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Topic: GMs - Most Memorable *Player* Characters?
Subject: hmm
Well, as I have only even attempted to DM one game, and that was only a couple sessions and rather improvised I can only think of one character my player, and yes only 1, ran. I believe I have mentioned this particular character once before in another thread.
He was a Doppelganger, bard if I recall correctly by the name of Vash, who would use his abilities to not only blend in as he traveled, but tell tales the audience truly wanted to hear using detect thoughts. Well in my desire to keep things relatively simple to start out with I put this lone doppelganger, who was currently in the guise of a halfling bard, up against a gnoll, he barely survived the battle, only doing so by reverting to his natural form and using his slam attack, but not before nearly losing an arm to a mighty axe blow, in an attempt to make it to the next town before more showed up he assumed the form of a lumberjack, taking the gnoll's axe and headed into town. Blood loss and severe trauma however caused him to pass out at the edge of the village. The locals brought him to their doctor who stitched him up and cared for him a couple days, when he awoke Vash had no memory of who or what he was, not even his abilities. From time to time he would catch glimpses of people's thoughts accidentally, but nothing else.
The plan was to guide him further into the story without his Detect Thoughts ability giving up way too much information about what was coming next until he could recover his memories and abilities.
The player enjoyed the few sessions we were able to do, and thought I had handled the whole thing rather well and creatively, and would have continued if he had not moved away
Posted on 2009-11-15 at 19:03:10.
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Topic: I'm Collecting Birthdays!!
Subject: Birthday..
I'll keep this simple, May 26th, 1985.. Which as you may well be able to calculate makes me 24, 25 next May.
Posted on 2009-11-15 at 17:52:16.
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Topic: What is your favorite weapon for a fantasy game
Subject: Fair enough
Teleport is probably useful for avoiding melee, personally I lean toward casters with a little more survivability in melee though, like my personal favorite the Warmage, usually with a single level of Fighter to reflect some martial training during his Warmage training, instant proficiency in martial weapons is just an added perk when compared to the RP value..
Posted on 2009-11-15 at 16:44:39.
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Topic: What is your favorite weapon for a fantasy game
Subject: tsk tsk Mer
Even a spellcaster has to have something to fall back on Mer, even if it is just some dinky dagger or a staff, after all, spellcasting and melee just don't mix too well, and you can't always count on the meatshield to stop everything from reaching you.
Posted on 2009-11-15 at 16:34:31.
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Topic: What is your favorite weapon for a fantasy game
Subject: well..
It depends usually on what type of character I'm playing, but whenever possible I use some kind of sword, usually a rapier for rogues for the crit range, and a bastard sword for fighter types, the option to use it either one handed or two handed makes it a favorite weapon for me, and I collect katanas anyway, so I have a soft spot for them.
Either way, one cannot argue with the importance of the trusty backup dagger that just about every character I play keeps somewhere on them.
Posted on 2009-11-15 at 14:31:52.
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Topic: Memorable Deaths
Subject: hmm
I wouldn't call them memorable by any means, but I have had a couple characters end up dead in the course of a story or two.
The first was a rogue/ninja character I had made, my work schedule at the time however meant missing pretty much a month at a time, at which time I was content to allow another player to play my character to avoid being left behind and slaughtered by himself. Well during one such day that I had missed a session the guy who was playing my character decided my ninja would scout ahead, while walking down the middle of a path, not sneaking or hiding, and not even invisible. At which point he was ambushed by several poisoned blowdarts, the sneak attack damage alone was enough to kill him, but the poison ended up dropping my Con to 2 or something even if I had lived.
The other was my last character, a swordsage, who apparently decided to have a little too much free will. When asked by the self appointed party leader, a wicked cleric/warlock, if he would blindly follow orders and do only what would serve the party best my character in all his CN glory asked what exactly was being asked of him, refusing to answer the question without further information. Apparently this upset the cleric of Nerull, and he had our evil ranger friend scissor my head off with his twin katanas, and yes, the DM allowed this to happen, even when the good cleric (of Pelor) in the group decided to try and step in to help me he let them get away with threatening her life as well. I later learned he had put the warlock up to it since he did not like me playing a swordsage, and as such I left that game..
Posted on 2009-11-15 at 06:34:52.
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Topic: What is your Favorite Character Class and Why?
Subject: agreed
I was actually thinking the same thing as Merideth, really interesting character ideas Shadow.
Kinda reminds me of the time I let someone play a doppelganger, then opted that severe trauma and a near death experience rendered him unable to shapeshift due to amnesia, leaving him effectively stuck in one form until he could regain his memory somehow.
Posted on 2009-11-15 at 05:49:25.
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Topic: Hello All
Subject: Hi
Welcome to the community, as you can likely tell I'm rather new myself, but I'm almost always lurking around somewhere.
