Hey guys, getting too busy at work so we will be on break until the new year. If everyone would email me a copy of their characters I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
William
Friday, November 19, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
heads up for monday
It is looking 50/50 for monday play.... at least for D&D. I am getting to the point that work is starting to pile up. I will post monday and let you guys know for certain whether or not we will be playing. If you guys are interested in playing games instead let me know as that has a little higher possibility.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Implements of Argent...
Here's the scoop on the group set items:
Controler's Rod +3 - +3 Att/Dmg rolls; Daily power: attacks also weakens targets (save ends) - Karza has this. Anyone that can use an implement can use this, but it doesn't stack with magic weapons/implements so Karza is probably the only one that would use it.
Leader's Helm - Simon has this. Only affects healing powers so no one else can use it.
Champion's Ring - + 1AC/Ref per set item equiped; Daily power enemies gain vunerability to one type of damage untile end of next turn - Zane has this. Anyone could use this.
Stiker's Longbow +3 - +3 Att/Dmg rolls; Daily power you and one ally gain combat advantage and +10 damage against the target until the end of your next turn. - The enchantment can be transfered to any weapon, so any of us could use it.
Defender's Scale +3 - +3 AC; Resist 10 cold and fire; Daily power attack that "marks" also dazes. - Can only be transfered to chain, scale or plate armor. Simon could use it. Xandra could use it if she took the chain mail feat at 14th level. I didn't see any penalties in the Barbarian description for wearing chain, but I don't know if it would affect any of her powers or feats. I don't meet the prereques for chain, scale or plate, and if I did wear chain my AC would DROP by 5.
So... If we want everyone to have one item Wendy would need to take the chain mail feat at 14th level and transfer the Defender's scale to a set of chainmail (we'd have to find/buy a set that could be enchanted.)
If we just want all of the item to be used, Simon could take Armor and the Helm and the other 3 items would go to 3 of the other 4 pc. Someone would not get the set bonuses, but the 4 that got them would have the max bonus possible. Simon's current armor (Summoned Scale +3) can be transfered to any armor type. And, we have a Greatsword +3 as well. So who ever didn't get a set item could transfer one or both of these items to their armor/weapon.
Controler's Rod +3 - +3 Att/Dmg rolls; Daily power: attacks also weakens targets (save ends) - Karza has this. Anyone that can use an implement can use this, but it doesn't stack with magic weapons/implements so Karza is probably the only one that would use it.
Leader's Helm - Simon has this. Only affects healing powers so no one else can use it.
Champion's Ring - + 1AC/Ref per set item equiped; Daily power enemies gain vunerability to one type of damage untile end of next turn - Zane has this. Anyone could use this.
Stiker's Longbow +3 - +3 Att/Dmg rolls; Daily power you and one ally gain combat advantage and +10 damage against the target until the end of your next turn. - The enchantment can be transfered to any weapon, so any of us could use it.
Defender's Scale +3 - +3 AC; Resist 10 cold and fire; Daily power attack that "marks" also dazes. - Can only be transfered to chain, scale or plate armor. Simon could use it. Xandra could use it if she took the chain mail feat at 14th level. I didn't see any penalties in the Barbarian description for wearing chain, but I don't know if it would affect any of her powers or feats. I don't meet the prereques for chain, scale or plate, and if I did wear chain my AC would DROP by 5.
So... If we want everyone to have one item Wendy would need to take the chain mail feat at 14th level and transfer the Defender's scale to a set of chainmail (we'd have to find/buy a set that could be enchanted.)
If we just want all of the item to be used, Simon could take Armor and the Helm and the other 3 items would go to 3 of the other 4 pc. Someone would not get the set bonuses, but the 4 that got them would have the max bonus possible. Simon's current armor (Summoned Scale +3) can be transfered to any armor type. And, we have a Greatsword +3 as well. So who ever didn't get a set item could transfer one or both of these items to their armor/weapon.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
BAD NEWS from WoTC
Looks like wizards will be stopping development of the character builder and insider tools in their current incarnation. They are moving to a web only character builder option with MS silverlight after Nov 16 and will no longer be updating the old character builder. I do not intend to pay for this service so if there is a charge for it, I would prefer we freeze the rules with the current build of character builder and use that. For practical reasons this would mean not allowing new powers/skills/feats from future releases. I would be interested in everyones opinion of the matter.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Chris won't be there tonight...
He had to go to Hutch to get his car worked on. I've got his 13th level character.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Better late than never...
