Natalia Ivanova |
And, of course, little Natalia is miffed that she's been ignored.
The waft of wind is just my local color, being an elementalist, things of that nature sometimes happen around Natalia when she's getting ready to lose her temper. (~_^) As long as the GM allows for the odd elemental effect, that is.
Thinking about it, since both Rozsa and Guillame know Natalia from earlier, they might recognize the warning sign of Natalia's temper tantrums.
Delroy Callidus |
A) I've been debating with myself whether to put the PCs into the "Heroic" chargen category or not. It would give you guys one better stat die, 5 more skill marks (and a higher cap on skills to start), and two more gifts. It might jive with the more lighthearted tone I'm going for, or it might make the game too easy.
Looks like that's been answered already. I don't mind the normal character level.
A1) Are any of the other variant rules interesting? I'm not sold on most of them, but tell me if there's one you just can't live without, I'll consider its use.
None I can think of off the top of my head, except maybe 'Flaws'.
B) Does counting each Adventure (essentially each minor plot arc) as a Chapter sound OK?
Sounds right to me.
C) How much XP is too much to give out, and what rate is too quick for advancement? Now consider the other end of the scale.
I've been in an online Play by post for about five years (IC 1) and the advancement there feels really slow. I guess we'll wait and see how you handle it, because there can be such a thing as moving too fast.
James Reaver |
I think Quinn would hate James even if she was a begger. The only question is whether James has redeeming aspects.
He's a pirate, the idea is that he's got no class, no respect, and ideas on who deserves respect that dont jive with the average person. But he has a heart of gold and is loyal to a fault.
You'll never see him give you the courtesy of actually using proper names and titles, but he will gladly die for you if you're a friend.
James Reaver |
So he believes no one at all deserves respect?(Most people I know would find his behavior rude and not all of them come from upstanding birth)
Or he just doesn't care enough to show any. Besides Quinn is the one you need to convince not me. ;)
The latter. Rank and title mean nothing, you have to earn his respect before he will give you any. Very much a man of action who doesn't like mincing words and finds politeness to be too much of a bother either way.
In short, yes, he's just rude. But that doesn't mean he isn't nice at heart xD
Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
May I inquire as to your character's origin? I'm still getting used to the Calabrian analogues of Real World cultures.
If you mean in terms of 'what real-world nation are they based on', I'm not really picking out a single, particular one, but the Avoirdupois certainly have a very chivalric French character, and the Doloreaux, I'm not quite sure...So if you consider her, oh...a border noble from a family that many are skeptical of, and whose loyalties are rather questionable (despite the fact that the big toe-heel-turn happened almost four hundred years ago...Familial and national memories run long). Perhaps (I don't know how deep your European historical knowledge runs) if you imagine a French minor noble of Calais (which was ceded to the English after the battle of Crecy by the Treaty of Brétigny) who enthusiastically went English-loyal (most did, it was that or die even if they hadn't in some way helped the English), perhaps that might be suitable...If the situation had continued for another four centuries instead of France reabsorbing Calais in 1430. So after four centuries nobody is liable to kill her just for wandering around Avoirdupois lands but she may well be treated with suspicion. On the other hand, noone would question her nobility unless they expected or desired a trial of combat, and even Avoirdupois nobles would support her against a commoner (Ironclaw is not a modern "medieval fair" where everyone is 'sir or ma'am' or 'my lord or my lady', but rather a setting where nobility means something, and commoners really don't have much in the way of rights against nobles)...So she's a a minor noblewoman from a family with a four-hundred year reputation for underhanded dealing, betrayal, backstabbing...
If you want an idea of character, then I tend to think of her as a cross between D'Artagnan and Vladmir Táltos in his younger days when he wasn't the big boss.
As to the current charlie-foxtrot,
He's a pirate, the idea is that he's got no class, no respect, and ideas on who deserves respect that dont jive with the average person. But he has a heart of gold and is loyal to a fault.
You'll never see him give you the courtesy of actually using proper names and titles, but he will gladly die for you if you're a friend.
...and...
The latter. Rank and title mean nothing, you have to earn his respect before he will give you any. Very much a man of action who doesn't like mincing words and finds politeness to be too much of a bother either way.
In short, yes, he's just rude. But that doesn't mean he isn't nice at heart xD
This could be a serious problem, and NOT simply in the sense of in-party relationships, because names and titles do matter in the Ironclaw setting, so much so that there are express rules laid out for their social effects.
