Rise of the Necromancer (Inactive)

Game Master Tassadan

Level: 4th
Races: Anything in the Core rulebook. If you want to use something from another source please ask first.
Classes: Anything that's from a Pathfinder source. 3rd party material might also be acceptable, please ask first. No Necromancers as Necromancy is a forbidden school of magic in my Golarion and plays a significant part of the campaign. (Sorry for the spoiler).
Please, no more than 2 classes to begin with. Once we are high enough for prestige classes, no more than 3. This way, no one has ridiculous class combinations like Fighter 2 / Rogue 2 / Barbarian 1 / Sorcerer 2 / Prestige 3 at 10th level.

Alignment: Only Good or Neutral characters will be allowed. I don't want any Chaotic Stupid characters or evil ones. That means you can be LG, NG, N, LN, or CG.
Ability Scores: 20 points to spend. No abilities can be higher than 18 before applying racial modifiers. Don't forget your level bonuses.
Feats: You can use any feats from any Pathfinder source. If there's feats from 3.5 or 3rd party material, please ask me first. I will not allow any Exalted feats. You also get 1 additional bonus feat.
Traits: Take 2 traits from here. They must both be from different categories.
Hit Points: Maximum HP per character HD. That's right, you automatically get the best HP possible.
Starting Wealth and Equipment: Begin with 6,000 gp to spend however you'd like. Please, no items worth more than 4,500 gp. I'll give out plenty of treasure. Any equipment from a Pathfinder source is fine. If it's found elsewhere, ask me first. Don't worry about buying mundane equipment, add whatever you'd like within reason. For example, 7,000 feet of rope or 10 ladders is ridiculous.
Experience: We'll begin with 6,000 xp and use the Fast advancement table.

Thanks for the opportunity DM Bacon!

working on bringing Syndir up to 4th level now. Might not get to spending loot until Saturday or so though. Do you have a desired start date in mind?

second question - I checked out Arcane Strike again and it looks cool but it doesnt say how often you can use it. Ideas?

Woo hoo Thanks. I'll go shopping and finish up this weekend.

Thanks so much for the admission! Haewyn is ready to go!

Thank you for the selection! Looking forward to giving this alias a second chance!
On the subject of Arcane Strike - Boiko uses it too, and I believe it can be used unlimited as long as you have a swift action to spend (i.e. not after you took an immediate action such as AOO or some class abilities).

Thanks Boiko! That makes perfect sense and makes it even more powerful than I intitially thought.

Congrats to my fellow players on making the cut as well. Looking forward to gaming with you all.

Thanks for the pick DMB, will get Husfa up-to-date and ready to roll!

Congrats also to everyone - good way to kick off 2013 nei? :)

I'll play Arcane Strike with those rules for now. If it seems like it will be overpowered, we'll figure something out on the fly.

Since the weekend's coming up, why don't we shoot for beginning on Monday? Will that work?

Until then, feel free to RP with each other during the festival. No goblins to fight... yet...

^Sounds good DM Bacon.

I dont think Arcane Strike will work for Syndir considering his Snake Style is dependent on Immediate actions. I'll look for something else...

...I'm liking the flavor of Noble Scion. Especially since Im taking it that this bonus feat wouldve been taken at 1st level? Any of them except Scion of Arts would work well.

I totally forgot about the bonus feat! Can it be any feat? Or only one for which I qualify at 1st level?

I totally forgot about the bonus feat! Can it be any feat? Or only one for which I qualify at 1st level?

I was wondering that as well initially, but it ended up being inconsequential for my character. As for Monday, sounds good!

Will get Husfa updated over the weekend - just spent a bunch of time updating her profile only for the interwebs to drop out!

Grrrr.

Yeah I also wondered about the bonus feat...

Reporting in.

Are there any changes that need to be made to vedic's sheet so far?

I'm on vacation this week, so my Internet access is limited. I'll have my equipment list when I get back.

This is not showing up on my active campaigns page. Anyone else have this problem? I'll finish up the character and make a profile, and see if that's the problem.

Tiko reporting for duty.

DMB am presuming that Nótt - Hufsa's war pony has been stabled at this point.

Have deducted coin for the food/mead errand for the children and for 3 days stabling for Nótt...

Pretty sure our dwarven warrior poet is up to spec :)

Scranford-

Have you posted in the gameplay thread? I think that's the only way to mark a game to your campaigns tab.

Hufsa-

Are you from Issen? Vedic just came from there, back to Sandpoint which is where he spent his youth. It might be possible to tie our characters together with a backstory adventure set in the Ulfen-lands. What do you think?

Hufsa is from Kalsgard in the Linnorm Kings realms... but regardless they could have travelled south together. Sounds a plan, perhaps it was Vedic who filled Hufsa's head with tales of legendary beasts such as the Sandpoint Devil, Murdermaw and Black Magga?

As a warrior poet seeking her own Saga, such a place would be worthwhile accompanying Vedic to...

