The place where banana's come to mate.

As soon as you finish the rest of the builds, we will beguin. \



Oh, screw it....lets start now.

If you hit these mofos its game over.

Also, take Max HP at first level.

Updates

Updated Totemest, they can no longer learn arcane spells.

Updated Wizard, Summoning rules updated.

Updated Wizard, new enchantments

Updated Skills, New skill added: Spear

Updated Items, Added lightsources

Updated Items, Added new epic abilities

Just posting these to see how they look. And to taunt you.

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This message was last edited by the GM at 19:55, Sun 08 Apr 2012.

Again.....the level 20 monster your fighting.....just to taunt youy.


Name: Lucy
Race: Dragon
Age: Older than you
Physical Discription: Red dragon. Of doom

Stats
STR:20
DEX:8
CON:18
INT:28
WIS:8
CHA:8

HP: 320



Skills
NAME        |  Points  | Ranks  |
Acid        |          |        |
Agility     |    50    |  11    |
Ax          |          |        |
Bow         |          |        |
Breath      |    50    |  11    |
Claw        |    50    |  11    |
Climb       |          |        |
Dagger      |          |        |
Enchantment |          |        |
Fire        |    50    |  11    |
Force       |          |        |
Gaze        |    50    |  11    |
Heavy Armor |          |        |
Insight     |          |        |
Ice         |          |        |
Jump        |          |        |
Light Armor |    50    |  11    |
Lightning   |          |        |
Lore        |          |        |
Luck        |          |        |
Mace        |          |        |
Necromancy  |          |        |
Perception  |          |        |
Shield      |          |        |
Speech      |          |        |
Stealth     |    40    |   8    |
Swim        |          |        |
Sword       |          |        |
Toughness   |    50    |  11    |
Willpower   |          |        |

Attacks
Claw
total attack roll: +21
Number of attacks:6
Damage: 1D12+5 +8D6 fire +2D6 v. prone

Gaze
Total ATK roll: 23
Number of attacks: 1
Damage: 2D6 fire damage and stun

Fire Breath
Total ATK roll: +21
Damage: 12D6
Range:(choose one for each casting) burst 4, a blast 4 within 30ft, a line 40, or a 30ft con
Recharge: 1D4 turns

Defense Rolls
Total Armor roll     : 23
Total Toughness roll : 21
Total Agility Roll   : 21
Total Willpower Roll : 0

Abilities gained from skills
DR 4/-
1/day a critical hit becomes a normal hit
3/day, reroll a failed armor roll
3/day, reroll a failed armor or agility roll
3D6 sneakattack
+3 bonus on rolls to remain hidden, movement while hidden is 20ft.
+4D6 on melee attacks
Resist 20fire
3 bonus spells

Abilities gained from Classes
DR 2/-
5D6 sneak attack

Stances
level 1


Level 2


Level 3


Level 4


spells
All spells have an attack of +21
Level 1
Firebolt
Range: Medium
Turns to draw: 3
Damage: 1D12+9. +4D8 at the start og the targets turn.

Level 2
Mark of Flame
Medium
Turns to draw: 4
Lowers resistance to fire by 5

Level 3
Fireball III
Range: close
Turns to draw: 5
Damage: 3D12+9 to all targets in a Blast 4. 4D8 at the start of targets next turn

Level 4
Meteor Swarm
Range:Large
Turns to draw: 1
Damage: 5 attacks. 4D12+9 fire damage. +4D8 at start of targets next turn.

This message was last edited by the GM at 00:44, Mon 09 Apr 2012.

Updates

Updated wizard, chaged the wording of favored spell. Added a focus circle.

Oh wow......Okay, I swear that I made these level 5's before looking at yours. Berfore we even talked about it even.


I guess I'll be....nice? Is that the word?

Hey....you know how hamburger raped those orcs.....prepare your rouge to feel like an orc.


Its base damage is 1D12+15, if it activace its Stance of the destroier 4......its base damage becomes 1D12+35.



thirty.....fucking......five.....

Updates


Updated epic items. Added 8 new abilities

Updated summoning rules. Added rules for breaking out.

Steve: Unkown
Zuul: Unkown
Lotus:Unkown
Clover:Unkown
St. Dean of Winchester: An extraplanar moneter hunter, gives enchanted items.
M'nam'seal: Ancient Human, gives advice on weither somethings a good or bad idea.
Billy: Servent of the laughing  god, helps in battle.
Preztal: Fay, helps in battle.
Kazzil: Imp, gives info on lower planes
Xil: Abberation, gives information on Abberations
Zip: Fay, gives info on Fay Relams
Karl: Dwarf spirit: Gives enchanted armor.

Updated

Updated Exiles: Changed the wording of their bonus spells. They are now bullshit.

Yes... Yes...

Updates

Updated spell list, new spells for necromancy and enchantment  At lvl 1 2 and 3

Updates

Updated spell list, new level 2, 3, and 4 spells.

Updated wizard, added 2 new focus circles

Updated warrior, added 2 new stances

Updated epic items, editied mithril so as not to be added to weapons.

Updateds

Updated totemist, added vulture totem.

If I give my level 15 mage max enchanting with enchant circle 3, how much time might you give me to prepare?

I'd give you 3 hours.

Beta characters have 30 starting gold. Cause I feel nice.

Hmm... so enough time for about 6 or 7 enchantments, and some spell circles... Sounds good enough.

Otherwise I would have bitten the bullet and made the mage level 14, using the 130 points or so to get just as many permanent enchants...

So....Updates

Updated skills: Added smithing.

Updated traits: Added Artificer, Heartless, swordsmith, armorer, Master smith, Master Mage, and holyman.

Also, erotic Slenderman fanfiction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufdYGQ6UVNA

I have posted

UPDATE:
New enchantment and necromancy spells created.
 Wording of mace skill canged to Blunt weapon skill.
 Monster skills added
 gimme twenty dollars

No wifing in the club

Updates

 Updated light armor to make it more competitive with heavy armor.

UPDATE

 updated the agility skill.

Yo Drew, you around?

Working till monday.

Ah fuck. I seriously want to talk. Fucking tired of work. Need to nerd out.

Yo, you're on now, right?

Okay, I have an idea for a lvl 20 magic using warrior, but I need to know how the cross class spells work. Explain this to me please.

Okay here we go, massive update

UPDATE: New trait: underhanded

UPDATE: New flaws : Drunk, honorbound, bum knee, deseased, dim witted, wild, noisy, bad vision, self centered, battle crazed, and Need Glasses.

UPDATE: New epic abilities for weapons: Fencing and Strongstone

UPDATE: Updated the "Arrow" spell group. epic abilities and enchantent can now affect the range and Attack rolls of these spells.

Update once more

UPDATE: Added Composite as an epic ability

UPDATE

UPDATED: Added abilities to the human and dwarf race template.

update
UPDATE: added six new flaws, burned, cursed, no defense, child of summer, frail, astrophobia

UPDATE: increase all classes hit die by one step. 8s become tens, and sixes become 8s

Update: Added one additional playable race: Orc
This message was last updated by the GM at 17:09, Thu 30 May 2013.

UPDATE

UPDATE: Elfs landspeed changed. also they now have fastheal 3

UPDATE: Dwarves now have damage reduction 3/-

aaahhh nlothing like working on the crunch during work. Updateing speech, insight, perception, lore, and stealth tomarrow. Cause i'z awsome.

...For real, can I mulligan on Dice Roller when I roll 1d12+4 three times and get a 5, 6, and 7 (roll of 1, 2, and 3) on a Warrior?

Lol, awsome. I'd say reroll 1's on hp.......

...And my reroll was another 3.

So with average rolls, they should have about... 30 HP. But they have 20. Glorious.

At least my smithing rolls have been mostly successful...

If these are ally NPCs.....i fear the enemy NPCs.


Currently filled with a sense that I made a horrible mistake giving you the beta campain drew..... a horribly perfect mistake.

They're not that bad. I feel like they're kinda underpowered so far...

Once they hit level 4, maybe things will start kicking in...

I am afraid....

Also, gonna spend the next level or two upping support abilities.

I just noticed... Why does Weaken only target armor skills when its corresponding Enchantment spell can boost any skill?
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:50, Thu 06 June 2013.

Just an FYI, I just rolled an enemy NPC's HP and got two 8s and a 6 rolling 5d8. This game's dice roller wants you to die.

What else is new? We all know the dice roller likes killing me slowly.

Enjoying the monster stats Drew?

A better question is... do you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ZBXhNY5cI

UPDATE

UPDATE: the gaze skill was added to monster skills. Enjoy the broken totemists.

In town tomorrow/monday the 17th. Call me.

Updated

Updateses rules thread, added improvised and unarmed attacks


Updated totemism: changed the effects of snake and primal rage, added the chimaera, dire animal, ooze, shadow cat, and grandfather totem

Alright. Got name and back story done for my exile.

