Recent content by Samuel Cole

Can confirm that 4e fights are long. We're in Adventure 13 and just finished a battle with Harkover Lee. It took two sessions and about 5 hours of playtime.

Whoa - one of my players said, "That doesn't look like Srasama, it looks like a dragon." I definitely saw a giant flaming woman when I first looked at it, but now I can also see a dragon, and it flips back and forth between the two images like one of those vase/faces things. Brains are weird.

This pic was taken of the California fires this week, and mirrored to reveal the presence of Srasama in our world.

In our campaign, we're using Inherent Bonuses so that no one "needs" to use magic items if they don't want to. This allowed me to take away ALL of their magic items when we got to Danor. Your magic staff is just a stick now.

In Adventure 8, we learned that performing the Sacrament of Apotheosis requires the sacrifice of a lion, a whale, an eagle, and a dragon and using their blood to paint words on the subject of the ritual. This is awesome not only because of the four-elements theme (earth, water, air, and fire)...

The RHC feels more like the CIA to me than like a uniformed service, so in our campaign constables are indicated by a badge rather than a uniform. It's led to some great scenes in which the PCs are infiltrating somewhere and suddenly whip out their badges to put someone under arrest. Also...

My party also chose to kill off Rock, so I just replaced him with another NPC: the cousin of a PC who served as an undercover contact aboard the Avery Coast Railroad. Since the character is from a PC's backstory, the party has a stronger emotional connection to her, and it's also allowed me to...

This sounds like a great way to put the PCs in debt to a nefarious NPC. Perhaps Governor Stanfield bails them out, then makes it clear that they owe him a favor. Later on, when they're starting to figure out that he might be a traitor, he calls in that favor to send them somewhere irrelevant on...

Thanks for the detailed reply, Ranger! I essentially went with your ideas verbatim, with a few story-specific caveats regarding how, exactly, she's going to learn and/or invent this ritual. And yeah, it's been quite a journey from level 1 to level 24, and epic tier play has been completely...

One of the PCs in my group has gotten deep into planar magic - she's an elemental warlock skyseer with the planeshifter PP and the planeshaper ED. (They're currently level 24 and are in the second half of adventure 10.) This gives her a lot of teleportation powers, including several ways to...

Wait, really? I thought I'd made that up. :-(