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Calderis:

Calderis

Hranos:

Hranos:

Bodan:

Calderis:

Hranos:

Hranos:

Calderis:

Hranos:

Calderis:

Here's the IC Thread:

LINK

Bo-Dan:

Hranos:

Calderis:

Celedor:

hmmm... I didn't recieve any emails from you recently...

joeyhendrix14@gmail.com

Looks like Bo-Dan, Calderis, and Hranos are completely ready. When Celedor has a background we can begin. By the way, you are all starting in different places (as it seems by your backstories), so I will plan the adventure for you to eventually meet. I will post "Not A Chance In Hell" under PlaybyPost.

Lower Class: 10% of Azemja
Peasants, Drunkards, Beggars, Street Urchins, Gangs of Homeless Children, and the like. You only find the lower class in the human cities. Elves would never let one of thier kind drop so low, and the dwarves are always have been able to adapt.

Middle Class: 75% of Azemja
Artisans, Specialists, Guards, New and Average level mercenaries, guild members, and the like. You can find these people anywhere. They have a proper home and can support a family.

Upper Class: 15% of Azemja
The best artisans, royalty, head of the guard, Higher level mercenaries, the Thieves Guild, and the like.

FAQ Answered: Yes there are more rich than poor people across Azemja. This is because of the dwarven and elven cities. They have low "poor people" rates. For example, an elven city might have 1% poor, 70% middle, 29% rich, while a human city would have 30% poor, 75% middle, 5% rich.

The use of elementals has been going on for ages. Like in our world, when the Europeans discovered horses as an aid for transportation, the people of Azemja have been using elementals as long as anyone can remember. Only earth elementals can be used for farming, and in the same way they pull carts, they also can pull farming equipment.

Not only the rich use elementals. The middle class can also afford the use of elementals. The lower class farm workers gain access to elementals due to a feudal system. By giving some of the profit of the land they work to the rich, the rich supply the farmers with elementals.

The elves, continued, for Dave ;)

The elves are very social with eachother. Another druid usually "guides" a younger druid on the ways of nature. Teaching them the elven knowledge of nature, which is way too vast for the student to learn by themselves.

This world is interesting enough to you to take paper and pen and start writing it down. It has the potential to be a published work. Some other details could improve it but the concept of a society that uses elementals as workforce and energy is a cool one.

Thank you for the compliment, but I have seen many others attempt to publish works right now (pretty good ones, too), and have been denied, because Paizo is busy with Pathfinder.

Oh well

By the way, I have the map. It's not one of those amazing Dundjinni maps, for I have no software. Instead it is a hand-drawn. Hope you can read it and use it.

LINK!

I would like a detailed background story from each of you. Use the geography and knowledge that I gave you. Also, feel free to look at the other members spoilers. I just added the spoilers to save us from another wall of text.

Characters
Elven Windwalker - Dave

Monk - Khaladon

Human Fighter and Human Wizard - Bill and 3.5 fan

By the way, I should have a map ready soon

Sorry, I forgot

Elementals
In Azemja elementals count as a wandering monster. Water elementals can be found in the ocean, or a river, earth elementals in a cave (constant threats to a dwarven miner), etc. Fire elementals are extremely rare (of course), but can be found. These are the elementals used for transportation.
When you summon an elemental, it counts as a magical beast. Thus it is stronger than a normal elemental, but it does not last.

Druids
Druids have no special powers except what is written in the PHB, but they are revered. Besides that, they are like everyone else.

which reminds me...

Magic's Structure (This is confusing. Bear with me.)
The world of Azemja is made of 3D filaments, called "threads". Using magic is the minipulation of these threads. When you cast a magic missile, you are distorting the threads, and creating a magic missile. These threads are held together by "the looms". These are giant stones, ten to be exact, spread out across the land of Azemja, some under water. If these looms are destroyed, then the world literally falls apart. Even when one loom is broken, magic becomes distorted. Magic missile might turn into fireball, etc. The location of three of these looms are public knowledge but the rest have not been discovered.

Elven Information Only:

NOTE: any spellcaster can summon an elemental. Druids are usually the ones who do it. Sorry for any confusion

Fate

To a certain degree, there is such thing as Fate. In this world she is considered a fellow god, but differently. She does not need or have believers, she simply exists. If an adventurer is over his head and cries out to her ("Fate help me!"), she might be in a good mood and help him out.

Gods
In this world any god goes. The way it goes is that as long as a god has a believer it exists. For example, a small boy creates a shrine out of rocks for a bee. That bee is a god. Then, the boy leaves, goes to bed, and forgets about the bee. The bee is no longer a god. This is just an example. Using the same analogy, that bee had one believer, so it had minimal strength. Other gods have much more, like Moradin, who most dwarves revere. Moradin has the power to help his people, while the bee might be able to give his hive a few extra grams of honey.

