D&D Part Deux - Smarty McBarrelpants' D&D extravaganza

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Azisien

Yeah I can make wacky custom templates too!

Half-DM

Special Ability: You're a Choir Boy Compared To Me

Every round (or 6 seconds out of combat) Smarty and I both roll a d20. If I beat his roll I become the DM until he beats my roll again. As DM I get access to all his information but only while I'm in power (so it's balanced, I can't read THAT fast)!

LA +4 (It would have been LA +41 but *mumble mumble* source book *mumble* paragraph three second clause *mumble*)

In actual news are there any GOOD, NICE looking character generators out there? I swear that's a plus with 4E. A character builder.

Bah! You're prejudice against my kind rears it's ugly head again! Fie! Fie I say! Also, the other two generators I provided not good enough?

Re: nested swap tags
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[Azisien]

I tried searching the thread for resources but I got lost in a deep, dark jungle of SWAP tags and barely escaped with my sanity intact.

And in all seriousness, I did find that Javascript one via Google independently, and it is hard to describe how ugly it is. I'm trying the Lite version though.

[Overcast]

Have you tried PCGEN? It is what I used.

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Azisien

I tried searching the thread for resources but I got lost in a deep, dark jungle of SWAP tags and barely escaped with my sanity intact.

What?!?! I like, apologized for that, like five times already! Sheesh!

Originally Posted by Azisien

And in all seriousness, I did find that Javascript one via Google independently, and it is hard to describe how ugly it is. I'm trying the Lite version though.

Yeah, that guy's entire site is kind of hideous. Useful and interesting, but hideous.

Here's the alt site I found, though again, I haven't used it before. EDIT: now I've used it and it's... okay, I suppose. While it does have some nice features, it implements them very clunkily and is more than slightly awkward. Looks like the ugly "lite" version is still the best I've used so far.

Is PCGEN any better? I've not used that'n either.

EDIT PART TWO: PCGEN sounds really good. It is a download, though, so there's that. Still, if Overcast don't got no bugs, I suppose it'll be okay.

[Overcast]

I had never created a character in D&D before ever. But I was able to work one out in this program.

I was able to integrate typical source material along with the full psionics material(except complete psionic) that the java bit didn't have like prestige classes and powers. I was able to calculate gear costs including one custom item. I was given multiple different views of my character sheet.

Yeah, it is pretty good.

http://pcgen.sourceforge.net/01_overview.php

[Azisien]

I didn't have time to build a character with it yet but the brief look I got was much more aesthetically appealing.

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Azisien

I didn't have time to build a character with it yet but the brief look I got was much more aesthetically appealing.

Slowy McSlowpants here is holding up the game. "Didn't have time" indeed. Probably off doing something far less important than gaming. Like, you know, life.

E: The List she needs some updatin'

Smarty McBarrelpants' D&D Extravaganza
-we are an exclusively arcane/psionic/SCIENCE party of 8-to-12 so far-
-OR we are two exclusively arcane/psionic/SCIENCE parties of 3?-to-10? so far-
-5th character level; stanard 4d6, best three for ability scores-
-ANY Wizards rule book/build allowed, but Smarty will give you a challenge for it-

^ Player Characters
* Character Sheets Posted
> me (tacticslion: Red Light, Female Neutral Elan (-ish) Psion {Spellfire Wielder, <Thrallherd>} (alt with no template))
>>{On the unfortunate implications of my name: the... implications of my character's name and persona have been pointed out to me by
>>my wife. Oops. It was unintentional. But I'm not changing it now!}
> TDK (Vicros, Male Lawful Neutral Human Spellthief 4/Kineticist 1 {Psithief})
>>(sneaky magical and psionic buddy!)
> Mr. Bookworm (Ritter, Male Lawful Neutral Human Monk/Psychic Warrior {Tashalatora})
>>(joining team psionic!)
> Overcast (Faustus McGodcomplex, a neutral evil Shaper 5 {Metamind})
>>(he throws his mind at all his problems!)

* Character Classes/Archetypes Mentioned But No Character Sheet
>Sifright: engineer who brings SCIENCE to the world[ (aka Dr. Insano)[ (probably rogue, altered artificer, or factotum)
>Magic Marker: sorcerer (and a con-man!)
>DarkDrgon: bard ('cause they're awesome!)
>Azisien: is a rogue/bard ('cause psionics are... disturbing)
>Ravashak: is a rogue (and "going to get that hat of alignment"... sigh).

* Interested But Haven't Given Me Anything To Post
>BitVyper: should make something! ...unless he can't. In which case, sucks to be him! (sorry BitVyper, we wish you were here!)

* Solid Snake (because, you know, he's a special category)
>Solid Snake:"spoilers! (not really... maybe) IS THE BIG BAD ALL ALONG!

^ World
* Forgotten Realms (circa 1372?); more information forthcoming (when more players get their act in gear)

^ Available Slots
* There is a slot available. There is always a slot available. Smarty has not put a limit on this game and the people involved, other than a) we must agree on a time, b) Europeans get first pick (those snobbish, snobbish Euros ), and c) he won't be running two groups/campaigns (by himself, at least)! We've already got somewhere between eight and twelve so far! Also, two (competing) groups might be viable if we get that second GM.

