Dungeon Master Heathy's Carrion Crown

Game Master Heathansson

Hey;
There's been a little attrition in my "Heathy's Isle of Dread" game; was wondering if any of you guys wanted to jump in with a 14th level dude?.....
Just a thought.

Got Mothy=Beldan....a rogue,
Rags=Elgan....an elven druid,
Pat Curtin=Pip the halfling cover song master Bard, and
Vatnisse=Altai the wizard
(who has a homonculous of a flesh golem named Claw).....

They just got teleported somewhere.....Oriental,.....from Asgard (long story;)

I think it was a 25 point build? If you wanted to make kinda a Japanese type dude, that's cool; however, everybody else is a "gaijin" of sorts, so I can figure something out.

And it's kinda......slowish right now; compared to how it all used to be, and I don't have all the details on the Oriental thing nailed down yet. But I'm committed to the game; no chance of packing it up in the next few months anyway.

I'm using "Wa" from "Kara-Tur," as I just scored the box for $7.50 at Half Price Books. Imagined through a glass darkly, of course....

Heathy, I'd love to jump in. Would go with a japanese-styled magus, or possibly straight fighter. Will take me a little while to create and a little while to read through the back thread, but could get going over the weekend.

Will be nice to something other than work and stat up monsters...

Right on.....
I know you're real busy right now, and I'm kinda just in the nascent stages here anyway, so no hurry.

The back thread isn't too important......which is a good thing because it's about 20k posts.

I kinda just decided to run Sound of a Thousand Screams in Japan (or Wu, as it were,.....) it's all good if anybody's read the adventure. I think it'll end up being really different......just the basic ideas, with a lot of stuff changed out. Enough to keep it from boring somebody who read the adventure.

I'm glad Will Cooper saw this before I did. I might have done something silly like volunteered. I used to follow that thread, but haven't looked at it in a year or more.

I'm glad Will Cooper saw this before I did. I might have done something silly like volunteered. I used to follow that thread, but haven't looked at it in a year or more.

If you and/or Rholfy wanna come in, the more the merrier I always said.

Uh oh. D'oh! Gah!

I'll get back to you...

right on...If you're not down, it's all good.

I know. ;-)

I'll probably jump in, but I will wait to see what Will adds to the mix before I pick a class. What kind of limits do you set on races and such? I haven't paid a lot of attention to racial options, but you seem to be open to some unusual choices, so I might as well ask.

Sky's the limit.

I'm down for whatever.

I used to play Rifts, so......

Ooh - I'll play a juicer then. Or what were those huge mech guys with the hoooooge guns? Always figured they were overcompensating for somethin'...

Heh heh.....I guess.....I'd kinda like whatever you guys play to have some d20 rules involved......

Don't think I could deal with a Juicer at this juncture, or a Glitterboy.

Glitterboy! That's what I was reaching for...

But yes, OK, d20 it is. Still favoring magus, maybe with the soulforger archetype.

Right on.....

Scared of what a Glitterboy would do in semi medieval Dungeons and Dragons land.......

'Glitterboy?' Sounds,... Kinky. ;P

See you in the other thread then Will!
And good luck! (Or 'Break a leg' as we theater types say) in the contest!
:)

This is my boom stick!!!

Never played core Rifts, but we had a Glitterboy in our Phase World campaign (along with an Oni Ninja and a Wolfen full conversion cyborg).

heh heh...

Glitterboy! That's what I was reaching for...

But yes, OK, d20 it is. Still favoring magus, maybe with the soulforger archetype.

I don’t know how any of the archetypes from UC stack up mechanics wise, but the kensai looks like a fun one for a Japanese style magus.

Will Cooper wrote:

Glitterboy! That's what I was reaching for...

But yes, OK, d20 it is. Still favoring magus, maybe with the soulforger archetype.

I don’t know how any of the archetypes from UC stack up mechanics wise, but the kensai looks like a fun one for a Japanese style magus.

I saw that one - it does look attractive. The Bard archetype Dervish Dancer sounds fun, too. Right now, I'm working up a Gnomish Cleric of Irori to see how he shapes up. Healing and Knowledge domains. Not exactly the tough cleric I thought I was going to work on, but he should work as a backstop for, say, a rogue's sneak attack.

BTW, MArdi Gras weekend here, which you'd THINK would mean I'd have time on my hands, but as the family is all out of school too, means usually,... No. I don't ;P

So in short, might not get to post much until Ash Wednesday. But I'll try to keep up.

So, Happy MArdi Gras! :D

Away to the coast for a couple of days. Back by wednesday at the latest.

Safe trip Will.

BTW, I'm getting hammered at work. Again. I'll try to keep up with all my threads as best I can, but I will be pretty sparse the next couple of days until I get this next musical up and running.

