The Witchfire Trilogy the conclusion

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ahh new year and same bull****

2010 is here 2 years away from a apocalypse and perhaps by then I will have a full write up of the witchfire trilogy game I ran just maybe. So what's new in the world?
Well 1st off Warmachine MK2 is out so get a copy I know I need to but one has no money. Star Trek online is now in the open beta phase. Its a good game just there seem to be a few errors in the open beta compared to closed beta. Overall though the game is fun and entertaining ... just go pre-order the damn game.
Work has quietened down again thank Morrow. I am now fitting in roughly 40 hours into 4 days of work so fun times.
Oh yeah and next week the campaign begins again one year after the events of the Witchfire Trilogy.

I gave the players plenty of rewards cause well im nice. These rewards included things they would find useful. For example the Sorcerer just levelled into Warcaster so as a rewards she got her 1st steamjack.

Light steamjack
name:
height/weight: 7'6"/5 tons
armourment: pneumaticaly powered fists
Initial Service Date:
Hit Dice: 5
hit points: 57 (27+30)
base initiative: -4
Speed: 15 ft
AC: 22
bab: +3
mab: +11
rab: 0
base attack damage: 1d6+8
space/reach: 10ft
Saving throws: ref: -2, will: 0
abillities: 26 str (+8), 5 DEX (-3)
cortex: 4 INT, 11 WIS
build DC: 21
Construction time: 6 weeks + 1 day
Price: 28,000
Special attacks: N/A
Special Qualities: Slow (Ex)
                  
                   Furnace Vulnerability (Ex)

                   Reliance on Fuel

                   damage reduction:5/serricsteel
Challenge Rating: 4

The idea is it was developed by her mentor and given to her as a training aid.

Others are getting other items. Scarlet kylies fighter gets her tavern shes always wanted.
So lets leave it at that for now folks till later toodles.

The Red Warmachine statistics part 2

Continuing in my feature on my ideas for Unit conversions (albeit later than I hoped) so now we have the Assault Kommandos. The Assault Kommandos are a fun unit however I have found there carbine is annoyign weapon to stat up. Its stated it has a Grenade launcher atached to it thats no problem however then the gunblade on the bottom is a pain as rifles in the IK rules aren't really meant to be gunblades however I made an exception for the Carbine.

So anyways without Further Ado here are the Assault Kommandos stats.

Race: Human (khardic)

Level: Fighter 6

Hit points: 6D10+12

AC:21

Initiative: +6

Speed: 20Ft

BAB: +6/+1

Saves: FORT: 7 REF: 4 WILL: 2

Abilities: STR 16 DEX 14 CON 14 WIS 10 INT 10 CHA 10

Skills: Craft (small arms) +5, Intimidate +3, Jump +3, Move Silently +3, Hide +3, Survival +4

Feats: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Small Arms), Tower Shield Proficiency, Improved Shield Bash, Rifleman, Weapon focus (rifle), Point Blank Shot, Run, Shield Wall, Improved Initiative

Equipment: Spiked Tower Shield, Assault Kommandos Carbine, Assault Kommandos armour, Assault Kommandos gas mask, Smoke Grenades.

Assault Kommandos Carbine: same stats as a Normal Carbine (See Iron Kingdoms character Guide) but has a Grenade Launcher attached to the bottom. The Grenade Launcher needs a Craft Demolitions check of DC 10 to reload it. On top of that it has a blade attached to the weapon which has the same stats as a short sword and can be used in melee with a -2 penalty to hit.

Assault Kommandos Gas Mask: Is a combination of the Alchemists beard (Liber Mechanika) and the Mist peircer goggles (No Quater #20 page 53).

Assault Kommando armour is treated as a breastplate (see phb)

The red warmachines statistics part 1

Hey folks fen here getting back on track with blogging I still have to write up a review of last game but that will be up in the next few days.
Today I bring you the 1st in a series of posts where im going to try and give my own thoughts on 3.5 representation of units from warmachine. Essentialy this is me giving them stats so I can use them in future games. This is not going to be me saying this is how they should be but my own thoughts and ideas, I will be defiantly staying away from characters like yuri and the great bears and warcasters. I feel giving named characters stats is a stupid idea as your players are more likely to try and kill them.
One last thing if I don't stat up certain units like iron fangs then they already have there stats in a no quarter somewhere.

Ok now lets get down to businesses 1st up is one of my favourite units in the red army known as Khador the Manhunter.

Name: Manhunter

Race: Human (Khardic)

Class: Ranger 9

HP: 77 (6d8+5)

AC: 17 (10+4+3)

Initiative: 8 (4+4)

Speed: 30ft

Ability		Modifer
STR	18	4
DEX	18	4
Con	14	2
Wis	14	2
Int	12	1
Cha	10	0

Base attack Bonus: 9/4

Saves: Fort : 8 (6+2)
Will: 5 (3+2)
Ref: 10 (6+4)

Skills: Hide 12, Knowledge nature 8, knowledge tactics 3, knowledge geography 7, listen 12, Move Silently 12, search 12, spot 12, survival 12, climb 3, swim 3

Feats and abilities: Favoured enemy (human), track, Wild empathy, Favoured terrain (artic), Alertness, endurance, Woodland stride, evasion, favoured terrain (forest), weapon proficiency (simple, martial), armour proficiency (light , medium, shields), improved initiative, two weapon fighting, combat reflexes, stealthy, toughness, weapon focus battleaxe, weapon specialisation

Equipment: 2 battle axes (1d8+6, X3), Rations, hide armour

Initialy I was going to make them barbarians but then I went and re-read the manhunters backstory. These guys and gals are hunters who have taken up hunting the deadliest game ... MAN!!!
So I changed them to the Iron Kingdoms ranger variant. I then geared them towards being the mightiest hunters of Khador. there hide is at modest 18 (4 from DEX + 12 ranks in hide + 2 for stealthy) making them difficult to spot and with track, spot, listen and search maxed out they'll be difficult to shake. Manhunters are weapon masters so I gave them weapon focus and specialisation.
I made them 9th level as iron fangs are level 6 and as there a specially trained unit I thought manhunters should be a few levels higher. My thoughts for this were that manhunters as solos are capable of dispatching a unit of grunts like say trenchers. also it allowed me to give them there second bonus terrain. I chose artic and forests as that's what Khador has a lot of snow and trees.
If you want to lower or up the levels go ahead comments and criticism welcome.

