Anyone running an oddball campaign?

[bhu]

That needs players?  I has stress I'd like to burn off.

[phaedrusxy]

Well... dna1 was RPing the tarrasque as an overzealous kitty in Monster Masters... but he dropped out. I think we'd love to have someone to take up the mantle for him.

[VennDygrem]

That reminds me... that the game is supposed to be still going. >_> <_<

[oslecamo]

Yes it is. Waiting for the party's decision on what to do now, unless you would like some railroading.

Bhu would be free to join if he wants, like already mentioned there's a Tarrasque PC up to grabs.

[bhu]

SO whats the theme of the campaign?  We all play monsters?

[oslecamo]

You play as the monstruous vanguard of the arch-lich Kristof the Blasphemous on his quest to conquer the known world. The party are the inhuman that stalk the night, the ones who raze cities, leave behind ruins filled with cultists and mindless undeads, rout the armies of mortals and all the other stuff team evil usually does. Killing, desecrating and/or corrupting everything in your path is not only allowed, but praised by your dark master.

Previous Campaign Intro

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Long ago the two main mortal forces on existence where the Magedom of Akrabal and the United Cities of Bragal, each having conquered most of their own continent, being separated by a vast ocean. They had mostly ignored each other for some time untill Magedom spies sucessfully stole a powerfull artifact from the United Cities. An artifact some said the UCB based their power on.

War quickly broke out for that artifact. The Magedom focused on pure mages backed up by stealthy assassins and light infantry, moving quickly and silently to deliver cyrurgical strikes. The UCB had exceptional blacksmiths and artificers that forged superior weapons, armors and all kind of war machines for their troops. They even developed mass-produceable golems to bolster their ranks, the warforged.

The war lasted for decades whitout anyone managing to get an advantage, untill it became a cold stalemate, each side just digging in and launching the ocasional skirmish to test the enemy defenses. Neither side could any longer afford fullscale conflict.

Unnoticed by either side, a new cult started to form on the lands to the west of the magedom, the Order of Truth. Their priests claim that they don't follow any particular deity but reality itself. In particular they claim they can predict the future. More peculiar, they seem really good at it. The Order of Truth gained countless adepts on the basis that it would warn the people of earthquakes, storms, bad crops, plagues, bandit raids and other normally unpredictable events time and time again.

If they can actualy predict the future, or if they are just really good diviners or are somehow fabricating those events themselves it's not very clear. But the Order of Truth numbers quickly swelled. Their followers were quickly and effeciently organized into a clockwork society where the Order of Truth decides almost everything from what your job is to who you'll marry. Each village that acepted the Order of Truth quickly became a new cog on their machine.

More important, they rised a powerfull army of their own. They first used that army to defend their territorry, but recently they've been launching assaults against isolated villages and cities that don't acept their principles, forcingly incorporating them in the Order. Soon they started to directly threaten Magedom cities. Altough inferior in magic users, the Order of Truth scored major victories with the ability to predict (or cause, who knows) natural disasters that would strike the Magedom forces at the worst possible moments.

Rumors have that the Order of Truth has even managed to convince Giant tribes and other sentient beings to their side. They grow stronger every day, slowly swallowing other minor sides. The Magedom has made them their top priority. The UCB on the other hand has itself recently been losing territorry to Order of Truth missionaries that crossed the seas.

The Magedom and UCB aren't idle however. Word is that the first has been refining powerfull conjuring magic to conjure powerfull monsters for their war effort. The UCB re-started their warforged project and is field-testing new improved and deadly models.

The minor sides caught in the middle of this conflict are left wondering who they can join, or if they can weather this incoming storm by themselves. You'll begin as the minions of a powerful lich that has dwelled on the northern mountain ranges for too long, bidding his time and building up his power for quite some time. The time is now ripe for finally coming out, manipulate the war to your favor, and make sure yours is the winning side in the end.

[sirpercival]

Holy crap this campaign sounds awesome.

...do you have room for another player??

[oslecamo]

Hmm, phaedrusxy clearly is still interesed, Gnomeo, McPoyo and VennDygrem are all pretty active, Flay Crimsonwind is somewhat unstable but pops up now and then. Bhu would replace dna1 that has gone missing, but not that I notice it krika also seems to have disapeared, so yes there's two slots open right now.

[sirpercival]

Awesome!! Then I shall play a Pleroma Aeon if that's alright with everyone.

[bhu]

Can someone point me to pc creation rules etc?

Wanna see mah options before saying yes to tarrasque

Also what does party not currently have?

[sirpercival]

Can someone point me to pc creation rules etc?

Wanna see mah options before saying yes to tarrasque

Also what does party not currently have?

I just found them a few minutes ago.  http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=3988.0

[bhu]

also what alignment is everyone (some of the pc sheets arent viewable)

[oslecamo]

PC sheets should be visible now, aparently some links got messed up during the forum transition.

Meveri-CN-permanent etherealness with some cold-based powers, infiltration and single-target disabling specialist.
Tenth-NE-can absorb memories and partially copy forms of other creatures, also psionics.
Yurgret-NE-raw damage tank, tough as nails.
Grimtooth-CE-vampire warrior, has a weapon cohort that is also a cleric.
Rao-CN-pyroclastic dragon, no spellcasting but has a disintregation breath plus some fire and sound SLAs.

[bhu]

so we arent missing anything genre wise cept maybe a face?

[phaedrusxy]

so we arent missing anything genre wise cept maybe a face?

We can cover that, too. Tenth has a decent Diplomacy mod, and Grimtooth and Rao have good intimidate mods. Grimtooth can also boost any of his skills considerably using some of his abilities. So play whatever you want (hint: Queeny the tarrasque ).

[bhu]

so is queeny a tarrasque or a cat?

[sirpercival]

Osle, would you consider the Luck and Destiny domains to be sufficiently opposing for the Aeon?

EDIT: Assuming they are, I'm between Transformation and Spell for the last domain.  Any suggestions, anyone?

[bhu]

Possible oddball PC ideas

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/348/4/3/lifting_moose__with_kittens_by_meddlerinc-d4j34t8.jpg
anthro moose/?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_76zqO_WDD60/TKTvYpsNrMI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/Vrg9rutLov4/s1600/moe+94987+male+poju+shota.jpg
succubus (male so its incubus, monster of legend) horribly horribly nsfw


http://definefear.deviantart.com/art/fire-man-171228102
azer/paragon/?

http://www.nick.com/troop-grid/monsters/gelatinous-cube.jhtml
awakened gelatinous cube/scout

http://28.media.tumblr.com/gbPxtaI5qooprjpfJAEuXhkWo1_500.jpg
Cheshire cat/ghost/?


http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/140/5/d/human_female_berserker_by_wickedalucard-d3gru21.png
pixie/barbarian/frenzied berserker

http://www.incrediblehulkonline.com/marvelselectabom.jpg
troll/war troll/half dragon??
Or troglodyte/creature of legend/?

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkqf6mRtsY1qf76hao1_500.jpg
minotaur/beguiler

[phaedrusxy]

so is queeny a tarrasque or a cat?

A tarrasque that acts like a mischievous cat.

[sirpercival]

http://www.incrediblehulkonline.com/marvelselectabom.jpg
troll/war troll/half dragon??
Or troglodyte/creature of legend/?

Aahz of Perv!!