Play-by-Post D&D: The Lounge

[Glitch Girl]

Mwhahahaha!  :twisted:

(sorry, just seemed like the Game-mastery thing to say right then)

[BlueBard]

Mwhahahaha!  :twisted:

(sorry, just seemed like the Game-mastery thing to say right then)

Just as long as you don't take the evil GM thing too far...

'Cause you know then I'll be forced to outdo you in the Paranoia game... and I've got a considerable head-start in that area.

;)

[Uncle Yuan]

FYI - Currently riding my hinder off across Iowa - GG should be NPCing me for the rest of this week.  I do have time for one quick response though. :D

[Panther_Gunn]

"My pardon... Og is it?  I wonder if you could use a gold piece for a few hours' work?  I need something hauled away from here."

aarrgh!  By offering payment up front, you've denied me one of Og's better lines!  After being asked for help, he just sticks out his hand, and says, very deadpan, "How much you pay Og?"  The first time reactions can be priceless!  I sprang that on two guys once, right *after* we got into the dungeon complex (because they didn't ask first).  They just about had to change thier shorts, as they were going in to *find* money, as they were almost destitue, and needed muscle.  "Terrorize stupid people.....all in day work for Og."  :lol:

[Glitch Girl]

Whisper nods sagely (not quite comprehending that Starbuck is joking about performing in the rain).

Obviously Whisper has mastered the "Smile and Nod" skill, usefull for all KINDS of occasions.  :D

BTW: Thought you guys might enjoy this.  This is my friend's web page, featuring many quotes from games like this he's been in.  And yes, I'm in there a few times too.

http://games.sub-standard.com/

[BlueBard]

Ah, the pain of characterization.

I had decided to emphasize Whisper's alien (non-human) persona by never using contractions.  He's learned the Common tongue fluently, but he's never been comfortable with it.  Hence, no slang or contractions or any other sign of familiarity.

I catch myself having to stop and edit every other sentence to remove contractions that slipped in there.  :P

[Viking]

Obviously Whisper has mastered the "Smile and Nod" skill, usefull for all KINDS of occasions.  :D

BTW: Thought you guys might enjoy this.  This is my friend's web page, featuring many quotes from games like this he's been in.  And yes, I'm in there a few times too.

http://games.sub-standard.com/

Ranks right up there with skills like "Badge-Flashing," and "Craft Disturbing Mental Image."

(*Having checked GG's link to the quote site...*)

Strange... Why is it that so many memorable quotes from games seem to revolve around sex?

Still, I'm rather fond of the following line by one of the players in one of my games:

"We're in pursuit of an invisible man.  Have you seen him?"

(The player later steadfastly denied that he had used those exact words, saying that he actually asked, "Have you noticed him?")

[Glitch Girl]

Strange... Why is it that so many memorable quotes from games seem to revolve around sex?

Wishful thinking?  I mean, we ARE gamers, remember?  ;)

In our defense, we do have a lot of just "weird" stuff.  Like "Grapefruits are like rabid wolverines, except round and yellow." (I still love that one)  Most of the stuff there are comments that stopped the game cold because we were laughing too hard or some such.  I guess a well placed innuendo in the middle of a tense situation will do that.

Now back to the game, and Roger's rendition of "Raindrops keep falling on my head"

[BlueBard]

Just wondering about whether certain words are actually part of the Orcish language...

Words like, say, 'advice'.

'Cause, you know, I have a hard time picturing an Orc tuning in to Dr. Phil.

"Dr. Phil, can you help me with my anger problem?"

I have an even harder time picturing an Orc giving advice.

"So you say your roommate won't buy the groceries but he eats all your food?  And you want to know what you should do about that?  Well, Gricklok, the Dr. Ork solution to your problem is to whack his head off with an axe while he's sleeping."

[Glitch Girl]

"Advice" probably translates into something like "orders you don't have to follow".

I think Dr. Ork needs his own advice show.  Got to be better than most of those talk shows in the tube.

