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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #200 on: April 25, 2013, 01:23:26 PM »
I had a nice reply but an SMF error when I hit preview wiped it.
Simply put your friend is a moron and likes 4th edition D&D.

Also, tweak your Race if you don't want age penalties.

Edit - it's almost Friday. Do we have a sub-forum yet?
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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #201 on: April 25, 2013, 01:43:29 PM »
... actually, she doesn't play D&D at all, she just likes mecha. And honestly, I'm agreeing with her. Code Geass? Not that good for mecha (way too much else going on). Not that there's any point telling you that, since you feel compelled to come up with an appallingly stupid insult for an entire franchise. :eh

Umm... tweak my race? When that's six of my class levels? Just a liiiiittle on the impossible side. On the plus side, they don't have defined age categories, so it's entirely possible they've yet to get anywhere near middle age. :rolleyes

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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #202 on: April 25, 2013, 02:34:12 PM »
Umm... tweak my race? When that's six of my class levels? Just a liiiiittle on the impossible side. On the plus side, they don't have defined age categories, so it's entirely possible they've yet to get anywhere near middle age. :rolleyes
Heh.

Also, Wing isn't a mech based story. It's about the human element. You've given extremists in every area, pilots that question their involvement in war, and like real life in the 80s it also gets bogged down and worries about humans being replaced by machines.

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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #203 on: April 25, 2013, 02:47:53 PM »
And here is the background !


"Surrender ? You pitiful excuse of space pirates. Filthy mongrels, Do you have any idea of WHO I AM ?
I am no mere merchantman, nor a scared shepard of a colonist armada, or a poor outnumbered, outgunned, escort corvette.
I am a dragon, a beast of legend born to fly accross the skies of a thousand worlds, the apex predator and  the righteous ruler of the infinite frozen expanses of the Void ! If my claws won't gut you or my jaw rip your sorry throats, I will down you with enough canons and missiles to shatter the very sky, AND WITH MY OWN MIND !
I am the Dread Wyrm-Admiral Abraxas, at the helm of the magnificient Battleship [Name to be chosen yet].
In fealty of the Hunter's Guild and by the grace of the Moltavia Government, I hereby sign the Death Warrant of your entire Fleet, and condamn you to oblivion. May the Gods have pity on your souls, for I will have none.
ON MY MARK, UNLEASH HELL !"

Lord Wyrm-Admiral Abraxas retort to the Black skull armada ultimatum, battle of the Heptagonic Nebula.

Even in times of peace, travelling through Space is a dangerous task.  Uncharted phenomenas, solar flares, space pirates, strange beasts roaming the void, mutineers.
For this reason - as well as cheaply transporting their Hunter where they are needed-, the Hunter's Guild has always kept a small military navy. Escort duty, search and rescue missions, counter-piracy, exploring the unknown and face tremendous dangers alone with just a starship, it is the job of quite colorful dangerously adrenalin-addicted men and women.
And amongst them, the Dread Wyrm-Admiral Abraxas -as he likes to be known off- is perhaps the strangest, if successfull, of all.

The first fact that should be known about him is that is not really a dragon like he claims to on almost every occasion, as any scholar can confirm : he undoubtedly is a pseudo-dragon, a little wyrm-like winged lizard, hardly bigger than a housecat. Delusions of Grandeur are usual among their kind, as well as inflated egos, though it tends to reduce the older they grew. Abraxas is a bit small among his kind, and is more obnoxious about his identity than many younglings, even though he is in his fifties.

