To torture our Characters I tossed them into the kind of the plot that means a lot of running back and forth to get the job done. Most places they had to visit made them come back... one place was full of screaming fan boys and girls that swarmed the Githzerai and Dragonborn in our party. There was an entire Drow Village under the city that was their goal... you know little things. (I loved seeing the look on Will and Jex's face when they saw the picture I drew of the drow village. The look of 'OH NOES!' after the 'oh yeahs'*koolaide man style of course* that the secret tunnel had brought on was definitely giggleworthy)
I tried to incorporate a lot of elements that we haven't had a lot of in role playing thus far. Notes and letters could be found if the bodies of the baddies got searched. One of them had to be decoded. There were little keys that interactions with the NPC's would give away for special items like shiny magic armor.
I even set up some stuff so that the characters didn't have to fight some of the bad guys and could actually win them to their side. (they kinda won over the giant lighting snake, Naga for the veteran players, to their side and got some information that they otherwise wouldn't have)
I feel good about the traps they had to disarm; who doesn't love flying pendulums of death? About the river they had to cross and the cliff they had to climb.
The NPC's created themselves nicely. Ebon the half drow informant of the iron unicorns and her whimsical attitude and love of drama. Lyria the all business, sweet, librarian with a backbone. Irkim my drow paladin (yeah you heard right). The emo Wizard prodigy that never got a name but has enough personality to feel 'real'.
Yup I feel really good about how it all turned out. Will and Jex said it felt like they were really adventuring, not just running around smashing faces and finding random loot.
I gotta love Verdant and his Thievery check mojo. "I see the pattern!" "This picture looks like Arathorn's face!" "I like blue... it has to be the blue button." And did I mention that Verdant's lilt of tone turns into a big black lady at a pentecostal type service? Oh yes. Oh lordy. Oh dear someone is going to kill me for this comment, but it's true! XD! And funny.
So yeah, my chapter turned out pretty well. Some time soon I'll be posting a new comic and a filler pic I finished coloring today. (Microsoft Paint is the devil!)
Till the next time.
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Nerdkingdom Ho! Not Hoe... ho.... er... I mean...
So another jewel in the crown of the Nerdkingdom is that of sexist comments. It could be anything from Synova calling the fire breathing Bueno Dragon his Bizach, or one of the girl characters asking what size skirt to by the paladin as he worries about his fantasmical hair.
The jewel shone brightly at our last get together this passed Sunday evening.
I can't even remember how it started; but I can assume it was innocent enough with a few jabs here and there at femininity (<-- who invented that word?! It's stupid hard to spell!). Ha! I got it! The girls (3 out of 13 of the characters) ended up getting teamed up in the labyrinth. We killed the bad guys faster; My Ranger slicing, Celestia the Warlock blasting, and Arael doing some buffs and blasts with her divine powers. Well we got cocky and started a verbal spar against the guys who weren't hitting their bad guys very hard or very well. When we got to the end and this HUGE ASS fat red dragon roars at us after a bolder sealed us into the underground aztec looking temple it got out of hand.
Arael: We have to team up against this guy!
Jex: Yeah, why don't you girls team up and make me a Sandwich.
DadaM: *fist bump Jex*
Matt: *Nodding and laughing* Awe yeah.
Will and Brandon: *Laughing discretely*
Sara (arael's player), Carrie (celestia's player), and Me: *mouths agape gasping in horror and a hint of indignation*
Sara: Rem you need to get him under control. *pokes Matt in the face* He's a bad example.
Me: *thinks: Ha! like I have any control over my husband*
And the men chuckled while the women sputtered for longer than was really necessary.
Yay D&D, yay.
The jewel shone brightly at our last get together this passed Sunday evening.
