Andoran, Spirit of Liberty (Inactive)

Game Master Kiora Atua

@Herral Hinn –

Ahhh, love the addition of an NPC supporting cast. He’s really coming together. As for the claustrophobia custom drawback, how about using the already made Phobia rules from the GM guide? Basically make a DC14 will save or be frightened 1d6 rounds in tight quarters, otherwise shaken for as long as you are in tight quarters. Only gotta make the will save 1/day, the first time you encounter a tight space. It’d be considered a fear effect so whatever bonuses you can get from buffs would, logically, apply. Seems flavorful and also in line with the other drawbacks. The static will save DC also has the benefit that it would be more problematic earlier on, but as you gain power, your character would gain more control over it, both mechanically (will saves) and from an RP standpoint. What do you think?

@Davi

She’s gorgeous. I think I like her better than Mirode, and that’s saying something, cause Mirode was awesome. Davi simply has great campaign-long story hooks to build around. Also, I don’t think there’s anything I like better than trying to tempt my PCs to the dark side and observing how they deal with it ;) Mwhaha.

@Albion, on Inspiring Commander

Got the time to really sit down and look at it during some downtime at work. It’s hard to get a good feel on the numbers without actually seeing a character sheet, but initial thoughts:

• I’d like to limit aid another from Inspiring Commands as a 1/round action, though still at move. The idea of spending 2 move actions to aid another twice and have the bonuses stack is a bit cheesy, considering the other buffs you have access to for aid another. I suspect that this was meant to be mitigated by the fact that you must roll attack against AC10 to aid another in the first place (and therefore put yourself at risk of a fumble, no matter what) but…AC10 is like…nothing, haha.
• I’d like to remove the “in addition to her Dexterity modifier” clause from “Rapid Tactician” pertaining to the initiative bonus. The idea of the archetype gaining initiative from intelligence is awesome and flavorful, especially from that “battlefield commander” perspective! But stacking it with dex, which is already a really good multi-purpose ability score, is bringing it over the top. It makes it way too easy to have a +initiative in the crazy numbers really fast without even trying to.

Are any of these deal breakers for you? The rest can be handled if they become problematic in game, though right now I’m not seeing it. Of course, things could change due to unforeseen synergies in your build choice, so lets roll with the punches as they come, so to speak.

@Kubular

I like both of those options a lot. I look forward to seeing the rest of the build. Particularly the tragic tiefling take. That’s a really unique “origin story” for a tiefling that I have not heard before.

I hope that I was clear that I was more bothered with the class not meshing with the themes and goals of the campaign, not from a power perspective. Power can be fixed. Your fluff, however, is intrinsic to your character, which is why I’m choosing submissions based on fluff. I’m accustomed to tweaking balance during the game. (I’m running Wrath of the Righteous with full mythic in a face to face table right now, if you want to talk about fixing OP abilities, haha.) In general, I want my players to be capable of great feats of strength, You’re heroes in a fantasy epic, after all! Just not to the point that you ruin other people’s fun or turn the game into a player vs GM power scaling arms race. I’ve found that tweaking the players, rather than just constantly buffing monsters and constantly coming up with contingency plans, is a better solution, as long as the players are of the same mindset. I am of the opinion that balancing d20 games should be a collaborative process between GM and players.

Furthermore, I’m also used to tweaking things up not just nerfing it. If the logistics are getting in the way of a concept you want, we can try to work it out. For example, I did some tweaking to the Master Chymist prestige class for a player who REALLY wanted to be a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde crazy monster guy in Carrion Crown… but also didn’t want to be significantly punished mechanically for choosing the PrC. So we tweaked it, and he was the most memorable PC from that campaign as a result.

@Hogeyhead

Pertaining to your other issues with Inspiring Commander:

• Aid another can add intel, but its limited to the number of Inspiring Commander levels you have. I’m open to nerfing it to “limited to +1 bonus for every 2 Inspiring Commander levels” or something similar, but I’m willing to see how it actually plays out in a game before any further measures are taken.
• You can only grant a teamwork feat that you already possess 1/day, for 3 rounds for every 2 levels possessed. I don’t permit 5-minute adventuring days, so this is not over powered. Unless you think normal Tactician is already over powered.

