Let's just say, the campaign gets interesting when your DM is a wee bit on the crazy side, his first character is now a GOD (who killed Palor and took over his throne), and is shadowing our characters in ANY case of PvP (add a high lev sorc and the god's rogue wife to the party).
The female Rogue had an interesting story...She made a permanent Bluff Check on an army. The DM allowed it since A. The Rogue took her top off, and (The big reason) B. Her breasts jiggled while she was stabbing the soldiers. ("oooo, Prett..OW!").
Back to my party...Human Cleric, Elf Sorcerer, Githsurai(sp?) Monk, Elf Rogue, Ogre Barbarian, and at one point (before he vanished) a Minotaur Cleric.
Best re-occuring plot twist(s): Gnomish Manicles that turn into a mechanical squirrel. Rogue looks at the Squirrel...thinks...HEAVES it as far as he can. As the squirrel lands, you hear a odd hissing noise as a Flaming Rabid Wombat attacks the squirrel and they explode and dissapear.
Here's a link to my character sheet thus far (rough).
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Redmage Darkrayver wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Here's a link to my character sheet thus far (rough).
Best character EVAR!/
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Ruvyen thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Best character EVAR!/
Fuck, it didn't work....It's supposed to generate an HTML file...works on my PC...but not from the net.
Name: Nevi-Xilo Race: Drow Class: Rogue Sex: Male Age: 126 Level: 4
Diety: Lolth Alignment: Lawful Evil
STR 14
DEX 20 (natural 20)
CON 19
INT 22 (natural 20, +2 racial modifier)
WIS 16
CHA 20 (18, +2 racial modifier)
HP: 31 AC: 17 Base Attack: +3 Speed: 30ft
Fort: 6 Reflex: 13 Will: 5 INITIATIVE: 9
Sneak Attack: 2d6
Equip:
Hand Crossbow, Dagger, Shortsword, Masterwork Thieves' Tools, Disguise kit, Caltrops, Climbers Kit, Backpack, 10ft Pole, Cloak of Elvenkind, Leather armor, Boots of Elvenkind, Drow Cloak (need the info from DM for it)
Feats:
Improved Initiative, Stealthy, Evaision, Trap Finding, Uncanny Dodge, (Globe of) Darkness.
Skills: (all at 7th rank) Redmage Darkrayver fucked around with this message on 01-17-2005 at 11:11 PM.
Hide, Move Silently, Appraise, Disguise, Bluff, Sleight of Hand (pickpocket), Open Lock, Jump, Balance, Climb, Tumble, Use Magic Devices, Sense Motive, Disable Device.
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Redmage Darkrayver attempted to be funny by writing:
STR 14
DEX 20 (natural 20)
CON 19
INT 22 (natural 20, +2 racial modifier)
WIS 16
CHA 20 (18, +2 racial modifier)
How do you get a natural 20 on 3d6? Even using the suggested 4d6, drop the lowest die, the max you can get is 18.
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Palador ChibiDragon painfully thought these words up:
How do you get a natural 20 on 3d6? Even using the suggested 4d6, drop the lowest die, the max you can get is 18.
I was wondering that myself... 
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Palador ChibiDragon obviously shouldn't have said:
How do you get a natural 20 on 3d6? Even using the suggested 4d6, drop the lowest die, the max you can get is 18.
Yeah I was confused about that too...
It works if your DM is completely nuts and lazy.
Eh.
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Elvish Crack Piper had this to say about Knight Rider:
You DM uses his old charecters in game, to enforce rules about PvP.Eh.
Yah. That's not a good sign. One of many. Palador ChibiDragon fucked around with this message on 01-17-2005 at 11:24 PM.
Plus having two cloaks when only one cloak can be worn and affect you at one time.Those are surface elf creations, and therefore, hated.
Drow have Piwafi and boots of silence or whatever, which incidentally, disintegrate when sunlight hits them.
Breats distracting soldiers? What the fuck. This is a setting where prostitution is rampant, it isnt some repressed bit where a tit causes an uproar.
Evil Drow and an Elf in the party?
Why hasnt your charecter poisoned his drink yet?
Oh wait, because your DM has the god of FUCKING healing following you around. Elvish Crack Piper fucked around with this message on 01-17-2005 at 11:39 PM.
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Falaanla Marr had this to say about Robocop:
If he is having fun, that's all that matters.
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*shakes head at the insanity of this.
Games are meant to be fun.
If all someone is going to do is bring in old charecters and have pelor follow you around, ya might as well be playing video games for all the point of playing DnD is gone.
