UPDATE: Book on way. Be with MacMongo by end of November...
2014...
There there Oengus... you'll get 'er soon enough like.
ok made some updates to my profile, just a teeny bit more statting to put on paper that is in my head. however, i work today so itll be a few hours. let me know if anything is wrong with what i have (stat calculation and derived stat calculation mostly)
if you see something that looks like i am hobbling my character, please let me know. i have never created a character in this system
Ok Cephas should be done and ready for final look-over by the GM
Profile completed. Now just to finish up the background.
as for backstory i think i will connect him to Ord and have him as one of the fine men and women keeping the Khador-Cygnar battle from spilling over into Ord lands.
Hey Drayen
Link not working mate...
My trollkin has heaps of background still to be fleshed out, and he's the bare bones edition at present...
Apologies DMVoV - once my elusive book arrives I'll get a chance to build him up good and proper.
At the moment he's but a cliche highlander... give me a week (anf the book) and he'll be WAY more cliche!
Hoots Mon!
Sounds interesting drayen - though hopefully they bundle up the content in an actual splatbook at some point too.
Oengus - nae worries man, it's all good in the hood.
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Sounds interesting drayen - though hopefully they bundle up the content in an actual splatbook at some point too.
Oengus - nae worries man, it's all good in the hood.
Him being the only trollkin in the group, it seemed like a fun career. The issue is apparently out now too, judging by some of the most recent posters statements.
This should work.Hey Drayen
Link not working mate...
Och! Looks the dog's baws... :)
Any chance o' me being a Fell Caller/Lang Rider DMVoV...
Wi' mi' trusty shaggy bison "Big Rusty"... :)
Mac Mongo lives!
I'll give it a yes... though I'd like you to wrangle Big Rusty in thread... that work?
And Sasha can take the ride skill. Perhaps he forms a friendship with Gus and they train each other in the ways of mounted combat and Iron Fang goodness. Iron Fang Tuffalo Pikeman, one is a Trollkin, the other an expy Russian, together they fight evil!
Maybe you could modify the head armor of the beast to take a blasting pike head :P
DmVoV: Cool will try and acquire the issue for the Long Rider (or Lang Rider as I've coined it)
So Gus would be a Fell Caller/Long Rider?
All cool with wrangling Big Rusty in thread - will be fun.. :)
and the best thing of all is I'm sitting with my nice shiney rulebook...
Am rejigging Oengus, so will save my intro til he's version II is nailed down...
My thought is that his previous mount was recently lost to him... old or predated...
So in addition to being a hammer for hire, Gus is also on the lookout for a replacement.... perhaps the local trollkin have given him the heads up on a local herd of Tuffalo?
Alright then here's Gus V 2.0 for perusal and comment
I've presumed the Long Rider Skills (both military and non) are all rank 1. No idea on coin (so gear I'd like is in blue) and no idea on some of the career abilities...
Sooner I track down a pdf version the better...
See Ol' Oengus sitting with a battered Tuffalo tack recovered from his last mouth (Black Bessie ;), so he's on the lookout for another steed (down the line)...
Once I do though... watch out :)
Methinks a PDF will be a while coming BD - Privateer Press ain't too good at making them available quick like.
I've not yet had an idle chance to cast too close an eye over anyone's profile yet, but will endeavor to in the next couple of days.
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I went to my flgs yesterday for a Society event. They are a big retailer for PP. The November/December issue of NQ is not out yet. They expect to have it in the next couple of weeks. I believe that it was subscribers who received their copies in the mail. When I get it, I'll type it and send it to you, BD. Let me know if you want a physical copy and I can mail it to you.
I'd have mine most likely if a large blizzard hadn't just hit the State.
Drayen you continue to come through for me bud - aye just PM the details if ye please
Alcyr - board gremlins strike again.
Just need our hairy tuffalo hugger and Milo to say hello and I can roll things forward.
hah gribbly
In Soviet Khador - party railroads you! :P
Slowdown is due to the fact that I was wrestling with a sick 7-month old all weekend, who was producing excrement that came out at about Dublin Bay 3 on the Dulux colour chart.
He got admitted to hospital today with pneumonia (hopefully just a couple of days stay - our eldest has had a couple of bouts of it and bounced back pretty quick) and I've been running interference with our eldest and so forth. Worst part so far was watching the doctor trying to hit a vein when putting in the IV for antibiotics... she stuck him three separate times - digging around each time with the needle and still couldn't hit a vein. Ended up giving up and falling back on oral antibios for now.
