https://icrontic.com/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:52:14 +0000 en D&D Supernerd Heaven — Icrontic https://icrontic.com/discussion/96741/no-campaign Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:21:32 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven drasnor 96741@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/96601/interest-in-new-to-d-d-campaign Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:00:18 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven Tushon 96601@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/96560/the-isles-of-the-sun-on-kickstarter Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:42:46 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 96560@/discussions This link will allow you to take a look at my draft. I welcome any feedback, and if anyone is willing to write a testimonial as a player of the campaign, that would be super sweet. ]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/95357/pre-game-for-drews-campaign Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:53:08 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven primesuspect 95357@/discussions think we'll need to know anything about the campaign world except for Deities for divine spellcasters. If you could just let us know what races, classes, and deities will be available in your campaign, I think we can start to build our characters. I picked up a discounted copy of the Pathfinder Advanced Players Guide and it adds six new core classes, a bunch of new spells, and even new rules (including combat rules like drag, dirty trick, steal, and reposition and Hero Points). There's one new core class that I'd be particularly interested in for my character if it's available. If you'd rather not use anything from this book, that's fine, but I'm hoping you'll take a look at the book and agree that they're well balanced and not game-breaking. How many people are you going to allow in on the campaign? I'm definitely in if there's a spot for me. For those who don't have the books yet: Pathfinder Advanced Players Guide Pathfinder Core Rulebook Pathfinder Bestiary ]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/95645/my-4e-campaign Thu, 03 May 2012 04:18:23 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven primesuspect 95645@/discussions idiocy totally fun. I found a tool called Obsidian Portal that is making everything a lot more organized than I'm used to. It's got a wiki, forum, calendar, map tool, and everything to organize the stuff in-between sessions. I figured I'd share it with you guys if you want to follow along. Also, maybe we could use this for the Firmament campaign. I like it a lot. Here's my world so far (barebones). It's called The World of Song. ]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/95371/firmament-campaign-setting-wip Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:27:20 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven drasnor 95371@/discussions Origin Story (from the point of view of humans, dwarves, elves, gnomes, etc; hereafter referred to as humankind) It's been roughly two millennia since the the three goddesses brought the races of humankind to their promised land and found it already taken. The goddesses brought us to Firmament in the bill of a great stork flying across the ocean of stars. However, in the chaos of their arrival the goddess Zaphyra was forced to stay behind and safeguard the ancients' bounty while the goddesses Ariel and Kharla brought us across the final distance in their arms. What greeted our ancestors on Firmament were the Dragons. There was a great, brief war between the goddesses and the dragons to decide which of us would be allowed to survive. The dragons in their might clashed with the goddesses in their fury and rent the land and skies asunder. In the end, the metallic-hued dragons made peace with the goddess Ariel to allow the dragons and our people to coexist. Kharla, furious at this betrayal, cursed Ariel on behalf of all of our dead. Likewise did the chromatic dragons curse their metallic bretheren. But this uneasy peace has held. As their final act together, the goddesses created demigods to oversee us and locked themselves away in slumber until the advent of Zaphyra. It is written that her coming will be marked by a great flame in the heavens, and the bounty of the ancients bestowed upon the righteous. Today most remember, but few truly believe. About the world: Firmament is a small world roughly the size of Earth's moon, but with roughly the same mass and thus gravity as Earth. Firmament's surface is 3/4 covered in water. The remainder is land spread across three continents; two on opposite sides of the planet spreading north to south across an equator and a frozen continent over the north pole shrouded in mist. The two temperate continents are home to all the sentient life on Firmament as well as the usual fantasy flora and fauna. There is a good deal of geographic variety on the populated continents and all the major biomes except tundra are represented. There are also a few strange regions distorted by the Dragon War where nature behaves in peculiar ways. The frozen, mist-covered continent to the north remains enigmatic as no adventurers have ever returned that set foot inland from its coasts. I have not quite firmed up (hah) what the present technology level or political layout will consist of. The party will be starting in a small town in a mountainous region conveniently located near the border of two nations engaging in a territorial dominance war. I toyed with changing how time works, but the game system really relies on Earth time for best results. As such, a year is 360 24-hr days, where an hour is 60 minutes and a minute is 60 seconds. There are 12 months each 30 days long, and the climate conditions are such that each year has four seasons (3 months each) outside of the arctic and tropics (which get two seasons). The things in the sky consist of two stars, a large one and a smaller one orbiting it fairly closely, and a huge planet that Firmament itself is a moon of. Firmament orbits about this yet-to-be-named planet once every month. Rarely but predictably for those in the know, the relative positions of this planet and the suns makes for a week-long eclipse which will likely be given religious significance. Also, all the stars in one portion of the sky are deep red shading through pink to white in a wide band before shading through blue to violet on the opposite side. Religion: For the human races, there are the three major faiths of the goddesses. The followers of Ariel are generally advocates of secular tolerance; but are widely demonized as selling out humankind's birthright to Firmament. The majority of people are followers of Kharla, which is supremacist versus the Dragons and dragonians. The followers of Zaphyra are the fewest in number as members of her faith have no secular interest. It is a selfless faith whose followers give everything of themselves to help their fellows. Each race claims their own patron demigod as well. Magic: Magic is poorly understood among humankind. Arcane magic is thought to derive from the forces which shape existence. Attuning one's mind to these energies allows the sufficiently willful to bend them. Some are born innately with the knack while others can learn it through study. Divine magic is thought to be granted by the demigods as representatives of the goddesses. Races: TBD, but essentially all the basic Tolkien faire is here. In addition there are the dragonians, which are nomadic lizard-people who mostly keep to themselves and don't speak common. I haven't decided if I want to make them playable or not since coping with extreme racism and inability to communicate is very hard to roleplay; though reading Darths & Droids has been inspiring. Classes: TBD, count on all the basics and I'll decide on the others later. In closing, the setting is meant to be a medium fantasy epic with sci-fi elements. I'd also like to request that we play this episodically in lieu of continuously like the Isles story. Feedback welcome.]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/92953/session-108 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:38:51 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 92953@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/91799/update-01-30-2011 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:18:30 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven primesuspect 91799@/discussions
What happened?

