Well being given increasingly deadly ways to express it will, I am sure, exhaust it and make her really serene :D

Lol I suppose it's sort of like that execpt in this case the three things actually do lead to each other in that order rather than just being random :D. And we don't have to get into combat to get exp - think of all the times we've got some just from talking to people nicely, or similar such things :D.

And let us hope that Nym always manages to maintain control of herself and the magic doesn't take over too often or too much. Otherwise I think a noticeable section of the region may suddenly find itself in a significant amount of danger ;). Things are certainly going to get interesting as we level up, that's for sure...

Wondering if I'm the only one who's started keeping a close eye on Nym, in case her "Magic High side" starts taking over her like a sort of Chaotic Evil split personality, hehe :)

Ahh, "Evil" implies intent. Magic doesn't have intentions. It just...is ;).

Ah, the 'it wasn't me' or 'you made me do this' defense all bad guys use :p

Possible contender for the best IC line ever used in a D&D game? :)

Pretty much :D

Now don't be scared, I've updated the rules thread with a post talking about paragon paths. This is like themes for your character when you reach level 11, and become not just a hero, but a paragon :D

Might be fun to look at them sooner rather than later, as they might give ideas for where your character could be moving towards developmentally.



No pressure, no rush!

Oh yeah, I think we've both looked at them (and the Epic ones) already a while back when we were chatting in Skype and ended up mooching through the PDFs of the books to see what these guys could potentially become in the future :D. I suspect I will be taking the "Crazy Wild Magic That Wrecks Everything" route, although I similarly suspect that you could probably have guessed that for yourself by now ;).

Yeah, I looked out all the 'wahahah I'm a mage' and 'wahaha I am magic' and 'wahaha i am flying magic' and 'wahaha i'm a wild mage' and 'wahahha I'm binding yer soulz lol' paths, have no fear :p


Meri's ones mostly boil down to 'mah stuff!' with ah 'ooh, what was that you just did?' one thrown in in case Meri the character becomes a little more tolerant of people :)

Meri is more a combination of "Crazy Explosive Alchemist" and "Makes Cool Weapon/Armour/Stuff".
So drawn more towards those ones :)

Well, there was is a crazy armourer path, and a crazy alchemist path as two I've already listed.

But I also put in two 'THIS IS TIMUR YOU LEAVE TIMUR ALONE AAAARGH' paths for your perusal :)


If I see any more cool making stuff paths I'll add them to the list.

Just as a plot reminder:

The heart is both a place - the heart of the forest - but also now an object hidden in the centre of the forest, underneath what used to be the greatest tree. The heart itself was an actual heart from the old human ruler of the area that used to include Blackwood village, who betrayed the dryad's pact. It was through the connection to him the blight was able to get a hold in The Blackwood (and it was said his heart was actually filled with blight, in a similar way that the phystal was empowered by it too).

The heart was ripped from the ruler, and bound in to a frost gem. This gem seems to have been part of a pact with a/the spirit of winter, and the blight was frozen upon Celindara's promise. In return it seems that the area here has very mild weather - as you may have noticed, the fact she reacted to autumn asa forgotten concept so strongly

So Celindara is most likely going to the heart in order to find out wh ythe blight could still be around if she had a deal with the/a spirit of winter, and then hoping to carry onwards to where the blight people still are - hopefully directed by said spirit?


As mentioned, the cult maybe don't need it, perhaps they just want it destroyed, or perhaps the phystal was the one obsesed by it. Or perhaps the cult do need it to free themselves and strengthen their link to the forest.

So...the Heart is already Blighted and has been since it first got there? Why the fuss about touching it with the Blight, then? Are they worried it might "wake it up" or something? If it's got Blight in it, shouldn't we be trying to destroy it? It doesn't sound like it does anything for the forest, just sits there dormant under a tree...

When the heart was in the original human lord of the area, it was blighted. When Celindara ripped it out, it got turned in to a frost gem.

