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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
The prestige class Master Specialist is from Complete Mage. It is actually 8 different classes, one for each of the arcane schools of magic. As you level up in this class you continue to gain new spell levels. What is even more important you gain special abilities based on your school specialization. For example as an Abjurer you gain a bonus to dispel checks, a Necromancer gives undead allies Fast Healing, Conjurer’s summons gain extra HPs.
Character Personality
Saelion is extremely friendly and kind. He hates to hurt others and uses his abilities to protect everyone he can. Even when battle he tries to encourage his allies to show mercy and not kill.
Character Background
Saelion was born to a wealthy Elven family. In his early childhood he lived a life of luxury. When he started his apprenticeship to his wizardry master war broke out. Saelion’s master was asked to help with an offensive and he took Saelion with him. Saelion saw the destruction that magic could cause. His master was killed during the offensive and Saelion vowed to use his magic to protect others.
Advancement
The two best ways I see to advance Saelion is to increase his wizarding levels giving him access to higher level abjuration spells. The other way is give him cleric levels. The cleric levels will give him the ability to heal which would work great with his personality.
Master Abjurer Saelion
Master Abjurer Saelion Spellbook
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
The prestige class “Dread Pirate” is from Complete Adventurer and as you are probably thinking is based on the Dread Pirate Roberts from the Princess Bride (or at least I am presuming so). What makes this class interesting, just like the character it is based on, reputation is everything. For all practical purposes alignment doesn’t matter. Many of the class features only reputation matters. An Evil character could have a good reputation and a Good character could have an evil reputation. A good reputation (Avoiding unnecessary bloodshed and honoring truces) would make it more likely for others to negotiate with him and give his allies bonuses to diplomacy and rerolls on failed saves. An evil reputation gives bonuses to intimidate and attack rolls.
Character Personality
The Dread Pirate Simmoines is extremely cruel and takes pleasure in torturing his victims. He is very intelligent and when in battle is tactically and strategically minded. He loves his reputation and uses it to its fullest potential to intimidate his prey and enemies. His crew on the other hand he treats fairly well.
Character Background
The Dread Pirate Simmoines was born to a semi-wealthy family though he doesn’t know much about it. When he was only 8 years old his family was journeying by sea. Their ship was attacked by pirates. All were killed except for the Simmoines who was taken captive by the Captain, the Dread Pirate Charlie. Simmoines was taken because Charlie wanted a cabin boy and another human onboard his ship. From Charlie he learned about seafaring and piracy amongst other things. He worked his way up through the crew to eventually become the second mate of the ship at the age of 16. His cruelty towards those ships preyed upon made Dread Pirate Charlie look tame and merciful. His cruelty made much of the Goblin crew fear and respect him. When he reached the age of 18 he led the crew against the Dread Pirate Charlie and the First Mate. As Captain of the pirate ship Lost Hope, he took piracy to the absolute evil it could be taken. When he attacks a ship he doesn’t just kill its crew and passengers. He tortures them; he rapes women and children before killing them. He quite often keeps one person alive, though mentally scarred for life to tell the tale. He has gone so far as to occasionally sneak into a port at night to secretly deliver the the lone survivors to ensure the tale is told. Because of this he and his ship are the most feared pirates on the sea.
His crew however he treats a little differently. He fears that one day they might mutiny against him. So he ensures that they receive an equal share of the spoils, though keeping the best for himself. However, any crew member who shows sign of weakness, or mutinous actions or thoughts is tortured or killed.
He shuns any type of organization between other pirate ships. He is not for hire and will only consider any type of negotiation if he feels the other party has something truly worth getting. After getting what he wants he kills the one(s) he negotiated with and leaves no survivors.
Advancement
This is a level 16 character so it is already pretty powerful. However, making the Dread Pirate Simmoines more deadly is easily done. Depending on what you need done there are several ways. The simplest method would be to improve his equipment. Gives his weapons additional pluses since they are only +1 items. Add keen to them to increase the critical range from 18 to 17 making it more likely to critically hit. Give him gloves of dexterity to increase his dexterity which would make it more likely to hit his targets and make him nimble thus harder to hit and improve his balance and rope skills.
