Alayna Tamexo |
Submitting Mellisa Varnay, a young lass who wandered westward into Varisia, the land of her ancestors. She moved to Korvosa, and unfortunately was recruited into the order of Gray Maidens during Queen Ileosa's brief but cruel reign. She joined innocently enough, thinking the order of female warriors would be an honorable one. But she was indoctrinated, maimed and soon she was willingly committing the heinous deeds her superiors bade her do. Mercifully, Queen Ileosa's reign was ended before she was too lost. Tainted, scarred and haunted from her deeds as one of the queen's honor guard, she escaped Korvosa with a few of her sisters-in-arms.
As they wandered, aimlessly, seeking purpose, she and her fellow former Gray Maidens drifted around Varisia. Eventually, Mellisa realized it was fast approaching five years from when she left Trunau. She couldn't believe what she had become; her wide-eyed optimism and ever-present smile was now lost under her scarred face. She somehow managed to keep her hopeknife all this time, and she studied it, weighing a momentous decision. Does she go back home and see her old friends, despite the things she has done? Or should she use it, as it was intended, to prevent the unthinkable from happening?
Unfortunately, she realized, she missed that opportunity back in Korvosa. Taking her life now would be the ultimate failure, and concession to the evil of Ileosa. Her only option was to keep living. Her hopeknife hanging openly around her neck, she finally returns to Trunau, dreading the reunions.
I'm going with a phalanx fighter -- pretty tanky, and using polearms to deal with the reach issues of the giants.
DM Jubal |
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Before I go completely back to the drawing board... What are your feelings about swapping to Unchained as soon as it's readily available on the PRD? I think that's usually about a month after release, so most Likely before we level to 4...
I make no promises about Unchained before I read it. You would be better off not planning for it for this game.
FYI The Gameplay thread is up. Remember to role-play the NPC interaction yourself. I'll step in with some tidbits here and there but don't count on it. You're advised to stay relatively sober.
cheers
DM Jubal |
Have I read correctly that your rules standard is the PRD, so the archetypes in Inner Sea Magic would not be available?
My rules standard is the Pathfinder SRD. I don't know if the archetypes in Inner Sea Magic are in there, yet.
TheWaskally |
DM Jubal, I would like to present to Menas Dalaston, newly-returned native of Trunau from Vigil in Lastwall, and defender of Iomedae.
Also, a question, will familiars fall under the DM's control as NPCs, or will players control their own familiars?
DM Jubal |
Also, a question, will familiars fall under the DM's control as NPCs, or will players control their own familiars?
Familiars will be run by the players as a rule. On an exceptional basis, I will NPC them if they are asked to do something dangerous and will appropriately communicate to the PC an emotion such as fear or panic...
EDIT Please follow Doomed Hero's PbP guide in the Gameplay thread. Nem, I'm looking at you.
cheers
DM Jubal |
Is it necessary that our character partake in the tavern RP that is currently ongoing in order to be selected?
It's not necessary, but it's to the applicant's advantage. Remember the characters are supposed to be old friends. You can wait to show up near the end of Recruitment if you want to minimize potentially pointless posts.
Juliette Aulamaxa |
Dylos here, I have now made the mechanical choices for my submission (aside from animal companion), and will now begin working on fluff. I should note that Balgret has access to the teamwork feat Paired Opportunists.
Also, Balgret shouldn't have to worry about detecting as Evil, since her deity is Lawful Neutral (but oddly viewed as a necessary evil among the dwarves, odd for a deity which can have paladins).
The Pale King |
Godric will now be a Sacred Huntsmaster with a Megaloceros for an animal companion with a strong focus on teamwork feats with said AC. He left the village and found religion and his other half. I am thinking Erastil or Cayden Cailean. Erastil fits with his original work ethic and community driven thoughts, but Cayden Cailean fits more with leaving to find himself. Slowly building up my character here.