Will hopefully only take a couple of days to get past it and back into the swing of things - but just wanted you guys to know that I'll be out of action DM wise during that time.
a DOCTOR couldnt find a vein? I have seen NURSES who couldnt, but wow.
No worries man - slow and steady is cool with me also...
I have the same problem with nurses finding my veins for blood tests and such - must just be the 7 month baby flab that covered things up for the doc.
Bub is doing a bit better, though still struggling... unlikely to be home tomorrow, but fingers crossed.
yeah i seem to have the worst luck with that kind of stuff. i am always having doctors (well "always" sounds harsh, i dont go to the hospital very often) ask me if some new nurse can try to do the IV/annual blood draw/etc on me. i'd like to say no but then theyd just have to do it on someone else who might have something serious
The latest online NQ extra includes the Long Rider rules if you're interested Black Dow.
Ho Ho! Mighty! - many thanks indeed Sasha Petravik :)
Bubs is back at home and much improved. I'll be kicking back off in thread over the weekend.
sweeeeeet
yeah Sasha we have the same command score so either of us would make prime leadership candidates. you have more points in command, but i have a higher INT. however it makes more sense that the local military man takes charge, and Cephas is kinda on thin ice in Khador possibly
Makes sense for now, and since we haven't formalized a command structure (or formed an actual merc company for that matter), it's mostly Sasha doing what he was trained to do until he hears different.
Milo would probably follow Sasha because he is from here and would have better knowledge of the area...but he would probably feel more comfortable with Cephas...both of them being foreigners.
Alcyr was created with Chaplain/Doctor in mind. An officer type outside the traditional command structure.
Honestly the way combat works in the Iron Kingdoms the advantages of leaders are their command skill and radius and the benefits they can give you. Both Cephas and I are pretty good at that, though with Natural Leader I can give anybody within 7 inches (42 feet) a Feat point instead of myself when I earn it. My advantages go up from there.
Really the way I would imagine it working from prior experience in VotV games ;) is we'll be considered the officer core of a mercenary company and the only "commands" we'll be issuing are to NPCs. Mark of course can correct me if I'm off base on that.
Again, I don't see this being an issue but since we're all new to this PbP together I wanted to make sure people understood that Sasha giving orders is a reflection of his character and in no way me telling you guys how to play or what to do.
yeah i dont have any cool leadership abilities yet and most of mine are for warjacks anyway
Oengus will be happy to be lead and take the lead when required (when dealing with Trollkin or tobacconists for instance)
Not quite sure what roll he'll fill... Thick necked cavalry serjeant comes to mind lol
As one of the few non-combat characters, Milo is willing to leave all this strategy stuff to the warriors...until it come time to be sneaky, or crafty!
yeah i am interested to see how well Cephas does in combat. i mean he doesnt really have many non-combat skills except mechanikal stuff. and i dont really have a firm grasp of combat in this game, i read the chapter but still it is kinda foreign to me
As far as Command goes - I'd make a distinction between the crunch and the fluff. For game mechanics - then abilities based off command and such will work on anyone on your side. So Cephas could give orders to Sasha and vice versa.
Fluff wise, I'd agree that having Sasha take the lead would be a reasonable assumption for the short short term... and we'll let the longer term take care of itself. I generally like a setup where different people take the lead for the areas that suit their temperament or abilities. Such as Oengus with Trollkin, Milo when it comes to skullduggery, etc.
As far as larger combats we'll need to see how we go. If I can handle the smaller scale stuff well then we might start cluttering with NPCs and such - do some larger scale melees... but we'll walk afore we run ;)
Hey everybody. I'll be at a sales meeting all this week, so posting might be spotty. Don't want to slow things down so fee free to DMPC me as needed.
On Friday December 7th I will be flying to Hawaii for a 1 year anniversary/honeymoon. I will have limited internet access and will check the forums but most likely won't be posting too terribly much. Sasha will follow Alcyr's instructions for destroying the Cryxian magic and proceed to help any survivors. He will not hesitate to kill them however, as far as he's concerned they are dead already and any signs that they've been corrupted will be dealt with in the Khadoran fashion.
nice, congrats on the anniversary/honeymoon. hawaii is a great place for a visit.