scott
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Post by scott on Jan 6, 2013 2:02:58 GMT -5
Also I forgot to ask, anyone know when the regular games start back up again?
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Post by Nygil, Nickolie on Jan 6, 2013 14:54:32 GMT -5
Nope. Brent is not back in town yet so we have not started planning. We should have a DM meeting in the up coming week though
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Post by Apples on Jan 6, 2013 16:35:20 GMT -5
So finally got my character put together for next semesters campaign. In short, he's a teleporting knife master rogue. Teleports around the battlefield so fast he appears to be in several places at once and sneak attacks for d8s. Had to make some unfortunate multiclass dips that weaken my damage output considerably but I think it's worth it to play as the fourth hokage.... Teleportation arcane school wizard + scout rogue? I like it.
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scott
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Post by scott on Jan 6, 2013 19:07:07 GMT -5
1 level Wizard (teleportation School), 3 levels Horizon Walker, and the rest in Rogue. It's gonna be pretty sick.
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Post by kasiil on Jan 6, 2013 19:31:10 GMT -5
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scott
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Post by scott on Jan 6, 2013 19:51:34 GMT -5
Dimension Door
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Post by kasiil on Jan 6, 2013 20:57:41 GMT -5
Nice, didn't even notice that. Nice pick-up and pretty much what I would have done with my Shadowdancer had I decided to play it.
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Post by RobotSlothmanMD (Chris McC) on Jan 15, 2013 10:41:37 GMT -5
My character: Nokd, the thousand-year-old Oread carpenter/mass murderer.
Nokd (he can't remember his last name anymore, or even if he ever had one) was born in a small village, probably in the dwarf kingdom, but it honestly doesn't matter very much anymore. At any rate, upon reaching adulthood, he became the village's carpenter, and though he had few friends among the villagers, he had even fewer enemies.
One day, the village came under attack by bandits. Nokd took up arms against the assailants alongside other able bodied villagers, and found that he had something of a knack for armed combat. The bandits were driven back with a warning to never return, and when they inevitably ignored that warning, Nokd left only one alive to tell the tale. As the lands grew more troubled, Nokd began to be seen primarily as the militia captain for the village, and only secondarily as the carpenter.
Years passed, and the day came that the town had need of a healer of very specific talents. The only qualified healer they knew of lived months of travel away. Nokd was selected to take the trip, and he prepared himself well, with thick armor and a heavy flail. He finally returned a year later, his quest unsuccessful, to find the town razed to the ground. He searched for years, but never found any shred of evidence as to what happened. Eventually, he realized that his home had become the road, and embraced his new life, joining the Neutral City mercenary guild or whatever.
This life satisfied him, and he took to it well. The day came, however, when he was tasked with what appeared to be a simple escort mission, but became something much more sinister. His entire party, adventurers and civilians, were transported to a nightmarish realm in which all the denizens (of which there was only one village) were afflicted with a terrible curse: every night, they would all lose control and fight to the death, being resurrected with no memory of the event the next morning. Through some twist of fate, Nokd was immediately cursed upon entry to the realm.
The party was able to escape, but without Nokd. He was left to live in relative peace for, as far as he knew, the rest of time. He became a trusted member of the cursed village, and his skills were much appreciated in a town which was regularly very nearly decimated. He made friends, took a wife, and in the daytime, when he wasn't helping rebuild, he drank, trained and studied. He knew in his heart that there was some way to break the curse, though he had no idea what it was, and he wanted to be certain that he was ready when the opportunity presented itself. Before long, though no one actually knew it, he was emerging victorious most mornings, then every morning. Unfortunately, fate apparently had something other than saving his friends in store for the Oread.
One day, after hundreds of years spent living happily, when everyone awoke, Nokd was horrified to realize that remembered the previous night. He remembered losing control and murdering everyone he had grown to love, not the least of which his wife. That day, he couldn't look anyone in the eye, and he hoped and prayed that it was a one-off event. His prayers were not answered. That night, the same thing happened: he killed everyone he knew and loved, and was then forced to see them all ambling around town as if everything was perfectly normal for the whole day. He remembered their faces as they furiously assaulted him, he remembered the rage in his heart as he crushed their chests, shattered their skulls, and slit their throats without an ounce of mercy. Every morning, he remembered it, and every morning, it was a different memory, a different fight remembered. It wasn't long before the rest of the town figured out what was happening. His friends and family were obviously concerned for him, but he tried to hide his pain as best he could.
Skip forward another few hundred years.