Update

UPDATE: warrior updated. The hunter, paladin, priest, defender, and defenders fury stances added

Updates!!!!!!!

Started Adding the rules for being a priest of a god. Priest of the blood queen are the only one finished as of now, but rules for others are up.

Make my head hurt making entirely new sets of stance and spells. Doing this for you guys.....

Update

Justicars and order of the courageous updated

UPDATE

The rules for speech have been edited and expanded, rally, inspire, insult, provoke, taunt, and heroic speech have been added.

Ahhh..... That moment when you realize that hamburger cranium was made before the introduction of orcs.....

Update


Updated totemist: change the effects of shadow cat and added owl and predator totem

http://www.pa.msu.edu/~aaronson/alitest/aintro.html

27.8% Good
7.7% Chaotic

True Neutral. I think the test hit pretty close to what I expected.

You are 50% Good.
You are 38.5% Lawful.
Alignment: Lawful Good

Gotta admit, wasn't quite expecting that.

Also, I just noticed you misspelled drew's name.

47% good
15% chaotic
Neutral good, seems bout rigjt

Old character sheet= six pages

New character sheet=nine pages


Oh yeah, the first one was more incomplete than anyone thought. Which is saying something.

It's been a while, so.... UPDATE

UPDATE: new flaws and traits added

Rules updated, addeded vision (soon) terrain

Rouge updated, new stances. Immunity, poison master, assassin, inventor, and ghost stance added

UPDATE: poisons added!!!

So tempted to buy adventure time monopolu

Do you really want to spend six hours with us making adventure time jokes?

Buy Betrayal at House on the Hill instead. Just saw it on table top and it seems awesome.

Also, apparently Will Wheaton can only win when he plays the villain...

Update: added 7 more potions, alchemical crafting, and alchemical epic abilities

It occurs to me that there are no rules in place for taking our enemies alive. D&D has subdual damage and things like ropes and manacles. Do we have any plans of having some sort of system that at least allows us to incapacitate rather than kill our opponents?

All your questions and more are answered in this weeks-

UPDATE

This weeks offering includes; knockouts, death, destruction of a spell circle, and terrain and weather.

...It's little things like that intro to our new update that make my day.

So uhh no big deal or anything, but UPDATE

New school of magic added!

UPDATE: added new epic anilities(thrown, protected, and alchemist), new traits( hardy and paranoid), and new flaws( old, rich boy, anger issues, and gullible)

Uploaded two more traits and two more flaws, weak willed, nemeses, skeptic, and blood brother added.

Update

New rules

New trait

Update!

The class threads have been update with each classes new HP formula. Warrior and totemists is now 4D4. Rouge and wizard is now 3D4.  Finally the blind mans HP is now at 2D4. These changes will help to balance the HP to damage differences that can occur at high level play.

You know, I keep looking for this new school of magic, but I never find it. Did you post somewhere weird?

Universal spells.

Summoning Circle used to be the only one.

Ah. So not a new school, but an expansion.

I don't need people at work suddenly stop breathing. That's not what they pay me for.


Oh soco......take me away

Nick, I need to talk to you about the possibility of a meet spanning through the 14th and 15th. We would need to get to the GM's place by Friday, the 13th. My parent's are telling me that St. Cloud is too far out of the way for me to pick you up though.

Is your schedule flexible enough to allow for you to come down on Thursday or early Friday to meet with me so we could go? If so, would it also be possible for you to either get a separate ride home or have me drop you back off in the cities to get brought back home by your mom or something?

Its possible. It would eat into my pay this week, but I think I can scrounge around and survive. I also think I can get the ride, although to be honest it erks me. But that said, are we certain we can do this? Because I'd need to put the request in soon, and call my mom.

Also, what's your new schedule?

That depends on when you ask.

If it was three weeks ago? Thursday through Saturday, 6-6.

If you asked me last week or yesterday? Monday through Thursday, 6-4.

Today? Tuesday through Friday, 6-4? When I wake up in the morning? Hell, I might not have a job.

Point being that I would get off of work at 4 on Friday, be able to leave by 5, maybe. And I'd have Saturday, Sunday and that next Monday off. Even if they do change my schedule next week, it wouldn't kick in until the week after.

As for the logistics? I still need to talk my mom into being comfortable with me driving up to a place I've never been through possible winter weather and pitch darkness. But if you can get the time off and we can figure out the transportation debacle, I'd say we're on.

Tell your mom the major roads up here will be perfectly fine sans a storm. If there is a storm I'd have you guys chill somewhere in Virginia while I wait to get off, then we will caravan there for safety. There's real no chance of getting either, it's 35 to 53 to Virginia.

My mom said that I can go up so long as the weather isn't bad. So barring major snowfall in northern Minnesota during December, we're on.

The storms over, you'll be fine. It just flurries for a while

.............................

Lets just hope that God owes Patrick a favor.

Meh, I'm a lucky bastard. You know that more than most nick you silly panda. Also I thought of some last minute items you two can get on the way up. The total cost will be less than 25 bucks, gimme a call drew and we'll figure it out. It's basically three things

We'll see where my finances are at the moment...

Guess who's doubling tonight! This guy!!!

So we have a menu for the meet and the weekend. In addition to the various snacks I have laying around the place we will have "trail rations" to eat during battles and such, for lunch we will have a beef broccoli soup served with homemade bread, and finally we will have some sort of roast for supper.

With potatoes?

Also, you're making me fucking hungry.

It's a basic pot roast, so yes. Today I bout the stuff for all this crap....

Spent 50 dollars on some jerky that will blow your mind Nick.

.... Damn it. Now I'm hungrier.

Kami rikola must be destroyed.

One last update before the beta starts, due the HP changes, the amounts potions heal have been increased and/or changes

Any word on when/if you can get over to my place tomorrow, Nick?

I'll be home and done showering by 5pm. I've packed my clothes and stuff, but we might need to stop for provisions on the way since I didn't have any time to get them over the week.

Give me a call when you guys head out tomarrow

And somebody better be bringing my tribute of mt dew and meatball sub!!

Also bring fully charged cells

One last thing, m directions were slightly wrong, eventually you go from 35 to 33. But this involves basically not changing my directions at all so.... 35 to 33 to 53. Done.

Six monk stances so far, 11 new stances total. Working on totems now......to inspire me I'm watching spice and wolf while wearing ashs hat

My creative proccess is an odd one.

All will be uploaded as one on the 19th

Huh.... So looks like I might be able to get work to pay for school. Which is all my yes. Uploading stances tomarrow. Totems and spells after that.


Yeah I said spells....... Wanna fight about it?

If you made monk spells I will love you forever long time.

Just one so far..... Maybe

Why can part of me see Drew giggling, and why am I now expecting to die by the hands of a badass monk?

Well there is one spell. (Drew call me I want you to talk sense into me) and the stances are only like half unarmed based. Totems will be worrisome......

But yes..... Fear monks. They are the devil

UPDATE!!!!1


7 new fighter stances(monk, flurry of blows, iron fist, flying kick, gaint slayer, goliath, and drunken boxer)

5 new rouge stances( counter attack, distracting strike, street smarts, stunning fist, and spellsword)

1 new totem( Frenzy)

and 4 new spells( Striking shadows, Channel Ki, Ki Manipulation, and Ki Mastery)

Also did some clean up of the warrior, rouge, and Totemist posts

Is there going to be a way to get access to universal spells as a non wizard?

If you get a bonus spell from an magic skill, you may instead choose to learn a universal spell. That should be posted somewhere but I'm sure it isn't.......

It might have been, but I'm going out of it, and get confused due to revisions and updates.

It occurs to me that we have a skill to discern information a person already has, Lore.

Would it be possible to use Lore to research a question in written records and tomes, or using Speech to gather information, which might grant a bonus to an immediately following Lore check?

Example: Johnathan meets an individual who stands out in a crowd multiple times. He does a Lore check to reference his memory regarding the appearance of the person to a name and succeeds. He performs a successive Lore check to cross reference the name with information he has come across concerning the name itself. His result, even after his Lore reroll is unsatisfactory. Johnathan uses his Speech check to gather information. He rolls a 25, and so he gains, say, a +10 to his next Lore check involving this character (Making the Normal Lore check a Simple one).

The Speech roll in and of itself in this example does not provide direct knowledge, it informs the check that indicates the knowledge (Lore), changing the difficulty of the check and essentially allowing a reroll (since new information has be gained).

If the Speech roll were to be subpar by the GMs standards, then it may not allow a reroll at all, or a reroll at a penalty (i.e. Sorrow does the same thing but rolls a 4, incurring a -5 penalty because he was given intentionally misleading information).
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:46, Fri 20 Dec 2013.

I'll work in it. It's possible to cheese your way into doing it as the rules stand now.

Fun Fact: An Orcish totemist who starts with a base 5 Strength (7 with racial mods) only requires an adjusted Charisma score of 9 to have 20 Strength while in Spirit's Rage, provided they are at least level 15.

The same applies to a Dwarven Totemist who starts with 7 Constitution.

