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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #390 on: February 24, 2011, 04:45:33 PM »
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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #391 on: February 24, 2011, 10:33:52 PM »
I'm okay with this.
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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #392 on: March 03, 2011, 03:57:45 AM »
I have a new world related question. Maybe this is already in one of the primers but I figured I would force someone to answer me online instead of doing the research myself.

We know all about the Water and Fire spirits, a theoretical Earth Spirit doesn't seem hard to characterize, but I believe I've heard Ross mention an Air Spirit before, but nothing about him/her.

What kind of traits does the air spirit have? Do the water barons meet it later?

I was wondering because I'm using a handful of elementals in a campaign of my own, and realized I have little idea on how to characterize the air.

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #393 on: March 03, 2011, 11:38:47 AM »
I don't think I ever really established this in the Gaidenverse, but I felt as if the wind spirit characterizes travel and adventure and it was actually the wind spirit that protect and guided Cortez to the New World in order to overthrow the gods that had taken away the emphasis on the elements.

Both are outlined in the Primer on page 27 and 28, but they differ from my own interpretations.
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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #394 on: March 03, 2011, 11:47:27 AM »
I've always enjoyed casting Air as capricious. The wind blows for days and then stops or suddenly changes direction or whips itself into a tornado and then just stops because it doesn't want to blow anymore.

I also like to mix in the odd science elements. Air is thinner higher up, so the Air Spirit will be dumber and weaker the higher up it is, making it most powerful right at the place where the sky and the earth meet. Winds are effected by heat so making the Air Spirit's mood effected by whatever Fire happens to be doing at the time is also fun.

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #395 on: March 26, 2011, 01:53:59 PM »

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #396 on: March 29, 2011, 01:04:27 AM »
I'm still really surprised there isn't more authentic native slaughter going on in the new world campaign. I mean besides the ogres.

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #397 on: March 29, 2011, 07:30:20 PM »
I'm still really surprised there isn't more authentic native slaughter going on in the new world campaign. I mean besides the ogres.

I was so far behind in the Actual Plays that I hadn't heard about this until yesterday. And I was sad when it happened. :(

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #398 on: March 29, 2011, 07:38:01 PM »
it wouldn't be a D&D campaign unless there was at least some wholesale slaughter of a primitive tribe of humanoids.

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #399 on: March 30, 2011, 11:31:14 AM »
it wouldn't be a D&D campaign unless there was at least some wholesale slaughter of a primitive tribe of humanoids.

Then why can't it be Locrag's tribe that gets slaughtered? At least Locrag doesn't appeal to me. Even if his wife is super-hot.

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #400 on: April 24, 2011, 10:00:50 PM »
speaking of locrag, does RJ not return for any more games? i always feel bad for him, becuase he's always right but everyone treats him like he's just some crazy barbarian. really, the whole bias of the whole group (ross included) in thinking he's a dumb barbarian was painful. when he brings up the fact that he's never portrayed himself as such, there was little response.


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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #401 on: April 25, 2011, 07:21:15 AM »
speaking of locrag, does RJ not return for any more games? i always feel bad for him, becuase he's always right but everyone treats him like he's just some crazy barbarian. really, the whole bias of the whole group (ross included) in thinking he's a dumb barbarian was painful. when he brings up the fact that he's never portrayed himself as such, there was little response.



I think the main problem was that he entered late into an existing campaign and he had a character who had a much different personality than all of the others. The other players had seen the personalities of the other characters develop over time so knew how to handle them.
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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #402 on: April 25, 2011, 04:01:42 PM »
speaking of locrag, does RJ not return for any more games? i always feel bad for him, becuase he's always right but everyone treats him like he's just some crazy barbarian. really, the whole bias of the whole group (ross included) in thinking he's a dumb barbarian was painful. when he brings up the fact that he's never portrayed himself as such, there was little response.

I don't anyone thought of him as a dumb barbarian but as a headstrong barbarian that didn't care what anyone else wanted, especially in the first session he's introduced. He tries to murder a NPC that no one else wanted dead when all of the other players wanted said NPC alive and were standing next to said NPC. That's a bit disruptive and left a bad first impression I think.

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #403 on: May 11, 2011, 02:47:00 AM »
I counted up the last episodes of the New World campaign. Anyone want to know how many are left or would prefer it to remain a surprise?

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Re: New world campaign
« Reply #404 on: May 11, 2011, 03:25:55 AM »

Sad surprise