DM Jubal |
If any applicant has any extra time, I would be tremendously grateful for a list of applicants like this:
Hammers (damage dealers)
Link to profile name, race, class, alignment
Anvils (tanks)
Link to profile name, race, class, alignment
Arms (support & buffs)
Link to profile name, race, class, alignment
Please refer to TarkXT's seminal post on party roles.
thanks
Keltza Proditor |
Well I know I certainly could act as an arm. Bard and all. Okay with a bow, but better with inspiring courage and useful spells. If I remember correctly, Giants and the like should be uh... poor with Will saves, so Hideous Laughter might see some use :3 Then again, if things go poorly. Then again, so should Expeditious Retreat, Grease, or CLW if we get into trouble.
Oh I forgot how much I loved bards.
EDIT: Inn other news, I didn't forget to extend Keltza's elitist attitude towards giants... she just hasn't met one yet.
Keltza Proditor |
It seems to me like there are few to no divine casters and NO healer whatsoever... if you'll want, I could shift over to playing a Life Oracle focused on Conjuration Spells. It won't change my stats all too much and it won't affect my backstory at all.
I think I'll do that, but remind me to keep at least one point in Perform: Sing.
Beltzer |
Anvil - Tanks and close range control
Hammer - The pain bringers
Forge - The 2nd line, Auxiliary combatants with combat utility
Support - Combat buffers and battlefield control
Utility - Out of combat priority with secondary combat roles
I've only had a brief look at people's builds. I can't predict what people are going into so feel free to correct me and I'll update this.
I'm not completely sold on 'auxiliary combatants' title but I hope people see what I mean. Basically those builds that have hybrid roles and bring a unique spin to the combat.
Edit: updated with the suggestions
Beltzer |
@Jubal: Well I've put two sections of battlefield control. One of general control and one for close range ones. I've seen TarkXTs ones before but I also find those roles a little narrow.
@Karrdas: Sorry I forgot switch hitting was also a build type swapping between range and melee. I was using it more between two weapon and two handed form what I can tell form your build.
Keltza Proditor |
I switched my backstory and stats appropriately so my character sheet is updated, stats changed, and backstory changed slightly. It is... a bit darker, but there you go. The only thing left to do is actually buy gear.
So... I suppose this is my new submission! I am more focused on Charisma based skills than before so I will be intimidating enemies and buffing allies with spells, as well as being an AWESOME healer.
Varin al'Thine |
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I just wanna say that at this point, regardless of whether I make it in to this Campaign or not, I am enjoying my time rp-ing with you all. I haven't had a PbP to play in in a long time, this is actually one of the first games I have applied to in probably a year and a half to two years and I am damn glad I applied to it.
Thanks for making this Recruitment process fun guys. Ya'll rock!
Dolarre |
DM Jubal,
How do you feel about the Medium from the Occult Adventures playtest? I was going to wait to apply to a PbP until the final book came out, but I've been following your gameplay thread. The roleplay level is fantastic and I'd like to be a part of it. I know in July I might need to make adjustments, but if you're okay with that I will craft a character based on the playtest doc and developers comments in the playtest thread.
DM Jubal |
OK. I've redone Beltzer's list (Thank you, Beltzer) using a more conventional categorization. I added links and alignments as a proxy for how well characters will work together. Please feel free to suggest a different category for your character.
I will start reviewing characters and providing feedback. But my initial skimming for alignment found several characters in need of organization in their profile and content.
Martial
Skills
Divine
Arcane
Qunnessaa |
Thinking about it some more, I've realized that I'm not likely to come up with a character any time soon that I can easily imagine would care all that much about killing giants and, worse, hanging around the Hold of Belkzen, and everyone else seems to be hitting it off so well that I don't want to interfere and muddy the waters of the submission pool, so I'll quietly take my leave. Good luck to you all, and have fun!
DM Jubal |
OK. Please find my first installment of reviews. Please reread the initial recruitment post that I'm quoting myself:
Submissions: Please create a profile with the relevant info contained within. I'm looking for profiles that are easy to read. If your profile looks like someone vomited a random block of numbers, words, and letters into a pile, I'm not going to bother reading it. Here is a decent example of what I'm looking for. Your profile does not have to be identical to this layout, but it should be similar.
All submitted characters will require the following: Character Description, Personality, and Background. Please put some effort into this. As mentioned before, I'm not looking for perfunctory descriptions. A couple of bland sentences is not going to inspire me to consider an application.
cheers