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Welcome True Believers.
TLC's been away a while but he has been running Pathfinder for the last few months now with a new group and it's been awesome. Between running a Jade Regent campaign I've been doing 1 offs and little side campaigns set all around the world. It's too much awesome to detail every little weirdness but I think I'll post the highlights:
The Gnome Summoner Scotty Nar, aka Tony Stark. His summon is a steampunk suit of power armor.
The party bard hitting on every monster chick not nailed down. She's not CE, she's fiesty!
The party barbarian forcing a ninja to unload her full compliment of poisons into his system...and only dying minutes after the battle ended victoriously from secondary effects.
But that's the usual kinda stuff. Lets get into the fun junk!
Peaches! A Goblin Barbarian who sleeps in a sack and is carried around by the party. He specializes in atacking people like Animal from the Muppets. Tries to pass himself off as a Disfigured Halfling. And it sometimes works. Named after his favorite food.
A ratfolk who talks like Mr. T and carries around a sword nearly twice his size.
A undine who claims that "you too are food" and is actually omniverious towards intelligent creatures so he can "Purify Food and Drink" on them.
The Horrors of a Gnomish Buzzsaw! And the irony of it being used on mushroom monsters.
Muscle Wizard, a Wizard with 18 Strength who specializes in touch attacks and defines all his spells as 'fists'. He 'punches' gravity to fly, etc.
In the last session the group ran across one of my coolest NPC nightmare places:
Hidding under a lost pyramid in the depths of Osirion they found a temple factory where dead bodies are reanimated, stuffed with clockwork gears, and controled via a mental parasite implanted into the dead skulls.
They stumble across this place and trigger an automated tour where they are shown the reanimation process in detail in a horrific disney-esk walking show. Only to fool the "Mentat" zombies that they are bidders on a lot of 50 arisen foot soliders. One of which is the reanimated remains of a party memeber who died in the last session.
They play it cool and study the automation and clockworks of the factory and start 'tinkering' on one of the clockwork spider drones that clean the place. Dubbing the one they 'break' as Fido they are amused as it begins collecting and bringing them random things.
The other drone they tinkered with started sneaking rings and minor trinkets out of the 'slush pile' of random adventure gear the bodies are cleaned off of before reanimation.
The group figured out they were sent on a trap filled hell mission to die and become more zombies for a Chelaixian group looking to make a horde of loyal minions.
Not only do they claim a control rod for 50 zombie minions (including their dead friend) they start a crazy escape as the 'broken' spider drone begins to pass it's corrupted programing on to other drones and they all begin to tear the temple apart from the inside.
Next session, the fight to escape.
I think when we get back to Jade Regent I'll throw ninja yeti at them. Dunno.
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I...this...yes. Yes!
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Muscle Wizard, huh? Sounds familiar.
Can't follow the link for some reason. What is it? This is a concept the player gave me. And yes, he is basically Armstrong the Wizard. (From FMA.)
Muscle Wizard, huh? Sounds familiar.Can't follow the link for some reason. What is it? This is a concept the player gave me. And yes, he is basically Armstrong the Wizard. (From FMA.)
It's a comic of a burly bald guy with a handlebar mustache, very similar looking to Armstrong yes.
Panel 1:
> Offscreen speaker: "What ho, Muscle Wizard! Might you cast us a spell?"
> Muscle Wizard: "Ho ho ho ho! Of course young adventurer!"
Panel 2:
{Muscle Wizard clenches his fist}
> Muscle Wizard: "I CAST FIST"
Panel 3:
{Mushroom Cloud}
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That's exactly what is is. The group in the temple factory also has a "Priest" of Razmir who walks around tinkering on things because his priestly art demands he be expert at bardic tricks for some reason.
And the group saved another adventurer from a group sent into the same trap hell by having 10 zombies dogpile him and carry him out of an arena.
Did I mention the temple factory had an arena right? With box seating and wonderful accomodations...if you don't mind they are 7000 years old held together by a fleet of undead and clockwork minions.
They have a garden...really. And mold that gives you crazy visions and rots your brain.
Mix in a Beast Mistress and her pet lion. It's a real party.
Fun stuff.
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This sounds like an awesome game to play in. I approve of everything mentioned thus far. Keep up the good work =D
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It's actually 3 games mooshed together. The last details are my most recent one. And I'm only running 2 of them. The other GM has made a new monster called hellbats JUST FOR US. Joy.
Otherwise I plan on running them through a Inhumanoids inspired romp next session. Maybe. Either way a lot of undead and chariots. Clockwork chariots.
Alas that my current game is pre-Steam Age in my setting's timeline, otherwise I would borrow some of these ideas.
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I love my groups fighting style.
In the Jade Regent game:
The Summoner and the Monk do fastball specials on flying targets. And the Barbarian climbs up walls to do the Peoples' Elbow.
The Kitsune Witch mixes up sleep hexes and burning gaze to keep the foes on their toes.
And suddenly Bard with a Morning Star acting a front line fighter.
Life is good.
Too bad in the Zombie Factory game the Monk/Gunslinger was the one who died vs 2 clockwork soliders and a Div.
