[QUOTE=DarkMonkey;41157530]So, Friday. Played the aforementioned 3.5 d&d game where I'm the 'barbarian' monster hunter and we tussled with the chaos warlock dude. Other notable events include me making ~700 gold over the course of a month by harvesting excess mucous from our sound paladin's flail snail and peddling it off to alchemists.
Saturday morning, played an online exalted game, a set of dragonblooded looking into a feud in a podunk satrapy. I was actually sent there on suspicions of anathema, there's been word of various exotic animals devouring immaculate missionaries, and we came across a weirdly-intelligent looking bird whose thoughts were unnatural, in a language I couldn't understand when reading them, and now it's following us. I'm scared.
Saturday afternoon, played some 2E d&d with my best bro. Despite him saying that he wanted to do a ravenloft game because it was a full moon, somehow none of us realized we were dealing with a werewolf until we saw the actual transforming footprints. Amusing because at the end we found it was a dude's son who he had chained up so we were just like 'get the fuck out of town we ain't gettin' paid enough for this'
Technically Sunday morning I improvised a game wherein seven dwarves awoke from a magically-induced cryosleep after a long night of drinking and 500 years, and proceeded to attempt to escape through the unfamiliar additions to their dorf fort. Highlights include a pair of dwarven wrasslers managing to fling a forgotten beast (A great alligator made of wood. Beware its tendrils and poisonous bite!) that was hanging out in a reservoir into a wall, finishing it off.[/QUOTE]
Calling it now- The bird is totes Lilith.
[QUOTE=Seiteki;41154608]Dark Heresy game for me today, woo.
Just got through character creation, getting brought in since the story has been going on some already.
My guy's a giant feral worlder guardsman. Illiterate with a fear of written words, like they're an evil magic and such. Gonna be interesting.[/QUOTE]
Make sure you punch the techpriest at every opportunity.
Damn
I just got the coolest idea for how to run the final BBEG fight for my campaign
Which is still at least 13-14 levels away, which is annoying
Fortunately, my players have shown themselves repeatedly able to engage things 3-4 CR's above their level, so maybe it won't take too long
Spycraft just ended with the party kidnapping Robert Downey Jr.
[editline]RDJ[/editline]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/sI6xK9l.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;41160496]Spycraft just ended with the party kidnapping Robert Downey Jr.[/QUOTE]
Like, not someone that looks like RDJ, the ACTUAL RDJ.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;41160511]Like, not someone that looks like RDJ, the ACTUAL RDJ.[/QUOTE]
He said he went clean but we caught him dealing with cocaine.
Time to blackmail for infinite money.
He got sold to an Italian Gang
[QUOTE=Askaris;41159000]Make sure you punch the techpriest at every opportunity.[/QUOTE]
I didn't punch the techpriest, but I did get into a brawl with six anti-outworlder guys just outside the landing zone.
They all went unconscious.
I'm going to call myself a fist wizard. I rolled 6s all over the place.
So, Monday's D&D game. Holy fucking shit.
Long story short: we came across a puzzle that utterly stumped us. It involved invisible walls, lobster creature things, and a lot of water. You know what a ziggurat looks like? Flip it upside down and make it hollow. that's basically what this room was. And we had to get to the center, but water was in our way on some of the levels.
The DM intended for us to basically slog our way through the lobsters towards the center, and then past the 8+ giant scorpions on the next one. But our paladin, played by Joe, an extremely intelligent and goddamn entertaining person, suggested that we use our bags of holding to drain the water.
20 minutes. 20 minutes of calculations, math, DM headaches, player headaches (99% of those headaches were my headaches). A lot of terms like "cubic feet" and "water displacement ratio of the giant lobsters divided by the mass of the total water" or some bullshit like that. Eventually we determined it would take about 2 days to drain the water with our bags of holding, with about 2,000 trips from the puzzle room to another room.
Eventually we give up and decide to just go into the meat grinder and fight the lobster creatures.
Now before I reveal what happens next, for those who don't know about monster roles in 4th edition: minions are basically creatures with 1 hp. They're meant to basically be stormtroopers from Star Wars: kind of a threat in big numbers, but really just there to die.
Yep, you guessed it. All those lobster things were minions. Literally all had 1 hp. So did the scorpions. All those calculations and formulas and thinking all went to waste.
Apparently, in the Wednesday Pathfinder game, the DM was supposed to have something similar coming up for us (both the Monday 4e game and Wednesday Pathfinder game are played by the same group, mostly). I'm hoping our resident sorcerer can just use [I]dimension door[/I] and just teleport the party to the center of the room.
Hoping.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;41160496]Spycraft just ended with the party kidnapping Robert Downey Jr.
