So it is like a "snake in a can" with arrows in it.

So would the PCs be rolling this thing around or it just a gag trap? Go to Comment

While not all items should be PC items (not every PC is going to need, want or find interesting an evil silver writing desk, an enchanted spinning wheel or the technocolor dream coat) but everything should be something that PC will have to interact with or respond to. So every item should be in this way be PC directed, and thus the only reason to design a complex item (for game terms anyway) is to have a complex PC interaction with that item.

As a battlefield item this could be interesting cause it can be captured and used/reused by a small group (aka capturing the machine gun nest). As a PC item, I don't know about you guys, but I always have one player that loves set traps/snares. Go to Comment

As to the social status thing, I was trying get away from the modern idea that social rank or status is self determined. In many ancient cultures a King and peasant or Warrior and a scholar where consider intrinsically different. Go to Comment

Vito, Fredo, Sonny, Micheal, Appolonia? Nothing?

Eh never mind.


But average on the write up is kind (so thanks), I reread it and it is clunky due to errors and dense structure. Go to Comment

So in the last D&D game I ran I used this item. It ended up in the hands of the comic relief PC. A barbarian fighter from an uncivilized nation named Durr. He employed the standard rude ignorant unsocialized fighter with a lack of self awareness that has been a staple character of many an RPG group He used the sword as a primary weapon, which perhaps I should have discouraged more.
At any rate, the whole effect of the sword became more of an on-going gag. Since the sword removed the memory and trace of its kill the other PCs would often tease Durr about not contributing to the battle. In the case that Durr got the kill strike on a major opponent the smartass PC (the halfling fighter-thief. I swear the other characters were all played against sterotype....except maybe the bard) would never fail to use the situation created by the sword to undermine any respect or recognition Durr may have received from slaying a high level enemy.

So perhaps not the most well thought out of items in term of game mechanics. But good times, thanks Durr and Tweed if you happen upon this. Go to Comment

I like this idea a lot.

Adventure Idea: The PCs meet Kranno and Vonyich and they become fast friends. Maybe even have an adventure together. Kranno then hears something he shouldn't and Vonyich publishes it. As soon the story hits the public the powers that be put a hit out on Vonyich and Kranno and the PCs have to help them get out the Kingdom

Adventure Idea: A PC becomes their new favorite subject. The PC finds that he know has undserved reputation, a fan base and further more can't take a leak without finding it public knowledge the next day. This all becomes a problem when the PC become associated with the backdoor man/mistress of a local Warlord and at the same time is contracted to carry a subtle spy mission. Go to Comment

My only thought  about the writing style is that the tone is not held constant. Cliche and poetic are fine, they suggest a time before the media over saturation.  Colloquial and modern is fine too, just because were describing dragons, jousts or an iron-age agrarian lifestyle doesn’t mean we need to use middle English (or our approximation of middle English).  I think the author was going for a classical theme here and achieved that in the first few paragraphs.  (After all what modern man would name his son Gale?)



I didn’t see the original, but what I read today seems like a solid post that achieves its goal (telling us the back story of the dragon scale).  Also, for the most part, it sets a mood and a tone.



 

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Not overly drawn out. They are solid one dimensonal villians that a group of heroic PCs could really sink their teeth into. Go to Comment

Is the animal intelligent?

But I like the idea as whole, these animals could also be a form pest. Imagine your PCs are giving an ogre chase through the forest and accidently startle a heard of Enori.

This could also be a great tool for a DM desperate to keep their PCs from doing something stupid. Go to Comment

I guess I never voted on this and it looks like it isn't going to change any. Despite all the flaws I do like the idea. Go to Comment

Only voted Go to Comment

Updated: I going to try this fake letter thing Go to Comment

Nice Villian with clever, interesting but not sufficating details that links him to all sorts of possible plot hooks. Go to Comment

I agree with Muro for the most part. Overall there is rapid fire laundry list of places but I enjoyed that you didn't present them as a list-lists are the the citadel's greatest vice-and stuck to single narrative flow. You have a created vibrant and energetic setting. Thanks Go to Comment

Updated: I thought I'd change the format a little. Go to Comment

Updated: Updated: People mentioned some changes that should be made. As for the term generic, I meant it was associated with no specific world. But I will never try and get into symantics agruement on a message board. So I changed the title.
As for this Eliminster clown, when did he enter print. Go to Comment

As a whole do you feel the depth of the Forgotten Realms world has been good for gaming? Not the business, but the way hobbyists approach and play the game. Go to Comment

Updated: it is so hard to get all the errors out of a piece of prose. Go to Comment

Very Good, and useful. This was the first of the 30 lists I read and it is still one of my favorites. Go to Comment

One-bad mother:

She has never had much ambition. Oh she has dreamed of things and imagintined things; her oldest daughter marvels at how creative her mother is, but she never really sought to better her station. As a young woman she realizes in retrospect that she was waiting for a caretaker. She was never a beauty, but she had a honest face with eyes as warm and round as her face and a smile so sweetly shy that men soon found comfort in her. They just never found a wife in here though. So by the age of 34 had given birth to eight bastards. By 35 was mother to five and gravetender to three. The broken promises of minstrel boys, the loss of her youth and the tragic loss of her babies to plague and hunger left no room in her heart for anything but her children.

She found she could make a living as a mother; at a brothel. The whores had their own bastard and many of the girls were little more than children themselves who didn't know what tits were for. When one day a john refused to pay up and slapped on of the girls around, she found it soe easy to slit his throat. The family ate well that week. Over time she found she had a skill with poisons, blades and traps, and nobody saw this broken down middleaged mother as a threat. Now her sons go to school. Her daughters have promising marriages in their futures and for a few days of work a month.

As a killer she is cold and meticilous. Often planning her day around as
9am take boys to church for leason.
10am drop off Kara's lute at the repair shop
10:30am pick up Lucina's shoes at the cobblers
11am pick up hand crossbow at "one eyed petes"
12noon "meet" duchess at rose festival
12:30 take boys their lunch. Go to Comment