Golorian Unfolds

Game Master JamesF

Would there still be an opening for a monk since the previous one dropped?

read the first post please Arknight :)

"Where will my character be in 3 1/4 days of adventuring?"

on the same road on horseback that you were 3 1/4 days ago.

Please , dont worry about it , I feel your way to hung up on getting to this eldritch knight...yes you WILL get there , you just dont know how/when/who or what is in your way....you MAY not be accepted as a knight...whose to say this is your standard Golorian.

But there isn't any organization you have to train with to become an Eldritch Knight.

There's no requirement that says "You must train with such and such or be bestowed a title by such and such." It's as easy as taking a level in the same class you already are, when you are currently a Barbarian/Wizard who only needs more experience to hone himself into a veteran warrior.

What I'm getting hung up on is the suggestion that either
A. My character will be too busy to be an adventurer anymore (aka, king of cheliax apparently can't take levels in any classes anymore because he's too busy to take a level in a class that takes no more experience than any other class)
B. You're going to explicitly prevent me from taking Eldritch Knight (aka, by making up some requirement that you will never let me fulfill because you don't want me to be an Eldritch Knight)

But it's not the fact that the situation might be one of those so much as that you won't tell me what the situation is!

Because Eldritch Knight is such a natural progression for a Barbarian/Wizard, it's like telling a Fighter he has to start taking levels in something other than Fighter because he's been.. Uh, fighting too much and hasn't received super special awesome training for something.

By the core rules "they may be found wherever studies of the arcane are as prevalent as martial training." That's the closest it ever comes to having a requirement of where you can become one. Either you're going to send us somewhere where I can't study one of martial or arcane training (which would naturally pigeonhole me into whatever you wanted to make me, which means you're playing my character, not me). Or he's going to die horribly or be made prisoner or something like that.

Or you make up some special requirement just to stop me from becoming an Eldritch Knight.

That's ok. If you don't want me to be an Eldritch Knight, that's ok, just tell me up front. If you want to chose my level ups for me, that's ok, just tell me up front. If you want to say "wait until later because I have a plot idea", that's ok, just tell me up front.

What I don't want is for you to give me wishy-washy crap that is effectively "maybe I'll let you and maybe I won't". Make a decision and stand by it (even if that decision is "**** you for arguing with me while I'm overworked trying to make a campaign for you ungrateful whelps, you're not playing in the campaign, leave now"), don't leave me hanging out to dry at the mercy of your whims.

Of course, this rant only has meaning if this whole time you've haven't been going "yes, you can take levels in Eldritch Knight, but you don't know if your character have a change of heart, aid a resistance movement/summon a demon lord/kill all life and decide to commit combat effectiveness suicide by becoming a rogue/Summoner/Cleric."

I'm totally in support of character development and evolving characters. However, there's ways to do that that don't involve committing combat effectiveness suicide by suddenly changing your build.

A little spell choice difference and we can have the difference between a Resistance Freedom Fighter, a Driven Mad Demon Summoner, a Necromancer bent on the destruction of all life, ext.. ext.. He can keep taking levels in Eldritch Knight, but merely by his spell choice, he can show a thousand different character changes. Class is used for mechanics, but the flavor of that class is mutable. And flavor, not mechanics, are what show character development.

thank you for your interest , I dont really feel this game is for you then ,you cant seem to accept that there is a idea I have , you seem WAY to intent on playing this character one way , with no regard for what I want to do with MY game.

I wish you well but no thank you.

Goodbye.

Any other players feel this is harsh after my constant , and I feel gentle prompting to just go with it , without even starting the game there has been a conflict that one player could not accept , then please notify me your intent and I thank you also for your interest.

regards

James

Role call

Promise Inquisitor 6
Marious Barbarian 6
Flori Sorcerer 6
Maelthorne Rogue Sniper 6
Fubar Paladin 6

Possible
Arknight Aestic 6

This is my outline, I'll have the stats up a bit later...

