My goal with 4th ed was to start off with the premade stuff until I felt comfortable and then shift into one of my worlds. And we are now in a fully hybrid version of the game where the line between my world and the premade stuff has blurred. Honestly I don't get much of a feeling as though people are enjoying it and I feel like people may be a bit overwhelmed or dogged by the multiple loose ends I like to have.
The game for me is most fun when you guys are involved with how the world proceeds and I know that we have missed a couple of weeks here and there but I would like to make sure that everyone is on the same page and having a good time.
I think I have said it before but I will mention it again, I never liked the start of a game that you were in a tavern and someone came in and told you what to do. I always thought that my character may not want to do the task and felt alienated from the game, so I encourage people to find their own reasons to adventure. Somewhere in this game I feel that people have lost the motivation to connect their character to the game. Wendy has a lot of ties to the wilds and woods and I thought that there would be more excitement about the sheltered wooods, but it seems to be another drudgery added to the queue. Brian's character I find interested in some things and not in others in a fashion I cannot easily predict. I think his winning the soul of the demon could give a closer tie to the game but only time will tell. Darin's character I still have yet to figure out, I cannot find his original background, but his bardishness has seemed to become healerish without me getting an idea of what is of interest to him in the game. Chris ads a lot of flavor to the game, but motivation has always been a question. And Rodney I honestly feel is sometimes having more fun texting than playing, though that is a bit unfair as work has taken him away recently, and I certainly understand that; yet when he is playing I feel more calculation than real roleplaying from his character, though his decisiveness at least gives the party a focus and direction.
I do have some really interesting things (in my opinion of course) that I have been planing for some time, but I am starting to get the feel that just telling you that you need to go here and do that via the tavern keeper might be more to everyones liking. I don't want to sound like I am not having fun, but I do feel like I could be having more fun with a group that was interested more in "my" game, or if I just abandoned "my" game and rand a series of unrelated modules.
I am not asking for a break from running, which I enjoy, but rather some help in making the game more interesting for you (and by which I will be more interested). Please tell me what is working for you and what is not, have no worries that you will offend me or step on my toes I really would like to know what is and is not fun for you so I can make the game more enjoyable for everyone, as I currently don't feel that it is.
Lastly I don't know why you are adventuring but this outline might give you more incentive to find motivation, feel free to add to it as I don't think it is nearly complete, but it might enlighten you to your characters way of thinking.
1) find out why you are here,
A) brought here for a reason
B) brought here as an accident
C) brought here as a result of neither reson nor accident
2) Accept you are here and live on, pointless (no reason to roleplay)
A) find a quite place and live out your life
1) go read a book that tells about your adventure
2) live a mundane existance
b) bow down to the powers that be and live out your life
3) continue fighting
1) based on moral decisions
2) based on objectives you have always believed
3) based on other reason
3) Pass the time
A) make no decisions
1) go read a book that tells about your adventure
2) live a mundane existance
B) accept what may come
1) go read a book that tells about your adventure
2) live a mundane existance
4) Believe you are here as part of a larger order
A) you are here because of devine right
B) you are here because of your heroic record or heart
C) you are here as a pawn of fate
D) you are here to prove yourself
E) you are here because the DM wanted you here
F) you are here because of some other reason
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Cancel 9/20
Sorry guys I have a couple of big jobs this week at work so I have to work late this week, I can play next week but the following week I will be in Chicago on business
Saturday, September 4, 2010
magic item details
3 rugs (one with intricate geometric designs, one a single blue colour and one a patchwork of colours and materials)
Each rug is 5x5
Geometric rug will fly at 10 and carry up to 600 lbs standard action to activate sustain as minor
Blue same as geometric but travels over or under water allowing io to two persons to breathable air
Patch work is deployed for an encounter as a standard action (cannot be moved until the end of the encounter) during which time any one person standing on the rug gains +2 to all defenses, resist 5/variable and cannot be forcacly pushed pulled or slid. This item may only be used once daily
15 small statuettes (seemingly small carved versions probably commissioned by wealthy patrons, 13 are of humans, but two are of animals... one bull and one wolf)
3 of these are female figures, 6 are of male personas and 4 were destroyed.
Simon was able to identify 4 individuals:
Usundra, a legendary huntswoman of epic renown believed to have been the inventor of the recurved greatbow. She is the source of legends and tales of great deeds and accomplishments, dates of origin unkown, believed to be mythical.
