Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition
Game Master Tierce

Against my better judgement, the gods of Golarion are demanding tribute, and I have decided that the tribute will be in the form of a pbp campaign. Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition!

This will be a heavy RP campaign and as a result, the minimum posting requirement is lower then most campaigns. Posting will be at a minimum of three times a week and must have at least a paragraph. This also means that extensive character backgrounds are a must.

Crunchy Bits
20 point buy - only one dump stat and no stat higher then 18 (even after racial modifers)
HP: Max at level one, average on following
Traits: Two, one from the Player's guide for the campaign
Equipment: Average starting gold
Content: All Pathfinder Material, no 3PP
Races: Any, except for the race builder
Classes: Any
Party Roles: Will go by treantmonk's concept of party roles, combat healers are out, controller arcane classes and skill monkies are a must

Recruitment will be open for two weeks for time to write backgrounds. 4 or 5 Players will be chosen.

Good Luck

Dotting

DOT! I have been so looking forward to playing this scenario.

I'm interested too!

I'm thinking of either a dwarf deep earth sorcerer or a ratfolk rogue.

I plan to submit James, son of John, a fairly simple family man and Sandpoint native smith who takes up a hammer during the goblin raid amd never has the chance to put it back down. He'll be the reluctant adventurer type, who truly wishes to simply return to his wife and son, but whose powerful conscience and overdeveloped sense of community would never allow him to turn away if he thinks he can still help his friends and neighbors.

Mechanically I think I'll make him a human fighter, two-hander archetype. He'll be fairly simple in tactics but not stupid or foolish. A man with a huge hammer and a wish to keep his town, family and friends safe, and stay alive until he can return to them.

Got a skill monkey rogue for ya. Backstory needs to be fixed though

Dot for interest

I am absolutely interested!! I have a Halfling Rogue who I had played in a RotRL games that never got very far. Would love to revise him.

For consideration - Talon Eldercourt, rapier wielding skill monkey rogue extraordinaire.

Was in another RotRL that died just as it got started. Looking for a new home.

@Ryuko - are you married to the idea of a human? Blacksmith who takes up his hammer really says dwarf to me, and the foehammer archtype from the ARG would be pretty good for that

I considered that too but... I dunno. I'm envisioning him as an everyman sort which makes human better to me. I suppose I could play him as a dwarf though I don't think I'd take the foehammer type. I'm making him less a "trained fighter" and more a "tough man who picks up tricks as he goes". Starting feats are Power Attack (He's a big guy who's not well trained), Toughness (Gotta be tough to work in a forge) and Iron Will (He's got something more than gold and glory to fight for). I suppose he could work with another race but human is how I imagine him.

stick with what you imagine, was just offering an idea

As a follow up, added an AP feat, city Born, Magnimar. Will look at the details some more, may make minor tweaks. Am open to suggestions and direction in order to see him gel with the party and understand the desire for deep roel play, that is something I am looking for.

I am thinking about an Aasimar Cleric of Shelyn, who travels to Sandpoint to check out the new temple there. Not a Dudly Dooright...he's seen some things, but still a paragon of goodness. I'll hero lab up something, then post with background to follow.

Abraham Silver

putting out a witch, role, arcane control, knowledge monkey :p could easily do combat healer as well.

Dotting. I have some of the original AP books, so I know a bit about the campaign, but I'd love to play the anniversary. Not sure what I'll show up with.

would like to submit Noro

friend of Talon Eldercourt.

Hi Talon

will need to update character crunch some but the rest should be there

Since there was a rush of skill-monkey rogues early on, I'm gonna go with dwarf deep earth sorcerer.

One question for GM Tierce:

There's an alternate racial ability for dwarves called Stonesinger:

"Some dwarves' affinity with the earth grants them greater powers. Dwarves with this racial trait are treated as 1 level higher when casting spells with the earth descriptor or using granted powers of the Earth domain, the bloodline powers of the earth elemental bloodline, and revelations of the oracle's stone mystery. This ability does not give the dwarf early access to level-based powers; it only affects powers the dwarf could use without this ability. This racial trait replaces the stonecunning racial trait."

Would you allow that it would work with the deep earth sorcerer bloodline as well?

I'd love to tag along with a Half-Elf Wild Caller, Summoner. He himself would end up as a buffer with some debuffs as well, while the Eidolon would obviously be a BSF, possibly with some single target control via grappling.

He'd be a bit of a knowledge monkey but I also intend to have him put his high charisma by grabbing some face skills.

I'll get the full crunch and background done a little later.

@Zack - Unfortunatly you would have to use the abiltiy as intended so you would have to go with just plain old earth, which is still a great controlling bloodline

@Zack - Unfortunatly you would have to use the abiltiy as intended so you would have to go with just plain old earth, which is still a great controlling bloodline

Earth elemental bloodline it is, then

I'll have at least the crunch ready soon.

crunch is in profile, will update fluff for this campaign.

Herrrrrrrrrre's Sard!

Fluff forthcoming.

Noro stats updated for this game

Also should note goblins are sort of out as a race, unless of course you come up with a great reason for being in Sandpoint and not one of the "bad guys"

FW checking in to dot the thread and wave a very interested flag on this game. I have joined a couple of now defunct games of this in the past but we never made it very far into the first encounters.