And if anyone is intrested on my thoughts of yuri I would say11th/3rd level IK ranger with 1 or 2 levels of barbarian.

Death in the Party

I figured I hsould start like that a awesome pic of Colbert. Would like to point out I demand more Colbert report on British TV and the Daily show. Those shows make my laugh so loud I defended the entire county with my sonic laughter.

So this week has been madness It was Columbus day monday and all the Americans from the bases came to my store what a afternoon and due to circumstances I was working still 2 hours after my shift ended.

but anyway to the D&D stuff.
There was a death last week.
Scarlett (our ranged fighter) and alain (our arcane maechanik)were sent to go take care of some mysterious goings on. Along with a group of hired muscle they found where the strange interlopers were hiding outside of town.
What they didnt know is that inside the hideout were a cryxian sorcerer, a satxyis sorcerer/fighter, a blighted trollkin barbarian and 12 mechanithralls.
They fought through the 1st wave but had to pull back after the second wave surprised them and taken out one of there companions. So they went back the next day and charged in head 1st the extra acompniment of Mercenaries jumping on the mechanithralls.
They 1st took on the blighted Trollkin who packed a punch but was no match for alain and Scarlet.
They managed to sneak into the room with the satyxis and the sorceress unfortunately Alain wasnt as good at hiding and was found hiding behind a rock and as a the satyxis set sights on him Scarlet sniped away from behind her rock. and after getting a few scratches from the satxyis she defeated and just the Sorceress left. She let out a HUGE fireball spell which took most of scarletts and alains health away. Scarlet managed to score a direct hit on the sorceress but not before Alain was struck by a ray spell and died and thus ends Alains travels as Scarlet pocketed his goods and left his corpse to rot.

Ah yes what a adventure up next though ... Well I cant decide either to do the umbral spiral or the legion of lost souls of well tommorow I shall make my decision.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH and some Ik bloggyness

So im having a bad weekend as i sit here a 1 am and i gotta be up at 5 ish and at work at 8 till very late possibly even later like that Watching the Watchmen (oh yeah) and being pretty fuming. Mainly cause well one of the guys at work has not showed up for 2 whole days. Also known as the FREAKING WEEKEND, also known as OUR BUSIEST TIME!!!.

Had to do a damn close by myself on a Saturday and well now we dont know where he is so if he dont show up tomorrow I gotta do his close Saturday so that means no freaking D&D possibly maybe ... GAH!!!

But anyway ive now vented down to what happened. So after talking with mr Selly one night about what I should do with 3 of the our 6 players who were showing up that week (selly was one of the lads not showing up that week). and I was vbouncing off ideas and selly came up with why not split em up make em work hard. Uhh yeah that a tough thing to do but we gave it a whirl. So I set a great scene in Corivs under Lockdown in a nice quiet tavern when a sorceror being hutned down by the inquisitors and the watch burtst in all hell breaks loose 2 off the party are carted off to jail.
So our gun ho fighter and our gun mage are locked up and not really tryign to get out. Whilst The Arcane Mechanik has formulated a plan he just needs a way in.
And he found in his workshop along with his flamethrower. 2 Warjacks minus cortexes. And he jsut happened to stumble across a old one (need to work out how degraded it is). so Yeah off al goes with his Mule and essentially breaks intoo jail and rescues the guys plus a Arcane Tempest gun Mage.

Course I didnt make the escape easy hell al had a problem handling the jack with his low pointsi n Jack handling but he did ok.
And ofr fun I gave them one hell of a end fight them, there Mule vs Skorne warriors a pain giver and a titan. Yeah it was awesome. Unfortunately the skorne never really got in the game as the mules stray shot ripped them to shreds.
But a fun tie was had by al land now al isl ooking towards Warcaster as a end game resiult.

Also they were askign where they go after the witchfire i said about my idea of the merc company and they seem to like that idea. So were off to fight the Kahrds (probaly).

Right im off to bed night.

All hail privateerpress. Now the rest of you may enjoy The Iron Kingdoms

Thats Right 2 days Ago Privateer Press made this announcment.

Embark upon a journey into the realm of Full Metal Fantasy with the complete set of Iron Kingdom RPG source books, many of which have been out of print for over a year, now available in PDF for the first time. These highly sought after volumes contain detailed information on role playing in the unique setting of the Iron Kingdoms and provide a wealth of historical, cultural, and political information on the nations, peoples, and creatures that call Western Immoren home.

Perfect for WARMACHINE and HORDES players as well as RPG players with discerning tastes, the entire Iron Kingdom RPG line is available now from www.drivethroughrpg.com and www.paizo.com including:

* Witchfire Trilogy Collected Edition
* Monsternomicon Vol.1: Denizens of the Iron Kingdoms
* Monsternomicon Vol.2: The Iron Kingdoms and Beyond
* Iron Kingdoms Character Guide, Full Metal Fantasy
* Iron Kingdoms World Guide, Full Metal Fantasy
* Liber Mechanika, Full Metal Fantasy
* Five Fingers: Port of Deceit, Full Metal Fantasy

Don’t miss out on this second chance to own the books that started it all. Head on over to DriveThruRPG or Paizo and complete your Iron Kingdom library today!

(original source at Privateer Press)

I know this has made alot of the IKRPG forum community happy as we can now get copies of some REALLY hard to find books. The PDF's are apparently REALLY well bookmarked so its easy to find that hard to fnd obscure bit of information what slows down your ENTIRE game.

One thing a few people on the Privateer Press Forums have been maoning about is the price. The PDF's are going for about $30 what works out as roughly £18. Now I say this is not a problem for me. Privateer press has to still pay people for there creative works i nthis book etc. Not to mention Im sure sales of these books will contribute to there own RPG system.

Oh did I forget to mention privateer have announced that there workign on a in house RPG system. YOu can find the information in there forums (thansk again Doug ^^).

So there we have it. If you want to try the Iron Kingdoms For yourself then Please go ahead and initialy Grab the WitchFire Trilogy thats a good place to start if yo uwant a new awesome Quest, it also has some basic information on items liek Firearms and such but dosent go into the full revamping on magic and magic items and classes (ranger) that The iron Kingdoms Character guide does.
If however you want to jump i nthe deep end liek I pretty much did pick up a Iron Kingdoms Character guide and a Monsternomicon. See hoow you like it then get the rest.

