[QUOTE=DarkMonkey;47253181]Draconomicon is a really good book[/QUOTE]
One of the better books to come out of 3.5. Has some good art in it too.
Really wish I could find a blown up version of these two pieces, without the shitty quality problems, and frame them:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/BciDl2A.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/qYdzOa3.png[/t]
Y'know, seeing pictures of dragons like that makes me wonder: what would it take for a low level scholarship illustrator and the like to find and get dragons to trace?
[QUOTE=croguy;47254839]Y'know, seeing pictures of dragons like that makes me wonder: what would it take for a low level scholarship illustrator and the like to find and get dragons to trace?[/QUOTE]
an arm and a leg
Flattery and/or grovelling, and bribes.
Imagine being commissioned to paint a portrait for some mysterious noble and told to keep it discreet. You figure it's just some old pervert or something but nope it's a fucking dragon.
Man, that'd make for some grade A plot hooks. Nice way to get dragons involved without having to fight them, either.
Why would a dragon want one or more portraits of himself, though? Getting a tiny lil' picture of themselves done seems a bit too patron-y; Badass dragons would get a whole art group to paint a to-scale one!
[QUOTE=croguy;47257971]Man, that'd make for some grade A plot hooks. Nice way to get dragons involved without having to fight them, either.
Why would a dragon want one or more portraits of himself, though? Getting a tiny lil' picture of themselves done seems a bit too patron-y; Badass dragons would get a whole art group to paint a to-scale one![/QUOTE]
because collaborative art usually sucks
Yeah why not just pay them to paint a really big one.
You can afford it. You're a dragon.
Most things in dragon hoards aren't dragon-scaled anyway.
Get a Sistine Chapel sized painting in your cave, use some magic to make it all smooth and shit so it's not painting on a natural cave surface.
Yeah but it takes a shitload of time to paint big stuff with one man so it'd be nice that the artist doesn't die of old age while painting him.
[QUOTE=croguy;47258213]Yeah but it takes a shitload of time to paint big stuff with one man so it'd be nice that the artist doesn't die of old age while painting him.[/QUOTE]
Hire an elf/dwarf. They tend to be better artisans anyways.
Colossal creatures are 30'x30'+ according to the PHB, the Sistine Chapel is over 40'x120' and it took 4 years.
Perfectly doable even for a human, even if you sprawl out.
[QUOTE=croguy;47258213]Yeah but it takes a shitload of time to paint big stuff with one man so it'd be nice that the artist doesn't die of old age while painting him.[/QUOTE]
why the fuck would you even wait for them to finish the painting in the first place
you're a dragon, just create a pocket dimension without time, it'll be done in no time
lierally
[QUOTE=croguy;47257971]Man, that'd make for some grade A plot hooks. Nice way to get dragons involved without having to fight them, either.
Why would a dragon want one or more portraits of himself, though? Getting a tiny lil' picture of themselves done seems a bit too patron-y; Badass dragons would get a whole art group to paint a to-scale one![/QUOTE]
Imagine a dragon who's a worldwide patron of all art forms so its magnificence can be immortalized in every possible way and style.
An entire city whose life revolves around the constant influx of artists and the commissions they receive.
[QUOTE=elowin;47258788]why the fuck would you even wait for them to finish the painting in the first place
you're a dragon, just create a pocket dimension without time, it'll be done in no time
lierally[/QUOTE]
Or just be patient. Since, again, dragon.
[QUOTE=gufu;47258948]It's like D&D version of Deviant Art.[/QUOTE]
[I]Original content: Do not steal.
Transgressors will be immolated.[/I]
[QUOTE=gufu;47258948]It's like D&D version of Deviant Art.[/QUOTE]
Tiamat the Hedgehog
Does anyone here host D&D games over Skype? And if so, might you be willing to let a newbie into your next game? I'm 25, a quick learner, and have a good mic. I only need to know what prep material I should be reading and what parts you'd recommend I focus on, and I'll have a character sheet ready to go when it begins. I should add that I've got no experience with this type of game.
I live in the Eastern Standard Timezone (GMT-5) and have most evenings and week-ends free.
So the rogue trader party is now 1 for 1 on ships to sessions, as of the third session their fleet is now up to 3 ships
They captured a star galleon, after an incredibly one-sided and bloody boarding action involving the whole party, while the teenage void master hopped in a dropship and shot down 26 fighters and shuttles, whilst the ork launched himself in an escape pod out of their torpedo frigate to join in on the fight
Like, and when I say bloody, I mean insanely so. Between murder-servitors carving a gory swathe across the ship, the party leading their horde of marauders from the aft, and then the torpedoes slamming into the bow as the defenders got forced back, and then the guys manning the ship managed two incredible rolls and held on just long enough to inflict a few casualties, before being surrounded and absolutely slaughtered en-masse. Maybe 500 survivors out of a crew of 65,000.
