Roleplaying in the Nippon-Ichi verse

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:21 am

I actually had the Robot girl mostly finished, but the computer it's on is being repaired.

I could redo 'em. I know Steel Angel was the level 1 feat....

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:33 am

Oh wow how did I miss that?

Make me a catgirl named Maureen (meow + Irene, bad puns ftw) in a HUEG ushanka hat (Cha item + cold immunity):

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 2:16 am

Well, I did them, but if you want to change it, Maxus, you can do that.

These are groups of enemies that are largely heavy-hitters, so it should actually leave the party challenged until they (quickly) kill one or two, and then suddenly everyone knows the outcome and the survivors surrender (if they survive up to their own turns).

That said, knowing this group, they might end up having a dance-off or tea party. And that is okay too.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:36 am

I was working on a heavy hitter. I'll try to have it redone in a day or two. Also, going to do a custom invention

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:50 am

Hmm. Reading up, it appears I use the word "fuck" way too much, sometimes. By the standards of this forum.

Anyway, it turns out I'm running on Saturday. This shouldn't surprise me, it's the usual for my game. I just forgot. So, looks like I have planning to do!

Hmm... perhaps merge a couple of threads - the School of Divine Comedy (Celestia) needs their help, as The Great Lulz is up-and-coming and they actually have no material or performers - and they desperately want to beat their rival, those fuckers at Arborea. Yeah, think of it as the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry. So they send an envoy to try to get Avariel "and her colleagues" on team.

Meanwhile, a deadly assassin is hunting them down, trying to find them... the ex-girlfriend of Harry.

So they'll need to make their way to Celestia, and any place they stay at on the way will be boobytrapped or mysteriously burn down or whatever, causing problems, until they actually get there. Once there, they have to come up with some real corking routines, and have full access to the props department.

It turns out someone let a Ravid loose and since then, anyone going into the props department had been horribly killed, which does indeed solve the mystery of there being no comedians there.

It's an advanced CR 8 Ravid with 9 HD, and has the following statline:

HD: 9, CR: 8
Str 22, Dex 8, Con 18, Int 7, Wis 12, Cha 14
HP: 85
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares), fly 60 ft. (perfect)
Init: +3

F +10 R +5 W +7
AC 25 (-1 size -1 Dex +17 Natural)
-flat 25
-touch 8
BAB/Grab: +9/+19
-Tail Slap +14 (1d8+6 plus Positive Energy) and Claw +12 (1d6+3 plus Positive Energy)
-Or just touch attacks with no damage

Positive Energy: unpleasant, 4d10 damage to Undead
1 object/round randomly animates and attacks!

Multiattack, Improved Multiattack, Improved Initiative, Improved Toughness
Immunity to Fire

Objects: 1 Carpet 2 Bookshelf 3 Chest 4 Pie 5 Magic Flaming Hatstand (WHAT?) 6 Paper Fan 7 Bedpan 8 Cupboard 9 Rubber Sword 10 Gatling Gun

Carpet: Large, Blindness, Constrict, starts under party (Ref DC 15 or fall Prone), Flies
Bookshelf: Large, Hardness 5
Chest: Medium, Bite Attack, Improved Grab, Swallow Whole, Hardness 10
Pie: Tiny, Flies, Blind
Magic Flaming Hatstand: Medium, Multiple Legs, Hardness 7, +10 HP, Flaming, Trip
Paper Fan: Flying, Small, Annoyance
Bedpan: Tiny, Flies, Hardness 6
Cupboard: Huge, Hardness 5
Rubber Sword: Small, Hardness 4, Flying
Gatling Gun: Medium, Hardness 10, Gatling Attack: 60' cone 6d6 Piercing, Ref 1/2 (DC 11)

They will then have time to look through the place for good stuff as well as actually coming up with funny ideas. Bonus points if the actual players come up with ideas, of course. And they probably will.

The first time they venture outside, they will be attacked by a Deadborn Vulture (MMV, p18) bearing a bouquet of roses and a letter - an old love letter written by Harry, with RTS scrawled across it in blood.

Eventually, the contest occurs... and their foes are quite pleasant yet competitive, but don't interfere or sabotage them. No guarantee on the PCs playing fair.

At some point in this, however, it turns out that one of the Arboreans is actually none other than a Taunting Haunt! (MMV, p82) It was all an elaborate plan to get close and destroy both fine institutions with his loyal minion! Enter, the Solamith (MMV, p28).

Punchy punchy fighty etc.

After the party win, they receive a trophy and are sprayed with champaign... except someone spiked it with poison! It's just Sassone leaf residue though, so whatever. (DC 16, 2d12 HP/1d6 Con).

