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Rogue Trader storytime? Rogue Trader storytime. So, we just arrived in Port Wander to get the House Kilimink Warrant of Trade changed over because the previous Rogue Trader was killed (by us) and our guy, Aphesius, is next in line. We leave the ship and start walking to the office to get sworn in and all the official doohickey whatnots dealt with. Along the way, we see a huge crowd of people standing around, and after a bit of eavesdropping we find out that a bunch of Space Marines are coming through for some reason or another. Everybody wants to get to the front of the crowd to see the Spehs Mahrens up close, so we start rolling Strength checks to push our way through the crowd. Vir, our Explorator manages to plow through while bellowing incense everywhere. Aphesius doesn't do so well and he's not making much progress. J.W.Hardin, Famed Gunslinger, Space Ace, and Problem Sleuth, trips and begins being trampled by the crowd. Vir doesn't give a shit and keeps on plowing through everybody while his servo skull records the Space Marines from above, but our kind hearted leader Aphesius can't leave his best man behind, so he pushes his way through to Hardin, who he sees worming around between peoples legs dodging feet, and pulls him up. At this point people start cheering as the Space Marines come into view, so we don't have long to make it to the front. Desperate times call of desperate measures. Through quick thinking, and what can only be described as pure genius, I decide that I want to jump up on top of the crowd and run across their tightly packed heads to the front. Like something straight out of Xena, Hardin manages climb on top of the crowd and begins sprinting across their heads. Aphesius begins throwing money everywhere and simply walks past all the fighting. Hardin, being nearly at the front of the crowd, notices there's no room to drop back down. At the front of the crowd are two lines of guards, arms locked, forming a human pathway for the SPEHZ MAHRENZ to walk through unmolested. I decide that attempting to jump across the gap between the guards is a horrible idea, so I being running towards Vir. Vir sees Hardin coming and remembers that he's a massive asshole, holds his poweraxe up in the air and refuses to help me down essentially forcing me to attempt the jump. Using all the momentum he's gathered while sprinting across the heads and shoulders of those beneath him, Hardin leaps across the gap, soaring through the air like a majestic eagle, nearly making it. He lands on the locked arms of the guards forming the path barely maintaining his balance. All of this happens just as the Space Marines are passing. They stop. Hardin slowly turns around, still balancing on the arms of the guards, "Uhh... hey..." Face to face, looking him dead in the eye, is the Space Marine captain. Who simply says "Brave. Foolish, but brave." before continuing down the path. Once the Space Marines are out of view, Hardin feels the arms he's standing on drop out from under him, and before he can react, he is being viciously beaten by several guards with shock sticks.

To my PnP group: goddamn, guys, I'm really sorry, but I just felt like absolute shit yesterday and couldn't muster the strength to even get out of bed :( we could try doing a Sunday session though if you'd like

[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;42890725]To my PnP group: goddamn, guys, I'm really sorry, but I just felt like absolute shit yesterday and couldn't muster the strength to even get out of bed :( we could try doing a Sunday session though if you'd like[/QUOTE] i will never forgive

[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;42890725]To my PnP group: goddamn, guys, I'm really sorry, but I just felt like absolute shit yesterday and couldn't muster the strength to even get out of bed :( we could try doing a Sunday session though if you'd like[/QUOTE] Man up, I'm hungover as fuck and only slept two hours and I'm playing PF in an hour

So what do you guys think of writing small sections of peoples backstory for them so then you can create some interesting interaction between their backstories that even they didn't know about? I'm thinking of writing snippets of backstory that can be slipped into anyones backstory, all of which will inevitably affect other members of the party but which each person keeps secret. For instance two of them both want to find this magical claw which rips the souls out of people and can bring back the dead. One of them wants to destroy the claw so that the soul of <insert significant person from their backstory> will be restored and another wants to use the claw (thereby draining the souls out of it) to resurrect a dead buddy. But neither knows the other is looking for it as well. I don't know i just thought it would lead to interesting situations that would otherwise not be possible.

