Buddha's New D&D Thread is Groovy, Man.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

 

I started last month, a new 3.5 game every few weeks. It's Forgotten Realms Nimbity Croft, is the initial setting. It's a farm/orphanarium A nice old Halfling lady (also A high level Cleric) runs the place taking in stray small folk. This takes place in a mostltly Dwarf region, with scatterings of gnome, halfling, and such.

My character is Caramippe Tanglefoot a Female Gnome Hexblade who uses a traditional Gnome weapon called The Gnomish Hook Hammer, but also likes to intimidate and bluff and if she has to charm, her way past whoever she faces. She's in the Orphanarium after being found wandering down the road a year ago with said hook hammer covered in blood, as was she. With no idea of how she got wherever she was, and not really where she's from. she could describe it to you, but the names, they keep changing in her mind.

I missed a few games... but what has happened is that the farm is under seige to be bought up by a local Dwarf/Vice Kingpin named Charladon. (Our Den Mother's missing husband owes Charladon money) He has threatened, bullied, tried to murder many of us. So we are trying to infiltrate his Castle/Fortress (carved from the side of a mountain by Dwarves thousands of years ago) Slash Den of Iniquity... gambling prostitution, lots of "organized crime". Anyhoo some of the characters (the ones who showed up) Decided to take things into their own hands.... here is their story in all it's grammatical (my fault)  horror.

Tales of Brave Caramippe Tanglefoot  Briarpatch AKA Dread-ina Carvingspoon or simply "Mippy" to her friends.

It seemed that we had found our way to the vile Charladon's Casino in the woods. He had converted The den of vice and inequity (neither of which I'm against in theory by the way, but Charladon is a dick of the Dwarven sort. ugggh.) from a once great fortress basically carved on and into the side of a mountain nestled snugly in forest on either side.

The lot of us were camped in said forest, planning on how to get inwhile avoiding detection as much as possible and finding some dirt on Charladon to prove he's the scumbag everyone knows he is, and have the authorities deal with him, rather than trying to be the heroes ourselves, as Charladon is known to have very powerful friends, and is no slouch himself if it comes to it. We are young and unseasoned all, save Nimby, and she won't (rightly) hear of anything frontal assault-ish.

Man, she's gotta be pretty pissed off then considering what we just did, then which was to infiltrate a small band of us, who did just that very thing. So if you recall, Xeronimo, that rogue monk as he describes himself, had pestered the lummoxy Dwarfbots at the door into tossing him into the pool.

Wasn't so hard, I hear. I missed it myself as i saw a bee coming at me and was trying to kill it, I hate bees. Sadly the Bee had the dexterity of a double jointed Eladrin ShaoLin Monk on shrooms at a solstice whoop up, so uhhh Bee 1, Caramippe 0. Next time Bee, next time, yer pollen!
Anyhoo what was I saying? Oh yeah...

This turned out to be a good plan or Xeronimo's death by drowning. We didn't wait around to find out as Badgdar sniffed out a path up the Castle/Mountain wall, and was able to tie a rope and hook on a parapet. We all began ascent as Badgdar, um "craftily" dealt with the dwarf guard at the top of the wall, the next up was Caille, the sorceress Clover, brave Casanuda, and myself. Badgdar & Caille mugged the dwarf as he bent for a coin, and I delivered the fatal glass of beer as it were.

Another guard had entered the mix and thought better after seeing the swift confidence of our dispatch of his fellow guard and was running for an alarm bell down the wall.

Caillie and I concocted a quick plot with Clover: Caillee was fleeter of foot than the stout bearded wide man and reached the end of the wall first, just as Clover "Benignly transposed " (was it?) Caille and myself, ready as I was to deliver a masterful single blow that crushed the dwarf's nose back up into his brain and killing him as if electrically.

We may have even scuttled a stray kobold or two; as well on the parapet... it's all a bit of a blur, really. Next we stealthily made our way inside without having to kill anyone else. Being small has many great advantages. Upstairs in the parapet we hike. nada, brooms closets, etcetera.
So we go downstairs hoping to run into fewer than 7 dwarfs.

No such luck, though at first all still seemed golden. Everyone even the meek ones(they know who they are) had some swagger as we investigated a door at the bottom of the stairs. two voices conversing alternately loudly and softly. We burst in on a kobold and dwarf either coming on, or going off shift. We quickly dispatched them via the slight overkill, of a colorspray spell from Glover. Sooooo. Pretty. as the guards fell we executed. rather cold blooded we are quickly becoming it seems. hmmmm sure.

Anyhoo, at the obligatory next door we heard more voices more boisterous, maybe tipsy? We come in swords and coloursprays drawn. Again, quick. Efficient. Someone may have hit Badgdar once, he's not sure... he tends not to notice small things like that. We raid the gold these 2 Kobolds and 2 Dwarfs were gambling with in what must've been some odd Bridge games. Kobold vs. Dwarf in Bridge? Yikes.