[editline]RDJ[/editline]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/sI6xK9l.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
You're in a Spycraft game and you didn't think to invite Hyena? Oh, you wanker.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;41168161]You're in a Spycraft game and you didn't think to invite Hyena? Oh, you wanker.[/QUOTE]
It's our Eclipse Phase group, we just temporarily changed what kind of game we're playing. We'll probably head back to EP at some point.
[editline]24th June 2013[/editline]
Love you too though babe
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;41171060]It's our Eclipse Phase group, we just temporarily changed what kind of game we're playing. We'll probably head back to EP at some point.
[editline]24th June 2013[/editline]
Love you too though babe[/QUOTE]
Oh, that's a shame, I never got a chance to shine in Spycraft before it was tossed aside like a poor victimised prostitute.
you oppressive sexist pig
[sp]i am... kawaii?[/sp]
no girls allowed in our super cool crime group
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;41171243]no girls allowed in our super cool crime group[/QUOTE]
Afraid you'd get shown up by REAL talent, I understand.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;41171292]Afraid you'd get shown up by REAL talent, I understand.[/QUOTE]
You read porn mags during combat.
[QUOTE=cdr248;41172465]You read porn mags during combat.[/QUOTE]
And I still came out victorious. That's how good I am.
you don't sound crazy enough to join the crazy club
prove otherwise >:o(
[editline]24th June 2013[/editline]
also i want you all to gauge how good of an idea a player character Scarecrow Construct would be
Like a person who makes Scarecows?
[editline]24th June 2013[/editline]
Brilliant
I don't know what's going on but it sounds amazing
no not like someone who makes scarecrows
an awakened scarecrow
[img]http://www.andrewgarvey.com/wizard/characters/Images/The%20Scarecrow%201.jpg[/img]
NPH is this you
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;41174039]no not like someone who makes scarecrows
an awakened scarecrow[/QUOTE]
Just remember to dodge them magic fireballs. IIRC straw burns easily.
I'm still looking forward to possibly getting this charm in Exalted that, when used, lets me throw [I]lightning[/I]. And when that lightning hits things, they start to rot/decay/corrode.
[QUOTE=Rats808;41174493][img]http://www.andrewgarvey.com/wizard/characters/Images/The%20Scarecrow%201.jpg[/img]
NPH is this you[/QUOTE]
yes except they come standard with pumpkin heads
So my group got together very abruptly for a D&D session tonight
It was pretty fun, they got on a ship to sail across the sea, then got interdicted by the navy of the country where they were heading, were held prisoner, the druid slipped his chains and caused an outbreak of slimy doom on the ship, which attracted a megalodon, which they goaded into attacking the ship through liberal applications of Call Lightning in the middle of a tropical storm, then they calmed and charmed it, jumped on its back after securing themselves to its dorsal fin via net the party's wizard carries, then jumped off the shark on a nearby island, built a raft, fought a few dire barracudas on the way to the mainland, before deciding not to hack it in the jungle. They went to bed tied off to a rock, and woke up with their familiars and animal companions missing, who they tracked to a dead volcanic crater with underwater caves all throughout it. They then dived into the caves and discovered an undersea city, and were just about to meet with the first group of inhabitants when we decided to call it.
[QUOTE=Rats808;41175463]I'm still looking forward to possibly getting this charm in Exalted that, when used, lets me throw [I]lightning[/I]. And when that lightning hits things, they start to rot/decay/corrode.[/QUOTE]
There's an upgrade charm that lets you shoot disintegration beams from your eyes.
[QUOTE=Oliolio;41179472]There's an upgrade charm that lets you shoot disintegration beams from your eyes.[/QUOTE]
Amazing.
I am going to dm with no knowledge for a group of 5~ people who also have no knowledge about the game.
This is going to be the best night ever
[QUOTE=WarRage333;41182061]I am going to dm with no knowledge for a group of 5~ people who also have no knowledge about the game.
This is going to be the best night ever[/QUOTE]
Good luck. Be sure to do some research and at least try to learn all the mechanics before you start. Also as no one else knows what they're doing use that to stall for time while you look stuff up if you need to.
[QUOTE=WarRage333;41182061]I am going to dm with no knowledge for a group of 5~ people who also have no knowledge about the game.
This is going to be the best night ever[/QUOTE]
I ended up DMing my first game with a few idiot friends a few days after my friend gave me a half-hearted explanation of how to do it given over Steam chat while I was playing Minecraft and not really paying too much attention.
And I turned out to be an awful DM! :v: which is for some reason why I still have a party of raving idiots who seem to think I'm marginally competent enough to play with every Saturday evening.
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