Peak hours are still around 9PM EST right? Or did that shift, because hardly anyone's on that time of night when I check in.

>>317785
There were some people on around that time just today. It's not as active as it was half a year ago, but it's not dead or anything.

>>317787
What's the usual number of players? I was on today and there were only 4 people, as opposed to like August when there were usually 18 people on at a time. Is that just because lawlsummer or something?

>>317788
Probably! We've lost some players though, for various reasons.

The max now would be more like... I dunno, 12-15, assuming nobody's playing more than one char at the same time.

Okay, we've got a slew of races available from Curelian to Scellor, a variety of leveling areas up to like 60 at which point things become a bit more restricted... Right now we could use more players and builders!

We have security settings for people to build without being full admins. Feel free to apply for that position!

>>318041
Devoted a lot of the thread to this, but...
I don't remember the series, but I was reading through a comic the other day with a great deal of focus on how the weapons and skills worked with things. I'm not just saying more damage; more like the higher strength you are, the higher you should be pushing the requirements on your weapon- if you're a really strong spear-wielder, then you should keep using heavier and heavier spears, even if it's just 'Tie rocks and giant chunks of lead onto the end of this spear' or the like. If you push the limits of speed with a set of daggers, then you'd want to keep improving them with I don't know, little hooks or magic that makes them fluid in form or the like. If you're pushing the limits of endurance, then armor that keeps getting thicker and thicker seems reasonable.

As far as I understood, Combat Skills in this system are things like Bull Rush, Disarm, Trip, Sunder, Overrun, etc. What I meant was for example a halberd enables a char with enough halberd skill a Trip with better success chances.

>>318050
Yes.
I'm suggesting that the weapon should be altered as the character gets better with it, to better take advantage of the user's skill.
If the fighter keeps getting stronger and stronger, and doesn't care about keeping the stats evened out, what's to stop him from eventually carrying around a hammer the size of a volkswagen casually on one shoulder, since he's got five belts of giant strength on and bracers of same on all his limbs?
Obviously he can't start with the hammer, but working up to it...

That sort of thing is basically what level-ups are for. You get a stat bonus every "tier" you go up, and, for example, as a warrior, you do more damage with what is essentially a mundane weapon.

Effectively, as you level, you can eradicate the ever-living hell out of a small gang of mundane humans without even taking a single lick of damage. You are harder to hit, hit much more often, and can resist the lucky blow they might get off on you.

As a Warrior, that threat is multiplied, because you do additional threat, as well as more hit with your favored weapon, on top of having additional skill points to put towards trip, bull rush, etc.

Considering it like that, even a level 1 character is terrifying compared to a regular mundane npc.

More of this will be roughed out via the lore of the game, which I've been industriously working on.

Terrans;
Terrans are a well-rounded, versatile people, with many shades of grey, but few extremes. Terrans are fairly simply put, human in form. Commonly between 5 and 4 feet tall at adulthood, Terrans have a wide variety of body types, tending towards an athletic build. Most Terrans have tan skin, often with darker freckles on the face, shoulders, arms and legs. Their skin color varies from fair to swarthy, but never pure white or black. Most Terrans tend to have earth-toned hair, ranging widely from almost-black to sandy blonde. As a Terran gets older, their hair slowly fades in color, never becoming white, but instead taking on pastel hues. Terran eyes range from green to violet, with tones of browns and hazel in-between. With such diversity, comes many forms of personal identification. Hair dye and piercings are fairly common, but scarification and tattoos are not; and are often related to rebels, criminals, and violence.

Elemeis;
Bestial form and great in strength; the varied elemeis are competent warriors, strong and proud. Elemeis are humanoid in form, but often with digitigrade legs, snouts, and other mamallian animalistic features. though they can tend to have different forms, such as a more feline or canine face, their are of the same race, and can interbreed without trouble. Some clans have tails, though it's considered a somewhat uncommon trait. Almost all Elemeis have strong, well-defined bodies, with hard, toned muscle. They have four fingers and an opposable thumb on their hands, with four toes on their feet. Their entire body is covered in fur, under which they have skin which often follows the pattern of their coat in tone, but tends to be lighter, with pinks and tans instead of browns and blacks. Most Elemeis have short fur covering their entire body, as well as hair on their head, which ranges in color from completely black to forest brown, to pure white, but never green, pink, blue, or purple. Eye color varies, but

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Sent my sheet.

