OOC: Growing star wars comunity

[Nightwing]

there are many star wars characters in the town. if you have one post a Little about the here of Link to their character biography.

[Nightwing]

Lanno Macol (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2776719&postcount=480)

[Emperor Ing]

i think our latest issue is the incredible rise of OOC threads. I cant find its source, but I can link it to the superhigh number of EOTW plots, linked to my Rebel Assault EOTW plot! :smallfurious:

[Renegade Paladin]

I have a better idea. How about we explain why there are Star Wars characters in a pseudo-medieval setting? There are loads of Star Wars roleplaying rooms out there on the 'Net with no need to run over poor, low-tech existing characters over here. :smalltongue:

[Nightwing]

Or, we could, i dont know, STICK TO THE POINT OF THE THREAD!

[LordVader]

I have a better idea. How about we explain why there are Star Wars characters in a pseudo-medieval setting? There are loads of Star Wars roleplaying rooms out there on the 'Net with no need to run over poor, low-tech existing characters over here. :smalltongue:

The poor, low-tech characters that only have access to spells that can warp and change reality itself, and cause untold destruction. How sad.:smalltongue:

[Shabal]

The poor, low-tech characters that only have access to spells that can warp and change reality itself, and cause untold destruction. How sad.:smalltongue:
I think he was speaking of the poor, low-tech characters who, while talented, only have access to a sword, spear, shield, and some armor that can be easily cut in two by a lightsaber. :smalltongue: How sad indeed.
But really, though, it sort of ruins the experience when you have people in Jedi outfits...with working lightsabers and the power of the Force, no less...in a fictional DnD-based freeform setting.

[LordVader]

Well, if the stuff is magical, I say it should resist the lightsaber/power sword/whatever. That's how I play it with my characters' Power Swords. If it isn't magical, they're pretty much dead to rights at the hands of anyone in Town, so...:P

[Nightwing]

I always assumed that too. How can it cut throws something magical any better that a regular sword can?

[Shabal]

I'm not talking about magical things.
You'll notice, that amongst all of my characters with the exception of one of them, none are magical.
None of them own anything magical.
And think about it, Nightwing. Magical armor will relent just as easily against an unthinkably hot blade made of radiation, even despite its bonuses.

[LordVader]

Well, I play it that my power sword doesn't cut through things automatically, it just acts as a magical sword with a high enchantment bonus. If I had a lightsaber, that's how I would play it. And Shabal, I seem to recall one of your characters owning a tank and several high-tech weapons...:smalltongue:

[Shabal]

Yes, but none of them are magical. :smalltongue:
I'm trying to cut down on that, of course. I had him make himself a Doru*.
*Doru: four foot long two-bladed spear, one end a leaf-shaped blade, the other a spike.

[LordVader]

Nice. Anyways, Nightwing, just treat the lightsaber as a magical sword and I don't see any problems. Just don't have it auto-cut through anything against other people and it'll be fine.

[Admiral_Kelly]

Hey Vader - if we are playing under transparency rules; lasers are now magical. Meaning, they won't work in an AMF :smalltongue:.

[LordVader]

AK, lasers are not subject to transparency, where did you get that? That doesn't make any sense. When we had the discussion about transparency, everyone agreed that most technological items are considered Extraordinary, and thus cannot be suppressed by antimagic. Only a few tech things, such as wormholes and force fields, are considered Supernatural. Lasers are not considered Supernatural, they are Extraordinary, like most technology things, and thus work in a AMF.

[Admiral_Kelly]

Sorry, some of these thing you are doing are beyond normal physics, such as the lightsaber, and they are special so they count under the transparency ruling. Don't be a hypocrite.

[LordVader]

Lasers are not. Lightsabers are. Please point me to where we decided that lasers do not work under an AMF, Kelly.

[Admiral_Kelly]

Why only lightsabers? They are a technological weapon powered by lasers. If you ask me, all laser weapons should not work in an AMF if we have transparency.

Also, I never agreed to the transparency ruling and I continue to ignore it.

[LordVader]

Lightsabers are not lasers. A laser is a relatively simple mechanical device that shoots a simple beam of light that causes physical damage. Them getting suppressed by an AMF would be complete bullcrap, AK. And no one asked you.:smalltongue:

[Admiral_Kelly]

So is psiconics, but you guys decided to make them count as magic. Getting my point?

[LordVader]

AK, psionics are much closer to magic then a laser is.:smallannoyed:

[Nightwing]

Lets not turn this into another LV arguing with AK thread.

[LordVader]

More like "AK complaining about transparency again thread". I say that lasers getting suppressed by an AMF is ridiculous. And if I ever make a SW character, which I probably will eventually, he's gonna be more like Boba Fett then a Jedi.

