Howdy.
Anyone left here who remembers me? Anyone I remember? Okay if I swing by and play in this good ol' sandbox for a while once again?
*hugs*
So glad to see you back! :D
And of course you are welcome to come back and play as you always have been. :)
Lynora--
That works for me. Finding a good source of raw matter to repair/make things (or just energy, naturally -- magic setting) is awesome sauce.
I guess the only possible limitation is 'time' and the finer detailed stuff-- i.e. magical items (potions, scrolls and wands).
Or do the nanites make those too? Cause-- heck, that'd be gross. A smart dragon wanting to horde ALL THE THINGS would only ever need to learn how to get 3D X-Ray scans of ALL THE THINGS and store those somewhere.
Then you could horde the universe... literally.
Not that I'm suggesting that be done! Might drive someone insane. ;)
Lynora--
That works for me. Finding a good source of raw matter to repair/make things (or just energy, naturally -- magic setting) is awesome sauce.
I guess the only possible limitation is 'time' and the finer detailed stuff-- i.e. magical items (potions, scrolls and wands).
Or do the nanites make those too? Cause-- heck, that'd be gross. A smart dragon wanting to horde ALL THE THINGS would only ever need to learn how to get 3D X-Ray scans of ALL THE THINGS and store those somewhere.
Then you could horde the universe... literally.
Not that I'm suggesting that be done! Might drive someone insane. ;)
Nanites cannot recreate potions, scrolls, and wands. Aananda usually finds a non-magical way to imitate magical effects.
....and there's a reason her lab is her hoard....and she does tend to walk on the mad science side.....but I don't think she's yet considered hoarding ALL THE THINGS.....let's not give her ideas. >.<
Anyone wanna guess what Vai is hoarding?! :D
There is a question about what settro can do with his limited wish using this ability-
By Will Alone (Su): Once per day, the godling can cast a spell without fulfilling any of its components. The spell requires no somatic, verbal, or material components. Even spells with expensive foci or material components can be cast without such materials by using this ability. The godling may select this ascendancy more than once. Each time it is selected, the godling may cast a spell with no components one additional time per day. Source: Genius Guide to the Mystic Godling
The main reason i want to know, is the spell resurrect is within a normal limited wish's ability, but because normally, they are hard to control, i wonder if this will work properly.
Anyone wanna guess what Vai is hoarding?! :D
HUMAN BLOOD! :D
Nanites cannot recreate potions, scrolls, and wands. Aananda usually finds a non-magical way to imitate magical effects.
....and there's a reason her lab is her hoard....and she does tend to walk on the mad science side.....but I don't think she's yet considered hoarding ALL THE THINGS.....let's not give her ideas. >.<
I would NEVER want to suggest that a lovely dragon being like Aananda go for hording ALL THE THINGS.
I mean, that's just silly and WAY beneath a dragon of her caliber and intelligence to be suckered into... talk about Greed and Gluttony... maybe even Envy.
If it could EVEN be done, I mean-- that might take someone of a brilliant mind... er... well, it /might/ be an enriching mental exercise. Perhaps.
:shrugs:
Anyone wanna guess what Vai is hoarding?! :D
It's not guessing if you've already said. ^.^
There is a question about what settro can do with his limited wish using this ability-
By Will Alone (Su): Once per day, the godling can cast a spell without fulfilling any of its components. The spell requires no somatic, verbal, or material components. Even spells with expensive foci or material components can be cast without such materials by using this ability. The godling may select this ascendancy more than once. Each time it is selected, the godling may cast a spell with no components one additional time per day. Source: Genius Guide to the Mystic Godling
The main reason i want to know, is the spell resurrect is within a normal limited wish's ability, but because normally, they are hard to control, i wonder if this will work properly.
Yes, it will work properly for a controlled thing like imitating a spell. Limited Wish is much less crazy than Wish and when used with restraint often doesn't cause weird side-effects.
Alright then, thank you for confirmation.
Evil mummy is evil....but it could totally be done if you just...with the scans and the catalogs and....well, it might take a while, but...
Exhausted GM is going to sleep now. Try not to blow up the planet before I get back online thanks.
Exhausted GM is going to sleep now. Try not to blow up the planet before I get back online thanks.
Who would want to do that!?
:grins:
Anyone wanna guess what Vai is hoarding?! :D
Oh oh I have a guess. Stolen photos of the guys of Avalon!
