Corsario's Murder's Mark

Game Master Corsario

bookrat wrote:

I was thinking of trading out one of my feats for weapon focus (club) for his policeman's billy club. But you need a +1 BAB. Dang. Oh well, I have my 3rd level feat, at least.

Bludgeoner would be a good one for the concept. And the nonlethal Metamagic one.

I already have Bludgeoner. :)

I didn't know there was a non lethal meta magic feat. Time to look it up!

Edit: that's a perfect feat, but I think I'll take it later. I don't have any damage dealing spells at this point, and using that metamagic feat will just make it so all my spells become full round actions for no benefit.

When the third match ended, he was standing victorious. He was also smitten. Over the next few months, he came to realize that this woman had been all he had really thought about, all he focused on for the last few years. She had become one of the most important people in his life, his drive, almost, and they’d never really even spoken. He vowed to himself that win or lose next time, he was going to buy her a drink, and for the first time that he could remember, he looked forward to seeing somebody.

Perfect, just what I wanted.

Pavo "Fish" Krupt wrote:

bookrat wrote:

I was thinking of trading out one of my feats for weapon focus (club) for his policeman's billy club. But you need a +1 BAB. Dang. Oh well, I have my 3rd level feat, at least.

Bludgeoner would be a good one for the concept. And the nonlethal Metamagic one.

I already have Bludgeoner. :)

I didn't know there was a non lethal meta magic feat. Time to look it up!

Edit: that's a perfect feat, but I think I'll take it later. I don't have any damage dealing spells at this point, and using that metamagic feat will just make it so all my spells become full round actions for no benefit.

There's also toppling Metamagic + force spells like magic missile for trip attemps, another combo for down the road. I also remember seing a nonlethal Ray spell similar to scorching just nonlethal damage instead of fire. In case you can't tell, I'm liking the character concept.

Guys my work has been a royal pain all weekend, and will likely slide into the bulk of next week (issues with jobs offshore) as such I'm not getting any time to spare to devote to building on my character, so its probably best if I graciously bow out and allow someone else to step up.

Appreciate the opportunity, and am gutted to miss out on playing alongside my great sparring partners in Hassan and Drayen, but when everyone's contributing so much to the pot it'll only frustrate me that I'm not.

Thanks again for the consideration Corsario - hopefully I'll make it into a future game of yours.

Cheers

Oh, my heavens! Black Dow, noooo!

In traveling on business Mon-Thu, but can get posts in early and late EST.

@Black Dow, no pressure, but you were one of my motivators to join this game...

And, the Knife Master was one of the reasons I took Toothy! With a bite attack, I threaten and flank for all that rogue love.

Being a ranged character, I hate missing attacks of opportunity when using a crossbow or bow... Now, I can bite them!

Language wise, I've got 4 to pick (already have Common, Orc).

1 intelligence bonus
1 linguistics rank
2 campaign feat

Racially, regionally... What makes sense besides Celestial (good cleric)?

Language wise, I've got 4 to pick (already have Common, Orc).

1 intelligence bonus
1 linguistics rank
2 campaign feat

Racially, regionally... What makes sense besides Celestial (good cleric)?

Varisian.

From previous discussion, trapfinding is not critical.

Knife Master gives up trapfinding. :)

Common, Orc, Sylvan, Varisian...

Two more?

Celestial might be too high-brow, I took Knowledge (religion) only because it feels like it should be required for 1st level Clerics!

Sylvan seems right for a traveling Desnan.

On the Feat front... Extra Channeling, for 4+2=6/day? Or Point Blank Shot to help with combat, set up archer stuff... It's suboptimal, but that's what the doctor ordered!

Celestial would be perfect for any good aligned cleric who wishes to speak to representatives of his/her deity in their native tongue.

If your character is a bit of a historian, Thassilonian would be good. If your character is a bit of a traveller, then pick a language to a region of Golarion that he's travelled to.

Has he traveled up north? Perhaps Shoanti or Kellid. Has he travelled south? Perhaps Orisiani or Polyglot. He he travelled around the world? Tien if he's been to the Far East, Vudrani if he's been to the Far South.

And don't forget the racial languages! Elven, Dwarven, Goblinoid...

I'll take that as a "Orne's got it covered", and take Spirit Guide. We also lost our Knife Master :-/

Edit: I'll second Celestial as a useful language as a cleric, and Sylvan seems very Desnan.