Jasken, a man that history tells was credited with the idea of coins used in place of barter, legends say he was a fat man of great intelligence but little kindness, dates of origin unknown.
Trellen, a nobleman credited with the foundation of nations and governments. History mentions that his blood runs through most of the noble houses of the Nentir vale, date of origin unknown, believed to be mythical.
Sartes, a woman known for her sense of reason and rationality. She is credited with intellectual thought but also known as a strong patron of the gods. History tells of her founding some of the first temples and structures to the gods. Although she was a devout worshiper and patron of the gods, some histories also decry that she renounced them upon her deathbead. Some histories recount her claim that the gods fooled mortals into worshiping them merely to gain power. Histories conflict over the time that she may have lived, some mentioning that she was the original builder of temples but some also place her death near the time of the bloodspear wars. Histories are also split over what became of her, as some mention she was burned before her final demise as a heretic, while others say that the gods themselves appeared at her funeral pyre and carried her essence off to become one of their own.
1 rolled tapestry (depicting a golden city surrounded by blue flames)
this item activates a shield around argent that lasts for 7 days
3 lead bars (approximately 3 inches by 3 inches by 10 inches)
sky metal already used
3 sturdy wooden chests (one rotting with an oily residue leaking about its base, two intact and with stout locks... one an iron padlock and the other an iron lock with key built into the chest)
two destroyed one contained the champion armor set
1 ornate carved ivory lap desk with writing utensils
non magical
2 pedestals with busts carved from some sort of lavender stone
one of a lady that was destroyed the other of a man with elven features
1 odd white leather bag that contains 3 books (1 titled in common "chronicles or eptimus" one that is blank with reddish tinted pages and one with two locks closing it firmly with some form of runic writing on the outside)
ce: containes rituals: arcane lock, knock, sending, linked portal, remove affliction,shadow walk, planer portal
Red paged book is blank
Locked book: far sight, magic map, whispers of the edifice, reverse portal, adjure, magic circle
Bag will hold 1 cubic foot ofnmaterial imparting the contents resist all 10, anything within then bag is 1/6 lighter
1 small statuette of a human sized hand cast in brass or gold
this item binds oaths, upnto five oaths can be bound to it at any given time and binding a new oath removes the oldest oath bound. The item currently holds five bound oaths, death it seems does not remove a binding
12 sealed scroll cases, 3 marked with a symbol that Zane believes means death, 3 with a symbol that he believes means pestilence, 3 with a symbol he thinks means suffering, and 3 with a symbol that he means penitence.
breaking the seals on these items releases the magic held within
3 small metal boxes the size of large coffers, each has a hinge but no obvious opening mechanism
thesenboxes are affected by light time and planets
1 section of kit that is seemingly exotic materials and incenses (zane believes them to be rare spell components of approximately 5,000gp value)
spell components
1 3'x6' mirror on an ornate stand that is currently covered with a gossamer fabric.
objects shown in this mirror can be tracked by the argent scrying pool for some period of time
18 round black spheres spaced precisely upon a wooden plinth, the area around the spheres seems to have withered/faded slightly as if being exposed to bright light for many years.
This is the game chaven, this magic board grants the winner dominion over the loser. Playing the game requires 13 turns of separate skill checks (3 history, 2 bluff, 2 arcana, 3 intelligence, 1 wisdom, 2 extra of the players choice)skills are chosen secretly and rolled against each other. Loosing any skill by 5 or more gives the winner an extra win in which they may choose which skill their opponent losses. For example, two players are competing on the first turn player a wins arcana vs bluff by 7 and elects that his opponent must use bluff on round two, which player a wins automatically, and play continues on round three, player b may use bluff again, but it now must be one of his wildcards.
a medium sized pedestal that contains 4 potion flasks that glow faintly with their own illumination.
These are potions of vigialance and grand the imbiber the recovery of one daily power, they can also be sipped over a 15 minute period and grant the user all the affects as though they had spent an extended rest. If interrupted during the 15 minutes the effects are lost. Drinking the potion in either way also counts as a milestone and will award one action point.
Each rug is 5x5
Geometric rug will fly at 10 and carry up to 600 lbs standard action to activate sustain as minor
Blue same as geometric but travels over or under water allowing io to two persons to breathable air
Patch work is deployed for an encounter as a standard action (cannot be moved until the end of the encounter) during which time any one person standing on the rug gains +2 to all defenses, resist 5/variable and cannot be forcacly pushed pulled or slid. This item may only be used once daily
15 small statuettes (seemingly small carved versions probably commissioned by wealthy patrons, 13 are of humans, but two are of animals... one bull and one wolf)
3 of these are female figures, 6 are of male personas and 4 were destroyed.
