My employees aren't cooperating by taking up my time this afternoon. I may need to extend that to "by this evening."
And for the record I'm very much pro-human, "normal" races nearly to exclusion. This is me going outside of my comfort zone with the shadar-kai. (Who, technically, are human.)
No sweat, whatsoever. That just gives me some MORE time to dread this... j/k
Are you sure that you wouldn't rather slide back into that COMFORTABLE comfort zone?? j/k again.
Well, I appreciate that. Thank you. But I have a new, experimental D&D philsophy that I'm finally trying out much, much, much too late:
MY PREFERENCES DON'T MEAN SQUAT! IT'S THE PLAYERS' PREFERENCES THAT MATTER!
So, please, tempt me no further! Just go forth and be a happy Shadarkai (or whatever).
And, also, while I'm thiking about it: Anyone out there have any reason why the game should not begin this weekend? Lou?? Is your character finished? If not, get renau1g to help! He's a 4EWhizKid! Link to IC thread (when it's opened) will be in the first post of the RG.
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I still can't see Mowgli's freakin' character. I need to have a copy I can see before we start. For real. Mowgli, if you can't do anything else, EMAIL me a pdf, and I'll make the bloody ENWorld post for us poor, underprivileged humans who can't do your computer voodoo.
Anyone out there have any reason why the game should not begin this weekend? Lou?? Is your character finished? If not, get renau1g to help! He's a 4EWhizKid! Link to IC thread (when it's opened) will be in the first post of the RG.
He's technically a defender but more of a mobile defender that pops around and harries foes. Can mark to hopefully pin down targets that go for the healer or wizard (or bard). Enough HP and defense to (hopefully) stay on the front line with the fighter to hold the line and setup CA opportunities/burn down foes. Has some good minion clearing abilities, too. Can also pull foes to him to annoy enemy artillery. Isn't going to pump out a lot of damage. His AC and HP should be high enough to not be a healing liability but honestly I don't see that as much of a problem with the self-healing battlerager.
In other news I hate the character builder. Locked up my VM and I wasted hours troubleshooting. Grr! Just ended up doing the character by hand in about 15 minutes!
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Yes, Abulia, I've seen Taldan. Very quick and good work! Overall, I'd say this has shaped up to be a highly versatile and effective party, which is something of a surprise to me, considering that I fully expected this to be a 'flying-by-the-seat-of-my-britches affair' from start to finish! Now the pressure is squarely on ME to devliver a gaming experience worthy of your impressive characters. (I'll have a wee bit o' help from the WotC module design team, thank goodness!)
So. Let's plan to get this shew on the rewd tomorrow, shall we?
I still can't see Mowgli's freakin' character. I need to have a copy I can see before we start. For real. Mowgli, if you can't do anything else, EMAIL me a pdf, and I'll make the bloody ENWorld post for us poor, underprivileged humans who can't do your computer voodoo.
Patience, please, oh great and mighty GM! I said I'd get it up this weekend! renau1g posted a helpful partial sheet from Wordpad that will give you some of the info.
I have no idea how much role-play we'll be in before we get to the stuff we need crunch for, but surely much of the first day or so of posting will be spent getting us together, giving out descriptions, etc?
For purposes of that stuff - he's a singer and drummer (a small drum slung at his belt - think Native American medicine drum and you'll have a good picture). He doesn't advertise his race; he sticks pretty much to a public persona of a youngish human (maybe a very small amount of elven blood). He's from the Beastlands and has been making his living as a travelling musician, using his wits and abililties to survive on the road.
Hey, if you guys (Mowgli and renau1g) want to work out some shared history and know each other from wherever, that's perfectly cool with me, and will make things that much easier for me, too.
renau1g: First you may need to make Mowgli stop calling you a French car, though! hehe
I'm up for some shared history. We could come up with something clever dealing with Aimhirghin's (that's pronounced AV-ir-yin, btw) shape changing ability, or a chance meeting on the road early in Spike's journey out of the Beastlands in which they saved each other's lives.
I'm up for some shared history. We could come up with something clever dealing with Aimhirghin's (that's pronounced AV-ir-yin, btw) shape changing ability, or a chance meeting on the road early in Spike's journey out of the Beastlands in which they saved each other's lives.
It's up to you, renau1g.
I think that sounds good, perhaps during my PC's (Note: I've changed the name to Khellek, Spike just wasn't doing it for me) investigations to find Winterhaven he entered a tavern in a town that Aimhirghin was stopping off in. These people had never seen a shifter before and mistook him as a werewolf (or other full lycanthrope) and attempted to lynch him, when you stepped in and calmed the situation (being all charismatic and all). They still ran him out of town, but didn't kill him. Aimhirghin might have followed Khellek and spoken to him about the shifter's search for the town (perhaps he was the source that told me where it was? Bardic knowledge and all that). Khellek would tell him the reason for his search (trying to find his sister) and probably as him to accompany him, safety in numbers after all.
I think that sounds good, perhaps during my PC's (Note: I've changed the name to Khellek, Spike just wasn't doing it for me) investigations to find Winterhaven he entered a tavern in a town that Aimhirghin was stopping off in. These people had never seen a shifter before and mistook him as a werewolf (or other full lycanthrope) and attempted to lynch him, when you stepped in and calmed the situation (being all charismatic and all). They still ran him out of town, but didn't kill him. Aimhirghin might have followed Khellek and spoken to him about the shifter's search for the town (perhaps he was the source that told me where it was? Bardic knowledge and all that). Khellek would tell him the reason for his search (trying to find his sister) and probably as him to accompany him, safety in numbers after all.
Sounds good. I'll put it in Aimhirghin's recent history. I'm also thinking that his sensitivity to mood/personality in others (Perception skill plus making a living by knowing what entertains others) allowed him to pick up on Khellek's aversion to lying. That being the case, he would have revealed his shapeshifting ability as soon as he was comfortable enough in their growing friendship.
And Khellek would be surprised at first, but would respect Aimhirghin's decision to stay in a more accepted form, having experienced first-hand the problems that arise from judging individuals based on unfounded prejudices.
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