| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Forgot about this but just remembered I was going to ask now that star finder has been out a bit how do you feel about it? I remember you had concerns.I've pretty much given up on it. I was trying to force myself to post on the Dead Suns PBP (which I was having fun with, and liked playing with the others), but I literally could not force myself to post ;_;
There was a lot of stuff that whittled me down about the setting until it was too much. I'm keeping the subscriptions for the Core and AP lines for the art and inspirations, but i doubt I'll ever play any of it.
Once the PF2E beta comes out, I'd like to loot it to write up a rules "service pack" update for Starfinder.
Greeting Wonderful and Enlightened Mistress,
So in a game I am playing I get to play a succubus...it is really great fun (it is 3.5 D&D game so we are using the rules from Savage species)
Any advice on playing a succubus?
Yay!
And hmmm, have fun!
But more seriously, it would depend on what type of character you're wanting to play as your succubus :3
Well it is a evil campaign...so she is very naughty.
Also for combat I decided to focus on archery eventually going for the Deerwood Sniper PrC.
Nice! Deerwood Sniper?
(sorry it took me so long to respond, I wasn't getting alerts for this board)
Deepwood Sniper...stupid autocorrect
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Right, let’s get this project underway! There are some people on these boards that need a taste of GremGob PEACH pits! *
*Gremlin/Goblin Pyrotechnicly Explosive, Alchemically Concentrated Hellfire
|
Deepwood Sniper...stupid autocorrectGreeting Wonderful and Enlightened Mistress,
So in a game I am playing I get to play a succubus...it is really great fun (it is 3.5 D&D game so we are using the rules from Savage species)
Any advice on playing a succubus?
Yay!
And hmmm, have fun!
But more seriously, it would depend on what type of character you're wanting to play as your succubus :3
Well it is a evil campaign...so she is very naughty.
Also for combat I decided to focus on archery eventually going for the Deerwood Sniper PrC.
Nice! Deerwood Sniper?
(sorry it took me so long to respond, I wasn't getting alerts for this board)
Oh Cool.
Flirt with marks while your sniping them.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Right, let’s get this project underway! There are some people on these boards that need a taste of GremGob PEACH pits! *
*Gremlin/Goblin Pyrotechnicly Explosive, Alchemically Concentrated Hellfire
Needs more boom...
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Hunh. Wilkins seemed so non-plussed that he remarked "pugwampi/gremlin" instead of "pugwampi/goblin."
I wonder what was unnerving him?
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lab Log: Day 1 — April 14, 2018 (Golarion Calendar (GC): Gozran 14, 4813)
Taking the samples Mimdel Boom cored out of the peach pits, we have begun analysis of the materials we have to alchemically augment to create an appropriate level of explosiveness. Spirits are high and got a quick boost from our discovery that cyanic acid is an isomer of a fulminic acid, a notoriously unstable substance often used in blasting caps! This makes the alchemical process of transforming this substance into an unstable explosive very easy!
Sadly, the more cyanic acid we transform into explosives—and thus a bigger boom—depletes the cyanide poison. It is a trade off—the bigger the boom, the less poison; the more poisonous, the smaller the boom. John Napier 698’s suggestion had merit, but if we go that route the explosion from each pit would be markedly lessened.
Deciding which route to take has led to our first major debate on the project, with gremlins favouring a balanced approach or more emphasis on the poison and the goblins favouring as big a boom as possible, without poison if necessary. It got quite heated, with knives, rocks, and pickles* being thrown at various points. Fortunately, it was decided that poison works too slowly and was lacking too much flare to have a proper humorous effect and so the goblins stand was eventually universally accepted.
So our course is now set:
Hopefully our second day will be as productive.
*the pickles were salvaged afterwards, with many goblins commenting on the benefits of “added flavour” apparently picked up from wherever they landed.
**Gary has agreed to gift the rats gratis in return for a generous helping of PEACH pits. He also says this will cover the outstanding bill for the Christmas gag of ’15. Man, that guy just won’t let things go!
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lab Log: Day 2 — April 15, 2018 (GC: Gozran 15, 4813)
At first we seemed to be making great progress with the alchemical transformation of the cyanic acid, especially when Timothy Pugwampi blew his head off after adding a magnesium/saltpeter solution to the alchemical process at too rapid a rate. Very amusing; but sadly his note taking was atrocious even before being splattered with pugwampi brains and all attempts to replicate his success under more controlled conditions proved fruitless.
