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I invite you to read through the spoiler tabs in the Campaign Info tab for details.
I plan on keep recruitment open for as long as necessary, be it 2 days or 2 weeks.
I expect the standard 1 post per weekday, but I would prefer more, to keep the game moving. If 1 post/day is what you can muster, that is fine.
Basics: 20 Point buy. 250 GP starting wealth. No evil alignments.
Classes, Races, Feats, Spells: Core Rulebook, Advanced Player Guide only. *One exception. I will allow tieflings as they directly tie into the theme of the campaign. If you choose tiefling as a race in this campaign, you must be Good-aligned. That's my only caveat. I will likely not pick more than one tiefling PC unless I'm really feeling generous. I really prefer the classic feel to my games, so I prefer sticking close to core.
Class archetypes and racial feature swaps: APG only.
Background Story: I'm big on flavor. I want a background story in your profile and I want it to make me either laugh, cry, or go "hell ya!" It doesn't have to be ultra long, just make it count for something.
Take a look at the "Factions of Note" spoiler, it will help with understanding your place in this land. All the players will be unofficial members of the Consortium of Light. As it is more or less a motley crew of heroes, your backgrounds can be as varied as you want. Feel free to make up town/city names, we might could revisit those places later if the story arc takes us there.
I probably won't posting much this weekend because of the holiday, so forgive me if there is a lull.
You seem to be a dedicated GM that puts pride and effort into his work. I have a few character concepts I'm interested in. I assume we start at level one?
Dotting for interest. Thinking of a Paladin concept.
I'll put a dot in this as awell.
Are traits part of the game? Also, what are the limitation of equipment sources?
Good morning, good questions--
1) yes this will start at level 1
2) re: summoners, I'm not certain yet. I see on these forums many GMs who ban them but I'm not familiar enough with the system to know why. I will make a decision on summoners very soon, and I'll leave a message here in the recruitment thread (and update the character creation)
3)Traits- yes, I forgot to mention traits. You may choose 2 traits from the APG(different types of traits, no two from the same category).
Aku, I see your PM, I will get back to you when I've read it in full, probably later tonight after work.
I am interested. Now to begin a concept. Once I have picked something I will post an update.
My first question is this: level of firearms?
Summoners are often unwelcome because they have a tendency to bog down the game with lots of summoned creatures. This probably isn't a big deal in a pbp due to the slower pace.
Many people say to avoid Eidolons however since its easy to misinterpret the rules in a game breaking way.
Your campaign sounds interesting by the way. I'll post a couple of character concepts later.
I'll have a character up soon, but definitely interested.
Throwing my hat in the ring here. This character was originally drawn up for another campaign so I will rewrite him to fit in with this one. He's pretty much a "vanilla" elven rogue with lots of skills including Use Magic Device and Survival.
My first question is this: level of firearms?
Ack! Ignore that question. Tired brain just realized the books available to use. I will continue looking for a concept.
Next question, would you allow the Advanced Race Guide for the core races only? I like the plethora of options available for them.
This page is all I want.
Sounds fun. I always love darker, fighting the apocalypse style games. If you need any additional inspiration, the Midnight setting by Fantasy Flight games was really good.
FYI While I am very experienced in gaming and with pathfinder in particular, I am moderately new to pbp. Think I have things figured out. Of course, saying this seems to have lost me a spot in a pbp AP I was really wanting to play in, but <shrug> rather be honest.
I would see playing as a wandering monk of Erastil(zen archer sounds good) that quietly works to help those that still hold good in their hearts. A poor farmer offers a wanderer a place to sleep in his barn, he may find one of his chickens has layed a pouch of money. A noble\merchant kicks him out for asking for a drink from his well, may find that his coffers weren't as full as he thought.
No armor, no weapons beyond a bow for hunting, who would possibly think he is anything more than a peasant? Always a loner before, he now is having dreams that tell him he will need to join with a greater community if the Armies of Sin are going to be dealt with.