Suggest you eyeball the sourcebook a bit more. Ironclaw is more like the real Medieval/Renaissance periods in that nobility actually means something, and a big part of what it means is that a noble is ONLY subject to the judgement of his/her peers - it's not QUITE as nasty as Japanese kirisutogomen (the right to kill a peasant because they are a peasant, even if your only reason is to test a new sword) but if Rosza (or Natalia, or Guillaume, or (probably) Quinn), murdered James at the table in cold blood, the only testimony in this room that would matter would be that of the nobles present. Twenty, thirty, or a hundred commoners wouldn't matter.
The tavernkeeper is liable to throw James out for fear of having bad noble attention come down on him...And any number of folk might happily beat the crap out of James just to try to curry the slightest bit of favor from watching nobles.
Interestingly, Triskellian is the only place in the world where if James killed a noble he would be tried by his peers, rather than simply sentenced by a magistrate (who wielded by extension the power of the Don, a noble). And Triskellian is the seat of Rinaldi power, and the Rinaldi are more sensitive than most households to the idea of their power being undermined by commoners. This isn't modern America.
James is behaving in a way that, as a commoner, asks for him to be killed out of hand...By any noble, or by commoners who want to curry favor with nobles. The Rinaldi are in a position where they're plugging holes in their hereditary respect and power and are quite able to understand that if they let the commoners get too uppity, they will get an engraved invitation to the feast of Madame Guillotine.
Going to wait for UF to weigh in on this, because things could go quite badly.
UltraFennec |
Delroy Callidus |
I hope not! I wanna see the archive. If we all demand it, they'll have to post it! Mua ha ha ha!
Oh, hey, James, on your next post could you perhaps tell us a bit more what we SEE? Other than 'otter'? Attitude, age, armor, weapons, hat, whatever...
I hope I did well enough? In old IC, he'd be 6 stone of weight, and 12 hands high.
84 pounds48 inches = 4 feet high.
He's a little guy.
Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
Nope, he's not big but he's quick. Very young and would look green if not for a few scars from obviously having lived a lawless life. Hes basically in a world he does not belong to on land.
Okay, so he's scarred. Is he dressed as a sailor? Hat? Visible weaponry or armor?
Sorry, but I occasionally use visible details about other peoples' characters in considering reaction to them or interaction with them.
And yes, Delroy's entrance was very descriptive, thanks!
UltraFennec |
Well, technically the game still uses stone for weight and hands for measurement, but since I haven't internalized those you'll probably see imperial system measurement more often, or the odd metric one on my off days.
On one hand, the differences in weight and height can be amusing and interesting to a degree. On the other hand my brain consistently portrays characters as human sized no matter what I tell it (this makes halflings in DnD a very odd thing), and so I've learned to leave out height measurements from descriptions because they all end up being the same two or three sets of numbers, lol.
@Quinn: I know Rafferty said he was going to archive it while we were talking post-game-stream, but I also know that he was running out of cache space near the end there, and some problems may have cropped up. Also, he's frantically working on the last bits of things for Book of Jade so he might have just forgotten it.
UltraFennec |
You can find the die rolling coding in the "How to format your text" spoiler below the posting box for future reference. You actually did it right, but sub in "dice" for "roll."
And because the board is setup default for Pathfinder, you will have to enter each die separately or separated via semicolon to make sure they aren't added together.
Only other note: I believe Misfortune is not readily perceivable, so without supernatural you probably wouldn't actually be able to detect it at work. Strong suspicion would be appropriate, but you're outside the edit window for the boards by now.
Really hope they add in a bigger edit window for the PbP boards one day. I could make a lot of use of that.
UltraFennec |
Speaking of which, Ceallach can make his entrance any time he wants to. I don't feel a particular need to impede his progress, and I'm sure he can think up any number of grand entrances.
Also speaking of things, I put links in the Campaign Info tab to the official Sanguine Games website and their forum, where you may be able to poke the people who love and/or write this game about things.
You should also check out the other games Sanguine makes, because they are uniformly awesome, and if your friends balk at "furry," tell them to check out Noggle Stones after you're done laughing at them for being ignorant.
UltraFennec |
And, of course, little Natalia is miffed that she's been ignored.
The waft of wind is just my local color, being an elementalist, things of that nature sometimes happen around Natalia when she's getting ready to lose her temper. (~_^) As long as the GM allows for the odd elemental effect, that is.
