Yes happy Father's Day indeed.
No worries Master Rushing. Take your time.
And for your, Master Foxglove, I'm glad it's working.
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If you knew what tune the 4th one is whistling you'd be even more creeped out. ;)
Just to let you know:
As much as I enjoy the banter between Karl and Drogan (especially the whole "Battle Singer" bit) ... Phedron + Karl is my new favorite. ;)
*rubs hands together and chuckles*
"Good...good..."
I'm loving this guys!
Post on its way. Just need to wrap up a few things.
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You guys are awesome! I'm loving the interplay.
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Busy weekend for the DM, but I was able to work on the NPC Gallery section of the campaign book. I've got 90% of it done and should have a demo up on the site today.
Of course I'll be working up a response to the game as well. I'll try and get something going today.
This weekend I played a 6 hour session with my regular gaming group. We play 4th edition D&D. Guess how much of that 6 hours was combat?
5 and a half. The other 30 minutes were spent rolling dice for the infamous skill challenges to see if we safely got back to town.
Oh, and that was ONLY TWO ENCOUNTERS!
hoping to get my normal group to move to at least 5th edition after August. Then maybe some of this won't be neck deep in never-ending combat sessions.)
Ok. Rant over. Now is the time for Pathfinder and interesting characters!
I hate 4th it is just a tactics game not a real role playing game. Pathfinder is much better. Hopefully 5th edition is better but it seems watered down as well. But, yes back to the interesting characters. DM get off your butt and post something :) your minions are waiting to wow you with our incredible writing skills.
Granted I'm on the fence with 4th; I like it for what it is, a good encounters platform with a good helping of tactics. Almost like Warhammer 40k-lite. But there's the aspect...or lack thereof reflecting the RP. I'll add only that it really depends upon the group and how much RP they want to inject into the game that makes or breaks a system from group to group. I've heard that Pathfinder is too complicated for its on good.
...but I guess I'll never know that since I've got a great bunch of guys at this old virtual table to really care about the system too much. :)
Lastly I'll hold my breath on 5e. I'm thinking that the watered down aspect will open the door for creative gaming groups. But time will tell.
For your humble DM, Monday turned out to be a bit more than I could handle. I'm working on a couple of quick posts for tonight to keep things going. However, part of the delay is my obsession with getting the "1st Edition" of our campaign book completed. Must...finish...
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My beef with 4th was the nonsensical rules regarding combat. Too wow-ish for me.
I've not looked at 5e yet. I've been wanting to pick up dungeon crawl classics, but prying my group away from Rifts may not be a reality as we've been playing these characters for years now.
Pathfinder/D20/3.0/3.5 is pretty straight forward as an RPG I felt. A little too video game-ish in some aspects but not bad overall. I made a homebrew from D20 that's more sandbox with almost no healing. All my players really liked it. There was some grumbling to begin with, but the lack of healing and lack of classes was a lot of fun and added a lot of "real" fear to the game. I keep meaning to put the rules together more concisely and offer them up somewhere.
I still like GURPS and WEG D6 (Star Wars). There are a lot of fun systems out there. I'd still like to take the Champions rules and run a fantasy campaign from them.
Haha, Jeff. I knew we asked you to think about putting together something we could offer people ... but I didn't know I'd be a beta-tester. ;)
Can't wait to see it.
Yes...you're all my little test monkeys...now dance monkeys dance!
Heh, I've got a long way to go before it's publish worthy, but at the least once I'm done writing it, the campaign will be easy to commit to the final format.
So that being said, here's what one got so far:
It's broken into sections of which I've got the third one well underway. So you'll see the cover, intro, table of contents, then chapter headers and blank pages...then finally the third section which houses NPC information.
Have fun and let me know what you think. Criticism is very welcome.
Looks fantastic!
Love reading the little bits about the npc's.
Can't wait to see more!
The fire is getting bigger as it consumes more fuel. But it hasn't covered the whole of the warehouse. But the snow is playing havoc with setting inside.
You are hearing the occasional creak of timbers.
Wow, Nosa, just wow. Great post dude!
