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I'm playing in a group on chapter two of the shackled city, and the dm recently bought the paizo item packs... i don't know if he'd buy ones only for use with that setting, but if they are blank on the backside i think a shackled city booster expansion would be a good idear. i'm sure i'll go through age of worms at some point, so i'd be down with an aow booster, too.
my kitties are named cringer and battle-cat, and they love it. you should name him prince adam, and then we can meet in the park, and prince adam can play with cringer and battle cat. you can get him little purple tights. it'll be awesome.
Well, while looking through the available avatars, I found this ugly mug and knew I just had to have it. My avatar name is merely a description of the avatar. Too boring, huh?
Have an NPC of the needed class fall in love with one of the characters and refuse to be left behind. Effectively you're just coming up with an excuse to run an NPC with them, but it might be fun role-playing, too. Or just scale down the ECLs.
I'd be a guy with a skin disease, alcohol issues, weird glowing green eyes, a green cloak, no hair, pointy teeth, halitosis, and a penchant for narrowly avoided being lynched by unsympathetic mobs for stealing eggs. There would be no compelling backstory to give cause to actually appreciate him. He's a bum, a drunk, and on a good day looks like a well-groomed decaying corpse. A victim of circumstance (its too bad for him that people don't like foul-smelling, ill-looking, under-employed vagrants), but he tends to make the worst of it, only to be saved at the last minute due to improbable circumstances and good fortune. He is, of course, a cleric-rogue of Olidammara.
No wonder he's a cleric rogue! First off, with a first name like "Father" his options are kinda limited unless he wants to cause confussion to everyone he meets. Seriously, what loving parent would name their beloved child "Father"? Which leads me to point two. That big gnome nose is going to attract a lot of attention on the playground. Combine that with his unfortunant name (which kinda locks him into a religious career) and you've got the workings of a rogue. No wonder he chose Oldimarra--Alter Self as a domain spell is obviously a cry for help that Father craves the ability to look like someone else, nay, to BE someone else. My money says he took to adventuring so he could afford a Belt of Masculinity/Femeninity. (On the other hand, that article in the April Dragon about the god of rogues made me jones for rolling up a roguish-priest.)
Well, to answer the question in this thread: I am currently a player in a d20 starwars game, and I'd rather be playing d&d, or some other d20 product. I think. May be that we don't really know all the rules well, so gameplay is a bit too slow to have tons of fun, but maybe not. And Darth Vader was no beatnick or hippie--that dude, in his plastic body suit, is obviously a psycedelic hippster that likes to go to the Goth club on 80's night.
Koga: I don't know much about girls, or the occult, but it seems perfectly normal that when you combine the two then something dramatic, like disappering, would be a fairly predictable result. Not that I'm a number cruncher, either. And I am sorry about your friend; and about the WoTC (you still have ENWorld and here!); and hope you enjoy living out in the countryside. Goats make fun pets and cheap, effecient, enviroment friendly lawnmowers, and chickens eat ticks. Good luck!
farewell2kings wrote:
Ah, yes--but remember that the Star Wars Universe is set "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"--so it'd be a prehistoric earth, if anyone did come to visit, but the implication is the Star Wars Universe is in the same setting as our humble planet.
Seppuku Anything![General]
Dear God: Ecology of the Adventerer was so funny I peed my pants practically. Please can I have a kobald for Christmas next year? Tell Rudolph I love him! your fan,
d13: thanks! That is truly awesome! (I wish my dm was a hot occult member)
Although it pretty much depends on class, role-playing style, and the kind of campaign you're in, and to a lesser extent race (being a human gives the extra feat, which allows for funner combos)...this is still a fun discussion. Human fighter: Combat Expertise, Two-Weapon Fighting and Two-Weapon Defense using quarterstaff...you'll bash some goblins pretty good, or drop attack bonus so the boss can't hit you (hopefully) if you have at least a 14 STR. Munchkin: Human barbarian: Toughness, Die-hard (from CW, i think) rogue: (quick-draw, weap finesse can't be taken at level one) so take improved init--or if you're a human, its fun to take lightning reflexes and nimble fingers...or nimble fingers and skill focus (search)
My elven "dream-haunted" character in the shackled city path tries to avoid sleep whenever possible. The dm has me roll fortitude checks sometimes when I don't get my 4-hour reverie in, but I've always made them so I don't exactly know the reprucussions of failure. I was going off the PHB glossary: fatigued gets penalties to STR and DEX (but "dream-haunted" characters are immune to fatigue effects), and if you do get exhausted you just need an hour of sleep to become unexhausted. Apparently, based on what is said above, I should research this more closely, or my lvl 2 wizard is going to start losing hps!
