And...COMM'd
I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Volans - Dec 23, 2020 2:43:10 pm PST #26108 of 26133
move out and draw fire
Kalshane - Dec 30, 2020 10:34:15 am PST #26109 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
So my son is asking me to run D&D for him again. I'm already running a homebrew Campaign for my friends (started in-person, moved to Roll20 because of the pandemic and now possibly moving to Foundry because Roll20 is annoying me) so I haven't really had time to put anything together.
I'm thinking about possibly starting an online game with him and his cousins and running Sunless Citadel into Forge of Fury into Red Hand of Doom (the last would require converting to 5E, but it looks like a lot of people have done it and posted their work online.) I haven't run any of them before, but from what I've read it's easy enough to tweak them to chain them together fairly smoothly.
My other thought would be Temple of Elemental Evil, which I've also never run, but I played through the video game about a million times and helped out with some modding on it, so I'm pretty familiar with the overall plot.
megan walker - Dec 30, 2020 1:38:15 pm PST #26110 of 26133
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
PANDEMIC
Um, are we still playing?
Volans - Dec 31, 2020 12:00:47 am PST #26111 of 26133
move out and draw fire
Kalshane, those are all good choices! Red Hand of Doom is one of the best campaigns ever.
billytea - Jan 01, 2021 8:01:27 am PST #26112 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Um, are we still playing?
Ryan and I are still happy to do so, but I don't know where things stand with the other players
chrismg - Jan 02, 2021 8:07:38 am PST #26113 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I'm good, but Hec may be taking some time off. Someone in Natter said they'd checked with him recently.
Gris - Jan 03, 2021 4:50:45 am PST #26114 of 26133
Hey. New board.
Gud hasn't posted in a long time. I'm a little worried. I emailed him.
chrismg - Jan 04, 2021 1:00:21 pm PST #26115 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Right, Hec. I know my Davids apart, I swear.
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2021 10:26:52 am PDT #26116 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry I dropped off in the middle of a game. Went through a rough period.
Kalshane - Sep 08, 2021 6:14:10 am PDT #26117 of 26133
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
So with my bad back and my desk chair being one of the few places I can sit without pain I've been putting a ridiculous amount of time into Solasta: Crown of the Magister on PC lately. It's a turn-based 5th Edition D&D CRPG (though it uses the SRD rather than the full license) and I'm having a blast with it. (It reminds me of the old Temple of Elemental Evil video game, but less buggy.) I've played through the official campaign twice and am now working my way through some of the many user-created dungeons and trying out various mods.
Much like ToEE you create a full party (4 characters in this case). As part of character creation you assign them personality traits that influences what they say during cutscenes (though the system isn't quite as robust as I would like as some lines are always said and can seem out of character when they come up.) My favorite character I made so far is a Sellsword Dwarf Rogue who comes across like a sarcastic London street tough.