Off-topic chatter

[Kuroimaken]

Also, I just noticed that Venn and I are both players in this game, phaedrus and Venn are players in games that I run, and I'm a player in a game Venn runs. So now all we need is for phaedrus to jump into Hunter's Moon and the circle is complete.

I would totally play a War-Frenzy in Fanged Crater. :<
/mostly kidding

You'd need to start a game where phaedrus and I were players to maintain the balance.

Alternatively, you, Kuroi, and phaedrus are still around. We could always do a hard reboot of a certain campaign that left off at a rather interesting point...

You mean the one where our band of awesome travelled around Eberron and spread the power of METAL?

[Bozwevial]

I have been considering doing something with DFRPG for a good while, but I'm unlikely to run anything until the DF campaign I currently DM on IRC ends.
You cannot imagine how hard I was kicking myself when FC was rerecruiting and the War-Frenzy was still in the early stages of design.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm about to start up two side-by-side IRC campaigns using that system. It's going to be a lot of work, especially since at the start I'm going to be managing four separate narratives at once and trying to synch them up, then repeating that for the other campaign. And if I actually have the players interact across games like I was planning...

It's been a long while, though, so there's bound to be some disconnect/inertia with characters... at least, I know I'd feel it.
Also, we kind of got up to some ridiculously ridiculous shit there with that ship.

Hard reboot in many ways. The character sheet thread practically had a revolving door, Eddie's sheet alone would have sent some DMs into shock, by the end we were down to three players where we had a cast of many before, and option paralysis pretty much killed it. At the very least, everyone would rebuild characters so they were easier to manage on everyone's part. System switching might even be on the table. We'd either reset the narrative to the beginning or do a timeskip. But you're right, it might be hard to get back into the swing of playing a murderous young demonic girl hey wait just a damn minute here.

[Agita]

But you're right, it might be hard to get back into the swing of playing a murderous young demonic girl hey wait just a damn minute here.

Ris-Janna is an adult and if you claim otherwise/point out she doesn't look it she will wear your kidney stones as a necklace, okay?
(Also slightly different kinds of psycho.)

More importantly, I would totally take the opportunity to try and puppy-eye you into playing guinea pig for veekie's and my homebrew.

[Kuroimaken]

I have been considering doing something with DFRPG for a good while, but I'm unlikely to run anything until the DF campaign I currently DM on IRC ends.
You cannot imagine how hard I was kicking myself when FC was rerecruiting and the War-Frenzy was still in the early stages of design.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm about to start up two side-by-side IRC campaigns using that system. It's going to be a lot of work, especially since at the start I'm going to be managing four separate narratives at once and trying to synch them up, then repeating that for the other campaign. And if I actually have the players interact across games like I was planning...

It's been a long while, though, so there's bound to be some disconnect/inertia with characters... at least, I know I'd feel it.
Also, we kind of got up to some ridiculously ridiculous shit there with that ship.

Hard reboot in many ways. The character sheet thread practically had a revolving door, Eddie's sheet alone would have sent some DMs into shock, by the end we were down to three players where we had a cast of many before, and option paralysis pretty much killed it. At the very least, everyone would rebuild characters so they were easier to manage on everyone's part. System switching might even be on the table. We'd either reset the narrative to the beginning or do a timeskip. But you're right, it might be hard to get back into the swing of playing a murderous young demonic girl hey wait just a damn minute here.

Hey, I'd actually be playing a shotaro Alucard. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get into character for that? 

[Bozwevial]

But you're right, it might be hard to get back into the swing of playing a murderous young demonic girl hey wait just a damn minute here.

Ris-Janna is an adult and if you claim otherwise/point out she doesn't look it she will wear your kidney stones as a necklace, okay?
(Also slightly different kinds of psycho.)

More importantly, I would totally take the opportunity to try and puppy-eye you into playing guinea pig for veekie's and my homebrew.

That could happen pretty much no matter what barring a system change. Of course, if I'm throwing one at you, I'd probably want at least half a dozen trials. You know, so the results are statistically significant.

Hey, I'd actually be playing a shotaro Alucard. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get into character for that? 

Oh god, that's right, you weren't just a normal necropolitan dread necromancer/rainbow servant. That would be too easy.

[Agita]

That could happen pretty much no matter what barring a system change. Of course, if I'm throwing one at you, I'd probably want at least half a dozen trials. You know, so the results are statistically significant.

I'm not sure what the second and third sentences mean here in context of the first.

Hmm... what kinds of systems have you considered? Off the top of my head...
Pathfinder is the closest to D&D, and close enough that homebrew can be ported over with little problem. It's also a can of worms of the raeg kind, of course.
DFRPG can be used for Eberron pretty much straight (and it's one of the ideas I've been tossing around myself), albeit at a more down-to-earth feel (and power level) than the original campaign.
Exalted would be pretty much the feel and power level of the old campaign. Come to think of it, Lucy and Kuroi's character would pretty much be Abyssals right out of the box. And there are charms for killing shit with music.
Other weird shit: I'm sure someone has made an indie game involving the power of metal out there. I just haven't found it yet. M&M works for anything. Magical Burst and MAID are just fun.

[Bozwevial]

That could happen pretty much no matter what barring a system change. Of course, if I'm throwing one at you, I'd probably want at least half a dozen trials. You know, so the results are statistically significant.

