I think I'm going with a human Tempest Cleric:
15+1/12/13/12/17+1/7
Feat: Resilient (Con)
Cantrips: Sacred Flame, Thaumaturgy, Guidance
Background: Sailor
Skills: Athletics, Perception, Religion, Insight, Survival
Tools: Navigator's Tools, Vehicles (water)
Saves: Con, Wis, Cha
Languages: Common, Primordial
That's the base crunch; I'll fill in details when I have more time.
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Oh, man! I just found this. Is your game still open, Jiggy? I've never played 5e (well, I played once at the most recent Free RPG Day, but I'm not sure that counts). But I've played every other edition of D&D, since 1980. I only have the Starter Set for 5e available to me.
I'm new to PbP, being about 40% of the way through a PFS scenario currently. Here is a sample of my PbP.
I would be happy to play any character, but my preference would be for a halfling filling any role except rogue/thief.
On the chance that you say "yes," here are some ability scores...
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I don't think racial ability score modifiers are covered in the Starter Set, so I assumed they were the same from 3.5.
It looks like it might be a cleric. o_o A really, dumb cleric.
This is just me spitballing:
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Alignment Chaotic Good
Background Criminal
Deity Some god associated with liberty, and personal freedom. (I don't remember much about the various D&D pantheons.)
Background
Rosco grew up on the streets, and quickly fell in with the wrong crowd, living a life of crime. That all changed after he was caught burglarizing the home Pallis, a human of a cleric of [Deity]. Instead of turning Rosco over to the authorities, Pallis offered him redemption. Rosco accepted the deal—anything had to be better than going back to prison—and before long, he was a full-fledged cleric of [Deity].
Thanks! :)
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Hi, The Fox!
Yes, recruitment is still open. In fact, less than a party's worth have even finished their characters, so you're still good.
Stat modifiers should be in the free PDF, I thought, though I don't have time to check right this second.
Also, you know the rolls aren't required to be in order, right?
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Hi, The Fox!
Yes, recruitment is still open. In fact, less than a party's worth have even finished their characters, so you're still good.
Stat modifiers should be in the free PDF, I thought, though I don't have time to check right this second.
Also, you know the rolls aren't required to be in order, right?
Excellent! I will look around and see if I can find the free PDF you speak of.
I know the rolls need not be in order. But it makes for a pretty fun array, don't you think? :)
If RDN is set on cleric, I could do something else. Not that there's anything wrong with two clerics in a party.
How many characters do you want in the party?
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About 5 characters, give or take one, depending on what I see.
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Found it! I was happily surprised to see there is no penalty to Str. I will go with a Lightfoot Halfling.
Here are the raw rolls again: 16, 11, 15, 7, 13, 12
I am going to move the rolls around to two different arrangements to see which I like better. The first is a slight modification from above (swapping Con, Wis, and Cha).
I will create aliases for both and post them shortly.
Edit: Done!
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I am happy to play either of these characters, or something else depending on the make-up of the party. I also would probably want to adjust the backstory somewhat as I gain familiarity with the setting.
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Str 16
Dex 11 + 2 = 13
Con 12
Int 7
Wis 15
Cha 13 + 1 = 14
Class Cleric
Alignment Something Good
Background Criminal
Deity Some?
Backstory Rosco grew up on the streets, and quickly fell in with the wrong crowd, living a life of crime. That all changed after he was caught burglarizing the home Pallis, a human of a cleric of [Deity]. Instead of turning Rosco over to the authorities, Pallis offered him redemption. Rosco accepted the deal—anything had to be better than going back to prison—and before long, he was a full-fledged cleric of [Deity].
Str 7
Dex 13 + 2 = 15
Con 12
Int 16
Wis 11
Cha 15 + 1 = 16
Class Rogue (later levels in Bard?)
Alignment Chaotic Good
Background Grifter
Profession Poet/Thespian
Backstory Giacomo was raised by a hard-working widow named Maple. His given name is Garret, but he adopted the name Giacomo when he started dabbling in confidence scams on the streets. He has found that having an alias has certain other advantages also. Recently, Giacomo has been earning his keep by performing poetry and other entertainment acts in a run-down theater situated below his shabby apartment.