Name: Zaiho
Race: Human
Ethnicity: Tian-Min
Class: Ascetic
Archetype: Master of Many Styles

Bio: Raised at a monastery in Taldan where the foothils of the Fog Peaks, cross into the Tandak plains, Zaiho (with his violet eyes and stark-white hair) began life not knowing much of the outside world. As he grew older,so his curiousity grew as well and he found himself more and more in the library of the temple studying about other places and peoples.

I like the PCs in Roll Call, a very diverse, and interesting group. Looking forward to the PbP!

This is my outline, I'll have the stats up a bit later...

Name: Zaiho
Race: Human
Ethnicity: Tian-Min
Class: Ascetic
Archetype: Master of Many Styles

Bio: Raised at a monastery in Taldan where the foothils of the Fog Peaks, cross into the Tandak plains, Zaiho (with his violet eyes and stark-white hair) began life not knowing much of the outside world. As he grew older,so his curiousity grew as well and he found himself more and more in the library of the temple studying about other places and peoples.

great , thanks , can you email me this at litany.uk@gmail.com

Does a mount make sense for my "divine bond" in your game?

If so
What options are available for a mount?

This info will let me finalize my PC

Thank you, James, for letting us clear this up now rather than later on.

Does a mount make sense for my "divine bond" in your game?

If so
What options are available for a mount?

This info will let me finalize my PC

Nothing.....magical , Warhorse for a Paladin is suitable..

Group looks good to me as well. Just posting to let you know I am still about.

@Marious: Did not know you were Clifford too - I am also Hack!

LOL good to know there will be some good RP here then. :)

Oh, hell yeah!

OK guys , thanks for the PC's.

Now I am travelling tommorrow , so up at 05.00 GMT , flying at 07.00!

Will kick off in the morning.

as a little game , who would you want to play you in the film of Pathfinder?

James

A dexterous, dour-faced Jason Statham.

Why, Susan Oliver, of course!

But, more like This half orc. (NSFW!) You have to be registered to see that one. Disturbingly hot, though...LOL!

I would want Mandy Patikin as his Inigo Montoya persona to play Marious.

I might add a touch of the character to him just for giggles.

Is it Indigo or Inigo? One of my favorite all-time movies!

Goggle has it as Inigo. That's the only way I knew how to spell it.

I already e-mailed JamesF about it, but with his permission, I'll change Flori's bloodline to arcane instead of orc. If she's going to be the only arcane caster, that would be a better choice, IMO.

I think you'll all agree:

I would want Mandy Patikin as his Inigo Montoya persona to play Marious.

I might add a touch of the character to him just for giggles.

"Hello!"

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

No more rhymes, and I mean it!

Anybody want a peanut?

And for Marious:

I know something that you don't know...I am not left-handed!

Did you read my profile?

Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can *fuss*.
Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at *us*.
Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no *harm*.
Fezzik: He's really very short on *charm*.
Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Vizzini: Enough of that.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead.
Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it.
Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?
Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH.

Just read it now - outstanding!

@JamesF: has game thread been posted yet? Sorry, I thought I may have missed it...

The paladin stands ready!

Hello? Anybody here?

Just us chickens.

Still here as well, awaiting the game thread.

I'm here.... I've been tied up with school and being sick ( along with wife sick too ) but will have sheet sent to James later tonight.

As far as who would play the character I have in mind, I can see it being a young Donnie Yen (iron Monkey, Highlander: Endgame, and a lot of Hong Kong action movies).

Sorry guys , I have been whisked away for work and today is pretty much the first moment I have had free.

Will be posting up tommorrow , Im shattered now , three solid 18 hr days....

James

Sweet!

Outstanding! Looking forward to it!

I am ready also.

and we are away....

Arknight , are you in ?

Arknight , are you in ?

I could be if he isn't xD

I wanted to be, but with work and home stuff, haven't been able to completely prep a character... I'll hang out, waiting for an opening in case of dropout. :)