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I've updated my payment info and would like to have my subs shipped as soon as possible. I also have two questions: Which products are going to be shipped? My subs have been suspended for a while and I am several months behind. Is it possible to ship everything in one box to save on shipping costs? Thanks again for the great products and wonderful customer service!
When my bank received the authorization for my upcoming subscription shipment, they charged me a NFS fee, because even though I haven't been charged yet, there was not enough in the account to cover the authorization. My question is, if I change my shipping option to the one monthly option, will the shipment (and thus the authorization and charge) occur at the same time every month? Also, can you suspend my subscription shipment until next Friday, April 23. Thanks
I'm writing a module that I hope to publish as a PDF. However, my art budget is very limited. The way I see it, I have 4 options.
What would be more likely to turn you off of a product, Bad Art or No Art? If there are any artists who are interested in working with me on this project, please drop me a line at radunnam@gmail.com Thanks. EDIT: fixed some typos.
For Travelers:
Spoiler:
Across the dusty plains of the American south-east you have traveled, finally ending up in the small settlement of New Allenville. After a tense moment, the farmers decided that you meant them no harm and let you into the gates.
The food was bad and the trading post was nearly bare, but at least the wooden palisade kept the wandering zombies at bay. You decide to stay the night and unroll your bedroll underneath the awning of one of the ramshackle buildings in town. For Locals:
Spoiler:
Today was an odd day. Never before has more than one traveler appeared at the town gates in the span of a month. Today, three showed up.
After the militia leader Brandon determined that they did not pose a threat, he let them into town. You spent most of the day talking to the travelers. Heading home as night fell.
I'm starting up a post-apoc game. It's going to feature zombies, mutants, aliens, and renegade generals with delusions of grandeur. I'm looking for 4-6 players. My wife has already called one spot. The links to the site with background and house rules and the discussion and campaign threads are below. Save One Bullet site
It's been said that the new Pathfinder RPG classes are way more powerful than the standard 3.5 classes, so I decided to take a closer look by examining to similarly built characters. I used the stats for Ezren from CotCT:EoA. Ezren, 3.5 version
Spoiler:
Male Human wizard 1 NG Medium Humaniod HD: 1d4+4 (8 hp)(+3 from toad) Init: -1 Speed: 30ft ---------- AC: 9 (-1 DEX) Touch 9, Flat-footed 9 Saves: Fort +3, Ref -1, Will +4 ---------- Cane: +0 (1d6) bludgeoning Light Crossbow: -1 (1d8/19-20) piercing BAB: +0 Grapple: +0 ---------- Spells (CL 1st, ranged touch -1) -1st (1/day + 1 bonus) Mage Armor Sleep (DC 14) -0th (3/day) Daze (DC 13) Detect Magic Light ---------- Skills Appraise +5 (CC) Concentration +5 Know (arcana) +7 Know (geography) +7 Know (history) +7 Spellcraft +7 ---------- Feats Combat Casting Great Fortitude Scribe Scroll ---------- Abilities STR 11 (+0) DEX 9 (-1) CON 12 (+1) INT 16 (+3) WIS 15 (+2) CHA 9 (-1) And now the new version. I used the racial bonus hp at first level. Ezren, Pathfinder version
Spoiler:
Male Human wizard 1 NG Medium Humaniod HD: 1d6+11 (17 hp)(+3 from toad)(+6 racial)(+1 favored class) Init: -1 Speed: 30ft ---------- AC: 9 (-1 DEX) Touch 9, Flat-footed 9 Saves: Fort +3, Ref -1, Will +4 ---------- Cane: +0 (1d6) bludgeoning Light Crossbow: -1 (1d8/19-20) piercing BAB: +0 CMB: +0 ---------- Spells (CL 1st, ranged touch -1) -1st (1/day + 1 bonus) Mage Armor Sleep (DC 15) -0th Daze (DC 14) Detect Magic Light ---------- School Powers 1st: Hand of the Apprentice ---------- Skills Appraise +8 Know (arcana) +8 Know (geography) +8 Know (history) +8 Know (planes) +8 Linguistics +8 Spellcraft +8 ---------- Feats Combat Casting Great Fortitude Scribe Scroll Still Spell ---------- Abilities STR 11 (+0) DEX 9 (-1) CON 12 (+1) INT 18 (+4) WIS 15 (+2) CHA 9 (-1) The biggest change is hp. The new Ezren has more than double the hp of the old Ezren. Appraise changes to a class skill, so the modifier goes up. Concentration has been folded into Spellcraft. With that and the +2 to INT Ezren gets two more skill choices. The DCs of Ezren's spells increase by 1 from the boosted INT. The cantrips at will give Ezren a few