MTG Salvation

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I've allowed the Paladin in thursday's game to pick up a few feats from that book. It's not so bad in and of itself. However, I ran the dragon encounter with the pre-generated 20th level PCs from the GenCon delve. One of the guys picked the Bo9S character, and it was completely BUSTED. Not than any other 20th level character isn't uber-powerful, but wow.

On the subject of other books, I got my copy of Dungeonscape yesterday. Quite a few useful things in there speaking as both a DM and a Player. I'm interested to see how the new base class will actually fare in a real campaign.

2 days until Magic Item Compendium!

Some of the 9th level manuevers are a little crazy. Moment of Perfect Clarity, for example, made my jaw drop. However, +100 damage compared to say... wish? Yeah. Damage is primarily irrelevant past level 15, when the game becomes "Save or Die Land".

I wonder if Magic Item Compendium will be worth the purchase?

On the Mafia game: The time commitment wouldn't be huge, really. Whoever is playing would be the only one really invested in the process, but that person would have to check the game at least once or twice a day to play effectively. There is a pretty good description of it here. I think one of the ideas they are throwing around is to let the clan members talk to each other when it is "night" in the game through pm or in a google group that will be set up for us so that there will be more interaction. Again, if no one else wants to play, I would be happy to do this for us.

On D&D supplements: I'm not very excited about the Magic Item Compendium. I'm not really even sure why, as I've always picked up things like this in the past. The book that I've got the most mileage out of, personally, has been out for quite a while. The Savage Species Guide has been one of the most useful and fun books I've ever used, both as a player and a GM. As a player, I love playing something outlandish, or at least something out of the ordinary. As a GM, I love throwing some kind of template onto a mundane creature encounter to really throw off my players, especially if there is a ranger of some sort in the party.

Hello everyone just wanted to drop by and say hello and see how everyone is doing in here. I just wanted to say im at draklor's laboratory right now in ff12 and im going to try to finish the game before this friday. I shouldve finished the game a long time ago but i was lazy and rather play dragon quest 7. Well see you all later!

Love,

Cecilia/Kevin

Here's an article I've located on game localization. It's short, just like me and this post.

Thanks for sharing that article, Dave. I wish someone would interview the people at Atlus R&D about their localization stories. Anyone can tell that AR&D is the hardest working bunch of translators out there because it shows, but I've never really known anything about them other than that.

I dunno about the Magic Item Compendium. I'll probably have it in some form or another because I'm a sucker for magic items, but I'm not sure how useful it'll be. Having all the information there at once will be nice, though. What I really want to see (and never will, unfortunately) is more supplemental material for Incarnum.

Usually our playgroup comes up with our own campaign settings, I guess. I REALLY like Eberron, though, and would run a campaign for it in a heartbeat if I had the books.

My d20 Modern homebrew, Wasted City, is very similar to the Shadow Chasers setting in the core book, but it's a lot heavier on the horror and mythological references since I'm such a MegaTen fanboy =)

The games I've run have been in Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Kalamar, and my own world that I've been working on for some time now. My favorite setting to run (other than mine) is the Kalamar setting. Something about it just sings to me.

Do you people know about the legality of downloading the D&D books off of the internet. Either way what is your opinion of people doing so.

Just like with any sort of file sharing, it's illegal. However, it happens and the impact on the sales of those books is about the same as it would be if the downloaded file were a video or newly released album.

I have done it in the case of books I want to preview, and if I like them, I usually go out and buy them. I do have a few PDFs of books I have already purchased, too, so that I can transport my library easily from house to house without hauling 300 pounds of books around with me.

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Just wondering, what campiagn settings do you guys use, if any? I am using Forgotten Realms for my current campaign, but I have my own world I am also making. Just wondering...

This isn't the answer that you're looking for, but I run my only campaign at the moment in a small Vodacce village of my own making (NE of Numa), around the time of the war of the Cross.

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Here's an article I've located on game localization. It's short, just like me and this post.

Nice article. Thanks!

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Do you people know about the legality of downloading the D&D books off of the internet. Either way what is your opinion of people doing so.

I have some digital sourcebooks that I don't IRL. It's wrong, but I strongly consider the wrongness to be inversely proportionate to the size of the company, as smaller companies are much more hurt by even small sales losses.

Alcar, what game are the images on your banner from? Specifically the woman in the middle, whom I only recognize from the hyakugojyuiichi animuation.

I figure this is the best place to bring this up. Is there a name for the genre of books based on games (specifically computer or other video games)? (that might also extend to movies, since those have been coming out as well) I was doing a book report, and my book was Lord of the Clans by Christie Golden, which is based on Warcraft. I figure if anyone knew the name for the genre, it would be you guys. If no one does, why don't we come up with one ourselves? Its the internet, who knows, maybe it'll catch on.
Oh, and I have to gripe about having the stomach flu. I did it last year, and maybe it will become a traditional (hopefully not, as I would rather not get it every year).

Edit: How does one attach images to a post?

When a movie or game or other non-book media is translated into book form, it's called a novelization of the movie. I don't know if there's a general term for books that are simply based on other media.

I've heard it called "source fiction" or "source fantasy" by some people, but I'm not sure that's an actual term so much as an ad hoc thing.

Random question sparked by goings-on in my WCZ campaign in the Inn: Has anyone else ever created NPCs for a campaign that they intended to be one-shot characters, then felt the incredible urge to make them recurring, fleshed-out characters? I know Josh has, and I certainly have a million times by now (hence there being a wiki for Wasted City on the whole), but I was wondering if it's a common thing.

Just the opposite. I have a couple of PCs that my players gave up on that I've fleshed out from when they left the party around 3rd level, up to the current party level of 16. I expect jaws to drop when they reappear as evil NPCs.

What are these NPC's? I only deal with Gamemaster Characters. Why are these "living, breathing" figments of our imagination striped with such a term? Does having a player make PC's special in any way? Only in that they get appropriate leveled challenges handed to them :mad:. You better believe they're all spoiled brats. (Redcloak's preface to the prequel Order of the Stick book has opened my eyes.)

Ether: Not yet ;).

Where's [Mythos] when you need it? I came up with an interesting idea, if anyone wants to join me. Make a list of mythological heroes and rate them according to the six abilities of D&D (Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis, Cha). So far, it looks something like this:
Str: Heracles (duh)
Dex: ? (Bellerophon?)
Con: Achilles (except for his heel)
Int: Odysseus
Wis: Theseus (?)
Cha: Jason (seriously, the guy never did anything himself. He just gets a boat full of a heroes and a sorceress, then sits back and relaxes)

Edit: I was asking about images because I was thinking of finally getting a banner. Any suggestions as who to go to? As for the banner, I was thinking of the flavor text from Sparksmith and have pics like my avatar. Any suggestions as to which card images? (red and white would be ideal)

Myths by ability score, eh? Lemme think here...oh wait. Goetic demons. That seems easy enough.

STR: Glasya Labolas
DEX: Furfur
CON: Belith
INT: Vassago
WIS: Agares
CHA: Man...an even split between Astaroth and Seere, I think.

I dunno who to go to for a banner, Blane, because I generally make all of mine myself. I'd look around the places you frequent and see if anyone else's banner catches your eye, then ask them where they got theirs done.

STR: Thor
DEX: Heimdall
CON: Possibly Baldur, barring that whole "dies if shot by a Christmas decoration" thing
INT: Loki
WIS: Odin
CHA: Freija

That's just an oddball guess. If we really wanted to be nerds, someone could crack open Demigods and Deities and check.