Thanks, see you all soon!

Right on.

Oh, dear. Getting hammered at work doesn't sound very productive. ;-)

Break a leg! See you soon!

I should be so lucky! ;P

Thanks!

Oh, hey, Will;
they just finished a battle in the other pbp. Any time you wanna jump in I can throw you into the mix.......I was backed off because you were being an rpg superstar and all....figured you had plenty on your plate at the time.

Here's the linky;

Heathy's Isle of Dread thread

Sweet! Yeah, the characters all ready to go so anytime from now would be good. Loved the catfish :) satori can turn up wherever old men drink tea.

Right on; I'm working it up.

linky to the game thread; there's a spoilered post for Satori San.

Level 4 hit points: 1d10 ⇒ 9

Level 4 hit points: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Nice roll, Castiel. I will, once again, go with the minimum half provided by our oh-so-generous DM.

Alinya's hit point roll 1d8 ⇒ 5. Will be a day or two leveling her up.

Be right over to the isle of dread thread :)

Hey Heath, how was John Carter?

I loved it. Been waiting 40 years to see it.
I don't know why it got panned.
I don't know why it's bombing.
I had a good time seeing it with my son.

There was so much stuff that was just so cool to see on the screen, man.

It looks pretty good.

Yeah, I’ve seen some bad reviews, but the one of the few movie critics I’m inclined to respect gave it 4/5 ... we have some game days coming up with my group where we probably won’t have enough people to play, I’m thinking of suggesting those who can make it go and see John Carter one night.

Good, cos it's bombing and I want a sequel.....

Heh, Yeah, I'm enjoying the trailers and can't WAIT to go see it myself.

Of course, with my current time/money situation, that ain't happenin',...

:P

Rags, in regards to levelling up and bard spells, the good news is that not every adventure in the series is as undead heavy as this one is ... but overall the series does seem to have a lot of enemies that are mostly immune to mind effecting stuff.

As well as the various ‘buff’ type spells (of which the bard spell lists contain some good ones), you may wish to consider some of the following for low level spells:

1st: Grease, Chord of Shards, Remove Fear, Summon Monster (various)
2nd: Alter Self, Blistering Invective, Ghostbane Dirge, Ghostly Disguise, Versatile Weapon

Thanks Moth!

'Chord' is one of my current possible favorites.

I don't think I've seen most of those 2nd lvl spells. Hmmm,...

'Quick Robin! To the bat-computer!'
:)

Dang.
Almost done with the first book of the AP.

Better start readin' up book 2.......

AND Happy Easter to all! :)

Heathy, I've been Struck by an Idea. I want to redesign Alinya as an arcane caster - probably a necromancer. The concept and background are unchanged, but she uses arcane knowledge to control and destroy undead rather than channeling divine power.

Would that work for you? - we could just do it as one of those reality blips.

There's always multi-classing and the mystic theurge route as another option. Having an arcane caster other than a bard (who I generally see as a backup caster) is not a bad idea, the exodus of players early in the game left us very divine heavy and arcane shy.

Yeah that's part of the drive I think. Channeling has often been Alinya's best option, but it's often exactly what Rholf and Larissa have also been doing. Not a 'real' problem, but then our spells overlap and all in all I'd rather have a more defined role for my bookish young lady. I probably wouldn't have asked if we hadn't set a precedent early in the campaign.

I've never seen a Mystic Theurge in the wild. How do they work out? I have a certain amount of worry that she would end up somehow underpowered, but it's a good suggestion. Has the advantage of not needing to go outside the normal game for a redesign, and develops rather than rewrites the character.

I have been in a game with a mystic theurge only once (that I recall) in 3.5; the character seemed pretty powerful, but it was purpose built at highish level, rather than levelling from 1 up - I think you're right, at least for a time there you'd probably be / feel somewhat under powered.

I wasn't sure how much you'd want to abandon the version of Alinya as already played, and how much everyone was comfortable retconning the healing and channeling she's done so far, but I see your point with the overlap with Larissa and Rholf. The more I think about it, a bookish wizard would probably fit Alinya's character as well (if not better than) a cleric.

My understanding is that, as it stands, the mystic theurge is a bit under-powered, though that's based on the 3.5 version and I'm not aware if the PF version has been upped in the power stakes. Th big drawback is casting spells at effectively character level minus 2 - and the number of spell options tends not to compensate. There's a 3.5 PrC called True Necromancer (in Libris Mortis?) which is a bit like the mystic theurge but skewed to undead, but my recollection is that it always felt a bit like an "NPC PrC" - fun for a bad guy, maybe not appropiate for a good guy - although it might be just the ticket for Carrion Crown.