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Glad to hear it worked so well. Sounds very exciting. PC and I had a very interesting conversation about skill challenges. I tend to be much more of a gamist than a simulationist (where I think he tends to be the opposite), and the differences in what seemed natural to each of us made for a...

That's a perfectly good question, now that I think about it. While A Rose on the Wind is a 4th Ed game, certain critical elements of the world of the Halmae, well established in the previous campaign, are no longer present in 4th Ed. Like, say, familiars. There's just no way that Lira's...

Fascinating to read. Glad to have gotten all caught up. I'm still feeling my way in the dark through 4th Ed myself, so it's nice to gather the additional data points. Our first fight was a horrible, drawn out sloggish affair, but that had a lot to do with me using a bunch of swarms, and the...

Awwww. My players are the best obsessive, non-rich people in the world... ;) Can't wait to see how you guys write it all up. For the curious among you, I will share three teaser-like facts: 1) Roseanna is Giovanna's daughter 2) Giovanna... is Lira 3) The events described above actually...

Thank you, sir. With age comes Wis bumps...

She sent me an awesome cheezy e-card. And speaking of awesome, her new job is it. Big round of applause for Spyscribe.

An interesting theory, to be sure. Alas, at this point of the story, Eva is the only one who has ever met Kemmer...and she was not present during the Remmer/Reller/Regger adventure. Which makes the theory a bit tricky for anyone in the party to confirm, doesn't it? ;) And, no matter how much...

Now, now. Spyscribe has to dole out the updates in nice, small chunks if she wants to be able to use them to deepen her hold over you and forge you into an unstoppable army. ("Minions! Turn control of your government over to me or there will BE no updates!") Seriously, did none of you...

Well, it's really just a question of what kinds of things would be profane to Alirria, he said, and left it to the reader's imagination to take it from there...

Honestly, sometimes I need to remind myself that my gods don't behave like most gods. You wouldn't believe some of the plot threads I came up with, developed, and then chucked out 'cause my gods just don't do that kind of thing...

That is, indeed, the question. Credit where it's due, please. Spyscribe is the author. I'm just the inspiration. ;)

You do seem to be presupposing that Lira was actually conversing with Ehkt. Remember, dieties in the Halmae tend not to take distinct anthropomorphic forms. Assuming that it wasn't simply a dream or hallucination created in the last moments of Lira's life, then at best it was presumably some...

The not drinking was just about him trying to get an advantage over the others in the negotiations. What happened during the negotiations was, quite simply, that the party pointed out that the Tranquil Shores, a magic ship larger than the Fool's Errand that could be sailed with fewer people...

There is a great deal of both backstory and gameplay in the Islands of Agramount that never saw the light of day. See, it occurred to me that, after the PCs helped topple the rightful government of a secluded island nation, there might be a bit of social and politcal issues fallout. Thus I...

Gosh, Steven, thanks for asking... ;) Figuring that a) while playing Testy was probably fun and all, I should give Spyscribe a little something to compensate her for the long delay in getting Lira raised, b) Spyscribe loves Euro, and c) Euro was one mightily pissed off weasel, I created the...

And it's possible, it's just possible, that I just forgot. Wouldn't be the first time. As it was, there were two other things that I forgot in that fight: the first was the sigil of Summon Monster VII installed in the center of the throne room, set to summon 5 Fiendish Dire Deionychuses...

The problem came about because I did not quite fully describe the Null Shadows the first time they appeared. I had, in my head, a clear image of crouching humanoids, with glowing red eyes, long claws, and strangely, snuffling noses. In fact, as I described them, I stoop on my chair, crouched...

It was one part dramatic expediency, and actually one part game design. I had certain things that I needed the Count to say to the PCs before the fight began. Specifically, I needed him to introduce the Anarcanist, and to state that he had made preparations for the day Barnabus might turn on...

Mental note: Don't tell Gold Roger where we ended our last session...

Any divine caster can cast fire spells; it's only arcanists who can't cast fire. Worshippers of any other god can cast fire spells for the same reason that you don't have to be Kettenite to cast raise dead, or Alirrian to cast healing spells, etc. Also, an interesting and relevant tidbit...