Ok I've created "Delos of Delphi"
I kind of got snaked by a blind auction, I wanted 1st in Ego so I opened strong with it and got coned in to pumping more points in to it, this blew my budget for points I was going to put in to other stats, so after powers I dropped the rest in to going from dominant to unassailable in Ego. my character stats are
Ego: 50 (1st)
Might: Olympian
Fortitude: Olympian
Prowess: Olympian
Immortality
World Walking (Olympian Road)
Scrying
I'm going for the Seer/Oracle Sthich, so some Good Luck and Advanced Scrying and I want to sneak in to lower numbered rank wile folks aren't looking, what other powers should I go for, I want to avoid the wider "Wizard" thing. if I was to pick up Ineffable Names what ones?
other characters include Aphrodite's unattractive grate granddaughter who looks to be a good contender for first in Might, Fortitude and Prowess, an Atlantian elementlist with a shape shifting, world walking magic boat and magic spear also a contender for 1st in Prowess. a daughter of Dionysius, don't know much about her except she has some fun party supply's.
Quote from: sir brad;729418I kind of got snaked by a blind auction, I wanted 1st in Ego so I opened strong with it and got conned into pumping more points in to it, this blew my budget for points I was going to put in to other stats, so after powers I dropped the rest in to going from dominant to unassailable in Ego.
I'm a little confused by this. I can understand putting a lot of points into Ego in the blind auction, but that should just raise the bar high so that anyone else interested in Ego has to really commit to get it.
How did you get "conned into pumping more points into it"? Either you had the top score at the end of the blind auction and no one challenged you, or someone else decided to bid and they also spent lots of points to become second best.
Remember that points bid are points spent, so no one ought to be able to bid up an attribute without paying those points themselves.
the GM lied (not against the rules of our secret auctions but considered bad sport) I opened with 25 a couple at i think 10 & 15. the GM had me biding against my self till I hit the low 40's. once the auction was done I didn't have enough points to be competitive in the other stats, so after powers I just plowed the rest of my points in to Ego.
the auctions for other stats got fairly hot some of the characters are Mortal and I'm one of three World Walkers and one of the others may be artifact reliant for that.
Quote from: sir brad;729517the GM lied (not against the rules of our secret auctions but considered bad sport) I opened with 25 a couple at i think 10 & 15. the GM had me biding against my self till I hit the low 40's. once the auction was done I didn't have enough points to be competitive in the other stats, so after powers I just plowed the rest of my points in to Ego.
the auctions for other stats got fairly hot some of the characters are Mortal and I'm one of three World Walkers and one of the others may be artifact reliant for that.
That's an interesting GM technique; I don't know if I approve, but on the other hand its the GM's game. And LoO is a game of tricks, I suppose.
Anyways, what I'd suggest in the case of a character like this is to focus on your existing strengths first. That said, yes, some minor Ego-based power would be a good idea just to take advantage of your 1st Class.
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our normal Diceless game is Amber, every one is much more polite in LoO, but we have a lot of "Amber Habits" that carry over in to LoO.
Quote from: sir brad;729751our normal Diceless game is Amber, every one is much more polite in LoO, but we have a lot of "Amber Habits" that carry over in to LoO.
I think that's fine; in a way there was more scheming and infighting among the Olympians than with the Amberites!
Ok it's bean a wile, I've bean playing Delos of Delphi off and on for the past year at the moment he stands at
Ego: 50 (1st)
Might: Olympian
Fortitude: 5 (3rd)
Prowess: Olympian
Immortality
World Walking (Olympian Road)
Advanced Scrying
Luck: 12
I have some advancement points coming my way, but want to shed some Luck for fresh abilities, but don't know what, in the past few Game years we have risen an island chain in Atlantis, sent the Titan (or Primordial?) "Oblivion" to Tartarus ending His/Her realm distorting rampage (S/he may be with child by my character), after the whole Oblivion thing we ended up with a few dead Mortal characters, we broke them out of the underworld, Hades was pissed but cut us a deal we had to return a score "Dark Spirits" that had escaped the underworld for each of the three dead characters we released, in the process we found out that the spirits hadn't escaped but had bean sprung along with some Monsters that where meant to be Tormentors in the underworld we uncovered the plot, slew & captured a bunch of monsters and returned some Spirits putting us on good terms with Hades for helping out, and also Zeus (a late joiner to our game is the son of Zeus out of his lover Ganymede, and yes we know Ganymede is a dude) and Aphrodite by bringing their son and grate-granddaughter respectively back from the dead.
we've done a bunch of minor stuff and although we captured some of the Underworld plot conspirators the true power behind it is out there still.
I still have my eye on Ineffable Names, but only three maby four really grab me. to go to 1st+1 in Ego will cost me around 20-30 points. I'm also thinking of getting a Demon or Artefact but don't know what likely something Transport (read: flying) or Combat related.
Glamour looks like fun with a high Psyche.
Half of us already have it, and it has lead to a rather interesting Sex Tape that is the only evidence of a wild party we had one winter in Delphi (but doesn't explain properly how we woke up).
I'm not sure what to advise you as far as advancement, but it sounds like your group is having a truly kick-ass campaign!
Normally I'd advise a guy running a god to pick a social justice cause and right some wrongs. But since half the people on this website hate social justice warriors, and the game is taking place 3000 years ago, I'll say pick a goddess and make it your goal to bone her. That seems par for the course with the Greek pantheon. Maybe launch a little city-on-city war on the side.
How can someone be bidding against themselves?
