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[Atlatl Jones]

Nah, Fitz, I am not freaking out at all. As I said it is fatigue (not nerd-rage, a different thing) It is just so, well, lame. And a tad repetitive. I might not like lots of names in fantasy (and most people wouldn't like the ones I make up for my campaign) but at least they are creative. It is not as bad as naming everything like double-dutch: the Oomglay Avecays but it is close .

Fatigue's a good way of describing it. I feel exactly the same way. I can't help but sigh and roll my eyes every time I see a new lamewild doubleworld.

And since I am in a negative mode I though this was funny: "DC 20: The Gloomdeeps get their name from the fact that the caverns are darker than should be natural, even near the surface." errm how are 100% dark 0% light caverns 'darker than natural'? Are they 110% dark

"But... this one goes to eleven."

 

[Xorn]

Run Sunless Citadel and in a menacing, deep voice, threaten, "You now face BALSAG, the great hunter!"

Then realize you've never said the name out loud, and take a 5 minute break so your players can finish laughing, get back in their chairs, clean up the soda they spit all over the battlemap, etc.

So Gloomdeep doesn't sound that bad, to me.

 

[WampusCat43]

I missed the memo. Are we supposed to just sit on this for two months?

 

[Imban]

Run Sunless Citadel and in a menacing, deep voice, threaten, "You now face BALSAG, the great hunter!"

Then realize you've never said the name out loud, and take a 5 minute break so your players can finish laughing, get back in their chairs, clean up the soda they spit all over the battlemap, etc.

So Gloomdeep doesn't sound that bad, to me.

But that's ALSO a double word! Just, er, not intentionally...

 

[Delgar]

Run Sunless Citadel and in a menacing, deep voice, threaten, "You now face BALSAG, the great hunter!"

Then realize you've never said the name out loud, and take a 5 minute break so your players can finish laughing, get back in their chairs, clean up the soda they spit all over the battlemap, etc.

So Gloomdeep doesn't sound that bad, to me.

Sunless Citadel was great. It also had a description of a veiny pulsating shaft...

 

[Cyronax]

Run Sunless Citadel and in a menacing, deep voice, threaten, "You now face BALSAG, the great hunter!"

Then realize you've never said the name out loud, and take a 5 minute break so your players can finish laughing, get back in their chairs, clean up the soda they spit all over the battlemap, etc.

So Gloomdeep doesn't sound that bad, to me.

I got a self generated name that ruined a session's dark brooding tone.

In a backwater frontier city on the edge of a desolate plain strewn with the remnants of battle is the village of Felvoir. The party .... blah blah blah ......to meet the mayor 'Asherack.'

Say Asherack out loud and fast.

That joke lingered and lingered.

C.I.D.

 

[Dausuul]

So every opponent is worth approximately 50 XP per level (elite 100, minion 12); encounter XP is the total of all the opponents; and to determine the encounter level, you divide the total XP by (number of characters x 50)? That seems to work if you assume 4 PCs.

We know that a 1st-level monster is worth 100, a 5th-level monster is worth 200, and a 9th-level monster is worth 400. This suggests that the rule is "XP value doubles every 4 levels." In the mid-Heroic tier, rounding off the numbers makes it look like 50 XP per level.

This is borne out by the XP values shown here. 6th-level monsters appear to be worth 250 XP apiece (encounter with 5 of them is worth 1,250).

8th-level monsters are worth 350 (1,100 for an encounter with three level 6 monsters and one level 8).

Assuming elites are worth double, and that the text is correct and there are actually two shadar-kai warriors with Hutahn, 10th-level monsters are worth 500 (one 8th-level elite plus two 8th-levels plus one 10th-level is worth 1,900).

If we figure that minions are worth one-quarter normal, and round up, then 7th-level monsters are worth 300 XP (one 7th-level plus two 7th-level elites plus five 6th-level minions is worth 1,815).

Sunless Citadel was great. It also had a description of a veiny pulsating shaft...

Even the spammers are moving to 4E. I got an e-mail today promising me a Rod of Colossal Measurements.

 

[Festivus]

I would think you could use this at the end of Keep on the Shadowfell, coming out next month?

 

[Knight Otu]

Düstertief. ... Ekel'erregend'Dunkel.

I'm not sure if I should laugh or cringe...

 

[WhatGravitas]

I'm not sure if I should laugh or cringe...

Move along. Just pretend you don't know what it means!

Playing "Kerker und Drachen", LT.