Please don’t get into a optimization arms race with your fellow players. If you can’t trust me as GM to keep the game balanced and fair, you should withdraw your submission and find a GM you do trust. Everyone will have more fun this way.

Updated summary of submissions:

Submitted:

1. Michael_Hopkins – Volreg Sundek the Andoren/Ulfen Kinteticist (Aether) – Pathfinder, son of Carpenden winemakers (1 game in next month, PFS)
2. Digger – Tarkus Shieldsplitter the dwarf fighter – Blacksmith from Highhelm: (1.5 games)
3. Snake Charmer – Lyrune the elf alchemist – Ex-slave, seeking mother sold to brothel.: (2 games)
4. Orannis – Soroza the Half-orc Urban Ranger – Worshipper of Calistria, seeks to abuse those who exploit sex workers (0 games)
5. Hogeyhead - Aster Domus the Human Urban Druid – Andoren noble, raised by a wizard, but ended up falling in with a druid cabal: (0 games, new to pbp)
6. French Wolf – Herral Hinn the Halfling inquisitor (infiltrator) of Desna – Halfling merchant slash inquisitor of Desna!: (5 games )
7. CaptainFord – Adrac Rhaddyn the human monk (Ki mystic) – Old adventurer come to Falcon’s Hollow to meet his grand daughter for the first time.: (Already in a Falcon’s Hollow game )
8. Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan – Lieutenant Jansen Naran the Varisian human paladin of Abadar OR bard– Fourth son of an Andoren noble, headed to Falcon’s Hollow to investigate the Lumber Consortium (7 games as player, 1-2 as GM)
9. Feth (#1) – Mirode Sharo – elf cleric of Sarenrae, citizen of Oregent, seeking to help ease the suffering of others (#2) Davi Accerlas – Changeling swashbuckler. Daughter of an Andoren trader, investigating her mother’s call.
10. Edeldhur (Albion, the Eye) – Reknar- Fluff still getting polish, but seems military-based so far. Looking at Cavalier (Inspiring Commander). -

Dotted for Interest:

1. Avr (Follower of Sivanah, future Veiled Illusionist): 1 game
2. Derz (Inpector Javert)
3. Jubal Breakbottle (Gnome first world summoner)
4. Divinitus –( a cleric of some sort?)
5. Kubular - "Wandering Nomad" gunslinger or Tiefling paladin/magus

Please let me know how many active PbP games you are in at the moment. Be honest. I'll be using this as a tiebreaker, because that seems the fairest way to go about it, and Andorens are all about fair ;)

Feth, Captainford, and Albion: I’mma lookin’ at you about this! O_o If you don’t tell me I’ll assume that you’re in 50 billion games, hehe. 50 billion, I mean it!

Any lurkers out there, submissions are still open, but if you’re interested you need to make it known! I will probably close submissions if the 5 dots get their submissions (at least the fluff) done before the deadline of March 27th

Heehee. I've got five I play in and one I DM. I know I've got eight listed as being 'active' but the Hookscratch Inn is inactive and the Save/Rule the city ones are two sides of the same campaign. Plus the one I DM is just me and a friend playing so it should only count as half a campaign ;)

Hi there!

Just thought I'd try to submit Úrtnechech: Half-Orc Dancing Dervish bard archetype. I didn't have a chance to do the back story yet, but I'll get to work on that to have a logical (or sort of logical) reason for him to be in Andoran.

Other bits:
• Played Into the Haunted Forest not too long ago
• Playing in three active PbP (technically four, but the GM hasn't posted in one for several weeks for reasons unknown)
• Personal preferences: Half-Orc or maybe Half-Elf characters, CHA-based classes, and the CN alignment (just because)
• The avatar is about right (Bestial Racial Trait); can change that, though, if needs be.

Thanks!

@GM: I really appreciate the feedback on the character options. I think I'll get started on that Tiefling. If I decide to go with Paladin, are the alternate Tieflings available? Demon-spawn flavorfully felt more appropriate to begin with, but doesn't do too hot on a magus.

