[QUOTE=Nubsy;34912593]Diddums.[/QUOTE]
Sadly my group is full.
But add me on Steam, we'll talk further.
I really want to get into nWoD, they have sweet fluff in their books.
Alas I have no time / I do not really care enough to get into it.
Also D&D/40k neckbeards scare me enough as is, I don't know if I have the patience to sift through nWoD players to find a good group.
[QUOTE=Nubsy;34911862]That's a good idea. As well as their leaders and vacancies if the OP could be arsed.[/QUOTE]
It took 3 weeks and 1 thread for someone to suggest that?
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;34923447]It took 3 weeks and 1 thread for someone to suggest that?[/QUOTE]
It was in the last thread an never kept up to date.
Aight, so Nubsy is now a player in my group.
We're with 6 now, now we're REALLY full.
[QUOTE=Aerkhan;34925478]Aight, so Nubsy is now a player in my group.
We're with 6 now, now we're REALLY full.[/QUOTE]
Want me to knock a few off?
[QUOTE=suppertime;34915703]I really want to get into nWoD, they have sweet fluff in their books.
Alas I have no time / I do not really care enough to get into it.
Also D&D/40k neckbeards scare me enough as is, I don't know if I have the patience to sift through nWoD players to find a good group.[/QUOTE]
I think the group part may be the hardest thing, because damn, finding a half way decent group playing World of Dorkness is hard.
[QUOTE=Aerkhan;34925478]Aight, so Nubsy is now a player in my group.
We're with 6 now, now we're REALLY full.[/QUOTE]
I think we're at the point where we're going to have to take rounds just to rp now.
Combat is going to be a nightmare.
So I've been playing D&D weekly with a local group for about six to eight months now and something just happened in our campaign over the course of two games that's too hilariously awesome to not share.
We're playing a 2nd Edition campaign, I can't remember the setting, but it's like low-mid fantasy. No PC full elves, no dwarves or gnomes. Only humans and half races (Half orcs, half elves).
Our party consists of:
A (wild magic) wizard
A paladin (the player quit right before this happened)
A fighter (me)
A 'good thief' / adventurer that my character has taken on as an apprentice of sorts
A cleric
A druid
We've been on a quest for the last couple of weeks to retrieve an elixir from a powerful mage's tower that could potentially cure the dying king. So we get there and get it after a lot of trouble, including, but not limited to, a demon trapped in a Pentagram, a treant turned into a sentient door, and a mimic that almost wiped our party.
We obtain the elixir and are trekking back to the city in a giant forest ruled over by an elven nymph or some shit when we see smoke. When we get there, it's this maniac looking fucker with wild dogs burning down the forest around the nymph's pool. So we try to stop him because we're all buddy buddy with the Nymph. It ends up being this huge ass battle between the party and this mercenary group that had originally hired my character to sabotage the party, but then tried to kill me and I took my payment and joined the party afterward. The leader is some sort of vampiric fuck and he has a Dark Paladin / Reaver with him that gets into this massive battle with our Paladin (Played by the DM since the player quit)
Our stupid fucking mage, who has this 'Wild Surge' ability that gives him a random effect to his magic on a roll of 1-100 that can either be really powerful or kind of stupid, decides to cast a 'Wild surge sleep spell' and decides it would be a good idea to mix Gypsy sleeping dust and his own sleep powder.
He manages to cross ley lines doing this and opens a fucking rift in time and space that is around 50 feet long and as tall as the eye can see, which promptly begins sucking shit into it. Fucking great. So now every round we all have to make saving throws against being pulled closer to the rift.
As the battle progresses our paladin wins the fight with the reaver, but they both get sucked into the vortex. Our thief throws a grappling hook in after them hoping to catch the Paladin but hooks some sort of giant Cthulu type creature that starts climbing into our world. He cuts the rope and it falls back into whatever dimension it came from, which results in a cataclysmic explosion that turns a 20 mile radius area of the forest into a fucking magical blight.
