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I definitely think that it has some potential for creating unique characters like the ones you made (not sure how well Shale would work though. That's a lot of damage for an already low hitpoint class). But it also would allow for some kinda ridiculous combinations, like a fighter who multiclasses to wizard and casts with strength.

... an extra hundred years on hS in the First Age. He makes that back with his stuff in the Fourth, I think. So it does hinge on when they were born.

And there's other old agents, too! We have another copy of Maglor (Hawthorne), who comes from the First Age. It looks like Jacques is pre-2000-years-underground Jack Harkness, but don't we have other Harknesses? The Time Lords are all multiple hundreds, though I don't know that any have topped a thousand. And what about the seriously non-human agents? We have at least two dragons...

I feel like there's a definite fic in Doctor Cornelius going on about being the oldest agent, only to be hit with a long string of 'ahems' from this bunch. ^_^

hS

I’m not into the superhero genre, but I liked this enough to keep reading, and thus I must report some faults that caught my eye.

The redhead couldn’t help but to laugh at that, her laughter combined with the other girl’s cry, attracted the attention of the area’s personnel, who proceeded to escort them out of the area.

You got a comma splice between the sentence ending with "at that" and the sentence starting with "her laughter"; since these are independent sentences, the comma should be either a period or a semicolon.

Also, the comma after "cry" doesn’t make sense standing alone (what would be the main clause and what would be the sub-clause there?). You may want to either drop the comma or insert another comma after "her laughter", making "combined with the other girl’s cry" an insertion in the main clause "her laughter attracted the attention of the area’s personnel" (which is correctly separated from the dependent clause "who proceeded to escort them out of the area" by another comma).

Thirdly, I don’t like the repetition of "area" in this sentence, especially when the instances refer to different areas. The "area’s personnel" is obviously the Nursery personnel (but Kryptogirl, who is this sentence’s POV character, doesn’t know yet that this place is called "Nursery"?) while the area the girls are escorted out of appears to be a common room which is just a part of the Nursery-area just as well as the sleeping chambers they are escorted to. If you want to avoid the term "Nursery" here (although it was already used elsewhere), replacing the second instance of "area" by something more specific would help to clarify that the girls are not escorted out of the area’s personnel’s domain.


A few moments later, they found themselves in their designated sleeping chambers.
Since they are obviously in the same chamber, I don’t see why the plural form should be used here.

She found her bed rather quickly, took the temporary cardboard ID and tore into pieces, finishing with slumping on the bed and curling into fetal position, still sobbing.
Shouldn’t this be "tore it into pieces" and "curling into a fetal position"?


Apparently Kryptogirl was given a name on arrival in the PPC; she just doesn’t like it and thus tries to ignore the fact when she pretends that she doesn’t have a name. From the disclaimer, I conclude that she’ll change it later. *checking the wiki* Yep. *going to read the other interludes*

HG

The only exceptions are for wikis that aren't about pop culture media topics, so wouldn't fit under the Fandom heading. But we certainly do!

~Neshomeh

Lost Tradition from Bastards and Bloodlines is the Feat I was talking about and they use it for Muscle Wizard.

-Phobos

Anyone interested can find it here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lEvEzCMtLTUwp8vzVBwH9cLaqSq_EupjTYaOzhNlDf4/edit?usp=sharing

I came across this idea on 1d4chan, and I have an image and a link.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/MuscleWizard#Psion

<a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Musclewizard.jpg">https://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Muscle_wizard.jpg

I think that's the side I normally come down on, anyway...but it was late and it seems I got confused!

~Z

Though, should it be Boarda, or Boardi? Just for the record.

I don't want to discourage you from helping people out with good advice (because it is good!), but in situations like this, try to check out what's already been said before you post, and make sure you're not piling on someone who's already been advised. Thanks! {= )

~Neshomeh

I'm Twistey! Have a bowl of my latest creation, Poe Slaw! It's not actually coleslaw, it's a dessert, and it's got Bleeprin in it to make you feel better. Welcome aBoard! Got any agent ideas?

-Twistey

You been talkin' about me behind my back?! *intentionally exaggerated face of pretend anger*

Okay, so more seriously, although I didn't do so in my response to the Star Wars thing (I haven't seen enough of the prequels to do so), I feel that when faced with the absurd, finding logic is just a bit inferior to finding their logic (they being the person who did/made/etc the thing.) By that I mean psychology. While I understand that in some cases (such as Suethors, who we don't attack directly, or the perpetrators of serious incidents, who it's kind of pointless to analyze), it's not the best idea to try to figure out what they were thinking, using our logic won't always reveal the solution, because it's our logic, not theirs, and in some cases, we may be unintentionally assuming that others think the way we do.

