Price of Immortality

Game Master Birch33

Now on part three of a three part campaign for 1st-Level characters (who are now at 6th-Level)


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Here is the place to post questions and general chat. Anything here is definitely out of character.


What does "Feats - Two" mean?


As Black Tom stated in recruitment, I am guessing these are traits, not feats, but you never know - GM might be feeling very generous today ;-)


Male Half-Orc | 12/12 HP Healthy | AC13 F10 T13 | Spd 30 | Bluff & Sense Motive +8 | Acro & Stealth +7 Brawler (Snakebite Striker) 1 | VMC Sorc (Impossible) | Init +7 | Darkvision | Perc +6 | F+3 R+5 W+2 | CMB/D +1/+3

Alright! Who wants to save Kassen?! I'm good with any class, but if I'm a caster would prefer to craft as well.

Also good with multi-classing and being the backup for a roll or two. If you're into American football, I'm the Free Safety.


Naaah, no arcane types for me this time, thank you. But looking at the product page which Thanos Maximo graciously linked (thanks), it sounds like priest or even inquisitor of Pharasma would fit well. Probably not mechanically, but story wise sounds intriguing...I like the sound of that, let me think on it a bit.


Mihajlo Velickovic wrote:
As Black Tom stated in recruitment, I am guessing these are traits, not feats, but you never know - GM might be feeling very generous today ;-)

Good spot - two traits is correct.


Mihajlo Velickovic wrote:
Naaah, no arcane types for me this time, thank you. But looking at the product page which Thanos Maximo graciously linked (thanks), it sounds like priest or even inquisitor of Pharasma would fit well. Probably not mechanically, but story wise sounds intriguing...I like the sound of that, let me think on it a bit.

If you check out Campaign Info, I have linked a PDF for people wanting some more information without stumbling along too many spoilers.


Would a dwarf from the nearby Citadel of Kraggodan work or should we have been born and raised in Kassen?


LurkingTyranny wrote:
Would a dwarf from the nearby Citadel of Kraggodan work or should we have been born and raised in Kassen?

You don't have to be born and raised, but it makes sense if you've been there at least a short while. On that basis, the dwarf would work fine.


when I have played on the boards before I have always been martial types or clerics, I would like to take a swing at an arcane caster for this one.

I have an idea for a witch who hails from the Vargidan family. He is the outlier, born without sorcerous talent in a family of sorcerors, he felt like a freak. That is until his familiar showed up to show him the path to true power and how he could far exceed the constraints of his ecclectic family.

I will stat something up and post this afternoon.


A question...
I'm playing Crypt of the Everflame right now, though at least one player has apparently vanished and that put a slow down on it. Does this disqualify me? I don't think we've gotten far, and I can play dumb like you wouldn't believe ;)

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I think I'd like to play a dwarven character, too. Not sure what niche I'd want to fill, but I generally play martial and divine characters. So maybe an arcane-ish character?

I think I'll wait a little for people to chime in with their ideas before I settle on anything permanently. :)


@seranov, feel free to take the aracanist role, I have a background idea above that you could swipe, as I am going to go in a different direction.

I am working on a Bear Shaman Druid who has trained with Olmira. A grizzly sized man who is a teddy bear on the inside. I will share more later.

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I have a vague idea for an dwarf alchemist based off one of my PFS characters (who is a tiefling born to dwarven parents) that I might want to give a shot.

Tough choices, y'know!


Garth voice from Wayne's World
I like to play. *ting*

Anyways, I like playing the cleric type... but fighting has a simply beauty which can't be denied. Magic is fun, but there's usually a lot to keep track of.

Cleric, Oracle of Life, Switch-Hitting Ranger (no not like that!), or Barbarian. Those are the classes I want to play.

The GM mentioned he likes lots of posts and lots of banter, which is the spice of the pbp life (imo). If I ask you guys a personal question, will you answer it?

What sort of posting rate are you hoping/planning to achieve, fellow applicants? I can usually do around 2 - 5 a day. That number fluctuates, but it's usually right in there. We could have a group of people who are always checking and just have an super-charged pbp game. That would be so tinsel!

I do GM two pbp games, and I used to be in like 4 pbp as a PC, but they've all gone the way of all the earth.


My first concept is a ranger using the skirmisher and wild stalker archetypes. The way the alternate class abilities progress reflects my idea of how the character evolves, gradually becoming a cagey fighter relying on grit and wile.