Thanks
This page is all I want.
I am probably ok with most of what is on that page. I'm on lunch break, so I don't have time to read it all.
For now consider it tentative. If you have a specific couple/few archetypes/racial bonuses you have in mind, run them by me....I am moderately new to pbp
I too am new to PbP Doomguide. This will be my first GMing PbP, so being new to this or having oodles of experience will not affect my decision in any fashion.
I'll be checking back in later tonight probably.
I would like to make a half-elf ranger (wild shadow). The archetype is under the half-elf. The character I want to use is Tessandriel Mithlynnta. I used her in another game. With some reasonable alterations to her level, background, traits, and gear I think I will be able to fit her easily into the theme of the game. I will be dropping the suspicious trait and the paranoid drawback.
How are racial relations with being drow-like? Or are there no such prejudices? If it comes down to it I am willing to rewrite the background entirely. Doesn't bother me if I need to.
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Summoners are often unwelcome because they have a tendency to bog down the game with lots of summoned creatures. This probably isn't a big deal in a pbp due to the slower pace.
Many people say to avoid Eidolons however since its easy to misinterpret the rules in a game breaking way.
I will say that my concept character for the summoner is intrinsically tied to her Eidolon and to be honest, I'd much rather trade away the Summon Monster class feature for something more combat oriented like a Cavalier order or Barbarian rage or something. As a DM myself, I too hate flooding battlefields with summoned monsters and bogging down combat. :)
As for the Eidolon itself, I have a campaigns worth of experience with the Eidolon and how its built and how its rules work. I can't say that mistakes wont be made, but they shouldn't be big game breaking ones.
Not sure if you'll allow variant tiefling heritages but if you do I'd like to present for your consideration Mr Kincaid. Crunch is in his profile.
The tavern is almost full tonight, the sounds of music and laughter mixing with the heady aroma of ale and tobacco.
You look around, there's no where to sit apart from next to the one figure everyone is studiously ignoring. The 6'6" heavily cloaked stranger. Apart from drink and chain smoke cigars, he's not done anything overt to draw attention but you can't help feel there's something off about him. Time and again, without realizing you find you eye drawn to him like a moth to a flame.
Perhaps you've had more to drink than you realize because you find yourself take a seat by him. For long moment nothing happens, perhaps he hasn't noticed? Suddenly with a start you notice the ruddy light of a cigar glinting like coals from the strangers eyes with all other features hidden by shadow. Were those eyes slitted? No surely not, no one had slitted eyes!
A plume of fragrant smoke envelops you and he laughs a deep gravely laugh, borne of gin and cigars, "The smoke bothering you? Ha! They say these things will kill me!"
He pauses to consider the cigar before saying, "I should be so lucky. My death will be at the hands of something much, much worse. More than likely something a little closer to home..."
A brief waft of brimstone and then it's gone. The stranger continues, "Lets just say I burnt my bridges with home and I'm persona non gratis... How did that happen you ask?" The stranger produces two shot glasses, bangs them the table and pushes one your way, "Gin. If you're buying, I'm telling."
You catch the bartender's eye and with a worried glance he hands you a full bottle, which you pour out. The stranger watches you drink, and you shudder as the bitter liquid burns your throat. He grins and downs his shot in one before pouring another.
"When I say I burnt my bridges, that wasn't technically true. They burnt the bridge while I was in it. A corporate take over, nothing personal, it's just business when somebody liquidates the former CEO's family. Something snagged me on the way down, my brothers and sisters were not so lucky. Oh don't be sorry for me, they almost certainly deserved it. I know I did, you see I was destined to follow in my father's shoes and my father is not a nice man. And before it was taken away, my father's business was not a nice business.