[blackout]

OK, let's back off for a minute. AK, lasers are not magical. :smallannoyed: Their really nothing more than super-flashlights.

[Admiral_Kelly]

Close to being magic != magic. The whole point of transparency was to give the AMF another edge which it dose not deserve.

But in honesty I'm beating a dead horse here- why did I even bring this up? Let's get back on topic.

[Metis]

Whether technology is getting too much, or too close to magic, and all that aside, do we even need this thread? What purpose does linking your high tech characters here even serve? :smallconfused:

[blackout]

Whether technology is getting too much, or too close to magic, and all that aside, do we even need this thread? What purpose does linking your high tech characters here even serve? :smallconfused:

THANK YOU. :smallannoyed:

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

I'm playing a taun-taun that was experimented on and made smarter by a rogue scientist serving under Thrawn, but the character hasn't made an appearance yet.

I'll post more backstory later,

Plus, he'll be a hidden character. So he'll have to be found to be unlocked.

[blackout]

:smalltongue: Atreyu, you should do standup.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

:smalltongue: Atreyu, you should do standup.

I wish I could. It'd be nicer than this job.

[blackout]

My comment still stands. :smallamused:

[LordVader]

You need to make that character. It'll be awesome.:smalltongue:

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Atreyu plays another awakened ungulate. I think it'd grow stale rather quickly. I suppose that I could tweak the personality. Make him less "cute but dumb" and more "kinda cute, but smart."

I may make him a hidden character and see if anyone can find him and unlock him as a playable PC.
:smalltongue: :smalltongue:

[Artemis97]

Alright, Raril's next mission is to find this Taun-Taun. Who's with me?

[metakirb]

Waddle Dee be

[Emperor Ing]

TO HOTH!! :smallbiggrin:

[LordVader]

Erica also! We can make this like a TG/Ex-TG outing!:smallbiggrin:

[Admiral_Kelly]

Lori and/or Alex may tag along.

[Emperor Ing]

Artemis, you got 4 or 5 people willing to come along! :smallbiggrin:

[Artemis97]

Whoo! It's a quest!

[Emperor Ing]

My star wars char is available! I can come. :smallsmile:

[metakirb]

And a perfect convenience to launch the waddle inquisition from... i mean erm... you didn't hear anything! *slips amnesia pills into everyones drinks, making them all forget about any inquisitions* yeah, for the quest!

[LordVader]

Incidentally, are you cool with Waddle Dee being assisstant guildmaster?

[Emperor Ing]

I dont drink soda. :smallsmile:

PLEASE no more EOTW plots!!! :smallfrown:

[metakirb]

Dee the assistant master?! *falls off chair* i have no problems with it at all

[Nightwing]

What about Ferrin?

[Emperor Ing]

:smallconfused: Whos ferrin?

[Nightwing]

A theives guild member.

[LordVader]

Dee the assistant master?! *falls off chair* i have no problems with it at all

Alright, I need to know where he is IC so I can tell him. Also, he is reasonably competent enough that it would be justified, correct? Erica's going to call a Guild meeting soon.

[metakirb]

he's in the tavern, and his usual attitude masks inner intelligence, it should be obvious with some of his inventions ^^

[Nightwing]

What about Ferrin?!

[LordVader]

Dee's been a member longer, and Erica doesn't even know who Ferrin is. She doesn't really like demons, either. So, tough luck.:smalltongue:

[Nightwing]

Ferrin is not a demon!!

[LordVader]

Isn't she the succurine?

[Nightwing]

That Therrin! Ferin is a half drow/ half fire elemental that is the Representative of the assassins!

[LordVader]

She's the Assassin representative? Isn't that Artemis? And Erica is an assassin, too. :P But whatever. Dee has seniority, he gets it.

[metakirb]

i think artemis' death makes him the longest standing of the current thieves guild members

[Nightwing]

The guild member cant be reapersentitive....at least thats how book boy did it. Also, Venom was the competent part of Robert, the first member, and she is the competent part of venom, there for she is technical the first guild member.

[metakirb]

But robert was kicked out, so it doesn't work like that, any guild ties to robert would be nullified

[Nightwing]

No, Artemis made her a guild rep.

[LordVader]

Dee's already been appointed. Tough noogies. :P

[Nightwing]

But what are you going to make her?

[LordVader]

Assassin's representative. She and Erica are the only assassins anyways.

[Emperor Ing]

Is there an assassins guild now? :smalltongue:

[Nightwing]

Cool. When the meating?

