Yes, that heal spell could be a used to heal others too...You will definitely want that:)
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how about: Drain life: instead of taking a turn spend luck points - drain STAMINA from your enemy directly into your own equal to 1/2 the number of LUCK points you spend...
FIRST GAMEPLAY POST IS UP...LET IT BEGIN!
Heal Spell for Grim: instead of taking a turn you can spend 3 luck points to heal yourself for 1d6 STAMINA. You should give your spell a killer name...
you are telling me...are ya ready Grim Knight??
2 ready! Blunderbuss may used by rolling a skill check during your turn. On hit the gun does 1d6 damage. BUT in order to fire you must skip the previous turn, spending it to stuff the muzzle-loader with powder-ball and wad... Spirit of Fire asks like GrukGruk's 'let it burn' spell for the Bear.
Yeah, that can work...'light of fire' will do 1d2 damage each roll on your turn until the end of your turn. But it can't do more than 4 damage in a given turn. one player is ready!
gruk gruk is great. Casting either of those fire spells costs 2 luck points. Once on fire the creature takes 1d4 damage and your turn is over. Nice. nice...
YES. Roll one up!
Okay, i need one more roll from everyone: FAITH 1d6+3. This will be put to the test! Go ahead and post 'ready' when you are ready to start. Once i see everyone ready we can move to the gameplay thread. I chould be able to submit the first post tonight!
now THAT is how you make a character. This bear is awesome...nice work obernardo.
Good question Grim. So most of the spells and special attacks your character gets will be the result of equipment you either find or buy. Since you can only have what you can reasonably carry, lots of the game's strategy will be based on the decisions you make in equipment as we go along. I'll just make up a few example effects to give you the idea... Welcome to Damion the Dwarf's Adventuring Outfitters! For sale today: 1. Boots of the Avenging Spirit if you wear these boots, upon getting hit you take your -2 STAMINA, but you can instantly spend 2 luck points to call upon this familiar spirit, which screaming like the banshee, reflects -2 STAMINA damage back upon your foe. 700 gp 2. Scroll of Backfire this is a magic spell. It can be used once per combat by receiting the magic words written upon it. Spend 2 luck points to roll 2d6. You enemy instantly takes that much STAMINA damage, but your hero also takes STAMINA damage equal to the lower of the two dice.450 gp 3. Blood Rage while wearing this amulet whenever you score two consecutive hits during your turn you go into a blood rage: temporarily increase your SKILL by 2 and decrease your STAMINA by 2 for the remainder of the combat. 350 gp 4. Magician's Gloves of the Last laugh while wearing these white gloves You may force your opponent to re-roll their dice one time during combat. You must accept the re-rolled results.200 gp 5. midas' ring while wearing this ring, automatically double the amount of gold that the text (DM) says you find!5000 gp A general rule I go by as DM is that in every case, a condition of the effect is that it must be adequately role played!!!
awesome! We'll do Vault of the Vampire, the old classic. I've got the book in PDF and I'll doctor it up as we go if needed. Golard post your character like the others have. Looks like we've got 3 players: GRIM
Recruitment is still open, we can probably take 5, but if we can't find two more we'll just go with 3...
@Antoni - just 'sword and chain mail' is fine for now...you will find/buy/choose better gear alot during the game. @the Dwarf - undead knight should be fine for rules lite like this...especially if it's role played well! I'm glad we've found a few interested players. I was getting worried!
FIGHTING FANTASY PBP RULES -by DM Owlbeard CHARACTER CREATION
2. Roll 1d6+10, this is your STAMINA 3. Roll 1d6+6, this is your LUCK keep track of these scores like this: SKILL 11/11 STAMINA 9/9 LUCK 5/12. 4. You may accept these scores or choose a focus.
