I was going to try to write something punny for my entry in the "In Company of Minotaur" PDF, but I ended up feeling cowed after reading each and every one of them out loud :(.
Minotaurs.
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From Google+...
Scott Malthouse: Minotaur - a short sight-seeing trip
William Birchler: I'm just a-maze-d that you are making us take the bull by the horns on this one...
Rohit Ramnath: Why did the minotaur get kicked out of school ? He was a big bully.
Dan Quilty: I won't do it!
I'm feelin' kind of bullheaded today
Rodney Gay: I don't think this qualifies, but its what I have at the moment: "Why did the argonaut yelp every time he came to a fork in the maze? He was caught on the horns of a dilemma."
Srishti Garvey: Why did Wall Street love the Minotaur? He made them feel bullish.
Michael Jacobs: I wouldn't be caught Daed making a minotaur pun.
Craig Black: What kind of vine does a Minotaur swing on?? a Bovine..!
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Thinking up a pun shouldn't take more than a minute or two.
I want the pdf so I can be up to my armpits in minotaur
Eric Williams from Google + won In The Company of Minotaurs.
Today's give away is 101 Monster Feats; To qualify all you have to do is post who your favorite monster is and why.
Froghemoth because Froghemoth.
This is a great Giveaway contest, Rite Publishing.
This is a great Giveaway contest, Rite Publishing.
Thank you,
Now what is your favorite monster and why? :)
Now what is your favorite monster and why?
I don't really have a favorite as each has it's moment, use and role to play in the game.
Undead give the clerics a chance to literally shine,
Evil Outsiders test the paladin's code and morals,
Orcs, Goblins and Kobolds for the fighter to stomp into the dirt,
Humanoids to test the wits of the skilled rogue or bard.
My favorite starting monster through will always be the Goblin.
Why, because they are crazy, funny*, and modifiable**, and reasonable starting monster.
*Funny, because I do have them act like idiots at times (I even have a special group of goblins called "The 3 Stooges," that appear every campaign), and sometimes they do funny things.
**I never use a regular goblin. I always give them a class level or two to give the player's a surprise, thinking that a goblin will go down in 1 easy hit. that is not true with my goblins (AC starts at 14 and goes up).
Absolutely an Adamantine Golem. CR 19, made of Adamantine, like... 20+ feet tall, DR/Epic, fast healing 10, Immunity to Magic and INDESTRUCTIBLE (without a vorpal weapon or a wish/miracle spell). So much badassery in one smoke belching construct :)
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Undead can make good foes for a campaign, because, apart from any mechanical considerations, such as immunities to many plot-spoiling abilities, they can justifiably be placed in so many settings.
As GM, you don't have to worry about awkward questions, like "There's nothing to eat here. What does this monster live on?", or "Wouldn't they get bored sitting around all day, waiting for PCs to pass by?".
And they can be the bane of metagamers everywhere;
"What does it look like?"
"Like a skeleton."
Have to second the Froghemoth. Nostalgia trip on that guy. Plus the name is absolutely awesome.
The lich for their many ways to challenge the party :-)
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From Google+
Andrew Betts: I'm going to have to go with the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing ... it is just so corny and yet absolutely terrifying if used properly ... although I do love the mimic too.
Sean Holland: So many to choose from . . .
But I think I will go for the classic, Dragons, terrifying, powerful, magical and most importantly, intelligent.
William Birchler: Destrachan - Does sonic damage against opponents! Brutal when your casters are missing who can cast protection from energy spells.
Today's Winner is Snorter! Please shoot me an email worldsmith at gmail dot com
Today's give away is Faces of the Tarnished Souk: The Ghost-Light that Dreamed, Gozutozawa ; To qualify all you have to do is tell us how you generate good (non humorous) NPC names, and a link if its an online resource.
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That's an interesting question. For myself, when writing and needing names, I use baby name books, occasionally changing up a letter here or there. If a book is not handy, I'll use an online site, normally "baby names world" which allows you to modify your search according to a number of variables.
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In the 90s I wrote a number of random name generators, by race, for Dragon magazine. I use them a lot in my own campaigns, and many of my playtesters have print-outs of them as well.
Many can be found online, though no one seems to have the kuo-toa name generator I wrote...
In the 90s I wrote a number of random name generators, by race, for Dragon magazine. I use them a lot in my own campaigns, and many of my playtesters have print-outs of them as well.
Many can be found online, though no one seems to have the kuo-toa name generator I wrote...
I use the heck out of those :)
Blindly pointing in the phone book has given me some gems in the past.