He might also know of a sage who can provide lore on these epic monsters, so her Edda can ring true when she bests them! :)

Probably, yeah. Vedic is something of a Sage himself, so that makes sense.

Quite the odd couple - the savage elven sage and the dwarven warrior poet lol. Compliment each other well though!

Perhaps they took a Linnormer trade-knarr down to Magnimar then made their way up the coast?

Sounds great. We can just add-lib the details of our adventures together. The only part that is particularly relevant to me is that at the end we found the key that unlocks a book that belonged to my mother.

Make sense (given her abilities in the cold) that perhaps Vedic came to Kalsgard first to petition for aid. Husfa (seeking adventure and fame) was part of the group that retrieved the key?

When it was recovered, Husfa remained with Vedic to see this saga out and follow her own fate's path...

Sounds awesome. :)

Anyone else not from Osirian who might have been in Issan or on the boat Hufsa and I came to Sandpoint on?

^ I'd say that counts me out. Good to see you none the less Doomed Hero.

DM Bacon - Got equipment purchasing complete but still need an answer on the bonus feet. Noble Scion looks perfect. Leaning towards Magic or War. Let me know if either of these will be appropriate.

Sentis! Good to see you too. :)

DM B you still around? Been 4 days in both the game thread and here...

Just checking :)

Just to let you know I'm still lurking around, even though unfortunately I lack time to engage in a dynamic RP. Enjoying the reading though :)

Great start everyone but a week with no word from our DM has me worried.

I have avoided posting much more until he shows up

Ditto for me, will be lurking but until the DM shows up all this could be for naught...

If all else fails, I can take over as DM. I know DM Bacon was planning on having a slower-paced campaign, but this is perhaps indicative of a full-stop. I have some time and quite a bit of DM-ing experience. I'd hate for this campaign to go down the drain, as a modified Rise of the Runelords had such promise.

The other option would be to look at running an established AP as is (well with any tweaks our new DM would care to dripfeed in?)

I've not played the Shattered Star AP, and know naught about it...

Just my 2 runes worth...

If all else fails, I can take over as DM. I know DM Bacon was planning on having a slower-paced campaign, but this is perhaps indicative of a full-stop. I have some time and quite a bit of DM-ing experience. I'd hate for this campaign to go down the drain, as a modified Rise of the Runelords had such promise.

Thats a very cool offer. Hopefully DM Bacon will show up soon though but if not then I'll definitely take you up on this. Thanks!

Jade Regent would be cool, if necessary.

Jade Regent would be cool, if necessary.

Says the guy with the Tian character.

I was in a couple of shattered star games one died and the other I really lost interest in.

for whatever reason I just could not get into the game.

I would be all over a Jade regent game though

I could get down with Jade Regent as well...or anything Haewyn wants except Second Darkness or Skull and Shackles for that matter.

the next question is how long do we wait for DM Bacon to show up?

Dunno. I sent him a PM and have, as of yet, received no response. So, in said hypothetical game: would you all want to keep our current characters but devolve them to level 1, or create new ones?

Been around 10 days and not a peep. My thoughts is end of the week at max?

Would depend on what is proposed to be honest. Not really interested in a new character as such.

Other thought is we run one-offs and take turns Dming?

I say just go back to level 1 if we change. I'd love to DM, but barely have time to play, so I'd not be able to DM. Tried it once and ended up disappointing players due to having no time to DM...don't want todo that again.

I say just go back to level 1 if we change. I'd love to DM, but barely have time to play, so I'd not be able to DM. Tried it once and ended up disappointing players due to having no time to DM...don't want todo that again.

Fear not, I can take care of things from the DMing side. I have plenty of time and with an Adventure path most of the things are already written for me. I'm more than fine with the level 1 thing as well, but if anyone REALLY wants to change their character then I think they could do so. Reworking backstory would be a thing, however, as our characters would no longer have had such extensive experience as adventurers. I'm also fine with taking Haewyn out of the mix or making her an NPC should the party need a healer.

If we don't hear back from Bacon by Wednesday evening I'll take over. I will then move us to a different forum and purchase an adventure path. Looks like Jade Regent is the most popular at the moment, but other suggestions could be considered.

I have applied for a jade regent game will wait to see if I am selected for that before continuing.

Not really feeling the love for Jade Regent gang, chance a Reign of Winter might come my way so I'll hold out for that.

Could just go with the original Rise of the Runelords then? That way we wouldn't have to change any of the roleplaying that has occurred so far.

I'd be up for just about anything, but I might want to make a new character who is more closely tied to whatever story we decide to tell. I can stick as an Arcane caster, I'll just redo his background and maybe some small mechanical tweaks

Another option might be to keep the characters as-is and just bulldoze the first parts of whatever adventure path is chosen. That could be fun, and would even out pretty soon.

Another option might be to keep the characters as-is and just bulldoze the first parts of whatever adventure path is chosen. That could be fun, and would even out pretty soon.

That's funny. I was thinking the same thing.