more options at low levels, but I don't think they will get much use beyond that. The bonus metamagic feat from the universal school is pretty useless at 1st level but will come in handy latter. The Hand of the Apprentice allows Ezren to make slightly more effective attacks at range. All in all, I don't think it is that much of a difference. However as a DM, if I wanted to run a 3.5 module, I would need to do a bit of NPC conversion or increase the EL bit. It's not really a big deal though, but for people who have limited time to prepare for games, it could become a hassle. I think there should be a couple of pages in the final book (or maybe as a free PDF) that deal with conversion and have simple templates that a DM could apply to 3.5 stat blocks on the fly. I do think that the new Pathfinder classes stand up to more recent WOTC (Tome of Magic and Book of Nine Swords) better than the originals.
I'm interested in playing in a RotRL PbP. I'm going to run it for my face-to-face group and would like a little XP from the other side of the table. I've tried to stay away from spoilers on this site, though I have skimmed Spires of Xin-Shalast. I'm pretty good at keeping player knowledge and character knowledge separate.
I'm experimenting with modifying the magic system of the d20 Modern system. My home brew setting is low-level, low-magic, and slow advancement in a medieval fantasy world; and I wanted to redefine the advanced classes to better reflect the way magic works in the game. So here are my concepts for the new magic systems and advanced classes. I don't have any stats worked out, I wanted to get some feed back before I started working on the details. ----------
Wizard
Witch
Gods are not interventionist. The only "proof" that gods exist is the spells that Clerics cast, but some people believe that these spells are only the result of that person's unusually strong faith and willpower. Cleric
Druid
---------- coming soon: Pact magic w/ the Warlock and the Shaman, and Innate magic w/ the Sorcerer.
I just learned yesterday that we have a mutual acquantice. One of the players in my Savage Tide game is Lee McLurkin. He told me he used to play with you and told me about Mimicry. I have to say that a moon-sized doppleganger is pretty twisted. So twisted, I might steal that idea for one of my games.
You remember your home, the green fields and blue sky, the countless stars lighing up the night. You remember how happy you were with your parents and your siblings. But that was before the monsters came. You watched as the bulbous, blue and purple ships released glowing arcs of super-hot plasma and turned the surface of your home to molten glass. You watched as thier long, sleek fighters weaved and bobbed through the formations of the evac ships, burning the ships of your friends and family. You watched as the Navy warships melted and turned to slag as they stood thier ground and gave the surviving evac ships a chance to make the jump to Slipspace. For weeks after that day, you laguished in the orphanage, sometimes weeping with the agony of your loss, sometimes seething with anger at the monsters that took your world from you. You learned the name of the monsters, one of the orderlies told you. They were called the Covanant. You learned that your world was not the only one lost to the alien menace. The human colonies had once numbered in the hundreds, now there were only a handfull. You also learned about the Spartans. The news broadcasts showed huge people, close to three meters tall, and cased from head to toe in shiny green armor. You watched as one of the armored soldiers grabed a Covanant warrior and slamed it's head into the hard stone ground, spraying purple alien blood across the screen. The newsman said that the Spartans were going to win this war. One day, a man dressed in a Navy uniform came into the orphanage. He walked right to you, past all of the other kids in the over-crowed bunk room. He walked up to you and asked your name. You answer nervously. He then askes you to place your thumb on a device he produced from his pocket. You feel the sharp prick as a blood sample is taken. The device begins to whir and hum. Suddenly your heart leaps to your throat, you know your future depends on whether or not this little box like what it finds in your blood. The hours seem to stretch into for hours as the humming continues, but finally the device makes a reassuring beep. The Navy man kneels down, "Your home was distroyed by the Covanant?" "Yes," you reply. "How would you like to get a little payback?"
