On the subject of new music releases: I can't say enough about JG Thirlwell's album of music from the Venture Bros. If you want some cool background music for a game, or you just like kick-@zz avant-garde instrumental music, check it out!
The whole album is YouTubified on this guy's list, it is worth a listen ...
I'll check it out at the hizzle fo shizzle.
Kiss the Skye's pretty cool; kinda weird though; takes getting used to.
heh heh...
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While Nile is usually as far out there as a death metal band gets, this is... I dunno. Symphonic world-choral music? As for the incomprehensible lyrics, I think they are pure gibberish. Lots of "Pazuzu!" and so on. Still, I thought it would have been the perfect soundtrack for our little skirmish with the swamp vampire.
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I remember reading somewhere about Bast; she used to be some southern folks' sun goddess/war goddess, until she got ganked in war and lost her portfolios.
It's too bad that in D&D a deity's alignment is pretty much divorced from material plane reality and kinda set in stone...you lose the ability to game with "your holy of holies is MY devil," and "my kingdom kicked your kingdom's ass, so MY ZEUS is the MAIN MAN, and your BACCHUS is just a drunken frollicker" (I know that's an oversimplification and just an example; I'm not 100% sure of Zeus and Bacchus's original story...).
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That's where the insistence on giving an alignment to everyone gets you. The main reason most of the Norse gods are classified as "Good" is that they are protecting men from giants. Beyond that, they mostly stand for a multitude of vices, exult in war and demand human sacrifice. Yet Odin is Chaotic Good???
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They're 4th level now - advancement is more rapid in 4e. The PCs start out tough at 1st level, but they don't have such a steep curve of increasing toughness as they level up (though when they got to level 4 they did improve noticably). That said, the baddies don't scale up so fast either, so a 3rd level party can tackle a 7th level monster fairly easily. Plus I have made liberal use on minion monsters, which all have 1hp each and are basically there to make up the numbers and be slaughtered in the first few rounds.
Also the stuff about the "lich king" - he wasn't a lich at all, I just used a lich mini (which freaked them out momentarily) for him; he was a level 5 monster, not 13+ like a lich is. And the guys rolled very well, and I didn't.
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In the last session, the dust devils (which I also created ) were actually very hard (as is anything with the Insubstantial property - it takes half damage from everything, and therefore effectively gets double hit points). The two supposedly Elite monsters (which are as hard as two non-elite monsters) - the gnoll shaman and the lich king - went down pretty easy.
Guh, apologies for my absences. I have a lot of yardwork and a lot of housework and a lot of workwork.. I will try to update soon..
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Certainly it's my intention (and my wife has OK'ed it) but haven't got round to sending the cheque.
Looks like the accommodation may be filling up fast. I'm still a little surprised my wife said yes. Must have caught her on a good day.
Are your players coming or just yourself?
As for Patrick and his busyness, you still found time to load and fire a BALLISTA at us in that dungeon of yours. A bloody ballista. All I can say here is I'm glad the dwarves have gone first. My elf would have been skewered.
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Certainly it's my intention (and my wife has OK'ed it) but haven't got round to sending the cheque.Looks like the accommodation may be filling up fast. I'm still a little surprised my wife said yes. Must have caught her on a good day.
Are your players coming or just yourself?
Well I live nearby so I don't need accommodation. I haven't mentioned it to my players - they might go, but as it's not 4e and they are not Paizoans I doubt they will be very interested.
right on....RL s%@% keeps jacking with me too.
Oh good, it's NOT just me then!
Will update this weekend, I promise!
(DOn't know when or how exactly, but I will!)
Yih; Sunday's me daughter's 4th birthday.
Legacy of Fire spoiler:....