Hello, everyone! I am opening recruitment for my final PbP adventure here on the Paizo boards - Kingmaker.
I'm looking for 4-5 players, but I'm open to 6 if there are some great applications.
Application
To apply, please complete the (hopefully minimal) steps below.
0. Download and read the Player's Guide.
1. Build a character using the crunch below.
2. Share how often you can post/contribute to the game. I don't want to put unrealistic expectations on the group, but I'd like to shoot for one post per day on weekdays. If we go faster, I'm down with that.
3. Share how many other PBPs you're currently playing.
4. Share why your character is in Brevoy and how he/she became a part of a chartered group to explore and settle the Stolen Lands (aka your backstory).
Character Creation Crunch
1. All characters begin at level one.
2. 20-point ability buy.
3. Non-evil alignments.
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. No gunslingers, samurai, ninjas or summoners.
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).
8. Average gold for your class.
9. Max HP at level one, roll or 1/2 HD + 1 thereafter.
Recruitment will run until I have enough applicants to choose a full party. So get those apps in quickly.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
I look forward to the applications!
My initial idea:
I am thinking about a human barbarian, archetype invulnerable rager. Background would be he was born into a noble house as the result of an affair between the countess and a tribesman possible a chieftain. His mother knows that he isn't a legitimate son and others suspect. His mother told him and he decided to spare her the embarrassment and possible reprisal from the wronged husband to leave for adventure and build his own position in live. I envision him as a friendly large man with quite a temper but with a good heart, caring for others.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions please let me know.
Hi, I'm definitely interested! I'll be back to apply in a couple days. I'm wrapping up some heavy course work due Friday night, then my semester is done; I'm here just scouting for a new game right now.
So for now, I'll just mention I've got two character concepts I'd particularly love to play and already partially created in anticipation of a Kingmaker PBP. One is a half-elven treesinger (druid archetype, they shape into plant forms rather than animal forms), the other is a human Aldori swordlord (fighter archetype, a duelist-styled fighter designed to model the swordlords of Brevoy). Depending on the other submissions, I'm open to whichever the party would have more of a need for.
I am interested. Would like to play a halfling beastmaster ranger.
Draft backstory is Nigel was a guardian of his small people, who fled from slavery and oppression from the south. Nigel often wandered the woods on patrol around his village. He was away on such a patrol when the small village was attacked and destroyed and now he, alone and driven by guilt, searches for those that slaughtered his friends and family. He seeks to honor the his fallen clan by rebuilding a new village in their name.
(looking up details in players guide to tie into the campaign).
Definitely interested. Would love a human rogue or alchemist, if we be needing such a role. Background puts her as a Surtova noble, hailing from a minor (but ambitious) branch of the family. With the call to explore/claim the southern lands, they see a great opportunity for a foothold in political leverage, and she is sent to represent their interests.
Dotting :) very interested in kingmaker.
Will submit a paladin most likely.
Submitting Laius Rorgavia.
Male Human Rogue (Spy) 1
HP: 8 (1d8)
Initiative +3, Senses: Perception +4
STR:10(+0), DEX:16(+3) CON:10(+0) INT:10(+0) CHA:16(+3) WIS:10(+0)
BAB:+0 CMB:+3 CMD: 13
Speed: 30
AC:20 (+3 Dex, +1 Shield +) Touch: 13, Flat footed: 17
Fort:+0 Reflex:+5 Will:+0
Melee +3 Rapier (1d6, 18-20/x2)
Melee +3 Dagger (1d4, 19-20/x2)
Ranged +3 Shortbow (1d6, 20/x3)
Acrobatics 7, Bluff 7, Diplomacy 7, Disable Device 7, Disguise 7, Perception 4, Sense Motive 4, Sleight of Hand 4, Stealth 7
Two-weapon defense.
Two-weapon fighting.
Skilled Liar: Whenever a spy uses Bluff to attempt to deceive someone, she gains a bonus on the opposed roll equal to 1/2 her rogue level (minimum +1). This bonus does not apply to feint attempts or attempts to pass secret messages. This ability replaces trapfinding.