Adding class levels is obviously a good way to go if you need his CR to be higher. Adding levels of Rogue would give you loads of skill points to make him extremely skillful as well as improve his sneak attack and give him Improved Uncanny Dodge. I would add to those Jump, Tumble, Use rope and Intimidate skills to make him most interesting. Adding levels of fighter would give him extra feats and greatly improve his combat abilities. Adding sorcerer would improve his will saves and add some low level magic to his repertoire. Adding Bard would give him many skill points and limited magical capabilities. Druid could be an interesting choice, especially with the aquatic animal wild shapes. However the druid’s necessity to not have metal would greatly limit him in the long run. Barbarian, cleric, ranger and wizard, though could be interesting really don’t offer anything. Monk and paladin are out of the running.
The most interesting way of improving upon him is to make him a vampire. Now I know what you’re thinking. “But Vampires have problems with traveling on the water and as Captain of a ship he may need to be out in the sun.” Well it is a simple problem to resolve. Give him a magic item or an artifact that allows him to cross water and be in the sun.
Dread Pirate Simmoines
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
If you ever played D&D 3.x you know that just about every supplemental book has a bunch of prestige classes. I don’t know how often you have ever used any of these prestige classes but I know my play group has never used them. I am currently running what I call Joey’s Infinite Dungeon. It is a high level game where all options from all books are available for the players to use. The sky is the limit. When they made their level 17 characters I worked with them and encouraged them to take a variety of prestige classes. All but one of my players just kept to leveling up the base characters. The player who did use a prestige class took the Dragon Disciple, though a great class, he has used it before.
Now as I said before, I don’t know how often you use prestige classes from the various sources out there, but I bet it isn’t often. So for the next few Character Counts articles I am going to focus on prestige classes from the various non core books. I will give the normal background and personality so even if you don’t play D&D 3.5 you can still use the character in your campaign.
To make the characters I will use PCGen to get the ability scores. It is set to Roll 4d6 drop the lowest. With the exception of that required to use the prestige class all skills, feats, abilities and items are from the core books and RSRD.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Sometimes even the most experienced players and DMs experience a block when coming up with ideas for characters and NPCs. So here I hope to give you every week a new character pretty much completely fleshed out for you to use.
Character Counts – Delamaoh Mountaintracker – Level 10
Character Creation Notes
Was completely made in PCGen
Character Background
Delamaoh family lived and worked in the lowest and most dangerous levels of the Dwarven city. The clan
was attacked by Duergar (Gray Dwarves) when she was young. Both of her parents were killed in the attack. The clan lost the
lower levels in the attack and evacuated to the higher levels. Delamaoh was accidently left behind. She managed to evade
capture and fled even lower underground. She lived alone for many years deep underground constantly fighting with aberrations,
magical beasts and small Duergar patrols. Several years later in her wanderings she ended up back by the lower levels of the
Dwarven city. She wandered into a battle. Her clan, after years of battle was finally pushing the Duergar out of the lower levels of
their city. She jumped right into the battle. During the fight she ended up saving the leader of the clan. The Duergar was defeated
and pushed out of their city. Now Delamaoh lives in the lower levels of her ancestral home and patrols for threats to it almost
always alone except for her constant companion, the Dire Rat she calls Sharp Tooth.
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
If you talk to anyone who has played in a weekly D&D (or any other weekly RPG) game they will all tell you that there were times that their game just seemed to die, even if it was for just a short period of time. Well that is what happened to me and my weekly game. Though it hasn’t died completely, any outside observer (and one of my players) would say otherwise.
So what happened to my game? When did it start to fall apart? Well it started to fall apart in October of 2008. One of my players hurt his knee badly at work. Because of it he couldn’t drive. The game was normally at my house because everyone except for him lived right by me. At the time was the DM. So we cancelled the game two weeks in a row. The third week I threw together a quick dungeon for myself and the other two players. We then found out the one guys knee problems became very serious and needed surgery. So we moved the game to his house which is a bit of a distant from us since it is a suburb of New York. We finished his adventure in the end of November and our youngest player, who unlike the rest of us who are in our late 20s was just a senior in high school, was going to be the DM for the next adventure.
He was going to run a modified version of Expedition to Castle Ravenloft. It was also going to be the first appearance of our custom race, The Tainted Ones, which is based off of vampires. So we made our characters one week and the next week we started the adventure. (I’ll post a little bit about it later, but it was cool that the arrogant Gray Elf Wizard made friends with the god of The Tainted Ones, where the tainted one in the group, and respectful Paladin pissed him off). And then it all went to hell again.