[Emperor Ing]

Then Iredep's gonna found it :smallwink:

[LordVader]

And the Thieves' Guild will slaughter you for freelancing. :P The TG has an Assassin department.

[Nightwing]

I was going to make one, but I guess we can co found! I will PM you!

[Emperor Ing]

LordVader, your the THIEVES guild not the thieves and assassins guild :smalltongue:

[LordVader]

But there's an assassin section. And assassins are basically thieves. I'm warning you, you make an Assassin Guild, and the TG will come after you for freelancing, and you will all die.

[Nightwing]

Stop it LV! I am sick of you trying to control every thing! I understand you like to control every thing but that does not mean you can ruin any good times we can try and have! I am warning you that if you do I will call A mod.

[Emperor Ing]

Thieves steal, Assassins kill. The only similarity is that both tend to be bad :smalltongue:

[LordVader]

Stop it LV! I am sick of you trying to control every thing! I understand you like to control every thing but that does not mean you can ruin any good times we can try and have! I am warning you that if you do I will call A mod.

I'm not ruining it! IT'S CALLED ROLEPLAYING! The Thieves' Guild doesn't like freelancers! An Assassins' Guild is freelancers! IT'S RPING!!:smallmad:

[Admiral_Kelly]

FYI, I had already started an Assassins Guild of drows :smalltongue:. Most of them are dead now, however.

[Nightwing]

It has nothing to do with a thieves guild! just because you have a small part of your guild that are assassins does not mean we can have a guild. now leave us alone or I will call a mod!

[Emperor Ing]

Were not gonna freelance, were going to abide by rules, and be united as one.

[LordVader]

Hehehe...:smallbiggrin: Those were the ones that attacked the Station, correct?
And Nightwing, I've never heard of someone calling a mod in Town because the other person was roleplaying properly. The Thieves' Guild is all-encompassing, it's not just thieves. It's just called the Thieves' Guild. So they'll see it as freelancing if you don't strike a deal with them first, and they will come after you. It's called RP'ing.

[Admiral_Kelly]

That would be correct. The whole syndicate is pretty fishdumped.

[Nightwing]

Fine, if all you want is a deal then a deal you will get. you just said " If you want to do some thing fun my omnipotent guild will come and kill you all even though we have nothing to do with you because I am being a power freak!"

[Emperor Ing]

Then we can make a deal with them. However, its best to leave them alone, unless they wanted to be blasted to oblivion or eaten alive. :smallbiggrin:

[LordVader]

Fine, if all you want is a deal then a deal you will get. you just said " If you want to do some thing fun my omnipotent guild will come and kill you all even though we have nothing to do with you because I am being a power freak!"

THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID! THE THIEVES' GUILD COMING AFTER THEM WOULD BE AN IC RESPONSE! AND THEY'D OBVIOUSLY PUT UP A FIGHT! IT'S CALLED RPING!:smallmad:

It's best to obey the TG unless you want to be ninja'd, blasted by giant mechs, or electrocuted to death.:smallamused:

[Emperor Ing]

Hmm, i was leaning towards nightwings point at first, but after that quote, im starting to agree with Vader

[Nightwing]

fine. we will make a deal.

[LordVader]

Nightwing, you obviously have no idea what an IC response to something is.:smallannoyed:
And the deal will probably end them up as satellites of the Guild.

[Nightwing]

I was thinking more along the lines of "We give you half are money and you dont kill us"

[LordVader]

They're not stupid. They have enough money. They're going to want a more binding agreement.

[Emperor Ing]

Key word: Probably. :smallwink:

[Nightwing]

Really? they charge a million a kill. thats half a million on each kill.

[LordVader]

What idiot is going to pay a million GP for a kill? That's ridiculous, you won't get any clients. The TG charges thousands at the most, probably.

[Nightwing]

yes, but this is sure kill. if we dont kill them we will give you yoir money back and pay you 100 gp.

[LordVader]

No one in Town even has 1,000,000 GP. Do you have any idea how much that is?

[Nightwing]

yes they do! but fine, I will lower it to 5 thousand.

[Admiral_Kelly]

How about the pay depends on the job? If your going to kill a random schmuck on the street 100gp will do; but if you want to kill someone like Artemis 2mil gp?

[Nightwing]

That sounds good.

[LordVader]

How about the pay depends on the job? If your going to kill a random schmuck on the street 100gp will do; but if you want to kill someone like Artemis 2mil gp?

That's how the TG works, except it depends on the difficulty.

