Hi, Tristan, nice to meet you, too. Have you been playing D&D long?

In reply to Victor Harkness (msg # 914):

Pretty consistently for the past 6 or so years I'd say. Now I've only played 3.5, 2nd (1 game) , and 5th when it comes to straight DnD. I do fancy myself some whitewolf systems however and I typically GM as well so this is a nice change of pace. :P

A nice thing about RPOL is there are so many games available that perennial GMs get a chance to play for a change. Not that that's an issue for me, I've always played more than I GM.

White Wolf has some fun systems. Maybe one day I'll figure out how to run a balanced combat in one, but otherwise I've run a fun game or two in WoD. I find it to work better for small groups than DnD, but its a different playstyle than most DnD games I've played (and all the ones I've run.)

Agreed on all points.  The combat can be very explosively decided, but rarely is anything but very quickly landslided in result. :)

I haven't played many WW products for a few years now (nor playtested), but certainly had fun with them as well.  I still have a soft spot in my heart for Mage's casting creativity.

Yeah that's pretty true although I did manage to balance a boss fight in my second to last game that it lasted 3 sessions of fighting. It was pretty epic.

I had a rather ambitious multi-splat game where I spent weeks online researching real life stuff to add to the game, creating relics that could do different things depending on what kind of supernatural tried to use them, and may cause the First National Bank and Trust in Manhattan to keep an eye out for me for a while.

I started with what I believed would be a moderately difficult fight which left the entire party needing weeks of hospitalization (and most would likely have just died from their wounds if I hadn't called the game after the last party member fell,) which was bad, because the apocalypse they were supposed to prevent was about a month away.

I tried to salvage it by saying the fight had been a prophetic dream the mage had, but since a large part of the session had involved me arguing with my brother (who I had foolishly asked to Co-GM) about whether or not a vampire should be able to parry a greataxe with a dagger (which I had him do as a mercy. He was dual-wielding daggers with celerity, and on offense he was chewing the toughest party member to pieces, but the defensive bonus from parrying was minor in comparison.) He said it was unrealistic, I disagreed, and I am no longer willing to discuss realism at my table. It is now my general belief that realism is only useful in creating a starting point for a setting and system and any more than necessary gets in the way of having a good time. Rule of Fun, Rule of Cool, and when appropriate, Rule of Funny should always trump the laws of reality, or why waste time pretending you're in another world? Especially one that, at least on the surface, is much bleaker than our own.

Yeah I pretty much agree all around the only other thing that might come to mind is if the whole realism idea was the point and the players were ok with it. Also personally I enjoyed Scion the most so far. :)

Yeah so right now I run a 5e game on Monday using magic the gathering as the setting. I run a Scion game on Tuesday morning that has gone from hero to God. They are currently creating a universe and worm holes while also creating life and fixing stuff that randomly happens across their little pocket universe like the disk world turtle. I am also going to be running another 5e game soon on Tuesday nights. So my plate is full atm but I can't get enough of table top rpgs

Hooboy. I doubt my attempt at diplomacy will help here but it's worth a try.

Note that Victor's shield conveniently acts to block sight of what his right hand is doing from the eye monster. This was not planned, but I'm happy it worked that way. Of course, if the creature is what I think it is, it probably doesn't matter.

Indeed, indeed

Hopefully, we can avoid any misunderstandings. Or at least, survive them...

Man it would be great if I remembered the names of the dwarves we were here to rescue! Not that I expect this thing to recognize them. Oh, well, chatting seems to be working, so far.

Sorry guy's I'm still following, trying to keep up, but I'm not sure how often can I keep reacting in the following weeks. For family issues, this will be the situation for the following 2 weeks, but I'd still like to continue.

Ero, I thought you were with me? The new characters are in the other group, replacing Alexia and Wendell.

And Raus, sorry if things aren't going well. Hope things look up for you soon.

I am.  I was talking to Mr. Peepers.

Oh, yeah, I forgot you could see him.

DM, I don't know if you noticed my question at the end of my post - is this broadband telepathy, or is only Victor/the target of the mental speech hearing the telepathy?

Only Viktor can hear it at the moment.

Folks, for clarity in reading with us being divided up, can we put something at the start of each post, like Mithra's last?

"===== Mithra's Group ====="
msg...

or
"+++++ Victor's Group +++++"
msg...



It might just be me, but I find it a touch confusing and needing to rejig the what comment is about what situation and in response to what remark.

Fair option?

Agreed!! Sign me up!

Oh good!
I was about to seriously suggest a metagame to rejoin just to get everyone together for sanity :)

I can understand the frustration. Should be easy enough to handle for now!

Yeah, I can do that.

Done!

Or will be done when I post next.

DM, for clarity, nobody sees any treasure here?
Would arcana checks be appropriate to look re magical residue/invisibility, or do we think the guardian is just a wee bit off in the head?