Author: Thrythlind aka Luke Green

Just rebuilding my Dresden Files character from a few years back as an MotW character.

Just rebuilding my Dresden Files character from a few years back as an MotW character.

Just rebuilding my Dresden Files character from a few years back as an MotW character.

Initial – The Spooky

Acacia Tanaka

The daughter of a yakuza assassin and an unknown, potentially otherworldly man (suspect was Hades). She did her best to stay out of the affairs of her family and generally only got into adventures due to the demands of the ghosts that knew she could see them. Or friends that knew of her powers.

Charm -1 Cool -1 Sharp +2 Tough +0 Weird +2

Moves

The Sight

Hex

Jinx

The Dark Side

Secrets

Hallucinations

Mood Swings

Advances

Take a Mundane move: Always the Victim (the campaign started with the other players snatching her out of work after driving through the library wall and from there she spent lots of time being kidnapped by one group or another, her family included)

Take a Spell-slinger move: Third Eye (seeing ghosts was constant but the sight by DF terms was a thing)

+1 Weird

+1 Cool

Take a Spooky Move: The Big Whammy

Change playbooks – spell-slinger (since our original sorcerer dropped out, Acacia upgraded from minor ectomancer to full sorcerer.)

Drop the Dark-side. Drop the Big Whammy for Combat magic

Combat Magic – Wall, Necromantic/Spirit, Earth/Magnetism (wasn’t a necromancer by DF terms but people thought she was)

Tools and Techniques – Foci (Phurba ritual knife and spirit bell), Gestures, Incantations (Sanskrit)

Not my fault ( said this so often it became an aspect )

Practitioner – enchant paper spell charms and paralyze foes

Go big or go home.

Advance

Take another combat magic pick – Blast.

Spell-slinger move – Advanced Arcane Training

Out of curiosity, is there a policy on selling third party things for Masks?

Out of curiosity, is there a policy on selling third party things for Masks?

Out of curiosity, is there a policy on selling third party things for Masks? I have a couple of things for Monster of the Week and wondering if I should similarly offer my Feral playbook.

Reposting to my circles rather than the City of Mist community I erroneously posted to first:

Reposting to my circles rather than the City of Mist community I erroneously posted to first:

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Reposting to my circles rather than the City of Mist community I erroneously posted to first:

So. The IGoA with Richard Rogers , Alex Prinz and Julia Nienaber is running another campaign at last and it’s going to be Savage World’s ETU setting using Monster of the Week rules.

As with a lot of streamed campaigns I’ve watched recently I’ve thought about what sort of character I would play (it’s becoming a common contest on the Alpha forums of Geek and Sundry to say what character or campaign you’d run in X game/system). To be fair, I likely wouldn’t play ETU. I’ve read the plot point campaign and run it partially so the joy of discovering what’s up might not be a thing but still I like to imagine characters.

I’d likely play The Changeling playbook. To tweak I’d say the character was in transition rather than finished emerging and thus not aware yet that she’s not human but the unusual features she’s already displaying might have brought a suspicion of infidelity and twisted a fragile marriage to divorce which hits the concept that the Changeling has been ostracized from family.

I’d probably go with the following stats:

Ophelia Winston

Woman, Alluring Face, Odd Colorations, Casual Clothes

Charm +1 Cool -1 Sharp +1 Tough +0 Weird +2

Glamour, The Uncorrupted, Nurture over Nature, Inhuman Talent: Dreams

Unknown Heritage: Reputation, Sensory Bombardment, Alienation

Gear: Old pickup truck, baseball bat, journal, childhood toy

The way I’d see it is she’s a succubus in development hasn’t yet developed wings or other signs yet but her hair has turned a natural lavender and her pupils have a strange shape as well as unusual colored eyes. Her skin is also getting redder as she gets older. She tries to hide this with make-up, contacts and dyes but it’s been hard to find dyes that actually stick and contacts that don’t fall out (when her glamour is revealed the dyes and make-up sort of evaporate off her hair and skin). Her only supernatural instances are the hyper realistic dreams she has and the way they sometimes seem to belong to other people. Idea being that before they became agents of temptation the succubi were guides in the dreamlands and she’s a pure uncorrupted succubi as they were originally intended to be.