No external modifiers of the primary attribute whatsoever. In fact, if you 5 both the stat in question and Charisma, you only need a single major enchantment to Charisma to provide the desired effect. Further, any piece of equipment enchanted with a Moderate enchantment of the other stat (STR or CON) will push it from 4 to 7. In other words, for about 60 crowns (20 for a perm moderate, 40 for a perm major) you can make your Spirit's Rage cap STR and CON.

At 20th level, maxed CON on its own provides 400 HP.
At 20th level, any totemist can use Grizzly Totem with a rank 1 weapon, and they will deal 141 base min damage with 20 STR (20x7 from five totems and the base 2x multiplier, plus min 1 rolled damage)
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:21, Sun 22 Dec 2013.

Totemists, they don't need money to break the stat setup.

Think I figured out how to get class abilities without a class system... We'll see how it works out.

Did it!

UPDATE

Made accessories

A new trait(fabulous)
A new flaw(allergic to magic)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fe...t=PLFF60B764E9282210

Drew, call me and tell me not to break blind man.


I may have just created mega ultra chicken..... For it is legend.

15 minutes of the newest shard of fear, the habit!

He bassicly the joker with magic.... And I love him

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YGbvzdKBIPQ

Also I don't know if I told you johanthans buying/selling policy. Of you give him money to buy an item he'll do it, for the small price of the discount he talks the shopkeeper into. Similar he will sell your crap at 50% more and all he'll ask is 1/2 the extra coins.

Speaking of buying and selling, call me sometime this weekend drew. I wanna invest some of johanthans moneies  into things.....

Are tomes going to be open for purchase? And are you going to reveal the price?

Oh, and have you heard my idea behind tome creation?

Corey in the house is at number 7 on faqs

What?

Game faqs.com


Corey. He's in the house....

Update!!!

Changed the wording of the healing touch ability.

Could Jonathan haggle an intermediate cloak down to under 11 crowns?

And what exactly are master abilities, and how do they help it they destroy your class?

Master abilitys were wierd skill boosts. They are also not a thing anymore, they weren't right for the system and most likely will never be added. Mostly they were a thing introduced before I have a real feel for what euphoria wanted to be.

And if Andrew will allow said item to be in the area, let me know, I'll get it for ya..... One way or another.

Alright, because I want an Immortal Cloak. The highest level I can get.

Well....good luck finding one.

Are accessories supposed to be rare? Or just certain ones?

And how do you craft them anyway?

You don't craft em.  And most of them are rather rare, rings are the most common.

If you can't craft them, how are they made? I seems an odd choice to make in this system.

It's a game balance issue

The  system for crafting accessories would be a tangled complicated mess of numbers and material components that would dog down the current crafting system and make it annoying. On the other hand if I just made them craft able then there would be massive disturbances in the force, ask Andrew if you don't believe me.


Perhaps there will be craftables in the finished product but they would involve a rework of an already patch worked crafting system.

I guess. But during the early stages of the game, if you could by it, you could make it, and I liked that.

<sigh> me too.... But alas such thing will not last forever. But anyway give drew a call and see what kinda cloaks you can find in this town, then let me know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkfkJCyqCBc

Robin's theme song?

Though I have no idea who would be singing it...
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:20, Sun 12 Jan 2014.

Second it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWjNO_cAyq4

So awesome...

Freeza and Yuske in a death beam/ spirit gun show down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOq4IiuRMWk

I.....who?.......what?!?..... How?

Okay, for the first one:

1) Naruto and the guy from one piece can finally battle it out over whose better
2) I saw a tentacle monster, and am afraid.

For the second one:

WANT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV82qq30Cfk

Possible side dish for next meet

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a...amp;feature=g-high-u

So in case you eer wondered about the Blood Queens favorite undead, this is it.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xDA2mxxid7I

That was a creepy fucking thing.

Creepy? It's just some potato wedges...

........

The second one. The D&D 3 undead child....

I figured that out a couple of hours ago. I just didn't change my post because it's a funnier comment now that I know what you were talking about.

True, even though it doesn't make as much sense...

Johnathan just wants a list of the moderate and major accessories for sale btw. I just didn want it said in character. Also I need to forge sonething....

Blights quest will continue tomarrow. I've got to finish up his cousin and a few minion level mpcs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSKkwzwdW

Oh, and to save on the data. It was George Takei saying "Oh my"
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:04, Sun 23 Feb 2014.

And now for something completely different. A proposed card game to make gambling more interesting.

Dragon's Hoard

Dragon's Hoard is a card game played with a deck of 40 cards, four of each card from one through nine and four Dragon cards (Kings). Each player is given four cards at the start of the game. Each round, the player draws one card from either the discard zone or the draw pile and then either activates a card in their hand or discards a card from their hand.

When a card is activated, the player places it by them face up. Discarded cards are placed in the center of the table face down. Discarded cards are placed side by side rather than on top of one another. Cards that are activated by a player are their Hoard. A player may only activate cards and place them into their own Hoards. A Hoard can only have as many as four cards in it, and a player can have as many Hoards as they want.

A Hoard can be stolen if, before the owner's next turn, another player activates a card with the same face value. If a Hoard has only one card in it, anyone can steal it at any time by activating a card of the same face value and placing it into the Hoard or by activating a Dragon and placing it into the Hoard. Dragons are wild and a Hoardwith a Dragon in it cannot be stolen unless the Hoard's only card is a Dragon card and the second Dragon card is played by the stealing player before the owner's next turn.

The objective of the game is to have the most points. Points are scored from completed Hoard, and Hoards can be completed in any of the following ways:

A Hoard consists of all four Dragon cards: 10 points
A Hoard consists of all four cards of the same face value: 5 points
A Hoard consists of four cards of which three have a total sum of the other one: 4 points
A Hoard consists of four cards with different face values with a total range of just four integers, with all cards within one integer of at least one other (Straight): 3 points
A Hoard consists of two pairs of cards of two different face values: 2 point
A Hoard which is owned by the player after the final card is played which does not fit any other criteria: 1 point

When all cards have been played, the game is over and the points are tallied.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:30, Sun 23 Feb 2014.

There's no reason that this shouldn't be a thing.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpBUP3brSgU

Shut up and take my money!

That batman thing was weird.

I kind of like the card game, but does it end when all 40 cards are in a hoard, when the draw pile is out, or do you re shuffle the discard pile into the draw pile to keep going?

You should also look into rules about cheating, and how certain skill roles will determine in game affects on the gambling game.

The current idea would be that the game ends when all 40 cards are in a hoard. Once the draw pile is depleted, players will continue to draw from the discarded card zone every round until those are all gone. Once there are no discarded cards either, the remaining cards are placed into hoards to end the game.

Our Helix,
Who art in fossil.
Hallowed be your shell,
Your evolution come,
Your will be done
In Kanto, as it is in Sinnoh,
Give us this day our daily gym badge,
And forgive us our start spam,
As we have forgiven those who pressed down on the ledge,
And lead us not into the way of the Domed One
But deliver us from Eevee,
For thine is the move-set, the rare candy,and the SS Anne ticket.

Amen

Amen.

Amen.

And what the fuck.

Still want me to call, Nick?

They did it! Got Bird Judas out of the PC without a sacrifice!

All glory to the helix! All glory to the bird Jesus!!!!

And Lord Helix did say "Rejoice my children, for on the tenth hour of the eleventh day my resurrection shall be complete."

Lo, on the Isle of Fire, Lord Helix did rise from his fossilized remains in fulfillment of the prophecy.

Io! Io! The shelled one lives once more! All praise to him! All praise to his prophet the Bird Jesus! May they ever smite the domed one!

Do we have any rules for unconsciousness or subdual damage yet?

Yes, there's rules for knockouts.

You can call now?

So what's the name of the new adventue time eppi?

Well..... Today was..... Imm drink now.

One viewing of Betty followed by this video and I'm once again away from the ledge.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AJl37Nrp86E

The megas did an acoustic album of get equipped? Shut up and take my moneies!!!

Day 1

I started on my Pokemon journey today! Professor Birch was getting attacked by a wild Pokemon, so I grabbed a Torchic from his bag and killed it mercilessly and save his life! He thanked me by letting me keep it, but told me I should go talk to his son Brendan who was waiting on the outskirts of the next town.

I named my new Torchic "Little Mac" to express his fighting spirit and we were off. However, I anticipated a battle, and so I brought Little Mac to the first patch of tall grass that I could find. For hours, I had Little Mac mercilessly kill the wild woodland creatures, with occasional naptime at Mom's house. Eventually, Little Mac evolved and, satisfied with the wave of carnage we had left in our wake, we moved onto the next town.

We soon found Brendan, and he asked me to spar with him. He sent out his Mudkip and I sent out Little Mac. He thinks that just because he's friendly and is the son of the professor that I will go easy on him. He was wrong. I had Little Mac set that Mudkip on fire, and wipe that smile from his face! He quickly fled to the town to heal his Mudkip and told me he was going to return to his father.

