So, Sunday the 22nd. Does the day work? Should we start around 2 pm, or is there a better time to start?
Let’s use this thread for purchases & item creation/sale, and a discussion about where we’re going. Ben kicked off with a great comment, questioning what our characters see as their next step.
[Update: We’ve already had our two weekends off– I deleted the reference to “what we’ll be up to”, since we’ve already done it. Also, I changed the date to bump it to the top.]
(An aside: Marv’s Spells is a very handy database of spells.)
Here’s our remaining loot list, categorized.
Undistibuted/Known
Golem Bane Clay Scarab
1500 gp Ink + Bottle & Quill; allows scribing scrolls w/o Scribe Scroll or XP cost
Chest of Holding
Pillow of Rest
Potions: Remove Fear, Expedious Retreat, Endure Elements (Fire), Endure Elements (Sonic)
Oils: Magic Weapon, Uncanny Dodge
Arcane Scrolls: Spider Climb x3, Grease, Misdirection, Blur, Mount x4, Spectral Hand x3, Sleep x3, Minor Image, Change Self, Summon Monster II x2, Web, Reduce, Shield, Familiar Pocket [CA: 106], Snilloc’s Snowball Swarm [Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting on page 74]
Undistributed/Unknown
Wand of Preverication’s Bounty (33ch) — [Prevarication’s Bounty (Cleric 1) Transmutation: Causes the tongue of the victim to swell when the victim lies. from RR98 (not sure what that is)]
Void Rod, dragon eye gems, void pebbles
Potions: of Armor in a bottle [??], Undentified
Scrolls: Scroll of Lesser Spell Immunity [Dragon 275 p86], Hell’s Hammer [in dragon Lords of Melibone p120, Transmutation Weapon touched, Cleric 1], Invisible Object [??], Ray of Ice [Dragon Annual #5 on page 24], Bristle [?? Perhaps supposed to be Brambles– Complete Divine on page 156], Rat Vision [??], Wound [there are lots of X wound spells, but none just called wound.]
Lots of recent D&D and roleplaying posts. Some will make the links, some won’t.
The Shadow of Yesterday quick references
Character Creation, Conflict Resolution
RPG Blog What’s out, what’s current. Links to many RPG creator websites
World of Tereth End (custom D&D campaign)
Goodman Games: Free Stuff Thier extensive free stuff page. Has lots of tiles & converted (from 1E) adventures.
Shining Dodecahedron Another interesting game theory blog
D&D NOTES:
Hell’s Hammer is from Dragon Lords of Melibone (which we don’t have)
Attacks of Opportunity RPG discussion & theory blog
Cool looking PBEM– Sea of Stars
Amber Cool Amber site, with a good partial powers system
This comes from Heather Grove’s Burning Void blog
- What was your character’s last nightmare? How much did it frighten her? What disturbed her most about it?
- Does your character like or dislike her name? Why? If she dislikes it, what does she wish her parents had named her? If she changed her name at some point, what did she change it from, why, and has she been happy with her choice?
- What snacks does your character have in her cupboards right now?
My answers are below; you can answer for your character in comments if you like.
This one I’m less clear on… Ben, what system, setting, etc. are you proposing? This thread’s a place to build our interest… if you dare. Mwahhahah.
I thought it’d be cool to have an area where each of the potential/ filler/ off-week games can get talked up. This spot’s for Shadowrun, which Kev’s talking about running.
Want to pitch the game? After you hint at what we’d be up to, people can ask about rules, style, characters, and all that. If we jawbone about it in advance, maybe we’ll all be fired up when the day comes to play. Kev, you’re up.
[Sidenote: As I find useful links, I’ll add them in– or Kev will.]
FanPro’s Shadowrun site. Includes this interesting info– Shadowrun Fourth Edition launches at GenCon Indy 2005: August 18-21!
Shadowrun Archive Huge fansite, but very dated.
from the Forge thread Meaning at the beginning, middle and end. It’s about social expectations and authority.
The thread describes three types of resolution– Meaning at the Beginning (MatB), Meaning in the Middle (MitM), and Meaning at the End (MatE). Meaning at the Beginning is about consistent causality, strongly influenced by precedent. Meaning in the Middle is about moment by moment decisions, stretching precedent to fit new cases. Meaning at the End is about justifying or explaining why past events occurred, retrofitting explanations in later.
Later in the thread Simon Marks comments:
So, Kell hates his father (a fact)
In this hypothetical system, we can look at what this translates into.It will lead to certain ‘predefined’ effects – So, it will grant +2 to any attempt to harm his Father. This is MatB, as it is Judged once the fact is created.
If I then say “Kell’s hatred of his father helps me jump the river” then thats an attempt to add to the SIS that this is true. It is judged when I try to use it.
If I then say “”Okay, so Kell’s hatred of his father helped him shoot this man dead. My God… all of his fighting is a sublimation of his desire to kill the man he hates and loves. Which I didn’t know until we insisted that the trait was relevant here.” is where you rationalise why you got +2 to killing this man.
So the question becomes, “What effect will this fact have”, “Does this fact have an effect” and “Why did this fact have an effect”
It’s an interesting thing to look at, but I don’t have an application for it yet. It’s just something I’m going to need to keep track of (at least mentioning), if I run a MitM game with people used to only MatB games.
Li’s got the 23rd Lunchtime Poll up,
Is there a cure for railroading? If so, how do you go about curing yourself or your GM of this habit?
Railroading can be tough to cure– there are many sources with different responses required for each.
Sunday is May first. So after dancing around the maypole, wander on down for gaming. Are we aiming for 2 pm start time again, or do you have a different thought?
Note for Steve about last night’s end: We won the fight & leveled to 5th. [10,500 XP total.] No casualties.
Charlie’s post about the War on Drugs ( War on Rationality), summarizes a lot of the problems I have with the drug war. Maybe it’s just a symptom of being a bad loser… or maybe I just want the best solution in the basket.
He also pointed out the amazing response time by Wikipedia– the new pope’s entry is already solid.
Amanda notices Bush’s newest excuse for his failure to capture Osama… Women in Combat. She decimates the idea beautifully.
Alas is always brilliant; Ampersand has just brought in a co-blogger, Pseudo-Adrienne. Sounds like a good thing getting better to me.
Edward at Obsidian Wings quotes Republicans from the Clinton era, underlining the hypocrisy of their musings about the nuclear option.
Bilmon returns to us with a detailed analysis of current account finances and other fiscal troubles. Globally, US consumption’s been dragging the train along… but home refinancing (which has been providing the cash for all this consumption) is running out of steam. His in depth analysis is second to none.
Kevin Drum has been pointing out that the terror of national health care isn’t seen that way in Europe and other adopters at all. (Other posts on the same issue are here, and here.)