I just linked the pictures from the Store on another web forum....

By the time I was done posting I was overcome by the need to build yet another Cathedrae Noctis building.

It brought back fond memories of being trounced by one of my students in Mordheim.

Of running a short lived Diablo 2 campaign ( the one from WotC, way back when).

Of making builds, playing with them, then giving them away.

All of them....

So, back to the printer, and then to the cutting board.

The Auld Grump, a ruined version, I think, unless there is something in Curse of the Crimson Throne....

Cathedrae Noctis is one of my favourite sets. Superb textures and a really grand sense of scale.

Heh, one of my players took a look at it and immediately jumped to the conclusion that I was going back to running the Steampunk Gargoyles campaign. Then she roped another player into helping her convince me that it was a good idea.

I am using the mostly unfinished Cathedrae in my Christmas Hack 'n' Slash for this year.

Jen decided that this meant that I wanted to start another Gargoyles campaign, she convinced Megan, and I... decided that they were right all along. (I can't just blame hormones for that - I had started building another cathedral, and I had let Jen see it. And Jen still has that poster from Gathering of the Gargoyles on her wall....

I won't even need to finish building the new Cathedral unless I want to - Jen still has the one I built for the last campaign - her miniature is still displayed on its roof.

The only surprise was that she recruited Megan to help convince me.

Making some changes:
Each Gargoyle has two magic powers this time around. One major, one minor.

Gargoyles are turned to 'stone' (see below) by sunlight - so a very cloudy day or staying inside can protect them from losing the time. They no longer turn to stone at dawn.

Each Gargoyle will choose a Material (Wood, Granite, Marble, Copper/Bronze, or Lead.)

Each Gargoyle will choose a Form (Grotesque, Eidolon, or Effigy - basically Monstrous, Angelic, or something that has a chance of passing for Human.)

There will likely be a Feat for choosing Size - otherwise they are Medium. (Spycraft is basically a D20 system - the scales are taken from there.)

Likewise, a Feat for a radically nonhuman shape (such as a snake for the lower body.)

Grotesque and Eidolon have wings and can fly (badly). Improved flight is a minor power - Effigies have no wings and cannot take that power.

Effigy has a +2 bonus to another ability score, and can pass for human under some conditions. (Passing for Human is a minor power, available only to Effigies - otherwise they need to make a Blend check, with a penalty.)

They can keep awake for a number of minutes equal to their Con in daylight. One of the lesser Magic powers allows them to remain conscious but immobile during the day.

Each Gargoyle has a besetting Sin - each of their Sins is key to a lost memory. Finding that secret is the Key to escape from Purgatory - either to become Mortal once more or to find their way to the Heavens. They have been sent back to Earth, both with a mission and a chance for Redemption. (Each starts with a secret Subplot, based on the Sin that they chose.)

The sad thing is that I realized after agreeing to run Gargoyles again that I already had the rules fleshed out in my head - on some level I had already been planning on it.

The setting is once again Blythe (Blight), most likely at the same Cathedral, in 1899 this time, rather than 1888.

I seem to be resurrecting finished campaigns lately - first Scoobypunk, now Steampunk Gargoyles.

The Auld Grump

I would love for the conversion that was being worked on to be revisited. A TLX version would be a great asset in my collection. I really wish I had the room to build the non-tlx version...