@RVT: Alright, thanks. I was just asking because the rules are incredibly unclear when it comes to the proficiency feats.
Velvet, I think the way an old friend of mine did the Height/Weight for a large creature (at least when it was a Medium class being TF'ed into a large creature) was to multiply the base height and weight by eight. At least, I think it was x8...
Edit: Okay, the weight gets multiplied by eight, the height gets doubled, I think . Looking through stuff, the average height of a 14-year old girl seems to be around 5'2"-5'4", so if we take that and multiply it by 2, we get 124. Divide that by 12, and we get 10'4". I've no idea what the average weight for a 14-year old is, so I guess let's say 99-120 at best? Soooo we'll go with 105. Multiply that by 8 and we get 804 pounds. *Nodnod* Sound good, oh mighty GM of velvet felines?
Velvet, I think the way an old friend of mine did the Height/Weight for a large creature (at least when it was a Medium class being TF'ed into a large creature) was to multiply the base height and weight by eight. At least, I think it was x8...
When your height is doubled, your weight is multiplied by x4.
Large creatures are twice the size of medium creatures.
@Terquem: I know that was absolutely not directed at me, but thank you! :P
Velvet, I think the way an old friend of mine did the Height/Weight for a large creature (at least when it was a Medium class being TF'ed into a large creature) was to multiply the base height and weight by eight. At least, I think it was x8...When your height is doubled, your weight is multiplied by x4.
Large creatures are twice the size of medium creatures.
Ah, thank you!
So that's 10'4" for height, and 402 for weight.
Velvet, I think the way an old friend of mine did the Height/Weight for a large creature (at least when it was a Medium class being TF'ed into a large creature) was to multiply the base height and weight by eight. At least, I think it was x8...When your height is doubled, your weight is multiplied by x4.
Large creatures are twice the size of medium creatures.
Ah, thank you!
So that's 10'4" for height, and 402 for weight.
...jeebus on a slice of toast, that's big.
You are 4 inches taller than 3 of me and like 10x my weight.
EDIT: Make that 25x, actually, since it's actually double that weight (I rechecked) AND you have metallic bones, making you quite a bit heavier.
What I'm saying is, you're 10'4'' and 1006 pounds.
Well yeah, the deformity is called "Giant". XD
Well yeah, the deformity is called "Giant". XD
check my edit. You weigh 2.5x as much as I previously thought.
Well yeah, the deformity is called "Giant". XDcheck my edit. You weigh 2.5x as much as I previously thought.
Oh god. :| She's a big girl.
This campaign is gonna be so awesome. I've never been GM'd by a tiger made out of delicious cake.
I wonder if we can bite Velvet and gain his/her powers...
I wonder if we can bite Velvet and gain his/her powers...
if she scratches you, don't bleed on her, or you'll ruin the flavor.
Almost done my backstory!
Read the facts on Xerxes (Arwyne's faerie kitty) and weep in confusion!
The campaign tag says something interesting... it says the Five threaten the "known" world... Do we get to rally the rest of the world and lead an army against them?
Aaaand backstory is on the alias page now!
One day, Emmeline felt far more adventurous, having just turned eleven a day ago. She traveled further outside of the "safe spot" to gather berries, and was ecstatic to find rare berries, berries she was told were amazingly sweet and absolutely delicious in one's mouth. She celebrated gleefully and quickly ran back to her village, unaware that she was being watched from the bushes. She entered her home, calling for her parents so she could show off her achievement, but she was met with naught but silence. She set the berries down and began exploring her home, and finally, she found her parents lying dead on the floor, their bodies covered in tiny puncture wounds. She laughed, having not yet seen death.
"Mom, Dad, wake up! I found some really pretty berries!"
But they did not wake.
"Come on, stop playing pretend! I found you both, I win!"
Silence.
"Mooooooooooooooom...Come on, stop sleeping and wake up so I can show you what I found!"
Nothing.
She drew closer to the bodies and poked at the bodies cautiously, feeling around them with her bare hands, but she got no response. She left her house and ran to a neighbor's house, banging on the door rapidly.
