Sounds like a real solid plan. :)
Edit: I demand my singing rainbow trout in ceviche form. Or broiled with a side of saffron potatoes. :) We can achieve that as captives, right?
Charlotte and Iggy, yes I will allow it, but no score below 08 before racial mods. Fair enough?
Iggy, if you can catch the fish with your bare hands, then sure! :p
Fair enough. I was going only down to 9, so that's perfectly fine to me. Out of curiosity, does the Heresy inquisition work for my character? Having a bit of OOC knowledge about this AP, I figured that when [redacted] happen to begin their [redacted action] with a certain [redacted individual], that it might manifest as the ol' sea dog wasn't crazy for being cautious of others claiming to be faithful.
:) I love me some [redacted] [expletive].
Sounds good to me, and yay to information being compiled.
Boy, I sure adjust my characters a lot before starting a game.
Edit: I shall accompany the singing trouts on the fiddle, with a new modifier of +11. Because no pirate crew is complete without a musician.
Edit: Gasp! Spoilers! *plugs ears* LALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAAAR YOU.
Iggy, nothing like knowing what is to come in this campaign! MWAHAHAHA!
Charlotte, don't feel bad, I adjust my rules a lot before the game as cooler and more interesting ones come to mind!
Also, how does everyone feel on firearms? Keep them to almost nonexistent as is typical in S&S or incorporate them a little more?
Charlotte, I redact so much, it's not even funny. I'm like a white comic at the Apollo.
Edit: As far as firearms? I'm fine either way. They're powerful, for sure.
on firearms I think they should along the lines of powerful but inaccurate. It should basically be yes my pistol can shoot through platemail...if i can hit the target same for cannons...
I'd rather we keep them at the standard "developing" state.
There we go, adjusted my Wis score to reflect Charlotte's flighty attitude.
I find it really weird that Changeling gives Wisdom over Int when hags have the witch class written all over them.
Maybe Changelings didn't quite get the love their hag parents did? I definitely am seeing the voting go standard, so I'll say the same way.
Charlotte, GOBLINS ARE GREAT AT SINGING AND THEY HAVE -2 CHARISMA! WHY?!!! Also, hilarious with the WIS adjustment!
Just asking about the firearms, because I have a Gunslinger in Group A and was wondering if anyone else felt the powder burn-less blues. :)
It just feels like a big flavor fail, especially since the description says: "Changelings are frail, but possess a sharp wit and unnatural beauty."
Sharp wit seems more evocative of intelligence than wisdom.
Firearms are nice fluff but the firearm crunch is poorly implemented. I'm fine without them
Well then, I think that's all the adjustment I can do on my character. Can't wait to see how things play out.
I all looks great. :)
By the way, considering the kind of game we're about to play, I'd like to establish this right now:
IC, our characters are a bunch of treacherous pirates, but OOC, there are rules:
1. No stealing from the party. Loot will be divided in a fair and equitable manner, according to value and utility.
2. No screwing over fellow party members in any way, and keep collateral damage as low as possible.
3. No PvP combat
4. Social skills are for NPC interaction only. PC interaction is strictly a diceless thing. (No rolling intimidate to force someone to do your bidding or diplomacy to force them to act the way you want)
Under penalty of party exclusion in case of repeated offenses.
Do you all agree with those terms?
I absolutely do agree to it. In the case of multiple people wishing for the same item, how will we deal with that?
They'll deal it out politely, I guess. We're all decent humans. Last time this happened in my party in a tabletop game, the players handled it by splitting the cost of buying a second of the item. That way, they each got the item for 3/4ths of the price instead of one getting it for half and the other eventually paying for full.
I like to hope that if more than one people is looking for a relatively popular magic item, the forces that be (ahem) will probably drop a second one on the party eventually.
I figure the more popular magic items have a tendency to pop up again later, though. There's more than one cloak of resistance and one headband of charisma on the sea.
Very true. And probably opportunity to buy the items we need.
In the case of multiple people wanting the same thing, a simple game of chance will suffice if you can't work it out.
just reward us with lots of gold, after all we can find what we want at pirate flea markets!
Pirate flea markets sell everything but fleas. They give those away, for free.
I'm all for the roll off. The issue normally comes from when its time to sell something ... do we throw the proceeds back into the party pool or do you take the item's cut out of the gold split.
Either way, I don't want to be the guy keeping track of party loot and distro. Too many games I'm running to maintain admin details here. Anyone wanna volunteer to be a quartermaster?
Janus will decide on loot if and when the question of loot becomes important. On the subject of my position, I am a surgeon. Which reminds me I have to make a slight adjustment and add craft carpentry
I don't mind taking care of loot distribution, I already took on the role in another campaign, so I've got a Google spreadsheet created for that exact reason.
The way it works is, when the time for loot division comes, all you guys have to do is drop in the document, mark things you want, and, when satisfied with your choices, mark the "Accepted" square in your column.
Then, once everyone has accepted, it's easy to resolve any conflicts.
Dawning realisation: Charlotte is the only female member of the party. :P
Wow, can't I a guy even catch up on his sleep without a thread blowing up? 46 new posts? Really, guys?