Your reasons for not playing 4e sound just like mine, $30 a book is just crazy when you've already got a collection of the books from the previous (and in my opinion better) edition. I haven't bothered with 4e because I have somewhere in the range of 40+ 3.x books and that is a lot of money just pushed aside for a new edition of the game..
Posted on 2009-11-15 at 05:41:54.
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Topic: Leaving the Pack, the start of a short story.
Subject: Thanks
Thank you much for the kind words, and I hope not to anger you, but sadly my muse has been rather lazy of late and inspiration seems to evade me.
Posted on 2009-11-14 at 06:02:58.
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Topic: What is your Favorite Character Class and Why?
Subject: Favorites?
I've always enjoyed the Warmage class, nothing quite like spontaneous BOOOOM! and armor to protect ya. Yeah you could get more spells and more utility out of a wizard or sorcerer, but then you're so squishy and the d4 hit die really sucks.
Someone already said this, but I have to second it, the Swordsage is a very fun class, problem is the one time I was allowed to play one the DM decided he hated my character and had one of the other players kill him, and then refused to let me re-roll another 'sage, limited me to the PHB only, even though the rest of the group was some combination of warlock/something else, ninja/something else, or ninja/warlock. Needless to say I left that group after being screwed over like that.
My first character though, and I know this isn't exactly the point of the thread, was a Ranger, and if the game I made him for had lasted more than 1 session (damned scatter-brained DM) I may have enjoyed him a lot more.
A fun fallback when I am limited to PHB classes though is the Rogue, sneaky, versatile, and deadly with a blade...what's not to like? Especially if you can add on the Insectile template from Savage Species.. My Insectile Halfling Rogue single-handedly derailed an entire game once..
Posted on 2009-11-14 at 05:08:00.
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Topic: Leaving the Pack, the start of a short story.
Subject: Leaving the Pack, the Story of Wolf Blacking
On the fringes of society, at the edges of what most would consider civilized culture, lies a small, secluded village hidden carefully off into the great forest known by most as the Wild Woods. It was in this village that the animagi made their home, only wandering out from time to time to barter with the other races of the land for the few things the forest and its inhabitants could not provide for them. For generations this is exactly how it was, for generations no animagi dared to travel more than a couple miles from their forest sanctuary, none had the desire it seemed. That was until a young man known as Wolf came of age and set out to see what was beyond the woods, what the world had to offer, and what secrets his people were missing out on. This is his story, so sit back and enjoy and learn what happens when someone breaks from the norm of their society and dares to be different.
But before we can get to that I think it is only fair that I explain exactly what an animagi is and why they lived this reclusive life for so long. On the surface these proud forest dwellers appear human in every way, the only tell-tale difference being that every animagi has black hair streaked with silver, and in fact before Wolf's adventures many of the other races assumed they were nothing more than uncivilized humans afraid of change. In actuality though, the animagi are much much more than human, they are shape shifters, more specifically, they all possess the extraordinary ability to assume the form and ability of any animal. This means that an animagi who assumes the form of a falcon gains the bird's amazing eye sight as well as the ability to fly, and one taking the form of a cheetah could run just as fast as any other cheetah, and one taking the form of a spider or scorpion would be able to poison those who threatened him with a bite or sting. Not only that, but an animagi can communicate perfectly with any animal while in the form of the same species, birds with birds, felines with felines, and so forth. It was these amazing abilities that had caused the animagi to go into a self imposed exile many, many generations ago, seeing their gift as a blessing from the powers of nature and change, but having the foresight to know that humanity is a jealous race and would be envious of these abilities, perhaps even afraid of them and seeing them as monsters. So for many ages the animagi have lived on the edge of an ever expanding human culture, moving as required to stay hidden for the most part, and the majority of them were more than happy to live this life.
Wolf Blackwing was the youngest son of a large family, even by animagi standards, and as such had many, many different influences in his life, not only his parents, but their parents, his aunts and uncles, and his many siblings and cousins as well. Through the years he listened to the stories his family would tell, stories of life in the woods, the creatures that they shared the woods with, and even the occasional tale of a brief trek to the nearest human village to trade. The tales of life beyond the forest had long been Wolf's favorites and he would ask to hear them again and again, fascinated by the thought of people who were locked into a single form for all their lives, but even more fascinated to hear of the many things these people could come up with to make up for their obvious flawed inability to change forms. These fascinations only got worse after his eighth birthday when one of his uncles brought him back a book from a trip into "the world beyond the trees" as the young boy had come to refer to the outside world. The book chronicled the many adventures of a group of brave adventurers, a human knight, a half-elf sorcerer, and an elven healer, as they fought injustice in the world and stood up for the weak. Needless to say, this young boy had read the book cover to cover many times over the next couple years, until he had practically memorized it word for word, telling the stories to his friends around the village. Eventually he began to make up new stories, telling new tales, tales of an animagi who left his tribe to find a place in the world beyond the trees, a fanciful foreshadowing of his life to come. It probably goes without saying that many of the older members of his village thought such tales were childish and foolish, and many hoped that he would grow out of it soon and give up these delusions of a great life outside the forest they had called home for ages.