"Mom and Dad won't wake up!" she yelled, her hands now covered in blood. Some of the villagers rushed into the house, and it was there that they saw their corpses lying there, covered in small puncture wounds. They found something she didn't see before, however: A small pair of scissor-like tools. The villagers murmured amongst themselves while she looked on, confused and worried.
"She couldn't have, right?"
"But her hands are drenched in their blood..."
"She's just a little girl, there's no way!"
"There's no other explanation. The girl killed her parents."
"Even if she did, there's no way she did it on purpose, right? She clearly wasn't in her right mind!"
"Even so, we can't keep her in our village. We'll find a new place for her to live and be rid of her."
The villagers picked Emmeline up and left the house, with the young girl kicking and screaming for her parents.
Months later, and Emmeline had been moved to an orphanage in a town on the edge of the woods, living with other children who had lost their parents or been abandoned by some cruel event. She never felt as though she belonged, always swearing her parents were only sleeping. She was pitied by the owner of the orphanage, and was often give leeway on certain things, in addition to secret snacks if she was good. Over time, she was given more freedom, and she longed to return to the forest to pick more berries, like she used to. Despite his gut feeling, the owner allowed this, gather three adults to go with her for her own safety. The team traveled into the forest, and Emmeline skipped with joy as she began searching for berries, gathering quite a few. As she traveled deeper into the woods, her chaperones grew worried, and swore they heard noises in the bushes several times. Emmeline was simply entranced by the variety of rare berries and plants she had found, and continued onward without a care in the world.
It was then that she saw a peculiar sight waiting just barely out of her reach. She saw both of her parents standing there.
"Mom! Dad! I knew you were both just sleeping!" she cried out. While they did not reply, they smiled warmly. She got to her feet and ran out to hug them. Curiously enough, they simply drifted backwards, just enough so she could not hug them. She began running after them, and they continued retreating, tantalizingly close, but always just out of reach. As she pursued them, her surroundings began to change. The trees began to grow dead, the leaves disappearing gradually. The sky darkened and became an eerie grey color. The very air seemed to steal the air from her lungs, and she felt...she felt wrong, somehow.
She continued nonetheless, determined to bring her parents home. Her surroundings gradually grew darker and more twisted, until finally, she saw it. Running along the ground was a scarlet river, a river of blood. The laughter she'd been letting out as she skipped and ran after her parents ceased, and the atmosphere began to get to her. She began to tremble in fear, her parents staring at her, expecting her to continue chasing. She backed up and tripped over herself, quickly regaining her footing as she fled. However, no matter which way she ran, the river of blood continued flowing in the direction she ran. Finally, she succumbed to exhaustion, and the last thing she saw was her parents' forms shifting into something far more hideous before she blacked out.
She awoke hours later in a strange cell, strange liquids all around her. She felt a strange spark in the air, but she did not know what it was... She heard blurred voices speaking, and shadowy figures watching her as she came to. And then, she was taken, fed countless substances, injected with many more, and forced to endure untold magics. She lost track of the time, subjected to this treatment over the course of three years. One day, she did not awake in her cell, but found herself in a forest, not unlike the one she was in before all this began. She towered over many of the trees, and eventually, she reached a village. The adults, the adults who had previously been so much taller than her, now cowered beneath her form, fleeing for their lives. Emmeline was confused beyond all else, and pursued them to the edge of a lake, where many decided to drown themselves, lest they be eaten or slaughtered. She gazed into the water, and saw her reflection in it, screaming as the sight before her was not her innocent form, but that of a hideous beast.
Since then, she has wandered the wilderness, attempting to fight strange primal urges she feels in her mind sometimes, urges telling her to kill and slaughter. Every time she is forced to eat some poor creature of the wild, she weeps, before continuing her blind travels. She no longer wanders near towns and villages, fearing the villagers as much as they would fear her.
And of the adults that accompanied Emmeline to the woods? All they found was a basket, the berries spilled upon the forest floor, and a pair of bloody scissors.
Ohmai, that is well-written and terrifying. Very Grimm-like, if I do say so myself.
My hidden backstory will probably have a once-upon-a-time beginning. Once I discover it, of course.
Thank you for the compliment. ^^; I was worried it wouldn't be well-received. >.<;
Thank you for the compliment. ^^; I was worried it wouldn't be well-received. >.<;
Please! Pretty much everyone on these boards is a better writer than I.
