General chatter

[Anastasia]

No session today, so I'll write a little bit instead.

As you may have noticed, mushrooms in general seem happier as Myann gains power. Why is that, anyway? It's worth noting that mantles are a two way street. A fully sane fey can have some influence on her mantle's subjects. Myann, despite her issues, has reasons to be happy. This bleeds into the mushrooms and how they interact with her.

Moreover, the mushrooms are on some level cognizant of the fact that Myann's actions are giving them a bigger, more important place in the world. Imagine how happy the mushrooms will be if her mantle is used to fix the mantle system, for example. The concept of mushrooms and fungi would become integral to the world itself. Mushrooms are unintelligent, despite her mantle anthropomorphizing them somewhat, but they do have a natural instinct to spread. A Sidhe that makes them so much more important in the world makes them happy because of that.

I don't think it's a particular spoiler to say that something like the Mushroom Kingdom would happen if Myann's mantle was used in that way.  Yeah, there's some freakish mushroom shit attached to it, but it's also a bright, sunny and happy realm. So it wouldn't be all bad, probably.

[Yulia]

Have a mushroom. Or a courre mantle. Isn't that a terrifying thought?

[Ebiris]

Courre mantle makes every fey a cute little fairy.

Even the milfy nymphs, vicious little redcaps, and grandiose hoary hunters.

[Anastasia]

Terrifying. Especially since the strongest courre I can think of, and likely the leader by default, is Marie.

[Anastasia]

As you all know, Vastwoods is in its last arc. Within a few months we'll reach the end of this game. When that happens, I'll take some downtime (perhaps around a month or so, could be more or less depending on timing; if this coincides with the start of football season this will probably skew a bit longer) to relax and prep our next game. What I'd like out of all of you now is to start really thinking about what games and themes interest you.

When Vastwoods does end, I'll be asking all of you for a writeup of anything that interests you. So take some time, consider and figure it out.

Disclaimers

1. These are suggestions and aren't binding. Some of them will likely not do it for me. That's expected. I may not use one or any of them, but that's okay too. At worst, the ones I don't like help me by showing me what I don't want to run.

2. Suggestions will be modified as I see fit. This one should be obvious.

3. Keep suggestions reasonably open. I don't mind you hyping them up a bit, but try not to turn them into full on pitches. This is meant to serve as inspirational fodder for me and give you all a chance to chime in.

4. Keep gaming suggestions R-rated at most. Vastwoods has been a bit lighter on content than past games (PG 13 vs R, horror elements aside), so there's a bit of upwards wiggle room.

5. Please no concepts that would revolve around school, teenagers or the like. If you must be a teenager, at least be an 18 year old that's finished high school or the local equivalent.

Feel free to post any questions here.

Edit: Quick note. As said before, this game won't be in the Vastwoods world. I may well come back to this world one day, but it won't be back to back games in it.

[Nephrite]

Can a suggestion just be "Epic Vastwoods?"

I'm mostly kidding on that, but semi-serious.

EDIT: Aw :(

[Anastasia]

Like epic 3.5 rules? If you want to do something along those lines, just mention you're interested in epic level gameplay.

[Nephrite]

No, I just meant "take Vastwoods to the Epic level," but since you want something else I'll do some thinking. I'll also have to convince myself to not just play a Druid again...

[Anastasia]

No, I just meant "take Vastwoods to the Epic level," but since you want something else I'll do some thinking. I'll also have to convince myself to not just play a Druid again...

Ooooh, okay.

To clarify: I'd like to come back to the Vastwoods at some point. I'd like to explore whatever sort of world results from your mantle quest. Just not right away. It's also not a world well suited for epic level gameplay, as I built on a fundamentally non-epic chassis. This isn't impossible to fix, and could be with new game prep, but it is an impediment. We'll see about that whenever we return to this world.

[Ebiris]

We have a city/country we like. Undead/dragons are on the march and/or an usurper/warlod has taken power.

Something kinda like the first Balmuria was at the start just kinda upped in scale, unless you really want to do the reawakening magic bit again.

Or.

A new continent/plane has been discovered and you're among the first colonists. Carve out a life on the frontier and discover hidden secrets of this undiscovered land!

Or mesh the ideas together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVqw0A5CwUw

Yeah I'd totally play Warriors of the Eternal Sun.

[Anastasia]

Eb? I appreciate your ideas but the point was to take time to formulate them and give them to me after Vastwoods finishes. <_<

I will comment on a few things, though.

Something kinda like the first Balmuria was at the start just kinda upped in scale, unless you really want to do the reawakening magic bit again.

Eh. Probably not. It was fun, but if I want to retreat B1's ground, I'd make another push to pick up B1r.

The rest of it's fine and food for thought, but the reawakening magic bits hit too close to home to that.

[Anastasia]

Sorry about today's highly abrupt departure. We had some vicious thunderstorms roll in.

[Anastasia]

Bonus Material: The skeleton's weapons.

For the skeleton, its weapons were +1 and nothing else. If you managed to get them from it (hi disarm, hi Myann's wall of force scroll, hi other shenanigans) (not that sunder wasn't a good option, it was and probably the easiest, don't get me wrong, just saying) (really just saying), they'd be the following for you.

Scimitar+1. Increases Feather's skirmish damage by 1d6 when wielded.
Scimitar+1. Increases Feather's movement speed by 10ft when wielded.
Quarterstaff+1. Grants 5 bonus power points per day.
Quarterstaff+1. Increases John's sneak attack damage by 1d6 when wielded.
Leather Wraps+1. Increases Gildas's effective monk level by 5 to determine unarmed strike damage when worn.
Leather Wraps+1. Grants a +1 to the save DCs of Gildas's spells when worn.
Longsword+1. Myann's presence (within 100ft) functions as inspire courage to mushrooms. This is equal to a bard of her level and can affect mindless mushrooms.
Longsword+1. Increases Myann's favored enemy bonuses by 2 when wielded.

[Corwin]

Not bad, though I'm not really in a mood to change my weapons. And there are only so many I can wield. A +3 scimitar than increases dervish dance is way better than another +1d6!

[Anastasia]

Pretty  much. They're nice options, but y'all already have good weapons.