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What was your favorite part of the journey?

GOBLINS! AND LOTS OF THEM!
- 0 (0%)
The assassins in the town!
- 1 (11.1%)
Gonzou suiciding!
- 1 (11.1%)
The shadow monster encounters of all kinds!
- 0 (0%)
The mountains!
- 0 (0%)
The werewolf incident with Nadarr, leading to us getting arrested!
- 2 (22.2%)
The bandit camp side quests!
- 0 (0%)
The fortress upper levels! (Necromancers, gate, madmen)
- 1 (11.1%)
The caverns! (Dragon, Cotl, Cave Crocs)
- 2 (22.2%)
The Fortress lower levels! (Maze, Grot/Symon/Gonzou Fight, Husks)
- 0 (0%)
The flesh party that was the final battle!
- 0 (0%)
The epilogue (and the end of almost two years of madness)
- 2 (22.2%)
None! It sucked!
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9


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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2013, 09:32:56 am »

Hey man, if you don't think you can handle seven players at a time then stick me on a waitlist. Is cool :)
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2013, 09:56:02 am »

Next question: Can you explain or give an example of what you mean by characters having four background bonuses? I flipped through the Dark Sun book and the Player's Manual 1, but couldn't find anything in there to explain it more clearly.
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2013, 10:10:58 am »

In the character builder I use, there are several options to having backgrounds. One will be forgotten realms: your homeland. You pick one area you like, for example vilhan wilds, and you get the benefit from being there, like the reroll to dungeons wrong checks that vilhan gets. You get your dark sun theme and the forgotten realms theme as well as two "general" which are like Occupation - Scholar, Location - Urban, etc. I'm doing this because you can have a homeland, and have a general idea on who you are as a person by what you did and where you've been, etc.

It's for story purposes mostly, but an extra bonus or two doesn't sound that bad though, right?

EDIT:
Most of the general backgrounds are found in PHB 2 and in many of the dragon magazines. I don't know how you'll get the latter, but if you're doing it without the builder, I commend you for your effort, making me feel like a lazy bum :-\
« Last Edit: December 03, 2013, 10:22:27 am by highmax28 »
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2013, 10:21:56 am »

I went through the character builder and didn't see any Dark Sun theme.  Anyone else have this problem?
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2013, 10:25:04 am »

I went through the character builder and didn't see any Dark Sun theme.  Anyone else have this problem?

Same here. I think it's something to do with the .index files. Either they're incorrect or the thing isn't recognizing them for some reason.
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2013, 10:30:12 am »

I went through the character builder and didn't see any Dark Sun theme.  Anyone else have this problem?
Its gotta be updated. Theres an html code that adds in the updates. I don't know if it will work after its been installed, but heres a link to my files in the character builder. It doesn't have the appdata files, so I don't know how it'll work.

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Just make sure he wears a boot.

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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #21 on: December 03, 2013, 10:32:50 am »

I'm pretty sure there are online character builders that don't require downloading a lot of weird files and doing wizardry to them. I'll see if I can find one of my favorites when I get on my computer later.
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #22 on: December 03, 2013, 10:38:43 am »

I'm pretty sure there are online character builders that don't require downloading a lot of weird files and doing wizardry to them. I'll see if I can find one of my favorites when I get on my computer later.
The real character builder on the Wizards site is paid for. If I had the money, I'd just do it for everyone and send them the character sheet as a PDF or something. But I'm broke so I can't
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Jee wilikers, I think Highmax is near invulnerable, must have been dunked in the river styx like achilles was.
Just make sure he wears a boot.

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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #23 on: December 03, 2013, 10:44:46 am »

I'm pretty sure there are online character builders that don't require downloading a lot of weird files and doing wizardry to them. I'll see if I can find one of my favorites when I get on my computer later.
The real character builder on the Wizards site is paid for. If I had the money, I'd just do it for everyone and send them the character sheet as a PDF or something. But I'm broke so I can't
Not talking about that one (although I've used it before and it is amazingly handy). There are free ones that aren't quite as good but can still spit out usable characters. I have at least one bookmarked but not on my phone.
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #24 on: December 03, 2013, 10:46:49 am »

I'm pretty sure there are online character builders that don't require downloading a lot of weird files and doing wizardry to them. I'll see if I can find one of my favorites when I get on my computer later.
The real character builder on the Wizards site is paid for. If I had the money, I'd just do it for everyone and send them the character sheet as a PDF or something. But I'm broke so I can't
Not talking about that one (although I've used it before and it is amazingly handy). There are free ones that aren't quite as good but can still spit out usable characters. I have at least one bookmarked but not on my phone.
Does it have the current additions? I know theres one you can torrent/download that doesn't include a lot of the newer things, like hengeyokai aren't there, etc.
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2013, 10:48:36 am »

I would have to check, its been a while since I played 4e. And like I said, these are online builders without needing to fiddle with files, so no torrents.
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #26 on: December 03, 2013, 10:54:13 am »

I would have to check, its been a while since I played 4e. And like I said, these are online builders without needing to fiddle with files, so no torrents.
That... Might be better
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Just make sure he wears a boot.

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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #27 on: December 03, 2013, 11:33:50 am »

Waiting up for the character builder thingy.Also first time playing.Wanted to do this for a very long time
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #28 on: December 03, 2013, 01:08:32 pm »

Well I hope you enjoy it. I've been wanting to make myself better at DMing so why not? And you'll learn fast hopefully
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Re: Lets Play Dungeons and Dragons (4th Edition)
« Reply #29 on: December 03, 2013, 04:06:20 pm »

Cool, I'll hold off and hope Sirius finds a handy link. Otherwise, I'll do some poking around (my) tomorrow.

The one you linked to, Highmax, took one look at 64-bit Windows 7 and said 'nope, don't feel like working'.
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