Sir Poley's Blog, page 63

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

You need to make an entirely separate fanfic of Fiona and the gang, they are just way too underrepresented in Confirmed Critical, and even more severely underrepresented in the other parts (books?). I know you said we'd see more of them, but those guys sti

I know what you mean. They’re so much fun to write, but I don’t want them to steal the show, you know? I think the more likely thing is that, in addition to making them recurring characters in this story, in the original work I’m working on, I’ll basically have them show up in their entirety, slightly refluffed.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive reception they’ve gotten from the community. I was pretty nervous that people would see original character and start screaming “Mary Sue!” at me.

I must say, I love HP&tN20. Between it and the Order of the Stick I fell in love with primary casters (particularly wizards) before I ever read the Player's Handbook. It's been bugging me though; Which book says what happens to the familiar of a dead wizar

It doesn’t say anywhere what happens to a familiar whose master dies.

I looked and looked and looked. If there’s any clue, it’s in a Dragon Magazine or something similar. So… I basically made a list of possible options and chose my favourite. Here’s what I came up with:

-The Familiar disappears and the Wizard needs to summon a new one after being Raised. (This sucks, as I like Mordy, and don’t want him to suffer sudden existential failure like that)

-The Familiar goes on as usual. (This struck me as probably the most likely to follow the rules, but still weird—why aren’t there dozens of familiars kicking around of dead wizards? Actually, that would be a really cool detail in a campaign… the familiar of a long dead, all-powerful wizard who is a powerful entity in its own right now. Oh man. I just realized the potential of how cool that NPC could be.)

-the Familiar dies and ends up in the afterlife as well (I toyed around with this idea, but dismissed it. Milo never really had any time alone in the whole series, and I wanted to see what happened when left by himself in the afterlife).

-The Familiar reverts to pre-Familiar animal state as the Wizard’s power vanishes. This is the one I chose, because it struck me as the most ‘plausible.’ Also, it had good story possibilities.

I must say, I love HP&tN20. Between it and the Order of the Stick I fell in love with primary casters (particularly wizards) before I ever read the Player's Handbook. It's been bugging me though; Which book says what happens to the familiar of a dead wizar

It doesn’t say anywhere what happens to a familiar whose master dies.

I looked and looked and looked. If there’s any clue, it’s in a Dragon Magazine or something similar. So… I basically made a list of possible options and chose my favourite. Here’s what I came up with:

-The Familiar disappears and the Wizard needs to summon a new one after being Raised. (This sucks, as I like Mordy, and don’t want him to suffer sudden existential failure like that)

-The Familiar goes on as usual. (This struck me as probably the most likely to follow the rules, but still weird—why aren’t there dozens of familiars kicking around of dead wizards? Actually, that would be a really cool detail in a campaign… the familiar of a long dead, all-powerful wizard who is a powerful entity in its own right now. Oh man. I just realized the potential of how cool that NPC could be.)

-the Familiar dies and ends up in the afterlife as well (I toyed around with this idea, but dismissed it. Milo never really had any time alone in the whole series, and I wanted to see what happened when left by himself in the afterlife).

-The Familiar reverts to pre-Familiar animal state as the Wizard’s power vanishes. This is the one I chose, because it struck me as the most ‘plausible.’ Also, it had good story possibilities.