Super Squirrel

Re: The cranky thread

Got hit in the head by a beer can walking home from work. My flash drive failed and I lost over two weeks of editing. I'm cranky but not as cranky as I would otherwise be. I guess that means I've become happier with life again.

Re: 6E Rules changes confirmed so far

All the other Characteristics will remain, but none of them will be "Figured," i.e. derived from other Characteristics. They'll all start with a base value that must be bought up separately. The costs of some of them have been "tweaked" -- no further details yet.

 

OCV, DCV, OECV, and DECV will become separate Characteristics, not derived from DEX and EGO. They'll start with a base value of 3 and will be bought up separately.

This should be enough of a change that I can convince my housemate to start playing Hero. She hates math and complicated systems.

Also the impact this has on things like Drain is wonderful. This makes things so much simpler to figure out and calculate mid-game. I have to admit that I like it.

As with all of my campaigns, there are spoilers. Players in my game should avoid reading the thread.

I've got this wonderfully interesting world under creation for my next campaign. I'm not far along yet with the campaign design but I'd like to share what I have now.

Fantasy Side:

Morality 2 - Good and Evil are easy to identify but not always

Realism 2 - Romantic

Outlook 2 - Almost Everything Works Out

Seriousness 1 - Campy or Fantastic

Continuity 4 - Mostly serial

The Flip Side:

Morality 2 - Good and Evil are easy to identify but not always

Realism 3 - Neutral

Outlook 4 - Success is rare

Seriousness 3 - Some ironic humor

Continuity 4 - Mostly serial

I'll be running the game from the "Fantasy Side" of things but keeping into consideration what is going on with the flip side.

Arca is a very, very large space ark. The keepers of the ark were collectors that went from world to world collecting a variety of alien species to put into a special habitat. One day, one of the species they acquired managed to "escape" the ark and broke it.

Fantasy Side:

Arca appears to be a single continent on a flat earth. The ocean flows off the edge of the world in all directions leaving all species in this giant island. Their is a sun, weather, and all of the fun expectations of a fantasy world. Playable races include three tribes of elves, three tribes of dwarves, sirens, lolcats, and orly's (a sentient owl species). I'm open to new race ideas as well.

The Flip Side:

Arca is a broken space ship adrift. Fortunately most of the residents of the zoo haven't realized that the colony connected to the space zoo has been exposed and over run by alien life forms. This is a post-apocalyptic setting with the only playable race being humans.

Re: Feudalistic Concerns

I'm not ready to shell out 8.00 for that right now.

Besides, I've got so much material together now, I think I'm good for at least a few months of games. I have some great plans for this game.

Re: Feudalistic Concerns

That's a mighty good resource! Thanks!

Re: Feudalistic Concerns

It looks like between Markdoc, Cancer, and my own additional research, I have all of the information I needed.

In case anyone is curious, I'm working on a Robin Hood-style campaign. The similarities are few. The players are outlaws in a large forest that is relatively the same size as Sherwood forest (I'm calling it Shirewood which was the original name of Sherwood). The King is away at war against a great necromancer army in the south. The king's brother is equally compared to the way modern Robin Hood depictions speak of Prince John. There is no Maid Marion, Sheriff of Nottingham, Nottingham, or even Robin Hood. It is up to the players to figure out how they want to go with the game.

Re: Feudalistic Concerns

That fits with what I have read and understood about the feudalistic process in England. Its good to get that assurance that most of my understanding was correct. I also appreciate the addition to churches AND universities being given free land. That will change elements of this campaign for me quite a bit.

Also knowing that a lord can own land in Grand Lord A and Grand Lord B's feifdom is great information.

It looks like, overall, I need to understand the distinction of exactly what a shire is (besides being what we call a county today). More specifically, what determined what is a shire, who is in charge of it, and so on.

Re: Feudalistic Concerns

Okay, so the Lord Mayor only answers question #3. The Lord Mayor is the person in charge of a large settlement such as a city. I don't know if the Lord Mayor of Nottinghamn rules over all of the county or just that area. But he was the one who appointed the Sheriff.

Re: Feudalistic Concerns

I may have just answered two of my questions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_of_Nottingham

According to wiki, the Sheriff was appointed his position by the Lord Mayor. That would be who he would be responsible to. I hope to learn more about what exactly a mayor is in the next few minutes.

I'm working on designing the feudalistic breakdown of a kingdom for my next fantasy campaign and I've run into a few "problems". I'm hoping that someone can answer a few questions to help me understand this all better.

Note: I'm trying to base this off of the English feudalistic system for reference. While reference to Germanic and French systems may be useful, I'm looking specifically for English system answers.

Regarding land ownership, the King owns the land of the kingdom, the land is given to grand lords as a fief. The grand lord gives sections of their land to lords for smaller fiefs. Now from what I'm seeing, these lords also break down the land even smaller to what are known as vassals. The vassals see that the land is worked by the peasants. First question: Is this correct or are the vassals and lords of this breakdown the same thing?

The second question is based on counties. In the English Feudalism system, a county is known as a shire. What I cannot find is how large a shire is. Is a shire the realm of a Grand Lord, the realm of a Lord, or an entirely different entity?

Finally, a sheriff (aka a Shire Reefe) is the judicial body of a county. Who does a sheriff report to? This, I cannot find information on as well.

In modern Robin Hood references, I suspect the feudalism of the story is badly mauled. Most Robin Hood stories seem to imply that the Sheriff of Nottingham reported directly to Prince John which does not seem to be correct.

Re: Foxbat School Colors

Maybe basing the colors on your class.

 

Freshman - Green

Sophomores - Yellow

Juinors - Orange

Seniors - Red

 

Student Council - White

 

Yes ears are must!

The players are now Juniors so Orange... hmm that could work.

