| Author |
 Topic  |
|
Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
 Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 01:34:20
|
What if.....
Elminster used his crazy-kewl new power to make it so Paizo bought WotC instead of Hasbro, and now nothing but puppies and rainbows spring-up wherever Elminster walks.
The PC's are needed to gather up all the puppies and find good homes for them.
I like these exercises.  |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
|
 |
|
|
The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 01:40:26
|
quote:
Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
quote:
Originally posted by Balduran Lavidah
What is this curse ? (I 've not said that I was curious?)
Sage is known to have a list of objective goals and jobs that has been in queue for months (or years, maybe decades even).
Heh. The longest and most distant uncompleted task on my "To-Do" list is dated March 2002. So almost a decade.  |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium -- Volume IX now available (Oct 2007)
"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood
Zhoth'ilam Folio -- The Electronic Misadventures of a Rambling Sage |
|
|
|
The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 01:45:24
|
quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker
quote:
Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
quote:
Originally posted by Balduran Lavidah
What is this curse ? (I 've not said that I was curious?)
Sage is known to have a list of objective goals and jobs that has been in queue for months (or years, maybe decades even).
And now that I think about it.........
It's gotten much, much worse since the spellplague , I'm thinking about putting together a team of scribes....going down under and trying to save him from himself.
I think my first recruit shall be Lady K.
There's a problem with your theory. See, the Lady K has begun to see the wisdom of having a "To-Do" list of her own. So you'd better move quickly.
quote:
Any volunteers? we're going to need a rogue to find a path through the stacks of " to do's"....maybe a cleric with the wisdom to make Sage see the danger he is courting.......a spellcaster or three to make some of the stuff disappear....and maybe a pair or two of fighters to do the grunt work......that just leaves Zlady K free to look beautiful as always, keeping Sage focused and calm   
You'll probably need a Titan, or Primordial, or perhaps just an Overdeity like Ao to help you as well. Because only they'd have the mental capacity necessary to comprehend the meandering depths of complexity that is my ever-growing "To-Do" list.
quote:
Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
Y'know, I was going to make a witty comment about how you could arrange it so we'd all be down under for GenCon OZ, but then I saw this.
Indeed, that's disappointing. It was the only GenCon I was planning to attend this year, but the financial pressures of the recent "hard times" seems to have taken its toll on the gaming industry here in Australia as well.
*Sigh* Looks like it's back to dreaming about one day attending the US GenCon. |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium -- Volume IX now available (Oct 2007)
"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood
Zhoth'ilam Folio -- The Electronic Misadventures of a Rambling Sage |
|
|
|
Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3256 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 02:16:34
|
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
*Sigh* Looks like it's back to dreaming about one day attending the US GenCon.
Well, you can take the money you would have spent at GenCon Oz, put it into a savings account and save up for next year! |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
Ashe's Character Sheet
Alphabetized Index of Realms NPCs |
|
|
|
The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 02:24:40
|
quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
What if.....
Elminster used his crazy-kewl new power to make it so Paizo bought WotC instead of Hasbro, and now nothing but puppies and rainbows spring-up wherever Elminster walks.
The PC's are needed to gather up all the puppies and find good homes for them.
I like these exercises.
Hmm....you got me thinking Markus.
What if Cyric was getting to uppity for the realms and was planning something that almost no one besides himself would beneifit from.......hmm...can't think of anything specific, And the pcs are needed to stop this from happening and save the realms? |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
|
|
|
|
Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 02:28:07
|
Didn't Lisa Stevens start Paizo AFTER Hasbro bought WotC?
|
|
|
|
Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3256 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 02:30:11
|
quote:
Originally posted by Brimstone
Didn't Lisa Stevens start Paizo AFTER Hasbro bought WotC?
Pshaw... We'll just use the DeLorean. By slingshotting it around the Sage's to-do list, we can take the Paizo crew back in time just like in Star Trek IV. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
Ashe's Character Sheet
Alphabetized Index of Realms NPCs |
|
|
|
Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 02:37:37
|
We are talking about some really uber-kewl, 4e, post-apocalyptic wild-magic a'la Chosen power here.
Time is irrelevant.
TSR tanks... Lisa starts Paizo with many now-jobless TSR designers, and then buys the defunct TSR, along with all its juicy Intellectual properties, and the Realms undergo a 'Golden Age'.
Chris Perkins 'accidentally' falls into a drum of radioactive waste and is relegated down to 'mop boy'.
All is right in the world... except the PCs still need to gather-up all those puppies. As a result, the Dales institute a 'pooper-scooper' law - no-one likes puppy poop.
They decide to live with the rainbows (The Shades invent sunglasses). |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
|
Edited by - Markustay on 06 Aug 2010 13:57:58 |
|
|
|
Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 03:05:34
|
Right... |
|
|
|
Menelvagor
Senior Scribe
Israel
352 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 06:45:54
|
| Ashe - I know an ex-goddess who was married to Chaos who'd be willing to help. All she requires is that we sacrifice to her young handsome males (or females, acttually). I'm sure there's no shortage of those in Candlekeep. |
"Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly.
How much less them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation in the dust, are crushed before the moth?" - Eliphaz the Temanite, Job IV, 17-19.
"Yea, though he live a thousand years twice, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?" - Ecclesiastes VI, 6.
"There are no stupid questions – just a bunch of inquisitive idiots."
"Let's not call it 'hijacking'. Let's call it 'Thread Drift'." |
|
|
|
Brace Cormaeril
Learned Scribe
294 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2010 : 12:37:21
|
quote:
Originally posted by Menelvagor
Ashe - I know an ex-goddess who was married to Chaos who'd be willing to help. All she requires is that we sacrifice to her young handsome males (or females, acttually). I'm sure there's no shortage of those in Candlekeep.
Gross! |
The Silver Fire's Blade: A Novella in Nine Parts, Available Soon, in the Adventuring Forum!
|
|
|
|
Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
|
|
Diffan
Great Reader
USA
4503 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2010 : 03:30:13
|
Actually I'm not suprised in the least they did a Hero Battle with Elminster, that crazy iconic mage. There was some speculation on what his "stats" (for lack of a better 4e term) would be in the Post-Spellplague/4e Realms and now we know he's much, MUCH less beefy without his Mystra aided powers.
I, however, am somewhat dissatisfied that he's only a 19th level Solo controller and not something in the higher 26th to 28th level range (Drizzt was a whopping 21st level Solo skirmisher for AO's sake!!). That being said, I'm comfortated that A). None of this is actual Canon (ie. he hasn't really lost his mind and is probably not going to wreak havoc like the adventure said.) and B). I have the Adventurer Tool program so I can easily level him up (and add specific homebrew powers) to which ever level I damn well please.
But take this article for what it is, a hypothetical encounter to take on one of the most powerful mages in D&D. I wouldn't be suprised that we'll see more of these later down the road (probably villians like Lord Soth for example). |
|
|
|
Topic |
|
Hero Battle: Elminster
