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From: Blairville | #238
He apparently won Curleh Mustache #1, I think that's considered a major.

From: Blairville | #235
Noel Brown wins! Has he ever won a major before?

From: Blairville | #233
I respect that DP win.

From: blindhobo13 | #228
PR Rog has Team Furry?

From: EDumey | #021
I agree with Kanz' explanation of things, but to go with the whole "name only" approach, there are still some names that need to be handled certain ways. For example, if you name your character Ares, and he isn't warlike at all, I'm gonna look down on you. You don't even need to reference any other part of his mythology, but that's what the name of Ares embodies.

But I've never been so picky. The only name I've ever thought as a "bad" choice in fiction was Adam, because apparently no character is named Adam on accident. Along with Kanz' rules above, this leads to very few stories where Adam is legitimately a proper name for a character.

From: Panthera | #019
Okay, dude, the point is that this is all really weird and strange that you're trying to point these things out to me as if they're what I'm talking about even though the whole point of the topic is specifically people who get mad at the "name only" approach.

From: Panthera | #017
The thing is, the guy just having that name is precisely what I said I was talking about, and then he replies that there's no examples of that because it's bad writing, then goes on to say instead you can have...exactly what I said and it's cool. So...yeah

From: Panthera | #014
This post makes no sense. You just completely contradicted yourself. Either you can or you can't have a character with a mythological name that doesn't act like their mythological counterpoint.

From: Panthera | #008
First example that comes to mind would be Valkyrie Profile, which takes some pretty significant liberties with Norse mythology I believe. Although that's actually using Norse mythology as a setting. I'm talking more...if I made a game and there was a character named Fenrir, some people would get extremely angry if he didn't end up doing stuff like being sealed away, cutting off a guys hand or killing a major leader during the apocalypse because those are things the Fenrir of Norse mythology did.

From: Accel_R8 | #194
KanzarisKelshen posted...
My only complaint about Vanessa is that I feel like she's shying away from her duty. She tends to take this very...I wanna say passive position, where she wants to only get what is immediately pressing done, and I feel like it just doesn't fit with her compassionate portrayal evidenced so far. I don't feel like this is some great flaw though, as much as an inconsistency. I'd kill for a chance to ask her about this in-character with Valerian, actually.

PS: Also, your character arc is totally fine, that aside. Keep at it!

Remember if nothing else, Vance/essa is kind of dumb. I would have put 8 for intelligence and wisdom if I could, but it's against the point-buy system of 4th. S/he can be clever when s/he wants to be, but s/he grew up in an environment that squandered the ability to develop that way, aside from just being traumatizing. Honestly she's probably a teeny bit deranged in just the right way, if only a little bit.

With that said, the notion of the world completely and utterly ending is something overwhelming to him/her, and it has called for drastic actions, which is something that scares him/her because s/he wants to put as much distance between his/her upbringing as an assassin as s/he can.

From: Tirofog | #192
Tirofog said: Morninglord

From: muddersmilk | #056
Still, a young girl made of an element. Can't imagine where I would draws parallels with Lumina.

From: muddersmilk | #052
Also I take offense to this. It was totally more like a water version of Zilene! :P

Maybe I am misremembering but wasn't it a girl made entirely of water?

PS: Also I am somewhat concerned by the fact that the takeaway was that people sucked at getting stuff done. I swear that the idea was to make things hard but rewarding, not masochistically difficult. Was I really that brutal? :-/

Eh, I think its fairly well known that I don't care for challenging in the way that much of B8 does.

You'd really need to get a second opinion when it comes to difficulty stuff. Though I would point out that I don't think a single one of our battle strategies ever worked.

From: ZX_Lucian | #047
So it's like Puella Magi Madoka Magica in terms of everyone dying.

Sounds fun.

From: muddersmilk | #046
You mean Fool's Overture? I had to shelve that, but I haven't forgotten about it. One of these days I'll revive it, I'm just waiting for the right time.

