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  1. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    Just so, shortly after their arrival in the minaret of screams the PCs find and free Barnabus from his tomb and find his gear hidden a short space later. Offering his services for his freedom (for a time) Barnabus is welcomed suspiciously of course into the party. Their scrying magic tells...
  2. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    What Next? So after much deliberation the PCs decide it is time to infiltrate the City of the Dead Sultana. They approach the platform, noting that all bridges connecting this platform to the rest of the city have been destroyed. Some bardic knowledge on the part of the Half Djinn reveals that...
  3. bowbe

    City of Brass: Knowledge (Physical Universe) - wtf?

    Haha its all good Ivocaliban i'm digging your oldschool Boris Karloff icon btw! Case
  4. bowbe

    City of Brass: Knowledge (Physical Universe) - wtf?

    Sorry for any confusion and an over amount of consternation on your part brother Frutkathka. Allow me to quote a bit from the PHB 3.5 (and hopefully not come off as a smart arse in the process). "Below are listed typical fields of study. With your DM's approval, you can invent new areas of...
  5. bowbe

    Best Non-Wizards 3.0/3.5 products?

    Heck Yeah! Our monk got shot thru the tongue and had to talk with a lisp till he got fully magically healed! Awesome!
  6. bowbe

    Best Non-Wizards 3.0/3.5 products?

    Subtractin People I've worked for... I loved Critical Hits! I play a mess o' C&C these days while they sort out 4e rules... and we use Paizo's Critical Hit deck! Love it. Not subtracting people I've worked for: The Tome of Horrors series gets a lot of milage. Reaper Miniatures and...
  7. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    That is very appreciated Obergnom. I understand that the price is stiff on this product. Luckily most of the folks can find a decent discount on this side of the atlantic but I cant imagine how much more it cost you for it with gaming budgets being what they are! For once our canadian friends...
  8. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    "Downtime" So the PCs have some downtime in the COB. So far they are "in the clear" and unwanted as far as they know though for precautions sake they begin to move around under a veil spell when out in general public area to avoid drawing undo-attention to themselves. A few of the Silaal had...
  9. bowbe

    Necromancer's City of Brass

    I believe thats our dwarf friend Glandril in the dino's mouth. Case
  10. bowbe

    Necromancer's City of Brass

    Another picture from when we ran our playtest/game demo at the Hobby Shop Here is the demi plane within the Freeman's Tower as played on some set terrain that they had up in the shop. Good times.
  11. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    Repository: Continued Sorry for the delay. So after the skull of the demi lich was destroyed, who should come across the gemstone with Ard in it but Elandrin. Of course he considered communing with his god to find out what to do with the "ard" situation as it was becoming for this one "truely...
  12. bowbe

    AD&D 1E [For ORCUS] Convince me that I can "do 1E" with 4E

    1ed Feel is 90% a state of mind. I am reminded of a game session Jim Corulla and I sat in on late late at night during the last Gen Con in Milwaukee, with Clark Peterson, Bill Webb, Monte Cook, Steven Wieck, Stewart Wieck, Rich Thomas, Joe Carriker, and Monte Cook. Most people forget that Joe...
  13. bowbe

    Money is power, literally.

    Wicket just hit on why: Batman is one of the greatest superheroes ever: Unlimited wealth is the greatest superpower. and Why: Iron Man is one of the greatest Marvel Super heroes. An insanely wealthy slightly above average aristocrat in a highly magical world could easily "buy" +5...
  14. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    Oh yes friends! To be sure Ard was knee deep in diabolical themed wickedness. How to approach the depths of his evil? Could it be the time that during the battle with the giants in the square where the PCs were seeking to escape getting busted by the authorities for their inadvertant (or direct...
  15. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    Wound of Haruspex So the PCs make the passage from the Lower Gut, The Appendix (Multiple Puns Intended) lead into the Great Repository. The PCs pass onward, cursing the Efreeti who sent them here, as it seems more of the same, and they have a certain fear that they are simply retracing their...
  16. bowbe

    Necromancer's City of Brass

    Yeah, indexing a volume such as this would have been cool. Unfortunately we never know what the exact page count will be until the book actually gets laid out... meaning the layout guy would get stuck with indexing, and thus far it hasn't been on their top 10 list of things to do, as they...
  17. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    Voadam, you are quite right. I'll be honest, I think I probably did give the PCs a reflex save to avoid being landed on and the BAB seemed the most sure way to figure things out... "At that time" in game. If I ran it all now I would probably have done it differently, but no matter. It was one of...
  18. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    The Minaret of Screams: Part 1 The Gullet of the Beast This session begins with the return of the Psion. One of his other games broke up, so his wife let him come back (for now). The PCs had chucked his corpse into a bag of holding after the mission he had died in so its no large manner to get...
  19. bowbe

    As a DM which do you like best?

    To crush the PCs, drive their miniatures before them, and hear the lamentation of torn character sheets. Case
  20. bowbe

    City of Brass: Author Playtest Notes

    Gangs of the Freeman's Tower As you can see, I sort of mixed things up a bit from the description in the book (if you have it). But that is fine. Remember in these sessions I am playing it just like you do. Changing things to suit my party and their needs. After resting and leveling up (because...
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