The second fact is : you better agrees with him about his draconic nature, unless you want a tiny house-cat sized flying lizard with planet-sized ego issues to murder you with his mind.
For years, the young Abraxas has tried to  breathe fire or something, to proove once and for all that he was a true dragon indeed. Somehow, even if he failed in this regards, he managed to find a way to manifest some kind of weapon from his very soul, and soon after, to throw them with the strengh of laser bolts. From that day onward, Abraxas was convinced to be a True Dragon, and one of the most powerful ever : after all, he did not thing more than a thought to kill, unless his "lesser" kind. So, he wandered among the growing deserts of his homeworld, to create his own very lair, as a proper Dragon should do. For months he has searched, rushing himself forward in the unknown, throwing himself in troubles bigger than hmself and always managing to pull it off.
And then, one day, he found the right place.
A nice cavern, inside a very large mountain range, perfect for a glorious dragon like him.
And when he explored his future lair, he found her.
A stranded battleship, who has been there for years, forgotten from all, a remnant from the time when the world was once colonised and terra-formed, her gilded hull covered by an almost-concrete like sheet of dust.
THIS was far better than any lair.

Years passed. Patiently, Abraxas learned how to use his new toy, gathered untold riches and a crew -including a marching band always playing on the bridge-.
One day, a battleship soared again in the sky, taking off in  a cloud of dust and the echos of many avalanches she triggered in her awakening, her drive roaring once more. And soon, the Dread Wyrm-Admiral 's legend grew among the stars.

Physical description :
Imagine a dragon, with gleaming deep purple scales and a butter-teinted belly. Now, downsize him at the size of a cat.
Then, dress him up in a custom made embroidered white and gold uniform, a purple silk sash covered with medals in precious metals - some of them truly earned-, an officer saber at his side too large for him, and cover his muzzle under a ginormous, cocard-and-plumet bearing, bicorn. Add a monocle and the smuggest, cockiest, overconfident smile ever seen on a lizard.
Here, you have him.

As for his character, he is an obnoxious large ham, a cocksure braggart  full of bravado and always ready to buckle some swash, to increase the size of his treasure vault and the riches of his starship with an other prize. He is not an idiot nor a fop : in fact, he is very perceptive, and has some sharp wit and good charms to back up his boastings. He can be inconspicuous if he thinks it will help him, but he does not like this.

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Global note : I know frickin' nothing about mechas, mecha shows and whatever. So don't be surprized if I don't catch references or ask stupid questions.
"-Lady-Captain, we detect 20 hostile vessels against us,  and Erasmus Haarlock's Spear of Destiny ! What are your orders ?
-RAMMING SPEED !

final result : 6 slaughts vessels, 4 imperial frigates, 2 imperial cruisers destroyed. Haarlock sent into the warp. 0 losses. Flawless Victory.

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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #204 on: April 25, 2013, 02:55:19 PM »
So... Code Geass must be better than Gundam, because, in your opinion, one series is bad? Eh, not buying it. There's 32 different Gundam entries. Seriously. >_>

Not mentioned in your statement about Code Geass: the ridiculous arms race that got from one prototype, which was simply faster, to about a dozen in the space of about a year at most, only without the 'prototype' label (excluding the Gawain, which was destroyed before proper completion, you had the Chinese one, Mordred, Tristan, whatever Waldstein had, Shinkirou, the Gurren, Lancelot, Jeremiah's pumpkin... oh, and the Damocles, Avalon, FLEIJA warhead itself, and Jeremiah). Not to mention the way tactics became 'Napoleonic ship movements' for the later stages, and the hilarious design decision to make a mecha that has to drop all its defences to shoot.

Really, if anything is super about Code Geass, it's the research pace.

Before you start complaining I haven't addressed your point, it's because I haven't watched Gundam Wing, and there's no way I'm taking your word on this, since it's apparently wrong in every aspect yet did reasonably well in Japan (and MUCH better in the USA). And Code Geass is not flawless.

Also, the reason mecha tend to use feet? 'Cause a large part of the point is that they resemble people. Only giant, robots, and therefore with built in weaponry. No-one would ever actually build a war machine like that, so saying Code Geass is better because it does the more 'sensible' thing is kind of hilarious. :rolleyes


For Harald:

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG is the best name. Especially if it has opera.

