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The way I read it, the three-person crew adventures with the party in the Mastermind's stead. Or if the Mastermind comes along, the crew stays home.
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^it's that. You can send along a party of some lower level goons or you can go yourself.
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May 7, 2018 19:32
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The Mastermind seems suited for a game where you only have 2-3 PCs or something. Otherwise, the entire "you have a team of agents" thing either needs to be far more abstracted or needs to be segmented off into its own subsystem.
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May 7, 2018 19:37
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My 3 agents are large quadraped clockwork, size 1 normal clockwork, and tiny flying clockwork. They're all very fussy and will only attack animal, vegetable, or mineral respectively.
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May 7, 2018 19:42
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Every living being in the universe is actually the pawn of some mastermind or another, most of them just don't know it. When you take the mastermind expert path, you terminate that agreement, taking the reins yourself...but watch out. Someone out there is now pissed that you've left their service, and they're twice your level.
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May 7, 2018 20:00
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Every living being in the universe is actually the pawn of some mastermind or another, most of them just don't know it. When you take the mastermind expert path, you terminate that agreement, taking the reins yourself...but watch out. Someone out there is now pissed that you've left their service, and they're twice your level. How many D&D 2nd Edition Druids was it that needed to die in order to create 1 20th level Druid?
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May 7, 2018 20:32
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:My 3 agents are large quadraped clockwork, size 1 normal clockwork, and tiny flying clockwork. They're all very fussy and will only attack animal, vegetable, or mineral respectively. The three goblin Agents *are* the Mastermind, the main character is just them stacked on top of one another in a trench coat, Little Rascals-style
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May 8, 2018 02:09
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https://twitter.com/Capt_Ferg/status/992676457964101638 https://twitter.com/rjschwalb/status/992746300365033474 A more "complete" players guide coming?
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May 8, 2018 03:00
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that's stupid unless they refund everyone who bought the lovely one
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May 8, 2018 03:21
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I was thinking like, a player's companion that adds a bunch of the player-facing additional content. But I think it's actually just a "we'll see" sorta response and doesn't necessarily mean there's anything in the works of that nature. The thing I really want is roll20 integration of like, the bestiary. Entering that poo poo by hand is tedious enough that I don't bother doing it, but it'd be real nice.
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May 8, 2018 03:25
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I’ve been trying to ask about writing a character generator but haven’t had any replies.
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May 9, 2018 14:29
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hyphz posted:I’ve been trying to ask about writing a character generator but haven’t had any replies. I think that ever since the SRD thing he's been more protective of his stuff.
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May 9, 2018 14:33
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I found this and I'm pretty sure it was linked somewhere official. If it's somehow :files: I'm sorry: https://www.findgamers.us/sotdl-npcs/ It doesn't do equipment or anything but it's nice for simple chargen.
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May 9, 2018 15:24
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Is the gm screen worth buying for this? I've heard mixed reviews on content.
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May 9, 2018 15:47
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I know the random NPC one, but I meant one players could use.
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May 9, 2018 17:07
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hyphz posted:I know the random NPC one, but I meant one players could use.
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May 9, 2018 18:49
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:Is the gm screen worth buying for this? I've heard mixed reviews on content. It's got a few speeling mystakes and I'm not sure how recently it was updated, so I'll have to check the tables against the latest pdf. That said, from DMing a week or two ago, yes. It was very handy. Even for the things that aren't on there, it provides a short list of the page numbers in the main book. Definitely could be reorganised / revised (do you really need the marks of corruption table that often?), but I was very happy to have it.
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May 9, 2018 22:34
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Hollandia posted:It's got a few speeling mystakes and I'm not sure how recently it was updated, so I'll have to check the tables against the latest pdf. That said, from DMing a week or two ago, yes. It was very handy. Even for the things that aren't on there, it provides a short list of the page numbers in the main book. Wait, the GM screen actually refers you to the book? I was told it did but assumed it was a joke.
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May 9, 2018 23:43
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For the variant martial attacks (charge etc) iirc. Again, they should be listed instead of the marks of corruption, but it is what it is. Might be worth complaining to Schwalb about it on G+ now that I think about it.
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May 10, 2018 00:42
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Yeah if marks of darkness are coming up often enough that you need it on your DM screen, yikes. I think you average like 1 MoD by 7ish corruption?
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May 10, 2018 01:08
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Pretty sure it's 1 mark per 3 corruption.
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May 10, 2018 13:01
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Glukeose posted:Pretty sure it's 1 mark per 3 corruption.