I returned to town and talked to the Professor. He gave me a Pokedex and told me to be on my way. I stopped to say goodbye to Mom and was off on my journey, slaying everything that got in my way or locked eyes on me. Little Mac's bloodlust would be sated, but it was never enough. He grew stronger and stronger. Soon, we were in a new town, where Dad was the gym leader. He didn't want to fight me though, instead he sent me to babysit some loser as he caught his first Pokemon. A Ralts! A psychic type... Little Mac and I looked at each other knowingly. This boy was surely planning on toppling Little Mac! But we let him continue for now. It will be better to ruin him after he has something to lose.

With nothing else there for me, I continued through the forest to the next town. The leaves of the trees were decorated by carnage and cinders as Little Mac and I emerged. We struck down some goon on our way and the worm he was attacking rewarded us with a Great Ball. Once in town, Little Mac crushed the gym leader in a flurry of kicks and we moved on. Another goon had kidnapped a Pokemon, it seemed, and so we went into the cave to teach him a lesson. The Pokemon's owner was thankful but quickly fled. We were then brought to the headquarters of a major corporation, where we were rewarded for our good deeds with errands and a map.

We were done with this pathetic landmass anyway. Little Mac's powers were too great. It had become impossible to capture more soldiers for my army even if I had wanted to! I made one last attempt to capture a Pokemon and finally caught a Wingull. I named him Rufflepants, so as to humiliate my foes as the jester of the seas slays them all! We then went to the old man's house and he sailed us to the next island. I immediately spoke to the townspeople who, as usual, had nothing of interest to say. Except for a little boy. He had the gall to suggest that some nonsense or another was "hip and happening" to which I promptly informed him that the truly cool thing was "Romantic Kindergarten." It was complete rubbish, but he bought it. Simple-minded fool.

Another man asked me if I liked fishing, and I lied, knowing that he would give me a free fishing rod. I went fishing and immediately found a Magikarp, which I named Filet-O-Fish. Truly, one day he shall be a delicious meal. I then reported to the gym, but the sign said something about waves. I anticipated a battle with water Pokemon, and so I continued into a tunnel near the town in search of wild Pokemon. In time, I caught an Abra -- which I inexplicably named Lewis -- and an Aron, which I named Hold Aggron due to my love of MMORPGs and puns. None of these Pokemon would help me against the likes of water Pokemon, but I had resigned myself. Little Mac would boil them all alive and eat them for dinner!

Then, after all of my effort, it turns out that it was a fighting-type gym the whole time! Little Mac mercilessly pecked every Pokemon in the gym into oblivion and I was soon another badge richer. Now, armed with the ability to light darkness, I returned to the cave to deliver a letter to an old man. I then returned to the company which had so forcefully commissioned my work and received an actual reward! Filet-O-Fish now holds it, and as it absorbs the souls of my foes he gains power! Soon... Soon...

Joyfully Her Own,
Athena, Hoenn's Goddess of War

Caught
Torchic "Little Mac" - Level 25
Wingull "Rufflepant" - Level 14
Magikarp "FiletOFish" - Level 15
Abra "Lewis" - Level 9
Aron "HoldAggron" - Level 11

Dead
None

Badges
2

Time
7:01
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:34, Fri 28 Feb 2014.

I expect something  like this every few days till your done. Funniest thing I've read in a long time.

Andrew, a tilt of my head to you. You should blog that shit.

They're fighting the Elite Four.

Also Dragon's Hoard is a fun game when you play with real people.

Day 2

We were in Steelport now, and it was time to deliver the Devon Goods to some guy that lived here. I challenged everyone on the beach and crushed them thoroughly, being rewarded with some Soft Soil and Soda Pop. Paltry tokens to appease me, but they will do for now. We then headed into the town proper, wandering around for a time. I stumbled upon a path that was blocked off by Team Magma, but happened to spy an Electrike in the grass. I caught it and aptly named it "Stole My Trike" before heading back into town.

There, I found Team Magma lined up to go inside some museum or another. They were obviously planning something, but the Powers That Be were not willing to let me stop them. Arceus does love to make Humans suffer so. I happened to find a large warehouse at this point, which was apparently where I needed to deliver my package to, but the man who was supposed to receive it was not present. Rather than leave it there, I was told to wander aimlessly until I found the clod myself to give him the package personally!

By now, the line into the museum was gone, and so I ventured inside. There, I was forced to pay $50 to enter the museum. No sooner had I entered than I had stumbled upon Team Magma once again. A sniveling worm who claimed that I had beaten him previously gave me a TM and scurried away with his tail between his legs, knowing full well what was about to happen. I cannot claim that all of them are idiots now.

I found the recipient of the package upstairs and no sooner had the goods turned hands than Team Magma had come to interfere. Their lives were forfeit. Their Pokemon were pathetic, but before I could finish the job some person called Maxie arrived to inexplicably tell me that Team Magma's goal was to expand the planet's natural landmass. I didn't care either to listen to the plan or to explain how stupid it sounded. I was interested only in burning down the entire museum with the morons trapped inside. Alas, they ran away too quickly, and so I was left with nothing to do except leave the museum.

At this point, I realized that Team Magma had likely ceased their barricade and traveled back to the road to discover that I was right. I spent some time there destroying the competition and claiming the wilderness as my own. That's when I spotted Brendan again. Him again...

I decided right then and there that I was to destroy him again, and so I captured an Oddish with the explicit purpose of destroying his Mudkip. I named it "Crab Grass" and started training. Soon, it was a Gloom, and I now had a Kadabra and Gyarados as well. Truly my victory would be glorious. Unfortunately, Oddishes are worthless and only know Absorb, so I was forced to destroy Marshstomp with Little Mac. Little Mac nearly died in the process -- a slight that shall not be forgotten. We are now in the next town, and preparing to challenge the next gym.

Party
Combusken "Little Mac" - Level 27
Wingull "Rufflepant" - Level 15
Gyarados "FiletOFish" - Level 21
Kadabra "Lewis" - Level 14
Aron "HoldAggron" - Level 11
Gloom "Crab Grass" - Level 24

PC
Electrike "Sto'MyTryk" - Level 12

Dead
None

Badges
2

Time
11:47

Roselia is deceptively beastly...

EV training Roselia... Which means I will be ridiculously pissed if/when it dies.

Roselia is usually my main

Toxi
Growth
Gigadrain
Wrap

My set up.

What, no magic leaf?

Right now I have

Mega Drain
Leech Seed
Growth
Stun Spore

So mean.

I'm also thinking about including moveset and held items in my updates.

So, assuming it survives to the endgame, I'm trying to figure out my endgame moveset for Roselia.

Giga Drain
Leech Seed
Magical Leaf
Synthesis

Another possible set would be.

Giga Drain
Ingrain/Leech Seed
Solar Beam
Sythesis

The second set would be particularly good if I had a Sunny Day user in my party. This would make Blaziken even more beastly as well, while hindering water-type moves used against him. Right now the only drawback would be that my Wingull would do half water damage, and eventually my Gyarados's Hydro Pump would be weaker as well.

Of course, there's also the type coverage setup..

Giga Drain (Grass)
Sludge Bomb (Poison)
Shadow Ball (Ghost)
Synthesis/Magical Leaf
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:17, Mon 03 Mar 2014.

Might be interesting, but I can see us debating the skills and items....

You need toxic on that move list. In my experience using toxi on your first turn as rosella cuts battle time in half.

My personal thoughts would be.

Gigs drain
Ingrain
Toxic
Leech seed/magic leaf/ solar beam.

The idea is to dot damage to death.

Hmm... Then what about these setups.

Delay Game Roselia

Giga Drain
Leech Seed
Toxic
Stun Spore


Sunny Day Roselia

Giga Drain
Toxic
Solarbeam
Synthesis


Type Coverage Roselia

Giga Drain
Sludge Bomb
Shadow Ball
Synthesis/Magical Leaf/Toxic

They each have advantages. Delay Game uses paralysis to halve enemy speed and have 50% full paralysis chances. Leech seed does 1/16 HP every round, plus Toxic's cumulative. If you open with Toxic, then Stun Spore, then Leech Seed, they'll take 1/16, then 2/16 and Stun Spore, then 4/16, then 5/16, and finally 6/16 for a 5 turn wipe. If the opponent deals decent damage through paralysis, a Miracle Seeded Giga Drain will have a power of 66 and restore decent HP. Alternatively, Giga Drain could be swapped out for Sludge Bomb, for a 30% poison chance, causing three stacking DOTs. This works out great on Pokemon that aren't Grass type or Steel type, since Grass is immune to Leech Seed and Steel is immune to Toxic.

Sunny Day has 1-turn Solarbeam for a devastating move, and Synthesis for 2/3 heal in Sunny Weather. Giga Drain stays for support heals and damage, while Toxic is the DOT. Roselia's Grass/Poison setup and poisoning ability make it a good support for Blaziken's Fire/Fighting. They are also both optimized for Sunny Weather fighting this way.