It's funny how you imagine you'll grow up doing one thing and end up doing something entirely different. In my case I had a epiphany, that I was going to die. It's the sort of thing that comes to you after you've been hanging by your ankles for two days and a night over a deep gorge and at first I thought it terribly unfair, then by degrees it came to me that I truly deserved it, and death was a release. Eventually something gave way, I fell and all was darkness for a time.
Later, half drowned, I was pulled out of the river by a holy man. I think he nearly killed me when I opened my eyes, for he drew back like he'd been bitten and in a blur, his sword surrounded by a luminous blue light, was digging into my throat. Yet something stayed his hand, he stared at me for a long while before sheathing that sword and half carrying, half dragging me back to his mountain hut. And there I remained for many a year, until I understood the real meaning of a single, very particular word. And that word was "Mercy'. It changed everything..."
I will apply with a Cleric of Pharasma under this alias. Just need to work up the sheet.
Finished rewriting him for this campaign. Hopefully I got the timing of things right. Let me know if that isn't so and I will change things as needed.
I have decided against allowing Summoners. I am not that familiar with them, and I don't particularly like the flavor of the class for this campaign.
I'm adding a couple of house-rules to the campaign info tab. I'll place them here for convenience.
1)XP I don't use XP. It is pointless busy work that takes up my time, when then end result is the players would accumulate enough to level up every so often. I will arbitrarily level you up, every so often.
2) Hit Points Max HP at lvl 1. At level up roll as normal, but take a minimum of half your hit die if you roll low.
3) Crits A natural 20 is an auto-confirm crit, unless your opponent is 2+ HD more than you. The idea is to make natural 20s more exciting when your in combat with an opponent that is about your level or lower.
DFang-- two traits, from APG. Equipment, like everything else needs to be limited to the CRB and APG. If there is something specific you want from another source, I'll take a look.
Kincaid-- your character looks pretty solid. I looked over the variant Tiefling heritages, and the only one that makes sense in this campaign is the Hellspawn. If you would like to choose that, I am okaying it.
Grand Moff Vixen-- Drow traits are a no-go. As far as the half-elven archetype Wild Shadow, it looks fine.
Finished rewriting him for this campaign. Hopefully I got the timing of things right. Let me know if that isn't so and I will change things as needed.
Looks pretty sweet Chezarion. Only problem I'm seeing is your traits. It looks like you have 3-
sacred touch, poverty stricken, and lightbringerNone of them are from the APG (which I suppose I can be flexible with) but more importantly the Lightbringer in your profile is quite a bit more powerful than the Lightbringer that I found.
I'm ok with any 2 of the 3 you picked, but if you pick lightbringer it must match the one in my link above.
I like your backstory. Side-note, this PBP campaign is taking place about 100 years in the future of my current home campaign. The scene in Mylosis played out during our game, and there was chaos in the streets. Your backstory reminded me of that game session!
Submissions so far:
-Kincaid, Tiefling Paladin
-Chezarion, Elf Rogue
Both look good, both fit the campaign, both need some work before approval. (see above)
I'm looking forward to the final drafts, and looking forward to more submissions.
I have decided to scrap the current character I posted and write up a whole new background for this ranger. I have some new ideas that I think would work better. I will work on it and post an update as soon as I have more.
Chezarion, how do you feel about your father having fled, survived, and remarried in a different area that was unknown to the both of you? He would train another child as a ranger, and we could come up with a way in game that would allow us to realize we have the same father.
What do you think?
Here is my wandering monk (Zen Archer)idea.
I would see playing as a wandering monk of Erastil(zen archer sounds good) that quietly works to help those that still hold good in their hearts. A poor farmer offers a wanderer a place to sleep in his barn, he may find one of his chickens has layed a pouch of money. A noble\merchant kicks him out for asking for a drink from his well, may find that his coffers weren't as full as he thought.
No armor, no weapons beyond a bow for hunting, who would possibly think he is anything more than a peasant? Always a loner before, he now is having dreams that tell him he will need to join with a greater community if the Armies of Sin are going to be dealt with.