Anyway, they had to jury-rig together some controls and a skeleton crew because the local defense forces were heading their way, and then botched the warp jump and felt like they experienced about a million subjective years over the course of 23 days before dropping out of the warp over their destination
[QUOTE=archangel125;47260866]Does anyone here host D&D games over Skype? And if so, might you be willing to let a newbie into your next game? I'm 25, a quick learner, and have a good mic. I only need to know what prep material I should be reading and what parts you'd recommend I focus on, and I'll have a character sheet ready to go when it begins.[/QUOTE]
It would help if you listed a time zone, days free, and overall experience level with RPGs. I'd let you in but my game is completely full.
[QUOTE=Chronische;47260904]It would help if you listed a time zone, days free, and overall experience level with RPGs. I'd let you in but my game is completely full.[/QUOTE]
Aaand done, thanks.
[QUOTE=archangel125;47260866]Does anyone here host D&D games over Skype? And if so, might you be willing to let a newbie into your next game? I'm 25, a quick learner, and have a good mic. I only need to know what prep material I should be reading and what parts you'd recommend I focus on, and I'll have a character sheet ready to go when it begins. I should add that I've got no experience with this type of game.
I live in the Eastern Standard Timezone (GMT-5) and have most evenings and week-ends free.[/QUOTE]
I might be looking for one more player for an Exalted 3rd edition game on Sundays, if you're interested.
What state do you live in, out of curiosity?
[QUOTE=Oliolio;47260939]I might be looking for one more player for an Exalted 3rd edition game on Sundays, if you're interested.
What state do you live in, out of curiosity?[/QUOTE]
Ontario, Canada. What rulebook(s) should I read?
[QUOTE=archangel125;47260955]Ontario, Canada. What rulebook(s) should I read?[/QUOTE]
Disclaimer: Any weirdness in this game is in no way indicative of the weirdness in other tabletop RPGs.
Exalted is just a kind of weird game.
Also since Exalted 3rd edition isn't actually released yet, we're playing a leaked version, and it's rather lacking in formatting. As in it's pretty much plain text at the moment.
[url=https://mega.co.nz/#!1p0RQTyS!1fvgzcFVcAsnxWb3ExDE3b_PZHaGMEY7G3YOSVGdu9I]You can get it here if you're interested.[/url] And you should also hit up Oli on skype. Just search for hekatonkhire and pick out Jack Frost, that's Oli.
So last time, we left a camp that was in complete and utter disarray.
Party: Elf druid, human ranger, human fighter, half-orc barbarian and halfling cleric.
We returned to town and collected our reward, as well as a 3-day rest. The half-elf monk we freed made a request of us; find out what's in the cave, stop it if we can and rendez-vous at a nearby town. After getting some more of the governor's horses, especially the plump ones (remember, emergency rations), we made our way back (after our fighter used the power of obscurity to negotiate us a hefty fee) and saw the fruits of our labor; all the kobold tents had been burned down, as well as most of the other tents. We walked up to the hunters who were still there and they told us most of the cultists had either up and left or went into the cave. We went in and it was dark as shit. We eventually came across a drunken guard who we woke up, knocked out and woke up again. A few of the cultists had been breeding drakes a bit up ahead. We left him to his stupor and continued on. Our cleric made the barbarian's weapon glow pink for easier scouting and later the fighter's shield (though not the ranger, wasting an opportunity for a 'pink power ranger' joke). We came upon two cultists, one of them got taken out by a sneak attack by our ranger and we clobbered the other one to death. After stealing their armor and masks, our fighter noticed that part of the wall was an optical illusion.
Beyond that was a room with a bunch of cultists. We decided to hatch a plan where our fighter would go drill sergeant on their asses and impersonate a cultist commander. For the most part, it worked until we got called to the next room by a female voice; the head honcho of the cult. After failing to talk our way out of this, we got drawn into one of the weirdest fights I had ever seen with the head of the cult and 11 of her men.
Rushing the head seemed like the most logical plan so we quickly knocked her the fuck out for questioning later. That is, until our fighter got the amazing idea of letting her body roll down the stairs in front of her throne to intimidate the men. Nat 1 so she ended up with her head at a 90 degree angle. However, that didn't go nearly as swimmingly as my turn. I shifted to a boar and charged at the group of men. Rolled a 4 so I missed, flopping on my belly in the middle of 5 of them. Their turn next. The DM rolls a few dice, looks at them and laughs. The ranger looks at them and laughs. Double crit. Got my ass kicked so hard I was wearing it like a hat. Thankfully, the cleric stood on me and promptly saved it with a big heal. When my next turn came around, I went Pikachu on their asses and thunderwaved a bunch of them, the rest of the party finishing them off. After that, an Entangle followed by a turn of finishing off, leaving one for questioning.
He didn't know all that much, sadly. He did offer us his services, at which point I got everyone laughing after asking if he was plump. To spare him the potential fate, we let him go and instead opted to search the head's stuff (no notes on cooking chickens, sadly). We found a map with some notes scribbled on it and looted her ritual armor, breastplate jokes were made. We found a trap door and down there was some random mook hiding. Long conversation made short, he didn't believe us being good guys and we knew he was preparing an ambush with some homies so, after pouring a trail of oil behind us, we made for the next room, its ceiling lined with loads of bats and huge mosquitoes.
