The Avalon Chronicles

Game Master lynora

Lyn, I'm send you a PM with a question, there is no rush to answer It is something that has been on my mind lately.

just realized, tybs, ryner wouldn't be the same kind of warlock, he'd be a pact type one you can find here
and he'd probably have the hellfire warlock PrC,

OK. *shrugz*(autocorrected to shrubs)
It's not like he can't be a warlock because I am.
Not that I don't appreciate remaining a little more unique. ;)

he was always going to be this (at least once I saw the combo of the arcanist "see magic" mixed with the detect expertise feat) I just forgot to mention it,

Whichever doth keep thy vessel buoyant. :P ;) :)

mine vessel hath run aground

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Interesting. ^^ I might look in some more in a few days - I can't really create characters on this device, and my new machine isn't in yet.

Cool, and let me be the first to welcome you
what kind of character are you planning on
And male/female
Elementary/high school

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Interesting. ^^ I might look in some more in a few days - I can't really create characters on this device, and my new machine isn't in yet.

Hi, Rednal.

Take your time. Recruiting never actually closes on this game, so no need to worry about deadlines. :)

And I apologize in advance for any delays in getting through character approval/getting your character into the game. I'm often strapped for time this semester as I am taking a very full courseload. Sometimes it takes a little extra time for me to get to game stuff. But I do get to it as soon as I can.

Slow down a tad Foul, jeebus.

Hey Rednal, welcome to Avalon's recruitment. Before you begin creating a character, which I realize you may not be able to do just yet, why don't you go ahead and read the material in the campaign info tab, particularly the New Player Primer.

That contains all the basic stuff you need to begin working on a character.

Feel free to ask any questions here or PM Lynora, our lovely main Narrator.

MG talked about the player primer tab without saying he made it! :D
;)

You just did that for me, thanks minion :) :P

MG talked about the player primer tab without saying he made it! :D

;)

it is a first

Actually, I already read it. ^^ I'm thinking of making either a ghost or something very Lovecraftian - haven't really decided.

They'll probably be a female teacher for the high school department, though. Are there any available subjects likely to fit either character idea?

Undead aren't allowed.

Lovecraftan...

I'm playing two things that fit that bill. Vriskra is one of them. (Click for a picture)

I am the other one.

I have some... lovecraftian tendencies

I'm not sure if all undead are banned, or just ones that feed on others to survive.

I'm sorta undead
You could play a psionic uncarnate

See, that's one idea down already! XD So here is a picture of the other.

See, that's one idea down already! XD So here is a picture of the other.

Interesting pic. What's the concept that goes with it?

And if you want to play a teacher we could really use a light blades instructor.

It would take too long on this device to explain properly, but her major themes are dreams and paradoxes. ^^

And eating, I guess, though I'll have to think carefully about how those mouths would work in this setting. XD

Dreams you say? Good, good...

Can I play my Dragon PC yet

:)

I thought the answer already given was "not until we get to the other planet" which was described as being months (plural) away out of game time, a few weeks in game at least

See discussion post

I've been meaning to do this for a few days now, but time was not on my side. I have plenty of it now, so here I am. A friend recommended this game to me, so I joined the site and hope to be a part of it. Seems like the place I should fit in. :)

tl;dr: A barbarian that had a lich destroy his home, and he survived. When he woke up from a bout of unconsciousness, he found that he could see magic, it seemed to flee and fade from him, and he could sunder it with an axe. He took magic artifacts that survived the lich attack, but the magic died out within a few days. He trained himself to not need magic artifacts, but he knew that he needed to learn in order to enact vengeance on the lich, so he headed out to find the building he had heard about that provides learning materials.

I plan on him being a bit older, like 25, and being a student, but if that doesn't fly, that's fine; I can make it work with him being younger. I realize that some stuff may need to be fudged for him to work, but this is my vision. I also don't have stats and feats picked out for him just yet, as I haven't had the time, but this is rules light, so I'm pretty sure those aren't as important as they usually are.

Hope you like the idea. :)

I'm willing to bet your friend was from E, yes? He told me you might be posting.

Anyway, it sounds a lot like a character in the game already. If you don't mind being similar, go for it.

Just my two cents, any 'absolute' death to magic is going to potentially be a headache in this magic heavy setting. I'd certainly make sure the ability is vetted before you invest in it too much.

Otherwise, you are effectively similar two two others; one by having a nemesis, and the other due to the anti-magic ability.

Reads decent, I'm sure there is room for yet another big bruiser with a chip on their shoulder, considering the current student body.

Good luck, though. Welcome to the conversation.

I'm willing to bet your friend was from E, yes? He told me you might be posting.

Anyway, it sounds a lot like a character in the game already. If you don't mind being similar, go for it.

Yeah, from there. And I don't mind being similar, so long he won't be a dead-match to whoever that character is.

Just my two cents, any 'absolute' death to magic is going to potentially be a headache in this magic heavy setting. I'd certainly make sure the ability is vetted before you invest in it too much.

Otherwise, you are effectively similar two two others; one by having a nemesis, and the other due to the anti-magic ability.

Reads decent, I'm sure there is room for yet another big bruiser with a chip on their shoulder, considering the current student body.

Good luck, though. Welcome to the conversation.

Well, like it said in the backstory, it took days for the magic of the artifacts to die out completely, and that was from constant exposure; unless he's giving someone a hug for five days straight, nothing's going to fade away completely on anybody with magical artifacts. It's just going to be really hard to hit him with a fireball or compel him with magic words.

As far as having a nemesis, that's a pretty common thing, so I was sure there'd be more around with them. Still, maybe it'll be something in common for him to help make friends in places to help him get into this new experience called formal education.

to be that age I think you kinda have to be non human, I got a character who's 30, almost 31 but he's an aasimar so he's effectivly only 14-16
the other character is one by the name of Adon, who is pretty much living antimagic, dispite being the kid of an archmage and high priestess of nethus, though he's a fighter/monk/rouge mix, not a barbarian
what kind of stats are you thinking about for your antimagic
and/or what are you planning on for your other class (also barbarian or blood rager.. or neither?)
another thing of note is that I have a character who in his backstory was asaulted by a Litch who was searching for something that we don't know, something about a gate, said litch had a goblin cleric as his right hand man and a small army of undead and hobgoblins at his command

if you would like this could be the same litch as yours, or it could be an entirely different one, it's up to you

Just a reminder, Bloodrager is not allowed at this time, like the other ACG classes.

to be that age I think you kinda have to be non human, I got a character who's 30, almost 31 but he's an aasimar so he's effectivly only 14-16

the other character is one by the name of Adon, who is pretty much living antimagic, dispite being the kid of an archmage and high priestess of nethus, though he's a fighter/monk/rouge mix, not a barbarian
what kind of stats are you thinking about for your antimagic
and/or what are you planning on for your other class (also barbarian or blood rager.. or neither?)
another thing of note is that I have a character who in his backstory was asaulted by a Litch who was searching for something that we don't know, something about a gate, said litch had a goblin cleric as his right hand man and a small army of undead and hobgoblins at his command

if you would like this could be the same litch as yours, or it could be an entirely different one, it's up to you

I think you misunderstand my intentions. I plan on him being 25, older than the apparent ages of most others, yet due to never having a formal education, isn't exactly bright, so he needs to be taught. I feel that's reason enough for an exception, if there's actually an age limit to the education at the school. If that isn't allowed for any reason given, then I can regress his age.

I plan on him just being a straight barbarian, as, like I said before, he doesn't really have any education to be much of anything else. Most likely will have the Superstitious archetype on him, as it just makes the most sense. My thought is that he'll be able to see magic only while he's in the middle of a rage. Shouldn't be too out of the question, as he'll probably only be targeted by offensive magic when he'd be raging, anyway.

As far as it being the same lich, I'm not against the idea. It would probably make it a lot easier for him to get along with your character, after all.

I think the only difference from Adon is Adon is Finnese and New Guy is Strength...
Other than that and the motivation, it's almost all the same...

Just to be completely clear Ordern - this isn't a combat-heavy game. Yes, there is an occasional "adventure", which can involve combat, but most of the time combat is very sparse.

Just so you know.

Think of the game like QI - being smart/minmaxed doesn't get you much, being interesting does. :)

David.De'Foul wrote:

to be that age I think you kinda have to be non human, I got a character who's 30, almost 31 but he's an aasimar so he's effectivly only 14-16

the other character is one by the name of Adon, who is pretty much living antimagic, dispite being the kid of an archmage and high priestess of nethus, though he's a fighter/monk/rouge mix, not a barbarian
what kind of stats are you thinking about for your antimagic
and/or what are you planning on for your other class (also barbarian or blood rager.. or neither?)
another thing of note is that I have a character who in his backstory was asaulted by a Litch who was searching for something that we don't know, something about a gate, said litch had a goblin cleric as his right hand man and a small army of undead and hobgoblins at his command

if you would like this could be the same litch as yours, or it could be an entirely different one, it's up to you

I think you misunderstand my intentions. I plan on him being 25, older than the apparent ages of most others, yet due to never having a formal education, isn't exactly bright, so he needs to be taught. I feel that's reason enough for an exception, if there's actually an age limit to the education at the school. If that isn't allowed for any reason given, then I can regress his age.

I plan on him just being a straight barbarian, as, like I said before, he doesn't really have any education to be much of anything else. Most likely will have the Superstitious archetype on him, as it just makes the most sense. My thought is that he'll be able to see magic only while he's in the middle of a rage. Shouldn't be too out of the question, as he'll probably only be targeted by offensive magic when he'd be raging, anyway.

As far as it being the same lich, I'm not against the idea. It would probably make it a lot easier for him to get along with your character, after all.

cool, though it'd be much easier if he was student age,

Just to be completely clear Ordern - this isn't a combat-heavy game. Yes, there is an occasional "adventure", which can involve combat, but most of the time combat is very sparse.

Just so you know.

Think of the game like QI - being smart/minmaxed doesn't get you much, being interesting does. :)

I thank you for the input, but I was already told this and realized this beforehand. This has nothing to do with combat, unless the lich is put in the story at some point. This is mostly the big, strong, dumb guy that has a strong power, but he doesn't know what it exactly is or how to use it properly. Besides, being dumb should put him in some interesting and funny situations.

Just so you know.

And Foul, I don't intend for him to have any secondary classes; if he does have any, it might be fighter or ranger. I certainly do not want him to have any caster classes; that would be counter-intuitive to what I have in mind for him. That's not to mention that, since magic flees and fades from him, he wouldn't work very well as a caster, anyway. So, things like druid, witch, and oracle are all very bad ideas.

Foul is usually unable to not play a non caster. ;)

And just so I'm sure that I know that you know what's going on, this is a Gestalt game.
You get 2 sets of classes to advance, it isn't multiclassing we're talking about. :)

Foul is usually unable to not play a non caster. ;)

And just so I'm sure that I know that you know what's going on, this is a Gestalt game.
You get 2 sets of classes to advance, it isn't multiclassing we're talking about. :)

Yes, I am aware, don't worry. It's just that, for right now, I'm not looking to make a character that's max'd to hell. In my mind, he makes more sense as a straight barbarian, with nothing else attached to him. He could probably show that he makes for a good fighter or ranger or even cavalier at some point, but that's for the story to decide.

You are a rare soul indeed.

magic I am in two campigns with you where I am not a caster, why do you keep saying this
I have played a total of I think 3-4 pathfinder characters who were not casters (counting things like paladins and rangers, not counting things like bards and alchemists) and one 2e character who was a barbarian
I just find, that in a gestalt campign (outside of here where RP king and you can make a commoner shine here (and someone did)

you are a paladin in my game that could be a pseudo caster... I guess

the most casting he has is detect evil spell like and smite evil
the ranger in the other campign I was talking is a trapper, so no magic at all there

Just explaining your caster-affinity to the new guy.
Chill-out, Magic Man. ;)
(that'd be a good Tybs nickname for Dave... heh...)

Uh... This is pritty-much my abilities in a nutshell. I'm nearly immune to all magic that offers sr, and can break magic, even artifacts, by touching them and pumping anti-magic into them.

Uh... This is pritty-much my abilities in a nutshell. I'm nearly immune to all magic that offers sr, and can break magic, even artifacts, by touching them and pumping anti-magic into them.

Ah, well, that's not quite the potency that my barbarian will have. He is not immune to spells; if he doesn't/chooses not to sunder a spell, it still affects him, although perhaps with less magnitude than anticipated. He can't just shut off or break artifacts by simply touching them, either; as stated in the backstory, it takes days of constant exposure to him; he doesn't "pump" anything into it. He doesn't do anything consciously, at it sounds like Adon can. It's also noteworthy that he wasn't born with this, as it appears that Adon is; it's a "curse" of sorts that was bestowed to him by the lich's magic. At least, that's how it seems.

So, as people have been saying, similar, yes, but not the same. Yours is obviously much more potent; should my barbarian get caught off guard, he can't stop a spell. Adon seems to be able to just stand there and the spells do nothing. My barbarian will have to actively attempt to stop spells.

Seem fair enough to you?

Hay, if it's ok with lyn, it works for me.

On a side note, artifacts only have a 15% chance to break as a standard action- my touch functions as mage's discussion when i need it to, a 9th level spell.

Adon does treat his as a curse, he can't turn off his SR, if he were to die you'd have to roll SR against him every time (and spend the expensive material components each time)

I would like to point out that I recently submitted a character that could copy spells by looking at them cast, in action he was an evoker type and a counterspell specialist (arcanist immediate action counter-spell+ feat spell parry, flavor-wise in action it looks like you cast a spell at him, he counters with a more powerful version of your spell that pushes it out of the way and hits you) who is in his free time does only two things read/research and sleep, a lot, when not doing those things he complains at whoever is keeping him form those things
two other characters have copy abilities, one who is an alchemist( I think his copy powers are psionic? not sure about him) the other is a super doppelganger jack of all trades
both copy class features,
this is tangentially related enough that I was disallowed the concept, at least until such a time as they graduate, (to put in perspective the past couple of weeks have lasted almost a year)

I've been here a year now and it has been five days. XD

Hi, OrdernChaos. :)

It sounds like an interesting concept, and I'd like to try and work with it. But tweaks will need to be made. I'm going to cap the age at 19 for him to be a student. This seems reasonable to me. A barbarian could feasibly be a warrior as young as 15. This gives you up to four years between the attack and now. And especially if he's in remedial classes, he might end up taking some classes with the elementary kids along with our other illiterate folks, so that gives you your vision of him being in a class he's much too old for.
The other thing is that we need to reflavor the abilities so as to not be stepping on Adon's toes quite so much. Similar is one thing, but it's really too close as is. Maybe something more like a counterspelling strike and/or absorbs magic and turns it into extra strength or something. Same overall effect, but gets there differently. I'm open to other suggestions if you have a different idea. I'm trying to give examples of what I'm talking about.