Toxic isn't strictly necessary with the Type Coverage setup, since Sludge Bomb can cause normal poison and bust out Shadow Ball to lower SpD. This build relies on Roselia's pumped up SpA. This build can deal super effective damage to Grass, Psychic, Ghost, Ground, Rock and Water. Giga Drain provides some survivability. The fourth pick could be Magical Leaf for a reliable hitting Grass move, Toxic for the DOT effect, or Synthesis for more survivability.

Ingrain's a good move since it heals on time and has great synergy with leech seed (2/16 heal every round). But it makes it so Roselia can't be switched out or retreat, which might bite me in the ass in a permadeath run.

Also, I am currently stuck on the screen debating if I want Magical Leaf. I can't TM it later, so I really need to know if I should stick with it.

Actually... Ingrain, Leech Seed and Leftovers would make for a 1/4 heal every round... That's pretty crazy.

Oh, and if I really... really... really wanted to obsess over making an amazing Roselia, I could always breed with a Cacturne to get Spikes. A setup using Toxic, Leech Seed and triple Spikes would be devastating. 1/4 damage from triple spikes on a switch in, plus Toxic and Leech Seed would end up killing in 4 turns.

Status is a good way to go on Roselia, but if I was going to roll a status Roselia I'd have been better off EV training Defense or Speed...

Euphoria: a place to discuss Pokemon, not a place for a beta.

Also silver perma death run continues...... How did togatic become my main?

Day 3

I went to the next gym to challenge it, only to see Ralts kid arguing with his uncle about fighting the gym leader. He wasn't moving at all. He wanted to battle me to prove his strength, so I decided to placate him. His Ralts went down with a single blow from Filet-O-Fish. Pathetic. And it was his only Pokemon. Then he had the gall to say that being a good battler wasn't all it took to be a good trainer! What a loser. Doesn't he know that your worth as a trainer is directly measured by your prowess in battle?!

Anyway, I found out that the Gym Leader uses Electric-type Pokemon, and so I headed into the wild to find something with which I could brutally destroy him! In the process I found a Roselia and promptly caught it. His name is Kuja, and he shall replace that worthless Crab Grass. Grass types have a natural resistance to Electric moves, but it is not the ideal matchup that I was hoping for. At any rate, Kuja needs to grow stronger, and so I continue to ruthlessly slay wild and trained Pokemon alike in my search for power.

Ultimately, I failed to find any suitable Ground-type Pokemon, but Kuja had grown sufficiently powerful, so I took him to the gym. He crushed the competition, earning me my third badge. This journey is now nearly halfway over.

---

Party
Combusken "Little Mac" - Level 28
Held - Quick Claw
Peck
Double Kick
Bulk Up
Ember

Wingull "Rufflepant" - Level 15
Growl
Water Gun
Supersonic
Wing Attack

Gyarados "FiletOFish" - Level 22
Held - Black Glasses
Splash
Tackle
Bite
Rock Smash

Kadabra "Lewis" - Level 23
Teleport
Flash
Confusion
Psybeam

Aron "HoldAggron" - Level 23
Held - Experience Share
Cut
Metal Claw
Iron Defense
Headbutt

Roselia "Kuja" - Level 29
Held - Macho Brace
Mega Drain
Growth
Leech Seed
Stun Spore

PC

Electrike "Sto'MyTryk" - Level 12
Gloom "Crab Grass" - Level 24

Dead
None

Badges
3

Time
19:30

Also, I could have save about 7 hours of grinding and just swept that gym with Ember spam. The electric gym was a Magnemite, a Voltorb, and a Magneton... Damn blind runs.

I like some of your Roselia builds, but I have a major problem with your sunny day build. Mainly being, it doesn't know sunny day.

As for advice on magic leaf... I can't help you. It seems to be a move that lasts among even higher tier pokemon, but I've never been much of a grass trainer.

Also, when you get to the desert, get a trapinch. Groung type. Turns into a Ground/Dragon. Pretty awesome.

Sunny day can be learned by just about any other Pokemon though.

True, but is there really a point in teaching one pokemon a move that only lasts about 5 rounds for the good of two other pokemon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-SzxeXFqc

Next area is full of Fire and Fighting types... Ruffleplants! Your time has come!

Day 4

With my third gym badge in hand, and the ability to use Rock Smash, I moved up to the mountains to reach the next town. I tried to get into  the desert, but the sand was too strong, and so I was forced to go around. It seems this mountain was a volcano filled with fire-type Pokemon! This was a perfect opportunity to turn that useless Rufflepants into a killing machine! After about an hour or so he was more than ready to challenge the Fire-Type gym leader up ahead.

I continued through the ashy plains, slaughtering all in my path and crushing the trainers with my empowered Rufflepants. It was then that I heard that some professor was taken to some Meteor Falls by none other than Team Magma. I resigned myself to my fate and made my way there. The trainers and wild Pokemon were small fry, barely even worth a warm-up. When I arrived at the falls, Team Magma ended up being chased off by an equally goofy-looking Team Aqua. The Professor seemed surprised that Team Magma had tricked him into getting them a meteorite. He clearly can't be that smart.

Anyway, I then had to walk all the way back to town and to the mountain. I was able to take a lift car up to the summit, where I battled that Maxie guy from before. He was mostly a pushover, but one cheap attack nearly killed Lewis! I crushed his Golbat and quickly revived the Kadabra. If I ever see the son of a bitch again, I'll see that he pays!

With peace restored, I was finally able to get into the volcanic town, where I was given an egg for no good reason. I also battled with the gym leader there. It seems these leaders are getting easier as I go on rather than harder! As I walked out of the gym, who else but Brendan emerged a building. I thought it was an ambush, but he ended up giving me some macguffin for no reason before getting on his bike and leaving. Whatever.

With the goggles I was given, I am now able to walk through the desert sandstorms. I have since captures a Trapinch, which I have named Drag Queen. I remain in the Desert for now, to hone the skills of my Pokemon through ruthless slaughter.

---

Party
Combusken "Little Mac" - Level 33
Held - Quick Claw
Peck
Double Kick
Bulk Up
Ember

Pelipper "Rufflepant" - Level 31
Mist
Water Gun
Supersonic
Wing Attack

Gyarados "FiletOFish" - Level 24
Held - Black Glasses
Strength
Tackle
Bite
Rock Smash

Kadabra "Lewis" - Level 28
Held - Experience Share
Teleport
Flash
Recover
Psybeam

Trapinch "Drag Queen" - Level 20
Bite
Sand Attack
Faint Attack

Roselia "Kuja" - Level 29
Held - Macho Brace
Mega Drain
Growth
Leech Seed
Stun Spore

PC

Electrike "Sto'MyTryk" - Level 12
Gloom "Crab Grass" - Level 24
Aron "HoldAggron" - Level 31

Dead
None

Revives
Kadabra x1

Badges
4

Time
25:09

6th year anniversary of Gary gyax's death. The king is dead. Long live the king.

I roll a d20 to mourn...
5.
I'm sad, but not very sad.

I got a 15....

He's running hitler through the tomb of horrors as we speak.

On Nick's behalf...

Rolled an 18.

Nick is devastated.

Gygax, the first and truest king of the nerds. Legend says that one day he will rise again in humanities moment of need with his +5 vorpal holy avenger, don his heavey fortified adamantiam plate mail, and strike down all evil.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q...lXXIkbUlDJFpMbAiZLVw

I had a very strange dream last night. I can't remember much of it, all I know is it ended with the line, "You're only using me for my tiny time machine"....

I... can't believe the first shiny I EVER find in a Pokemon game is shiny Sandshrew in a permadeath run on an emulator...

Didja get it?

Yeah, I got it. I'd be pretty upset if I hadn't.

Today's playthrough has gotten me a few decent Pokemon, a lot of levels, and quite a bit of game progress. I'm also thinking of doing a no-grinding run of Emerald after this maybe. Not permadeath, just a run where I avoid purposely grinding and fight through the game underleveled...

It looks like my emulator might be able to record gameplay too.

Day 5

I wandered the desert for some time, my Pokemon growing stronger by drinking the blood of their foes. By chance, I happen to spy two fossils atop a pile of sand. I grab the one which resembled a claw, for surely it was once a ferocious creature. I returned to the obsessed Fossil man nearby and he informed me that Devon had a way to revive fossils. With this in mind, I traveled back to their headquarters. I located a scientist there who had a device that could indeed bring back Pokemon with their fossilized remains. I gave him my fossil and he returned to me a Anolith, which I named "Armorant."

I then promptly returned to my training in the desert sands, but I grew ever so bored with it. It was then that I remembered that my Father had said something about fighting after obtaining a few badges. I headed back to Petalburg City to fight him. He was a pushover. He then told me that Wally's family had a gift for me, likely to earn my mercy. I went next door and was rewarded with the Hidden Machine which teaches Pokemon Surf. I immediately taught it to Filet-O-Fish and began exploring all of the waterways I had passed before and been unable to explore.

