Nicolai, Aram, and Oja all looked pretty good to me. Another that I looked at that might be a good pick is Io.
Some of the links lead to the forum post containing the character info. It took me a minute to catch it since they're hidden by spoilers.
Even the forum posts linked to dead url's or unfinished chars...
I'll get my suggestions in a bit. One I thought was interesting was Headsman, since he is an urban barbarian from the streets/rival gang leader to Lemm's organization of orphan pickpockets, almost like a variant vigilante.
Ok, I can see the cases for both Io and Headsman. Initially Headsman's background didn't grab my attention, but reading it now I can see where it fits in. A part of the problem when trying to go through a list of chars...
Ok here are my choices and suggestions
Lucien of the Sable Company Ranger/VMC paladin. This gives you a link directly to one of the organizations in town and a nice scout and potential ally. Also a solid background
Io Dorean
Shield Champion. Enough said. Her background as an experiment in Azlanti blood should also resonate nicely with all of the links in this to the Runelords and other sets
Headsman The urchin story is always a nice set, and I like the idea of a competitive organization vs Lamm's Lambs plus the titles. Barbarian
Yanis A vitalist. They're essentially psionic healers, and work nicely for a variety of support capabilities, plus having a doctor on the streets comes in handy later on.
Machaera Selanna
Wizard/Magus
A nice mix of magic and combat ability arcane, plus the letter is a nice addition for backstory.
Nina Anders
Nina Anders is also a good backstory and character base plus support
Barbarian/Oracle
Aram Minosta Cleric/Fighter of Gorum
Also a good choice for the support and fighting and story.
Lots of good choices, but those are the ones both mechanically and story wise that stand out.
Ok. Here are my comments:
-I'm ok with Yanis because I'm curous about the vitalist and it fills a much needed role.
-What's the VMC part of Lucien? The story is fine. Another ranged fighter type slightly concerns me.
-Headsman sounds fine for the story, and it fills the front line beater role.
-Nina Anders I can't comment on without generating an account apparently?
Are we looking to pick up 4 here? 3? Any news from Fionnid?
No news from Fionnid. Lucien is a VMC paladin and a mounted guy.
Did you have a final list in mind then?
Here is my final list
Yanis
Io
Machaera
Lucien or Headsman
Here are the four I chose. I'll get things spun up tomorrow.
Yanis
Io
Machaera
Headsman.
K.
@All - any feedback for how Jandar was played?
Looks good to me, let's fight some crime, chum.
K.
@All - any feedback for how Jandar was played?
He worked out fine. The biggest issue with this game and a time thief was the lack of creatures to use your abilities on, which I don't think really come until later. MM is almost all dungeon crawls for the first two adventures, and a lot of low level stuff that's outsiders or elementals or immune to staggering.
I'm going to bang out the end of my character background in the next few hours. I'll link our characters together and all that.
Hey folks,
I'm on the Paizo site for the first time in a while and just saw stormcrow's messages. I was laid off before Christmas and a lot of my old priorities fell away. Sorry that I had to leave you, and have fun with the new game. Pleasure playing with you all!
Sorry to hear about you losing your job. Hope everything else is going okay for you. Thanks for checking in and letting us know!