Somehow I missed this last entry. Great stuff! The "Flumph Guy" is excellent, of course. LOL

Man. That escalated quickly! I wonder if the assassin looking for Gunnr offers refunds.

Did they roll up new characters to get back on the (deadly mutated) horse?

For our upcoming Session 12, we've got a scout, a berserker, a shaman (cleric/illusionist) and a shaman (druid/necromancer). I'm pumped!

Chainsaw wrote:

For our upcoming Session 12, we've got a scout, a berserker, a shaman (cleric/illusionist) and a shaman (druid/necromancer). I'm pumped!

Nice!
It's very interesting that two people want to play shamans - so far no one has wanted to play one in my games.  (What's weird is that cleric/magic-users are not uncommon IME when running AD&D.  But of course C/MU's can freely wear any armor and use the full range of clerical weapons, so I guess the classes aren't exactly comparable.)
 

I was considering requiring shamans to be druid/necromancers, since it goes along with them supplicating spirits of the dead and nature.  But then I decided not to be a jerk.  Anyway, it's kind of a moot point if I can't get anyone to play one.

Blackadder23 wrote:

It's very interesting that two people want to play shamans - so far no one has wanted to play one in my game.

Feast or famine, I guess, heh. We will see how it works out. With access to four different schools of magic, the party should be fairly versatile. Plus they get they'll have healing spells, draw poison and medicine man so they should be fairly hearty too, at least compared with the last group, which had no clerics of any sort. They'll also have turn/control undead. They'll need all of it though, as this group has much less melee ability (25% fighters vs 75% before) and has to be smarter and trickier.
 

Handy Haversack wrote:

One of my players has consistently had a shaman. They are very useful but very weird characters since their stated goal is to *stop being human*.

I didn't interpret the shaman that way, but maybe I misread. To what lines are you referring?

Handy Haversack wrote:

What are the totem animals for your players, Chainsaw?

cleric/illusionist: "So I was thinking his small clan associated itself with the marten, a sort of tree weasel. I was thinking it has qualities of cunning, deviousness, arboreality and viciousness when called for"

druid/necromancer: "My totem is a shard from the meteorite imbued with the consciousness of some alien deity that my sect worshipped. Sort of an evil Pet Rock."
 

Blackadder23 wrote:

I was considering requiring shamans to be druid/necromancers, since it goes along with them supplicating spirits of the dead and nature.  But then I decided not to be a jerk.  Anyway, it's kind of a moot point if I can't get anyone to play one.

Don't give up hope!

Blackadder23 wrote:

The party in my current campaign* also has no clerics, nor anyone who can cast basic MU spells.  Two fighters, an assassin, and an illusionist.  We'll see how that goes.

Haha! Well, it will be up to them to manage through things as well as possible. I usually dangle a few different options out there and let the group pick what they think suits their strengths and interests. For example, in the game coming up Monday night, I presented them some intro text in an email (excerpt below). Note, in a face-to-face game, we would roleplay this out, but we try to keep things focused and fast-paced on G+ for various reasons specific to the medium.

As the evening grows old at the Spiral Hell Inn and Tavern, a few opportunities have presented themselves:
a) joining a Woolly Mammoth hunting party;
b) a peat farmer's house has been repeatedly attacked in the night and he needs help ending the threat;
c) you overhear two men whispering that they need to find someone to rob a local merchant for them;
d) a blacksmith has recently moved his shop, only to discover a crumbling cellar wall admits vermin from the adjacent sewer, so he needs some exterminators.

They picked option d, so we will see what happens.

BlackAdder23 wrote:

I really like the meteoritic shard as a totem!  Really emphasizes the science fantasy angle.

I agree!

Planning to resurrect the Khromarium campaign later this summer. Pumped!

Also, perfect 1000th post. 

Sweet!

Very old school looking!