I crushed the swimmers, tubers, and assorted trainers who frivolously frolicked in the ocean. While making my rounds I discovered an abandoned ship and I explored it. It was filled with people, crawling about like rats. I challenged every one of them who had Pokemon and stranded them there with no way out. Contented with this and a few treasures I had procured for myself, I completed my trip from Petalburg to Steelport and then made my way to the road that would lead me to the other half of Hoenn.

On the way I encountered Team Magma again. It seemed they were tampering with the Weather Institute. It was no matter. Their woman leader fell with little effort on my part and I was rewarded with a Castform, which I promptly deposited in the PC before continuing on my way. I had scarcely left the weather institute when Brendan rode up to me on his bike and challenged me to a battle. He was easier than ever before -- all of his Pokemon fell in a single blow.

After he retreated, I pressed onward until I eventually found myself in to town built predominantly in the trees. Suppressing my urge to have Little Mac set the town ablaze in one blaze kick, I gathered some information from the townsfolk and made my way to the gym. There was some invisible force blocking the path, however, and so I resolved to move onto the next town for now.

On my way I encountered Stephen, who revealed to me that the invisible barriers near the town were Kecleon. I captured one and called it "Geico." Stephen then gave me the Devon Scope, which could reveal the hidden bastards rather nicely. I returned to town at once and revealed the pesky Pokemon, which immediately fled. No matter. I read the gym sign at this point and realized that the leader here used Flying-type Pokemon -- a type of Pokemon I distinctly have a lack of counters for. Thus, I continued on my way toward Lilycove City. As per usual, the peasants on the way fell under the glorious might of Lewis and Little Mac.

When I reached the town, the first thing that I noticed -- aside from Team Magma grunt openly discussing their plot to go to Mount Pyre -- was a house with a sign next to it. The Move Deleter. I took Filet-O-Fish in immediately to... free up some space. I then taught him Thunderbolt. My victory shall be swift and victorious! ... After a bit of training, of course!

---

Party
Blaziken "Little Mac" - Level 44
Held - Quick Claw
Peck
Double Kick
Bulk Up
Blaze Kick

Gyarados "FiletOFish" - Level 27
Held - Experience Share
Surf
Bite
Thunderbolt

Kadabra "Lewis" - Level 43
Held - Amulet Coin
Teleport
Flash
Recover
Psybeam

Flygon "Drag Queen" - Level 45
Held - Black Glasses
Crunch
Sand Attack
Faint Attack
Sand Tomb

Roselia "Kuja" - Level 31
Held - Miracle Seed
Mega Drain
Growth
Leech Seed
Stun Spore

Anolith "Armorant" - Level 20
Scratch
Harden
Mud Sport
Water Gun

PC

Electrike "Sto'MyTryk" - Level 12
Gloom "Crab Grass" - Level 24
Aron "HoldAggron" - Level 31
Pelipper "Rufflepant" - Level 31
Sandshrew "Shiny" - Level 20
Kecleon "Geico" - Level 30
Castform "CASTFORM" - Level 25

Dead
None

Revives
Kadabra x1

Badges
5

Time
35:58
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:39, Fri 07 Mar 2014.

Harding high school: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-sDExe3GcBg

Still bassicly the same.

That wasn't actually Harding, was it?

Day 6

Continued training proves to have made Filet-O-Fish a formidable tool of war. I stepped into the sixth gym and prepared for battle. Filet-O-Fish made short work of the smallfry, and with a little help from Lewis, the gym leader there was a pushover as well. With gym badge in hand, this town was now worthless to me, so I moved onto Lilycove. I found Brendan in front of the Department Store and he challenged me to a duel. It doesn't seem like he has gotten much stronger at all. He left saying something about helping Professor Birch with the Pokedex. He should probably consider a career change.

After perusing the Department Store, I decided I would investigate Mount Pyre, where Team Magma was supposedly going. It wasn't hard to find, and was only slightly more trying to climb. Maxie was there, having apparently stolen some important item. A blue orb. I was given a red one and told to stop him. I flew to Slateport City once again, arriving just in time to watch Team Magma steal a submarine and head back to Lilycove. I was a little irked by this, but I made an immediate trip back to Lilycove to find Team Magma's ill-hidden base.

I fought my way through Team Magma's goons once again, finding several useful items in the process. I ultimately arrived too late -- just in time to watch the submarine leave, in fact. But the Team Magma goon was nice enough to tell me where it was going. Unfortunately, I had no way to go underwater, so I was instead forced to continue my journey out into the ocean.

I eventually found myself on an island with a remote town on it. The first house I entered happened to belong to Stephen, who was quick to give me the HM for Dive. I wouldn't be able to use it until I defeated the gym leader in this town though, so I made my way there. The psychic-type Pokemon were cannon fodder to Drag Queen. A tag team of Drag Queen and Filet-O-Fish were able to defeat the twin gym leaders without a single scratch. I took my rewards and left into the open waters again.

I traveled the ocean, thoroughly diving and surfacing and retrieving numerous treasures. I even found a town hidden through an underwater passageway with an eighth gym. The doors were locked, and so I am forced to continue wandering until I find Team Magma. In my searches, I found a small floating town, and strong ocean currents beyond it. I traveled the strong currents multiple times, each time encountering different trainers and items. Eventually, I discovered a strange ruin with a cryptic language. I left it for now and returned to the town of Mossdeep.

I eventually discovered the place where Team Magma had gone and the abandoned submarine. I traveled through the cave and found a large fossilized Pokemon. Maxie appeared again and challenged me. I defeated him, but he awakened the Pokemon he called Groudon. Team Aqua charged in afterwards and we all left the cave together to discover that the sun was shining radiantly -- scorchingly. Stephen came to me just as Maxie and Team Aqua left. He told me to go to the town hidden in the ocean mountains. I flew there at once. I am now steeling myself against an inevitable fight.

---

Party
Blaziken "Little Mac" - Level 51
Held - Quick Claw
Peck
Double Kick
Bulk Up
Blaze Kick

Gyarados "FiletOFish" - Level 39
Held - Burn Heal
Surf
Bite
Thunderbolt
Dive

Kadabra "Lewis" - Level 44
Held - Amulet Coin
Teleport
Flash
Recover
Psybeam

Flygon "Drag Queen" - Level 45
Held - Black Glasses
Crunch
Dragonbreath
Fly
Dig

Roselia "Kuja" - Level 41
Held - Experience Share
Giga Drain
Ingrain
Leech Seed
Stun Spore

Armaldo "Armorant" - Level 43
Metal Claw
Strength
Anceintpower
Rock Smash

PC

Electrike "Sto'MyTryk" - Level 12
Gloom "Crab Grass" - Level 24
Aron "HoldAggron" - Level 31
Pelipper "Rufflepant" - Level 31
Sandshrew "Shiny" - Level 20
Kecleon "Geico" - Level 30
Castform "CASTFORM" - Level 25

Dead
None

Revives
Kadabra x1

Badges
7

Time
47:37

Possible pokemon for an Emerald solo run

Blaziken
Held Item: King's Rock?
Aerial Ace - Bug, Fighting, Grass
Thunderpunch - Flying, Water
Sky Uppercut/Brick Break - Normal, Rock, Steel, Dark, Ice
Earthquake - Electric, Fire, Poison, Rock, Steel

Types which cannot be hit for super effective damage: Ghost, Psychic, Ground, Dragon

Judging by the gym leaders in Ruby, this Blaziken is capable of countering every type necessary until the Elite Four.

Why the King's Rock?

King's Rock adds a flinch chance to every move.

Would be more useful if you had a move that could cause flinch. Double chance.

Not sure how I feel about a Blaziken that doesn't know a fire move...

Groudon reached level 46!

+3 HP - 155
+24 ATK - 176
+3 DEF - 141
+2 Sp.Atk - 101
+2 Sp.Def - 101
+2 Spd - 100

Groudon reached level 47!

+26 HP - 181
+12 ATK - 188
+3 DEF - 144
+2 Sp.Atk - 103
+2 Sp.Def - 103
+2 Spd - 102
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:22, Sun 09 Mar 2014.

Now with maxed HP and ATK EVs and level 50, Groudon has

199 HP
200 ATK
153 DEF
109 Sp.Atk
110 Sp.Def
109 Spd

Training in victory road. Little Mac just survived an attack with 1 HP...

Proceeding to flip my shit.

Also caught a shiny Hariyama. I hate my life.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:43, Sun 09 Mar 2014.

Once my lowest level main Pokemon hits level 55 I'm going to try the Elite Four for the first time. Prepared to take my first mulligan.

I'd train a little bit more than that... Especially since when you win, if I remember right, the champion will give you the original form of Metagross in the town with the psychic gym.

