Pika...
2010-01-07, 04:52 PM
Hey,
So a player of mine wants to try his hands at DM (the discworld fanboy one), and is rushing up a game for the coming Sunday. And I am thrilled, since I FINALLY get to play again!
Anyway, the guy is taking homebrewed material of mine that he likes (I am so honored), and he has OK'd my Dogbolds (a Kobold subrace based on Kobolds ate my Baby) for me to play, since he was going to stick them in a strange area anyways for some "mysterious reason".
Anyway, I wanted to keep true to the Kobolds ate my Baby style, so I wanted him to, while being highly intelligent (aka high Int score) with some degree of being "civalizeb", he is still by nature a sneaky chicken/baby stealing bottom dweller. Because of this and his fluff the DM is allowing me to switch out skills on a one for one bases for this goal.
And the campaign is basically going to be high plagiarized from mostly Discworld he says due to time retrains, which I am not sure is relevant or not to this situation.
Oh! And while the guys has a very high Int, his Wis is a 4. The background I worked out with him is that he basically has a neither evil nor good class of Far Realm entity only the dumbest of his race (aka Dogbolds) are sought out for, due to having even more extra space in their huge heads than your average one (normally their brains are peanut sized, his is more pea sized.). Hence why his Int is huge for such a usually dumb creature, why he can manifest psionic abilities, and why he will just automatically know how to craft psionic items. Also, when the entity takes over the character's eyes will glow.
I guess knowing what discipline and/or powers to take might be the best starting point?
Also, in case it is relevant he is adding the following houserules concerning psionics:
While not transparent, magic and psionics still can affect/interfere with each other with soem extra effort.
Like in my own rules all powers/spells must be learned through effort in game. Learning them, buying stone/scrolls, etc. (Again, I am honored!).
You can only get powers that fall under your discipline, though you can pull powers from the main psion/wilder list if they are of your discipline. I kinda like this.
You can gain "sub-disciplines" as you go, which I am intrigued by.
"Augmentation is free". I am worried about this one, but I had a talk with him saying "Listen, please understand you are homebrewing psionics on your first go, so please don't get a bad impression to the system based on this campaign.". I think he understood.
ps. Any roleplaying tips for playing a character who is BOTH uber intelligent, but has dangerously low Wis would be greatly appreciated. I have never played one with such two contradictory extremes, and this one seems like a real fun prospect. Feel free to include how you think such a creature/race should act as well!
pss. Here is an image of him (I had posted him earlier, but the thread wen nowhere):
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/My%20characters/MrImDelicious-1.jpg
A cookie for anyone who recognizes his inspiration/the model I used.
psss. His name is Mr. Delicious, I'm for those who might actually be curious.
So a player of mine wants to try his hands at DM (the discworld fanboy one), and is rushing up a game for the coming Sunday. And I am thrilled, since I FINALLY get to play again!
Anyway, the guy is taking homebrewed material of mine that he likes (I am so honored), and he has OK'd my Dogbolds (a Kobold subrace based on Kobolds ate my Baby) for me to play, since he was going to stick them in a strange area anyways for some "mysterious reason".
Anyway, I wanted to keep true to the Kobolds ate my Baby style, so I wanted him to, while being highly intelligent (aka high Int score) with some degree of being "civalizeb", he is still by nature a sneaky chicken/baby stealing bottom dweller. Because of this and his fluff the DM is allowing me to switch out skills on a one for one bases for this goal.
And the campaign is basically going to be high plagiarized from mostly Discworld he says due to time retrains, which I am not sure is relevant or not to this situation.
Oh! And while the guys has a very high Int, his Wis is a 4. The background I worked out with him is that he basically has a neither evil nor good class of Far Realm entity only the dumbest of his race (aka Dogbolds) are sought out for, due to having even more extra space in their huge heads than your average one (normally their brains are peanut sized, his is more pea sized.). Hence why his Int is huge for such a usually dumb creature, why he can manifest psionic abilities, and why he will just automatically know how to craft psionic items. Also, when the entity takes over the character's eyes will glow.
I guess knowing what discipline and/or powers to take might be the best starting point?
Also, in case it is relevant he is adding the following houserules concerning psionics:
While not transparent, magic and psionics still can affect/interfere with each other with soem extra effort.
Like in my own rules all powers/spells must be learned through effort in game. Learning them, buying stone/scrolls, etc. (Again, I am honored!).
You can only get powers that fall under your discipline, though you can pull powers from the main psion/wilder list if they are of your discipline. I kinda like this.
You can gain "sub-disciplines" as you go, which I am intrigued by.
"Augmentation is free". I am worried about this one, but I had a talk with him saying "Listen, please understand you are homebrewing psionics on your first go, so please don't get a bad impression to the system based on this campaign.". I think he understood.
ps. Any roleplaying tips for playing a character who is BOTH uber intelligent, but has dangerously low Wis would be greatly appreciated. I have never played one with such two contradictory extremes, and this one seems like a real fun prospect. Feel free to include how you think such a creature/race should act as well!
pss. Here is an image of him (I had posted him earlier, but the thread wen nowhere):
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/My%20characters/MrImDelicious-1.jpg
A cookie for anyone who recognizes his inspiration/the model I used.
psss. His name is Mr. Delicious, I'm for those who might actually be curious.