Hello and welcome to the game! I'm excited to get started with all of you. Take some time to get to know one another here in the discussion thread, before we move to the game.
Please complete you character using the information below. Let me know when that's done.
Character Creation:
1. All characters begin at level one.
2. 20-point ability buy.
3. Good or neutral alignments only.
4. All Paizo-created races are acceptable, but core races are preferred. No custom or third-party races are allowed.
5. Paizo-created classes and archetypes only.
6. Two traits. One must be a campaign trait. Try to pick traits that align with your backstory, not just add to your character's stats (or figure out how to add stat-boosting traits into your backstory). I'm fine with flavor tweaks to make traits align better with your character's story, but please let me know that you're making the tweak before you assume I'm ok with it (I probably will be).
8. Average gold for buying starting gear for your class.
9. Max HP at level one, roll or 1/2 HD + 1 thereafter.
10. We'll be playing with the Background Skills variant (thanks for pointing me to that, Amadine!). Please add two background skills to your character, and adjust your current skill selections as needed.
A Couple of Things:
1. Please put the following in the Class area of your profile. Obviously replace the numbers with your information.
Init +3 | Perc +10 | AC 15 / T 15 / FF 11 | HP 11/11 | Saves F +5/R +3/W +6
2. We'll be using Roll20 for combat and maybe sharing some information about the campaign (though most of that can live here on the boards). Please let me know if you have any issues/concerns about that.
3. When doing a skill check, please roll the dice - even if you don't know if your check is valid or needed. I might ignore your roll if it is unnecessary (or if you do a good enough job roleplaying that the dice check is replaced by your creativity), but it speeds thing up if I don't have to ask for it.
4. This is a big one: I'm not really a rules-heavy guy. I believe the rules are in place to give boundaries to the narrative, create tension, and provide an agreed-upon framework. As such, I won't be checking your character sheets for accuracy. I'm assuming we'll all be honest with stats and abilities. Please don't make an ass out of you and me. ;)
Thanks, everyone - we'll get the game started once everyone's characters are good to go!
For Taldor!
Hey all! I'm excited to play this.
Anyone up for some loose backstory ties? Photinè could reasonably know just about anyone in Taldor's upper social scene (presently or past).
For vengeance!
I am also here! And will get a profile together at work tonight. I'm playing a Stavian, so anyone with any sort of 'know' in the upper crust might have heard of the crown prince's weird cousin who seems obsessed with swordlords and Brevoyan culture.
And voila.
It's Quintius's nature to at least heard of any prominent among you.
Summary - Pacus Bursio is a Courtly Hunter. While actually a 1/2 Orc he generally appears to be human. He is constantly accompanied by, and dotes on, a young leopardess who is more than she appears to be.
Ok, information should be in my profile.
Since my character has a companion who will hopefully become as much a character as Pacus I put both summaries in spoilers to save space.
I can change that if you prefer. Or create a separate profile for Angela if that is more to your tastes.
Willing to change anything in background that doesn't fit your ideas of reasonable PCs.
Willing to link backstories with people if they want. It certainly makes sense that he has at least met Photine at one of her parties. I don't think that he is prominent enough to have necessarily come to Quintius's attention although that is up to you.
@Kurtis and @Pacus, Photiné’s son is probably around the same age as you, maybe you knew him as children because she invited your families to parties? Also, her family does hail from north Taldor, so if they’ve met, she probably doesn’t know about Pacus’ Orc heritage, which could be interesting.
That sounds quite reasonable to me
Hey everyone! Glad to see you’ve all checked in. I’ll post the first gameplay update shortly.
I’m excited to get started with you all!
Definitely sounds good to me. I figure that Kurtis pays a fair amount of attention to royal gossip as something to do between obsessing over swords and being the bluntest person in any given room, so he's probably aware of the other nobles in the group.
Ok! The first gameplay thread is up. Let's get this party started!
Hey, this thread hasn’t updated in a while and I’ve been invited to join another game, so I’m going to hop over to that one. Good luck to y’all if this picks back up!
:|aa did the game just die off immediately?
Howdy everyone! Sorry about last week - I don't intend for this game to die, I just got swamped at work.
Are you guys still with me?
I'm still here!
Of course!
We lost our arcane caster, but I’m here.
I'm good
Excellent. I’ll recruit another caster and keep things moving.
Again, my apologies for the delay. Thanks for sticking with me!
so I note we don't have an official recruitment page. What's the ETA?
Am I correct in presuming that this game is no more?