Next week, we start off right there, where that ended. We'd all saved against the explosion, luckily. In the proper spirit of being a fuckwad our mage pulls out this magical tome he's found and uses some special tear crystal on it to open it up without setting off all the magical traps, while the party gets the fuck away from him. Turns out it's a tome of 'infinite spells' or some shit. But it releases a huge amount of magic and, coupled with the magical blight, manages to attract some sort of otherworldly creature that sucks magic and he almost dies again because he's too dumb to give up the book and let the creature have it.
Fast forward a couple of hours, we're headed back to the city when we come across about 8 members of our Cleric's order, the Church of the Miser, which just so happens to include her fucking Matriarch. God damn we're fucked. They want to take her back to the city with this special coin she found that was prophesied to fulfil it. We're trekking with them, our thief bound because he tried sneaking into their camp and got caught by a Warden spell, and guess who we fucking come across.
That's right the goddamn Inquisition. Guess who they're after. Go on guess.
It's Magi mc destroy shit. They say they're there for "<His character's name> The Destroyer" and for us to hand over "The Blightmage". Fuck me we're ultimately and entirely fucked.
At this point in time our thief is bound, our cleric is being watched like a hawk, we're effectively under the 'stewardship' of 8 fanatical priestesses, and now there's 6 inquisitors wanting to pick a fight. We're all level 3.
As shit goes on and it becomes apparent the Mage is going to be executed, the Cleric will die in the prophecy, the Thief will be executed for helping the Mage (Causing the explosion, idiot confessed to it) and the rest of us will probably die or be imprisoned, it looks like it'll be a TPK.
Fuck that.
All this time I've been carrying the elixir we've been trekking for and apparently it's actually the essence of a very powerful mage who was exiled from the kingdom for practising necromancy. Like a phylactery or something. He talked to us through the elixir and told us whoever drank the elixir would effectively be inhabited by him, gain his power, but may or may not be consumed in the process. So all at once, our thief throws down a choking bomb (Forces saves to all in a radius and does like 8 damage a round), our mage tries to cast a spell and fails, the cleric runs, and I drink the elixir. Keep in mind I'm a fighter. I've got 16 Constitution, 17 strength (A lot for 2nd Edition) and I carry around a damn greataxe.
I start chugging this shit like no one's business and it tastes goddamn awful. If I spill one drop I die. DM tells me to do a con check to see if I spill any. Pass it like a boss (Rolled a 4 out of 16)
I finish drinking it. "Roll a save versus poison to see if you're consumed". Beat the shit out of that. Rolled a 19 out of my save of 14.
DM looks at me and says something like "You feel an immense power come over you as neurons and synapses in your brain start realigning and changing you. You clutch your face and double over in pain, and when you stand back up your eyes are glowing blood red."
Fuck yes. Here it comes.
"You turn to three of the Inquisitors advancing on you and hold up your palms as you feel power surging through you. The words for a spell come to you second nature."
Ended up casting some sort of ray spell that completely enveloped one of them and burned the fuck out of the other two. Bearing in mind I'm still a fighter with an AC of 3 (Lower is better in 2E) and 29 health wearing fucking chainmail.
By this point the Mage is down, the thief is running away, and the druid just beat someone with his staff. The two inquisitors I didn't kill hit me for 19 taking me down to 10. Next turn I miss my hit roll so I do jack shit. Get taken down to -9. Fuck my ass.
Thief runs over, bandages me so I don't bleed out. Druid heals me to +1. By this time, the Inquisitors and Priestesses have been fighting. The head inquisitor kills the matriarch and there are like 2 inquisitors left and 3 priestesses, who are now running in fright.
I stand up and say to the DM "Magic time".
I end up casting a blizzard with a gesture. A giant icicle falls from the sky impaling one inquisitor from head to toe. The lead inquisitor goes pale and runs away like a little bitch.
