User:Sage

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

Sage is the administrator of this wiki and also hosts it. They are one of the regular GMs for the group, and a good friend to one and all.

Game Master Related

Games Run

• Sickness of Spirit, the party is tasked with traveling to a shrine in the mountains seeking a cure to a sickness plaguing the region.
• Planescape Nights, a break from the more experimental and artsy campaigns to take a trip back to a simpler time when adventurers were adventurers and we all knew what alignment we were.
• The Emperor Seldon Plan, a prelude to a fantasy campaign in construction. The players wake up having lost their memory, and investigate their own nature and growing powers.
• Facilitated many games of Microscope. Yes, technically there is no GM in this game.
• Dr. Prologue Trek: A Star Quest Odyssey to the Future Wars. A science fantasy set in a custom universe, using a free-form system loosely based on Top Secret. In this adventure, the players are a rag tag set of characters who roam the galaxy seeking profit and fun.
• The Lost Empress: A fantasy game set in a custom world using D&D 4th Edition. The players investigated the strange causes of wars, disasters, and the undead rulers of the human empire.
• A fantasy one-shot using D&D 4th Edition. The players deal with some goblins or similar in this one-shot used to test out 4th ed.
• A fantasy campaign set in Forgotten Realms using D&D 3.5. The players are recruited by a cleric and a paladin to assist in the battle against an ancient evil.

Trends and Styles

Recent trends:

• I'm reading up on Burning Wheel and a lot of the ideas in that system are looking interesting to me right now.
• I want to find ways to incorporate audio into the gaming experience to set the mood.
• Recently I've had a lot of exposure to European history, especially Rome, England, France, and the German speaking countries. This might weigh a lot on how I design cultures and political entities in my games right now.
• I've also been learning Old English and gotten interested in some bits of linguistics. I promise not to invent a language and make you learn it, I am no Tolkien.

GMing Style notes:

• I tend to improvise a lot more than other GMs. It seems to work well.
• Expect experimentation.
• Are you looking for that monster you just fought or the item it dropped in the books? Hah! Good luck!

House Rules

• Rule Zero: "Roleplaying games are entertainment; your goal as a group is to make your games as entertaining as possible."
  • Corollary to Rule Zero: "The Game Master can override any published rule at any time and for any reason."
• Players receive "main quest" experience, even if absent. Characters receive combat experience only if present.
• Sage's Hackmaster House Rules
• Sage's D&D 3.5 House Rules

Player Related

Characters Played

Name/Link	Race/Species	Class/Occupation	System/Game	Description
Sor'aven	Twi'lek	Mystic Force user/trader	Star Wars Force and Destiny RPG	After the emergence of her force abilities threatens attention from the Empire, she goes on a journey to learn about her powers and make a few credits on the side.
Saitō Aiko	Valkyrie Princess	Paranormal Investigator	Big Eyes, Small Mouths	High School girl who receives magical powers, and then a job investigating them.
Fiona Greene	Human	Witch	Monsterhearts	Teenage Witch who gets involved in solving the mystery of a town's conspiracy.
Dirge	Illithid	Bard	D&D 3.5	Seeker of the Song, trapped in the wrong multiverse trying to find a way home.
Dust	Mutant	Living Sandstorm	Marvel Heroes	What it says on the tin.
Sir Botheric	Occitanian	Knight	Pendragon	Leal protector of the realm, great husband and father, killer of Saxons. Runs his manor like he's trying to get the high score in SimCity.
Emilíana	Human	Secret Agent	Top Secret	Using her cover as lead glockenspielist for an Icelandic post-rock band, she travels the world fighting international crime.
Mael Berwynne	Elf	Battle-Mage	Hackmaster	Click his link for details on his many exploits.
Morella Berwynne	Elf	Cleric	Hackmaster	Mael's sister.
Umaro QHomn	Half-Ogre	Barbarian	Hackmaster	Mael's bodyguard.
The Mighty Thor	Asgardian	God of Thunder	Marvel Heroes	What it says on the tin.
Ayumi Kasuga	Yurei	Detective	Big Eyes, Small Mouths	They turned her into a g-g-g-g-ghost!
Some Mouse	Mouse	Guard	Mouse Guard RPG	Mouse guard who guards mice in the Mouse Guard.
Kajura	Changeling	Wizard/Illusionist	D&D 3.5	Obtains the shards of power and temporarily turned into a DRAGON!
Döreen	Human	Monk	Hackmaster	Blind, devious, and evil. Numerous assassination attempts on Matt McClintock.
Turmalin	Shardmind	Psion	D&D 4th ed	He was goddamn made of crystal and doesn't even have eyes, how does a flashbang blind him, especially from behind?
Linnaeus	Elf	Ranger	D&D 4th ed	Became an eco-terrorist because no one bothered to learn his name.
Arkanive	Genasi	Swordmage	D&D 4th ed	Well-heeled young noble cleaning up the mean streets of Nugato City.
Döreen	Human	Ice Wizard	D&D 4th ed	Servant of Auril from the desert who broke free from her slaver captors, with two of the less incompetent slaves in tow. They proceeded to wreck up the countryside on their way out of Thay. Stone cold killed a lot of people and was so close to making that paladin fall...
Amanae Tyrneandare	Elf	Druid	D&D 3.5	Mother of two on a mission. Gets turned into a half-treant for a while, but she got better.