Well I'm not antipiating a huge amount of interest so you're pretty much guaranteed an in to this one unless you do something ridiculously inappropriate!
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Alright. On the basis that I have it already and that it was a good suggestion, I'm going to go with Molech's idea and offer a War for the Crown AP using the Legend in the Mist system. I'll post an interest check on the recruitment thread this weekend.
And regarding 'War for the Crown' as Legend in the Mist -- I 100% agree that a DM has to run what they love. I think that perhaps the most successful ingredient in a game being fun is the DM's zest and passion for the campaign. The more the DM is into it, the more prep work, the more energy, the more love there will be in presenting the game to the players. So absolutely -- you gotta go for RotRL if you're passionate about it! This is good advice, thank you :) It looks like you have clear ideas about CoT so I might leave that to you. Let me look at the APs again and see what inspires me.
Interestingly(?) the Council of Thieves AP was what someone used for a Savage Worlds playtest I was part of, it didn't get very far unfortunately. It's not an AP I know really at all but I'm willing to get a copy and have a look.
I get that, but if you're driving a vehicle you're unfamiliar with it's good to try it on a road you know well. My thinking anyway :) (But yes, I'd consider War for the Crown as an option)
Honestly, I find the d20 based system hard to like: the fact that you're as likely to roll a 1 as a 20 just feels off to me. I do know that in a 2d6 system you're exactly as likely to roll a 2 as a 12, but you're far more likely not to and for me that is a useful point of difference. In the 2d6 system, a 6 or less is a fail, a 7-9 succeeds with consequences and a 10+ is a full success. Looking at the odds (without modifiers) your chances of roling a 6 or less is 15/36, your chance of a 7-9 is 15/36 and your chance of a 10-12 is 6/36. Translating that into d20 means that 8 (really 8.3 recurring but I'll let you have that) or lower is a fail, 17-20 is a full success (again amending the odds to favour the player) and a 9-16 is success with consequences. The issue I have there is that in a 2d6 system, throwing a couple of tags in can really shift things in your favour, but as you will be aware from playing D&D, a +2 modifier to a d20 roll is really not that useful. But I'm a maths and science girl so what do you expect ;) @Honeylyn, if there's an AP you'd prefer to have a go with in this system then ask and I may deliver ^_^
I'm afraid I only got into D&D/PF/whatever this century, like 15 or so years ago, but I really enjoy it. Your concept sounds intriguing and I'm looking forward to hearing more! I have to say I like the gaming system we've used here, it has a simplicity to it that appeals. I might do an interest check at some point next week for an AP (probably Rise of the Runelords) that's run using the Legend in the Mist gaming system, you would be welcome to join it :)
I'm interested too, although isn't Call of Chthulu one of those games where everyone dies/goes mad before getting to the end?
We still have our Master of Ceremonies? Good question, I hope so but it has been a couple of weeks now since thier last post.
Annelise is at home in the streets of Sasserine but here she feels very much out of her depth, and it is nothing to do with the water they're wading in. She follows the others, making sure that the rope they are using is securely tied.
Sorry all, I had a family emergency that meant lots of travel and not much time to post. I'm back now and will put something up in gameplay.
@Trail - sorry to hear that, good luck with your gaming
To be clear, I think it's a great example of something you can do with this game system that you could only do in D&D with a mountain of houserules and/or a sympathetic GM. I'd be up for giving it a go, it's just Annelise who is skeptical about magic :)
Annelise looks dubious. "And if it doesn't work, it risks bring the whole thing crashing down on our heads. I don't like swimming. I'd like being buried under tons of rubble even less." Her green eyes stare at them both. "You'd better be sure this will work."
See, this is why I'm in the team to hit things and let who can be clever! :)
Neither of those is appealing, but only one of them (the harbour) sounds even like it's possible, unless there's some way we could climb up the well and dislodge the boulders?
Annelise turns down Milton's offer of the gem. "I'd hate for it to break when someone hit me, that's an extra complication I don't need." Once they are loaded up with the money that they can carry, she looks around. "We still need a way out."
