Pencil sketch of the Mighty Ones battling Nalfeshnee GravegobblerThat is the best D&D art I have seen in anges, brings great school afternoons back.
:) Thanks! I am going to ink it and add more detail eventually, then I'll post the finished result.
So, Rumplestiltskin sent the Company of the Beryllium Dragon (my tabletop group on Friday nights) to Hell with a wish lol... What's worse, is he worded the wish so they cant escape via planeshift or any other spell short of wish, and may only escape if they discover a permanent gate on Hell that links to another plane, and time on Earth passes much more quickly while they are in Hell... By the tikme they return to Earth, 50 years will have passed, making it 1487. Count Dracula has become the Earth's greatest vampire over the past decade, different rulers in every kingdom, Gutenberg's marvellous printing press is pumping out Bibles, royal decrees, bestiaries, and anti-witch propaganda like crazy now, etc. Muahahahahaaa!!
Of course, now I've created the possibility of timeline difficulties... I will assume your party succeeds in defeating Nero for good by finding and destroying his phylactery, either before he can reincarnate, or after beating him a second time. And if you kill Sultan Murad II before then, that will change history considerably, possibly even preventing Dracula from becoming a vampire...
Time travel will have to create alternative timelines and parallel Earths, as some speculate...
^ That also takes the only other high level party in my campaign out of the picture for five decades. You are Earth's greatest heroes now... and it's only hope in the fight against Evil!
I see Ihrin becoming a powerful Vampire right hand of her Father
With apologies to Johnny Panic, I used Lord Perpireen as an NPC tonight in my 1350s campaign with my buddy Ray, who is playing a group of now 8th level adventurers led by Lord of Kent Magnus Ericsson (a Viking paladin/slayer/inquisitor).
He encountered Lord P at the new Elephant and Castle Inn in Kent, entertaining the locals and drinking them under the table. Introductions were made between the Lord of Sprites and the Lord of Kent, drinking ensued, as well as wagers on a game of rings, and Lord Perpireen ended up befriending the Lord of Kent and taking him to the Fablehavens to meet Queen Titania and King Oberon.
The mortal Lord of Kent and his Lady Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent (a summoner with angelic eidolon) learned of Lord Perpireen's quest to sequester as many magical and legendary beings as possible away in the Fablehavens, and succeeded in forging an alliance with the Seelie Court, whereby the Fey would always have guarded portals and sacred grounds in Kent, Wales, and Scandinavia, where the more pleasant and harmless Fey would be welcomed and respected.
When they stepped out of the First World again, 50 years had passed, and the dismayed Lord of Kent negotiated with Lord Perpireen for a backtracking through the Bright Ways to his own time again, securing for Lord Perpireen a small source of passive income in the form of a fifth of the proceeds from Tunbridge Wells' smithies and iron mines.
How is everyone doing? They lifted curfew in my county for nonessential workers, but still social distancing. Lots of people I know have been laid off and are struggling with the wonky Florida unemployment website.
Fortunately, I have a decent savings that with the stimulus check will allow me the luxury of not working for a while, but it wont last forever. I will have to get back to some kind of work eventually. My professional license is as a massage therapist, and the health dept has temporarily outlawed massage lol...
I was delivering pizzas for a while but started to feel like it wasn't worth spreading COVID 19 to my elderly parents, so I resigned. I'm basically a full time GM at this point! I can think of very few things I'd rather do with my time than play games with my friends, so I can't complain. How are you all faring?
Good I am an essential worker who due to making sure we didn't have our whole crew on at the same time has been only working two days a week with them paying me for the full week.
Good I am an essential worker who due to making sure we didn't have our whole crew on at the same time has been only working two days a week with them paying me for the full week.
Nice!
You still with us, Storm Dragon?
Hopefully he's all good and just busy lately. Why dont we proceed? I'll bot Alphonse as best I can in the meantime.
You still with us, Storm Dragon?
My GM bot of Alphonse JIC...
Haven't had a ton of time for PbP the last week, sorry.
Haven't had a ton of time for PbP the last week, sorry.
No need to apologize, friend. Take your time and catch up when you can.
SLAs require concentration. Perhaps a change from 3.5?
Spell-Like Abilities (Sp): Using a spell-like ability works like casting a spell in that it requires concentration and provokes attacks of opportunity. Spell-like abilities can be disrupted. If your concentration is broken, the attempt to use the ability fails, but the attempt counts as if you had used the ability. The casting time of a spell-like ability is 1 standard action, unless the ability description notes otherwise.
Using a Spell-Like Ability on the Defensive: You may attempt to use a spell-like ability on the defensive, just as with casting a spell. If the concentration check (DC 15 + double the spell's level) fails, you can't use the ability, but the attempt counts as if you had used the ability.
Huh, I always forget about that.
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Hi All, I'm in lockdown with my family, doing a little online consultancy work and savings. The way this is looking, I would expect coming out of hard lockdown in a mouth or 6 weeks. Then slow freeing up until wave 2 hits September. Then lockdown again. I work in TV Film VFX, working on sets for the client, not back end in a post house. Right now no filming of any kind underway. My worry is this will stop all large projects for the next few years. Meaning nothing for me to do. So I have to find another area to work in. In my life, I have been hit a few times, seen set back after set back. Kind of use to them now. This one is just one more to add to the list.
Ya get up, you start over and you get on with it.
That's the spirit, my friend.