Also pelase dont Forget this is a Campaign Settign for Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 so you need the 3.5 D&D core books, which can still be found floating out there if one knows hwere to look.

Welcome to the Iron Kingdoms role Play Like youve got a PAIR.

The Recaps Of my Witchfire campaign.. also known as this ones been alogn time comming

SO hey its been a while since I've actually blogged. Really should try and keep this constant but then again I have just not found the time thanks to work, D&D and umm Champions Online. Yeah the games good no I'm not a life time member after Ayacon I couldn't afford to be. I got a discounted 6 months and the rest of the goodies.
But anyways were not here to talk Champions online .... yet, noo were here to talk about warmachine goodness really and that being my campaign.

So here we go what you've missed me talking about over the past 2 weeks.
Right so we left our adventurers deciding to skip the gatorman village and leave squint and his companions to there own fate (couple of points towards evil there).
So across the swamp land they went where they found dun dun dun Alexia's boat. inside they found the crew Alexia had Charmed into giving her a ride. And there big burly female Khadoran bodyguard who also was charmed and now tied up in the ship. Now what I mean by Khadoran bodyguard is welcome our new player Katie YAAAAY. She's playing our big Khadoran fighter with a big axe and monkey grip.

So with there new Khadoran ally they continue onwards into the Temple of Cyris. On arriving at the temple and upon hearing the Description of the temple of Cyris our Arcane Mekhanik starts to have an unhealthy fixation on the place which would make him the butt of the jokes for some time.
So charging in head long they encounter several groups of drones and Cyriss Clerics who lets face it are not pleased to see MORE intruders. They also find 2 men in cells. Thanks to quick spot checks they notice tatoos on their arms showing they belonged to the inqusition which involved them being shot to death in there cells by the party.
They picked up the flame thrower (although I never told em what it was) and then they got to the smelting room. They ran around with greandes in hand blowing clerics into the smelting pits and the crane was swinging around. And then kylies fighter scored the ultimate kill. How I put it after the crit roll she rolled away from the crane arm drew her rifle landed and proceeded to head shot the crane operater through the tinted window of the crane room. He bounced of the wall and proceeded to tumble out into the smelting vats.

So finaly after going up and down elevators they found the main room where alexia was. 1st up they took on the coven and did quite well als arcane mechanik managed to figure out that he had a flamethrower by traning it on the coven.
Once they were done all the party began to run towards alexia with the Gunmage preparing his precious quad iron and casting rune bullet on each seprate bullet (he had 4 turns to kill to get to alexia). SO before anyone else gets a turn including alexia the Gunmage who had highest Intiative essentialy CRITICALED Alexia with the Quad Iron. Essentialy he managed to deal enough damage to take take out alexia. SO she went flying into the pit and baboom the party has finnaly done what theyve been wanting to do since the Longest Night. KILL ALEXIA.
So the party pocket the Witchfire and get the FUCK out of there.

I decided to Skip Father Lucan or whatever he is the big spidery thing as that gamign session was comming to the end and the party wants out of the temple.
SO they got back to the boat found Squint and crew dead. So 1st thoughts for most of em was like ... awesome we got a boat. So The Arcane Mechanik gets the boat going on one paddle wheel.

So they get back to Corvis find out Vinters back the inqusitions runnign aorund the place and all swords are being confiscated. so they decide to park a li lfurther up rriver no where near corvis and try and find a back route in. They find a sewer entrance and go throug hthere and then find there way to a empty church where There ambushed by the Inquisitors and Helstrom. The party is liek Hell Helstrom has betrayed us and then he saves em and gets em to save Dumas which they do. Rember at this time I only had half the group with me and they stormed the place no problem left all the other prisoners to die bypassed the skorne torturer and then went and saved DUMAs and ran the hell Away. So I threw in a Skorne Warrior and a few guards for fun. Just so they knew hwat they were up against.
Also during this there Khardic fighter who had demanded she held onto the Witchfire had stayed on the boat and had found zombies romaing round it which she started to dispatch with no problem and almsot picked up the witchfire even though i waqs really hintign she didnt want to do that. To find out why go read the witchfire trilogy books the stats for that accursed sword are in there.

So i nthe end thats how it went Dumas was saved the sword was encased in stone and hidden in the Arcane mechaniks warehouse and now the party has free time. .... they also may have come into contact with a Skorne cyclops but eh you know.

What should inhabit Zu?

This is something I really want to bring up as Zu is mentioned i nNo Quater 25 just a little about a port what the new commers (the people of Immoren) are only allowed on and a Jungle where no newcommers have come back from alive. What Lives i nthere. We know monkeys do and a few other creatures have been mentioned. But what else? And the peoples culture we know so little what kind of architecture do they have? There is talk of Orgoth styles persistent in the culture. but what else?

Architecture

I would like to think where you go in Zu there is multiple Architectural designs as they talk about the port they have landed in seems to be a trade nexus for what seems several different nations ..maybe?

But 1st and foremost I would lke to think the general architecture is Aztec in nature. I think its just because of the Jungle. I would love my players to be exploring ancient temples in a thick jungle cannopy / clearing and to find a aztec esc temple would be awesome. However i would like to try something different say egyptian style pyramids in a jungle would defy normal conventions.

But I could also pull ideas from different regions of the world. The adobe style buildings intrest me as a viable option. So many options.

Creatures

Above I talked about the usual creatures monkeys beingkey ther. If there is no way to get a chimp for pirate to keep as pets the Pirates of the broken coats book would not be the same.

Ok so what can we expect from a non game rule perspective to find in that jungle. I would say the usual creatures you would find in any REAL jungle. Big cats, Exotic birds, Hell I might even make a few up for fun. Maybe some jungle elephants (they exist). Skys the limit. Besides for all we know there could be a savanah behind that Jungle or even a desset. I would feel more than at liberty to colonise Zu with many a crature you would find i nthe real world. And then we enter some adventurers with guns and we got big game hunting.

