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Everyone I just wanted to say thanks for the support and understanding from all of you. I just wanted to give you all an updat and some good news. My wife is out of the Hospital and her replacment heart valves are working fine and the pacemaker is doing its job. I will be starting back up if all of you will have me this Sunday 12/28/2008. If you are stil interested please just make a quick post and I understand if you all have moved on to a different game and want to bow out, I would not blame any of you. Thanks Again
As you leave you cabin for the last time you walk with the rest of the passengers down the halls to the airlock. After about 45 min in line you manage to make it on to the station. Looking around you will see 5 customs officers at there stations, Mossic is easily identified by his turban; his line is moving quickly and in an orderly fashion. With careful observation you notice that he has a small basket next to his inspection table and he touches it with his foot and if the person being processed does not drop an acceptable amount of credits he calls over the only two imperial guards in the room. DM: I will be running each of you past customs at the same time please post how you proceed and want answer the questions asked? Please post the answers and I will answer each one of you. What brings you to Zel Donn station? How long are you expecting to stay on the station? Do you have the credits to purchase a transport down to the surface if you are unable to find a job, this passage is 25 credits? Do you have family on the station? What weapons are you caring, and please place them on the table with the licensing documents? Do you have any fruits or meat products that you are transporting on to the station? Do you have anything else to declare?
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After talking with the crew who are more than happy to give advice is to make sure that you keep your head down and have all licenses for all weapons at the ready in case they wish to see them. Non-humans can expect more scrutiny and questions. They also tell you about one of the customs officials, Mossic. Mossic has been known to have flexible moral values and to overlook items accompanied by loose credits. The cabin boy lets you know that you can id him easily because he always has on a large turban with a purple feather on it. The cabin boy is standing there shuffling his feet
As the chronometer counts down on the wall there is a strange silence spreads across the ship. People look some what sad that the voyage is over Perception Check for all
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Talking with some of the refuges on the ship, you find the reason is that most of them left planets where they were starving and struggling for any kind of life. On this ship there was the first easy time in a long time for most. The reality is now crashing down on them. The time has come to depart the ship. DM
I suppose now is also the time to pass on that I am not really sure how Will Defense works. I can see that the number is a product of factors based on WIS, class and level and I assume that it works the same as Armor Class score. If I am asked to make a will save, I imagine such a thing is merely an attack roll the DM makes made against the number (in this case, 14). I don't need to roll any dice to add to the total do I? Yes that is basicly what you would use for a mental type attack against you.
"My name's Kal." He says to the bartender as much as he also addresses the Saber owner Mossi.
Kal Tyrgen's persuasion roll (1d20 +6=14) Tal looks over at you and kind of shrugs, "well you look like a pretty boy and I know you dont need money, so you must be a rush junkie, go with him if he'll have ya. Talk to the bar tender Fatalis Rovin but watch out he does not like droids." He then turns to a large brass bell on the wall and rings the bell and yells "Last call before port" the bell is louder than it looks I need a will save for both of you Over 13
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You have a bad headache and your ears are ringing under 13
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You take damage to your ears and have a -3 to listen checks for the next 2 days Then the bartender yells out "you two messing up my bar in the corner quit playing with each other or go to a cabin and finish that" then he mutters fighting will move you to anger and then to a loss of control. He then goes back to his bar and starts to mix some drinks for some other customers.
He gets a strange look on his face " TO the death of the Jedi then!" He downs his drink and looks toward the bar keep " Well you gonna poor me another or stand there like a lost trooper?" "Well all right then a man of conviction here is another drink. I can see your a man of taste and a certain shall we say "skills". I have some freinds that run a small place on the station that you might like, it is called the Sarlac's Hole. People in there are alway looking for the kind of peole that your mother warned you about."
Over the Ships loud speaker "Attention passengers we will be docking at Zel Dorn in a little over 8 standard hours. Please be ready to disembark when we arrive with your customs paperwork filled out. Please get the forms from the print distribution slot in your quarters and after completing them run them in the scanner at major junction comm centers to allow the customs inspector to pull them electronically and get everyone processed. Please remember to take all of your belongings with you as the ships crew and owners are not responsible for any items left behind. There are amnesty slots in the rec rooms for items that you do not want to bring to customs and anything in the slots will be compacted and dumped into a solar intercept orbit. Thank you from the captain and the crew of The Dreamer Journey.”