Expect the giant fusion birdgirl to point out he's not an actual dragon at some point. XD
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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #205 on: April 25, 2013, 03:58:14 PM »
Ok. To add to the list of potential names : Orobouros.
Remarks and criticisms concerning the background itself ?
"-Lady-Captain, we detect 20 hostile vessels against us,  and Erasmus Haarlock's Spear of Destiny ! What are your orders ?
-RAMMING SPEED !

final result : 6 slaughts vessels, 4 imperial frigates, 2 imperial cruisers destroyed. Haarlock sent into the warp. 0 losses. Flawless Victory.

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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #206 on: April 25, 2013, 04:04:00 PM »
It's fun. XD

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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #207 on: April 25, 2013, 04:22:32 PM »
If people want to flame each other over anime, can they please go do it in off topic or BLYHT?

Anyway, here's my dude. Needs feats and to finish backstory (has lots of gold left over by design. Bag of tricks lets me buy/craft retroactively.)

Aden Ged

Mercane 5, Monster of Legend 2, Scholar 5, // Divine Pilot 12

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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #208 on: April 25, 2013, 04:23:36 PM »
So... uh... working on digging up Kaorti Gurren Lagann (Botharug the Mighty with his giant helmet, Crimson Face) and Warforged Shin Mazinger (The Priest of Zeus, Chogokin) for the low-level game.
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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #209 on: April 25, 2013, 04:25:39 PM »
We have the same cape and the same prestige class, and two of the options on said class are the same. :lmao

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18 sets of tools? What for?  :???

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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #210 on: April 25, 2013, 04:28:41 PM »
The cloak is pretty much a staple item and we're doing significantly different things with the PrC so I think it's fine.

Masterwork tools give +2 circ bonus on a specific skill. I have ranks in 18 skills, so I have 18 tools. If someone wants me to, I can go through and fluff out exactly what all 18 of them are, but I'd just as soon not bother since that's a fair amount of effort for very little return.

EDIT: I'd like to take Shape Soulmeld for melds from the Extractor class. It's homebrew from someone who's not Oslecamo so I thought I'd ask first.

Nothing involving Extraction or the Lucid Dreaming skill.

Specifically:

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If those are acceptable, I'm ready to go besides finishing up my background.
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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #211 on: April 25, 2013, 05:42:30 PM »
So... we're basically at the start of PSO Episode 1? Damn it, Dark Falz (love that mistranslation) is down there. :p
Maybe. Maybe not.  :p

Umm... tweak my race? When that's six of my class levels? Just a liiiiittle on the impossible side. On the plus side, they don't have defined age categories, so it's entirely possible they've yet to get anywhere near middle age. :rolleyes

That would be correct.

Or you could've been put to cryogenic sleep.

Harald:
No time to fully check up your character, but loving what I'm seeing until now!


The cloak is pretty much a staple item and we're doing significantly different things with the PrC so I think it's fine.

Masterwork tools give +2 circ bonus on a specific skill. I have ranks in 18 skills, so I have 18 tools. If someone wants me to, I can go through and fluff out exactly what all 18 of them are, but I'd just as soon not bother since that's a fair amount of effort for very little return.

EDIT: I'd like to take Shape Soulmeld for melds from the Extractor class. It's homebrew from someone who's not Oslecamo so I thought I'd ask first.

Nothing involving Extraction or the Lucid Dreaming skill.

Specifically:

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If those are acceptable, I'm ready to go besides finishing up my background.
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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #212 on: April 25, 2013, 06:08:45 PM »
Interested in this with extreme prejudice.  :p

If there's a PS you'd rather I use as a base for background, which one would it be? Classic series? Online?
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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #213 on: April 25, 2013, 06:09:23 PM »
There's a Hunter's Guild and we're headed for Ragol.

I think that indicates Online.