Blindly pointing in the phone book has given me some gems in the past.
Unless you live in San Fran. And then everyone is named "Ng". =/
I am absolutely terrible at names. I often just write down a few random letter and try to make something out of them.
This is an incredible name generator though - http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/
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From Facebook:
Jefferson Jay Thacker: I use EBON: http://ebon.pyorre.net/
Matt Banach: I picked this book up a few Gen Con's ago: Gary Gygax's Extraordinary Book of Names. It is really awesome - an incredibly dense and deep-reaching tome of nothing but names, names, names. http://www.amazon.com/Gygaxs-Extraordinary-Gygaxian-Fantasy-Worlds/dp/19312 75564
(note: Matt's not part of the contest, but I thought his answer was worth sharing)
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From Google+
Andrew Betts: Most of the names I generate are just off the top of my head, although I will sometimes look for names with hidden meanings, such as a possible hint at a weakness, etc.
Christopher Anthony: I bash on a keyboard with my eyes closed, then remove letters and add vowels until I end up with something that sounds interesting. It works better for non-human names.
Great contest guys, and a worthwhile addition to the multi-faceted nature of Pathfinder's healthy online community. ( Also: a big shout out to cheapy for his sublime generosity. I haven't seen such kindness since some kind soul gifted me 20,000 gp in Guild Wars back in '08. Thank you Last Human Word, whoever you are!) I echo other folk: I'm new to the 3pp scene but am continually impressed by the dedication and creativity. Well done Rite!
And in answer to your question: Simple. I make them up!
Our winner is Jefferson Jay Thacker from Facebook.
Today's Evocative City Sites: The Crossroads by Rob Manning ("Coils of Flame" PFAP #20, Player's Guide to the Great City)
This time just tell us about the most evocative city site you have found in an RPG session!
White Dwarf's "Irilian". Moody mittel-European feel complete with language and characters, a fully realised campaign adventure arc including murders, plague, caravan raids, lizardmen, cultists, a wizard's tor and more flavorful NPC's than a mediaeval burg should have. Who doesn't love a campaign arc that ends with one character having to become a sacrificial avatar of light to overcome the forces of darkness and ultimately perish?
The city state of Tyr. Pre Prism Pentad. My character was "allowed" to help build King Kalak's ziggeraut. I can close my eyes and still see it all.
You are our winner just shoot me an email worldsmith at gmail.com and we will send your prize out ShadowcatX.
Yesterday's give away was the FREE Frozen Wind adventure (for everyone )
Every Weekday Give Away: Today's giveaway is The Secrets of Martial Mastery; to qualify just post the funniest failed combat maneuver attempt you know. I will announce the winner on monday so you have the whole weekend.
To qualify just post the funniest failed combat maneuver attempt you know. I will announce the winner on monday so you have the whole weekend.
I'm hoping that this doesn't have to be a "done to me" attempt, but rather a "done to a monster" attempt, but here it goes. By the way, there are several in here.
We just started a campaign that my friend is running and I'm a halfling Oracle. As you can imagine, my CMB / CMD is terrible. On our first encounter, we run into several Cave Fishers who are perched on several ledges in this cave. They decide "Oh, look at the little one! He's bit-sized!" and decide to wrangle me with their webs. I get caught dragged twenty feet, off of a platform and into a basin of water. So I try to escape and fail (naturally) and fget dragged up onto the land the next turn (my faithful 'companions' decided to deal with the other one while their healer was reeled in towards his doom).
Well, I wasn't having any of that, and I asked if I could use my sling to make a Combat Maneuver attempt to pull myself off of their webbing by essentially lassoing a stalagmite with it(as a side note; Cave Fishers are like giant crabs that spit webs). My DM allows it, saying that he'll give me a +5 bonus to my check, but if I fail, my sling breaks. Considering I have the mending spell and that I don't have a CMB to begin with, I agree and roll. And get a natural one. So here, my little halfling is about to critically break his sling when I decide to active his special Misfortune ability for being a Dual Cursed Oracle. I reroll a d20 and take the new result, even if it is worse. I roll again, praying to the gods of dice for a second chance ... and roll a natural twenty, freeing myself SPLENDIDLY ....
Only to get wranged by the OTHER cave fisher from across the room next round! So what did I do then, you ask? Well, a lightbulb turned on in my head and I performed the most dastardly of combat maneuvers; the toddler wrangle. Like a small child, I quickly ran towards the new cave fisher, gaining some slack on his webbing in the process. Since we were fighting in a cave, I ran towards the nearest stalagmite and ran around it in circles the way a child on a leash might entangle his mother. When I was done, I jumped onto the stalagmite and held on for dear life.
