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Re: Order of the Stick

I wonder if coconut cream pie will make an appearance.

Re: Order of the Stick

Obviously, they are on a desert island. Now, if Elan can only find a second turtle, he can lash them together for a raft. . . .

Re: Order of the Stick

Someone want to tell me WHY a captive paladin is kept with their supersecret weapon??

Because there is no possible way that a paladin could find some way to use their supersecret weapon against them. I mean, first he would have to befriend the monster and earn its trust. Maybe by playing Monopoly or something.

Re: Order of the Stick

Mmm' date=' Read it. I do believe Miko just got dissed[/quote']

 

That was my presumption as well.

Re: Order of the Stick

New one is up. Good luck seeing it though.

Re: Order of the Stick

If there hadn't been a Belkar in just about every game I've ever played in' date=' I would agree that he has no place anymore with the OotS. But there has been, so he does. He's the guy who just can't ever treat NPCs as "real," a combat wombat who has to roll to hit at least once an hour while at the table. You keep him around because you're afraid of what might happen if he's left alone.[/quote']

Yeah. In some ways, those players (and IME, it's usually a function of the player, more than the character. Some people play a combat monster, then a total pacifist, but usually not. Anyway.. . .) are very, very, very easy to deal with. I have had times where most of the group (if not all of them) were of that mentality, and I found that I really didn't have to work on the campaign world at all. International politics, bandit raids on merchant caravans disrupting vital medical supplies, little girls looking for their lost puppy - it didn't matter to them. I really could have pulled out the random encounter tables and just started tossing dice.

 

It was a nice break, for a while. Eventually, the group dynamics changed before I got tired of it, but it did feel more like playing a wargame than a RPG.

Re: Order of the Stick

I don't see Belkar's killing of the gnome as any more evil than many of the other killings he has done. The nasty little bugger is like a Cuisinart of Death, exposed to innocents and without an owner's manual. Really, he should be kept in chains until such time as he can be pointed at an enemy, then set loose in the hopes that he kills people on the correct side, and can then be either recaptured or is killed.

But yeah, he is a caricature of the Hack-n-Slash style of play, so it is unlikely that he is going away soon.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

This turned up on Occasional Superheroine:

http://img.macrochan.org/W/I/WION3BVJ6W3347QCLE5K5GL5F3PEBNFH.jpeg

 

... The Many Alignments of Batman.

 

(linked rather than embedded because it's rather larger)

Right now, the only alignment I have been able to see is Chaotic 404 - file not found.

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

Yeah, they changed that a long time ago, where the summoned pets didn't give XP. But again, with CoH, grinding is not a smart way to lvl-up. Go do your missions, especially if you have the difficulty set up higher. You'll get more XP just for completing the mission than for killing all the creatures inside.

 

-shnar

True, but if you are lvl 50, it doesn't matter. Or if you can only stay for a short period, or want to level before hitting a mission, or (and this is rare now, with the XP smoothing and the difficulty setting), you can actually hit points where none of your contacts will give you missions or a new contact.

In general, however, I agree - I rarely street hunt, unless I am looking for a group or trying to grab some quick infamy or influence in order to make some inventions.

Re: Does anyone have any idea why this is legal?

However' date=' I would also be willing to say that if a target is using MegaRunning (even at the 1"=1km level), he might [i']want[/i] to move 1.258km, but to actually stop on a dime might be a bit difficult.

Suddenly I feel the need to build a power "Stop On A Dime" - scads of PD, only vs. Impact damage caused by sudden stop, Focus: Wall or other solid obstacle beside stopping point.

Re: Does anyone have any idea why this is legal?

OK' date=' so at least make sure the players knows this. Based on my reading of 5er, drag your foes off to the Shadow Realm and leave 'em there was the first thing I thought of. [/quote']

Please do. Really. As a licensed Evil GM, I implore characters to do things like this.

 

PC uses Shadow EDM to move Johny Mugger to the Shadow Realm, then goes back to return the purse to Mrs. Victim. PC then returns to Shadow Realm, secure in the knowledge that Johny Mugger hasn't gone anywhere. Only. . . Mr. Mugger is gone. Vanished without a trace. Vanished, that is, until he returns from the Shadow Realm, wherein he was used for diabolical experimentation/bonded with a demon/drank heavily and learned martial arts and is out for vengeance.

