Changed one of my Favourite Class bonus Hit Points for a rank in Knowledge Engineering.
Other than that, ready to go.
I love Mohs just the way he is. Review away!
At this point, if we have not already joined the tavern, how damaged are our chances of getting in?
Not at all.
I want to say that Wulfrum is done, though I wouldn't mind a critique on the updated but if not I'm good for final
It is a Friday night and I am 26 years old... Why am I sitting in, bored, repetitively reloading the Online Campaign page?! I need a life... Or a PbP. Haha
I am glad I am not the only one with said compulsion >.<
Haha Me too. It is frustrating when you see all of the games that you aren't in just moving along. Haha Or at least it is for me anyway. I'm the type of person who posts umpteen times a day usually.
Yep it's one of those nights. x)
Haha I am just glad to see it isn't just me.
Yea, I got one game I am really in and that's a post or two a night. Not enough to keep this brain going.
I just got in to another game, an Undead based Campaign, but it has yet to really start. And the Deathwatch game I got in to hasn't a Gameplay thread yet. I'm just hoping things pick up in the Gameplay here. Haha. Looking for a bit of a laugh.
Yeah I agree with that, I need a lot of posts to even feel like I have done something with it for the night. Haha
Hopefully it will pick up, but I think the tavern scene has reached a natural conclusion so everyone is probably waiting with bated breath for the selection.
Yeah I thought that too. Dancing and singing the night away till the cold morning light and whatever the new day brings.
Yep the wait is the hardest part. At least that's the way I see it. xP
Haha Yeah. I havent been this nervous for a PbP recruitment before. It is weird.
Aye, aye, let's just wait to see what happens, eh?
Aye. Of course!
Here is a link to Aisha Alya, my Storm-Giant-Blooded Human Bloodrager. At the top is a link to my Myth-Weavers sheet. I would like to link my character to Senna Rampant for application purposes. While the background doesn't make explicit mention of it, Senna traveled with her when she took up the dare from the fateful night.
In your old format, she was primarily a Hammer with a few Anvil tendencies, using herself as a wall to stem the tide of flesh.
I would prefer not to post in the gameplay thread, as the long string of campaigns I am not in at the bottom left of my campaigns tab makes me sad.
I apologize for delaying for so long.
Doing the wait and see dance is just exhausting the mind ^^.
I am looking back through all of the characters posted throughout the string. It is interesting to see all of the little tie in pieces with other people, who is mentioned where and all.
It does seem like the prologue to a fantasy novel, doesn't it. I'll admit I was strongly inspired by the Dragonlance reference and ideas. And everyone embraced it so quickly, I had to give it a try. I too wait with bated breath the DM's choices.
That is EXACTLY how I was looking at it Mohs. It is like the prologue to a fantasy, or I imagined it kind of like Prequels, each characters backstory and adventures, during the five years, leads to this point now, to the Tavern, where the real quest will begin. Some characters will become the focal point of the story, some will become background support.
Do I have to have knowledge of the Dragonlance trilogy to make a believable character in this?I've never read it, but I'd really like to play the giantslayer AP.
I can't imagine you'd need to know Dragonlance, it just serves as an inspiration. So long as you understand the characters are all good friends who haven't seen each other in years, you should probably be good.
Pretty sure the Dragonlance reference is just that, a reference and nothing more. It may have inspired the remake of the start but I do not think the Campaign itself will require a knowledge of the books, though I am not the DM so I can't be sure.
EDIT: What Mohs said. :P
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At this point, if we have not already joined the tavern, how damaged are our chances of getting in?Not at all.
I need to reverse my answer above. I've spent this afternoon rating submissions for final selection and preparing the next Gameplay and Discussion thread posts to start the game. Of course, if new applicants arrive or a previously submitted character is updated, I will rate the final submission.
First, I need a Gameplay post from every applicant to put you in the Killin' Ground where the campaign will begin. I will deactivate the characters that are not selected, so the campaign does not show active for you. If you are concerned with collecting another Previous Campaign, I think if you delete the alias, which you can do with less than 10 posts, the campaign should not show.
Second, Gameplay posts are providing me a signal for how the player will post and how the character will interact with other characters. When the profiles of two characters are equivalent, I am using the quality of Gameplay posts as the tie-breaker.
