DM oKOyA's Mummy's Mask: The Half-Dead City

Game Master Lord oKOyA

Once Joana and Castor make their choices, I will figure out the details and confer with each player to ensure things work within the characters motivations.

I can say it is definitely out in the desert yes. In the shadow of the Brazen Peaks, south of Wati.

I will admit that I am leaning somewhat towards the sorcerer (he was made for a similar setting, after all). I do find both characters interesting though, to be honest. I am hoping Joana will help with my indecision a little actually. :-)

I don't use Herolab but I think I can keep this guy straight. He is pretty straight forward.

Am I healing of channeling positive energy this round??? :].

AK, you were in a WotR where the DM was going to run a "short" prequel to tide the group over until the first AP issue was available, and it ran several months and ended without ever getting into the actual AP, no?

Yup. Not worried about Okoya's reliability but I would prefer to keep it on the short side nevertheless.

I don't use Herolab but I think I can keep this guy straight. He is pretty straight forward.

That isn't why I was asking. :)

Yup. Not worried about Okoya's reliability but I would prefer to keep it on the short side nevertheless.

Aw thanks Alex. lol :)

And yes, it is quite short. As long as you allow me a little leeway in the exposition to get you to the site, it should be fairly quick. :)

My plan is to exposition a reason why everyone shows up at the same spot at roughly the same time to explore a recently unearthed tomb. You meet and greet and then decide to delve the tomb together. A short four-ish rooms later, you emerge and then we move onto the AP proper.

Sound ok?

Works for Kheled!

I will admit that I am leaning somewhat towards the sorcerer (he was made for a similar setting, after all). I do find both characters interesting though, to be honest. I am hoping Joana will help with my indecision a little actually. :-)

Well, I'm leaning toward the lore warden so I'll look into finalizing that character if you want to run with the sorcerer. The buzz is that there's new swarms in the first volume, so consider learning an AoE spell. I despise the swarm mechanics. :P

Another point of interest with the prequel-delve is resources, either having to expend what we have or gaining some sort of treasure. Might want to consider a reset before the beginning of the AP proper, in that whatever we might come out of the prequel with doesn't benefit us more than in replacing anything we might use up.

Or we can start with a few extra things. Don't encourage the GM to be stingy! lol

Well, I'm leaning toward the lore warden so I'll look into finalizing that character if you want to run with the sorcerer. The buzz is that there's new swarms in the first volume, so consider learning an AoE spell. I despise the swarm mechanics. :P

Another point of interest with the prequel-delve is resources, either having to expend what we have or gaining some sort of treasure. Might want to consider a reset before the beginning of the AP proper, in that whatever we might come out of the prequel with doesn't benefit us more than in replacing anything we might use up.

Ok... I am going to tentatively assume that Joana is going with her fighter and Castor his sorcerer unless told otherwise. :)

With that assumption, I will work up the prelude tonight and tomorrow and have it ready to go for... let's say Monday? (We could go sooner if there was an interest to get things going earlier) (Stay tuned for potential questions regarding your characters.)

And don't worry, I'll be keeping an eye on the delve's potential costs and rewards. ;)

It is my understanding that this AP is very "hollywood" as opposed to gritty realistic, and as such, I will be setting up the pre-lude with the same feel.

As for the swarms? Yes. ;) Don't forget to employ mundane solutions to potential problems. A flask of acid or alchemist's fire can come in pretty handy. :)

Sounds good, ready to go later this week...I need to put some little finishing toches on my character by tommorrow to wrap him up.

The buzz is that there's new swarms in the first volume, so consider learning an AoE spell. I despise the swarm mechanics. :P

The only damaging AoE spell I can think of at 1st level at the moment is burning hands. Is that what you had in mind? :-)

That's the one my gnome had. Of course, hers was 2d4 at 1st level, which would have been pretty awesome. :)

I looked at your sorcerer in Mark's recruitment thread, but that was 4th level; I wasn't sure what your spell selection would look like at 1st and in a dungeon crawl rather than a presumably surface setting.

Actually, a Tattooed Sorcerer gets the Varisian Tattoo feat at 1st level and since Corven will have the Evocation version of it, he too will be casting burning hands at +1 caster level, making its damage 2d4 as well. :-)

As for spell selection, I was thinking: 0 - acid splash, daze, detect magic, disrupt undead, prestidigitation; 1st - burning hands, mage armor. The extra 0-level spell is thanks to the human favored class bonus spell known.

By the way, what is our wealth at 1st level? Average, maximum or do we roll for it (you mention standard for each class)?

By the way, what is our wealth at 1st level? Average, maximum or do we roll for it (you mention standard for each class)?

He switched from standard to max here.

I have added the character creation and house rules to the campaign info tab. If there is anything missing, or anything you want added to it, just let me know.

Character profile up. She's pretty much the same as the rough build but with gear. ;)

Looks good. No questions currently. :)

Hmm... Unless I am mistaken, Professor Aristedes seems to be missing a trait. Since he has taken the Family Ties drawback he should also choose a third trait, right?

On a different note, I see a couple of Greek -or at least Greek-sounding- names. I am looking at you Mr. Aristedes and Ms. Kyriakos (although you use them as last names, I will give you that). :-P

Hey, we're Taldan. :) The sample Taldan names given in the campaign setting are vaguely Koine Greek.

