Doug M's Way of the Wicked (Inactive)

Game Master Douglas Muir 406

edit to my purchases. got a scroll of CLW not a potion

Also make sure you guys sell Bref's extra doses of that poison, he was saving it to use as an assassination in the future. Also you might be able to sell that red globe he picked up.

Other than that his armor and weapons are worth 5.5 gp

I assume the hat is actually useful to somone CL 2 chill touch once per day

rolling pin for morsum to chew on.

and the CLW potion

we haven't seen a gary mcbride sighting of late

Jax will gleefully take the potion and the hat. It'll be useful for a level or two, after which we can sell it for party funds.

The poison, we sell the Pilkington. Do you recall how much it was per dose?

Edit; I forgot that the hat is a chef's hat..there is no way Jax would willingly wear that despite the mechanical benefits.

Edit; I forgot that the hat is a chef's hat..there is no way Jax would willingly wear that despite the mechanical benefits.

Lol.

i think the poison was 50 gp per dose, but in the interested of being fair Dren was owed gold by Bref.

Jax you should wear it, think of the fun you and Xenfal could have

The tiefling would rather eat it than wear it.

anyone interested in joiing a level 3 forgotten realms game, i think we are going to have some openings, I am a player

Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately I am in WAY too many campaigns as it is and may be switching jobs soon which could greatly constrain my playing time.

Thanks as well, I am really happy with the two I have, great DMs and players in each, I just wish the Temple of Elemental would go a little faster. We post two for every thirty we post over here.

As leader of the IX Knot I command you to read my new character bio.

CUUUUUUUPCAAAAAAAAKEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

GOBLIN WANT CUPCAKE FACE!!!!!!!!

Well a cupcake or two does sound lovely.

well done. very well done.

Lol - Oh, and meet my friend, I mean enforcer.

Cupcake bad - witchy witch yummy.

I added special abilities and a URL to Cupcake Wars in the bio.

I might be, Toothpick. What is it about and how often is posting?

roughly twice per day is the goal.

it is forgotten realms, take a look at my profile Hezar to get an idea.

We hit a snag with some players that decided they do not like large battles and npc's running around. so the discussion thread is a bit...not happy ATM.

Basically we are off to stop an old evil god get risen etc...you know how it goes :)

Can we use the magic items and XP in that game in this game?

so JAx and Zimu, what will you be making next?

I think Zimu could play a killer Bard, but not like my kind of bard...maybe an Archivist, or a sandman, or a Court Bard

Jax should make an alchemist

I added special abilities and a URL to Cupcake Wars in the bio.

I love Cupcake Wars... Well done.

Speaking of vampires, I assume everyone is following Order of the Stick? The sequence starting here

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0867.html

is good. (Though it helps if you know the characters. The halfling is the team's bloodthirsty killer. Meanwhile, the dwarf and the lizard guy had become quite good friends -- the dwarf didn't know the lizard guy's alignment or true nature, and the lizard guy was kind of lonely and wanted a friend.)

Doug M.

I'm a late comer to the comic but I love the series.

I (no surprise) love V.

Élan's father makes me laugh too.

Just checking, there is a compulsion that is pushing us to do this right?

Jax and Cуровую are not just undertaking this simply because Irin batted her eyelashes at him.

Tarquin is great. Nale is Elan's evil twin, but Tarquin is /evil Elan/. With a brain. The rooftop scene was the best.

As long as we're talking webcomics, let me plug Strong Female Protagonist, the superhero comic for people who aren't very into superheroes. http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/ (The art starts off kinda so-so, but gets better fast.)

Doug M.

starting the comic now

dm i spent HOURS today reading order of the stick...I blame you!

Be glad I didn't hook you on Girl Genius or Questionable Content.

Context: Order of the Stick has 884 strips. Some have more than one page, so it's probably well over a thousand pages. But Girl Genius has been posting three times a week without a break since 2001, so it's closer to two thousand pages. And Questionable Content is up to strip number [checks] 2427.

Started reading strong female protagonist last night before bed. And got two hours less sleep because of it, thanks DM. Interesting find.

As an aside, with the death of Rosa, Bref, Edmin (for a moment), even some of the other characters like the Warden and the angel, and now Jax and Cуровую dancing at Death's doorstep, this pbp has become very 'Game of Thrones' for me.

"There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win."

If we play another game I am running a Goblin Paladin Divine Hunter of Sarenrae.

