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Lila Burkett
Age: 16, Occupation: None

Lila is known as "that" girl around town. People cross over to the other side of the street when she walks by. They whisper about her in the hallways at school. On the bus, she sits in the back, always with an empty seat beside of her.

Strange things are known to happen around her. Billy Wallberden fell off of the train tressel after he made fun of her at lunch, one day. Then, there was that strange fire which burn Mr. Gardener's legs in Chemistry class. Most people were glad to see Mr. Gardener go, though. They always said he was a bit too familiar with the girls at school.

Mostly, Lila keeps to herself, but she is strongly attached to her mother - Mary Ann Burkett. If it wasn't for her mother, Lila would have been most likely run out of town by now. But most people see Mary Ann as one of the town's elders. Lila is quite aware of her own powers. When she was little, she was deathly afraid of them. However, as she grows older, as her rage against her own isolation and distance from everyone grows, so does her boldness with her psychic abilities.

Lila Burkett, Level 5 Wyrd

STR 8
DEX 10
CON 16
INT 14
WIS 18
CHA 8

Initiative: +2; Defense: 12; Speed 30
SAVES: Fort +3; Ref +0; Will +4

Skills: Bluff +4, Computers +4, Diplomacy +2, Escape Artist +2, Handle Animal +2, Intimidate +4, Knowledge (Current Events) +4, Knowledge (Forbidden Lore) +4, Knowledge (Local) +6, Knowledge (Occult) +6, Perception +8,

Feats: Combat Expertise, Silent Spell, Power Attack

Class Abilities
  • Weapon and Armor Proficiency: The wyrd begins with no proficiencies in armor or weapons of any kind.
  • Triggered Prophecy: A wyrd may always transform a Lore token (Data, Clue, Gnosis, or Wariness ) into a Foresight token. As with most characters, a wyrd may only have one Lore token at a time.
  • Angles of Time 1 (Su): You receives a +2 foresight bonus to initiative checks.
  • Angles of Time 2 (Su): You can spend a Foresight token to re-roll any d20 roll you make, even after the GM explains what the results of the roll will be. The results of the second roll are final.
Wyrd Talents
Whenever Lila uses a power, she can tax herself to enhance its effects (see below). Taxing herself means that she take a point of Constitution damage, which must heal naturally over time.
  • Telekinesis (Su): Lila can manipulate objects up to 90 feet away. She may tax herself to extend the range to 900 feet for one round. Objects under her influence can move 60 feet per round. At this level of ability, wyrds can manipulate objects or people with the same level of manipulation as a pair of human hands. Thus, she might type on a keyboard or pull the trigger on a gun. Her telekinetic strength is considered 22 for the purposes of determining what she can lift. If Lila attacks with her power, she has to pick up an object to do so, and does 1d8+6 damage. Lila may perform a disarm, sunder, grapple, trip, or bull rush with her power, but it means she has to tax herself.
  • Firestarter (Su): Lila can manipulate the latent energies in the air, causing unattended objects to spontaneously combust. Anyone in the same 5-foot space as the ignition takes 2d4 + 9. Victims may make a Reflex save for half damage. Invoking this power is a standard action and may normally be only used once per encounter. Lila may tax herself to invoke it additional times in a single encounter.

Background Abilities
  • Willfull: +2 to all Will saves (already factored in).
  • Paranoid: +2 to Perception checks, but a -2 to all Sense Motive checks (already factored in).
  • Through the Mind of Madness: Haunted characters have had their minds tortured more than most. They only take one-half of all Sanity damage.
Spotlight Ability
  • Haunted event - The haunted character may declare that something supernatural happens. What exactly happens is given broad purview, since the nature of a character hauntings vary. What the player is allowed to do is to set-up what is happening in the supernatural event. However, the GM is the one who concludes how the event concluded. For example, the haunted character might declare that all of the furniture in the room starts to rise, but the GM might conclude the even with the furniture attacking everyone in the room - friend or foe alike.
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Thanks for the surprise preview, Rucht! Looking good!

I realize I never announced the winners for the CYOD month of the contest. Sorry for the long delay.

The dual winners are:
Michael "Trike" Travis, for "The Usher Designs"
and
Todd "Devilfox" Payne, for "Martha Needle"

Congratulations to both winners!