Male: Domitian, Eudoxius, Galadon, Iacobus, Ioseph, Marcian, Menas, Narses, Olybrius, Origen, Stilicho, Theodric, Vors, Xanthan

Female: Adula, Charito, Eudocia, Euphemi, Ionnia, Kale, Komana, Pasara, Salvianella, Semne, Viviana, Xene

The Professor's first name is Egyptian, in homage to his family's ancient successes in Osirion. Fittingly, the name Pherenike has an Egyptian connection as well.

Hmm... Unless I am mistaken, Professor Aristedes seems to be missing a trait. Since he has taken the Family Ties drawback he should also choose a third trait, right?

It is listed at the bottom of his character sheet: Mummy-Cursed. The same as Pherenike's.

As both a heads up and an FYI - I shall be wending my way on holiday starting Monday, and will be out of the country from roughly 2-3 weeks give or take (through to about 10th April).

During such time my online time shall be curtailed from what I'm usually capable - which should engender a reduction in verbosity and potentially some unreliability when it comes to posting rates and speed.

I'm more that happy to be DMPC'd whenever it's appropriate, but am hopefuly that I should be able to keep up with all the PbPs that I'm currently playing in during the time down-under.

Have fun Mark!

Random thought: You are now a very human-centric party.

Random thought #2: After some reading and planning, who is in charge of dealing with traps in this party? :)

Trapper Ranger raises his hand.

Ah yes of course. I had you listed as Ranger (Warden) but that is only half of it. :)

EDIT: You will be busy. ;)

Heh - aye, kind of expecting that given the circumstances :)

Here is Corven's crunch.

I should tell you that this week has been... tiring and will most probably continue to be so until about Tuesday with the next three or four days being spent away from my computer. I am not entirely certain whether I will be able to create a character profile or post until then, but I shall at the very least try.

Looks good Castor. No questions at this time. :)

Whenever you guys get a chance, can you add your character bios to your character sheets please? :)

The stuff you have already posted here in the discussion thread, or anything else you want to add or wish to include, at this point is fine.

It makes it easier to find. :)

Thanks!

Whenever you guys get a chance, can you add your character bios to your character sheets please?

Meh, that means I have to write one. ;P

I'll PM AK about agreeing on some background details.

As I said, you don't have to create an extensive background. If you could just add the little blurb from further up thread to your sheet for easy reference. :)

PMs noted - will get to them tonight.

Sound good and thank you :)

Busy period over. Can start posting when the game starts.

Backstory added to Pherenike's profile.

Thanks Joana :)

Just have to finalize Corven's prelude exposition and I am ready to get things rolling.

Prelude post is up. Hopefully it isn't full of too many errors, but I wanted to get it up as soon as I could to allow people to get started.

More to come tomorrow. :)

That is 3 of 5 confirmed ready to move on to the morning of the caravan's departure. Will give a little more time for Alex and Castor to post before moving things forward.

I'd definitely like a chance to post a bit, hold fire until I do please!

Should be able to do so later today. I missed the posts in the gameplay thread till only a while ago. Sorry...

No problem. Will hold on. :)

As Mus'ad is the dwarf you wish to speak to, we'll hope that he finds time to respond soon.

Hope the vacation is going well Mark! :)

Castor can post whenever he has time as well. ;)

As per my PBP I think Mark is out of pocket for the next few weeks so unless you want to jump in Okoya, we may be waiting until he finds some time over the next couple of weeks.

I was wondering if his dwarf and this one were the same :].

He did post in thread that he might have time to post once everyone was at the caravan. I'll give him some time, and if he doesn't post, I'll DMNPC him to get the caravan under way. The get to know you RP can happen at the dig site just as easily as on the journey.

Keeping with the idea that we want to keep the prelude short, I was going to have the trip to the site uneventful.

I was hoping for combat with 10 giant rats...lots of misses and little to no damage :].

That comes AT the dig site, not on the way. ;)

Yesterday I was at my brother's without net. Today at my parent's with net... as soon as my little ones are asleep I'll be in thread.

Hmm... I had forgotten that I did not actually finish with Corven's character sheet besides just creating it. I will see to it today.

Hi everybody.

I know DM oKOyA has told you all about my interest in joining the game, so I just wanted to pop in and say hi in person. Most of you know me, since I've been gaming with oKOyA, Terok and Alexander in Alex's Kingmaker PbP for the past four years. Two of my PbP games ended recently, so I find myself light on games.

For this game, I'm hoping to play Layla Meskhenet, a pharasmin undead hunting inquisitor native to Wati. She could easily be connected to Kheled. She would be filling the roles of frontline melee, enabler and scout. I hope to have her Alias and full backstory ready later today.

I hope all of you approve of my entry to the game and look forward to gaming with you.

I don't like men playing female PCs, and after Nuveril's experience with Grall, I don't want to share the melee niche again.

Fair enough - I also have a male version, Tarik. And Wisdom is the characters main stat, so I can easily downplay the melee role in favor of a more support oriented character.

Another character idea I had was to play a halfling rogue, another servant of the professor's family.

Let me know your thoughts. I won't join unless I'm 100% certain everyone is ok with it. I'm late to a full party, after all.