PS: Still dying]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/88053/sunday-january-31-session Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:11:34 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven GHoosdum 88053@/discussions ]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/70968/dm-mistakes Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:09:51 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 70968@/discussions
I'll use this thread as a way to show you where I made mistakes, and which corrections are being made to be reflected in future sessions.

The thread might be bad for my DMing self-esteem, but it will help the players understand why things might change from session to session.

Of course, I will try to keep errors to a minimum, but no one is perfect.]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/87339/tonights-session-12-20-2009 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:01:20 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven BuddyJ 87339@/discussions
I'll be in the game probably a bit after 7 p.m. Brian can play for me. Please shoot massive fireballs at the scorpions.]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/86659/the-danger-brides-crew-retcon-thread Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:35:27 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 86659@/discussions
As it stands now, the party took off that morning without talking to any of the crew who helped them get there. I blame this on being away from the plot for too long, and I don't want to penalize the party (or mess up the story-line) because we all (yes, me too) forgot to role-play what happened with the other crew-members.

So, I'm just going to let you guys decide who you should take with you, and we'll retcon the story to say they they were with you on the boat that morning when you left for Joy, or that you said goodbye and left them behind, or whatever you did.

FallingDove and Dam'Rei had both decided to stay in The City of Faith. The former to help her brother out at The Dragon's Flask, and the later to raise her child in the tight-nit community of the Drake Quarter. Landon Haley is, of course already with you. That leaves five potential additions to the crew:


ChippedLance (The Pyromancer) has a strong desire to join the crew. She isn't much of a deck-hand, but she can help with any missions as a combatant.

Shi'Rahk (The Priest of The Traveler) would be interested in traveling with the crew. He has nothing tying him to any particular place or job. He is fleet of foot, and well-versed in healing and protection magic. He's also an able deck-hand and navigator, but has little ability or experience in direct combat.

Jessiblather Firewind Tickleteaser Hawktemple Esq. (The scholar and merchant) doesn't know what to do now that his shop and home are gone. He thinks it'd be an interesting experience to voyage with The Danger Bride, but he could just as easily find passage to his boyhood home on Tinker in the KAR islands, where he could see his family, and maybe try to open a new shop. As a versitile scholar, he could easily grow into any position on the ship.