Mossi enters the rec room and makes his way to the bar. His cloths have seen better days a well worn holster holds a heavy blaster on his left leg, his boots look scuffed and worn. A battered lightsaber hangs from a republic issue belt with the republic symbol on the buckle. Over all the man looks worn and a bit of a scoundrel. He scans to room with a glance before taking his drink. The Bartender look over at his belt and whispers "Buddy you better hide that saber, most of the people on this ship are blameing them for the troubles now. I know in Zel Dorn station that is as good as a death sentance if the Imperial catch you."
Thanks to Flash_Cxxi for fixing my poor Link Fu. and will be looking forward to getting this started and Shakor you can use the Cathar as a race I would like to have everyone email me a rough concept so I can start to crunch some more details. Just race and class and what book that race is listed in are ok and a general idea of how you want to progress. My email address is KJBrown911<at>gmail<dot>com Thanks for the help
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Ok here are some down and dirty to start 28 pt buy and I would prefer just the core book. I am willing to let other races and concepts in but I reserve the right that if the wreck the game that we will require a change. I am ok with six players and with multiple soldiers in the group. I do caution that because of the era that this is in that non-human characters will experience some discrimination at times. I would suggest that some one play a Nobel/ face man because there are some very good role play moments in this AP. I also ask that you please not read the adventures before we run them, I feel that it is important to have the mystery for the full experience. I do like feedback so if you are not likening the way the game is going; I want you to speak up. I am more than willing to make changes to my style of play/GM to make this an enjoyable time for all of us. I will run this game with out awarding XP but will just advise at story points to level up. I will not require dice rolls to be made on invisible castle, I will trust all of you. Every one will have an extra 500 credits to spend at character creation if they post a detailed back story that will connect you to the place and point in time at the start of the saga. I do not have that P/P at this time and will have that on Friday of this week. My projected start date is October 13 is when I will be starting hard. I have GMed a few PBP games in the past but this is my first Saga game that I have done PBP, so I hope all of you have a great time I know I will. PS bad spelling in posts will not hurt your role playing
Sorry for the delay but here is the listing for the events for I-Con in Springfield Slot #1
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I-Con 2008
Where:
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On Site 3 day badge $ 22.00
I played in 3 of the 4 adventures, Ascension of the Drow and had a great time in all of them. I would like to second the comment on the water situation; the facility did not handle that well. Great writing on all of the adventures and all were enjoyable. All of my GM were great and worked hard to make the game enjoyable to all of the players. I am sorry that my memory will not allow me to name them at this time. One suggestion would be to have the boxed text available as a handout for the players if they are having a hard time hearing. I had a very hard time with the noise level in that room, but all of the GM did allow me to see the text when I asked. I would also like to add my thanks publicly again to Josh, Nick and all of the writers and GMs for their hard work and dedication to making these events the highlight of Gencon for me. Kevin Brown
One thing I would like to add that you would want to put on your list is a lunch or dinner at the Ram just down the street from the convention center. Great food and fun but a little on the pricy side but worth it. Also plan your budget for the dealer room before you get to the con and stick to it. Wife unit will still not let me live it down from last year. Try different games besides the ones you usually play, this is a great time to get a taste of something new with out the great expense of actually buying all the books to try something and not like it. I will also have the guts to say bring some sanitizing solution for your hands and for the toilet seat and use it often the restrooms can get rough at times. Bring pain reliever, cold medicine, Tums, ECT. Because if you have it and never need it great but if you need it and don't have it things go south quick. If they offer a screening of the new Gamers Dorknes Rising go see it. It is on my must buy list this year for the con. I will also say again to pack light books get heavy after about 3 hours of walking. I did not have a problem with the water but they have water stations setup around so you can refill a water bottle. Most important thing is to have fun and enjoy your self. Kevin
Behind the Spoiler Spoiler: 1. In your experience what is the typical composition (e.g. gender, age, race, etc.) of the players?