It seems to be that while the lord was alive and allied to the teachers - blighted in the same way the phystal and his family appeared to have been - it seems liek the teachers held some sway.

It seems that when Celindara instead froze the heart and called upon the spirit of winter, that managed to turn the connection against the blight and the teachers and hold them at bay. The frost gem would most likely be the link to the forest the spirit of winter has to affect the land. Changing the seasons, but also holding back the teachers.

So destroying the gem = bad. Most likely, anyway.


However, you can see that if the lord was a link to the land, and that link was because of pacts those lords made with the dryads and fey, then actually having the last proper connected dryad in their power may well be a bad thing.

So even without the 'heart', getting Ceindara would be a way to get power. And if Celindara controls the gem, then of couruse controlling Celindara is a way to use and abuse the power of the gem. Not just freeing the teachers and letting them carry on their previous work, but perhaps even managing to harness the spirit of winter too?

So, you can see why the phystal and the teachers might want Celindara ultimately, and at least want the heart.

Blace seems to know at least where it is and what it is, perhaps more than the phystal knew, but seemed to want the power, not apparently trusting Celindara to use it. Maybe?

Hehe well, I don't really know...there's a lot of bits and pieces of history being flung about all over the place, but fortunately I'm playing a character who wouldn't really care too much about those kinds of details, anyway ;).

One of these days I will finish with the Obsidian Portal, or at least good enough to let you all see it to recall stuff like this. At the moment soem of the stuff I properly compiled is spoilery, so I need to not only finish the sections I started, but then make sure they are formatted to let me move information around from my view to general view :)

Oh yeah, I need to do that with my game, too - I have a whole load of info on the world currently in the "GM-only" section but haven't updated anything for ages, as in not once since we've been playing on RPOL, lol. I need to do that at some point, since the longer I leave it, the more will build up for me to add and the more I'll need to trawl through posts to get all the necessary info to put up :D.

I posted the first two chapters as cut up posts in to the wiki, which is why it's a mess that I can't really share, but at least everything is sort of in the right place somewhere to edit down.

However, chapter three hasn't been grabbed yet, and it's now quite large :(

Is this a game you two are running? :)

Obsidian Portal is a cool website that lets you construct an uber-wiki to co-ordinate games. So GMs can share world stuff and put up characters, and players can comment and so on.

So I've got a page for this game that I hope to make shareable at some point, and Nym has one for the Nature of Things game that documents at the very least the one on one playthrough.


So you can read part of one now, and eventually I hope to finish the one for this game :)


https://the-light-and-the-dark.obsidianportal.com/

Edit: Reminder of Nym's one:
https://the-nature-of-things.obsidianportal.com/

Edit 2: Shhhhh, nothing to see there... shhhh...
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:51, Sun 24 Apr 2016.

I hadn't actually posted the link to mine yet, so that's not so much a reminder as a first-time showing ;). I was going to put up my link once I'd actually updated my game with stuff that you guys have actually done :D.

This one's been doing the rounds on a couple of podcasts, it's a game under kickstarter but they have a free print and play link too.

http://paracosmpress.com/npc/


While the game itself seems a fun idea, I'm just getting some simple joy out of the phrase cards :)

Lol looks kind of weird. I had a quick look through it - noticed a few typos on some of the cards. I think I would probably be quite terrible at this game ;).

Btw on a completely unrelated note, and with no pun intended, did you ever see this?

http://www.ambient-mixer.com/

It's being talked about in one of the threads in the public section of RPOL (I think Community Chat or one of those) and was first linked a while back but I forgot to mention it. Looks pretty cool - site with loads and loads of ambient noises and sound effects that you can mix and match to put together a whole ambient background soundscape for your RPGs or whatever :).
This message was last edited by the player at 13:49, Thu 05 May 2016.

Lol, that's fun - I like he first few are Harry Potter themed (Like Slytheyn common room)