Was Doomguide
Finished rewriting him for this campaign. Hopefully I got the timing of things right. Let me know if that isn't so and I will change things as needed.Looks pretty sweet Chezarion. Only problem I'm seeing is your traits. It looks like you have 3-
sacred touch, poverty stricken, and lightbringerNone of them are from the APG (which I suppose I can be flexible with) but more importantly the Lightbringer in your profile is quite a bit more powerful than the Lightbringer that I found.
I'm ok with any 2 of the 3 you picked, but if you pick lightbringer it must match the one in my link above.
I like your backstory. Side-note, this PBP campaign is taking place about 100 years in the future of my current home campaign. The scene in Mylosis played out during our game, and there was chaos in the streets. Your backstory reminded me of that game session!
The lightbringer trait that I'm using is an alternate racial trait for elves that comes out of the "elves" race section of the APG. It replaces the elven magic and elven immunities racial traits.
The other traits of sacred touch and poverty stricken come from the "Character Traits Web Enhancement". I thought that was pretty much included verbatim in the APG when that came out. I'll double check the PRD here to make sure.
And after double checking the PRD they're both there. In the APG under the "New Rules" section under the heading of Basic traits, further broken down into subsections, combat, faith, Magic and social. Sacred touch is a faith trait and poverty stricken is a social trait.
I have decided to scrap the current character I posted and write up a whole new background for this ranger. I have some new ideas that I think would work better. I will work on it and post an update as soon as I have more.
Chezarion, how do you feel about your father having fled, survived, and remarried in a different area that was unknown to the both of you? He would train another child as a ranger, and we could come up with a way in game that would allow us to realize we have the same father.
What do you think?
That could work. It would mean that my Mom is dead though [boo hoo :-(]. It also leaves open the question of why Dad didn't try to track me down. You also need to consider your character's age. Chezarion is 130 years old. If your character is another elf then she shouldn't be any younger than about 116. If she's a half elf then she can be a lot younger though.
As to figuring out the relationship, one of the easier ways to do that would be to say that the dagger Chezarion's father gave him was one of a specially commissioned matched set. It's the dagger that Chezarion is currently wearing openly on the center front of his weapon belt. Your character has the other dagger.
@Chezarion
re: Lightbringer, you are correct, my misunderstanding.
re: other two traits-- They're not in my hardcopy of APG, so I didn't recognize them as such. That said, I am ok with both. They are a good fit for your story. (the name poverty-stricken is a misnomer, it is just a place keeper for your father's influence)
Dotting in too. Not sure if I want to use a character I already have or come up with something new. Lot of stuff to work with here. Should be fun.
*edit I am thinking an Oracle (Bones) or Cleric (Undead Lord) of Anubis or similar deity if you can think of one. He watches over the souls of the dead much like his deity but because of the current upheaval in the underworld and the enormous amount of souls in fluctuation he is sent to help.
I'll bring a character here tomorrow.
I've adjusted Kincaid to be Hellspawn.
Gonna spend some more time developing the background, but I'm trying to decide between a rebellious young sorcerer who grew up in Maiden's Wharf and is trying to do the right thing or a druid of the Perfect Circle that survived in the woods after his town was conquered.
I have decided to scrap the current character I posted and write up a whole new background for this ranger. I have some new ideas that I think would work better. I will work on it and post an update as soon as I have more.
Chezarion, how do you feel about your father having fled, survived, and remarried in a different area that was unknown to the both of you? He would train another child as a ranger, and we could come up with a way in game that would allow us to realize we have the same father.
What do you think?
That could work. It would mean that my Mom is dead though [boo hoo :-(]. It also leaves open the question of why Dad didn't try to track me down. You also need to consider your character's age. Chezarion is 130 years old. If your character is another elf then she shouldn't be any younger than about 116. If she's a half elf then she can be a lot younger though.