Sneak attack (+1d6):If a rogue can catch an opponent when he is unable to defend himself effectively from her attack, she can strike a vital spot for extra damage. The rogue's attack deals extra damage (called "precision damage") anytime her target would be denied a Dexterity bonus to AC (whether the target actually has a Dexterity bonus or not), or when the rogue flanks her target. This extra damage is 1d6 at 1st level, and increases by 1d6 every two rogue levels thereafter. Should the rogue score a critical hit with a sneak attack, this extra damage is not multiplied. Ranged attacks can count as sneak attacks only if the target is within 30 feet. With a weapon that deals nonlethal damage (like a sap, whip, or an unarmed strike), a rogue can make a sneak attack that deals nonlethal damage instead of lethal damage. She cannot use a weapon that deals lethal damage to deal nonlethal damage in a sneak attack, not even with the usual –4 penalty. The rogue must be able to see the target well enough to pick out a vital spot and must be able to reach such a spot. A rogue cannot sneak attack while striking a creature with concealment.
Bastard:You take a –1 penalty on all Charisma-based skill checks made when dealing with members of Brevic nobility but gain a +1 trait bonus on Will saves as a result of your stubbornness and individuality. (The penalty aspect of this trait is removed if you ever manage to establish yourself as a true noble.)
Fencer:You gain a +1 trait bonus on attack of opportunity attack rolls made with daggers, swords, and similar bladed weapons.
Other:Studded Leather (+3 to AC, Mac DEX Bonus: 5, Penalty: -1), Backpack, Pocketed Scarf, Belt pouch, Travelers Outfit (Throw Away), Pickpocket outfit.
Readied Items:Rapier, Bow, Arrows(40), Dagger, Caltrops.
Secured Items:Boot dagger, Scarf Dagger, Thieves' tools, Waterskin.
Stowed Items:Bedroll, chalk (10), a flint and steel, a grappling hook, an iron pot, a mess kit, a mirror, pitons (10), rope, soap, torches (10), trail rations (5 days).
26GP
Laius sits near the end of the cell with his body lying upon the cold walls, his red hair accentuated in the dim light. He looks at the man that just entered and says: "My name is Laius, Laius Rogarvia, though you might know me as Laius the fool, or Laius the thief. Well both of these are right, I'm both fool and thief. But before you judge me, at least hear my tale..."
"I was born in a small town near the East Sellen, It was not any different from many other trorough Rostland. Its people toiled in the fields all day long, trough all week. My mother was such, a peasant though she not worked in the fields but rather in a house weaving. She would have a peaceful non-eventfull life, if it wasn't for her beauty. I don't really know how she looked young, my oly memories of her are of an unkept woman cursing the world. But I believe the stories the villagers tell. Thus my mother as a beautiful young woman caught the eye of a certain minor Rorgarvian noble. My father was as far removed from the line of sucesion as one could be and still remain of one family his name was Yasha, and upon seeing my mother he became imediately interested. I'm not completely sure bout what followed, but we all heard some version of the same history, young beautiful girl is taken by rich noble, and is left abandoned with a child. Now that child was me, my mother brought me up alone bringing food to the table with her weaving. Now it's not like her parents simply threw her out, they tried convincing her to marry some guy from town and live so, but she was stubborn you see she was proud. Proud of giving birth to me, she called me her little rorgavian, her little dragon."
Albus shift positions embarassment clear on his face then he continues: "Thus her family was left only capable of giving sparse aid, for most families already struggle to survive. But while my mother worried about each month I grew up mostly happy, I helped in home, played with other children. Yes I met with the dirty bastard reaction, and I got in quite some fights around that time, I also asked myself why didn't my father ever come to see mother or me, but mostly I was happy, life flew during these years. But I grew I learn't the truth that my father cared not neither for my mother or me, that most in the village though of my mother as little better than a whore and liar, not even a single one of them believed the letters my father had left. Well I can't blame them for at least in their content they were lies: words of love and affection." Laius laughs out loud at that then continues: "More like a spell, a trap to keep her bound to him. I was of course furious with my father but that didn't change my life, and so I kept living now helping in my uncle's farm, but while I managed to bring something back that way mother was being left bereft of work, for more reputable if maybe not as good weavers began to take her clients, and as she lost work we began to eat very little most of the year, and she began to go on rambling and crying cursing the world, bemoaning the villagers, but never my father or me. Finaly as things got worse and worse I took my father's letters and travelled to New Stetven using part of the money I got from selling a gold ring my father had given as a present to my mother. it was my first time in a city, i was baffled, and for some moments thought of giving up and turning back, but more than anything my anger spurned me onwards. Though difficult I finally found my father but I couldn't approach him. When I asked for him and showed the letters a servant answered me saying these were proof of nothing, when I tried to protest I was thrown out by the guards who also rent the letters in little pieces."
