Medieval Europe PbP campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Michael Johnson 66

That's cool, Grimdog.

Just a note (to everyone):
There is NO "common" language in this campaign. You get the language of where you were raised for free and everything else for INT modifier & Linguistics.

So Paddy -- you get an additional language for free -- if you grew up in Italy, France, Germany or Spain (your human languages) that becomes your "common" & you still get another, and if you didn't grow up in one of those places then, still, pick another language (for where "common" is now on your statblock.

EDIT: *looks at Paddy's statblock again
Actually, it looks like you should just delete Common and pick one of your human languages to be your "home-language." Your +3 INT mod and your 1 rank in Linguistics = four languages which is what you have, minus the "Common."

Done.

The Background is tweaked a bit from my earlier post (I remembered Philippa was born in 1394 shortly after I posted and thus made a small adjustment.)

And my statblock is complete (under a Spoiler Tag) at the end of my backstory.

So let's go kill some Gremlins and Undead under Notre Dame Cathedral!

I will need to add Spanish to my languages if picked.

You were one of the first dozen to submit a PC concept, Fray, so u r in! Welcome!

I'm tweaking at the moment , and finding it very hard to choose a language other than Welsh .

How common is Latin still on the continent.

I can see Talesin would have had a very classical education , and he would.d have passed this onto Merlin and then Ap Ossian...

Latin is as close to a "default" Common as it gets -- spoken by the monarchs and nobles in western europe.

Okay, here are the two groups! There are a few more PCs then I originally planned to allow already, so please, with my sincere apology (I'd love to let in everyone who was interested, but these groups will be a lot to manage as is), NO MORE SUBMISSIONS!

PARIS TEAM
Hisao of the Yellow Reeds, ninja
"Iommy" Tyr Magnusson, investigator
Hoenheim Dobberkau, inquisitor
Tevaga the Redeemer, inquisitor
Tom Weed, Druid
Ubchell ap Ossian, ranger(?)
Charmaine Da'Vi, class ?
John Marteau, class ?
Paddy, rogue

ROME TEAM
Meeko's Howl, arcanist
Oterisk's cavalier or paladin PC
FireSkorn, iron skin monk
Jemino Diaz de Vivar, Spanish Jinette (class ?)
Nohwear's PC, witch hunter inquisitor
Caleb D'natin, cleric or inquisitor
Michael the Warsong, bard
Joshua Hitz's PC, class ?

Okay, here are the two groups! There are a few more PCs then I originally planned to allow already, so please, with my sincere apology (I'd love to let in everyone who was interested, but these groups will be a lot to manage as is), NO MORE SUBMISSIONS!

PARIS TEAM
Hisao of the Yellow Reeds, ninja
"Iommy" Tyr Magnusson, investigator
Hoenheim Dobberkau, inquisitor
Tevaga the Redeemer, inquisitor
Tom Weed, Druid
Ubchell ap Ossian, ranger(?)
Charmaine Da'Vi, class ?
John Marteau, class ?
Paddy, rogue

ROME TEAM
Meeko's Howl, arcanist
Oterisk's cavalier or paladin PC
FireSkorn, iron skin monk
Jemino Diaz de Vivar, Spanish Jinette (class ?)
Nohwear's PC, witch hunter inquisitor
Caleb D'natin, cleric or inquisitor
Michael the Warsong, bard
Joshua Hitz's PC, class ?

Might make some adjustments to shuffle a high BAB PC where needed (Paris team seems low on hard hitters while Rome seems to have a few)....

Great to hear! This is Caleb and I am a theologian, evangelist, cloistered monk cleric (I didnt think I could put that many archetypes on but I was able to)

Ahh k..forgot to sub english for common....will take Latin as well...

ah well, I noticed this thread late. expected it haha, have fun all!

Oh I can be at Santa Sabina, the Dominican Church in Rome.

Druid , looks like some interesting conversations betwixt Tom and myself..

Tremendous! I shall set off for Paris AT ONCE!

Akio, if u see this post, go ahead and submit a PC for Rome team, and we'll have two teams of 9 PCs each....

So,... introducing the PCs so far (in random order w/ me last); Now awaiting the FINAL Word from Mike as to who starts in Paris and who in Rome (It could be another day or so, I assume.):
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Seth 86........... FireSkorn ; LN Hobgoblin ironskin Monk

Tech 5BB......... Charmaine Da'vi ; NG Warpriest of the Christian deity (female)

James F........... Ubchell Ap Ossian ; NG H-Orc Druid Wolf Shaman

Jason Rodarte.... Fray Manuel Jose ; LG Spanish Cleric of Dominican

William Oak...... Tevaga the Redeemer ; NG H-Orc Inquisitor of St Jude (NE Europe)

Zayne Iwatani.... Michael the Warsong ; CG Italian Bard, mute

Grimdog.......... Paddy ; CG Tiefling Rogue from the city streets

Rynjin............. John Marteau ; LG (Paladin or Cavalier)

Azih............... Hisao of the Yellow Reeds ; CN Japanese Ninja

Endoralis......... Hoenheim Dobberkau ; LG human Investigator / Slayer or ?something?