Hi Jiggy. Just to let you know, I'm still keen to be considered (this is the beginning and avatar) but won't be able to spend time with the books until Friday night, so I'll be putting the full character up at the last minute.
Cheers
Sorry Jiggy, been a little busy the past few days to build characters. I'll be working on mine tonight, and should have him up fairly soon.
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Hey,
I am an unlikely candidate for this play by post but I am incredibly interested both in the campaign and in 5th edition.
I am pretty new to play-by-post but I've fallen in love with the play style and am interesting in continuing to play in this format.
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Not a bad array by any means, relatively balanced, I'd have to say, I'm leaning toward a spell caster with stats like that though.
You said you'd have a 5-man party so you don't mind some overlap? I wouldn't mind playing a wizard or a fighter with the stats that I have. I'll write up some alias here in a bit, I'll post in a similar fashion as the Fox above!
Podo's character sheet is now complete (I think). I've got a cool story in mind about how his second identity became as a Priest of Chauntea, how he escaped from capture when his mentor was captured, and how he ended up an adventurer, but to tired to type all that up right now.
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I'm only going to submit one character, I am rather excited about this dwarven fighter/wanna-be Paladin. I think she'd be a lot of fun and provide a good opportunity for role play.
About Thyra Fireforge
Thyra the Mountain Dwarf
Str: 17+2(19)
Dex: 12
Con: 15+2(17)
Wis: 12
Int: 12
Cha: 10
Class: Fighter, probably leaning toward's using a hammer two-handed or maybe a great axe as it applies.
Alignment: Lawful Good, will be a paladin of sorts, not wise enough or patient enough to make it as a cleric but she has a strong sense of faith in the gods.
background: Acolyte
Profession: Bodyguard, part-time scribe for the church
Thyra was raised in the faith and surrounds herself in the dogma of her church like an armor. She is stubborn at times and hates giving up on tasks or leaving something half-finished. She tried being a cleric but she lacked the patience or the magical ability to ever speak to her god however she is still highly active in the church and works as a bodyguard and as a left-hand of sorts for protecting the church and her interests.
Artemis here. Here's the bones of the character so far. Working on the backstory and gear (taking the class/background given gear option)... But it's gotten too late so I'll have to finish tomorrow.
To sum up the general background: Child of a rural fishing village, spent a lot of time in the local sage's library rather than on his step-father's fishing boat. Came across some forbidden lore, wound up obsessed with it. Over time, wound up making the dark pact with Hastur, in the hopes of obtaining more knowledge. That's pretty much the reason he travels. The "note from a dead colleague" (sage background) can be whatever you want it to be, or I can come up with something for it, your choice.
Fairly standard, "delve too deep into the quest for knowledge and be consumed" kind of fare.
OK, here's the fleshed-out version (I'll make an alias if I get in):
Pietro Elitov
Human Tempest Cleric
16/12/14/12/18/7
Feat: Resilient (Con)
HP 10, AC 16
Combat:
Maul +5 (2d6+3 B)
Light Crossbow +3 (1d8+1 P)
-20 bolts
Saves:
Str +3
Dex +1
Con +4
Int +1
Wis +6
Cha +0
Skills:
Athletics +5
Perception +6
Religion +3
Insight +6
Survival +6
Tools:
Navigator's Tools
Vehicles (water)
Languages: Common, Primordial
Equipment:
Maul
Light Crossbow (20 bolts)
Chain Mail
Priest's Pack
Holy Symbol
Other:Belaying pin, silk rope (50 ft.), navigator's tools, fulgurite on a leather thong, common clothes, 0 gp
Cantrips:
Sacred Flame (DC 14 Dex, 1d8 radiant, no cover)
Thaumaturgy (V only)
Guidance (Conc. 1 min, +1d4 to one skill check)
Spells:
1 (2/2):
Fog Cloud (Conc. 1 hr, 120 ft., 20+20/SL ft. radius cloud of fog)
Thunderwave (15 ft. cube centered on me, 2d8+1d8/SL thunder and pushed 10 feet away, DC 14 Con for half & no push)
Guiding Bolt (120 ft. attack, 4d6+1d6/SL radiant, next attack has advantage)
Healing Word (Bonus, V only, 60 ft, 1d4+Wis+1d4/SL healing)
Cure Wounds (touch, 1d8+Wis+1d8/SL healing)
Create or Destroy Water (30 ft., create/destroy 10+10/SL gallons in container, or create rain/destroy fog in 30+5/SL ft. cube)
Bless (Conc. 1 min, 30 ft., +1d4 to saves & skills on 3+1/SL allies)
Pietro is a solidly-built man, thick with muscle and scarred with old callouses. His pale hair and eyes mark him as coming from the far north. While his eyes are sharp and hide considerable insight, he is used to serving a captain, and is slow to assert himself, unless it's with a weapon.
Pietro served as a sailor on the high seas, serving as navigator, spiritual advisor, and magical support for the crew. But the sea held no charm for him anymore, and he found himself longing to explore places that were not endless fields of rolling water.
He took leave of his crewmates, and eventually ended up Radlebb Keep, looking for ways to apply the skills he acquired as a sailor in new adventures.
Equipment is rejiggered a bit, but with the same gold cost.
I'm fine with creating your own traits/ideals/bonds/flaws. If you want different proficiencies, I'd be okay with you creating a custom background, though that customizability comes with the cost of not getting that little special ability that the pre-made backgrounds have (like the Outlander's foraging and memory for terrain, the Noble's position of privelege, etc).
Had a sudden surge of finished (or nearly-finished) character submissions, so I need to look at them in more detail. First, I think I'll write myself up a little index of them, to keep my sanity. Stay tuned for feedback later.
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Zook Sparlegem (Sparklegem?)
Garnult Tarnhammer
Spider/Spidre/Spid-Ray
Podo Bumbleroot
Rosco Barrelbottom
Arannis Brightsea
Pietro Elitov
Arden Rydell
Giacomo Berrythwaite
Kertack
Thyra Fireforge
Halsere Chael-Oren
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Important Note: I'm okay with people not wanting to create a profile unless selected. However, I do want to see more than a skeleton before making a decision. I want to know what your class features are, what spells or other selections you've made, etc. The ideal would be to post whatever the contents of your profile would end up being if you were picked.
As soon as I can, I'll go through the submissions and try to offer some feedback to those I haven't already said anything to.
@Zook Sparlegem: Formatting issues as I mentioned before, but the character itself seems fine. I do want to caution you that I can't guarantee that your "False Identity" thing will come up. Maybe that's okay, but I like for people to make informed choices, rather than feeling let-down later. :)
@Podo Bumbleroot: Same caution about False Identity. Fine for you to have it, just understand it might not come up.
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Will continue down the list later.
I'll finish her tonight, I am at work till 6. I can post while at work, but I'd have some difficulty finishing a character sheet.
I'm off at 6 pm PST, if you want it sooner than that, I'll see what I can do about it on my lunch!
@Rosco Barrelbottom: Whoops, put you in the "Completed" group by mistake. I look forward to seeing the final version. :)
@Arannis Brightsea: Looks like you've got a few things to fill in yet (gear, spell descriptions), but what you've got isn't giving me any red flags, so that's good. :) I would request less use of spoilers, though; looking for stuff involves a bit of "digging" with all those spoilers.
@Pietro Elitov: Seems good so far, though you're missing some details (such as your background; sailor, it looks like?).
@Arden Rydell: Concept seems fine; let me know when you have the character ready for review.
@Rosco Barrelbottom/Giacomo Berrythwaite: Both concepts seem fine; let me know when one/both is ready for review.
@Kertack: Still waiting...
@Thyra Fireforge: As with most of the other unfinished characters, seems fine, let me know when completed.
@Halsere Chael-Oren: As above; let me know when you have more details. (Does "magician" mean wizard?)
Oops, yeah, he has the Sailor background.
Then gimme some deets.
Also, it occurs to me that I always forget to specify a pantheon. The only one I'm really familiar with is Golarion's but that feels wrong for this campaign. So maybe I'll just say any (non-evil) deity from the back of the PHB is fine. "Concept clerics" would be acceptable as well.
Pietro will be a NG cleric of Njord, god of sea and wind.
Personality trait: "To me, a tavern brawls is a nice way to get to know a new city."
Ideal: "Respect: The thing that keeps a ship together is mutual respect between captain and crew."
