https://forum.obsidianportal.com/categories/general-discussion/p28/feed.rss Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:20:13 +0000 General Discussion Discussions on Obsidian Portal Community Forums en-CA https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2740/background-falvor Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:47:54 +0000 SkidAce 2740@/discussions
desert = a desert background, city = city etc etc.

They are in a wasteland of ruins right now...so I found an appropriate picture for that.

This is fun.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2732/century-club-for-le-ballet Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:39:35 +0000 GamingMegaverse 2732@/discussions Congrats on joining the Century Club! You deserve it!
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
"Duskreign's First Ever COTM":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
"OP's COTM April 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/a-god-rebuilt-aprils-cotm/]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2745/campaign-trailer-the-spelljoined Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:09:43 +0000 Dungeon_Master_Loki 2745@/discussions
http://youtu.be/V3ixTDrnyAQ

-Loki]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2746/come-to-the-dark-side-and-get-free-pathfinder-pdfs Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:05:07 +0000 Necroblivion 2746@/discussions
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What are you waiting for? Come over to the dark side and see what you've been missing!

We have pie.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2748/an-old-school-horror-miniatures-set-kickstarter-4-days-left Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:29:41 +0000 Mordenheim 2748@/discussions
Seriously, check it out, but quickly because it ends in 4 days!! (Sept 28 2012)

If you see this afterwards, check out his "website":http://www.dark-platypus.com/ as i believe they'll end up there soon after the kickstarter's completion]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2096/miniatures Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:18:16 +0000 PartyPanda 2096@/discussions
Anyone know some good sites for finding miniatures other than Reaper? Right now we're using my husband's old HeroClix figs, and I want to surprise my gaming group by having some appropriate minis for their characters for the next time we drag out the hex mat for combat. Reaper and the official Deadland's store has a few good ones for my huckster, and my male and female gunslinger, but I can't find ones that I like for my 2 British spies, my monster hunting blessed reporter, or my martial artist.

Looking specifically for figs in the Wild West/Victorian/Steampunk genre.

Thanks ~ The Party Panda

PS Going to be @ DragonCon in Atlanta next week if anyone from OP is going to be there!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2727/obsidian-portal-main-page Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:53:38 +0000 gaaran 2727@/discussions
What I'm talking about is the main page of Obsidian Portal. I think the new design looks really great, it's slick and provides a great look at what OP actually is. However, what I think it's missing is the sense of being a community. Perhaps that's not what OP is supposed to be about, but I've found that's been one of the best parts of it. All of us, sharing our campaigns and stories with other people who are actually interested in hearing about it.

The front page used to have a blog feed, which showcased the featured campaign of the month, and had recent updates and a random featured campaign on the side bar. I found a lot of the campaigns on my favorites list that way. That was the draw to the site for me, and I don't think I'm alone in that.

I guess my tl;dr is that I think those features should be brought back to the main page, to be used as a selling point for getting new users to join up, not just being able to track your campaign. I wouldn't mind hearing if there are any plans to do anything like this in the future.

(It occurs to me that is possible that they aren't able to do this because so many of us use images we find online with a "copyright belongs to the artist, we just like it, but we'll take it down if they want us to" in our pages and banners. I could understand that being an issue, in which case, the changes totally make sense.)]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2720/call-of-cthulhu-antarctica-1983-recruitment Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:21:45 +0000 Syrinx 2720@/discussions
This game is up and I invite some new players to take the roles as personnel at Station 10.

Game system: Call of Cthulhu - modern
Current players: 2 (two extra in the curtains)

Five spots of NPCs viable to get PC status.
Xavier Barat, station chief.
Walther Naumann, logistics.
Robert Bailey, radio operator.
George Price, scientist.
Carl Evans, doctor.

"Cast list":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/antarctica-1983/characters]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2718/players-wanted Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:37:37 +0000 Tarranium 2718@/discussions The world is about politics and war, the battles are done by thousands of troops and the players are responsible for their success and failure.

