Nagus Pantojan

Re: Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion And to be fission able material, it would be a higher atomic density. These elements would be more subject to gravity given their higher relative density.

Re: [uF]Advent - Union City Fun to play, unless you count that time we fire bombed the temple of Rao(our only help) by mistake.

Re: [uF] Designing a campaign An old GM i played in his game was big into this with starting with mood music. The trick is finding the tune with the right flavor.

Re: Shadow Angelus You may have the reason for the gradual rise of ESPER manifestation be tied to the rise in the ambient levels of magic. In the early years when the level's were lower only the people with the genetic traits to be truely powerful manifested at all. As the magic levels rose so did the level of ESPER manifestations. Maybe the high manifesting levels in Angelus are a result of the city becoming a "Magic Node" where ambient levels of raw magical power are higher. This would tie in with some of the back material where people are being genetically manipulated to manifest powers. It could even be one of the working theories out there that may or may not be true.

Re: Shadow Angelus Since I played shadowrun for years and even play tested for FASA back in the day on that, I have always had a spot in my heart for the game. Wish I was there to play in this one.

Re: Shadow Angelus If you have access to it you may want to read the background material from shadowrun on the rise of magic, I think you will find it helpful on how they progress the rise of magic. You could even use some parallels of how they develope the races as recessive genetic traits being activated by the raise of the mana(magic) levels. Instead of manifesting as different racial trait sets, it could manifest as various manifestations of ESPER power sets. I know in the past Eosin has expressed a dislike of the shadowrun campaign setting, however there are many things you could use for your game that would be helpful. You could also use some of the shadowrun conversions that were previously done and posted on the hero boards. I cannot remember who posted it, but if there had been interest I was going to run a game with it before leaving Oklahoma. It had good rules builds for cybernetics and also adept powers(a branch of magic you may want to look at). I may build you an Adept example and send to Eddie to look at. As to the extra territorial situation. You would not be able to truely use this. In shadowrun this occured within the Archologies(self contained cities). You could not fit a true Archology into the city as described. I think the limited independance as previously described would for my money be your best bet. Also something to define is not just the public outlook on magic and espers, you also will need to define legal guidelines for the use of those abilities. You will have to consider the civilian use of these abilities. Even is espers are not commonly known, the are sure to exist.

Re: Shadow Angelus I would have to get in on a Gencon trip. Isaac should be old enough to be able to do it.

Re: [Campaign] The Last Dominion Bump.

Re: [Campaign] The Last Dominion Write ups, please help me. I am jonesing for more.

Re: [Campaign] The Last Dominion Yes, write ups. Having to live vicariously thru the party exploits.

Re: First few 4e Fighter conversions There is a mechanic for a passing strike, it is called a move by. very useful tactical choice some times.

Re: Galactic Habitable Zones Hell, some aromatic hydrocarbon compounds actually have sweat odors. Worked doing drug research making new drug compounds for animal testing in college. Some reek, some smell sweet, some are pungent, and some you can't even smell. Most of you sweet charecter aromatics contain nitrogen within the aromatic system(Pyperizine), these are used in the manufacture of may drugs today.

Re: [Campaign] The Last Dominion you really could have used Nagus against these things. They sound very much like the hybrid vampires from blade II.

Re: [Campaign] The Last Dominion Hey, I tried to stop it but there is only so much a justicar can do after taking a knife under the chin. Maybe Najus can come and help at some point. Only a 3 hour drive from dallas.

Re: No Dominion - A FH Story Hour A shameless bump to be able to find it.

