Eagerly awaiting your decision. :)
We're going to do this again? :P
Just say you speak for all of us, Doran.
Edit: Also, in case you don't know, there are some people doing some really neat things for the community for Christmas. Have a look.
I do it every time! It's always a nailbiter, after all.
On Death
I'm a strong believer in death being important. I tend to believe that most people are happy to move on with their afterlife after they have passed on. Only truly exceptional and/or bizarre (See PCs) individuals would want to put off their earned afterlife to return to their mortal shell.
Should a PC die, assuming they can find an appropriate spellcaster that can cast Raise Dead, they can return to life for the normal sum but things are rarely that simple. The vast majority of the time there will be additional complications.
These could include:
*Some malevolent spirit piggybacking on the PC's returning soul - possessing him from time to time until it can be exorcised and destroyed.
*A relentless agent of the natural order coming after him/her.
*A soul of greater potential being harvested by the forces of the cosmos in an effort to balance the scales and the victim spirit haunting the newly risen's dreams.
How do you feel about reincarnate?
Same deal. The only exception is Breath of Life.
I added a blurb about magic item shopping to campaign info.
Next up will be a short bit about Zen Archers (that Moony will both like and hate).
Interesting.
Yes, interesting indeed.
I kinda like that bit about death, but I've never had a character die (knock on wood!) so I suppose it'll be a matter of seeing how it goes. I like Doran, though, I'd rather not lose him. :)
I experienced my first character death a few months ago... it was quite traumatic. I wasn't really ready to give the character up, so (upon the advice of numerous friends) decided to go with reincarnate. Now I'm playing a goblin rogue.
It's been quite the role-playing experience... from the dysmorphia of the new body, to the (other) psychological affects on the character, to the psychological affects on the rest of the party. The poor party druid is sure he did something wrong for the spell to have brought my character back as a goblin.
Alright I've thought about it.
I'll give Aran some consideration but missing out on the second round of interview questions will seriously hurt his chances.
Judgement to come in a few hours.
Thanks to Pirknok, I was able "to buy" a few hours, so I will be re-reading this thread and posting real soon again, if it is not too late already. As I already stated in a PM to Pirknok, due to my job, I had to go to Naples, Italy urgently and net is very scarce (read:bloody expensive) here. I will be back on Tuesday, until then I am stuck only with my iPad.
So off to read 100+ posts and try to respond in some meaningful manner.
Don't bother reading me and Pirk being doofuses! Just the important bits!
It's not sporting if you don't get a chance, too!
Rise of the Runelords it is!
A) What timezone are you in and what times are you available to post?
Central European Timezone - CET (that's GMT +1, or 6 hours difference from USA east coast, etc, etc...). I post at odd times, usually from my work, until very late at night so let's say starting from 09:00AM to 02:00AM
B) Briefly describe how you foresee your character reacting to another finalist and how the relationship between the two of you would develop. There are assignments for this one. You're responsible for the character after you in the list I posted in the recruitment thread.
Thus:
Despite the fact that they are both "close to nature" Aran would have quite a lots of troubles finding common ground with, what he would consider a "fanatically stubborn druidess". The way she is described, instead of finding a potential friend or ally, Aran would probably "bump heads" with her over a number of issues. First and foremost would be "the right" of woodcutters to encroach forest around Sandpoint. To Aran, preserving the forest and nature is important, but not more than providing food and work for the people. Where Amoonrann would simply forbid cutting, Aran would go to great lengths to make sure that woodcutters replant parts of forest, that they kill only thise animals they need to feed for themselves, to find ways to repopulate numbers of those creatures who are "suffering" due to forest cutting etc, etc. Aran sees as his own mission to try and enable for civilization to grow, albeit in a very controlled way, trying not to affect the natural order of things too much, and "fixing" what can be fixed. From what I see, It would be very hard, if not impossible to convince stubborn, arrogant druidess to agree on this course of action.
Erm, this will probably sound stupid to the rest of you but where do I find the person to describe meeting with her/him? I've read about places in the Campaign tab, but I do not see people described ther? Do I need to download Player's Guide?
That might help. I just sort of went with what I could glean from the short description in the campaign tab.
The Campaign Info tab has a spoiler block labled 'Sandpoint Map and Locations'. All the info available is there.
Not every location has an owner listed. Fill in the blanks yourself where necessary.
