Rystil's Next Game--You Pick!

[Nonlethal Force]

Last time I recruited, I wanted 6 and I got around 14, so I wound up making 3 and letting a few people play in multiple games (but then some dropped). I probably won't make multiples this time, but if I'm feeling particularly generous and full of the holiday spirit, and I've got lots of great players, I just might

[Emphasis in bolding is mine]

So, ummm. I guess you're just stuck with the ones that responded, eh? No great players by the look of things ... Actually, this probably won't come as a surprise (since it seems like a lot of the people who game are in multiple games with each other) but I play with a few of these other guys floating around ehre and truthfully have nothing but respect for the ones who are players in the games I DM. I just couldn't resist giving everyone a hard time!

Oh, and I was kidding about the CD comment about it being broken. (And you being nuts for that matter!) I've heard more than a few people complain about CD. So that was nothing new. Good to know, though.

 

[Rystil Arden]

So, ummm. I guess you're just stuck with the ones that responded, eh? No great players by the look of things ... Actually, this probably won't come as a surprise (since it seems like a lot of the people who game are in multiple games with each other) but I play with a few of these other guys floating around ehre and truthfully have nothing but respect for the ones who are players in the games I DM. I just couldn't resist giving everyone a hard time!

Well, of these 14, I've GMed 4 of them (Bront, BS, Keia, Unleashed), I've played in a game with Jolmo, and I've seen some of Manzanita's work in LEW, so that's already six who I know about first-hand. Then I've heard good things about you from our common accomplices, and the others who I haven't had the pleasure to meet yet in game seem like good chaps too.

Oh, and I was kidding about the CD comment about it being broken. (And you being nuts for that matter!) I've heard more than a few people complain about CD. So that was nothing new. Good to know, though.

Yup, it's totally broken. I've allowed some things that some people think are broken, but nothing to the level of CD. Nothing even close (And that includes the original party in this adventure which wound up including a Paladin of Freedom/Frenzied Berserker and an Incantatrix/Archmage )

 

[Eluvan]

Glad you like it

All of them require a move action to concentrate, and they last 3 rounds after concentration ends (which can be increased to 6 by a feat). Any single target can only be affected by one song from a particular Troubadour at a time (but there's a feat to allow virtuostic Troubadours to carry multiple tunes between their instrument and their voice, allowing targets to be affected by two songs at once. The feats for Lingering Song, Twin Songs, and Extra Songs (which gives +Cha modifier Songs per day) are typically favourites of the Troubadour.

The debuffing effects do not allow SR except for the Sleep effects, but the others have an initial chance to resist and then a chance each round for it not to affect them. The sleep abilities have HD restrictions, but those restrictions raise as the Troubadour increases in level.

Great, thanks for the information. That all seems to make sense.

Sleeping on it, though, has made me not quite so certain that this is the kind of character I want to play in this game. And in any case, it's looking like even if I do get to play, it won't be in the Homebrew, since it wasn't my first choice and I'm guessing that I'll only get a chance to play if you run more than one game.

So I guess I'll wait and see which game, if any, I end up in before I start thinking much more deeply about my character.

 

[Bloodweaver1]

I'm down!
Interested in either the Homebrew or Planscape. (I'm with Bront for Eberron!)
Would you allow Warforges in any of your games?
I've been itch'n to tryout a PW 'forge.
But if not I can come up with something else.
How long until this kicks off?

-Blood

 

[Manzanita]

For what its worth, if you do end up running two, including the Authurian one, it's probably worth trying to find players with a track record. In the adventure I ran on these boards, I invested a lot of plot in the initial PCs, and put in many recurring NPCs, and plot clues. When we suddenly lost two of the originals about 1.5 years into it, even though I re-recruited, it just wasn't the same. I was unable to generate enthusiasm within myself to properly acquaint the new players with the complex plot. Being a fast poster would help. The faster you go, the easier it is for the players to remember clues, and the more ground you can cover before people go AWOL. You're an experienced DM, anyhow; you probably have your own ideas about how to cover this sort of thing.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I'm down!
Interested in either the Homebrew or Planscape. (I'm with Bront for Eberron!)
Would you allow Warforges in any of your games?
I've been itch'n to tryout a PW 'forge.
But if not I can come up with something else.
How long until this kicks off?

-Blood

Warforged...if I ran Eberron, I would make them LA +0 because the Eberron book says that they are in Eberron. But if I allowed them in any other setting, and I probably would not, they would be LA +1, no question. Warforged and Whisper Gnomes, in that order, are the two most overpowered races that are supposedly LA +0. Try looking at the Tiefling and explain its LA +1

 

[Rystil Arden]

For what its worth, if you do end up running two, including the Authurian one, it's probably worth trying to find players with a track record. In the adventure I ran on these boards, I invested a lot of plot in the initial PCs, and put in many recurring NPCs, and plot clues. When we suddenly lost two of the originals about 1.5 years into it, even though I re-recruited, it just wasn't the same. I was unable to generate enthusiasm within myself to properly acquaint the new players with the complex plot. Being a fast poster would help. The faster you go, the easier it is for the players to remember clues, and the more ground you can cover before people go AWOL. You're an experienced DM, anyhow; you probably have your own ideas about how to cover this sort of thing.

Yes, it was definitely tough on me in the Face-to-Face game to acquaint the new players to the complex plotline, and basically what happened is that they got the gist, but the three players who were really really into it remembered everything and slipped the new guys details when necessary

With PbP, it may be easier--If I must re-recruit, and I hopefully I won't need to, I could ask new recruits to skim or read through the earlier sections of the adventure thread, and hopefully that would help--what do you think?

 

[Lord_Raven88]

I voted for the 'Kiss of Darkness' games

 

[Mista Collins]

Man, being gone for the weekend sure left me a lot of reading to do. I would definitely enjoy a Eyros campaign. Then again, I would enjoy any of them. But being I didn't want to heck all the boxes because that would have been silly, I selected either Eyros option. Pirates would be cool, I like pirates.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I voted for the 'Kiss of Darkness' games

Okay, cool