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Fourier

sKeith wrote: »

I left my book on the immortals at home, but they no longer earn XP, They earn power points 10,000xp = 1 PP.

There are two Immortal rule sets, one called "Immortals" and another called "Wrath of the Immortals". The systems are a good bit different, although PP based as you said.

PP is both used to level and a consumable power source for abilities.

Necro

Well I don't want to end D&D that's for sure! Obviously it's up to the other actually alive players, but as a newbie in the beginning, this has swiftly become my absolute favorite thing on the earth to play.

And that's credit to you Four! It's been an absolutely absorbing, sometimes frustrating, always worrying, amazing last four months!

Banjo

I can see the logic in ending it, and nothing hammered that home more than last night.
The current characters are unsustainable - they're so ridiculously strong than the level of threat you'd need to introduce to challenge them would be nonsensical. You can't start a new character. There is no point in being a Level 1 or 2 or 8 standing behind Goodie or Ekbard or Bandy, because either the dungeon is at a level your character can handle - in which case they can breeze through it and you're just holding them up - or it's pitched at a level they can handle - in which case if you come out from behind them, you are re-rolling again about 3 seconds later. It's stifling and it's paralysing and it's not fun; and over a long enough timeline, where Goodie and Ekbard naturally find their ends for good or bad it's sustainably not fun because there will always be one or two players who's power dwarfs the new-rolls simply because they were carried through a few high level dungeons.

That said : **** logic.

Echoing Necro, this is my favourite thing in the world to do now.
I have seldom been as angry, as frustrated, as anxious, as elated or as excited as the last few months.
You can stop DMing this world if you want, but I have the map, and I have a pencil - I'll just write my posts on napkins and receipts and stick them in bins and imagine responses.

Necro

Moving onto a different campaign might be the answer, I'd have to take it to PM with Four re: Bandy as I don't know if entering an immortal immediately into a new campaign is workable, I'm new and don't understand the systems so if it's good without being too overpowered for other new players I'd be happy to go that way.

That being said, I have no issues rolling a new character for a new campaign either.

Necro

If there is to be a new campaign, can I suggest a Hall of Fame thread where all the players of this campaign can post a tribute to their characters?

Details of their exploits, links to their best posts etc. And on saying this Banjo is already compiling a thesis :pac:

Banjo

Fourier wrote: »

Continue with D&D, starting a new game set in Eberron with Othegre or another setting. BandyLegs per BECMI rules can play an avatar of BandyLegs that functions as a player character. Might start with Othegre being the quest giver. (Give Banjo an NPC)

Alas, since her abandonment in an alternate ruleset, I've been expressing my grief through research, and when you stuck an arrow in her arse that gave her the means to identify her own plane, and as a venerated immortal of the Blood of Vol she has access to the power necessary to send her back. And since you aren't DMing Eberron, I took on the mantle and decided, "yeah, that's fine". The rules are more relaxed there. We roll D20s for stats and you get to carry over the extras from any 19s or 20s to spend on the lower rolls, there's a Bard class where any originally penned freestyle raps or folk songs get rewarded with power points for activating high level spells, all of the mountains look like boobs from a distance and in summer the Donut orchards pay transient workers with excess product. It's a magical place.

In practical terms, any campaign with her starting the quests would rely on a party made of lay-people of the Blood of Vol which would require a fairly narrow focus for PCs (everyone believing in the divinity of self) and might be limiting for the players.
No to mention that there's very little she could ask others for that would be much more than a gopher job. "I need a sample of <x> from <monster y> which you will find in <region x>" - and I don't want to ever be bored by her.

However, she'd make an excellent healthcare provider. Flying to the far flung corners of the world on a black winged Pegasunigon, cure wounds from light to critical, replacing conciousnesses in vat grown bodies, regrowing limbs, not necessarily in the same number, configuration or genus as the ones originally lost but you're coming across a little ungrateful bringing that up, you know?

Actually, I'm turning myself around on this. If you want to start a party out as vat grown clones, armed with Magic Jar necklaces, sent on ridiculously dangerous journeys to grab samples for her in exchange for earning their freedom, with the option of restarting your character in the event of death early on provided your soul was successfully captured and your necklace retrieved, I'm game. It could be like the Apprentice - 2 teams, 1 exotic creature that she wants a liver from, who will retrieve the sample? Dwayne and Simon accompany the teams in the field and help Lord Othegre decide which team wins and who gets sent to the vats.