IRC stands for Instant Relay Chat, I'm pretty sure. It's really just a chatroom with a fancy name. rizon.net is an example, though its on-site chat client is subpar and crashes a lot, so you would want an IRC client. I use Colloquy, but I'm pretty sure that's mac-only.

>>318055
okay, lets see.... okay, i guess this can work.
On rizon go to #bamump and i'll have to npc you here on skype, but i will relay what is going on

Bamump!3GqYIJ3Obs 2012/02/21(Tue)14:44 No. 318058 ID: 53aede
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a map

Nomad 5
HP gained: +3
Psionic Body HP gained: +4
Feat chosen: Psionic Talent 1 (+2 pp)
Psion bonus feat: Psionic Talent 2 (+3 pp)
PP gained from Psion: 8
New Max HP: 30
New Max PP: 39
Skill point distribution: +1 to Concentration, +5 to Climb
Powers learned: Recall Agony (2nd level), Time Hop (3rd level)

>>318060
thx sala, now about that next time we play. My schedule looks like it may be Wednesday the 29th, we'll try the same thing with skype and irc, but i may have everyone switch over to irc depending on how the situation may be cast. We will still be using the same dice generator with the same password. If anything comes up remember to mention it here, i will check this thread regularly. Also, for those who want to sit in such as an audience you are welcomed, i might anyone who does that play npcs to help me out. So with that outta the way, I will hopefully see you guys on wednesday.

>>317997
Did I mention that the dragon lied about almost everything except for the fact that yes, the room chronicles the rise and fall of the various empires of the races in it's murals, but since the language is supernal, the dragon has no idea what the details are?
That no one tried to identify the dragon, the murals, tried to discern the truth in the words they heard? That they went into the room still wounded from the fight against the kobold raiders and orc?

2012/02/12(Sun)01:38 No. 318004 ID: 9130c6
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>>317998
>>317997
How.
Just straight up how.

>childish, irritating dragon
Have it give them humiliating and pointless tasks to prove loyalty, then pic related when they inevitably object.

>>318004
Oh, make no mistake, I have plans.
The dragon will eventually eliminate them, and until then, you may be right.
Small, silly, pointlessly vicious little dalliances may be what the doctor ordered.

Guardsork Orktavious 2012/02/22(Wed)11:10 No. 318061 ID: dd1abd
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>>318011
Updates, people, updates.
They go back to town and stupidly tell the town elders EVERYTHING, including the dragons plans to have them raze the town.
To be sure, the elders are like WAT, then learn that they have essentially failed every single task set to them, from securing the goods, mapping the cave to scattering the kobolds. One of the elders, Guilliman (HURR), decides to give them the money promised upon the scattering the kobolds, as they had slain the raiding orc boss, a paltry sum, and they were summarily booted from town, told not to return without a dragon's head in tow. Pleas to have them send soldiers to help them were denied as they were not going to send the young men of their town off to die foolishly; there are stupid adventurers like themselves for such tasks.
After deliberating, they decide to kill the dragon. They return to the cave, meander a bit, go back to the dragon, having planned to sneak attack him. This plan fails when the dragonborn all but declares they are going to fight him rather than submit (why do they let this guy talk???) during a short conversation with the dragon.
Battle time. It was brutal. The warden dropped slow effects on the dragon every round, and the party ate dragon breath like it was going out of style (the recharge rolls were always 6). The cleric got slapped with a claw, than dragon breathed to death, turning into a popsicle. I felt bad about that, the only character that had actually stood up to the dragon was laid low by ice breath the last time, and finally killed this time. His last act was a critical Cascade of Light that honestly turned the tide of the battle. The ranger got slapped down in the same blast, pulled up due to temp. hp, than dummied up hardcore by using her bow while threatened and put back down. The warden landed the killi

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>>318004
Also, this is EXACTLY what happened.
Repeatedly.

Weaver 2011/07/11(Mon)13:23 No. 317378 ID: 543aa6
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and this

In case anyone wanted to just download everything:
7z: http://www.multiupload.com/Z10W109O18
Zip: http://www.multiupload.com/7TJADPLC9M
Contains all original logs as well as the HTML conversions. Hambol 1-46, Lowdee 1-45.

http://www.multiupload.com/DMFCXWOV87
Hambol 47-52 and Lowdee 46-56

>>317888
YES YES YES /meme

Thank yoouuu.