Featwise? I don't think this party will have ANY issues with healing, so PBS might be the good go to.

Common, is that the same thing as Cheliax? I never really paid attention to Golarion languages as much as I might have, our RotRL is more homebrew than Golarion cannon.

Looking at the map of Varisia, you can see that Ilsuria is located at the top of Lake Syrantula. There's lots of natural resources around. I could see Elven from the forests (goes along well with the sylvan) or even Dwarven from the mountains on the other side of the river.

Shoanti and Korvosan... Both can be useful...

Korvosan is more dialect than language, although knowing it may prove useful:

"Korvosan (Common): The slight blend of Varisian, Shoanti, and Common, along with isolation from imperial Cheliax, caused Korvosa to develop a unique slang."

Home from RL game. Checked off something from my Gaming Bucket list (Swallowed whole by a big Dinosaur. A bit of confusion on if it was a T Rex or an Allosaur, but either way, I SO should have died).

Party make up
Bard
Sorcerer
Cleric > Ranger?
Rogue
Oracle (Me)
Fighter

On the way home, I was Inspired.
Orlin "Stormborn" Sawyer. Heavens Oracle, with the lame curse, and Ashwood Lumberjack trait. Wordcaster (Authorized source list)

Born on a stormy night, after years of trying, with greatness foretold by a Harrow reading. I spent much of my youth, climbing on EVERYTHING, to get a better view of the stars. "Where's Orlin?" "Did you look up?" This is strange, given the accident that twisted his right leg, leaving him with a pronounced limp (Lame). Yet, heavensward he still looks. This proved to be a useful skill as a Lumberman, climbing trees, and spending nights outdoors, looking at the stars.

This heavens-gazing proved useful, as I deciphered what appeared to be a few words spelled out in the stars, and felt them resonate within. During my first year Lumbering, we were behind schedule bringing in wood for a big order, and we were exhausted. I spoke one of the words I had seen, and we were no longer tired. And the word was good. Two years ago, there was an accident where a heavy limb fell and broke one of my fellows legs, I spoke, and he was saved. My fellows find me strange, but respect my quiet competence, slow step, and unflagging endurance.

To Do: Apparently both archetypes are approved, so I need to step back and pick one.

Djack? Did you want a second person with Trapfinding, at first level, or did you think we're fine with just you having it covered?

If Djack's got traps covered covered, I'll take Spirit Guide as an Archetype, otherwise, I'll pick up Seeker.

My thought on it is, that even with our differences, a divine caster is still very similar to a divine caster, and Wordcasting would completely differentiate things.

Feats: Metaword Mastery (+3...

I'm really digging this character. This is a cool concept.

Thank you! Working on dropping it into a profile now. I had no fluff, no fluff, no fluff ... Full person!

Common, Orc, Sylvan, Varisian...

Common, Orc, Sylvan, Varisian, Korvosan (merchants/trade)...

One more... Shoanti, Goblin, Draconic (kobolds, lizardfolk)?

This character is more rustic, pragmatic... not a theologian or historian.

I think we're more likely to run into Goblins than Kobolds in this neck of the woods. Shoanti are definitely a presence, and can be considered your local barbarian's. They are far from "civilized" in the fashion that Korvosa and Magnimar are.

Does he want to know a language of a potential enemy of the town or a potential trader?

If trader, go with Shoanti. If potential enemy, go with Goblinoid.

Common, Orc, Varisian, Korvosan (merchants/trade), Shoanti, Goblinoid.

Both! I was thinking the same thing... Forego Sylvan as too whimsical. Maybe later.

I'll grab Sylvan, so that someone's got it covered. As a lumberman, that strikes me as super useful.

I picked up common and Varisian; if there was a third language in this town I'd have that, too. For now, Elven seems a good fit.

So looking at the map, it looks like common and Varisian are the most popular languages for Varisia, followed by Shoanti if your more north. Korvosan would be popular in and around Korvosa (obviously), but that particular city is cut off geographically from the rest of Varisia.

For those that don't know Varisia, you can think of it as kind of a giant square. The bottom half is what we traditionally think of when we think "Varisia," and it's where Rise of the Runelords takes place, as well as the opening to Jade Regent and a couple others (and many modules like ours). The middle of Varisia is where a lot of the old Thassilonian ruins are (Thassilonia is the name of the country that controlled these lands before they fell from power nearly a thousand years ago).

