Deway, Khat: just let me know if you want me to roll an actual skill check for the stuff I'm doing.
Been there, done that. No worries.
Just a heads up, I'll be out of town tomorrow for my college graduation.
Starting Sunday morning, I begin a 4 household Christmas season tour, briefly interrupted by an orthodontics visit, covering a little over 1000 miles in six days. Posting will occur, but be erratic until I am home again Saturday night.
I think all of us will enter a sporadic posting state for the next couple weeks.
Hope you feel better soon!
No worries - things have been a bit hectic with the holidays anyways. Get well soon!
I will update soon as well. I am working on setting up something big here at home, so time is a little more limited than usual as well.
It's all good. I'm just hanging out.
Yay, even more paper work today!
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Again I apologize for the delay. I am still feeling a bit under the weather but I will get back to regular posting tomorrow. As a thank you to those who are still with us. I would like to offer a sincere thank you in the form of 1 more attribute point to spend or an additional trait your choice. Just let me know which you decided to accept.
Well thank you. :)
I would be happy with regular posting again, but hey, no complaints.
Yay! I will let you know as soon as possible, and thanks for keeping us in the proverbial loop.
Sounds good. Hope you feel better bro!
Thanks for the 'boons' and hope you feel better real soon.
Thanks for the 'boons' and hope you feel better real soon.
Ahhh! Fionn has become a fox!
Eek! I blame foul magics! Wait... I am not Taldor... Umm....
ack.. forgot to change my name for that post... my bad, sorry about that...
I do it all the time!
Yay! 12 hours of research done. I think it is time to finish my ultimate travel playlist!
Nothing but Warren Zevon, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Jonny Cash... woot!
I'll put an extra attribute point in wisdom, to bump it from 7 to 8.
I'll put the stat bump into Con, taking it from 13-14.
I usually try to write my own lyrics when Kara sings, but admit that tonight's entertainment was penned by Kate Covington. She is extremely talented and you can hear the whole song (performed by herself) here.
Sorry for going AWOL. I'll be catching up tonight.
I love bards who put the effort in to do things like that!
Thanks! It's honestly one of my favorite things about playing this character. I'm always listening to music with the thought of "would this work to be sung by Kara?" It gives me an excuse to write my own poetry too, which is something I don't do nearly enough of anymore.
Sorry. I thought it was Kara, myself, and Zerkia on scouting, not the whole party. That's why I didn't engage the Gnolls.
That, and I thought we were told not to engage by the Princess. Right?
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so I am applying for someone's homebrew pbp here on the boards. I am building a Half-Orc Barbarian/Witch and am wondering how you would better flesh out this background. All constructive criticism is welcome.
His mother was taken and burned, and he was tossed at a young age out into the streets. Fortunately for him orcs, even half blooded ones matured faster than those around him. So he prospered due to the great size and strength the laid in his veins. He would not be taken lightly. This gave him a grim reputation, as a leg breaker or worse. This however ensured that there would always be work, which meant that there would be life. So he embraced his reputation.
Word spread, of the half-blood, and a group of orcs came to the village and demanded Druaggh, as he is their blood. The villagers complied, Druaggh did not. Many were slaughtered. In the wake of the aftermath Druaggh declared himself leader giving himself the title of Chieftan.
He learned history from his “citizens” and he fashioned a grim fetish mask, comprised of hair scalped from the humans and orcs, wolf fangs, stained blood, and a necklace of ears. This mask brought him an unexpected benefit. The mask brought him a connection to his ancestors, and because he used both human and orc, the connection was established on both sides. This gave him strange power. The first thing he was told was to brand a scar in his flesh that would give his foes dread. This gave him the power of fear over his subject.
Through his talks, he learned of a great orc woman, Kring the Beautiful, who controlled the largest known orc tribe, though she refused to take any orc as mate unless he was worthy of her. So far every orc that has attempted to be courted has been deemed unworthy and beheaded. Druaggh would have Kring through her compliance or not, he would be King and she his Queen.
I like the story. Here is a revised version using some different word choices. Take and leave as you will.
Druaggh did not have an easy life. Being born into the harshness of a world different than those around him lead to fear, animosity, and multiple beatings that took him within inches of his life, and those struggles, when he looks back, are minor. The true problems came when his mother was revealed to be the child of a Hag, and he a product of rape. Though unbeknownst to him his father seed would give him great strength in the form of an Orcish taint infesting his blood.
His mother was taken and burned, and he was tossed out at a young age into the streets. Fortunately for him Orcs, even half blooded ones, mature faster than other races. Therefore he prospered due to the great size and strength that laid in his veins. He could not, would not, be taken lightly. This produced a grim reputation as a leg breaker, and worse. This also, however, ensured that there would always be work, which meant that there would be life. So he embraced his reputation.
Word spread of the half-blood. Eventually a group of Orcs came to the village and demanded Druaggh be handed over as he is their blood. The villagers complied; Druaggh did not. Many Orcs were slaughtered. In the wake of the bloodbath, Druaggh declared himself leader giving himself the title of Chieftain.
He learned Orcish history from his “citizens”, and he fashioned a grim fetish mask comprised of hair scalped from the humans and orcs, wolf fangs, stained blood, and a necklace of ears. This mask brought him an unexpected benefit. The mask brought him a connection to his ancestors, and because he used both human and Orc parts in its construction the connection was established on both sides. This gave him strange power. It let him hear the Ancestors.
The first thing he was told to do was to brand a scar in his flesh that would inspire his foes with dread. This gave him the power of fear over his subjects and his enemies.
Through his talks with the wise and knoledgeable of his tribe, he learned of a great Orc woman, Kring the Beautiful, who controlled the largest known Orc tribe, though she refused to take any Orc as mate unless he was worthy of her. So far every Orc that had attempted to court her had been deemed unworthy and beheaded.
That decided things. Druaggh would have Kring through her compliance or not. He would be King and she his Queen.
Stained blood is not an object, so 'stained in blood' when describing the fetish mask.
A couple of the phrases seem to hang a little to heavy 'to my ear'. I think though, if you were to simply add:
A large brutish half-orc sits down across from you at a dirty small table, gesturing for two flagons before launching into a tale almost too bold to be believed. Smiling toothily, he beings, "Background here"
Any oddities could be waived off as being a part of his off-kilter orcish narrative.
Begins*
Ooh barbarian/witch. that reminds me of one of my characters Logen that will be going rape prophet lol.
I believe Tolus and Arizhel covered about everything I thought of, cool character concept!
Rape Prophet. Now there's a scary PrC. :P
Methinks that auto-correct is to blame here.
I'm sure he meant Rage, but yes - that IS a scary thought.
I'll be at a show for two days starting Friday morning and probably won't be able to post... maybe a little at night but the days will be too busy. After tonight's postings, except for maybe a token showing tomorrow night, see you in two days. GM - if you need to run my char for any reason - everything is in the profile.
Yay! Got my first couple clients! Two family law cases! Welcome to solo practice!
Woot! -dance-