Monday, April 15, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Orcus-ian discussion
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.aspx?x=dnd/4alum/20100624
A current blurb about the history of Orcus which sums up the goat.
A current blurb about the history of Orcus which sums up the goat.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Fresh breath of undeath...
This article is under construction!!!
My new game is to take the 1st edition adventure module H4 : Throne of Bloodstone and update it using the Pathfinder rules system.
I've gotten through a few skims through the entire book trying to glance at what I can use as-is and what I can change... which is just about every encounter to update it to the Pathfinder system.
Upon reading H4 and scouring Google there was mention of a new adventure... Stones of Blood. I'll be making the finale' of the series with my homebrew H5: Stones of Blood where if the party doesn't find and destroy Zhenygi's Phylactery he comes back onto the Material Plane and hunts down the party whom assaulted his citadel and defiled his master's kingdom.
Orcus too is not totally destroyed. In H5 a possibility is that 6 months, 6 weeks, and 6 days later a terrible rumbling occurs as Orcus breaks through the Abyssal Gate which the party took to get to his layer in the beginning of H4. And his fat ass breaks it on the way in.
In part of Orcus' presence, the Worldwound reopens and festers more demons as they travel to join with the pariah demon prince. In their wake are millions of humanoids. One keen observer will note the comeback of others whom wish only death and undeath until all humanoids. This'll be kept quiet until they are encountered. Let's just say that their hatred has been permancied and stoked to the extreme so much they will turn on each other.
Hack and slash is not the entirety of the game but a lot of weapons will be bloodied if not permanently. There are some puzzles which will make the party think before they go in all fool-hardy (ala The Real Leroy Jenkins <youtube>).
I've even worked out a new and quick combat system which will make combat easier. I'm calling it the HitBox combat system. You create your PC and get the hit points (health, HP) together and first divide them into two sections: for example a barbarian L20 with CON 18 (+4hp/lvl)...
bbn are d12 * 20 = 240 max hp
con 18 (+4 mod) 20 * 4 = 80 bonus hp
320 hp max, EL
Two sections of 4 boxes each, one for HD and one for HBX.
(HD) Hit Dice: divice your total HP by 8. Then divide into quarters and put each into box.
(HBX) Hit Box:
My new game is to take the 1st edition adventure module H4 : Throne of Bloodstone and update it using the Pathfinder rules system.
I've gotten through a few skims through the entire book trying to glance at what I can use as-is and what I can change... which is just about every encounter to update it to the Pathfinder system.
Upon reading H4 and scouring Google there was mention of a new adventure... Stones of Blood. I'll be making the finale' of the series with my homebrew H5: Stones of Blood where if the party doesn't find and destroy Zhenygi's Phylactery he comes back onto the Material Plane and hunts down the party whom assaulted his citadel and defiled his master's kingdom.
Orcus too is not totally destroyed. In H5 a possibility is that 6 months, 6 weeks, and 6 days later a terrible rumbling occurs as Orcus breaks through the Abyssal Gate which the party took to get to his layer in the beginning of H4. And his fat ass breaks it on the way in.
In part of Orcus' presence, the Worldwound reopens and festers more demons as they travel to join with the pariah demon prince. In their wake are millions of humanoids. One keen observer will note the comeback of others whom wish only death and undeath until all humanoids. This'll be kept quiet until they are encountered. Let's just say that their hatred has been permancied and stoked to the extreme so much they will turn on each other.
Hack and slash is not the entirety of the game but a lot of weapons will be bloodied if not permanently. There are some puzzles which will make the party think before they go in all fool-hardy (ala The Real Leroy Jenkins <youtube>).
I've even worked out a new and quick combat system which will make combat easier. I'm calling it the HitBox combat system. You create your PC and get the hit points (health, HP) together and first divide them into two sections: for example a barbarian L20 with CON 18 (+4hp/lvl)...
bbn are d12 * 20 = 240 max hp
con 18 (+4 mod) 20 * 4 = 80 bonus hp
320 hp max, EL
Two sections of 4 boxes each, one for HD and one for HBX.