Note to self: in PBP, avoid situations where everyone is waiting for one PC to act. (No reflection on Kate/Zimu. It's just, if things bottleneck down to one PC, everyone else has not much to do.) The current sitch should resove shortly -- possibly with a PC death! possibly not -- and then things should open up a bit.

Doug M.

Hurray! I love deaths! Just not my own.

Hmm, how about an Animal Lord (Giant Porcupine) Monk(Tetori) - Lots of grappling and then attacking with quills.

Hedge hogs are cuter.

A couple of summers ago, I was in our back yard (in Germany) when my nine year old son (bilingual in English and German) began yelling, "Daddy! An Eagle! An Eagle!"

I spent several astonished moments staring up at the sky before I realized he was pointing at the ground, where a small brown form was slowly trundling its way across the yard...

(The German word for hedgehog is "Igel". Alan speaks perfect English, but he'd never encountered the English word.)

Doug M.

Note to self: in PBP, avoid situations where everyone is waiting for one PC to act. (No reflection on Kate/Zimu. It's just, if things bottleneck down to one PC, everyone else has not much to do.) The current sitch should resove shortly -- possibly with a PC death! possibly not -- and then things should open up a bit.

You guys are waiting on me? Sorry! Cуровую should just go and die then.

DM I was actually waiting on the Knowledge rolls information to try and figure what to do.

Also if team evil has applicable advice to what to do please chime in, spiritual advice from Bref saying 'walk towards the light (evil descriptor) none withstanding.

I think I have a german game named "Igel", forgot how to play it. I first played when I was an exchange student in Germany in the late '80s.
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Cy - you are evil and look out you for yourself first. At the same time, if any part of Jax is left, there is a good chance that the Cardinal could compel it to speak.

You have the ability to cast Mage Hand to get the quill now that you are in the room. And, there is no reason to not try to get Jax out safe. After all, having people owe you debts is never a bad thing.

I have to go to bed in a few minutes -- past midnight here.

Zimu, you have the results of your knowledge roll (something like an allip).

Jax does not have the pen. If you ask him to go and get the pen, it's unclear what he'll do, but note again that the carpet is between him and the pen.

you are evil and look out you for yourself first. At the same time, if any part of Jax is left, there is a good chance that the Cardinal could compel it to speak.

You have the ability to cast Mage Hand to get the quill now that you are in the room. And, there is no reason to not try to get Jax out safe. After all, having people owe you debts is never a bad thing.

Heh.

I was never planning to leave Jax in here. Tempting, but no. After all he gives me two extra spells a level I can transcribe to my spell books.

;)

And I was not sure if Mage Hand would work, I don't know if we can clearly see the pen from here.

You can see the pen clearly enough to Mage Hand it, yes.

..mind control abilities suck.

The Cardinal went through a phase where he was experimenting with different sorts of undead. This is actually a very common thing with evil clerics who reach a certain level. Most of them eventually grow out of it. Still, it goes a long way to explain why there are so damn many different sorts of undead.

-- Anyway, most of the Cardinal's experiments were not a great success. This also is typical. The obvious, easy sorts of undead have mostly been discovered already. So the usual result is that you put in a lot of work and effort and you end up with something that costs just as much as a grave knight, but isn't quite as good.

But he did come up with a couple that were both novel and interesting. This is one of them. He set it in his office as a guardian. Not because he really needs one -- the only ones who come in here are servants to clean and dust, and they're mind-controlled and also terrified of him -- but because, well, he's sort of proud of it. It's like that brushed steel paperweight you made in shop class back in high school. It's not really all that useful but, come on. You did a pretty good job on that thing. It looks cool. You're not going to throw it away.

Okay, gotta crash. Resolve in the morning.

That's one high CR paper weight.

Hate to see what he did for Home Economics class.

Shop Class = Adamantite Golum

if I die again above the wall I think there is a goblin alchemist in my future

In this case, the Cardinal was trying to improve on the classic minor undead, the allip. Allips are intangible, ghost-like undead that fascinate you and then attack your mind, draining your Wis. That's not bad, but their great weakness is that their attack breaks the fascination. So they usually get a single round of Wis drain and then you either fight them or run. Except for very low level characters, they're more of a nuisance than a real threat.

The Cardinal wanted to make something like an allip, but that would /continue to hold you in its thrall/ while eating your mind. As you can see, he succeeded. The thing isn't perfect, and it wasn't practical to mass produce it (it requires a very particular sort of victim dying a very special kind of death), but he's still justifiably pleased by it.