Zyren's luxurious campfire... this time with marshmallows...


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Male Orc Expert 5

Kingmaker, some parts of Legacy of Fire.

Besides if you're a savvy cavalier you eventually trade in your horse for something more significant. In fact by 7th level even a houndmaster can build a mounted character.


VC - Sydney, Australia

Yeah unfortunately I have also yet to meet the GM who doesn't get all butthurt over the idea a player might have things like a flying mount. I find that odd since in 1st Ed a Ranger could have a bloody Brass Dragon.

Melee can't have nice things.

Anyhow, apparently there is a Half-Orc Paladin archtype in the ARG, still can't come at the LG barrier though :)


Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)

It is strange - as I recall from AD&D or 2ed, there was a "paladin" for every alignment. You were essentially a holy warrior for whatever faith you followed and got your powers/abilities from your deity. It is pretty stupid to limit them so.

As far as the ranger companions go, I would be pretty liberal as long as it did not unbalance things. I am in one campaign where our ranger has a hippogriff for a mount, I do not think that it unbalances things. After all, as the DM, if you think the player with a powerful mount is not playing fairly, most mounts/companions usually have relatively low hp - oops, the red dragon decided to bite your griffon instead of the knight ranger encased in steel - imagine that, a dragon with a 25 intelligence deciding to make a smart combat choice.


Male Human Uber Nerd

When I DM I allow Paladin's of any god, with the restriction of having to match that god's alignment.

It works for me.


VC - Sydney, Australia

Nah I am a stickler for LG Paladins personally, the restrictions and edicts are the price you pay for the awesome class.

Same same, Assassins are also Evil.


Dungeon Master

I have a ranger with a hippogriff mount in my Heroes of Elsir Vale Campaign. It was very dramatic when he was being chased by a Green Dragon!


Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)
DM Harpwizard wrote:
I have a ranger with a hippogriff mount in my Heroes of Elsir Vale Campaign. It was very dramatic when he was being chased by a Green Dragon!

I do believe that was a Red Dragon, we killed the Green Dragon. The hippogriff was lucky that some gnome cast Haste on him.


VC - Sydney, Australia

I think I need to go to this Deadwood event....


Divine Gamemaster of the Abyss and below...

Bad request!


VC - Sydney, Australia

Scroll down to Sat 15 Sep :p

www.thevanguard.com.au

http://tinyurl.com/834mfqx

Ahhhh the board bad word filter broke the link.


Divine Gamemaster of the Abyss and below...

yeah, that looks cool!


Dungeon Master

Just a heads up. Our Summer vacation to Utah is coming up and I will be away from June 25th to July 18th. We will be camping and hiking and out of touch with the rest of the world. I am sorry to be absent so long, but I suspect the time will fly. Please feel free to post for Solaric, Kyren, and Celestra as you need to. If I get any internet on the trip, I will make a post, but I am not anticipating it. Thanks for everyone's understanding.


The event does look pretty damn cool Shifty


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Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)

I am sure some of you have already seen this, but someone on Tark's CoT campaign posted this link and I thought of you all.

Best Game Ever


VC - Sydney, Australia

Yeah that is a great song :)


Male Pale Master

yes it was! I shared it with my table top friends. We could easily have switched out 'George' for another name... ^_^


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VC - Sydney, Australia

Pop is all the same.

Here's one I got to reference today to make a point...


Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)
Shifty wrote:

Pop is all the same.

Here's one I got to reference today to make a point...

That is sweet. I suppose that is why I like Yes, ELP, Rush and other groups who seemed to be greatly underrepresented on that montage.


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Divine Gamemaster of the Abyss and below...

Guys, you have to wait another day for updates, but after this week everything should be back to normal.


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Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)

WooHoo - back to normal. Er, wait, I am allergic to normality, darn.


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

Merry Summer Solstice everyone(of you who cares)... and I suppose a Merry Winter Solstice to those of you backwards folk :P I kind of wish it were winter here right now. I am not loving this heat.


