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@ Tussock People were talking about stories in general not adventure modules. Surprise twists can be very welcome in novels and such. That said there are plenty of ways as Grek said to prevent it from being a surprise gotcha fuck you to players. This isn't albino red dragon set up we are talking abo...

The Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path is worth cannibalizing. Also the Stronghold Builder's Guide.

Assuming no objections let's go with AH's Bloody Boardroom idea. Or Board of Regnants?

Corporate Titles Pick one you like or make your own. I'll be CMO. Chief Magical/Medical Officer.

Just in case anyone doesn't know the usual Camarilla positions: Prince- Ultimate decision maker Sheriff- Head Law Enforcement Seneschal- Aide to the Prince possible second in command Keeper of Elysium- Party planner Harpy- Social Leader and trendsetter Primogen- The Prince's cabinet usually the olde...

Oh, I don't expect the bog standard fantasy to have quality writing. Most don't because they do things like put an ice mage in random place for no reason. So according to you bog standard fantasy has no stereotypes or expectations then. If "ice mages" are routinely put in entirely random ...

You're probably thinking of me Whipstitch. Im not against criminal contacts I just didn't want us to run the drug trade. I think the DEA as a federal agency is one of the last people we want investigating us. Suzanne has a drug dealer contact she gets her cocaine from. Our Herd is in no way limited ...

I'd probably argue that "ice mage in a random place for no reason" is actually the bog standard fantasy. Then youre defeating your own argument because you apparently have different expectations from me for where a stereotypical ice mage should live. It's as if symbols do NOT have univers...

I could very much see an ice mage living in a volcano. A good guy ice mage could be devoting his time to keeping the volcano slumbering, an evil one could be imprisoned there. The point being while players may have expectations it is usually defying expectations that creates something memorable and...

K wrote:By comparison, Forgotten Realms produced 32 products in just 1989 and 1990 combined. On average, maybe ten products a year for over 20 years and over ten video game adaptations.

One of those is a success. The other is not.

If you're not the most successful then you're not a success at all?

so am I justified in concluding that nobody involved in writing this book (or Eberron in general probably) even considered the question of what motivated the warforged to act like soldiers and follow orders during the war? Warforged Childhood Yes Warforged were child soldiers. Or clone troopers. De...

Wow, that is genuinely stupid. I've written and played outsider races (like genies) that skip the bottom rung, but they still desire to at least form societies and be part of (or in charge of) groups, along with the other needs. From what that describes, a warforged might as well just sit around al...

Principle Focus of Vitae Infusion Is the most useful overall. A dime sized item worth a blood point is hard to beat. 50 blood points in something the size of a roll of dimes. Of course 6 dimes is an hour of work. Sanguineous phial is just the old school magic way of achieving modern blood preservat...

Dairy Cult. Love that. With Herd 9 we have way more than just 125 head. I don't see much benefit to actually owning the airport as opposed to just spying on it. It should be a tech company that supplies the city with most of it's networking infrastructure. You can dig underground under the cover of ...

Nukes are overkill and can kill us. A biological or chemical WMD is what we need! A worst case scenario scorched earth policy to wipe out the city. We'll blame it on Putin. I see no way this is a bad idea.

Also bird's dropping hand grenades because I really want to call in airstrikes now.

You could drop occult library to 4. 5th level is just a bonus die. The sweet stuff is the -2 difficulty. I'll contribute 3 freebies. 2 to Herd and 1 to Resources. Name: Kenneth "Ia" Ranalli Clan: Tremere Generation: 8th Concept: Crippled Eldritch Knight Nature: Perfectionist Demeanor: Visi...

I already basically put a background point into the pool (the one that was just in the Holdings). I don't want to move points out of things to really do anything else - even emptying Herd and putting those points in for a shared bigger Herd has the problem that I can only drink from coke addicts, s...

I just took for granted that everyone has smartphones in 2015 and assumed that the Computer skill was for like playing Global Thermonuclear War with Joshua, or hang out with Zero Cool. I mean, it's 2015, even Dracula should have an android. I imagine that some Elders could get some really obsessive...

I could rejigger my build a bit if there's anything that'd be a universally useful dip. Generally it's always useful to dip a skill or knowledge if possible because of the penalty for not having dots in it but with 6 people the knowledge is covered more than a dot or two will probably help. Of cour...

Herd was just a mechanical means of representing the slaughterhouse idea. It depends on if AH let's us get away with saying "oh hey we stockpile a crapload of animal blood with our massive Resources" or we actually have to spend some freebies on it. By the rules gaining blood is a hunting ...

Reading the Dark Ages rulebook anyone that contributes at least a single point to a pooled background gains the benefits of the entire pool so if you contribute 3 freebies in the interest of Resources the rest is just gravy. Don't discount Occult Library! I mean where do you keep all those star char...

I'm gonna reiterate this, just to be clear. The way pooling backgrounds works in VtM and DA is that everybody puts in X number of Freebie Points, and you use those to buy up the common backgrounds. (Hell, you can buy up your own cult if you want to). So it's not like everybody buys 3 dots of backgr...

You can get one ritual per level in your blood sorcery discipline(s) of choice. I think Clanbook Tremere Revised has costs for buying additional rituals with freebie points. Sadly it does not or Id have been all over it. The closest I could find was again Blood Magic which has rules for researching...

but that's mostly channeled into either examining system failure modes, tinkering with setting assumptions, or realizing offbeat concepts. So. What are you actually trying to do? Those last two things. Im not playing or running any DnD campaigns so I'm not looking for things to actually do but a wi...

1. I don't know about anybody else but yes Id still be interested in 1st level cleric/wilder powers put to use. 2. Seems reasonable to me. 3. I love to see the crazy stuff but anything that has half a prayer of the DM allowing it. Lets say anything not third party. Most DMs I ever played with will a...

Oh, so we're doing a thing where the demographics for this thread's hypothetical army are completely different than the assumptions in the DMG? Yes. Or like you yourself said just assume an army is desperate enough to do this. If you were playing a 1st level wizard with your partymates and you were...