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[Chat], I'm DM-ing a Game for the First Time Soon!

RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
So I finished writing up a level 10/11 3.5 D&D Gestalt Adventure, and since I'd be running it with my local gaming group I figured I could tell [chat] about it to see if it's any good!
So the players are at a festival in a town, which is suddenly attacked by an archmage with a grudge! They fight him for a while, until he gets pissed off and tries to cast an Intensified Meteor Swarm. This fails and he blows up. Upon inspecting the remnants of his "spellbook", they realise he was just a rogue using Use Magic Device to cast from scrolls. No time for speculation though, the guard turn up and arrest the players because reasons!

Well they're not actually arrested, they're just bring brought to the mayor, who is in need of help: Someone kidnapped her younger brother! A letter pegs them to either smugglers or corrupt town guards, while ominously foreshadowing a sect of Nerull worshippers whose high priest went missing a century ago.

Investigating the letter, they can either find a guy in the underworld or uncover a crooked cop and get the location of the smugglers, an abandoned warehouse by the docks. If they kick in the door, that sets off traps and alarms and they'll have a tougher fight of it, but it's possible to sneak their way inside, though they'll fight some of the exotic creatures these guys are smuggling, along with a Soulbow Sniper and a Wererat Swordsage. Rescuing the brother, they'll discover another letter telling them to meet the High Priest at one of the town's temples, formerly one of Nerull.

Going to the temple they discover...the Mayor! However in a Return of the Joker style twist, it turns out she was given a mystical amulet which was the holy symbol of the high priest and contained his soul, and has been possessing her nocturnally. He - for he was a man - needed the brother so a sacrifice ritual would bind his soul permanently and allow him to worship Nerull. This is where a fight with a fellow Cleric//Paladin of Slaughter and some Mummies begins, while the High Priest kidnaps one of the party because they're compatible. They find a secret place where the ritual is ongoing and fight the High Priest, really a Sorcerer//Favored Soul. He's tough, but there's a cheat: The "Archmage"'s book had a scroll of Disjunction, which they could cast on the amulet robbing it of power, or just manage to break it. That doesn't end the threat just yet: His vengeful ghost continues spell slinging until banished to the lower planes once and for all.

So how's that? Too much for one adventure? Not enough roleplaying potential?

Oh, also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-leYc4oC83E

d20.jpg

And finally:

Geth, roll 4d6k3 for [Chat] Mascot's STR
Geth, roll 4d6k3 for [Chat] Mascot's DEX
Geth, roll 4d6k3 for [Chat] Mascot's CON
Geth, roll 4d6k3 for [Chat] Mascot's INT
Geth, roll 4d6k3 for [Chat] Mascot's WIS
Geth, roll 4d6k3 for [Chat] Mascot's CHA

[Chat] Mascot's STR:
4d6k3 12 [4d6k3=[5, 4, 3], 1]
[Chat] Mascot's DEX:
4d6k3 4 [4d6k3=[2, 1, 1], 1]
[Chat] Mascot's CON:
4d6k3 12 [4d6k3=[6, 4, 2], 1]
[Chat] Mascot's INT:
4d6k3 11 [4d6k3=[4, 4, 3], 1]
[Chat] Mascot's WIS:
4d6k3 15 [4d6k3=[6, 6, 3], 3]
[Chat] Mascot's CHA:
4d6k3 12 [4d6k3=[6, 4, 2], 1]

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    RMS YOU VAGABOND

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Well, looks like our Mascot is a Cleric...

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    NO MODS
    NO ADMINS
    JUST CHAT

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Creating new threads voluntarily, instead of running free in the forbidden pages, is naturalized oppression. Break free!

    Abdhyius on
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  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    ESCAPE THE DOOMED ANIME [CHAT]

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    A clumsy-as-balls cleric

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    in the beginning there was the chat

    then everybody fell over because they lakced leg cordinartaion

    3fpohw4n01yj.png
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Casual wrote: »
    ESCAPE THE DOOMED ANIME [CHAT]

    THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM ANIME

    MOE~~

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    A clumsy-as-balls cleric

    Good thing Clerics can wear fullplate.

    Divine Power erryday

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    I remember the old days of the G&T chat thread. We hit 100 pages and then everybody made a new chat thread flooding the entire subforum until a mod came along and locked/deleted the extra ones.

    That was a terrible system.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Casual wrote: »
    ESCAPE THE DOOMED ANIME [CHAT]

    THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM ANIME

    MOE~~

    Geth, roll 1d20+15 for Will Save against Anime

    Will Save against Anime:
    1d20+15 23 [1d20=8]

  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Okay he's clumsy but otherwise decent

    Maybe he has an injured leg that was once broken by some nefarious being and now he hobbled around, spreading the gospel

    desc on
  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    Fuck that other chat and the way it ended. Let us go to a better future with this chat.

    My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    other [chat] sucked anyways.
    not enough goat sacrifices.

    Bless your heart.
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    desc wrote: »
    Okay he's clumsy but otherwise decent

    Maybe he has an injured leg that was once broken by some nefarious being and now he hobbled around, spreading the gospel

    He used to be a Ranger but he took an arrow in the knee.

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Casual wrote: »
    ESCAPE THE DOOMED ANIME [CHAT]

    THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM ANIME

    MOE~~

    Geth, roll 1d20+15 for Will Save against Anime

    Sadly, this was a DC25 roll.

    You fail and succumb to anime.