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Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)
Bree Longfield wrote:
Merry Summer Solstice everyone(of you who cares)... and I suppose a Merry Winter Solstice to those of you backwards folk :P I kind of wish it were winter here right now. I am not loving this heat.

They are not backwards, they are upside down.

And a happy solstice to you as well Bree.


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

Ohhhh... that's it, how could I have gotten it confused?! Lol, thanks Tirion.

Scarab Sages

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male 1/4 Elf Lorekeeper???

Yup, happy Solstice everybody and thank you for reminding me, Bree. I cannot believe I forgot. Sure, this weak was...ugly...but this shouldn't have happened :-| Now I try to enjoy what is left of the night and hope it 'turns' better (would be the right day for that, wouldn't it...)

Have fun everybody, goodnight!


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

:) You're welcome, love. Hope you have a good night!


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VC - Sydney, Australia

Thanks Bree, was a nice Solice night. Went out for a nice dinner and caught the ferry around Sydney Harbour, was a picture perfect postcard clear and still night too! Its easy to remember why we are a popular tourist destination, one of the cleanest harbour cities in the world :)


Male Human Uber Nerd

Tonight I shall be having a giant tasty double bacon cheeseburger from a place called 5 Guys, along with a giant sack of fries!

NOM NOM NOM


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

Bacon cheeseburger does sound pretty good. I just ate spaghetti though.

Shifty, it sounds beautiful.


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

It's raining. *Sighs contently and stretches out on her bed for the night.* G'night gentlemen.


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VC - Sydney, Australia

Its freezing.

Night Bree!


Divine Gamemaster of the Abyss and below...

back from the madness they call school...


Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)

Welcome back ZZ, are you on summer break? Or does the north have a late summer vacation.


Divine Gamemaster of the Abyss and below...

Summer break starts in two weeks, but now all marks are given and all conferences done - yeehaw!


Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)

I recall some comedy skit when I lived there in which a family was in a car during the first day of the Nordrhein-Westfallen break and were sitting in traffic. They discussed all the preparations they had made and the extra food and that they had been on the road for like 24 hours, and then at the end you discover that they were only going one exit on the Autobahn to go to the grocery store.


Divine Gamemaster of the Abyss and below...

Yup, start of summer break in NRW is like barbarian migration...


Most of the time human, angle left, devil right Manager/1

I have a question about familiars and how to calculate their skill ranking. The Greensting scorpion for example has the following statistics:

Statistics
Str 3, Dex 16, Con 10, Int —, Wis 10, Cha 2
Skills Climb +7, Perception +4, Stealth +15; Racial Modifiers +4 Climb, +4 Perception, +4 Stealth

Do I have to subtract the racial modifier as well as the bonus granted due to abilities in order to calculate the skill ranks of a familiar?

In advance thank you very much for your answers and comments.


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

OK, so there is a video on Youtube of some real a$$hole kids teasing an older woman who works as a bus aid on their school bus. I mean these kids were being just awful, and they had her in tears. I couldn't even watch the whole thing. Seriously. These kids need their a$$es kicked in my opinion. Anyway, my point is, there is this guy named "Max S" on indiegogo.com (a fundraiser site) who started a fundraiser for this woman, Karen, in the hopes of getting $5,000 together for her to go on a vacation. The fundraiser closes in 29 days, but already donations have exceeded $400,000! Wow. Just wow. She can freaking retire!
The fundraiser


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Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)

Well Bree - sounds like you should take up being an aid on busses full of a$$holes. Sounds quite profitable to me.


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VC - Sydney, Australia

Yeah it has had a heavy run on our national news here.

It is amazing how blind parents can be as to the actions of their kids, "Oh not MY little angelic Timmy".

What amazes me is that no other kids on the bus gave them a punch in the mouth for being such scumbags. Then again that probably explains why I got expelled from some of the finest highschools in Sydney.