Heh. Of THAT I have no doubt, my friend. 'Tis one of the best things about this thread. I'll hang back and won't muck things up for anyone, promise. Like I said; atomic. Monadic. All that jazz. Thanks for the heads-up!
Welcome back DRA!! Glad to have you here again; as Lyn said, you are always welcome and wanted.
just checking,
Aananda is an NPC staff [none teacher],
and Vai is PC student?
We call them GMPC's because they are more important than NPC's. An NPC is something under a narrator profile. Like Damiani, Lyn's narrator, this one, etc.
But, yes. Vai is a PC and Aanda is a gmpc.
just checking,
Aananda is an NPC staff [none teacher],
and Vai is PC student?
Ananda is the head of security.
Hey, Lyn or someone official, are dinosaurs part of the setting? The druid way of find one and bond it, not summon one. :)
Sara's other class is gonna be druid.
We call them GMPC's because they are more important than NPC's. An NPC is something under a narrator profile. Like Damiani, Lyn's narrator, this one, etc.
But, yes. Vai is a PC and Aanda is a gmpc.
Arr that explains things, I was thinking, wow this NPC is deep,
GM-PCs I have to say most games/cons/larps I have been in have the rule no GM run pcs aka [GMPC] as we all know "bad GMs" [not saying anyone here is a bad GM at all] have a really bad habit of making "their/the" game all about what "their" GM-PCs is doing, you know the type, "Hay the party just got saved my this 25 level Epic Vampire Drow who thinks your all weak and useless 8th level party sun dwellers, hes my PC whos come to join your party Yayy!!". who then use said GM-PC to roll over every thing player-PCs try and do, so their PC can do all the cool stuff and take over the game play for showboating "their" GM-PC to,
"Stand back party wile I kill the giants with my spells your poor mind are to small to hold" -> Zap Boom, city comes out to say think you to GM-PC and point at the Payer PCs saying "who are those losers?"
[Shudders at the memory's]
I am not saying that this is the case here, its just odd to have GM-PCs in play, just not used to it.
Well in this game we all have a little gm power. Running small arcs about our characters and the like. Lyn, db3, Fireclaw and dale are the higher ups that run the real story arcs with Lyn being the highest higher up.
Think of it like everyone being a player and taking turns running things.
Thanks Tybalt, sounds cool, so every player can be a PC, GM/PC, GM-Teacher and/or GM-NPC, under a GM of GMs Lyn and co. With each doing archs and stuff, cool got it now. was getting lost a bit.
I only have the one PC, with the post rate here I am not looking for another, takes me ages to to read the posts for Carl.
:)
If renkai does grab it, then i will post for it. Until lyn confirms that ephebe, nala, or anyone else in the door doesn't stop this, however, just wait.
Anyone wanna guess what Vai is hoarding?! :DHUMAN BLOOD! :D
Well... Tamina was alot more tasty than Kaze... maybe she should hoard elf blood instead.
And Dark Vai is only under an alias cause I had this extra one sitting around from before Vai changed her name. She's an NPC.
Though, really, titles like PC, NPC, GMPC, etc... shouldn't really matter. In character is in character - our characters have no way of distinguishing between them, except that the PC's actions tend to stand out more... at least, until NPCs start blowing up the school.
Hey, Lyn or someone official, are dinosaurs part of the setting? The druid way of find one and bond it, not summon one. :)
Sara's other class is gonna be druid.
Hmm... not sure if Dinosaurs exist on Agartha.
I don't think it's ever been explicitly states that they /aren't/ there though.
Tell us a story about how Sara gets a dinosaur! Dinotopia-style! :D
Aananda was actually my PC in the original Agartha game. :)
Anyhow, it's not like I don't know that GMPCs have a bad name, but I do have some 'rules' in place for myself as well as others to keep things from going in that direction. And as has already been mentioned, while I'm the primary person in charge, that doesn't mean I run all the arcs. Everyone can take a turn at GMing a piece of the story. I'm more like the main referee and one of my main responsibilities is keeping people's stories from interfering with or contradicting each other and/or established canon and bringing in new folks.