I'll take that time but I'm looking at a support bard. Probably a Varisian gypsy smart and a natural adventurer. I have played a dwarven one before but the reputation of RotRL makes me keener to make a more optimised spellcaster.

Cheers

I submit a Varisian Rogue: Zelladania. I will finish up her background after dinner.

Once fluffs are finished I will be sending each person some notes on them. So stay tuned for those PM's over the next two weeks

Here is a draft, let me know if anything you like or dislike and I'll fix.

hoo boy. Am I too late?

heck no, recruitment is open for 2 weeks, loads of time

In that case, sweet! I'll throw my hat in the ring. We've a lot of submissions, but I'd love to play a greedy, craven scoundrel of a rogue or a Korvosan or Elven/Gnomish wizard. I'm open to whatever else, barring a fighter, as I've got two in active pbps right now.

I tend to favour more "clean slate" character backgrounds that don't undercut the AP's plotline too much, or long-lived races that have lived long enough to have whole other lives. The middleground doesnt excite me too much, too many dead family members and revenge pacts. I'll see what i can come up with regardless, but I'll do my best to tie in with the theme of the AP.

Also I can more or less guarantee regular posts. I have a 16 hour week at the moment.

Dotting. I'll apply in a few days if I don't get into the other AP I'm applying for, but it hasn't gone well for me in the past when I've joined more than, so I'm only applying for one at a time at this juncture.

I've got to get him entered into the system here, but the character I would like to submit is a fighter, Rolf "the pacifist", who usually works as a caravan guard. Some "Rolfisms":

"When I call myself a pacifist people look at me funny and then point out the armor I'm wearing and all the weapons I'm carrying. They seem to think that I am lying to them. But nevertheless it is true. I don't like violence. I just happen to be good at it and it pays well."

"Violence usually doesn't solve anything. Unless you're good at it."

"Those who would want me to temporarily abandon my pacifism for mere filthy lucre had better have a lot of filthy lucre."

Rolf will usually use a spiked chain in combat because it gives him advantages when trying to disarm and trip people, thus potentially winning fights without having to kill people. When working as a guard on a caravan that has an established route and visits the same places on a regular basis, one doesn't want to go killing people in bar fights and other assorted minor altercations in towns and inns along the way. That leads to blood feuds and loss of business for the caravan that hired the guard. However, if the caravan gets jumped by raiders/bandits in the middle of nowhere then that's a different sort of problem. The best means of demonstrating the value of pacifism to caravan raiders may very well be to kill them all and let the Gods handle it. At the very least it demonstrates the problems involved with resorting to violence if you're not good at it

Stupid question, but what are the campaign traits for Rise? I know the ones in the APG are supposed to be for it I think, but I also recall something about some of the feats from the PG being traits now..

Hmm...very interested. I'll write up a character and post it soon.

I'll be working on a human female inquisitor of Gorum.

We are shy on combat buffers, so I am thinking of a wizard or a cleric of Desna...I have worked them both up I just need to get a back story together.

I'm not stranger to PBP's at all, I'm just fairly new to playing D20. I have a Half-Orc idea in the mix, someone I'd like see start as a fighter and grow into an eldritch knight. I do tend to enjoy playing healers too, but this idea has been gnawing at me and I really want to play her.

Presenting Dairkal. Still need to finish him off, but is mostly done.

Name: Blixa Gratzuldash
Race: Gnome
Class: Ranger
Favoured Enemy: Humanoid (Goblinoid)

Blixa is missing a few cards from his Harrow deck.
He's spent the better part of his life recently obsessing over ways to kill goblins. It's become an art form. His weapons of choice are "Bowser's Revenge" and "Pokey". "Bowser's Revenge" is a dogslicer that he renamed and repurposed after taking it off a dying goblin. It has a picture of a dog's face growling on one blade face and the other face has a dog lapping up what would be blood from the blade edge. "Pokey" is a light pick that he uses in his offhand. Blixa collects goblin ears, tans them and displays them from a ring on his belt. He has nearly a dozen currently. He usually writes some humourous quip on the ear leather to offend other goblins even more - they love that. The concentration of goblin tribes near Sandpoint led Blixa to use it as a base of operations for his artistry. Blixa's not really certain why he hates goblins so much, certainly all gnomes despise goblins a little, but Blixa's hatred for them is extreme ragekill. He didn't always feel this way towards them, in fact it developed relatively recently a few years back.
Blixa was near a runewell of wrath when it activated and it transformed his normal feelings for goblins to that of a murderous obsessive wrath of them.

Crunch to follow.

Here is Karas "Beast Heart" Milar, a Half-Elven Wild Caller who only recently discovered isn't in fact a full-blooded Shoanti. Crunch is in the alias behind the name.

Dotting. I'll apply in a few days if I don't get into the other AP I'm applying for, but it hasn't gone well for me in the past when I've joined more than, so I'm only applying for one at a time at this juncture.

Glad to see you're still about. It'd be great to get a chance to play together again.

Definite dot, but more thought needed on what character to make. The first thought is this half-orc warrior of light paladin. His origin story doesn't quite get him to ROTR, but it's another couple of paragraphs to get it there.

@monkeygod - The traits are printed in the new RotRL's Anniversary Edition Players guide. If you like I can print them in the thread.

@monkeygod - The traits are printed in the new RotRL's Anniversary Edition Players guide. If you like I can print them in the thread.

That would be great, all I saw were feats under the old one.