Religion in General
Religion is not a hot topic in this world, except when there is name-calling. Cursing a powerful god is an unhealthy hobby. If people here you disclaiming a god exists, or the like, they will run in the opposite direction, and you will be smote. Gods in this world are omniscient (all seeing and hearing), and do not like to be doubted. It is okay if you do not worship them, but you cannot mock them.
*WARNING* Do not casually make fun of a god, for he/she is a god! Gods are too strong for levels. If a level 20 Barbarian laughs at Boccob after stealing a wizard's staff, he will take higher than 20d% (a range of 200-2000 damage)!

Same as any other campaign. Swords, bows, carts, etc.

The only different technology is the use of elementals for transport. This also gives them the use of sky ships. These boats are powered by air elementals. The bigger the ship, the more elementals required. If you were to kill the elemental though, the ship would "sink". ouch...

Currently, the dwarves are working with gnome alchemists in an attempt to create a new and stronger metal, but nothing has been produced yet.

That's about it on the technology front.

Small folk (Halflings and gnomes)

Geography
The small folk live mostly in the coastal cities of Storrin and Vann. These two cities use boats to transfer goods from the north and south. Halflings are the more adventurous of the two, and are more likely to be found in different places. The majority of gnomes that aren’t in the shipping business live with the dwarves as alchemists.

Leadership
The only leadership in the small folk world is the captains of ships. The smallfolk do not deal with Azemja’s crazy world of politics, instead choosing to have their own fun on the waters of the Storbrutto Sea.

Current Affairs
The small folk have nothing to worry themselves with at the moment.

The elves

Geography
The southeast of Azemja is completely covered in the Green Forests. These vast woods provide a home to the elves. The major city is Forlate, located deep within the Gren. Only an elf born in the city can find it, but many have tried and failed. Forlate is the only elvish city, but is extremely large. It is as twice as big as the capital, Menske, and holds over 1 million elves.

Leadership
The elves use a fair democracy, where anyone over the age of 120 can vote. This voting system is overseen by the Official Assembly, which passes down the position to ten other elves every 200 years. The Official Assembly is not voted on, but instead each member picks another to take his or her place. This is the only political group of the elves.

Current Affairs
The human group of Menske, the capitol, has decided to cut down many trees in the Gern Forest, in an attempt to create a path from the north of Azemja, to the south. This would increase the human influence over the land, but would also destroy much of the forest. Elven resistance fighters are currently destroying lumber camps, and killing of lumberjacks in an attempt to protect their forest. The humans insist that this must be done, to improve trade, but everyone knows that trade is going just fine with the sky ships.

The dwarves

Geography
To the north are the Jemar Mountains. This is where the majority of the dwarves live. The major city of the dwarven land is Verni. This giant city has been carved out of the side of Mount Visok, and is always growing, as the dwarves continue to carve away at the rock. Other dwarven cities include Krepak, a great source for magical weapons, Debeo, where many rich gems are found, and the small mining camp, NeVeliki.

Leadership
The dwarves believe in a monarchy. The current king is King Skegg the Great. Skegg has won the majority of his fellow dwarves, but with all the new ideas pouring into the kingdom, he has lost a lot of support. This has led him to ban any official groups not accepted by the king, and a 10 PM curfew.

Current Affairs
Recently the dwarves of Verni have had continued troubles mining any deeper in Mount Visok, meaning that the city remains the same size. Verni is growing crowded as more dwarves make their journey to the famous place. Attempts to mine have been stalled by the fact that miners are going missing, without any explanation. This has caused the other miners to stop working.

Ten years ago in NeVeliki, dwarves broke through a hole in one of their mining tunnels. They ignored it, and continued working, but soon, Drow began to raid the camp. After blocking off the hole, the dwarves thought that the trouble was over, but they were wrong. Just a few weeks ago, Drow scouts have breached another hole, and NeVeliki has been receiving even stronger attacks than last time.

The humans

Geography
Humans can be found anywhere in Azemja. The capitol of Azemja is the human city of Menske. Menske is dirty, overpopulated and an overall unclean place.

Leadership
Humans generally believe in a democratic republic (like we have in the US).

Current Affairs
Humans are fighting with the elves over the construction of what they call the Great Combination Road. This road would pass through the Gren Forest, and connect the north of Azemja to the south.

Overall Geography

To the north of Azemja are the Jemar Mountains. To the southeast is the Gren Forest. To the south is another mountain range, the Stumfyr, which is unpopulated, except for the town of Sorlij, which lies to the very south of the range. Two rivers pass through Azemja. The first is the Bredvan River. The longer of the two, as it reaches the capitol of Menske, it splits into the North Bredvan River, and the Southern Bredvan River. The latter of the two passes through the Gren Forest. The second river is the Liten River, which cuts into Azemja from the west, passes the town of Sted, and cuts back out at the brink of the Gren Forest, at the Liten Delta. There are a group of five islands to the northwest of Azemja, known as the Skargar Islands. This is where many monks learn their skill, in the sacred city of Fem.