Since Multiupload died, reuploads.
Everything: http://uploadmirrors.com/download/88BX9RPK/ACTLogs.zip
Hambol 47-52 and Lowdee 46-56: http://uploadmirrors.com/download/UBO1Z9GX/ActLogsnew.zip

Never heard of it. There is some exalted interest around here. That dice system sounds kind of like Cthulhu Tech though.

I am not by default interested in feudal Asiatic settings, but I am willing to read a summary of up to two paragraphs in length before making a decision.

This is the article that got me interested in the game:

http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/01/11/nerding-it-up-with-legends-of-the-wulin/

It's longer than two paragraphs, though, but it's not too heavy.

The setting is themed after "Wuxia" fiction, which you may be familiar with if you've ever seen Iron Monkey, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kung Fu Hustle, etc. Essentially, mastery of martial arts and chi leads to super-human abilities.

The setting by default assumes "Ancient Romantic China" but there is a great thread on RPG.net called "Nihao Honey 2" where they took this game and put it in a modern, shonen-anime setting.

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?576867-Legends-of-the-Wulin-Nihao-Honey-year-2

rolled 13, 15, 15 = 43

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2 or less is a failure

rolled 9 = 9

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boss

rolled 4, 10, 20, 4 = 38

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everyone attacks

rolled 1 = 1

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1- Overlord 2- Butler

rolled 8 = 8

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stab

Might not make it

>>317968
Sorry I didn't make it, guys. The day was shit in general - I didn't have the energy even had I gotten home at 5.

Windows fuckery. Pardon me for a moment.

Hey me and Ted aren't gonna be there tonight, we're both exhausted for different reasons. Apologies.

Considering moving to saturdays at the same time as usual.

If you can't make it please notify.

CoC is not D&D, or many of the other games you may have heard bandied about. Do not treat it as such.
Make sure you do right by the lore, it's 60% of the game.
Make sure the players understand they are not going to "win". CoC is a brutal game, at times, where the few victories are presaged by defeats in spades. The easily butthurt need not apply.

Anonymous 2012/02/04(Sat)09:12 No. 317978 ID: 90e99d
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>get banned for breach of forum rules
>"hey guys, stop supporting this business?"
Are you serious?

>>317978
>>317977

Exact copy of post

To be honest I am already disappointed in much of what I am hearing of this edition mechanically but where WotC could still save themselves in my eyes is by writing books with good fluff I would want. However before they could do this they would need to address the decrease in the quality of writing we have seem since the release of 4e, both in terms of how well thought out pieces of fluff are (addressing Verisimilitude) and by writing it above a grade 6 reading comprehension level. I know this is a mass marketed product but given WotC seems to be dead set on bringing back older gamers who stopped keeping with contemporary D&D I don't see why they shouldn't at least improve it to a high school level of reading comprehension.

Now the request for adding at least 4 years onto the level of reading comprehension is very straight forward but I also feel that WotC would have a much better product with fluff worth reading if they actually put more thought into the fluff they write, not just how they write it. I am sure there are people out there don't care about verisimilitude, think it gets in the way of fun or think every setting will look like Eberron if magic's effects on society are taken to it's logical conclusion. Well I can tell you right now that those are not valid points not to do it because:

a) If they don't care then it works either way and the added effort on the part of the writers justifies the price tag of the book
b) The only people who think its not fun are the kind of people looking for "LOL SO RANDUMB" and will do what they want regardless

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I wouldn't have banned you for that garbage, but I would have called you a fag and deleted your post.

Fag. (I'm leaving the post there for context)

That pic's from Facebook, isn't it?
The number pattern looks familiar.

>>318007

marine-claude b. uploaded it to her profile, that's where I got it. The mannequin was made from a full body cast of her.

rolled 3 = 3

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>>317942

rolled 18 = 18

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10 chance

rolled 72 = 72

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50 chance

New mutation table: Darkness.

1 - Night Vision
2 - Antennae
3 - Longer limbs
4 - Darkness Skin
5 - Lighter body
6 - Silenced body
7 - Photosensitive
8 - Chitinous armour
9 - Forgettable
10 - Claws

rolled 76 = 76

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50

He almost doesn't need the ulimate.

The first two can cuase so much damage by themselves!

Still, cardsteal is something I always find hilarious.

Falkenrath Nobles would be my choice, but really, combos with all the vamps.

Don't even need to splash white for him, throw a manalith or something like that in.

I've been looking for some help with my casual deck, any takers?

I still dislike planeswalkers (the card type, and most of the new ones introduced along with it) and the mythic rarity in general.