"All of you kids are the same" - a slightly hoarse, yet definatelly very feminine voice could be heard from behind the nearby counter. Aran turned to face the proprietor, and quickly blushed completely. Standing in front of him was a good-looking woman in her mid-forties, with dark appraising eyes. Aran felt a strange mixture of feelings - he has come to this place with a specific reason - try to sell one old giant's toothand earn enough money to be able to afford food&lodging for a few more days. Now he stood in front of Nisk(a), feeling both ashamed that she has "caught him" while he was admiring the statue of a harpie, as well as pleasantly surprised that she is so much different from his previous associate/boss, the herbalist in his own village. And she smells of jasmine...
Don't bother reading me and Pirk being doofuses! Just the important bits!
Speak for yourself!
I was trying to get him in under the wire, he can always read our silly conversations after the fact!
silly conversations
Again... speak for yourself!
Edit to mess with your head.
Whatever dorfy!
The puppies are cuter.
Aran: Glad you could make it!
I'm a cat person, really.
And yes, glad you could find the time to get your stuff up so you can get a fair shot like the rest of us, Aran. :)
I've looked over all the finalist stuff and I have to say this is going to be a really hard decision.
I'll have an official party roster up in a bit.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: The hardest decisions are always the best ones!
...Touche.
It was incredibly difficult but I've chosen. If you weren't chosen and you want feedback please PM me but I don't promise anything really meaningful. All of you guys were great and it came down to some extreme nitpicking.
If this were a tabletop game I'd take all eight of you but in my experience overly-large groups don't work well in PBP.
The party will be:
Ysmerelda, Dawn's Rose
Eli Blakewater
Pirknok Stonemight
Doran Quickstep
Adventus Artemidorus
Ensu, gnome cleric of Nethys
Aran and Amoonrann I will keep your names on the shortlist for replacements if we lose someone or they have to be cut. If you'd prefer to part ways and not potentially be called on in the future, please PM me.
In preparation, everyone please format your character-footer exactly as Doran's minus the last bits.
It should look like this:
Male Human (Chelaxian) Inquisitor 1 [ HP: 11/11 | AC: 19 T: 13 FF: 16 | F: +4 R: +4 W: +5 | Init: +6 Perc: +7 | Effects: None]
Also, if you don't already have one, I'd suggest you make a google account. I tend to use google docs a lot for campaign resources and on occasion I'd like to be able to give out edit privileges.
Very pleased to be included and I hope to play with all of you in the future! So many great characters it must have been terrible to choose.
Aran & Amoonrann, hope we get the chance to game together in the future... and hope you both find excellent, long-lasting PbPs soon!
Yes, I am 100% sincere when I said I wanted to take everyone.
I actually considered doing an 8 person group or two 4 person groups but decided that I would have been doing everyone an injustice by spreading myself too thin.
It's for me more than you, heh.
Awesome.
Aran, Amoonrann, I wish the both of you luck and maybe I'll be gaming with you guys sooner rather than later. :)
Ensu should be good and ready to go. Looks like it should be an interesting party.
So:
Female Changeling Paladin 1 [ HP: 11/11 | AC: 15 T: 11 FF: 14 | F: +2 R: +1 W: +2 | Init: +1 Perc: 0 | Effects: None]
Does that work, or should I add Darkvision?
That's perfect, Darkvision is something I can remember on my own.
This is an example of the sorts of documents I'm going to be using.
The idea being, each day I'll give you guys edit privileges so you can prepare your spells as needed and then lock it once the day has begun.
I'm gonna leave in my Judgment and Spells, because I will absolutely forget I have them and/or if I've used them, otherwise.
But yeah, I like having all the stuff there so I don't have to pull up my character sheet every time I want to post. :)
This is an example of the sorts of documents I'm going to be using.
The idea being, each day I'll give you guys edit privileges so you can prepare your spells as needed and then lock it once the day has begun.
Oh hey, that's nifty. I approve!
That's the purpose of the document I linked.
The footer is so that I know if you have your Judgement running or not.
Looks good, though it needs a place for my spell like abilities for being a gnome. And it would probably help to include deflection aura as well.
I do have a Google account. I almost never use it, but this will probably be good for me in that way as well. Do I need to post my account so you can add it to the privilege list?
That should do it.
Yeah, I have no problem with
Effects: Shield of Faith, Judgment
or whatever being there, it's helpful for me, too.
I have a google account (actually I think I have two!) and I think everything's in order. Ready when you are, boss!
Please use aardmudder+rotrlpbp (at gmail) for any doc sharing.
How could I forget!
Fixed.
If you want edit privileges when applicable, please PM me your email address.
The gameplay thread is up for dotting purposes.
GM, would you like me to add parentheticals to the footer for changes while raging?