I don't remember if I said this already, but I'm not currently in any PbPs and that this is actually my first time using the Paizo forums (Though I have used myth-weavers and giantitp for pbp before).

I am however, GMing a ridiculous game of Kingmaker at home.

Also, I have never played any of those modules before.

GM of Liberty that sounds good, although I doubt that 1/Day is embedded in reality, the second time I'll probably be just as frightened. However as a drawback, it should be flavourful rather than disarming and your take fits the bill much better than mine.

Overnight I have come up with two additional background items. The first is a small tie to Falcon's Hollow and possibly another PC. I intend for Herral to be meeting friends in the village with a view to starting a pie business franchise - very halfling. Probably another halfling "cousin" by marriage to one of his sisters.

Second, he needs a pony. It goes with the merchant image and helps with the low strength/carrying capacity issues you intend to track.

Finally you mentioned before that party balance isn't that important to you. So if we get a party of archers or healers then could we tweak our party slightly to cover things like disable device for instance?

Cheers

P.S. In case it matters, I am UK based, living on an island in the English Channel, but I can post during the day.

Hi GM of Liberty, on my phone right now, but wanted to let you know I see no issues with your proposed changes to Inspiring Commander.

Still, I would like to ask - how different is the class feature that adds Int to Dex for initiative, from... Say, Inquisitor adding Wis and Dex to initiative?

And I promise to have a crunch up today - I really do not tend to play broken characters, or ones that try to shine above the rest of the group. That is not my play style, nor the idea for this character (or I would not be taking Order of the Dragon).

Update: Currently in a 3rd game.

Okay! Here is Soroza 2.0.

She's human now, and I added the Divine Tracker archetype which trades my Wild Empathy for proficiency in my deity's favored weapon. Later down the line, it replaces my Hunter's Bond with the Blessings feature from the Warpriest. I will very likely select Charm and Trickery when that point is reached.

I'm also reworking her background to be from Cheliax. I feel like having been raised in that environment will help reinforce my idea of her as an inherently good person who often feels tempted to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. An altruist with a wrathful streak.

Sorry, GM, forgot to do that part.

I'm in 2 other games at the moment.

@ Albion Actually I like your character and I like the fluff. I even like the archetype thematically. I do think that your character based on experience should be higher level like 3-4, but of course this is easily hand waived.

@ GM Okay perhaps I didn't express myself well. Neither power is truly overwhelmingly overpowering at first glance. As a side note in my opinion there is no problem with adding your int to init as well as dex, and there is no problem with adding it instead of dex. Both have precident and it just alters how powerful the abilities are.

My problem is that Inspiring commands (the psrt where you do aid another), and rapid tactician are move actions. Move actions! If you will note that the cavalier ability is a standard action. Additionally the ability to aid another as other than a standard action is not without precedent however in order to accomplish it you generally need to dedicate about 3-5 feats to do it, with half your equipment dedicated to giving a similar bonus to aid another as intelligence.

My point is that these abilities would be in line with Paizo balance if they were standard actions. As a cavalier tactician becomes a swift action at lvl 9 and it's a big deal.

@Urtnechnech

Crunch looks good. I’m wary about Reactionary. I prefer traits to be used to give mechanical flair to the character’s personality or backstory, not merely used as number padding for the sheet. So make sure you work in the bullying aspect into his fluff, or some other similar explanation that shows a reason as to why he’s so jumpy. Or, alternatively, pick more flavorful traits.

I also expect some cool background as to how he became a dancing dervish, a description of his dancing style, and an explanation as to why he rolls around with three different melee weapons. (Maybe has to do with that Reactionary trait?)

I’d appreciate it if you bumped him up to 18 years of age. That’s a personal neurosis of mine, it’s illogical, I know. I just don’t like seeing minors in overtly violent and/or sexual situations. I could barely get through the Game of Thrones series, those poor babies, they are too young…

@Kubular

Alternate tiefling racial stuff is fine, but make sure its relevant to the backstory. Don’t tell me he is qlippoth-spawn but the guy your dad made a deal with is a Balor lord, that makes no sense :P

@French Wolf

I think that making the character will save or be frightened every time you run into a tight space is a little too punishing. You can of course, play up the fear in your roleplay, but not necessarily to the extent that you have to run in the opposite direction a la “frightened”. 1/day seems like a good balance to have it come up enough to be relevant, and also some of the other drawbacks work on a 1/day paradigm. I won’t stop you if you want to roll will save more than that though…haha.

