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With the revelation that I'm not the only one who thought Spelljammer was the best setting after Dark Sun, I can safely say that the posters in this thread are the best posters. Also, giff are dumb and neogies are pretty baddical.
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Giff: Hungry hungry hippos meet Dungeons & Dragons
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Mar 19, 2010 18:08
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Hungry hippos with flintlocks.
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Mar 19, 2010 21:48
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So we are up to 3 DS PBP games now and its not even out yet. Its going to go crazy in here when the setting releases. I also have a DS pbp brewing but I cant decide if I should start when the PHB3 hits character builder, or save it til DS release and everything is finalized. I've been wanting to run a gladiator campaign outside of Tyr. Sneak preview: Welcome to Urik and the Pit of Black Death!  Click here for the full 975x1015 image.
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Mar 19, 2010 22:44
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Start your gladiator campaign after the PHB3 update hits CB. You know you don't want to wait all the way until August?
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Mar 19, 2010 23:35
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Screw that, start the campaign now! I'm making a character for it as I type this very post.
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Mar 19, 2010 23:43
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ManMythLegend posted:He's probably thinking of this fine young actress: So it is. Always that she was Xena... drat faulty 8 year old memories. Still a great show, though.
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Mar 19, 2010 23:55
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Someone should base the start of their DS campaign on Hey Dude. A bunch of slave kids are forced to work on a Crodlu ranch. Later, they can take over a slave camp amidst the wilderness and you can run Salute Your Loincloths.
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Mar 20, 2010 00:35
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Bobby would probably be an elf because he can't be trusted. Donkey Lips would be a half giant always looking to fit in. And Sponge could be a psionicist and the players could run all sorts of (attempted) nerd revenge scenarios.
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Mar 20, 2010 01:07
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PeterWeller posted:Someone should base the start of their DS campaign on Hey Dude. A bunch of slave kids are forced to work on a Crodlu ranch. Later, they can take over a slave camp amidst the wilderness and you can run Salute Your Loincloths. Then they can get discovered by the order and sent to a high psionics school and you can switch to Welcome Freshminds.
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Mar 20, 2010 01:35
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Um...Uh... Are You Afraid of the Dark Sun?
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Mar 20, 2010 02:51
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My So-Called Sorcerer-King
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Mar 20, 2010 04:12
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Kalak Explains it All
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Mar 20, 2010 04:24
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Leave it to Borys
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Mar 20, 2010 04:33
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Hey Rajaat!
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Mar 20, 2010 04:49
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the Adventures of Oronis and Oronis
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The Fresh King of Nibenay
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Mar 20, 2010 05:22
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Mind Lord, Mind Lordd, and Mind Lorddy
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Mar 20, 2010 05:43
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You Can't Do That In the Arena
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Mar 20, 2010 06:56
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Legends of the Hidden Ziggurat
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Mar 20, 2010 07:55
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Rocko's Distopian Life and The Seven Veiled World of Alex Mack.
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Sacha and Wyan It's not a Ren & Stimpy reference; it's a Belle and Sebastian reference 
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I haven't played DND in forever, and even when I did I really sucked at DMing. A few friends and I have just decided we're going to start playing again, and I was trying to make my own campaign and settings, and got frustrated. Would this be a good campaign to play if I have no money and no 4.0 books except for the PHB (meaning I'd probably have to improvise a lot), and the whole party and DM are huge noobs?
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Eerkik posted:Would this be a good campaign to play if I have no money and no 4.0 books except for the PHB (meaning I'd probably have to improvise a lot), and the whole party and DM are huge noobs? No, not at all. With just a PHB you should play generic fantasy like Forgotten Realms.
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Eerkik posted:I haven't played DND in forever, and even when I did I really sucked at DMing. A few friends and I have just decided we're going to start playing again, and I was trying to make my own campaign and settings, and got frustrated. Make them pitch some money in and buy a DDI subscription for everyone.
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Mar 20, 2010 23:04
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ritorix posted:Make them pitch some money in and buy a DDI subscription for everyone. This is the best thing you could do in all seriousness. Monster Builder will literally save your life and Character Builder will suck everybody's cocks.