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« Reply #214 on: April 25, 2013, 06:23:36 PM »
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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #215 on: April 25, 2013, 06:43:52 PM »
Before you start complaining I haven't addressed your point, it's because I haven't watched Gundam Wing, and there's no way I'm taking your word on this, since it's apparently wrong in every aspect yet did reasonably well in Japan (and MUCH better in the USA). And Code Geass is not flawless.
That is an extremely poor rebuttal. It'd be like me if I never seen Twilight saying the Movie was an epically good story about the sun going down and refusing any comments or views by people that have seen it.

Don't get me wrong, I liked Wing. And if your friend watched it on Toonamia they seriously need to go back and watch it with an adult level of understanding. But it's not about robots any more than CG is. However the difference between how they both handle the mech element is night and day.

Like wise. I don't think you understand what a "super robot" would be because your judgment is clouded by infinite drill summoning.

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« Reply #216 on: April 25, 2013, 06:50:08 PM »
If you read what I said again, I'm not taking your word for it, because your word seems to be excessively negative. Not really trusting this in general, because your evidence for Code Geass being better to watch than Gundam is... uh... this one Gundam show you've latched onto as the worst ever.

... also, they can't have watched it on that, because they're from the wrong continent entirely, so... yeah, adult level of understanding, here. :p

Uh... and why, exactly, do you think I can't understand what a super robot is because I know the plot of TTGL? A Super Robot is something of a failure if it has extreme difficulty destroying a building. If you have trouble destroying a concrete box, you are not piloting a Super Robot. :|
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« Reply #217 on: April 25, 2013, 07:30:45 PM »
If you read what I said again, I'm not taking your word for it, because your word seems to be excessively negative. Not really trusting this in general, because your evidence for Code Geass being better to watch than Gundam is... uh... this one Gundam show you've latched onto as the worst ever.

... also, they can't have watched it on that, because they're from the wrong continent entirely, so... yeah, adult level of understanding, here. :p

Uh... and why, exactly, do you think I can't understand what a super robot is because I know the plot of TTGL? A Super Robot is something of a failure if it has extreme difficulty destroying a building. If you have trouble destroying a concrete box, you are not piloting a Super Robot. :|
Really? Last time you took linked the title with critic reviews and crated some fallacy BS about it as a point. Now you're going so far to claim I've only seen one Gundam show and I'm not arguing Code Geass has better mechs but because I hate Wing so much I'd flame it no matter what.  :rolleyes

I can't name a single mook level mech incapable of destroying a building. I think with your earlier statements, you're trying to imply the Lancelot can't. Which leaves me wondering if you've even seen Code Geass? And so with that I think I hit my stupid limit this week.

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« Reply #218 on: April 25, 2013, 07:42:00 PM »
Uh... how the hell you've got me accusing you of only watching Gundam Wing, I don't know. What I said is that you have somehow latched onto Wing as evidence that Code Geass is better to watch than Gundam, despite the fact that you were the only one to specify Wing in the first place. You've taken a class of things and used a single example to justify ignoring the rest.

How about... all of them? Lancelot is less than 15 feet tall, it has a sword and a gun thing as weapons, and does not, in fact, cause any sort of huge collateral. Which Code Geass have you been watching? Because the only time mecha seem to present a serious threat to buildings in that is when they get handed what is effectively a nuke. Oh, and the time Kallen causes a landslide due to geology.

So no, the Lancelot can't. Jeremiah's thing? I expect that can, but it's not actually a mecha at that point. Mordred and Shinkirou can... and happen to be artillery, which is not a point in their favour. Otherwise, Knightmare Frames' demolition capability is at the same level as 'drive a tank through the wall'. >_>

And yes, I've seen Code Geass. Can't remember how the hell Rolo died, but that's about it for what I don't remember.

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Re: Faster Paced PbP Campaign interest check
« Reply #219 on: April 25, 2013, 07:44:25 PM »
New feat request: invigorating spellcaster is from Dragon Mag, but it was in the compendium so that sorta makes it in a book...

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In addition, can Mecha be healed with healing spells if said spells are channeled through a mecha?