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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 2:58PM
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I just was curious as to what you guys were playing, and what characters you were playing as. i'm doing a total war campaign. A city is under attack by monsters that are controlled by an evil lich, and the PCs have to stop this siege. We started today, and it already became pretty epic. I'm DMing and playing a Minotaur warlord.
I fight for freedom. I fight for justice. I fight for honor. I fight for VENGEANCE.Beware, all you monsters, all you villains, for you have unleashed the wrath of Edward Darkforest. May your god have pity on your soul.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 3:12PM
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Date Joined:
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Game 1: I'm DM'ing a group in Eberron, started in the Tower City of Sharn and is now moving toward other areas abroad. Can't say too much here because my players frequent the forums :p
Game 2: Playing as an Avenger Revenant in an online campaign with bald hermit DM'ing. Lots of fun there, looking forward to tonight's session ! The Dolinator will deal out some pain !
Game 3: Playing in a Shadowrun campaign. Currently playing a pistols street samurai ninja who is actively looking to get some vengeance. Currently on our 4th mission and loving it.
"Non nobis Domine Sed nomini tuo da gloriam" "I wish for death not because I want to die, but because I seek the war eternal"
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 3:30PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 31, 2010
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We are about to embark on the Badarse Dungeon Crushers attempt to overthrow the nine dungeon lords ruling the land. Will probably be the most brutal game ever. Expecting at least one pc death a week and very excited.
Please note: we are a special group that is anamolous in nature and does not represent the norm of DnD.
I'll be playing a Fighter|Cleric/Warden.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 3:35PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 14, 2009
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DMing - Scales of War with some modification (including restatting all monsters). Party is one session away from 14th level.
DMing - The LFR EPIC campaign. Group just hit 24th level.
DMing - An occasional group that runs the Steading of the Hill Giant chief.
Playing - The LFR Epic campaign. Group is 24th level. Our DM is one of the players in the above game, and we alternate play order, so sometimes I've already run the mod, sometimes she has.
Playing - A 6th level enchanter mage...thusfar the campaign seems to be set in the Chaos Scar (about which I know very little) but may be heading to Gardmore Abbey soon.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 3:44PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 19, 2007
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DMing - Heavily modified PoL setting, massive far realm invasion lead by things resembling Reapers crossed with Phyrexians. Level 19 currently, started at 1. Technically the invasion is starting in epic tier, everything so far has been build up. Used to be more abyssal plague based.
DMing - same setting, different part of th world, aimed at new players.
Player - Half-Orc Berserker Samurai, im effectively an Orc Blademaster. PoL setting, hasn't gotten far.
Player - human rogue built like a duelist, nauticial adventure.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 4:18PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 12, 2009
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DMing a fairly standard PoL (My favoirte setting by far) campaign, haven't started yet since I'm in high school and we are about to start school so it's better to wait until our schedules are normal.
DMing a Star Wars SAGA campaign, same group as the one above, and also haven't started yet for the same reason. It's in three acts that are different eras and will roughly compose 7ish levels, dpending on how long it takes to conclude them. (Well, the second arc will basically start its last adventure when their clone troopers turn on them....mwahahaha)
Playing in an online FR campaign, I'm an Elf Paladin of Corellon, with a bit of warlock thrown in.
About to start playing in a PbP Star Wars SAGA game set in the criminal underworld, betrayal and killing of other PCs is allowed and expected. (Another mwaha etc would be approriate here).
We summoned a devil once. All we used was the D&D books, too. It was pretty kwazy.
God of Arrested Development and Intelligence 
Resident Left Hand of Stalin and Banana Stand Grandstander
Pie-Cooling-On-A-Windowsill of the House of Trolls
In the morning HK'll be sober but you'll still be a meatbag.
I know I misspell "Danke" in my posts. It's an inside joke.
"Ten cents gets you nuts." -George Michael
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You are not a moral man. There are not enough middle fingers in the world for you.
Why do I get a silly PG-13 man giggle
going everytime I see Fist Of The Forest ?
Actually, Santa just didn't like you. However, you weren't on the Naughty List, so he had to give you something "better" than coal.
