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Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« on: February 25, 2014, 02:29:01 PM »
So I made this revised Taint rules, and I'm itching to try them out in an actual campaign. I guess I could include it in one of the several campaigns I'm currently DMing (which I did in the Nintendo Gaiden campaign, but only because Raineh Daze's the only player left on that and she asked for it), but such general rules should really not be applied mid-game.

I still didn't get to iron out the details tough, so I decided to check what kind of people are looking for right now.

Interest people please post:
-Prefered level range you want to start in.
-Do you want to help cleanse the taint, or help to spread it?
-Setting (or you can just let my crazy mind go to work).
-Any specific adventure module you would be interested in.
-Anything else you would like for the campaign to have, either crunch or fluff. Heck, I may even be willing to go gestalt if people vote for it.

As for character creation, it will be 32 PB and as you probably know I'm pretty open to homebrew and allow basically all official books. Experience would be won by competing objectives, not just killing creatures.

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2014, 02:33:40 PM »
Oh yeah, I need to post in that. >_>;

~5-10ish.
Cleanse the taint. Spreading it would get boring fast.
No setting opinions.
Nope!
Well, I'm interested in gestalt, but I kind of want to do an Eternal Royal//Paladin, or pick up the Knowledge Goddess (Scholar//God) from SirP's thing so... :p

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2014, 03:45:12 PM »
I'd be interested.

Level: 10+, though I'd be fine with anything above 5.
Taint: Mostly apathetic, but cleansing.
Setting: ...
Modules: ...
Builds: Gestalt; I'm not sure exactly what to play. I'd like to try out Evolutionist 20 on one side, maybe taking one of the prestige classes (Anomaly, perhaps) on the other side of the gestalt for extra mutations. It'd be interesting to try an Apostle of PeaceBoED (if we're cleansing), but the class is... rather ridiculous (you have VoP, but can use "protective" items..? what?) and I couldn't find a fix. Plus, AoP really needs a group that's okay with it, so unless everyone wants to go with it, I'll stay away from it.

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2014, 04:34:32 PM »
You know I'm interested.  If anything I'm a little too willing to join games by you. :P

Are you sure you've got time for another game though?

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2014, 04:35:29 PM »
You know I'm interested.  If anything I'm a little too willing to join games by you. :P

Are you sure you've got time for another game though?

In general, everything moves at an utterly glacial pace. :lmao

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2014, 05:20:39 PM »
I'm interested, and would rather be trying to cleanse the taint. Any starting level 3+ works for me. Not sure what I'd play exactly, but a paladinish build has been rolling around in my head lately. I might swap/replace much of that with homebrew and/or try the PF paladin instead, though.
« Last Edit: February 25, 2014, 05:42:33 PM by phaedrusxy »
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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2014, 05:36:17 PM »
Builds: Gestalt; I'm not sure exactly what to play. I'd like to try out Evolutionist 20 on one side, maybe taking one of the prestige classes (Anomaly, perhaps) on the other side of the gestalt for extra mutations.

Evolutionist and prcs look fine, but if we go gestalt, I'll have to say no to taking an advancing prc while taking the same base class. Mutations don't really seem designed to take in account that you're suddenly gaining them at twice the normal rate.

You know I'm interested.  If anything I'm a little too willing to join games by you. :P

Are you sure you've got time for another game though?
Look who's talking, you still have to update on the Nintendo campaign and City of the Spider Queen. :p

Also, kinda running dry on inspiration for homebrew. Starting a new campaign usually helps with that. Then the campaign slows down to a glacial pace, and I can put that inspiration into fresh homebrew!

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2014, 05:44:05 PM »
Yeah yeah.  I have a habit of waiting for other people since I'm not the leader in either of those games. :p

If you do a taint game then we need a homebrew setting based around it, that's my vote.



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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2014, 05:46:47 PM »
Homebrew based around taint sounds good, yes.

This is the aforementioned goddess. Would need tweaking, but more or less... :lmao

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2014, 06:15:57 PM »
Snip.
Aw. Makes sense, though.

