
By the same author as Grand Line 3.5
13th Jun 2014, 12:02 AM
I think I know what Cory's about to do, and if I'm right, I would say yes to it, hands down, if I were the DM |
13th Jun 2014, 3:15 AM
Well it's an upgrade so he'd have to go from JUST tacos to all 'Mexican' food. |
13th Jun 2014, 3:28 AM"upgrade"
pretty sure its gonna be the loyalty thing. i WOULD say its a new flaw that triggers on defeat, but cory SAID upgrade and a flaw that triggers on death sounds weird. |
13th Jun 2014, 6:55 PM"death is the best excuse for more cybernetics!"
Every Warhammer 40k FFG rpg campaign I've been in, my character winds up getting shot in the face by plasma, or blown up by a bomb (really bad demolitions roll trying to defuse it), etc. Inevitably, after the fate point gets burned and forever lost, the character's next stop is the local admech surgery/vendor. Facial reconstruction, new organs (because that Lascannon blew out all of them...), replacement limbs, you name it, one or more of my characters has been "forced" to upgrade his weak flesh. |
13th Jun 2014, 7:12 AM"Story Time!"
I want stories about characters (PC's or NPC's) who return stronger from the brink of death. Or death itself. Kind of like Zoro and Luffy does every time, and the Saiyans from Dragon ball! |
13th Jun 2014, 8:17 AM"Hmmm"
Most recent one off the top of my head was in 4e, i was playing a stealth assassin drow, goes invisible and strikes for massive damage sort of deal, well our first campaign was against a bunch of umberhulks with tremorsense so my entire build was useless, they started to chain combo gaze attacks and we got thrashed, i ended up at -9 hp with one guy before my turn, a fighter, he runs over to make a heal check and gets a natural 1, then i make my last save vs death and get a natural 20, life! |
13th Jun 2014, 6:01 PM
I... I don't actually have a story for this. Except for Raxon, when he jumped on that frag grenade as a kid, got blown in half. Or Ransu, when that unicorn stabbed him and gave him a nasty case of highlander immortality. Or Baird, who kicked so much ass, and was the only survivor of the ambush that wiped out his clan. |
15th Jun 2014, 1:14 AM
didn't you also have a fairy that turned a near tpk into a tactical advantage? |
15th Jun 2014, 2:30 PM
Well, there was our Ranger. She was a lizard-woman who hated undead, and she dual-wielded a longsword and rapier. And unlike Zoro, she didn't have flaws to help her actually hit with the damn things, so she was more or less useless, especially since any skill she could roll, the rogue could roll better. Then, when she gets sniped by bandit archers and is bleeding out, she starts critting everything in arm's reach before going down. I healed her, but falling down and having your imminent death used as leverage to make your party empty their pockets and run away is still embarrassing. |
15th Jun 2014, 8:46 PM
Oh yeah! The pixie rogue! When the barbarian got a greataxe of Khorn and slaughtered everyone else, then died of exhaustion. Yeah. She kicked ass. Chopped a piece of each person off to get them revived. And then flew ten or twenty miles, fighting the wind, with a parachute made of boob dragging her down. |
15th Jun 2014, 12:31 PM
Lucky you... when i get near the brink of death i usually go all the way and end up having a new character... Though that has only happend once with the orcs, now that i think about it (every other time i've had to switch characters was because someone started complaining about me being to powerful, me having way too much 'screen time', me playing a thief in such way that everyone hated me off character because i'd steal everything without them even noticing there was someting to steal or all the above at the same time... And half of the time the complaints were from my GM :/). The only time i really got to recover from a deadly experience (and as i said, one of the only two that weren't ruled out by the GM) i ended up suffering CON drain thanks to a nasty disease wich i got after failing to spot a trap, falling down a pit, breaking both legs and then falling over my face, unconcious, over the murky water that was in the bottom, wich i started breathing and thanks to wich i almost drown... Of course, it didn't matter much, since shortly after that, when riding a ship, i was eaten whole by a sea dragon who was then killed by our barbarian and then fell from the deck to the bottom of the sea with me still inside... The funny part is that i had with me all the clues needed to continue our adventure (since we all agreed that they would be safe with me while i tried to figure out what were thry pointing out to), wich including saving the world, so the whole planet got doomed that day... Maybe the paladin could've continued the adventure after my death, but he drown in the subsequent storm. Tough luck. |
