@BrianBallsunStanton I hate anime and manga (or at least the stuff I've encountered...), so it really didn't appeal to me. That and I just didn't enjoy the mechanics behind BESM
@waxeagle @BrianBallsunStanton I've got to get off of here for the evening and cook dinner. I'll get back to the wave either late tonight or in the AM. You gents have a good one.
@BrianBallsunStanton Glad we can rekindle that for you
@BrianBallsunStanton I like docs a lot. I use it for a ton of things right now. Actually am working on my dread questionnaires in docs right now so I can print them elsewhere.
I am getting ready to host my first game of Dread and the question that is really bugging me is what happens if a player (and I have one in mind) absolutely refuses to pull every single time?
Dread is pretty clear that you can only kill a character if the tower falls, how do you handle a player...
@BrianBallsunStanton yeah, I haven't managed a gold badge anywhere yet :(. Working on electorate on Gardening, but its technically impossible right now...
@BrianBallsunStanton that is just a bit ridiculous. If it wasn't entirely MBAs and RBAs they would be more fun. I still may play one if we end up doing Tomb of Horrors as our next campaign
"Are there any magic items that are worth getting in the 3 uncommons during character creation that benefit the party sufficient to warrant their choice?"
cause then you don't get random junk, you get stuff that a character's willing to sacrifice one of their three uncommons for.
@waxeagle I'm really going for simplicity here, and I think for the first game the more limits on sources will make it easier for all of us to get our feet wet without getting too bogged down. So, yes, as stated in the wave only the Heroes of.. books for character creation, including feats
That said, I'll take a look at that feat because that does seem like a smart choice for this specific game
@BrianBallsunStanton Broad. Sigil is very much incorporated, too. I'm working on typing up the ICC wave right now and it'll have setting specific info. But just assume that all races are ok, some minor prejudices, but for the most part playing a monster race won't get you lynched upon entering town.
@BrianBallsunStanton I am enjoying your joint character creation system, btw. I might try to incorporate it into my live games. From what I can tell, at the very least, it makes the players (DM included) give a damn about the other characters
@GPierce I got to about 30 pulls before I couldn't find a loose block and the tower collapsed :). I don't anticipate my group getting nearly that far, at least for the first run of the tower. Plus it looks like 3 blocks will start pulled
@CRoss I actually had another question. Do you assign questionnaires to specific folks or let the group pick at random?
Details on the formation of this question can be found in this chat.
During character creation you are allowed 3 "uncommon" items. What items are beneficial enough to the party as a whole to warrant using up one of these slots?
A "party-beneficial" item is hard to define without restricting the...
@GPierce yeah. I keep trying to get one of my party's ritual casters to to take the surge sharing ritual. I think my wizard in our new campaign did. We will see if it comes up
I realize that I am in the minority, but I like rituals. I like the fluff and think that mechanically they could be useful. I wish support for them hadn't been stopped..
@waxeagle It's not like the prereqs are difficult for them... I've actually considered in a home game giving everyone the ritual caster feat for free. I don't really see it breaking anything, at all. Especially since most people ignore rituals.
@GPierce indeed. Part of it is bad experience. our part has used a ritual a couple of times, and its completely on DM whim if the one we used was useful, and we haven't found it to be
@GPierce no its not game breaking for sure. Another issue is as we have gotten more and more addicted to DDI character sheets, the text of the ritual doesn't appear on them. When you are playing D&D like a card game its easy to forget things that aren't on cards in front of you.
(that sounds overly negative, but I know our group would not function without the pregen sheets so I'm not complaining)
@waxeagle I.. have mixed feelings about the DDI CB. On one had it's great, all of your options are there in front of you, but at the same time I think it makes people lazy. You're more likely to remember your powers,features, and abilities if you physically write them down. (And I think it makes the character more personal..)
I actually prefer handwriting my charsheets, I feel more into it
@waxeagle Oh yeah, the convenience factor is through the roof. And it helps not having to buy dead trees.. But I like dead tree books..
Again, I have mixed feelings. It's great when my fiancee, who doesn't really get the creation process, can hop on the CB and pump out a pretty damn good character given some time
@GPierce I've been spoiled. Ive only done that once, and it was our very first session...after that its been CB all the way because of the ease of use, lack of access to source books and I'm paying for it I'm going to get my money out of it
@GPierce same here with my wife
although the missus is much happier with teh offline CB then the new online one
Eladrin have a +5 racial bonus to saving throws against charm effects.
The Circlet of Revelation head slot item grants the following:
Property: While you have an eladrin ally within 10 squares of you, you gain a +5 item bonus to saving throws against charm effects.
Normally item bonuses an...
@waxeagle That's true for a lot of games.. :) I am excited for you about your Dread game. IT sounds like a lot of fun. I did some reading up on it yesterday and really liked what
@GPierce yes. I've only seen one negative review, its part of what prompted my question last night. I have been kicking it around for a few days thinking about it and its bugging me
@GPierce I do to. And it wouldn't be an issue, except at least one guy in my group is kind of an ass. If he realizes he can't die if he doesn't pull he may clam up completely...If it happens he is getting turned into a werewolf :)
@GPierce lol seriously. After learning Spanish, I went to hungary for a couple of days. Forget about Hungarian...its not close to anything
However, after that I was in Romania, that was really nice, they speak a romance language so I could actually figure out what they were saying somewhat
One thing to be said about learning another language, it makes it easy to pick up context clues in other languages and at least have an idea of what's being said
@waxeagle My fiancee and I are planning on teaching our future children foreign languages. I wish my folks had done that. It's just a good life-skill to have.
German, of course, since we both love it and have lived in Germany. Spanish, because that's a life-tool these days. Probably Latin, just 'cuz
@GPierce indeed. Start young and go for full immersion. In the era we are in its going to be essential to be conversant in at least one other language.
@GPierce I agree. the interconnectedness of the modern world is awesome. I just hope we don't end up with some kind of odd monoculture hybrid like firefly predicted. It was interesting, but unless we all get to swear in chinese its rather a bland future
A lot of the Arcane Backgrounds something happens on a roll of '1' on you Spellcasting die. I originally read this to mean that only if your total was a natural '1', ie your first roll was a natural '1' then the bad stuff happens.
I heard that at least one other referee takes this to mean, a '1'...
My group has recently changed DM's. The last one ran a hack-and-slash game without too much roleplaying or anything outside the adventure book (random encounters, exploration, etc).
Our new DM is wanting to step up the roleplaying aspect of the game and have us spend a few sessions without any c...
I'm running a Deadlands campaign with players who come entirely from D&D and have never played Savage Worlds before. All five people in the group have made nearly identical characters (gunslingers) with practically the same stats, hindrances, and edges. I've tried to get some of them to branc...
I am getting ready to host my first game of Dread and the question that is really bugging me is what happens if a player (and I have one in mind) absolutely refuses to pull every single time?
Dread is pretty clear that you can only kill a character if the tower falls, how do you handle a player...
I'm running a Deadlands campaign with players who come entirely from D&D and have never played Savage Worlds before. All five people in the group have made nearly identical characters (gunslingers) with practically the same stats, hindrances, and edges. I've tried to get some of them to branc...
