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2010-11-01, 01:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
You should probably start your own thread for classes like I did. Feel free to copy my OP if you do so.
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2010-11-01, 01:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-11-01, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
If it's complete other than those, I would say post it. Getting it out amongst the general populace can't hurt.
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2010-11-01, 01:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
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2010-11-01, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
I'm sort of lurking. I don't really have much to comment on.
I'm highly anticipating the Celestial Warlock though >>
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2010-11-01, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
aaaannnnd it's up!
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174220
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2010-11-01, 11:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
What is needed for Hebdomad fluff (and stats)? I'd be willing to help out on this front, perhaps with other stuff as well.
If you need examples of my fluff work, see the angelic paragon classes in my sig.
Thank you for considering me for help if you do!Last edited by Sir_Chivalry; 2010-11-01 at 11:26 PM.
Feel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2010-11-02, 12:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
We are still trying to hammer out the fluff, so I would suggest you make a proposal of concept and we can go from there. As for stats, we are aiming for a range of mid-50s for Barachiel to late 70s for Zapkhiel; you can use both my High Caste Archons and the work of Dicefreaks for the Lords of the Nine to get an idea of our intent. Your prestige classes will likely be subject to a review at some later date to see what we can do with them.
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2010-11-02, 03:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Well, I have a "new thread" window open full of a few hundred disjointed words and ideas on Lunia. If you can cook up anything good on Barachiel and the Citadel of Stars, that would be great. I can only write so many fortresses, and this plane is full of them. I mean, I havethe Citadel of Stars, Heart's Faith, the Tower of Flames and the Fortress Eternal and Everlasting from the canon books alone. Then my own inventions: the Amber Gates, the trade outpost I haven't named yet, the unnamed Zoveri capital...
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2010-11-02, 10:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Feel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2010-11-02, 10:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Yes, it is. Your classes, however, from what I've seen of them, are for homebrew Celestials, not the official Archons. So they would probably need at least some fluff changing.
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2010-11-02, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
That's what I mean, they aren't about the archons. They are about paragons of the angels. I can add things in you'd see the angelic paragons being allied with the hebdomad, but really if we're going to start getting into other planes, then we might as well start modifying the Five Companions and the Court of Stars.
I just suggested looking at the fluff for the angelic paragons as an example of my fluffing style, a portfolio sample if you will. Don't get me wrong, I greatly welcome PEACHing on them, I just wanted to make clear that this was not my intent.Feel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2010-11-02, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Ah, right. I admit, I've only just looked at them, I thought, since you mentioned them, they were for homebrew archons.
And the hebdomad have their own PrCs anyway in the BoED. Not saying that there couldn't be more, of course.
Edit: is your username a reference to Robin Hobb's books, or did you choose that name for some other reason?Last edited by Eldan; 2010-11-02 at 10:20 AM.
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2010-11-02, 10:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
An easy mistake to make, and one of the reasons I thought I'd get involved here. I enjoyed making the fluff for the angelic paragons, and worst case scenario you guys don't like what I do, but contributing to this would be really nice.
So, Barachiel first?
edit: Completely different actually. In RL I actually try to model my conduct on a sort of pseudo-chivalrous code. The name is just the same name I use everywhere.Last edited by Sir_Chivalry; 2010-11-02 at 10:24 AM.
Feel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2010-11-02, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
I'd appreciate if you did Barachiel, as I'm writing up Lunia, and the two are, after all, very connected.
I'll also go with the pyramid structure of archons for now, so Lunia will have mostly lanterns and hounds, with the hounds guarding the gates and paths to the second layer.Resident Vancian Apologist
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2010-11-02, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Feel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2010-11-02, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
I would suggest starting with Barachiel, although you can do it in any order. In regards to them, thoughts on giving the Hebdomad class levels like the GOH Dukes, Arch-Devils, and Lords of the Nine? Barachiel having levels in Bard, Raziel in Paladin, Fighter, or Crusader, etc.
Finally, I'd like to propose that Hound Archons get reworked to use spears and shields or polearms; as greatswords just seem a bit individualistic for relatively weak but Lawful entities like Hounds. I wanted to do something like that for Authorities (Of which I'm still taking suggestions for better names since I had to drop Powers) but just couldn't resist giving them oversized Jovars.
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2010-11-02, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
If nothing else, simply make them more. There's tons of detail on the fiends and their rulers in both 2e and 3e (with the demons and devils each getting a book to themselves in 3e), whereas the only info on the Hebdomad is a chapter or so in BoED and some vague outlines in the 2e material. Giving them motivations, relationships, associations with different archons, rivalries with particular fiends, etc. is all good.
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2010-11-02, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Any time we talk about Asamodious there is so much competing fluff the thread could get derailed. (Some people like dicefreaks some like the codex). Celestia and the upper planes in general are not nearly as fleshed out as those in the ventral position. So we are trying to fix that
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2010-11-02, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
I'd also suggest that Chivalry and Eldan collaberate on their projects as they are so closely linked; even moreso than the Lords of the Nine are with their layers.
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2010-11-02, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Actually, IIRC, it was agreed that we would to different varieties for every Archon. Somehow, though, I just can't see Hounds as really being Rank&File fighters. Hunters, stalkers, even guard dogs, yes, but not really standing there in rows with spear and shield. I'd actually give them ranged weapons to emphasize their hunter rule. Just spears coudl work, they are traditional hunter weapons as well.
For Archons standing in units (which make a good image for Celestia in any case), I'd rather look to Sword and warden archons, who seem to be the dedicated fighters.Resident Vancian Apologist
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2010-11-02, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Well levels in a base class wouldn't go wrong, though perhaps merely giving them abilities from said classes would be better, as then they don't have to wallow in the lower levels and we can just give them the powers we want to build them correctly. Just as a thought:
Barachiel- Bard
Domiel- Rogue
Erathaol- Wizard
Pistis Sophia- Monk
Raziel- Paladin
Sealtiel- Knight
Zaphkiel- Hanged if I know!
Do I have a little permission to link them to other goodly powers? Such as the goodly gods or the paragons of other good outsiders? (maybe also the angelic paragons?)Last edited by Sir_Chivalry; 2010-11-02 at 11:01 AM.
Feel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2010-11-02, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Last edited by Iamyourking; 2010-11-02 at 10:50 AM.
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2010-11-02, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Feel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2010-11-02, 10:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Good point, we can leave it up to whoever opts to redo the lesser archons.
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2010-11-02, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
And again, if we are redoing them anyway, there's no problem with variants having hands and variants lacking them.
CR 9 might be a little too strong for Rank & File troops, true. In the Blood War, that would put them on the level of things like Barbed Devils or Vrocks, Elite Troops in other words.Resident Vancian Apologist
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2010-11-02, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-11-02, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
There's a wealth of good gods and their realms already semi-detailed, I guess fleshing a few of them out a little more can't hurt.
Someone over on Planewalker suggested doing more with Moradin's realm. That should be a good idea.Resident Vancian Apologist
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2010-11-02, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Gates of Heaven: Giving Celestia the Dicefreaks Treatment
Feel free to PM me if you want something PEACHed. I may not be one of the greats, but I'll do it if you ask.
"One of us is tender,
One of us is not,
One of us takes vengeance,
All four tied in a knot"
My homebrew
(U)sually in any game situation the biggest control freak will gravitate towards the job of being the GM anyway.
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2010-11-02, 12:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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