Mm... Maybe I'll go Factotum on the other side, then. Or use one of your monster classes, Osc. Planning on being a skill / utility person, anyhow. And not using spells for it, they just make things complicated.

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2014, 06:30:49 PM »
Hm... Lunarian Moon Agent//Lunar Vanguard comes to mind as a completely insane idea, should gestalt happen. :p

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2014, 06:38:11 PM »
If possible I'd like to request a lack of crazy powerful PCs. :P

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2014, 06:45:54 PM »
If possible I'd like to request a lack of crazy powerful PCs. :P

If I do it, it tends to be accidental. D:

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2014, 06:51:24 PM »
If possible I'd like to request a lack of crazy powerful PCs. :P
I agree. I tend to not like gestalt as much, as it makes things more complicated, amps the power up, and almost feels like easy mode... It does let you slap some typically "weak" things together and get something fun, though.
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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2014, 07:26:52 PM »
If possible I'd like to request a lack of crazy powerful PCs. :P
I agree. I tend to not like gestalt as much, as it makes things more complicated, amps the power up, and almost feels like easy mode... It does let you slap some typically "weak" things together and get something fun, though.
I really like Gestalt, though I try to rein in power more during it (which is why I rarely / never play casters in Gestalt). Current ideas of mine (if we go Gestalt, and assuming that Monster Classes are okay) are:
Evolutionist 20 || Karsite 1 / Karsite Paragon 3 / Saint 2 / Factotum 14
Evolutionist 20 || Rust Monster 3 / Shade 3 / Factotum 14
I'd be working as more of a utility or skill-monkey either way, it's just my preferred role in the party. Though those classes do give some pretty strong (passive) combat abilities.

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2014, 07:56:27 PM »
Ideas I currently have:

God//Scholar--lots of knowledges, support stuff, can bring people back from the dead. Pierce illusions, pierce disgusies, learn life histories--so they know... lots.
Eternal Royal//Paladin--very CHA heavy, will probably go into the school specialising in ghosts and death. The paladin side is more because of the whole theme, and of course  the remove taint stuff.

And some non-gestalt ones:
Lunarian Moon Agent--shoot things! With a bow! An incredibly fancy bow, yes, but still a bow. Also SLA's, PLA's, and maneuvers. Lots of versatility. Hell, it's basically a case of 'pick what sort of martial school you want, then go be good at it'. And Os only wrote it up recently.
Anthromorphic Animal/Ninja--because ninja might be worse, but a six inch high butterfly-winged ninja just sounds fun.
This bastard. TIME FOR THINGS TO DIE.*

*Well, if it doesn't need a billion changes from Os's point of view. I'd suck at keeping track of 'em. >.>

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2014, 08:02:54 PM »
Would a Thaumurai be OK? (I'll probably just play a human... maybe with a magic-blooded or some other template that doesn't change your looks). And maybe add/convert a few more homebrew invocations (to be approved on a case-by-case basis, of course).
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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2014, 08:10:45 PM »
Hm, or Fighter/Saint. Paladin/Saint would be more appropriate, but I like purity too much and that costs them basically all their class features anyway. >_>;

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2014, 10:34:51 PM »
I'm always looking for an excuse to play the Flamespeaker that's been part of two dried-up PbP campaigns... Shoring up the weaknesses of a fire-only class with another set of abilities, possibly a monster class on the other side of gestalt, would be icing on the cake...

Both attempts at the character have been about spreading the 'cleansing fire' rather than just being a pyromaniac, so it would fit the theme of cleansing taint.

Though I've also got plenty on my plate as it is so if it doesn't take off I'm not too worried. :)

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Re: Taint Campaign-checking Interest (D&D 3.5)
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2014, 09:20:14 AM »
Thinking about it, with the way taint works and certainty of failing a save sooner or later, paladin and saint are probably a bad idea. Fail one roll at some point, pick up a depravity, useless dead levels.