You remember your home, the green fields and blue sky, the countless stars lighing up the night. You remember how happy you were with your parents and your siblings. But that was before the monsters came. You watched as the bulbous, blue and purple ships released glowing arcs of super-hot plasma and turned the surface of your home to molten glass. You watched as thier long, sleek fighters weaved and bobbed through the formations of the evac ships, burning the ships of your friends and family. You watched as the Navy warships melted and turned to slag as they stood thier ground and gave the surviving evac ships a chance to make the jump to Slipspace. For weeks after that day, you laguished in the orphanage, sometimes weeping with the agony of your loss, sometimes seething with anger at the monsters that took your world from you. You learned the name of the monsters, one of the orderlies told you. They were called the Covanant. You learned that your world was not the only one lost to the alien menace. The human colonies had once numbered in the hundreds, now there were only a handfull. You also learned about the Spartans. The news broadcasts showed huge people, close to three meters tall, and cased from head to toe in shiny green armor. You watched as one of the armored soldiers grabed a Covanant warrior and slamed it's head into the hard stone ground, spraying purple alien blood across the screen. The newsman said that the Spartans were going to win this war. One day, a man dressed in a Navy uniform came into the orphanage. He walked right to you, past all of the other kids in the over-crowed bunk room. He walked up to you and asked your name. You answer nervously. He then askes you to place your thumb on a device he produced from his pocket. You feel the sharp prick as a blood sample is taken. The device begins to whir and hum. Suddenly your heart leaps to your throat, you know your future depends on whether or not this little box likes what it finds in your blood. The seconds seem to stretch into hours as the humming continues, but finally the device makes a reassuring beep. The Navy man kneels down, "Your home was distroyed by the Covanant?" "Yes," you reply. "How would you like to get a little payback?"
Vissigoth's 3.75 Edition
Class Skills
Major Skills: 4 + INT Bonus (ranks = class level)
Average Base Attack Bonus
1 - Talent
Sneak Attack Talent Tree
Trapfinding Talent Tree
Underworld Talent Tree
Rogue Special Abillities Talent Tree
What do you guys think? I don't have the details worked out just yet. I just wanted to see what my idea's looked like on paper.
Campain Background
Spoiler: Humans have spread across the stars. Slipspace technology has allowed us to charter colonies into the far reaches of space. Over the years, disquiet has been brewing on several worlds on the outer rim of human space. With the threat of open rebellion looming, the United Nations Space Command and the Office of Naval Intellegence have started a top secret program that will produce soldiers that are stronger, faster, and smarter than normal humans; the Spartan Project.
Main Worlds: Earth Reach - The main military production and training facility of the Core Worlds; The first human colony outside the Sol system; Home of the Spartan Project Harvest - One of the major colonies on the Rim; The center of the brewing rebellion Organizations: United Nations - All of the nations of Earth and her colonies are now united under one government United Nations Space Command (UNSC) - The main military force of the UN; The Navy and Marine Corps fall under the UNSC Office of Naval Intellegence (ONI) - Technically part of the UNSC, however it is compartmentalized away from the rest of the military; Oversees the Spartan Project Technology: Travel - Human ships can travel at Faster Than Light (FTL) speeds by using a Shaw-Fukajiwa reactor to tear a hole in normal space and enter "Slipspace". This type of travel is very inaccurate. Ships usually slip in at the edge of a system to aviod collisions with planets and other objects. Traveling through Slipspace is taxing on the human mind, so most non-essetail personell are put into Cryo sleep. Medicine - Cybernetic implants and prosthetics are common. Most UNSC captains have a nural lace that directly connects them with the ships commputer, allowing them to make command desisions faster. Cryogenic hibernation is common on all but the smallest sub-luminal (a ship that cannot go FTL) craft. Weapons - Most human weapons still fire matter projectiles. The most common main weapon on a warship is the Magnetic Accelerator Cannon (MAC). It uses electromagnets to fire a 1/2 to 4 tonne projectile of depleted (non-radioactive) uranium. Lasers and other energy weapons are still in the experimental stage.
