In reply to Vythisk (msg # 10):

Ah, indeed, classic 'yeddim missile' attack. I myself have both yeddim and tyrant lizard forms (as well some wyld beasts like a golden lion and diamond stag, but also weird forms like a super angry bear-sized badger).

Haha, not sure what to contribute -- V is helping me dip my toes back into Exalted after having had some rather bad experiences a while ago (not with V, or even on RPOL).

I have had a couple of bad experiences in Exalted. I am not good enough at the system to make a survivable Chungian Exalted and often wind up in a game where alot of the other players are able to do that.

Has anyone read Practical Guide to Evil?
This message was last edited by the player at 02:52, Sat 22 Oct 2022.

In reply to Vythisk (msg # 13):

Maybe... Probably not, but I'm intrigued. Not sure what that is (or pertains to) but I have couple ideas of how it would be relevant, possibly to evil characters working together in game.

It is a series of web novels. They are fairly good and they are finished. One of the conceits are people called Named. Which function at least somewhat like Exalted. So, you might become the Lone Swordsman or the Unconquered Champion. With some being Heroes and others Villains.
Talk of Exalted just brought it to mind and wondered if anyone had read it.

Here's something I found during a webcrawl night before last that seemed to have some currency for us in this campaign.  https://blog.trilemma.com/2021...hts-on-intrigue.html

In reply to Cyril Theodoric (msg # 16):

It seems like it could be good while dealing with other kingdoms/powerbrokers, but I'd rather not approach our internal leadership with this in mind.

:D Little bit of tweaking.

This, however, is still a suggestion. How I would represent the situation were I playing in the game. A strong suggestion, but not a requirement. Those that are divisive will affect the tone of the game. See the Game Info Link back to this game


This message was last edited by the GM at 06:26, Wed 26 Oct 2022.

Yeah, preferably we as group are damn solid unit which works together even if different alignments and overall goals being different (or partly shared) by others. The other kingdoms and factions around world is different story.

We have a common enemy... it is not a person but the impersonal cold dead hand (no offence Hathra) of a market that serves others more than it serves us.

I'm not a necromancer but I thought I'd reawaken this sleeping space anyway.

That's a good thing. I have a thread to post, otherwise I wouldn't be here. I've been really trying to avoid having to get on to this game, because I have yet more reasons things aren't moving forward.

I know at least two people have visuals for their landlord assets. So I want to post two threads for those. That's why I'm on, but things suck, and I hate having to repeatedly report this. I would rather that, however, than ghost you all. Much as it is easier to not have to confront inconvenient truths.

I'll update my bio later, but for now, I'll put the info as appropriately placed as I can here, otherwise.

So, just going through my library and was just wondering if anyone had a system or character idea that they are probably never going to get to play?
As an exampled, I have the coffee table Nobilis book and probably never going to play that system ever again. Also, came across a few things and now have a bug in my ear about creating a Gestalt LE Tanarukk Warblade // Archivist who serves Ilneval. Why I have no idea, but the idea just popped into my head and I am idly making the character - never played a Warblade before just flipped through it and was like...that is weird idea.

So, any systems or character ideas you doubt you will ever have the chance to play?

Sorry I haven't been more active; RL has given me some rather important issues to deal with.

To your question, though: I had a 1E Pathfinder character I've wanted to play for a while -- a gestalt bandersnatch (monster class)//Tyrr barbarian (homebrew class, but not one I made up). She had a backstory that I really liked. Both of the games I brought her into fell apart fairly quickly.

I have two systems I will never play one here (A-State) and one in the shed in a house we temporarily don't have access to (Orpheus).

I also have lots of characters I won't get to play. My favourites are a human rogue with all attributes the same (eg all 12) and all feats about improvisation and a female goblin (CG) Bard.

In my case I want to test out a homebrew prestige class; Midnight Occultist. Combines binder pact magic and magic of incarnum.

https://forums.giantitp.com/sh...eldshaper-PrC-(PEACH)

That looks interesting. On same site they had a rework of the hexblade with a whole bunch of PrCs that made the class very playable.

Just added another concept to my backlog of ideas never to be played - someone advertised a game that was full by the time I got off of work to RtJ. So it goes.

Also, waiting for someone to make a mod off of some other system for various worlds I want to play in. Not good enough to mod some of the worlds and the magic systems I would want to use.

The hexblade actually made me want to try a game where the higher power classes weren't there and instead all of the pcs played some of the lesser classes in gestalt. Two weak classes that have enough synergy that they become greater then the sum of their parts.