Bgomat (The Mongrelfolk Adept) wants nothing more than to continue adventuring alongside Fingerdiddle. She's not much of a force now, but she has an obvious natural magical aptitude which could go in any direction. She seems to have quickly taken to life at sea over the last week, and could be almost as adaptable as Jessiblather given the right training.

Yarrow Weatherford (The Hunter and Siege Engineer) had a lot of fun playing with the ballista on the way from Flai, and wouldn't mind sailing with the crew a bit longer before returning to his post in the Lynx Isles. He is the only crew member with the Siege Engineer feat.


Since the crew compliment for the Danger Bride is 8, the party should probably take on at least 2 of these folks. None of them are asking for pay (just food and a bunk), so there is no real disadvantage to taking them on. There are only ten beds on the ship, but there should never be a time when everyone is sleeping at once, anyhow.

Discuss and decide in this thread what you want to to do, and I'll retcon it into the story.]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/86106/lost-data Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:36:39 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 86106@/discussions
I still have all of my graphics and external documents, of course, but anything that I typed directly into Fantasy Grounds (PCs, NPCs, shops, cities, and quest descriptions) is gone, and the last copy I have of it is the one I put on My laptop in June to play at Epic. That's one level back for the PCs, so re-leveling them wont really be a big deal, and I think Drew has all of his info about Melixa written out somewhere else. Some stuff, we'll just have to try to remember.

The biggest thing lost is all of the documents about The Isles of The Fallen: Tavern discussions, quests, NPCs, it's all gone, and we can't play without out it.

The campaign is on hold until I reconstruct the lost data. ]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/86136/two-weapon-fighting-worksheet Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:29:22 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven drasnor 86136@/discussions
Set-up:
1) Fill in your base weapon stats in the Weapon table.
2) Fill in your base attack bonus in the Attack Bonus table.
3) Sum your ability score mods and "other" mods to Total Attack Bonus and put them in the Attack Bonus table.
4) Add your relevant Total Attack Bonus (ranged for weapon finesse, melee otherwise,) weapon attack enhancement bonus, any other off-sheet weapon-specific bonus (e.g. weapon focus,) and the relevant two-weapon fighting penalty for each weapon and put the results in the Attack workspace in the first two MOD boxes of First Attack.
5) Subtract 5 from the Off-Hand attack mod for each successive Off-Hand attack permitted by your feats and enter it into the corresponding MOD boxes.
6) If your Base Attack Bonus is greater than 5, subtract 5 from each MOD box of the First Attack you filled in and fill in the corresponding Second Attack boxes.
7) If your Base Attack Bonus is greater than 10, subtract 5 from each MOD box of the Second Attack you filled in and fill in the corresponding Third Attack boxes.
8) If your Base Attack Bonus is greater than 15, print out another card .
9) Fill in the relevant damage bonuses for each weapon in the Damage Bonus table. This is typically your STR mod but may be more due to augment crystals and Weapon Specialization feats, etc.
10) Add each weapon's enhancement bonus to damage and relevant bonus from the Damage Bonus table and enter it in the relevant MOD boxes in the Damage workspace.
11) Put an X in each box in each workspace that your character can't use.

Usage:
1) Roll a d20 for each attack and enter the results in the white ROLL box in the Attack workspace. Re-roll any critical threats and put the result in the adjacent gray box.
2) Add the MOD for each column with your ROLL results to determine the total attack roll and enter it in the corresponding TOTAL box.
3) For each hit, roll damage and enter the results in the white ROLL box in the Damage workspace. Roll sneak attack/critical damage in the adjacent gray box.
4) Add the damage MOD for each weapon to your ROLL results to determine the total damage roll and enter it in the corresponding TOTAL box.
5) Sum up all the TOTALs.
6) Tell the DM how badly his/her creature just got owned.
7) Erase ROLLs and TOTALs from both workspaces and get ready for your next turn.

For reference, Melixa only uses the first three columns of the first two attacks, but yes, each one of those ROLL boxes on a well-trained, high-level two-weapon character corresponds to a d20 you get to roll during your turn. That's a lot of dice.