As to figuring out the relationship, one of the easier ways to do that would be to say that the dagger Chezarion's father gave him was one of a specially commissioned matched set. It's the dagger that Chezarion is currently wearing openly on the center front of his weapon belt. Your character has the other dagger.
As for why dad didn't try to track you down, he thought you died. It looked like you darted into a building to escape and a few seconds afterward the house exploded into flames.
He would not have remarried immediately. Eventually he did and had another child, a half-elven child. She would be trained as a ranger. I have not decided if he taught her about Desna in memory of his lost wife. Do you have any other ideas on why dad would think you dead?
Do you have any other ideas on why dad would think you dead?
There are other possibilities too. Think of all the variables in warzone. The father might have:
-been a POW
-been severely injured, unable to pursue
-been enslaved
-been charmed/magicked
In the chaos of a war-torn countryside, maybe it was less that he thought Chezarion dead, but more that he simply didn't have the means to find him. As the weeks, months, years went on, the leads grew colder and the two men drifted farther apart.
Just a few thoughts
So one day he rose up to the challenge, took the weapons he had and proceeded to start a revolution! He approached the enemies with a murderous intent, using the shadows to conceal his presence. When close to the leader of a little hellish group, he lifted his weapon high summoning all his strength and.... Yes, he took a beating he would probably never forget. What were you expecting? A god-like child? The punches and kicks he received came out of the freaking nowhere, or so he imagined. ”How fast!” thought Roland. In his perception they were like speed itself! But we know they were just normal hell-spawn, which cannot be compared to a kid, right?
Anyway, they pitied him, and made fun of the child for a long time, but they let little Roland live, fun as he was to them. His wounds healed after a couple days, since they were not too harsh (or otherwise he could not work for the hordes). But although he should have learned his lesson, he rose up again, took his stick, and tried again. Man, do you imagine how crazy can a kid be to try that again? Roland once again took some farming tools and tried the same ambush, watchful for his flanks now. Once again he was about to kill that m!#&+$**++#!, and then…. surprise!! He took another beating!
But after a couple more days he was there again, failing again! The boss of that little group, Baltazar, started enjoying the kid's futile acts, so much that he thought about inviting him in. But Roland would not hear about it, for his own sake. ”We will teach you how to fight, kid!" - screamed one of the soldiers while punching him - "We are strong, you can also be!" - called another - "We will beat your soul out of your body if you don’t!” Trust me, they could be pretty convincing, but we’re not talking about a regular person. This kid was as obstinate as one could get, and his futile tries eventually got known around the region, giving him some (lame) fame. After some time the soldiers of hell brought their own spawn to give little Roland a beating, making a show out of it!
Roland realized that, although he was getting tougher, his plan was getting nowhere. There were too many for him to have a real chance, and of course he didn't have the surprise element anymore, thus it would be better to seek new targets. And so he did. Finding a lone thief sleeping inside a cave, he approached silently. Now you’re mine! – he thought. But when he brought his fork down on the victim, the body was not there anymore, and Roland did not see the kick that drove him out of his balance, nor the other one who pushed his weapon away. He only saw the steel coming for his head. It was the end for him, he knew. But the sword stopped midair, and the wielder made a funny face toward him. ”You’re the stupid kid they are talking about, aren't you?” Roland escaped from this event without injuries, and he even got a nice rusted longsword, that by the time was way too big for his small hands. But it was a real weapon. One he would use to kill Baltazar! And thus he approached the tiefling, ready to shower death over the poor hell-spawn!
Of course he failed, again, and took another beating, but it didn't prevent him from trying again, searching new targets around the place. He failed over and over and over, and survived by a combination of fame, pity, luck and determination, which was, to say the list, certainly the work of fate. But one day the scenario would change. His first kill he made at the age of 11, and it only increased his hope to succeed in the ridiculous task of freeing the land from those creatures. At the age of 13 he had several kills to boast off, but as he became a real threat some folks found him. ”It’s time to put and end to your little shows, stupid.” A feeling of dreadful desperation took hold of Roland, and he realized in an instant how lucky he was to be alive up to that moment. He could not throw that away, and he was no match to Baltazar and his gang. But he could run, and much faster than those weak and undertrained bandits. It was not easy to escape from them, but once again luck guided him, and for days he traveled east to get into a place where he could be safe.