It is then that the ex, who ended up "drowning herself in sadness" (note: it should come out that she actually got drunk and went on a sailing cruise, at some point telling the captain she would take the wheel, soon forgot she was piloting it and wandered off to do something else... the boat crashed on the rocks and sank, and she drowned, completely ignorant of the fact). Still, she is a Drowned (MMIII, p46).

They could put her to rest the old-fashioned way, or possibly talk her down, she learns to put the past behind her and can move on to be reincarnated, and everyone learns a valuable lesson about... something or other.

I'll let you take bets on how many fights even go ahead.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:33 am

Okay, so, Cleric (the guy playing Harry the ghost knight) has been arranging stuff for his wedding, and asked (ahead of time) if I could bounce the game to Monday. Which I can totally do. So there will be a short delay.

Now, what I intend on doing is having everyone start off, after the victory party, waking up the next morning as police ("Justice Archons", at an appropriate CR for them to beat if they decide to) swarm in.

It turns out the rival group didn't show because it was murdered. With fire. The party now has to try to prove their innocence. And they have ways:
[*]Only one of them can do fire damage, and these burns look different (Hellfire)
[*]No other kinds of wounds such as slicing or bear-mauling.
[*]One member of the rival group (the haunt) isn't there.
[*]One has Speak With Dead, another can Speak With Animals.

There are ways. Yes, expect a CSI Miami moment.

Anyway, when they're off the hook, they have a chance to go track the real killer down, and deliver some special justice. It's the Haunt and his friend.

And when they travel back down the mountain, the ex can leap out from the lake and attack.

After all this is resolved, I might bump them to level ten. Or not. I don't know yet. They could probably survive just fine doing another adventure.

Incidentally, Androids (robot girls) confirmed for Disgaea 4. You totally know what this means.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:10 am

I have decided the Drowned should be an Evolved Undead. What with the PCs actually being level nine. Hell, this is a boss, let's go DOUBLE EVOLVED.

29 13 - 9 10 16
HP: 20d12+60 (190) Fast Healing 7
Init: +5
Speed: 30' Swim: 30'
AC: 21 (+1 Dex +10 Natural)
-flat 20
-touch 11
Fort +6 Ref +9 Will +12
BAB/Grab: +10/+19
-2 Slams +19 (1d8+9)
-Power Attack 2 Slams +14 (1d8+19)

Unholy Toughness, Garbage Feats, Drowning Aura, SLAs, Darkvision 60'

Drowning Aura (Su): 30' radius, Con check each round (DC 10, +1 per round), fail: 0 HP and KO, then -1 and drowning next round, then dead the round after if still in aura

SLAs:
Greater Dispel 1/day (+20 Dispel tjeck)
Confusion 1/day (DC 23, 20 rounds)

Confused:
1: Attack Caster
2: Act Normally
3-5: Babble
6-7: Flee
8-10: Attack Nearest
Attacked: attack the attacker next turn

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:08 pm

Drowned are very much a CR abuse monster.

-Username17

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:07 am

...as I found out. No PC deaths, but still... once I update the Storytime thread, you'll see the results I guess.

It helps that I decided to change it to "Fail: drop to 0 and staggered, THEN -1 and out, then dead" along with ruling "Once you're out of the aura, at the start of your next turn your HP go back to what they were before you drowned".

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:17 am

So, the DisgaeaGame Supplement is close to completion. Even though its actual use is likely to hover somewhere around the zero mark. I think I originally started on it out of boredom or because one other person wanted to run a game of it, so I thought "if multiple games of this happen, it might be handy to have some go-to stuff with prestige classes to cover basic Disgaea concepts".

And if one more campaign of this is run, that'll be three, which means it will match 4E in popularity.

Anyway, it's like a week until next session. So I figure what'll happen is they're keen to head off to their next gig at the Stage of Mages. This is secretly a plot by the recurring MC MC (what does MC stand for in the "MC Hammer" context?)

As such, on the way there, as they have to go up huge flights of stairs that bend and twist in odd ways, they will be ambushed a few times. Well not so much ambushed, more "there will be enemies there to attack, or cleverly avoid through leaping to other walkways at risk of death".

A) 8 Legion Devils
B) 4 Steel Devils

Which is probably enough, fight-wise. At the end of the stairways, they'll come across a platform miles wide, with the grand stage in the middle.

Even navigating the crowds involves a Survival check, it's a chaotic mess, but finally they can reach the stage, and do their Performance trick again to get the crowd wild (obviously, support bands have already been playing).

And when they finish, the trap can be unleashed, as they are nailed with a Forcecage (teleport-friendly version) + Summon (flying) Monster + Spike Stones combo. And MC MC will laugh maniacally, playing music to the spectacle until the party clearly win. And that will probably see them to the end of the session, about to face off with their self-elected nemesis.

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Oh, and I am so proud of my sister. She has decided she wants to really learn the rules properly so she can level her character up without my help (note: there ARE games she knows the rules for, she runs a nWoD game and knows the rules for that, insofar as anybody does).