If Changeling was barred I’d instead go with the Flake or tweak Sidekick as a way of working toward Changeling.

So I’ve been doing some investigations of different character generation systems by taking the same character…

So I’ve been doing some investigations of different character generation systems by taking the same character…

So I’ve been doing some investigations of different character generation systems by taking the same character concept over and over. Most recently did Masks.

And really not sure why it’s pulling that picture up.

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/10/the-gorgon-archer-in-multiple-systems.html?m=1

Added MotW as the fourth examination of character creation and advancement.

Added MotW as the fourth examination of character creation and advancement.

Added MotW as the fourth examination of character creation and advancement.

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/10/the-gorgon-archer-in-multiple-systems.html

With these last two reports, the M-Com Monster of the Week campaign comes to an end, at least for now, and my little…

With these last two reports, the M-Com Monster of the Week campaign comes to an end, at least for now, and my little…

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With these last two reports, the M-Com Monster of the Week campaign comes to an end, at least for now, and my little three-person group that did this game moves on to my brother’s Nowhere D&D campaign where we are apparently trapped in a demi-plane that embodies places things can get lost.

In any case, toward the end here my brother and friend started to realize that they had tons of Luck Points and the fact that if we were coming to this campaign again it would likely be with new characters, so these last two sessions have the players dominating quite thoroughly.

Likewise, Man with the Plan and Connect the Dots proved very powerful.

Incidentally, one use of Man with the Plan spawned what sounds like a wonderful spin-off of this campaign, namely the adventures of various people that are hired by Violet MacNeil in her travels across time to combat Hikozaemon’s plots.

Incidentally, it didn’t get mentioned in the report (I may edit it in though) but Violet was eventually chosen because it was assumed that her held-in-check chiang shih infection makes her harder to notice by the monsters that infest the normal routes between various time periods.

Last report for the Friday Night Lights short-run D&D campaign run by a fellow fan of Critical Role.

We end the fight with Mariah the Blue learning about the defensive wonders of the Blink spell, finally being educated by her wife as to what a wild mage is, and continuing to demonstrate that she’s not quite as smart as she thinks she is.

Pen-Ultimate Report:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/09/m-com-mission-report-operation-burning.html

Final Report:

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/09/m-com-campaign-with-feelers-and-false.html

Okay, there’s still something like 11 to 15 random NPCs I have to hunt down photographs for and post to the Suspects…

Okay, there’s still something like 11 to 15 random NPCs I have to hunt down photographs for and post to the Suspects…

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Okay, there’s still something like 11 to 15 random NPCs I have to hunt down photographs for and post to the Suspects and Witnesses pages, not to mention finding pics for the one or two new critters that have shown up in the game in the last three sessions. But at least I am now completely up to date on the M-Com play reports.

We’re coming round to the finish line here with only the Mexico City and Louisville rituals left to run before we can close out this season and the players’ home reality is safe from the multiverse-devourer (need a better name for it) for at least another thousand years, during which time they can start to look for ways to protect the rest of their multiverse or even destroy the creature when/if we come back to this setting.

Incidentally, after this, my brother has a plan to run a rather odd D&D campaign. We’ve run a few prologue sessions already, should be interesting.

Also, Man With the Plan, Connect the Dots, and the Flake move that detects lies are pretty powerful story movers.

Man With the Plan and Connect the Dots are the only reason I failed to blow up that Air BnB they decided to use.

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2017/08/m-com-mission-report-operation-jealous.html

So.

So.

So. Just started processing the video. But Just ran a scenario where the players pick characters from established franchises who find themselves in an empty hotel lobby and have to figure out what’s going on.

The characters from this scenario:

Yuna – Final Fantasy X

Ashley J Williams – Evil Dead

Nancy Downs – The Craft

Spike – Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

Insane sort of describes things…..

The premise of the scenario was to draw characters from various urban-fantasy characters.

The premise of the scenario was to draw characters from various urban-fantasy characters.

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The premise of the scenario was to draw characters from various urban-fantasy characters.

I never expected someone to choose a character from MY setting. Granted it’s because he was playing that character in another one-shot, but still.

Creator Happy Dance!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP34ZwMdgFo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP34ZwMdgFo