Bond: "I'll always remember my first ship."
Flaw: "I follow orders, even if I think they're wrong."
Gonna aggregrate some data, mostly for my own reference:
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Total submissions (including unfinished): 12
By class:
3 Clerics
3 Fighters
2 Wizards
2 Rogues
1 Warlock
1 Undecided
0 Barbarians
0 Bards
0 Druids
0 Monks
0 Paladins
0 Rangers
0 Sorcerers
By race:
3 Halflings
3 Humans
2 Dwarves
1 Elf
1 Half-elf
1 Half-orc
1 Gnome
0 Dragonborn
0 Tieflings
@Kertack: Still waiting...
Sorry - won't get to my book until tonight (around fourteen hours from now). Still keen though...
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Sorry if that sounded impatient, that was just supposed to mean "There's no comment to make, but I don't want you to think I skipped you."
No worries. Sorry if I sounded desperate! :p
I just know that popping into a recruitment thread to apply and then not showing up again is a thing. In this case, I just left my D&D books elsewhere for some dumb reason.
"A'right, take 'er look an' tell me if my sheet looks ter be in order, please."
The burly dwarven women with a long braid falling down her back, a cascade of burnished copper hair, bow's 'afore the the masters of masters holding a paper that'll decide her fate and if this'll be her first adventure outside the temple.
"I think you'll find it arr to be in order, master"
Kertack is ready for consideration - he was training to be a paladin of Torm but couldnt quite meet their standards of discipline and has been recently 'drummed out' of the church. He now plans on making it as a knight (but struggles to stay committed to much, so he's not really likely to make much of himself).
I rolled some overly generous stats - I could see him having penalties to wisdom, so I'd like to suggest dropping that to an eight?
I'd like to mull over boons/bonds and so forth given the lapsedness of his faith (the acolyte ones don't really feel right). I figure he might still be able to utilise the 'shelter of the faithful' but only under false pretenses. The 'access to healing at a temple' stuff would only be in out of the way places and need a successful deception check (or something?)
I'll take a closer look at these recently-finished submissions later, but Thyra, why do you have a +3 racial bonus to STR?
I'll take a closer look at these recently-finished submissions later, but Thyra, why do you have a +3 racial bonus to STR?
It looks like she took a feat for another +1.
Dwarves get a +2 racial bonus and then the Heavy Armor Mastery gives another +1 to Strength as long as it doesn't raise it above 20. The feat is on page 167 of the Player Handbook, I believe I'm allowed to take it, the prerequisite for the feat was proficiency in heavy armor and the fighter class gives armor proficiency(all).
*edit looks like I was ninja'd by ninja
But RDN has the right of it too I see.
But how are you even taking a feat at 1st level when you're not a variant human?
Oh, my apologies, I guess I misread the rules when creating her, I am still pretty new to 5th edition.
I'll uh take it off.
Edit* Looks like as a fighter I can take a feat in replace of my ability score improvement class feature so I could take my first feat at 4th level!
Yep, that's not even a fighter-only thing; that's just how feats work, you take them in place of stat boosts. Of course, fighters get the most stat boosts, so...
Yep, that's not even a fighter-only thing; that's just how feats work, you take them in place of stat boosts. Of course, fighters get the most stat boosts, so...
Wait, what? I never saw this! I thought they all had the same! This changes everything!
@Halsere Chael-Oren: I don't see any problems, though remember that if selected, you'll need to include spell descriptions in your profile.
@Kertack: Don't see any issues. Any adjustments to stats will come after selection, if at all.
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Everyone: I'm looking to get the game underway sometime Monday, so if you want to be considered, make sure your character is complete no later than end of day Sunday!
@Halsere Chael-Oren: I don't see any problems, though remember that if selected, you'll need to include spell descriptions in your profile.So the full spell text from the PHB typed out as spoilers etc?
Doesn't necessarily have to be verbatim, but clear and containing all relevant details. The goal is so that if I'm going to make a post as GM and need to see how one of your things works, I can just look in your profile. If instead I have to either ask you and wait for an answer or wait until I can get home to my book, then the whole game has to wait.
So the goal is "Don't leave the GM with unanswered questions about your spells/abilities".