Can anybody explain to me (in idiot terms) the OGL please? I'm interested in making a d20 Modern OGL product, but the lawyerspeak makes my head hurt. Should I hire my own lawyer, or just wing it and hope for the best? Also, assuming I make this product, it will be a downloadable PDF. How would I go about getting it sold through the Piazo Store? Thanks in advance for the help.
I want to buy the Age of Worms AP, but ordering all of the Dungeon and Dragon issues in PDF form is over $100. While I'd love to own all of those magizines, I simply can't afford to spend that much. My question is, can you compile the AoW adventures, the Wormfood articles, and any relavent Ecology articles into one PDF. I would pay $30-40 for this. Thanks for taking the time to read this and thanks for making such great products.
Once my current PbP game (Lands Above the Mist) wraps up, I'm going to run a playtest of the d20 Halo game I've cooked up. The game won't start for a while, probably a month or two. I need five players (my wife wants the sixth spot) who are familar with (or can learn quickly) the d20 Modern rules. Familarity with the Halo games and books is not required, though I'll need at least one "Halo expert" to help with flavor stuff and tweaking the stats. For those who don't know, Halo is set in 2552 (though this campain will start a few years earlier). Humans are at war with a coalition of alien species called the Covenant. The characters will be Spartan-IIs, super soldiers trained since childhood and genetically enhanced to be to be warriors. This is going to be a high powered campain. Character Creation
We need a character of each base class. My wife will probably want the Fast or Smart. Here are the party roles needed for the campain:
The classes listed above are just suggestions. If you have another class in mind that can perform the same functions, run it by me to make sure it fits the flavor of the campain. There will also be some vehicular combat, so a couple people with the Drive skill wouldn't be a bad thing. 
We are using the same map as the first game. Team Kobold is in the north and Team CG is in the south. State starting positions, init, and your prep action.
This is for Fake Healer, Aubry, Arctaris, and myself. These are the people who have expressed intrest in being Arenamasters. We are in severe need of Arenamasters. If anyone else wants to be an Arenamaster, post here. Let use know how much experience you have at DMing and PbP gaming. Post a link to a PbP game you've run if possible. If anyone else has anything they want to add, please keep it brief and constructive. This is a community project and it needs community input to keep going. To start off the discussion, here is what I'm in favor of:
Also, a little house rule for characters with familiars. If a character's familiar dies he looses 1 hp per level in the class that grants him his familiar. Ex: A 1st level wizard with +0 CON and a toad familar has 7 hp. If his familiar dies, then he looses the 3 bonus hp from granted by his familar and 1 hp for the penalty. He is now a 3 hp. The character does not loose any XP for the death of his familiar and the familiar is resurected at the end of the match with no penalties (the same as a dead character). This keeps the familiars from becoming expendable damage sponges.
Here is my take on the Oathbreaker Drow of Eberron. Let me know what you guys think. Most of the stuff is taken from races of Eberron, and The Shattered Land by Kieth Baker. Oathbreaker Drow Traits (Ex) Oathbreaker Drow possess the following racial traits. +2 Dexterity, +2 Charisma. Medium size. An elf’s base land speed is 30 feet. Immunity to sleep spells and effects, and a +2 racial saving throw bonus against enchantment spells or effects. +2 racial bonus on Will saves against spells and spell-like abilities. Darkvision 120ft. Light Blindness: Abrupt exposure to bright light (such as sunlight or a daylight spell) blinds drow for 1 round. On subsequent rounds, they are dazzled as long as they remain in the affected area. Spell-Like Abilities: oathbreaker drow can use the following spell-like abilities once per day: dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire. Caster level equals the drow’s class levels. Spell resistance equal to 11+ class levels. Weapon Proficiency: An oathbreaker drow is automatically proficient with the drow long knife, drow scorpion chain, and the Xen'drik boomerang. +2 racial bonus on Listen, Search, and Spot checks. An elf who merely passes within 5 feet of a secret or concealed door is entitled to a Search check to notice it as if she were actively looking for it. +4 dodge bonus to Armor Class against creatures of the giant type (such as ogres, trolls, and hill giants). Automatic Languages: Common, Elven, Undercommon. Bonus Languages: Abyssal, Aquan, Draconic, Drow Sign Language, Gnome, Goblin, Giant. Favored Class: Rogue. Level Adjustment: +2 Oathbreaker Drow are decendants of the orginal elves, who were slaves of the anchient giants of Xen'drik. They are mostly nocturnal. They worship Vulkoor, the Scorpion Lord. They bitterly fight against their Firebinder Drow (normal drow, but change favored class to artificer) cousins and the last remnants of the giant race.