I like the tie to Falcon’s Hollow. I plan on putting up an Obsidian Portal wiki for the campaign, and will ask each player to link at least 1-2 NPCs to their character for me to sacrifice horribly to evil cults I mean… roleplay with and utilize ;D

Finally, yeah, I’m fine with last minute changes once the official party roster is updated. Sorry, this is my first big pbp as GM, I’m used to the table situation where people write out their character sheets as a group.

@Albion

Re: Initiative - That’s a fair point. How about we add the initiative bonus at level 2 and see how it gels out, same as Inquisitor. This is based on this feedback from a developer for Rite that states that the +Int modifier to Init was a separate ability at level 2, but was merged due to page space reasons. This also gives me the advantage of evaluating the Inspiring Command stuff independently and early. Thoughts?

@Soroza

Divine Tracker looks awesome. I like the Cheliax background. Very relevant to everything going on in Andoran.

@Hogeyhead

I don’t know, aid another at move (especially with the caveat that you can’t do it twice in a row) doesn’t seem too powerful to me. I could be wrong. Sometimes stuff looks meh on paper then works beautifully in game. I can definitely see how it could be breakable (especially if combined with certain magical items) but you know, stuff only gets broken if you go and break it. And also if the player goes out of their way to behave that way. My primary home group has 3 novices to tabletop, and 1 person with high system mastery. That one guy could easily run circles around the other 3 and make them feel useless. But he doesn’t. Because there is an innate social contract to games like this (if you’re not a jerk.). He doesn’t necessarily gimp his builds either. He just doesn’t pick the absolute most optimal choice of what to do every round of combat, nor does he boss them around and tell them what to do all the time.

If I go and ban stuff because it has the potential to be broken I’d probably ban barbarians (because this is a low level campaign and barbarians can be built to dominate level 1-5), pet classes, witches, zen archers, oracles (heavens) and summoners… and probably more than that which didn’t come to mind right away. But I didn’t, because I view over-optimization a problem of individual players and how they approach the game, not that of the classes themselves. No one is being forced at gun point to build multi-armed natural attacking pouncing eidolon monstrosities, after all. (note: I’m not trying to say hyper-optimization is badwrongfun, just that if I wanted to entertain those kinds of players I’d probably be running Rappan Athuk, not this.)

Anywho, that’s my last word on that matter, the rest I’m going to modify on the fly.

You are doing just fine. Bending but not breaking someone said or was that about a willow?

I ran my tabletop viking game this evening so the updates to Herral will happen tomorrow. But next week is beginning to look very busy at work due to holidays and a retirement so my presence on this thread may be greatly reduced.

Cheers

I have to agree that a ban on classes that can potentially be overpowered can ruin the flavor of how diverse the world is. A good example is the summoner that I have in PFS. At first, some people rolled their eyes until they saw that the summoner and eidolon were having arguments as what to do in situations, with the eidolon sometimes picking up the summoner so he didn't run off if he didn't like something, and the occasional slap because of an off comment. Plus I find it humorous that the 6'5" beast of a "woman" hides behind a 3'2" wayang during social encounters and at the sight of spiders.....

@ GM That is a very very fair argument, and I must say you are absolutely right. We can always see what happens and go from there.

I just wanted to say I realize I might have come off too strong, if so I apologize, I was under some family related stress that clouded my judgment a bit.

Hogeyhead, thanks for the feedback on my fluff - it is appreciated.

GM of Liberty, thanks for reconsidering the Initiative 'thing' - lets give it a go at level 2 then ;)

To get it out of the way - I am currently in 8 campaigns: 5 of those are roughly 1 post a day, one is very active (usually more than one post a day, one is moving very slowly (about one post a week), and one is erratic, but almost always slow.

And below follows a first crunch on Reknar.