I'm back!! And, really looking forward to tonight!
This is a reply to last week's post about options, AND to William's post from a couple of weeks ago.
My infrequent play, especially the last few months has definitely made roleplaying more difficult. So, I thought I should re-hash my character background to get myself back in character and let you guys in on what's up with me. Rellys has little memory of his life before coming to this realm. He woke up after a battle with no memory or anyone around to tell him what had happened or which side he had been on. At that point his sword, D'Zerroth, warned him that "they" were comming, and he fled. The next thing he knew he was standing in the feild with you guys.
Since then D'Zerroth has revealed that Rellys has proven himself worthy, has been named the next "Anarch of Shyr," (he has no more idea what that means than you do,) and that his destiny is to battle the primordials and prevent them from destroying the universe as we know it.
Based on that, and what little I remember after my long absense, Rellys' plan focuses on the battle with the primoridals. To that end he opposes Oresmed (the fire giant,) and is inclined to oppose Elindee (because his theft of the pedistal has weakened Argent.)
If it were up to me, this would be the plan -
1. Get another Charim, or to remove the negative effects of having lost the 1st one. These penalties greatly reduce the effectiveness of both Zane and I, and we'll most likely need Charims to defeat Elindee
2. Re-join the rebelion and move their terismen to Argent.
3. Kick Elindee's bitch ass.
William,
I actually really like your GMing style. I don't like being lead around by the nose. It's unfortunate that our original characters died, because I had a much stronger connection to Andros than I do Rellys, but shit happens.
I have 2 issues with your game. First, the options can be overwhelming. It seems like there is never enough information to feel particularly comfortable with any of our choices. And, whenever we do make a choice, it usually opens up even more options and rarely turns out to be something we can "complete." So, we're left with having to make another choice, with more options than before.
Second, since we are litterally free to follow whatever path we want, it's pretty easy for us to get in over out heads. The wipe of our last party was during an encounter of our own level. If we head down the "wrong" path and end up in an area we're not powerful enough to handle, we could easily end up with another party wipe. That possiblity just adds to our (or at least my) uncertainty when faced with all of our possible options.
I don't have a solution. I just wanted to let everyone know my thoughts on it all.
See y'all tonight.
This is a reply to last week's post about options, AND to William's post from a couple of weeks ago.
My infrequent play, especially the last few months has definitely made roleplaying more difficult. So, I thought I should re-hash my character background to get myself back in character and let you guys in on what's up with me. Rellys has little memory of his life before coming to this realm. He woke up after a battle with no memory or anyone around to tell him what had happened or which side he had been on. At that point his sword, D'Zerroth, warned him that "they" were comming, and he fled. The next thing he knew he was standing in the feild with you guys.
Since then D'Zerroth has revealed that Rellys has proven himself worthy, has been named the next "Anarch of Shyr," (he has no more idea what that means than you do,) and that his destiny is to battle the primordials and prevent them from destroying the universe as we know it.
Based on that, and what little I remember after my long absense, Rellys' plan focuses on the battle with the primoridals. To that end he opposes Oresmed (the fire giant,) and is inclined to oppose Elindee (because his theft of the pedistal has weakened Argent.)
If it were up to me, this would be the plan -
1. Get another Charim, or to remove the negative effects of having lost the 1st one. These penalties greatly reduce the effectiveness of both Zane and I, and we'll most likely need Charims to defeat Elindee
2. Re-join the rebelion and move their terismen to Argent.
3. Kick Elindee's bitch ass.
William,
I actually really like your GMing style. I don't like being lead around by the nose. It's unfortunate that our original characters died, because I had a much stronger connection to Andros than I do Rellys, but shit happens.
I have 2 issues with your game. First, the options can be overwhelming. It seems like there is never enough information to feel particularly comfortable with any of our choices. And, whenever we do make a choice, it usually opens up even more options and rarely turns out to be something we can "complete." So, we're left with having to make another choice, with more options than before.
Second, since we are litterally free to follow whatever path we want, it's pretty easy for us to get in over out heads. The wipe of our last party was during an encounter of our own level. If we head down the "wrong" path and end up in an area we're not powerful enough to handle, we could easily end up with another party wipe. That possiblity just adds to our (or at least my) uncertainty when faced with all of our possible options.
I don't have a solution. I just wanted to let everyone know my thoughts on it all.
See y'all tonight.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
likes and dislikes
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
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
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