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by Shady314
Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:52 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D Army Optimization (3e and/or Tome)
Replies: 67
Views: 9181

Are they limited to their spells alone? Because their biggest value is probably activating arcane scrolls and wands 100% reliably. Lago why are you assuming a population where wizards are as rare as navy seals, West Point Valedictorians and Nuclear Power engineers? This thread spawned from the other...
by Shady314
Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:41 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

3 square miles gets you 1920 acres which is more than enough for 600 cows or pigs. 6 vampires require 30 points of blood per month for survival. Draining one point of blood from the cows/pigs each month would give a surplus of 480 blood points. 80 bp for everybody a month. Or we alternate the blood ...
by Shady314
Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:11 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Movable type comes to D&Dland
Replies: 69
Views: 9558

K wrote: bullshit spells equals bullshit money.
Your point is that the DnD "economy" (this is what we call the bullshit prices the designers randomly put next to items/services in books) is bullshit. Everyone knows that.
by Shady314
Wed Feb 25, 2015 6:22 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

I figured we'd give it to Verge as he seems to be our resident jokester and the least overtly threatening being of a lower gen. Harpy can be the jester instead of the Queen B.
by Shady314
Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:11 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

AH was pooling certain backgrounds a yea or nay? It seems to just be a nWoD thing so if not then no problem. Just wanted to ask. Everyone having resources seems wasteful. As a coterie/government for at least 6 months it'd be better if we could allocate some points to our collective resources and the...
by Shady314
Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:11 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

Well no, not really. That's less than 1 per state per year. Making it look like a dog got them is still going to attract attention and get animal control involved and investigating. I'm imagining more like if one of our animal soldiers kill someone. Or their behavior just makes the kine suspicious....
by Shady314
Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:08 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

[quote="hyzmarca]The biggest killers seem to be domesticated animals and bee allergies.[/quote]
So if we have to cover something up we want to make it look like a dog got them. Good to know. Sounds like influence or a contact in Animal Services would be good.
by Shady314
Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:18 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

This is the WoD which is supposed to be our world but worse so AH may have Juneau be a little more dangerous.
Anyways that just seems even funnier as your expectations for unlife are constantly shattered.

Also suicides are high in Alaska.
by Shady314
Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:53 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Movable type comes to D&Dland
Replies: 69
Views: 9558

Nonsense. Football is a frivolity in both worlds. With the right marketing, wizards could be persuaded to put down plenty of money on tickets to watch people employing that truly useless attribute, muscle, for the wizards' amusement. :biggrin: Right. That's one of those shit jobs for people idiots ...
by Shady314
Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:44 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Movable type comes to D&Dland
Replies: 69
Views: 9558

I suppose society would belong to the intelligentsia even more than our world. Who would give a shit about getting good at football when good grades equal infinite cosmic power. Isn't this the whole fantasy behind the book learning wizard? If it's DnD magic the world would be stratified by the level...
by Shady314
Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:32 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [OSSR]Races of Eberron
Replies: 175
Views: 67581

CapnTthePirateG wrote:Cool people use psychic warrior with call weapon.
You are correct that Gifted Blade only brings Soulknife up to Tier 3 alongside a Psychic Warrior. But non-cool people need a class to play too and now they can be a help rather than a hindrance.
by Shady314
Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:14 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [OSSR]Races of Eberron
Replies: 175
Views: 67581

Pathfinder's Psionics Unleashed has a decent enough Soulknife. You get a d10, 4 skills, 2 good saves, full BAB, a better mind blade, the ability to take a talent for another +1 with the Mind Blade, some roundabout bonus feats and another die of Psychic Strike and some other shenanigans. Eventually ...
by Shady314
Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:43 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

I'm not familiar with Gargoyles in WoD so I was just going by the wiki. I didn't know that about the wings. Also never heard of the Forever Knight TV show... or read any Anne Rice novels come to think of it. Flying guy is still a masquerade breach in public though. Pair with Obfuscate? EDIT: Possibl...
by Shady314
Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:30 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

According to the wiki in Revised Wings grew as a function of Visceratika which Cainites CAN learn as unlikely as the fluff makes it. Flight as it's own discipline says it is Gargoyle only and Cainites can't learn it if anything like Protean is available to them. But why do you want to do this? Wings...
by Shady314
Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:20 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

Most of the secondary skills are crazy stupid. Masquerade?! Style?!
But I was planning on taking meditation.
They arent all bad. We should just take the ones that seem ok.
by Shady314
Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:02 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Magical Ways to Emulate Modern Techonology
Replies: 221
Views: 23389

This reminds me of an Eberron thread on WOTC forums years ago. I also thought about it a lot when cantrips and orisons became at will in Pathfinder. Prestidigitation gets you dishwashers(that can also change the color of your clothes.) and washer/dryers and hair coloring devices and hair dryers and ...
by Shady314
Sun Feb 22, 2015 7:42 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

There's Handling the media and there's Controlling the media. If we have control of it we don't have to spin things as they will never be stories in the first place. If there's an explosion but the media never reports on it that's even better than the gas leak. "You announced that you're a vamp...
by Shady314
Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:45 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

Having now read through most of the paths many seem completely unplayable for PCs. Path of Lilith (got from the wiki so maybe it's not accurate) has shunning pain or anguish as a level 1 sin. Level 2 is FAILING to dispense pain and anguish. There is not a second of the day (well night) I could not b...
by Shady314
Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:04 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

I'm picking Tremere as I'm going to be a technomancer instead. Being able to mindsurf the internet and remote hack anything sounds cool. Life's a bit chaotic at the moment, but I'll try to sit down and build a sheet soon. That's great. The conspiracy needs someone that can handle the technological ...
by Shady314
Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:11 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

The biggest drawback of joining the Cam is getting bossed around and this scenario seems like it will minimize that so it seems the benefits of being Cam outweigh the negatives. Ive got no problem being a cape. I think ingame and out we should make a compact against any internal fuckery. Id rather w...
by Shady314
Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:10 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

Will this be because the Camarilla is different in your setting? Less powerful? Less rigid? Or because we can shake things up even if it horrifies the Cam? Are we expected to be in the Camarilla? If we are the only vampires in the city what's the purpose of Elysium going to be for us? Are we expecti...
by Shady314
Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:06 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Princes of the City: Anyone Want to Bite?
Replies: 473
Views: 67393

Seems you've got plenty of interest in this game. It sounds very interesting. I'd love to play an amoral lawyer. Every group needs an amoral lawyer with an evil law firm behind them. That or a mad scientist/necromancer with control over hospitals/morgues and mortuaries. Somebody has to deal with the...