RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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Well I mentioned Heartseeker upthread but here's further adventures.
Story 1
I make the roll and he gets Heartseaker in his off hand. She immediately heals him, undoing all Ty's hard work. The final fight takes two hours of real time and game time, resulting in a chase across roofs, expert disarms resulting in them each fighting with the other guy's weapons, and Ty losing like 3 levels to his own dagger (much to my amusement). Finally, Ty wins and Artemis Entreri is dead. After getting his buddy raised, they celebrate by putting Heartseeker in a lead box and dumping her in the ocean.
Now I told you that story to tell you this one.
The rogue's (the one almost killed by having the dagger thrown at him above) player starts freaking out. Majorly freaking. He's demanding that they throw the box in a river or something. Ty's player promises he'll 'keep it so they can keep an eye on it' but he won't use it.
Sure enough, they're fighting the drow and he's low on HP. The player passes me a note. On it is a picture of Heartseeker and the words 'It's Suppertime.' Yes, I had succeeded in getting the player addicted to the life draining dagger. Eventually he said "If I can get that <female dog> out of the blade and reincarnated... I'm marrying her."
Old-school grognards, represent! Who could forget the ring from Encounter Area 4 in 1E's "S2, White Plume Mountain". When this ring is found, the players are spoken to telepathically:
"Stop before you pick me up. I confer the following powers on my wearer: invisibility, haste(8 charges), I act as a ring of protection(+1),confer 100% protection from charm, flying once per day, spell turning(10 charges), treasure finding(6 charges) and one wish. The only drawback is that I eat one hit point per year permanently. But I must be put on before leaving this room, as I must be worn for me to leave. However, once I am removed from the finger, all my powers are lost. So you must decide right now who will wear me permanently"
The ring is a ruse to get the players fighting amongst themselves - for although all of it's powers work in the room it is found in, once outside it fails to work at all.
My players decided to fight it out to decide who got to keep the magnificent ring, reasoning that if any harm befell them they were "safe" in the "knowledge" they could always use the wish to restore lost limbs/lives. Unfortunately the fight got out of hand as voracious characters slew each other until the party assassin/magic user grabbed the ring, hasted himself, went invisible, hid and then assassinated the remaining combatant and kept the ring for himself. He decided not to "restore" his "companions", took all their gear and promptly left to try his luck (unsuccessfully) finding the actual intelligent weapons in the module, Whelm, Wave and Blackrazor. I say "actual" because the ring, once outside the room, couldn't even talk! ;^)
I am out sick today. will do two give aways tomorrow
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My most memorable experience with an intelligent magic item was just after converting our AD&D 2nd edition characters to 3.0 rules and fighting a boss type enemy and looting the body finding myself with an awesome new cloak with a full page of abilities. So, I start writing them down on the blank side of my character sheet. I feel better and better with each ability listed in great detail...
When the DM finally saw that I was copying down all the abilities that this cloak had he told me not to worry about writing it down. I thought to myself and responded "I should write it down just in case I need to use it tonight" thinking that he would print me a copy for next week's game session. So we continue for another hour doing some Role-Playing and exploring more to complete our mission and I finally get done writing down all the nuances and we come up against another boss type enemy. And guess what this intelligent magic cloak does? And, guess who disappears directly after?
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Henry Wong is our winner from Google +
In The Company Of Giants just post a giant pun! I will be awarding two copies on monday.
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I guess I'll be jotun a giant pun down as well...
I'm B-ettin this would be a great one to win.
...alright that was bad and I'm sorry.
Geez, That won't amount to a Hill-a-giant of beans.
Forward men - Let's Storm Giant the castle !
Weather tomorrow - partly cloud giant and solar.
Sqwonk is our winner of In the Company of Giants! please shoot me an email via worldsmith at gmail dot com
Fantastic Maps: The Glass Balcony to qualify to win today you just need to tell us a location you would like to see Jonathan Roberts do a fantastic maps pack for in the future!
Brothel!
Vomitorium!
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I always thought an adventure in an abbatior would be great, lots of hanging meat means lots of cover and concealment, and think of all the edged weapons and bull rush attacks and improvised weapons. I would love to see a really exciting map for a slaughterhouse and remember, they're usually two story with a catwalk.
