Zelrim Windsinger |
All aboard the crazy train, full speed ahead!
Also, my dice rolls, for the newly created Ice Elf.
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) = 15
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 6, 2, 4) = 22
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 1, 6, 3) = 17
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 6, 5, 5) = 22
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 2, 4, 3) = 16
Stat: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 3, 2, 1) = 14
So a 12,16,15,16,13, and 11. Looks like the point buy for me. :(
Ictaiojh'Oc'Xylthixr |
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So I'm enjoying this game, I only have one problem. I feel like the lore is so expansive that I feel a little lost.
Tides, would we be able to eventually get a world gazetteer? For now I will go back and read older posts, but having one big doc could help.
Also I'm going to do a bit more in terms of world building, I'm going to send you a pm tonight or tomorrow with some ideas I'd like to pitch for both my characters.
DM Tides of the Accord |
I can give you what I've put together so far, which is about 23 pages and keep working to flesh it out.
Some of the stuff I'm using for Zelrim's section is contained in old notes to myself that might not be very understandable to someone else. I can try to pick out some of the more coherent sections.
Some of it I'm making up as I get inspiration.
DM Tides of the Accord |
And, just to be clear, I have no problem with writing stuff up -- just tell me what kinds of things you want. I can work on it over the next week or so to get something serviceable in place.
One issue is that I have tons of stuff written up that just isn't going to be that important for this story, but it is very detailed -- I explained this to Zelrim via PM.
Some of the lore in his story about the surface world isn't really going to come up. I could tell you a bunch of details about the history of the Dragon Teacher Empire of the Kravaeans, the ensuing Imperial Schism, the conflicts between the Ottovolari Paraparousian Empire and the Warlock Gods of the Icehammer Glacier, the schemes of the Hidden Empire of the Skerrick and a bunch of other stuff, but I doubt it will be very relevant, even if your characters end up visiting the surface for a brief period at some point...
Satazia Zemrita |
5d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 6, 1, 4) = 16 14
5d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 6, 2, 4) = 21 15
5d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 5, 5, 6) = 25 17
5d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 1, 5, 2) = 20 17
5d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 5, 4, 5) = 26 17
5d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 4, 1, 3) = 14 10
Hmm once more the dice gods love me. This is slightly less point than Satazia had but looks like the ice elf is gonna be a badass.
DM Tides of the Accord |
Updated the gazette again with history and cosmology details.
I'm going to try to write up sections on the Devonorian Empire, the Gorh'Tonh Legions, and Merceria for right now.
@Satazia, Zelrim is already mostly done with his twin, how is yours coming?
Does anyone have questions/comments about what setting info they need more detail on after looking at the file I have going so far?
Zelrim Windsinger |
To be fair, I'm a college student who just got off spring break. I had a lot of free time to sort my stuff out :D
DM Tides of the Accord |
Friends,
I appreciate all of your participation and I enjoy our group -- I enjoy making up the material for this campaign, but I'm starting to wonder if we're hitting a snag with that element, especially since we've already had some attrition.
I'm perfectly willing to keep going, but I do want to throw out the possibility I could run a different campaign in an established TSR world depending on how people feel -- if they like my DM style but are finding the set up for the present campaign challenging.
I also had an idea that we could move the current characters over to an established setting and recruit a few more players.
Does anyone like Dark Sun, Known World, Mystara, or Scarred Lands? I'd like to run one of those.
DM Tides of the Accord |
Thanks for the link -- I've also seen this another link which updates the Athas.org file, does anyone have any opinions of which is better (they look like different attempts to do a PF conversion?)
DM Tides of the Accord |
Sounds like there's a least some interest -- my idea was that the characters would all be hurled through a portal that would modify them to a Dark Sun compatible role -- either adding templates or tech or converting to a comparable race etc.
I'd also want this group to join a native Athasian group -- we'd need some time to convert characters anyway, so I'd open a new recruitment and try to get like 3-4 more players.
DM Tides of the Accord |
I don't mind which, I just don't want to upset anyone and make it seem like I'm throwing your characters in the trash can. If you want to make up new characters and join me in a new campaign, I'm down with that.
My current thought is a Legacy of Fire campaign with stuff from converted second edition sources like Black Spine and the Necromancer City of Brass for the final part.
I'd still be adding stuff/converting stuff, but I think the existing setting material may make it easier.
Zalona |
I'm good with new characters in a new setting; not upset by changing things up.
If we go Dark Sun, I have played the Bodizhen rules (Hrungnir's link), but haven't looked at the other ruleset.
Legacy of Fire also sounds good. I've never played it, so it would be a new and interesting challenge.
My only concern is making sure we know the rules for our characters and the setting ahead of time, so we don't have to rebuild them several times as new things are revealed. So, just tell us whatever you want the rules to be...
Original rolls, or the option of rolling again? Still Gestalt? What races/classes are you open to?
Setting Katapesh? Anything we need to know from Black Spine and the Necromancer city ahead of time? (If we need to do research, do you have links to your favored source material?)
DM Tides of the Accord |
I was going to basically allow anything as long as there's an effort to fit it into Dark Sun.
I like the conversion but I'm sad that there are no Pterrans or Aaracockra -- I'd need to find an equivalent b/c this busts up the power level so much, the races are like X2 RP as the normal Pathfinder races.
I was going to basically use the same rules we've been using for Gestalt , wound points, revised action economy, etc. I'll get a list of everything in the recruitment thread.
For setting -- Katapesh will become Tyr or one of the other Tableland cities -- any particular one that you think might work best?
I don't think you'd need to know anything about the Black Spine campaign ahead of time, or the Necromancer version of the City of Brass.
I really like 2e Dark Sun with all the new races and beyond the table lands areas. That's the version of the setting I'd be using (and also the one I own all the material for). So, the Dragon is dead, as is Kalak, etc.
I haven't heard from Zelrim or Itcaoijh yet, and I want to hear before I make any decisions. If they're down for it I'm going to open a new recruitment thread and see if we can get another couple of players.
Zelrim Windsinger |
Sorry about that everyone, I've been moving stuff. My apartment burned down, so between moving all my sstuff and trying to accomplish homework. I'll happily sort characters out when I can.
Zalona |
Once everyone is moved over, do you mind closing this and the other Tides of the Accord thread? It's okay if you don't want to, but I'd rather just have the one live one to follow on my gameplay tab.
Hrungnir |
Sorry about that everyone, I've been moving stuff. My apartment burned down, so between moving all my sstuff and trying to accomplish homework. I'll happily sort characters out when I can.
That’s rough! Ouch.
Ictaiojh'Oc'Xylthixr |
Oooof sorry to hear it zel, glad you're not hurt.
It's a shame we're not doing an underwater adventure, I was kinda hoping we could just play our characters in a game that had an ocean. I'm really partial to forgotten realms. I'm not sure if I want to do a dark sun game and it kinda sucks that my answer was assumed to be yes when I was a sleep, don't really appreciate that but f*@~ it I guess.
Zanbabe |
Probably depends on how he does it. We never got into any group stuff in the old game, so there was no crowd burden. If he allows more, just means that yeah... we can split up at will. If he is willing to manage it all, I am not against it.
Zalona |
If you guys are going to leave this up for discussion, that is totally cool, but could you maybe move Zalona over to the not-playing-anymore area under the characters tab (however you do that) so that it doesn't show up on my gameplay tab anymore?
Normally I would just wait, and I apologize for the extra bit of work, but this game takes up a lot of real estate with all the extra links, so I'd rather not wait however many months it takes for it to time out.