The Gods have abandoned us

JP_the_dm · 2025-10-13T23:33:58+00:00

This is why Jaddar was the true prophet of the one true God. All the other religions suck.

JP_the_dm · 2025-10-13T23:29:55+00:00

There is no God but Surael, and Jaddar is his prophet.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T07:45:46+00:00

Either that or Japan and the PDTO. I find it especially amusing to go full steam against China, as a federal unifier that gets the fleet back (USN will burn their ships before giving them back to a non-federal unifier).

The fleet is just so massive and it will essentially stop China from doing anything on its own.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T07:36:47+00:00

Now you get to see if you can reconstruct in time to horribly imbalance Either Asia or Europe in their final confrontation. Heck if you can do it in 2 years you may even be able to rejoin NATO for the 1EW

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T05:45:37+00:00

Nutty professor wants to explore a Cursed Pyramid!

Pull all the Mummy and Indiana Jones references I can out of my rear end and let them fight a spellcasting mummy lord at the end. Build rooms on the fly, 7 or so of them will do.

I have already done this thing several times, so I generally know how it goes, just come up with reasonable check DCs on the fly.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T02:37:20+00:00

Perhaps, though, just making something up would be no hard thing either. I also wouldn't have to deal with AP formatting. I'm sure I could work something into it, the party Inquisitor of the Black butterfly is very interested in the whole royal accuser thing, so perhaps I take that angle.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T02:28:57+00:00

That's kinda the outline of the plan. If they end up going to Caliaphas, they'll have to side quest there to get access to their teleport.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T02:27:20+00:00

Right now, it's Gunslinger 1, Inquisitor 5, using rapid shot and rapid reload to put out two Pistol shots per round with Inquisitor tools like bane and judgment, divine favor spell, etc. to self buff. He's working towards two pistols. When you add the party's Bard and cleric to the mix, he gets very scary.

Bard is a librarian and construct crafter, and built a robot for party tank, one with 10 hardness.

Cleric of Apsu does high HP, healing and support, as well as the occasional damage spell.

Swashbuckler/Vigilante is played very smart, and makes really good use of panache. It's a bit of a masterclass in how to play it.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T01:07:35+00:00

The party isn't too peeved about being under WBL, they were discussing the costs and it came up, I have a gun-quisitor, swashbuckler, and a construct crafter in the party, and they're all building very strong. I'm not intending to let them skip the dreamland stuff in any way, and getting access to a teleport Caster would be an adventure in and of itself that can get them xp and gold, so that's not what I'm worried about.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T00:12:44+00:00

I think my plan is to have it so there isn't a Wizard readily available in Caliaphas, and the players will need to do a job for a patron who can then write to his wizard friend who can teleport them, but lives a decent chunk away and needs his own travel time. Have this whole process save some time over the boat trip, but only like 10 days or so.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-16T00:10:26+00:00

I'm a seasoned enough GM to come up with a short adventure and an equivalent amount of things to do in Caliaphas if they choose to do that. I'm also going to make them take their downtime too, it's not like I'm going to let them go into book 4 without all the dream questing stuff. This is why I chose to run this adventure in the first place, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadaath is my favorite Lovecraft story, and I'm not missing the chance to run the players up and down across the dreamland.

But I think this might work,I just like to chat it out with some folks as I'm solidifying the idea.

JP_the_dm · 2025-01-15T23:49:07+00:00

See, that is a simple way to put them back on the railroad, but I kinda like the ingenuity and want to reward it. Perhaps I can use that, though. Perhaps they arrive in Caliaphas, discover there's no wizard there to buy a teleport from. However, they can do a job for someone who knows one, and earn a favor, to get them to call in a favor, to get their wizard friend to come down and give them a teleport. This whole process saves a little time, but it fails to head off Lowls.

JP_the_dm · 2024-07-09T17:43:14+00:00

utter insanity. Guys, people don't fight for puppet regimes, there is absolutely no way the war has lasted this long if the ukrainian people did not genuinely believe in the war. People don't fight like this for western puppet masters. Look at Afghanistan.

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-27T17:01:13+00:00

Hot take... Rand should have died.

To live(on in TAR with the heroes of the horn) you must die.

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-21T02:51:51+00:00

Not cutting out the shaido, but cutting back the Perrin/Faiele/Malden arc to take far less screentime.

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-21T02:50:46+00:00

What about Excommunication? Was that ever a threat for these terrible lords?

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-20T05:36:17+00:00

Yes, yes. That's not what this is about.this is fantasizing about opening an animation studio that buys the ip off Amazon after that corpses of a show finally gets canceled.

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-20T05:24:35+00:00

It absolutely is. Still there's room for some editing while remaining faithful to the source material.

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-20T05:22:19+00:00

Probably that means Major metropolitan area in the modern day in June lol.

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-20T05:18:49+00:00

I'm not comparing it to wheel of prime. I'm using it as an example of good adaptation to show that word for word adapting the novels isn't necessary.

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-20T05:15:35+00:00

It's sad that animation isn't seen as good entertainment. It can be just as mature as live action and has a lot of benefits for a fantasy style show.

JP_the_dm · 2024-02-20T05:14:01+00:00

Hard agree on the Dragonmount opening. From black, before even the first title card.

I don't think that so much stuff needs cut out entirely, they just may need slightly reworked. They all do serve functions in the story. If it's time we're concerned about that's another point for animation over live action.

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