Yep that's what I meant.

And history...
It was a CYOA project Kanz did where a kid got elemental powers (and a water version of Lumina) and joined notWolfram and Hart to fight evil things. Only a mix of Kanz difficulty and B8 choices caused the main guy to fail horribly and die in the 2nd real battle. Then we had to make a deal with a devil (literally) to come back. After which we told the local drama club about our demon huntings and will probably get them all killed just like we did the girl who was with us in the 2nd battle.

tl:dr Kanz made a CYOA story where we sucked at making choices and winning battles.

From: muddersmilk | #042
Some_Character posted...
How would that invalidate the base way of creating skills? Like, at all?

I thought you meant the actually story of Fool's Battle, not the system.

Anyway, Warren and friens got their level up last night. A solid but not great level up with no bonus. Exactly what you would expect from Warren.

From: LordoftheMorons | #008
Boo_Mario posted...
(I'm not including professions like "Wall Street financer" or "startup company founder" or "health care professional," where workers voluntarily trade long hours for potentially lucrative salaries. The standard workday is 8 hours/day for even the least glamorous of occupations, and that's simply unacceptable.)

What about professors that work way over 40 hours without a huge amount of compensation

From: SovietOmega | #157
Idea: role swapping parody characters.

The noncanon adventures of Balorian, Curie, Rolae Di'ploo'ase, Sparkles, Vanma, and Beer-slayer

From: Sceptilesolar | #155
I think Vivi's just inclined towards a bit of justified bias against the party.

From: Anagram | #153
Quentyn mocks Rael about the party having Learrette. Vivi's job was to protect Learrette. It is, at best, only indirectly mocking Rael about Vivi's incompetence.

From: Anagram | #141
Quentyn mocked Rael about the party taking Learrette with them, which relates directly back to Vivi, as she was in charge of taking care of Learrette.

From: Anagram | #133
I thought you $entioned, at the time, that Vance would kill her?

Also, I've been thinking. If this campaign was a novel series, Book 1 - Vandorum and the Fake Universe, Book 2 - The Twilight, Book - The New World so far? The Fake Universe is hard to fit in.

- - Mocking Rael about my incompetence and trust of them, getting me demoted and tortured for centuries, and almost killed by Rael himself

From: Paratroopa1 | #008
While this is a good topic title, I kind of think "You're welcome" would've been really great as well, had we waited.

From: Sceptilesolar | #124
But seriously, we should have Saturday be Noncanon Session Day. Alt characters, or I could try my hand at a really nasty encounter, or something weird like that.

From: Sceptilesolar | #117
I was mostly just thinking of Nancy.

From: Sceptilesolar | #113
And because Quentyn is in the party. And Val too, to a lesser extent.

From: Sceptilesolar | #108
Huh. Well, Kensei sounds like quite a good choice.

From: Sceptilesolar | #106
Once again Thrown Weapons get stiffed though because there aren't any applicable weapon mastery feats.

Storvakal is good? I see the combo with Power Attack, but that's good enough?

From: Sceptilesolar | #095
Oops, I forgot to change the race <_<

Blade Opportunist is pretty good if you're making lots of OAs, but I guess I could return it to being Called Shot for some extra damage.

Shadowdance Armor prevents me from provoking on ranged attacks, anyway.

As for CHA, Heavy Blade Opportunity requires 15 STR, so I can't really afford to change anything anymore, unless I cut WIS on level ups, I guess.

From: Sceptilesolar | #093
Hmm. Well, I'm pretty sure people have said some of those things about 3.5 too. The playtest will have to be the deciding point.

Once again.
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=395297

Kan and I had a brainstorming session and I constructed a horrendously effective combo. Tee hee.

From: Sceptilesolar | #082
Hmm.

Can't decide whether Mari's better off as a Ranger or a Ranger|Avenger.

The only thing I really get from the latter is the reroll on all my RBAs. On the other hand, I get a reroll on all my RBAs.