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I'm really glad I discovered MMCJawa is a paleontologist. I've been an armchair paleontologist all my life and it's great to talk to an actual expert in the field. If you're into the field at all, check out this thread.
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I play them like cannibalistic barbarians.RE: how people play Halflings.
It's because they're literally the same size and physical makeup as 8-10 year old children, pile on that a natural fearlessness, curiosity, and dumb luck, and what do you get, Halflings.
To be honest, I'm always a little suspicious if they don't play them like their children. :-)
I've been to big box toy stores where the parents abandon their spawnlings while they go do other shopping... I'm pretty sure most children are already barbarians, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were cannibals too. While I cannot outrun cannibalistic barbarian halflings on 'raptors, I can (for now) still outrun a warpack of children on Power Wheels in full Fury Road mode.
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@ Whats teh villian your players have hated the most?
@ What was your players most liked character that got a terrible death?
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Hmm...the first answer was my Anti-Paladin, many, many years ago in 1e days. He was much higher level than they were and he harassed and attacked them at every turn, just toying with them.
The second question..let me see. Playing a super hero game called DC Heroes. The player who died was a magic using hero named Spellbinder. He fell from a skyscraper, but most of his magic was stage magic, so he couldn't fly. My character and another player both bolted toward him, hoping to catch him. We both rolled fumbles, missing him by mere inches. He died a pretty terrible death, and both our characters felt awful that we couldn't help him.
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So, is that antipaladin the 30 years old villain you plan to unleash again against your players?
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Actually, no. I've tried to bring him back a couple of times but the players reacted to it kind of negatively, seeing him as a DMPC and really not caring for that angle at all.
About 1985 or '86 Dragon Magazine released an issue with a Paladin for each alignment. The lawful evil one was called the Illrigger. His name was Lord Kargoth (yeah, it sounds a bit silly now) but he was actually a recurring villain in the games for a long time. They never completely defeated him, just drove him from the land where he was forced to live in exile.
So my plan is to have these new PCs find a seemingly abandoned fortress, which on the map is called Castle Black Rock (I use many Arkansas small town names for villages and landmarks in my settings). The players might remember it, but their characters will have no clue. I hope to either have Kargoth there, living alone except for a servant or two, or have him there as some sort of powerful undead warrior, who came back to reclaim his home and died there, his hate bringing him back to to a semblance of the life he had before.
So there's the plan. Sorry if it rambled a bit!
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Sadly, no. I'm not a video or computer gamer. When things went beyond Atari's old one button and a joy stick controller I became obsolete.
What's the reference about? I might be able to mine it for ideas!
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Yeah, I think I've heard of them, now that I think about it. I didn't realize there were so many of them. I guess by reference I was meaning was there a specific thing in them you might have been talking about.
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Anyhow, DMC, what is your favorite Path of War discipline?
137ben, I'm so sorry I've taken so long to answer this question. I must have overlooked it initially and only just now found it.
My favorite PoW discipline has to be Black Seraph. It's dark, dangerous, and deadly.
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It's been a couple of years since I started this thread and I found it accidentally searching for another. I realized only know I answered 137ben's question twice. A trivial matter, but it bugged me not knowing that at the time.
It also truly highlights Tacticslion's superpower of liking every post people put out here on the forums.. LOL
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If you had a bird that is perpetually perched atop your head, what kind of bird would you choose.
Can't be extinct, because an extinct bird perched atop your head would be ridiculous.
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A cardinal. They are my favorite birds by far. It was a toss up between that and a parakeet. Specifically the one I had that lived to be 14 years old. He was pretty cool.
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Hmm...this line of questioning could lead to very interesting answers...
If you had a marsupial that is perpetually perched atop your head, what kind of marsupial would you choose.
Can't be extinct, because an extinct marsupial perched atop your head would be ridiculous.
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A Long-tailed Planigale. Australia's smallest marsupial and one of the world's smallest mammals. So cute and it wouldn't take up much space.
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What kind of dinosaur would you ride, if you wanted to ride a dinosaur.