Still, we determined that that is the alchemical process to follow and we had great fun substituting various round objects for his head. Vingorg’s contribution—using a banana with kumquats for eyeballs—was considered by all the best in show.
Sadly, we’re going to need another Timmy.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Hrrrrrrm.
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
I accidentally made an Oil of Comic Sans once; the fumes made me nauseous for a week.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lab Log: Day 3 — April 16, 2018 (GC: Gozran 16, 4813)
Added a sugar/potassium nitrate suspension to the magnesium/saltpeter solution and then infused the peach pits with the resulting mixture. There was considerable excitement when no boom occurred despite the significant amounts added; later this grew into frustration as they remained woefully inert. Consulting Alchemical manuals (for those who read) and actual alchemists (for those who don’t) shed little light on the problem.
Accusations began to fly, especially from the goblins as they saw this attempt to use the potassium nitrate as a means of returning the previously dismissed poison into the resulting creation. The argument grew incredibly heated; so much so that we nearly missed the infused pits spontaneously exploding some twenty minutes after they were abandoned as a failure. Our attention was only drawn to it by Janka asking, “What are those loud booming pops?”
The explosive level matched up with Timmy’s accidental discovery AND retained cyanic acid, adding a mild suffocation-poison effect to the resulting debris. General congratulations were shared by all but the four goblins and three pugwampis caught in the blasts; their noble sacrifice to the furtherment of alchemy and mayhem is hereby noted.
We now need a stabilizer to keep them from exploding until hit with a hard blow. Intriguingly, our alchemical research suggests that the AD&D1e substance known as oil of impact might do the trick. Mimdel Boom’s independent research might be the key to our success and the completion of the first phase of the project.
On a side note, the injury level is high enough that the gremlin mass stock of Bactine has come in exceptionally handy.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
High School Chemistry was one of my favorite subjects.
My chem teacher seemed to be going though his midlife crisis* at the time, but we did discuss practical topics like how to build non-incriminating arson devices.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Sorry, I meant Potassium Perchlorate. Sugar and Potassium Nitrate is rocket fuel. Oops.
...and this was a problem...why?
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Mainly the speed of the reaction. Explosives burn more quickly than propellants.Sorry, I meant Potassium Perchlorate. Sugar and Potassium Nitrate is rocket fuel. Oops....and this was a problem...why?
AH! Hence the delay before the boom!
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Sorry, I meant Potassium Perchlorate. Sugar and Potassium Nitrate is rocket fuel. Oops....and this was a problem...why?
Sugar and Potassium Nitrate is also known as rocket candy. I feel like I'm in a real life Willy 'Wampi & the Choco-Bomb Factory.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Sugar and Potassium Nitrate is also known as rocket candy. I feel like I'm in a real life Willy 'Wampi & the Choco-Bomb Factory.Sorry, I meant Potassium Perchlorate. Sugar and Potassium Nitrate is rocket fuel. Oops....and this was a problem...why?
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lab Log: Day 4 — April 17, 2018 (GC: Gozran 17, 4813)
The revelation that we were using rocket fuel and not explosives was received with mixed feelings. Some openly wondered whether it would be better to reverse course and try it with the explosives rather than rocket candy, but in the effort to save time those suggestions (and those making the suggestions) were axed*.
Mimdel Boom’s research into recreating some oil of impact has yet to bear fruit, and there are some who are grumbling whether that is an utter waste of time. But we persevere despite the odds.
We have in the mean time begun working on shortening the time from completed solution to explosion. This is a tricky experiment in which the reagents are added in precise order and shifting amounts to see what results. Too little and the current delay of fifty-six minutes will grow longer. Too much and they could explode in the lab tech’s** face.
In spite the danger, we managed to reduce the delay to eleven minutes with only one fatality, four lost limbs, and twenty-two lost digits. When the oil of impact comes online , we will be ready!
*Personal note: we need a sharpening stone. That battle axe was dull, dull, dull!
**The term “lab tech” is used in an extremely loose manner. A much more accurate terminology would be “ignorant shovel monkey.”
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
Behold! Oil of Fiery Impact! Comes in three delicious flavors- regular, tangy, and extra-crispy!
...