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I like the thought of an ancient giant's tomb, for many of the same reasons an abbatior would be cool, huge sarcophagi for cover and concealment, climbing requirements to get to higher burial shelves, large weapons and shields that could come into play, etc. All with the creep factor of standing near, climbing over, or standing/hiding in giant corpses.
I like the thought of an ancient giant's tomb, for many of the same reasons an abbatior would be cool, huge sarcophagi for cover and concealment, climbing requirements to get to higher burial shelves, large weapons and shields that could come into play, etc. All with the creep factor of standing near, climbing over, or standing/hiding in giant corpses.
Kind of like an elephant grave yard? Cool!
I like the thought of an ancient giant's tomb, for many of the same reasons an abbatior would be cool, huge sarcophagi for cover and concealment, climbing requirements to get to higher burial shelves, large weapons and shields that could come into play, etc. All with the creep factor of standing near, climbing over, or standing/hiding in giant corpses.
Check out ANCIENT BLOOD from Dungeon #20...
Numerian star-fallen Vault.
Numerian star-fallen Vault.
Can't be golarion!
Genericize that, yo!
Ice cave.
Okay then. Totally non-specific crashed craft-from-the-heavens. Replete with multi-function decks, powered levels, damaged areas and submerged portions. And make it snappy!
Okay then. Totally non-specific crashed craft-from-the-heavens. Replete with multi-function decks, powered levels, damaged areas and submerged portions. And make it snappy!That sounds almost like an adventure request.
So like these aliens crash into Kaidan and...
Sorry I have been away sick I will announced a winner on monday and give away a number of copies equal to the day I missed.
Sorry I have been away sick I will announced a winner on monday and give away a number of copies equal to the day I missed.Woot it's monday!
That's the first time that phrase has ever been uttered.
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That's the first time that phrase has ever been uttered.Sorry I have been away sick I will announced a winner on monday and give away a number of copies equal to the day I missed.Woot it's monday!
that's not true, lots of service industry people work the weekend and get monday off, or as I like to call it the day wage slaves hate :)
Sense Motive:
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Everyone who has posted wins, just shoot me an email to worldsmith at gmail dot com
101 Renegade Class Feats Just tell us about any non paizo class your like (or want) to play in your Pathfinder game.
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Probably the Scout from Adventuring Classes by Tripod Machine. The 3.5 Scout was my favorite class, and I like their take on the subject.
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i like the Knight from Adamant Entretainment, mainly because its awsome for a quick dip to get hospitality. such a useful ability for low level games
Probably the Scout from Adventuring Classes by Tripod Machine. The 3.5 Scout was my favorite class, and I like their take on the subject.
I'm curious enough about their take on that that I think I'll grab a copy.
Pact Binder from Secrets of Pact Magic. There are a few tweaks I would make (change all the Su abilities to Sp), but overall I really like the feel of binding spirits to do your will.
Sentinel and Avenger from Dragon #310! When will my hunger of non-LG paladins be satisfied?!?!?!?!?!
Unfettered from Monte's Arcana Evolved. Not truly pathfinderized - but it is the best version of a derring do swashbuckler I have seen.
Just tell us about any non paizo class your like (or want) to play in your Pathfinder game.
I'm a huge fan of a lot of the SGG classes. My games have included PC archons, armigers, a bunch of death mages, dragonriders, godlings (1 clever & 1 eldritch), maguses, shadow assassins, time theives, vanguagerds, and war masters. Those were all awesome, and I allow all SGG material in my games.
I've also had a Rite taskshaper (which worked really well -- better than I expected, to be honest) and a Tome of Secrets warlock (which didn't work out well, though I'd probably still allow one if a player wanted to try it again).
I would love to get to play a SGG witch hunter character idea I have (multiclass witch/witch hunter), but the right campaign hasnt come along. ;D
Toss-up between 1E incantatrix and 1E deathmaster. Both from Dragon magazine. I think incantatrix was reprised for 3.5, but the deathmaster moulders still in a dank 1E grave, when classes had titles at each level... At 4th level, the deathmaster is a Necropolite!