I realize the fluff attached to the wild stalker suggests an anti-social type, but I want to play the character as an outsider - he's a half-elf that doesn't identify with either side of his heritage. He's a little prickly, but not a bad guy.


2-5 posts per day is also ideal for me, but (as you said) it fluctuates... though there are rarely days when I'm unable to post at least twice.

How about posting schedule? I'm in the western US (UTC-7 at the moment), and usually check in the morning and throughout the day, with a break for dinner in the evening and sleep at night. I love it when a few people are on at once, and there's a semi-synchronous "back-and-forth" for a bit, even if it's in the Discussion thread.

I'm looking at playing a bard at the moment, but we'll see... someone else already mentioned that they might bring a bard, and I'm not looking to step on any toes.

Edit: also, hi Seranov. ;)

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I'm in a handful of PbP games right now, which I am very much having fun in, and I post a good two to three times a day in them when they are active, though I'm totally down for more than that if the thread is hopping.

I am currently going to school twice a week, and am unemployed. In the coming months, however, I will be starting a new job, which may keep me busy in the afternoons, but as I'm something of a night owl, I can still keep up.

And hi, Oladon.


Per campaign, I can post at least once a day, but I've done as many as 3. Heck, for a time, my gnome in a Skull and Shackles campaign wouldn't shut up :)

My own concepts for this one are, in no particular order...

A half orc fighter who may or may not be related to Grimscar but is obviously of much better disposition. He seeks to prove himself to the townsfolk, most likely befriended Golfond, and may or may not be among the young guards in training depending on how well received he's been by Guard Captain Wisslo. If Wisslo treats him the same as anyone else (Much like he already does for Golfond) then the young fighter would NOT mock him behind is back. Whether related or not, He really resents how Grimscar biases townsfolk against the orc blooded.

A human wizard, a local lad who is deeply smitten with a girl of the Vargidan family. In fact, when he overheard that the family preferred to marry 'other magic types' (Doesn't matter if it is true or not), he immeditely went and apprenticed himself to the local wizard Holgast. Naturally, he's gotten a bit frustrated with his tutor, but he has a lady to impress, and besides, he's starting to like magic for its own sake. I'm thinking possible evoker.

EDIT: I Should add, if folks want a relative or relation, I certainly don't mind making a character who is kin to them.


@Ridge, I have a dream of playing a half-orc Ranger (switch-hitter build). Maybe there could be some pre-existing relationship there. Like the same tribe or the same mother or father... either of those would be a trip!


posting a couple times a day will be no problem for me. I have a very flexible job with a lot of down time during the day. Being in Minneapolis, I will be a little ahead of @Oladon.

Expanding on my Bear Shaman, he will be a son of one of the woodcutters on Grimscar's crew. He got on Grimscar's bad side when he refused to join the woodcutting crew, being a mountain of a man like his father. He is participating in the lighting ceremony to try and smooth over his relations with his dad, who doesn't understand his 'tree-hugging' ways.


@Mug, If it's cool with the DM (And we both make it) it would be quite cool with me

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I was thinking about giving a Diviner a try. You know, winning initiative, laying down a few control spells, and giving the party a much better chance of success.


Sounds intriguing... I don't believe I've ever played in a group with a Diviner.

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Oladon wrote:
Sounds intriguing... I don't believe I've ever played in a group with a Diviner.

Best thing about it, to be a "good diviner" you really need just a handful of feats, leaving you free to adapt your build to suit the party needs. Party needs more front line fighters? Go down the summoning line (Augment Summoning and so on). Party needs more stopping power? Take the right metamagic feats and go blaster route. More control? Well tons of options here, that's a given.

The key is, whatever the party needs, the party gets in the very first round of combat, starting from lvl 1 ("Enlarged" fighter with reach, I'm looking at you!).


Ridge wrote:

A question...

I'm playing Crypt of the Everflame right now, though at least one player has apparently vanished and that put a slow down on it. Does this disqualify me? I don't think we've gotten far, and I can play dumb like you wouldn't believe ;)

Thanks for the honesty and I won't hold it against your submission. In truth anyone could find spoilers at any time, so I will take all applicants in good faith.


At the moment I am leaning towards an outcast dwarf monk (either Ki Mystic or Master of Many Styles) who lives in Kassen. Either that, or a human hospitaller paladain.