"Now furious I foolish decided to confront my father directly by going around the guards, well a fool's errand, is still a fool's errand even If the fool is the one telling the story. I got caught and this time they didn't thrown me out they put me in a dungeon cell. My first experience with one but certainly not my last. Still In a way i got what I wanted my hell-spawned father appeared in the dungeons one night, he was drunk, I knew because the smell was terrible, to my surprise he didn't look anything like me except for the hair and the eyes these were the same as mine a combination of yellow and green. when he looked at me he said: So you are the liar boy. Saying you're a man's son like that is bad boy you shouldn't lie eh? Well I answered: [/i]Damn you! Don't you have any shame! We're alone here![/i] Or something along that, I mostly remember his face and my own rage at the time not the exact words, well except for his next ones. These... These I'll never forget: Shut boy! I don't care a s+%+ bout what your whore of a mother told you or what you believe! You are not my son! You're someone's bastard no doubt, but I have no bastards. Now boy, You should be happy I won't kill you! Then he turned around and left, just like that, just like that I met my father and heard the only words he would ever give, words denying me my parentage."
Laius rises from the floor and says: "Well after that I was thrown out of New Stetven with some silver for passage and I think to shut me up as well, desolate I traveled back home, it was a hard voyage, my mind kept going back to these words. They echoed in my head with his voice, then sometimes with my own voice. Still that was the best part of the year for me. For when I arrived I discovered my mother had fallen Ill, she kept herself in the brink of life till the end of the year, but in the first week of the new year she died. And so I was left with nothing in the world for even our small house we had to sell in these last months. We lived with my uncle at that time. After mother's death I wandered for some days in the wilds, surviving mostly by luck than anything else. It was these days that set me upon my path, on a cold morning I was looking at the sky when I decided: If my father and his family denied what was mine, then I would seize it, steal it. That same month I traveled southwards towards the River Kingdoms, I after all could only learn thievery from thiefs. My time there was spent mostly running from one job to the other bogging things up or not, staying in the same place for long was bad. I spent two years there and When I came back to Brevoy I came as a con artist, who targeted nobles, but of course my primary target was my father. Of course if I knew he dould disappear then I would have struck at him before." Laius smiles then add: "Now you know my tale, and as I said I'm both fool and thief, but as the stars see me nad as they see all, I am Laius Rorgarvia and my honor is true."[/b]
Human Cleric of Torag reporting in.
A Rostlander, here to convert the uncultured masses and bring honour to the Father of Creation.
Also interested in joining I have an oracle of lore rolled up with a background concept of a freshly graduated scholar living in Bravoy. I can post every day I work night shift so my posts may be at odd hours.I am currently in 2 PBPs.
Here's my character's stats, and I decided I liked the notion of a bard best. Backstory will be more filled out upon request/if accepted.
As for timing and PbP's... I'm currently involved in five, as well as running one. Most are *quite* slow-paced, so it won't much affect my ability and timing to post. I'm able to post multiple times a day about 95% of the time.
Female Human Bard 1
N Medium Humanoid (human)
Init +2; Senses Perception +5
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Defense
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AC 13, touch 12, flat-footed 11 (+1 armor, +2 Dex)
hp 8 (1d8)
Fort +1, Ref +4, Will +3
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Melee Rapier +0 (1d6/18-20/x2)
Ranged Shortbow +2 (1d6/x3)
Special Attacks bardic performance (standard action) (7 rounds/day, bardic performance: countersong, bardic performance: distraction, bardic performance: fascinate (1 targets) (dc 13), bardic performance: inspire courage +1
Bard Spells Known (CL 1):
1 (2/day) Grease (DC 14), Charm Person (DC 14)
0 (at will) Prestidigitation (DC 13), Detect Magic, Mending, Dancing Lights
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Statistics
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Str 11, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 12, Cha 16
Base Atk +0; CMB +0; CMD 12
Feats Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot
Traits Noble Born - Surtova, Resilient
Skills Bluff +7, Diplomacy +7, Knowledge (nobility) +7, Linguistics +6, Perception +5, Perform (oratory) +7, Sense Motive +5, Spellcraft +6, Stealth +6, Use Magic Device +7
Languages Common, Draconic, Hallit, Skald
SQ bardic knowledge
Other Gear Padded armor, Arrows (60), Rapier, Shortbow, Backpack (empty), Bedroll, Signal whistle, Trail rations (3), Twine (50'), Waterskin, 42 GP, 5 SP, 9 CP
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Special Abilities
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Bardic Knowledge +1 (Ex) Add +1 to all knowledge skill checks.