>>317958
Hey, I'll help in any way I can.

>>317971
4 Kazandu Blademaster
2 Kabira Evangel
4 Makindi Shieldmate
3 Ondu Cleric
4 Hada Freeblade
4 Talus Paladin
20 Plains
4 Bone Saw
2 Mask of Avacyn
4 Adaptive Automaton
4 Join the Ranks
4 Sylvok Lifestaff
1 Umezawa's Jitte


Looking for better equipment and Allies.

auuugh, that's basically a white rush deck :|
Personally, if I was you and wanted to make the deck especially mean, I'd drop most/all the artifacts, pick a second (or third color if you think you can get a reliable mana base for it), grab some mana-fix lands, and focus on low-mana allies.
Alternatively if you want other ideas for all-white.. Mask of Avacyn is pretty expensive, I'd suggest lightning greaves instead I think, or drop it entirely. Spidersilk Net might be nice if you're threatened by fliers. I'm not good with equipment though so there are probably better ideas here. I want to suggest a couple cards like Parralax Wave, Otherworldy Journey, or Momentary Blink(especially this for your Ondu Clerics) - you have no control currently and cards like that can do wonders at critical times, and have good synergy with your deck. Likewise a couple disenchants may save you from opponents' combos, or if you don't like risking dead cards Leonin Relic-Warder, although these are definitely more side-board ideas than main-deck.

Alternately, security is incomplete: a panopticon. Yes, you could be watched anywhere at any time but in truth you're not. There's so much data to filter through that unobtrusive crimes go undetected for months and it's only after investigation that the pieces are put together and the perpetrators are uncovered.

The public, and maybe even the rank-and-file of the corporate police force, believe that surveillance is more powerful than it is, and that's what keeps the system working.

So the players can either be that rank-and-file, slowly realizing how flawed their organization is... or they can be members of the elite secret unit required to hide the big lie.

30df25 2012/01/15(Sun)14:42 No. 317890 ID: 30df25
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High profile cases for police in a post-Singularity setting?
- Anonymous already mentioned one of the problems with omniscience: the time it takes to process all that data. Sure the criminal was recorded somewhere, but even with expert-sysystem AIs that still only narrows down the footage to 72 hours worth of useful tape, which would need to be reviewed and correlated by actuals with training. However, the PCs have to find the culprits in 48 hours "or else," so they're sent to do conventional forensics and investigation.
- Take a page from Masamune Shirow's "Ghost In The Shell": the criminals are people who were briefly hijacked and injected with a compulsion that seemed harmless at the time. All the footage shows the hijacked people, but never the hijacker since the hijacked ones never broke behaviour patterns before the compulsion was triggered... can't even tell how long a 'puppet' had the compulsion since it could lay dormant for years.
- this time borrowing nan idea from distributed computing: the crimes are committed by teams of people, but each person does something small and innocuous, something that would not exceed detection thresholds for uncivil behaviour. ie.: man found dead, poisoned after spending the afternoon in a cafe. No trace of the poison in the cafe's plumbing, nor on any of the staff. None of the drinking containers detect for poison. Turns out it was a half-dozen patrons in the busy cafe, each depositing a small amount on the victim's cups with accidents or helpful carrying during the day. Each small amount was harmless, and wouldn't alert the shop's pollution monitors, but as the victim drank, and got new cups, the poison accumulated to a fatal dose in her bloodstream.

Or, alternately, you could make things easier on yourself as a GM and *not* have omniscient surveillance in your world.

But that would not be realistic. To me maintaining my own suspension of disbelief is more important than anything else. The minute I can't do that I lose interest in GMing.

The obvious solution is that the 24/7 surveillance is fairly trivially broken, but infrequently so (with most users either not even considering the possibility, or deciding the benefits outweigh the privacy limitations). Making the system totally completely secure would not only be impossible, it would be vastly more expensive than dealing with the issues caused by untracked users.
Making the system voluntary leaves plenty of room for areas with minimal tracking. Read 'Harmony' by Project Itoh for some ideas.

use a spin on the GITS "ghost hacking" idea:

the criminals have all been mind hacked. they do not remember committing the crimes, nor what they did with the loot.

the realm crooks are the ones who controlled these victims

are you bad enough dudes to find them?


or maybe its someone exploiting the constant survilance: blackmail done via stolen personal info gleamed from surveillance logs

Be ecstatic. The lighter tone of the fluff makes the game hilarious.