LastCenturion
2017-01-18, 05:10 PM
Before I start, let me just say that this title is not my idea. It's the title that the group as a whole voted on. I defer all blame/credit to Josh and Lucas.
Anyways.
This is my first campaign journal, so... let's get started.
The game is set about 15 years ahead of our own world, with the assumption that in perhaps 3 years there is a major shift in power. Not a reversal of roles or anything, but all of the world's governments became basically all at once either isolationist, totalitarian, or both. Population has also taken a decent hit, but no more than 10%. The specifics will be developed as we go. Our goal as characters is to depose the current goverment and reinstate democracy worldwide.
We're using a custom mix of D&D 3.5e stuff and d20 Modern stuff. Basically the entire d20 Modern stuff, but 3.5 system rules and whatever classes you want if the DM says yes. Low (low low low) magic, as in there's basically nothing at all magical around. Oh, there are also some houserules and minor fixes to various classes.
There are five characters in the group, who I will be referring to by PC name throughout. Including above, when I credited the people who named the game. We're all human through part coincidence, part people just didn't want to stick out THAT much. The five people are, in order of how I put them on this list:
Josh.
Josh is the party face. I'm not sure what his build is, but he's focused almost entirely on talking to people and getting it right. He claims that he can partner with the techie to jump on people's comms and convince them that we're friendly. We'll see how that goes.
Lucas
Lucas is the heavy weapons guy. The main role he wants while we fight is to jump into rooms in front of everybody and make sure we aren't about to get shot by hiding people. He calls it a "corner checker". Not sure what his build is either, but he has a lot of ammo and a lot of guns.
Asteraeoth
Asteraeoth, whom I will refer to as Aster for brevity, is basically Robin Hood in a trench coat. His words. I know his build includes Urban Ranger, but other than that I'm in the dark.
Dimpki
Dimpki is the techie, who the DM is playing as an NPC because the rest of the party (not me, I was neutral) said we needed one. He speaks 15 different languages including Lojban and Javascript, and I assume is fairly operational. He's also the demolitionist if we need one, but only in a minor capacity.
Alanna
Alanna is the melee one, but I'll be calling her something else. Me. If you hadn't figured it out through process of elimination, I'm playing Alanna. My build is a Samurai (OA) 5, Kensai 3. The DM let me swap the Ancestral Daisho for an Ancestral Ogachi, so I'm playing a greatsword wielding cosplayer. My backstory is that I used to do ren fairs, at which I would smith armor and things. Hence, my chain shirt and greatsword. It's a +3 Large Greatsword, through Monkey Grip and the Kensai feature. If you've ever played one of the Monster Hunter games, it's the one guy with the great sword from them.
As a part of character creation, my group allows us to fight against various enemies in a "sandbox" mode where nothing changes outside of it. Arena fight, basically. Anyways, each of us went up against a tank full of soldiers one versus one in turn. Here's how it went. In retrospect the DM was probably going easy on us because the tanks barely fired, but hey.
Josh: Managed to get on top of it, then opened the hatch and went to work on the guys inside with a grenade.
Lucas: Almost got flattened, but managed to blow up the tank before it blew up him.
Aster: Had a nice time running around in circles, but couldn't actually do anything to the tank. Eventually the soldiers popped up out of it and shot at him, which he beat them at.
Dimpki: Blew up the tank with some hand-made land mines, then got the soldiers with a handgun. I ran the tank here, because the DM was playing the techie.
Me: Literally sliced the tank in half with a readied action (I got almost maximum damage crit), and killed the soldiers one or two at a time for the next minute or so.
Session One:
We mostly created and introduced characters in this session, without really trying them out. Not sure there's anything worth sharing, because we just met on the subway towards the Town Hall in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. All going there to raid it, incidentally. That'll probably be session two.
Second Session (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?512443-The-Illuminati-Hunters&p=21618222#post21618222)
Anyways.
This is my first campaign journal, so... let's get started.
The game is set about 15 years ahead of our own world, with the assumption that in perhaps 3 years there is a major shift in power. Not a reversal of roles or anything, but all of the world's governments became basically all at once either isolationist, totalitarian, or both. Population has also taken a decent hit, but no more than 10%. The specifics will be developed as we go. Our goal as characters is to depose the current goverment and reinstate democracy worldwide.
We're using a custom mix of D&D 3.5e stuff and d20 Modern stuff. Basically the entire d20 Modern stuff, but 3.5 system rules and whatever classes you want if the DM says yes. Low (low low low) magic, as in there's basically nothing at all magical around. Oh, there are also some houserules and minor fixes to various classes.
There are five characters in the group, who I will be referring to by PC name throughout. Including above, when I credited the people who named the game. We're all human through part coincidence, part people just didn't want to stick out THAT much. The five people are, in order of how I put them on this list:
Josh.
Josh is the party face. I'm not sure what his build is, but he's focused almost entirely on talking to people and getting it right. He claims that he can partner with the techie to jump on people's comms and convince them that we're friendly. We'll see how that goes.
Lucas
Lucas is the heavy weapons guy. The main role he wants while we fight is to jump into rooms in front of everybody and make sure we aren't about to get shot by hiding people. He calls it a "corner checker". Not sure what his build is either, but he has a lot of ammo and a lot of guns.
Asteraeoth
Asteraeoth, whom I will refer to as Aster for brevity, is basically Robin Hood in a trench coat. His words. I know his build includes Urban Ranger, but other than that I'm in the dark.
Dimpki
Dimpki is the techie, who the DM is playing as an NPC because the rest of the party (not me, I was neutral) said we needed one. He speaks 15 different languages including Lojban and Javascript, and I assume is fairly operational. He's also the demolitionist if we need one, but only in a minor capacity.
Alanna
Alanna is the melee one, but I'll be calling her something else. Me. If you hadn't figured it out through process of elimination, I'm playing Alanna. My build is a Samurai (OA) 5, Kensai 3. The DM let me swap the Ancestral Daisho for an Ancestral Ogachi, so I'm playing a greatsword wielding cosplayer. My backstory is that I used to do ren fairs, at which I would smith armor and things. Hence, my chain shirt and greatsword. It's a +3 Large Greatsword, through Monkey Grip and the Kensai feature. If you've ever played one of the Monster Hunter games, it's the one guy with the great sword from them.
As a part of character creation, my group allows us to fight against various enemies in a "sandbox" mode where nothing changes outside of it. Arena fight, basically. Anyways, each of us went up against a tank full of soldiers one versus one in turn. Here's how it went. In retrospect the DM was probably going easy on us because the tanks barely fired, but hey.
Josh: Managed to get on top of it, then opened the hatch and went to work on the guys inside with a grenade.
Lucas: Almost got flattened, but managed to blow up the tank before it blew up him.
Aster: Had a nice time running around in circles, but couldn't actually do anything to the tank. Eventually the soldiers popped up out of it and shot at him, which he beat them at.
Dimpki: Blew up the tank with some hand-made land mines, then got the soldiers with a handgun. I ran the tank here, because the DM was playing the techie.
Me: Literally sliced the tank in half with a readied action (I got almost maximum damage crit), and killed the soldiers one or two at a time for the next minute or so.
Session One:
We mostly created and introduced characters in this session, without really trying them out. Not sure there's anything worth sharing, because we just met on the subway towards the Town Hall in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. All going there to raid it, incidentally. That'll probably be session two.
Second Session (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?512443-The-Illuminati-Hunters&p=21618222#post21618222)