@Urtnechnech

Crunch looks good. I'm wary about Reactionary. I prefer traits to be used to give mechanical flair to the character’s personality or back story, not merely used as number padding for the sheet. So make sure you work in the bullying aspect into his fluff, or some other similar explanation that shows a reason as to why he’s so jumpy. Or, alternatively, pick more flavourful traits.

I also expect some cool background as to how he became a dancing dervish, a description of his dancing style, and an explanation as to why he rolls around with three different melee weapons. (Maybe has to do with that Reactionary trait?)

I’d appreciate it if you bumped him up to 18 years of age. That’s a personal neurosis of mine, it’s illogical, I know. I just don’t like seeing minors in overtly violent and/or sexual situations. I could barely get through the Game of Thrones series, those poor babies, they are too young…

Fair enough. I'll look for something a bit more fluff-oriented to replace reactionary. I'm away from home for a few days, but I should be able to put together something in the next few days.

I thought I'd changed the age to 18. Must've been day dreaming.

Thanks for the input!

@albion

Oooh, looking good! I'm excited to see which traits you select for him.

I'd like you to work in a blurb about when/where your character swore to the edicts of the Order of the Dragon. I'm of the opinion that "oaths" (like the paladin oath) aren't something a person would take lightly...so I'd like to see what triggered Reknar to swear that particular oath. :)

I like that he speaks goblin. Nice tie-in to the fluff you have worked in so far.

Still mulling the traits over, but there are two things that really bother me:

- the fact that I end up with absolutely ZERO knowledges as class skills (I will spend ranks on them nonetheless, as I envision a bare minimum of two knowledges on Reknar - Local, and... Dungeoneering)
- the low will save :/

The first one may be solved if I decide to dip one or two levels in Lore Warden further down the road - in my head it would reflect the fact that Reknar has indeed learned there is much more to life, and even warfare than swinging a blade.

The second one could be addressed by the trait Carefully Hidden, or even dipping one or two levels of Martial Artist monk (if allowed of course). Again I would give it a twist, and since Martial Artist can have any alignment, it would simply mean that Reknar has improved on his fighting skills, and that's it - 2 levels in monk don't really mean any 'esoteric' abilities that wouldn't fit him thematically.

Okay, DM of Liberty, I've added the familial link to Falcon's Hollow and a donkey for my halfling ( but not called Bill).

I'll try to keep tabs on this recruitment but in case I forget, Blessings of Desna to one and all. May your application be filled with fortune.

Cheers

I got inspired to write a prologue for Davi. It's a bit longer than I intended, but it puts her in the right area for the campaign.

I just wanted to say that I'm still here, trying to refine my fluff. I've named my Tiefling Arthur Read. I still can't decide between Paladin and Magus. Fluff-wise, Paladin is starting to become a more obvious choice because I want my character to be a self-styled champion of freedom. On the other hand, I really like him being an intellectual sort, and there is already another Paladin in the ring. Also, I just usually feel like paladins are kind of boring to me.

I've also got an NPC hook in the works. But more on that later.

@Kubular

No need to pick paladin just for the LG-ness. A magus can be holier than any paladin ;)

I like the sound of a prologue, and will try to get one in after getting home. Getting these creative juices flowing after years of bottling up is fun!

I think I have settled down on a Trait - World Traveller. To be able to add Knowledge (Local) as a class skill.

GM of Liberty, perhaps it could be 'refurbished' to instead reflect Reknar's travels within the army, instead of belonging to a family wealthy enough to have traveled the world?

Loving the prologues guys, it gives me a better idea of what to expect in play :)

@Albion -

Refluffing of World Traveller is fine :o

Would an aasimar be acceptable? I've had an idea for an arcanist that would be either a White Mage or an Abjuration School Savant; baring that, an abjuration wizard would also fit the bill. Basically, a somewhat divinely inspired arcane magic user... I think that would fit well in Andoran and this campaign.

Originally I had the thought for a WotR campaign, but I think that kind of concept would work well in Andoran as well.

I was originally going to invent a new hunter in Falcon's Hollow but I found out that there's already a ranger NPC! I took a few creative liberties with him, but hunting down werewolves is sort of already in line with his duties as a deputy to the community's Sheriff.