The group HATES Div's now.
I am stealing the Goblin-in-a-bag thing.
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Oh right. The Muscle Wizard was cursed so the Priest of Ramzier tried using a untested magical device and 'cured' the curse...by turning the half-orc wizard into a Dwarf.
He's rather upset good sir. I say.
The Bag is the Goblin's feeding method. He sleeps in the bag. Puts it on the side of the road and waits. Someone foolishly opens it up and OH GOD THE TEETH THE TEETH! Dinner is served.
He's eaten a demon spawn so far.
Will they be able to revive the Monk?
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There is some debate if they hit 7th level if they can take his zombiefied clockwork corpse (with a giant bug in the skull case) as a follower. That or the broken clockwork spider "Fido" as an improved familar.
As long as they hang onto the control rod he and the other 49 zombies are tied too they obey them.
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Muscle Wizard, huh? Sounds familiar.
What ho adventurers, as I, Odraude, am Phineas Quimby, the half-orc (now dwarf) muscle wizard in TheLoneCleric's game!
I've made it my prerogative that after we run away from this tomb, we're going to find the guy that's been tricking people into going into this "It's a Small World" cyborg mummy factory-ride and beat him up.
Also, if you guys can give me awesome renames of certain spells that fit Phineas, that'd be great. Like Floating Disk is Phineas's Floating Fist. All gotta be hand related. And have Phineas on it.
And, any tips on playing a wizard is always appreciated cause f!+*, they are hard.
Excelsior!!
What's your normal spell selection? I can give you a quick rundown and renames while I'm at it =D
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I would love your group....love them long time...
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Currently in the Jade Regent game the Barbarian and Monk are moving like they are the Matrix movies. Clearing 2 to 3 buildings at a jump.
Boots of Leaping and Striding with rings of climbing have turned them in to very scary almost Jedi-like fighters.
They have achiveved full Wuxia.
Note: A Anchor Feather Token tossed when you are in the middle of a ~60foot longjump is a rather scary thing to watch.
Poor ninjas didn't know what hit them.
*See Also Scotty Nar's power arm has recently developed ornitopther wings and extendo claws.
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I fell out of my chair reading this thread. Great Group!
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An earlier version of the group was interesting as well.
We had a Drunk Monk, A Witch passing himself off as a doctor, Biblobard, StormSorcerer, and a half orc Cavalier who was reaching for nobility.
They were ruthless. Going after the Cult of Lamasthu they would steal the idenitiy of the bad guys, keeps collections of costumes/weapons/gear so their act was excellent.
It went so far that hey created a bad guy sub group Scerpent Squad that was actually part of their foes organization. They would show up 'in character' and then destory the cult's operations.
They took down:
A monster breeding farm, where the cult was using kidnapped women and things to make minions. (The nuked the site Super man style with magic when they found out what was going on.).
A horrific noble dayspa where people were being feed and applied 'product' that was made from aberrations. (Run by Aboleths)
A merc unit that was pretending to work for the nation they were operating in.
A horde of wererats. See above. Litterally they geared up using alchemy and silverware to take down a were army.
An entire keep located on the top of a bluff by invading via the sewers and then causing a revolution against the cult agents who had infiltrated the nobility.
Highlights of that game were:
Cheese-IT! The number of times they had to run when the odds went bad were hilarious.
Vookie - Gnomish assistant and NPC party pet. He was a rogue who tended to aquire stuff and the party loved him for his drunken weirdness.
The Cavalier getting a fake noble title but acting like he was really a noble and pulling it off. Really impressive for a Half-Orc.
MEGA MONK! (Enlarge Person used to interesting effects.)
Enough wolfsbane ingested to kill a rhino.
The Monk was so uncharmismatic he had Intimabluffancy (Intimation - Bluff - Diplomancy) at a horrible -2 and he KEPT ON ROLLING. (And working.)
The Witch becomes a mad scientist and experiments on Aberrations.
The StormSorcer starts dating a loli-pirate girl and working with her grizzeled man servant.
Halfling Bards can totally pass themselves off as war vets. Totally.
False Identities:
Witch - No less than 8! (Professional doctor, lay healer, POLICE OFFICER!, Scerpent Squad Member, Wizard, Cult 'leader', alchemist for hire, noble's personal aid)
Cavalier - 4
Bard - 2
Sorcerer - 3 (Pimp Cult Wizard hat!)
Monk - 2
The Cavalier had a firey red-head Druid girlfriend...who was working for the enemy.
The Monk became Drunken Batman! Oh and he knocked up a neutral faction Hag for assistance from a local witches coven. Lets just say he was REALLY drunk that night. She became his Talia...except more hag like.
Such was love and fun!
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In the name of all that is holy, this, THIS! This is why I miss gaming with you.
From a mage of the blue persuasion.
As I miss gaming with you. Our Final Fantasy session and other game were most fun.
Still giggling that Digo's familiar was his wife in another life. What a game.
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The Muscle Wizard makes me think of Saxton Hale. :D
Also, using the Summoner to create a Tony Stark character is pure brilliant! I never thought of that...