tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post6755160694714379378..comments2024-03-25T00:18:14.319-07:00Comments on Against The Wicked City: City of Spires character art, by Autumnal BloomerJoseph Manolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-27157663586804190862022-07-03T05:13:00.035-07:002022-07-03T05:13:00.035-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lisa https://www.blogger.com/profile/02985167288328560688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-42333390623904838492022-06-05T14:48:49.768-07:002022-06-05T14:48:49.768-07:00Hey, Joseph, i have a question completely unrelate...Hey, Joseph, i have a question completely unrelated with this post, but, what kind of music would you use for an Against the Wicked City campaign?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-47789400807162885722022-04-23T15:58:07.539-07:002022-04-23T15:58:07.539-07:00That is awesome! Thank you. I love the fact that t...That is awesome! Thank you. I love the fact that the craziness evolved from the campaign itself and not due to mechanical options offered at character creation. I am about to start a B/X game and I hope to get that feeling.Tzimiscedraculhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16762161243138880483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-42265185485211129572022-04-23T14:12:41.808-07:002022-04-23T14:12:41.808-07:00It was an established fact of the setting that peo...It was an established fact of the setting that people who ate the magically-contaminated crabs in the city's river ended up degenerating into feral crab people. When one of the PCs rolled up a fisherman with really low charisma, his explanation was that he'd eaten some crab - not enough to devolve completely, but enough to give him disfiguring mutations. Later he gained cleric levels and became the city's religious leader. <br /><br />Ira was more of a running joke that gradually took on a life of its own. Her player kept using Control Insects spells, first for beekeeping, then to keep swarms of bees around herself in case she needed to send them off to sting anyone. After a while she was covered in bees all the time and the joke was that no-one was sure where the bees stopped and she began. She started interacting with the world almost entirely via magically controlled bee-swarms, and eventually we collectively decided that at some point the bees had probably replaced her entirely, her consciousness transitioning to the swarm...Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-58565144109157005112022-04-22T19:52:20.565-07:002022-04-22T19:52:20.565-07:00I loved the characters, Joseph. How was their deve...I loved the characters, Joseph. How was their development? Especially for "weird" PCs like Ira and Crabface? Did they start that way or were changed during the adventures?Tzimiscedraculhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16762161243138880483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-7727868171440164372022-04-14T16:47:45.130-07:002022-04-14T16:47:45.130-07:00The party met up with Jack's boyfriend from th...The party met up with Jack's boyfriend from the last campaign (now a senior medical scholar) and got him drunk on Chumbouquet, mostly. Now they're off to the hidden hunting lodge in the woods to see the Fleshdregs!Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-38551347992811527152022-04-14T13:10:28.106-07:002022-04-14T13:10:28.106-07:00WHAT DID I MISS in that last session? They are bri...WHAT DID I MISS in that last session? They are brilliant, esp facepalming Lucius and Nikolai's distractingly tight trousers. And Darius's offal bag is perfection. Lucy Claire Hounsomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18323962723383039792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-52620044270657834672022-04-08T11:47:44.628-07:002022-04-08T11:47:44.628-07:00"Knife-throwing murder-monkey" may be th..."Knife-throwing murder-monkey" may be the best thing I've read today, Huzzah!Croakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10566350246736687677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-76615451933518849292022-04-08T06:49:33.248-07:002022-04-08T06:49:33.248-07:00I wouldn't worry about them too much. They'...I wouldn't worry about them too much. They're mostly level 8 and borderline-unkillable at this point. Cyrus, in particular, is a veritable human threshing machine!Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-392427526916288536.post-15202530912620651622022-04-08T06:35:03.016-07:002022-04-08T06:35:03.016-07:00Very cute indeed! But I think that they may experi...Very cute indeed! But I think that they may experience horrible deaths and that makes me a little sad.Nirkhuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01625430841723207402noreply@blogger.com