[editline]5th March 2015[/editline]
Speaking of unlucky dice rolls:
[t]http://40.media.tumblr.com/70c41425cd1f963240a86c7a02663ef4/tumblr_nk6qqxJAIW1tg3qmxo1_1280.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;47261623]So last time, we left a camp that was in complete and utter disarray.
Party: Elf druid, human ranger, human fighter, half-orc barbarian and halfling cleric.
We returned to town and collected our reward, as well as a 3-day rest. The half-elf monk we freed made a request of us; find out what's in the cave, stop it if we can and rendez-vous at a nearby town. After getting some more of the governor's horses, especially the plump ones (remember, emergency rations), we made our way back (after our fighter used the power of obscurity to negotiate us a hefty fee) and saw the fruits of our labor; all the kobold tents had been burned down, as well as most of the other tents. We walked up to the hunters who were still there and they told us most of the cultists had either up and left or went into the cave. We went in and it was dark as shit. We eventually came across a drunken guard who we woke up, knocked out and woke up again. A few of the cultists had been breeding drakes a bit up ahead. We left him to his stupor and continued on. Our cleric made the barbarian's weapon glow pink for easier scouting and later the fighter's shield (though not the ranger, wasting an opportunity for a 'pink power ranger' joke). We came upon two cultists, one of them got taken out by a sneak attack by our ranger and we clobbered the other one to death. After stealing their armor and masks, our fighter noticed that part of the wall was an optical illusion.
Beyond that was a room with a bunch of cultists. We decided to hatch a plan where our fighter would go drill sergeant on their asses and impersonate a cultist commander. For the most part, it worked until we got called to the next room by a female voice; the head honcho of the cult. After failing to talk our way out of this, we got drawn into one of the weirdest fights I had ever seen with the head of the cult and 11 of her men.
Rushing the head seemed like the most logical plan so we quickly knocked her the fuck out for questioning later. That is, until our fighter got the amazing idea of letting her body roll down the stairs in front of her throne to intimidate the men. Nat 1 so she ended up with her head at a 90 degree angle. However, that didn't go nearly as swimmingly as my turn. I shifted to a boar and charged at the group of men. Rolled a 4 so I missed, flopping on my belly in the middle of 5 of them. Their turn next. The DM rolls a few dice, looks at them and laughs. The ranger looks at them and laughs. Double crit. Got my ass kicked so hard I was wearing it like a hat. Thankfully, the cleric stood on me and promptly saved it with a big heal. When my next turn came around, I went Pikachu on their asses and thunderwaved a bunch of them, the rest of the party finishing them off. After that, an Entangle followed by a turn of finishing off, leaving one for questioning.
He didn't know all that much, sadly. He did offer us his services, at which point I got everyone laughing after asking if he was plump. To spare him the potential fate, we let him go and instead opted to search the head's stuff (no notes on cooking chickens, sadly). We found a map with some notes scribbled on it and looted her ritual armor, breastplate jokes were made. We found a trap door and down there was some random mook hiding. Long conversation made short, he didn't believe us being good guys and we knew he was preparing an ambush with some homies so, after pouring a trail of oil behind us, we made for the next room, its ceiling lined with loads of bats and huge mosquitoes.
[editline]5th March 2015[/editline]
Speaking of unlucky dice rolls:
[t]http://40.media.tumblr.com/70c41425cd1f963240a86c7a02663ef4/tumblr_nk6qqxJAIW1tg3qmxo1_1280.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Funny thing is, apparently humans and halflings can't breed so that's what I call a fucking unlucky roll (no pun intended).
Makes me beg the question just how you know that.
I've been working on making a map for a game I'm planning on running which takes place on a flooded Earth (aka Waterworld)
Anybody have any idea on how to make the map look modern?
[QUOTE][img]http://i.imgur.com/pZyod2Y.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I made this from a heightmap I found on google.
[quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/STwPDhQ.jpg[/img][/quote]
Token fantasy version
[QUOTE=Technopath;47261961]Funny thing is, apparently humans and halflings can't breed so that's what I call a fucking unlucky roll (no pun intended).[/QUOTE]
Oh dear it's the book of erotic fantasy argument.
Or at least that's what I assume you're drawing from, because that's what most people draw from when saying halflings and humans can't mix. It's an open 3.5 book, so it's not canon, and that chart is terrible. Halflings (like their hobbit counterparts) are closely related to men in most fiction. If anything is going to breed with humans it's not the fey Elves or the stone born Dwarves, it's halflings.
Hey, I was wondering if anyone would happen to be looking for a player or potentially a GM for a game. My current group disbanded and I'm feeling the need for my roleplaying fix.
I've had experience both playing and GMing Pathfinder, GMing Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Black Crusade, and NWoD, although I'd like to get have a try at playing (forever GM).
I'd be available most of the time except for late Friday, Saturday, and early Sunday (UTC +10).
If timezones are difficult I have no trouble destroying my pitiful excuse for a sleeping pattern in order to enlist in my escapist fantasies. :v:
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