(HD) Hit Dice: divice your total HP by 8. Then divide into quarters and put each into box.
(HBX) Hit Box:
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
New name, same direction...
... diametrically & diagonally bassedackwards!
Time for a site revamp! I am getting little feedback from my Meetup site so I'm setting up a few blog spots to host my game ramblings.
Recently found out how to create more blogs under the same user name so I'm taking advantage of this and rolling all the games under my email of my character's namesake... marcaise.
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Join me on my new campaign blog site... [ Throne of Bloodstone ]
and then on my NEW Facebook page... [ MDGamers of Facebook ]
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Time for a site revamp! I am getting little feedback from my Meetup site so I'm setting up a few blog spots to host my game ramblings.
Recently found out how to create more blogs under the same user name so I'm taking advantage of this and rolling all the games under my email of my character's namesake... marcaise.
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Join me on my new campaign blog site... [ Throne of Bloodstone ]
and then on my NEW Facebook page... [ MDGamers of Facebook ]
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I'm in the middle of putting things back together so please give me a tiny piece of slack so I may strangle myself with it later.
MDGamers of Facebook is up and running... join Facebook and our group. I recommend using your character name that you'll be using in my campaign.
Throne of Bloodstone is an old 1st edition ADnD module (it's module H4, only) which pits the heroes up against the then most baddest-assed demon around... Orcus. What I am intending on doing is retelling the module using the Pathfinder RPG system. The party will encounter a lot of things which are not in the module to make up for the differences in the systems. 1E is a weaker system and PF still has a lot of old bastards whom are looking to make the party's endeavours a lot harder.
That's what I have for now but this blog is for the MDGA group... MD Gamers Association... a group I started with an old group in Derwood, MD (the Germantown Gaming Contingency). I like MDGA and I hope to keep it going ... and I hope it keeps going in my memorial (not for at least 50 years after 2012 !)
Friday, September 28, 2012
The Mythos BOUNTY LIST ...
Berek asked me to help him with some npc bounty-hunter types...
- race, any (custom races allowed)
- level, 9 (templates allowed prestige classes allowed)
- alignment, any
- emerging guns
- piecemeal armor allowed if you choose to use it for a more rugged and chased character
- 10 characters in one portfolio named "81-90 bounty list"
- ability scores are the heroic NPC stats 15,14,13,12,10,8
- character names can be as simple as "race class" so you dont have to try to name 10 characters you may never use
- magic weapons and armor allowed max +10 no more than 4 magic items other than weapons and armor, wands/staves count as weapons
- racial HD allowed for custom races
- 60pt limit on monstrous custom races
- other than that have fun making them
And this is what my meandering mind came up with to start...
THE MYTHOS, committee of all alignments to "keep religions as natural as possible", whom are...
- Hannible Smith, "The Cannibal" [ CE ]
- Lucifer Smith, "The Devil" [ LE ]
- Daimon Kaine, "The Enforcer" [ LG ]
- Stephen Speedman, "The Daredevil" [ CG ]
- Louis Abil, "The Jury" [ CN, influenced by actions of others not of The Mythos ]
- Kelham-sham El'Oche Neighral-Domosan, "Emperor's Judge (in/of Shadows)" [ LN ]
- Lord Dhaarkstone of Khorvhaire, "The Executioner (Sent only on behalf of The Mythos)"
They are seven, and each have a deadly sin tattoo of which they are flaunting (or hiding, or may be unaware of)
They seek only those they must but have been known by other nations' Magistrates and some have been hired as "Courteseans" (those posing as high money lawyers, judges, jurymen, punishers) and some as "Justicar-seans" (hirees by court members to finish off the proceedings, bring those to law/court, or to punish the guilty).
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I'll work on this and flesh them out and show off how derranged this crew of ten will be. ;)
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