Re: Disturbing Character premises...

This one wasn't disturbing to me so much as irritating. In a Shadowrun game run by another GM' date=' there was an NPC Troll. And his streetname was Trog. For those of you who have never played Shadowrun, Trog is a racial slur against Orcs and Trolls which is supposed to be on-par with "the N-word." It always irked me that the character would call himself that, and allow others (especially Humans and Elves) to do so as well.[/quote']

They call me "Mister Trog."

Re: Disturbing Character premises...

I know I'm going to start a riot' date=' but for me, nine times out of ten the most disturbing thing I see in any game is the gender bender. [/quote']

I've noticed that many people portray the opposite gender in a stereotypical fashion, but, in all honesty, almost everyone portrays aliens as essentially humans in rubber suits, which is no better.

 

It's a game, and acting is certainly part of it. But not everyone is a good actor - that doesn't mean that they aren't good players.

Re: PS238 RPG Cover Preview

I like the little pointer arrow, courtesy of Flea.

Re: Order of the Stick

"Truly, my torment is eternal. . ."

(IOW, new one is up.)

Re: House Rule of X sort of campaign ground rule

One thing we have (for our design criteria) is an AP limit for the turn, so if you want to go at Spd 4, your attacks can have a high AP limit than the speedster who wants to move at Spd 10. This is in addition to guidelines on OCV/DCV, rPD or rED, PD/ED, etc. And all guidelines are 'soft' - for example, if I am building a fire-based character (a la Johnny Storm), then I can exceed the campaigns limits on ED, provided the "excess" ED is "Only vs. Fire".

Re: Best and worst jobs for Superheroes

In a previous campaign, the worst job for anyone was a PRIMUS employee. Those guys had the life expectancy of small insects hovering over a trout stream at sunset. Typical encounter would start with Bad Guy of the Week doing something, PRIMUS and heroes arriving, PRIMUS agents dieing, and then real combat could begin.

Back to topic

Other good jobs might be motivational speaker/paid lecturer. If you are famous enough, you only need to do 4-6 lectures or speeches per year to maintain a comfortable lifestyle.

Re: City of Heroes

Controller Power Sets are tougher still, since Hero doesn't do Status Effects much. It might be worth porting over rules from GURPS or d20, which both do something very similar to Status Effects.

Actually, you can model low-level CoH 'trollers like this:

Normal characteristic maximum

EB, 1 pip, penetrating, X2 END (Oh heck, give 'em a whopping 1/2 d6 if you like. Or make it a full d6 EB, NND if you really need to.)

('Trollers are a lot like mages in certain other games - dead meat at low-levels, but you hit a certain point, and they get very, very powerful indeed.)

Re: Order of the Stick

New strip is up.

And, apparently, inaccessible. I've been trying all day, and still can't get it to load.

Re: Does anyone have any idea why this is legal?

Fire takes too long. Kill it with plasma.

Better, but it needs to be killed in a way that serves as a warning to the ages.

Re: Does anyone have any idea why this is legal?

would any of you allow slot 13?

Depending on the campaign, possibly. As Comic said, however, the range of defenses seem kind of small. I'd be more worried about slot 7:

10u 7) Missile Deflection (Any Ranged Attack), Missile Reflection, Reflect At Any Target, Triggered by Ranged Attack (Activating the Trigger is an Action that takes no time, Trigger resets automatically, immediately after it activates; +1) (100 Active Points)

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

I haven't gotten to play in about a month. Looking forward to the end of January, when I should have more spare time again - I miss my li'l fire monkeys.

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

I prefer to think of it as "differently vertical."

For most of my toons, I think of it as "earning extra badges". For my solo 'troller, I think of that as "normal play mode".

Re: Order of the Stick

How is Roy's Dad still a candidate for Lawful Good heaven when he uses scrying power to be a peeping tom RIGHT OUTSIDE THE PEARLY GATES? Yeah' date=' it pales before some of his other stuff, but it just bugs me.

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My guess is that:

 

Papa Greenhilt hasn't sat down with the Bureaucratic Deva assigned to his case just yet, due to the Blood Oath thing. When he does, if he ever does, he's probably going to be due to a very nasty surprise.

 

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

LMK if you want more fillers for the prestige boost. I can gen up a few as well.