[Adult] Guide to Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, thread 2

[Sorn]

Ok, I stand corrected on TG Shamans... I guess even though I read the class when looking for art, the overpowering mental image of Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes in drag trying to mesh with the typical image of a shaman with animal bones etc. made my brain shut down. When I showed the draft version to a few gaming buddies, they all skipped right over the TG PrC due to the title, so a new name might be in order. Looking at the book titles Captain Calico posted, how about these:

"Two-Spirit Shaman"
"Berdache"
"Changing One"

Personally, I lean more towards Two-Spirit Shaman, since up until now, I had no idea what a Berdache was, and Changing One kinda implies more tradional shapeshifting/polymorphing.

re Pregnancy rules: I don't want to add any complicated rules, however, instead of having a dry description like "Some races do X, others do Y", use actual fantasy races and it sounds a lot more gaming related.


re mundane equipment: Excellent job. When you are done, could you send me the finished chapter and I'll get it ready for layout (plus get artwork). And you are all right... sex toys are pretty old inventions. Same thing for picture booklets. I think this could replace the Porn Periodicals quite nicely. The booklets should be expensive, since they will probably be hand-copied. Alternatively, how about a list of art objects (like in the DMG) including erotic items.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Thanks, Sorn - and I recommend we call them Twin-Soul Shaman. It just sounds good, rolls right off the tongue.

 

[Kichwas]

[Bre Pregnancy rules: I don't want to add any complicated rules, however, instead of having a dry description like "Some races do X, others do Y", use actual fantasy races and it sounds a lot more gaming related.[/B]

The rules I created on page 3 of this discussion were designed to be anything but.

Their purpose is to prevent complexity and allow for the presense of rules in those places within the issue that they belong.

 

[kolvar]

@arcady: I think we are not talking about your rules at the moment, but about what is already in the guide.

 

[Sorn]

What kolvar said. Right now, we have 14 pages in the pregnancy chapter, some of which are gaming-specific (effects of polymorphing, undeath, spells, etc.). Most of the remaining pages is a rather vague dissertation about cultural differences that has a lot of good points, but does not give any concrete references to any fantasy races.

Arcady, your rules are great, and should definitely replace some of the stuff we have right now, but if we can mesh these two somehow (even if we just put some notes on pregnancy in the "Sexuality by Race" section) it would truly be outstanding.

This weekend, I will definitely attack the magic item section in full force. I was planning on doing it during the week, but my boss went on medical leave, so I was somewhat swamped at work (plus the constantly running nose didn't help... allergies suck big time).

Addition: read the chat transcript for the Chat with Monte Cook. There are some tidbits on sex in the upcoming Book of Vile Darkness. There won't be any rules for sex per se, but some short descriptors on how villains might use sex to attain their goals. Very interesting. Here's a link

 

[Kichwas]

Sorn: Meshing the two is my intention. In a way that keeps it:

simple
fast
sensible
d20 consistant


If I haven't done so by the end of the weekend you can all line up to come over and b*tch-slap back into order.

I've got a number of race ideas too but I'll not do those until I'm sitting down with my MM to make sure I don't step out of bounds with any of the races, even where I personally disagree with the MM.

 

[Sorn]

Arcady, sounds good. (The meshing, not the slapping).

If I don't get done with the magic items, I'll have my wife slap me around... but then again, I might enjoy that... who knows...

 

[Anabstercorian]

Alchemical Creations

[COLOR=silver]
Item.............................Price.....Weight....Alchemy DC
Aphrodesiac (Male)...............
Aphrodesiac (Female).............
Contraceptive (Male).............
Contraceptive (Female)...........
Lubricant........................
Performance Enhancer (Male)......
Performance Enhancer (Female)....

[/COLOR]

Okay, the previous equipment post has been finished. Go look at it. What do you think the alchemical brews in here should cost?

 

[Kichwas]

BTW; the piercings thread is something we might want to address in the guide.

there are two regions on the chest and a few 'in the briefs / knickers' that could be used to place piercings and there's no reason not to enchant something there...

 

[Merior]

There are options for piercings as well other than the ones that you listed, tongue and lip come to mind especially even if they might attract attention to the wearer in most civilized regions. I've got two items along these lines somewhere about that I worked out, now if I could only find them... I'll try to dig them out to post by tonight.