Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Eternals within Divine Blood

This is mostly brainstorming. Eternals are a very esoteric and eldritch aspect of Divine Blood and to be honest, their weirdness has little to no impact on the wider story that is currently being focused on. I have considered the idea of doing a series of stories focusing on the conflict between various Eternals and their machinations behind the scenes of the Divine Blood stories. Featuring alternate time lines and results of various events. But first I want to focus on the story as relates to the humans, Gods and Demons being focused on in the fiction as well as the common situations for the mortals and immortals restricted to basic linear existence within the normal RPG setting.

The first thing to understand about Eternals is that they are not a species so much as they are a phenomenon. An individual Eternal might originate from any sentient species and, in fact, the same Eternal might have pieces that are of different species in different branches of reality.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

5e Hunter of the Dead (Third Party Dhampir Ranger)

This is based on a character I created for a campaign of Curse of the Crimson Lord that didn't happen because our group got a bit tired of d20 for a little bit of time. If she looks a bit oddly proportioned it is because I made the decision that her mortal parent was a halfling since dhampir have the same stats regardless of their heritage. As such, she appeared to people as an especially short human woman.


Pathfinder has an alternate multicalssing method that works a bit like the multiclassing in 4e where features from the secondary class replace feats. In this case, she was a ranger with some cleric capabilities and was dedicated as a hunter of undead for Saranrae. I'm going to do something similar and use feats to borrow cleric abilities. One of these feats will be a homebrewed feat of my own making this theoretical based on two third-person features, a race and a feat.


Monday, April 10, 2017

Blindness and other character flaws

Playing a blind character in D&D is generally going to be more problematic than most players want. You can accept the blinded condition permanently, meaning that in 5th Edition you would automatically fail any sight based Wisdom(Perception) or Intelligence(Investigation) based checks, enemies would have advantage to attack you, and all your attacks would have disadvantage. Taking the Alert feat would remove the advantage from attacks against you but your own attacks would still suffer and it is quite possible that a GM might decide that any spell requiring line of sight is impossible for you to cast.

Riders on the Storm - Princes of Apocaverse - Session Fifteen


The Chapters and Cast of the Ballad

Many meetings came in brief time
Between the locksmith of 271;
And the others on the issue to chime;
Of the technicians changes mostly done.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Inverse Iron Fist

I recently saw a post postulating the idea of an inverse of the typical "white guy goes to Asia and comes back with superpowers" trope that occurs so often in superhero fiction. The suggestion was a Chinese girl who was orphaned in a plane crash, raised in Texas and then returns to China with mystical gunslinging powers. The problem with this isn't that it doesn't exist; the problem is that in the situations where it does exist it is, by and large, overlooked.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Queen Snake - Occasional Super Hero - 5e DiBastet's Classless Rules

In this case, I am going to use DiBastet's Classless rules with a little bit in the way of modifiers in order to recreate a character I made for a 3rd Edition Mutant and Masterminds one-shot.
To quote the GM from the one-shot:
"Interesting, I like her. She sounds like the sort of character who was created in the 70s  as an attempt to ape Dr Strange or Iron Fist, who had her own series that folded but she stayed a background character of the 'verse, never really developed. Then someone like Alan Moore or Grant Morrison wrote a ground-breaking series about her in the 90s, when Sandman and Hellblazer were really popular - probably full of mysticism meeting chemistry and trippy serpent symbolism by some of the artists who drew Sandman. She became a cult favourite, but one who's fandom had never really warmed to any other writer since that revival, or had bad writers whose work was mostly retconned, so these days she mostly pops up as a guest star and occasional miniseries or crossover event."

Monday, March 13, 2017

On Angel's Wings - Princes of the Apocaverse - Session Fourteen





Between the Wind Dukes’ feathered envoys;
And the heroes of the eclectic band of six;
A plan was formed to end the gnolls’ joys;
Of slaughter and pain in a woeful mix.

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