Craziness in the real world - King Arthur the Vampire Slayer

[Nifft]

I have now decided to work a new quest into the game, to recover Excalibur, a +1 brilliant energy undead-bane fey-bane ghost-touch holy longsword.

I just can't see these two overlapping in utility a whole lot.

-- N

 

[RangerWickett]

Well, there's no existing magic item ability for 'light saber.' Consider it a typo. I meant to say +1 f*ck-up-vampires-with-a-sword-made-of-frikkin-SUNLIGHT! undead-bane fey-bane ghost-touch holy longsword.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I'm pretty sure one of the FR books had a "Sunblade" which blade was made of sunlight that did extra damage to vampires.

 

[MonsterMash]

Hmm. Evil vampiric King Arthur, bent on destroying England out of jealousy? Interesting.

In this setting, the human world is called Terra, the magic world is called Gaia, and Japan is the most terrifying place on Gaia. After the two nuclear bombs were dropped, the immense amount of concentrated death caused the magical creatures of Gaia to go mad, and the entire island is a blighted mass of insanity bending to the whims of the rather unsettling popular culture of modern Japan.

One of the players, upon finding out about this, asked if Godzilla was real.

*evil grin*

I'm most worried about Hello Kitty myself!

I remember that there are some local legends about King Arthur and his knights sleeping in caves (in various parts of the UK) to come and save England from dire peril.

 

[S'mon]

Hmm. Evil vampiric King Arthur, bent on destroying England out of jealousy? Interesting

You could have Arthur arise and lead the Welsh/Cymri in a final battle against the Saxon (English) invaders...

 

[Impeesa]

Hehe. Lemme tell you about a Vampire character I always wanted to play, but never got a chance to...

He's about 2000 years old, but he's spent most of that time in torpor (had to be at a PC sort of power level if I were to actually play him). Likes to tell the story of how he was screwed over by his buddy, executed and buried in a cave, then embraced. A touch of the old Malkavian madness compelled him to leave his clothes behind, neatly folded. Still has a few wounds from where he was nailed up.

I mostly just wanted to see how long I could play him before people got annoyed with me saying "It's okay, my son. I forgive you."

--Impeesa--

 

[Gez]

I just can't see these two overlapping in utility a whole lot.

-- N

I noticed the same thing, but that's because in yesterday's session, we had a conversation on how useless and overpriced Brillant Energy is.

Picture the traditionnal dungeon crawl, with the evil wizard and his armies of monsters. The heroes face undead, who can't be affected by the weapons, and constructs, who can't either. The heroes also face aberrations, who have a big natural AC that isn't overcomed by BE. Finally, the heroes face the evil wizard, a normal human. But hey, he's not wearing any armor, so the BE quality is once again useless.

The weapon is not even of a lighter weight despite having most of its mass replaced by insubstantial energy!

In fact, with the rules as-is, I'd rather see brillant energy as cursed items. Cool-looking cursed items that can have a potential use (when facing living, fleshy creatures with soft skin and hard artificial armor and shields), but more a hindrance than a help most of the time. All that for a +4 bonus' worth...

 

[vulcan_idic]

Hehe. Lemme tell you about a Vampire character I always wanted to play, but never got a chance to...

He's about 2000 years old, but he's spent most of that time in torpor (had to be at a PC sort of power level if I were to actually play him). Likes to tell the story of how he was screwed over by his buddy, executed and buried in a cave, then embraced. A touch of the old Malkavian madness compelled him to leave his clothes behind, neatly folded. Still has a few wounds from where he was nailed up.

I mostly just wanted to see how long I could play him before people got annoyed with me saying "It's okay, my son. I forgive you."

--Impeesa--

Let me guess - Brian?

 

[cmanos]

I remember that there are some local legends about King Arthur and his knights sleeping in caves (in various parts of the UK) to come and save England from dire peril.

YEah, they were incorporated quite nicely into a series of kids books. Excellent series.

 

[jerichothebard]

YEah, they were incorporated quite nicely into a series of kids books. Excellent series.

Susan Cooper, I believe, the Dark is Rising series. The Grey King is the best of them, and won a Newbery award.