Now fro ma D&D perspective what creatures do I want to add into Zu. Although at the time of writing this not having all of the 3.5 Monster mnauals on me barring number I would like ot add 1st and foremost DINOSAURS.

Why DInosaurs .. WHY NOT it just seems righ i na fantasy world where we have big guns and jacks to pit them agaisn prehistoric beasties. YES YES YES!!!! ... excuse me a moment

But yeah appart from that I cant think of much else I would want to add to Zu not from monster manual 1 anyway. Well prehaps lizardmen and maybe orcs ... maybe.

SO those are my thoughts of Zu brought to you on my new laptop. Yes its here and its very sexy now back to snuggling the loveable missus

Up the river without a paddle wheel.

Well before I begin this post I have to correct an error I made in my last post. The party didnt bluff there way into the smuglers hideout. No the Gun mage botched that. Infact Scarlet there fighter Intimidates her way into the hideout with use of one of her many firearms. Which I have to add this Rpg Inspirational poster just to get the point across.

This correction was brought to you by my ever lovign girl friend who wasnt going to let me get away with not mentioning her awesomeness. Someone want to get her to remove the kitchen knife from my spleen now.

Ok so this week saw me and my group Begin Witchfire part 2 Shadow of the exile. It was a great laugh. The party got there quest and foudn the information they needed. Realising there wasnot much time to waist they Flew off to the port to aquire a boat. In the end they found the Fortune and off they sailed.

The 1st encounter was the swampie village which i enjoyed as the DM, I got to put on my best deep fenny accent which I thought did a swampies dialect justice. Specialy for the odl man they could barely understand him.

They found out about the graveyards in the swampy village being dug up. they also heard about the shamblers and payed out for the Taismen to ward them off. I love how al our Arcane Mechanik thinks any udnead are instantly Alexias fault.

The shamblers attacked during the night the partyy chose to sleep in different places (the fighter in the swampy tavern, the arcane mechanik in the engine room of the fortune and the Gun mage on the deck)

THeSwamp shamblers attacked the gun mage siounded the alarm with a blast of his pistol as hey ascended from the water onto the ship. The fither kicked open the door and opened fire with her repeating rifle (lots of criticals ensued) and finaly the Arcane mechanik almost died (again).

Next up they encountered the Gobber raid which they dispatched with ease and al got his hand cranking up ice stick.

After that the events at the gates over the water was hilarious. The ships slowing down and the gumage casts fare blindign squint and havign the ship career into the bank.

So they enter the 1st tower, normaly the razor bats should fly out and attack the party when they get close bt what I let happen was more fun.

The Gun mage goes in 1st pops on dancing lights to find himself surrounded by bats in which he makes a hasty retreat whilst bats chase him. Few moments later the bats all drop dead.

Then they had to open the 1st gate. The ydidnt realise the gates had been chained together so it took all 3 of them to open it.

Then to the next side where they found the thralls which at 1st Al didnt relaise one was a thrall. But hey they dispatched them easily enough.

Finaly we got the the Gatermen which suprised them on the home stretch boom log trap into ships paddle wheel ships in trouble gatermen attack party slays them.

So squint tells em there not far fro mthere destination they have 10 hours before he leaves and then tells them to deal with the gatermen or there nto goign to get back. The parties responce is screw the gaters on to the Temple of Cyriss and thats where we left it.

So Squint nad his crew will sucum to the gaters and Al will be busy reparing the sip before they can leave.

So thats it for thsi blog. No Irin Kingdoms RPG goodness next wee kas I am at Ayacon (I hope if things go as planned) so in 2 weeks we wil lbe gettign back on track with the 2nd act of the Shadow of the Exile.

ALso on another note Pathfindr fast levelign is fast leveling as the party went up from pretty much base level 3 xp to level 4 in one session (probaly cause 2 people was missing)

See you all at aya

- Fen

Enter The Cygnaran Military

So Friday was our latest session of my Iron Kingdoms Campaign which this week was "filler" (also reffered to as a side quest). I did start out writting this almighty side qwuest as I decided not to use the one what comes with the WitchFire Trilogy as I thought my group could do with somethign a little more intresting. But digreessing I had started to write up the nights quest but unfortunatly things got in the way like work. And wehn I sat down to finnish it I got interupted by mr selly comming over however it did mean I got a new player yays. Hes playing a Nyss rouge whos armed to the TEETH. Its all pretty cool.


So I decided to Wing the rest. Herse how it went down.



The Arcane Mechanik doing some work for the union overhears 3 men talking to a sailor from his point of view he could see they were Cygnaran Military, he approachesthem gets there story.


The Cygnarans are looking for a group of smugglers who have stollen a vast quantity of cortexes and jack parts (including military grade parts and cortexes). The cygnarans almost had them the other day but thenwell there was the whole undead army attacking Corvis and the group of SMugglers slipped out of there grasp. Now they need help tracking these smuglers down.



So our mechanik goes to find his adventuring party who had been held up in a tavern since the events of the longest night. He walks in to find our gun toting pirate swigging down as much rum as possible and our one armed "dirty harry" gun mage boozin and flitin with a nyss.

He explains the job shows em a picture of there target. The Nyss had seen him in the undercity however she was too sloshed at the time to give an answer and passed out.



The next morning the fun ensues the gun mage and nyss wake up i nthe same bed arcane mechanik comes up to find our gun mage and nyss in a wtf/what in mororws name is going on. So the mechanik asks the nyss if she has seen the man there looking for she had but wanted half the reward which didnt go down well with the group one thing led to the nyss pointing a dagger at the mechanik and the gun mage pointing a gun at the nyss' head which lead to the nyss revealing the Grenades under her great coat attached to string so if they do anythign she releases all the grenades everybody go boom. so the mechanik grudgingly agrees (mainly because he dosent want to be a smear on whats left of the tavern walls).



So they head into Corvis' seedy underbelly where on there way to the bar the nyss last saw the suspect they were ambushed by a gang who wanted all the Crowns (gold) and any other belongings. Unfortunatly the group got there arses handed to them and the party stood ther victorious wit hour pirate now in possesion of a Radcliff Firestorm Pistol from the gang leader.



When they get to the bar they ask around specificaly at the bartender and after being pretty much robbed blind of a fair few crowns get the information on where there target and his smugling crew were hiding out.

