City of Strangers (Inactive)

Game Master Nebten

Another wrinkle: if Esme shows up, she can overpower a guard like Ruckus and free Svil. We need him tied up, unconscious, and hidden.

Or we just toss him through the portal and go back to clear the rest of the place. I'm increasingly in favor of that. It has 4 more charges.

Amon---ewwww. Not THAT kind of satisfaction.

Do the ditty if you want to
because then I can see if I want you
Just do the ditty-ditty if you want to
because then I can see if I want you too

Hey there. A member of the Council of Thieves game I am in will be leaving due to RL problems and I am wondering if anyone would be interested in joinging? We still need to figure things out but we are almost done with the second module which could be an excellent point to join. I will post a link to our discussion thread and you can perhaps ask there or PM our DM, Baldwin the Merciful.

Council of Thieves

You'll need to re-dot any campaigns your in as the system has wiped them out to a degree

I am in a CoT PbP, but thanks, Elizabeth.

It definitely looks like a cool campaign but I'm afraid there's no way I could keep up with the posting schedule on most days.

I've played through 5 of the 6 parts of CoT. It is not the adventure path I thought it would be =v)

I'm very busy in real life at the moment. Nothing serious, just a lot of things that have to get done around the same time. Unfortunately this means I can't post here as much as I would like to. Things will be back to normal on Wednesday or Thursday next week.

But until then I won't be able to write big posts, if I am able to write at all.

Feel free to remote control my character as needed to keep the story going.

If anyone wants healing, feel free to roll the dice (1d8+1) for yourself.
(It would be nice if you didn't spend all my spell slots at once, but do as you think fit.)

I've played through 5 of the 6 parts of CoT. It is not the adventure path I thought it would be =v)

Say it ain't so, Nebten! It seems ok so far...but we're still in Part 1. (no spoilers, no spoilers!)

I will say I am very impressed that they are on the 3rd module after starting in at the end of May. I won't say anything about the CoT games, but maybe my experience is different because we decided to run it as an all evil party. We went with the name "Order of Chaos." Sadly everybody who wanted our services or wanted to team up normally got a surprise after the task was completed =v)

Well we are just at the end of the second and have had some hiccups due to some players leaving but I am going to hang on there.

So, you're basically playing the Marvel Zombies version of CoT, Nebten?

One could say that. Our priest of Norgorber reached is life long goal. I sent a treatment to our DM on how I would like to assasinate all of the nobles. He sent a return email with "Let me call you about that . . ." I would like to believe we are not "disrubting" the game like some CN (who are actually CE) characters do. And the PC's play together instead of trying to kill each other over every little magic item.

Like most games, it depends on how well the DM melds all the different aspects of the series together.

Oh Gunder! What's your sense of this Svil fellow? My sense is TRAP, though my dicebot roll sucked.

He seems honest.

You're gonna trust GM "Always Chaotic Evil" Nebten? IT'S A TRAP! GAME OVER, MAN! -prints out statblock and burns it-

Ok, ok, let's go see Esme.

*gives puppy dog eyes* By what ever do you mean? What harm could come from splitting the party?

On a side note, what is everybody's gaming experience? Like how long you've been playing and various editions of involvment.

I'll go first. I've been playing since '93'ish, AD&D 2nd ed. I've ran major campaigns through each edition.

AD&D was Forgotten Realms Time of Troubles series that lead into Dragon Mountain.

3.0 was a converstion of the Night Below box set via PbP. That took 2 years with 6-8 players at a time. Whoa nelly.

3.5 was the War of Burning Sky series, that was 2 years in person playing. I was also an very active player in Living Greyhawk.

I've been playing Pathfinder constantly for nearly 2 years primariy through the CoT AP and PFS.

I have been playing since about 94-95, although I started with Shadowrun 2nd Edition.

From there, I dabbled in D&D 2e, then was around for the 3.0 and 3.5 switches.

I'd started running the Savage Tide AP when I realized Paizo put out fantastic adventures, and have been with Pathfinder since its inception.

Been buying stuff since the basic D&D box sets(Where elf was class and race) 2nd edition,Runequest,Battletech,Shadowrun, all sorts of stuff.

Did 3.0/3.5, hung around on the Necromance rgames forum before hopping over to Paizo

I um...well, this is like everything else in my life, I suppose. I played 1e AD&D and even some D&D as a kid (i.e., in 4th grade or so). A bit more as a teenager, although it was more Stormbringer and Call of Cthulhu, and Battletech and whatnot--oh yeah, we played a bit of Teenagers from Outer Space, yes sir! Then, a long hiatus until I started a game with some friends on Google+ last year; they convinced me to try Pathfinder (I was dissuaded from 4e handily), and that just opened the floodgates again.

I have never experienced good gaming until these forums. My high school friends, dear as they were, just couldn't keep games organized, and those that did--well, I wasn't going to gain any hygiene or social tips from them--and then college and playing in bands became a focus for many years. So--finally got back into it with a vengeance, pbp only..for now.

The same things have happened to me with industrial music, comics, science fiction...I cannot fight the inner geek and have come back to embrace them all.