And this is pretty much the story of Roland, the kid who dared to challenge the hordes of hell, without fully knowing what it represented. Of course, stupid and all, but his lack of wits was his salvation, and he learned his lesson. For long years after, he traveled seeking allies to practice and eventually try to free someone from the demon's grasp, which they often succeeded at. Nowadays, he’s an awesome warrior, doing what he can to stop his enemies, but don’t make a mistake to think he does this for the greater good, no, he does it because fighting is what he's good at, and combating demons is a long trained practiced in his mind. Just that. And maybe some long-sustained-rage for the beatings he took.
That's a plain human barbarian, I'll be doing the crunch later ^_^
Another point now that I think of it would have been that Chezarion was deliberately trying to hide his trail. He wouldn't be able to do so anywhere near as well as a fully trained ranger could, but his efforts wouldn't have been totally ineffective. Knowing something of what was out there trying to track down refugees for "fun"/food he wouldn't have been taking any chances he didn't think he needed to.
It's just that part of my problem is my mind keeps replaying that scene from "The Lord of the Rings" where Aragorn tracks the two hobbits through the area where the Rohirrim wiped out the Uruk Hai. :-)
Another point now that I think of it would have been that Chezarion was deliberately trying to hide his trail. He wouldn't be able to do so anywhere near as well as a fully trained ranger could, but his efforts wouldn't have been totally ineffective. Knowing something of what was out there trying to track down refugees for "fun"/food he wouldn't have been taking any chances he didn't think he needed to.
It's just that part of my problem is my mind keeps replaying that scene from "The Lord of the Rings" where Aragorn tracks the two hobbits through the area where the Rohirrim wiped out the Uruk Hai. :-)
We could go the route of dad wasn't able to follow your trail initially due to not being able to make it back to the area for some time. Being severely injured is quite plausible a reason as to why he didn't try before.
We could go the route of dad wasn't able to follow your trail initially due to not being able to make it back to the area for some time. Being severely injured is quite plausible a reason as to why he didn't try before.
That will work.
Here is my submission for a Wizard.
Your stats are at a 22 point buy, you'll need to shave off a couple points somewhere.
14 Str = 5
14 Dex = 5
12 Con = 2
16 Int = 10(then, +2 for human = 18 score)
total: 22
Roland is basically ready, lacking some phisical description and details on minor equipment.
I am very interested in playing this game. I'll draw something up this afternoon.
Hey there, I would be interested in this! I've been chewing on a character concept of a chaotic good lovable joyful caster (can't decide between wizard or cleric) who is totally devoted to utilitarian ideals, and in particular, the use of undead for social good!
It would be neat to try to help people this way. I suppose his end goal might be to settle down of mayor as some frontier town and improve people's lives through the industrial and agricultural use of undead, freeing laborers to pursue leisure, art, or other trades.
Of course all of this is just a pipe dream at level 1, and the main thing for this character would be to enjoy life, and do his best to be sure others are too (100% lovable utilitarian).
I'd love your input on creating and developing this character if you find this short explanation of the concept interesting enough to consider!
Edit: one of the important things is to know what makes undead evil in your world! Do undead raised by conventional means automatically attack the living unless ordered otherwise? If so then this character would need to devote a lot of time to researching the undead and the magic that animates them and trying to create the perfect fearless obedient peaceful (almost) indestructible workers.
This is Chaek 'Laktar.
I made him for another game that never took off so I changed up his story a little to fit because I really liked it and made his mechanics geared for this game. :)