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Intro post edited to include relevant details:

Era: Middle

Archmage: Mictlan
Marisel: Ashdod
Orion: Eriu
name_here: Pythium
CapnTthePirateG: R'lyeh

VPs in Capitals: Yes
VPs on Map: 5
VPs to Win: 7 of 10

Patch? Try to run game as administrator, if you are using Win7 and haven't?

If it's the "cannot create config file" error, try running Dom3 as administrator.

Did some testing and threw up a pretender. Team Dreaming Stones is ready to rock.

A lot of the latter part of the campaign is a blur now. Something to keep in mind is that no matter how stupid things got, all-in-all, OSDM was not a bad DM in the sense that he wanted us to outsmart him; he wanted to see what cheese we could leverage to get past the ever-escalating crazy, but clear...

I can be convinced to strike R'lyeh from the list if nobody wants a teammate with popkilling insanity dominion.

Am I correctly assuming R'yleh and Ermor are banned?

If not,
R'yleh
Midgard
Mictlan
Bogarus (3rd choice if no R'lyeh or an underwater nation is deemed a bad fit for the game)

I'm not especially good and haven't touched Dom3 in months, but reading Orion's thread rekindled my interest in the game. If you want a sixth I'll play.

Some more miscellaneous crack: You control a wizard's tower by some kind of opposed Will save against a dragon that is the "soul" of the tower. I am pretty sure we managed to win this by Z casting limited wish for a +7 to his next saving throw. But once you control a tower, the tower maste...

I actually hadn't posted further because I was trying to figure out what module it was that OSDM actually converted. It was totally White Plume Mountain. I don't think it was the official 3.5 conversion, though, and he definitely added a lot of stuff. Talking to Z about it, he recalled us finding Bl...

@Maxus: Naturally. But we can always use more. @Schwarzkopf: We're not there yet. Trust me. We'll get there. Not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But I promise you lich wizards. They may or may not actually be in France. So we plan to travel to the mountains. Specifically, The Land of Mist, which is full ...

This forum could use some more stories about cracked out campaigns. Stuff in the vein of PhoneLobster's thread, "Our Favorite Edition is 2nd Edition" , a thread that lent the name to this thread for reasons that will hopefully become apparent. So the group I've been gaming with for years n...

The core spell Mirage Arcana is ambiguous in a similar way. It's a glamer and you can use it to create illusory structures with tactile components, but what does that mean? Can you ram someone's head into an illusory brick wall? I'd say yes but it wouldn't do any damage and presumably they'd just p...

It's somebody's anthropology thesis paper, at the least.

Wizard/Factotum is cool, I'll second that. The Factotum half doesn't do anything interesting itself, it just adds all skills to your list and makes you better at wizarding, lets you add INT to more stuff, inspiration points give you arbitrary bonuses to rolls when you need them,and extra standard ac...

It's actually worse: Knacks can be taken at any level at which you meet the prerequisites - which means that a player could start the game with the power to make thrown weapons deal practically unsoakable aggravated damage. I'll dig up the rule if you'd like me to prove it, but the godly tiers you ...

the reason throwing is far superior to, say, firearms, is that with thrown weapons, you also get to add Strength to your damage pool. So, once you break out of the Hero level in to the Demigod level, firearms (or non-thrown ranged weapons in general) become obsolete. It's worse than that. At Demigo...

Aryxbez wrote:I could see something like this being ran as a Shin Megami Tensei campaign, going around, beating off angels, gods and concepts, all God of War style.

Yes, a robust angel handjob subsystem is definitely mandatory for a White Wolf-inspired game.

WHAT?

What is that image from? What the fucking duck harem fuck?

Scion combat works like so: Attacker rolls dicepool (Dexterity + Skill). Add auto-successes from Epic Dex. Defender's Dodge DV is fixed at (Dex + Athletics skill + Legend)/2. Epix Dex adds to this value. Alternately, Parry DV is (Dex + Weapon skill + Weapon's DV modifier)/2. Epic Dex adds to this va...

So here're the basics of Scion. Setting: Woefully undescribed in the core book, if you care about that sort of thing. The premise is that some people ("Scions") are infused with the power of deities from various mythologies. They are engaged in an eternal war with beings known as the Titan...

Silent Wayfarer wrote: It's more like they took the already flawed Exalted 2e iteration and FUCKED IT UP SOME MORE.

It's Exalted without the perfect defenses and the combo system. If somebody wants a really detailed review I can probably be convinced to put one up later.

wotmaniac wrote:Is there something that I'm missing? Is there some way of looking at this thing that doesn't make me hate it quite so bad

No. And no.

Mechanically, anyway. The fluff may or may not be to your taste, but the mechanics are standard nonsensical White Wolf drivel.

You can grow a beast which doesn't buff it in combat. This was actually the ritual that broke 4e for me--the fact that you could make an animal larger, improving its strength, and it only affected its carrying capacity and not how hard it would hurt when it hit you in the face. Because it's not lik...

What you have to do to make RPS interesting is create unequal payoffs . If winning with rock is worth 2 points, winning with scissors is worth 1 point, and winning with paper is worth 0.5 points, you at least have an interesting mind-games scenario going on where you can develop a playstyle of bein...