Once Upon a Time is a great show and it's concept would make an awesome game. Might need to run that...
Once Upon a Time is a great show and it's concept would make an awesome game. Might need to run that...
No, it's not, but the concept is awesome. I would join that game.
And by that, I mean it's not as good as the show Grimm. Skinwalkers everywhere! There was this one voodoo guy who turned out to be a pufferfish that spat out hypnotic poison, also I think he was best friends with Obama. (JK on that second part)
Will there be legacy campaigns set in this world?
My favorite part about being a Gnome is that I can be justified in spouting out total nonsense.
Emmie, is that situation I made up earlier canon now? Are our characters very strange and awesome friends?
I feel sad that we have to wait til Sunday for this to start. We have such a good thing going right now.
I haven't the faintest clue. I can actually see her reacting either way, either by raging and smashing the bow, or by running away. Either way, it's easy to say that Arwyne could've easily encountered her before, especially with her being 10'4". OnO
Still working on my Princess-come-witchcraft character concept... Nearly complete stat block now I just have to focus on the backstory... she's coming together! Is there a deadline posted somewhere? Wouldn't want to miss it.
Also, any restrictions on magic items with starting gold? IE: can I buy some scrolls?
@Brooklyn: Recruitment closes in 5 days. You have some time.
Ack, that reminds me of what I forgot. I forgot to add in the gold and items!
Yeah, the current applicants do have a good mix of abilities.
I'm curious about who might drop in if this keeps going, though.
Emmeline and Arwyne, I find both of your concepts terrifying from the perspective of a normal human in the fairytale world.
It's like: I wonder who I can find to fight the monsters..? Gah! Monsters!
@doc: Just wait until Xerxes appears. A ninja-like Gnome riding on a centaur-kitty will utterly terrify everything, methinks. Meheheheheh...
Speaking of Adventure Time, I love it when they reference DnD. Like in that one episode with Flame Princess where Finn argues with her dad over whether FP will get XP penalties for acting out of alignment, or if it counts as atonement.
Yeah, the current applicants do have a good mix of abilities.
I'm curious about who might drop in if this keeps going, though.
Emmeline and Arwyne, I find both of your concepts terrifying from the perspective of a normal human in the fairytale world.
It's like: I wonder who I can find to fight the monsters..? Gah! Monsters!
Don't worry friend, some of us are pretty normal.
@Niels: Says the guy with the mysterious burn marks and somewhat secretive personality... XD
Even better when one of the monsters has the mindset of a 14-year old frightened girl fighting off her more brutish instincts.
Plus I'm pretty sure Niels is part dragon, part elemental, and has claws.
And an amnesiac who's been wandering the forest searching for a lost past for the past 5 years.
EDIT: @Niels... I almost didn't notice your Shocking Grasp shenanigans. Well played, sir. I am an archer mounted on an archer. Still debating on whether Xerxes should get a Heavy Crossbow or a Longbow, though.
We're certainly an eclectic group.
I feel like Doctor Rogers is the de facto leader of this group just because he's the only one without a severe personality disorder. Well, besides me, of course, but what do I know? *licks paw and grooms back ears*
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No, you cannot bite Velvet and gain her powers! Bad PCs! *Slaps bad PCs with a D20 Mace of Infinite Nat 1's* I CAN bake a mean red velvet cake, though! ^_^
Terquem, I'm sure you can find a way to keep them interested!
Arwyne, did you mix Schroedinger's Cat with Cheshire to make your lynx? :P And if by legacy campaigns, you mean future campaigns where the PCs are enshrined in the world lore, then maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe! ^_^
Monkey, Once Upon A Time is what INSPIRED me to include this as an option under the vote thread! I don't know how well people would recieve flipping from fantasy-land to real-world though, so I'm not sure if that is an option.
No restrictions on starting magic items as long as you can afford them.
WILL POST IDEAS FOR 'TALE FEATS' LATER!!! REVIEWING APPLICANTS FOR 'ECHOES OF THE SEPHIRA', MY UBER-MEGA GODLY LEGENDARY MYTHIC CAMPAIGN OF INEFFABLE AWESOMENESS... +7! ^_^
Also, Arwyne, I may rule that you can have a Pard (The phase cat things,), a Dweomercat, or a Silvanshee Agathion as your animal companion, if you take a story feat for it...