Bardic Performance (standard action) (7 rounds/day) Your performances can create magical effects.
Bardic Performance: Countersong (Su) Counter magical effects that depend on sound.
Bardic Performance: Distraction (Su) Counter magical effects that depend on sight.
Bardic Performance: Fascinate (1 targets) (DC 13) (Su) One or more creatures becomes fascinated with you.
Bardic Performance: Inspire Courage +1 (Su) Morale bonus on some saving throws, attack and damage rolls.
Noble Born - Surtova +2 damage with light or one-handed weapons vs. flat-footed opponents
Point Blank Shot +1 to attack and damage rolls with ranged weapons at up to 30 feet.
Precise Shot You don't get -4 to hit when shooting or throwing into melee.
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Ah! I've been waiting and hoping for a new Kingmaker to pop up.
I'd like to submit Ser Bregan, a sellsword, cavalier and a bastard who was in a prior Kingmaker PbP that fizzled.
You can even view Bregan's posts for some insight into how he played out.
This particular Kingmaker game - as far as I can tell, only featured the single scene at Oleg's before fizzling. Most of its two months of play transpired in Restov prior to the journey to Oleg's.
If there's no issue with him giving the campaign another go (given he saw all of one encounter from the AP), I'll tidy him up some.
Almost forgot...I can post at least daily/nightly. I am currently in 2 PBP's and running 1 PBP, all for Pathfinder Society. I am very interested in an AP for a change of pace.
Nigel would travel Brevoy in search of allies or work as a scout as he tries to restore his community.
I'm back to at least answer the GM's questions. Crunch to come when I get a chance, perhaps Friday night with luck.
Posting frequency: Once a weeknight works fine for me.
Other PBP's: I'm running one for a private group (the Carrion Crown AP), and I ran one prior (a homebrewed campaign, now over); I am not playing a PC in a PBP at this time, though I've got my eye open for Skull & Shackles here on Paizo's site, too. I've done mostly in-person playing, but find I really enjoy PBP also.
Iozif Kovalov (my swordlord) is from Restov. His father is a swordlord before him, and had his son join the party heading south to reclaim the Stolen Lands. Iozif is here to honor his father's wishes, and to establish a new nation for the prestige of his family, to enhance the legacy of the swordlords, and with some fortune, help build a new nation allied to Rostland.
Aldarion (my treesinger) is a forest sage who lives in the dense woods bordering Rostland and the River Kingdoms. A reclusive hermit, he's garnered some renown in Rostland for his healing abilities, as well as his enigmatic wisdom. His location has positioned him to hear some rumors and murmurings about the goings-on in the south. One of the swordlords heard about Aldarion, and thought he'd make the perfect wilderness guide to the agents heading south and had him sent for. Aldarion, a good-natured soul, has accepted this role and returned to Rostland to receive his charge.
About the Pbp's I'm playing in two, and GMming two. I can always post at least one time a day, can post more if its the case.
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Dotting for interest. Considering a cleric of Abodar with Nobility and Travel as his domains. He would be about fulfilling the precepts of his god by bringing Law and Cities to the wild stolen lands.
Other Pbp's: currently in one,(CotCT, Typhon B'Ru) and applicant for one other that hasn't finished recruitment yet (Shattered Star, Umbryl Char)
Once or twice a day posting is fine with me, usually in the evenings tho.
Also on a side note that might disqualify me, I ran a tabletop Kingmaker, made it to the second book. But I'm pretty good about not metagaming.
Anyway would like to try it as a player, and as nobody plays TTop where I currently live PbP it is. Which I am really enjoying right now.
Will try to get the crunch and fluff together tomorrow
Cheers and good luck all.
