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[TheBronzePickle]

It's a viable game, but is it any fun? If so, I'll have to run it across my cousin. It would certainly make game night a bit more interesting.

[Bauglir]

I'm yet unsure of gameplay, but character creation is pretty fun. I'm currently building a character I'm going to refer to as DracoStalin, LordParty Secretary of Stabbing Your Face, but who has a slightly less silly actual name. I may also build CyberHitler the Dakkamensch, just to expand my range of tyrannical ultradictators to choose from.

[HLBeta]

I'm in the process of cooking up a Demonhost character.The plan is to buy a wraithbone heart as a starting artifact (roll twice on perils of the warp, choose result), buy the pride demon asset (+5 on competitive rolls and flavor) and specialize in explode-y magic (pew-pew!). He'll be an unsanctioned mage (stronger, riskier over-channeling) who is convinced that his implanted heart has granted him full dominance over the demon within, rendering himself invincible. Then he will over-channel every single spell in order to deliberately aim for perils-of-the-warp-level botches and try to use the heart's ability to get a result that cooks everyone standing near him without damaging himself.

Then watch the party's slow slide into madness as the warp is laid bare before them.

Then go insane from the constant warp exposure.

If I've got this right, I'll be throwing two to three times as many dice as most mage opponents will be willing (or possibly able) to put into casting, constantly forcing mental trauma rolls and other fun stuff from perils of the warp and generally having a good time. And once that's all done he'll go insane and can be the new arc villan! I still need to finish up the build, but I'll probably post a sheet if the thread is still alive by then.

[Dsarker]

Okay. Apparently, without having a weapon skill, YOU CANNOT ATTACK.

[Kusgnos]

Ahahaha, I remember seeing that thread. It came out right on April Fools', and everyone was convinced it was some joke until a daring soul downloaded the file and read through it.

Never tried playing it myself, though.

[Aqizzar]

I'm flipping through the rulebook and noticed that Paragon exalted don't seem to have a tier 1 ability. Am I missing something here, or are they just too cool for basic powers?

The song only has four lines, that's why.  It's good enough to make up for not having a tier 1 ability, since Paragons looks pretty good anyway.

I couldn't get through more than most of character creation and a couple Exalts, but I'm already in love with this.  A brutally butchered mashup of D&D4 and Dark Heresy should not make this much sense put in writing.  Actually it doesn't - there's quite a few gaps and ambiguity in the character creation process (how many negative traits can you take?), and actually following the process requires a lot of page turning.  I really have to call fault on the game's claim that you won't have to repeatedly consult the rules in-play.

Then again, I can give a lot of leeway to a game that manages to make such a seemless combination of two worn out jokes like that Lord of the Rings page, or arrives at such a concordantly elegant system of stat and skill point allocation.  Pity the creator has obviously moved on, since he hasn't updated since May.  I'm on board for actually trying to play this trainwreck if anyone else wants in - Human Paragon Swordsman at the ready.

[Dsarker]

I've still got to get a copy I can read. As to his leaving it alone... He made an update in July, and is apparently in the heavy writing stage.

Once I do get a copy, I could try running a game with this trainwreck....must be good experience for a beginner GM to run a game that's not going to work at all well, smoothly, or indeed maybe at all.

[timferius]

What? Paragon Exalted? Perils of the Warp? Wraithbone? This thread............... oww, my brain hurts. Why, what?

In Summary:
BUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH???

[Bauglir]

Actually it doesn't - there's quite a few gaps and ambiguity in the character creation process (how many negative traits can you take?), and actually following the process requires a lot of page turning.  I really have to call fault on the game's claim that you won't have to repeatedly consult the rules in-play.

This. If I have a giant chunk of free time, I might try reorganizing some of it. Stuff is scattered so bad it's not even funny. Incidentally, the answer is two; it's under Hindrances on page 120.

And yeah, apparently you can't attack without the skill. The rules say to make a characteristic check if you have no skill, but since no characteristic applies, you roll 0k0. The way you are to arrive at this conclusion boggles the mind, but really it's just a change to the rules they forgot to propagate two sentences backward.

[drkpaladin]

Aw man, as soon as I saw the title I knew it had to be mine.  I can't get the link working to download the current version, is there a problem with the server?

Edit: Mediafire is working again, its so awesome!

[Dsarker]

Bauglir, once we start doing testing to rival the Manhattan project a bit of playtesting, we can find out which rules work best, how to get the game running smoothly, that sort of thing. I've already got a nice plot together thanks to the adventure hooks and some creative thinking.