Recent content by Manbearcat

@hawkeyefan Donal was in some ways like your Judge Cullen. They both religiously took on the burdens of their constituents and served somewhat similar positions of leadership in Stonetop (though Cullen's was bedrock and locked-in as mediator and Eratis-counselled Judge, Donal's was only...

While there have been violent conflicts and journey conflicts, the rather pronounced frequency of social conflicts and spiritual conflicts in this particular game of Stonetop has been fairly remarkable. This session was rather the poster child of the paradigm. If I inventory the 4 PCs that...

MECHANICS, TERRAIN, ET AL * Illumination: Full. * Both sets of Steep Stairs are Challenging Terrain; Low DC (8) Acrobatics or Athletics or Difficult Terrain. * Squares filled with big rocks/ruined pillars are Difficult Terrain. * Unstable Wooden Ceiling Joists, 15 ft up, span rows 7, 10...

Alright @Grendel_Khan (Monk), @AbdulAlhazred (Wizard), @Campbell (Swordmage)...thus begins our PBP game! These three wanted the game to take place in 4e's default setting/cosmology of Nentir Vale et al, so we begin in Fallcrest. We're going to call this Wizard's Tower for the opening conflict...

Primary Goals: Defeat the Duchess of Cinders and end the volcanic threat to the city (nested SC). Secondary Optional Goal: Disrupt her ritual of undead apotheosis. * ILLUMINATION: Full. * MAGMA (FAR LEFT, Hindering Terrain): When a creature enters a square adjacent to Magma, it takes a 5...

The large, spectral-themed figure floats around her on the cavernous floor as it smoothly pulls from the ample folds of its cloak a piece of colored chalk and a sizable, steel-framed hourglass. Clearly they are bargaining. The Duchess scrutinizes the figure, taking in its offering. The...

Nope. I was there. I know exactly what was said and by whom. I know how their arguments were misshapen, misunderstood (of the game itself both text-wise and ethose-wise or of how actual phenomena work in the world) and corrected but they refused to operationalize the corrections because it...

Lol nice. Also: * Fighters are spellcasters in 4e (forget what the extreme differences in total build generates, how that references keyword tech, and what the actual play produces)! * Martial Mind Control is so unrealistic...nothing like that happens ever IRL! * Warlords shout hands back on...