General chatter

[Nephrite]

Sure, I'll start doing some reading on that combo.

[Anastasia]

You'll run into some economy of action issues, depending on what you want to be doing. Between fighting, smiting, casting and bardsong, you'll have a lot to do and only a round's actions to do it. So think carefully what you want out of the combo.

[Anastasia]

What went right and wrong this game, volume one.

What went right: Fey.

When I began designing Vastwoods fey, I wanted a few things. I desired alien fey that were both demented and disturbing, yet not something that can easily be solved with force of arms. In spite of all of that, I wanted them to be understandable. That's a tall order that the Vastwoods fey knocked out of the park.

Every encounter with the fey was a good one. The PCs had to deal with them in ways that didn't involve rolling for initiative, yet there was still danger and a need for good gameplay. There were strong visceral reactions whenever a Sidhe was seen in all their twisted glory. The party had to learn about them, figure out how to avoid being mulched and ultimately forging their own niche in a world with them. The fact that this lead to the Sidhe path for the endgame was neat.

What went wrong: Posting monster stats

Go back out to the post list for this board. See that perils of the Vastwoods topic, all forgotten and dusty? Yeah, I meant to do a lot more with that this game. With all the custom material I used along with other things, I was often running monsters by notes instead of full stats. So there was rarely anything worthwhile to post. This one's basically on me being lazy with writing out all the various customized bits for the campaign setting.

I may go and try and post what I do have that's remotely presentable.

[Anastasia]

Posting some miscellaneous stuff. This is a list of mushroom messages from Myann's mantle.

Myann's voice sounds in your mind!

Now would you like some mushrooms?
Mushrooms are important.  You should have some.
Please take some mushrooms.
Toadstools are beautiful. Eat them.
It would make me happy if you treasure these mushrooms I'm giving you.
Let the fungus grow in you.
Today we will all love these mushrooms.
We are all mushrooms.
You are a mushroom.
Please eat the mushrooms.
The fungi are your friends so you should love them.
Build a home for all the mushrooms you have.

[Anastasia]

In the vastwoods topic for some reason. Posting this here since why not?

Inspiring

An inspiring weapon is charged with the creative energy of a factotum. Whenever the factotum spends inspiration points, an inspiring weapon deals an extra 1d6 points of damage for one round.

Inspiring

An inspiring weapon is charged with the creative energy of a factotum. Whenever the factotum threatens a critical hit, the factotum may spend two points of inspiration to automatically confirm the critical hit. If the weapon's critical hit factor is x3 or x4, it costs three points of inspiration and four points of inspiration, respectively.

Inspiring

An inspiring weapon is charged with the creative energy of a factotum. Whenever the factotum successfully drops an enemy in combat, they recover one point of inspiration. Inspiration gained in this way cannot exceed the factotum's starting inspiration.

[Anastasia]

A rejected lore update. It just wasn't interesting or going anywhere productive. The italics in it are messed up, but oh well.

Mantle Recordings

A transcription of information and ideas provided to Myann by her mantle over one hour's time.

Entries in italics are images. Myann does her best to describe them.

There are 49,301 mushrooms in this area. They are waiting for you.

Obtain all the mushrooms.

Are you hungry? Mushrooms will help.

A rotting wooden coffin sitting in the forest. It is overgrown with flat, wide mushrooms. These mushrooms eat corpses and grow from them. The mushrooms here desire for me to visit and to allow them to grow on my body.

A fire-gutted city. Here sickly, gray mushrooms grow in great strands like vines, hanging across the charred buildings. Occasionally the vines have been fastened into nooses, from which broken-necked skeletons hang.

Love the mushrooms and the mushrooms will love you.

Boil Nethen Mushrooms for 3 hours with half as much horse hair to make a cure for infection and pus.

I love you, Miss. Eat us. Eat us. Eat us. Eat us. Eat us.

Call us. Make the pigs more like mushrooms.

Shiny yellow and blue, give it to you from me.

A field full of fire mushrooms, stretching as far as the eye can see. They're all looking at you with loving, needy eyes.

Fungi are everywhere. Find us all.

[Nephrite]

There was mentioned a tombstone in the fey realm once a while back. I can't remember what it was, but I think Valisha or someone told Gildas it was a testament to a "fool" or something. Do you have any notes on what that was?

[Anastasia]

There was mentioned a tombstone in the fey realm once a while back. I can't remember what it was, but I think Valisha or someone told Gildas it was a testament to a "fool" or something. Do you have any notes on what that was?

Someone went to the fey realms to pick a fight, so much so they had to kill him. Hence the tombstone - a small bit of respect curled up in a final insult. It does take balls to go to the fey world and start shit.

[Anastasia]

Unused treasure lot. This one's sort of a troll.

32,375 copper pieces
25 masterwork backpacks - 50 gold each

[Anastasia]

An unused, extremely  minor treasure cache.

Leather pouch with 3 gold, 8 silver and 18 copper.
Light mace
3 tindertwigs

[Anastasia]

Unremarkable unused treasure lot.

375 gold
Scroll of Hold Animal - 150 gold
Potion of Cure Light Wounds - 50 gold

[Anastasia]

Agendas. Note if I missed anything or you want to add anything.

John, since you have the least, if you want to tag along on any of the trip out things, feel free to say so.

John

- Break up with Missy-Anne.

Feather

- Myann asserting control over local fey.
- Get info on the Stratum (probably last scene).
- Visit Vasili.

Gildas

- Uncurse that danged sword.
- Find the remaining fellowship (beyond the scope of the game, will be discussed IC).
- Stormgate visit + fey visit (ties into Feather's trip, will be combined).
- Try and visit the Dreamer in his dreams.
- Visit the Sidhe Scholar.

All

- One final scene to tie things together. This will be Thursday or next Monday, depending on how this week goes.

[Nephrite]

In combination with the sword, I'd like to have some time with Kral about the history of the Circle, if possible.

[Corwin]

The skeleton ties in with Vasili. I wanted to visit the cool fey king, so while not explicitly listed for me it can be joint with the other fey visits/stuff.

[Anastasia]

In combination with the sword, I'd like to have some time with Kral about the history of the Circle, if possible.

Sure. We'll sit down and do that at some point.