Can't be the same kind you used to ride to school, uphill, through the snow when you were a kid.
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Man, that's hard. I have so many favorite dinosaurs. My current favorites are Ankylosauridae, but they'd be too uncomfortable to sit on. Sauropods' shoulders are too high from the ground and I have a fear of falling. But I've been reading a lot about Allosaurs, so I'm going to go with that. Not too large and probably fast enough to avoid bad drivers.
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What if you could have some sort of dinosaur howdah, where you could recline in luxury while it wandered around The Land That Time Forgot?
Would you mount crossbows on it?
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Absolutely! Got to keep those savages of Caspak in check!
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It also truly highlights Tacticslion's superpower of liking every post people put out here on the forums.. LOL
HAH!
... fair.
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It also truly highlights Tacticslion's superpower of liking every post people put out here on the forums.. LOLHAH!
... fair.
It's ok, TL. I do it, too... LOL
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What kind of crossbows would you be mounting to your roaming dinosaurs?
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Who was the most memorable NPC you've ever run and why?
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What was your favorite toy, or childhood pastime.
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What was your favorite toy, or childhood pastime.
Do NOT ask that question to my granddad. Granted he died in 1984, but before then, do NOT ask that question. Especially if you were me. He would answer, and it was not an answer kids should be told.
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What kind of crossbows would you be mounting to your roaming dinosaurs?
Repeating. And at least one forward facing and one rear.
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Who was the most memorable NPC you've ever run and why?
The estranged lover of a PC. In her backstory she had left him because he was abusing her. About the time her character made 7th level or so he reappeared, swearing to her he had reformed and had hunted the land over to tell her this and to profess his love. She wasn't having any of it, but he did adventure with them for a bit.
When she spurned him, he gradually became more and more angry until he attacked her. She beat him and sent him away, hopefully for good this time. But it wasn't the last time they'd see him.
In one adventure, they were cornered by a pack of ghouls and it looked like there was no way out. Suddenly, from the rear, they could hear him telling them to keep fighting. He was coming to help. He managed to get the ghouls' attention so the party could escape but he went down underneath their numbers. My player was actually pretty torn up about this. But wait, there's more!
A year or so later in real time it was game night for us. During this adventure they were attacked by several ghouls and a wight. Defeating the ghouls, the wight strode forward and said, "I told you I would love you forever and that's what I intend to do!" She had to kill him herself and it really, really messed with her head. She actually cried at the end of the adventure.
So yeah. That one.
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What was your favorite toy, or childhood pastime.
My favorite toys were my hundreds and hundreds of plastic dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. I lived on a farm with several stock ponds and I would sit at the edge of the water and pretend the plants that grew along the edge was a primeval jungle. So many happy hours doing that. I later got a geologist's hammer and started busting rocks and collecting fossils. I found mostly bivalves and crinoids, though I had one exquisite trilobite and a partial fossil of what I was told was a bat's wing by a college geologist. Sadly I've lost all those over the years. But I have the memories. And those are just as good.
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What is your favorite historical horde.
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I have always been interested in the Scythians. One of the earliest groups to master mounted warfare. They also established the Silk Road. I based the nomads of the Singing Grass Sea in my campaign on them, though the Grass Sea nomads were Centaurs.
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I have always been interested in the Scythians. One of the earliest groups to master mounted warfare. They also established the Silk Road. I based the nomads of the Singing Grass Sea in my campaign on them, though the Grass Sea nomads were Centaurs.
That was my favorite too!
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I... I misread what kind of "horde" we were talking about...
>.>
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Well, if it's the Scythian "hoard" you're thinking of they were master goldsmiths.
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So yeah. That one.
Damn. Well played. *slow clap*
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Thank you!
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Who was the most memorable NPC you've ever run and why?The estranged lover of a PC. In her backstory she had left him because he was abusing her. About the time her character made 7th level or so he reappeared, swearing to her he had reformed and had hunted the land over to tell her this and to profess his love. She wasn't having any of it, but he did adventure with them for a bit.
