This thread will be the OOC discussion thread for members of The Second Parchment. These include:
Price - stormraven
Cain... - Ebel TheQuiet
Xanos - Doomed Hero
Kalina Jakes - the_infidel
Gwyndolin Maulsen - AdamWarnock
Feel free to dot and we can start to finalize chracter backgrounds and mechanics.
Miss Price, checking in!
Looks like we got our old crew back. :D
Xzaral aka Mark aka Rose - thanks!
Hey, everyone! Thanks for the acceptance, Xzaral.
you probably have enough to get as you're preparing to run the two games, but Im up for hashing out the details of Cain's lycanthropy whenever you're ready.
Welcome back to prison, gang. :)
Price rattles her chains experimentally and regards their reeking cell. "Cain, I just love what you've done with the place - quite homey."
First off a few notes on how I plan to run this shindig.
On the Campaign Info tab I plan to put links to links to each of your profiles, links to profiles of important NPCs as they come up, any maps I use, and anything else that strikes my fancy.
Under the NPC profiles I will have at minimum two sections, one for each Parchment (unless that NPC only affects one Parchment). The information for you parchment will include what information your group discovers. If it's spoilered to a specific person(s), that means that only that person knows this information.
For each person, please make sure your alias also includes your background information. It helps to have it in an easy to access location as we go through.
For combat, I will be grouping NPCs as much as possible to avoid any delays. As such, when it is your turn for combat, I will take your actions in the order they are posted within a group. So for example:
Villain A
Villain B
Villain C
Soldiers
Villain D
And Villain B posts first, his action will go first. If Villain D posted first, then Villan C, Villain C gets to go first since D is in the next group. If for some reason someone's action becomes invalid due to another player's action, I will either try to adapt it as best able or wait until you can repost.
All members of a group have 24 hours from my post stating it's their turn to act to post or I may either skip their turn or take their action for them. I don't actually expect to use this rule and will wait longer than 24 hours, except in extreme situations. Weekends are exempt of course.
I would appreciate it when you post your combat action, you list some basic info in a spoiler at the start of each turn. As an example format:
HP: 12/12
AC: 19 T11 FF 18
F/R/W: +4/+1/+3
Effects: None
This just makes it easier to keep track of things.
I think that's everything (though I'm sure I'm missing something). Any questions on your ends?
I'm a little confused what "second parchment" means.
I tend to find things I like to run with. In this case, when I was setting up the RP part of who got selected, I decided it was going to be two roster's listed on parchment, one for each group. For some reason calling each group a Parchment sounded appealing, so I just went with it.
Second Parchment = Group 2 = US :)
One question, Mark. Do you prefer our actions in a round to be spoilered or open?
I'm fine with either. I personally find spoilering the OOC portions makes it easier to scan through a page of posts, unless that happens to be the information being searched for.
Thankfully, at first level, our explanations and actions should be fairly concise. :)
I tend to provide more information, with links, when casting a spell to ease the DM burden, like so:
Thankfully, at first level, our explanations and actions should be fairly concise. :)
Especially with no gear. :D
Um... I punch him?
Fan-flippin-tastic. Thanks to Xzaral for preserving as fine a group of cowards, naer-do-wells, and scoundrels as ever been gathered. Looking forward to it.
King Mark, what are your feelings on maintaining those desired stats on the poster info line, like so?
Fine with that as well, Kalina.
Gwyn reporting in.
I'm think I'm pretty much ready to go, but I may have to double check that.
And hello everybody. Glad to see the gang's all here.
Me too. It's amazing that the lot of us made the transfer to a separate game. I've never seen that happen.
I think Cain is more or less good to go, other than the specifics of lycanthropy.
I think I'll probably end up dropping the Skirmisher angle. Being able to pick up some support heals round level 4 might be helpful to Price... even if they're small.
Here's a few recommendations for minor background edits. These are just recommendations and are subject to your approval (these are merely to help intertwine the characters into the AP a little more personally later one.
- +2 Wis/-2Cha
- Low-light
- Hybrid/Animal forms with +2 Str/+2 Con and bite
- Lycanthropic Empathy
Pretty much what you said, but just re-written for clarification. As the story progresses there will be opportunities to acquire more of your lost lycan traits. How does that sound for now? Oh, and standard cavaet, if something ends up broken, we will work to fix it.
I'll add something about it to Cain's story of the job that got him caught.
About the mechanics, fantastic. That works for me. Are you fine with Cain having a hybrid AND animal form? I only ask because the animal form has a speed of 50. That's a big freebie at low-levels, i would think. I'm fine if he has to "grow back into" acquiring his animal form.