I will post a map ASAP

The World of Azemja

Azemja is one, giant land, surrounded by water, with islands to the northwest. Azemja works differently than other worlds because:

-Everything is powered by elementals. Druids of higher levels use elementals to move everything. Boats use water elementals, sky ships use air elementals, carts are pushed by earth elementals, and the dwarfs’ even use fire elementals to power their forges.

-Elves and humans do not get along at the moment. Humans are trying to tear down a path through the trees of the elven forest of Gern. (see below under elves geography) This has caused tensions between the two groups.

-The drow are a newly discovered race by the above ground living. The only contact with drow that this world has had is through the dwarves mining expeditions (see below under dwarves current affairs). This leads to the racial term “black elves” which the other elves hate just as much as their underground brothers.

-The smaller races, halflings and gnomes, are the most uncommon in the land of Azemja. The majority of them are found in the coastal city of Vann (see below small folk geography)

-Dragons really are just myths. There are no dragons in Azemja, which also means no half-dragons, kobolds, dragonspawn, draconic gods, and the like.

I will be starting a thread under PBP Discussion called "Not a Chance In Hell OOC".
Under this section I will include my write up of the world of Azemja.

here is the Link:
I hope I don't overwhelm you :(

Not a Chance in Hell OOC by Rumblefish

Don't worry about making a character ASAP. I am gathering my things on my world, and I want to provide the group as much detail as I can. I should be ready by tonight.

By the way, Dave, thanks for that 120 pg. compilation of variant classes. It is AMAZING! I can't wait to spend days burried inside the pages of this text.

Derive your stats however you want.
Do not worry monk, your Fists of Fury will be Fine during this Fiasco.
We begin at level 1, nodemons there :)

Alright, Bill has his character ready, and it looks like Dave is halfway there. 3.5 fan and Bo Dan, go ahead with your characters, and I will make our OOC thread under PBP Discussion, and post the world we will be using. Then when all characters are ready, I will make "Rumblefish's PBP: Not a Chance in Hell" (hint towards storyline) under Play by Post section.

Alright, I think we have four:

Bo dan - Monk
Dave - Druid
3.5 fan - Wizard
Bill - Fighter

Everyone, please confirm this setup, or if you have looked at the group, and want to change your role, just tell me. After everyone confirms, we can begin making characters.

An adventure I made myself that I have been wanting to try out. I will explain the world when we have four. Monk would be fine for this adventure. I think monks are pretty cool

Have a new adventure I want to try. Not sure what level it will get you to, but it starts at one. First four to respond are in. Give me your favored class as well. Try to mix the group up, so that we don't have four spellcasters, or all barbarians and fighters.

An orc walks into a bar.
The bar says "ouch"

I had a pretty intense situation, where my new friend saw my DnD things, and was asking if I really played "that game". I responded with an affirmative and told him he had three options:

1-He could tell everyone that I played DnD, and try to make a fool out of me. (which wouldn't work, because that is not a class I am willing to take levels in)

2-We could cancel our friendship, and go our seperate ways.

or

3- he could just accept that I play DnD.

After an awkward silence, he asked me how the game worked, and now he is a level 2 orc barbarian named Unk :)

I think the older Power Attack was better.

I rarely feel the need to hide my hobby, but I know gamers who do. My best college friend who I introduced to D&D, whose name incidentally is Bill Clinton, is very much a closet gamer. When we used to play in the dorm lounges he would concoct elaborate explanations to explain what we were doing in the event that other people passed through and asked.
TS

That's the problem I face. Usually there are awkward moments when I tell new friends about my gaming, and my close friends edge away, even though some of them are DnD addicts!

I am open about being a gamer. The only problem with this is the harrassment I face in school from the football team (who really sucked this year) and company. I'm fine with it though, I don't feel like I need to lie to myself because of other people.

By the way, I understand what it is like to come up with a really good DnD joke (like "I failed the Will save") and get the blank stares. I think that we as a nation should pity those less fortunate then us. I am considering starting a fund-raiser for those unfortunate souls :)

I like the ideas, but what strikes me as the coolest is Appraise. I think that this skill has really never helped anyone, but now I can put it to good use, and my PC's might actually take ranks in it :)

4th level halfing rogue

I completely agree. There is nothing more fun than "fleshing out" a character. I am no artist, so 'art cards' sound like a great idea.

I like this idea. It allows groups that don't have a cleric to get an NPC cleric to cast this on them before an adventure. I know that everyone in my group despises the thought of being a cleric, so this shall help.

I love this idea! This is another little thing that I can add into my adventures that everyone in the group will love!

...I could get a group together and actually find other people around me remotely interested in DnD.

Thanks everyone participating in this discussion, providing the PAIZO community with 10 minutes of enjoyment :)