Here is the opening discussion thread where we can complete character building and OOC discussion during the adventure.
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Real busy day....I'll try to get Horum's background etc done this evening.
Hey, some embarrassing oversights, wow (I can't believe I forgot to copy over my spell selection).
1) I think I accidentally added 1 to dex instead of subtracting because of the age. Here is how my abilities break down:
Ability Base Aging Race
Str 11 10 8
Dex 11 10 12
Con 13 12 12
Int 17 18 18
Wis 13 14 14
Cha 9 10 12
2) I haven't really done the legwork to build my familiar and will probably hold off for now (assuming you're okay with it) because I don't plan on using them much, much too frightened of losing my spellbook.
3) Going with Deception for Patron and the following for spells: Charm Person, Command, Cure Light Wounds, Ear-Piercing Scream, Ill Omen, Mage Armor, Obscuring Mist. All that is now on the sheet.
4) Missed the slingstaff thing, will be replacing with a sling and a dagger.
5) Woo, gonna hex dem gnolls
Hey Boss_Smiley don;t be embarrassed, making new characters is hard work.
1) With the final stats this is still a 24 point buy, mainly because adding one (for age) to a 17 is worth more than one "point" in the buying scale. To even the playing field, I'd prefer to see your character, at outset of our adventure, have a 20 pt buy, after the racial and age modifications. If they aged during the campaign then you might get the bonus/penalty away from 20 pts.
2) Fine, we won't use him in combat etc then. Easier for me.
3) What spells do you anticipate haveing prepared for first day?
4) fine
5) good luck, maybe I'll replace them all with goblins and we'll run a desert based Runelords instead...
Hadiyah's crunch should be complete. The only thing I have left is to list my spells, and finalize equipment.
1st level Spells I'll be taking are shield of faith and divine favor I believe. Orisons should be create water, light, guidance, and spark.
So I have Zuhra and Horum all done, Gran Wyssel nearly done. Alistar LeBlanc had a bunch of work to do, and haven't seen anything yet on Hadiyah.
Pary looks like:
Horum - Human Monk
Gran - Halfling Witch
Zuhra - Human Cavalier
Alister - Halfling (?)Rogue
Hadiya - Human Oracle (I think)
Looks like the group is shaping up nicely. I am little worried about the radio silence from Alister/Zen, but hopefully that works itself out.
I am ready to roll with the opening when you guys get your PC's together.
Son of a B****!!
I just got home from my soccer game after work. I did my updates on Hadiyah today. Changed a lot of stuff, and entered everything into her profile. It looks like the site didn't save what I entered in, so I will be doing that tonight. That's really frustrating... >:o
Yeah....been bitten by the time out many times. Now when I'm doing a bit update like a new profile, I create it in notepad or word then copy over.
Got a little background added. Still need to reformat my profile... travelling tomorrow so prob won't get to it till Sunday.
So, anyone has any news of Zen?
Oh, I didn't realize you wanted me not to use the aging bonuses/penalties. I'll adjust to fit the point buy then, Wyssal is about to get less charismatic.
EDIT: Base scores are now: 10, 10, 12, 18, 13, 8. Old lady Wyssal is looking worse every day.
I haven't had a chance to peruse the rest of the party, I opted out of investing in knowledge skills because Wyssal is meant to have been enslaved up until recently and therefore not to have had much formal education. I'll be doing some serious learning once we hit second level but if lacking those knowledge rolls will hamstring the party I'd be happy to redistribute; how do we all feel about that?
@Celtic: As someone who just is coming late to a different game because I missed the posting of the new thread I understand Zen's tardiness. I'll shoot them a PM as a reminder.
I think that a single level without knowledge skill is fine if it does not fit the character's story. Although, knowledge local is always accessible to people and knowledge arcana would be fitting to a witch even without formal education. She could have learned it while discovering her power or talking to her familiar.
Hadiyah has knowledge religion. So that base is covered for the time being.
Crunch is up and ready for review. Now I just need to craft an interesting backstory.
