5th playtest DVV

Nobody Important (GM): we ready to go?
Bart: Weren't we waiting for Jin'dal?
And Jeremiah?
Yako: Jin'dal's stuck on his phone
Jermiah Tombill: Almost
Nobody Important (GM): Jin isn't joining us this week
Next week we're going to be doing more villain playtesting and perhaps start playtesting hero powers
week after that I'm gonna run a real campaign.
Bart: Oh, okay.
Yako: I call being the Strong Guy
Sverd: All the KLRs and a ton of Villains are probably gonna be done by that time
Sarge: You guys gun get rekt
Bart: No, I' the strongest!
Sverd: Also my biscuits are done
Bart: I'm*
Nobody Important (GM): The IDEA is to start in the wild west, move through the Shadowlands, then end up in the clusterfuck that is Europe
Bart: I really need a new keyboard.
Nobody Important (GM): I'll leave someone who's better at actual scheming to do China.
Jermiah Tombill: Okay done
Beard: back
Sarge: I guess I'll start statting up the rest of the Vilains of Europe then
After this of course
Nobody Important (GM): Start with some evil Fae for Maleficent.
Beard: something that hasn't really been discussed is how the players are going to defeat some kings at lower levels, but that's a question for some other time i suppose
Nobody Important (GM): Evelyn could be one of them but she's more like a high-tier Inner Circle.
Sverd: mageck
Yako: Hm....so, characters need to travel typically by land, and need to have goals that aren't tied to any specific area.
Nobody Important (GM): Gonna monologue for ~2 minutes, then we're starting.
Killing some kings early is going to be impossible.
Jafar, Facilier, Frollo, etc have too many political ties and magic.
Maleficent isn't going to go down just because you hit her with a rocket launcher because MAGIC, etc.
Others, like alameda Slim and Cutler Beckett, are really just people who are very vulnerable to a case of 'caught the deads'
Those are the Kings that most players will cut their teeth on defeating first.
Nobody Important (GM): In fact, Alameda slim is like, the perfect one since all he's really got going for him is a brontosaurus mount and a buncha outlaws.
Jermiah Tombill: But it's probably not a good idea to kill those guys, is it?
Sarge: Don' forget his yodeling
Jermiah Tombill: I mean, if you take those guys down, Humanity on a whole suffers
For example if, If you take down Slim, facillier and tzekal khan can now easily exploit the people living in the west
Nobody Important (GM): This is true.
Doesn't not make him the easiest king to bring down for a band of heroes.
He's a fucking yodeling cowboy outlaw
Sverd: pls start
Jermiah Tombill: that is also true
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, let's get moving.
You are one and all in darkness, chained together.
Somehow.
Since nobody really has a good reason for being here other than the Black Knight, you've been captured by Hades' minions and are about to be put on display to show the peasantry why being a hero is a bad decision.
Yako: Nonono, Yoko now
Nobody Important (GM): You've got your armor and your weapons will be thrown into the ring with you.
Bart: I do have a reason.
Nobody Important (GM): You are lead to a small room in lockstep, and your chains are undone by a huge man with an axe.
"Get ready, prisoners. The ring awaits."
Bart: I was looking for a decent brawl and all the pubs were full of pansies.
Sarge: dis gun be gud
Nobody Important (GM): You can barely see the light coming through a distant portcullis and hear the roar of a crowd.
Yako: Ah screw it, if GM says it cool, Black Knight it is.
Beard: we who are about to die salute you, etc.
Nobody Important (GM): "Try to die in an entertaining way."
((Yako, if you want to play yako it doesn't matter.))
Jermiah Tombill: "I reckon I will"
Nobody Important (GM): ((It's really up to you.))
Sverd: Sverd is hazing in and out of consciousness and struggling to stay awake.
Bart: "You're funny. I will kill you last."
Nobody Important (GM): He grunts, and shoves Bart towards the portcullis. "Get moving. Two minutes to start, and you'll want weapons in hand trust me."
You move towards the gate, and the portcullis winds itself upwards with a heavy clanking.
A sandy ring awaits, a mockery of the famous Colosseum of Rome. Thousands of dirty peasants cheer and occasionally throw vegetables and fruits as you file out into the ring.
Your weapons are tossed onto the ground by some guards along the edge, and it takes you mere moments to retrieve them.
In a darkened booth covered with curtains, you're fairly sure you can see the King of this ravaged land.
Of course, it could just be one of his... agents, portraying him to ward off assassins.
Nobody Important (GM): Why a god fears assassins is anyone's guess.
How is everyone positioning?
You've got your weapons and armor if you have any. The ring is a hundred feet across and perfectly ciruclar.
circular*
Sverd: Sverd jolts out of whatever stupor he was in as a carrot hits him in the eye. He's around the middle.
Jermiah Tombill: "Hey, knight in silver.'
Jeremiah tips his hat to Sverd and the rest of the party
"Get yer head in the game
Sverd: ((are we playing that we know each other? I was assuming this shizzle was all non-canon))
Bart: (I'm probably on Sverd's flank)
Nobody Important (GM): ((super non-canon. If you know each other, great, if not you've probably talked briefly while in captivity)
Jermiah Tombill: ((Eh, just a little fun))
Bart: "Hey I remember ya. Yer that cow-guy on the train!"
"How the hell did you get here?"
Sverd: Sverd rubs his eye, slightly irritatated from being jabbed with a carrot moments earlier. "I'm fine, I'm fine!" Looking around to get his bearings, he snatches up his aging sword from the nearby ground.
Jermiah Tombill: "Whoo wee, that was a while back now..in all of the burned halls of hell, I have no clue. But I reckon we don't have much time for talkin"
Nobody Important (GM): ((Okay, so as a rundown we have Sverd, Jeremiah, Bart, and the Black Knight here as players, right?))
