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Mid-boss has my random vote! (This time it was from HotBits )

Gametable RC7 also works for cross platform.

I'll submit a character for if we're using a whiteboarding client. I don't want to get into another IRC game, I prefer the tactical aspect of the tiles. [working on it now]

Cool, what kind of character are you making?

See if you can get that smoke into a jar

I fear that I already have too many D&D games on this forum, but if you are short of characters I might end up doing the foolish thing...
What is UCT? I know what GMT is, I know that Microsoft is trying to change it to UTC, which seems to somehow stand for Coordinated Universal Time. I also suspect that it may stand for U.s.a. Central Time...

There is no U.S.A. Central time, we use CST for central. Anyway, I think it's just a typo for UTC. I think the Coordinated Universal Time is actually a different language, probably French or something.

On checking Wikipedia, it's actually Frenglish It's a compromise of French and English, "Universal Time, Coordinated".

We only have 3 people including myself. Let's see, I think Ulf is the tank, Merrian Skye is our rogue/bard, and I am a spellcaster. We definitely need a healer, though I can help with that with my eternal wand By the way, eternal wands are only usable for spellcasters that can cast arcane spells, so I'm the only one that can use one so far. Also, just so everyone knows, I do not have a familiar, however, I do plan on getting one later on at some point.

Thanks for clearing that up Cthulhu, I haven't really seen the Mighty thing before.

Also, I'm going to go camping for a couple of days, leaving in a couple of hours or something. I'll probably be back sometime around Monday, so I'm probably not going to miss much except (hopefully) getting our last two party members.

The last time Criptfiend was actually active (according to his profile) was August 17th. I hope we're using some combination of Maptool, Hamachi, and IRC, because those are all cross-platform, and I don't really want to have to boot into Vista. Though people around here don'r really use anything else.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!

8/10

And now that you've said that, all our villains will be ice-themed and we'll end up finding the Plane of Cold or something similar. 

Well, he does have the Frostburn book

The thing is though, I would be obscenely powerful on the Plane of Cold, because I'm immune to it Too bad my breath weapon would be useless though, and that looks like it will be my main damage source (through the Draconic Breath feat, not my normal breath weapon). The bonus things I get from being half-dragon are so awesome. Darkvision and low-light vision mean that I don't even need a light source. I get +4 natural armor, and I get immunity to magical sleep and paralysis. Not to mention the breath weapon. It's basically a glass cannon, but with some awesome perks. If this campaign survives long enough, I'll be able to get some metabreath feats, making me able to deal 6d8 damage in a 30ft cone every 1d4-1 rounds. The only thing is, until I get to 6 HD (9th level), my breath weapon only has 1 use per day. This is by no means an overpowered character though, I'm still 3 character levels behind everyone. The only real perks I get for being a half-dragon are the dragon type, a few immunities, some ability score increases (+8 Str, +2 Cha, +2 Int, +2 Con), wings (I can only glide so far, and fall from any height), natural armor, and some natural weapons. On the negative, I get reduced character level, which means less spells, less feats, less HD (and therefore HP), more XP for the same progression, and on Eberron, half-dragons are hunted for being "abominations" by true dragons.

Also, part of the purpose of this character is to really force dragons into this campaign even more. The prophecy is enough already to involve dragons a lot more, but having a half-dragon in your party is a guaranteed way to involve even more dragons. Half-dragons are hunted by true dragons for being "abominations", so that's just tossing in a whole ton of possibilities for a cool background, maybe my Silver Dragon father is preventing other dragons from attacking me? I don't know, it's a mystery to me and my character (in other words, make it up yourself ).

Also, before I forget, since we're starting at 3rd level, we each get a free 3rd level magic item, right? Or is that only in 4e? I almost always start out at first, so I don't really know all the rules for starting higher levels.

Personally, I thought that the opposition in Evil Genius was terrible.  It was annoying, it just felt...uninteresting.  The super agents were frustrating and boring.  The guys who blew stuff up were annoying and boring.  The guys who snooped around were easy and boring.

I have no idea how to make it more interesting, but it just felt like...there wasn't anything interesting going on with the people who invaded your island.  And if they're not interesting then what made the game interesting?  Building your base?  Well, that's cool until it's built.  You might as well be playing Theme Hospital (which again, is fun...to build.  But once you get your hospital built, you wind up sitting on your thumbs waiting for the objectives to complete).  Hell even Rollercoaster Tycoon had that problem.

How do you take a game that's building-centric, and make it stay interesting after you're done building?  I guess DK came closest.  I liked it a lot when I was fighting someone who had their own dungeon--or when there was a harsh timeline to defend against a threat.

This is why Sim City has the "natural" disasters