[QUOTE=hobothehero;42891903]So what do you guys think of writing small sections of peoples backstory for them so then you can create some interesting interaction between their backstories that even they didn't know about? I'm thinking of writing snippets of backstory that can be slipped into anyones backstory, all of which will inevitably affect other members of the party but which each person keeps secret. For instance two of them both want to find this magical claw which rips the souls out of people and can bring back the dead. One of them wants to destroy the claw so that the soul of <insert significant person from their backstory> will be restored and another wants to use the claw (thereby draining the souls out of it) to resurrect a dead buddy. But neither knows the other is looking for it as well. I don't know i just thought it would lead to interesting situations that would otherwise not be possible.[/QUOTE] isn't there a similar thing in dark heresy except they like, draw random ones and they have to resolve them

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;42891953]isn't there a similar thing in dark heresy except they like, draw random ones and they have to resolve them[/QUOTE] Oh really? That's cool, i've never looked at dark heresy but I've wanted to for a while. I was actually intending for them to select them randomly. (Though I was going to guide it a little bit because there is one I don't want the new (to roleplaying in general) player to get)

[QUOTE=Rents;42891874]Man up, I'm hungover as fuck and only slept two hours and I'm playing PF in an hour[/QUOTE] Sounds like the perfect formula for unnecessarily necessary collateral damage. Take pictures!

[QUOTE=Aperture fan;42892264]Sounds like the perfect formula for unnecessarily necessary collateral damage. Take pictures![/QUOTE] "Threw up on the game board after 30 minutes. It was okay though, we just used the undigested bits of food for game pieces." [sp]sorry, that just came to mind for some reason as the logical conclusion[/sp]

I've got a group of real life people together to play "Only War". Wish me luck.

I died. Thankfully, I'm a bad guy so I'm "dead", they couldn't even find the body.

Only War is one of my favorite 40k games. Why? Because I can fire melta beams from my fist in it.

The Commissar specialty... so hilarious. There's an entire ability that lets you kill another players companion in order to keep the player alive. It's fucked up and beautiful.

[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;42894413]I've got a group of real life people together to play "Only War". Wish me luck.[/QUOTE] What is it?

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;42895371]What is it?[/QUOTE] You play as Imperial Guardsmen in the 40k verse.

[QUOTE=lintz;42895393]You play as Imperial Guardsmen in the 40k verse.[/QUOTE] So essentially the game sessions are 15 minutes long?

So I'm gearing up to play 3.5 for the very first time. My character is a Kobold Rouge. Tell me, how fucked am I? But in all seriousness, what do I need to know? I've played 4th edition for a couple years, so I know the gist of it.

does anyone play pathfinder online? and if so, would there be a chance of someone allowing me to watch?

[QUOTE=Katatonic717;42895425]So I'm gearing up to play 3.5 for the very first time. My character is a Kobold Rouge. Tell me, how fucked am I? But in all seriousness, what do I need to know? I've played 4th edition for a couple years, so I know the gist of it.[/QUOTE] Completely fucked, because rouge is pretty much useless in RPGs. A [b]rogue[/b], however, should be decent.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;42895704]Completely fucked, because rouge is pretty much useless in RPGs. A [b]rogue[/b], however, should be decent.[/QUOTE] Heh, sorry, I always fuck up that spelling.

Ohohoho! Mon petite group au fromage another D&D campaign with some new players, so I've rolled up a new character. Marcel, former critically acclaimed chef who would cook for the mightiest of kings. However, a jealous apprentice sabotaged his greatest works of art, which resulted in a feverish vomiting prince screaming bloody murder. He was locked away for several months before the guards determined that his ingredients were sabotaged, but by then word had already spread that he had screwed up the prince's meal and his reputation was ruined. Dejected, he began roaming the lands in search of the ultimate ingredients in hopes that he would one day cook for a king and rebuild his reputation. He will be extremely french, and the rouge of the party. Being a chef requires dexterous hands and the ability to think on his feet. He was also born with the gift of looks, and is quite handsome, if a little on the large side.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;42895704]Completely fucked, because rouge is pretty much useless in RPGs. A [b]rogue[/b], however, should be decent.[/QUOTE] You could probably make a decent living as a prostitute in the D&D universe.

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;42895768]You could probably make a decent living as a prostitute in the D&D universe.[/QUOTE] Hah, I did that as a profession for my changeling rouge guy. If anyone is doing 3.5 or pathfinder online I'd totally like to dip by - I haven't played a d20 in ages.