0. Download and read the Player's Guide.
Done!
1. Build a character using the crunch below.
Done! In the Alias Profile.
2. Share how often you can post/contribute to the game. I don't want to put unrealistic expectations on the group, but I'd like to shoot for one post per day on weekdays. If we go faster, I'm down with that.
I can promise to post at least once a day. I generally do more like 2-3 when possible.
3. Share how many other PBPs you're currently playing.
I play in 2 and GM 1. All are with RL friends that live too far for realy games. I would love a chance to play with people I don't know. :)
4. Share why your character is in Brevoy and how he/she became a part of a chartered group to explore and settle the Stolen Lands (aka your backstory).
Done! In the Profile.
2. Share how often you can post/contribute to the game. I don't want to put unrealistic expectations on the group, but I'd like to shoot for one post per day on weekdays. If we go faster, I'm down with that.
I often prefer to post 1-3 times per day for the PbPs that I participate in. Viewing some of my more active aliases should confirm fevered posting and long-term participation on my part.
3. Share how many other PBPs you're currently playing.
I have 4 currently active PbPs - Shackled City (1400 posts), a Savage Tide game back from the dead after a year (~200 posts) and two newer games - a Way of the Wicked game (72 posts already) and a Reign of Winter game (64 posts).
4. Share why your character is in Brevoy and how he/she became a part of a chartered group to explore and settle the Stolen Lands (aka your backstory).
This is on Bregan's profile page. I invented a lot of NPCs in the backstory and am open to revising anything as needed to more appropriately named NPCs (or organizations/affiliations) in the campaign.
Ultimately I'm looking for a serious Kingmaker game that will run its course and see kingdom building at some point!
Throwing my hat in the ring...I can post daily (sometimes more often), and I'm currently in no other PBPs currently. In the interest of full disclosure, I *have* run a Kingmaker game (with my face-to-face group), but I feel I can keep that knowledge segregated.
Kern Therensgard (Basic Crunch in the profile, will be fully fleshed if accepted) is a Transmuter Wizard with a military mindset. Lawful Neutral, but not a jerk about it (just a very ordered personality who believes in the group above the individual).
Backstory:
Roma Therensgard was Captain of Horse for House Surtova until approximately 25 years ago, when she suddenly resigned and left Brevoy to travel to Lastwall, where she gave birth to a son (Campaign Trait: Bastard)
Her son, Kern, grew up formally educated with a generous stipend from House Surtova. He attended the College of Mysteries in Absolom, showing strong talent and drive, but upon graduation he did not settle down to become a 'working' wizard. Instead, he immediately joined the Lastwall Riders, a border patrol that serves as a first defense and warning from orcish invaders. (Trait: Lastwall Cavalry Rider) Anyone who worked with him could tell he had something to prove.
After 3 years with the riders, Kern travelled to Brevoy, feeling that his excellent academic record and military service would had earn him a place in the Surtova House.
He was bitterly disappointed. His father refused to acknowledge him, and the stipend that had been granted his mother ended on the spot.
When the opportunity to join a chartered exploration group was presented, he leapt at it, seeing it as an opportunity to metaphorically put a stick in the Surtova family's eye by proving that he can make it without them. (He also feels responsible for his mother's loss of income at this stage, and feels that success here will give him the opportunity to replace that income).
I went ahead and fully set up Kern's Profile :)
Varun Dantios, lvl 1 human alchemist (Ragechemist archtype) CG
Varun Dantios can be called a force of nature...without any common sense. Proving at the young age of twelve to be a alchemical genius, many felt that he was destined for greatness. Then his...destructive talents revealed themselves, alongside his complete lack of common sense. Incident after incident occured until his noble born parents disowned him and declared him to be a bastard of the house, citing that his mother had been ravished before her wedding and out of charity her husband had raised him as his own son. (This is a lie, and yes Varun caused that much in properity damage)
Unperturbed he sold his talents to various criminals, who not only approved of his "tendancies" but activally encouraged them via paying high sums for his expertise. Then he met Tasha a lovable tiefling thief, who had incidently stolen his heart. Then she was taken to the guardhouse and the guard captain, Kellum was known for his hatred of tieflings. Saying that he would execute her at sundown, Varun realized that there was only one option to save her: An all out assualt on the guardshouse.
