hmm... I didn't realize we were an all human party. I don't think that has happened in ages in my normal gaming group.
*And I have to buy some basic mundane equipment (ie. rations, etc) and a backup weapon (probably warhammer or mace) to my list. I'll get that done this morning
I don't think I've ever been in or seen an all human party... kind of cool though!
Lots of Chelaxians (sp?), too. From the bit that is written about Varisians in the player's guide, I'm kind of viewing them (and thus, Vesh) as a melded Italian/Gypsy kind of culture.
And the Chelaxian immigrants into Varisia are more of a melting pot than the ones back home if I read rightly.
I don't think I've ever been in or seen an all human party... kind of cool though!
Wow, Me either. My groups usually end up being ALL different races (anything but human), or mostly elvish.
Cool, guess we'll be making liberal use of torches, lanterns & light spells, huh?!? At least the "bad guys" will KNOW their doom is approaching!:)
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Dragon 326 had several different Ranger Combat Styles in the Class Acts.
Hey Talion09, I've got a question about this Dragon Mag. I've always wanted to see different combat style options for Rangers, so I'm interested in picking up this back issue. When you say it has "several" different options, about how many would you say it has? I'm not interested in much else in this issue, so if it only has, like, two or three I'll pass. Thanks.
Dragon 326 had several different Ranger Combat Styles in the Class Acts.Hey Talion09, I've got a question about this Dragon Mag. I've always wanted to see different combat style options for Rangers, so I'm interested in picking up this back issue. When you say it has "several" different options, about how many would you say it has? I'm not interested in much else in this issue, so if it only has, like, two or three I'll pass. Thanks.
Off the top of my head... I think it was 5. It was just a 1 page Class Acts article. Each style has an intro paragraph, and then a list of the 3 feats you would get at 2nd/6th/whenever you get the last ranger combat style feat.
- Power Attack Style (that was my pick)
- Mounted Combat Style
- Unarmed/Grappling Style (I remember the intro was essentially about rangers who were like the Crocodile Hunter, lol)
- Throwing Weapons style
- And I think one more I can't remember off the top of my head.
*I've got the magazine at home right now actually, so I can check later on today.
I've gone over the characters a bit, mostly looking at skills, feats, and ABs. Everything looks pretty good w/ following possible exceptions:
Both Corran and Malcolm are "shaky", but should the penalty be -2 or -3; and should it apply to Malcolm's thrown dagger as well? I don't have UA, so I cannot check this one.
Ehlissa seems to have about 14 skill ranks, if I'm counting correctly. Shouldn't she have 20 ranks (2 class + 2 Int + 1 race)x4?
Malcolm seems to have 46 skill ranks. Shouldn't he have 44 (8 class + 2 Int + 1 race)x4?
Slidell seems to have 20 skill ranks. Shouldn't he have 24 (2 class + 3 Int + 1 race)x4?
Also, if you speak anything other than common, please note it.
A good choice for Slidell might be Thassilonian - although since no one has spoken that in ages, I think it makes sense that people can interpret the runes, but not pronounce them properly or understand the spoken language.
Shaky is -2 to all ranged attacks... so it should apply to thrown weapons as well I believe.
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Also, if you speak anything other than common, please note it.
Added languages to Vesh. JSL, would it be okay for Vesh to speak Shoanti? Because Vesh is not Shoanti, my rational is that while his clan wandered the Velashu Uplands they might have picked it up in order to trade with any Shoanti tribes they encountered. If it's not okay, can you suggest another language that would be appropriate?
I've gone over the characters a bit, mostly looking at skills, feats, and ABs. Everything looks pretty good w/ following possible exceptions:
Slidell seems to have 20 skill ranks. Shouldn't he have 24 (2 class + 3 Int + 1 race)x4?
A good choice for Slidell might be Thassilonian - although since no one has spoken that in ages, I think it makes sense that people can interpret the runes, but not pronounce them properly or understand the spoken language.
I actually have Thassilonian listed, but I put it in the "top" section where the site gives you a place to put things, I will copy all the relevant languages, etc., into the main body of my info area.
Question, I also listed "Fey" but I don't know if that would be a language, I can see where if a person knew Elvish, they might catch a few words of other fey speech, like goblin or fairies, but probably wouldn't catch the whole thing.
In short, if "Fey" gives me at least a general understanding of ALL fey speak, I'll probably take it, otherwise I'll stick with Elvish for the obvious Mystical research reasons.
Your right about the skill points, I grabbed what I thought was right, but forgot about the racial points. I'll add 4 more to his list shortly. Thanks for checking.
Working, but will add up gear cost totals and stats for Familiar asap.
Does anyone know WHICH book had the "Standard Adventurer's Pack" in it?!? I remember seeing it while researching this character, but now that I'm ready for it, I can't find it!
Also, does anyone have a link to an "Elvish" language site? I'm not a hard-core get-it-right nut, but I hate going to the trouble to make up phrases in another language if there's someone else that's already done it for me!
Thanks,
Lots of Chelaxians (sp?), too. From the bit that is written about Varisians in the player's guide, I'm kind of viewing them (and thus, Vesh) as a melded Italian/Gypsy kind of culture.
The way I read it, the Varisians are the Gypsy-ish culture, (I didn't catch the Italian possibility, good thinking) But are probably descended from what was once a "mighty" civilization. While the Chelaxians are most likely to be the current "big-city" dwellers. And judging by the references to the Chelax demon-summoning mages & civilization, very likely to think of the Varisians (or at least the Shoanti) as county bumpkins, or worse.
Interesting possibilities. Of course the way I see Slidell he will be pretty much accepting of anyone and find their culture "Fascinating". Except for the ones who are trying to kill him, of course.
:P
Depends what you mean by "Elvish" - if you mean "as spoken in D&D" to my knowledge there isn't one.
You can try looking up Quenya or Sildarin for the two main Elvish languages spoken by Tolkien's elves; a lot of work went into those. Or you can look up "conlang" - there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of made-up languages out there, often constructed by philologists and linguists. My advice - find one you like the sound of and use it.
@JSL - thanks for the skill points heads up - I really must have been tired writing it up. So many errors! Should be sorted now.
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The way I read it, the Varisians are the Gypsy-ish culture, (I didn't catch the Italian possibility, good thinking)
That reveals my bias. Anytime I read "olive skin" I immediately insert Italian. Probably because I'm half Italian myself! Gypsy-ish is probably ea much more accurate description for Varisians...as long as they have a good recipe for Gnocci in their culture, I'm good!
But are probably descended from what was once a "mighty" civilization. While the Chelaxians are most likely to be the current "big-city" dwellers. And judging by the references to the Chelax demon-summoning mages & civilization, very likely to think of the Varisians (or at least the Shoanti) as county bumpkins, or worse.
That's pretty much what I was thinking as well. The whole 'high' vs. 'low' culture thing.
Cool, I like the linguistic parallels a lot. Varisia does have a rather Mediterrean feel to it now in my mind - 'Germanic' peoples did make inroads into the north of what is now Italy and the Iberian peninsula. I'm so excited to start this!
The way I read it, the Varisians are the Gypsy-ish culture, (I didn't catch the Italian possibility, good thinking)
That reveals my bias. Anytime I read "olive skin" I immediately insert Italian. Probably because I'm half Italian myself! Gypsy-ish is probably ea much more accurate description for Varisians...as long as they have a good recipe for Gnocci in their culture, I'm good!
That's pretty much what I was thinking as well. The whole 'high' vs. 'low' culture thing.But are probably descended from what was once a "mighty" civilization. While the Chelaxians are most likely to be the current "big-city" dwellers. And judging by the references to the Chelax demon-summoning mages & civilization, very likely to think of the Varisians (or at least the Shoanti) as county bumpkins, or worse.
Yeah, I should have gone there myself, I married a New Orleans native girl, whose grandparents are both full-blood Italians. (Grandad always said he remembered getting off the boat. As a child they had to flee to America to escape Mussolini.)
I'll fix the skill points.
Slidell is 99.9% done!!!
I've updated the skills, and added the familiar stats.
The only thing that "needs" to be done is the encumbrance.
(Did I mention that I hate math?!?)
I think the only thing I'm not sure of is the name. (Slidell is actually the name of a town in Oklahoma.) But it was all I could think of that went with Stormraven. But I'm OK with "Sly" as a nickname,... heh.
I am ready & rarin' to go,...this is gonna be fun! (Gonna be weird without the usual elf/dwarf/hobbit/etc banter tho,...But I'm sure we can come up with something,...)