14th Jun 2014, 10:32 PM
Reminds me of the story of Square the Inix. My 4e sorcerer really wanted some kind of animal companion and after perusing the mounts section I decided I wanted an Inix (which doesn't make any sense given that we were in the frozen north but whatever). |
15th Jun 2014, 10:03 PM"The legacy of Max Lowfield"
The most memorable character of mine fitting the story time description is Max Lowfield. |
17th Jun 2014, 4:14 AM
Fucking Satan often ends poorly... Be it by double-cross or a more literal version. |
13th Jun 2014, 8:56 AM
Gotta say, I love how Emily admits the critical difference in their character builds: she's more interested in making the ultimate solo combat beast, while Cory's character supports the party extremely well. Mihawk can defeat hordes of enemies all by himself, but with a competent team on his side, Zoro has the chance to battle gods. |
13th Jun 2014, 11:22 AM
And here we observe the birth of Ashura Ichibugin, the first time we really see Zoro break reality. |
14th Jun 2014, 2:01 AM
so I suppose its taken for granted that zoro is going to make mihawk his rival. |
14th Jun 2014, 1:54 PM"what?"
do you mean in this comic? because it really isnt. cory and emily are optimization rivals |
14th Jun 2014, 4:29 PM
But then it would make sense, assuming Emily sticks around, for Mihawk to fade into the background and Emily to rewrite Sanji. It also feeds into the rivalry in the anime and manga, so they can argue builds in the middle of fights. |
14th Jun 2014, 5:50 PM"Whoa"
First off, as a new reader I am REALLY enjoying this so far! |
14th Jun 2014, 10:39 PM
In my experience, all my In-person games have been this way (casual), though i also play with a group of friends who are, or were all at one point devoutly religious so we're all pretty chill. so to answer the question, yes it's possible. It really REALLY depends on who you find to play with though, both the DM and the other players. |
15th Jun 2014, 12:08 AM
Like a module? You might find something similar (pathfinder has a full naval campaign where the party gets shaghaied by pirates), but otherwise its a homebrewed setting because the GM did his own world building |
15th Jun 2014, 9:29 PM
That's what I meant (didn't know the term until recently) I have heard good things about homebrewed worlds. I've always wanted to try D&D in my own world or someone else's world. |
14th Jun 2014, 11:33 PM""Lava is my Best Friend""
I know I've recounted the tale of my alienist Zok but the short version for new readers (or those who don't remember) is that he was battier than a vampire with less common sense than your average frenzied berserker. Furthermore, my friends had no idea how to roleplay him so when I left for a week, they basically resorted to drawing up an approximate percentage table and rolling on it (which was close enough to what I actually did). |
16th Jun 2014, 3:10 AM
You should take a week off more often. You might come back to find out that you're now laying as the new god of chaos, Zok the Unpredictable! |
16th Jun 2014, 7:15 AM
All hail Zok the Unpredictable. Or not, as He may take offense at such actions. |
16th Jun 2014, 11:12 PM
He only takes offense on the 2nd week of every other month, unless you're wearing a yellow hat. But if you're a half elf you can only worship him after eating 5 dozen black licorice jellybeans through a straw. Also every time you say the word "cumquat" you must sparking the anipan at the convenience store owner. The official meal of Zok is spam bacon eggs sausages spam and spam without the spam. To avoid Zok smiting you wear a hat made from tinfoil and sing the Canadian National Anthem while riding a donkey backwards. Invoke the wrath of Zok and face 100 whacks with a wet noodle. These rules are subject to change without notice. |
DragonTrainer
13th Jun 2014, 12:00 AM
I totally did not plan out that last part until last night, but it makes the most sense to me right now for some reason. :p
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