5. You are assumed to already have basic equipment suitable to your chosen character. DM reserves rights of course. Also, you may Select one of the following potions to start with:
6. Write a compelling backstory in the high fantasy, gothic horror genre. You will fend off foul creatures of the night, meet sumptuous ladies in waiting, explore twisted castle towers tottering on the cliffs which overhang the violent waves of the Pearl Sea. Make your character accordingly. Anything goes: werewolf is even fine. COMBAT
1. Roll two dice for your opponent. Add its SKILL score. This total is the opponents Attack Strength. 2. Roll two dice for yourself. Add the number rolled to your current SKILL score. This total is your Attack Strength. 3. If your Attack Strength is higher than your opponent’s is, you have wounded it. Proceed to step 4. If your opponent’s Attack Strength is higher than yours is, it has wounded you. Proceed to step 5. If both Attack Strength totals are the same, you have avoided each other’s blows – start the next Attack Round from steps 1 above. 4. You have wounded your opponent; so subtract 2 points from its STAMINA score. You may use LUCK here to do additional damage (see below). Proceed to step 6. 5. Your opponent has wounded you; so subtract 2 points from your STAMINA score. You may use LUCK to reduce the loss of STAMINA (see below). Proceed to step 6. 6. Make the appropriate adjustments to either your opponents or your own STAMINA scores (and your LUCK score if you used LUCK – see over). 7. Begin the next Attack Round, starting again at step 1 with your current SKILL score. This sequence continues until the STAMINA score of either you or your opponent reaches zero (death). If your opponent dies, you are free to continue with your adventure. If you die, your adventure ends and you must start all over again by creating a new character. Luck - at any time during combat you may test your luck by rolling 2d6. If the result is less than your current LUCK you deal an EXTRA 2 points damage on that hit. Or, you may reduce the amount of damage you take on that hit from 2 to 1. In either case, whether you succeed or fail at the test, you must immediately reduce your LUCK by 1 point. So as you can see if you rely on it too much your LUCK will eventually run out! TESTS
Magic is available to anyone. You can select 2 initial spells, subject to DM approval. The rest of your Spells will be found during the game. Casting a spell costs LUCK points. Your initial spells should each cost 2 luck points and be about as powerful as a normal level 1 Pathfinder Character, but you pick the effect. If you choose to permanently FORGO ALL MAGIC you may add 2 to either your SKILL or STAMINA score. pets No pets to start with. You can find them in the game.[/b] TREASURE AND ADVANCEMENT
Ah shoot, the dice rolls all got recast when I posted. I'm really sorry, the example may not make perfect sense. I will post the one page rules later tonight and that should clear some things up. Again, check out the link in my first post for 'the love cure' for the one page rules and a short 18 page FF adventure to get a feel for things. THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST EVERYONE!
DM OKAY, everyone update your status bars to show your current SKILL STAMINA LUCK. This isn't a complicated game but that sure makes it easier!
Corona Starfreya I drink my LUCK POTION before the lightening hits me so i'm back to full Luck: 18 AND I MAKE THE ROLL TOO! Luck now 17!
Bruzion I'm luck too. 12 < 23, so I make the roll. Now i'm down to 22 luck. Casting spells is going to be harder now!
Maltheus that's less than 11...I think i'm safe. Now my luck drops to 10
DM Book: you hear a click and find yourself engulfed in a diablo style frost nova I guess...everyone test your luck!
Maltheus: I stride over and boldly swing open the chest...what treasure do i find?
DM: Nice work everyone. The skeleton does crumple to the ground. And that's when you notice the chest in the back of the room. Book options for you:
Bruzion the Magical SKILL 4 STAMINA 8 LUCK 31 I'm going to cast a lightning bolt at this beeezoch! That costs 8 luck so now i'm down to 31-8=23, but it shocks him for
Corona Starfreya SKILL 15 STAMINA 10 LUCK 13: i got this! die foo!
Maltheus the wise SKILL 9 STAMINA 12 LUCK 11: I take it head on! Here we go!
FF example combat, pbp: DM: suddenly the skeleton comes to life and totters toward you brandishing an ax! You must resolve combat with the skeleton before you can proceed:
Yes they all the FF versions had great artwork!... @DragonRider: rules are super ease cheeze. I will post an example combat tonight for you, but go ahead and check out 'the love cure' link i posted earlier! As for death traps and how I will handle them: Yes they would be handled in a more table top manner, but they would exist for sure. I don't know if you ever read "Night of the Necromancer?" It was one of the better FF books in my opinion. You played a ghost and half way through you were told you gained a new ability; you could add up the letters of the names of any character you'd met thus far and go to that page and VWALA! You could posses their bodies! It was gritty good fun. But to the point, in Night of the Necromancer if you died from a death trap you would find yourself in the after-life and have the chance to fight your way through a few challenges, earning the right to come back from the grave...either as yourself if you fought well, or as something else if you didn't. I would have tricks up my sleeves for the unsuspecting victims of FF deathtraps! Check back tonight for an example of how i envision a FF combat going... and hopefully we can drum up a few more players too:)
doesn't look like we are getting any bites Golard. I think folks want to play full pathfinder. I need rules lite though or I won't have the steam. I really want to be sure I can be a good DM and stick with it...
