[OOC] hobnobbing with the riffraff-- random musings and banter

[DaveTheMagicWease]

Originally Posted by HeadofVecna

Thanks for the links! I really liked onedice and miocene. I'm not sure what precise genre the latter would fall under but they certainly had edge. Sikth I had come across before. They're interesting, a little to disjointed at times, and some of the vocals bug me, but interesting.

I was gutted when onedice split up - the one album they did really was brilliant.

Miocene were wierd, they released quite a few EPs but the style really flitted about - heavy one minute, melodic the next, and bizarrely drum n bass at times.

The 2nd Sikth album was less disjointed - its kinda like DEP's shift from Calculating Infinity to Miss Machine - and the two vocalists have both left and they're looking for a new one now, so the next album might be more your thing.

[Surreal]

Intriguing post in the narration thread there CG.

[ChristopherGroves]

Thanks Surreal. I really enjoy writing nebulous, could-be kinds of posts in PbP games. The DM can use them or not, his choice ... they can be tangental, they can be stuff that happens in the background or they can be about PCs.

Like a good prophecy they are all kinds of vague ;-)

[ChristopherGroves]

Anyone out there playing Xendrik Expeditions?

[Surreal]

Originally Posted by ChristopherGroves

Thanks Surreal. I really enjoy writing nebulous, could-be kinds of posts in PbP games. The DM can use them or not, his choice ... they can be tangental, they can be stuff that happens in the background or they can be about PCs.

Like a good prophecy they are all kinds of vague ;-)

Yeah, I have a couple of those way in the beginning of the tangential thread, except they're not so nebulous.

[Fil kearney]

Originally Posted by Surreal

Yeah, I have a couple of those way in the beginning of the tangential thread, except they're not so nebulous.

On that note, I gotta lot on my plate with this game and other things... If folks have specific things they want to have happen with their charcters, please PM me to make sure I am wonrking on integrating your wants with what ACTUALLY happens.

Surreal has som specific thngs he wants to happen with SUl, and now that we are out of sharn, we can see those things begin to take effect.

[Fil kearney]

Alright.. so that is NOT my best art, but what do you expect for 30 minutes on MS Paint?

It does the job. The actual temple floor plans are not coming along very quickly though... You will obviously have to get INSIDE the temple... so I am not worrying about a fully developed floor plan at this time. the terrain around the temple will be available when you get to it.

[ChristopherGroves]

Is anyone going to D&D experience in February besides me? Most of you seem pretty far from DC ... Dave / Fil / Surreal / HoV ... all pretty far

[randomsyllable]

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Is anyone else having trouble logging in? I keep getting messages that I need to sign in. Clearned my cookies, etc. Maybe it's some terrible corporate firewall ability. Anyhow.

[Surreal]

Originally Posted by ChristopherGroves

Go for the eyes?

http://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthrea...67&postcount=6

Absolutely

[Fil kearney]

Hey... sorry CrG for ending our IM talk,... Femlae cmae home and crawled onto the computer.... and, er.

I'm back now!

[ChristopherGroves]

Ha ha ... I'm eastern time so when you're back it's like 3AM ;-)

[Surreal]

So the past few days I've been tinkering with a trio of builds that I affectionally call the "Sisters of Mercy". It started off with me trying to make something using the primordial giant template from Secrets of Xen'drik, though by the time I was done it really didn't have much to do with it, but I left it in anyways.

The builds aren't completely worked out, but I tried to make them fairly different from each other and without relying too much on casting (which I'm overall not a fan of), dipping, or making more Cha monkeys. I took some slight liberties with CR as LA since these are not meant as PCs. Working together, they should be able to present a dangerous threat. With prep time and if they've created an army, then they would be an extremely serious threat.

#1: Swordsage 3/Monk 1/Warblade or Crusader 1/Shadow Sun Ninja 10/Master of Nine 5//Primordial Half Giant 1/Gravetouched Ghoul 2/Phrenic 2/Evolved Undead 1/Spellstiched 1/Lurking Terror 3/Warmind 10
general notes: huge paralysis DC which is contagious, throw enemies into each other (ToB: Setting Sun) to paralyze entire armies, all attacks and maneuvers hit two enemies thanks to sweeping strike (warmind), very high SR with items, more boosts to combat with psionics and spellstiched and backup from sisters, battlefield controller, SSN to drain like mad

#2: Warlock 12/Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil 7/Demonbinder 1//Primordial Half Giant 1/Vampire 8/Vampire Lord 3/Lurking Terror 3/Master of the Unseen Hand 5
general notes: vampire lord template basically doubles all my regular vampire abilities and removes a bunch of weaknesses, create undead with the dead walk invocation, will give her all the crafting feats (huzzah Warlock 12), spellstiches sister #1, powerful defensive abilities, will eventually create clay golems (to power with vitriolic blast) and shadesteel golems which give off tasty negative energy, also eldritch blast negative energy to heal sisters and their undead minions, can turn into demons

#3: Cleric 3/Walker in the Waste 10/Paragnostic Apostle 5/Contemplative 1/Swarmshifter 1//Primordial Half Giant 1/Incarnate 6/Necrocarnate 13
general notes: has all the corpse crafting feats, boosts herself and her sisters via corpsecrafting, focus on necromancy: can create an army of undead, 9th level cleric spells, tank at a conservative 450 hp, versatility through soulmelds which also covers her weakness to water, swarmshifter template for coolness, virtually unlimited essentia with necro

All three have fast healing, are very difficult to turn, and are each quite capable in melee in their own ways. The Ghoul wants to get up close and personal anyways to toss you around, the Lich can take a beating for a good while, and good luck trying to even get close to the vampire. In the meantime, you'll also be fighting off their packs of undead and golems which are all continuously healing each other through copius amounts of negative energy.

Their common tie is not so much that they are undead, but that they need to feed. The ghoul craves flesh, the vampires craves blood, and the lich/necrocarnate craves essence. I have a bare bones (hah) story for them too, but I'm still fleshing (hah) that out.

some stats and stuff:
ghoul: Str +2, Dex +2, Int+8, Wis +6, Cha +12, NA +3, turn +4, SR, saves +2, DR 5/silvermagic
vampire: Str +10, Dex +6, Int +8, Wis +4, Cha +12, NA +12, turn +8, DR 20/silvermagic
dry lich: Dex -2, Int +4, Wis +4, Cha +6, NA +5, turn +6, DR 10/bludgeonmagic


Thoughts or comments?

[ChristopherGroves]

I really like incarnum in gestalt when you're trying not to completely break the world. I really like the third build. May seem like a nit, but what domains were you considering (esp. w/ contemplative)?

[ChristopherGroves]

And ... Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays folks ...

I'll have some real posts in a bit.