Day 7

Ready as I would ever be, I headed into the Cave of Origin. I found that there was little resistance from the native Pokemon, and quickly found myself in the molten core. There, the Red Orb seemed to react to Groundon, causing the massive Pokemon to attack me. Before it could do anything, however, I lobbed my Master Ball at it. I named the beast Scrambles the Death Dealer and left the cave at once.

I quickly flew to the fields in order to teach Scrambles how to optimize its attacks and survive harsh blows. As soon as it was adequately trained, I returned to town and gave it all of the candy I had amassed. I then headed into the final gym. I was faced with incredibly simplistic puzzles, equally pathetic trainers, and a gym leader who could not so much as scratch Scrambles. I was given the ability to climb waterfalls, an ability I gave Filet-O-Fish. It was now time to head to Ever Grande City, the final frontier.

After scaling the waterfall, I braved Victory Road, the greatest challenge I have faced to date. It took no less than three attempts to beat down all resistance and get me and my Pokemon through. Even then, once I approached the exit I was ambushed by that miserable Wally. It seems that after utterly crushing him he had went on to train his Pokemon to a level comparable to my own. With Scrambles completely incapable of putting up an offense, I was left to my other Pokemon. Ultimately, however, Drag Queen proved more than a match to his entire lineup. I left him defeated in the cave to head to the summit.

I regrouped with my Pokemon and restored their wounds, but I knew that if Wally had posed even a remote chance of threatening that I was not prepared for the Elite Four. Thus, I rigorously trained my Pokemon on the wildlife within Victory Road. Soon, the tough Pokemon that proved resilient on my way to the summit were no more than minor inconveniences. I was ready. At least, I certainly hoped that I was.

The first trainer, Sidney, posed little challenge. Between Scrambles, Filet-O-Fish and Little Mac I was able to take them all out in one or two strikes. The next trainer was Phoebe, a Ghost trainer. She required some more creative tactics to defeat, but ultimately Little Mac was able to do most of the work on his own. The third trainer was Glacia, and Ice trainer. Sky Uppercut was the only tool I needed to destroy her entire lineup. Finally there was Drake, the "Dragon Master". Scrambles merely needed earthquakes to take out most of his team. A well-placed Ice Beam from Filet-O-Fish felled his Salamence.

Finally, the champion turned out to be none other than Stephen! His team was pretty pathetic though. Earthquake took out most of his Pokemon in a single blow. When Metagross came out, Blaziken only needed to make a single Blake Kick to KO the Pokemon. Brendan showed up just after I defeated Stephen to try and give me pointers. What an condescending asshole. At any rate, Professor Birch followed afterward and they both congratulated me on my victory. Stephen then took me into the Hall of Fame to register my team.

---

Hall of Fame Team
Blaziken "Little Mac" - Level 62
Held - Quick Claw
Aerial Ace
Sky Uppercut
Bulk Up
Blaze Kick

Gyarados "FiletOFish" - Level 57
Held - King's Rock
Hyper Beam
Thunderbolt
Surf
Ice Beam

Kadabra "Lewis" - Level 59
Teleport
Flash
Psychic
Psybeam

Flygon "Drag Queen" - Level 55
Held - Black Glasses
Crunch
Dragonbreath
Fly
Earthquake

Roselia "Kuja" - Level 55
Held - Miracle Seed
Giga Drain
Ingrain
Leech Seed
Stun Spore

Groudon "Scrambles" - Level 62
Held: Lax Incense
Slash
Bulk Up
Earthquake
Fire Blast


PC

Electrike "Sto'MyTryk" - Level 12
Gloom "Crab Grass" - Level 24
Aron "HoldAggron" - Level 31
Pelipper "Rufflepant" - Level 31
Sandshrew "Shiny" - Level 20
Kecleon "Geico" - Level 30
Castform "CASTFORM" - Level 25
Armaldo "Armorant" - Level 43
Hariyama "Shiny Sumo" - Level 38

Dead
None

Revives
Kadabra x1

Elite Four Items
Hyper Potion (103 Prepared, 7 used)
Full Restore (1 Prepared, 1 Used)
Full Heal (24 Prepared, 0 Used)
Revive (2 Prepared, 0 Used)

Badges
8

Time
63:00

Boom! First try, blind. Average level 58. Flawless victory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...amp;feature=youtu.be

Is that the moemon version? Also I demand commentary :p

It is indeed the moemon version of Emerald. As for commentary, I don't really have the technology.

Nonsense. I dot ask for quality....... Don should have spares of everything you need! I demand a lets plays


But if you don't I'll still watch all the posted vids....

Also I hate you for naming it foie

And now David talked to me about it and I think I may have to do another single run with a Mudkip that never evolves.

Maybe, but you still haven't finished the post elite four stuff, or gotten Rayquaza, or Metagross...

The point of the permadeath run was to beat the main game, not to complete things like the battle frontier or the battle tower. I never really intended to do post-game.

But that's half the fun!

Also, What the hell is 'Moemon'?

Instead of Pokemon you fight with little girls dressed as Pokemon.

And there goes a small part of my soul.

Still better than pokegirls.

If pokegirls upset you then I got some things that will make you wish for death.

I know.

I actually stumbled apon a fetish that is too wierd for me to even pretend to understand. I spent about an hour reading a porn book about it......I have never been less turned on by hardcore kinky sex. Afterwards I decided it was time to kill myself, cause there was no place for me in a world where this exsisted.


Then I thought about how much fun it would be to hurt nick with and I felt better. So, uhhh, thanks for saving my life nick. Prepare for your doom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...amp;feature=youtu.be

http://thatguywiththeglasses.c...45-south-park-review

Should I?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aQajty6Kdg

I've got about an hour's worth of content in the playthrough complete now that I have yet to upload. I'm staggering it a little. I also increased my video length limit beyond 15 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQOkgL9NdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yy0Bvu7vy9I

The above song is to be played while cleaning liquid shit off of every surface of a bathroom. The world is a troll.

Did you change my portrait Andrew?

I didn't.

And I'm still a panda.

Well other than panda boy everyone's portraits been changed. Wtf

That ultimate Spider-Man cartoon is actually pretty good.

From what I have seen and heard, that is a true statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwSP8ZcVuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFzWN9GWYAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEAkR4PAG50

http://mlprim.com/s3e/

Just going to leave that there.

Very well.....


Now learn the meaning of fear.

http://generalzoi.deviantart.c...ll-Version-254295904
http://nimbostratus.deviantart...-Generator-352292341
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:05, Thu 03 Apr 2014.

Flutter Doom
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Mint Aurora
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This message was last edited by the GM at 15:37, Thu 03 Apr 2014.

Astral Star is my pony's working name.

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This message was last edited by the player at 01:30, Thu 03 Apr 2014.

Welcome boys and queers to another menu based post.

For dinner our first night we will have a cinnimon apple porkchops with corn on the cob and baked potatoes.

On day two we will have a  nice vegatable stew served with French bagot, and for dinner  we will have chicken roasted with bacon and paprika severed over roasted root veggies.

Lunch before you leave on the last day will be leeks au gratin.


As always cheese bread and dried meats will be available throughout

Let it be known that on this Easter Sunday, a Marill that is the embodiment of perfection has been born. Thank you Jesus, and thank you Jack Black. Easter and Tenacious D brought about this miracle.

So far, in my new search for a perfect Male Marill I have received 1 additional unnecessary perfect Female Marill.

Dibs

Also did you name him Jesus. Cause if you didn't you do it wrong.

Alright. 3rd perfect Marill is finally my Male.

He has Huge Power as an ability and Brave as his nature. His name shall be Jesus.

You two are... peculiar.

And I vote to change the veggie stew to either potato soup, or meat based stew, and what exactly is leeks au gratin?

Nope. You'll like the stew nick...with bread and beer it will taste amazing.

The leeks will be an experement:  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UyNmmWy9OL0

Those leeks look like they could be good. Although I hope you go heavy on the panchetta and cheese.

But I'm still not sure about the stew. There are very few I actually enjoy, and I have yet to enjoy beer at all, unless you're cooking something in it.

That said, if you're making like a potato chowder with beer in it, then that would be amazing...

Cheesey fucking thing crawling on the ceiling at work. YOUR A CLICHE!!

There is no cliche, only ZOOL!

You know its been a while since I've felt like I've had a full time job...

Well! Back to those Orcs.

Sheets made in approximately the first 4-5 hours of the day: ~12

Sheets made in the last two hours: 2

Sorcerer's are a pain in the ass to make.

Now it's time to do the minions... Roughly 3 or 4 per sorcerer. AT LEAST. Each of them has six summons and clay golems! That's not counting guards or allies.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:11, Thu 24 Apr 2014.

There are really only 5 days left in April...... Come on megas,..... Make this the first non-shitty April for me in years!

I read on their facebook page that this week's pre-order bonus may be the last. Sounds like they're planning on releasing this weekend or just before the end of the month.

Just realized that by the rules of summoning, Sorcerer's get familiars on top of their binds...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VTYgjpipcOQ

Going to be making character sheets(both hard copy and didgital) updates soon. What you guys wanna see in the new edition?