Oh, I forgot to tell you guys this. I played the final chapter of Maximo Doomtires. The main premise is that it's been around 10 years since Doomtires and friends busted out of a spacehulk and became heroes. Well It was just Doomtires and one Sergeant, everyone else died, but I assure you, Doomtires and Sarge did some cool shit in-between these two games. So we met up with two other characters, a priest and a techpriest. They were pretty stock and not too special. So we got some intel that Orks had stolen some badass prototype smallish warship thing and in their orkyness, they had crashed it on a jungle planet. So it was up to use to kill them and get the ship back. We went to land and hit a problem, our intel was bad, this wasn't a jungle planet, it was a desert planet. So when we landed, our transport got stuck in the sand. The techpriest began cursing about how the machine spirit is choking. I was cursing because I cant run over bitches anymore. So we grabbed our gear and headed out. What happened wasn't too amazing, some Orks attacked in these sand drills, that was pretty bad-ass. Then some giant sandworm attacked and we beat the fuck out of it. Finally we reached the ship, the thing was completely compromised and orkified, so our orders were to destroy the ship. The priest and techpriest were sent to the engines to disable/destroy/whatever them, and me and the Sargent headed up to the command deck to deal with the warboss. The warboss was a weirdboy, and gave us some speal about how he's "GUNA CRUSH YOO 'UMANZ INTO DUST". We went to attack but the bitch went first. He rolled a critm shot some lighting from his hands, and insta-killed the Sergant a.k.a my best friend. In a rage, I step forward, look the ork dead in the eyes and say: "I've known that man for fifteen years, we fought side-by-side all that time, we've been to the warp and back. [b]AND YOU JUST END HIM LIKE THAT?! YOU GREENSKINNED HUNK OF SHIT![/b]" I threw my fucking dice accross the room I rolled them so hard, and lo-and-behold, Doomtires rolled his final crit. I pulled out my chainsword and charged the warboss. He blasted my leg with his bolter, that didn't slow down my rage. I chainsworded the Ork in the head and sliced his face in half, killing him. All the other orks, aware of my reputation and amount of shit I can fuck up, give a hardy "WWAAAAAHG" and raise their guns to the sky. I have been accepted as their new warboss. The Priest and TechPriest arrive right after, reporting they were unable to rig the enginse to blow. I inform them of my new orky leadership, and how I plan to use the ship for my own purposes. The Techpriest is a bit conflicted, but ultimately he decided to join me on account of how he gets to spend time in this glorious ship. The Priest however, he's enraged. He accuses me of heresy and says I must be killed. We enter combat. The fight was hard and it came down to the wire, in the end, I emerged victorious. The Orks and Techpriest get me a robotic leg to replace my currently completely fucked leg. After this we take off. Doomtires is now cruising the stars, riding on cosmic winds, into the open, to challenge the great unknown. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahk-1gwHUG4[/media] And thus ends the story of Maximo Doomtires.

[QUOTE=Rents;42894559]I died. Thankfully, I'm a bad guy so I'm "dead", they couldn't even find the body.[/QUOTE] And now another player's suffered a plot-death, 100% dead, demons have his soul and all that :v: [editline]17th November 2013[/editline] I just blew 180gp and crafting time on what's basically bling. Say hello to my spiked, locked, masterwork mithral gauntlet. [editline]17th November 2013[/editline] Made by a dwarf and everything.

[B]Cyberpunk: Session 9: Can I Light His Katana on Fire?[/B] [url]http://pastebin.com/4d2JjaPp[/url] Continuing where we left off last in the apartment building full of people and loot, we further our rampage and proceed to shoot, cut, light on fire and blow stuff up. No different than the norm really, only this can't really be considered collateral damage since nobody but these gangers use the place so it won't be missed.

[QUOTE=Rents;42896347]I just blew 180gp and crafting time on what's basically bling. Say hello to my spiked, locked, masterwork mithral gauntlet. [editline]17th November 2013[/editline] Made by a dwarf and everything.[/QUOTE] I kept my pimp hand strong and finished off a cleric with it, and then stole his mithral chain shirt and whiskey. This is a good session.

I should use gibbering mouthers more often. My party freaked out when I was describing it to them and then it latched on to one of the party members and started sucking his blood.

Okay, so first session today was spent making our Regiment. My group is a ragtag group of light assault skirmishers hailing from a derelict hiveworld. The overall regiment is incredibly small, with only about 40 people overall, and my group will probably be split up into a group of 12. Any thoughts on things they could fight?

Some people refuse to make characters without a greatsword, some without their favorite cantrip. But one of mine? He refuses to make a character without 50 pounds of soap. Every. Damn. Time. The cleanest Warforged Barbarian in the land.