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It is highly representative of the garbage within.
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the way you say that makes it seem like the nakedness, mold arm and fox sword are what make the picture bad, when in fact it is the dudes stupid face that does that
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Mar 14, 2010 06:34
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It's really a complete package of awful.
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Mar 14, 2010 08:11
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In the grim darkness of Athas, psionic powers make you grow a mons veneris on your head.
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Mar 14, 2010 09:44
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PeterWeller posted:Tyr was well done. My main problem is you spent about half the game exploring underground tunnels. Exploring caves and killing poo poo is core D&D, but seems like a cop-out in a Dark Sun game. I was actually going to bring this up. Caves, especially on a world that used to have so much water, are natural formations and might even have underground lakes and streams... if you can get past all the horrors under the mountain. Mostly I think I want to have PCs fight a desiccated undead whale.
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Mar 15, 2010 18:12
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the party finds out about a rumoured source of pure, clear water that could supposedly sustain a small settlement indefinitely. they set out to find it and after struggling through forgotten horrors amidst blood and tears, they find the underground spring, only to discover that the reservoir it feeds into has been utterly fouled by the undead cave whale and will take decades to come clean even with someone actively trying to drain and cleanse it
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Mar 15, 2010 18:22
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even so the tainted water cave represents untold riches for any group that can think in the long term like a merchant house. Someday your grandchildren will be billionares
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Mar 15, 2010 18:30
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Mile'ionaha posted:I was actually going to bring this up. Caves, especially on a world that used to have so much water, are natural formations and might even have underground lakes and streams... if you can get past all the horrors under the mountain. That's a cool idea. Also, if you don't want undead taint, you can use the Aboleths like we were talking about a couple pages back. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with exploring caves and dungeons in Dark Sun. I had a problem in that game with exploring a ton of caves and no desert locations.
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Mar 15, 2010 18:40
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Liesmith posted:even so the tainted water cave represents untold riches for any group that can think in the long term like a merchant house. Someday your grandchildren will be billionares yes that is why it is a bittersweet victory. your life will still be total bullshit but if you have kids... 
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Mar 15, 2010 19:02
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Angry Diplomat posted:yes that is why it is a bittersweet victory. your life will still be total bullshit but if you have kids... Then a merchant house psionic spy finds out and kicks your group out by hiring lots of mercs/corrupt templar and claims it, stealing away all of the hard work that you have done. To make sure you don't rat them out to the competition they dump you off in the middle of the wasteland with no supplies 
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Mar 15, 2010 19:12
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Apropos of the psionics mention, does anyone else want to build a templar ardent, and play it as a 40k commissar translated to Athas?
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Mar 15, 2010 19:42
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Zikan posted:Then a merchant house psionic spy finds out and kicks your group out by hiring lots of mercs/corrupt templar and claims it, stealing away all of the hard work that you have done. if you run a merchant house and don't have fantastic psionic defenses you deserve what you get
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Mar 15, 2010 19:46
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That really applies to any organization on Athas.
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Mar 15, 2010 20:46
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Yes, that was something mentioned in the Gladiator's handbook. Since everyone in the region is psychic to some degree, templars have to be assigned to specifically watch for psionic interference during matches. I'm sure most merchant companies and Veiled Alliance cells take similar precautions.
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Mar 15, 2010 20:51
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Liesmith posted:even so the tainted water cave represents untold riches for any group that can think in the long term like a merchant house. Someday your grandchildren will be billionares As common as undead are in Athas, someday you can be the billionare. 
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Mar 15, 2010 22:16
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I've been watching the new Spartacus series and been getting a strong Dark Sun vibe from a lot of it. Exotic weapons, harsh living, corruption and cheapness of life. Pretty good inspiration material.
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Mar 16, 2010 16:00
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Hey guys, anyone want to play in a Dark Sun game?
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Mar 18, 2010 10:50
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Evil Fiend posted:I've been watching the new Spartacus series and been getting a strong Dark Sun vibe from a lot of it. Exotic weapons, harsh living, corruption and cheapness of life. Pretty good inspiration material. That's also the series where Lucy Lawless is topless, right?