@Red Velvet: ...yes, I am totes a mix of Schroedinger's Cat and the Cheshire Cat. (those bastards... always crashing my parties...)
Also, Arwyne, I may rule that you can have a Pard (The phase cat things,), a Dweomercat, or a Silvanshee Agathion as your animal companion, if you take a story feat for it...
Actually, Xerxes is a Fey already, so I'd rather not start mashing up templates and creatures like that.
@Niels: Says the guy with the mysterious burn marks and somewhat secretive personality... XD
All you magic-y guys fightin' them bad magic gobble-goup - *shudder* - it gives me the willies,
@Doctor Don't you worry though, I'm just like you, just a little more forceful.
@Niels: Says the guy with the mysterious burn marks and somewhat secretive personality... XD
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It's not mysterious. A witch done it, super-simple. Plus, I'm the hero. Duh.Plus I'm pretty sure Niels is part dragon, part elemental, and has claws.
Technically I can grow claws. It's magic stuff, don't question it.
And an amnesiac who's been wandering the forest searching for a lost past for the past 5 years.
EDIT: @Niels... I almost didn't notice your Shocking Grasp shenanigans. Well played, sir.
If you're going to do something, best do it well. It's toned back well enough at least.
Im an archer mounted on an archer. Still debating on whether Xerxes should get a Heavy Crossbow or a Longbow, though.
Of the two, the longbow is the superior option mechanically. Take that as you will.
@Eliah: the Doctor can study magic eventually though. THEN what are you? Love your avatar btw.
Of the two, the longbow is the superior option mechanically. Take that as you will.
But, the Longbow doesn't have any mechanical components. Which... I guess makes it that much more thematically appropriate for a Faerie.
@Red Velvet, can I have Xerxes a level early, perhaps? As in, level 3? As in, so we can start extra-awesome shenanigans that much earlier?
Mmmm, Cloak of Resistance +1...Always nice. -w-
Also, I have to wonder if there's a way that Emmeline can use her sharp teeth in conjunction with her toxic blood? Maybe she can bite her tongue and have the toxins delivered via her natural bite attack? Just throwing out ideas right now. She'll probably be too busy punching things to care, although forcing blood to burst out of her skin is pretty macabre, and I'm tempted to do that quite a bit to reinforce how dark all of this is.
Weird to think I might be one of the normal ones...
Mmmm, Cloak of Resistance +1...Always nice. -w-
Also, I have to wonder if there's a way that Emmeline can use her sharp teeth in conjunction with her toxic blood? Maybe she can bite her tongue and have the toxins delivered via her natural bite attack? Just throwing out ideas right now. She'll probably be too busy punching things to care, although forcing blood to burst out of her skin is pretty macabre, and I'm tempted to do that quite a bit to reinforce how dark all of this is.
I was actually going to suggest something like that, maybe make it so that this: Any time Emmie takes slashing or piercing damage, she deals 1d4 Acid damage to any creature occupying the same square as her. That way if you grapple a lion, the lion hurts itself every time it bites you. There could be a feat chain to upgrade the effect.
@Eliah: the Doctor can study magic eventually though. THEN what are you? Love your avatar btw.
Then I suppose I'm just a guy with a sharp stick and alchemical concoctions. And that horse...I forgot I've still got that horse...
@Royce - OI! I resent that, I'm the most normal one here Ha-Ha
I'm too old to be learning flashy witch-magic. Leave that to the young adventurers and beasts.
@Arwyne - Maybe you can purchase Xerxes as a pet or with a story feat, just not getting your class bonus for an animal companion until 4
@Eliah: I'm going to eat that horse the first time it shows weakness, you realize.
I'm too old to be learning flashy witch-magic. Leave that to the young adventurers and beasts.
@Arwyne - Maybe you can purchase Xerxes as a pet or with a story feat, just not getting your class bonus for an animal companion until 4
but then it'll be weird when he turns into a centaur-faerie-kitty.
Weird to think I might be one of the normal ones...
you creep me out so much.