:)
Finished the rest of the intro/background stuff last night and am ready to start except that Naelah's background is still missing. PsionicFox, do you have an ETA on that?
As far as I'm concerned, we can start without full statistics, but I'd like at least the background. Otherwise, you can run with the into paragraph I have and tweak the background in later. Please let me know what you want to do.
Sorry, Didn't know if you were only wanting a response from Naelah, or if you were waiting for all of us to chime in.
If the latter, I'm good to go.:)
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I know I asked this before on the old forum, but now that we have new players, I'll ask it again for ease of reference. Could you list what time zone you are in? I ask, because I'm curious as to how it'll affect our posting schedule. Perhaps if people gave some indication of how often they are able to post as well? I'll fill in the ones I remember:
JSL (DM) = Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7); can post daytime weekdays & Saturdays, not Sundays
santinj@ (Vesh) = Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7); can post often during daytime & occasionally evenings on weekdays, rarely on weekends
FabesMinis (Ehlissa) = UK Summer Time (GMT+1); no indicated posting schedule that I remember
I can't remember if Rags, Psionicfox, or Talion09 responded to this on the other forum.
I know I asked this before on the old forum, but now that we have new players, I'll ask it again for ease of reference. Could you list what time zone you are in? I ask, because I'm curious as to how it'll affect our posting schedule. Perhaps if people gave some indication of how often they are able to post as well? I'll fill in the ones I remember:
JSL (DM) = Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7); can post daytime weekdays & Saturdays, not Sundays
santinj@ (Vesh) = Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7); can post often during daytime & occasionally evenings on weekdays, rarely on weekends
FabesMinis (Ehlissa) = UK Summer Time (GMT+1); no indicated posting schedule that I remember
I can't remember if Rags, Psionicfox, or Talion09 responded to this on the other forum.
I'm Pacific time as well. I can post in the morning, and then after 11pm or so. (I've got an odd schedule at work right now) In between, I can post at work, but it might be sporadic depending on what exactly I'm doing.
Ditto that. Ready to go over here!
Sorry, Didn't know if you were only wanting a response from Naelah, or if you were waiting for all of us to chime in.
If the latter, I'm good to go.:)
Me too
At the moment I can post pretty much any time; after 15th Oct I'll be limited to posting after 6pm (my time) on weekdays, and any time at weekends.
I'm US Central Time,
I have access at work, sometimes I'm busy, and sometimes it seems like all I have to do is read the PbP posts! You know, a "normal" job.
I'm usually on until 12 midnite Central as well, so if it's a busy or late day I can probably catch up most nights.
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To recap:
JSL (DM) = Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7); can post daytime weekdays & Saturdays, not Sundays
santinj@ (Vesh) = Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7); can post often during daytime & occasionally evenings on weekdays, rarely on weekends
FabesMinis (Ehlissa) = UK Summer Time (GMT+1); now can post anytime' after Oct 15th can post after 6pm local time or anytime on weekends
Talion09 (Corran) = PDT (GMT-7); can post in AM, then after 11PM, or depending on work during the day
Ragadolf (Slidell) = Central Daylight Time (GMT-5); flexible posting time depending on work, can post most evenings too if necessary
PsionicFox (Naelah) = Australian Eastern Standard (GMT+10); will post from the future...awesome!
I'm excited to play with folks from around the globe. World-wide D&D!
I'm on AEST (Australian Eastern Standard), or GMT +10. That's right, I'm talking to you, FROM THE FUTURE!
I have the background and the like done, but its on my laptop. I'll post it when I get to work.
I'm sometimes on AEST... depending on how many conference calls I have to make with our Australian office & customers. The compromise that is my normal shift is noon-1030pm PST, which is 5 AM to 330PM AEST. (At least until we both go through daylight savings, which will throw it out of whack even more)
Greetings from the centre of time!
Yay for time travel!
Description and BG is up, just weapons armor and gear to go...
Mountain Standard Time for me. I can usaully post in the morning for a short while and then again in the evening. I'm online a fair bit on the weekends too.
I am also online a bit on the weekends too,...
(In other words, we seem to be a fairly average PbP group!)
Oh, and Time Travel ROCKS!
(I'm just glad it's not the DM. It would stink if the DM knew your rolls were going to be sucky before you did!)
Psifox, can you ask my future self if I have a good day at work tomorrow?!?
;)