EDIT:
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/total-war/wikis/handbook-v12]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2699/star-trek-late-night Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:56:42 +0000 Baalshamon 2699@/discussions

-Steve
"Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-trek-late-night
"Duskreign's CotM December 2011":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/wyrmshadow/wikis/122011
"CotM January 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm

Check out my Universal Sandbox Drama Deck, "Clockwork Drama":http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1452186107/clockwork-drama?ref=users and help me go to the printer.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2705/the-watchtowers-of-shadowgate-depths-v2-0 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:33:42 +0000 darkanglmarine 2705@/discussions
darkanglmarine
"The Watchtowers of Shadowgate Depths":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-watchtowers-of-shadowgate-depths/wikis/main-page]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2694/classic-battletech Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:07:04 +0000 Baalshamon 2694@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2696/paths-of-destiny-update Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:36:28 +0000 KenSee 2696@/discussions
The Paths of Destiny are back in business in, The Dispensation! 18 heroes spread out over four parties and led by 3 GM's have been called forth to go to the ends of the land of Procella to discover the ancient and dark secrets that lie just beneath the surface! Will they survive? Who knows. Only the Paths direct them now...

Coming soon I will have a full wiki up with character profile pages, player profile pages, fully fleshed wiki and adventure logs aplenty! Thanks to all who supported the last campaign we did in the Spring! I appreciate your reviews, critique, interest, and support! Tell your friends to check us out! Wiki will be public hopefully tomorrow!

-Ken See]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2679/d-d-next-5e-campaigns Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:30:50 +0000 RanterX 2679@/discussions
Just asking as I'm prepping an original campaign for when the character creation rules come out... thanks!]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2691/adventure-logs Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:18:16 +0000 Spiritual 2691@/discussions
"The Circle of Light - Adventure Logs":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-circle-of-light/adventure-log]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2641/gen-con-indy Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:10:51 +0000 Baalshamon 2641@/discussions


-Steve
"Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-trek-late-night
"Duskreign's CotM December 2011":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/wyrmshadow/wikis/122011
"CotM January 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2276/epic-battles Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:17:28 +0000 Morrinn 2276@/discussions
First some background;

Our heroes were a group of mercenaries who'd gotten tangled in some great big plot involving the old tomb of Horrors and some terrible interplanar shenanigans with some unknown powers siphoning raw arcane energies between the shadowfell and the feywild.
Without really knowing exactly what they'd gotten themselves into, they discovered that they now needed to travel to a city called Moil to find and destroy some McGuffin that was causing them some problems.

Now, here's what they didn't know, but were about to rapidly find out. Moil, called the City that Waits, is this cursed city comprised of ruined towers that for the past few millennia has been sinking into a necrotic ocean in the shadowfell. Our McGuffin is located in a massive floating complex, somewhere in the city, and the device is simultaneously pumping raw arcane fuel around the planes, warding off the mindless undead inhabitants of the city and keeping the complex's improbable construction floating above the necrotic sea.

As the character's navigated the city, they came across a vastly superior foe in the ruins, this thing called "The tortured vestige". This thing was capital 'N' Nasty, and nearly wiped them out before they managed to flee into the perceived safety of their target dungeon. That fight alone nearly caused the game to end in an all party wipe if they hadn't found the means to escape in the nick of time.
Once inside they began hunting for the device and fought clawed and kicked their way through several nasty traps and monsters. Finally they found the antechamber containing the device and began puzzling over what it was and how to shut it down.

Now, I'd planned on this being a two step fight where first they'd fight the guardian of the machine, an Acererak Mimic that would spring on the players the moment they began fucking with the machine, and then after disabling the engine they'd have to survive the crumbling construct and onslaught of undead from the city long enough to be deus ex'd out of the place by a nearby planar dromond.

Unfortunately, after being ambushed by the mock (but still very powerful) demilich, the players somehow got it in their heads that disabling the engine would maybe weaken the guardian... so, *during* the extremely difficult combat with the mimic, they advanced the fight into stage two, and as the machine burst into flames the room they were fighting in began to tilt... then fall into the necrotic ocean below.

So there they are, battling an enraged demilich, standing on unstable ground that's slowly giving way to black necrotic waves. They are low on hit points, the walls are crumbling and the mimic has just soul sucked the warlord when guess who joins the fun! The vestige from earlier... That impossibly difficult foe they had no hope of besting.
The situation could not get any worse. The characters were literally clawing at the walls, trying to climb the domed ceiling to get to any higher ground. I had at the start of the collapse thrown a die to see how long they had to survive before the nearby dromond came to help them and it was really quite a close call.

I ended up throwing them a bone and having the vestige act as an opponent to both the players and the demilich, so that helped them concentrate fire while the two creatures battled for a short moment.
Eventually the mimic fell dead and the dromond arrived just in the nick of time for them to flee the scene, but that was probably the most tense and close to a total party wipe I've ever put my players. The fight only ended up calming the leader who's soul had been obliterated by the demilich.