[Viking]

"Dr. Ork, can you help me?  I don't know what the going rate is for bribery in exchange for information."

[BlueBard]

"Dr. Ork, can you help me?  I don't know what the going rate is for bribery in exchange for information."

"Yes, I can.  The snitch will usually charge what he believes to be the likely sum of every bit of money you have on you at the time.  The usual counteroffer is refraining from bodily harm."

[BlueBard]

Too bad there's no medieval version of Dr. Phil... Whisper could probably use some counseling.  :lol:

If you hadn't noticed, he's rather prejudiced against what he feels are the lesser races of the humanoids with evil tendencies.  Mostly goblins and orcs, but you could throw in gnolls, trolls, ogres, and certain giants.

He seems to be making an exception for Og, but then Og is not a full Ogre and has also demonstrated dislike for evil persons (he talked about fighting the "hobble-gobbles" that were bullying the small folk.)  So Og is getting the benefit of the doubt for now. ;)

[Panther_Gunn]

Correction, Og talked about fighting "bugsy-bares".  "Nomes" make good food!   :huh: :unsure:  .....er, that is, they bake and prepare good food.  :D

[Lord Elcorion]

sorry for dropping out for so long without warning, i'm back though now. my computer decided to fritz out on me, and i only just got it working again. ((though i still need to get a few things configured again.. had to reinstall windows and i haven't gotten all my drivers and such fully back online, so no sound at the moment, etc.))

[Glitch Girl]

No problem LE.  Hope he computer is better soon.

(OOG:  Starbuck breaks the fourth wall for a second, to address some unseen entity in the audience.  "This means that I'll be leaving the tavern with the rest of these adventurous types," he says, with an exaggerated wink.)

Pbbbth.  ;)

Actually silence from LE and Benton made me wonder if they were still in the game, that's why I posted that.  Now I know why LE wasn't on and most everyone has checked in.  We can continue.

And on a side note, a tidbit from our game this weekend.
[spoiler=Geeky gaming story within]
We're playing an Eberon game on alternating Saturdays.  Our party's Artificer (read: someone who specializes in making magic items) and his "pet" baby copper dragon (another PC, sometimes it's hard to tell who's the pet here) were robbed and vandalized, victims of a rash of thefts in the city.  We tracked down the guy over several sessions.  He's in a room with some other folks, so to surprise them, our artificer sticks a wand of fireball under the door and sets it off.  There's a loud "FWHOOMP!!" and then we charge in and a fight ensues.

The thief happened to be an artificer also and was fighting our guy toe to toe while his buddies were being "taken care of".  He and our guy trade Wand of Magic Missile strikes a while, then he suddenly whips out a scroll and POOF! he's gone. 

The copper dragon can sense invisibility and knows ROUGHLY where the guy is and lets loose a spray of acid.

Our artificer demands he show himself and give up.  There's only one door out of the room and we've got it covered.

No response.

This goes on for a couple of moments - we're sure he's preparing infusions (=making temporary magic items) or something, so we back out of the room and our boy lets loose with another fireball and slams the door.

"FWHOOMP!!" 25 points of damage.

We open the door again.

The room is scorched some more, except for a spot off to the side that used to be the other artificer and then the GM starts cracking up.  She reveals that when he went invisible, he was going to try to use a healing potion, only the acid breath hit him and he went unconscious.  We'd been talking to an unconscious invisible guy for the past few rounds (House rule is that spells from scrolls and wands can continue after the user is knocked out since it's an external source not their own concentration) and when we let loose that fireball, he was already at -6 hp.  The briquettes that were left over were at -31.

oops.  Little overkill there.
[/spoiler]

[Lord Elcorion]

nice story GG. very funny.

[Viking]

That ranks up there with the group of adventurers who gagged a prisoner, threatened to torture him to death if he didn't talk, and then did so... forgetting that their prisoner couldn't talk because they'd gagged him.  Of course, they had a somewhat sadistic GM who didn't remind them of this fact.

[Uncle Yuan]

Hey GG - how do we handle languages?  I'm assuming that we each have our racial language plus common, but what about learning others?