Cheating Bastard of a GM, with a couple of years experience of Real-estate Auctinearing (and the formal courses he did in that time) that's how.
on the find a goddess and Bone her, bean there and done that, Oblivion a Titan (or Primordial), Daphani the Muse, Aqueria and Neriad Mern grand daughters of Poseidon, Stixx the daughter of Charon, Narcotica daughter of Dionisois (an other PC), Helena Grate Granddaughter of Aphrodite (an other PC) and (thanks to a Glamor & possibly Enchantment but assuredly some of Narcoticas good stuff) Devian the son of Zeus and Ganymede (yet an other PC), those are just the highlights, I haven't bean banging my way across the multiverse, but in the past six game years I have bean getting some and I've got a Tartarus imprisoned (possibly Pregers) world destroying bunny boiler of an ex-lover and one hell of a "Sex Tape of the Gods" to prove it.
I'm thinking of a Magic Cloak, it can shape change to suit the world and when "Closed" serves as basic armor, but it can "Open" out to a set of Wings that give me Flight. using LoO it comes out to around 3-5 pts (depending on GM's interpretation and mercy), but if we build it as an Amber Artifact it costs 10 points.
I also want a Sword that will bump me a Prowess & Damage class I think it will come back 5-10 points.
Quote from: Doughdee222;837240Normally I'd advise a guy running a god to pick a social justice cause and right some wrongs. But since half the people on this website hate social justice warriors, and the game is taking place 3000 years ago, I'll say pick a goddess and make it your goal to bone her. That seems par for the course with the Greek pantheon. Maybe launch a little city-on-city war on the side.
I'm guessing you haven't actually read Lords of Olympus?
hint: it does not take place 3000 years ago.
Quote from: sir brad;837318I'm thinking of a Magic Cloak, it can shape change to suit the world and when "Closed" serves as basic armor, but it can "Open" out to a set of Wings that give me Flight. using LoO it comes out to around 3-5 pts (depending on GM's interpretation and mercy), but if we build it as an Amber Artifact it costs 10 points.
I also want a Sword that will bump me a Prowess & Damage class I think it will come back 5-10 points.
What would 5-10 points in Prowess and/or Might get you?
Sweet FA (just a estimate since we are all keeping our stats secret) First is around 30, 2nd is tied at around 20 that's for either everyone else (including me) is rocking Olympian class.
12 + ? = pretty close to 20? A couple of points of Bad Stuff to make things exciting for a while?
Devian may be the "King of Good Luck" but I want to hang on to some as part of my stitch, and even if I go to 20ish in either Prowess or Might the 2nds will still own me in a fight since they are tied for 2nds in both Might and Prowess and 2nds and 3rds in Fortitude. those players have bean scrambling for powers since start of play and may now be getting ready to challenge First in a stat or two.
not that we've ever had a party fight, but the GM may be getting ready to engineer one for the next arc and it looks live he's going for "Stat Envy" as the trigger. ATM I'm a threat to no one but because of that I'm starting to pull my own weight when things get bloody.
Are you guys operating as a 'party'? Or are you each doing your own things?
Quote from: RPGPundit;838611Are you guys operating as a 'party'? Or are you each doing your own things?
ATM a close nit party (hell we sunck in to the underworld to spring our dead mortal party members) I think for the arc after the one we've just started the GM wants to cause some factional drama and is laying the ground work. apart from keeping the multi-verse up and running our goals, interests and spheres of influence are separate but complementary.
the other non-combat monsters have a few tricks to help out when we "Go to the Sword", but me not so much, but I want to pick up a few new tricks so I'm not overusing my Seer abilities and make it old hat.
I'm thinking a Combat Artifact and a bunch of points for a new Power
Cool!
I'd like Ineffable names, but can only think of four I really want (Aub, Eoud, Ioz & Amara), I'm thinking of perhaps Summonsing or Conjuration, but either would be a bigger investment than I can pull off ATM and kind of crossover too much with either Olympian Magic or Elementlism.
Perhaps as an obscure Apollo reference something to do with Mice.
I assume your GM is using the "wish list" method of advancement? Or no?
Wish List but it's a guide not a commitment, and I've run through my Wish List any way.
Quote from: sir brad;839013Wish List but it's a guide not a commitment, and I've run through my Wish List any way.
Hmm... that's not really a standard usage then.
Frankly I've hit a wall, I've got everything I planed for when I first started through to Phase Three of character development and that's as far as I planed thinking the campaign would give me ideas, but my Awesomeness and that of my companions has surfaced and answered almost every challenge we've meet.
Maybe 3 creatures you can unleash on your foes, minor aspects of the eurynies?
Quote from: sir brad;839152Frankly I've hit a wall, I've got everything I planed for when I first started through to Phase Three of character development and that's as far as I planed thinking the campaign would give me ideas, but my Awesomeness and that of my companions has surfaced and answered almost every challenge we've meet.
It seems to me that maybe your GM hasn't been doing things quite right? Too monty haul? Not challenging enough?
The first mistake was having you all working together as a team; Olympians are very powerful if there's a group of them who are tight...
Unlike Amber I had a very specific goal, around 30 is points worth of development, I'm now at 150 points that has taken me around a year to accumulate. my development has mated up well with the other characters and the campaign.
I've bean gaming with some of these folks (including the GM) for a quarter century, at times it's like we are "Shearing the Brain Cell" as the old saying goes.
Kick someone off the Mountin. Ares is a bit of a dick.
As for how to spend your points, if you are finished your planned character development talk to the DM and get something wierd not in the books. Use your ego and Scrying to make people have dreams and visions that are doomed to happen. Kind of a way to pass out limited bad stuff if a specific situation happens.
You meet Ares beat him in ego, shortly he dreams of fighting the PC who is number one in warfare, slipping on a rock and getting stabbed through the heart. Ares then goes looking for a fight, and what do you know, exactly that happens. If the situation never comes up, Ares never fights your warfare god, your curse doesn't do anything.
Powerful but specific. Fits the setting and with all you have done you should have totally whack job powers. Now deal with the consequences.