With his only friend in the town, a dwarf named Garudin. He attacked the guardshouse. Using a vast amount of bombs and his trusty earth breaker he breached the guardhouse and confronted Kellum. The battle was difficult but in the end Varun won. Getting Tasha to a safehouse before guardsmen from the city arrived at the now destroyed guardhouse, Varun Dantios must find a way to evade "justice". Incidentally a expedition to lands unknown is in the offing and its a good way to keep his head down.
str 16
dex 14
con 12
int 16 (14+2)
wis 8
cha 10
hp 9, ac 16, initative 4+
feats iron will and martial weapon profiency (earthbreaker).
traits Bastard and Reactionary
extracts (does my int bonus function for say extra extracts per day) bombers eye
skillpoints per lvl 8 knowledge arcana, knowledge nature, craft (alchemy), disable device, spellcraft, perception, survival and use magic device.
prepared mutagen is a strength mutagen
equipment (average gp 105) earthbreaker (cost 40 gp) and Lamellar (leather) (cost 60 gp).
anything ive missed gm?
Changed my mind and working on a Imperious Sorcerer with the imperious human optional racial traits. Hoping the leadership feat is allowed in this AP. Timothy is of a minor house and will aspire to become a king or at least major advisor or some such leadership role.
My character sheet. Hoping for Grand Diplomat.
Male Human (Taldan) Oracle 1
LN Medium Humanoid (human)
Init -1; Senses Perception +2
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Defense
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AC 9, touch 9, flat-footed 9 (-1 Dex)
hp 9 (1d8+1)
Fort +1, Ref -1, Will +4
Resist issian
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Speed 30 ft.
Oracle Spells Known (CL 1):
1 (4/day) Comprehend Languages, Cure Light Wounds, Fairness (DC 14)
0 (at will) Read Magic, Detect Magic, Light, Enhanced Diplomacy
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Statistics
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Str 12, Dex 9, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 17
Base Atk +0; CMB +1; CMD 10
Feats Scholar (Knowledge [history], Knowledge [local]), Skill Focus (Diplomacy)
Traits Cosmopolitan (Absalom), Issian
Skills Diplomacy +10, Heal +6, Knowledge (arcana) +7, Knowledge (history) +9, Knowledge (local) +9, Knowledge (religion) +7, Linguistics +7, Spellcraft +6 Modifiers revelations (lore keeper)
Languages Celestial, Common, Kelish, Osiriani
SQ mysteries (lore), oracle's curses (legalistic), vow to self (1/day)
Other Gear 105 GP
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Special Abilities
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Cosmopolitan (Absalom) You gain a +1 trait bonus on Linguistics checks, and Linguistics is always a class skill for you.
Issian +1 Will save vs. Mind-affecting.
Legalistic The shackles of Hell impose savage consequences should you violate a covenant, but also imbue you with remarkable guile. Whenever you break your word (either purposefully or unintentionally), you become sickened for 24 hours or until you meet your ob
Lore Keeper (Ex) Knowledge Skills become CHA-based.
Scholar (Knowledge [history], Knowledge [local]) +2 bonus on two Knowledge skills
Vow to Self (1/day) +4 morale bonus to one role to keep a promise.
Ardal Lobend here, I can contribute as much as you want. I like to go faster if possible, but whatever pace you want to set is fine by me.
I'm currently in one other game as a player.
I can't breathe. There's no air, and I can't breathe. I should be suffocating, but I'm not. And though I should, I don't care.
There's no sound. None. My heart isn't even beating. Do I even still have a heart? It's normal. It feels "right".
I open my eyes to blackness. Pinpoints of light, far, far away. The stars. I am nowhere. I'm in the void. And through it all, I don't care.
I hear it then, from inside myself. A lullaby. I realize then, that I'm sleeping. Not myself mind you, but "I" am sleeping in the dream. I have been sleeping for eons. And when I wake, I'll destroy all of creation. Again.
That's when I woke in my bed screaming. A terrible dream to have. I thought nothing of it. I continued my life as a noble merchant. That night, it happened again. And again the next night. And again. And again...
Every night, the same dream. The same lullaby. I started to do everything I could to keep from sleeping. I lost everything. My job. My wife. Everything. The townsfolk thought I'd gone mad. Maybe they were right.
