DarkMatter D20: Drunk Southern Girls with Guns ... UPDATED - 8/18/05!

[jonrog1]

Denis is one of our regular D&D players who'd missed our two other DarkMatter one-offs. He plays Roscoe Tosscobble, the mild-mannered halfling cleric who likes making muffins, but will occasionally flash-fry something when Corean tells him it needs smiting. Then, back to the muffins.

And hey, I take no credit for Jo's "Nerve medicine" crack. Actually, I think it may have come from the next adventure, as Jo wasn't quite so disturbed yet.

Then the very, very bad things happened in this adventure, and her sanity skated out into the middle of the thin ice. And stayed there. So if I moved the quote early, my bad.

My conversion uses classes -- four converted ones from Alternity. I've been tweaking them according to what comes out and I like. Actually, CoC doesn't QUITE fit the tone of this campaign. Low level Spycraft mixed with the Shadowchasers system in Polyhedron is what I'm hacking together now.

Spycraft is just magnificent by the way, both it and its campaign world are insanely well written. That Chase system is lovely.

Thanks for all the feedback. And a warning. Things start getting real grim next chapter and stay that way. All kids out of the pool.

 

[Lazybones]

Another great thing about ENWorld: there are so many great threads here that you can "discover" one on a lazy Friday at work (when the boss is on vacation ) and whittle away a few hours in glorious distraction.

Anyway, finally moseyed over here, enjoyed the story a lot. I like the mix of horror and humor that everyone else who's posted here have already commented on. I'll definitely put this one on my "check back every few months and collect updates list."

 

[Horacio]

Really wonderful, of course...

Bad men are coming...

I like that phrase

 

[LightPhoenix]

Um, jonrog, about Raw Recruits...

It's been a while since I've played it, but did you alter the ending at all? It seems like the group missed a very big point which led to a different ending (sorry, trying not to spoil...)

 

[jonrog1]

I wouldn't worry about spoiling the sample adventure from a discontinued sub-system in a discontinued gaming system ...

They did miss the across-the-street-neighbor. They didn't arrive in time to see the "doctor" leave -- who wasn't all that crucial anyway, was he? Hmm, as I was pretty much playing the thing with the book open, I can't think of any way they went askew -- or at the very least, this was one of the major endings.

By the way, if I wanted to try posting some of this conversion, what forum would it go under?

 

[fenzer]

bump...

 

[fenzer]

I would like to see what you have put together, conversion wise that is. I think the Conversions or d20 Systems Games would be reasonable places to put your ideas, though I think Conversions would be your best bet.

Let me know where they end up.

Hey Jonrog1, just a quick question. Did you submit anything to WotC this last week?

 

[jonrog1]

Hey Jonrog1, just a quick question. Did you submit anything to WotC this last week?

Nah, was busy finishing up an assigment or two -- and to tell the truth, world-building is a little less interesting to me than sytem-building. Who cares what my King Fendrick the 3rd is up to?

To me Scarred lands is the perfect setting -- detailed enough so that if I want to know what the official setting NPC's are up to I can make a quick guess, vague enough that I can impose my own agendas on them.

For the update to this -- going to write it now. It's a tricky one, so I wanted to take my time.

 

[fenzer]

For the update to this -- going to write it now. It's a tricky one, so I wanted to take my time.

I guess that's good news. It gives poor suckers like me a chance.

For the update to this -- going to write it now. It's a tricky one, so I wanted to take my time.

Sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Are you referring to your conversion data or are you continuing your story hour?

 

[psychognome]

Just discovered this one, and I gotta tell ya, it's a beauty. It's easy to see that your group is all writers from the dialog. Keep it coming!