It's still a crappy way to play. But hopefully now he'll be more motivated to get into an even better game. Right? 
Of course, when I started playing D&D, I didn't know any of this. It's good that RM has someone to show him the ropes and introduce him to the game. However, he needs someone to show him the roleplay side of things, too. That way he can decide for himself not only whether he enjoys D&D (which he apparently does so far), but what sort of D&D game most suits his interests. The best way to get exposure is to sit in on different kinds of D&D groups, like some of the ones we run around here. `Doc fucked around with this message on 01-18-2005 at 09:07 AM.
Believe me, after almost being singed to death, and such, the spoony sorc should have died...the monk was planning on pissing in her mouth as she slept.
And this campaign has been used by his other characters a few times already, thus the new god, and many other additions from past parties (Including headness corpses from said past parties). And for the sake of mentioning it, We have 3 first time players in this campaign...Including the other rogue..I swear he'd already be dead if it wasn't for the PVP problem (I'd rather not have a monk who can put holes through Castle walls come pound on me).
I have been curious about getting involved with a D&D group within EC. Just need some of my own books, or digital copies of them.
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Elvish Crack Piper attempted to be funny by writing:
Evil Drow and an Elf in the party?Why hasnt your charecter poisoned his drink yet?
ECP, Think Drizzt Do'Urden. Renegade Drow. I'm thinking I should make him Chaotic neutral...possibly female (for comedy factors later)...Must find a belt of sex change Redmage Darkrayver fucked around with this message on 01-18-2005 at 09:51 AM.
quote:We have uh oh, over.
Redmage Darkrayver really knows where their towel is...
Think Drizzt Do'Urden.
Since you are already involved in a game, you can afford to do this. Sit in on a couple ECer games that are already running. Many EC games run in IRC, so they can easily have any number of observers. You just need to find out the schedules. Kat and I use the Roleplay board (formerly the AD&D board) to coordinate our games, so that's easy. For others, you'll have to ask the GMs. If I recall correctly, Ja`Deth, Zaza, and Parcelan all run IRC games. (Fae runs using a program with an 8-player limit, so that may be more difficult to arrange.) Most IRC games have either an OOC room or a means of marking OOC commentary (or both), so find out the operating customs for a game before speaking in the game channel.
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Elvish Crack Piper was listening to Cher while typing:
:-/Games are meant to be fun.
If all someone is going to do is bring in old charecters and have pelor follow you around, ya might as well be playing video games for all the point of playing DnD is gone.
The beauty of DnD is that it can fit whatever the players want it to fit. If the players stop having fun this way then they just need to tell their DM and, if he doesn't change, make their own game.
To me, though, it seems the players are having fun.
While I agree this isn't the ideal game or the type of DnD I'd want to be a part of, Redmage seems to really enjoy it.
It kinda gets into the whole discussion on Baldur's Gate (PC) vs Icewind Dale. One is a story-driven game with hundreds of hours of gaming goodness, the other is a shorter and more combat oriented game. Everyone prefers one over the other. Both are DnD based but go about it in different ways.
But yeah, every DM has to learn somewhere. It sounds like it is one of this guy's earlier campaigns.
I'm not getting how the whole early god meeting destroys Roleplay, though. OK, so the characters can't be killed as easily. I'm sure this god could also let them die if he wanted. The characters can still roleplay, they just can't, um, kill each other. I don't like games where the characters can routinely attempt to off each other myself either.
quote:The problem isn't so much that you can't kill your party members. It's that when a deity or ub3r-NPC travels with you, you basically can't defy them on anything. The characters do what they're told, or they die, period. This leaves players with zero opportunity to make decisions for themselves. The game is steered, and the DM basically controls, from beginning to end, exactly where things are going and what happens.
When they turned on the Infinite Improbability Drive, Falaanla Marr stammered,
I'm not getting how the whole early god meeting destroys Roleplay, though. OK, so the characters can't be killed as easily. I'm sure this god could also let them die if he wanted. The characters can still roleplay, they just can't, um, kill each other. I don't like games where the characters can routinely attempt to off each other myself either.
Plus it's often an annoyance to know that the deity or ub3r-NPC could easily do anything the entire rest of the party could do. So why does the deity need the PCs? If the sorceress Fin Razel hadn't been polymorphed into a rodent (muskrat?), or the queen of the fairies came along, Willow wouldn't have been very important at all until his abilities came into their own.
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I didn't see anything saying that they had to do what the new God told them, only that he was shadowing them to enforce them not killing eachother. It's a decent idea to keep a party together rather than letting them destroy eachother.