As was the custom of his people, Wolf was trained in the arts of tracking and hunting, how to survive on the woods and what was provided by Mother Nature. By age 12 he was one of the best young hunters in his tribe, regularly bringing in good catches, supplying much of the village with good meat. And even though he had found a nice niche in his society he never truly gave up on his obsession with the outside world. He no longer referred to the rest of the world as "the world beyond the trees" though, he had grown to understand that the forest was not a separate place, but a part of the world that was ever growing around them. He trained harder than most of the other young hunters, mastering not only his bow and blades, but also the use of the animal form that was his namesake, the wolf, he learned quickly that no matter how good his eyes were, the nose of a wolf was always better for tracking his prey, and he could usually keep up with a wounded animal better on four legs rather than two. By no means was he the first to hunt in the form of an animal, but he was one of the youngest to figure out these tricks and master them in ages.
Over the years he grew not only older, but more skilled in his hunt, on two legs and on four, but no matter how old he grew he continued to remain fascinated with the cultures beyond their borders. Each year on his birthday he would go further and further, getting ever closer to the borders of his home, getting closer to the land beyond, but never fully leaving the forest. That all changed on his nineteenth birthday when he finally made it to the fringes of the forest. Before him stretched grassland as far as the eye could see, the blue sky was vibrant and clear with only a few scattered puffy clouds in the sky. The sun beamed down, much brighter than he was used to under the cover of the trees, but his eyes quickly adjusted. Curious to see more he shifted into a falcon and flew up high above the tree tops to get a literal bird's eye view of the broad new world that had opened up before him. From up here he could see for miles and miles, tracing the horizon with his keen eyes he spotted a small village, wispy trails of smoke rising from the little stone houses, and before he even realized he was doing it he was soaring off toward the village for a closer look. By the time he snapped out of it he was nearly half way to the village, several miles from his forest home. He quickly remembered that the village was counting on him to bring back food and quickly turned back toward the forest to complete his hunt and get home for dinner. Leaving the nest would have to wait for another time when he wasn't obligated to his people and family...
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This is about the time the creative juices stopped flowing, so I tied it up as best I could and will continue as more comes to me.
Feel free to comment, ask questions, and even offer criticism, I'm looking to improve my skills, and any tips are appreciated.
If you think I need to add anything, or omit anything, please let me know.
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Posted on 2009-11-09 at 06:39:56.
Edited on 2009-11-19 at 22:43:47 by Shield Wolf
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Topic: Greetings
Subject: yesss
I feel at home already
Posted on 2009-11-06 at 18:02:13.
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Topic: Greetings
Subject: don't worry
A little insanity now and then is definitely not going to scare me away, I'm nuts! I have been quoted time and time again as saying things like, "normal is boring", "sanity is over-rated", and "insanity makes everything more fun!"
Posted on 2009-11-06 at 17:41:27.
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Topic: Greetings
Subject: s'ok
Trust me, I've dealt with worse than threats of face licks.. I used to work in a prison after all. XD
Posted on 2009-11-06 at 16:46:10.
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Topic: Greetings
Subject: more
I think the saddest part of my gaming experience is the fact that the 3 examples I have listed are the only DMs I have ever played under...
I'll probably run several ideas by other DMs here, so I can hopefully avoid being another bad DM experience for someone else, any and all tips anyone can offer are greatly appreciated.
Posted on 2009-11-06 at 16:42:04.
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Topic: Greetings
Subject: Greetings
I came across this forum while searching various sites for online tools I could use in gaming sessions and signed right up since this seemed like a good place to find help, tools, ideas and so much more.
A little about myself now, My name is Randal, I'm 24 years old, married, and a proud (step)dad. You can call me Randal, or if you prefer to go off my screen name then Raven is fine as well.
I've played in several DnD games, none of which have been very enjoyable in the long run. It seems every DM I play under has a major flaw of some sort, ranging from the pain in the neck power-gaming munchkin DM who thinks he's God, the DM with a gnat's attention span always wanting to start a new game just to make a new character to play in his own games, and even a DM who had my character killed by another player just because he wasn't man enough to ask me to write up a different character or leave his group.
Recently I have moved to what most would call the middle of nowhere, and as you can imagine it can be a little hard to find gamers out here, especially considering I have no friends in the area yet. I have resorted to attempting to run an online game, more of a practice run for DMing than anything, with my wife (who I'm trying to teach) and another friend. Problem there is that the other friend is in the middle of exams and has had no real time to make a character, so we're having to wait a while to even get things rolling there too.
So as you can see my gaming experiences haven't been that many or that great, but I will not let these setbacks destroy my love of the game, and look forward to getting to know my fellow gamers here. Fair warning though, as my name may imply, I tend to wander a bit, so I may not be the most active poster or contributor, but I will do what I can when I can.
Posted on 2009-11-06 at 15:26:34.
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