Annelise opens her eyes wide for a moment as the sheer quantity of wealth registers on even her normally unflappable mind. "Is this - yours?" she asks Lavinia. She very much hopes the answer is no - even after they divide this up among the group, there's enough here to cover her expenses for the foreseeable. Maybe even enough to start dreaming of a way out for her family from the slums of Shadowshore.
Site has been refusing to let me log in since about Friday, is that the same for anyone else? Here now and about to post, hopefully :/
My beloved Minnesota Vikings?!? That's great news, I will get a copy as well!
"I tried to steal from one of their business rivals. Help the family get an edge, but caught in the act instead." Annelise raises an eyebrow. "I believe you." Luckily good boots make a decent lockpick. Usually. Rolling:
Oh, come ON TAGS: Massive lock (-)
My beloved Minnesota Vikings?!? That's not football! It's rugby for people afraid of getting hurt :P My bad, I thought this meant no roll needed to bash open. Posting now. EDIT: Oh well. We can spend our remainig time just staring at the locked chest until the tide comes in. Come, salt water, and wash our failure away!
I'm sorry to hear that! Hope it's nothing serious, sending all good wishes your way.
Annelise backs away from the scene, putting distance between her and Milton and his target. She's seen his magic before. She gives a sideways glance at Honeylyn. "A lockpick? Well you're full of surprises - rich girl, sorceress, now thief."
"OK, so the Lotus Dragons are just one of the many gangs that infest Sasserine, the only inteeresting thing about them is that nobody knows who runs them. They've had a run of successes lately. And of course most people know where the taxidermists can be found." ...."Sorry, Annelise, looks like we're swimming." Annelise grits her teeth, but nods. "Can't be helped. At least it should clean some of the crud off this armour."
Annelise looks at the tattoo, and also tries to remember what she knows, if anything, about the Lady of the Lotus and Taxidermits's hall. dice:
TAGS She gives the others a quick smile, althoough she's probably the only one who finds the situation amusing. "Not the first time I've been told 'I want them to know it was me'. But it IS the first time I've been told that by someone who's already dead." A street scavenger by nature, she is already hoicking the leather armour off the corpse even as she talks to the others.
Heh. He even writes in Funetik :)
"Hopefully there's a way out of here that doesn't involve swimming." Annelise doesn't sound very hopeful.
Annelise visibly winces at the word "swim" but she gives a commiserating look to Lavinia. "Family can be difficult. I have to say, though, that your brother has a real talent for making eneimies."
Annelise carefully cleans her knives before stowing them away again. As the others deal with the newcomer - presumaby Vanthus' sister - she takes a quick look at Svetozar's injury. "That does't look good. I've seen a few wounds in my time but this is new." She does her best to help him clean the bite wound but this is outside her experience. dice roll:
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Inconceivable The dicebot is not being good to you :(
Despite the chaos and the melee, Annelise keeps a clear head, as only someone with the experience of surviving many, many fights before this one can do. The best thing she can do right now is finish off the thing she already sliced up. Then she can help Svetozar. Assuming he's still alive at that point. But if she isn't alive, she can't help anyone. Reversing the grip on her sharp blades, she cuts deeply into dead flesh, separating sinew from muscle and cartilage from bone. If it can't stand, or use its arms, it's not really a threat. Spoiler:
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"I don't think so." You don't survive in Sasserine's streets for as long as Annelise has if you lose track of your enemies. Annelise's keen half-elf senses mean that even in the dark of this tunnel, shes' not at a disadvantage. The fact that conditions are slippery underfoot helps her now as she twists away and uses the thing's own weight against it, pushing the knee joint so it bends in the wrong way to help her slip out from its grasp. Dice:
@GM: I used Slippery last dice roll, but as a negative. Presumably if I now use it as a postive, that's not 'double-dipping'?
I would say, holy warrior would count on an undead. Smite evil does extra on an undead the first hit for comparison. Is there maybe a distcintion to be made between animated things like zombies (or whatever these are) and actively conscious/sentient/malevolent undead? Maybe Svetozar's Holy Warrior tag would work against the second but not the first? Obvsiously it's his tag so it plays how he likes :)
Annelise scowls as she sees Svetozar knocked down and about to be eaten by one of the shambling creatures. "Not today." With a blade in each hand, she does her best to carve up the creature that's menacing him. Dice:
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I think we're all learning this new system together, and that also means unleaerning some of the Paizo/D&D stuff we take for granted about how games work. fwiw, I find your explainations very clear :)
at osme point I'm going to pay for these good dice rolls, I just know it.
