Grim Tales: SLAVELORDS of CYDONIA - Advance Copy: Taking Q&A!

[JoeGKushner]

Let's see...

Players managed to clear out the secondary ruin with a minimum of fuss. When the crocodile appeared, the highest CR thing they've fought so far, they killed it in the first round.

Then they went and murdered Malakar for deciding that he was going to sacrifice those virgins, because "3 is a sacred number."

Now their going to be doing some direct work for Andros, like getting the mud and hunting down the things leaving all the corpses in the wild.

Right now, the party is up to third level.

They probably won't gain a level next week unless they manage to kill the infested creatures but for some reason, I don't think they'll be able to.

Going to have to start marking some more text as I'm trying to read it, coming across amusing spelling errors. "Ya, you see a lot of shakes in the room." Party got a good laugh out of that one.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

They probably won't gain a level next week unless they manage to kill the infested creatures but for some reason, I don't think they'll be able to.

Have you decided what fetish you are going to use for them? You could go with what's in the text, but personally I am partial to "knots."

The players are going to wonder how they keep popping up right next to them. "Holy crap! It's your boot laces, Jim!"

Going to have to start marking some more text as I'm trying to read it, coming across amusing spelling errors. "Ya, you see a lot of shakes in the room." Party got a good laugh out of that one.

That's odd. I remember seeing that one, too! (And correcting it.)


Wulf

 

[Verequus]

Going to have to start marking some more text as I'm trying to read it, coming across amusing spelling errors. "Ya, you see a lot of shakes in the room." Party got a good laugh out of that one.

I don't get, what the text should be.

 

[GlassJaw]

I don't get what the text should be.

snakes

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

"Shakes... why did it have to be shakes?"

 

[Fenris]

"Shakes... why did it have to be shakes?"

And if Grim Tales wasn't low magic, you could just cast the Shakes to Snakes spell
(or was that Sticks to Shakes)

 

[tameszu]

Going to have to start marking some more text as I'm trying to read it, coming across amusing spelling errors. "Ya, you see a lot of shakes in the room." Party got a good laugh out of that one.

Arg. I hate typos so much.

Thanks very much for the updates, in general--I definitely find them highly compelling. The secondary temple was meant to be mainly oriented toward investigation and providing for some scene-setting/suspense. The infested creatures, especially the rgleths running about in the marsh, are much tougher--and it would take a skilled party indeed to take one out. I can't wait to see what happens next...

 

[Starglim]

I'm just reading through it now. Very very impressive.

One question: was there supposed to be a nihileth/rgleth hosted creature template directly after page 174? There are certainly enough examples to reverse-engineer it but it would be nice to have something official.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I'm just reading through it now. Very very impressive.

One question: was there supposed to be a nihileth/rgleth hosted creature template directly after page 174? There are certainly enough examples to reverse-engineer it but it would be nice to have something official.

The templates for the rgleth, nihileth, and shibboleth psychic puppets are already in Grim Tales.

But you raise a good point-- I'll get them up as a PDF asap.


Wulf

 

[Starglim]

Thanks! I still need to read completely through my Grim Tales.

Agreed that a PDF would be useful for anyone who buys Slavelords of Cydonia to play purely with D&D or d20 Modern.