Though your heart may break, men will go on as before. --Marcus Aurelius
I think we can safely assume that the party destroys the other hezrou in either round three or four... Shall I move the narrative along?
Hope no one minds if I advance the story a bit, now that combat and Hisao's gift-giving encounter is over?
Was thinking of narrating exploration until something interesting to the players comes up...
Only one level remains of my Roman Catacombs, more properly a first level of the primordial Underworld, where the borders between Earth and the lower planes become thinner and blurrier...
Here, you must find the copper keyhole, one-third of the extraplanar lock separating the party from the demiplane in which Nero's phylactery awaits...
Speaking of Hisao, I wonder if his player still lurks around on the forums? He was one of the two people left in the last game by the end.
Speaking of Hisao, I wonder if his player still lurks around on the forums? He was one of the two people left in the last game by the end.
I sent him a message about the time you brought Alphonse into this campaign, inviting him to join us with Hisao. That was about when you all were 10th level, which is what level that last campaign ran out of gas. He replied, but he said he was really busy then with work and real life stuff, and regretfully wasn't able to commit to regular PBP gaming at that time. He's probably still around on the boards.
I am cool with a narrative explanation of some of our adventures down here, until you bring to a place of plot importance!
Excellent! I will get to posting soon.
Wish me luck, friends. I am going to try to banish something that is troubling a friend who is directly descended from Vlad the Impaler. He lives at a house said to be haunted in the Sarasota area of Florida, where he has described a foul stench like decay around his infant son's crib, and scratches and bites on his body the morning after trying to drive the entity away...
Another friend of mine with some experience with ghost hunting was supposed to join us tonight and try to record some electric voice phenomena, but he has to work.
I am armed with Holy water blessed by a Catholic priest (my mom actually had a bottle lol), a crucifix likewise blessed, and to cover all the bases, some sage to burn and some sea salt to spread around the crib area.
He told me some of his baby boy's electronic toys have spontaneously activated in response to him interrogating the entity as well... Classic! I have always been morbidly curious about paranormal phenomena. This is my first time interacting with a supposedly haunted or possessed location. Hoping its minor psychic stuff like a ghost or poltergeist and not a demon or something. Also, approaching this with careful skepticism until I've experienced something that is beyond rational explanation. Stenches of decay, sounds, scratches, and random electronics malfunctions can all be explained without ghosts or demons, of course.
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A bit of housekeeping-- everyone should visit the party loot spreadsheet and see if there is anything they want to claim. I did not write down everyone's special gifts. Most is minor magical equipment that I will presume we will sell at first chance, but there are some artifacts in there so take whatever fits in your build.
Whoever has the worst saves should take the lucky rabbit foot. Add them up and give your total? Mine seem pretty good (17+16+13= 46)
What items did Me and Mwikali get?
Adding up saving throws to see who could use the rabbits foot most is a good idea
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A quick glance here shows me that fox is at 35 and ihrin is at 34. I'm sure our paladin has sky high saves. Mwikali is in the lower 40s.
Why doesn't Ihrin take the rabbit foot?
Ihrin you just have to go into gameplay and scroll up a smidge to see your quest reward.
If no one wants anything else on the loot sheet I'll liquidate it. We've gotten most of the good stuff off of there though.
Ho all Im back
I think I remember we determined Ihrin's saves were the lowest a while back when determining who gets a Cloak of Resistance, so that tracks.
All PCs should be leveled up to 13th level. I noticed on Alphonse's sheet it says Paladin 11. You might've only forgotten to change the level, I didn't do a careful check of everything. Just thought I'd remind you all to double check your sheets and make sure everything is updated to level 13, because you are more than half the way to level 14 now, so it won't be too long before you need to level up again. And you're going to want all the abilities and powers you've earned for this final stretch/arc of the campaign.
The next 6 levels will see you going against Grünerraver the ancient green dragon, Wormwood the ancient red dragon, Sultan Murad II the maharaja rakshasa, and powerful greater devils and demons, possibly eventually archdevils and demon lords, including Lucfer the Prince of Darkness himself! Epic adventures await! :)
Everything else is up to date; I just haven't changed the level
Everything else is up to date; I just haven't changed the level
Okay, cool.
So Mwikali got the crown that increases my Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma
This should be a fun adventure! :)
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Ok so we have 79832-46100= 33732/6 = Everyone take 5622 GP for their personal stash.
Resist Acid potions, caster levels:
Alphonse: Two level 3
Fox: level 7 and level 3
Ihrin: Two level 3
Mwikali: Two level 3
Lord P: Two level 3
Johann: level 8 and level 3
Protection from acid potions, caster levels:
Alphonse: 10, 7, 5, 5
Fox: 10, 6, 5, 5
Ihrin: 9, 5, 5
Mwikali: 9, 6, 5
Lord P: 8, 5, 5
Johann: 8, 7, 5
Fox: Will you take the 4 operational wind fans? I will be shapeshifted usually. Don't forget to use them!
Everybody within 20 feet of me is immune to them.
Yep, I'll hold the 4 remaining wind fans.
Nice job on the riddles, Sir Alphonse!
It looks like the party is going into this dragon fight well prepared. I will give a little more time for everyone to announce preparations, then I will have Grünerraver show up and roll initiative!
I've been waiting because Alphonse is last in Init before Gruneraver. Is everyone delaying until after me?
Agreed. Everyone goes before the dragon, so why don't you go ahead, Alphonse.
I'll have a post up in a bit.