Sandpoint Sandbox

Game Master Tricord

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**Post for future use**

Alright folks, I know recruitment isn't quite over yet but I wanted to get a head start before the game was actually slotted to begin. To the point: I am sorely in need of some gold and XP, would anyone want to party up for a few quick adventures or dungeon crawls to get the game going? I can post about 1-3 times a day on average.

Each day will have some events, assumed to be advertised by signage around town and well known to all. The rumors are discussed around town and you can either assume your character knows these rumors already or you can roleplay actually hearing them.

Beta trade rules:

Characters can take their highest modifier of charisma, intelligence or wisdom and multiply by a dice roll indicated below based on the item purchased or sold. The result can then be used to reduce the purchase price or increase the sales price (whichever to the player's advantage).

Example: Character Y wants to buy a pound of pepper today. She has a CHA of 3, a WIS of 1, and a INT of 4. She multiplies 4 by a 1d4 roll and subtracts the result from current day's market value.

One pound of wheat: none
One pound of flour: none
One pound of tobacco: 1d2*MOD
One pound of cinnamon: 1d2*MOD
One pound of pepper: 1d4*MOD
One pound of ginger: 1d4*MOD
One square yard of linen: 2d4*MOD
One pound of salt: 2d4*MOD
One square yard of silk: 2d6*MOD

Market prices vary by day.

For future reference are we going to be using any of the good, capitol, or labor systems from the Downtime Rules or are we doing everything by straight gp?

For future reference are we going to be using any of the good, capitol, or labor systems from the Downtime Rules or are we doing everything by straight gp?

Great question. I hope to have a final answer for that by Day 2 (9/16).

I don't really have much gold either. Ditto for the XP so I would be up for some adventure, Heie.

Role play is great, but I do want to level up as well. I generally post about once a day.

Might not be a bad idea to set up some way for people who are doing more straight roleplaying to gain experience, maybe XP rewards if for each day or week you're active? Maybe getting xp based on the amount of money you earn?

Aside from that I might be up for a little dungeoning, although you would have to lure in Madeleine with the promise of treasure she can use for her business.

If we do end up using the PF Downtime Rules, they have a couple of options for RP based XP. You can train to "catch up" to the highest XP member of the party. There is also suggested rewards for running business's like for earning your first 1000 gp. Also, it might be an idea to include the relationships rules (from Ultimate Campaign).

I can post once or more on almost any given day, although Alicarus isn't particularly combat-based. He's much more of an RP character, though don't doubt that he'll be able to open a can of whoop-a** in a level or two.

EDIT: I want to do something special to indicate Alic's voice when he's speaking through his mask as the Mantis. Just to check with you all, "Is̛ t͢h̢is t̸ex̛t̴ ͏t̀oo d͝i̸f̶f̡icu̕lt̢ to r͘ead̕?"

I can post once or more on almost any given day, although Alicarus isn't particularly combat-based. He's much more of an RP character, though don't doubt that he'll be able to open a can of whoop-a** in a level or two.

EDIT: I want to do something special to indicate Alic's voice when he's speaking through his mask as the Mantis. Just to check with you all, "Is̛ t͢h̢is t̸ex̛t̴ ͏t̀oo d͝i̸f̶f̡icu̕lt̢ to r͘ead̕?"

Yeah, the boxes make it kind of tedious to read. Although if it was used for short bursts I'm sure we could make it work.

Alicarus Vorasik, "The Mantis" wrote:

I can post once or more on almost any given day, although Alicarus isn't particularly combat-based. He's much more of an RP character, though don't doubt that he'll be able to open a can of whoop-a** in a level or two.

EDIT: I want to do something special to indicate Alic's voice when he's speaking through his mask as the Mantis. Just to check with you all, "Is̛ t͢h̢is t̸ex̛t̴ ͏t̀oo d͝i̸f̶f̡icu̕lt̢ to r͘ead̕?"

Yeah, the boxes make it kind of tedious to read. Although if it was used for short bursts I'm sure we could make it work.

Agreed, if your only making short comments it's alright though if you plan to soliloquise I would suggest using both bold and italics. "Like This."

Edit: Oh and I can post several times a day as well, but I tend to be on more in the morning while most other people seem to tend to be evening types.

Alright, I'll stick to normal text. Just thought I'd check.

Sorry guys, busy weekend. I will climb back into this sandbox soon. I think we may stretch each game day out to two weeks instead of one.

Things have gotten a little quiet, but as for me I'm basicly ready for the next day unless something interesting is happening in the rusty dragon.

Yeah, thought I was going to be able to post at work more often. Things'll pick back up for me soon.

Fair enough, I know how that can be.

Edit: If it helps at all I was going to suggest that if we got a lot of players or something it wouldn't be too hard for one of us to say run dungeon crawls for some of the other players while you manage the main town, so long as we allow you veto power to overrule anything gained in this way and no one tries to run themselves through anything.

Hordshyrd, I think that's a great idea. Also, let's have the next day start on 9/23 since we haven't rolled too far yet.

I'm all for it, but who would be doing it? I would volunteer, but seeing as I also want to participate in said crawl there may be a conflict of interests.

I'd be willing to run the dungeon, was sort of take it or leave it on Madeleine being involved. It might also be a good way to earn experience for characters who just want to hang around town, the one to run the dungeon gets a share of the xp or something.

Anyhow, once we have established a reason for the heroes to go dungeoning let me know and I'll start working it out.

Eventually I'll go on dungeon runs myself, probably, but in the meantime I'm one of those people who's a "character who just wants to hang around town." That said, I'd be happy to draft up a dungeon run for you guys.

So what happened to our new day yesterday?

So, has this fallen apart completely?

It seems like, too bad too, it had potential.