Hello, everyone, and welcome to the discussion thread for our upcoming adventure. Once everyone has checked in and finalized their characters, we'll get rolling.
About Your Party
Ok, you've got a weird-looking party. But that's kind of awesome. It will create some challenges as you don't have a traditional face or frontline martial character, but hopefully we can also create some memorable moments through your "oddity."
Kinota has already expressed that she's willing to make the switch to Sorcerer, which is helpful for filling the "Face" role, but if anyone else wants to switch things up to differentiate themselves from a fellow party member, let us know as soon as possible.
Finalizing Your Character
When you think your character is ready for review, please let me know by posting in the thread or, if you use Hero Lab, please send me your .por file via a Dropbox (or some other file-sharing service) through a PM.
1. Level 3 Character, 20-point buy.
2. 3,000 Starting Gold. Characters should spend no more than half their total wealth on any single item.
3. Core Races only. Alternate racial traits and archetypes from the Advanced Race Guide are allowed.
4. All Paizo-created classes and archetypes are allowed (Core, APG, UM, UC).
5. Two traits - both can't be of the same type.
How We'll Play
Having never run a PBP before, I've tried to look at best practices from others. Based on that "research," here's how'd I'd like to run this game:
1. Combat: Let's go ahead and start with "true" initiative. If we find it slows things down too much, we can switch to a group initiative or some variation thereof. Also, I'll be hosting the battle maps via a public link on Dropbox unless a majority of you have issues accessing Dropbox.com from your primary computer.
2. Roles with Rolls: If you want to take an action as a character, go ahead and roll the dice with your proposed action. I may not always need the dice roll, but it will help speed things up if I don't ask for it.
3. Loot: In my tabletop games, a player typically volunteers to track the loot for the game. Can we have someone volunteer for that role for this game?
I've noticed that some players have their stats below their character's name - can someone share how to do that? I'd like to have the following:
Class || HP X/X || AC XX, T XX, FF XX, CMD XX || F +X, R +X, W +X || Per. +X, Init +X
If there's anything I've left out that you've seen work well in other games, please let me know.
Thanks, everyone. I can't wait to get started!
Sticking with the witch. Hope we don't need to make nice.
I like the scarred witch doctor archetype a lot, so I think that's fine.
I'm down to tweak my build some, but I still wouldn't be a very good face character, though come level 4 and beyond I can fill that primary melee role easily. But it's up to the group whatever helps us be the best team.
Checking in. I need to check and see that I have not breached the 3000GP mark based on acquisitions from a previous game.
Anything that you place in the Classes/Levels Box on the Profile sheet after hittingg Edit Profile appears in the by-line.
I'm having trouble editing my profile right now, but Khalil I think could step in and be an okay face character. I'll keep the Charming trait and drop birthmark. Then I'll switch a feat from Deft Hands to Persuasive. Both of those can do a bit to make up for only having a +1 CHA bonus at least when it comes to Diplomacy. I might also just dump a couple more ranks into Diplomacy rather than the one of the other skills that others may already have higher.
Checking in. Boards are slow and unpredictable today, at least for me.
Geez. The boards are wonky. Check in as you can. Looking forward to getting started!
Yeah, I like the scarred witch doctor a lot. Added my stats to my line and almost cried at my AC.
Then I remembered I am a back-row caster, I have Mage Armor, and almost as many hit points at this level as the last barbarian I played. So I'm hoping that evens it out.
Just for the record I feel pretty confident that I can be a reasonable tank. AC is 20 before Barkskin and with a single buff my club is 2d6+5.
Checking In.
The stats after the name are simply set by filling in the Class/Level field.
GM Evo, Khalil is updated and ready to go unless you notice something out of whack.
@Khalil and anyone else with HeroLab - can you post a link to your .por file from Dropbox?
GM Evo, Sorry I actually don't have HeroLab, I just like the way the format for the character sheet info looks. I just format it the same way when typing it into the forum profile.
Ah. Gotcha. No worries - you just did such a perfect job recreating it!
Did I ever say what to do about HP? I don't think I did, but let's do roll or average, but you have to choose before taking the higher one.
All set here
Ok. I installed dropbox and am learning about it. Do you want the .POR file?
And for HP, is it max at first level and then average rounded up? That is pretty standard, and is what I would recommend.
Here's my HP roll:
If we go with max at first level, I'd ask to drop the 2 from this group. :)
Total HP is 13.
oops ... that's what i did.
Should've waited for directions, I guess.
Having trouble with dropbox
Me too...character was used before under those rules.
I'll take the average.
I'll track the loot.
Loot Table is ready
I know we haven't started yet, and I know we haven't had any encounters, but still I check the loot table to see if there's anything good. Sigh.
Like it...thanks Gorag!
@GM Evo: I was over 3,000 GP. I dumped a couple of Magic Items. that should finiosh him off and have Filios ready to roll.
Really excited to begin, can't wait to adventure with you all.
@GM Evo: Would you consider opening the Game Thread so that we could placemark it so that the Discussion Thread is easier to acccess from the Campaign tab?
Hey everyone - sorry for the delay. The Paizo site has been something of a frustrating beast for me of late. I'll open the tab now, and post the opening of the game tomorrow or Wednesday.
Cheers and Happy Christmas, everyone!
Ping...Ping!
Ping
Ready to start here...
I think our GM has retired.
Bummer...I was looking forward to this one. I will PM Evo.
Has he answered your PM?
Nope...nothing.
I hope this gets resurrected and soon. Someone please PM me if so. I find it amazing how often a DM will request significant effort on the player's part to apply for a game and then just drop the game in its infancy. Disappointing.
@GM EVO: If you are not going to move forward, please delete the PbP from the threads. Thanks.
If any of you are interested in a 4th Level Evil PbP, please take a look at the thread entitled "Blood Knives". We lost some players and are at a holding point for internal recruitment of a few more.