And that is how we nearly had a TPK 3 times in a row over two sessions and still beat the fuck out of the shit that was thrown at us.
God damn I love this game.
I once rolled a triple crit and killed an adult dragon with a blunderbuss
[editline]29th February 2012[/editline]
By deep-poking his eye and shooting through it, ripping his brain appart
I guess you weren't expecting the Inquisition.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34929417]2E story
fuck da inquistion[/QUOTE]
And THAT's why 2E is best E.
[QUOTE=Rents;34930205]I guess you weren't expecting the Inquisition.[/QUOTE]
No one expects it
[QUOTE=Joxalot;34930447]No one expects it[/QUOTE]
Unless you roll a 20 on your "Expect the Inquisition" check.
[url]http://pastebin.com/rccQPzJU[/url]
rrerr
[QUOTE=Rents;34930205]I guess you weren't expecting the Inquisition.[/QUOTE]
Nope but I sure as hell kicked their ass.
Wild mages are best mages.
[QUOTE=elowin;34940938]Wild mages are best mages.[/QUOTE]
Wild Mages in 2E are best mages.
[QUOTE=Darth_GW7;34932964][url]http://pastebin.com/rccQPzJU[/url]
rrerr[/QUOTE]
I liked the part where I shot an arrow.
Just a heads-up to my group, I won't be able to make it this saturday.
[QUOTE=Aerkhan;34941220]Wild Mages in 2E are best mages.[/QUOTE]
Well 2E is best edition, so wild mages must be best mages, yes?
I could never wrap my head around THAC0...
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;34942335]I could never wrap my head around THAC0...[/QUOTE]
Play some more Baldur's Gate.
That's how I learned it.
[editline]1st March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=elowin;34941970]Well 2E is best edition, so wild mages must be best mages, yes?[/QUOTE]
You, sir, I like.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;34942335]I could never wrap my head around THAC0...[/QUOTE]
THAC0 is silly. Don't try and comprehend it.
[QUOTE=Aerkhan;34942944]Play some more Baldur's Gate.
That's how I learned it.
[editline]1st March 2012[/editline]
You, sir, I like.[/QUOTE]
But I suck at Baldur's Gate!
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;34943102]But I suck at Baldur's Gate![/QUOTE]
...How can you suck at Baldur's Gate?
Here's a hint how to do it right:
Half-Elven Ranger.
Then export him/her to Baldur's Gate 2 and dual-class him as a Sorcerer.
[QUOTE=Aerkhan;34944266]...How can you suck at Baldur's Gate?
Here's a hint how to do it right:
Half-Elven Ranger.
Then export him/her to Baldur's Gate 2 and dual-class him as a Sorcerer.[/QUOTE]
Or play the awesome as hell baldurs gate trilogy mod that let's you use all the new features and whatnot while playing through the original.
Ofcourse you'll still have to be a decent level with your ranger before multiclassing is a good idea, so you'll probably have played through BG2 before you get to that part.
[QUOTE=Aerkhan;34944266]...How can you suck at Baldur's Gate?
Here's a hint how to do it right:
Half-Elven Ranger.
Then export him/her to Baldur's Gate 2 and dual-class him as a Sorcerer.[/QUOTE]
Chose Half-Elf Mage/Theif because I'm an idiot and games with numbers completely fuck me over and I usually play magic-sneaky types in RPGs.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;34944558]Chose Half-Elf Mage/Theif because I'm an idiot and games with numbers completely fuck me over and I usually play magic-sneaky types in RPGs.[/QUOTE]
Best advice that can be given for these kinds of games are save and rest all the time, and especially save before you rest, because it happens pretty often that you get ambushed while resting, which will very often kill you.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;34944558]Chose Half-Elf Mage/Theif because I'm an idiot and games with numbers completely fuck me over and I usually play magic-sneaky types in RPGs.[/QUOTE]
Oh boy are you going to get fucked in the ass.
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