In my current gaming group we have a very diverse group including 2 women (17W, 2xAsain) 4 men all white (38, 26, 23, 35) 2. A common D & D stereotype that I have heard is that those who play D & D are under achievers. For example, still live with parents, don’t have a job, or just don’t want to “grow up.” In our group this stereotype would only apply to my daughter who is still in high school. Otherwise most of us work for a large telecommunication company, one is an IT professional, and one works for an insurance company 3 of us are married with kids. 3. What role does religion play in the D & D culture? I have never had any problems with my religious views or any of the religious leaders that I have been associated with. The only time any religion was a real problem is when others hassled me because I game. 4. What thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and/or values are most important in the D & D culture? Teamwork, creativity but gamers are just like any other group of people 5. Is their another culture that the D & D culture seems to have difficulty with? What is the nature of this difficulty? I have never had this problem; in fact it has been just the opposite for me. I have been to many different countries and some times the only thing I had in common was D&D. I was in Botswana and was reading a copy of Dragon magazine while waiting for a local bus I was taking to the house I was staying at for the summer. A group of local teen age boys came up to me and started asking questions about my game in the US. They then invited me to one of their games at one of their house and we started playing biweekly together. These young men would have never talked with me or opened their houses and culture to me had it not been for that connection we had with each other. 6. Are there ways that the D & D culture are discriminated against? What ways? 7. Have you personally been discriminated and/or stereotyped due to your involvement in the D & D culture? If you have been please explain. Yes, I had brought a dungeon magazine to work, the issue number escapes me but it was one with the woman and all the spiders on the cover and was reading it during my lunch in our break room. I was approached by our local HR professional and she asked me to come to her office so I could talk with her. When I arrived I was greeted by her and my supervisor and they asked me about the “pornography” I was reading in the break room. I was a little shocked and did not make the connection until they asked to see the magazine. I showed it to them and pointed out that the drawing on the cover was covered more than the picture on her Cosmo that she was looking at. My supervisor then looked at both magazines and told her that this was silly and a waste of his time and we were done. I also when I was younger in the 80’s during the high times of the anti-D&D religious movement was chased out of the library where we were playing and then they threw Holy water at us, at the time we all joked about how much damage we took from the water and made Monty python references back at them. 8. What strengths does the D & D culture have? It is very opinionated and passionate about what they think about subjects and are not shy about letting you know. 9. What weaknesses does the D & D culture have? It is very opinionated and passionate about what they think about subjects and are not shy about letting you know. 10. How are disagreements or conflicts resolved in the D & D culture?
Poor, Mike, though. If you guys knew how hard he was working on the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting hardcover you'd be buying him cookies and pizza instead of playing fantasy dress-up with his good name.I'm bringing cookies next week - does that count? (Though I may have to go with "Plan B" as I learned of some allergies - to the cookbook shelf!) Now here is an idea with merit, how about a collection and we all buy the semi-hard working people up in office lunch from a delivery place? All of us tossing in $2 would buy a great lunch with out the giant spider poison for all of them
I sit here typing this stunned and speechless, I have had a privilege to talk with GG personally twice. The first was the very first Gencon I went to in Milwaukee and again last year at Gencon. Both times I thanked him for the game that has at times defined my life and both times he listened to what I felt I needed to say to him. Then he thanked me right back for allowing him to become important. I find it hard to believe that he is gone and that I am graced that he has signed my 1ed DMG to replace the one that was lost. My heart and thanks go out again to this wonderful man and his family and our group to will have an empty chair and dice to remember him. RIP Gary you have made the world a better place for many people and will be missed. Kevin Brown
1) Do you plan to convert to the new edition of D&D? As a group we will be looking at the system and, it comes down to one question. If we have more enjoyment out of 4e then we will be playing 43, if not so be it. I have not been impressed with WOC in this affair and taking a wait and see attitude. 2) If Paizo converts its RPG products to 4.0, how will that affect your purchasing patterns for our products? I like the products that Paizo as a publisher is putting on the market. I will support the people that support the game that we will decide to play. I look forward to an AP in 4e but if it never happens I will ok with that. I find my self looking at the authors more than 2nd or 3rd now like I did in 1st and I like that. I know that I have do not have the time to write my own stories, but I can always count on Piazo's products to deliver (and a little plug for the N.L. his stuff rocks) the memorable game to my players. I have decided as a DM that I will look for the story first and the crunch second because I think that will be my primary motivation in what I buy. 3) If Paizo does not convert its RPG products to 4.0, how will that affect your purchasing patterns for our products? see #2
We have had a few in our game and before the rest om my players chime in most of them were my idea. Mortis Posthaste a Human wizard
And these are just the ones that I will own in public
I used the silly dream with the druid, I gave him a dream of the ship sinking in a great storm after the mast broke and plunged through the hold and punched out the bottom of the boat with the whole party trapped in the rigging being dragged into the lightless depths. I then had him see the tree with his holy symbol growing in the bark and him feeling a pull up the river and into the forest. After about 5 days of walking in the forest with not so random, random encounters. They met a monster of legend dire bear with a bad attitude that started to growl and raise Cain but not attacking them. The party wisely retreated and the bear followed them for another 4 days to the Dryad's tree.