Or we end D&D and move onto a new game/system

NEVER!

Tigger

i reckon we bring the money to the shire and set the richness in motion and then go press the button that says do not press


then a different system , i don't know what it is or what you hve the books for Four. personally i think we should do something different to sword and soarcery to show the players other stuff is cool.

Necro

But.... I like Swords and Sorcery

You should have saved that above for the HOF thread Banjo.

Banjo

Eh... if memory serves Goodie was last seen hopping dimensions in a flying soup can, Othegre was using dimensional portals to jump hundreds of feet in the air, Ekbard has a lazer gun, Kal and Flak just violated I don't know how many Disney copyrights, and Bandy just saved the world using only the power of friendship. We left the swords and the sorcery behind a long time ago!

sKeith

can't wait for maulers HOF

Banjo

"He was the best of fighters, he was the worst of fighters. Mostly the worst."

Necro

*Clears throat*

Hall of Fame open for entries

Necro

One thing I wish had been worked into a post was this tune:

Fourier

Okay we look like we're initiating something big on the main thread.

Banjo has also used the arrow to, as I hoped, use his creative juices to come up with some class-bending nonsense to get home:

OOC : You should have let her lie. She was happy, even if I wasn't.

NO FUKING WAY!!!

I decided yesterday, Othegre was within spitting distance of the end. Kuma is a cool character, but no way is Othegre going to be absent for the end due to missing the bus!

Fourier

Soet is the first epic level being to die by a nude dwarf god jumping on him while a statue empowered by a necklace from a fighter punches him, while said fighter pummels him, said nude dwarf plane shifts him, a vivimantic vampire clones herself, alignment shifts him and fingers him in every organ, nude dwarf meteor summon bombs him and an arrow does him in in the end.

Necro

Why oh why did Bandy have to be nude :pac:

Banjo

Maybe you're like a dwarven Bayonetta, clothed in your own beard?

In fairness, as a God, just conjure a ****ing toga!

Tigger

can someone count the posts wevemande on board gaming and look at the forum charter and tell me that we shouldnt look again for a sub forum or sometging.

Welcome to the Forum Games section of boards.ie

The top level forum will be used to host general chat, social events, "game" admin, game FAQ and notifications.

Each Game type (werewolf etc) will then have a sub-forum to host the game threads and game thread chats allowing for privacy for the role players without having to worry about trolls or spoilers.

according to the charter we should get one

look at the stickys tho thy aren't forum games stickys they are WW stickys

i think this should be raised again


according to the charter there should also be a sub for logic games like codewords

Necro

Banjo wrote: »

Maybe you're like a dwarven Bayonetta, clothed in your own beard?

In fairness, as a God, just conjure a ****ing toga!

Not in my powers

Telekinesis - Check.

Quicker movement - Check.

Meteor Fireballs - Check.

Conjure some fcuking clothes.... Negative.

Banjo

Tigger wrote: »

can someone count the posts wevemande on board gaming and look at the forum charter and tell me that we shouldnt look again for a sub forum or sometging.



according to the charter we should get one

look at the stickys tho thy aren't forum games stickys they are WW stickys

i think this should be raised again

The point was made that tagging would segregate this game adequately. And for one game it probably would. (Are those tags live yet?)

Well if Fourier's plans to run Shadowrun and Call of Cthulhu and maybe more DnD come to fruition, and any of these overlap, the front page of this forum will be overrun. And I'm not suggesting that anything untoward be organised, but if Codewords continues apace, you'd risk pushing any fledgling thread trying to drum up interest in a new game right off page one within minutes.

If that's happening, there's a case to be made because any one game type that's so popular it breaks the main function of the main forum needs to be ringfenced.

Banjo

Necrominus wrote: »

Not in my powers

Telekinesis - Check.

Quicker movement - Check.

Meteor Fireballs - Check.

Conjure some fcuking clothes.... Negative.

Hmmm.. I could have animalised you, given you fur. Or grown you an extra appendage (a hand to cover your modesty, or a wing?)