PS - out of curiosity, where are you getting all this background about Kassen from?


Ridge wrote:
@Mug, If it's cool with the DM (And we both make it) it would be quite cool with me

It's cool with me.


GM Birch wrote:

Thanks for the honesty and I won't hold it against your submission. In truth anyone could find spoilers at any time, so I will take all applicants in good faith.

Thanks! I'll get to work on my half orc fighter right away then and chat with Mug about options.

Not sure if this or the recruitment thread is the best place, but you asked about which alias might best reflect a style. While the campaign has currently hit a major stall (GM health trouble) , Xanxan in DMJ's Skull and Shackles campaign has probably been a favorite game of mine. You could check out some of RP/writing style there.

Mind you, the half orc would be a much different personality from a somewhat manic vengeance plagued gnomish ball of whimsy.


I forgot to mention that I'm also happy to serve as a repository for rules references and support.


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Hey guys, noting my interest. I see a few arcane type ideas posted already and I was hoping to get on as a sorcerer, basic blaster type, so I hope I'm not stepping on any toes. I'm in several pbp's so I won't feel too bummed out if I'm rejected (I believe the oldest one running now is ProfPotts Legacy of Fire where I play Bahram Zarishu, an air elementalist wizard since 2008 and DM Barcas's Kingmaker Campaign where I play General Berrin Myrdal, running since January 2011, now on chapter two.) but I've wanted to give the crypt a run for some time now.

I'm in GMT +0 and can post several times a day barring work overload.

Basic concept; male human sorcerer (CN).

Now I'm going to go read the handout.

Edit; I'm also fairly savy with the rules. If I don't know it, I know where to look.


CN, huh... how do you see that working out in a party setting?

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So looking at it again, I think I am very much considering playing Savren. In his more pure-blooded dwarven form, he's going to be an Alchemist with the Chirurgeon archetype. I am going to play him as a sort of dwarven doctor.

He will be Lawful Neutral (leaning neutral and good, as any good doctor should!), and a devout follower of Kols, the Oathkeeper. He holds his oath to "do no harm" only to mean his patients. When it comes to the undead, bandits or others that have openly done wrong, his bedside manner leaves much to be desired!

...Yeah, I'm playing this guy. This is too much fun to consider. Now how to explain why a doctor has explosives... ;)


... why does anyone have explosives?

Spoiler:
For fun, of course!

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It's dwarf, ain't gotta explain rocks!

I figure Savren Redforge will be sort of a friend of the town's dwarven blacksmith, Braggar Ironhame, offering to patch him up after he tears his smithy to pieces every now and then, and maybe learning a little blacksmithing here or there.

Yes, I can work with this.


GM Birch wrote:
Ridge wrote:
@Mug, If it's cool with the DM (And we both make it) it would be quite cool with me
It's cool with me.

Thanks GM. Got some fun ideas cooking.


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... I'm not sure I understand the question but let me try...

I see alignment as a representation, a guideline, to the characters personality, not a rule set to force a certain behavior. If I was a disruptive player then it wouldn't matter if I pasted lawful good or chaotic evil onto the character sheet, if I meant to be disruptive, I'd be disruptive, but I'm not a disruptive player.

I see chaotic character as ruled by their emotions, lacking in discipline and driven by what they find interesting. They might stay up late, sleep till noon and nap before supper. They might take slights more personally than a lawful character and they might ignore them altogether depending on weather or not they though the person giving the slight was worth the time of day or if they were paying attention in the first place. They might fall asleep over a book they found boring, skip classes they find stupid and avoid people they find unpleasant turning around to ace subjects that make them tick and smother people that make them laugh.

Neutral on the good/evil axis represents to me the majority of the human population now living on earth. We don't want to see people suffer needlessly though we might not go out of our way to relieve their pain, we might want peace and happiness for mankind but are more concerned with our own needs on a daily basis. We want those around us to feel safe and secure, fulfilled in their chosen paths, but we're more concerned about ourselves. We're not villains but we're not Samaritans either, we're just human.

So a CN character might best be described as a severe case of AD/HD person, he may have trouble sitting still and staying focused but that doesn't make him a bad person or a shitty friend.

In a party setting such a person would still stick with his friends (we're all friends right) and protect his home (fist glance at the handout I'm thinking a local boy from the Vargidan family). He'd suffer through planning and fulfill his role though he might grumble about it or faze out occasionally, but then he might charge in where he thought it appropriate.