Just let me know when I get access to what (including Hybrid). I'm fine waiting a bit if you want us to get out of the prison without all our abilities.
Scent: Are you fine with me flavoring Cain's perceptions sometimes as his nose being the thing that picked up the target or whatever? I'm fine waiting to pick Scent (the actual ability) when you're comfortable parceling it out, but I'd like to flavor CAin as if he has it still. I mean, he has a fairly high perception score, so it wouldn't be hat far-fetched.
Price now has a new spoiler on her page labeled 'Vendetta'. :)
King Mark: Sounds good. I'll incorporate some edits this evening.
Alrighty then. I just need to think about how I'm going to incorporate that in.
Did King Mark demand that all of your characters be the victim of chronic ADHD, too?
Sigh... DM's...
I'm going to start some character sheet audits for the crunchy bits. As soon as everything is in order I'll start the initial post and get this show on the road.
One last thing I noticed I missed is encumbrance. I really don't like keeping track of all the little bits people carry, so I usually don't keep track unless someone gets ridiculous. If you notice you're carrying 10 lbs too much and it will lower your AC and speed, that's fine, don't worry about it. If you have an 8 strength and are carrying 25 weapons, 3 suits of armor and 16,000 copper pieces, then I'll have a problem.
It doesn't look like you've updated the crunch yet. If you have, lemme know.
Thumb's up!
I'm seeing two sets of attributes. I believe the ones you have listed in the lower stat block are correct as they total 25 points, whereas the ones in the actual blocks provided only total 21. Also I didn't see any roll attempts (in case you wanted to try and see what you get, you can always default back to 25 if you don't like them).
Also a question regarding your skills. I was unsure of a modifier.
Disable Device, shouldn't this be +8?
Moment of stupid:
I just rolled my stats int he wrong thread. Here they are
Ok, I think I'm done. Have I missed anything?
This is how the world ends. Not with a bang but with a dot.
Gary "Back to lurking" McBride
Fire Mountain Games
That is the question…
I'm leaning pretty strongly away from taking that archetype at this point. It seems like it could be cool, but with the group's very restricted access to healing, Cain being able to pick up and use any Cure wand at level 4 or higher is a BIG deal. Especially if you're fine with Cain using Quick Draw (which he'll be picking up at level 3) with said wands.
Plus, there are some tasty spells on that list, anyway. Longstride, Instant Enemy, the list goes on and on!
Also, i'm not planning on taking an Animal Companion at 4th. With his emphasis on the pack mentality, his ability to bestow his favored enemy bonus to his teammates seems the way to go.
You are still short the bonus non-combat feat.
What are your opposed schools?
I see which first level spells are in your spellbook. I assume the bolded ones are memorized. If that's correct, you're short a spell memorized (1 spell base, +2 for 20 Int, +1 Necro spell, for 4 total).
I don't see which cantrips are in your book, or are memorized (remember you don't get opposition school cantrips).
I think that's everything.
Reviewing my crunch. Remind me what the story on Traits is? One freely selected, plus one based on crime?
Yep. One regular trait and then your Crime.
Also, I definitely just realized that we have a pair of female two-weapon warriors... one rogue and one fighter. That should be fun. :)
"And if you'll step over here, prison guard, we'll show you the buzz-saw feature..."
We're going to have to be careful how we use our rogue, though... Gwen doesn't seem to have the best con score or HP's. Did Gwen take a stab at rolling Focus/Foible rolls? That might help her out a bit...
That is correct.
Ok, profile crunch and background notes should meet the campaign conditions now.
Whoops guess I forgot to update the other part. I'll get that fixed. I never actually rolled my stats, but here goes.
Rolls:
STR:
INT:
WIS:
CHA:
if only that first roll was better. I think I'll take these. I'll jsut have to be a little more creative in combat. >:)
Edit: totally misread your post... move along, people... no reading fail to see here!
Price tries to help Cain get on task...
Don't worry about it Gwyn, that's why the Dice God made Flanking attacks. :)
Price bows her, "Dear Lord, lead us into Flanking positions that we may take advantage of our enemies and deliver exquisitely painful death upon them. Amen."
Wait... Price = Cher?!
Mind. Blown!
Well, don't get your hopes up that Price will be putting ranks into Perform: Sing... but it is only slightly ironic that Nick Cage plays a 'lone wolf' character in the film. :)
The gameplay thread is opened for dotting.
Rockin'
If this show kicks off tonight or over the weekend, I'l do my best to be available.
My little sister just had her second kid this week, one of my video shooters has a big shoot coming up on monday, and I have a ton of house-prep to do for our own little one coming in a few months.
But I'm definitely eager to get this thing kicked off (when Zxaral is ready, of course).