Any game that doesn't have vivimancy is half a game.

Tigger

Banjo wrote: »

The point was made that tagging would segregate this game adequately. And for one game it probably would. (Are those tags live yet?)

Well if Fourier's plans to run Shadowrun and Call of Cthulhu and maybe more DnD come to fruition, and any of these overlap, the front page of this forum will be overrun. And I'm not suggesting that anything untoward be organised, but if Codewords continues apace, you'd risk pushing any fledgling thread trying to drum up interest in a new game right off page one within minutes.

If that's happening, there's a case to be made because any one game type that's so popular it breaks the main function of the main forum needs to be ringfenced.

the very wording of the charter stated each game type would get its own sub
its forum games not sometimes stuff thats not werewolf

Fourier

Okay plans ahoy!!!!

So for slow paced games, the following Powered by the Apocalypse games will be on offer (I've pmed a few about this):
Powered by the Apocalypse: the original, postapocalyptic
Alas for the Awful Sea: Life on a rough island in the 19th century where somebody is murdered. It's a period drama basically
The Veil: Set in a future where humanity is fusing with machines.
Dungeon World: D&D redone in Apocalypse world style.
The Sprawl: Bladerunner themed heist game.
The Ward: You play a doctor in an ER. This game won awards.
Urban Shadows: You play supernatural creatures living in the modern world trying to survive by pretending to be CEOs etc. Very good.
Masks: You play young superheroes

Apocalypse world games basically work by you rolling 2d6 adding some stat (like investigation), <7 is a failure, 7-10 a success with complications and >10 a good success.

You decide the type of success and the complications from a list of options and I have to come up with something fitting the current story and those options. This way the players have control over the story to a bigger degree.

The options depend on your class and the skill.

Necro

Hmmm... I REALLY want to play one of those but Necro and slow paced don't exactly go together.... :pac:

Fourier

I originally was offering Cyberpunk 2020, but Shadowrun satisfies that itch to be honest. And we have Call of Cthulhu. Two "fixed night" games, that don't add anything to my heap. So the next campaign games are a choice from:

Deadlands: Western Horror and Action, set in an alternate world where Gettysburg was interrupted by the return of four ancient gods. The Civil War ended in a truce and the USA and CSA continue to exist, along with the returned supernatural evils.

Rippers Resurrected: Victorian Horror and Action. Like a Michael Bay Penny Dreadful. You are an organisation that grafts monster parts to you to fight anything from Gothic horror. World isn't huge, it can be exhausted (con for some)

Both of these are in the Savage Worlds system. Midway between Shadowrun and D&D in complexity. Deadlands is a bit funny in that it starts off as a sandbox, but then you move into a semi-scripted story (set encounters, NPCs with tons of prewritten story etc). Just mentioning as this can be a severe turn-off for some.

Vampire the Masquerade: The iconic supernatural RPG. Monsters living in the modern world, afraid of the apocalypse and each other. Political backstabbing, subtle powers, hiding from mortal authorities, hiding evidence of vampires, fearing the elder vampires, rising through the ranks. Serious, joking and being too flippant will get you killed. (again con for some)

Traveller: What D&D is to Swords and Sorcery, Traveller is to hard Sci-Fi. Set in possibly the biggest setting for an RPG (11,000 worlds). Gritty, "working-man" sci-fi. Fixing the hyperdrive before the missle the pirates launched two hours ago hits you. Not very heroic (again con for some), fighting is lethal and rarely done.

Fourier

Necrominus wrote: »

Hmmm... I REALLY want to play one of those but Necro and slow paced don't exactly go together.... :pac:

They can always be run fast paced (separately to slow pace offer OldGoat!! They'd be two different games)

Fourier

Necrominus wrote: »

Why oh why did Bandy have to be nude :pac:

The gods demanded it and witnessing unvarnished perfection was the only thing keeping the groups moral together.

Fourier

A fast paced Powered by the Apocalypse game is easy.

sKeith

Fourier wrote: »

The gods demanded it and witnessing unvarnished perfection was the only thing keeping the groups moral together.

it was destroying ekbards morale

sKeith

being impios piety and fighting with a nude god.