As I said, he is a senior in high school (for another week or two now) and will be going to college in the fall. So his mother decided he needs to spend almost every waking moment with her. We don’t know why and his father is just as confused by it as the rest of us. He is going to college locally and will be living at home at home with his parents. The rest of the D&D group all have our theories but he swears his mother is the reason.
Now we have a backup plan. It is called Joey’s Infinite Dungeons. What that is a hack and slash inter-dimensional dungeon where no area past a portal is bigger then the battle mat we use. Sometimes it is an actual dungeon setting; sometimes it is an open field, or a dense forest. All characters were created at level 17 so encounters can be made just a little more interesting and difficult. However many games got cancelled anyways. First, we are all scouts and two of us are still very active adult leaders in our respective units and the Order of the Arrow (OA) so many Saturday’s we have to cancel because of obligations related to that. The other guy is a scout and member of the OA but not active. But, this past summer he got married, joined the Masons and is very active in his church so a lot of his time gets taken up by his wife (How dare she want to spend time with her husband lol), his induction, and now officer ship in the Masons and Church activities.
So now we are lucky to play once a month. And just to give and example, the next three weeks we have cancelled the game. This coming Saturday the one guys church is participating in some sort breast cancer fundraiser (Yes, let us help cancer and raise money for it. YAY CANCER! (I know bad joke, sorry)) and the other guy his running a Changeling game (WoD) which I was the only one invited to participate in of the D&D group on Saturday (SO this month the Changeling game being a Saturday worked out ok). The next weekend I will be at a scout camp somewhere in upstate NY for the Section Conclave and the weekend after that one of the guys I hung out with while working on my second college degree is turning 21 and his parents are throwing him a party and required him to get people from school to attend or they were going to cut him off so I am going to that.
So will we ever get past this cancelling of the games? I hope so.
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Two days ago I made a post called “Opinion on Character Creation in 4th Edition” It got a very active response from some of the community. I did post my response but since I do not have a way for people to subscribe to comments to a particular post (yet) I am posting my response here.
As I said I haven’t played a 4th edition game yet so my opinion of character creation in 4th edition can change when I finally play a game (It will probably be a long time because none of my group wants to try it but me).
No when I used bluff, diplomacy and Intimidate for an example I made a mistake. I got fixed on it because of something I was doing and misplaced it in my head and it ended up in here. That was just a stupid mistake on my part.
I agree that skills in 4th edition are probably more flexible. However I believe that to be a problem in its self. For example, look at Athletics. Someone who is good at climbing might not be a good swimmer. Someone might be a good swimmer but couldn’t jump more than an inch to save their life. In 4th edition if you take athletics as a skill you are good at climbing, jumping and swimming. Now there are some feats that will boost certain aspects of a skill, or at least appears that way. Example: Sure Climber. It allows you to climb at normal speed and +1 to all Athletic checks. So in 4th edition if you are good in one thing you are good in all things. 3x allows you to be good at one thing but not necessarily all. Now before you jump down my throat I am also away if the player is a good role player he will be able to decide on his and role play out if he is good at climbing but not at swimming. But that is still hard to do.
RE: Patriarch
I really like your idea of adding fluff to skills where characters explain how and/or why they are good at a skill.
My next 4th edition character should be out next week (classes just started so my time became more limited, and I am currently getting over a cold). I look forward to more comments so keep them coming.
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
I was supposed to post this article like two weeks ago and didn’t. So here it is now.
A few days ago I made the first of my Character Counts posts. I made a 3.5 and a 4th edition version of the character. It was my first time making a 4th edition character. I was very proud of myself for making one with as far as I can tell I didn’t make any screw-ups like not giving Arthur too many or too little powers, feats, trained skills or completely messing up HP or AC calculations. If I did, please leave a comment letting me know what I screwed-up.
Before I get into talking about my opinion of character creation in 4th edition vs. 3.5 let me share with you how I normally go about creating characters, whether a PC or NPC)
When I create a character, PC or NPC, I like to think about my character’s basic personality, goals and normal means of achieving those goals. The last of those three quite often leads me to choosing its class (at least one in the case if I [later] decide to multiclass).
Then I come up with ability scores. Sometimes I roll the dice (Normally 4D6 drop the lowest) and sometimes I just pull arbitrary numbers out of the air and place them. After that I start to think about (If I haven’t already) about the characters background. What are some of the events of a character’s history that leads them to being what they are by the time they are first level. This is also where I have chosen race for the character. Then I give the character its first level feats and skills.
