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Post by urchin on Jan 31, 2018 16:11:38 GMT
I also saw these on twitter the other day, and they are so pretty. I want a full set of all of them. Those are great! I would definitely add the ace set to my collection. Perhaps they role especially good stealth checks. I will come back with a picture of my dice collection soon, though I'm still very enamored with my pair of numerically balanced d20s. One is black with white numerals, and the other is white with black numerals. The idea behind them really pleases me, and the corners aren't overly rounded, so they don't roll off of tables too easily. I also love my set of 36 mini d6s. They're the Chessex festive green with silver pips, perfect for Arkham Horror, and very satisfying to arrange and rearrange. I have the matching polyhedral set as well for maximum feelings of completeness. Follow on question for anyone: do you know any quick games that can be played with dice, but are more interesting than simple games of chance? Something that would be good to play by yourself or with others while you wait for the rest of the RP group to arrive. This is the best I've found so far, but it wears out fairly quickly.
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Post by urchin on Jan 31, 2018 15:45:50 GMT
Grizzop's just a standard Pathfinder Goblin (first party, Featured Race on the SRD). It's a 10RP choice which we haven't dealt with, but given the way we play Grizzop being slightly overpowered isn't really a problem (at least it hasn't been yet, and I'll make RP choices to mitigate mechanical issues if it ever becomes an issue). I'm not massively into digging down into the rules and making specifically powerful builds, but I'm using a Paladin build guide and I'm really happy with him right now. Doesn't render any other party member irrelevant, but still fulfils the role that Zolf did while being different enough to be noticeably new. Thanks for replying! I've been looking at the very same one and wondering if it feels unbalanced with the +4 to dex (especially on top of small size, that's gotta make Grizzop quite hard to hit). It's good to know that it's playing alright so far.
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Post by urchin on Jan 25, 2018 18:12:37 GMT
I wasn't Jared that died in 2006, it was the librarian. Probably killed by Jared. You're totally right, thank you for the correction. This is 100% Jared Hopworth, then.
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Post by urchin on Jan 25, 2018 16:31:36 GMT
The Jared character would fit well with Jared Hopworth from The Boneturner's Tale, but the post-script of that one asserts that Jared Hopworth died in 2006. Could it still be the same Jared? Warped bodies and the same name seems like a awfully large coincidence.
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Post by urchin on Jan 25, 2018 16:06:01 GMT
To be honest I'm a pretty anxious person. I have a nasty habit of agonising over things I shouldn't worry about, so I'm prone to writing messages that are far longer than they have to be, and take me far too long to actually type. You're not alone. I have social anxiety that causes me to stress a lot about how I'm perceived, even on internet forums. Everyone here has been really kind and welcoming to me, so I think you've found a good community. Welcome
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Post by urchin on Jan 25, 2018 16:01:42 GMT
I'm so happy that Hamid nailed that perform check. It was very narratively satisfying.
What build are you using for Grizzop's race and do you feel that it's a good build?
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Post by urchin on Jan 18, 2018 15:25:55 GMT
I love how everything is getting tightly connected. Jude Perry explained the events of Burnt Offering (ep 37). I wonder if she has one of the bodies that was being made in Uncanny Valley (ep 87)? She was there burning down the forest, at least. The name Orsinov came up again, as it did in Uncanny Valley. I believe we first heard it in the post-statement notes of Strange Music (ep 24). Strange Music obviously connects closely to Uncanny Valley for both dolls and the calliope, but what is Orsinov's place in it?
We now know that the different beings sometimes collaborate with each other, which is going to make sorting out motives a lot harder. We have confirmation that Elias is aiding Jonathan in some sense, but that doesn't mean they're both serving beholding. Though it's circumstantial, it's worth noting that in The Eyewitnesses (ep 82), Elias gives Daisy's statement, he doesn't compel her to give it. Jonathan has previously compelled a statement from her, so she's not immune. It's not conclusive, but I think it's a point in favor of Elias's motives being something other than serving Beholding. Maybe he's in with The Stranger, or at least he's in favor of whatever The Unknowing ritual is? Gertrude did talk about that ritual in her recording of Uncanny Valley, which was less than a month and a half before Elias murdered her. Not conclusive, but my current best guess.
Oh yeah, also, what was Agnes Montague's place in everything? Everything related to Hilltop Road is still full of unknowns.
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Post by urchin on Jan 11, 2018 20:42:50 GMT
It sounds like #71 Underground (and maybe #57 Personal Space) fits into this theme as well. I think Underground is a great candidate, but Personal Space seems more like it fits in either with Alone and Botswain's Call or with Freefall and similar abyss/Ex Altiora events. At least if these incidents don't fall into the realm of the Spiral with the victims being caught in a perpetual state of entrapment. I'm inclined to think this isn't the Spiral. These underground episodes focus a lot more on being surrounded, enclosed, embraced, and/or crushed than being lost or deceived.
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Post by urchin on Jan 11, 2018 17:27:00 GMT
Lost Johns' Cave now has something to connect to! I don't believe this underground/buried alive theme is connected to any that we're more familiar with. Is this another of the 13 entities?
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Post by urchin on Jan 9, 2018 18:31:21 GMT
This is a great thread, so I'm going to revive it. Hopefully people have more characters to share!
It was hard to pick from all the characters I've played over the years, but here are a couple of favorites from the past and my current primary focus.