It ended up being a bit longer than I wanted it, but I couldn't decide where else to cut it short.

Crunchy bits incoming...

@Nariel - Aasimar is fine. Divinely inspired arcane caster sounds interesting!

@Anthony read - Lookin' great. :D

GM Liberty.

I am interested.

I am not in any games at the moment.

Would you be willing to consider a Fetchling noble (son of a baron) who was shifted to the prime material plane when the house wizard had a serious miscue.

He is shell shocked, nearly broke and currently working as a caravan guard trying to get his bearings.

If you are willing I will take the first level as an aristocrat. As he learns more about his new life, he will move toward rogue at level 2 and beyond.

Alecks Var

If you're willing, I'll develop and submit before the end of the evening.

@Kewl Modie

Fetchling is fine. Andoran is a good place for one to get a life started without too much judgment.

Aristocrat is fine. Understand that you'll be level 1 through "Into the Haunted Forest" (which is fairly short) and "Hollow's Last Hope". That can take a long time in pbp, depending on how smoothly things go and how much RP happens.

Since it feels to me that he's a fish out of water kind of character, he won't have many specific goals in the region. That's not a big deal, but I do want to get a feel for where he will be going. So I'll want to know his primary motivations, morals, ideals, etc. Like how he'd feel about democracy, slavery etc. Religious ideals.

GM of Liberty, I have given it some thought and decided that a prologue is not going to happen. My posting tends to be much less than a novel, much more conversational and based off the rest of the party and my guy's reaction. That's not meant as a slight of the others, I enjoyed reading them.

If that counts against me then so be it.

Cheers

P.S. Herral is going to have an accent, Irish or Cornish but definitely celtish.

GM of Liberty.

Introducing Alecks Var (Kayal Rogue)

Since I don't know how to collapse the info behind buttons yet...
but will learn.

Alecks Var

Race: Fetchling (Kayal)/ Outsider

Class: Rogue (1st Level)
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Age: 24
Ht: 5'10"
Wt: 180 lbs
Eyes: Blue-Green
Hair: Black (Dyed)
Skin: Pale

......Stats..Mods
Str:...13....+1
Dex:...17....+3
Con:...10....+0
Int:...14....+2
Wis:...10....+0
Cha:...15....+2

Feats & Special Abilities
....Dark Vision (60 ft)
....Low light vision
....Weapon Finesse (Rapier)
....Sneak Attack (+1d6)
....Trap finding (+1/2 to Perception & Disable Device)

Skills (+10 pts/lvl)
....Acrobatics...+4
....Appraise.....+3
....Bluff........+3
....Diplomacy....+3
....Disguise.....+3
....Intimidate...+3
....Know (Planes)+3
....Perception...+1
....Stealth......+4
....Sense Motive.+1

BAB: +0

Saves: Fort +0, Ref +5, Will +0

AC: 15 FF: 12 T: 13

Leather Armor (15lbs)

Weapon: Rapier / Hand Crossbow (2lbs/2lbs) (Melee +3 / Ranged +3)

Languages: Common, Anklo, Draconic

Gear: (Total Wt: 24 lbs)
....Backpack
....Belt Pouch
....Water skin
....Bedroll & Blanket
....Traveler's outfit
....10 bolts

Money: 2 GP + 5 SP

Traits: Called, Disillusioned

Backstory:
Alecks is the oldest son of Barron Var of Klegs Fen. The fen is part of an upstart kingdom of Kayal on the Shadow Plane. Historically the region was ruled by the ancient shadow dragon Astigrylkraxyx. When the dragon was killed by adventurers from the prime material plane and ancestors of the current ruling family, the kingdom of Dewarn was founded. After nearly 100 years, Astigrylkraxyx's absence was noted by other powerful beings; demons and dragons among them. Dewarn is being hard pressed to survive.
Klegs Fen was sacked and both the Barron and Baroness were flayed and eaten in front of their subjects. During the sacking young Alecks was secreted away by his mentor, Jemma and her husband, Gareth. The three were hunted mercilessly and in an attempt to allude their hunters they traveled to Falcon's Hollow on the prime material plane. Jemma decided that the group must "go to the winds," with the promise that once the pursuers were dealt with they would be reunited. Alecks was hired on as a caravan guard leaving Falcon's hollow the next day. Jemma and Gareth bought three horses and rode hard toward the rising sun.
Alecks is both hiding from his pursuers and searching for something; a tool or artifact that will allow him to triumphantly free his homeland from its oppressors. His dreams are haunted by the screams of the dying and the sight of his mother being torn asunder, yet he also hears the voice of Jemma assuring him that he is the chosen one... the liberator.