Sorry for changing my mind, but I'm human. It happens. Hope you understand my reasoning. With the deadline still more than 24 hours away, I see no reason to extend it at this time.
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I do. I very much believed that you would get better feels for your players from the tavern posts (and indeed, I would personally give preference to those who had stuck around and been quite responsive). That's the reason why I asked. So no hard feelings, either way. :)
On the note of deleting, though: You cannot delete an alias once it has posted at all. You can rename it, up to (I believe) 20 posts.
Ten posts I think before you can no longer rename it. But aye, I have accumulated quite a few aliases from games that either never took off the ground or for my NPCs when I am GMing and am slightly annoyed that they can not be deleted when need be.
For me it isn't the characters that never took off that bother me, it is the characters that had such a bright future. You find the right game, the right party and the right character and everything is sailing along, it is fun, everyone is enjoying it and then something happens and it all implodes and you are left with the alias. Those are the marks that make me sad.
I stopped making aliases unless I need to, I got my hopes up and felt I had a really good chance too many times. But to be honest, at least applying gives me a chance to use my creativity and come up with new characters and backgrounds.
I just hit 30 listed aliases last night so I am going to have to start doing that also. Or start re-purposing old aliases for new characters. Pity like 99% of them are all human. Ha
Ugh, that is the one I have difficulty with. SO many GMs don't like no core characters...I LOVE coming up with characters based off of tieflings and all the rest of the crazy uncommons (Hate Aasimars though, way too powerful a build >.<)
Yeah the stock Aasimar is powerful but it can be cut back to be less so. I quite like Aasimar, played non standard. I have a Female Aasimar Monk of the Four Winds who is built as a Contortionist character for a Freak Show / Circus that is not much more powerful than a normal human. Removing a lot of the racial abilities helps balance them out.
Yea, I agree. I kinda hate having to make an alias just for the possibility of recruitment, (especially for GM's with fairly specific games) when if you miss out, you just created a dead character. Posting in a gameplay tab where recruitment isn't assured isn't particularly fun either IMO, since its a bad look if the alias shows up listed in a previous campaign, and makes it even harder to submit even a variation of a character.
Like everyone above, sometimes its just sad never being able to play a character with a creative concept / backstory / etc when odds are always low toward actually making use of the character.
Also yea, I like some of the different races as well. Mostly because I feel sad when there looks like a really cool / flavorful archetype for a particular race and its locked out of 90% of campaigns :(
Actually posting in the prologue of this Campaign has been a pretty fun experience. I would like more PbP games to have this kind of set up. It let me get a feel for the character and for the other potential party members, without being dropped in at the start of the Adventure. It really did grow to feel like the reunion of a group of friends who had not been together in a long time. It was great.
Folks.
If you want to compare, please review the number of my aliases and previous campaigns. Off the top of my head, my alias Ordrud has played in 3 campaigns and applied for several others. I used to care about the number of my aliases but stopped awhile back when I compared them to one of my best GMs Jelani who has a ton.
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@Varin
Yeah, but then you have an alias with 10+ posts and no way to rename it, change it, or anything, If you don't get in (or if the campaign dies), then its a dead alias, and a dead character. I don't doubt it was a lot of fun, but it is still pretty all or nothing, and I don't like the idea of rolling what feels like a d20 to determine if you have a chance of using this character or not.
To be fair you only have 8 more aliases than me Jubal. I am not complaining mind, I like having a record of all of the characters I have ever played. It keeps me entertained at times to go back over them and their campaigns.
@Varin
Yeah, but then you have an alias with 10+ posts and no way to rename it, change it, or anything, If you don't get in (or if the campaign dies), then its a dead alias, and a dead character. I don't doubt it was a lot of fun, but it is still pretty all or nothing, and I don't like the idea of rolling what feels like a d20 to determine if you have a chance of using this character or not.
Oh I get that it is not for everybody, I was just saying that personally I enjoyed the style of recruitment that Jubal had put forth. I got a lot out of it, as I am sure a lot of the other people did. I do go through the Recruitment threads here and I do see games done in styles that I do not like, but this one really interested me so I stuck around.
~snerk~ Oh don't get me wrong Jubal, I hear yah. I only been upto this for a little while and took a big break from it after feeling like I just wasn't cut out for online play. But I am back and trying my best to prove myself wrong on that one.