Thinking about it, since both Rozsa and Guillame know Natalia from earlier, they might recognize the warning sign of Natalia's temper tantrums.
As long as you don't try to get mechanical effects out of your color/fluff text, we're all gravy.
Now if you were to start smacking people with an elemental weapon, that might be different...
UltraFennec |
Random notes:
1) Authorizing the use of Flaws for people that want to use 'em, which honestly should be everybody because THEY GIVE YOU XP FOR RPING CHARACTER FLAWS.
2)If you find/have art that represents your character better than the forum avatar you possess, feel free to link or post it in your profile so we can see it. I will recommend Jason Greywolf's Ironclaw RPG page to people who just want a general idea of what this stuff tends to look like, feel free to use the stuff for portraits if you desire.
3) The Book of Jade Kickstarter is over with in a week, and Sanguine would love you forever for supporting their stuff. Also, if you pre-order the supplement via pledging to the Kickstarter, you don't pay postage for your physical books if you order one. ;)
Delroy Callidus |
Well this picture here is a drawing of a different character that also happens to be a raccoon and Thaumaturge (Also a Cognoscenti.) So instead of drawing another raccoon wizard, I'll just present this one.
Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
Hmmm. In regards to flaws, I think I've already handed you a list of enemies for Rosza Juette, so 'enemy' is probably the shoo-in. I don't think 'code of honor' applies to her very well, nor 'chivalry', and she seems the sort to twist 'duty' to her advantage whenever she can possibly get away with it (and undoubtedly tried to a few times when she couldn't get away with it).
The girl does seem to make enemies easily. You can add to the list any number of members of minor noble houses whose brothers/cousins/nephews/beaus have ended up holding the bag for some of Rosza's escapades.
Also, Delroy: Awesome! Neat origami there, too.
Huh. I haven't drawn a damn thing in about a month. I should uncrate my tablet and try my hand at RJ.
Delroy Callidus |
I'd ink that picture in GIMP if I could get my Bamboo Crap tablet recognised by the program, the new edition of GIMP has much more powerful tools for brush dynamics and pen tablets, but it's being really flaky in that I can't figure out how to adjust the settings.
I'll keep working on that.
James, It's even funnier than you think…
Natalia Ivanova |
I hope I did well enough? In old IC, he'd be 6 stone of weight, and 12 hands high.
84 pounds
48 inches = 4 feet high.He's a little guy.
Actually, everyone ends up being 'little' in Ironclaw.
Looking at the various sample character sheets, you can see that 15 hands high is tall, and smaller people of 6 hands high (and less, for Natalia) is not uncommon.And as for flaws, I'll have to look at them. Although Natalia's actions and manners suggest at least two (or one interrelated one) right off the bat.
UltraFennec |
I just have a bit of trouble taking an entire world of people who average halfling size seriously. It's irrational, but it's there. Thus why I tend to avoid the measurements, or put down ones that are more human-sized. I did the same thing reading Redwall books. Having one character be nearly an order of magnitude smaller/larger than another creates a huge cognitive dissonance for me for whatever odd reason.
*shrugs* It's not like it impacts the game all that much, and as long as I try not to specifically describe things in ways at odds with character descriptions.
Natalia Ivanova |
As to Deloy's last post, Natalia isn't wearing Dunwasser's robe currently. She's opted for armor and a dress (since the benifit of wearing the robes is a higher level Gift she doesn't have yet).
She does carry her dioptera and a wand, though. Definately the marks of a Dunwasser elementalist.
Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
Just so I don't screw up farther, what doe Messer mean?
Sorry, I keep tossing languages in. It's meant to be a flavor-thing, not a 'what the f*&~ are you saying?' thing, so I hope most of it is fairly easy to read from context. I'm sort of operating under the assumption that the Avoirdupois more-or-less speak French, general Calabrese ("the common tongue") is English, and UF pointed up the idea of the Reynaldi (and by default, Triskellian) as Italian.
"One of the learned class of scholars, lawyers or notaries may go by messer, while an artisan may be maestro or maestra. A degreed scholar is a dottore or dottora."
Posted more medieval italiano stuff earlier in the thread here.
Delroy Callidus |
I figured it was analogous to 'Mister' via context, but I'd rather be 100% certain before commiting to a post. Then I end up handling it in a way that makes the knowledge a moot point for the time being. :P
So, yes, we can call Delroy Messer once he's completed this assignment. As a commoner, he feels he must earn his title.