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[ArcaneJazz]

Thanks for helping people, Cancer. The thing is I am using the defense variant so that armor is less important of a factor in the game. Now if you just want armor for cool aesthetics, thats a whole other thing and you can look however you want. In which case you can forgo the damage reduction to also get out of the armor check and max dex penalties. Anyone who wears armor this way will also only add half its weight to their load. You're kinda just wearing money at that point, so I'm not going to charge you gold for equipment that does nothing either. So at that point, you are paying nothing to wear a little weight and look super cool

[ArcaneJazz]

I just made up that rule on the spot and I wish I had been using it for ten years ha!

[Yogge Mothi]

Made a minor tweak to my gear/character. Maia's 'Lenses of Healer's Vision' are what make her eyes a vivid amber. Without them, she's got hazel eyes.

[ArcaneJazz]

I just figured it was magic.

[Code H]

A wizard did it.

[ArcaneJazz]

Originally Posted by Code H

A wizard did it.

Hahah, also known as the Xena Defense.

[Code H]

Or rather...
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[Cancer]

So I'm quite excited to get this game on the road, how about everyone else?

It will be the first time I'm playing an incarnate ever.

[Code H]

Very excited. If Arcane doesn't hurry up I may have to begin constructing my orbital space laser. For, encouragement.

[ArcaneJazz]

Originally Posted by Cancer

So I'm quite excited to get this game on the road, how about everyone else?

It will be the first time I'm playing an incarnate ever.

Originally Posted by Code H

Very excited. If Arcane doesn't hurry up I may have to begin constructing my orbital space laser. For, encouragement.

Oh my.. lol

I just want you guys to know I am working on the intro. Turns out coming up with this intro is becoming humongous. But once I get lift off, things should be a bit simpler. Thank you all for your patience. No lasers please. They hurt.

[Cancer]

Orbital Asteroid Redirection Device sound about right then?

[Code H]

I don't know, an asteroid can't go, BURRRRR, OHHHHHHHHH, BZZZZZZZZT

[Code H]

So I've got one of those DMing stories I feel I should share. Last night I was running a game out here in real life to introduce some new players to 3.5e.

While sitting around in a small farming village, a panicked woman comes running towards the PCs. She is screaming about a missing child. After asking around a bit the PCs find out this is the fourth child to go missing from the village, and the number one suspect is the creepy wizard who lives in a run down keep a few hours walk from the town. So the PCs set out arriving shortly thereafter at the keep. After knocking and there being no reply they enter the keep. Over the next few hours they fight off swarms of animated objects and reanimated dead. They later come across a journal, detailing the wizards efforts to change living matter into gold and they run into a poor tortured bear, an early test subject.
This is where it gets good.
They enter a alchemical laboratory, filled with bubbling liquids of strange colours in complex glassware. The room is cramped with tables filled with beakers and flasks and glass tubes connecting some to others.
The rouge asks immediately if he can see, "the end result" like if there's a beaker collecting the final product of all of this.
I, having not really given it much thought say, "yeh, there's like four beakers that seem to be collecting the end product."
And the rouge replies, "I grab the nearest one, and chug it."
I reply with a confused stare and by allowing my mouth to go slightly agape.
It's funny too, because just a half hour ago I had introduced them to their first trap, a simple trapdoor that also somewhat involved the bear mentioned earlier. And from that moment they had been cautiously checking every floor tile and door for enchantments and trip wires. Then, upon entering the alchemical laboratory of the wizard who has been kidnapping children and experimenting on bears to turn flesh into gold the rouge's first thought is, I want to drink something.
I hadn't really given much thought as to the exact function of the mysterious brew, but is there really anything else it could have been? So I tell the rouge to roll a constitution check. He fails dismally. So I say, "You collapse to the floor, writhing in terrible agony. You aren't dying, but you're in far to much pain to act."
The Paladin has the idea to force him to drink water and vomit, not on the whole a bad idea, but I decided that would be ineffective, as the potion has already taken effect. So the rest of the party is like, "Kay". They leave him and go on to fight the wizard.
After they have defeated the wizard and saved the children they come back and use the alchemy lab to brew an antidote. The Bard of all people had taken some ranks in craft alchemy. So a happy ending at least, but by far the most I've ever been taken aback by a player's actions.

[Cancer]

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Wow. Just Wow.

you play with some interesting fellows Code.

[Code H]

I know right? Who takes alchemy for a first level skill?