So yeah, I'm a guy who has fuzzy grasp of game mechanics, has never GM'd but has a stack of Dragon magazines dating back to issue 40 or so. Sadly, I don't have the Melniboné/Cthulhu Deities and Demigods.

Ok, Liz, you beat me in the grognard department time-wise. I never owned the blue box set. :D

I love it. After waiting a month to play, first round of first encounter, my character gets Death Attack'ed and fails the save. Straight JFK style. Now I get to bake the cookie dough my girlfriend made, joy!

Does Tina want to try sneaking along the edge?

I think I will sneak along the edge

Hurricane Sandy messing up my schedule.

May be offline for a bit.

Go ahead & bot my pc if needed.

Heard that several peopl on the board are havign the same problems

Survived the storm ok, but no power at my house.

I'll try to play from my phone, and/or laptop at the GFs house.

Good to see you are ok.

I'm glad to hear you are alright Aldous. No worries for now, we've entered "slug-mode."

Good to hear everything is OK, Aldous!

On a side note, what is everybody's gaming experience? Like how long you've been playing and various editions of involvment.

Fun fact: I never played D&D.

I started roleplaying halfway through university, and for some reason we were playing The Dark Eye. (Feel free to substitute "for some reason" with "because we were in Germany")

By the time I started looking for another system, D&D 4 had just been released and the general consensus on the internet seemed to be that it wasn't very good. Because I didn't want to buy into a dead system, and since the future of D&D seemed to be most uncertain, I chose to avoid it altogether.

I tried various systems over the next couple of years - mostly free stuff like Dungeonslayers or various retro-clones. Eventually I bought Pathfinder. I'm beginning to suspect my real life group is going to kill me if I continue forcing them to learn a new set of rules every other time we play. So I'm stuck with Pathfinder for the time being ;)

Well, it looks like we got a lot more old school gamers then I orginally thought. And here I was going to try to sneak in some AD&D material should the group get out of Godsmouth *snicker, snicker*

Never say never, but we'll see what the rest of the Godsmouth exploration uncovers. =v)

Or boy! Save or die poison! Just like in the old days!

I started out with one of my mom's boyfriends running some AD&D for me when I was around 10-12 over the summers, but he did most of the crunch for me.

I got into 3rd edition and played a little in middle/high school, as well as Rifts and BESM, and a few short games of a number of other systems. It wasn't until after college that I really started playing a lot, getting into 3.5 (after 4th had come out), and then I heard about Pathfinder, mentioned it to my group, and several months later we tried it out and never looked back.

I was into Palladium's stuff way back in the days of 1st edition Palladium FRPG and Heroes unlimited.

I just miss the phrase "Save or Die" or "Save vs Death." But if I did do anything for this group, it would be properly converted =v).

The only other systems I played for any prolong period of time was Cyberpunk, Vampire/Werewolf, d20 Star Wars and now Savage Worlds. The first two was over 10 years ago while the last is a game I jump in every 4 months.

Looking back, I played in a 4th edition PbP for nearly 3 years. Nothing very memorable. A round took nearly a week to accomplish anything and I went through 3 different DMs. But I stayed the dutiful fighter to make sure my charges were protected until the last DM couldn't continue on. I'm glad he quit because the slug's pace & his ESL was driving me nuts.

Cyberpunk,Cyberspace were things I read as well. Read a truckload of WoD material and eventually got burned out.

Old Runequest system,Stormbringer,Elfquest,CoC..

Well, it looks like we got a lot more old school gamers then I orginally thought. And here I was going to try to sneak in some AD&D material should the group get out of Godsmouth *snicker, snicker*

Never say never, but we'll see what the rest of the Godsmouth exploration uncovers. =v)

Just don't re-introduce THAC0

Only played a few sessions of AD&D,
I've played for about a decade on 3.X/Pathfinder

Just don't re-introduce THAC0
and non-weapon proficiencies.

Only played a few sessions of AD&D,
I've played for about a decade on 3.X/Pathfinder

Oh god no!

Holds up a cross and splashes holy water at the suggestion.

It would all still be Pathfinder. Just pulling from different resources.

Against the Slavers!

The Stone Giants Lair!

Keep on the Borderlands!

Temple of Elemental Evil

Against the Giants/Vault of the Drow

Desert of Desolation

There is a Pathfinderized Keep on the Borderlands. That would be the shiznit. I've never played it.

That's just the information I was looking for, Aldous =v).

I've never played Keep on the Borderlands either. Although I heard 4e's Keep on the Shadowfell is pretty close in comparsion, which I've ran. My friends keeps threating to run KotB, but we shall see.

I have seen most of those old modules, but never got the chance to actually play them.

Should prove most interesting.

I bought loads of them. Ghost Tower of Inverness, Lost Shrine of Tamcon(sp), I even loved the goofy Castle Greyhawk.

So do we want to do an adventure parth after this? :)

Nebten, what are you up for?

Sure. I'm in.

Are we keeping our characters?

I'm DMing RotRL right now. So I already know that one. But every other AP would be fine with me.

Ah, I so want to go through that one. I am worried that I'm gonna learn the whole thing via inadvertent spoilers (like on these darn boards).