Actually, I'm with Murdoc on this one. (*hurk*)
I've seen and participated in numerous plots to avert interparty PVP, and this one does sound like an incredibly unimaginative way to handle it. In a happy-slappy do-gooder world, characters never fight; but in an interesting one, they're at eachother's throats as often as the enemies'.
The consistently best way I've seen has always been temporary truces/ceasefires. Keyword, temporary, and by choice; not by knifepoint.
Stats roll 3d6 IN ORDER TOP TO BOTTOM reroll 1 and switch 2 with eachother.
I claim shananagins for my first character with a 3 in dex.
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Y.O.T.C stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
My new DM is fucking evilStats roll 3d6 IN ORDER TOP TO BOTTOM reroll 1 and switch 2 with eachother.
I claim shananagins for my first character with a 3 in dex.
This is clearly karma for any shit you have ever pulled.
A drizzt clone. When I made my first charecter I at least made him a regular Elven Ranger 
Doc is basically right on all counts.
Dimitri has the best idea on PvP I've seen on here :-p
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Baldur's Gate (PC) vs Icewind Dale.
I choose...Planescape: Torment!
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Alaan wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
This is clearly karma for any shit you have ever pulled.
IM A BARD!!!!
It was the only valid option when you have 3 dex.
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This insanity brought to you by Y.O.T.C:
IM A BARD!!!!It was the only valid option when you have 3 dex.
I had a warrior with 5 dex once.
He did have problems in combat, but was still fun inventing new ways for him to trip over anything you can imagine. 
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Vallo spewed forth this undeniable truth:
I choose...Planescape: Torment!
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
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It's just so painful to play through any combat after playing a game with the fully refined Infinity Engine that was used in Icewind Dale 2
It's the only reason why Fallout 1 and 2 still take top prize in my book.
Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael fucked around with this message on 01-19-2005 at 03:26 PM.
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Redmage Darkrayver stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
(starts at level 4)
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Redmage Darkrayver stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Race: Drow
I claim shenanigans!
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We were all impressed when Densetsu wrote:
I claim shenanigans!
And his giant stats dont bother you?
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Y.O.T.C's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
And his giant stats dont bother you?
That's already been covered, though.
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Densetsu had this to say about Optimus Prime:
That's already been covered, though.
point counterpoint
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There was much rejoicing when Elvish Crack Piper said this:
I hope he has you choose character class after that.A drizzt clone. When I made my first charecter I at least made him a regular Elven Ranger
Honestly...I wouldn't want to be a ranger with this DM. I originally wanted to be a ranger...then the DM explained that he'd do anything in his power to kill him off first. No fun.
And from this saturday on, I'll be the only Rogue in the party (They're killing off the other one). Honestly, I do think it's a good idea keeping him drow, great for sneaking and later...assinations (Cast Darkness, sneak up behind enemy and slit their throat). We'll be having a fighter and wizard joining us this weekend AND I think the Barbarian is getting killed off too
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Densetsu had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
I claim shenanigans!
The Campaign starts at level 4. I eventually want to get in on another group and start from scratch.
And for my first time playing, I think the group I'm in will be great. Get me into the game, and understanding the finer points before I get in a serious group. Redmage Darkrayver fucked around with this message on 01-20-2005 at 11:04 AM.
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Check out the big brain on Redmage Darkrayver!
Honestly...I wouldn't want to be a ranger with this DM. I originally wanted to be a ranger...then the DM explained that he'd do anything in his power to kill him off first. No fun.
This is the first clue that your DM is not so much a DM, as a person who will move your characters around to where HE wants them to be. I once played with a guy who didnt let us do a damn thing with our characters than what he wanted to do. He even went as far as not allowing us to use our own dialogue every now and then. (He didnt last long in the group)
I cant say I have much faith in this DM.
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This insanity brought to you by Azakias:
This is the first clue that your DM is not so much a DM, as a person who will move your characters around to where HE wants them to be. I once played with a guy who didnt let us do a damn thing with our characters than what he wanted to do. He even went as far as not allowing us to use our own dialogue every now and then. (He didnt last long in the group)I cant say I have much faith in this DM.
We can do what we want, minus the PvP (I assume it's a temporary thing), but I think for now, It's being enforced because of the Racial Tension.
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Redmage Darkrayver wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
(Cast Darkness, sneak up behind enemy and slit their throat)
I might be wrong on this, but I don't think Drow can see through magical darkness. You would be as blind as anyone else untill you drop it.
