PHB 2 Fiddling

[bryant]

The Character Builder has been updated, so I started fiddling around with Players Handbook 2 ideas. The first thing I statted up was a human shaman named Bivvy, who claims to be of a noble family fallen on hard times. His spirit companion is a butler. “Whichever type of spirit companion you choose, it can have any appearance you like.” I’m just sayin’.

He’s taking Wrath of Winter as one of his at-wills, on the premise that the butler ought to be able to appear at someone’s side noiselessly. Also, I think, Blessing of the Seven Winds. Bit of a tornado, what?

I need to find a small figurine depicting Stephen Fry to make this really work.

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

Comments

[tamago.livejournal.com]

That is, as the kids say, a nugget of pure win coated liberally with awesomesauce.

[bryant]

One could actually run a Drones 4e game if one was willing to translate the crowd to Greyhawk or wherever. It's tempting. Not as tempting as the Bollywood idea I mentioned to Angie, though.

[tamago.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about this Bollywood idea? Angie didn't mention it.

Chris and I have been noodling around with a "Bollywood Item Number" card game idea.

[bryant]

Oh, you know. D&D 4th edition, which can be pretty widescreen in nature, set in a fantastic India (Mumbai as a giant city-state, right?), with implied song and dance routines after each fight and plenty of romantic subplots which are never consumated? I need to watch more of the source material, but that's the general idea.

[tamago.livejournal.com]

You need love triangles. Lots and lots of love triangles. And a happy ending. Er, happy for someone, anyway.

There should be a wedding, possibly more than one, in hindu style, of course, either as the backdrop to a fight or where valuable chance meetings happen. Last minute groom substitutions are also popular.

If you ever need a "hot springs" episode, take a trip to Goa (either a honeymoon or class trip have been frequently done.)


And romantic subplots are often consummated. There's just minimal kissing. Wedding nights often cut to dream sequence song and dance numbers alluding to dropped jewelry, hennaed hands and the fragrance of the beloved that otherwise make little sense.

[bryant]

I can work with that.

I was considering the Godavari River as the central setting, which gives me a lot of room to work with. Some PCs as river rats (river gypsies?); other PCs arriving at the denouement of the campaign by sheer coincidence.