Jade Regent

Game Master Will Cooper

Hi people,
so I've got a hankering to get some gaming going and I've been enjoying my reading of Jade Regent so I thought I'd combine the two and try getting a PbP started for it. Feel free to ask any questions, I'm open to discussion but the guidelines below are fairly set in my mind. I'm after four players, might take an extra or not depending on how many apply and the like and how I like some of the applications. Oh and try to avoid stepping on each others toes class role wise since I'm more likely to pick a fighter and a wizard over two wizards. Anyway, hopefully I don't sound over serious and you'll be interested in giving the game a go :)

Character Creation
- Starting at first level
- 20pt buy with no stats above 20 or below 8 after racial traits.
- 2 traits
- Starting wealth is the average for you class
- Max hit points for first level
- No summoners (Sorry, just not my cup of tea) and I'd need a heck of a good reason for Ninja/Samurai
- I'm down with Archetypes but I'm going to limit each character to one even if they multiclass, at least in my mind they represent too narrow a focus to be able to have multiple archtypes on a single character.
- I'm willing to have a look at any of the races from Paizo published material but no secondary published or fan created material please.

Social Contract Stuff
- Being able to post on a daily basis (I understand that breaks have to be taken from time to time, weekends are normally lighter post wise and the like but at a slower then "daily" rate we'll never even finish Brinewall Legacy).
- Rolling will be handled openly, using invisible castle or the inbuilt dice roller, under a spoiler tag, this way you guys can seem me rolling badly or awesomely as the dice gods will, and I can see the same for you, but we wont clutter up the flow of the game with mechanics all over the place.
- During combat I'll do my best to use maps but for very small time combat I may just use narrative description, I don't see the need for a map of "In the middle of the 80ft circular clearing stands a giant spider crouched over a dead horse".
- The Paizo books are avaliable and I'm willing to use most of material contained within. I however, do not have an eidetic memory so if you use anything outside of the core book please tell me which book its from (I don't normally need page references but if it's particularly obscure it wouldn't hurt).
- I'm aiming for a moderately serious tone, I'm not saying no humor or jokes, they make a game memorable, but I'm not after joke characters like "Chesire McPurrs, the Catfolk theif who drinks milk and steals from party members for the lolz" and that flavour of stuff.

Sounds interesting, I'm throwing my hat into the ring.
I think I'd like to try an play an Eldrich knight.
Starting out as a fighter (Because it makes sense that he would have spent time learning that) for one lv, then taking sorceror lv's (discovering an inborn talent over suddenly learning wizardry) and then Eldrich knight lv's.

Hi Jörmungandr. I'd like to play in your Jade Regent campaign. Presenting Mei Szilani, human monk. I'm happy with your ground rules.

Mei is a young monk who has just completed her first years of temple training and is, finally, allowed to travel and discover the world. Her family hails from Sandpoint, and as a young girl Mei was in and out of the Mvashti household. Koya was a second mother, and Niska a beloved grandma. Mai kept up a correspondence with Niska while away at the Temple, and a bundle of Niska's letters in a scented wooden box is one of her most cherished possessions.

Count me interested.
Human magus (don't know archetype yet), changeling oracle of life or halfling paladin hospitaler.

I would be interested in joining your game. Initial thought is a Cleric of Desna with the Varisian Pilgrim archetype (from Inner Sea Magic). I may potentially be interested in going into the Spherewalker prestige class from AP #2.

I'm still up in the air on some of the other bits of the character such as race (Likely Human or Half-Elf), or gender.

I'll look over the Player's Guide for Jade Regent and come back with a more fleshed out concept later today.

Hey, I am interest and wish to join you.

I must warn you that i wish to join in a online game to learn pathfinder as I haven't play it RL yet. I haven't thought of a class yet though.

If you do accept me please send me a pm Jörmungandr as I have some questions.

Dotting this for now and I'll get a character concept up tomorrow.

Hey guys, some nice ideas already. I've no problems with making a character with the goal of becoming an Eldritch Knight (I'd probably just be a Magus instead but thats me :P ). The Monk looks good, and I have no problems with any of your ideas Chainmail. Also have no problem with a Varisian Pilgrim or Spherewalker (thanks for the directions, saved me time finding it). We seem to be divine heavy which is a first for me as a gm.

Oh, and Chado, rather then getting us to pm back and forward you may as well ask the questions here. You also might want to have at least an idea of what you want to play, helps me during the selection process.