Teacher characters generally don't interfere in student storylines. Why? Because they are so freaking busy dealing with even more powerful and/or urgent stuff. Because the stuff the PCs are fighting? Not always the worst thing out there. That' by the way true for teachers in general not just mine. Also there is a prevailing attitude in the school of trying to empower the students by enabling them to handle problems themselves instead of swooping in and solving i for them. If a situation is outside of students' ability to handle and a teacher has to be brought in the first option is usually a lower level teacher (ie still under twentieth level and maybe not all awesome-sauce actually). This past storyline showed some examples of that and this was partly because at least part of the challenge was designed to be taken on by that particular group (ex. Ephebe, Nala, Ryuzo, Krays).
The other thing is that if I'm running the arc, then none of my PCs an be the one to solve it or really do anything more than potentially offer some small amount of support. None of my PCs have their moment in the spotlight unless someone else is running the arc. All of the above are basically the rules of common courtesy in this game and are expected behavior. Because the phenomenon you describe of the GMPC saving the day makes for crappy storytelling and that's not what we're after here.
Anyways, I hope that helps explain things a bit better for you.
Thanks Tybalt, sounds cool, so every player can be a PC, GM/PC, GM-Teacher and/or GM-NPC, under a GM of GMs Lyn and co. With each doing archs and stuff, cool got it now. was getting lost a bit.
I only have the one PC, with the post rate here I am not looking for another, takes me ages to to read the posts for Carl.
:)
Yup - generally arcs are run by Lyn first, but only for two real reasons (and this is Lyn's /real/ role, IMO):
1) To make sure we aren't breaking continuuity.
2) To make sure it won't interfere with other story-lines being setup.
Beyond that, we're pretty much free to do whatever we would like. Lyn is less of a GM, and more of an 'Arbiter of the Storyline'.
Edit: Aaaand... Lyn is a ninja.
Hey, Lyn or someone official, are dinosaurs part of the setting? The druid way of find one and bond it, not summon one. :)
Sara's other class is gonna be druid.Hmm... not sure if Dinosaurs exist on Agartha.
I don't think it's ever been explicitly states that they /aren't/ there though.
Tell us a story about how Sara gets a dinosaur! Dinotopia-style! :D
Dinosaurs exist on Agartha, you just have to find the right place to get them. :)
so I guess Vai will want her old roomie back then?
that would be alright with Mel (at least on the outside.) inside she may be hurt but its something she would have to deal with.
Pfft: Mel, we can have 3 people in one room! Bwaha! Think of the rumours.
so I guess Vai will want her old roomie back then?
that would be alright with Mel (at least on the outside.) inside she may be hurt but its something she would have to deal with.
We may be playing musical roommates here...although honestly I wasn't sure if Mel would want to stay with Vai after the whole chomping thing.;P
But potentially Mel can be roommates with Ginni since Tami pretty much always stays over with Dom. Or we could just make a really big girls dorm so all the girls are in the same place...like a constant slumber party. ;)
so I guess Vai will want her old roomie back then?
that would be alright with Mel (at least on the outside.) inside she may be hurt but its something she would have to deal with.
We may be playing musical roommates here...although honestly I wasn't sure if Mel would want to stay with Vai after the whole chomping thing.;P
But potentially Mel can be roommates with Ginni since Tami pretty much always stays over with Dom. Or we could just make a really big girls dorm so all the girls are in the same place...like a constant slumber party. ;)
yeah Tami and Dom. I didn't really want to think about that after what Mel did to Tam, she feels awful about that.
Not sure yet on how she feels about staying with Vai as she hasn't thought about it yet. there are numerous conflicted things going on in her head.
definitely like the idea of a big dorm room I know Mel would feel safer that way. and we can keep an open bed for tam if she ever actually wants a night away from Dom. (yeah like that would happen)
yeah Tami and Dom. I didn't really want to think about that after what Mel did to Tam, she feels awful about that.
Not sure yet on how she feels about staying with Vai as she hasn't thought about it yet. there are numerous conflicted things going on in her head.
definitely like the idea of a big dorm room I know Mel would feel safer that way. and we can keep an open bed for tam if she ever actually wants a night away from Dom. (yeah like that would happen)
A big dorm room..... More places for me to hide and watch you in secret.....
A big dorm room..... More places for me to hide and watch you in secret.....yeah Tami and Dom. I didn't really want to think about that after what Mel did to Tam, she feels awful about that.