I can't even remember how it started; but I can assume it was innocent enough with a few jabs here and there at femininity (<-- who invented that word?! It's stupid hard to spell!). Ha! I got it! The girls (3 out of 13 of the characters) ended up getting teamed up in the labyrinth. We killed the bad guys faster; My Ranger slicing, Celestia the Warlock blasting, and Arael doing some buffs and blasts with her divine powers. Well we got cocky and started a verbal spar against the guys who weren't hitting their bad guys very hard or very well. When we got to the end and this HUGE ASS fat red dragon roars at us after a bolder sealed us into the underground aztec looking temple it got out of hand.
Arael: We have to team up against this guy!
Jex: Yeah, why don't you girls team up and make me a Sandwich.
DadaM: *fist bump Jex*
Matt: *Nodding and laughing* Awe yeah.
Will and Brandon: *Laughing discretely*
Sara (arael's player), Carrie (celestia's player), and Me: *mouths agape gasping in horror and a hint of indignation*
Sara: Rem you need to get him under control. *pokes Matt in the face* He's a bad example.
Me: *thinks: Ha! like I have any control over my husband*
And the men chuckled while the women sputtered for longer than was really necessary.
Yay D&D, yay.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
The battle for the most epicosity
For those of you who've played a Dark Sun dungeon you'll know how rough it is. Both of my characters will now forever HATE the desert.
So, my husband, Sir Jex of the Shifting Hand, found a level 1-3 Dark Sun campaign in one of the Dungeon Magazines online. We've never done a preconstruct so in the spirit of trying new things we started what will be known as the Desert Crawl. It was tough but fun, especially once we leveled up to 2 and a second defender rolled into the group, courtesy of my brother in law Sir Will the Blockade.
The Final Battle rolls around and we know, almost for a fact, that we are going to die. Jex gave our group a 5% chance of living through it; not winning, just surviving. It went something like this:
We're only a few hours out from the trade city of Tir. All the skiffs are intact, no crew has been lost yet. Even with getting by some of the battles by the skin of our teeth, we've done well. Only one last crest to climb over and we're home free.
Over that hill comes three bad ass looking assassins riding beaked and clawed 10 foot tall dinosaurs that Jex nicknamed 'riding crocks'.
There's a big speech about how he's going to take all our hard earned treasure for himself and crush us into the sand. You know the kind of monologue Dr. Doom would be proud of. Then they charge.
Verdant, Will's big bad scottsman brawler, runs in like Leroy Jenkins and takes on the assassin who seems to be the leader. The riding crock claws the crap out of him. The lead assassin leaps from his dino to a nearby 10foot tall rock and shoots the crap out of Verdant with his crossbow.
Gino, Jex's character that Will plays during battle, runs in behind him to try and keep him from getting owned. All the assassins start leaping from their dinos and letting them run around to eat us!
It's at this point I think that we're going to die.
Tacit, my little teeny bopper chaos sorceress, gets cornered by a dino. We've encountered these things before. Tacit is scared of them. So I play true to the role and have her screaming and flailing like the little 16 year old she is. Jex is really great about roleplay mid-battle. "Tacit's screaming scares the riding crock so it attacks her instead of Zii. It's also screaming in terror back at Tacit."
Kragen, Jex's dragon man, helps the girls out of the corner they get pinned into with the riding crock-dino and between the three of them the dino dies.
Jex thought: okay this is good, a little reward for their effort before their slaughtered.
Verdant is dead, Gino is nearly dead, Kragon who's the only one who can heal is finally free to go help, Zii is going to die soon, Tacit is on top of a rock screaming at the top of her lungs while the assassins run around like whirlwinds slicking the crap out of the boys and Zii gets half eaten by a dino-crock.
In a last ditch effort to survive the conscious members of the party formulate a plan to strike a blow at the well oiled killing machine that is the trio of assassins. Kragon is going to use is acid breath on them to 'soften them up' so that Tacit can blast them to hell and Zii can keep what's left from hitting them back.
Okay. No one thought it would work as beautifully at it did. Kragon hit everyone, including the dying Gino, with the dragon breath which gave the girls an extra 5 damage to all their attacks. Tacit rolled a 20, and criticaled with her daily power (that we call the Glitter Blaster because that how I first described it) that did six D6 (six sided Dice) +6 damage, and she had feats that brought the +6 up to a +10. She then spent her action point and hit with another power, made of multicolored bolts of lightning, that she can keep attacking with as long as she keeps rolling evens and hitting. And hit, and rolled the highest number on the dice that she could. LUCKY! +10 and +10 more because of Kragon's acid attack. In one turn Tacit dealt out over 60 points of damage, even bosses don't just walk away from that. And with the power that let her keep hitting she hit the other two assassins and the riding dino for at least 10 points of damage each. It was a beautiful thing.
The Lead assassin died before he started a turn with less than half his hit points. Zii then hit the other assassin and riding crock that had ripped into Gino despite his Jacky Chan dodging. The assassin died, Kragen brought back Verdant who went running off after the other dino. Then he brought back Gino who killed the remaining riding crock and assassin.
Between all the boys the battle ended like this: "Verdant sticks his sword deep into the riding crock's thigh, keeping it from moving any closer to Zii, who for some reason is pulsing purple in rhythm with her heartbeat. A flash of lighting zips by him for an instant as Gino tries to lightning lure the beast and fails. Kragen runs toward Gino and jumps off the gith and goes sailing through the air beside Verdant. 'This end's now!!!' He roars as he sticks the creature in the neck, slides down, guts the riding crock and slices off a leg as he wobbles to the ground. With a screech the dino goes down nearly landing on top of the dragonborne. 'Alright... I'm done.' Kragon groans. Verdant sticks his sword into the sand as he takes a knee, blood is still leaking from his many wounds. Gino sighs gratefully and sits in the sand with a huff. Zii doesn't bother with formality and falls like a toppled statue into the dunes beside the muddy water. Tacit is the only one with energy enough to celebrate their unlikely victory."
In metagame terms: Kragen had nothing but his at-will powers and 6 hit points, Verdant the same with 8 hit points, Gino lucked out with one utility power and 7 hit points plus 5 bubble points (what we call temporary hit points). Zii had spent everything and had 2 hit points. Tacit had 13 hit points.
For all of that Jex said we earned Brass Monkeys (Sprite and Sherbet) and all kinds of gold. Will demanded I play the Final Fantasy victory sound I have on my phone because "damnit we deserve fan fair!"
These are the moments in playing table top games that make them fun and feel worthwhile.
So, my husband, Sir Jex of the Shifting Hand, found a level 1-3 Dark Sun campaign in one of the Dungeon Magazines online. We've never done a preconstruct so in the spirit of trying new things we started what will be known as the Desert Crawl. It was tough but fun, especially once we leveled up to 2 and a second defender rolled into the group, courtesy of my brother in law Sir Will the Blockade.
The Final Battle rolls around and we know, almost for a fact, that we are going to die. Jex gave our group a 5% chance of living through it; not winning, just surviving. It went something like this:
We're only a few hours out from the trade city of Tir. All the skiffs are intact, no crew has been lost yet. Even with getting by some of the battles by the skin of our teeth, we've done well. Only one last crest to climb over and we're home free.
Over that hill comes three bad ass looking assassins riding beaked and clawed 10 foot tall dinosaurs that Jex nicknamed 'riding crocks'.
There's a big speech about how he's going to take all our hard earned treasure for himself and crush us into the sand. You know the kind of monologue Dr. Doom would be proud of. Then they charge.
Verdant, Will's big bad scottsman brawler, runs in like Leroy Jenkins and takes on the assassin who seems to be the leader. The riding crock claws the crap out of him. The lead assassin leaps from his dino to a nearby 10foot tall rock and shoots the crap out of Verdant with his crossbow.
Gino, Jex's character that Will plays during battle, runs in behind him to try and keep him from getting owned. All the assassins start leaping from their dinos and letting them run around to eat us!
It's at this point I think that we're going to die.
Tacit, my little teeny bopper chaos sorceress, gets cornered by a dino. We've encountered these things before. Tacit is scared of them. So I play true to the role and have her screaming and flailing like the little 16 year old she is. Jex is really great about roleplay mid-battle. "Tacit's screaming scares the riding crock so it attacks her instead of Zii. It's also screaming in terror back at Tacit."
Kragen, Jex's dragon man, helps the girls out of the corner they get pinned into with the riding crock-dino and between the three of them the dino dies.
Jex thought: okay this is good, a little reward for their effort before their slaughtered.
Verdant is dead, Gino is nearly dead, Kragon who's the only one who can heal is finally free to go help, Zii is going to die soon, Tacit is on top of a rock screaming at the top of her lungs while the assassins run around like whirlwinds slicking the crap out of the boys and Zii gets half eaten by a dino-crock.
In a last ditch effort to survive the conscious members of the party formulate a plan to strike a blow at the well oiled killing machine that is the trio of assassins. Kragon is going to use is acid breath on them to 'soften them up' so that Tacit can blast them to hell and Zii can keep what's left from hitting them back.
Okay. No one thought it would work as beautifully at it did. Kragon hit everyone, including the dying Gino, with the dragon breath which gave the girls an extra 5 damage to all their attacks. Tacit rolled a 20, and criticaled with her daily power (that we call the Glitter Blaster because that how I first described it) that did six D6 (six sided Dice) +6 damage, and she had feats that brought the +6 up to a +10. She then spent her action point and hit with another power, made of multicolored bolts of lightning, that she can keep attacking with as long as she keeps rolling evens and hitting. And hit, and rolled the highest number on the dice that she could. LUCKY! +10 and +10 more because of Kragon's acid attack. In one turn Tacit dealt out over 60 points of damage, even bosses don't just walk away from that. And with the power that let her keep hitting she hit the other two assassins and the riding dino for at least 10 points of damage each. It was a beautiful thing.
The Lead assassin died before he started a turn with less than half his hit points. Zii then hit the other assassin and riding crock that had ripped into Gino despite his Jacky Chan dodging. The assassin died, Kragen brought back Verdant who went running off after the other dino. Then he brought back Gino who killed the remaining riding crock and assassin.
Between all the boys the battle ended like this: "Verdant sticks his sword deep into the riding crock's thigh, keeping it from moving any closer to Zii, who for some reason is pulsing purple in rhythm with her heartbeat. A flash of lighting zips by him for an instant as Gino tries to lightning lure the beast and fails. Kragen runs toward Gino and jumps off the gith and goes sailing through the air beside Verdant. 'This end's now!!!' He roars as he sticks the creature in the neck, slides down, guts the riding crock and slices off a leg as he wobbles to the ground. With a screech the dino goes down nearly landing on top of the dragonborne. 'Alright... I'm done.' Kragon groans. Verdant sticks his sword into the sand as he takes a knee, blood is still leaking from his many wounds. Gino sighs gratefully and sits in the sand with a huff. Zii doesn't bother with formality and falls like a toppled statue into the dunes beside the muddy water. Tacit is the only one with energy enough to celebrate their unlikely victory."
In metagame terms: Kragen had nothing but his at-will powers and 6 hit points, Verdant the same with 8 hit points, Gino lucked out with one utility power and 7 hit points plus 5 bubble points (what we call temporary hit points). Zii had spent everything and had 2 hit points. Tacit had 13 hit points.
For all of that Jex said we earned Brass Monkeys (Sprite and Sherbet) and all kinds of gold. Will demanded I play the Final Fantasy victory sound I have on my phone because "damnit we deserve fan fair!"
These are the moments in playing table top games that make them fun and feel worthwhile.
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