Got a few potions, and possibly some moonshine as well. Sweet. Then we decided rather too quickly, in hindsight, to have Clover magically disguise herself as a Dwarf and we would wear the Guards silly Shark Fin Cowls marching behind her as "new recruits" that needed to see Charladon  (of all people) ASAP.... The help sniffed it's snooty mc snoot snoot at us and bade us down this hall and that, and gave us the very fair warning, of "They're your heads, get them chopped off as you like" or something such as.

We did so, barging into a bedroom of the long blue shag carpet variety.  Picture it for a second. There ya go.

Whammo there's Charladon getting a magickal tatto drawn onto his face by a RED MFING THAYAN WIZARD. Damn. And a woman in a metal bikini. 

Oh yes and there we see behind these three is Xeronimo tied on a cross that's mounted on the wall. That's a vice den's Master bedroom I guess. Comes with a built-in Crucifix of your choice in colour. Maybe it's a Murphy- Crucifix? He's alive though it seemed. We were not welcomed nicely.

as we rushed in and flailed at Charladon and his Giant battleaxe. I don't mean his girlfriend either. She was a different kinda hell. The bright light of this fight was that Xeronimo used his roguery skillz to escape from his cross onto the neck of the Wizard, choking him into unconsciousness, and leaving the rope tightly round his neck and eventually in the flurry of bodies hitting the floor in various states of unconsciousness The Red Thayan Wizard expired, Xeronimo got away (as if we rescued him or something) and we were captured. Unconscious. To be Continued Next week.

[saskganesh]

I demand you hold bikini chick for questioning.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I demand you hold bikini chick for questioning.

As soon as she gets her foot of my throat, I'll do just that. Oh she had some kinda magic snakeheaded flail btw.

[Neil]

Good for you, playing a gnome.  They don't get enough love.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Good for you, playing a gnome.  They don't get enough love.

Ya I'd always wanted to try a Gnome something or other. Hexblade is interesting, we'll see though how it stacks up as levels stack... It may need to go Prestige instead of straight through, or multi-classing.   I'm thinking.

[saskganesh]

I am playing a gnome in my current game. seems to be part of the zeitgeist, now that they have been exiled from 4.0.

hey buddha, I see this is a 3.5 game, has your group looked at 4.0, or pathfinder (3.75?)?

[Neil]

I am playing a gnome in my current game. seems to be part of the zeitgeist, now that they have been exiled from 4.0.

4.0 is evil.

[saskganesh]

I am playing a gnome in my current game. seems to be part of the zeitgeist, now that they have been exiled from 4.0.

4.0 is evil.

evil/bad or chaotic evil/superbad (I understand there's only 5 alignments now)

[Neil]

I am playing a gnome in my current game. seems to be part of the zeitgeist, now that they have been exiled from 4.0.

4.0 is evil.

evil/bad or chaotic evil/superbad (I understand there's only 5 alignments now)

They've done away with the nine alignments?  That just makes them worse.

I'm going to say neutral evil.  There's no rhyme or reason to it, but they were still able to organize an evil conspiracy.

I haven't really had much of an opinion on 4E, although the rumours of it's similarity to WoW and their destruction of the Forgotten Realms.  However, taking gnomes out of the game?  Unforgiveable!

[saskganesh]

just 5

lawful good
good
unaligned/"neutral"
evil
chaotic evil

they probably should have just gone with three (good/normal/evil). maybe LG has to be there for paladins.

the one good thing about this set up is no more arguing about "what is chaotic neutral anyway?"

[Neil]

the one good thing about this set up is no more arguing about "what is chaotic neutral anyway?"

Chaotic neutral is whatever you want it to be.

[crazy canuck]

the one good thing about this set up is no more arguing about "what is chaotic neutral anyway?"

Answer:  The alignment of every player character except Paladins and Rangers.

[Valmy]

Answer:  The alignment of every player character except Paladins and Rangers.

Was it really that popular?  Chaotic Neutral people were supposed to be mentally unstable or insane.

[ulmont]

Answer:  The alignment of every player character except Paladins and Rangers.

Was it really that popular?  Chaotic Neutral people were supposed to be mentally unstable or insane.

Yes, chaotic neutral was that popular.  The insane were special cases.  Check the d20 SRD.  http://www.d20srd.org/srd/description.htm#theNineAlignments

[saskganesh]

the one good thing about this set up is no more arguing about "what is chaotic neutral anyway?"

Chaotic neutral is whatever you want it to be.

I always saw it as a way to play chaotic evil without copping to it: "I can do whatever I want, when I want to" ; "whatever I want" usually being stuff like murder, theft, random lethal betrayal of party members while they are asleep... what have you

I'm ok with a CN being the lone gunman/supreme individualist. but he's just as likely to do a good deed (preserve life) than bad (negate it) or just be stoically indifferent . usually it was never played that way.

in gameplay it's difficult to have a CN party (why are all these rugged individualists all constantly working together anyway).