Out of Character

If my Spell Category roll comes up Iconic I then roll to determine which specific icon. I can then only cast those spells associated with that icon. To be honest we could just abstract that into a random roll table but the icon-spell associations do give some nice flavor so yeah I would love it if we could "translate" to the current setting.

Speaking of icons, I've set Balckstar's icon relationships as:
The Daemon 1 pt negative (Blackstar survived a Hellhole. 'Nuff said)
Golgath 2 pts positive (Those toys! - The blaster, the ship.)

Checking over the attack calculations... yup, they're wrong, as you said. Corrected now. Thanks!

Did you want us to roll?

Yeah, fact is I'm confused as hell about this. There are for instance only 12 icons in Nocturne. I suspect the adventure was written without thinking of the iconic requirements of the Chaos Mage class.

Putting this one out to the team but does anyone think it would play merry hell with how things run if he used the Nocturne icons for the icon relationships but the standard icons for the Chaos Mage mechanics? I suspect not but some of you will have been playing 13th Age longer than me, and if I'm honest it's the icons feature which both attracts and confuses me about this rule system.

Perhaps we could look at it along the lines of D&D's Curse of Strahd where Barovia is a distinct realm, accessed magically from the Forgotten Realms. Nocturne has a similar relationship with the Dragon Empire and has it's own icon structure. All players were drawn here from their own world so could retain some aspect of the old icon relationships?

Phew.... Any objections?

That was my next post lol. Yeah, start of a new calendar month so can I have your icon rolls please.

Yeah, sorry, didn't realize the different icon system before joining. I, for one, am amenable to your solution. Blackstar doesn't have any allegiances - he just rides the waves of fate as they come. He also gargles with them. And splashes people's faces with them. :-D

OK then. Let's go with that. If we find out that for some reason that doesn't work then we can think about it further.

New month rolls:

Am so sorry for your loss! :-(

Sorry for your loss as well.

Relationship rolls

Also, given that we've reached the end of around a month of play, I'm keen to get feedback on how it's gone so far.

Anything you really liked about the way the game has been run? Anything you didn't like? Anything I need to do more of or any suggestions for how to improve the experience for you?

@ SelectiveAmnesia how are you on hit points?

Guys, probably the best way to work these icon relationship rolls is as follows.

For each 5 or 6, you gain an icon point which you can choose to use at any point in that calendar month (session). You describe the benefit and how it plays out (to me in a PM). In the case of 5 rolls, you decide the intervention and I decide the twist. The idea would be that we may need to negotiate back and forward on the intervention before we settle on what happens and I introduce it in to the story. Sound ok?

So for this month we have:

Elke - 1 point (5 Empress Claudia)
Xanxus - 1 point (6 Golgath)
Haguk - 1 point (5 Golgath)
Blackstar - 1 point (6 Golgath)

I think Domitius is still to roll.

Any objections to this post? Have not done this before so open to suggestions.

That works for me. I already rolled in the game thread. http://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/3272/?p=132144#p132144

Ah OK. I've edited the above post.

If the three of you with the Golgath advantages wanted to cook up a combined, greater benefit (with a slight twist) then I'd be open to that. Or just a benefit each.

6s are pretty powerful to begin with. I've summoned a spectral gold dragon to transport the party several miles, turned into a Manticore, tossed a piece of driftwood out to make a mangrove forrest.

Good for you. I hope it's not several miles up that he transports you before turning in to a manticore......

different sessions and rolls each time... I turned myself into a Manticore...

I'm guessing you're not serious but the problem with PBP is that I can't see you grinning across the table. You are grinning across the table, right?

I was quite serious (6 with the High Druid plus bad blood with the Demon Realm) but it did take my GM a bit to figure out what to do. I had already attacked a Demon General, she never expected the Manticore Attack. I was at the time when I said it.