I'd take coal. Heating your house is expesive, and engery cost arn't going down.
Mabey if i beat enough homeless people, i won't have to be cold this year. 
"Heroes"...I wish I had those. I remember in my first-ever campaign one PC went around shootin all the unconscious baddies in the head to gain Dark Side Points...
Whaaaaaat?!??
Wow...way to waste perfectly good potential slaves.
Er...no wait I mean..uh...something not evil!
(Quotes screwed up on the next one, won't give the poster's name. It's in the Best Lines thread on the D&D forum)
First, an experience from a game I played in a few years back. Our DM didn't like 3.5 as a whole but liked parts of it. So he hands us a big ass rules packet for his modified FR campaign, complete with quotes from important NPC's on the front. I can't remember most of the HRs, just that some how gods like Cyric and Bhaal existed at the same time, despite the obvious problems there. In the end the game became a problem more because of the railroading than the HRs, but it ended with this classic line, after our ranger tried to disarm the strange woman following us WITH HIS BOW: DM: You just killed (insert random noble sounding name here) JP: Was she important? Jack: Dude, she's quoted on the front of the rules packet!
"Why in the wide,wide, world of all things irrational would I help you?
-Daniel Jackson
"Fun will now commence."
-Seven of Nine
"Excellent."
-Mr. Burns.
Whey is a crotch.
Cut the last encounter on your way out after dealing with the Darth. He's the BBEG. Treat him as such. Play up that Darth Revan is THAT much of a badarse. When the shuttle landed, I had no less than 13 JEDI MASTERS step off the shuttle. The PCs were slack-jawed. After the meetup with Bastila (as she's carrying Revan's body), only TWO jedi masters remained with her. Let me tell you, the player whining about not getting to fight Revan himself shut up pretty quickly when he saw that. 
There's so much you can do with insanity, especially when it has alot of resources.
1. Cleric cast protection from fire on Tank.
2. Tank goes in and get surrounded by enemies.
3. Wizard cast fireball and blows them up.
4. ???
5. Profit
I go by the saying," If it ain't friendly fire then it's not working."
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 4:43PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 21, 2009
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DMing:
Game 1 - Pbp homebrew game, set in a meritocratic nation of merchants and money-lenders that sees a potential war looming on the horizon; Party consists of a Halfling Monk, Tiefling Paladin, Changeling Psion, Human Ardent, Human Ranger, and Half-Orc Berserker. They are currently investigating reports of enemy agents infiltrating the slum districts of a prosperous port city, which has thrown the lower folk into a frenzy and drawn the attention of a morally ambiguous clergy devoted to a protector god
Playing:
Game 1 - RL game with my normal crew, set in Amn (Forgotten Realms). We have a human monk wishing to perfect his discipline and record his experiences for future generations to use (my character), a human warlord from Cormyr who has been living a sellsword's life for a few years following a disgraceful military discharge, an eladrin swordmage who is hunting down her recently deceased mentor's brother in order to set his estate in order, a human wizard who wishes to avenge her father's failed mercantile endeavors, and a tiefling warlock who is seeking a loophole in her pact with a ruthless fey spirit.
Game 2 - Pbp Keep on the Shadowfell w/ some variations; Playing an Elf Ranger alongside a Minotaur Barbarian, Gnome Psion, Human Fighter, Shadar-Kai Cleric, and Changeling Hexblade. About to confront Kalarel (or so it seems), having dealt with some of his undead abominations.
Game 3 - Pbp homebrew game; Playing a monotheist cleric from a recently-fallen kingdom, alongside two countrymen, a traditionalist knight and an amicable swordmage, and three enemies-turned-allies: a rough-and-tumble blackguard from a wintery region, a trickster rogue with a knack for spying, and a kind-hearted wizard who seeks peace between factions. Currently preparing for a tournament in one of the remaining hospitable areas following a natural disaster of epic proportions
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Proud Hand of Karsus, now and forever
Mess with one Hand, mess with 'em all
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"I don't like X, they should remove it."
"I like X, they should keep it."
"They should replace X with Y."
"Anybody that likes X is dumb. Y is better."
"Why don't they include both X and Y."