Line of sight spells would be nice. So would lowering the level for certain class features, especially if you keep the xp reduced. Lower skill points for standard monsters/enemies. Maybe another spellcasting and/or totem based class. A slot on the character sheet for equipped armor and accessories... Maybe set up a full shaman system like the priest one.... I'm running out of ideas with that.

:p well I did only ask for character sheet ideas, but thanks.

So only one or two of those are valid. I was kinda thinking that was the case, but for some reason my brain disengaged and decided that as the post was two separate sentence's, it was two separate subjects...

Got my History Repeating: Red preorder bonuses just now. Pretty awesome stuff.

How much profanity am I allowed to spew to show my views on my familiar roll?

http://www.themegas.com/wp-con...shman-A-Team-Mix.mp3
http://www.themegas.com/wp-con...ng-original-demo.mp3
http://www.themegas.com/wp-con...-Original-Sketch.mp3
http://www.themegas.com/wp-con...-Than-Steel-Demo.mp3

What's amazing is that the crashman song is basicly mega cannon even with the parody.

Come on megas, no whammies no whammies no whammies

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pELWd_C5-kQ

It's on iTunes.

Hag+sorcerer=best thing ever.


Really

Is Hag a monster race in your game or something?

.....gonna learn today!

.... I have the urge to throw you in the oven...

Watching a shoe called beer geeks on public television. I see us in 20 years drew.....

Horse Qiawk

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Was going to be Tiny Mouth but ended up just being Mr. Miyagi.

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This message was last edited by the GM at 01:12, Fri 23 May 2014.

Sooo... What the fuck are those long strings of characters?

Also, love you guys. Even if I can't see straight.

I mean, I kinda wanna stop correcting myself and just see if you can understand what I'm trying to say...

http://generalzoi.deviantart.c...ll-Version-254295904

Horse Qiawk (Iron Anvil)
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Tiny Mouth (Iron Hammer)
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Iron Chisel
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Accessories: 2A04441066CC66066CC667A04441066CC660008FBAFFFF8C8A04441066CC667A04441066CC66
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:53, Wed 28 May 2014.

Andrew! How do you tame a horse in minecraft?

What's minecraft and how do tame a horse in it?!?

Midnight Noir
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Accessories:
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That akward moment where you notice that spear has NO TRAITS.


I'm fixing it.


And that second akward moment where you notice that no one had ever bothered thinking about spear since the alpha test :(. Why you guys no like?

I'm sure I noticed it had no trait before but probably either figured you were on it or forgot to bring it up.

And I do like spear. It's just easier to find an excuse to use Axe, Sword or Bow.

So. Basicly found a video representation of Eafeortha and Slade during the while valdis thing.... Kinda exactly what happened nick

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J_xZuIkj-NM

...Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah u just spent 60 dollars on kromaster arena figures...... Don't judge me

Which ones did you get?

They sell figures in a 4 pack for between 15 and 25 dollars. I got 12 fiurgens and all the accessories that come with them.

Are the figures random? I went to look it up and I really couldn't find a way to purchase them...

And with 12 more figurines, I think you might just have all the ones available...

Nope sold in specific sets, which are listed on te package. And there are about 4 more packs out, with the second season coming out soon.


I don't know where you looked.....I typed Kromaster into amazon. Kinda foolproof.

I've got the fire and ice pack and the earth and wind set. I forget the name of the third pack.

I looked... At the official Kromasters website...

I hope it was either the Goultard set or the Bad Boys set. Bad boys has the Darkness Knight, and if you have him you have the whole knight collection, and that can get a little bit bullshit.

So how many bits is a cherry? Is it 20?

......have fun in the games I gm nick......

Also with all the crowns u saved in te new setup I had enough to buy a loyal steed. A camel.


Imma naming him ralph

Did you get the joke?

I uploaded the first third of the new item list. Format is about as good as its gonna be from an I phone......but it's readable. I'm uploading the fun stuff tomarrow.

Feedback would be nice

I'd say so far so good. Most prices have remained the same, but for the most part the changes make sense.

Dagger/Arrows: Lowering the price is good because Arrows are always ammunition and daggers become more viable and disposable throwing weapons with the lower price.

Lights: 5 Torches to a penny works for me. A lantern and three oil flasks for a crown works too. Reduced magic torch prices are nice too. It means we won't be breaking the bank for torches or lanterns anymore. I'm a bit concerned that with lower magic torch prices people may just stock up on those instead of the even cheaper torches though.

Staff Prices: Significantly lower at the low end, slightly in the middle, and slightly higher at the end. It works. I think it keeps the staff prices more proportional to their power levels.

Another Potion Price Drop: Probably for the best. Potions are still grievously underused.

Three currency system as a whole: A good idea all around, I would say. It will make creating more mundane items a bit easier on the economic side. It also gives us a little bit of wiggle room with haggling low-end items and helps put the value of crowns a bit more into perspective.



Only things I noticed that I'm not 100% on...

Two handed weapons got more expensive: Not a huge issue. It's one extra crown, and two-handers are still damn powerful.

Light Armor Cheaper, Heavy Armor more expensive: Realistically, this makes sense. However I'm not sure how this price change will affect the metagame.

No Shield Price: Likely an oversight.

20 bits is a crown.

But I get the joke.

I've uploaded the rest of the items.

Alright. Working on my backstory now.

...It somehow ended up being in the first person.

<looks at the  kolbold entry>

Guess its time to work on that....

Finally finished the dreamer priesthood

(Sigh) the games up to two pages again....

So, sneak has a landspeed listed...

Are we to assume all modes of movement are the same while sneaking, or did I somehow miss that landspeed is the only mode of transportation restricted by sneaking?

The mode if transportation which  can be use while stealthed are as follows:
Climb
Swim
Land

So no fly, teleport, or burrow stealth?

Also, I need the clarification again since it isn't listed in game... Bow does not gain multipliers through skill up? Or it does it just doesn't get Two-handed's +10 first multiplier and instead gets a +5?

Hmm...

Would it be possible to make a swarm monster type? Not entirely necessary, but I was thinking about giving a certain Orc tribe a Murder of Crows unit.

Everyone should start updating thier didgital character sheets, so we can transcribe them fast when your up here.

Or print off them down there and write up the hard copy....

Also, the wording of a few traits and flaws have changed. The most notible is the priest trait, which is somewhat more useable.

Remember to call me when you guys hit Gilbert tomarrow. Or else I'm going to be asleep while you guys are knocking

So I'll need 50 from both of you to cover the cover the food

Just a heads up, I borrowed money, and 50 all I got.

Oh, Nick. I forgot to mention it when we talked yesterday. I haven't finished all of the monsters for the Stormhelm War phase yet, so if you're looking for something to do after Patrick leaves we could always go to McDonald's and use their wifi to try and knock some out. It's open until midnight. Otherwise Patrick has board games, and there's always sleeping.

Don't forget to print off sheets for you and nick.

There will be a literal bucket of tacos here for you guys tomarrow night, so don't get supper.

This fascinates me...

And I'll bring my laptop...

The dwarf just blew all his mummy money on crafting godly potions. Succeeded more than failed too...

Arianna the Librarian has been stated and lored. Enjoy. As always, you have free license to add or subtract from the lore.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:58, Tue 29 July 2014.

Adrew is sad that Devils don't get Alter Form...

Roxanne, She Who Lies, has been statted and lored.

Morgan the Shadow Weaver has been lored.

I don't suppose I could get some feedback?

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) ist eine Sammlung von statistischen Modellen zur Analyse der Unterschiede der Gruppe bedeutet und die damit verbundenen Verfahren (wie z. b. "Variation" in und zwischen Gruppen), entwickelt von R.A. Fisher. In der ANOVA, der beobachteten Varianz nieder in eine bestimmte Variable ist partitioniert in Komponenten, die verschiedenen Quellen der Variation.

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is a collection of statistical models to analyze the differences between group means and associated procedures (like "variation" within and between groups), developed by RA Fisher. In the ANOVA, the observed variance reflected in a particular variable is partitioned into components, the various sources of variation.

So, I'm doing Pyrrha tomorrow. I was wondering if it would be okay if, instead of my usual lore thing, I pitched her lore as a legend?

Yeah. That'll work.

Okay folks, time for a menus review.

One Friday we will have a roasted chicken with root vegetables. Nothing too fancy this time. Simple marinade or something, haven't decided yet.

Saturday will bring us a cookout, burgers and brats on the grill(or stove if the grill won't work again.) either way, expect all the fixings for both provided.

And Sunday lunch will be a big old pot of chilie seved with a loaf of sourdough bread.

Sounds good to me, but please remember, I have no money.

Then you no eat. It shouldn't be too much this time around though

Also, giant pile of  deadfall that needs burning at my aunts house, fire on saturday

That sounds fun. And I have maybe $5. Maybe. I might be able to wrangle more, but not by much...