Not sure yet on how she feels about staying with Vai as she hasn't thought about it yet. there are numerous conflicted things going on in her head.
definitely like the idea of a big dorm room I know Mel would feel safer that way. and we can keep an open bed for tam if she ever actually wants a night away from Dom. (yeah like that would happen)
Perv!
On another note.. was looking over gameplay info and was wondering if there was anyone to do an updated class portrait(s)
Perv!A big dorm room..... More places for me to hide and watch you in secret.....yeah Tami and Dom. I didn't really want to think about that after what Mel did to Tam, she feels awful about that.
Not sure yet on how she feels about staying with Vai as she hasn't thought about it yet. there are numerous conflicted things going on in her head.
definitely like the idea of a big dorm room I know Mel would feel safer that way. and we can keep an open bed for tam if she ever actually wants a night away from Dom. (yeah like that would happen)
I swear....if I catch you.... I'll kill you assassin
A big dorm room..... More places for me to hide and watch you in secret.....yeah Tami and Dom. I didn't really want to think about that after what Mel did to Tam, she feels awful about that.
Not sure yet on how she feels about staying with Vai as she hasn't thought about it yet. there are numerous conflicted things going on in her head.
definitely like the idea of a big dorm room I know Mel would feel safer that way. and we can keep an open bed for tam if she ever actually wants a night away from Dom. (yeah like that would happen)
Perv!
On another note.. was looking over gameplay info and was wondering if there was anyone to do an updated class portrait(s)
It took me months to do the last batch, so I don't know that I'd be up for another go at it.
Oh man. Ardi and Raelle are never gonna get their crap together. Hah.
Oh man. Ardi and Raelle are never gonna get their crap together. Hah.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe life will sort things out... Again! ;)
Oh man. Ardi and Raelle are never gonna get their crap together. Hah.
Oh, I know. Is this scene as painful for you to write as it is for me? ;)
Dinosaurs exist on Agartha, you just have to find the right place to get them. :)Hey, Lyn or someone official, are dinosaurs part of the setting? The druid way of find one and bond it, not summon one. :)
Sara's other class is gonna be druid.Hmm... not sure if Dinosaurs exist on Agartha.
I don't think it's ever been explicitly states that they /aren't/ there though.
Tell us a story about how Sara gets a dinosaur! Dinotopia-style! :D
Yay! T-rex! :D
@Carl:
The way you were sort of NPC driving during the explosions/fights, adding your flare and creativity is effectively what we do we GMing here with or without our Teacher/Student characters.
Since the universal rules/conditions are set by Lynora, who does an awesome job and I am endeavoring to provide some tales for a few of her PCs, we keep things "rules light" with regards to some stuff, but, IMHO, keep things "real" when dealing with plots others are throwing out when it's "serious" business, i.e. solving issues for story progress and combat.
Hope that helps.
Do always feel free to ask or offer ideas, or even request a plot- maybe someone will be inspired and want to run something.
I think Lynora's guide of: Students deal with issues first, Teachers only second after students clearly are out classed, is an excellent one. This is what I've been using with the few plots I've got, which hopefully will foster teamwork and adventures just like the game system supports. After all, this is in essence, about parties accomplishing great things together, right? In my mind, no "man" or "woman" in this game is an island. Co-operation is key, hence the school setting even.
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Oh man. Ardi and Raelle are never gonna get their crap together. Hah.Oh, I know. Is this scene as painful for you to write as it is for me? ;)
Oh definitely. Trying to be an awkward teenager again! A lady-killer, Ardiente is not, though he does have some redeeming qualities! ;D
Oh definitely. Trying to be an awkward teenager again! A lady-killer, Ardiente is not, though he does have some redeeming qualities! ;DOh man. Ardi and Raelle are never gonna get their crap together. Hah.Oh, I know. Is this scene as painful for you to write as it is for me? ;)
Hee hee, I hope you aren't referring to his re-structuring by Raelle post decap!
NOTE: Attempted humor.
Note, To everyone-
Should you ever use anything of the skrying subtype to view anything near settro or riviarti, let me know.
What is "skrying subtype"?
I think he meant scrying.
I may have misspelled something.
Any spell of the
Divination (Scrying)
Type.
I think he meant scrying.
Oh, gotcha. I thought it was a racial template I wasn't aware if.
So, Icegawk, if someone uses divination on either of those two, warn you? Or casts the spell near you? Just making sure.