The memories haunted him. They began to drive him mad. He began to believe that there was no real difference between a living person and corpse. One morning, as soon as everyone woke up, there was heard a scream. As the villagers began to curiously gather around Nokd's house, the door flew off the hinges with a loud bang, and he strode over the threshold, his wife's severed head hanging non-chalantly from his hand, and his eyes filled with pain, sorrow, passion, but most of all, incoherent rage. He flew into the townsfolk, and was quickly restrained by the combined force of the sane villagers, though not without taking a few casualties. He fought against his bonds all day, screaming his fury for all to hear.
His pitiful and furious roar would become mere background noise to the villagers in time, as they were forced to repeat this process over and over again. Nokd refused to eat or drink, and would therefore invariably die and be freed from his bonds every few days. Every time, his combat prowess grew, and he was able to take more and more of his former friends down with him. The days and nights blended together for him until he could no longer tell the difference between his own actions and the actions the curse forced upon him.
Decades more in the future, Nokd learned to control his rage, to some degree. He no longer killed during the day (at least not every day, but nobody's perfect), but he began to almost relish the nights. He trained and studied unceasingly, and any attempt by any of the villagers to communicate with him was met with either icy silence or fiery rage. Every so often, he would summon the grisly and murderous keepers of the realms, the Stitchers, simply to test his mettle.
What the townsfolk didn't know, couldn't know, about Nokd was that he still loved them very much, all of them. He would never even think of admitting it to anyone, but he remembered his wife's face at the moment of her death perfectly, every single time. His fury was not at them, but at the gods that would allow this kind of thing to happen. Unfortunately, Nokd had a great capacity for fury, and much of it overflowed onto his former comrades. At some point, he vowed to escape the nightmare realm and make everyone else, the gods most of all, feel his pain.
He isn't sure how, but by some twist of fate, he has been given the opportunity to carry out that vow; one day, instead of waking up next to his wife, he awoke in the "real" world. He spent the next few years studying everything he could find about the time in which he was trapped, and he now considers himself ready to realize his dream of watching the world burn, as literally as possible.
(K, I'm not proofreading that shit, that fucking defines wall of text)
TL;DR:
Nokd is a chaotic evil Oread with 3 levels in tower shield specialist (fighter archetype), 2 in armored hulk (barbarian archetype), and 5 levels in student of war. He's quick to anger and hates literally everything, including himself. He might ally with you for a while, but he does want to kill you, make no mistake.
EDIT!
Just talked to Dane, he said I could retcon it so that Nokd's hometown was the nightmare village all along. Pretend it says that, I'll get around to changing it sometime when I actually slept the night before.
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Post by q on Jan 22, 2013 20:25:24 GMT -5
And I'm back, sorry for the delay life was busy then BAM flu but now I'm back So my two questions are what do people need? and should I bring back my time mage of broken timey wimey ball. I swear she is not a female timelord, oh no I would never do that
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salsa
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Post by salsa on Jan 29, 2013 9:02:58 GMT -5
Hope there's room for a rage-cycling Barbarian 8/Horizon Walker 3
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Post by jamesd on Jan 29, 2013 23:27:28 GMT -5
Q made an interesting suggestion, taking a negative level for a paladin trait or taking a level in Inquisitor because I can now commune with Toss Boss via Toss Boss' favourite food, (I converted a fellow PC). Speaking of, does anyone know what that would be? We made a joke about tea and crumpets but none of us have any idea.
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Post by viamede on Feb 5, 2013 19:59:43 GMT -5
Coming this Wednesday with my new character Sledge (100% legal character as confirmed by john) www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=47885Sledge is an Ogre from a small tribe of ogres who live(d) in a mountain. They lived close to a dwarven town and learned to forge by observation. Sledge was a warrior from that town who was nicknamed the adamantine terror as he chose to use nothing but adamantine weapons and armor. To his dismay the dwarfs discovered the ogre tribe and destroyed them. Sledge survived and escaped into the wild. He was captured by a red dragon who was impressed by his malice and cruelty. Sledge was mentored by the dragon for many years until a small army of dwarfs came and slew the dragon for his horde of gold. Sledge managed to survive again and now quests to improve himself so that he may eliminate all the dwarfs from the world. (he doesn't slay on site he'll just really loathe them). -EDIT- *eliminate in the most cruel and malicious way possible* Character sheet is shown with him raging
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Post by viamede on Feb 7, 2013 11:58:55 GMT -5
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Post by Applez on Feb 11, 2013 1:29:39 GMT -5
So, I have Acid, Disease, Fire, Ice and Poison covered. How does one go about acquiring immunity to Electricity, Sonic, Negative levels and ability damage. I can find resistance but not outright immunities.
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