Look to see these darklords join the other monthly winners in the final product!
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Horror Checks on Gothic Earth Eternal

Characters’ threshold ratings represent their ability to withstand horror and anxiety, whether it be a gruesome crime scene, or growing apprehension that something sits in the corner of the room, watching. As characters experience horrific events, they take Horror damage. These points are deduced from their threshold score, just as it might be deduced from a character’s hit points.

Unlike hit points, character threshold ratings go up quite slowly, only at the rate of 1 per character level. Also, when a character takes Horror damage, it cannot be healed through the use of medicine or magic. Only time and a character’s own resolve can heal the wounds of the mind. A character heals back their Intelligence bonus in threshold per day (minimum of 1 per day).

When a character experiences something horrifying, they must make a Horror save. This is expressed as a Will save, with a DC and Horror damage determined by the game master. A success on the Horror check means that that a character loses a number of threshold points equal to half the Horror damage rolled. A failure means that a character loses a number of threshold points equal to the damage roll.

The result of all of this is simple - even if you make all of your Horror saves, your character will eventually succumb to dread. The awful things that he or she is witness to eventually wears them down and digs at their soul.

A table of guidelines for Horror saves is below.

Examples
Significant - something jumping out, a dead body, combat or raving maniac
No save necessary

Unsettling - a gruesome scene of death, discovering a horrible crime firsthand, life-or-death combat
Save DC 15

Shocking - a scene of lurid depravity, finding out that one’s loved ones were the victims of a horrific crime, being tortured, witnessing a terrible supernatural event
Save DC 20

Twisted - a scene that challenges one’s view of the world, watching a loved one turn into a monster, witnessing a supernatural event that changes one’s life
Save DC 25

Life-Altering - finding out that you are dead and have been for some time, finding out that your loved ones are monsters and that you must kill them, catching a glimpse of the Red Death or the Jade Horror No save necessary
Save DC 30

Horror damage can range from just 1d6 to 5d6 (thought many more d6 may be added for truly mind-shattering experiences). Horror damage describes how personal the event is to the character. Hearing about something disturbing on the news, for example, might be only cause 1d6 Horror damage. However, an event which is deeply personal - like one's wife getting turning into a vampire - would cause much more Horror damage.

For example, a high Horror save event with low damage might be something that would bother most people but is set far enough away that it doesn't threaten them. For example, hearing in detail about a person who died while trying to claw their way out of a locked room might be something that calls for a high save DC, but low damage roll.

However, if it is revealed that the deceased was someone that your character knew - then the Horror damage would increase.
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I've been watching the original Kolchak the Night Stalker for Halloween. I'm going to put that in the pressure cooker with Eternal when it releases and run a few nights for my group as a demo. Looking forward to it.
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Trike wrote:I've been watching the original Kolchak the Night Stalker for Halloween. I'm going to put that in the pressure cooker with Eternal when it releases and run a few nights for my group as a demo. Looking forward to it.
Cool! I'm running a personal convention for a group of close friends and I'll be running Gothic Earth Eternal for them over the weekend. I can't want to see how things run. I'm sure there will be pitfalls and mistakes, but that's the fun of doing something like this.
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I've been having a ball coming up with adventure ideas and NPCs for this campaign. Thanks again for rekindling my interest in Gothic Earth!
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Just curious... Has the second part of Gothic Earth Eternal been released yet? If so, I've missed it somewhere in my travels.
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devilfox wrote:Just curious... Has the second part of Gothic Earth Eternal been released yet? If so, I've missed it somewhere in my travels.
Nope, not yet. It's been delayed longer than we expected, but we hope to have it sometime soon.
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I was reading about the video transcript and nearly fell out of my chair laughing. Sarah Davis is my ex-wife. :lol:

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jeffreyallendavis wrote:I was reading about the video transcript and nearly fell out of my chair laughing. Sarah Davis is my ex-wife. :lol:
Well, I hope the Red Death and/or Jade Horror weren't to blame for your falling out with her... :)
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What ever happened? I haven't heard any news about this in a while.

The Gothic Earth Eternal setting was actually what got me hooked on this site.
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We're... uh... :oops: working on it. The text is being polished a bit, and compiled into a download. But it's taking longer than expected. Any day now...
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You guys are all awesome Ron! :)
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Anything we can do to help? I get how editing while holding a job and social life gets to be a bitch.
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Not at this time. Thanks for the offer.... I guess you're already doing what you can to help: periodically reminding us to poke the ones working on it and remind them people are waiting for it. :)

Just don't take that as a license to do it every day, ok? ;)
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