And what worlds are might people like to play in?
This message was last edited by the player at 02:54, Sun 21 Jan.

Hexblade mods are nice, but in my 3.5 dnd tables I fuse many classes together (basically gestalt them but it's not considered gestalt class).

I fused hexblade with soulknife; I changed psionic class to arcane version with this fusion.

Marshal I combined with paladin; as with marshal auras, paladins become better classes to stick more levels in the long run (and be bit similar to divine mind class from complete psionic).

Knight and Fighter I fused also together. Albeit knight is quite fine as classes go, but it lacked martial versatility to able to get feats to be a good warrior class. Knight's code I adjusted to have choices between Lawful neutral, Chaotic neutral, and Good or Evil versions (albeit knight can be any alignment but code is leaning towards specific alignment so lawful good knight has option take good or lawful version of the code).

Monk I did just give full BAB and weapon finesse as one monk feat options.

In settings/worlds, I would have preference over Eberron or Forgotten Realms as established settings go.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:49, Sun 21 Jan.

The soulknife never made much sense to me honestly. Just making a weapon with your mind is kind of bland. I mean at the least they should have some manifesting ability.

Maybe monk/soulknife meld could work - they just flow together really. Honestly you could meld the Fighter with pretty much every warrior type character and be good. Feat heavy, swashbucklers, hexblades, knighs, paladins, could all be a good thing.

In the established settings -
Eberron has always felt like a game with DLCs attached. It pretends to be a low level game, but with high level stuff happening in the background. With the other continents all being higher level zones until you return to your homeland and realize that there was epic level shenanigans happening behind you the whole time. The store clerk who helped you at 2nd level, is actually the epic level agent of a evil magical overlord who is struggling to break free. It is an interesting setting - though ripping alot of the setting and ideas in a different world can work. An early magicpunk setting with arcane engineers and just coming off of their version of WWI is always going to be interesting.

Forgotten Realms - my only thing about Faerun (at least up to 3.5, I have avoided 4e and 5e lore) is Mystra. First to get from edition to edition - stop killing her. Second, don't make her responsible for all magic. Beyond that the world is big enough you can do most anything.

Greyhawk is kinda of small - though there is a short series of book set in Greyhawk that is a fun read.

An interesting 3rd party is Midnight - in which Sauron pretty much won and is covering the world in darkness - only so many stories you can tell in that setting, but it has an interesting ideas for casters and where eveyone pretty much has a template added on to them.

In reply to Vythisk (msg # 28):

I enjoy Forgotten Realms but I've never played 4 or 5.  I love the concept of the Deep Imaskari seeking the homeland they made him or her forget when he or she was exiled.

As for combinations. My favourite was a barbarian monk.  She could no longer be a barbarian because she had become lawful to play a monk and so she'd left the power to rage but she was physically a lot stronger and faster than yeraverage monk.

Rogue Sorcerer seems to work well, especially when she enjoys the use of true strike out of the shadows.  Also, opening locks is not an aggressive action so invisibility works well.

Or how about Rogue Soulknife, seemingly unarmed until the guard's back is turned and then lethal.

The rogue sorcerer is pretty covered by the beguiler. Heavy on illusions and enchantments but those fit into the rogue archetype pretty well.

Haven’t played 4 or 5 but know they killed off Mystra again to change magic. Along with like Savras, Azuth, and I think Velashroon.

Then brought her back for 5. They did a lot of things weirdly in 4 where they made some racial deities just aspects of the mainstream ones and demoted a lot to exarchs - which seemed to be like quasi deities. 4 made a lot of weird decisions. Will see what they do with 6 since they seem to have fired most of the creative team for wotc

So just watched a video that had an idea for a game idea. The idea was the group woke up and the players literally had a blank sheet. For 3.5 or Pathfinder they had nothing filled in. The players had no idea what they were playing - the pcs had amnesia and they had to find everything out by simply doing it. As they played they slowly filled out their own character sheets. I am not sure about the viability of that idea either for face to face or play by post. Anyone ever try anything remotely like that?

I'm actually playing something like that in another game being run by V (and thus also kind of on hiatus) -- instead of not having the character sheet filled out, I'm learning what the things on the character sheet mean by playing. I think using that idea in D&D would be best for folks who already know the game system well, so that they could make fairly accurate educated guesses.

I feel like we might be in that same game.

Yes, it would definitely be a game idea for experienced people. People who could both make guesses and understand what the various bonuses or penalties might mean and be able to start filling out the sheet.