DM Barcas - Kingmaker: New Beginnings (Inactive)

Game Master Isaac Duplechain

Hi guys. I'm down with then infuensa right now, just mesured at 39.6°C, can't think straight so I'm gona have to ask you to either play me or skip me. Thx.

Hi guys. I'm down with then infuensa right now, just mesured at 39.6°C, can't think straight so I'm gona have to ask you to either play me or skip me. Thx.

Yikes! That sucks, get well soon!

Gute Besserung Sigz!

Had to convert that to farenheit so my silly american brain could understand :P

Get well soon dude!

What is it in F?

103.28 says Google.

Yikes!

Good snowball fight, guys.

Hah! We thought that there wasn't enough challenge and blood - so we figured the only way we could work up a real sweat is by fighting ourselves! Argh!

And I'm ecstatic! My buddy Jerall made it to the final 4!

Hey guys, if any of you are interested, I could use one or two more players in my eastern-themed PBP Mists of War. I've hemorrhaged players at an astounding rate; three dropped due to sudden "oh crap" IRL issues, one dropped due to less sudden by medically dire "oh crap" IRL issues, and I think one more is about to go as he has no idea what to do with the crazy build he made. (His main battle tactic is "run away" and he's spent the whole game thus far trying to have a conversation with an Erinyes.) I'm down to a core group of four solid players now (a Xorn sorcerer who is an advisor to the Emperor, an Aasimar cleric of Shelyn, a noble human Samurai, and a human Gaijin Samurai in the palace guard), but I could really use another samurai if someone would like to play one, possibly even a member of Clan Sera, rivals of Clan Shoto, to which one of the PCs belongs, and then...well I guess the other one could be anything, really.

Anyway! I know you guys are all really busy so no hard feelings if you can't or don't want to, or if my DM'ing style isn't your thing or etc. etc., but since this is an insanely awesome group I thought I'd post here first before looking around in general.

DM Barcas, I know you proposed a build in the original LFP thread, so if you still want in I'll give you first crack at it.

Other than that, if anyone else is interested, please read the linked LFP thread, above, for my character creation rules, and if any of you are interested I'll work it out from there w/r/t where to post builds, etc.

Also, apologies for threadjacking here, I imagine it'll be a brief break. :-)

Jemini: congrats to your pal, that's awesome!

Ah... thanks for the offer Taisper; I would love to play an Eastern-themed campaign (I'm totally looking forward to Jade Regent!) but with Carrion Crown I've got six pbps and four real-life campaigns running (other than the one I GM). I just have to draw the line somewhere.

But I hope somebody else in the group can step up (yes! You DM Barcas! ...you know you want to...)

Hmmm tempting.

STR 1d3 + 15 ⇒ (1) + 15 = 16
INT 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
WIS 1d3 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18
CHA 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
4d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 5, 1) = 10 = 9
4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 5, 5) = 16 = 13

Did I do that right? I haven't rolled dice for ability scores in forever.

That would end me up with

STR 16
DEX 9
CON 13
INT 7
WIS 18
CHA 13

PB: 28

Not bad I suppose. I'm thinking of doing a Tengu Zen Archer Monk. How does that sound? Maybe I'll put together a profile. Level 6?

EDIT: From looking at other people in that thread putting together characters, do I have to declare which stats I'm rolling for when I make the epic rolls? I'd assumed I do, but other people seem to not be doing that. If not, I'll do:

STR 16
DEX 13
CON 13
INT 9
WIS 18
CHA 7

@DRA:

Man, I'm playing in and loving one of your games right now, but Carrion Crown is about my limit, I have to start saying no to games! Very sorry though!

@siz:

Get better soon!

How whats everyones plan for our inievtable deaths?

Its kind of built into Tandlara that she will be okay with dying beyond a certain point, and frankly I like a game where death is infrequent, but permanent. I also like playing new characters because I'm terrible for having ideas while playing a character.

Especially as long as some/most of the original cast remain, so it suits me that its a very personal preference. Unless my character has a huge reason to come back!

I might take you up on it. I did roll amazing stats in that thread. Let me think about.

Sure you don't want Shuriken? Hahahaha

Zander would like to be raised if possible. Just a standard Raise Dead and a few castings of Restoration to remove the level drain will do the trick. 7000 gp total isn't too terrible especially if we wanted to consider character ressurection a party cost which would only be 1167 gp per person.

Sounds like you have a taker, lol. I am another who needs to watch his gaming commitments, with my Living Pathfinder involvement I think another game would probably leave me oversubscribed. Verik would want to be raised if it is practically doable. But I usually think it a bit pie in the sky before 5th level.

Here's a statblock. I'm going to be stretching it a bit to fit this game in, but I think I'll be able to do it. I have 3 games I'm playing in right now (counting Carrion Crown), 2 I'm GMing, and 1 on hiatus.

I have no idea what kind of background or personality this character will have yet, but I'll think on that tonight or tomorrow and maybe put something up.

Also just realized I forgot to roll a 7th score to drop.

4d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 1, 2) = 11

Goodbye 7, hello 10.

What's the current roster in Mists of War?

I might take you up on it. I did roll amazing stats in that thread. Let me think about.

Sounds good! Just lemme know.