-Twistey

...ideally you shouldn't write a mission before you get Permission and then publish it when you get Permission. I say this because this hereto unforeseen guideline prevents people from getting Permission and then accidentally or intentionally wrecking the PPC universe. Why not instead just hold off on writing any more for these misisons, and then when you have Permission, re-read and get others to beta-read them before you publish them to make sure that they follow PPC canon properly?

-Twistey

I'll be sure to send this to Willis, he might find it interesting. Is there a way that one could adapt it into 5e?

-Twistey

What a triumph!

-Twistey

Have some of my latest creation: Poe Slaw! It's not real coleslaw, but rather a parody of it - it's made of sugary foods. Like, the cabbage is taffy, and the mayonnaise is marshmallow sauce. It's also got a little bit of that Swiss Bleepolate you gave me melted down and mixed in, because another function of Poe Slaw is to put suggestions in your mind that maybe, just maybe, a badfic you just read is a trollfic, thus relieving you. Enjoy your birthday dessert!

-Twistey

Have a Haro in the color of your choice!
https://www.gtsdistribution.com/images/BLUBAN228374_l.jpg

Today when I popped over to the wiki, I noticed a banner at the top of the page announcing that they're migrating us over to fandom.com as part of their rebranding process, which began last year. This shouldn't affect us very much, if at all—wikia.com links will redirect to fandom.com, so nothing will break, and if anything, Fandom expects a general uptick in activity due to how Google works. However, those of us with websites and whatnot to maintain should be prepared to edit any wiki links we have, and of course the Nameless Admin will need to correct the links at the top of the Board.

I'm not sure what the Renaming of the Gods is going to do to the religion of Wechi, but I'm sure it will sort itself out. {= )

More information about the migration here.

~Neshomeh

Have a suit of Imperial Guard carapace armor. It's heavy, but it stops most things.

So, it turns out there is a Feat in DnD 3rd Edition, in some obscure supplemental book, that allows you to change your characters spellcasting stat at character creation. Any magical class can use it, and you can make any stat into your new spellcasting stat. The idea is that your character comes from a non-traditional spellcasting tradition.

Knowing that, I made up some interesting spellcasters.

Ograth, Half-Orc Bard (Str-caster). Ograth casts spells by hitting things really hard. If you see him on the battlefield, he's got a war drum slung over his shoulder. If you meet him in a bar, he might make due pounding tankards against a table. Either way, his drumming stokes a fire in the belly.

Verith, Elf Druid (Dex-caster). The song of nature is so powerfully beautiful that Verith can't help but move along with it. She dances through the forest and the forest dances along with her. Trees sway, deer cavort, birds wheel and dip. On the rare occasion that she gets angry, her whirling and leaping summons storms to enact nature's vengeance.

Shale Earthblood, Dwarf Sorceror (Con-caster). Shale could always feel the magic inside him. It coursed through his veins from a young age, and all he had to do was find a way to let it out. His village didn't take kindly to blood magic, and he was exiled. Now he wanders the tunnels; white scars gleaming nearly as much as his silver knife. (For this character, every spell requires 1 hit point of intentional damage per spell level to cast.)


In the worlds of fiction, some of these already exist. The Clave from The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant use blood magic similar to Shale's. In the Deathgate Cycle, the Sartan use dance as a major component of their spellcasting.

-Phobos

...is that I'm not sure I ever figured out exact ages for my Calaquendi agents, and now I'm curious. I...*think* they're closer in age to Fëanor's kids than to Fëanor himself, but having never considered it, I don't actually know. To add to that, I don't even know for sure that they're the same age! It would make just as much sense for them to have an age gap!

Seems like an odd thing not to have figured out, in retrospect, but at least I/Lily did figure out roughly where they were when. That's something.

At any rate: in terms of age when in the PPC, they should be younger than Dafydd, whether or not they were born earlier, but possibly older than hS? They didn't die, but they also made it to the very end of the First Age and no further, IIRC. And that's the best I can do without taking a long look at both the timeline and my notes.

Still, of all the things not to know...

And, of course, happy birthday! To Neshomeh as well, should she happen to be reading this...May you have a wonderful year ahead!

~Z

A class that uses DEX as its spellcasting die.

An amazingly elegant dancer-type character using only her enchanted blades as armour; a sneaky halfling using her magic to cross gaps and stay out of both sight and mind of the treasury's guards; a fine archer using his connection to the arcane to make unbelievable shots.

That sort of thing.