When she spurned him, he gradually became more and more angry until he attacked her. She beat him and sent him away, hopefully for good this time. But it wasn't the last time they'd see him.
In one adventure, they were cornered by a pack of ghouls and it looked like there was no way out. Suddenly, from the rear, they could hear him telling them to keep fighting. He was coming to help. He managed to get the ghouls' attention so the party could escape but he went down underneath their numbers. My player was actually pretty torn up about this. But wait, there's more!
A year or so later in real time it was game night for us. During this adventure they were attacked by several ghouls and a wight. Defeating the ghouls, the wight strode forward and said, "I told you I would love you forever and that's what I intend to do!" She had to kill him herself and it really, really messed with her head. She actually cried at the end of the adventure.
So yeah. That one.
Damn
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- Have you ever reused a years old NPC that your players have liked?
Tell me everything you know about
- d20Modern
- Oriental Adventures
- Psionics
- Blue Rose and/or True20
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Have you ever reused a years old NPC that your players have liked?
I have. One was a sleezy merchant who had connections all over the city and was the best person to go to if you wanted to know what was really happening. His name was Alyar One Eye.
Another was a Gnome named Twiggy Jackapple. They first rescued him from a tribe of primitives who thought he was a god and prophet. He got tired of being worshiped and paid the players a handsome sum to to make him disappear. They later encountered hundreds of miles away as the leader of a small Gnome village.
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Tell me everything you know about
- d20Modern
- Oriental Adventures
- Psionics
- Blue Rose and/or True20
I know very little about everything listed except Psionics and Oriental Adventures. I love both of them and have managed to incorporate the former into my campaign pretty successfully.
Psionics use the inner power of a character to shape and affect the world around him. I've only seen the Psionist in actual play, but the main NPC in my current campaign is going to be a Psychic Warrior.
Oriental Adventures has been harder. I love the spells listed and the Sohei class, but I think that the class didn't have as many abilities as it should have. I'd like to figure out a way to translate it over to PF.
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Any memorable underwater encounter?
I've wracked my memory and honestly can't come up with anything. There have been nautical adventures over the last 34 years but nothing below the surface.
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Then I recommend Cerulean seas if you want to try it someday.
I have the Cerulean Seas .pdfs. Sadly, my players aren't that interested in it. But...they might get thrust into it by some sort of planar "accident".
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And now that we are on it, do you use 3pp?. I like raging swan material and others GM focused things like 101 Hazards and Disasters from rite publishing.
I do, indeed. I like Raging Swan, Dreamscarred Press, Kobold Press, and Rite Publishing the most. I have the "30 Haunts" series of books and really enjoy those.
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I really like "Deep Magic" and the Midgard setting books from Kobold Press. Some of the spells in "Deep Magic" are a tad overpowered, so you might need to examine them before allowing them in the campaign.
As far as Dreamscarred Press goes the entire Psionics line is fantastic. Well, I say entire but there is a small handful of them I don't own. Yet.
Sandy Petersen Games "Cthulhu Mythos" hardcover is 500 pages of greatness. It's designed especially for Pathfinder and brings updated versions of the Mythos monsters, new madness rules, and magic rituals that are used to achieve great effects, though often at a cost to the caster.
Dreamscarred Press' "Path of War" and "Path of War Expanded" are based off D&D3.5's "Book of Nine Swords" and bring several new Martial Styles that might seem overpowered but I've not found that to be the case. And with a little work "Bo9S" can be tweaked to fit in with the updated rules from Dreamscarred Press, giving a player many, many options for classes and Martial Disciplines.
Rite Publishing's "Pathways Bestiary" is a book of templates gathered from the Pathways Ezine line. Some really cool templates to add to just about any creature. It would be possible to just use one official Bestiary and by adding the various templates in different combinations you could have thousands of monsters.
The 101 Spell collections are centered around different climes and surroundings. Some very innovative magic abounds in these books. And their "30 Haunts" line has some really interesting things in them, as well "101 Legendary Curses" and "101 Mystical Site Qualities" both add a lot of neat touches to encounters.
Whew. I'm running out of steam!