Wow. I didn't expect so many people to want in on this. Thanks to every one who has shown intrest. Unfortunatly, the first game is already full. I'm working on a site to post the finalized rules and character sheets, but it's taking some time. If you want to make a character for the Arena, please do so, but don't send them to me just yet. I'm not ready to put them up on the site and I'll probably lose them before the site is done. Right now, only the three Core books are allowed. Monster races are allowed as long as they don't have any racial hit dice or a level adjustment. If you are intrested in being an Arena Master, post a list of the books you have access to and proof of your DM skills (preferably a link to a PbP game you have run). After the first game, the Arena Masters will disscuss the possibility of adding non-core books to the Arena. Remember, you can have as many characters as you want. So you can make a Core character now and a non-Core character when the splatbooks become legit. Here is a list of books I own:
I plan on getting:
The noise of the crowd is deafening as you check your weapons and prepare your self for the bloodshed to come. The crowd is chanting, "Fight, fight, fight." The doors open and the sunlight momentarily blinds you. The crowd erupts into cheers and applause as you step into the arena. You see your opponents across the arena. It's time for bloodshed.
Whould anybody be intrested in a PvP gladiator type game? I think it would be cool to have a "fight club" type group. People (or teams) in the group could challenge each other and have thier match moderated by an "Arena Master." Each player would have a persistant character and would earn XP by defeating rival players in the arena. Each match would take place on the same map. Of course this needs a lot of people to work. If any one wants to help, let me know. I'll start a test game to see if this game type is any fun. I need two teams of four (or at least an even number if I can't get that many people). - 32 point buy (please use Invisible Castle)
I just saw this movie, and hate to say that it kind of sucked. There were a lot of excess storylines and the three main characters keep switching sides. The endding wasn't very strong, and a lot of important people die. Keith Richards only has like two lines, then he just goes and sits in the cornner and plays guitar. This will ruin the movie if you haven't seen it:
Spoiler: Will becoming the captian of the Flying Ductman was the worst ending ever! It would have been better if he would have died. The WHOLE Calypso story line was completely retarded. And the "Pirate King" come on, are we in a saturday morning anime cartoon? I loved the first movie and liked the second one alot (though it suffers from "Middle Chapter Syndrome"), but this one sucked.
Location: Danport, Southshire
Humans are the "default" race in the campain. The Four Barons are all human as is most of the general population. Southshire: The largest of the Four Baronies and home to the Corbrian Plateu, the largest plot of areable land in the Baronies and the scource of three-quarters of the food production. Northreave: The smallest and most militant of the Baronies. Home of the Steel Hand Acadamy, the formost military school in the world. Eastfold: This Barony is devoted to magic. It boats a large number of arcane spellcasters. Westfell: Home to the Gnome Mecantile Sydicate. Owns the largest fleet of war-zepplins. Gnomes hold the secret of the boyant gas which makes zepplins posible. They control the trade routes and are the only suppliers of zepplins. They are also at the forefront of scientific engenering. Gnomes hold no lands of their own. Orcs are the most feared and respected warriors in the Baronies. They have progressed a long way from the barbaric savages the race started as. Orcs hold no lands of their own. An orcs favored class is fighter instead of barbarian. Halflings are the downtroden homeless of major cities. They are looked upon as thieves and vagrants by most other races. They hold no lands of their own. Dwarves are cloistered in the mining city of Caldera, located in a dormant volcano south of Eastfold. Elves live in the floating forest of Alvinale, the only scouce of hardwoods in the Baronies. It is located in Northreave, but changes position regularly. Elves traditionaly disdain the use of metal implements, however adventuring elves have been known to use metal weapons and tools. Recently, a group of adventures discovered an ancient ruin containing a large number of what apeared to be inactive golems. Upon activation the golems were intelegent and childlike. These were the first Warforged. Numerous other ruins have been found since that day and the number of Warforged in the population has grown. These living constructs have no memory from before the day they were activated, nor do they know what their pourpose is. Warforged do not hold their own lands. In some placed they are still considered property. Other races exist along side these main races. They remain as presented in their scource books.
