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I remember when I used to be into nostalgia.
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I remember when I used to be into nostalgia.
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8 yrs ago
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, there's a few white fluffy clouds in the sky. I am closing the curtains and going back to bed.
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8 yrs ago
"What kind of solicitor doesn't have sweets on their desk?!"
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8 yrs ago
"His multiphasic torpedo will penetrate your rift / and cause a quantum singularity in your transwarp conduit!"
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"You make a pretty good sheep."
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I live somewhere in the wilds of East London with a couple of friends, a pet rat and a collection of RPG books that is slowly consuming our house. I've suggested possibly getting rid of some of them, but it's pretty much got to the point where the books are the only thing keeping the building upright and if I move any of them the whole thing could come crashing down.
In terms of games - well, I'll consider anything, except that. As can probably be gathered from my posts, I find myself generally playing characters that let me bit a little bit light-hearted. I am reasonably certain that I can play serious characters, but I know that getting to post things which makes me chuckle as I write them keeps me far more engaged. I like fandom-y things (because I can't, apparently, still get enough Undertale, Adventure Time and various Nintendo stuff, good job brain), and non-fandom-y things, and will one day get around to rebooting a RP I'd made on here seven years ago.
In terms of games - well, I'll consider anything, except that. As can probably be gathered from my posts, I find myself generally playing characters that let me bit a little bit light-hearted. I am reasonably certain that I can play serious characters, but I know that getting to post things which makes me chuckle as I write them keeps me far more engaged. I like fandom-y things (because I can't, apparently, still get enough Undertale, Adventure Time and various Nintendo stuff, good job brain), and non-fandom-y things, and will one day get around to rebooting a RP I'd made on here seven years ago.
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I do, though more as GM than a player, and mostly using an increasingly battered looking copy of the 3rd edition Basic Set. I've read the Characters and Campaigns books for 4th, but haven't got an opportunity to play them (my group makes weird, slightly pained noises when I've got the books out), so I think I qualify as having a moderate understanding!
Would you mind if my prospective wyrmling is from Eberron? I'm just thinking that their dragons don't have the restrictive alignments, and that the "always chaotic evil" thing might otherwise not make for a character that plays well with others!
Yes, and I'm really sorry it's taken me so long to reply - I got a bit stuck when it comes to character ideas, I think! Brock, while it'd be fun, is probably too minor a character in the grand scheme of things. I'm not sure I'd really be able to do justice to some of the more well-known characters though, so I'm thinking that it might be easiest / best to make an OC that'd fit in with the Fables style of things.
I've had an idea about the Cheshire Cat of Wonderland floating in my head all weekend, you see.
I've had an idea about the Cheshire Cat of Wonderland floating in my head all weekend, you see.
Works for me. Press-ganging works, or maybe his parents put him in the mercenary company for babysitting.
That's a particularly brutal sort of babysitting. I shouldn't like it, but I do.
What's everyone looking to do, character-wise?
There's so many options! So many. Anyway, ideally I'd like to play something that's not crazy-optimised, as most my regular gaming group is all about trying the most overpowered and ridiculous stuff possible, quite possibly in order to test the effects of stress upon lifespan with our DM.
In terms of "weirdest option I'd like to do", the ECL of a White dragon wyrmling in Draconomicon is five. I'd throw in some backstory regarding how it came to pass that it ended up working in a mercenary company; the egg was taken as part of the payment for some prior job? Smuggled aboard the ship and pressed into service? The closest thing they've got to a ship's parrot? Obviously, this is kind of a way-out-there sort of suggestion, so if it's not the sort of thing you'd like in the game at all, I'll gladly come up with a more down to earth suggestion!
Hey @clanjos, how many folks were you looking for to get this idea running? Please, please save me from another day of reading D&D 3.5 material!
In the hope that there'll be more interest with a bump, can I register my interest?
I think the series started off on a strong premise but it kind of got off the rails for me further down. It'd be interesting to see how Fabletown would have to be tailored to fit in the main universe though.
I agree on the strong-premise-but-went-off-the-rails bit; it sort of peaked (for me, at least) with the end of the Adversary stuff (I'm trying to keep it vague, so as to avoid spoilers, just in case!). The stuff that followed became hit and miss, though there's still some really nice bits in there. I've got my fingers crossed that the spin-off-ish series are closer in style to the earlier ones.
Anyway, before I get lost in trying to work out when, exactly, the series started to lose it's way, I'll go away and think of how one might go about fitting Brock in. As for how it'd fit into the main universe - it's already established that there are many worlds, and that stories / myths / legends told in the Mundy world of Fables tend to be reflections of these worlds. In the Super Team bit, they do try to tap into the power of comics, and so it doesn't seem like such a stretch that, from the perspective of Fables, there exists some comic book inspired world populated by super heroes, nefarious villains and what-have-you. It'd let you cherry-pick a little in terms of how much stuff from Fables you'd want to see more easily, presenting it (again, from their perspective) as another world amongst the many, rather than as the world that the exiled Fables chose to retreat to.
Or, of course, Fabletown could just be plonked down somewhere in Metropolis, and tie the whole thing together that way, but it'd probably require a fair bit of fiddling to make it work without breaking the "feel" of things. I'm more than happy, of course, to go with whatever option you decide would work best for your game! There are plenty of ways to fit the Fables in, I'm sure, and perhaps we could muddle the continuity up such that it keeps that sort of "Legends In Exile" theme that made the early Fables stuff great. Also, um, apologies for the wall of text.
Oh I haven't finished the series yet, better finish it myself.
You should! Although I've yet to tackle the various spin-off series, so there's that to look forward to. I'll not spoil anything! As for who I want to play, if it wasn't an OC, it'd be Brock "Stinky" Blueheart. He's bloody awesome, and he's already got a super-hero name courtest of the rather silly supers mini-arc-series-thingy.
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