Yeah I caught that towards the end of the fight but it was just too cool to not let it slide and it was working well with the story. As for the tree I just made it part of the story on how the Dryad was the protector of the forest and put all of her life energy into the tree giving it the magic spark it needed to change the way I am going to use teleportation.
I needed to give my party a few more encounters to bump them up to 5th level before sending them off to the Isle of Dread. So I was looking on the boards for some inspiration and I saw where a DM let his part use the Sea Wyvern as a place for teleportation. I thought this would be a great idea to make a side trek into the forest to find a tree that would be able to do this. One hook later and the party are walking in the forest looking for a tree with a dieing dryad in it who wants her death to help the world again. She gave the party a small task to remove a young adult green dragon from her forest before they would be able to use the tree. I set this up as an EL7 encounter but giving the part an advantage of the dragon losing mobility from an old wound that did not heal correctly that hurt his flying capability. The first decided to try to ask him to leave the forest with the druid leading the way with some flattery. I let him make a heal check and he realized that he did not have strong enough magic to heal the dragon. So the wizard pipes up, I have a wand of restoration. I was thinking that this is strange they can't have one of those, but then I realized what was happening, I called for bluff/sense motive and he rolled an 18+3=21 and I rolled a 2+15 for sense motive and the wizard surprised the dragon with his wand of ray of enfeeblement. Max damage!! And the dragon goes from 19 to 12 for strength. So we roll INT and the wizard beets the dragon and hit him again with the wand and rolls a 20 for a critical hit with a confirmation and bam another 11 points of strength. The dragon lets out his breath weapon and hurts a few of the players including the wizard. Everyone else starts to run up to the dragon who is having a hard time right now and they all decide to delay and do not HP damage at all. Then we have EOR and the wizard decides to withdraw because after a failed save he is at 1 hp. Dragon then makes a feeble full attack at the fighter who has run up and decided not to hit him. Everyone else is delaying and the wizard then uses his wand again to put the poor dragon at 0 strength and then they decide to finish him off when he is helpless. The great and glorious dragon fight that no one actually hit the dragon with any weapon.
Our group spent 10 months with AOW, playing weekly for the most part for about 8-15 hours a week. We did take a few weeks off during this time but for the most part we play rain or shine. Most of our group is older and with full time jobs but made but only two of us have any kids (and mine played). We are now playing STAP along with another couple campaigns. The best one is an epic campaign that we started with the AOW characters, one of whom went bad from attempting to trap the soul of Kyuss and who we are not attempting to redeem. I was the DM for AOW and I switched places with the player whose character it was and he is running this and it is a blast.
It would be really nice to have a PDF download with the maps scaled up to battle map size for download for a fee. I am always at a loss that most of my players never see the great maps in the paths. I would probably be hesitant to by a flip map of just one of the encounters but charge me $10.99 for a PDF with all the maps scaled up and I am sold.
I feel that I am the perfect authority to comment on this question. I started my gaming in school and continuing during my time in the service. I then learned of the great joy of the fermented hop and grain. After leaving the Army I started managing a Popeye's I ballooned up to 503lbs at my heavest. I have recently decided to change my life around; I have lost about 130lbs since 6/28/2006 with Atkins and feel great. I started out at 489 and am now about 350 so I am still the typical overweight gamer. The best advice that I can give is to get the support from the whole group. I made sure that I ate before we started and that I always had something available for me to munch on during the game (my favorite was the bags of pepperoni). It has been hard but if you fall off the wagon get right back on and keep going. If any of the other gamers want to start a thread about losing weight I would be glad to post my ideas on how to help there or privately at kjbrown911<at>gmail<dot>com
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