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Am off on holidays! Yay!

Therefore no gaming for 2 weeks. Boo.

Hi guys

I'm going away this weekend, returning on Tuesday - please NPC Ekklub for me.

Ta!

Yes please!

Hey guys

I'm going away for Easter - see you Tuesday!

Regarding 1/day - I can manage that weekdays; weekends are a little more tight and I can usually only promise 1/weekend. If that will be a problem, please bring in one of the alternates instead!

"Lib learning fire magic first!"

Oops, no fire magic in that list! Will insert Burning Hands or the like.

"Ekklub already know fire magic. Set things on fire. See? Spark!"

Also there's a nice MythWeavers sheet here

Henry Lockwood wrote:

Ekklub

Despite Ekklub's best attempts to stop me, I made a character sheet. Look, it's here, and it's even all written down!

I need to log in to view this. That means I need to register. That's a lot of effort for someone to view a character sheet. In my not so humble opinion, you should be making it easier for your GM, not harder. Consider myth-weavers if you want something online.

Ekklub is extra stealthy mysterious goblin. Ekklub stab GM when back is turned.

In a more serious vein: thanks for the tip; I hadn't realised it needed a login! I'll port the sheet across.

Ekklub

Despite Ekklub's best attempts to stop me, I made a character sheet. Look, it's here, and it's even all written down!

In the mucky marsh beware
Of goblins you are finding there
They tweak your nose and pull your hair
Then cut you up for roasting!

If goblins you be looking for
Then think again and think some more
They sneak up when the light is poor
And start a fire for toasting!

So longshanks to your houses flee
And leave this mucky marsh to me
For goblin I will always be
And goblins fun is mosting!

Ekklub is an unusual goblin in many ways, in particular in having a rather greater grasp of words than others. She is careful never to let any of them near paper, because if anyone could use words then she wouldn't be as special any more. She has her doubts about souls being stealable through paper, but what she would really - really - like to do is capture some feeble humans and make them write, to see what happens to their souls. There's bound to be some way to find out...

I'm playing a two-weapon-fighting barbarian (human, no archetype). Currently she wields twin shortswords, with weapon finesse and 14 STR, 19 DEX. She's level 3 at the moment, and her one rage power is Reckless Abandon.

Thematically, she's a character who's more likely to bluff than fight, but when she does fight she goes all out to kill as fast as possible. I'm looking for rage powers that match that: power optimisation is NOT a concern, though power not-sucking would be nice.

Which ones would you recommend? The Beast Totem series look decent, but beyond that I'm at a loss.

Douglas Muir 406 wrote:

roccojr wrote:

If its a plot device, just have them unconscious... Drugged.

No, that's not what I want. I want them conscious and with some modest chance of escape.

Doug M.

I think he meant. They were drugged to justify not having escaped up until now. But now they are coming out of it so they can be questioned.

I would give them say a -4 on all ability scores for an hour, then a -2 for another hour until the drug wears off the rest of the way.

This also lets you have fun with the addiction/withdrawal rules, if you and your players would find that entertaining.

One of my players often plays elves. That's not a problem in itself. The catchphrase, from whatever character she's playing, is "I'm an elf. I don't like X.", where X can be humans, dwarves, elves, dungeons, cities...

Even beer.

First off, I think you're handling this quite well. Yes, it's awkward when people can't make sessions and you have to keep rescheduling. For a number of years I was the one who couldn't make game night, and around 5 years ago I actually said "I'm going to have to step out for a bit". Just this summer I've managed to get back into it, which is great, and I'm getting my game on!

In my experience (admittedly limited), parting with no hard feelings is best all round: if their schedules change in future, they can come back, and if not you can still hang out (maybe do a once-a-year gaming weekend, or something, where you gather, eat pizza, drink beer, and shoot the breeze).

And now to sidetrack a little:

I've definitely noticed that 'boys night out' is a very common desire among males and it seems to be much less common for women to desire a 'girls night out'. Something I've often found odd because I read that women are far better then men at maintaining social networks.

My guess is that women maintain their social networks instinctively, and therefore don't need a dedicated "girls' night out". Men, being less naturally adept, nonetheless value their buddies - so they have a boys' night out to try to keep up. (Disclaimer: for "women" read "the majority of women", etc.)

Greetings all

My group is just coming to the end of City of Golden Death (we've probably got 2 more sessions' worth of material), and I'm wondering what to run next. They've been sufficiently converted to Pathfinder that I could sell them on the idea of an AP, but they're likely to want to keep their current characters. So here's my dilemma.

Option 1: run more modules, trying to string together some sort of reason for the PCs to get involved.
Option 2: generate new characters and start an AP.
Option 3: try to rewrite an AP such that their existing characters (level 5) can play it.

I want to run an AP, partly because they're great and partly because I've already spent the money on them and not on modules; how much work do you reckon it would be to "fix" Kingmaker or Serpent's Skull to work for a party starting at L5?

Many thanks

Henry