Oh, and I should have mentioned this earlier but I'll leave this up for a couple of days and while first come first served isn't my policy for RPGs it doesnt hurt if you have a good character concept and are amongst the first responders :)

Well, as it is my first time I play an RPG online that uses dices, I guess you have a site with random generators?

Also, what will be the time limit between the post?

I thought about the classes :
Well, I would like to play Human Druid or Half-Elf Ranger.

Sorry I'm not sure if you're trolling so I'll be polite and assume you aren't so, as I said in my first post I would prefer rolls to be performed using this websites built in dice roller or the website invisible castle. As for the second question I've requested people are able to post roughly once a day.

Hey,.I am interested. Thinking maybe an arcane duelist.bard, or a spirort barbarian. Gah,.& posting from my phone sucks!

I'll try and have a finished character up after work tomorrow and let you have a look see.

I am sorry if something I wrote was annoying or ignorant but this is my second day in the forum, so if I have a gap here or there please show tolerance. I didn't even know that this website has a built-in dice roller.

As for the time I asked because in other forum rpgs there was a time limit like : you got 48hours to post or you are skipped for that round (of posting) and thus the topic wouldn't wait for a person like a week.

I'm interested in a human or elf ranger or elf witch.

Again some interesting ideas people.

I wasn't offended or anything I'm just trained to see trolls even when there aren't any with current internet culture. My basic stance is one post per twenty four hour period but I won't be draconic about it on weekends or during the bigger holidays and the like. During combat if someone isn't able to post for more then a day I normally try to do what is either logical or the continuing progression of a characters actions but during charactreization I don't normally "act out" the characters of absentee players.

Oh, also thought I'd add the following. Since this is a game that includes romance with NPCs I thought I'd add that while sexual relationships may occur between PCs or NPCs I'm of the fade to black school on sex scenes. I'm also not going to be drenching my game in gore but it may be a bit more graphic then a teenagers game. I'd say the maturity rating of the game would be fifteen plus. Hope that helps :)

I'm happy with those content ratings. I absolutely don't need to read amateur erotica here, and it could get massively derailing!

Chado, you could do worse than look at this thread for some tips on how PBP games usually work here.

Also, below the 'add new post' text-box is a button called 'how to format your post. It contains instructions for rolling dice, and also using bold, italics, and

Sorry to bail already, but I stopped and looked at the number of pbps that I'm involved with already, and began to question if I could realistically pick up another one and give it the attention it deserves.

Thanks.

Not a problem, sad to see someone leave already though :P

Quick question, as it'll help inform my character choice. (I love witches and rangers, equally, sometimes even multiclassing the two.)

Is the dreamspeaker elf variant in the APG allowed? If so, then I'll go elf witch, if not then I'll go human ranger.

I had created a Half-elven rogue for an earlier recruitment thread and would like to submit him for this game.

He is a member of the Sandpoint militia who accompanied Shalelu on numerous patrols and has developed a, as of yet unrequited, crush on her.

Just gave it a re-read, I've got no problems with a dreamspeaker, only warning I'll give for a witch is that in the Land of the Linnorm Kings your going to cop some prejudice from the locals. Nothing that'll hurt you mechanically but people might spit as you pass by and the like if they know you're a witch.

I like roleplaying challenges, and would expect nothing less for a witchy character. :) I'll have stats up by tomorrow night.

Since we are divine heavy--should I alias the Magus?
I like Magus to mix melee and arcane, and my halfling paladin mixes melee and healing.

I am intersted to join too, concept would be a Varisian Starsoul Sorcerer, foster child of Koya Mvashti. Her starsoul heritage tempting her to go out adventuring.

Hello, adding my interest to play Marduzi Lovarya, a Varisian Cavalier of the Order of the Dragon. Marduzi grew up as a trick rider in a Varisian clan that was close to the Mvashtis, old Niska, an extra grandmother to the young rider. He promised Niska to look after her daughter if she ever left on a long trip. Stat block is in the profile and I'll add more on background there tomorrow.

Presenting Nostariel Lan, female elven witch, raised by Varisian humans.

Magus it will be--a soul forger if there are enough party members to make arms and heavy armor for--a staff magus if not. No need to have someone who can make cheap magic full plate if there is no one to wear it.
I will make avatar and alias tomorrow.