Also to answer your earlier question I'll start with the following prepared:
O: Dancing Lights, Daze, Mending
1st: Charm Person, Ear-Piercing Scream
If you'd like I can put it up in my profile but I think my default loadout will probably change a little as things progress.
Fluff is posted as well.
Out of curiosity, who are we waiting on to finish characters at this point?
Zen...
Here is my review of Hadiyah:
1) What is her 2nd non-campaign trait? I have heirloom weapon.
2) Dodge gives a +1 bonus to CMD, so should be 16
3) check to see if you are medium encumbered, HL shows you are.
That's it.
Do you guys want to proceed without Zen? We can always fold his PC back in if he returns to the thread.
Sounds good to me
Yup,let us proceed.
I agree, let's go. It has been more than a week since he last wrote.
I'll make the updates to Hadiyyah today. I'm fine with starting now, but won't be able to post for a couple hours.
Updates have been completed!
The gameplay is open. Please read and respond to the first post.
Its a travel weekend...will have opening post up Sunday
No worries, Happy Easter!
Woah, just realized I never pasted my backstory onto my profile after writing it. It's up there now, I used the suggestion from the 'earning your freedom' trait as the reason why I'm in the caravan; Garavel knows I'm an escaped slave and has promised me freedom for helping and punishment for failing to do so.
I'll post in gameplay in a little bit.
I realize the backstory is in post players' alias, but the summary is also shared knowledge of the other PC's since they've been together for a week or more, also gives motivation to be on the caravan, and a good opportunity to introduce character for RP purposes.
Hope all of you will post over there after the long weekend.
Sorry folks. I thought I would have a chance to make my introductory post today at work, but didn't have an opportunity.
I will be celebrating my birthday with the wifey tonight, so I may not get a chance to post this evening.
Happy Birthday! (belated now I suppose)
Happy B.D.
Thanks Smiley!
It's actually the 22nd, but I have softball all night tomorrow, so we celebrated tonight.
Well, crap on a cracker. My post earlier today didn't submit. I will see if I get a chance to post tonight after my softball game. That's a long entry that I will have to re-write and don't have time ATM.
Sorry folks.
It's okay. However!, just a friendly advice, always save your posts!
Yep. I'm re-learning this lesson again.
Soooo, anyone still there? I would write something else... but Zuhra really will keep her distance from the group... so there is not much to add for now.
Couldn't really 'computer' the last day and a half, so I couldn't post until just now. I also suspect that there's some hesitance as to how to move forward, we've got a few stoic characters and little to prompt them to break their solitude before DocEvil steps in, it can make the initial character connections feel a little strenuous
@Zuhra: If you're not going to go talk to the group the group will talk to you
Sorry I have been away. Traveling this week and expected to have internet connections, but my hotel was less than stellar in that regard. Back home now, and should be able to get the story started.
Sorry again for the delay.
No problems! Its good to get news!
Always nice to get home after a long trip :)
I thought I was going to be really clever for a second by Dazing the animals to subdue them, but as it turns out they aren't humanoids so that won't work.
Just a heads up, it's a super busy day at work for me. I likely won't have the opportunity to post again today. Feel free to roll any necessary checks for me.
I will be away tomorow and saturday with my wife for our first wedding anniversary, so I will not be posting for those two days.
Congratulations Celtic.
Where's everyone at? No posts since monday...
Still here, waiting to see if there's anyone else that needs healing or if I'm throwing buckets.
Thanks! It was quite a nice year.
Anyway, I am always here, checking veryday to see what goes on.
If Zuhra's check doesn't work we might want to think about putting some more bodies on the wagon removal.
Does anyone have any ability to deal with animals, because I feel like we're dropping the ball on that task. I don't have any real competence with handle animal but I could use my slumber hex on them which will put them out for a round, potentially allowing a pc or npc to pull it away while it is still drowsy (assuming DocEvil is happy with that interpretation), but that's about it.
Zuhra can do it, once the wagon is out of the way.