yeah! happy birthday!!!
Heh. Well, at least she gets a vacation from HIM for a while! sheesh!
ANd Happy B-Day!
gone for a while; due to the revels of Mother's Day; check in in maybe 4-5 hours....
Altai, Gittik have leveled I know;
I've sketched out the valley a bit, and have contemplated this'n'that; ready to go pretty much with the next little bit, will be for sure by the time everybody's leveled, but I suppose there's enough there for you guys to contemplate your approach/interact with the scenario what-have-you.
and so, adieu for a bit....
*exuent*
Right on.....pretty good day...
So Altai, Gittik, n Beldan are leveled up.
ALZO, got a good idear re: Beldan solo grand larceny one shot;....heh heh....prolly do it when everybody's back at town from this current debacle. Or I can expand it; whatever.
Right on; no hurry I guess. I got some stuff to take care of Monday early evening prolly.
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The missus and I went and saw Iron Man II today. Decent movie - if you liked the first, you'll like this one too. It is, of course, even more ridiculous than the first: my favourite part was when Tony Stark built a particle accelerator in his basement out of some ventilation tubing and then got a big ol' wrench out to fine-tune it...
Scarlett Johansson has some cool action scenes, but does such a terrible job acting that she actually becomes a distraction and a net loss. And after seeing this movie, Ethiopians will start sending Gwyneth Paltrow food. :§
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You know, the more I play this game, the more I wonder if the character optimisation authorities actually do. I’m thinking of recent threads about rogues sucking in combat, or only two weapon fighting being a viable build for a rogue. I don’t know, Beldan is certainly not built to be optimum in combat, but he does alright. He’s not dishing out the most damage (and nor should he), but he contributes, tends to do a fair bit of damage, and has a lot of survivability (I love AC 31 and evasion!). Most importantly, I have fun with the character. And if we should expect the rogue to be just as dangerous as say the fighter in melee, shouldn’t we also expect the fighter to be coming in with a +30 stealth roll?
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Mmmm, Scarlett Johansson ...
I’ve heard reviews praising her in the film. Not sure which angle they were coming from. I’ve not seen it, so can’t comment, though I thought the first one was good fun (so long as you could suspend your disbelief – but then it is a superhero movie after all).
Probably something to do with her wearing tight clothing and stripping to her underwear at one point. Personally I'm not a huge fan of her looks - nice enough bod but her face is not much better than average for me.
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Have you read any of Treantmonk's guides, they put into words some of things I guess you learn from experience and occasionally make me want to try out new things like the monk class (one I have never had much fun with). Perhaps in an optimiser's game, Beldan would be out of his league, I'm not sure he is pretty good? But we don't play this like min/max adventuring and Heathy isn't trying to kill us. If we did I doubt most of us would survive.
We get purple slaadi, unforgettable stuff!
As for Beldan's stealth, I never said it at the time, but rolling 45 was another Remorhaz moment for me, can't wait for you to top 50!
Cheers
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You know, the more I play this game, the more I wonder if the character optimisation authorities actually do. I’m thinking of recent threads about rogues sucking in combat, or only two weapon fighting being a viable build for a rogue. I don’t know, Beldan is certainly not built to be optimum in combat, but he does alright. He’s not dishing out the most damage (and nor should he), but he contributes, tends to do a fair bit of damage, and has a lot of survivability (I love AC 31 and evasion!). Most importantly, I have fun with the character. And if we should expect the rogue to be just as dangerous as say the fighter in melee, shouldn’t we also expect the fighter to be coming in with a +30 stealth roll?
Which only goes to prove that fighters should have Acrobatics and Stealth as class skills. I think it proves that, anyway.
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Probably something to do with her wearing tight clothing and stripping to her underwear at one point. Personally I'm not a huge fan of her looks - nice enough bod but her face is not much better than average for me.Mmmm, Scarlett Johansson ...
I’ve heard reviews praising her in the film. Not sure which angle they were coming from. I’ve not seen it, so can’t comment, though I thought the first one was good fun (so long as you could suspend your disbelief – but then it is a superhero movie after all).
I love Scarlett … or at least I would love to do depraved and unnatural things to her, um, with her.
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Have you read any of Treantmonk's guides, they put into words some of things I guess you learn from experience and occasionally make me want to try out new things like the monk class (one I have never had much fun with). Perhaps in an optimiser's game, Beldan would be out of his league, I'm not sure he is pretty good? But we don't play this like min/max adventuring and Heathy isn't trying to kill us. If we did I doubt most of us would survive.
We get purple slaadi, unforgettable stuff!
As for Beldan's stealth, I never said it at the time, but rolling 45 was another Remorhaz moment for me, can't wait for you to top 50!
Cheers
Haven't read Treantmonk's guides, though maybe I should check them out.
Things like the purple slaad are great - especially once the penny dropped and I realised why they were purple slaad ...
The missus and I went and saw Iron Man II today. Decent movie - if you liked the first, you'll like this one too. It is, of course, even more ridiculous than the first: my favourite part was when Tony Stark built a particle accelerator in his basement out of some ventilation tubing and then got a big ol' wrench out to fine-tune it...
Scarlett Johansson has some cool action scenes, but does such a terrible job acting that she actually becomes a distraction and a net loss. And after seeing this movie, Ethiopians will start sending Gwyneth Paltrow food. :§
I need to see the first one.
And all classes should get 8 skill points per level, just to give PCs something to do when not swinging a blade!
Oh, and fighters should get skill points based on STR rather than INT.
We could play palladium.....I have the rules.
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I always thought of the Palladium system (which, for the record, I remember as fun, but also as pretty bad) as two games - one for the MegaDamage action, and another for the regular folks. Combining the two always turned out bad. We had quite a bit of fun with the TNMT and Recon games and stayed the hell away from Rifts.
Oh, and both Iron Man movies are worth seeing. They are not as good as the first two X-Men flicks, but much better than most superhero/giant robot stuff out there. Iron Man clearly operates in the MegaDamage universe...
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I never really got to play much Palladium (though had some mates who were right into it). Made up characters for a couple of Rifts games and a Palladium super heroes game, but they never really got off the game. The only game that I did play for a while was a Phase World campaign – basically you take all the madness from Rifts, add in another several dozen unbalanced class/race combos (aliens! Robots! Supernatural entities!) and put it all in space.
I was playing an Oni Ninja (giant Japanese demon wearing Megaarmour ninja suit and dealing mega damage), I think we also had a full conversion combat borg, one of those lupine type guys wearing power armour and something else crazy ... I remember the boss fight at the end of the first adventure with a giant robot taking almost two whole sessions to resolve.
That game's the entire reason I'm like, "balance? F+%% balance."
1-handed rogues just gotta stab the giant dog in teh doodads, man.
I've been living in abject horror of Stiggy's double crit 150+ h.p. in damage in one round for three weeks.
He kilt my Batman.
WTF? Fighters are weaksauce yadda yadda.....
Maybe they are, especially with the wizard in a void vs. a "CR X" opponent, but......throw in three large animated Olmec baby statues and a wizard will sweat.
I gadda million of em.
I just thought...."cool.....red dragon plus blue slaadi equals purple half dragon slaad." It's Barney the dinosaur!!!
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For years and years I’ve been sorta kinda maybe planning a campaign set in Hugh Cook’s Chronicles of an Age of Darkness (the setting for his novel The Walrus and The Warwolf, which is being released under the Planet Stories banner shortly – check it out if you havn’t read it, it is a great book).
Anyway, I’ve never really felt I could do a campaign set in that world justice, there’s a certain quality to things there that my DMing style doesn’t really capture ... but yours does. So I’ve been quietly taking notes on your style and ideas, who knows, I might one day run that campaign after all.
I'll have to check that book out.
I like Bill Burroughs and Fritz Lieber, weird stuff like that.
Fritz is funny as hell, and he doesn't seem to allow himself to be encumbered by anything. Burroughs just writes whatever the hell he wants to or has to. I don't think he gives a s*!+ about any b$~@#@++.
And Candide by Voltaire.
I think some people get wrapped up in being totally serious, like that's all there is to life. Not Lieber, man. I think he did good work, but he wasn't scared to make fun of it all.
I try to invoke Lieber with Hudak; Fafhrd was sortuva buffoon. A deadly buffoon, but a buffoon nonetheless.
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Ha! That was another great wtf moment – giant baby olmec statues!
They were birthed by the giant heads!
As for balance, the only one I've ever thought was lagging a little is Gittik, but that's mostly because he struggles bit against high DR. The extra attacks he got on this level will make him even scarier, of course.
Yeah; Gittik'll pump out a hundred h.p.'s a round on jokers though.
I do want to do a game, though, that's a total Mastodon video//Metalpocalypse episode.
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Yeah; Gittik'll pump out a hundred h.p.'s a round on jokers though.
Absolutely - Gittik's scary is hell. He just doesn't have that knock-someone-into-orbit hits Stig can squeeze off every once in a while. Having said that, Gittik'll pump out three crits per round now. ;D
I like Bill Burroughs and Fritz Lieber, weird stuff like that.
Fritz is funny as hell, and he doesn't seem to allow himself to be encumbered by anything. Burroughs just writes whatever the hell he wants to or has to. I don't think he gives a s*!@ about any b@@%!#*@.
And Candide by Voltaire.
I think some people get wrapped up in being totally serious, like that's all there is to life. Not Lieber, man. I think he did good work, but he wasn't scared to make fun of it all.
I try to invoke Lieber with Hudak; Fafhrd was sortuva buffoon. A deadly buffoon, but a buffoon nonetheless.
One of the most amazing things with Leiber is that his plots are usually completely ridiculous, but you still care. Those weird... whatever those wizards are. And nobody that takes themselves too seriously could come up with something as flat-out awesome as "Issek Of The Jug".
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For years and years I’ve been sorta kinda maybe planning a campaign set in Hugh Cook’s Chronicles of an Age of Darkness (the setting for his novel The Walrus and The Warwolf, which is being released under the Planet Stories banner shortly – check it out if you havn’t read it, it is a great book).
Iiiiiiiinteresting....
I don't know how soon I'll be able to get Dark Sun up and running.
Guess I'm not too worried, since the book's not even out yet.
It's been enough of a gag to get my 4e character up to snuff.
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I like Bill Burroughs and Fritz Lieber, weird stuff like that.
Fritz is funny as hell, and he doesn't seem to allow himself to be encumbered by anything. Burroughs just writes whatever the hell he wants to or has to. I don't think he gives a s@!# about any b%@%~!&#.
And Candide by Voltaire.
I think some people get wrapped up in being totally serious, like that's all there is to life. Not Lieber, man. I think he did good work, but he wasn't scared to make fun of it all.
I try to invoke Lieber with Hudak; Fafhrd was sortuva buffoon. A deadly buffoon, but a buffoon nonetheless.
Fritz Leiber was a genius (though if you get his later Fafhrd and Mouser stuff, they aren't as good as the earlier stuff IMHO) - the one where Fafhrd gets religion and the Grey Mouser goes into decline and gets middle-aged spread (anyone know about that?) is not only brilliant fantasy but also comic gold. And the novella in the underground city where they are hired as bodyguards.
. And the novella in the underground city where they are hired as bodyguards.
Quarmall is all ...
Lieber was my intro to comedic fantasy. I loved the fact that the characters were amoral and greedy, such a refreshing change of pace from the world-changing stuff Tolkien et al pumped out.
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When Pratchett is on (Hogfather, The colour of magic and the City Watch books come to mind), I think he is absolutely amazing. When he's off... Well, it is really painful to read books that try to be funny and impart some sort of message, and which fails at both. And the books about the witches flat-out suck. I was rooting for the vampires and those creepy faeries, and will keep booing Granny Weatherwax even if she fights Hitler, Cthulhu and Adam Sandler.