Faith Whitaker was originally a Trail of Cthulu character who I have re-used in a few one-shots and adapted as an NPC for a Magnus Archives game I threw together once. She's the middle of three daughters, born in wealthy North Carolina family that expected her to be a debutante and marry well. However, she is albino and grew up to be a loner and an outcast instead. Unable to tolerate too much direct sunlight, she found her greatest joy in books and grew up to become a reference librarian. Faith worked at a few universities before her encounters with the supernatural, but her professional reputation largely fell apart once she began insisting that she'd encountered things that obviously don't exist. Maybe things would be easier if she just told people what they wanted to hear and let her experiences go, but that's just not how Faith is. She won't stop until she has real answers. Unfortunately, all she ever seems to find are more questions.
Her PC incarnation is traveling the US investigating the paranormal, while her NPC incarnation took the only job she could get as a reference librarian at this weird place in London called The Magnus Institute.
Chloe Reed was a character in a systemless 2-player campaign (aka adults playing long-form pretend). The game was set in Portland, OR, in the immediate aftermath of a contagion apocalypse in which 99% of everyone died between Thanksgiving and New Years. Chloe had just started her residency in emergency medicine that fall, but the stress combined with her obsessive-compulsive disorder caused her to quit and come home to her parents early for Thanksgiving. She hadn't even told them she'd quit yet when everyone started getting ill. Her father, also a doctor, died at work while treating the infected. Her mother tried to come home, but Chloe was so utterly terrified of the contagion that she locked her out and left her to die. Instead of helping the sick, Chloe betrayed her hippocratic oath, isolated herself completely, and survived.
Wracked with guilt and driven by terror, Chloe hid from the few gangs of survivors that roamed the city and ruled by force. She scraped by, waiting for aid that wasn't coming, until she met a lone survivor who'd rode into town to scavange. Chloe joined him and they went back to his farm where they worked to build a future together.
Tyler Graves is my current character for a Bubblegumshoe campaign set at The Freeman-Ferrero School, a fictional private boarding school in rural upstate New York for kids with difficult backgrounds. Ty is a local kid, born and raised in the small logging town nearby. His upbringing was happy enough until age 11 when his identical twin brother went missing. It was the biggest news the town had heard in years, and many people came out to help search, but nothing useful came out of it. There were no solid leads and after a little while everyone just stopped looking.
Ty didn't stop. Deep in his gut, he knew his twin was dead. He could feel it like a missing limb. He needed answers.
Ty pursued the mystery of his brother's disappearance obsessively, while his family fell apart around him. Ty's twin had always been the smarter, better-looking, and more popular of the two of them, but when his parents couldn't stay together for just one son, the confirmation of Ty's inferiority hit hard. His father moved away, and his mother began abusing painkillers. Ty's world was collapsing in around him, and he was utterly alone for the first time in his life.
A school bully was the final straw that broke everything. Ty brought a gun to school and threatened his bully. He was immediately expelled. The subsequent investigation found his mother to be an unfit parent and left Ty as a ward of the state, without the freedom to keep searching for answers about his brother. Getting into Freeman-Ferrero was his only real chance to turn things around and make something out of his life.
Now he's in high school, solving mysteries and writing the alternative school newspaper (The Freeman-Ferrero Frequency, or "The Freq") with his fellow hard-luck teen detectives. He's got a boisterous, erratic personality, and buries his depression under clownish antics and nascent alcoholism. Ty challenges authority at every turn, but is fiercely loyal to his friends. Maybe things will turn out alright by graduation? No, probably not.
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Post by urchin on Jan 4, 2018 17:17:35 GMT
I like a lot of different music, and am constantly looking for more. My favorite genres are indie rock, indie electronica, and old school goth/post-punk.
Lately I’ve been digging HEALTH, Slothrust, and Cocteau Twins, though my favorite band of all time is probably Modest Mouse.
I’m a semi-professional dancer, so anything with a lot of drama and variance to it is precious to me.
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Post by urchin on Jan 2, 2018 17:00:56 GMT
My gaming friends usually get together on NYE and someone will run a one-shot. This year I got my courage up and GMed for the first time. I ran a Pathfinder game and it went well! There were definitely issues I can learn from, but everyone had a lot of fun so I'm overjoyed. The players included a new person who had never seen a tabletop RPG before, and she is already asking when the next session will be. So... time to get to work on the campaign I'm really grateful to Rusty Quill because RQG is what inspired me to learn Pathfinder, and it has really helped me get up the courage to try GMing finally. Thank you guys for all that you do!
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Post by urchin on Dec 28, 2017 1:18:15 GMT
I can't believe I didn't object at the time to this whole G in Thane thing. EVERYTHING I THOUGH I KNEW ABOUT SPELLING IS A LIE! THAT'S NOT HOW THE LETTER G WORKS AT ALL!
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Post by urchin on Dec 27, 2017 23:42:13 GMT
From Bryn in the beginning: "I am a mathematician, I have no idea what any of these people are talking about."
SO RELATABLE. All of my gaming friends studied literature/philosophy/religion, and I'm just hanging out calculating probabilities...
This special is off to an excellent start! Beowulf was excellently ridiculous.
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Post by urchin on Dec 27, 2017 23:33:31 GMT
Another thought that I had sometimes (which is not what I think is the case, but popped up in my brain regardless) is that Elias might be possessed by Magnus himself. Since John mentioned Elias was kind of a pothead during his earlier years in comparison to now, actually not being the same person is a possibility. Elias being possessed by Magnus is a little out there are this point, but your point about his personality change is definitely not to be overlooked. I want to know what he's up to so much, but the slow reveal of clues keeps me hooked even more than finding things out. Do you recall how long Elias has been head of the institute? Do we know that?
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