Black Knight: yeah
Nobody Important (GM): Just making sure.
Jermiah Tombill: He quickly loads his pistols, and pulls up his bandanna across his mouth
((Yep))
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, so you're all relatively near each other?
Sverd: ((Yeah.))
Bart: (yeah)
Nobody Important (GM): A voice booms out across the arena -- the source is an excited and exciteable looking-man on an overhang over the arena. "Ladies and gentlemen! Let's get right to business and skip the pleasantries! You came here to see blood, and we're gonna give it to ya!"
The center of the ring slowly drops out -- roughly a fifteen foot space -- as you scramble back and an elevator begins winding it's way up.
A shimmering light surrounds the enormous thing, a box enclosing it that drops away when it reaches the top of the lift.
It's a giant skeleton, roughly 15 feet tall.
It has four arms, and is wearing a tin helmet.
Beard: [rattling intensifies]
Black Knight: "Not this shit again....."
Sverd: Sverd has nothing to say.
Sarge: SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS NOB
Nobody Important (GM): ((you all are hearing that, right?0)
Sverd: ((I only hear raw fear))
Bart: (yes)
Nobody Important (GM): Roll for initiative!
Black Knight:
rolling 3d6+7
(2+5+6)+7=20
Jermiah Tombill: "Looks like he has a bone to pick"
Bart:
rolling 3d6+10
(3+3+1)+10=17
Sverd:
rolling 3d6+9
(2+2+5)+9=18
Nobody Important (GM): Waiting on Jermiah
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 5d6+12
(3+5+1+6+4)+12=31
Sverd: -6 - 4
oh wait no
Nobody Important (GM): Jermiah is first.
Jermiah Tombill: ((We roll 5d6 since we are on a roll right?))
Nobody Important (GM): (5d6k3)
Black Knight: yeah, but k3
Sverd: ((I though agility didn't apply for some reason, it'd just be -3 -1))
Bart: (It's still a 27)
Nobody Important (GM): You're fast on the draw, cowboy! you're up first!
((By like, a lot))
Everyone test me Insight+Sensibility right now.
Sverd:
rolling 3d6+6
(5+6+5)+6=22
wow
Bart:
rolling 3d6+7
(5+4+3)+7=19
Black Knight:
rolling 3d6+7
(2+1+5)+7=15
"WHY WILL YOU NOT STAY DEAD?! Argh, if only I remembered how to kill it!"
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 3d6+12+6
(2+5+4)+12+6=29
Bart: "We break his bones. Duh."
Jermiah Tombill: Senseabillity, HO!
Nobody Important (GM): You got a good feeling about this Jermiah
Go for the head! It wouldn't wear a helmet unless it needed to protect something!
You're still up, so make your two actions whenever
Jermiah Tombill: I roll to shoot
rolling 4d6+12+6
(5+3+4+6)+12+6=36
Nobody Important (GM): That's...
Okay.
Sarge: Keep 3 right?
Jermiah Tombill: Whats MR. Bones Agility?
Nobody Important (GM): 8.
and yes that's k3 so it should be 5d6k3
Jermiah Tombill: dam
Nobody Important (GM):
(To GM) rolling 5d6+14
(1+1+5+1+6)+14=28
Jermiah Tombill: If I had one more, I could have used my Combo trait on him
Nobody Important (GM): A solid hit to the cap knocks it loose!
A glowing rune is set in it's forehead.
Unfortunately, it's a bit high up for the poor swordsmen to swing at it unless they want to go a-climbin'
One more action, Jermiah
Jermiah Tombill: I back the hell up, as far away as physically possible
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, going to spend your action to get as far as possible, doubling your speed?
Jermiah Tombill: Yeah
Nobody Important (GM): Okay.
Jermiah is pressed against the back wall to the jeering of the crowd.
Sarge: C'MON MR. BONES YOU GOT THIS
Nobody Important (GM): Black Knight is up.
Black Knight: "HOW MANY TIMES MUST YOU BE KILLED?!" (Do I have to move to reach it?)
Nobody Important (GM): (well, you have to move but only like ~15 feet which is in your base ovement)
Black Knight: Eh, I have a trait that boosts stuff if I don't move
(From Beard): please, i can only take so much spooking
Black Knight: ATTACKAN
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, that's enough spookin'
Black Knight:
rolling 5d6k3+27
(2+2+6+1+4)+27=39
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, charging it's lets gthen
(From Beard): thankee
Sarge: Well
Nobody Important (GM):
(To GM) rolling 5d6k3+35
(4+1+6+5+1)+35=50
Nobody Important (GM): Um.
Okay, it got 50.
No dice.
Black Knight: REPEATAN
Sverd: ((>it got 50))
Black Knight:
rolling 5d6k3+27
(5+2+1+4+5)+27=41
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+35
(4+4+5+2+1)+35=48
Sarge: Well again
Nobody Important (GM): No dice.
Sverd is up now.
Sverd: Rolling to climb the fuck up a skeleton. Using the bones as grabpoints.
rolling 5d6k3+20
(2+2+6+1+3)+20=31
Nobody Important (GM): Athletics i think
That'll do.
You're perched on it's shoulderblades.
Sverd: Stab it in the rune.
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, test Melee
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+22
(6+2+1+6+1)+22=36
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 3d6+14
(4+4+6)+14=28
A hit to the rune!
That's sverd's turn.
Sverd: "THE RUNES ALWAYS MEAN THE WEAK POINT!"
Nobody Important (GM): THE SPOOKENING BEGINS
It's going to try to pick Sverd up and throw him off.
test Prevent harm
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+22
(5+3+3+5+2)+22=35
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+35
(1+2+2+6+6)+35=49
Okay.