Re: Advent - dystopian urban fantasy is this more info on the pbm game we started. If so are you going to try to restart it? Let me know. myron

Re: Quantum Powers I used to play a hero based on this mechanic. Portis(the charecter) had a suite of teleportation powers. He had quantum probibility armor, bought as armor with the cost end to activate disad. He also had the ability to open a dimensional portal to "catch" an incoming ranged attack and open the other end of the portal to "aim" at another target(puchased as missle deflection usable at range on others). He also had teleport usable on others as an attack. The big danger with quantum manipulation as a power base is that if your player is not respectful of the game balance if you were to use a VPP. We had a house rule with our charecters who might use VPP, you had to have powers prebuilt or be able to put them together with out delay or you lost your turn. This was to prevent the bog down while people are cranking many adds and disadds to tweek the power just right. You would see some simpler applications but it made things less disruptive(we had to in our games over the years, Edsel played a mage with a VPP, and I played a mentalist and the above teleport power charecter) The GM eventually asked me to retool the charecter away from the VPP to a MP based charecter. I would require some skill roll to change powers for a VPP( in this case a Quantum Mechanics skill roll) if you try to leave open a wider range of applications then require different skills for different power to simulate(thermal kinetics) for thermal manipulations dimensional mechanics for extra dimensional movement or t-port based powers. This would allow the ability to simulate a wider range of the powers you want without allowing the charecter to run roughshod over the campaign. I would also strongly recomend a hard cap for active points per power out of the VPP, If you have players who are rules mechanics(a couple of us would qualify out of our group) even a modest sized VPP could generate a bunch of powers with the various power mods attached. Bottom line is the VPP is dangerous to game balance and speed unless you have a player that can self govern to a point. If you want any specific power ideas I can try to find my notes from the charecter, I had built many physics manipulation related powers for him.

Re: ShadowrunHero game? I don't know about 4th ed. sucking in shadow run. I played 4th ed. for several years and had alot of fun with it. Hell, I even play tested a half dozen of the rule books for the company and proofed for Mike when FASA was the owners. As to what happens when your money piles up in a shadow run game. If money is stacking up the GM is not doing as he should. I played an Adept for 4 years playing every week and never could save up enough money for a level 1 weapon focus, let alone the kind of money a street sam would need for beta grade cyber ware and clonal bioware. So much is in the execution of the campaign. As someone who has played both systems alot(I know I do not post alot, however I have been playing both systems since the 80's). I would use the dark champions equipment pool system as previously listed. It will get you the closest to the feel of the shadows without knee caping the mage. Happy gaming dude.

Re: [Campaign] The Last Dominion And some of us miss it too! The exile south has sorely cramped my gaming needs.

Re: [Campaign] The Last Dominion Can you say corruption for noble aaron!

Re: [Campaign] The Last Dominion Sucks having moved to texas, now I cannot be their regularly to put the smack down on Rafn's henchmen.

Re: Religious Magic Idea: Looking for feedback.... I play in Eosins fantasy campaign and play the only religious based charecter(the Justicar). What I would suggest is say using the base magic system and buy the spells and endurance pool and recovery with the limitation Faith Based. If the charecter starts straying from what his deity would deem appropriate behavior the GM could start to make spells suffer an increase in end cost and decrease how often the end pool recovers. In our campaign anyone who cast spells uses a separate end pool and the recovery rate(how often they recover) is based on the ambient magic in the area. This could translate into a recovery rate frequency increase while in a holy site, or praying, or periods when the priest is truely doing his deitys bidding.

Re: No Dominion - A FH Story Hour Taken from a letter from Nagus Pantojan to his mentor. Master, I feel that I may need help in the training of the recent pupil I have taken on. The political climate here is very unstable at this time. The situation allows for much in roads into the local culture, but it will take time. I have obtained rights to a crenalated manor house that lies with in the earldome of Jayme Wingate, my traveling companion. It will take some work, but I feel that eventually we can make an excellent chapter house and shrine of Brynn at this site. I have made a sizeable donation to help with a political problem to the Duke of Wingate, I feel he is in favor of our continued presence in his realm. I also must admit a shameful weakness and breach that I fear to see the consequences of. While on a field mission I encountered a creature that I thought was a dryad, in my foolishness I did not make the creature pass the test of salt. It was a hag and it shames me to say that it got what it wanted from me. I am concerned that because of this weakness, I may not be the one to train another Justicar. The boy is bright and learns well, but I would not want to pass on any faulty judgment to him. I know that your traveling days are coming to an end, however in this trying time I really need your guidance. your friend and pupil nagus pantojan