Before I make my post, I'd like a GM ruling on this.
I honestly don't think Drogan would care about the tattoos. Between the odd feeling he's had about them from the start, the reaction Nosa had about picking up the girl, and Phedron's message that they are radiating evil ... his comment to Karl wasn't flippant. He knows they're evil and was already to put his ax in a few faces for the cause of good and decency.
It's not every day my bar-room balladeer gets to play hero for the righteous.
Let me know if you think that's valid. Otherwise, I make a will save and post accordingly.
Thanks!
I was extremely glad that my last little comment to those guys did not get followed up with a thud of an initiative roll :)
Drogan & All
I think that's fine, Drogan. I had post up late last night but added the caveat this morning. The main feel I'm going for here is the weird and the out of sync that leads to the horror underneath. For Drogan, this has been a steady build up to the reveal of these four guys.
In my head, Nosa went in a direction I think speaks to a personal reaction. Each player has a differing history, a back story that impacts how your individual minds handle what's unfolding. Past trauma, a history of seeing terrible crimes, reading about far flung cultures and their practices... Each of you may react differently. Even the NPCs have varying degrees of difficulty; Helios is vomiting, Hal'dorel is shaken, Kheegan is holding steady...all because of their varied histories. Jak has been hit with something more during Danton's attack, these 4 strangers just sent him over the edge...so in his case a combination of old history, new history and the horror, oh the horror.
I'll trust each of you to dwell within your character to such an extent that your reactions are true to that character rather than an attempt to avoid dangers or consequences.
Besides, things are only going to get worse. Muwahahaha!
In the coming weeks I'll be cranking out some home brew ideas on fear and sanity that I'll want the team's buy in on. Stay tuned.
Drogan, tally-ho.
Worse!
:)
I'm looking forward to worse!!!
Off topic. 9 1/2 hours of gaming yesterday.
Played: Mage Knight, Harbour (print and play of a Kickstarter game), Kemet, Lords of Waterdeep and Star Realms.
Star Realms is an amazing little deck builder/combat game. I highly recommend it for anyone who likes games like Magic, Ascenioin etc...
Mage Knight is a great game, but I think is actually best played solo. It tends to get bogged down somewhat with a group.
Is there a reason why I am not listed on the initiative track?
Especially after a natural 20 :)
If Nosa makes his attack I think it will be fine with No Retcon, just have him make two attack rolls in his post, one for first attack and one set of rolls that will start us off at the top of 2nd round.
I am guessing Helios, the Legate and Hal are all effected? Or did they just not act yet?
Nosa, I'll leave it up to you how you'd like to post up. You can take the first attack and I'll retcon a smidge, or you can take two attacks this round.
Helios is down, succumbed to the effects. Hal and the Legate aren't up in the initiative yet.
I'll just make the two attacks. No need to retcon.
Dang, nothing worse in PbP than to write an epic to set up the scene, then blow the rolls. Lol that's what makes it fun though right :)
I couldn't help but laugh when I saw the rolls :)
Don't worry, got you covered, Master Phedron.
Well it looks like I wasted any good dice rolling on initiative.
Seriously! Roll a 1 twice for attacks?
<shakes head>
1s are bad.
Beckett & Phedron, I'm get a post for you going Friday.
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Hey gang, busy Friday and my gaming group is over today. I'll do my best to post later tonight. Gotta say I'm intrigued by the conversation in the tannery.
I think Nosa gets a AoO when you are casting that applies before you hit. Who knows, maybe he will crit and drop him first.
Indeed he does. While even with a critical and max damage he won't be able to down this fellow, he can still make a dent.
Nosatrub, please go ahead and roll your AoO whether or not you succeed at your Will Save.
Thanks for the catch Karl!
Nose roll an attack for the attack of opportunity buddy.
It could save you because:
1. your first roll should be to hit AoO
2. The second roll should be your will power check
Because he is casting, you try to strike him with your sword---then he hits you---then you have to roll willpower.
I am game lawyering a bit, but its life or death.
Oops....
Shall I re-do that last post?