Thanks nomad. Why do you think the walking dead are so easy to kill in those movies? The answer is easy, of course: they're drunk. But back to gamer connection: trying to get some 18+ people together for a twice-a-month Sunday afternoonish game in the Fayetteville area. Shoot me an e-mail at goldminerseany@gmail.com if you are interested.
I'm a firm believer in an eight-hour sleep cycle. Or ten. I figure, life's too short to be cranky all the time from sleep deprivation.
So I haven't found a list of minis that might be good to have around (and approx number) for running the RED HAND OF DOOM mod. Anyone sitting on that info? Please share! :)
I've had The Pogues on repeat for a couple of days in the car cd player. The ipod has recently played such gems as the decemberists(picaresque), the police (message in a box), frank zappa (apostrophe), and alice cooper (welcome to my nightmare)
You people are sparking my undernourished brain--Redwall (the copy I checked out from the library "accidentally" fell into some mud, so my mom had to buy it from the library...I still feel kinda bad about that...), Richard K's LEGEND OF HUMA (first AD&D specific campaign book I ever read) followed closely by the first Greyhawk book about Gord the Rogue, by Gygax (those pictures were probably a little too spicy for a 10-year old, in retrospect), and all the following literature--Jordan's Wheel of Time, Lawhead's Chamber of the Sleeping Dragon, tons of stuff I have forgotten about...but of course, by that time I was already, officially, a geek. (Sorry to those that object to "geek", but I'm not just a fan...I'm just one step down from a Trekkie. After I finish my history degree I'm going to try to get some job requiring a lot of playing D&D, or a lot of free time to play it on my own.)
So, I am curious how my fellow geeks ended up the way they are--you know, hanging out in card/comic shops; spending more money in one month on source books than they do on their cars, ever; etc. For me? Well, around the age of six or seven I got hooked on choose-your-own-adventure books, especially Lone Wolf. Also in my early youth, I remember the local PBS station played Japanese dramatic-soap-opera type shows every sunday afternoon. I have no clue what it was I was watching, but I loved the foreign culture, not to mention sword-play and ninjas! I was entirely moldable, and by the age of ten I started playing D&D (the red box). I remember my first adventure my brother ran me through was Alicorn, I think out of Dungeon 29. I've never been able to shake it, and looking back I have to blame ninjas and Lone Wolf.
Remember the assassin in Serenity? That's how I would see the typical government assassin...highly skilled, slightly warped, and probably LN or LE. I can't think of a CG character killing off enemies of any political organization...sounds neither chaotic, nor good... On the other hand, I am down with a "Good" assassin. It just doesn't seem to make much sense for a CG halfling--but you know the circumstances better than I.
a small water elemental vs a giant fire elemental...in the plane of water.
While not a rpg game, microprose also was responsible for Masters of Magic, probably my favorite computer fantasy-based game. I have a spare machine with win '98 laying around the house specifically so i can play it.
Jesse Decker wrote a class-acts on necessary arcane spells in a (fairly) recent DRAGON. Can't remember which one, off-hand, but its worth a look. Its good stuff, and only slightly metagamey.
It already exists. Its called Lodos Wars.
Getting hit by a (lvl 1) magic missle feels exactly like getting punched by a drunken zombie-faced ugly guy...who is medium-sized, has a 15 STR and Improved Unarmed Combat.
Saturday, start 6-7pm and end between 11pm-2am. Right now doing starwars twice a month, temple of elemental evil (return to) once a month, and shackled city once a month.
Clint, there are people looking to join 3.5 D&D games in nwark, at least I know there are in fayetteville. Check out the card shop in fiesta square (by the movie theatre) called Gallery of Champions. There's a sign-up sheet in the game room with contact info for people wanting games. My group already has eight players, and probably unsuitable for young players, but I wish ya the best!
"So what if the words ain’t rhyming
Okay go off and wander
(I just heard this, and had a moment with it, and I realized I had to post it, despite knowing that "my moment" would not necessairly be reciprocated by anyone else--how could it, its Duran Duran--but, despite knowing...oh God...New Religion...I better get started on my paper or I'll be here all day...)
I just read this thread whilst listening to the Rio album by our fav 80's rockers (reading this thread, I should mention, instead of working on my paper due all-too-soon), and have decided to play said album when next I dm. It'll be perfect for our Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. That, and I feel cooler for reading about the gaming habits of big-time celebrities (the likes of the editors of that magazine), and am glad to see (metaphorically-speaking) the geeking-out taking place at all levels of the social strata...er...something... I think I meant to say Cheers, happy gaming, and don't forget: Hungry like the wolf. |