Two strikes.
Sverd: ((Good lord, is it even possible to resist him))
Nobody Important (GM): oops, one strike
that should be +25 not +35
So, one strike and you're flung off his person.
Sverd: Sverd smashes against the ground, rolling up back into place with only minimal brain damage.
Nobody Important (GM): Okay for it's next three actions it's going to introduce the black knight to a world of pain.
Get ready for some prevent harm checks!
rolling 5d6k3+35
(1+2+4+4+5)+35=48
Black Knight:
rolling 5d6k3+27
(4+3+1+2+4)+27=38
rolling 5d6k3+27
(6+2+2+3+5)+27=41
uh, that counts against the next one
Nobody Important (GM): ok
okay, so two strikes the first time
rolling 3d6+35
(4+5+1)+35=45
And one strike the second time
One last swing
rolling 5d6k3+35
(1+5+4+1+5)+35=49
Nobody Important (GM): roll Prevent Harm
Black Knight:
rolling 5d6k3+27
(6+4+3+3+5)+27=42
Nobody Important (GM): well i think we're about to learn an important lesson
Sverd: ((How many strikes does it have again))
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, you're out 4 strikes here.
Black Knight: IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND!
Nobody Important (GM): (you wouldn't know that, but 1+x where X is the number of players.)
Black Knight: Finally, I get to spend a will point on something.
Nobody Important (GM): Bart is up now.
Sarge: 9+X2, whereX is the number of players
Sverd: ((Alrighty then. If you had said 20 or something I would have advised group suicide))
Nobody Important (GM): That's total for the body, the rune has much less
Bart: Imma climbing that shit
and headbutting him into the face
Jermiah Tombill: ((So wait, is Sverd dead?))
Nobody Important (GM): robustness+athletics or agility+acrobatics
(Sverd's okay, he's just really far away)
Sverd: ((wat))
Bart:
rolling 5d6k3+12+6
(3+4+1+3+4)+12+6=29
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, good enough.
Jermiah Tombill: ((Oh, he dealt four strikes to Mr. Bones))
Nobody Important (GM): On it's shoulderblades. Kenshiro style activate?
((no, he dealt 1 strike to it.))
Bart: I spend one Will for The Big Wallop
3 strikes with a single attack
Nobody Important (GM): Go for it.
But you lose your next action, right.
Bart: That's right
Nobody Important (GM): Roll, then.
Bart:
rolling 5d6k3+12+9+2
(2+2+2+5+5)+12+9+2=35
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+14
(6+1+1+3+5)+14=28
Three hits. ATATATATATATATATATATATATA
The rune looks like it's close to inexplicably exploding.
Bart: I'm done then.
Nobody Important (GM): Jermiah is up.
Jermiah Tombill: I let loose at the rune on its head
Nobody Important (GM): Shoot.
rolling 5d6k3+14
(
6
+
1
+
5
+
2
+
5
)
+14
=
30
(roll Ranged, please))
Bart: (Jeremiah?)
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 5d6+12+6
(
4
+
3
+
5
+
4
+
3
)
+12+6
=
37
Black Knight: Just barely
Nobody Important (GM): Well then.
Sarge: Well shit
Nobody Important (GM): It's out of strikes so the next hit downs it.
Shoot again, Jermiah
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 5d6+12+5
(
5
+
3
+
4
+
6
+
4
)
+12+5
=
39
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+14
(
6
+
2
+
5
+
1
+
5
)
+14
=
30
Sverd: ((bum))
Nobody Important (GM): Well then.
Okay, MR BONES has departed the WILD RIDE
Sarge: Maybe I should make the a bit stronger
Jermiah Tombill: "Looks like it's his DEATHRATTLE"
Sarge: The rune
Nobody Important (GM): Bones tumble to the ground, bart falling perilously down.
Bart: (BOOM goes Colosso).
Nobody Important (GM): Yeah, i'd say make the rune 2x instead of just x.
The crowd half boos, half cheers, and the announcer finds his voice after a moment.
Black Knight: Maybe make the rune harder to get at.
Nobody Important (GM): "Well then, ladies and gentlemen, at least that's not all we've got going for us today! Right after this commercial break we'll be back with another monster mash!"
Sverd: "NO EVIL WILL STAND BEFORE US!" Sverd throws his arms into the air in a victorious pose, posing for the crowds.
Nobody Important (GM): Five minutes to heal yourself up, if anyone can patch up Black Knight a bit.
Black Knight: "Just......flesh wounds.....
Bart: I produce a big bottle of acquavite from some mysterious corner of my pants "Victory toast?"
Jermiah Tombill: "Hmph. looks like we ain't home on the range."
Jeremiah looks around the arena
Nobody Important (GM): I'd like to point out that Black Knight may or may not be missing some limbs.
Sverd: Sverd continues gesturing impressively at the crowd for a couple more seconds, and then lays down against the side of the Colosseum.
Jermiah Tombill: Can he hold a sword?
Nobody Important (GM): Somehow, yes.
Sverd: ((None of us can heal.))
Jermiah Tombill: Hes fine
Nobody Important (GM): failing that, he could nibble some legs off.
It's almost impressive that no one has the ability to heal, but with a party of 3/4 strong guys, i'm not surprised.
Bart: (Can't our charismatic knight bullshit him into thinking he's alright?)
Sverd: ((Can I actually do that?))
Nobody Important (GM): ((with persuasio, but only to heal social wounds. The problems with splitting up the system.))
Black Knight: You know, you guys could TRY rolling straight INT or SENS
Sverd: ((Well then, nothing we can do. Since we aren't really doing any roleplay this session, might as well skip.))
Nobody Important (GM): Moving on then.
Bart: Let's at least try.
Nobody Important (GM): After five minutes, the crowd files back in and the elevator goes back down.
Bart:
rolling 3d6+7
(
3
+
4
+
3
)
+7
=
17
Nobody Important (GM): You can hear it rattling down there, and something roaring.
Get into positions?
Bart: (Ok)
Sverd: Sverd assumes a position right next to the edge.
He's practically learing down the hole.
Black Knight: likewise
(From Sarge): Hey Nob, don't tell them the Hydra's weak to fire
Nobody Important (GM): ((Yeah, apologies for the lack of roleplay this session but we needed to test out the villains))
Bart: (Near the centre like before)
(To Sarge): I won't.
(From Sarge): Good, wanna see what happens
Sverd: ((Roleplay can be for campaigns, we're just playtesting crunch here.))
Jermiah Tombill: ((Its alright))
Nobody Important (GM): There's a great cage here, and a multi-headed... scaly thing writhes inside, trying to bite you through the cage bars.
The crowd roars and the announcer screams; "The long-time champion is here to keep it's belt, the illustrious, the famous, HYDRA!"
Black Knight: keep init?
Nobody Important (GM): Sure, why not.
Beard: CLIMB ON THE HYDRA'S BACK
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+16
(
1
+
3
+
6
+
5
+
3
)
+16
=
30
Hydra has 30 initiative. jesus.
Sverd: ((Unless anyone has a torch or welder we're fucked))
Nobody Important (GM): At the moment, it's got 3 heads.
Sarge: HYDRAAAAAAAA I'LL GET THOSE GI JOES
Bart:
rolling 3d6+10
(
4
+
5
+
2
)
+10
=
21
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 5d6+12
(
5
+
2
+
2
+
5
+
1
)
+12
=
27
Nobody Important (GM): Jermiah's at 24
Sverd:
rolling 3d6+9
(
4
+
2
+
5
)
+9
=
20
Black Knight:
rolling 3d6+7
(
6
+
6
+
2
)
+7
=
21
Sverd: ((I hate you all.))
Nobody Important (GM): Hydra goes first!
It bursts free of its cage, bars flying into the crowd and hitting some poor, idiotic people!
Jermiah Tombill: "Oh what in tarnations is that critter"
Sarge: Don't forget, each head, +1 action
Sverd:
rolling 3d6+6
(
3
+
4
+
2
)
+6
=
15
Bart: "Looks like some kinda sea snake, all tangled up."
Nobody Important (GM): Uh, hm.
This might go very poorly.
Hydra goes first, attacking Sverd!
Sverd: ((Is 15 enough to not be retarded and know about cauterizing wounds from someone who'd been reading fairy tales and shit his entire life))
Nobody Important (GM): ((Probably.)
((we'll go with it.))
Sarge: Got no fire m8
Black Knight: We got a cowboy and ergo gunpowder
Nobody Important (GM): Well I can tell you in advance that without fire this is going to go EXTREMELY poorly.
Bart: (of course we do. We've got metal things to clang together and an unlimited supply of alcohol)
Nobody Important (GM): okay, roll Prevent Harm sverd.
Sverd: ((Alchohol+Guns=:)
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
4
+
5
+
5
+
6
+
5
)
+24
=
40
Jermiah Tombill: ((FIRE BULLETS))
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+22
(
1
+
2
+
5
+
6
+
1
)
+22
=
35
Jermiah Tombill: ((Thanks alone in the dark!))
Nobody Important (GM): One strike, and poisoned.
Roll me Endure+robustness against TN25
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+20
(
4
+
4
+
2
+
4
+
2
)
+20
=
32
Nobody Important (GM): POISON IS NO MATCH FOR YOUR MUSCLES
Sverd: SVERD STRONK
Nobody Important (GM): It takes another swing at Sverd
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
1
+
4
+
6
+
1
+
5
)
+24
=
39
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+22
(
5
+
2
+
3
+
2
+
4
)
+22
=
34
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, another strike and test Robustness+Endure again.
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+20
(
5
+
1
+
6
+
3
+
2
)
+20
=
34
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, you're still okay.
One lasssst swing at Sverd!
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
2
+
5
+
2
+
4
+
4
)
+24
=
37
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+22
(
2
+
4
+
4
+
3
+
5
)
+22
=
35
Nobody Important (GM): So close.
Sverd: GOD DAMMIT THOSE ROLLS
EVERY ONE
Nobody Important (GM): Test me Robustness+Endure, please.
Sarge: HYDRAAAAAA STRONK
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+20
(
5
+
5
+
2
+
5
+
6
)
+20
=
36
Jermiah Tombill: ((Heil Hydra!))
Nobody Important (GM): poison not very effective at the moment, or maybe that's because Sverd is strong and tough.
Probably that.
Okay, Jermiah is up.
Sverd: Not tuff enough to avoid getting his arms ripped off by Hydras apparently
Nobody Important (GM): Jermiah Tombill, you have two actions to take
Jermiah Tombill: Hmmm
I try to roll behind the hydra
like, sneak around it
Nobody Important (GM): Easy enough. Test me Acrobatics.
Jermiah Tombill: plus agility?
Nobody Important (GM): Yep.
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 5d6+18
(
6
+
6
+
4
+
5
+
4
)
+18
=
43
Nobody Important (GM): -8 is still 35, which is good enough.
Sarge: k3 meng, k3
Jermiah Tombill: Okay
Second roll
Get ready
GET ON THE HYDRA'S BACK
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, more Acrobatics.
+agi
Jermiah Tombill: Can I also use Charge of the Light brigade for this?
Nobody Important (GM): Sure.
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 5d6+24
(
3
+
1
+
6
+
3
+
2
)
+24
=
39
Nobody Important (GM): Good enough.
Jermiah Tombill: Okay
Nobody Important (GM): It writhes and squirms, but you're on it's back, cowboy.
Jermiah Tombill: Ride 'em!
Nobody Important (GM): One action left.
Jermiah Tombill: I activate my Ride 'em! power
Nobody Important (GM): Okay.
Use Travel to try and get it to do what you want it to do.
It's going to use sensibility+endure to resist.
Travel+agility, fyi
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 5d6+6
(
2
+
1
+
1
+
4
+
3
)
+6
=
17
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 3d6+19
(
1
+
2
+
5
)
+19
=
27
Jermiah Tombill: Well
Nobody Important (GM): Well, you're on it's back. You aren't doing much.
Jermiah Tombill: IT ws worth the shot
Bart: (you forgot to add agility)
Sarge: k3, always k3, right?
Nobody Important (GM): Pretty much.
Jermiah Tombill: oh wait
17+12
=29
Nobody Important (GM): With +12 agility, you've got nominal control over it's actions.
Sarge: You didn't k3 though
Unless he wasn't supposed to?
Nobody Important (GM): it's only -2, which ties in his favor.
What are you gonna get the beastie to do?
Sarge: Oh, sorry Jeremiah
Jermiah Tombill: Hmm. I tell it to calm down
Nobody Important (GM): Well, that's gonna be persuasion. for now you can order it to move somewhere.
Black Knight: BREAK US FREE
Jermiah Tombill: Oh wait
Thats a good idea
Sorry Nobody
Nobody Important (GM): Let's do this
Jermiah Tombill: but I gotta try this
Nobody Important (GM): Sounds great.
YEEEEEHAWWWW
Jermiah Tombill: I command the Hydra to attack hades
Nobody Important (GM): Alright.
Bart: (THAT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA)
Nobody Important (GM): It's going to attempt to sprint over (nearly running over Sverd) to Hades' little tent thing and attempt to jump up there.
You hear a bored, sour voice. "Well, that's just rude and uncalled for."
Test Endure+Robustness Jeremiah
Jermiah Tombill: Well crap
I only have withstand
Black Knight: THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, so you're testing flat robustness.
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 3d6+10
(
6
+
6
+
5
)
+10
=
27
Nobody Important (GM): That's breddy gud
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
6
+
5
+
2
+
2
+
1
)
+30
=
43
You take two strikes from THE BURNING, THE BURNINNNNG
You and the hydra are both currently on blue fire.
Jermiah Tombill: Now the Hydra?
Nobody Important (GM): "Now, I was planning on letting you jokers out of here after you finished entertainin' my guests, but that was just so rude that I may have to reconsider my offer."
Black Knight: OH SHIT, IT WORKS IN OUR FAVOR!
Nobody Important (GM): "You. Big hat. Hope you savored your last birthday cake."
Jermiah Tombill: "What in tarnations is a birthday cake?"
Nobody Important (GM): "Oh, you know, big pastry, you have it on your birthdays -- which you aren't gonna have many more of, may I add -- and you share it with your guests when you throw a party in your honor."
Black Knight: "I DON'T KNOW THAT GUY!"
Bart: "So... is the big blue guy gonna make us a cake?"
Nobody Important (GM): "Yeah yeah, calm your britches. Finish the baddie, get the girl, go home. Except for you, bandit-man."
Jermiah Tombill: "Hey, I am NO bandit!'
Nobody Important (GM): "Well, you look like one." The hydra is shoved back with a bolt of blue fire and it falls writhing back into the ring.
It gets up after a mere moment.
Black Knight is up!
Black Knight: Need to charge?
Nobody Important (GM): Yep.
Jermiah moved it to the other side of the ring when he rushed Hades.
Black Knight:
rolling 5d6k3+25
(
1
+
2
+
5
+
5
+
4
)
+25
=
39
rolling 5d6k3+25
(
3
+
2
+
6
+
3
+
4
)
+25
=
38
Nobody Important (GM): well then.
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
5
+
6
+
3
+
6
+
2
)
+26
=
43
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
1
+
4
+
6
+
6
+
5
)
+26
=
43
two dodges
Sarge: HYDRAAAA
Nobody Important (GM): It's agility may be a bit high.
Bart is up.
Bart: Okay
"Hey! Big blue flamin' dude! Aren't we supposed to get a prize if we win?"
Nobody Important (GM): Hades seems to actually consider that for a moment.
Jermiah Tombill: ((I was kinda counting on him being a decoy))
Nobody Important (GM): "Well, yeah, I guess that's how it goes."
"Where you goin' with that, big man?"
Bart: "Then as my prize I want the life of that cow-dude".
Nobody Important (GM): "Mighty noble of you. 'Course, if you lose I'm taking your soul."
"Show me what you got then, big boy."
Bart: One will to activate Protector on Sverd
Nobody Important (GM): Alright.
Bart: +4 to all combat rolls
then FLYING UPPERCUT!
rolling 5d6k3+12+9+6
(
2
+
5
+
2
+
5
+
3
)
+12+9+6
=
40
Nobody Important (GM): running across the stadium's gonna take one action.
Bart: Alrighty
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
4
+
2
+
6
+
2
+
4
)
+24
=
38
Well, you land a solid blow on it's many exposed jaws.
Black Knight: OH SHIT I FORGOT TO USE THAT IWOULD'VE GOTTEN 1 HIT
Nobody Important (GM): Well, so it goes.
Okay, Sverd is up!
Sverd: Aiiiiight.
Nobody Important (GM): ((oh man, I can't wait to see what the highlight greentext for this one is.))
Sverd: Is there any possible way for me to just stab the Hydra's body instead of it's heads?
Bart: (remember the +4)
Nobody Important (GM): You can, if you want.
Not that we like
actually have rules for what happens if you do that.
Oops.
Sverd: Nice. Sverd, in a state of having been basically torn to absolute shreds by the Hydra, makes an attempt to cut down the neck of one of the heads, not actually cutting it off.
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
5
+
1
+
4
+
6
+
2
)
+26
=
41
Nobody Important (GM): ho ho holy shit
my display drivers just crashed entirely
probably time to update
Sverd got 41 on an attack roll, rolling for the hydra;
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
6
+
5
+
1
+
6
+
4
)
+26
=
43
Sverd: god damn
Nobody Important (GM): Nothin'
It's agi+Prevent Harm may be a bit high.
Bart: (yup)
Nobody Important (GM): It's turn.
It's going to try and strike Jermiah
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
6
+
2
+
6
+
6
+
5
)
+24
=
42
Jesus.
Okay, roll to Prevent Harm
(Mr. Tombill?)
Nobody Important (GM): Jermiah, I need you to roll Prevent Harm when you get a mo.
Oh, I see we have a new spectator. Hi!
Thalia's H.: (Just wanted to mention I'm dropping in on a school computer to check out the game as it is played.)
Jermiah Tombill:
rolling 3d6
(
3
+
1
+
6
)
=
10
Nobody Important (GM): We're just playtesting some of the villains at the moment.
Jermiah Tombill: ha
Haw
i don't have prevent harm
Nobody Important (GM): okay, so 10+Prevent Harm+agi
Prevent Harm is Withstand.
Sarge: We're testing the villains, Hydra's wrecking everybody's shit
Nobody Important (GM): They're the same skill.
Jermiah Tombill: oh
Then 18+10
Nobody Important (GM): 28 okay
You take two strikes from the Hydra, and need to test Endure+Robustness to avoid the poison.
Jermiah Tombill: So
rolling 3d6+10
(
5
+
2
+
5
)
+10
=
22
Nobody Important (GM): Um.
Jermiah Tombill: Note to self
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, that's another Strike.
Jermiah Tombill: Never get hit
Nobody Important (GM): You're down 3 strikes now.
It's, uh, gonna try to hit you again.
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
2
+
4
+
2
+
2
+
5
)
+24
=
35
Remember, Prevent Harm+Agility/Robustness!
Jermiah Tombill: Wait
i can use agillity?
rolling 5d6+12+6
(
1
+
4
+
4
+
2
+
4
)
+12+6
=
33
dm
Dam
Sarge: So close
Nobody Important (GM): You can actually use agility for prevent harm.
Okay, that's another strike and Jermiah is defeated.
Thalia's H.: (Very nice. I'll observe as long as I can. Hydras are always a strange case. Do you have different methods of attacking it laid out? My players always try to use falling and fire damage on enemies they're nervous about.)
Jermiah Tombill: ((To be fair, I was already done for))
Nobody Important (GM): In this case, that means being thrown across the ring and falling unconscious.
Jermiah Tombill: ((I had already gotten 2 strikes from hades
Nobody Important (GM): Oh, right.
Well, lying face down on the ring floor.
Jermiah Tombill: and i was onfire
Nobody Important (GM): At the moment, you need fire to defeat a hydra or it just gets back up again, Thalia's.
Jermiah Tombill: and now im poisoned
Splendid
Nobody Important (GM): We noted there's a big hole in the rules that you can't hit it in the body at the moment.
Sarge: Well you can
I'll make different stats for it
Nobody Important (GM): Jermiah is unconscious, on the ground, and on fire while being poisoned. This is not an optimal situation.
Thalia's H.: (No 'virgin's tears on a rose' style weakness?)
Sarge: Nope, fire
Nobody Important (GM): (That's a big part of how villains and kings are fought at the moment -- Facilier is basically invulnerable to attacks till you can break his connection to the Friends.)
Sarge: And if you don't have fire it can get up to 12 heads, so +12 actions
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, last attack is going towards Sverd.
Sverd: noice
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
6
+
3
+
4
+
2
+
1
)
+24
=
37
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
1
+
1
+
4
+
4
+
5
)
+26
=
39
Nobody Important (GM): Good dodge!
Jermiah Tombill: Well
Nobody Important (GM): It's still on fire, by the way.
Jermiah Tombill: im gona go eat dinner
Nobody Important (GM): Okay. Recap will be in the thread.
Jermiah Tombill: noice
Black Knight: DEFENDAN SVERD
Nobody Important (GM): Black Knight is up.
Black Knight: GO PROTECTOR
rolling 5d6k3+31
(
6
+
6
+
4
+
2
+
2
)
+31
=
47
rolling 5d6k3+31
(
3
+
6
+
2
+
1
+
6
)
+31
=
46
Jermiah Tombill: Note to everybody
You guys can pick up my guns
if you need to
Sverd: +8 from protector
noice
Bart: (wasn't it +4?)
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
4
+
4
+
4
+
1
+
3
)
+26
=
38
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
5
+
2
+
1
+
3
+
6
)
+26
=
40
Bart: (Not that I'm complaining)
Nobody Important (GM): Two strikes.
There's two Protectors up at the moment on Sverd
Bart is up!
Bart: Protector again.
Then jump and airborne ATATATATATATA
Nobody Important (GM): Go for it.
Bart:
rolling 5d6k3+12+9+2+8
(
5
+
5
+
5
+
4
+
5
)
+12+9+2+8
=
46
Nobody Important (GM): that is to say, roll Brawl.
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
3
+
3
+
2
+
6
+
4
)
+26
=
39
One more Strike, and once more.
Bart:
rolling 5d6k3+12+9+8
(
3
+
2
+
1
+
5
+
2
)
+12+9+8
=
39
Another hit.
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
5
+
6
+
2
+
5
+
4
)
+26
=
42
Nope, that's actually a dodge.
Some...how.
Bart: Ach.
Nobody Important (GM): SVERD IS UP
WITH TWO PROTECTORS ON HIM, HE'S AT +8 MELEE
SHOW HIM RIGHTEOUS FURY!
Sverd: IT BEGINS
Nobody Important (GM): FOR THE FROST GOD
Sverd: I aim to slice off one of it's heads, preferably with cauterization, in the name of COLD SHIT
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
1
+
6
+
1
+
1
+
3
)
+30
=
40
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
3
+
1
+
2
+
6
+
3
)
+26
=
38
Okay, one strike.
It's on fire right now, by the way.
Also most of the crowd is fleeing.
Sverd: SPREAD THE FLAMES. BURN THE STUMP. Light myself on fire and throw myself onto the stump if there's not any wood around, I'll be fine.
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
5
+
3
+
4
+
3
+
1
)
+30
=
42
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
6
+
2
+
5
+
5
+
2
)
+24
=
40
well, one more strike.
It's up! Prepare yourself!
Sverd, prepare the Prevent Harms!
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
4
+
1
+
5
+
3
+
3
)
+26
=
38
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
3
+
5
+
5
+
2
+
4
)
+30
=
44
Bart: (Did anyone keep track of how many we gave it by the way?)
(inflicted*)
Nobody Important (GM): (Yep)
Okay, sverd is fine.
Again!
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
3
+
1
+
3
+
3
+
4
)
+26
=
36
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
2
+
6
+
1
+
1
+
3
)
+30
=
41
NOTHING CAN TAKE DOWN A CHAMPION OF GOODNESS
Nobody Important (GM): And again!
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
1
+
1
+
3
+
2
+
2
)
+26
=
33
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
5
+
4
+
1
+
3
+
2
)
+30
=
42
Thalia's H.: (Headin' out, guys, sorry. I will try to do up a KLR for Free Creatures tonight. Looks like a pretty cool and fast way to play. Laters.)
Nobody Important (GM): Wow. Well done!
Three dodges!
Nothing can break your armor!
Sverd: WALT AND FROZEN, USELESS LAND GUIDES MY MOVEMENTS.
Sarge: So how do you determine how many actions a unit has?
Nobody Important (GM): Players get two. Mooks and lackeys get one.
Inner circle get 3, and Villains generally get 4.
Kings at the moment get 4 as well.
Black Knight:
rolling 5d6k3+31
(
3
+
3
+
2
+
1
+
1
)
+31
=
39
rolling 5d6k3+31
(
1
+
5
+
1
+
2
+
3
)
+31
=
41
Sarge: Hydra gets 3?
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, Jeremiah is currently unconscious and on fire.
Hydra has 3 heads at the moment so it gets 3.
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
3
+
6
+
4
+
6
+
1
)
+24
=
40
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
6
+
3
+
1
+
2
+
3
)
+24
=
36
One dodge.
Bart is up!
Bart: Wasn't the knight up?
Nobody Important (GM): Sverd's at init 20
you're at init 21, and Black Knight just took 2 actions.
Bart: ah sorry, wasn't paying too much attention
FLYING KICK!
Nobody Important (GM): eh, it happens. Roll!
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
1
+
4
+
5
+
6
+
6
)
+24
=
41
Bart:
rolling 5d6k3+12+9+2
(
2
+
6
+
5
+
1
+
4
)
+12+9+2
=
38
Nobody Important (GM): Miss. Again!
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
3
+
2
+
3
+
3
+
4
)
+24
=
34
Bart:
rolling 5d6k3+12+9
(
2
+
3
+
5
+
4
+
1
)
+12+9
=
33
Oh c'mon.
Nobody Important (GM): Poor luck.
Sverd!
Sverd: It my turn again?
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
6
+
3
+
1
+
2
+
2
)
+30
=
41
Nobody Important (GM): Yeah this system gets quick when you're down to it.
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
6
+
1
+
2
+
1
+
4
)
+24
=
36
Strike! Again!
Bart: (wait, did I still have protector up?)
Nobody Important (GM): Yep.
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
1
+
2
+
6
+
3
+
6
)
+30
=
45
NOICE
Nobody Important (GM): I'm assuming you're running protector each turn.
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
1
+
1
+
5
+
1
+
3
)
+24
=
33
Bart: (I forgot to add the +4 darn)
Nobody Important (GM): TWO STRIKES on the hydra! a cutting blow!
Sverd: STRIKE DOWN THE BEAST
Nobody Important (GM): It's turn. Prepare to dodge, sverd!
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
5
+
3
+
5
+
4
+
6
)
+30
=
46
Nobody Important (GM): It's no longer on fire, but Jeremiah still is.
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
2
+
4
+
6
+
1
+
4
)
+26
=
40
Miss. Again!
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
2
+
6
+
1
+
3
+
3
)
+26
=
38
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
3
+
6
+
3
+
4
+
1
)
+30
=
43
Sarge: >It's no longer on fire
Nobody Important (GM): Miss. Again!
Sarge: Oh boy
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+30
(
4
+
2
+
5
+
2
+
3
)
+30
=
42
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+26
(
6
+
6
+
2
+
1
+
2
)
+26
=
40
Okay, looks like you're good for now, tankmaster Sverd
It's taking a swing at the Black Knight
Sverd: THE NORTH IS STRONG
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6+26
(
4
+
1
+
2
+
1
+
4
)
+26
=
38
Black Knight:
rolling 5d6k3+33
(
6
+
5
+
1
+
1
+
3
)
+33
=
47
Nobody Important (GM): err, 36 there so you're good.
Hmm, Protector seems a bit strong.
Okay, Black Knight is up. The only source of fire in the ring is Jeremiah. You know what you must do.
Black Knight: NOT EVEN AFLESH WOUND
Yeah, I run over, pick him up and chuck him at the beast
Ranged?
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
6
+
6
+
1
+
4
+
1
)
+24
=
40
Nobody Important (GM): Yes.
Okay, you're throwing Jeremiah at it.
Jermiah Tombill: have we killed the Hydra yet?
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
4
+
4
+
3
+
6
+
1
)
+24
=
38
Jermiah Tombill: wait
Nobody Important (GM): They're throwing you at it.
Jermiah Tombill: what
WHY?
Nobody Important (GM): You're on fire.
Jermiah Tombill: oh
Okay, proceed
Nobody Important (GM): I can't believe that's actually a good idea in this system. It hits him, and it roars and bursts into flame, again.
Black Knight: and run back in for the slaughter
Nobody Important (GM): Jeremiah flops back down onto the ground. One more action!
Black Knight:
rolling 5d6k3+29
(
1
+
3
+
6
+
2
+
2
)
+29
=
40
Nobody Important (GM):
rolling 5d6k3+24
(
5
+
2
+
5
+
3
+
6
)
+24
=
40
Okay then.
The hydra roars, still burning as it flops worthlessly onto the ground.
Right next to Jeremiah. Someone gonna put him out?
Jermiah Tombill: Question
Nobody Important (GM): Since it was on fire when it died, it doesn't come back with another head. That's pretty much it for playtesting today.
yes?
Jermiah Tombill: Bart asked SPECIFICALLY for life, right?
Nobody Important (GM): Yes...
Bart: Yes...
Jermiah Tombill: So, unless you guys fail horribly, Im good
Nobody Important (GM): That is true. You guys just gonna roll him around for a bit in the dust
Sverd: CONCLUSIONS: Villains are beatable, but only due to strong willpower powers, Sverd is a fucking tank, we didn't roleplay at all this session.
Bart: "Oi blue matchstick! I asked for life, ye aren't gonna let him burn to death right?"
Sverd:
rolling 5d6k3+20
(
6
+
5
+
5
+
1
+
3
)
+20
=
36
Sverd attempts to fan out the flames on Jeremiah using his cape.
Nobody Important (GM): "Oh, fine, fine. Keep in mind that your soul is still mine when you die."
Hades waves a hand, and Jeremiah's fire goes out before Hades turns back and disappears... somewhere.
A disembodied voice speaks. "Third door on the left is the fire escape. I'd recommend that one. Main exit's packed right now."
Bart: "HA! Joke's on him! I'm a pirate, I'm already bound for da Locker!"
Sarge: So Villains, strong enough or too weak?
Nobody Important (GM): MR BONES kinda diied like a bitch
Bart: Acceptable i think
Beard: hard to judge with 2 minibosses back-to-back with no mooks involved
Nobody Important (GM): Hydra was good but we need to drop it's Prevent Harm by a bit, they were only hitting it due to stacking a specific Strong Guy power.
Sverd: They're beatable at on-a-roll, Hydra was much stronker than Skeleton, and only really beatable with strong willpower powers.
Jermiah Tombill: Yeah
If we hadn't found out Mr. Bones weak point, it would have been one wild ride
Sarge: I should buff up the weak spot's robustness then
Sverd: I'm going to let out all my unfulfilled roleplay desires from this session via two-hour campfire talks in the actual campaign. And you're all going to have to suffer through it.
Sarge: Plus you did tell them it's weakspot Nob
Nobody Important (GM): Oh Sverd, you realize you're on the invite list for the real campaign where you can ramble all you want?
I did, because they succeeded on a TN25 Insight roll to tell that wearing a helmet without protecting something is rather stupid.
Sverd: i'm gonna ramble so much you don't even understand
Jermiah Tombill: Am I invited as well?
Sarge: Oh, didn't see that.
Nobody Important (GM): Sure, why not.
I'll formalize an actual invite list later, at the moment it's just a theoretical thing.
Jermiah Tombill: Coolio
Sarge: EVERY PLAYER IS INVITED
20 PLAYER GAME
CMON NOB
Bart: Oh boy.
Sverd: Nothing could possibly go wrong, we could have an entire chorus.
Nobody Important (GM): I've learned from experience that more than 5 players is bad -- someone's gonna get bored and combat will be slow as hell.
Jermiah Tombill: "Hey Jeremiah, remeber the time we got stuck in hell, and we had to fight a Hydra, so I had throw your poisoned corpse at it to kill it? Good times"
Sverd: I think this was a good confirmation that Villains are at an acceptable level, though.
Nobody Important (GM): Yeah, looks good.
Sverd: They're not impossibly difficult, but no pushovers.
Nobody Important (GM): Other than Mr Bones' weakspot being TOO weak.
Sarge: Now imagine fighting both at the same time
Nobody Important (GM): Most of them will have a pile of mooks/lackeys too.
Jermiah Tombill: We also learned you don't fuck with hades unless your at a Hero level
Bart: "You owe me big time, westy. That's at least twenty vodkas of debt right there."
Jermiah Tombill: "Well, its the least I could do, with you savin my life and all"
Beard: well, i'll leave you to your campfire
Bart: "I also had to renounce my reward: a shot at headbutting matchstick-man on the nose!"
Nobody Important (GM): Alright, i'm gonna 'bin this and put it on the thread. thanks for coming, everyone.
Jermiah Tombill: Jeremiah coughs out a spurt of smoke
Sarge: Good job guys
More villains comin up
Jermiah Tombill: "I'd advise to not doin thawt'