Now if the character is going to be above first level (for NPCs this is almost always true) I look back at my initial vision of the character and begin leveling up the character. I normally level up to whatever level I want/need the character to be. Then I do skills and feats. If the character is multi-class or has a prestige class (there is proof that I still look at character creation through the eyes of a 3.5 player) I will level up one class at a time give skills and feats. For example, if I were making a 15 character that was a Bard [5]/Assassin [5]/Shadowdancer [5] (very similar to one of the characters I will be presenting in a few weeks in a Character Counts article). I will level the character to a level 5 bard and give skills and feats, then do the same thing for all 5 of the assassin levels and so forth)
After that I get the character equipment and spells if it is a spell caster (Remember for wizards some of that starting money will go towards learning spells that aren’t gained during the level up process)
Now that the basics of my character creation process is out there I guess it is time for me to give you my opinion of character creation in fourth edition compared to 3.5. I think character creation in 4th edition.
It SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The reason I say that is it doesn’t leave room for character customization other than for combat. Here is a simple example. It 3.5 let’s say I have a character (whether or not it started that way) who is good at speaking and convincing people of things. To get that in 3.5 when you create the character you would put some skill points in diplomacy and/or bluff (and/or intimidate) when you make the character and[/or] when you leveled up. I find that the combining of skills in 4th edition adds to this limitation.
No I haven’t actually played a 4th edition game. Now after I play a game Maybe I will feel differently but I feel 4th edition character creation is way too rigid and doesn’t lead to creativity as 3x editions did.
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Last Friday was the ENnie Awards. You can get a complete list of the winners from the front page of EN World. But I just wanted to congratulate Yax and Expy of DungeonMastering for there Gold Medal in the category of Best Fan Product.
If you are one of those few people who live under a rock and have never been to the site run by a Red Dragon and his pet you should head out to it and give it a read. It is definitely one of the, if not the, best RPG blogs out there.
Again, Congrats to Expy, Yax and all the other winners of this year’s ENnies.
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Here are some great articles that I have over the past few months. I hope you find them as enjoyable and interesting as I have.
Greywulf’s Lair – If I was the King of Wizards
Greywolf list many of the problems he sees with D&D 4 Edition, the minis and Wizards of the Coast in General. I can’t help but to agree with each one. It is a great read no matter what you think about 4th Edition
The Geek Gazette – 4e is perfect! Well, except for the mistakes…While at it go check out the Geek Gazette who gave us a response to Greywulf’s post and expanded upon it
SciFi Wire – Wire Cracks Stargate Command
For those of you who are fans of Stargate, War Games, Jeremiah as well as many other shows this may be an interesting article for you because it is all about the actual Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base.
Critical Hits – Forget OD&D and AD&D: Play DD&D
This is an old post but it is definately worth looking at; especially if you are like me and love you some alcohol because it is a D&D Drinking Game which is going to be play tested at GenCon this weekend. (they actually played it at least once so far)
Gnome Stew – Stat generation
An article about a new system that will even out your player stat scores a little bit. I know I am going to try it out.
Greywulf’s Lair – The value of Dungeons & Dragons
Greywulf gives us solid economic reasons as why we should all play D&D (and other RPGs in general)
Stupid Ranger – How to move from DM to Player Character…
Dante tells us DMs who to go back to being just a PC. Something that I know from personal experience is a hard transition.
Dries Buytaert – PHP is dead … long live PHP!
As many of you have probably heard by now I have been a wannabe web developer since 1997. PHP is a web development language I have been using liek many others, professional and amatuers alike since 1999. If you read any blogs besides this one you will notice many of the pages end with .php instead of .html (or htm). That because it is one (if not THE) most popular scripting language of the web. This is an interesting article on it the current version of the language and why people (mainly servers) are not transitioning to it even though it has been out for over 2 (3?) years.
Greg’s Blog – So Many Untapped PHP Features
This article is related to the above one with some additional information
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Yes. You read the title correctly. There is a blog run by a Red Dragon and his name is Expy. However we’re not supposed to know that. The blog is called Dungeon Mastering and can be found at www.dungeonmastering.com. Now he tries to pass it off that a mere mortal human by the name of Yax runs the site. However, my guess is that Yax is just a Kobold who worships Expy and does the typing because well, let’s face it, it’s hard for a dragon to type with his claws.