I left town to head north, to the unsettled lands in search of a new life. I traveled alone. The powers started to manifest soon afterward.
I can pull the void into this world. I feel strangely at peace with myself when I do it. In reality, it scares the hell out of me. I'm losing touch with humanity the more I do it. I use the powers to protect myself. I've killed creatures, men, animals...and I should care. But I don't. And that scares me.
I find that I need people now. I need to hear them laugh, and cry and seethe and rage and love. Without them, I might lose my humanity.
Ardal has joined with a group of explorers in an attempt to tame the land...and his own nightmares.
Ri.hat.ng
Submitted for your approval all data under the alias.
0. Check.
1. Check
2. Once a day during the week with the odd gap if things go crazy in RL.
3. 8. Though some of them are quite slow moving.
4. Under alias. Short version he is an embarrassment to his family and they sent him out to die.
Question for you Tallgrass. Why is this your last pbp here?
if I am selected I want the role of grand alchemist/general, who better to lead the troops into battle then an enraged chemist?
Hey everyone - great concepts here. In the interest of making sure I don't miss any questions, please PM if you have something specific you'd like to ask.
In response to Caelius - this is my last PBP because I can't imagine running more than three games at one time. That'd be more work and time than I could spend!
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In response to Caelius - this is my last PBP because I can't imagine running more than three games at one time. That'd be more work and time than I could spend!
Oh so last game you are running at the moment.. Not last game ever because I am moving to Sedona in an attempt to use the vortices to access another dimension.
It is all clear now.
Who told you about Sedona?!
Nice.
Oh just realized I forgot to choose a noble house for Caelius. I am not wed to any of them so is it OK to leave it open and see what would be most interesting given the other bluebloods in the party. Unless you have a preference Mr. Tallgrass? (Assuming Caelius is chosen of course.)
would like Gavin to be considered
I would like to be considered for this game. I am, as of this post, not currently in any PBP games.
The character I submit for review is:
When Bran was still a young and beardless dwarf he was orphaned by Bandits near the village of Restov. Though the bandits left the child for dead in the Rostland plains his dwarven heritage and keen intellect kept him alive for three days until he was found by a blacksmith from Restov who was travelling to New Stetven to buy supplies for his forge. The smith, called Rorin, taught Bran everything he knew and treated him as a son until his dying day.
Bran had a keen talent for engineering that did not go unnoticed by Rorin, who had Bran study up on the subject in the hopes that such a talent would not go waste. Unfortunately, the small village of Restov had neither the resources or the need for an engineer so Bran mostly worked with Rorin at the forge, but never stopped studying engineering.
When Rorin passed Bran decided it was time to leave the village, without Rorin he no longer had ties to the land, but he would never forget the kindness of those who welcomed him when Rorin brought him in. The day the messenger came to village calling for explorers to enter the Greenbelt Bran saw it as a way to find his own path and give something back to the country that he called home. He picked up his dwarven warxe, the only thing he had left of hist birth parents, and the armor Rorin had forged for him during his very short time as a village guard then made preparations for the journey.
Oh yea, questions.
2. I generally check pbp stuff at least once a day, more if it's actually moving!
3. Running one, playing one. Also running one irl.
4. From Rostland, here to convert the masses in the name of Torag!
forgot to reload my browser so here is the profile that I am submitting.
EDIT: Backstory and basic stats on are the profile, just need to work on equipment.
Here's the profile for my aasimar swordlord (Appearance and personality are there and I'll add the backstory and duel from my previous post there later today). Probably not complete, but as I've said, she's fully stated out on Myth Weavers and should be easy enough to transfer the stats over.
EDIT: Avatar image is as close as I could find, a picture of her actual appearance is linked in her profile.