So yeah, that was fun =)

Anyone else got a good fight to share?]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2690/gift-card-not-working-for-ascendant Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:38:13 +0000 Sorwen 2690@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2647/politics-and-gaming Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:40:35 +0000 Baalshamon 2647@/discussions
thankyou]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2684/star-frontiers-virtual-con-september-14-15-2012 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:31:45 +0000 Rottenoak 2684@/discussions
http://starfrontiers.info/NetCon/index.html

You all might enjoy it.

It's free.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2672/calendar-page-malfunction Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:39:09 +0000 twiggyleaf 2672@/discussions
Is anybody else having a problem with their CALENDAR page. Mine is not scrolling down nor letting me enter any new page details.

All the other pages in my WIKI are "normal" so I thought I would just see if anyone else is having the same problem before I report this as a bug?

twiggyleaf
"Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
(a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2656/2012-pls-rpgpodcasts Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:25:16 +0000 donnyvz 2656@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2081/fan-of-a-campaign-favorite-campaigns Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:56:12 +0000 Baalshamon 2081@/discussions
1. What qualities do you look for in other people's campaign?
2. What about a campaign will encourage you to click that it is a favorite?
3. What do you dislike seeing in other people's posted campaigns? [pet peeves and things that annoy you]
4. Any suggestions for my campaign to help it improve?

thanks for taking the time to answer.

"Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-trek-late-night]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2653/star-trek-late-night Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:02:43 +0000 Baalshamon 2653@/discussions
-Steve
"Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-trek-late-night
"Duskreign's CotM December 2011":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/wyrmshadow/wikis/122011
"CotM January 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2645/star-wars-old-republic-actual-play-podcast Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:26:08 +0000 EricAusley 2645@/discussions

Please click "here":http://gamerstable.com/swap-pod-prologue/ to listen.

Please check out the Obsidian Portal campaign companion "Power of the Darkside":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-wars-old-republic-power-of-the-darkside also.]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2643/lurna-s-journal-part-ii Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:57:36 +0000 Alias 2643@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2636/thanks-micah-ryan-jerry Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:28:56 +0000 GamingMegaverse 2636@/discussions I just wanted to say thanks to the OP guys for keeping this site so solid- even during a recent complete migration!!! There were a couple of bugs, yes, but overall we were able to use the vast amounts of data we store here.
My game would be an empty shell without OP, as it is online only. Thanks Guys!!
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
"Duskreign's First Ever COTM":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
"OP's COTM April 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/a-god-rebuilt-aprils-cotm/]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2617/sorting-algorithm-for-campaigns Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:44:21 +0000 Riklurt 2617@/discussions https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2631/clang-sword-fighting-game Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:28:21 +0000 ericbryanwiggins 2631@/discussions
The goal of this game is to create a set of tools (and an initial game) that companies can use to make other games (or expand on the initial game) that portrays weapons fighting in a realistic manner instead of the crazy bullshit that swordfighting games currently do. It's an awsome, cutting edge project that really deserves to be funded and is soooo close. Only 63 hours left and they need about $50k.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang]]> https://forum.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2626/is-op-right-for-my-community Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:32:23 +0000 Nestor75 2626@/discussions
We currently are using Yahoo groups to organize, Yahoo is removing the application sign-up sheets in two days, so we are casting about trying to find something else that fits our needs.

Please keep in mind that we have multiple GM's and 3-4 of these will be moderators, the rest will not.

This is what we must have:

1.) Forums. good searchable forums, that can be moderated by multiple people. (the yahoo groups message board made me want to pull what is left of my hair out)
2.) File sharing data base, each player uploads his/her character xml export to an easily navigable data base.
3.) A calendar application that will allow multiple GM's (10+) to post games dates, and players can sign up, post character information.
4.) e-mail notification when new games are posted
5.) spam control

This is what we would like to have but is not exactly necessary, all this content must be easily editable by whoever created it, not necessarily moderators.

1.) Editable wiki type pages for GM's (and players) to post Voice client Info, info about what scenario's they have and are willing to run, and a another things they wish for people to know.
2.) Customizable forum signatures that can display Pathfinder Society info if someone wishes
3.) Polls
4.) Links page
5.) FAQ page

Keep in mind that we are trying to encourage people to GM, and we want it to be very easy to post a game date and find interested players.

I have played in a campaign where the GM used OP to organize the campaign in I was impressed with the functionality, but I do not know if it is suitable for our needs.

thanks]]>