All right boys and girls. Setting up for Carrion Crown, so a quick bit of character building stuff.
*15 Pt. Buy
*Almost all Paizo Material allowed (Other Material on a case by case basis)
*3 Traits, one of which must be a Campaign Trait. (Note: I've had a lot of people take Chance Savior so I'll limit it to no more than 2 people taking the same trait.)
*1 Extra Background Feat (Background Feat=Feat that is mostly for Roleplay Purposes. Some are easy to decide, some are not, but for a quick reference, nothing with combat applications. Case-by-case decisions)
*Average Starting Gold
*Note: While not required, a cleric or paladin is... very, very helpful to your survival in the first part of the module. It'll even out to average later, but the first 4 levels are very tough without one.
*No Evil Characters
*2 Background 'Hooks' to fit in later
If I missed anything tell me, I'm very active on here. I also like a good and varied party, so if everyone's going human and it seems a good idea to be a dwarf, gnome or elf... go for it, it'll make me happier.
All right, feel free to throw stuff around.
Updated.
Dropped the spiked chain, went for archer bard.
Flavor feat could be either Noble Scion or Skill focus (Sing). Only have the one combat feat, so... yeah.
Will be working on the history part to reflect the new traits I have selected as well.
As of now I'm thinking vanilla bard, because inspire courage is awesome! And I think archetypes force you to give up too much for next to no return. But, if I hear a compelling argument to the contrary, I am willing to entertain suggestions.
Concept is primarily support. Anca is not intended to be a leader type. I built her to stretch my abilities as a roleplayer to be lawful, and hope by party interaction her cold, distant personality will change.
I can't wait to play with my husband again. Last time we gamed together as PCs was our horribad Serpent Skull game. I very much doubt our PCs will be as entangled as they were in that game, however.
In fact, there's no reason for Anca and Gristle McThornbody to want to socialize at all. *laughs*
"Our gods both understand pain and violence. However, yours is silly. Now sing a song about violence or bring me a drink woman!"
How is that not socializing? :P
Zax (Dorrak from the RotRL game) checking in - stats assigned for this young, naive Paladin. Whipping up back story and other details.
G#$@%@n. Now all I can think of is a pile of Jeff Foxworthy "If you <insert silliness>, you know you're a redneck!" jokes, and This nugget from Bill Hicks
Also, have you played Left 4 Dead 2? I kinda imagine Ellis with smite :P
I'm not such a huge fan of dump stats... not gonna require they get changed, but let me say, you better play that whole 'naive idiot' bit to the hilt or I'm gonna ask you to up one of those at least a point or two.
NP, I'll up them now before we get started.
*slides up to young, naieve paladin*
"Hey there, handsome. Immune to Charm Person yet?"
*laughs*
One of the notes I jotted down during character creation is "completely oblivious to people hitting on him"
Also, have you played Left 4 Dead 2? I kinda imagine Ellis with smite :P
Haven't played it, I sold my consoles and games last year after not touching any of them for over 8 months.
I'm not such a huge fan of dump stats... not gonna require they get changed, but let me say, you better play that whole 'naive idiot' bit to the hilt or I'm gonna ask you to up one of those at least a point or two.NP, I'll up them now before we get started.
To be clear, don't have an issue with one dump stat, just that you had 2 so low. If you'd like to keep one under 10 it's fine.
Ryuko, do i need to work on my plot hooks?
Since I've cheated *tee hee* and read the first book, I kinda see Anca's brother Grigori at the very least as being affiliated with the Whispering Way, and her betrothed as being one of the nobles affiliated with the orchestrator dude who wants to make the Lich juice.
Her dad is cool people, though. He just married a snake that is perverting his children. Believe you me, my intro for Anca in the former game was half spoilered when the GM said "Hey, I want you to narrate what you were doing before you decided to come to the Professor's funeral."
Woo, I thought my campaign had some varied characters. An Ulfen barbarian, a literate half orc, a dwarf, a human male paladin and a human female bard walk into a tavern in a community of roughly 300...
Who is going to be starting the barfights?
*laughs*
Barfight? Where?! BRING IT! GORUM WILLS IT!!
But only if there are worthy opponents. Thrashing on some feeble commoners is the way of cowards.
Also, I am not a barbarian. I am literate in four languages, know how to tend the sick, heal the wounded and... umm... grr... SHUT UP! Oh yeah! Spells! I know magic! SEE!? Telling me I am a barbarian. Where does she get off? I need some alcohol and a willing wench. Gorum.
@Urgma: First time I have heard about Magrim. That must be the most obscure deity I have seen on a character.
@Zax: Interesting choice of weapon. Going to be interesting enlarging you, considering how it works now. 20' reach is not to be underestimated.
Will have bio done by tonight(GMT) sorry for delay.
@Tyrgrim. He's the dwarven god of Death (well it’s a bit more complex than that, but not much). See Dwarves of Golarion. Flavour seemed cool; he decides what tasks dwarven souls must pass to get into the afterlife among other things. The reason I like him is he isn’t a depressing god of death.
It's close to midnight and I spit on your grave! rarrrgh.
Which is as close as I get to silly gods, because that movie was horrible, and I don't know why anyone would remake it.
Can't sleep, introductory post for Carrion Crown will eat me. Or... goblins. Or something.
Hey, Ryuko, if your homie doesn't post a character soon, I will make James Van Der Beek the town sheriff. See if I don't!! GRRRR!!
Okay, after much flip flopping on things I've posted background notes (a bullet list rather than short story about his past) and plot hooks for Zax.
If you want me to put better plot hookage in there I'll get something up this afternoon.
Still have a few things to throw up on the profile page - appearance, equipment, favorite food, etc. but that's coming shortly.
I dunno... while I like throwing in pictures occasionally, I tend to only describe NPCs lightly and allow people to fill them in themselves. I take similar measures when I write fiction, as I've found many people like their own ideas. I did really enjoy the first bit, where the country and its politics were discussed. It seems very... Narrator-esque, which I enjoyed.
They'll be described from here on out. I just kinda wanted to set the visual theme of my game. Monsters are going to be copied from the book if people are interested, because I can't be arsed to go through a bunch of hollywood movies or "thirteen ghosts" to come up with something appropriate.
Oh goodness. Anca's best efforts have already rankled. I cannot wait. :P
One of my favorite parts of PbP DMing is describing monsters from the viewpoint of someone who may not have seen them before, and having people try to figure out what it is. It's very interesting to have the party face... say... a manticore, and have none of them make the check, and have all of them respond in character about what a terrifying and unknowable beast it was, without breaking immersion because many of the players truly don't know what they just faced. I'm also looking forward to the haunts and I feel that by PbP I will be able to do justice to this module where I really couldn't nail down the mood at the gaming table. Horror is tough to do, especially when you're surrounded by friends who go off-topic at a moments notice.
That is an accurate representaion. My college group frequently played while intoxicated, so we often just went with pictures and stat blocks, and husband's group were power/wargamers who thought about XP before anything else.
*shrug*
Is why I fancy PbP, since I've actually become good at building characters instead of stat blocks, I like expressing them.