Simon was able to identify 4 individuals:
Usundra, a legendary huntswoman of epic renown believed to have been the inventor of the recurved greatbow. She is the source of legends and tales of great deeds and accomplishments, dates of origin unkown, believed to be mythical.
Jasken, a man that history tells was credited with the idea of coins used in place of barter, legends say he was a fat man of great intelligence but little kindness, dates of origin unknown.
Trellen, a nobleman credited with the foundation of nations and governments. History mentions that his blood runs through most of the noble houses of the Nentir vale, date of origin unknown, believed to be mythical.
Sartes, a woman known for her sense of reason and rationality. She is credited with intellectual thought but also known as a strong patron of the gods. History tells of her founding some of the first temples and structures to the gods. Although she was a devout worshiper and patron of the gods, some histories also decry that she renounced them upon her deathbead. Some histories recount her claim that the gods fooled mortals into worshiping them merely to gain power. Histories conflict over the time that she may have lived, some mentioning that she was the original builder of temples but some also place her death near the time of the bloodspear wars. Histories are also split over what became of her, as some mention she was burned before her final demise as a heretic, while others say that the gods themselves appeared at her funeral pyre and carried her essence off to become one of their own.
1 rolled tapestry (depicting a golden city surrounded by blue flames)
this item activates a shield around argent that lasts for 7 days
3 lead bars (approximately 3 inches by 3 inches by 10 inches)
sky metal already used
3 sturdy wooden chests (one rotting with an oily residue leaking about its base, two intact and with stout locks... one an iron padlock and the other an iron lock with key built into the chest)
two destroyed one contained the champion armor set
1 ornate carved ivory lap desk with writing utensils
non magical
2 pedestals with busts carved from some sort of lavender stone
one of a lady that was destroyed the other of a man with elven features
1 odd white leather bag that contains 3 books (1 titled in common "chronicles or eptimus" one that is blank with reddish tinted pages and one with two locks closing it firmly with some form of runic writing on the outside)
ce: containes rituals: arcane lock, knock, sending, linked portal, remove affliction,shadow walk, planer portal
Red paged book is blank
Locked book: far sight, magic map, whispers of the edifice, reverse portal, adjure, magic circle
Bag will hold 1 cubic foot ofnmaterial imparting the contents resist all 10, anything within then bag is 1/6 lighter
1 small statuette of a human sized hand cast in brass or gold
this item binds oaths, upnto five oaths can be bound to it at any given time and binding a new oath removes the oldest oath bound. The item currently holds five bound oaths, death it seems does not remove a binding
12 sealed scroll cases, 3 marked with a symbol that Zane believes means death, 3 with a symbol that he believes means pestilence, 3 with a symbol he thinks means suffering, and 3 with a symbol that he means penitence.
breaking the seals on these items releases the magic held within
3 small metal boxes the size of large coffers, each has a hinge but no obvious opening mechanism
thesenboxes are affected by light time and planets
1 section of kit that is seemingly exotic materials and incenses (zane believes them to be rare spell components of approximately 5,000gp value)
spell components
1 3'x6' mirror on an ornate stand that is currently covered with a gossamer fabric.
objects shown in this mirror can be tracked by the argent scrying pool for some period of time
18 round black spheres spaced precisely upon a wooden plinth, the area around the spheres seems to have withered/faded slightly as if being exposed to bright light for many years.
This is the game chaven, this magic board grants the winner dominion over the loser. Playing the game requires 13 turns of separate skill checks (3 history, 2 bluff, 2 arcana, 3 intelligence, 1 wisdom, 2 extra of the players choice)skills are chosen secretly and rolled against each other. Loosing any skill by 5 or more gives the winner an extra win in which they may choose which skill their opponent losses. For example, two players are competing on the first turn player a wins arcana vs bluff by 7 and elects that his opponent must use bluff on round two, which player a wins automatically, and play continues on round three, player b may use bluff again, but it now must be one of his wildcards.
a medium sized pedestal that contains 4 potion flasks that glow faintly with their own illumination.
These are potions of vigialance and grand the imbiber the recovery of one daily power, they can also be sipped over a 15 minute period and grant the user all the affects as though they had spent an extended rest. If interrupted during the 15 minutes the effects are lost. Drinking the potion in either way also counts as a milestone and will award one action point.
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