I'm not sure what the second and third sentences mean here in context of the first.

So long as we don't change systems, we could test your homebrew even if we don't have a player using War-Frenzy.

Hmm... what kinds of systems have you considered? Off the top of my head...
Pathfinder is the closest to D&D, and close enough that homebrew can be ported over with little problem. It's also a can of worms of the raeg kind, of course.
DFRPG can be used for Eberron pretty much straight (and it's one of the ideas I've been tossing around myself), albeit at a more down-to-earth feel (and power level) than the original campaign.
Exalted would be pretty much the feel and power level of the old campaign. Come to think of it, Lucy and Kuroi's character would pretty much be Abyssals right out of the box. And there are charms for killing shit with music.
Other weird shit: I'm sure someone has made an indie game involving the power of metal out there. I just haven't found it yet. M&M works for anything. Magical Burst and MAID are just fun.

There's also Solo and Childe's baby, Legend. It lends itself well to games either played straight or not taken seriously at all.
DFRPG was one of the ones I was considering. Magic can get pretty crazy there too; it would just be somewhat grittier than 3.5
I'll admit I've never touched Exalted, but some stuff I've seen TDO do with it is intriguing.
Turning it into a Tome game could help preserve the power level without need for so much optimization.
And for things that are almost, but not quite entirely unlike what we want, there's Frank Trollman's After Sundown.

[phaedrusxy]

I think a Tome game and/or homebrew 3.5 would be my preference. I don't really have a lot of time to learn entirely new systems, and like the convenience of having everything accessible online. I do most of my posting/playing from work (Shhh... don't tell my boss. ).

[Bozwevial]

I think a Tome game and/or homebrew 3.5 would be my preference. I don't really have a lot of time to learn entirely new systems, and like the convenience of having everything accessible online. I do most of my posting/playing from work (Shhh... don't tell my boss. ).

I had 25 fewer posts before I went in to work today.

[VennDygrem]

You mean the one where our band of awesome travelled around Eberron and spread the power of METAL?

That sounds... totally awesome.

[Agita]

I think a Tome game and/or homebrew 3.5 would be my preference. I don't really have a lot of time to learn entirely new systems, and like the convenience of having everything accessible online. I do most of my posting/playing from work (Shhh... don't tell my boss. ).

I had 25 fewer posts before I went in to work today.

Spammer.

[Bozwevial]

I think a Tome game and/or homebrew 3.5 would be my preference. I don't really have a lot of time to learn entirely new systems, and like the convenience of having everything accessible online. I do most of my posting/playing from work (Shhh... don't tell my boss. ).

I had 25 fewer posts before I went in to work today.

Spammer.

Says the guy who just made a one-word post.

[Agita]

I think a Tome game and/or homebrew 3.5 would be my preference. I don't really have a lot of time to learn entirely new systems, and like the convenience of having everything accessible online. I do most of my posting/playing from work (Shhh... don't tell my boss. ).

I had 25 fewer posts before I went in to work today.

Spammer.

Says the guy who just made a one-word post.

I'm afraid you've got me there.

[HeadofVecna]

Nah, one word and a smiley. There's a difference.

[phaedrusxy]

Just a head's up: I'm going on vacation starting tomorrow morning, and won't be back till after the July 4th weekend. I might be able to post a bit during then, but I can't guarantee it.

I'll probably put off the rest of this volcano scene until then. Sorry for the delay.

[Bozwevial]

Agita, do you have a cunning plan in mind that I'm missing, or were you just going to send the warmage into the dead magic zone because he was hitting on you?

Also, I figured out why Ris-Janna's style of talking sounded so familiar.

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[Agita]

Agita, do you have a cunning plan in mind that I'm missing, or were you just going to send the warmage into the dead magic zone because he was hitting on you?

Of course, Ris-Janna has a brilliant plan to find out whether Raouls is secretly fireproof and just never knew it. Duh.

Also, I have no idea who that is, but from the look of his mug, the analogy is probably not inaccurate.

[Bozwevial]

Agita, do you have a cunning plan in mind that I'm missing, or were you just going to send the warmage into the dead magic zone because he was hitting on you?

Of course, Ris-Janna has a brilliant plan to find out whether Raouls is secretly fireproof and just never knew it. Duh.

Also, I have no idea who that is, but from the look of his mug, the analogy is probably not inaccurate.

Half-Life's G-Man. He has a habit of turning up in bizarre places to watch you as you progress, then vanishing just as quickly. He also has a distinctly stilted manner of speaking that sounds very much like I imagine Ris-Janna's does.

[Agita]

Agita, do you have a cunning plan in mind that I'm missing, or were you just going to send the warmage into the dead magic zone because he was hitting on you?

Of course, Ris-Janna has a brilliant plan to find out whether Raouls is secretly fireproof and just never knew it. Duh.

Also, I have no idea who that is, but from the look of his mug, the analogy is probably not inaccurate.

Half-Life's G-Man. He has a habit of turning up in bizarre places to watch you as you progress, then vanishing just as quickly. He also has a distinctly stilted manner of speaking that sounds very much like I imagine Ris-Janna's does.

That works fairly well, yes.

[VennDygrem]

Something tells me this video is somewhat less useful reference material.