In short; don't worry, I'm a team player.


I put the sheet for my half orc fighter in the recruitment thread. Grobadon may still need some tweaks, and I didn't mention his half brother by name in it because I wanted to make sure it was cool with mug before I finalized it, but I think I got the important stuff.

:)


Having finally gotten a chance to read through the background material, I see my character, named Sheoren, as a sometime pupil of Arnama. She's not the best teacher and he's not the greatest student, but he's headstrong enough to believe he can wing it.

I'll have a character sheet up later on.


Male to kill the six fingered man Duelist/20 years

I've got a few concepts for Clerics and Oracles I want to try out if no one has filled the roll yet.

If that niche is filled then maybe I will go with a pure archer.


I just posted my Human Rogue. He is a nephew to Colbin Vetnar, much to his annoyance. He considers himself the greatest swordsman, sneak, and gambler in the world, as well as the greatest liar.

@ridge, I tied Grobadon in to his background as someone he spars with to keep his swordarm from getting rusty.


wolfheart wrote:

@ridge, I tied Grobadon in to his background as someone he spars with to keep his swordarm from getting rusty.

Sounds fine to me :) A certain fighter could use some friends...

and the occasional drink


Male Half-Orc | 12/12 HP Healthy | AC13 F10 T13 | Spd 30 | Bluff & Sense Motive +8 | Acro & Stealth +7 Brawler (Snakebite Striker) 1 | VMC Sorc (Impossible) | Init +7 | Darkvision | Perc +6 | F+3 R+5 W+2 | CMB/D +1/+3

Halfling Barbarian with a love for travel, visiting his cousin Jimes “Short Change” Iggins. Kassen seemed like a nice place, so he decided to stay a while.

Possibly a driver, working in logging... handles the animals and gets into tighter places no one else can. Or perhaps works with Braggar Ironhame, a fellow barbarian.

Possibly multi-classing into Rogue or Ranger... or something completely different, depending on how we progress.


Sigz wrote:
In short; don't worry, I'm a team player.

That works. I couldn't exactly come out and ask it like that, and expect a dependable answer. :)


If he said he wasn't a team player, could you have trusted that answer? ooooohhh, deep. ;)

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody's around, do the animals living inside it make a sound when they scream?

...ok, that was a weird one.


Mug wrote:

If he said he wasn't a team player, could you have trusted that answer? ooooohhh, deep. ;)

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody's around, do the animals living inside it make a sound when they scream?

...ok, that was a weird one.

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Male Half-Orc | 12/12 HP Healthy | AC13 F10 T13 | Spd 30 | Bluff & Sense Motive +8 | Acro & Stealth +7 Brawler (Snakebite Striker) 1 | VMC Sorc (Impossible) | Init +7 | Darkvision | Perc +6 | F+3 R+5 W+2 | CMB/D +1/+3

Zen Koan - What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? (swiss type cheese I presume).

OK, barbarian halfling (name being considered) might be fleet footed (move 40') and have a pony. Might be faster than the pony.

But, no worry to my half-orc brothers, he's not STR based. DEX, CHA and INT. 10, 19, 12, 14, 8, 16 if I got the numbers right.

@DM Birch - Is Dervish Dance a valid feat, if prerequisites are met? It'll put a little punch behind the 1d4 Scimitar!


Male Human Husband/1(53 years), Father/2, Grandfather/2

I have a couple of questions.

1) 25 point buy. That is the standard point buy so humans get an extra +2 to one ability, right?

2) Are multi-class characters allowed. I have been working on a character concept that is a cleric-monk. He starts off as a cleric of Irori, takes a level of monk, then cleric all the way.

-- david


Male Half-Orc | 12/12 HP Healthy | AC13 F10 T13 | Spd 30 | Bluff & Sense Motive +8 | Acro & Stealth +7 Brawler (Snakebite Striker) 1 | VMC Sorc (Impossible) | Init +7 | Darkvision | Perc +6 | F+3 R+5 W+2 | CMB/D +1/+3

@Papa - 1) Point Buy, yes.

2) Multi-class should be OK, though seems DM doesn't want folks in conflict over roles/tasks. I'd suggest focus on Cleric, maybe with mention of a brother/sister monastic order... Setting up the future multi-classing.

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