EDIT:

Times are updated somewhat.
* Time:
1) tacticslion (me): I'm out on Sundays; the best time is Tuesday or Wednesday around six-ish
2) TDK:

Originally Posted by TDK

I object to having to wait two weeks to start, but its whatevs.

Times which are good for me (Eastern Standard Time):
Saturdays and Sundays are good any time, so long as it is scheduled ahead of time. Monday and Wednesday night (6-8) I have a class, and other than that I have class during the day (until 3 or 4-ish). Tuesday, Thursday, Friday nights (and mon/wed after 8) I'm good to go up until like, midnight when I usually go to bed.

In my experience, sundays usually work best for online games. For obvious reasons. :P

3) Sifrit/Ravashak: anytime after 6PM Gtm that's not Wednesday evenings
4) Overcast: Weekdays (noon or after, PST. For three weeks including this one. Subject to change afterwords), Weekends (all day); all subject to mil-duty, sleep, other games, & gay bars.
5) Everyone else: ???
6) Profit

Also: Ugly character generator and slightly less ugly character generator which are basically the same - both are effective, if ugly.

[tacticslion]

Hey, so Sifright, TDK, Overmind, and I just played our first micro-adventure today. It's not official, and might not have any place in Smarty's campaign - meaning that we might not even have this as actual history for our characters! - but it was a lot of fun (for me at least). Let me first say - wow we had a lot of role to play! A LOT. TDK and Overmind, ironically, never got to play together - they just kind of missed eachother, Overmind picking up right after TDK left. The ironic thing? They're characters had a lot to say about one another... both good and bad.

Short synopsis - in the midst of a scientific experiment, a young man was accidentally dropped out of his laboratory and into the middle of a terrible storm. A strangely red woman came across him, and after they got him out from under the rubble of his once impressive machine, they struggled over to some caves, realizing they didn't speak each others' language. They stumbled into a small cave in the side of a hill where a young man had taken hiding shortly before the storm started - he spoke yet another language. Through telepathic abilities, the lot managed a sort of half-way communication. They started a fire, but had no time to enjoy it - a tornado began from the storm outside, and they hurried deeper into the Tor they'd found shelter in, through a stone door at the back. Though rats swarmed out of the door at them, they hacked their way through, hurriedly grabbed some of the burning logs, tossing them inside, and just as they were entering another man stumbled in seeking shelter from the raging tornado. With the briefest of introductions, the lot hurried inside to be warm and to talk. After a long discussion, allowing them to slowly figure out that the strange, small, skinny pale man was from another planet, the red woman from a dead empire, and the newest arrival from Westgate, they decided to go treasure hunting - since they were in ruins after all. They headed down a corridor, found a room with a door, and picked it - accidentally picking a fight with bugbears! They won... and Gasilae (the alien) had his first taste of combat against sentient creatures, something that didn't sit so well with him, as it turns out his people were all peaceful - there was no war, nor the killing of intelligent life (save by a few perverted psychos). Utlimately, the battle was hard fought, so they chose to rest for a while, under the watchful eye of Vicros, the thief who'd been in the cave when everyone first arrived.

ANYHOO, that was our first, impromptu, quasi-game session. Thanks for everyone who showed up and dropped by! See you later!

EDIT:
AND it was a fantastic impromptu only semi-serious (mostly downright goofy) SECOND session (with different adventure, no less)! Thanks, guys, for makin' it awesome! Tomorrow at 7PM sharp until 8:30. Fair warning: I'm done by 8:30 Sunday. Peace!

EDIT 2 part 1 - the general note: The wacky adventure part two rocked it! Thanks to everyone who was a part of it - fantastic fun all around (at least I think so)! You guys made a fun, memorable, silly thing! I loved every weird minute of it!

EDIT 2 part 2 - the personal notes: Hey, Azisien, would you be interested in some ideas that specifically prevent your mind from being read? I've got a few ideas percolating if that's really a character build you'd be looking for. Alternatively, if you've got the gist you could put it up on mythweavers, or, if you don't have an account (it's totally free, painless, and requires nothing from you - I was very surprised!) you could PM me the details and I'll create one for you like I did Overcast. Oh, and Overcast, did you create a sheet on mythweavers, or we just going with the one I have up? It is edited, but if you want me to link yours, if you have one, just post it in this thread, and I'll use that one instead.

[Overcast]

Hey, just wanted to know if this was still going on. I mean some of the folks haven't posted up any new sheet information for tactics to double post about and I expected our glorious leader Smarty to do more junk to make me confident. I don't like being cheated out of dice games, and if it keeps happening I swear I will kill all the puppies.

Or something along those lines, just checking in.

[Sifright]

Yea it's still going ahead smarty has been fairly busy lately but i'm pretty certain he is still prepared to run the game.

Edit: basically I wont be around for the next few days check link below for reasons
http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpos...postcount=1015