-drasnor ]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/85809/master-price-list Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:05:32 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 85809@/discussions
Then, instead of taking the time to make the actual shop list, I'll just tell the player what kind-of items are for sale for what level of prices, and they can check the list. For instance I might tell you that you've come to a shop where they sell common items for a 'normal' price, Lynxian clothing for a 'rare' price, and Draconian items for an 'abundant' price with a price limit of 3000gp. Then you can use this worksheet to see all those items and their prices.

This will not change the magic shops, those will still be specified in a list, for the most-part.

If you are not familiar with how to use a sortable spreadsheet like this one, let me know, and I'll walk you through it. ]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/85870/fill-me-in Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:28:36 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven BuddyJ 85870@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/85638/prestige-class-mariner Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:05:41 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven BuddyJ 85638@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/85759/new-character Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:05:09 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven drasnor 85759@/discussions
I highly recommend that if there's anything you want from Dal'Ruth's equipment to make your characters more combat-effective that you take it. My new character can use some of his old stuff but those additions would make it even more combat effective than I think it's going to be already.

I'm pretty pumped about my new character and look forward to Sunday when y'all get to meet it.

-drasnor ]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/84616/now-module Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:20:42 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 84616@/discussions
Well, in attempt to fix that, I've downloaded another new module, this time a user-made one. Once I got it installed, I saw that not only does it fix the combat tracker, but makes a number of other improvements that we've all been talking about for a year.

Just a few:

• a new window called "The Box". If you drop dice into The Box, then only the DM gets to see the result. (!!)
• A new options panel which allows (among other things) users to change the behavior of the mouse wheel, so that it only modifies numbers with the ctrl button held in.
• A client-side combat tracker that allows the players to see the general condition of the other combatants (injured, healthy, dying, etc.)

There are a lot of other little things, but these are the three that you guys will notice most. Drew is about to log in to level-up Dal'Ruth, so we'll give some of the new features a test run.]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/84941/cliffhanger Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:35:59 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven GHoosdum 84941@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/84628/july-19-session Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:08:13 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven primesuspect 84628@/discussions
Literally.

If I'm the only one absent, I fully authorize Pete to play walkingstick appropriately.

Keep in mind that walkingstick is currently going through an identity crisis: His life as a healer and priest of the Traveller is very important to him, but deep down inside he sees himself as a mighty warrior, and he wants to take advantage of every possible opportunity to put himself in situations that involve melee. He suffers from delusions of grandeur, as you are all well aware.]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/84159/epic-session Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:52:31 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 84159@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/83728/5-24-session Thu, 21 May 2009 19:12:02 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven BuddyJ 83728@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/83517/mothers-day Sat, 09 May 2009 22:57:00 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven BuddyJ 83517@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/82145/party-name Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:05:01 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 82145@/discussions
I think the characters are good enough friends now, that they would be willing to all be identified under the same banner.

So, what'll it be?]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/80959/wiki Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:34:25 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 80959@/discussions
Then, on Friday, Gabe of PA posted about this obsidianportal.com, which is a wiki designed for D&D campaigns.

I'm going to look over the tools and see if it would work for us, but I'd like to know: Is it something that you guys would even be interested in using? or would you rather I just kept distributing this one document?]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/70676/the-book-of-the-isles-of-the-sun Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:24:26 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 70676@/discussions
You may create a background for your character, but this is not required. If you do: make sure you remember that these are Lvl1 characters. They are exceptional people, but entirely inexperienced, so any background should really only include family, home-town, and reason for adventuring. You also don't know quite where you will be starting out in the world or in the story, but you will all be starting in the same place (I wont be doing the thing that some DMs do of spending the first 10 sessions getting the PCs to meet one-another), so leave your background open for whatever position you might find yourself in at the beginning of the story.

Feel free to post questions here.]]> https://icrontic.com/discussion/75716/sun-5-oct-2008 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:39:00 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 75716@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/75364/sun-28-sept-2008 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:51:50 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 75364@/discussions https://icrontic.com/discussion/74778/sun-21-sept-2008 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:10:22 +0000 D&D Supernerd Heaven CB 74778@/discussions