They go and check the place out they find 2 guards at the door. The rouge finds a back route but its got alot of rubble around it but she thinks he can get by without making any sound.



So they make a plan Nyss will sneak orund the back and if needs be ambush the enemy if things go badly. The rest of the party were to bluff there way in under the guise of having information on the men tracking them down. it worked (my rolls suck balls).



Wo the Nyss gets in noproblem after sneaking in and unlocking the door. the nyss finds herselves in a dinning hall where two people are talking about getting out of the city one of them has a Khardic accent.



The others entyer through the front and meet the leader of the gang known as boris.

He offers them many crowns for them to take care of the cygnarans and all the jack parts they had aquired except for the cortex'. After the group leaves the Nyss over hears a conversaion between the Khard woman and boris about how they intend to kill the party has done the job.

So the Nyss gets out and relays the information to the party who decide they best ally with the Cygnarans. SO after meetign trhem at there place they com to agreement the reward plus they hget to keep anythign they find so long as its not property of the Cygnaran Military or the Cortexes.

So the group works together to flush out the smugglers. This was goign to be a intrestign fight as I was hoping they would walk in the front which they did and they would be met by one of the smuglers go for a item under a tarp what happened to b a cygnaran chain gun. Unfortunatly The party didnt get much in the way of a challegne as the Nyss primed a flash grenade and tossed it in stunning the smuglers whic where then picked off quickly.
By the end of the battle The arcane mechanik was hauling off a nomad and a mule minus the cortexes and a few parts like arms and heads.
The gun mage came away with a quad iron and the pirate came away with a rifle.

All in all they were happy rewards better than money I belive. Unfortunatly the Khardic woman had vanished along with a cortex.

After stashing the jacks at a steamo storage unit a cleric approache the party and informs them that Father Dumas has summoned them. And thats where we left it ready for the next part of the Witchfire.

Right this post has taken me a flipping weke to write between sleeping and working so now I am gonna sleep as you know were RPing tommorow also I need to finnish Writing the Cygnaran soldiers stats as I think they will make great alleisl ateri n the game.

IOSAN "Jacks" have "Beam cannons"

Ok I got alot to blog about and I think im gonna have to use multiple posts cause im WAAAAAY behind on my bloging. So 1st blog is alll aboot No quater 25 and the awesomeness that is the retribution. So we got a sneak peek at one of the new casters stats and Wow. But wht im more intrested in ios the jacks or myromidins as they are known. Guts and Gears has a great article on how they work and I must say I loved the fact that they have a bonejack size damage grid but also have an energy field which can be used to fire a a beam of energyh at a opponent. BEAM CANNON!!! HELLS YEAH.

So I think thats a big plus for the Retribution and If I ever bring them into my campaign (and as we are currently in 603 Ar and the Retirbution are like 608 AR its gonna be a while) i think one will just charge up and blast away a small squadron of trenchers for shits and giggles.

SO whatesle did I enjoy. Well a whole Article on the Sailing Vessels of the Iron Kingdoms. Main reson we get a little sneaky nibble of Zu the land over the waves. I like the idea of Cygnatr and Ord being the two Nations pretty much on par with naval Technology and Khador just compencatign with BIGGER ships pretty much. Oh and Cygnar have subs go Cygnar.

There is a side note about the Cryxian fleets which is of note as well.


So Ayacon is a few weeks away now and is already cost me an arm and a leg on hotels (lastm inute problems what can i say it happens :) ).
Cant wait gonan be alogn friday but will be wel lworht it :D.

Also now have a laptop otw which is also costing me a small fortune.

Oh and I gotta resubmitt all my coursework barring one by the 18th and my pcs still ... BALLS. Right next up a tal kabout my campaign so far as we had an awesoem session Friday night.

Awesomness redfined in many ways

Whoop whoop awesometimes today and yesterday. So lets start with today.

TODAY!!!

Me and Kylie went to see Luna in Norwich for a fun day of conversing, laughter and shopping.

We found some awesome stuff like my Batman beyond figure of terry maguiness, more gunpla goodness, comics (yaaaaaaaaay). What made me especily happy was the promo freebie. I now have a black lantern ring ... IM A CRAZY ZOMBIE WHOOOOOOOO!!!

Yus well much fun was had by all think ill have to go back to norwich again soon.

Ok so Yesterday between a minor incident in the kitchen I worked on a few minis over Kylies. one being the Old witch of Khadors Scrap Jack.

I really wanted to make the jack look like it was a hunk of scrap so instead of khadoran reds I used Tin Blitz as a base and then dryburushed (oh noes i dry brushed i sinned) brazzen brass over the jackand whala scrap jack ala scrap.

I also managed to paint kylies pirate before the game started except for the hair. I say it was probaly the most enjoyable model to paint just because I got to play with colours and mixing browns to do the leathers. I stil lhate trying to paint eyes.

So the other night we got around to finnshing the witchfire Part 1 - the Longest Night.

Warning the following section contains spoilers.

So we ran through the last part where alexias undead minions attack Corvis and well do quite a good job of causing terror. You know they were meant to. Terror and Confusion. So after shooting hacking and wrenching there way therough the undead to the church (as al the mechanik finnaly decided the undead So did not come across the city gates but probaly through the chirch catacombs). So they got there unfortunatly Kai had a family emergency and had to bail so his sorceress was koed by some falling rubble from a stray cannonball.

They got to the church to find it not streamign with undead and Father dumas out in full battle dress.

So we jumped straight into defendign the bridge. I only lobbed them 2 of the suggested 4 waves only because being a party of now 3 meant they were outnumered. I did send in Father dumas to aid the party esspecialy after the arcae mechanik was taken out of action with a unfortunate critical.

The waves took a bit of effort because of the smaller team (they were outnumbered 2 - 1 at level 2) the 2 fights served there purpose though. By the end the entire party including the fighter were wounded (albeit not that much in the fighters case) and tired from there ordeal as they retreated back Father dumas had to tend to the mechanik. Finnaly the undead came over in the huge wave and the party were like BUGGER this in whuch Alexia came in took her mothers body and the witch fire. enter the mysterious wizard the tug of war for the sword began and the PCs decided to give it to the Wizard. Non of the party trust Alexia at all which is great. I mean seriously awesome cause hell i wouldnt. Id still hit it.

