First, for the avid Civ readers in the audience, I've put up a Hall of Fame page with a whole bunch of little game reports and such, including a bunch I never talked about here.
Second, we'll be playing a bunch of D&D later today. Jason's session, level 8, Forgotten Realms. European theme and all that. So we need characters for this.
Erring on the side of normality, Cole and I start with a pair of Kensai from the Oriental Adventures book. Mine's human, his is a lizardman. They, yknow, kill stuff with swords. A lot.
But then we got a little crazy. So I come up with the aptly-named Rabbit Boy character concept. A character, a rabbit hengeyokai (shapechanger), who with Boots of Springing and Striding, moves 80' per round (3.0, for you 3.5ers in the audience), and dual wields a pair of...wait for it...war fans. So he runs up to you, carves you up with war fans, and runs off. This is good.
Cole, meanwhile, comes up with Smaug Baggins, the half-dragon/halfling sorcerer. You are all invited to figure out exactly how that one is supposed to work.
This leads to slightly interesting scenes. You know, like we get in a fight, and the bad guys are sitting there, and this little 3' dragon comes in the door, followed by this 6' tall...rabbit.
"Hey Bob. You didn't spike the ale again, did you?"
"Uh, no. I thought you did."
Yeah.
But that wasn't good enough. So we came up with Weenog.
And you have to understand how Weenog works.
First, he's a goblin. But he's not just any goblin, see. You see, he's a goblin paladin. But he's not just ANY goblin paladin. He rides a warg, see. But he's not just ANY warg-riding goblin paladin. He's a swashbuckler, too. With a rapier. Three Musketeers style.
Weenog, we figure, has style.
But Weenog needed company. So we came up with the firenewt cleric. Who worships, appropriately enough, Kossuth, the fire elemental god. We thought about naming him Newt Gingrich, but we decided that would be maybe a bit too cruel.
Elves, you say? Dwarves? We have transcended such foolishness.
Posted by Dwip at December 27, 2003 11:56 AMYa, poor Usagi lost a lot of move when he got made into 3.5. I think I'll create Greater Boots of Striding and Springing because c'mon, +10' move is about as useful as a hair block of cheese.
Now I'm going to have to sit down and come up with even more f'd up characters, thanks.
Posted by: Whir at December 27, 2003 12:00 PMSuch a swashbuckling character needs a more heroic name than 'Weenog.' Really.
Posted by: Regina at December 27, 2003 2:11 PMand so we've read all about your civ HoF. Interesting, I daresay. Much shorter than your average civread though ;)
Posted by: toasty at December 27, 2003 2:59 PMMe, what exactly is a hair block of cheese? Christ I'm drunk now and I'm still more coherent than that was.
Posted by: Whir at December 28, 2003 2:11 AMWeenog, we note, is in homage to the Weenog of Icewind Dale, see. Who is, in fact, a totally weak goblin. But.
Usagi and Smaug Baggins made their debut tonight, along with the yakman ranger and the hobgoblin wizard. But more on this later.
As for the Civ thing, well, anybody NOT you, Toast, will probably find a lot of good stuff there. But what do I know.
Posted by: Dwip at December 28, 2003 3:39 AMSomeday I'll have to pick up a D&D character book just to see how you can come up with characters. Y'see, my whole life I have been warned against playing D&D thus: "If you EVER pick up a D&D book, you will become horribly addicted to the game and start thinking evil thoughts." So I have understandably been a little loath (loathe? loth?) to explore the wilds of D&D before now.
Posted by: Regina at December 28, 2003 5:33 AMI guess. You should play more civ yknow, so I can read about it :P I actually got back into it with PTW.
And I also found out it's way more fun to play regent or higher :) So that's a good thing I guess. Not gonna be getting conquests though, since I'm saving up for a TFT screen instead.
Posted by: toasty at December 28, 2003 9:25 AMI still like my 1/2 orc 1/2 ape fighter. Being that his concept is a nobleman's bodygaurd/Fight Club ringer, he also has the magic to hurt people badly. Not that he had a problem with that to begin with...
Posted by: Timmeh! at December 28, 2003 1:44 PMYa, stay away from DnD, Regina. It'll make you try to sacrifice chickens and drink virgin's blood and all that stuff.
Posted by: Whir at December 28, 2003 3:44 PMYeah. And it'll make you cast spells and stuff, too. Jack Chick told me so.
I've got a fairly lengthy rant somewhere about the ludicriousness of that particular line of thought, but I think I won't be going there. You guys don't need to see me angry.
On another note, a Google for "D&D 3.5 SRD" should pop up a page with the rules for the game on it.
As for Civ, Conquests is, last I checked, $9.99 on Amazon, FYI.
As for D&D chars, more on that in a bit.
Posted by: Dwip at December 28, 2003 4:48 PM