[Shabal]

Alright, if I could interrupt here, 'cause it looks like people don't really understand the base of GP/SP currency.
A silver piece is about the equivalent of a buck, maybe three. It's the typical standard for currency, a silver piece (maybe two or three) is a good day's pay for an NPC commoner.
A gold piece is ten times that. It's about the equivalent of twenty bucks. With that, you can buy a pound of rare spices, fifty feet of rope, one or two living goats.
A million gold pieces is a lotsa money.
You're not gonna find anyone in the Town with that kinda money.

[blackout]

And then there's platinum. That there's your Town equivalent of a C-note. :smallamused: And we all know, Copper is pocket-change.

[LordVader]

Alright, if I could interrupt here, 'cause it looks like people don't really understand the base of GP/SP currency.
A silver piece is about the equivalent of a buck, maybe three. It's the typical standard for currency, a silver piece (maybe two or three) is a good day's pay for an NPC commoner.
A gold piece is ten times that. It's about the equivalent of twenty bucks. With that, you can buy a pound of rare spices, fifty feet of rope, one or two living goats.
A million gold pieces is a lotsa money.
You're not gonna find anyone in the Town with that kinda money.


That's what I've been trying to tell him!

[Renegade Paladin]

Nice. Anyways, Nightwing, just treat the lightsaber as a magical sword and I don't see any problems. Just don't have it auto-cut through anything against other people and it'll be fine.
Him not go for every auto-kill he can take a shot at? You do realize we're talking about Nightwing here, right?

[Draken]

Here goes the maths for the most expensive assassins of all D&D:

NEP x 4 x 1,000 gp.

These are the most expensive in the whole Epic levels Handbook, they would charge you 4,000 gp just to kill a beggar in the streets (1° level Peasant). But of course, they don't kill beggars, they kill only big figures.

Go arround the maths.

Now excuse me, I will look out to find how Artemis died, then I will slap Erica with a bill right in her face.

And it will rain chaos on her nose if she doesn't pay :smalltongue:

[LordVader]

Draken, no one requested the service of the aberrations, thus they came on a volunteer basis. And volunteers don't get paid.:smalltongue: And if I have to get a swarm of inevitables to defend the Guild, I will.:smalltongue:

[Shabal]

I know that's what you were trying to tell him, that's why I posted it, so that he would understand it better.

[LordVader]

It would have been kind of funny to have him make it and then have no one be able to afford it, though.:smallbiggrin:

[Shabal]

Yes.
Yes it would have. :smallbiggrin:
I can just see it now...

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

in response to page 2....Sigh...okay.....I take a joke a little too far and next thing you know, they've formed an official party and everything.


Actually, back in the day, the Masked Troupe usually killed for only 250. We had official rules for assassins, which I can bring up if you all are interested in them.

Plus, back when I was a young llama 1,000,000 GP was not much to throw around. Check the mecha-garage thread to see true spending insanity.

Ah, the way things change. The Masked Troupe was interesting. An assassin's guild posing as a theater group. The mafia also took out hits. The PM's flew fast and furious.

[Artemis97]

I should have known. It's like the Taco-sidequest in that last Pirates Game, isn't it?

And a theatre troop of assassins, Raril would have been perfect in that! I think I've missed something fun.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

I should have known. It's like the Taco-sidequest in that last Pirates Game, isn't it?

And a theatre troop of assassins, Raril would have been perfect in that! I think I've missed something fun.

actually, yes, it is just like the secret taco sidequest in that it will be appearing soon :P It just wasn't supposed to, but it will. Who ever heard of an unlockable character for Town, anyway? Its as silly as issuing everyone their own water buffalo.

You did miss some fun. IdiotBox80, Renrik, and Julliena Terra were all members of the masked troupe, they are all gone now. Sadness.

[Destro_Yersul]

Alright, if I could interrupt here, 'cause it looks like people don't really understand the base of GP/SP currency.
A silver piece is about the equivalent of a buck, maybe three. It's the typical standard for currency, a silver piece (maybe two or three) is a good day's pay for an NPC commoner.
A gold piece is ten times that. It's about the equivalent of twenty bucks. With that, you can buy a pound of rare spices, fifty feet of rope, one or two living goats.
A million gold pieces is a lotsa money.
You're not gonna find anyone in the Town with that kinda money.

Destro's vault is full of a lot more than that. He once bet everything he had on an arena fight. He won, and subsequently became richer than you could possibly imagine.

Course, I don't really play Destro anymore...

[metakirb]

No one in Town even has 1,000,000 GP. Do you have any idea how much that is?

Actually that is probably not true, Metakirb has several billion equivalent (he is the prince of a almost extinct race) then waddle Dee has been a merchant for nine years, and successful at that.

[Emperor Ing]

Metakirb has a point. Can you say "dragon horde"? :smallamused: