I would allow a person to revel in my greatness (become a black dragon shaman).
you look.... familiar
MD: there are plenty of reasons to be at Avalon other than learning to control your 'powers'. Seriously. Get whatever concept you have going, and we can help it be adapted to suit.
im sorry, I'm not trying to hinder your creative juices, I'm trying to help them flow.
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Oh, god I've been on the Internet too much.
im sorry, I'm not trying to hinder your creative juices, I'm trying to help them flow....
Oh, god I've been on the Internet too much.
Yes.
XD
Me too it would seem.
MD: yes, that would be a good starting point, however our resident expert on the Dragon Empire is on a long hiatus. There are enough of us that you could consult with as well.
One problem I do see is that the Empire is more likely to Orbital Bombard the town if they are providing resistance and have no reason for subtlety. Almost any word (including homebrew) works for this setting, given the star-spanning nature.
One of my characters, Vai, was 'discovered' by the resistance during a raid on an Imperial facility, and sent to Avalon, so there is definitely precedent.
The Dragon Empire expands by finding potential member worlds and sending people to 'groom' them for domination... Then the Drow SS come in and finalize the deal. They occupy worlds totally and completely, and usually don't harvest resources until it's a member world.
Dragonstar campaign setting is where the Dragon Empire is from.
Dragons of different colors take turn ruling as emperor of a glactic empire for a few hundred years at a time.
At this time, a Red is emperor, and things are pretty heavy handed.
Resistance is squashed, and is forced to fight more from the shadows a bit more than the rebellion in Star Wars. But luckily there is magic and other things to aid them.
Holy Hera, the boards are back with a vengance, Hello MD, I'm DK.
Hiya MD, I'm the guy who typed up that new character primer :)
While your stat generation is totally fine, you don't need to actually roll. What we do here is the "Rule of Cool" aka, assign whichever number, within reason, to each of your stats. So, feel free to keep what you rolled, or adjust as necessary to make sure your character ends up the way you want him.
Also, note that we don't do magic items the same. Generally, each PC has two special, unique items and that it. Some can be standard, like my main PC Ace using a Belt of Many Pouches, or they can be custom, like Ace's staff, or Tybalt's cool ring.(I think its a ring, lol)
While some of us are 16/16, you can pretty much be whatever level you want, up to that cap. I have a PC in the works whose 6/6, and will gain his other "levels" in game.
Race can be pretty much anything you want, including crazy "monster" types. Templates are also allowed, within reason.
He rolls stats with the same idea I had. ^_^
Also, note that we don't do magic items the same. Generally, each PC has two special, unique items and that it. Some can be standard, like my main PC Ace using a Belt of Many Pouches, or they can be custom, like Ace's staff, or Tybalt's cool ring.(I think its a ring, lol)
Everything MG typed up is accurate, but as an addendum to this particular part - magic items aren't generally used unless they make sense/add something to the character. Ace for example, is the epitome of chaotic "oh yeah I got that/can do that" type character, so the belt and mutating staff make sense for him. Main thing I'm trying to get at is that magic items are generally 'story only' type items, though of course the school has a stock of wands and scrolls, etc, which students are permitted to use. Most of my characters don't even /have/ a magic item, for example.
yeah ...I don't have any magic
It cetainly is for the Empire....<grumble>
Very.
They do that with their inquisitors...
So, good idea or too similar to what Ghalen Kiln already has as a background?Very.
They do that with their inquisitors...
Maybe they're 'related'?
Ex-kid brother, sister, lover, parent, clone, something...
Plot hook and ties to an active character, winning.
Not too similar at all.
I figure if creating the ideal person for each task is how they do things, it would make sense that they do it everywhere.
All of the children may be grown in the same manner, then at another time they are tested for how to be trained from there on. Some become Inquisitors, some become field marshals, some assassins, etc.
Would that work?
I can share my background idea :P
In fact, the more people that use it, the stronger it is.
Yeah. Ghalen was geneticly engineered.
They use everything from Blaster rifles to daggers.
I believe the Empire rarely make use of melee weaponry, but when it is used, there is an entry called 'Keenedge' in the Campaign Setting we're sourcing this from... which essentially means that all melee weapons are produced with diamond edges, which doubles crit range (and stacks with Keen/Imp Crit). We never decided though if this was appropriate or if some other weapon system was better.
At that point, I think we need input from Lyn, the head GM.
The campaign setting is designed for energy/ordinance weapons, so favours ranged attacks, and that was their way of balancing melee weapons.
However, it may not be appropriate for this setting, so we'll wait on Lyn to make a ruling I think.
It could allow for CRT ranges of 10-20, making any crit build insane.
probably sometime in the next 2 hours
for reference
this is a character who was genetically engineered in a different campaign
though as an empire super soldier you would almost certainly have some kind of draconic influence, like energy resistance, a breath weapon, stuff like that
With all due respect, and it's enjoyable to navigate through the nitty gritty of all things possible-- just realize, Master Dungeoneer, in this 'game setting', literally anything is possible.
So, unless you are beholden to a specific story/backstory, all matters of crit ranges and the like, really aren't the key focus of the game.
This may help you make a decision, or drive you insane due to the wild openness of your choices.
But, embrace the opportunity to mold a personality, and set of abilities (even if only vaguely defined-- we're rules light here, so again, nearly anything goes if it's holding true to your story/theme) that you muster up.
The devil, in this case, isn't in the details. It's in the concept.
At least, that's my impression of the process having done it with Lynora three or more times now, and she's very (busy) accommodating (while busy, did we mention busy?) of the creative aspect while staying firm on 'balance' as she sees it, being the high lord over mind ruler of this setting.
:pays appropriate homage and such, grovels back elsewhere into the ether:
tl;dr-- Make a cool character /you/ want to play, submit that to Lynora, stats aren't key, concept is. Enjoy.
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I want to play this character, but I want to make him fit inti established story as much as to point to my 'Alias' and say "this is how I did such and such....But thank you Damiani for your input
Best part of building a newbie, the concept, IMHO. Hope I help(ed).
Well, given the above, and existing PCs/setting, the Psionic tactical class, plus either another Psionic, or caster class, IMHO, as your gestalt (independent of your backstory) would probably be 'ideal', and then you and Lynora could work out your ties (if any) to the Empire to make it stick.
It certainly sounds entertaining (as a potential concept however you eventually crunch it out).
We're also friendly and use emoticons to denote tone in our out of character discussions. ;)
That's a key thing here. Thought I'd let you know. :)
Damiani is verbose, but he's actually a softie under all those words. ;)
I believe what Dami is saying is - don't limit yourself to features that exist solely within classes that exist.
For example, a Marshal is an excellent support character, but to account for the 'genius' aspect of your character, he could have the equivilent of constant Hypercognition, which would give you essentially Sherlock Holmes level of thought processing, but will require lots of work with whomsoever you are sharing a scene at any given time.
I have something gradually growing more powerful, but the simple end of it is a at-will mage's disjunction.
Yeah. Ghalen was geneticly engineered.
They use everything from Blaster rifles to daggers.
The genetically engineered children, (taking the post from Hall as a starting point) would be engineered with what type of traits in mind?
For example: a shock troop, would be tough, and strong?
So a tactical leader would be... smart obviously; but would the dragons want him to be similar to themselves? For example half-dragon or dragon blooded or some such?
No, I don't think so. They want them to blend in, so they'd be for the most part standard races, just on the high end stats wise. DR or various immunities would single them out. So, maybe not SUPER soldiers but certainly ABOVE AVERAGE soldiers.
They also wouldn't make clones stronger than their own Drow shock troopers, in case of turncoats.They crank them out, then test for aptitude, and train them accordingly.
Ghalen has special circumstances behind his draconic abilities.