I hope that at some point I will have the chance to have a lot of characters and previous campaigned.
But yeah, I think a lot of the times there is a stigma against the crazier races out there as they can fit into the slots just right for making a really good (Insert Class here). And it's true that it can make a rather min/maxed character. Though I try not to min max too much just make a character that is good at what they do. After all, Adventurers in my mind are destined for greatness and you can't be destined for greatness if you weren't build/guided towards that situation to begin with.
I agree big time, this was definitely a different style and spoke in a great way to get your character really come to life compared to just thinking about it and dropping a background into place.
I blink and there's talk again! :D
Can't you change the avatars of alias's and keep them with the same name? I know that's not suitable for everything. Like I have an alias of a science experiment, 2 actually which I don't I can use again, though I can see the others being re-purposed if I really need to.
Folks.
If you want to compare, please review the number of my aliases and previous campaigns. Off the top of my head, my alias Ordrud has played in 3 campaigns and applied for several others. I used to care about the number of my aliases but stopped awhile back when I compared them to one of my best GMs Jelani who has a ton.
Cheers
But don't GM's have some sort of stigma against characters that are "resubmitted" from old / previous campaigns/recruitments? I only ask, because I don't GM, and don't really know for certain. I do know that there are some of them out there, so I assumed it was some sort of standard mindset. Heck, I know GM's that complain about characters or backstories that look like they were submitted from previous campaigns/recruitment...even when they aren't! I'd love to be wrong in this instance, but in my experience thats how it is :(
I blink and there's talk again! :D
Can't you change the avatars of alias's and keep them with the same name? I know that's not suitable for everything. Like I have an alias of a science experiment, 2 actually which I don't I can use again, though I can see the others being re-purposed if I really need to.
Yeah, though most of it is just me running my mouth. :P
You can, and I would. I kinda have a weird hoarders mentality about them though. I am loathe to alter anything about them, because then I can not go back and look at them. Haha
But don't GM's have some sort of stigma against characters that are "resubmitted" from old / previous campaigns/recruitments? I only ask, because I don't GM, and don't really know for certain. I do know that there are some of them out there, so I assumed it was some sort of standard mindset. Heck, I know GM's that complain about characters or backstories that look like they were submitted from previous campaigns/recruitment...even when they aren't! I'd love to be wrong in this instance, but in my experience thats how it is :(
Some GMs do have that rule yeah but not all of them. For the ones that do, you will have to use a new alias, but maybe always put forward one of the older ones first? They will usually tell you what they dont like, then you can put forward a new submission in its place, if the re-purposed one wont fly.
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IMHO GMs who select characters based on backstory have an allergy to characters that are not connected to their game. Me being one of them.
On the other hand, I'm not aware of any GM who disadvantages applicants who recycle an alias. My Ordrud has been selected three times for different games. Each time he had a different picture, build, and background. First, he was a halforc barbarian; then a hobgoblin slayer; and currently a halforc paladin. Only the name remains the same.
On a different subject, I normally allow all races FWIW. However, I felt by forcing characters to be natives of Trunau, I felt the core races best reflected the population.
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Concerning alias, if it's one I would really like to play at some point, have really gotten detailed on, or just like from his time in another game then I keep them. Personally I think of it the same as my account, it's part of my history that's all. ;)
That or I am a pack rat that has trouble getting rid of stuff. xP
I feel that is a reasonable moment to drop certain races, like when the population just doesn't feel right to have any of them. I can definitely see that for this particular campaign as there is already a large population of something that is considered rare in the core races like the Half Orcs.
Aye. Context matters. A campaign in the middle of Cheliax? Probably don't want to roll up a halfling character who is the designated face of the party. Belkzen? Full of orcs. Trunau I believe only has like 50 half-orcs though, and even fewer dwarves.
Correction. Looking at Trunau's wiki page, there are a total of 20 dwarves in the town and 40 half-orcs.
With all the Mountains nearby though and the amount of orcs nearby Half orcs and Dwarves are easy to sneak into this one. Humans are always not a problem. Others well Lastwall is pretty close by.
I'm actually going to withdraw. While I like how you have done everything, I feel as though my chances of getting in are rather slim. Plus a lot of people have shown a -ton- more interest than me, and I'd rather not get in the way of their fun.
Thanks for your time. :)
Senna Rampant is also withdrawing along with me.