Male Human Uber Nerd

I hate kids >.>


VC - Sydney, Australia
Adelain wrote:
Do I have to subtract the racial modifier as well as the bonus granted due to abilities in order to calculate the skill ranks of a familiar?

Good question...

Seems the racial modifiers are already calculated into the creatures stats, so you need to subtract them first... also any Size adjustments need to be considered (ie for stealth)


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Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)

I am a fan of the "Eye for an eye" method of punishment. Unfortunately in the USA we see to find notching a thief's ear for the first offense and chopping off his hand for the second to be cruel and unjust punishment. Well, nothing personal, but if you violently rape someone, there is no punishment that will ever equal what you did to the woman.

Same thing goes for bullies, fortunately between cell phones and school/police cameras, far more of the "My good son Jonny would never do that" kids are being shown to be a form of life which rats and other vermin would find offensive.


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VC - Sydney, Australia
Stomphoof wrote:
I hate kids >.>

I love kids! Can't stand douchebags though.

I usually find kids are ok, because once you have a bit of a talk to them they can usually come good. I et handed a lot of other peoples kids to deal with, a few boundaries and a little structure and even little Timmy Rotten usually gets the hint and comes on board - but by thetime they get to the teenage years it gets harder to reverse the entrenched hate.


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

Mayhaps, Tirion, mayhaps.

If I were a kid on that bus, I most definitely would have done something. I was always the one to stand up for the person getting bullied. Quite frequently resulting in violence. The fact that I was generally able to hold my own all that kept them from just bullying me instead.

It's kids like that, that are the cause for my fear of sending my kid to school. That and instances of teachers abusing kids.


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VC - Sydney, Australia
Tirion Jörðhár wrote:
I am a fan of the "Eye for an eye" method of punishment.

I tend to be very much that way, but its two eyes for an eye; those that come and burst my happy-zen Karmic bubble will find I have little interest in a zero sum game. Execute one, educate a thousad after all.

Of course I'd much prefer everyone was a peace loving moonbaby like me.

What I am more interested in is why these kids act so stupidly, usually it turns out the kids are actually quite deeply lost and unhappy themselves. Then again once things kick off I get less interested in the why and simply crack down on it when I see it... my sympathy towards their inner turmoil cuts out once they visit nastiness on others.


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VC - Sydney, Australia
Bree Longfield wrote:
If I were a kid on that bus, I most definitely would have done something. I was always the one to stand up for the person getting bullied. Quite frequently resulting in violence.

Yah, usually why I got expelled... I was always a bit too thorough when push came to shove :p


Male Gnome Sorcerer/9 - (HP: 49/49 - AC20;FF17;T18 - F+5;R+6;W+7 - Init+9 - Per+11)
Shifty wrote:
Tirion Jörðhár wrote:
I am a fan of the "Eye for an eye" method of punishment.
Of course I'd much prefer everyone was a peace loving moonbaby like me.

I am actually a conscientious objector by birth and religion. The Harpwizard can confirm that. I just hate people who have no consideration or common courtesy toward others.

Shifty wrote:
What I am more interested in is why these kids act so stupidly, usually it turns out the kids are actually quite deeply lost and unhappy themselves. Then again once things kick off I get less interested in the why and simply crack down on it when I see it... my sympathy towards their inner turmoil cuts out once they visit nastiness on others.

Why = 2 working parents + rich parents who are more concerned with themselves than raising their kids + parents who think that the school and system should raise their kids.


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

I'm glad that everyone is coming together to give this woman something loving after so much hate, but at the same time, I'm mildly annoyed. I've been slinging my fundraisers (which support MS and Autism among others) for a couple of months now and have only managed to raise $30, $20 of that coming from myself :/ *Sigh*.


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VC - Sydney, Australia

On a lighter note, this is the funniest thing I have seen in ages...what a classic salesman.

Epic salesguy.


Female Human Rogue-Knife Master/10 (Init: +4)

Lol, that's great. Seriously though... what is that stuff he's selling?!

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