This is gonna be fun...
BTW, I'm fine with little to no firearms--you could always make crossbow attacks and just say it's a gun if you really want. Also, I'm down with the above OOC rules and the idea of either peacefully settling or randomly deciding who gets an item when a bunch of people want it. Rolling dice in particular seems very pirate-y (although IRL most pirate ships didn't allow gambling on board).
And Charlotte, don't worry! Variziel is (as of now) a rather honorable guy. He won't let anything happen to you (at least not for a little bit).
Finally, I said this in the last campaign he was in--Variziel is kind of built with his backstory to write a campaign journal for the campaign. The idea is that he's recording all his exploits in the form of letters and journal entries to show to someone back home. Is anybody against my writing such journals? I'd probably post them on these forums in the proper locale, and possibly make them a Google Doc as well.
I'm fine with the journal, that sounds fun.
And Charlotte, don't worry! Variziel is (as of now) a rather honorable guy. He won't let anything happen to you (at least not for a little bit).
Nice try, charmer. :P
Variziel, I agree on the post explosions, though probably 10 or so of them belong to me! Batman for the win! Also, I am not opposed to IC campaign journals. Feel free to PM me the link and I'll add it to campaign info.
Temerith and Iggy, don't worry there will be plenty of gold and fleas for all!
Charlotte, wow I was quartermaster ninja'd! That's fine, just so long as it remains fair. I trust you though. Also, only female! That should be interesting, though don't worry, most people in Golarion aren't sexist. There might be a few catcalls from the pirates though! If you really don't want any of that though, just let me know.
Jesal, don't worry, gambling will still be implemented at ports when the party wants a little downtime! Got around 10 different options for that, including Towers, Knivesies, Dead Man's Dice, Cockatrice Fights, Drink-Until-You-Drop, and other such 'tavern games'.
Janus, Craft:Carpentry sounds fun! You can incorporate enemy skulls into ship decoration classily! Craft: Carpentry, in all seriousness, will be useful though.
Haha, nah, Cap'n. I'm fine with it. All the more fun to play off of. I mean, if a Changeling with 20 charisma doesn't get catcalls, what will? I wouldn't be crossplaying if I wasn't ready for it to come up.
By the way, "Quartermaster"? Not sure I follow what you meant there.
Charlotte, in charge of loot distribution in other words.
Ahh! Hehe.
So, are we missing anything before we can start the play?
Looking at my stats again, I realise that, at higher levels, Charlotte will be able to step up to step up to the front lines in water elemental form.
Woohoo! Water elementals! And I too am antsy to play.
In the end, I'm biting the bullet because it will prove a necessity in the higher levels (when I start using Water Form): My first level feat is eschew materials.
Yay, inner power.
Infinite power! Itty bitty living space?
Gameplay will either start tonight or tomorrow!
:) We can hope for tonight. We can REALLY hope for tonight.
tonight, tonight!
also a note on Rhuun's appearance he does for the most part look like a fairly handsome man, however he has a beard (like my avatar's) that has gone prematurely white, a side effect of the ritual.
Gameplay thread is up! I couldn't wait! Before reading, check one of the two appropriate spoiler tags at the top of my post!
2 punctuation errors! No!
Only 2?! What kind of pirate only has 2 punctuation errors?! Are you some kind of lily-livered landlubber, Cap'n?! Say it ain't so!
DON'T MAKE FUN OF THE LITERATE GOBLIN!!! :D
Pirate goblins are literate. After all, you can't spell pirate without the R. :)
You mean the RAWR?! Waiting on the others before posting.
Oh yes! I had forgotten about the RAWR!!!!
Ah, the advantages of being bilingual. Foreign languages really do sound foreign.
(Any other character here speak Varisian? I want to make sure I'm not causing trouble for anyone by adopting the French = Varisian convension.)
Also, boy, the messageboard servers are sure dodgy today.
No Varisian for Iggy. But he does have Elven & Polygot, along with Common.
I speak Common, Draconic, Elven, Polyglot, Taldane, and Varisian. The last was just tacked on because I forgot to add another language for increasing my Intelligence, and it's as good as anything else. I'm happy with French for Varisian.
I'm probably gonna use Latin for Draconic, maybe Italian for Taldane, p'raps Welsh or Gaelic for Elven, and I don't know what for Polyglot.
Whew, research shows that Charlotte is the sole Varisian speaker. (I figured Variziel might, given his name. :P)
Edit: Ninja'd.
Are you using google translate, or do you really speak all those languages? :P
Glad Varisian = French is fine, at any rate.
(For what it's worth, I think the closest real world equivalent to Polyglot would be a very pronounced Jamaican patois.)
French is the only language I actually speak, though I have a very amusing Latin phrasebook and I'm in the process (slowly) of learning Gaelic, mostly during downtime every now and again.
As for Polyglot, that'd be great. I'll refresh myself on just how it sounds and use that (phonetically!) for Polyglot if it comes up, hahah.
Ah! Sympathique. Français de France, ou Français Québécois?
Also is english your first language and french your second, or vice-versa?
(English is my second and I'm from Quebec, FWIW.)