Additionally? She's making a Gestalt Pathfailure character for a game run by the player of the cat, mentioned "I'm tempted to be a Flasked Avenger, like in the Disgaea game" and then was VERY DISAPPOINT with Pathfailure for not allowing that.

"Tell Frank he's spoiled me."
"Oh, the Jester class is making it easy to combine Sneak Attack with Fire Trap, but seriously, you can do more damage doing that as a Rogue, that's regular 3E"
"Oh. Well, Pathfinder is stupid."

Almaz · Post by **Almaz** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:38 am

"M.C." refers to "Master of Ceremonies". It penetrated into hip hop, etc. because of how some artists actually did perform that role in the context of a party.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:42 am

Thanks. So it's Master of Ceremonies, Mister Cavern. That is such an awesome name. I wish that was my name.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:57 am

Koumei wrote:Thanks. So it's Master of Ceremonies, Mister Cavern. That is such an awesome name. I wish that was my name.

I don't know how it works in Australia, but in California that can be your name by registering it with the DMV and paying $12 to get the to issue an id card. At least, that was the price the last time I fiddled with my name.

-Username17

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:19 am

Yeah, it's something like that here. But I don't think I will go change my name every time I get a new terrible idea.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:22 pm

Gargoyles (from Disgaea 1 only) make a return for D4 as well. Cool.

Anyway, sourcebook nearly complete.

icyshadowlord · Post by **icyshadowlord** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:58 pm

*Peeks his head in from hiding*

Hi, I'm new here, but that doesn't mean I haven't lurked my fair share of time in forums and such. And I have to say, as a Disgaea fan (and as someone who isn't deathly afraid of homebrews like some dickcheese DMs I know) I find this thread to be epic.

Also, any info on that Sourcebook's arrival? Because I cannot wait to see it. In other news, I need to go and find out what the hell this Tome D&D that everyone keeps talking about is (No, really. I have no idea what it is. All I know is 3.5, Pathfail and the rather sad existence named 4e )

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:20 pm

I haven't really been following the Disgaea stuff here, just browsing, but I can tell you about Tome material.

It's basically an attempt to fix 3.x (or at least make it playable); there is a compilation of Tome material in the sticky thread in the It's My Own Invention forum.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:25 pm

In order...

http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=34248

http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=28828

http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=28547

http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=33294

Those are the Tomes. Go on and read 'em. They include spot fixes, lots of PrCs, a few class re-writes, and discussions about how illithids are good neighbors and how sahuagin are better than you, and why you'd want to build a dungeon

icyshadowlord · Post by **icyshadowlord** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:37 pm

Read the tomes? Will do so when I got time.

But now that this is out of the way, we could stay back on topic. I looked at the stuff on the first pages...and now I am really tempted to try out some silly combinations...

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:13 am

I'm glad to hear that. The supplement will be done... soon? And I also want to re-do the main pdf to just include the full write-ups for the classes (rather than "go see here"), rebalance the races a little and include the Android (see: Robot Girl).

And next session is being bounced to next week, so that leaves loads of time.

Almaz · Post by **Almaz** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:38 am

Koumei wrote:Yeah, it's something like that here. But I don't think I will go change my name every time I get a new terrible idea.

You know you want to change your last name to Cavern just so that people have to address you as Ms. Cavern.

icyshadowlord · Post by **icyshadowlord** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:28 am

...okay, either I am too tired to think straight or then I just saw an insider-joke being made, because I have no idea what Almaz is talking about. Not that I mind a clarification while I think whether I play an Empusa or an Alraune when I do get to trying out a Disgaea D&D setting.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:43 am

icyshadowlord wrote:...okay, either I am too tired to think straight or then I just saw an insider-joke being made, because I have no idea what Almaz is talking about. Not that I mind a clarification while I think whether I play an Empusa or an Alraune when I do get to trying out a Disgaea D&D setting.

A while back, Frank reviewed a Czech RPG. The equivalent to a DM was a Czech term that translated to "Mister Cavern". Someone commented it sounds like a dictator, but huggable.

A fair few people around here call the post of GM "Mister Cavern" now. Or the MC.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:18 am

Okay, I finally finished the supplement. It weighs in at over 100 pages, so you might want to get a drink or something if you read it.

Front cover is a bit NSFW.

mediafire

icyshadowlord · Post by **icyshadowlord** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:26 am

Looks very nice. And I cannot help but wonder if I could get some of those classes to work with other races with a little tweaking (I happen to have one of my homebrews partly inspired by the Alraune, for example). And I really hope my group won't mind me trying out any of the stuff on this supplement (they might think that D&D and Disgaea do not mix...)

Edit!! The thing I said earlier applies ONLY to two race-specific classes. Sorry if I sounded weird with that earlier statement and such.