SO we ended the game with Alexia flying off with the witch fire her entire army fell into old bones and a exhaughsted party was left to watch the city skyline burn.

So next session will be time for them to do what they need to do before the next part. So a bit of free form RPing and also I think I may run the inbetween quest. anyway its 3am i need to bloody sleep.

just a little update today

you know i havebeen painting my minis of late and i hought Id show everyone how far I have gotten.

BEHOLD from left to right - Vahn oberon (iron kingdoms - witch fire trilogy), Alexia Ciannor (witch fire trilogy - iron kingdoms), Miyamato Musashi (Infinity) and the big guy at the back is my Sprigana khadoran heavy warjack.

My sprigan im very proud off just because its not all red!!! I went and added another colour that wasnt a metal AWESOMENESS!!!

Ohberon isnt very red for my liking. Ill probaly go over Ohberon next with a coat of blood red snd p3 red ink mainly to pick out the folds in the robes.
alexias jacket i am pleased with. Its a mi of scorched brown (games workshop) and blood tracker brown (p3) iron wht ive then washed over with ogryn flesh (games workshop). Ohberon and alexia are from the iron kingdoms minatures range and featurei the witch fire trilogy. I have picked up all the Witch Fire Trilogy miatures and so far have completed only father dumas (whos missing an arm)
helstrom will be on the workbench later on after ive finished my current 3 miniatures. He will be joining Scarlet Kylies pirate minature from our dnd games.

I think ill paint alexia quite pale as she seems the pale kind.

Miyamato even though you cant see it properly hes standing on one of the street scenic bases from black cat bases. There awesome. and to be honest I dont think i did not even i have still need to put a base on him its got a big enough base as it is. Hes from the infinity game range and I still have to build his entire team and there support mech fuuuuun.
Right back to fixing my pc and going to sleep cause work tommorow /sigh


EEEEEEH LAST THING I WON A BID FOR A IK CHARACTER GUIDE YAAAAAAY

lets delve deeper into geekside

So here I go im gonna try and talk for a few minutes about something not made by Privateer Press or D&D related.

SO Warhammer 40,000 it is then. Now for years I played 40k because it was the only minatures game I knew what dealt with somethign what wasnt you know lets go reenact history with some minatures. Of course now there are many games for me to play and get my geek grove on. But before then I musty have spent alot on 40k. I know one of my last major purchase makes my spendature on 40k HUGE. when Appocalypse came out I brought a battle company I still havent finnished painting it.

But anyway after a while even though I love the 40k universe to bits and I honestly do im slowly giving up on the game as a whole. The reason why is that I odnt like the format anymore especialy with the armies. Also im cheesed off ive had to change my army books like several times in the past 3 or so years.
Now the new rules are good yes compared to 3rd and 4th ed rules which well 3rd was dreadful 4th was a improvment and 5ths gettign there. But what got me the most was the new format of the army books in 5th edition.

Now i understand the reason for it al lthe info in one sectio nand less serachign for how much this upgrade costs and what these special rules do but for me the customisability is gone.
i mean with the last Imperial gard and Space marine codex you had the options of running a default bog standared army picked fro mthe army list or you could take special traits. I had a space marine army limited on fast attack choices but had tactical marines equiped with a pisto land melee weapon rather than the standered bolter. I could make my assualt marines a little tougher for 3 extra points and takign them as elite choices. Essentialy I had 5 assualtt squads i na army and melee equiped tactical units. I enjoyed this load out.

With my guard I had made it so I hasd a rifleman regiment with a force of guardsmen who could scout through terrain and could take snipers in those squads.

But now i can take certain units and do fun stuff like, Take a chater master kit him out with a bike and take a bike squad as retinue and bike squads as troop choices but tis nto as fun. It has less fun options.

Sayign that I did enjoy appocalypse the expansion the made. Jsut the idea of takign 9 years of minatures stickign them on the table and going all out awesome. Just hard to find a opponent for a game with my shcedule is impossible as they take time. By time last game I did we started at 9 am finnushed up at 5pm and had what 5 turns i nall. Madness.

now they have a new expansion Planet strike. This looks to be fun I suppose the idea that the defender will have a hard time as the enemy will just keep on dropping in but to be honest im not going to buy it. Not for now. Time to put the crazyness of buying too much 40k, well for a while anyway. Prehaps il lbuy more when the battle company is painted. And the banblade is built .. .and painted.

I want a Titan but anyway on to somethign else.

Alistair my Arcane Mechanik in my IK campaign has been picking my brain about what he can build in time. He was going to make a flyign disc these are now flying boots. The airship options in there. A rail gun came up today but the one I want to see is the Giant Riding wolf.

Ok so we were bouncing ideas of awesome ideas he was thinking of a mechanika horse with compartments for storing equipment. Thinkign storing all equipment would be a obeslete idea he decided upon storing just weapons. So yeah then I said that was like clouds bike fenrir. Then we got talkign bout fenrir from norse mythology. this then turned to a mechanika Wolf powered by a storm chamber al could ride and store weapons in it. Hes now worked out what rune plates he wants to add to it to make it faster make it jump and now wants to add a warjack cortex to it. This thing will be expensive and excesivvly awesome. Says hell draw up the plans in game soon hehe cant wait, but i will have to as you know hes only level 2 hes gonna have to be alot higher to build it.

Right im done good night all

It went well

Before We begin this little uhh rant will talk about events that Happen in the Longest night (part one of the witch fire trilogy) So you know this is spoiler time so you have been warned.

WARNING WITCHFIRE SPOILERS!!!!
ok you have been warned.




Just as I thought we would finnish the longest night ... yeah it has slipped from our slippy grasp ... as you see i lost track of time and we well as the longest night began we had to say goodnight. But you know I enjoyed runnign this session
Mr X and Miss Y unfotunatly did not show for reasons. but ok So we got on with it you know the other 4 were here whoopie.
So yeah we got through Fort Rhyker as our paladin walked off our clint eastwood gun mage shwoed up. And in there 1st encounter suffered a new hosue rule of mine. Limb loss. Now you see the Iron Kingdoms has this great section on prospheticlimbs. Problem is therse not really any rules for losing limbsin D&D so I made some up.

