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Games => Role-Playing Games => Topic started by: Nicadymus on February 25, 2005, 11:39:27 AM
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So our group has started another new campaign. It is set in the Young Kingdoms, as created by Micheal Moorcock.
The group is a motely assortment of chaos worshipers. What follows is a short description of each character, but hopefully the players will post more info on their charachers before I post the first segment of the campaign.
Moredew is playing a half Pan Tangian/Nadskorian cancer mage who worships Narjhan, the lord of beggars. I will let Moredew give the description of his character, but I will warn you that you shouldn't eat before reading it.
Morgan is playing a Pan Tangian mariner who worships Pyray, the tentacled whisperer of impossible secrets. He is currently the captain of catamaran; such is the life of one low on the totem pole.
Rican was playing an obese war-priest of Jubilex, a chaos deity of ooze and slime (as taken from D&D), but he didn't last very long. Now he is playing a swashbuckling Pan Tangian follower of Balo, the Chaos Jester.
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ahh, elric, I remember abuseing the rules of the old system causeing massive damage to solders and enuichs :)
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I had to ban PCs who worshipped Balo from my campaign, because one player took it to such extremes we couldn't get anything done.
Stormbringer is still one of my favorite games of all time. I love the setting. I have Dragon Lords, but haven't had the chance to play it yet. Do they have any supplements for the game? And are they planning on doing any more? Anyone know how well it is doing in terms of sales and such?
Blood and Souls for Arioch...
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heh, you never saw EUOL play a priest of Balo. I think he ended up being able to summon him every adventure because of all the points he built up from telling bad punts and killing party members over and over agian.
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Still need a name for this new guy I have, but to sum up the charater is simple, gambling and women and more gambling (dice games) and jokes of any nature. I will post the whole store once I remember to type it out.
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Gee, imagine a guy named Captain Morgan playing a pan tangian pirate captain. Can I typecast myself or what?
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It doesn't look like they are going to be doing any additional supplements to DLoM. I think they have the Corrum books, but I can't remember whether they are for the D20 system or for the D100 system. MoreDew has them, I think.
Last I checked DLoM was not the biggest seller, which is upsetting because I think that is why they nixed the Lords of Law and Chaos Supplement book they were going to do for it.
It think that the game is pretty good for the most part. There are a few things that I dislike, mostly to do with the demon summoning and binding rules. Because there is no such thing as POW in the D20 rules, to bind a demon you have to sacrifice XP (which I don't mind) and an ability point (which I do mind). This is entirely contrary to the typical D20 rules, and, as normal magic weapons are a not common in the DLoM world, an injustice to the players who can't use the fun little towys. In addition, the Invoke and Compel Spell is a Sor/Wiz spell only; clerics can't cast it, which I find entirely contrary to the nature of the world. This is odd as The Theocrat of Pan Tang, a cross class Cleric Fighter, if I remember, has about 5 bound demons.
Another problem that I have is that all of the NPC have astronomically high attributes, that are entirely unattainable by the normal creation rules. While I understand that the PC's are not the "heros," who appear in the books, it makes it a little daunting for the players when they see the numbers of the NPCs and compare them to their characters.
Other than that I don't have any real complaints. Mostly just mechanics. The world is great. I have about 6 different campaign ideas that would be a blast for the guys to pursue. We'll just see where the Lords of Chaos take our players.
Laugh like Balo.
Whisper like Pyray.
Slice with your weapons.
Let the Blood Spray.
Praise Chaos!
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May whatever god you worship have mercy on our souls with Nicadymus as the GM
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Personaly Nicadymas I would just alter the D20 rules to include POW. Some of the best 3rd party D20 stuff uses their own alternate rules for some things.
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What the hell is POW? Why am I always in the dark? Who am I? Ah yess thee drunkeen keepteen.
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In CoC POW is Power, your magical stat, also works as the stat from which your SAN stat is derived, thus determining how likely you are to fall over, giggle, and then eat your own appendages when you see a monsters.
/me shrugs *
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Damnit were back to CoC. NOOOOOO! Thanks Entropy.
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What is CoC?
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Call of Cathulu
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two weeks till gaming
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I won't be able to game on the 19th. I have to work and I can't get it off. I will try to switch with someone, but I doubt I'll be able to get it.
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What days off do you have around then Moredew. We may be able to work something out.
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Can you make it to part of gaming Moredew?
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right now my days off are Wednesdays and Thursdays, but that will change when I'm done with training-which will be in 5 weeks. After that, all the employees will bid on the days they want off and since I'm on the bottom rung of seniority, I get last pick. So that means I will probably have the same days off, or my days off will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
As for making it for part of the day, I highly doubt it because I will need that time to sleep
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Well, can you game the 16th or the 17th? It should be easier for Nic to make it up since he'll be on spring break, and that is over my 7 off.
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I think I could game either of those days, but I had understood that Nic's spring break was this week and not next week. Next week is my spring break.
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Nic Spring break is this week. Maybe we could game on 9th or 10th, but we should talk with Nic to see if it is even possible.
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no way i could do it the 16th or 17th as i have class.
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Class! Work! What ever happened to they guys that would stay up till 6 am in Nicadymas' barn?
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That was still on the weekend Sprig or during summer break.
We still pull all day and night sessions when we can. We usually start about 10 or 11 AM on a Sat. and play thru til 3 or 4 AM Sun.
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The good old days
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EXCELLENT!! There was a scare that Moredew would not be able to game this month, or any month in the near future, with the new job getting in the way. But, like a truly dedicated gamer, he quit the job, and is back on for the gaming session.
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That might explain why I have not moved to CO
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c'mon guys, do you think I would let a stupid career get in the way of gaming?!
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No but I think you would let sex get in the way with gaming. Come on after all you are a guy
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And it is not like we haven't been delayed before cause he had to get the freak on with his wife. OOOOOO JERRYYY!!!!
J ... E ... RR .... Y.... speeeelllllllssssss JERRY!!!!!
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Whatever. I known you check this more than you phone messge Captin Morgan, but what time do you want us to show up on saturday?
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I check my phone messages way moe than I check this out Rican. But when I'm working nights, I don't have much time to call people. :P Show up between 9AM and 9AM