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Elysiume posted:Whenever you gain corruption you roll a d20, and if the result is less than your new corruption score, you gain a mark. So you have a 0% chance to gain a mark at 1 corruption, a 5% chance to get one when you reach 2 corruption, etc. You get a light mark-like effect at 7 corruption, but I haven't seen a rule that doles out guaranteed marks per three corruption. I don't know if this is affected by will or anything but this means a >50% chance of having at least one mark by the time you reach 5 corruption.
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May 10, 2018 18:01
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Okay so I'm making a character who is a cook who uses fire magic. It says fire magic makes you hot tempered (lol) and the dm said to pick a celebrity picture who looks most like my character and I immediately a short angry halfing guy fieri. Any suggestions for a good tradition to combine with fire magic? Transformation might be cool but it seems like you can't cast spells in animal form.
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May 15, 2018 07:45
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Okay so I'm making a character who is a cook who uses fire magic. It says fire magic makes you hot tempered (lol) and the dm said to pick a celebrity picture who looks most like my character and I immediately a short angry halfing guy fieri. Any suggestions for a good tradition to combine with fire magic? Transformation might be cool but it seems like you can't cast spells in animal form. Technomancy: Craft angry, animated stoves that spray incendiaries!
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May 15, 2018 07:58
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Okay so I'm making a character who is a cook who uses fire magic. It says fire magic makes you hot tempered (lol) and the dm said to pick a celebrity picture who looks most like my character and I immediately a short angry halfing guy fieri. Any suggestions for a good tradition to combine with fire magic? Transformation might be cool but it seems like you can't cast spells in animal form. Conjuration maybe? Conjure Useful Item to always have your cooking equipment on hand, Conjure Feast to do that TV cook 'We've cheated a little and prepared this last night...'
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May 15, 2018 08:05
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Teleportation except all the portals go to Flavor Town.
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Springfield Fatts posted:Teleportation except all the portals go to Flavor Town. The combination of Guy Fieri, Glory Holes (the SotDL name for portals) and Flavor Town just broke my brain a little...
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May 15, 2018 08:15
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Antilles posted:The combination of Guy Fieri, Glory Holes (the SotDL name for portals) and Flavor Town just broke my brain a little... 
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May 15, 2018 08:16
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Those are all int schools and fire is will but I could make it work with spells that don't use one stat or the other.
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May 15, 2018 08:41
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In one of the one-shots I ran, the Hole of Glory spell allowed the boss to be efficiently murdered by way of the magician opening the hole and the warrior attacking through it with their lance, hitting the boss right in the head. I love little interactions like that.
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Battle, Nature, Soul, and Storm are all Will based traditions that might complement a fire based arsenal.
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May 15, 2018 12:56
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From the G+ group:Robert Schwalb posted:Here's what's on my desk:
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I hope the mass combat + realm management is a single book, and I hope it's good. 
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In an unprecedented move Rob announces those rules are just a quick conversion guide to Matt Coleville 's upcoming books! /worsttimeline
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Lemon-Lime posted:I hope the mass combat + realm management is a single book, and I hope it's good. hosed if I can think of the name, but this is apparently gonna be in one book. Also, I heard through the grapevine that Rob is working on some sort of generic/normie fantasy d20 game using the Demon Lord engine, which seems like a smart move.
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Serf posted:hosed if I can think of the name, but this is apparently gonna be in one book. Beyond excising setting material what would need to be done to make the rules more “normie”?
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Serf posted:hosed if I can think of the name, but this is apparently gonna be in one book. While I really dig SotDL's tone, I would like to see a generic rule set be available. When I pitch SotDL as it exists to my current table, the reaction was decided muted. There's honestly not a lot I would personally excise, I suspect mainly the integration of the Insanity / Corruption systems as they can feel like Swords of Damoclese over the players. Personally, I also find Changelings and Clockworks don't really jive with the sort of fantasy I want to tell stories about; and from experience I know players don't like their elves to be as alien and threatening as they are in Demon Lord (a point about which I personally disagree.)
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drunkencarp posted:Beyond excising setting material what would need to be done to make the rules more “normie”? Carisma and Constitution added to base stats, Will renamed to Wisdom
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drunkencarp posted:Beyond excising setting material what would need to be done to make the rules more “normie”? Removing Insanity and Corruption would go a long way. Rewriting all the ancestry tables to have less dark/comedic results. Altering some of the Paths and spells that use Insanity and Corruption too, I reckon. At least those are the things I've been plugging away at with my normie and Eberron hacks.
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