This is Chakka's submission. Cromwell cleric of Abodar. Am still working on stats and backstory but almost done.XD
Posting Caelus Vraie, Aldori Swordlord in training. Secretly looking for his adopted brother whom was last seen in the stolen lands. Everything else is included in the alias
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In submission:
Questions:
Urlich "the Bear" Medvyed
Human (Taldan) Barbarian (Invulnerable Rager, Urban Barbarian, Beast Totem) 1
CG Medium Humanoid (human)
Hero Points 1
Init +2; Senses Perception +8
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Defense
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AC 16, touch 12, flat-footed 14 (+4 armor, +2 Dex)
hp 14 (1d12+2)
Fort +4, Ref +3, Will +1
Resist noble born - medvyed
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Melee Heavy flail +4 (1d10+4/19-20/x2)
Special Attacks rage (6 rounds/day)
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Statistics
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Str 17, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 13, Wis 12, Cha 8
Base Atk +1; CMB +4; CMD 16
Feats Combat Expertise +/-1, Skill Focus (Perception) (Focused Study)
Traits Noble Born - Medvyed, Threatening Defender
Skills Acrobatics +0, Climb +1, Escape Artist +0, Fly +0, Intimidate +3, Knowledge (local) +5, Knowledge (nobility) +5, Perception +8, Ride +4, Stealth +0, Swim +1 Modifiers noble born - medvyed
Languages Common, Draconic
SQ controlled rage, controlled rage: constitution, controlled rage: dexterity, crowd control, heart of the streets, hero points
Other Gear Lamellar (leather) armor, Heavy flail, Backpack (16 @ 31 lbs), Bedroll, Blanket, Canteen, Flint and steel, Grappling hook, Rope, Torch (5), Trail rations (5), 21 GP, 8 SP, 8 CP
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TRACKED RESOURCES
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Rage (6 rounds/day) (Ex) - 0/6
Torch - 0/5
Trail rations - 0/5
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Special Abilities
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Combat Expertise +/-1 Bonus to AC in exchange for an equal penalty to attack.
Controlled Rage (Ex) May gain lesser bonus split as desired, but without normal drawbacks.
Crowd Control (Ex) If 2+ foes adjacent, +1 to hit & AC. Unslowed by crowds & bonus to intimidate.
Heart of the Streets +1 AC while adjacent to at least two allies. Crowds do not count as difficult terrain.
Hero Points (1) Hero Points can be spent at any time to grant a variety of bonuses.
Noble Born - Medvyed +2 Diplomacy vs. Fey, +1 will save vs. fey spells and supernatural abilities.
Rage (6 rounds/day) (Ex) +4 Str, +4 Con, +2 to Will saves, -2 to AC when enraged.
2. Share how often you can post/contribute to the game. I don't want to put unrealistic expectations on the group, but I'd like to shoot for one post per day on weekdays. If we go faster, I'm down with that.
I can be expected to regularly post more than once a day on weekdays and at least once a day on weekends.
3. Share how many other PBPs you're currently playing.
Four. Two PFS. One may have stalled out though, haven't heard much from the GM in a while.
4. Share why your character is in Brevoy and how he/she became a part of a chartered group to explore and settle the Stolen Lands (aka your backstory).
As a young child Urlich Medvyed was a typical son of a noble family far enough from major position to live a pampered yet not very exciting life. However, when puberty hit, his growth outpaced his peers greatly, and he had a full beard and body-hair by age thirteen. Teased by his peers and with a newfound lack of control, anger started to build. He became destructive and violent around the manor, eventually injuring a younger cousin and a servant in a fit of rage. His anger was fearsome to behold, and considered ill-fitting for a young nobleman. Due to his size, hairiness, and temper people began calling him the Bear behind his back, and eventually it became a nickname for his rage even to his face.
Knowing that he was losing control, embarrassing the family, and growing angrier by the day, Ulrich found a way to escape and vent his rage outside of his refined lifestyle. Daily, he would sneak out of the manner, dress as a peasant and run with the street-toughs. Openly calling himself the Bear, he was a fearsome fighter, especially as he grew to control his rage and focus it. For years this worked, with his dual existence allowing him to be less of an outcast at home and almost a hero in the streets.
His two worlds collided, however, when the streets became too violent, and as the Watch was trying to break up a fight the Bear injured one and was beaten badly during the arrest. Scandal arose once it was determined who the Bear was... the young lord Ulrich Medvyed. Shaming the family and becoming an even greater outcast, the commission into the Stolen Lands is exactly what the Bear needs. Freedom from the confines of his manner and a way to win back honor to his name in a way that all could approve of. Ulrich volunteered immediately, lending his name to bring prestige to the expedition while hopefully starting a better life for himself... one that can embrace both the Bear and Ulrich.
Ulrich is built to fill the "tank" and primary fighter roll, though he will continue to develop his skills in ways that will assist the party outside of combat as well.
