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IT IS ALIIIVE! Reviving the Cadaverous Earth Campaign

Started by Steerpike, January 23, 2011, 02:47:33 PM

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Quote from: SteerpikeIt's a group game, but sometimes I've done solo sessions, especially when a player hasn't been able to make it for awhile.  Sometimes someone else in the group will happen to be on IRC so they'll tag along on a solo session.  I probably won't do as many solos at first simply due to lack of time, but they could still happen occasionally.  The Meanest Guest has a specific one in mind, for example.

What I meant by having "guest star" players is that if someone can't commit to a regular campaign but might want to participate now and then, if they have a character rolled they can usually drop in with relative ease.

Awesome! Consider me a possible "guest star." I'll of course try my hardest to get there every time on time, so I might actually end up a regular player who just misses an occasional session (that would be ideal!). I'm just in the middle of trying to pick up a job for the semester, so between that and homework I want to make sure I don't commit to something I can't make. I should definitely be able to make it as at least a "guest star." Looking forward to it!

EDIT: And TMG is pressuring me into joining. :)

Kindling

Being a guest star may work for me once I start work or just due to the time difference (If you want to play in the evenings, for example, that's the small hours of the morning for me) although I'd rather just be a constant player if at all possible. In other news, I'm thinking of playing a Zerda weapon master.
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CoyoteCamouflage

I would actually like to sit in on one of the games, first, honestly. Not necessarily as a guest player or anything, just an observer. My impression of the setting was a little too dark for my preferences, but I know that can be ameliorated depending on the people playing.

LD mentioned it to me, so I did look it over. Certainly, I could manage a guest spot if you'd prefer that over just spectating.
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Steerpike

You're very welcome to spectate!

The setting is dark, but in places so ridiculously dark that it's over-the-top, even slightly absurd: so far the party have fought cannibalistic drug dealers in an abandoned insane asylum, stopped a necromancer from turning snatched bodies into zombie prostitutes, burnt down a town whose former inhabitants were somehow (magically) merged with the architecture (it was an accident, sort of), and murdered a couple of people pretty much in cold blood...

TheMeanestGuest

Here's a question, will our new players be able to choose to play a Sheevra or Writheling, or only the races from the original character creation thread?
Let the scholar be dragged by the hook.

Steerpike

Ooh good point - they can be a Sheevra if they want (check the last page of the main CE thread for stats)... not sure how to handle writhling stats.  They'd probably have an LA of some kind (maybe +2?).  If someone wants to play one I could probably come up with stats, though.

TheMeanestGuest

Hey! Prospective players! Are any of you going to post up your characters like we did in the original thread? I'm curious to see what you're thinking about playing.
Let the scholar be dragged by the hook.

Kindling

I was kind of waiting for more confirmation or something... Actually, I really don't know what I was waiting for! :P

I'll post a character tomorrow. Definitely gonna be a Zerda, but not 100% on the class yet.

EDIT: What level are we making the new characters at? I know before it was 4th level, is that gonna be the same for us newbs?

EDIT 2: If I play a Weapon Master, can I use my natural bite or claw attack as my favoured weapon?
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Steerpike

No worries Kindling!

New characters will begin at 5th level.

If you play a Weapon Master, I see no reason why you can't pick your claws or your bite as your favoured weapon!

If you decide not to play a Weapon Master, bear in mind that Coyote Camouflage may be joining as a zerda Harrier.  Having two zerda is fine (we had two ghilan before after all) but two zerda Harriers without multiclassing might be excessive... on the other hand, I'm sure the two could still be distinguished suitably.  If we do have two zerda in the party I may introduce them as a pair.

EDIT: Also, if returning players could also post updated versions of their character sheets I would be very grateful!  This would save me having to ask for defense scores etc and would speed up combat...

Nomadic

To update everyone I can't play at the moment but I may be back for the summer with Eareg.

Kindling

I think I'm definitely going weapon master, if I can use claws.

One final question: The skill Use Magic Device. Talk to me about it.

EDIT: I lied, I have another question. If I'm using my claws, and I have the Weapon Master ability Favoured Defence, do I count as wielding one handed or dual wield? Technically both my hands are empty... I guess it counts as dual wield, though, as while they are empty, they're also both being used as to make attacks.
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Steerpike

Two claws do count as dual-wielding, yeah.  If you choose to fight with only one hand and use the other to block incoming attacks, you can gain the full benefits of Favoured Defense, however.

The Use Magic Device skill functions in similar ways to the same skill in regular 3.5 D&D in that it can allow for race/class emulation or for casting a spell from a scroll or wand (though wands aren't common in CE).  It would also be very useful if the party comes across unknown magical... thingies... and has trouble figuring them out.  Find some eldritch weapon buried in the desert that hasn't been used for ten millennia?  You might be able to just pick it up and start zapping fetch... or it might explode in your face, and/or vent arcane radiation everywhere and make you start growing tentacles from random places.

LD

Two Zerda... Now that the ghuls and leeches are dropping away; we're becoming Animal Force (!)