm asked what I want to be in the next ten years. I simply tell them that I'm still chasing my third grade dream of becoming an astronaut, but I had to settle for being a Harvard rocket scientist.
They look at me funny.
I usually don't get the job.
Been married. In no hurry to get there again. Don't have any kids. And I'm fine with it; they're not going to drive my car or ask for an allowance or have me come down to the police station at 2 in the morning because they were caught streaking with only a stick of melted butter in their hands across school property.
What was I drinking last night?
Anyway.
aeglos |
I have a decent sized collection ... but I doubt even close to 10% of your mighty Horde good sir. I have collected mainly singles for the purpose of my neice and newphews game I run.
I have a good sized metal mini collection, mostly Reaper and Mithril, a few Ralpartha.
Plastics I only have from a D&D boardgame, wrath of a......something,
our mini collector in the friday group has quite a lot which we use every friday