Essentialy it works like this. If criticaled by a foe and does enough damage to leave you with 2 HP or lower, the player has a 15 % chance of losing a limb which is determined by the roll of a d4

1. Left Arm
2. Right Arm
3. right Leg
4. Left Leg

As such ouchies.

A player can try and attack al imb without criticaling and this will incur a -6 penakty to hit the limb of choice. If hits there is once more there is a 15% chance that limb is lost. If you critical whilst attempting to hack off al imb the chance of success is taken to 25%.

Any weapon held in the afore mentioned hand is dropped.

This can only be preformed ith a slashing weapon.

So yeah 1st encounter our newbie gunmage has he goes to open a door as he does the thrall warriors open the door commign out to see what the commotion is (someone used the dumb waiter >.<). So yeah 1st round sekelotn equiped with a great axe Criticals confirms Percent Cleared and swossh no n gun arm gone .... oh dear. So after that we had a armless gunmage badly woudned wanderign around. It was fu neveryone enjoyed that I think it added a bit of the of balls this may be a problem factor. Although un the Acane Mechaniks case it was along thel ines of:

"So When Can I make mechnika limbs again?"

I am enjoying our Arcane Mechanik he is most delightful.

So yeah they get through the fort with Minimal fuss. I sped up the fort a bit and they arrived in the court yard to find you know alot of Undead standing at attention. This is not good for them. so they go over to the big stained glass window and see Alexia and her undead Coven well building the thrall army. Now this is hwere my party supprised me.

Instead of doign the classic party so yeah lets try and blow em all up NOW the Arcane mechanik finnishes perring in the windopw turns to party realys information and jsut says.

"So Whos up for running the *BEEP* away?"

a unaimous show of hands goes up from the crowd and they leg it before they are noticed and on the way out blew up the drawbridge and you know then they hear hundreds of clankign armoury sounds and instead of stoping and watching the undead army and alexia from the other side and you know no wity banter they legged it jumped on nthere horses and bolted.

They tell helstrom and its off for some r&R whilst they await the enemy. Rest up recover from wound buy more toys etc. And then we began with the 4 thralls through the mist and by the end of it everyone wondering where the hell did they coem from. They expected a attack from the gates not from the inside. Instinctevly they think ahh somethigns gone horribly wrong at the gates best go check it out. and we neded there.

So all in all its been a good ngiht and the end of the Longest Night is almost here will Alexia finnaly get what she wants who knows.

Also they know the inquisitons are about and possibly after them. I also gave them a gistory check into Vinters reign a little. Why because I think Everyone in the Iron Kingdoms should Know that VINTER RAELTHRONE is #1. I am a big vinter loyalist what can I say.

So yeah afterwards helped the guys pick some new minis out of the iron Kingdoms range showed em the Iron Kingdoms etc and generaly got soem feedback. Thumbs up all round whoop. Now to just get this over and done with so we can move on to part two.

Cant wait to see what these new palyers wil lbe like.

anyways I just got out of a mettign with some friends about somethign secretive and Kylies upstairs awating me so I shall bid you all Good night.

things can only go up from here ... im serious I dont think im going to rant today.

Honest to god I got like nothing to rant about. I mean it. Tonight I shall host my 1st of many sessions in person ... AGAIN.

WHOPEE.

I now get thursdays and Fridays as regular Days off ... WHOPEE.

D&D every week. WHOPEE

Paladin came and aksed to be let in after reading this blog apparently he had al il chat with miss Y and has promissed to keep her on a leash shes on prohbation with the group ie if they dont enjoy her being on the table shes out so to speak.

I apparently have 2 other people who want to join. WHOOPEE!

never met them .... uh yay?

So yeah tonight will be good I hope I will post later for the pre game rant.

Oh yeah tonight we should finnish the longest night aka part 1 of the witchfire trilogy.

Im having a good day

I really am nothing bad has happened yet. I am feeling splendid works ... ok. My Ik group will be meeting at my place this friday for once minus mr paladin im affraid to say. Kai is unfortunatly going to be late for the session possbily but we will see.
Ivw handed over my D&D 4th Ed Players handbooks to my cousin for the moment as I have no use for them as you will know if youve read my blog me and 4th dont mix. I feel however his friends who are of a much younger generation will enjoy the new system more. We shall see.

Anyway he loaned me i nreturn a few animes I hadnt watched yet one was a box set he wanted to sell he handt really liked it. My cousin can have his fiver I LOVE this show Otogi Zoshi is amazing you need to go watch it now!!!

But yeah thats what i been doing all week im happy.

There is not one thing im not happy about. Black cat bases where is MY PACKAGE!!!
Yeah I ordered some modren day street bases for my infinity minatures and a prirate for kylie for dnd which mua will be painting. Another minature for me to use as a practice mini but I ordered them Friday its now 1 am on Saturday stil no sign.
But hye thats not all that bad the bases only cost me 4 pound for a pack of 12 and the pirate was only £1.50 so a good deal in all.
I cant find my arcane machanik. Ever since I moved back from cambridge hes been mssing. This annoys me as his paint job was looking fantastic I had also made him a awesome base and now I may never see him again. Also cant find my Tau remora stealth drones I brought at Golden demon 08 jsut great.

But hye cant wait for Friday. The girlfriend wil larrvie we shall snuggle for a bit people will arrive and then we wil lgather roudn my table I shall pull out my pc and my dms matt and ... I need a DM outfit... I have a jedi robe ... that will do. We shall gather we shall introduce Maverick Gun MAge guy and we shall party litteraly. CCause I dont have to draw anymore flamign maps for glittercomm this week. WHOOP!!!

Yeah well be back to ranting next time folks also I suppose wel lget back to looking at the shinny retribution units.

Peace out folks

Urrgh Why do people over react

You know I was having a really REALLY good day today. ALmost finished the paint job on my Sprigan and I finished a pretty damn good paint job on Father Dumas (well considering my standards it was an amazing job).

But none the less Mr X has had a few games with us now in the World of the Iron Kingdoms and miss Y has sat in on a session. Now I do have a thing about people sitting in on a gaming session. Im ok with there 1st time but after that they want to come back they gotta play. You see I learnt along time ago that Roleplaying games are a participation sport as it where. To watch a few people play them around a table is dull and you dont learn alot. However if you join in make a character etc you will find it more enjoyable and will have more fun. Even if your nervous or not to sure on what to do the folks at your table will help thee.

So yeah come to my table watch once but then you wanna come again you come to play.

Honestly I dont think I need to explain these reasonings to people but if they want me to sure why not but at the end of the day im the guy running the game. I am theo ne who invites you to play dont like it go play your MMO RPGs or whatver not my problem.

So I sent a messae to Mr X today sayign that this weeks session Players only. This evning Miss Y gave me a Earful saying that I was imature a coward etc. Now Instant Messages are hard to convey emotion over but from what I got the gist of she was demanding that I let her sit in on the session. Here is a reson why.

When Miss Y gets home she is on Skype where she will spend every evning on skype with Mr X cause Mr X is always in a game on his compy ok fine but here is the thing as far as I can gather he cant be spared from skype to come into our call to particiapte in the game, jsut for the night you know from 5/6pm to 11 pm. So yeah I get told that if she cant talk to him on skype Mr x going to play either.

Whelp you know what fine because I got a few thigns to say about that. As my previous rant (i love rant) talks about in the extra logn session that we had a break in she had been listening in she had asked question. Thats fine bad side she was commenting on thignsh appenign in the game and shes not playing. Woah time how can you comment onm whats happening if your not playing. Telling other players whatfore etc no should have booted you fro mthe convo right there but wasnt party leader of the convo so couldnt. Also herse a news flash I had a chat with my OTHER players you know the other 3 asked em about Miss Y they were kidna annoyed of her being there one not knowing her just wanted to stay ou of it. So yeah even without my rule on spectators why would i let you back in.

Ok so i didnt tel lher about the otherscause I did not want my players to get her fiery wrath. I protect my players like my pwn kin. also she was blowing the whole thing out of proportion. Yeah your not invited to siti n on the game so big whoop.

So yeah im been given the guilt trip by the way dosent washall the talk about me being immature and acting as if i was in a school ground by not inviting her. There was talk about me being stuborn and a douche. Stuborn yes Douche no not really. I think i fell asleep half way through the conversation.

And herse the one what got me rhild I got accused me of and I quote
"Why dont you be more considerate of couples in the game"

PAUSE!!!

Ok 1. She has not I repeat although being invited has NOT participated in the game yet specatting is not participating as i said this is not a spectator sport.
2. any one who read this blog can testify that I have a girlfriend who funnily enough I game with. My beloved Kylie has been doing pen and paper rpgs for about half a year now.

I persuaded her helped her create a character. I then brought her alogn to a D&D session at unui where she sat in on the game had fun and everyone was helpful enough to help her out including Sam the awesome Paladin man.

Yeah my girlfriend is a true hardcore gamer so dont tell me I should be more considerate of couples in the game last I checked I am.

So yeah Mr X then called me imature said he wouldnt be able to ppaly after that time. To be honest I like Mr X hes a good lad and a good friend. But im not going o try and stand between a couple and force him so hey he can do what he wants. But if hes goign to cut and ru nhalf way through the night hes not gonan bee i nthe group friday.

So yeah he did try to persuade me to use the chatlog in glitter comm to allow him to communicate with the party. How he wont be on skype to heart us and im not making anyone swtich over to another communicatio ntype half way through. Second with dice rolls that chat log wil lget full.
Third I am not always lookign at the screen ive got the Ik SRD up any extra stuf on my pc like notes im also lookign through the books for info I need. I cant keep lookign at the chat box half the time to see what people are saying thats what makes voice chat better.

Another reason I prefer voice chat easier to convey emotions and you know more instantanious than text (better to interupt the big bad guy as hes giving the 20 minute speech). So yeah im not budging on this.

So as the paladin departs into the mist on a good note a new characer emerges after him our clint eastwood esc gunmage yeah Welcome Sam. Next fun thing im gonan try adn dj and dm this will be insance but oddly fun :D

Right thansk for listening to me rant as always mr Fen.

Grind the new Bloodbowl and Doug Seacat is Number 1 hear our pleas Doug

For all you kiddies out there who love Warmachien but havent been lookign at the Privateer Press website, you migth want to go over there now. Not just to see shinny new pictures of the Retribution By the way theyve Shown two new units today. The House Sheeyl Magister These guys sound like they hav jedi gauntlets allowing them to flip and throw there enemies round the war zone.
The Souless Escort who they seem to use as a energy absorbing device. I like this idea it shows that the elves dont really care for there souless babies and would rather use them in the most inhumane ways.

But anyway im Digresing.

Grind is to be released as a official board game. If you dont know What Grind is essentialy its a sports game where you pit warjack against warjack as they charge up and down there respective sides of the pitch rolling a giant metal ball to the other pesrons goal.

Grind was 1st released in No Quater Issue 10 as a mini game to Warmachine. WIth this version of grind I dont knwo if the rules will be different to Warmachine what I do know from the press release its a all plastic kit box set. The jacks come with multiple interchangebale parts for full customisation. You also get the game pitch the ball and the classic grind 2 spiked cylindery things. This looks like a fun game and I am assuming from the box art that the box will feature Cygnar and Khador although that is just me speculating here.

Also if you read the Iron Kingdoms RPG boards on the Privateer Press boards you will have noticed Doug Seacat the man who does the fiction and fluff for Warmachine Posted a wealth of information in a post about one of the minor human subcultres the Sinari. In which he ocmments he has alot more information sotred on his HArddrive like this. I for one woudl like to see alot more of what Doug has hiding on his hard drive and so would alot of people. Head on over to the Privateer Press forums in the IK RPG boards youl lfind a post where were just petitioning Doug to put more on the boards or some where on the site. Why were doing this is because Privateer Press decided not to go 4th Edition (which my humble opinion is a good Idea) and stayed in 3.5 means there are no mroe Iron Kingdom RPG books being relased at the moment and anythign made for

THE 3.5 IK RPG is essentialy as far as we can tell stored on Dougs harddrive. So we are emploring Doug and Privateeer Please Please im on ym knees Please relase this information to us. It will help us roleplayers imensly as it will keep thje Iron Kingdoms RPG scene alive ... until your acctualy release a new IK RPG ... possibly with your own rules. So please guys let us have the good evn if its jsut as more RPG segments in No Quater.