Cave fishers are not intelligent creatures. It had no way of knowing that when it tried to real me in, it was literally trying to move the entire hunk of stone with it. It also had no way of knowing that its DM rolled a natural one on ITS Combat Maneuver check, and therefore slipped and lost its footing. The cave fisher tumbles to the ground, lands on its head, takes 3d6 points of falling damage, and because of the other attacks it had been suffering during the previous rounds, it dies on the spot.
Are they typical, by the rules combat maneuvers? Heck no, but they're hilarious, no? :-P
That's the idea of em :)
To qualify just post the funniest failed combat maneuver attempt you know. I will announce the winner on monday so you have the whole weekend.I'm hoping that this doesn't have to be a "done to me" attempt, but rather a "done to a monster" attempt, but here it goes. By the way, there are several in here.
We just started a campaign that my friend is running and I'm a halfling Oracle. As you can imagine, my CMB / CMD is terrible. On our first encounter, we run into several Cave Fishers who are perched on several ledges in this cave. They decide "Oh, look at the little one! He's bit-sized!" and decide to wrangle me with their webs. I get caught dragged twenty feet, off of a platform and into a basin of water. So I try to escape and fail (naturally) and fget dragged up onto the land the next turn (my faithful 'companions' decided to deal with the other one while their healer was reeled in towards his doom).
Well, I wasn't having any of that, and I asked if I could use my sling to make a Combat Maneuver attempt to pull myself off of their webbing by essentially lassoing a stalagmite with it(as a side note; Cave Fishers are like giant crabs that spit webs). My DM allows it, saying that he'll give me a +5 bonus to my check, but if I fail, my sling breaks. Considering I have the mending spell and that I don't have a CMB to begin with, I agree and roll. And get a natural one. So here, my little halfling is about to critically break his sling when I decide to active his special Misfortune ability for being a Dual Cursed Oracle. I reroll a d20 and take the new result, even if it is worse. I roll again, praying to the gods of dice for a second chance ... and roll a natural twenty, freeing myself SPLENDIDLY ....
Only to get wranged by the OTHER cave fisher from across the room next round! So what did I do then, you ask? Well, a lightbulb turned on in my head and I performed the most dastardly of combat maneuvers; the toddler wrangle. Like a small child, I quickly ran towards the...
That was epic awesome sauce :)
@Golden-Esque: phew! Some great quick-thinking there. Here's hoping this next prize is given randomly coz i sure can't beat it. Might as well try. :p
Another old-skool grognard post from yours truly.
D&D basic, circa rules cyclopedia, 1993. For some reason my brother is DM, instead of our usual, the other way around. Problem is, bro's idea of rpg is play a half-elf ranger and use only the RAW.
Assault on raven's ruin.
Goblins attack with nets from a small ledge in a hallway. Somehow ( wow almost twenty years and it's a bit blurry) the doughty pcs manage to get the fight on level ground.
I (cleric) tell bro DM i want to "tackle" a goblin instead of mash it with my mace. He's dubious, after all, i'm not using a bow from distance ("range-r") like he knows every adventurer should and it seems like i'm trying to get some unholy unfair advantage by doing something "unusual" (like not hitting bad guy with mashy thing). Whether it was the unfair ( biased memory here) modifier he placed or the dice being scared of his opprobrium i of course roll a 1, stumble and fall at the goblins feet and present head and neck for quick goblin-style jugular surgery. "Basic" Fail. :^}
@rite publishing: thanks for the halloween pdf giveaway. Well done Messrs McAnulty and Tumey, you have crafted a thing of stark and rare beauty.
Golden-Esque is our winner, please shoot me at email worldsmith at gmail dot com
Today's Give away is 101 Magical Weapon Properties (PDF) Just post the best magical weapon name (non-humorous) you have had in your game, the winner will be chosen at random.
I'm not in the contest, but I once had an item called the Minute Meteor Marking Mini Man-ballista.
It was a Large heavy repeating crossbow that would only do 1 point of force damage against the target that was hit...but one round later a meteor would come crashing down at the location, doing some minor AoE damage and making the area difficult terrain.
Drat I already bought it! Fantastic book. I love it. :)
Personally I tend to borrow names of weapons from various video games or legends then convert them into something approximate in the D&D system. Never been fond of weapons just called something like longsword+1. Any magical weapon found has a name of some sort.
Slagoth's Pet. A spirit-infused greatsword that looked half-melted/twisted metal and half-organic mess. On a critical, the Pet would take an extra bite out of the victim...