Aberrant to Trinity – Magnus Varr

And here, for Aberrant and Trinity, we have Magnus Varr – an Olympian Undercover Agent. As befits someone extensively augmented by Nova technologies, he’s extremely powerful compared to a normal human, and quite powerful compared to your basic psion – but he’s no match for a high-powered Aberrant or Nova, while a psion is far [...]

Aberrant to Trinity: Professor Prometheus and New Olympus

There’s a major problem with a lot of settings. They feature super-intelligent geniuses, people with inhuman scientific skills, psychologists with near-total understanding of the human mind, incredible artificial intelligences, and often even the ability to entirely rebuild the human brain – and yet the vast majority of the organizations and groups in such settings are [...]

Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 78a

Up in orbit, Ben’s plan had not gone as hoped; the police had indeed responded to his request that they board his ship and arrest the Sith who’d hijacked it (and him!) – but his young Sith had left some minions to keep an eye out, and sneaking up on an orbiting ship was not [...]

Theovin Syindar, Lord of Chaos

As usual for Amber NPC’s, Theovin comes in several versions; after all, you never know how a given game master may want to use him. Theovin, of Clan Syindar, is Erin’s (far) older brother or half-brother. He’s a trump artist, with the curious and annoying habit of picking up various “ultra-tech” items and powering them [...]

Erin, of Clan Syindar, a youthful Lord of Chaos and Order

So I’m not supposed to – it’s a DARE… I Have to. Besides – everybody peeks. So mommy had said never to go near the Logrus. Suhay wouldn’t get mad. Everybody peeked at the Logrus at least once when they were kids (Well OK – maybe some of them lied). You could see it through [...]

Federation-Apocalypse Session 177 – Family Matters

Given a little time to think, Kevin had concluded that the proper thing for a wedding was extravagant festivities and gifts! Hm. A bunch of dragon-slaves of course! They were very classy and added color and impressiveness to any celebration! Perhaps a bunch of slave-girls with the magic to act as surrogate mothers? That would [...]

Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 77

With Alys on the way back from her (involuntary) meeting with the Hutts, Ben and a young Sith headed for the depths of the city in search of clues to superweapons, Lazlo and Vi just back (from a brawl which would be reported as the largest riot on Alderaan since the last time Kira had [...]

Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 76b

With the Yeveetha assault crippled for the moment, the military working on it’s own Ratsoogomoz, most of the Sith factions either in retreat or acting as allies of convenience against the Yeveetha, the group was free to make a side trip… With all my gear packed away, I sent out a message for a courier [...]

Immunity to Aging and other Peasant Powers

“But ability (x) is so cheap and useful; why doesn’t everyone take it?” is a fairly common, and deceptively, simple question in Eclipse. It may be applied to “Immunity to Aging”, or to Luck (specialized in Skills), or to many, MANY, other powers – and it is a good question. In fact, here’s a version [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXII – The Logic of Lions

After dropping off Catherine and Ms Tengu, Charles headed over to the restaurant where Gustav would be waiting. Lets see…. that would be the fivefold harmonic adapter, one of his new armor-sash designs, that Adamant Reaper Daiklave Raugdring (“Demon-Crusher” in Tolkien’s “Elvish”), a selection of wrapping papers, and some bows and invisible tape and such. [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXI – The Maiden in Durance Vile

Gustav was a bit harder to find than the others… He’d asked for his official order (a Fivefold Harmonic Adapter) to be delivered to his office in the Forbidding Manse of Ivy. In practice, of course, that meant usually “deliver it to the front desk unless you’ve passed the lowest tier exams to get in.” [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XX – Incidents of Artifice

Mr. Montague DID have a Celestial Manse (****). It was positioned on the border of a slum and a middle class neighborhood on the other side of the Celestial City – and was one that Charles recognized from the studies he’d done of Yu Shan’s Manses. It was the Workshop of Yien Du, a notable [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XIX – The Shattered Mirror

With most of his orders completed, a stockpile built up for his classmates, and quite a lot of his next set of projects calling for either assistance from other exalts (the Lion Ring, the Stargates, the Heaven Orb, and the Dragon Mappers at the moment), required waiting on objections and/or approval (Gri Fel and Terapshim’s [...]

Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 76

Again I found myself looking at a map of the Galaxy and found myself getting frustrated. For a bunch of fanatical nutjobs taking hostages, the RDF weren’t behaving in a very sensible fashion. The value in having hostages was in using them to make demands with the threat of violence if those demands are not [...]

Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 75 Appendum

With that we were led back to the surface. I slung the stasised trader over the back of one of the pack animals and tied him down. Telepathically directing the animal to follow along, we loaded up and started back for Mos Losa. The journey wasn’t the fastest, but we weren’t harassed by Sand People [...]

Federation-Apcalypse, Session 176b – Wedding Bells

Kevin left Marty to wedding planning – albeit shooting over occasional outrageous advice as to possible entertainments – and wandered off. He had a trio of servants to assign to that Cat-girl, and wanted to drop by the Rabbits and see how their civil war was going along the way! As far as the Rabbit [...]

Federation-Apcalypse, Session 176a – Nine Tales and the Darkness

Kevin grumblingly went off to use light magic to bless the city walls and some schools (blessing he local temples with forces that weren’t associated with the local gods was surely in poor taste), no matter how sticky-syrupy-sweet it made him feel. Pesky Silmarils and the Church, always pushing him to be good! Maybe it [...]

Federation Apocalypse Session 175 – The Darkness Wandering

Back in Kadia, the kids from the “bandit camp” were finding matters… not quite so dire as they’d expected. They’d mostly known the score; they were exiles. If their parents lost during the attack, they’d be orphans and slaves if they were allowed to live at all. If their parents won, they STILL might be [...]

Orin Makala – Statistics

And here we have some game statistics for young Orin Markala. It’s worth noting that – in Eclipse – a strong character concept usually leads to a strong character. That’s simply because a strong concept suggests limitations – and limitations make powers cheaper and/or more powerful. In Eclipse d20, once you have a strong concept, [...]

Dungeons and Dragons 3/3.5 Retrospective

And here we have a guest post from Editorial0… I’m cynical about being an optimist. No, really! I try to be optimistic. I kept trying desperately to persuade myself and others that The Last Airbender had potential as a movie (if you haven’t seen it… don’t). I tried to keep up hope that Duke Nukem [...]