Hey Ian, Henry wants to play.Where did that one come from...?
Ian and Henry played in my meatspace campaign over here in the last bastion of communism and Henry got in touch with me looking for a pbp.
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Ian and Henry played in my meatspace campaign over here in the last bastion of communism and Henry got in touch with me looking for a pbp.Hey Ian, Henry wants to play.Where did that one come from...?
Yeah... Me, being me, after all, immediately thought of Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins. I need to get out more...
Lol
Looking over my long awaited copy of the beta rules.
<===sick
Cool... fresh meat :D
I'm going to let you guys find Book and then scope around for a willing ... you know.
My plan for the game here is to drop a few hooks get us back to face down with Book, and then "close the book" for a few weeks.
Frankly, I'd like to give anyone who's just not riffing with the game a chance to back out at an intermission. With only Rad and Shiny posting close to regularly now it's really hard for me to follow and I'm the frickin' DM....
Not blaming anyone. We all know s%~& just fell flat and stayed there ever since Tobus left, GG had an ear infection, Shiny went soul searching, and Ian changed campuses all roughly during the same period of time.
Fakey jumped in but it was so slow I don't think he had a chance for it to take with him.
So anyway, that's what I'm thinking. What about you guys?
It was a good run though...
would recruting additional people help?
It was a good run though...
would recruting additional people help?
That's the plan.
I want to give you guys your chance to whack Book, first. I mean I statted the bastard, so....
Yes. And I wanna whack him.
Yah I really like the characters (and players).
It was my first pbp so I had to learn everything on the job. The hardest thing seems to be surviving a major disruption in post rates.
Whew back from the dead.
I'm so glad this game has some momentum again... WOOHOO!
Wow.
Farewell, Baldy. Your snarky comments shall be missed.
I hope Tobus is keeping well.
For the new guys (and the old guys too I guess):
Ryor originally belonged to Tobus Neth, who disappeared from the boards some time ago. His disappearance and some hard times for a couple of other players caused a mass absence that had me grasping for ways to keep going without running half the PCs.
While I was chewing on that, and planning out the rest of the lost temple delve I watched Prince of Darkness which saw me putting a "prison" for a demon in a secret chamber of the temple. When Pulsifer shattered the prison it came to me that it was a great chance to run Neth's character any way I wanted - by letting the demon take him, so at that moment I chose to make it a possessor type demon. They found him in the husk of the last body he occupied, killed it, and the game was afoot. Since then he seems to have taken a grudge to them... or perhaps they just have something he wants.
FYI: I've got some mechanics for possession that really favors the PCs (although he did take Jon for a bit), but for NPCs it is mostly done by DM fiat. Also there are some mechanics down for tracking and trapping him, but the PCs have yet to discover them.
Atanawonga!
I will have sporadic internet access until 14 April.
bump
The discussion thread that we never use....
Thankee Director Kruelaid Sir...
Going to Hall of Pharasma....
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Okay, I've started laying the tracks to deal you in.
They are bid to visit an old hermit in the Kho mountains, an old Osirian desert elf of your acquaintance, and former holy man of Aroden, and now an oracle.
He is known as Ka (Osirian for 'soul').
Kruelaid
Cool. I'll have to get off my fat arse and write his background now...
Flash, you can go ahead and making anything up you see fit as far as having Ka in your background. He's a scrying, divining mofo, but getting a wee bit senile.
Thel is a serious reaver.
Kruel:
Thelonius is done.
I do however have two questions for you.
1)
Given Thelonius' History, I was wondering if I could give up his Racial Hatred of Reptilian and Goblin Subtype creatures and instead replace it with the Gnoll Killer Trait from page 10 of the Legacy of Fire Players Guide? In case you don't have it I will paste the details here for you.
I have Boldly Italicised the pertinent portions of the Trait that would apply to Thelonius.
Gnoll Killer: You grew up in rural Katapesh, in a region where gnoll activity was a fact of life. You killed your first gnoll at a young age when a group of gnoll slavers attacked your village, home, or caravan, and your hatred of gnolls has only grown since then. Something in your past fueled your hatred of gnolls even further—
perhaps your family was slaughtered by gnolls, or maybe
you even served a few harrowing weeks as a prisoner of a gnoll tribe before a miraculous escape. When you heard that Garavel was looking for brave men and women to aid in retaking the village of Kelmarane from a tribe of gnolls in the service of the notorious Carrion King, you knew you had to be part of the group, and signed up immediately. You gain a +1 trait bonus on attack rolls and weapon damage rolls made against gnolls. If you are a barbarian and you’re fighting gnolls, your rage lasts 1 round longer than normal. If you’re a ranger and you select humanoid (gnoll) as a favored enemy, your trait bonus on attack rolls and weapon damage rolls against gnolls increases to +2. If you’re a spellcaster, you gain a +1 trait bonus to spell save DCs for damaging spells against gnolls.
This may or may not have a bearing upon your game plans (if you plan on having a lot of Gnolls in the future for instance), so feel free to say no, I won't mind in the slightest.
2)
What is your view on Characters paying less for items during Character Creation that they could have crafted themselves?
I say this because Thelonius has both Craft (Armoursmith) and Craft (Weaponsmith). Would you require me to make crafting rolls for them, or just say that he has had enough time to have made them for himself, if of course you allow me to use that rule?
I will hold off spending the remainder of his cash until I hear back from you as it may influence further purchases.
1) Yes. The goblins here in the desert are by and large CN, and although they don't mix, they're not hated like Varisian goblins. Gnolls, sure. I'll throw some in for you. Another possibility: ogres. Ogres are pretty common in the mountains, so common that in Katheer there are domesticated and war ogre bloodlines that have been living among Katheerans for centuries.
2) Yes, go for it.
Kruel:
Thelonius is done.
I do however have two questions for you.
1)
** spoiler omitted **2)
[spoiler]
What is your view on Characters paying less for items during Character Creation that they could have crafted themselves?
I say this because...
You may have also met Ka's granddaughter.
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You may have also met Ka's granddaughter.I don't know about Thelonius, but I know I meet Morning Wood most mornings...
8O
Here you go Kruel, enjoy! :)
From a Sourcebook called NymphologyMorning Wood
Transmutation
Level: Brd 0, Sor/Wiz 0.
Components: V, S, M.
Casting Time: 1 action.
Range: Personal.
Target: You.
Duration: 4 hours +1 hour/level.
Many men awake in the morning with a magnificent
and perfect erection that would normally go utterly
to waste. By casting this spell the blue mage is able
to preserve the morning’s first glorious hard-on for
later use.
Arcane Material Component: A small stick and a
piece of string.
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Oh, come on...
You haven't read the Rest of the Book!
Spells like:
Summon Sex Partner I-IX
Dirk's Impressive Tool
Hypnotic Rump
Mordykenen's Wonderful Brothel
and Locate Clitoris
to name but a selection!
Also a couple of PrC's, my favourite being:
Mystic Pimp
one of the pre-requisites of which, you have to know at least Summon Sex Partner II.
Methinks it was not meant to be taken entirely seriously as a Sourcebook... 8?
Casts unseen fluff girl.
<doing the vegetation now....
Man, I can't open the full size map that you guys haven't seen on my home computer anymore.
Only at work.
Check my badass workstation:
XP64
Phenom x4 CPU
8G dual channel 1066 RAM
MSI KA790GX mobo
b@!#%in' ASUS monitor... WACOM board.
Guess I'll have to do my playwork at work.
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Man, I can't open the full size map that you guys haven't seen on my home computer anymore.
Only at work.
Check my badass workstation:
XP64
Phenom x4 CPU
8G dual channel 1066 RAM
MSI KA790GX mobo
b%@&*in' ASUS monitor... WACOM board.Guess I'll have to do my playwork at work.
I can't get the layers to show up on that map. They load as the .pdf opens, but don't show up in the layers tab :(
Sweet machine Kruel
Hmmmmm. Huh. It's supposed to work. I can't check cuz I don't have Adobe Reader....
Guess all you get is that fleeting glimpse while it loads.
Hehe.
THE MAP PDF
Ok I tried it on my wife's comp and
it
works
fine.
I used Acrobat 8.
-Instructions and blahblah-
Only Adobe 6 compatible or later.
Open it, open the layers tab.
Click the + sign next to Katheer.indd and the layers list will drop down.
Clicking on the eyeballs will open or close it.
It works with my copy of Adobe Reader 8.
Did you expand the layers from the slot: + Katheer.indd?