Rocan............. Jemino Diaz de Vivar ; NG Spanish Fighter

Goldmyr (Matt Adams). Tom Weed & Nightshade ; N Elf Druid w/ Plant companion

Rorek.............. Akio Derik Ryuu ; CG Aasimar Samurai (Japan)

Meeko............. Howl ; Arcanist

Nohwear........... . . . . ; Inquisitor

Joshua Hitz....... ? ? ? ?

W E Ray........... Iommi-Tyr Magnusson ; LG Norwegian Investigator

Sweet. thanks for the game. Hah, with no common I imagine there will be many people in the team who won't be able to speak to each other or NPCs. What language should Hisao work towards in order to communicate with as many as possible? French or Latin?

We...er...umm...I am here ready to go.

Super psyched about this campaign and the PCs, all! Thanks for joining, and prepare for a fun time!

Chosen players, let's go ahead and move our OOC convos to Discussion board from here on....

Are we all playing on this thread or is there another for Rome?

I haven't started it quite yet.... Will start it tonight at some point, Michael....

The discussion board doesnt seem to have been activated yet.

(P.S.: If you ever need some assistance with some french, I'm a fluent french speaker).

Oops! Thanks, Tevaga.... It's up now.... And thanks for the help with French, I will surely need some assistance!

Where will the Roman forum be? Really looking forward to this. DM I have a question will the PRCs from Inner Sea gods be available?

Still got room mj

For you, Yingzen, I'll make room, buddy! :)

Are allowing swashbucklers

Yup, Swashbuckler is fine....

25 pt buy, any core race or featured race from ARG, max starting hp and wealth.

Here is my monk :)

So i havent played a PbP before, can anyone give me the beginners run down please

Anything your character says, you between [b ] [ / b]
Think between [ i ] [ / i ]
Out of character between [ o o c] [ / o o c]

Just no spaces

Dice rolls as follows:
[D i c e = Roll d20] 1 d 20 [ / d i c e]

No spaces. Will look like this
Roll d20: 1d20 ⇒ 6

just look underneath the window to type in and it will tell you how to format everything....

thanks for your help, i googled some guides as well, i think i have it sorted now. Thanks :)

Here is a link to the Rome campaign for those on Team Rome....

*testing "dice roller"

rolld20: 1d20 ⇒ 7

rolld6: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 6) = 9

Here is Tiberius Tacitus for your perusal and judgement. While, I was already given the go on joining, I am posting him here to be looked over for any mechanical issues. He is a gladiator that has been offered his freedom in return for fighting the great wyrm. While he will do his best to defeat the mighty dragon, he thinks of this as an opportunity to see more of the world considering he believed himself doomed to die in the walls of the coliseum.

(Ahhhh, a full BAB -- that's only two of ten.)

Welcome Tiberious Tacitus!

Although with that face I don't think I can keep from calling you "Houston Derick." (I'll do my best.)
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...Er, um -- what language/s do you speak?!?

I would need to choose from Latin or Greek considering he is Roman. However, it would be nice to have an idea of what my team speaks in order to make an informed decision.

I think you might as well go with whatever is most appropriate to your vision for the character. We're all over the place.

A bit of anachronism with your gladiator, Tacitus, as combat hasn't been held in the Coliseum for over a thousand years at the time of this campaign, but here is a sweet solution:

You were a gladiator during the reign of Commodus. A noble lady, a transmuter of great power, took an unrequited shining to you. When it became clear to her that you did not return her affections, she cast transmute flesh to stone on you, and kept you in her villa as a statue....

Then the Goths sacked Rome, and you were looted and spent some time as a trophy of Alaric....

You wound up being sunk in the River Tiber for centuries, until fishermen hauled you up and gave you as a gift to a Roman merchant in 1390 AD....

The merchant relocated with his fortunes (including his favorite gladiator "statue") to Paris....

In 1425, you were traded to the famous alchemist, Nicolas Flamel, who thought you looked a little too realistic to have been sculpted, so he tried a stone to flesh formula on you, and presto! You were living flesh once more! The kindly Flamel taught you to speak French, gave you a small purse of gold, and set you free to be a living marvel to delight mankind....

That is quite the backstory. Does this mean I should report to the Paris thread? Or should he have made his way back home and be in the Rome thread?

Either way I could see it being beneficial to switch one of his skill points over to linguistics for the extra language.

Even though Rome would make more sense, and only has half the players that Paris has, Paris has very few warrior-types, and could use the muscle....

Btw, this IS the Paris thread....

I realize this is the Paris recruitment thread, but this is where most of it was done so I figured I would post it here. Otherwise, I am fine with going to either campaign. I just need your go ahead.

Also, I'll trade his favored class bonus over to an extra skill point for French. For his starting language, I'll take Greek.

If you are short on a player or two... :P

We could use you in the Rome team to balance things out a bit, Akio.... Paris team is already pretty cumbersome lol!

Here's a link to the Rome thread, Akio.... Post your PC character sheet in Recruitment thread for inspection, please....

I realize this is the Paris recruitment thread, but this is where most of it was done so I figured I would post it here. Otherwise, I am fine with going to either campaign. I just need your go ahead.

Also, I'll trade his favored class bonus over to an extra skill point for French. For his starting language, I'll take Greek.

Our resident rules sage, Ruladin, will inspect your PC when he gets the chance, Tacitus.... In the meanwhile, go ahead and catch up on the Gameplay thread so far, and feel free to start posting (I'll give your PC a scan myself)....

The Paris thread?

Yup