Industrygothica's "Those Left Behind" [OOC]

[Friadoc]

Oh, have I had those moments before, both as a player and as a DM.

I once had a player, during one of our early 3e games (post playtesting) who got mouthy about how good my rolls behind the screen were and I asked him if he wanted me to roll my next hit in front of him.

He said yes.

So I rolled in front of him, a natural 20, confirmed by a natural 20, and followed by a natural 20.

Instant death, a roll we agreed at the beginning could be applied to players and NPC/foes.

So, our monk was one-shot by a skeleton.

Everyone froze, until I said to the player, "Normally, I would have just fudged that to be a crit, but you wanted to see the roll...Sorry, make a new PC."

He never asked about my rolling again.

 

[Scott DeWar]

I use defense rolls in my gm ing. i also use the pathfinder alpha release rules. if a defensive roll is a 1, it is a possible crit. i really keep it simple, unless i feel quite vindictive and i may just have a foe stableize and regain conceisness eventually...not to mention i use black company masterwork rules and may have a foe with a master work weapon or armor, or both and just tear into a particular pc.

 

[industrygothica]

I'm not familiar with Pathfinder. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of alternative rules at all. Even additional source material designed for the PC side, such as the Complete series, grates at me a bit - there's just so much information it's difficult to keep track of.

Now, extra DM material is another story. I like that, just because it provides more content to present in your game, and as a DM a can prepare for it ahead of time rather than having to look up funky spells and what not all the time. (Yes, Shayuri, that finger is pointed at you. )

But I digress...and am off to discover just what in the world a Scintillating Sphere is.

*ducks*

 

[Friadoc]

Well, if you ever wanna look at Pathfinder, IG, it's still a few download.

It's Paizo's attempt to continue with the development of 3e, using it for their Pathfinder Campaign Setting and such.

Now, on a side note, we're using the saw character gen rules for when we made our characters, right?

6 level, same starting money,et al?

Now, with respect to your comment about the complete series, would you prefer I just use a regular core class instead of the scout I was looking at?

I'm totally cool sticking with the core classes, as I don't have the Complete series, anyhow, I'm just using that website that has the info on them.

Heck, the only extra 'core' books I have is Unearthed Acana, I don't even own the PHB II.

 

[industrygothica]

Well, if you ever wanna look at Pathfinder, IG, it's still a few download.

It's Paizo's attempt to continue with the development of 3e, using it for their Pathfinder Campaign Setting and such.

Now, on a side note, we're using the saw character gen rules for when we made our characters, right?

6 level, same starting money,et al?

Now, with respect to your comment about the complete series, would you prefer I just use a regular core class instead of the scout I was looking at?

I'm totally cool sticking with the core classes, as I don't have the Complete series, anyhow, I'm just using that website that has the info on them.

Heck, the only extra 'core' books I have is Unearthed Acana, I don't even own the PHB II.

Feel free to use the scout. I've already allowed material from the other sources, I'm not going to disallow them now. Just tell me what book it's from so I'll know where to look if I have a question.

Use the same generation rules as before, please. Still 6th level.

 

[Friadoc]

It's from the Complete series, Rogue or Adventurer I think (Shayuri would know for sure), but thanks to Shayuri there is this nice link that has the info, too.

http://www.crystalkeep.com/

Thanks, IG. I should have him done sometime tonight, I've my Star Wars game today, plus finals this Sunday, but I've got my idea mostly all settled.

 

[Friadoc]

Place Holder of Forth Coming Character

Name: Buurt Wolfhart
House (Martial): Wolfhart
Race: Half-Orc
Nation: Duchy of Urnst
Patron: House U'morael
Class: Scout 6

Reference links for chargen:

House Entry, non-noble, martial - http://duchyurnst.org/wiki/index.php?title=House_Wolfheart

Race - http://duchyurnst.org/wiki/index.php?title=Half_Orcs

More to come...

 

[Scott DeWar]

scout kicks butt!! i think it is in the complete adventurer. we use the Pathfinder (alpha release III) in my game that i dm. i like it lots! the table game i play in we are going to go to Pathfinder system eventually (I think when we reach lvl 20 or something like that)

 

[Shayuri]

I didn't know that, IG. My apologies.

I will, in the future, include quick descriptions of spell effects. I would have done that all along had I known.

Scintillating Sphere is from Spell Compendium. It's basically an electrical Fireball. Identical in all ways but energy type.

 

[Jemal]

So lemme get this straight.. I'm standing in a temple, with a bunch of kids like 10' away, holding a newly-formed chaos beast?

eep!