I want to try my hand at DMing a PbP game. I'm an experienced DM and I'm currently playing my first PbP game. The game will be set in my homebrew campain. It's sort of Eberron-ish. The world is covered with a toxic mist and humanoid civilization exists only on the mountain tops. There are floating fortresses, zepplins, and firearms. Eberron type airships are VERY new and so far, only three exist. Gnomes dominate trade. Dwarves provide the "floatstone" for the fortesses. Elves live in a giant flaoting forest and control the only scource of real wood. Halflings are the down-trodden homless of the major urban areas. Orcs live along side the "standard" races and are respected as fierce warriors (sort of like in the Elder Scrolls video games). Half-races, most of the splatbooks, and psionics will be allowed if any one "REALY" wants to use them but I would prefer to stick with the core races and classes (PrCs from splatbooks are ok). I'm looking for 4-6 players who can post at least once a day. As this will be my first attempt at DMing a PbP game, I would prefer to have an experienced PbP player to make sure I don't do anything stupid.
Is anybody as excited about Halo 3 as I am. I am hoplessly addicted to Halo merchandice, I will buy anything if it has the Halo logo (or Master Chiefs face, I mean helmet) on it. I've already preordered the "Legendary Edition" of Halo 3 for $130. I bought a $60 game (Crackdown, and its actually pretty good on its own) and moved into a new appartment that offered cable internet, just so I could play the Halo 3 Beta for a month (in total, I've spent almost $1000 bucks for an unfinished, multiplayer only, limited to one month, demo). I've nearly gotten divorced over this game (fortunatly, my wife is very forgiving (that is after I got her into Halo also)). If any body else is as excited as I am (and I'm quivering like a 13-year old school girl about to meet Justin Timberlake), let me know. If any body alse is getting in on the Halo 3 Beta, hit me up with a gamertag and you can try to shoot me in the face. If any body wants to rant about what a stupid fanboy I am, and how I should grow up and get a "real" hobby (like playing D&D), I totaly agree with you.
Would any body be intrested in a d20 Modern game set in the Halo universe. I've been working on a template for Spartans, but I'm not real good at setting CRs. I'll post the stats when I find my notes and see what you guys think. I also have stats for Covies, weapons, vehicles, and the Flood. I think it would be pretty cool, but wanted some "professional" advice (seeing as most of the people on the boards have been playing for like 15 years longer than I have).
I just started DMing STAP in Eberron, and one of my players is a warforged fighter with the adimantine body feat. Does anybody have any advice on swimming warforged. He wieghs 450lbs. and has no ranks in swim and a -12 armor penalty. So far he's just been walking along the bottom of the harbor (he can't drown) and climbing up pylons, anchor chains, and what not. But what happens when we get out into deeper water and he goes overboard? The first couple of swim checks he made were in the negatives, now he's just stopped making them. What about damage from high pressure at extream deapths? What about salt-water corrosion? I've lived around salt-water boats my whole life and know first hand the corrosive powers of salt-water (adamantine probably has some kind of corrosion resistance, but iron and steel don't). I need advice on how to adjucate these situations
I'm looking to start a PbP game. I'm an experieced player but have never played PbP before. I've looked at the games running on these boards and have a fairly good idea on how they work. If anyone wants to DM that would be great. I would play a warforged or human fighter (I prefer to play Ebberon but it's not necesary). |