I ran ROTRL last winter but when my twins were born I just couldn't keep going...I think my players left happy though:) I've got some time now though, for a rules lite version of Fighting Fantasy. If you don't know what that is, here is a link to an awesome short adventure called 'the love cure'. This is the same gamebooks series that birthed the amazing 'house of hell' by Steve Jackson, the book the scared me half to death when I was about 13. The rules are basically 1 page long. Any and all character concepts are fine. The game will be heavy on Role-Playing. Lite rules should make it a fun fill-in between your more serious games. Players will basically resolve combat themselves as described in 'the love cure' and I'll referee, bumping up or toning down challenges via story intjection, ect. We'll throw out lots of cool artifacts to make your characters more powerful as you go, instead of the standard 'leveling' concepts. We can run any kind of game you want: horror, fantasy, gritty, sci-fi...players decide! Dot in if this sounds like your bag.
I think I'm going to have to call it quits folks. My post rate has dropped to every 5 days, I can't keep up. Sorry!
dazy dazy give me your answer do...i'm half crazy....
That's enough to kill Thumparr's sinspaw...it slumps to the floor. Erylium growls in frustration with her other-worldly voice. Her eyes glow blue, reflecting the shimmer of the magical runewell.
Monsters Round 2:
Erylium: zeroing her eyes on Boo, the creature lets out a blood curdling Ear Peircing Scream. See Pathfinder PDR for decription. Basically a witch spell that dazes for 1 round and does 2d6 damage to one taget. A successful fortitude save DC25 negates the daze effect and halves the damage. Round 3:
PC turns accept for Maltheus who just went. Be sure to take your +6HP from his channel energy.
i sure will...we've had the flu at our house. I'll post it as soon as I can make one up...
Booooo...acid misses.
Dair Round1 No hit. Erylium's AC is 19. That move happened just before she flapped away to summon the sinspawn. Everyone is clear to post Round 2 actions!
taking the higher of the two damage rolls, Maltheus' hand axe sinks deeply into the beast's flesh. She is relatively unaffected, but a fuchia colored blood oozes from the open wound near the root of her wing-appendage.
Sinspawn A: move action to Maltheus, attack for Sinspawn B: move action to Thumparr, attack for END ROUND 1. PCs are up.
Warhammer misses.
Erylium first round: She flaps gracefully to the runewell and sprinkles some kind of powder into the churning water. The skull ring dips down into the pool and two sinspawn rise up hissing and sputtering. slay my enemies she commands them in an otherworldly voice!
As thumparr steps in the room a winged female creature flies down and lands before him...This is Erylium, the foul beast that has corrupted these catacombs for a thousand years. Get out! she screams Out out out!!! This runewell is mine...the power is mine...out out out!
Spoiler: hard to format here but something like this: / / alphabet = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 00cipher = BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZA so in the enciphered txt, 'b' is 'a' and 'l' is 'k'. The first word of the cipher is 'kiss'.
dair: hehe...would you say you were 'puzzled'? forgive the pun!
When the first PC steps in the room they hear a voice...I'll tell you what it says if you decide to go in.
Beyond the door, from the adventure path: This huge room looks like an immense underground cathedral. The walls are covered in spikey runes. In the center of the room is a huge pool with a ring of polished human skulls balanced on stone spikes arranged in a circle around the deeper midsection. At the far end of the room a pair of stone stairways leads up to a pulpit on which sits a second pool, this one triangular and filled with churning bubbling waster that looks almost like tranlucent lava. yet while wisps of what look like heat and steam rise from the strange orange liquid, the room itself is deathly cold.
S/he who searches the purple beast finds 1d100gp (first one to post the roll determines) and a long silver dagger, with a motif of a serpent consuming it's own tail. dair: No problem. So basic encryption lesson: You probably know that a cipher is where each letter is represented by another letter or chr. So like the code on a cereal box when you were a kid where A=1, B=2, C=3 ect. In that simple cipher the code '312' would be the word 'CAB'. Well in this cipher each letter is represented by another letter in the alphabet. And Dair's clue due to his superior intelligence roll was 'each letter is shifted forward (in the alphabet) one'. Hope that helps?
Jeeperz...two critical hits. The purple creature, still reeling from the xbow bolt takes Maltheus' war axe directly in the cranium. It splits like a water melon and the creature falls... But as it does it twists, landing it's big shoulder in the vial of purple liquid in the door-trap. It shatters under preassure, filling the corridoor with an acrid purple haze. Reflex Save DC20 or take 1d6+2 acid damage.
Thumparr fires his crossbow and hits big! CRITICAL HIT! The purple creature stumbles back and lets out a bellowing howl of pain as the arrow sinks into it's neck...
As you are debating what to do you hear something on the other side of the door...unbolting it...The door begins to open just a crack and knarled fingers of a purple hand extend through the gap...
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