Re: Foxbat School Colors

If the theme is Gummi Bears I would think that monocromacy is the name of the game. White' date=' Green, Red, Orange, Yellow only, no mixing the colors and ears can be assigned, if only to be bitten off first.[/quote']

Mandatory Gummy Ears. I like that.

Without getting too spoilerly about my plans, I need some help with my next episode of the Chester School for Teens campaign. Foxbat is in charge of the new school program. In his many changes, he is implimenting a school dress code that matches the school colors. I need help with the colors and the dress code.

The theme of the school (including its new Mascot) is "Gummy Bears".

Thanks for any ideas you might have.

Re: Via Rebooted - 15 Years Later

Starting now, I'll post anytime I make a major edit. I did a couple of minor edits just now to give it slightly better flow.

*marks the HP down on his character sheet*

Re: Via Rebooted - 15 Years Later

I've decided I'm going to do something cool with Gilian. I'm going to recap each week's session by adding to a musical ballad. It is meant to be sung in they way you'd sing a drinking song with people slapping their legs or stomping their drinks. I'm going to start off with a couple of stanza's to start as there is a lot of information to get it established. Each week we run, I'll add one or two stanzas depending on what happens.

Sit right back and pour another ale

I'm going to tell you a great big tale

Its of the Heroes from Shadowdale

It starts off with a bard it's true

Who wanted to be a hero and do a thing or two

But her honesty kept getting in the way

Twice she found herself taken away

Once by bandits who felt kind of bold

Once by a baron that was cruel and old

Off Gillian set on a simple errand

And there she met a young boy named Aaron

He desperately wanted to hear the young bard play

So he, to the tavern, went on that day

But he did hear some men plot and conspire

They called themselves Children of the Vampire

Aaron left to warn Gillian of the plot on her

But before he could, out stepped Connor

He threw up his fists as they drew their swords

And to the floor they went like boards

But Connor was one and outnumbered 's he

Even though a few of 'em had started to flee

But along game the third hero of our tale

Hope, daughter of Flora, whose skin was rather pale

She game to him and fought by his side

It wasn't long before they turned around the battle tide

Having defeat all of the men they fought

off to the bard the heroes went and sought

She listened intently to the evil plan

And they worked together to defeat the earless man

Late at night did the Children strike

But never before an ambush had they seen the like

Pretty soon they were once again defeated

And their evil plot was completely unseated

This hardly concluded the end of the tail

For these persistent men were made of fail

They came back later and abducted the boy, Aaron

Why is it all bad guys seem to behave like an evil Baron?

/ yeah, its crap but who cares.

Re: Via Rebooted - 15 Years Later

Subscribed.

I'll probably post my Bard's songs from time to time as they come up.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

That sounds familiar. Well' date=' except for the "went off to grad school part"...[/quote']

I wouldn't admit I went to Grad School for Fashion Design either.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

What does that expression mean? I've only heard it as a movie title.

 

And I didn't even see the movie.

Coyote Ugly in its original context means this:

Waking up with someone extremely ugly asleep on your arm, realizing what a mistake you have made and eating off your own arm to prevent any risk of waking them while you are still there.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

. . . Did you really mean that? 'Cus some plaques are really hard to avoid.

Yes but you should go out of your way, doing anything possible TO avoid seeing it. Make an excuse, get a friend to call you and pretend your father died. Do ANYTHING you can to avoid seeing that movie. Heck, Coyote Ugly your own arm if it will get you out of it.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Quotes from last night's Lab Work episode:

GM: Describing a 13-year old boy in a homemade costume with a bow and a quiver of arrows, "He's smaller than you."

Striking Tiger: "Than a Japanese girl?"

Later on, regarding the same superhero:

Singirl: "*sigh* Omnipresent, what are the laws on underage civilians helping out supers?"

Striking Tiger is in an office room where two terrorists are talking. She rolls a 16 on her stealth roll and bumps into a cabinet. For some reason, I asked her if she was in costume or not (trying to determine if they would mistake her for a hostage or not).

Striking Tiger: "I would have to be in-costume. I'm not Brick."

While I was up getting something to drink, Alice started talking about the character requirements for her 15-years later game. Mandy decided she was going to play the daughter of her current character. Mandy's current character is very, well, emo and traditionally she plays short characters.

Mandy: "My next character isn't going to be like that, she's going to be made of sugar and spice and everything nice."

Me:"Don't you mean short and pale and full of fail?"

The Infiniteens have been dispatched to deal with a 8 story tall Labrador puppy.

Singirl: Okay, we need a giant stick . . . or a frisbee."

Singirl: "Who's driving?"

Brick: "I am."

Brick: (I think) "Can we get some sort of pitch only dogs can here . . . ?"

The rest of us give him very perplexed looks as we realize it was a serious question.

After having been chased by the lab all through town, the puppy finally catches up to the Infiniteens flying vehicle (currently nicknamed The Short Bus) and chomps down on it:

Singirl: "Bad dog! Drop it!"

After having knocked out the giant lab, Singirl jumps onto the public broadcast channel of her radio:

Singirl: "Okay, we need some animal control out here."

Animal control arrives before any other emergency services. The guy takes one look at the giant, unconscious puppy and decides to turn around and leave.

Singirl: "Okay, we need some animal control with a really, really big truck."

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

I remember reading those books a couple of times. Was the movie any good?

CES

For the love of all things good! Avoid the movie like a freaking PLAQUE!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

I just critically failed my google search roll. I didn't even see my mistake until it was too late.

I wanted to know how strong pearl is as a mineral. I typed in pearl cleavage into google for pure fail.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

That's what I was after!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

Does anyone know off hand of either the type of rocks/fish/plants that glow underwater or the root word used for them?

Re: The Clown Guild - The First Clan for the new MMO

Dibs on Super Squirrel.