    Uguu~~

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Casual wrote: »
    ESCAPE THE DOOMED ANIME [CHAT]

    THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM ANIME

    MOE~~

    Geth, roll 1d20+15 for Will Save against Anime

    Sadly, this was a DC25 roll.

    You fail and succumb to anime.

    Uguu~~

    I use this Ace of Hearts from a Deck of Many Things to avoid Anime.

  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    im listening to public radio about the russian anti gay law and so far 3 people have called in to talk about how great the russian law is

    odear

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    im listening to public radio about the russian anti gay law and so far 3 people have called in to talk about how great the russian law is

    odear

    i love how there are people who look at the history of gay rights and think "yes the dudes being pensis to them have consistently been judged as heroes in the eyes of history, i wish 2 join their glorious serried ranx"

    these subnormalz

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  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    im listening to public radio about the russian anti gay law and so far 3 people have called in to talk about how great the russian law is

    odear

    People that care not for free speech or protection of ideas but oppression and hatred.

    Real Americans.

  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Chanus wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Okay he's clumsy but otherwise decent

    Maybe he has an injured leg that was once broken by some nefarious being and now he hobbled around, spreading the gospel

    He used to be a Ranger but he took an arrow in the knee.

    I can just see it though

    The anime zombies shamble closer and closer and he grips his cane with a strong but gnarled hand

    He lifts and slams the cane, "YOU! SHALL! TURN!"

    desc on
  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    im listening to public radio about the russian anti gay law and so far 3 people have called in to talk about how great the russian law is

    odear
    Maybe it's an idiot trap?

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    What's easier than "normal"?

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • Tiger BurningTiger Burning Dig if you will, the pictureRegistered User, SolidSaints Tube regular
    edited August 2013
    A stone building with blue trim, once used as a laboratory, now holds much of the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, a psychoanalyst who believed that orgasmic energy could control the weather.
    By this time, Reich had attracted the attention of the FDA, who obtained an injunction to prevent him from shipping orgone accumulators out of Maine, where he then lived. When one of Reich's associates violated the injunction, the FDA ordered the destruction of Reich's accumulators, pamphlets, and books. Reich himself received a two-year prison sentence -- the admitting psychiatrist at Danbury Federal Prison observed him to be experiencing delusions of grandeur. Eight months later Reich died in his cell bed after suffering a heart attack.

    8GuKPiT.jpg

    hmm?

    HMMMM??

    Tiger Burning on
    Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    What is easy gender?

    Like

    That and normal seem like there are no differences or at least very close.

    Also when I get to the end do I get a score multiplier bonus.

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    What's easier than "normal"?

    being a sexual tyranosaurus

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  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    im listening to public radio about the russian anti gay law and so far 3 people have called in to talk about how great the russian law is

    odear

    i love how there are people who look at the history of gay rights and think "yes the dudes being pensis to them have consistently been judged as heroes in the eyes of history, i wish 2 join their glorious serried ranx"

    these subnormalz

    See also: race mixing is communism, people opposed to giving women the vote, &c.

  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    @desc I went to an indoor rock climbing thing tonight and it was good but my body hurts now, for I am weak like babby

    also I started coming up with some flavour-bites for the AW game that slowly congealed into an idea for something akin to a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest, where the ghost-firs and their ivory needles rustle in the wind and their bark flakes off like ash

    may need further thought/wait and see what you jerks come up with

  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    Surreality, speaking of pensi: Warbirds rpg :3

  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    What is easy gender?

    white cis male obv

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    ya easy = white male

    normal = cis everythin else

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    the hardest part about being a white dude for me is when i have to decide who to oppress int he morning

    3fpohw4n01yj.png
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    the hardest part about being a white dude for me is when i have to decide who to oppress int he morning

    I just do all of them so I've covered all bases.

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    the hardest part about being a white dude for me is when i have to decide who to oppress int he morning

    Yeah, that's a source of many anxieties for me, every day.

  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    simonwolf wrote: »
    @desc I went to an indoor rock climbing thing tonight and it was good but my body hurts now, for I am weak like babby

    also I started coming up with some flavour-bites for the AW game that slowly congealed into an idea for something akin to a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest, where the ghost-firs and their ivory needles rustle in the wind and their bark flakes off like ash

    may need further thought/wait and see what you jerks come up with

    Ooh

    I will try to give this serious thought tonight. Hmm.

    I spent much of yesterday reading Marvel Heroic* and Warbirds**. Scheduling of any new games is going to be the big trick.

    * 8->

    ** 8->

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    simonwolf wrote: »
    @desc I went to an indoor rock climbing thing tonight and it was good but my body hurts now, for I am weak like babby

    also I started coming up with some flavour-bites for the AW game that slowly congealed into an idea for something akin to a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest, where the ghost-firs and their ivory needles rustle in the wind and their bark flakes off like ash

    may need further thought/wait and see what you jerks come up with

    Ooh

    I will try to give this serious thought tonight. Hmm.

    I spent much of yesterday reading Marvel Heroic* and Warbirds**. Scheduling of any new games is going to be the big trick.

    * 8->

    ** 8->

    Warbirds, eh?

    Geth, roll 2d6+5 for how many eggs i lay.

    how many eggs i lay:
    2d6+5 14 [2d6=4, 5]

  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    I am not 100% sold on some of the warbirds setting but I want to run it anyway.

    Everyone likes crimson skies / talespin / air pirates and so on

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