Notes: Jemma is a priestess of Cayden Cailean. Her husband Gareth is a Ranger. Alecks is an adherent. As is typical for one of aristocratic upbringing, Alecks is educated and well spoken. He is used to a life of comfort and has a hard time letting the past go. It is entirely possible that some of his actions have led to the continued success of his pursuers.

@Herral Hinn

No biggie. Don't force something against your style :)

People are selected based on how well they gel with the setting, how easily I can customize missions/quests and stuff to their character without having to drag the whole team really far away from what they want to be accomplishing, and whether or not they fit the pre-made modules. That can be accomplished in a small paragraph!

@Kewl Modie

Underneath the posting text box there's a little thing that says "How to format your text". The little hidden boxes are called spoiler boxes.

Looking good! Where does the trait, called, fit in? Sorry if I'm just missing it.

Dot. Im in 3 'active' games all of which are 1000+ posts.

@ GM of Liberty

My thought is that the "Call" is from Cayden through Jemma / Jemma's voice.
I can make it more explicit if it is too vague.

@Kewl Modie

Alright, gotcha :)

Man, poor GMoL is gonna have such a tough choice. I do not envy you one bit... and no hard feelings if I don't make the cut. These are some GOOD apps, and some tough competition!

Good luck to all!

@Nariel - Aasimar is fine. Divinely inspired arcane caster sounds interesting!

Great, I'll start piecing it together on this avatar than.

Here is Wulfrun Taverner Cavalier of the Star for review. Ive never done a cavalier but I hope you enjoy the character outline.

@GM: I was wondering if I could reflavor the bite attack from "Maw or Claw" as a Gore attack with my horns. I should have a stat block ready tonight.

@ GM of Liberty.

I need to add three key bits to Alecks Var's Feats/Special Abilities.

1. Shadow Blending (50% miss in dim light vs. 20%)
2. Shadow Resistance (DR: cold 5, elecricity 5)
3. Disguise Self (Spell like ability) 1/day

and one skill modification
Stealth should be +5 vs. +3

I left these racial characteristics off my crunch.

Thanks

@Anthony Read

Reflavoring is fine as long as its clearly marked as such on the crunch

@Kewl Modie

Okay :)

@GM of Liberty

Soroza's background and general appearance/first impression are up behind the relevant spoilers on this profile! I hope you enjoy the read. I wanna flesh out the detail of the end, when she leaves home, a bit but that will come.

Okay, got a good start on this character... description and personality are done, and background will follow tomorrow night. Her background will revolve around being raised in a temple of Sarenrae, only to discover her true talents are arcane in nature, though she retains her ability to heal (i.e. that's the impetus for healing powers, hence the White Mage archetype).

@Nariel Lauric & Kubular

Ah, forgot to mention, if you wish you can roll for the alternate tiefling/aasimar racial traits here on the boards.

Caveat: if you roll, you are stuck with the trait (reason being, some of the traits are undesirable, to balance out how some of them are very good)

Nariel is coming along nicely. I'm excited for her background. :)

Is there room still for a tiefling necromancer?

Tiefling: good.

Necromancer: no, the people I intend for the group to help in this campaign would reject/persecute outright necromancy. (There is actually a major necromancer villain in the area.)

edit: unless you mean a wizard specializing in the necromancy school, and not an actual "raising the zombies" guy, then yes, wizards who lub finger of death are fine ;)

I'd be chaotic good. I just, you know. Have interesting morals. I personally think that using a dead body for good reasons is better than letting it rot and do nothing.