[Viking]

While GG may choose to mold the rules as appropriate to her game, here's how it currently works in the 3.5 D&D rulebooks:

You start off knowing Common, your racial language, and a number of languages equal to your Intelligence modifier.  For example, if you had an Intelligence of 14, with a +2 modifier to Intelligence checks, you'd know two extra languages of your choice right off the bat.

Learning additional languages is handled by spending skill points.  If you're a bard, you can pick up another language for every skill point you spend.  All other classes have to spend two skill points per new language.  (Yes, Starbuck knows a rather insane number of languages.)

Of course, in my regular D&D game, my cleric has an Intelligence of 10 (no modifier), and is human, so that means he speaks only one language - Common.  Early in the game, his running gag was in response to any time the party asked what languages everybody spoke.  To which, I would stand up in a Peter Pan pose, hands on hips, big stupid grin on my face, and proclaim, "I speak Common!"

[Uncle Yuan]

Which reminds me, Vike.  We're still waiting to meet your partner, Apollo Gordon.

[Glitch Girl]

RE: Languages

Orloid knows common and elven right out.  After that, it's dependant on your INT mod, which means you get one more.  If you want more than that, we'll talk via PM and see if we can sort that out.

[Uncle Yuan]

RE: Languages

Orloid knows common and elven right out.  After that, it's dependant on your INT mod, which means you get one more.  If you want more than that, we'll talk via PM and see if we can sort that out.

All right then, given my history, it would seem likely that he would also know [spoiler]Orcish[/spoiler]

On a completely unrelated note, will Anya be joining the party anytime soon, or will we have to rely on a bard to disarm the traps?

[Viking]

Sorry, I don't disarm traps.  But don't worry - I can sing songs to Inspire Competence in another party member so that they can disarm traps!  The Inspire Competence bonus may just be enough to negate the nonproficiency penalty!  :)

[BlueBard]

Disarming traps...

Isn't that what henchmen/hirelings are for?

In a pinch though, we've always got a half-ogre.  Also good for opening locks.  :lol:

[Uncle Yuan]

And with that stone maul, chests too, I'd wager.  Both the kinds containing treasure and organs!

[Glitch Girl]

Sorry, I don't disarm traps.  But don't worry - I can sing songs to Inspire Competence in another party member so that they can disarm traps!  The Inspire Competence bonus may just be enough to negate the nonproficiency penalty!  :)

"Disarm, disarm , disarm the trap,
so it won't do its thing,
Disarm, disarm , disarm the [SNAP]
Ooo.. that's gotta sting."

Yeah, actually Og's skill set is "Maul".  Kinda like in the Munchkin Guide to Gaming, the Gun is your skill set ;) . 

[Viking]

Og Have Skills!

Og Intimidate!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Disable Device!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Gather Information!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Speak Language!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Handle Animals!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Play Instrument!  Specialty: Drums!  With Maul!


Starbuck: (*whispers*) Nobody tell him that we're going to the shopping mall or we're really in trouble!

[Panther_Gunn]

((-smirks- getting rid of the "LE's charecter" thing early, eh?))

( OOG: That and it's easier for the PC's to say than "Hey Mysterious Hooded person, Duck!" ;) )

By the time you get all that out, she'll be dead.  I say we just call her Romana.  ;)

Og Have Skills!

Og Intimidate!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Disable Device!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Gather Information!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Speak Language!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Handle Animals!  Specialty: Maul!
Og Play Instrument!  Specialty: Drums!  With Maul!


Starbuck: (*whispers*) Nobody tell him that we're going to the shopping mall or we're really in trouble!

<_<

*leans in close* "Og think you make fun of him.  Og find out for sure, Og show you what business end of Og-brand Concrete on Stick^® all about."

[Panther_Gunn]

A moment later, all of you (except Og, who the dice say is distracted by a pretty rock) see some huge shape loom up in the direction that Whisper and Dakkon went.

ahhh, you know Og *so* well...... :lol: