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General Discussion / Re: Look what I found!
« on: November 07, 2009, 08:30:34 pm »
Totally loving the community on the fansite atm, OneST8. If you guys make an official one, I'll join and toss in the occasional heart and love for y'all's efforts. Please provide screenies for much oogling, also, on it!

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General Discussion / Re: Look what I found!
« on: November 04, 2009, 09:51:39 pm »
Joined myself :) Thought I'd hop on here and make a post to let you all know <3

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Just for Fun / Re: Music.
« on: January 15, 2009, 09:40:33 pm »
Going to need to know the basic genre of music you like and a basic time frame... at least... (Classic, current, whatever) before I'm comfortable in linking stuff. :P I have too much otherwise to suggest.

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Ask A Gamemaster / Re: Lawful-Half Giant
« on: January 12, 2009, 12:26:13 pm »
Half-breeds, I would say yes. You will find most examples of Tanar'ri spawn that is half blood to be the same alignment as their Tanar'ri mother/father. Proper care and nurture rarely work for something that is BORN to be as it is. You will still have the natural urges that are the biological development of the brain to contend with even if you want to be a, for example, lawful half-giant. The very fact these urges remain will keep them from being fully lawful... so they're locked out of it.

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Ask A Gamemaster / Re: Lawful-Half Giant
« on: January 12, 2009, 12:14:53 pm »
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I can't simply accept this "because it's in their blood" explanation for such restrictions. It would be fine reasoning to explain why most half-giants are chaotic, or why there are very few lawful half-giants. It does not validate utterly preventing a half-giant from being lawful, though. People go against their "blood" all the time, consciously and not.


People can go against their blood in real life because people are not the incarnation of an alignment. For example, in DnD, a Tanar'ri HAS to be CE because they are the plane's actual manifestation of that alignment. Furthering spawn from that, such as cambion/alu-demon and tieflings, have the ability to pick other alignments because their blood is diluted.

Giants are not a planar representation like the Tanar'ri or Baatezu, but I believe the same basic thought is used in their creation. Granted, I can't pull any examples because I've only thoroughly studied the planes (Like, I own and read every book regarding the planes :P). I still believe that the just blood explanation can work, however. A giant is like a wild animal... they're chaotic, and MAYBE you can tame it to neutrality, but you can never teach it to follow the same laws and morals that drives the more developed races.

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Ask A Gamemaster / Re: Lawful-Half Giant
« on: January 11, 2009, 07:48:14 pm »
If we're referencing DnD lore for alignment justifications, I would suggest looking up Tanar'ri (demons). They are strictly in the chaotic line because of their very nature from their spawned environment, and regardless of how they were raised, they have a natural urge to act chaotic... it's in their blood. The Baatezu bloodline, the devils, are the exact opposite in that they HAVE to be lawful.

Granted, I think the lower planes would not allow good alignments, but that's straying from my point.

Basically, I think half giants can't be lawful because it is within their blood and their limited intelligence to not be able to comprehend or fit into the law based system... Maybe you can Rp it to neutral where they can coincide with it, but I can't see it being able to be justified to actual lawfulness. I think that's what the team had in mind when creating that subrace... and something along those lines when they put the restrictions for the rest.

Just a guess.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hai!
« on: January 05, 2009, 02:21:36 pm »
Welcome [back]

;)

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Rumour Has It / Re: A Message [Attention Storold]
« on: January 05, 2009, 12:23:03 pm »
// Eh, I wasn't really being specific about it... just threw it down under a rock or some such in the vicinity. Didn't think it'd be too big of a deal :P My bad. We can just assume something else was done, then, in that case.

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Rumour Has It / Re: Home Sweepstakes - Fully Furnished and Fully Historic
« on: January 04, 2009, 06:58:06 pm »
I'll pay up front later.

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Rumour Has It / Re: Home Sweepstakes - Fully Furnished and Fully Historic
« on: January 03, 2009, 03:33:42 pm »
Sign Llane S. Anetheron up for 3 tickets.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: You and your Role-Play
« on: January 02, 2009, 04:18:18 pm »
Forum Name: Interia_Discordius
Login Name: Mrs_Masquerade
Age: 17
Sex: Female
Location: Ohio, USA
Timezone: Eastern
NwN Experience: Few years now
PnP Experience: Longer
Occupation: Student
Characters Played: Kinai Ancalime - Retired, Amaris A'Iretni - Retired, Acanthus Lanassori, and my main is currently Llane S. Anetheron

What I like to see IG: Specific attention to the personality of a character to create a person that is well-rounded and deep.

What I dislike to see IG: Characters who pretend that they are omniscient and omnipotent.

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General Discussion / Re: The Troll King presents: The Explorer Series
« on: December 30, 2008, 10:27:20 pm »
What about Friday?

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Just for Fun / Re: If Your Character Was a Poem
« on: December 27, 2008, 12:30:41 pm »
Disappointing that no one played this game with me D: Come on, people!

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Roleplaying / Re: Intimidation?
« on: December 26, 2008, 01:35:32 pm »
In terms of PC intimidation, I have a tendency to read what is actually written than go completely by rolls. Having someone emote waving an axe at me and saying I'LL KILL YOU is a bit intimidating, sure, but I'm not gonna turn around and run screaming at the same time even if the roll difference was huge. I always found that incredibly cheap to roll against a +29 modifier when your counter roll is a bloody Will that has no ups besides a few +2 or +3s.

On that note, I personally react better to people who put the right atmosphere on or spend more time with their RP... it doesn't have to be lengthy, but there are more ways to intimidate someone than by just threatening to take their lives or brandishing a weapon. I react to characters regardless of rolls and look at what's really being said. Same with persuasion. I have no problems roleplaying my character in fear or stupid agreement... There should be no personal pride in such things with your own roleplay. I do it for the story, and in stories, you do not get anywhere by placing one character on a pedestal and making them practically immortal to their environment. My only problem comes with people who spam rolls and think I'll insta-agree just because they said "You'll tell me!" and roll an insane +modifier persuade or intimidate.

I'm bound... what are you gonna do? Camp me?

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Development Journals and Discussion / Re: In Nothing We Trust
« on: December 24, 2008, 04:44:11 pm »
--

This much she was certain of: it didn't happen immediately. She finished and that was that, until a moment came, maybe it was a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years later. Maybe she was sick of feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or maybe even content for the first time in her life. It didn't matter. Out of the blue, beyond any cause she could trace, she suddenly realized that things were not as she perceived them to be at all. She detected slow and subtle shifts going on all around her, more importantly in her. Worse, she realized that it had always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. She didn't understand why or how. She had forgotten what had granted her this awareness in the first place.

Old shelters - drinking, observing, listening - protected her no longer. She tried scribbling in a journal, on a bit of parchment, even in the margins of scrolls she had found. That's when she discovered that she no longer trusted the very walls she had taken for granted. Even the hallways she had walked a hundred times felt longer, much longer, and the shadows, any shadow at all, seemed suddenly deeper, much, much deeper.

She tried then to find a sky so full of stars that it could blind her again... Only no sky could blind her now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, her eye no longer lingered on the light, it no longer traced the constellations. She cared only about the darkness, and she watched it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe that she were some indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if by just looking she could actually keep it all at bay. It had gotten so bad that she was afraid to look away, afraid to sleep.

Then no matter where she was, in a crowded inn or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of her own home, she watched herself dismantle every assurance she had ever lived by. She stood aside as a great complexity intruded, tearing apart, piece by piece, all of her carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And then for better or worse, she turned, unable to resist, though try to resist she did, fighting with everything she had not to face the thing she most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature she truly was, the creature they all were, buried in the nameless black of a name.

And then the nightmares began.

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General Discussion / Re: The Troll King presents: The Explorer Series
« on: December 19, 2008, 04:34:12 pm »
I can't :(

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General Discussion / Re: The Troll King presents: The Explorer Series
« on: December 18, 2008, 05:51:13 am »
Sorry, totally forgot yesterday was a Wednesday.

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General Discussion / Re: The Troll King presents: The Explorer Series
« on: December 14, 2008, 06:00:20 pm »
Can these times be made just a little earlier? Right now, it's set too late for me to join :(

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Development Journals and Discussion / Re: In Nothing We Trust
« on: December 13, 2008, 06:04:16 pm »
---

She found she was no good with dates. When morn turned to dusk and twilight reigned, the ticks of the day and the names of them seemed to escape her. Come dawn, the only reasonable logic she held was that another day had passed, but otherwise, the rest was seemingly nonsense. Why did they even use days, weeks, months, and years? In reality, it was repetition, the same sun rising and the same sun setting.

At least that seemed her experience now.

~

The leaves in the forest filtered the sunlight, leaving only the thin shafts that managed to pierce through. Under normal circumstances where Llane could admire the beauty, she would do just that. Unfortunately, she was not in a typical situation, and worse still was that those same, lovely rays were shining directly into her eyes.

Her arms were held out to the sides, her legs set apart on the branch she balanced upon. The warm day was silent save for the woodsy noises of bird and bug, and there was no breeze to speak of up in the canopy where she had her perch. There, she waited, blinded eyes scanning the heavens in vain for a telltale loose leaf.

She wasn't sure when exactly it was that she had decided to hate the passing of days. It was somewhere between when her sweat had started to mold her dark clothes to her form and when the salty, stinging monstrosity had started to fall into her eyes. She had a hunch that when she finally managed to grab her prize, she would come down from the treetops with bloodshot rims.

Her poor, pitiful eyes.

Her right leg trembled. It had felt like eternity since she had scaled the Silkwood trees to that location, and in the back of her mind was a nagging warning that she was pushing herself too far this time.

Still...

The hours dragged on, as dull and as painful as the previous, but stubborn as a mule, Llane refused to move. Her toes had long since grown numb, her ankles having followed soon after to dead weights. Her quakes were more frequent, and the only mercy she was given was the sun falling out of her face as it sunk past the horizon.

- And just when she was ready to slump to defeat, she heard it.

Bleached blue eyes snapped upwards again, and when she caught sight of the culprit of the noise, her heart sang in triumph.

The leaf swayed in the absent wind, swinging back and forth like a pendulum as its hold upon the twig weakened. She saw her hand reach towards it out of its own accord; she could not sense it any longer, every part of her was stiff and blunted as her feet.

The corpse of the leaf seemed to slide into her fingers, pulled down by gravity. Her legs threatened to snap beneath her, but she could only see that single, godly, curled creature in her hand. Still days and sleepless nights were carried upon her shoulders for this one reward.

This is how the clerics of gods must feel when they're rewarded for their prayers, she heard herself think. This is the slaving, the crying, the constant doubts...

This is how it's like to be one of the virtuous when they step within the arms of their gods...

And then she was falling, the millions of leaves still connected to their branches spiraling above her as she went down.

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General Discussion / Re: The Troll King presents: The Explorer Series
« on: December 11, 2008, 11:45:16 am »
Silkwood spider cave... I've heard a lot of eerie things about it through Dorg and some other people in IRC. Maybe Hlint should be the starting point?

Level req wise... I honestly don't know what's appropriate there. It sounds a bit mid-ish

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