The northern end of the square is where a lot of the more wild lands are, with the north right being where you can find Shoanti and Orc tribes. Far upper right is where the Orc hordes and Orc campaigns take place. Mixed in with the orcs and headed to the upper left is where the Shoanti tribes are. Center to left upper region borders the southern end of the far north, where the ice and snow lands are, and is a portion of where Reign of Winter takes place (Irrisen).

At the bottom, there's us. Bottom left corner is Magnimar. Bottom right corner is Korvosa. We (Ilsurian) are bottom center, just north of a small mountain range and small lake. Sandpoint (the location where the campaign traits straight out of the APG were designed for) is over by Magnimar, just a few days walk.

Cool. Thanks!

Continuing our image of the square, Varisia is approximately 500 miles to a side. If we were to cut the country in half from the top left corner to the bottom right corner (making two triangles), the upper right triangle would be almost all Steppes with mountain ranges bordering almost the entire upper side and right side.

The bottom left triangle is almost all plains with a mix of forests, rivers, lakes, and a smattering of swamps. Almost the entire bottom and left sides are coastal to the ocean, with a deep inward bay about halfway up the left side.

To give an idea of size, Texas is about 800 miles length and width, so we're looking at a country that is a little smaller than Texas (and remember, Texas is huge).

By square mile, Texas is about 270,000 square miles (700k sq km) and my rough estimate of Varisia is about 250,000 square miles (650k sq km), but actually less because I'm not accounting for coastal edges.

Edit: and at some point in all this I read that Varisia is supposed to be the same size as California, just a different shape. Not sure where I saw it, though.

Guys my work has been a royal pain all weekend, and will likely slide into the bulk of next week (issues with jobs offshore) as such I'm not getting any time to spare to devote to building on my character, so its probably best if I graciously bow out and allow someone else to step up.

Thanks again for the consideration Corsario - hopefully I'll make it into a future game of yours.

Sorry to hear that, and I hope things clear out.

Please let me know your final decision on the ceremonial armor.

Please let me know your final decision on the ceremonial armor.

What the hell... use it...

Constable Huntington wrote:

Please let me know your final decision on the ceremonial armor.

What the hell... use it...

Cool. Thanks. On the one hand, it is an expensive +1 to AC. On the other, after I made my arguments, I would accept any decision you made.

"Clancy, take the boys and surround the house."

So I have a personality - now I just need to find his voice.

Maybe it's just me but it seems to be a very slow day across the boards.

Yes, it has been.
Sorry, I couldn't finish the dress rehearsal for the NPC's...
I hope I can start tomorrow.

Please welcome Gareth Fullmoon and Aliana Merali (KazMx and Rennaiv character's) into our group. They will be joining from the "novices" game.
So we have the Varisian sister and bother again!

Welcome, welcome. Glad to have you with us.

Welcome! Glad to have you here!

Thanks! :)

EDIT: For fair warning, my posts are primarily going to be at night West Coast time, as I work late. Don't worry though, they'll be there. :)

Thanks! :)

EDIT: For fair warning, my posts are primarily going to be at night West Coast time, as I work late. Don't worry though, they'll be there. :)

I work graveyard in the central time zone myself, so most of my posts are late night/early morning as I primarily post from work.

Hail and well met! Most of my posts will be in two mid to narrow windows, early morning EST, and early evening EST, so we'll be fairly all over the place timeblock wise.

IF I've got it right, our current party is:

Fighter
Alchemist
Bard
Bard
Cleric>Ranger
Sorcerer
Oracle

If so, we should have no problems with social challenges, nor with not having enough inspire courage! O.o

Edit - Remembered, dropped Distant metaword, as there are only 8 L0 words Oracle gets, and as a class it gets 9 over the first 10 levels, and I'll take it at L2. Instead I took a hp. Note, I no longer have light as a cantrip. (Open to other options for L0 words, but as is, from the Paizo sources, there aren't any more I can get)

I have light, so we're good on that end.

I'm on the west coast (PST); and work 7-3:30 mon-fri. I try and read up when I get up and right before I go to bed, if I can. I also try to check periodically during work, if time permits.

First Gameplay post up, and the discussion thread is opened.
You can make a post about your reaction to the carnival's arrival. I am still preparing stuff and checking characters, but let's get this baby rolling.

Don't forget to post in the Gameplay thread

Djack / Orne
We are waiting for you in the Gameplay thread!