I really wanna play, but I'm planning on running this in real-life. Is that okay?

Thinking about a Barbarian, or a paladin, but we've got lots of those.

Hmmm...
I'll have to think about this.

Crunch done. Background to follow. Named after one of Roger Zelazny's better books.
Will be a magus with a staff.

Will be submitting a character concept tonight followed by a character rollup.

Just wondering... shouldn't "Jade Regent" be enough reason for Ninja and Samurai? nevertheless I am interested.

Hello, adding my interest to play Marduzi Lovarya, a Varisian Cavalier of the Order of the Dragon. Marduzi grew up as a trick rider in a Varisian clan that was close to the Mvashtis, old Niska, an extra grandmother to the young rider. He promised Niska to look after her daughter if she ever left on a long trip. Stat block is in the profile and I'll add more on background there tomorrow.

Background, Appearance, Personality, etc. have now been added to profile.

another question. due to your stat system, does anything lower than an 8 automatically become an 8 and anything higher that 20 automatically become a 20? or we just can't get an orc with 17 base strength and 9 int?

Right, here is my Eldrich Knight then, all done, with one change.
He starts as a ranger instead, it makes more sense with the background I've written for him.

@Jörmungandr

I am interested in this PBP concept. In regard to your rule about posting on a daily basis.

Can you post more than once per day and daily is just the expected minimum?

I know that during combat, actions are restricted based on rounds. Am I correct in assuming that during non-combat, posting is unrestricted as long as it progresses character development and adds to the story?

Yeah, no limit on how many posts only a minimum of one per 24hr period, if you or I are going post mad thats fine, it normally happens at the start of a PbP and trails off into a steady number fairly quickly.

For me part of the fun of Jade Regent is coming across the Ninja, Samurai and the culture they belong to as the game progresses. You kind of dilute that if you have a member of either class beginning the game as part of the party. I wouldn't be against one with a background I enjoyed but I gave the warning because they're not something I'd automatically want to see in the game from the beginning.

Reason I put a limit on the max/min attributes is because I've had some truly silly characters handed to me before with multiple stats at numbers like 4&6. To answer the Orc would contravene what I requested for characters so I would ask you to rebalance his numbers.

So far we've got...

Mei Szilani, Human Monk of the Four Winds
Marduzi Lovarya, Human Cavalier
Nostariel Lan, Elven Dreamspeaker Witch
Toby “the Madwand” Lerner, Human Magus
Ruhk Ekensköld, Human Ranger

Which is looking fairly good, guess we aren't divine heavy anymore but thats all good. These aren't guarenteed positions but they're nice characters so fair warning to anyone else applying.

Sorry I won't be able to get my character up but I I've narrowed down my possibilities:

Elf Druid(Wolf Shawman archetype) with wolf animal companion
Human Fighter(crossbow archetype)

While I don't mind filling the role, we could use some more healing in the group. :)

Let's not forget the lovelorn Rogue.

For me part of the fun of Jade Regent is coming across the Ninja, Samurai and the culture they belong to as the game progresses. You kind of dilute that if you have a member of either class beginning the game as part of the party. I wouldn't be against one with a background I enjoyed but I gave the warning because they're not something I'd automatically want to see in the game from the beginning.

Reason I put a limit on the max/min attributes is because I've had some truly silly characters handed to me before with multiple stats at numbers like 4&6. To answer the Orc would contravene what I requested for characters so I would ask you to rebalance his numbers.

Makes sense. However with that reasoning, if a character would be inspired by Tian Xia and multiclass into ninja or samurai, would it be allowed?

Well, I guess I'll be submitting a cleric of Desna.

Character will have to wait until tonight though, kinda busy at the moment.

So, this is my starsoul sorceress.

Here is the background that I have. Working on the details, but alas, that must wait until after dinner. Three hungry children and a husband to feed and all that.

I'll put something up. Thinking Kensai Magus, influenced by tales of swordmasters from Tian Xia.

The genesis of the madwand now explained in character background. Look forward to trying this out this as no one has even touched this archetype I can see. Kensai and black blades are all the rage.

Alrighty, I give a character that will probably make no sense, but here goes.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present Elda Whitescale.

Asira's background is in the profile. Feats and one Trait are missing as are the spells. I will provide the later this day bit I think you have enough information for judging Asira your decission.

Character submission complete, see profile for details. Thank you.