Sure you don't want Shuriken? Hahahaha

Ha! Egad, no. Dude keeps sniffin' around the original LFP, too. Yeesh.

@smashthedean: Cool! No rush, obviously, just drop by the OOC thread when you feel ready to jump in. It would be rad if Yohei could be part of the palace guard, but certainly not required. Maybe part of a team of tengu archers, specialists.

What's the current roster in Mists of War?

Shoto Imuri - human nobleman, samurai 4/ninja 2

Are we really giving full rations to a horse? We're not going to last long if we keep this up...

You'll be in better eating locations soon.

Yeah I'll be eating that horse soon...

We can always put Zander and Taisper to hunting while the rest of us explore - I can't imagine it would slow us much and by taking ten they can feed six people.

[ooc]Maybe we could go EAST,NORTHWEST,NORTHEAST,EAST,EAST->OLEGS.

That's Hill, Hill, Hill, Plain. And we go around the mountains between us and Olegs' We can explore that any old time, but I'm up for avoiding another mountainous area until we resupply and the weather warms up.

And we'll have 9 hexes explored out of the 58 in the chartered area. That's 15% in one run. Another 5 runs where we explore 11 hexes would totally explore the area! Though I'm all for letting us go with the flow exploration wise, this has been a mighty acheivement! We need some time at Oleg's, I just pray we haven't been gone too long.

@downrightamazed DM Barcas here. What do you think about a judo-style monk? Uses readied actions to utilize Improved Ki Throw, flinging enemies all over the place. Not sure on personality or history yet, as I was only following Mists of War casually.

For Jemini I'd have to see what the situation is at the time. A friend of mine likes to say: "Don't cheapen a character death"

A snowball fight? You guys are awesome!

As to character death. I'm on the edge there. I like making characters (as my RL DM will atest too, I'm on char no 4 now in the last stretch of Rise of the Runelords) but I also like my characters. So I recon it'll have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

@downrightamazed DM Barcas here. What do you think about a judo-style monk? Uses readied actions to utilize Improved Ki Throw, flinging enemies all over the place. Not sure on personality or history yet, as I was only following Mists of War casually.

I dig it! There are a number of ways we could work in such a character given where the plot currently is.

Expect posting to be a bit less frequent than normal for the next couple of days. I just got Wise Man's Fear and it so unabashedly brilliant so far I nearly fell in a canal while reading it walking the dog.

hahaha@Verik :)

I've been hearing great things about that book! Never did read the first one though.

I seriously recommend reading it, stayed up till 6:30 am reading it - so good! Its strange how it can dip into so many traditional fantasy tropes and yet seem fresh original and brilliant. In the Name of the Wind is also an excellent read, I have read it three times in the year I have owned it which is about the highest praise I can give a novel.

Hmmm... Perhaps I'll have to pick that first book up. It's been a while since I've had a really good read.

Both brilliant, its 6:50 am here and I have just finished my second all nighter, lol.

@DM Baracus: I have actually been calling Virtue a dappled grey, somthing like THIS.

When back under last night, went to work and came home worse than I was so I'm taking it easy for the weekend. Don't know how I'll be at posting so don't wait up, at least not for too long...

Best of luck man. Consider taking a vitamin C overdose and just watch series all weekend (when you're not sleeping).

My god they just gave an official release date for A Dance with Dragons! July 12th, wow.

My god they just gave an official release date for A Dance with Dragons! July 12th, wow.

Now to see if he actually finishes it on time...

I have no doubt he will, there have been soft announcement before, but the important part is that his publishers have put this up as the official date.

Yes, I know. You've all seen publication dates before: dates in 2007, 2008, 2009. None of those were ever hard dates, however. Most of them... well, call it wishful thinking, boundless optimism, cockeyed dreams, honest mistakes, whatever you like.

This date is different. This date is real.

@Barcas
Great. Now you've got me wishing Berrin was a beast master. A horse with an attitude and a thycelrin chasing after us. Maybee I'll take a level of cavalier to act on some of it? Order of the Dragon?

If you were so inclined, you could actually use the Hound Master archetype from RPGSuperstar 2011.

mmyyees.. I'm more inclined toward forming a bond with Bessie actually. Maybee spend some time with the our good nobleman back at Oleg's getting familiar with animals and riding, finding out Bessie's actually quite a good horse and have an embarasing moment where Berrin apologizes and renames her...

Probably go 2 levels of Fighter yet before switching over. Wepon Specialization man, wepon specialization.

You know, I've spent many a day now wearing body armor for 16 hours straight. Despite it clearly being light armor in terms of encumbrance, it is really quite difficult on the body and pretty exhausting. The 25 pounds of gear around the waist doesn't help.

Hey guys! A video of Reggie!

Why is everything I want always extinct?

You could always go to Austarailia and prove them wrong... ;)

I'm not sure if blood cougars differ at all, but here's a snippet I just read about Thylacines:

The thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes (the other being the water opossum). The male thylacine had a pouch that acted as a protective sheath, covering the male's external reproductive organs while he ran through thick brush.

That sounds like a handy thing to have. Also, I've been keeping my map up to date and have a link in my profile. Here's the current copy:

Map

Well if you think its handy... Try This!