Also I need a new lab. The old one... had an accident.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Behold! Oil of Fiery Impact! Comes in three delicious flavors- regular, tangy, and extra-crispy!
...
Also I need a new lab. The old one... had an accident.
Great work, Mimdel! This might kill two birds with one stone!
...actually, it has the potential to kill a whole flock of birds with one stone. I'll try to keep thinking figuratively rather than literally.
This essentially is Step Two of the project combined with the stabilizer for finishing Step One! BRILLIANT!
Couldn't wait for the safety glass, oh no, just had to keep going...
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
>_>
<_<
{steals some more rocket candy, squeezes back under sofa}
{whispering to self:} This is terrible tasting candy. And the portions are too small.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Are you crazy?!?!? Never give Pugwumpus That!
Think of the adventures!
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
But....Pugwampi are immune to the Pugwampi Unlucky Aura....
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
But....Pugwampi are immune to the Pugwampi Unlucky Aura....
And we keep well back from goblins running experiments to avoid our aura affecting them...and also as a basic laboratory safety standard when dealing with goblin alchemy.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Plus they're still a bit unnerved about how we ground one of them up to see if the "bad-luck juice" could be weaponized into a bomb...
I mean, we were right, it could, we just didn't count on the fact that it would affect the one holding the bomb...
Ah well, Grash was a jerk anyway.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Plus they're still a bit unnerved about how we ground one of them up to see if the "bad-luck juice" could be weaponized into a bomb...
I mean, we were right, it could, we just didn't count on the fact that it would affect the one holding the bomb...
Ah well, Grash was a jerk anyway.
...especially since he was the one who suggested the grinding up in the first place. I mean, it was a worthwhile effort to expand knowledge, but c'mon!
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lab Log: Day 5 — April 18, 2018 (GC: Gozran 18, 4813)
John Napier 698’s handing over of the alchemical formula for oil of impact coinciding with Mimdel Boom’s stunning success with the new oil of fiery impact has led to great rejoicing amongst the team. So much so that we accomplished very little today. We did manage to get the explosion delay down to 30 seconds, but after that there was too much celebrating and trying out the new substances to get anything else done.
The result is that all the team’s survivors are now convalescing in the hastily made infirmary.
Obviously the nature of our respective species leads to these sorts of incidents. We must accept theses set backs and press on! Our goblin compatriots may be volatile, but that is who they are, and they should be proud of it! How many beings can find joy in diversity and hardship? How many can appreciate the humour in a freshly exploded person? None but the goblins and we gremlins, my friends!
Are we not pugwampis, the most destructive and vindictive of all gremlins? We do not do this for ourselves, no, but for the higher calling of spreading humour through general mayhem and destruction! It is a thankless task, but we persevere and will until everybody finally gets the joke!
Oh as a final note, everybody has greatly appreciated Hunt’s astonishing ability to make a damn fine pot of tea. It is really keeping life in the infirmary civilized.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Tea? {looks down at bowl of warm water -- now brown -- in which he was soaking his filthy feet} Oh. OK. Sure, let's call it tea.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lab Log: Day 6 — April 19, 2018 (GC: Gozran 19, 4813)
Not much accomplished today as the entire team is still in recovery. We took the opportunity to have a brain storming session in the infirmary about various means to move forward and possible uses for the PEACH pits once we completed them. Many great ideas were put forth and those who could read jotted down notes. Those that couldn’t drew crude pictograms. We then folded them into paper airplanes and threw them at each other, so we didn’t have to get out of bed. Many eyes got poked to the joy of most of us—just not the ones with the poked eyes.
There was general agreement on the two main methods of use: pugwampi pit trap ammo and as alternate sling bullets. In addition, the Willy 'Wampi & the Choco-Bomb Factory idea of Hunt’s inspired the idea of disguising them as chocolate bon-bons (or bomb-bombs, as it were) so that someone might bite down hard on one and much hilarity would then ensue.
Janka came up with the most original notion, that of placing a permanent illusion on them so that they could be mistaken as suppositories. That way someone would go Boom-Boom when they went Boom-Boom.
Sadly no one could figure out how to guarantee delivery, use, or timing of the explosive, but very amusing nonetheless.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
I still say the idea is worth researching...
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
It's a crying shame Wilkins won't help; he is one serious scholar!
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Eh. Guy's totally insane. I mean... he not only reads, he WRITES...