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    1. Hylozoist 8 yrs ago

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7 yrs ago
Current Five days of awkward silence later, there's finally an ocean between us again.
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7 yrs ago
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, there's a few white fluffy clouds in the sky. I am closing the curtains and going back to bed.
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7 yrs ago
"What kind of solicitor doesn't have sweets on their desk?!"
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7 yrs ago
"His multiphasic torpedo will penetrate your rift / and cause a quantum singularity in your transwarp conduit!"
7 yrs ago
"You make a pretty good sheep."

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I live somewhere in the wilds of East London with a couple of friends, a pet rat and a collection of RPG books that is slowly consuming our house. I've suggested possibly getting rid of some of them, but it's pretty much got to the point where the books are the only thing keeping the building upright and if I move any of them the whole thing could come crashing down.

In terms of games - well, I'll consider anything, except that. As can probably be gathered from my posts, I find myself generally playing characters that let me bit a little bit light-hearted. I am reasonably certain that I can play serious characters, but I know that getting to post things which makes me chuckle as I write them keeps me far more engaged.

At the moment, I am currently running a game called Interplanetary Space Friends. It's a game about friends, in space, travelling between planets. It is not exactly a very serious game, and while I've scared off some of my players, I have a dedicated handful left who have stuck with the game. These folks are awesome, and if anyone says anything mean about them, I will defend their honour with a strongly worded message.

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@Hylozoist, the primary purpose was to see if this is yet another of the Dungeons and Dragons Topic Starter constructs or an actual posting member. Thus far, evidence suggests based on the pattern of questioning and lack of interaction, as well as the other topic created that this is indeed an imposter.


Eh, I'm not really in the habit of digging up people's posting history to check whether or not it's worth my time to reply to somebody - it could be somebody genuinely looking for an answer to a question that is (fairly) obscure, and I'm in a position to help, so I'll reply! Seeing your comment about Savage Species, and me assuming that the OP isn't particularly well-versed in the Iron Kingdoms d20 RPG, I thought it was worth clarifying that it's not a good idea to compare supplements from "outside" the IK RPG to it, because that way madness lies.

It just struck me as a little weird to come in to post the "default answer" to a fairly specific question as opposed to not posting at all.
All level adjustments should be compared to that.


It's worth recalling that the Iron Kingdoms d20 isn't really designed to go along with the other D&D 3rd edition stuff. Not to say you can't take stuff from it, but it's not necessarily helpful to compare it to stuff from Savage Species.

Any familiar with IK I would really appreciate the help.


Yay, an opportunity to dust off an old RPG book that's been sitting on my shelf for goodness knows how long. I've only been in a couple of campaigns of the old Iron Kingdoms RPG, and we used the Ogrun as presented in the book with relatively few problems.

Presumably it's been changed via errata, but in the copy of the book I've got here, Ogrun are a +1 Level Adjustment with a +2 natural AC bonus, a bonus hit dice at 1st level, and they're large. There's also the obligatory ability adjustments and some extra stuff.
@Heat - that took me by surprise. A really gentle one minute and forty second long intro, and then things start to kick in. I'm not a huge fan of the vocals, but that sort of "slower" metal instrumental that feels like waves crashing and breaking against your eardrums is great. It manages to be both atmospheric and musical, and I like that.

I'd give this a 7/10, but I know metal-heads with a penchant for that sort of singing would (rightly) rate it much higher, and I'd encourage them to give this a listen.

Made that Ratatouie I was talking about. Had to make some recipe substitutions, but it turned out alright. Needed more salt and peper, but for pepper seasoned baked veggies it was pretty good.


My experience with doing vegetables is that they nearly always need more salt than I think they do, the tricky blighters. How'd the aubergine eggplant go?
Okay, Monday has arrived, yesterday's crisis is mostly dealt with now I've walked my cousin to the station, and I'm now back at my desk. This probably isn't the greatest post in the storied history of the Guild, but hopefully it'll get things moving along again.

As always, I'm sorry that it's taken so long - I hope that this rather erratic posting pace isn't too much of a problem for people, and I thank you all for your patience!
The container didn't spray toxic chemicals, nor did it even have the courtesy to making a beeping noise, but instead just slowly dribbled out a puddle of thick, inky liquid on the ground where it lay. It looked like the canister was once a sleek, silvery, high-tech looking thing, but a period of exposure to whatever it was that made up the body of the slime had quickly eaten away at a strip of it. The slime-based creature, Hip, began to move in a way that looked less like it was slowly melting into something you'd scrape off the bottom of your shoe and more like, well, something alive.

Arm like protuberances sprouted from it's sides.

Little holes began to open and close about the surface of it, bringing in what passes for Ofromian 'fresh air' into it's system.

"Can't believe they had the moxy to gank me," bubbled Hip Kallo, his voice like a clogged drain, "where's the love, I ask ya? Aw, shoot, where's my manners got to? Relying on the kindness of strangers and I don't even thank 'em properly, Hip, the colony didn't raise you to be like that, no sir. You've got my thanks, strangers."




The right hand pipe twisted and turned through the underground. Dimly lit by the screen of the cleaner-bot and the little GloBrellas, an amateur tunnel enthusiast could probably pick out all sorts of fascinating details; the age of the construction given the freshness of the paint, the unique ecosystem that had come to exist in this unnatural environment and the arcane meaning of the things scratched into the walls at various intervals. It was unfortunate that no 'Tunnelheads' (as tunnel enthusiasts are known to call themselves, which doesn't improve their odds of being invited to parties) were present to enjoy such a sight, but with the water nipping at the heels of Fiddlesticks, perhaps it was really something of a blessing.

Towards the end of the right-hand pipe, it turned sharply upwards. Water dripped down from the tunnel above them, and a set of decoratively rusted metal loops were set into the pipe. They were conveniently placed, letting any visiting Tunnelhead get in and out of this secondary pipe with ease, although there were some trade-offs to be had for such a convenience. The risk of tetanus, for instance. Above them, the main tunnel beckoned - a huge, concrete tube set into the ground that runs left and right. The Team B bees were already waiting, and just behind Fiddlesticks, the two other teams were making a bee-line towards him, ready to take on their next scouting mission.
My vote goes to tel otherwise.


My vote goes for Tel too.
Stuff that's still missing from the very hop-shod list I compiled for the Interest Check (the list from the interest check was/is by no means exhaustive, it was just some of the roles I could think off of the top of my head):
First Officer
Quartermaster
Ordnance Master
Engineer


I'm surprised nobody has applied for the role of First Mate / First Officer yet.

Perhaps we should elect one.
I'd be curious to see how this works too, either as a participant, or just to read what kind of weird things come out of this.
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