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Mar 18, 2010 17:48
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PeterWeller posted:That's also the series where Lucy Lawless is topless, right? Yeah, it's also the series where pretty much every one is naked at some point, including full frontal.
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Mar 18, 2010 18:25
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So it is a cheap ripoff of Rome.
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Mar 18, 2010 18:25
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I'd say more a cheap combination of Rome, 300 and Gladiator. I've been liking it though.
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Mar 18, 2010 19:01
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PeterWeller posted:That's also the series where Lucy Lawless is topless, right? This man cuts right to the chase.
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Mar 18, 2010 19:52
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Squizzle posted:This man cuts right to the chase. It came up immediately because it is the most important fact about the show.
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Mar 18, 2010 21:28
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I've been waiting since the mid-nineties to see those.
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Mar 18, 2010 21:49
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I was looking at the battlemind in PHB3, and really struck by the number of powers--plus an entire paragon path--whose flavor either is or can be very easily reskinned to be the conversion of all or part of the character's body to iron. Holy crap, how much of a liability would that be on Athas? It reminds me of the much earlier discussion of the warforged party member, It's Always Dark Sunny in Philadelphia, etc.
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Mar 18, 2010 21:57
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At least you can yell, "jokes on you, rear end in a top hat," as you hold your bloody stump and watch your recently cut off sword arm turn back into flesh.
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Mar 18, 2010 22:06
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PeterWeller posted:I've been waiting since the mid-nineties to see those. late 80's early 90's. Hey Dude was the greatest TV show ever.
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Mar 18, 2010 23:06
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Lucy Lawless wasn't on Hey Dude. Perhaps you are thinking of Ben Stiller's hot wife. Also, slightly back on topic: I'm casting Lucy as Neeva in my dreams. 
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He's probably thinking of this fine young actress: Her name is apparently Kelly Brown. Ahh, Hey Dude... What a show that was. The memories... ManMythLegend fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Mar 19, 2010 |
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Mar 19, 2010 03:34
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Today's wizards.com content: surprisingly useful for Dark Sun. The shaman article is balls-awesome for elemental priests, and the preview for The Plane Above has me wanting to engage skimmer piracy on the high silt.
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Mar 19, 2010 14:47
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Man, now you got me wanting to combine my players' love of Hornblower with my earlier ideas about starting a trading house.
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Mar 19, 2010 15:40
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PeterWeller posted:Man, now you got me wanting to combine my players' love of Hornblower with my earlier ideas about starting a trading house. Horatio Hornblower is great. It's fun to see how little has changed about the experience of being a young officer on a ship in the lest few centuries. Though I'm just a poser who's seen the mini-series. I've haven't gotten a chance to read the books yet. 
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Mar 19, 2010 16:00
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PeterWeller posted:Man, now you got me wanting to combine my players' love of Hornblower with my earlier ideas about starting a trading house. You know those magic wands with an at-will-as-encounter power? Give the wands pistol grips. The wizard wears a brace of them.
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Mar 19, 2010 16:05
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Saving that one for if we ever do Spelljammer.
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Mar 19, 2010 17:02
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Spelljammer: the second-best official setting. (Confession, I never liked the giff.)
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Mar 19, 2010 17:11
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Mar 19, 2010 17:12
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Neogi lurking like trapdoor spiders near oases in the wastes, waiting to grab the unwary and drag them into the Undersands, the cavernous Desert Below, to become slaves or worse.
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Mar 19, 2010 17:21
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Worse being food for the fattened egg sacks that are their overlord. Also alliteration ahoy. Dark Sun: Sailing the Silt Sea in a Spider Ship.
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Mar 19, 2010 17:30
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I was thinking being disabled--either physically or psychically--shoved into a side-cavern, and implanted with the eggs themselves. Edit: But being kept alive! Because of the eggs needing to parasitise your biological processes as they develop. Also the horror.
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