Character Building for BadLands RPG

The discussion about how to build a toon (character) is never finish, old, or boring. One more time, it has come up in-game. Most can't start a new topic here at The Blog, so I will because a few have asked for it. I will collect the links to the older topics and publish them here, then open it to an 'open mike night'.

If you find something I missed, send me the link so I can add it here. As new topics are made, I will try to add them to this list.

Let me remind you, that what works on one server may not work on another server.

Links arranged oldest to newest.

• Character Building Calculater (requires Microsoft Excel)


• Legendary Levels


• The best part of playing a cleric is the buffs, the worst part is casting them


• WTF, my build sucks!!


• "WTF, My Build Sucks!!" (Part 2)


• WTF my char stills sucks, AGAIN!


• I CLAIM NO CREDIT FOR THIS, THIS CAME FROM TERRY17


• Feat: Blindsight 60


• UBER Barbarian


• Alignment shift


• Question about AC and Ride


• Game Balance


• HGLL and balance


• The Building of an Ogrillon


• Another One Bites the Dust (how NOT to build your toon)


• The Two-Bladed Warrior


• Big Bad Dev Crit DC


• More Character Building Tips for BadLands RPG


• Garble’s Guide to Power Leveling in the Badlands.


• The Wise Cleric's Guide


• A List Of The Classics (build recipies)

The New Evil Guild

Skullcrusher (Troll Snott) has reached level 50 and been given a guild slot. He wasn't my first choice in guild leaders, but Darian thinks enough about him and made it happen. But, nobody else was willing to stand up and say, "I want some abuse time too!"

"Black League"

"Dirty deeds done dirt cheap! Want us to steal candy from your baby brother? We will kill him to get it! Want your neighbors old dog kicked? We will castrate him too!"

Skullcrusher is one of those brash types that just rubs you the wrong way. Speaking of which, I've got a fresh story about Skullcrusher and a noob.

I was on the other day as Qwildurn DM. Not many players on and one I didn't know, so I port over to say High and welcome. This new player didn't waste any time complaining to me about Skullcrusher.
"I asked him a simple question and he got all mad and was real nasty to me. And then he lied to me and claimed to be a DM."
"Skullcrusher is one of my DM's.", I replied. "Me and all my DM's are players first, DM's second. You will find them playing more than DM'ing. What was it you wanted to know?"
Chatter continues and he tells me that a "good DM" will be happy to give new players armor and good stuff. I begin to tell him about the guilds and how the entire realm is one big playing field, and he says to me,
"Yes, I know all this. I had a level 59 before the wipe."
Did I fail to mention his question to Skullcrusher was, "What is there to do in this world?"
"No wonder Skullcrusher got pissed.", I was thinking.

Badass Hall of Fame

Who thinks they have what it takes to be a BadLands RPG Badass?

We all know it's easy to make a botched-up build. It's not all that hard to make a decent toon actually. But, who has what it takes to build a truly remarkable and outstanding character. And, why is this build of yours so damn tough? What has it (he/she) accomplished that is noteworthy? What is unique about your special toon?

This is not a trip down memory lane and what you had before the wipe, but rather, what have you done lately!

Guess Who's Back?

Shady's back...back again...Shady's back...tell a friend...guess who's back, on his back, been attacked, he's so whack...

Ok, I cant do much more of that. Anyway, after SWEARING that he's gone for good, and we can all suck it (ect) he's back. He says that he needs to recreate his "army" of toons before he'll make another guild, because you need an "army" to run a guild. That way when someone smacks your build around like a little bitch you can try to find one that can kill the bitch slapper. I remember him and Quad taking LITERALLY 20 minutes trying to come up with 2 builds that could kill Belpheron after I challenged him. Yeah, I challenged HIM and he wouldnt fight me without Quad there. It took me all of about 10 seconds to kill them both, after they had 20 minutes of preparation.

That's why I'm so excited about seeing Dano and Quad back together again. The server just wouldn't be as fun without them, and we wouldn't have as many opportunities for homosexual innuendo either.

Will the Real Slim Shady Please Learn the PK Rules?

Well, tonight was an extremely interesting evening. It's possible that we've seen the last of Dano, aka Shady, aka the leader of the Shady Undertakers. He got really upset about some events tonight and swore he was leaving, never to return. I think it's best to let these pictures do the talking.

Here you see some perfectly legal PK'ing going on. I don’t know what happened, I wasn’t there, but from the shouts it looks like there were 3 people there but only 1 fought Shady. And even if it was 3 on 1, it might be cowardly, but if you're going to be the leader of the Chaotic Evil Guild on a PK server, you're gonna be a target. You have to expect some of that. Anyway, witty banter ensues;

Now, here's where it gets interesting. Anyone who's fought Dano knows that when he gets killed, his typical response is to log off, get a toon that is higher level than the people who killed him and go get revenge. But he made a big mistake...he killed people who were MUCH lower level than him who were NOT in a guild. Can you say "PK POINTS?" anybody? The picture is worth a thousand words:

You’ll notice if you look carefully that Shady has switched toons. The one that Blade killed was around the same level, but Shady Shadow is level 57!! Also, I think he forgot that there was a mage nearby, and the mage, Rune Rifthook laid the smack down on him and killed him. And here’s where it gets really fun. Apparently Dano never took the time to read the PK rules, and didn’t know that if you get enough PK points and you get killed by a player, you get sent straight to Jail. Dano thinks the DM put him there, and hilarity ensues:

Look at the first line, he thinks the DM did it! He’s blaming the DM for not using the Jail system that put him in Jail…now THAT’S ironic!

People start feeling guilty and talking about their feelings:

And just to make sure that everyone knows exactly what happened, I made it very clear in a series of shouts:

Here’s a friendly little note to anyone who’s thinking of starting a Chaotic Evil PK guild: You might wanna know the PK Rules of the server.

Just a tip.

Name That Tune

Just how many musical references are there in BadLands RPG?
How many can you identify? Now try it with your eyes open!
I can think of a few, just off the top of my head. No doubt there's more. Some might be accidental. Clearly, most are intentional.

The winner will receive an all expense paid trip to beautiful downtown (where do you live again?)
The winner is responsible for all travel cost, housing, meals, hospitalization, tips, bail, bar tab, lodging, .... Don't forget to take your laptop so you play BadLands in our lovely lobby on our free WiFi (a rate of .25 will be applied to all out of town guests).

So hurry now and get your entry in early!

Will the real Evil Guild please stand up?

Ok, I just had a conversation with Shady (dano) who told me that contrary to my passionately held belief, the "Shady Undertakers" is not a massively lame name for an evil guild because "dude, look up Shady Underground on the internet, they're all bastards".

So I looked it up and realized that the supposedly evil guild on Badlands right now is named after the rapper Eminem. Now dont get me wrong, I think he's an awesome artist and I like his music, but really...RPG and all that, not to mention that the "Shady Undertakers" just makes me snicker.

So here's fair warning. Belpheron is level 40. So is Sidian Saine and Necur is getting close. While none of my toons are in a guild and I cant claim any territories, I'm just going to start bashing anyone I see that is glowing, regardless of the color, because as far as I'm concerned I havent seen a guild yet that is worthy of any respect.

If I'm wrong, show me, but expect a good fight.