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Mar 20, 2010 23:09
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And then you can get away with just a DMG and Campaign Guide.
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Mar 20, 2010 23:10
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Am I misrecalling, or are we supposed to get preview/play-test content for Dark Sun starting next month? Thri-kreen first plz.
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I got a chance recently to look through a Planescape appendix for the Monstrous Compendium, and was really disappointed by its treatment of psurlons.  Planescape is the worst because it apparently felt this need to fit in everything special from every other setting's cosmology, and make it less special by the incorporation. Planescape psurlons are generic knock-off mind-flayers: psychic wormfolk (instead of squidfolk) who hate githyanki, enslave others, scheme mightily, etc. (Also, per Planescape, their homeworld wasn't destroyed by a psychic networking explosion; it was torn apart by psurlons made too huge via mental powers.  )
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Planescape is the epitome of 2E D&D-- amazing toilet reading and a dedication to making sure everything is a canon part of some complex, cross-campaign world multiverse. I do applaud TSR for their efforts in ensuring my 18th level Wizard of the Black Robes had seventeen different ways of getting from Krynn to Oerth and back.
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I think I'm genetically programmed to hate any "multiverse" setting concept. It robs the constituent sub-settings of some freedom to go balls-crazy, because spergin' nerds expect them to have some sort of consistency or similar rules as they fit into the same meta-setting. I really like that with 4E, each setting might have similar cosmology, but they don't all share the exact same cosmological meta-setting. Yes, the Manual of the Planes and the Sigil crap implied that they do, but that's obviously not part of the designers' concerns when they're putting each individual setting's materials together.
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wasn't Raistlin only like level 12? Krynn couldn't possibly produce an 18th level wizard
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Liesmith posted:wasn't Raistlin only like level 12? Krynn couldn't possibly produce anything good. Sad to say I enjoyed these books in middle school. Later I graduated to Michael Stackpole's Battletech novels, they owned.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Later I graduated to Michael Stackpole's novels, they owned.
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Liesmith posted:wasn't Raistlin only like level 12? Krynn couldn't possibly produce an 18th level wizard By the time he is the Master of Past and Present and tries to overthrow Takhisis, he's an 18th level Wizard of the Black Robes, which is the maximum level Krynn's gods will let you attain without either killing or banishing you. There are a bunch of "at this level, you have to do this" rules in the old Dragonlance book. quote:I think I'm genetically programmed to hate any "multiverse" setting concept. See, I think I am genetically disposed to like a "multiverse" because despite the restrictions you pointed out, I still get stoked when there's a way to hop from one D&D world to the next. I'm in total agreement about 4E. You can have the status of D&D's multiverse be whatever your group wants it to be. quote:Sad to say I enjoyed these books in middle school. What's sad to say? Dragonlance was a great PG fantasy romp, and you were in middle school. That's a perfect storm of age appropriate nerdery.
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The idea of being able to fly unaided absolutely gripped my poo poo as a kid. When I found Dragonlance and saw DRAGON-PEOPLE with AWESOME WINGS and who could BREATHE LIGHTNING, I was sold.
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Oh, huh. I guess draconians couldn't breathe lightning; I'm confusing them with actual D&D dragons. Anyway, shapeshifting flying dragon-people? That's like crack to anyone younger than 15.
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Squizzle posted:I think I'm genetically programmed to hate any "multiverse" setting concept. It robs the constituent sub-settings of some freedom to go balls-crazy, because spergin' nerds expect them to have some sort of consistency or similar rules as they fit into the same meta-setting. I really don't think it robs the sub-settings of freedom so much as the sub-setting writers welcome restrictions that make their jobs easy. The Dark Sun writers just went nuts, doing stuff like giving every PC wild talents, and when fitting it in the multiverse they were just kind of like "gently caress you it's the uncharted corner of the prime material and it's almost impossible to get to or from here". If setting writers wanted to get creative, they would.
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Dragonlance draconians are carefully crafted to be perfect for rear end in a top hat DMs. Stab one, whoops you lose your sword because he turned to stone with your sword in him. Whoops the wizard draconian exploded. Oh no you decapitated that one and his blood sprayed everywhere, turns out his blood is deadly poison. Welp
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