"Yeah, everybody can be happy then!"
"But I don't like X, they should remove it."
"X really needs to be replaced with Y."
"But they can include both X and Y."
"But I don't like X, they need to remove it."
"Remove X, I don't like it."
Repeat.
Obstinance?
Until you've had an in-law tell you your choice of game was stupid, and just Warcraft on paper, and dumbed down for dumber players who can't handle a real RPG, you haven't lived.
You haven't lived.
Lady and gentlemen.... I present to you the Edition War without Contrition, the War of the Web, the Mighty Match-up!
We're using standard edition war rules. No posts of substance. Do not read the other person's posts with comprehension. Make frequent comparison to video games, MMOs, and CCGs. Use the words "fallacy" and "straw man", incorrectly and often. Passive aggressiveness gets you extra points and asking misleading and inflammatory questions is mandatory. If you're getting tired, just declare victory and leave the thread. Wait for the buzzer... and....
One, two, three, four, I declare Edition War
Five, six, seven eight, I use the web to 
Go!
D&D should not return to the days of blindfolding the DM and players. No tips on encounter power? No mention of expected party roles? No true meaning of level due to different level charts or tiered classes? Please, let's not sacrifice clear, helpful rules guidelines in favour of catering to the delicate sensibilities of the few who have problems with the ascetics of anything other than what they are familiar with.
Just a quick note on the MMORPG as an insult comparison...
MMORPGs, raking in money by the dumptruck full. Many options, tons of fans across many audiences, massive resources allocated to development.
TTRPGs, dying product. Squeaking out an existence that relys on low cost. Fans fit primarily into a few small demographics. R&D budgets small, often rushed to market and patched after deployment.
You're not really making much of an argument when you compare something to a MMORPG and assume people think that means bad. Lets face it, they make the money, have the audience and the budget. We here on this board are fans of TTRPGs but lets not try to pretend none of us play MMORPGs.
Adding options at the system level is good.
Adding options at the table level is hard.
Removing options at the system level is bad.
Removing options at the table level is easy.
This is not complicated.
Something like Tactical Shift is more magical than martial healing.
Telling someone to move over a few feet is magical now? :|
I weep for this generation.
Given the laziness and morbid obsesity amongst D&Ders, being able to convince someone to get on their feet, do some heavy exercise, and use their words to make them be healthier must seem magical.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 6:06PM
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Playing a dwarf fighter in a Harn game variant on Tomb of Horrors.
Playing a feylock in Scales of War
Running 2 versions of a game based on a game I ran back in 2nd ed. 500 years later, the world is different, but there are traces... I just haven't always spelled them out.
Running a Heroes of Shadow game to try to figure out how the options in that book work (answer: poorly).
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For some reason, none of my friends were surprised by this...
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 6:23PM
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Date Joined:
May 14, 2012
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Real Life:
- Sharn-Based Eberron game. Lots of shenanigans because our party is wierd. A drow assassin who optimized stealth, a changeling psion who optimized bluff, a psychotic demonspawn dissowned heir of vadalis, a warforged from the PoL setting (long story), a kobold who thinks he's a dragonborn, and a hengeyokai artificer obsessed with alchemy. Good times to be had. I'm playing the changeling.
PbP:
- A pretty standard fantasy setting, albeit a homebrew one. Playing a desert wind drow from the desert.
- A Game of Thrones inspired setting run by LordManshoon above me. This one literally just started, as in, the OOC thread went up an hour or so ago, so I'm not sure it counts. I'm playing a druid who never wanted to be an adventurer.
- A setting I know very little about in which I am playing another lying changeling.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 24, 2012 - 8:34PM
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im dming 2 campaigns. one is my own homebrew mixed with core world. they are currently in gloomwraught. they are level 13 currently my second game is a b/x d&d game, they are level 6 and are playing in a classic tourney adventure, cant name it in case they see this i am also dming games of my 4e forever playtest frothsof4e.blogspot.com/2012/08/4e-forev...if i have people that cant make it to these games, i run a one-shot. i run at least one game a week, usually two, and have done so pretty consistently over the last two or three years im actually looking for labyrinth lord (b/x) players, check my sig for more info
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