Annelise looks at the odds. Four is a challenge if they work together, but odds are these things won't do that. She hopes. Most of what she knows won't work: you can't hurt them, and slashing a vein or artery won't put them down the way it would do to a person. But enough of what she can do still works. A kick that shatters a kneecap will make one of these things fall over, and a blade that slices a tendon will make a limb unusable. She hopes. Blades ready, she moves swiftly forward, trying not to get tangled up with these things. She remembers how Svetozar got in trouble. dice roll:
Annelise pushes her hair back out of her eyes and looks at the others. "As long as we know what we're facing, let's go in. Otherwise it's the unknown of a dive, and I'm not the world's best swimmer." She will be at the front of the group as they open the door. Sharp blades are in each hand.
"You're...you're all very good at violence," she says. "That's...admittedly something I've never had much experience with. I...have a lot to learn." Annelise gives a one-shoulder shrug, which on anyone else might mean a slight embarrassment. "It's easy enough to learn, if you want to. What you can do though, with that magic - that's a trick worth knowing." Her sharp ears, generally hidden under her tangle of hair, prick up as she catches the sounds of more moans. "Let's try not to draw attention." At the sight of the collapsed ceealing closing off the obvious way of escape, she gives another shrug. "Naturally. Why would this be easy?"
Annelise gives a brief flicker of annoyance towards Svetozar as he shoves her out the way, but she's been in worse situations. In some ways, having something to vent her annoyance on is a relief. She nimbly rights her balance, and darts forward with a sharp blade in each hand. The dark of the tunnel doesn't seem to bother her now that she has some light source, however dim, to work with. Ignoring the hapless Svetozar, she cuts at the dead thing in places she knows will work even on something that can't feel pain: tendons at the knees, elbows and wrists. If the thing can't stand or use its arms, it's much less of a threat. "This isn't personal. I'm just going through some stuff right now and it's nice to have something to stab that's already dead, you know? Less guilt to deal with." She doesn't expect it to respond. But she feels better already. dice roll:
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Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans!And happy 101st birthday to the Caesar salad (Caesar Cardini invented it in Mexico in 1924)! Any salad is a Caesar salad if you stab it enough times :)
Annelise peers into the dark, trying to see what's coming their way. The passageway is a tight fit but she scrambles into the front - she's getting to know the others but she doesn't see any of them as hitters, with the possible exception of the cat. "Whatever's coming our way, it's no more dangerous than we are." There's a cool confidence to her words, despite the fact she is way outside her usual territory. dice:
Sorry, busy weekend. Posting nowUnderstood. Not trying to be a jerk. I lost momentum last week, so I'm trying to build it back up. I tottally get that, GM to GM :)
Annelise bends down to check Shefton's body, if only through force of habit. Even if his throat wasn't cut, he'd never survive that sort of fall. "Should have stayed in town," she murmurs. It's unclear whether she's talking to herself or the corpse. "OK, our way up is gone so our onwly way out is through." At the sound of splashing, she draws a blade from inside her clothing. "If anyone has light, now would be the time to show off." She turns to face whatever is making the splashing sound, knives at the ready.
Sorry, busy weekend. Posting now
Even with her nimble half-elf build, Annelise finds the going here difficult. "If I'd known we were going to be leiving civilisation behind us, I'd have packed for it." No lantern, no torches, no rope. Still, there doesn't seem to be any option than to keep going. So she does.
Annelise nods, satisfied with the answer, and looks down at the trapdoor. "Sooner we're in, sooner we're out again." She puts one foot on the rope ladder, testing it, before starting her climb down.
It's strange how close you can be to town and yet so completely unfamiliar. Annelise does her best not to let it get to her, but the noise of the parrots and the thickness of the jungle around her is strange and therefore threatening. It's a relief to get there and she looks down at the opening, before a thought strkes her. "Wait. How are we getting back to town if you're taking the boat?"
Annelise frowns, but joins the others. Disposing of a body, or breaking someone's arm in four places, she can do that. Asking her to trust, well that's a new experience for her.
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