Dotting.
Can I be both pirate and booty?
Yar.
I assumed you already were.
Awesome. :)
Both Red and I have been interested in this AP for a while but have been having a hard time finding a consistent good DM to run it. As such, we're going to run/play this as a joint venture. Red will be running all the odd numbered books and I'll be running all of the even numbered books.
This system means the dreaded DMPC will rear its ugly head but both Red and I are experienced enough that hopefully this won't be a problem. When Red is DMing, his character will sort of take a step back and basically only do stuff when prompted. When I'm DMing, the same will occur for Bjorkus.
I'm fine with that.
Just tell me what classes you two want to play so I can pick something different. I will be very accommodating to my two DMs. :)
I am in Tark's, but we don't post once a week! I'm in.
Bjorkus was originally planned as a ranger with a bard dip but I wouldn't mind yielding ranger if someone else wants it. Ultimately he's going to melee-face beater of some kind.
Well Bjorkus is a support melee and I'll most likely be melee too. So either a full caster or some kind of range PC.
Oh, and what races are allowed?
And that works, I want to play a caster of some kind. :)
I'd like to stick to core races but as you can see, certain people want to be minotaurs. :)
As long as you run it by me, I'm okay with it. Besides, I trust you Joy.
I'm looking at an oracle of waves. Don't hold me to it though ;)
I think I'll go with a full arcane caster of some kind. Maybe sorceress.
What?! Who wants to be a minotaur?
Oh... that's me.
Core races would be preferred but if I said absolutely nothing else, I'd be a hypocrite. I'm more or less okay with being a hypocrite, but if there's something your character concept is totally married to, run it by Red and I and we can work something out. Ultimately we're going to want to keep races around the 9-10 RP range.
I may do a melee bard instead. Reading up on things now.
Well, I was thinking of a Changeling whose mother was a Sea Hag. Perhaps taking the Aberrant Bloodline to reflect that taint.
Are we expecting any other players? We still seem to be short a divine caster/healer.
Gameplay Thread up for dotting.
We're expecting one more.
Well what would you like to know. You're going to spend a lot of time on a ship, but not entirely.
Well, it's 20 point buy, you all start at level 2, max starting gold. I'll adjust encounters and make up for it later.
Bjorkus will be dipping bard but I may change archetypes depending on what Jman wants to do.
Bjorkus will be dipping bard but I may change archetypes depending on what Jman wants to do.
Go ahead and build how you want. I am clueless as to what I should build. I wins rogues didn't suck.
In that case, Bjorkus is good to go.
Just pick something you want to do, me and Feral are fully flexible and a little indifferent about what to play mechanically.
None right now.
If it comes up in play, we'll be sure to work things out and be flexible because that's what you do.
What he said. Anything in particular you're looking at?
Like we said, nothing comes to mind. But if it comes up in play, we'll adjust and work it out.
Druids are good and appropriate for this AP.
On a side note for the majority of you who have not had me DM for you, I roll all reactive checks, saves, perception checks, etc... If you have something weird that I didn't factor in, let me know and I can retcon it.
Because, you know, that's not hard.
Of course it isn't.
And I know this is a loaded request, but I will need everyone to write down their height/weight details in their profile if they haven't. It'll make sense why in game.
Has anyone built a decent knife master/scout or are they subpar like most rogue builds? I really want to build a "piratey" guy.
Well scout eventually give you more options to get sneak attack, which is useful. And knife masters do even more damage with sneak than a typical rogue does, though I don't really like rogue archetypes that give away trapfinding.
But ditto to what Oladon said. Ultimately play what you want to as long as you have fun.
Knifemaster and Scout are both good. You'll be fine.
At some point today I will make up my mind regarding what race and bloodline for my sorceress.
Yes, one of your two traits has to be a campaign trait.
Really? I thought they were pretty good. Ship's surgeon is pretty amusing too.
Well it still gives you a bonus to the skill even if it's a class skill. And some of them gives you some unique bonuses like the one that gives you +1 at/dmg versus sharks and aquatic creatures and an awesome peg leg. Or the Dockside Brawler that gives you +1 dmg with brass knuckles.
Lucrezia here.
Think I've settled on a Sylph that is an elemental air sorceress. She has the trait: Buccaneer’s Blood, which has one of her ancestors as a infamous Free Captain of the Shackles. That ancestor was reputed to be a powerful sorcerer as well as a cunning and bloodthirsty captain and there is a story of him capturing and taming the very wind itself so that his boat would never be stuck in a calm. What is not widely known was that he stuck that captured elemental wind into a female, human form and took her for a mistress. At his eventual defeat, she was freed of her earthly form and abandoned her young child as an orphan, leaving her clutching debris of the now ruined ship and eventually washing ashore near Port Peril where she has been living for several years.
I like the story, Joy. So how has being an orphan affected her? Is she jaded, or is she a plucky Oliver Twist type trying to make the most of it?
Plucky. :)
She also shares the trait of being an Albino with her pirate captain father. Hence her typical use of strong make-up to give herself some color.
Well she will get plenty of sun on the deck of the Wormwood. As she cleans it up from port to stern. :)
So she gets to spend all day on her knees cover in soapy water?