Now let’s see what we get when a Red Dragon runs a blog. When you first type in the blog’s address (the URL for you techies) you come to a cool looking front page that looks like it is coming out of the screen at you. I think that is awesome. Now this page has of course the name of the site and a small description under it. Below that are links to various other parts of the site. I’ll go into a little bit more detail about them in a second, just let me finish the front page first. Now right below that is an advertisement for 4th Editon. At first I didn’t realize it was ad ad. I just thought it was a cool animated banner. Personally I hope he never changes it.
Now below that ad there are two posts listed on the left. One is the featured article and the other, at least at the moment is site related post. Now below that it gets divided into two columns. The left most column is a list of the recent posts and the right is a list of series that they have done. All the way on the right side of the page is the sidebar which you will see on all the others parts of the page. This sidebar has the usual suspects, an RSS feed, an email subscription, links, recent posts, related posts and a poll.
Overall I love the design of the site. It is simple and elegant and even though it has ads it is not the annoying Google AdSense or get in your face and make the site look cheesy and crappy ads. Great work guys
Now let’s talk about the reason we all go to blogs to begin with, the actual content. Remember before when I said I would more about those other parts of his page, well now you can stop holding your breath because I am now. Of course it has an About Us page. This is where Expy begins his plans lulling you into a calm about a Red Dragon being involved in a web site and claims to just be a mascot for Dungeon Mastering. Now you will notice three really cool sounding links; Free Adventures, Instant Campaign Builder and Instant World Builder. Expy and Yax has under the Free Adventures a list of 83 FREE, adventures and where to get them. Now to my knowledge neither Expy or his (probably Kolbold) worshipper Yax made any of them but none the less it is awesome to have such a list because there are so many free adventures out there it is sometimes hard to many of them.
The Instant Campaign and Instant World Builders are an awesome tool for both new and experienced DMs (or GMs if you prefer the generic not cool sounding title). Now these are on-line tools that will do the work for you. They are both PDFs created by Expy and Yax which give guidelines on how to create your very own campaigns and campaign worlds without doing too much work. They are based off of a series they did back in the day with tips, tricks, suggestion from those who left comments on the series. Please make sure you download (AND READ) them. They are worth every byte of disk space on your hard drive and the 40 to 60 minutes it will take to read both in their entirty.
Expy has Yax normally posting at least one post a day normally. Sometimes there are two or three posts. Very rarely (if ever) are there no new posts. Many of the articles become part of a series of articles. That is how the Instant Campaign and World Builder started. Currently he has a series called “Pimp My Character” This series just started and Expy and Yax don’t do too much of the work, but let the viewers do it. (They seem to be big into having community participation). How this series works is that people had to send in a basic character concept of no more than 30 words. Then the community would help that person flesh out the character a bit by giving a back-story, list of abilities and powers which could be cool or how the character can fit into an adventuring party. It was also revealed after the first pimping that if more than 50 people leave a comment helping to pimp out this character some of Expy’s hoard would be used to get an character sketch done for this character. So go and help Ian pimp out his character and get a character sketch.
There are two days a week in which there are regularly posted items. One is some very interesting quizzes every Sunday. These quizzes vary in challenge week by week but none are so easy where you will sit there and go “Why should I bother?” I do have one gripe with these quizzes. It modifies your score based on some psychological profiling modifier which add or take away from your score. However it seems to be a random number and not a set system of improving this modifier. But the quizzes are for fun and are not, normally, major competitions. The other is Monday Morning Speed Linking where several sites are listed for your perusal. They are normally somehow RPG related. Expy does find some awesome sites.
PROs
- Run by a Red Dragon
- Awesome design
- Posts often
- Posts are interesting and useful
- Excellent use of graphics
- Great links
CONs
- D&D Books Page link is merely an advertisement (however if you are buying D&D books and you like the site use it so they get some cash to keep producing an awesome site)
- Poll is all the way on the bottom of the sidebar
- The DAMN psychological profiling modifier on the quizzes
On the Joey Scale of 10 being the perfect site and 0 being why did I bother to ever look at this site Dungeon Mastering has earned a 9.5 So head on over to Dungeon Mastering and give it a try. You won’t be sorry, I promise you, unless you anger the Red Dragon of course.
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