The Dawn of a new World

Game Master Browman

I will start working on the update after I have supper in a few minutes

Someone Aka not me needs to stat out the Primal.

Also can everyone check in, we seem to be losing people and I want to see who is still around.

Age 1, Turn 7

Sheher 1d20 ⇒ 7 Power 2d6 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2, 3) + 1 + 2 + 2 = 10

Zanthreair 1d20 ⇒ 12 Power 2d6 + 1 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1, 6) + 1 + 2 + 1 = 11

Shelayyen 1d20 ⇒ 5 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 11 ⇒ (5, 6) + 0 + 0 + 11 = 22

Ryazan 1d20 ⇒ 20 Power 2d6 + 0 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (1, 4) + 0 + 1 + 2 = 8

Shylar Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 31 ⇒ (4, 2) + 0 + 0 + 31 = 37

Kelnet 1d20 ⇒ 4 1d10 ⇒ 6 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 26 ⇒ (3, 3) + 0 + 0 + 26 = 32

Fenii 1d20 ⇒ 1 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 15 ⇒ (3, 3) + 0 + 0 + 15 = 21

Kawliga Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 23 ⇒ (5, 3) + 0 + 0 + 23 = 31

Aninga 1d20 ⇒ 9 Power 2d6 + 1 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (5, 4) + 1 + 3 + 2 = 15

Orregr 1d20 ⇒ 4 1d1 ⇒ 1 Power 2d6 + 0 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (1, 3) + 0 + 3 + 3 = 10

Turn 8 order
Ryazan

Zanthreair

Aninga

Sheher

Shelayyen

Kelnet

Orregr

Fenii

Someone Aka not me needs to stat out the Primal.

Also can everyone check in, we seem to be losing people and I want to see who is still around.

Unleashes his fury at the GM. By way of saying "Present"

Sheher gravely nods a the elder god GM.

Present!

I'm here

Sorry everyone. I got a new job as a school bus driver and I have been studying for my commercial drivers license. Also, to be honest, my wife and I have been going through some troubled waters. I am still in the game. I will be posting. Let me know when it's my turn.

Totally still here. Just keep having bad luck at missing my turn on really busy days.

I'm still here.

Aninga's turn right now?

I would say so. Unless Zanthreair acts first. But Aninga should feel free to post whenever.

I'm gonna pass for now

Took my turn.

Ah, was waiting on Zanthreair, but I'll just hold onto my points for next time.

I'm delaying my turn til midday tomorrow, and will be donating 8 of my points to anyone who wishes to fill out the details for the Primal. If no one does so or states a wish to do so, I will spend them instead.

I'll work on statting out the Primal after work tomorrow.

I'm here. Just holding power

My post just got eaten! Browman, you mind if I do a quick post not to put my turn in and then extrapolate on it later, like tomorrow evening?

I could do the primals. I'd just ask to have there phsycial details PMed to me.

Go for it Kelnet.

Orregr and Fenii and we're done with Age 1 :)

If no one else is I can have a go at statting the Primal. The race will look pretty different depending on who does it though.

I'm sorry, I got sidetracked by life. The points will go to whoever gets a full stat up first, I guess.

Ok, like I said the Primal will look very different depending on who stats him up as there are a ton of different directions it could go.

Primals

Type
Monstrous Humanoid (3 RP)

Monstrous humanoids are similar to humanoids, but have monstrous or animalistic features. They often have magical abilities as well.

A monstrous humanoid race has the following features:

Monstrous humanoids have the darkvision 60 feet racial trait.
Monstrous humanoids breathe, eat, and sleep.

Darkvision for the large shining eyes, plus the Primals are supposed to be pretty strong according to Shellyn's initial comment 'This early in the development it would be a powerful race.' I would have gone more caveman like myself but hey this is collaborative:D

Size
Medium 0 rp

Base Speed
Normal 0 rp

Ability Score Modifiers
Specialized (1 RP)

Modifiers: Members of this race gain a +2 bonus to Charisma and Will, and a –2 penalty to Dexterity.

The Will reflects the 12 points that went to glory and hunger while the Cha reflects the 10 points that went to Jovial, Humility, and Community, the Dex is a toss up between Physical scores, it could be -2 to Str or Con if that is better. But it has to be a Physical score according to the Racebuilder rules

Languages
Xenophobic (0 RP)

Members of this race start with their racial language only. Races without a racial language cannot take this array. Furthermore, choose up to four languages (except for Druidic or other secret languages), one of which must be Common (or Undercommon, if the race is native to the Darklands). Members of this race with high Intelligence scores can choose from any of these additional languages.

Makes sense to me since they only speak their own language for the longest time. Common don't exist yet

Racial Traits
Defensive Traits
Fearless (1 RP)

Prerequisites: None.
Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 racial bonus on all saving throws against fear effects.
Special: This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by the lucky (greater or lesser) racial trait.

Makes sense with their Glory and Hunger gifts

Standard Traits
Greed (1 RP)

Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 bonus on Appraise checks to determine the price of non-magical goods that contain precious metals or gemstones.

Hunger gift

Gregarious (1 RP)

Prerequisites: The race has at least a +2 racial bonus to Charisma.

Benefit: When members of this race successfully use Diplomacy to win over an individual, that creature takes a –2 penalty on attempts to resist any of the member's Charisma-based skills for the next 24 hours.

Jovial, Communal gift

Offensive Traits
Bite (2 RP)

Benefit: Members of this race gain a natural bite attack, dealing damage equivalent to that of a creature two size categories lower than normal for their size (1d2 for Small races, 1d3 for Medium, etc.). The bite is a primary attack, or a secondary attack if the creature is wielding manufactured weapons.
Special: This trait can be taken up to two times. The second time it is taken, the bite damage increases by one size category.

Slapping Tail (3 RP)

Benefit: Members of this race have a tail they can use to make attacks of opportunity with a reach of 5 feet. The tail is a natural attack that deals 1d6 points of damage plus the user's Strength modifier if Small, 1d8 points of damage plus the user's Strength modifier if Medium, or 1d10 points of damage plus 1-1/2 times the user's Strength modifier if Large.
Special: If a Large creature has the reach trait, its tail also gains reach
Takes care of the gaping maw and the tail. The text of Bite doesn't quite make sense to me but the maw is gaping so I put in 2 points for the stronger bite

None of the other traits quite fit but could be put in to make the race stronger. Right now it's at 12 RP which is pretty good I think. Could drop it down to 11 by going with the weaker bite.

Thoughts?

I am pretty sure the initial description put them as large. Otherwise it looks good.

Large is pretty expensive. It costs 7 RP. Even Going with the Weaker Bite will make it an 18 RP race.

Large is pretty expensive. It costs 7 RP. Even Going with the Weaker Bite will make it an 18 RP race.

I never pictured them as a PC race anyway, so I would make them large.

Well. I guess we've got an interesting world built at the very least. I think the whole map is filled in with a lot of variety of landscapes.

I should have the end of Age 1 update done tonight. Sorry it took a while, life has been busy.

Unfortunately I won't have the update done tonight, tomorrow should definitely happen.

the last of my points will go into filling the northern part of the plains to border the mountain range- thing rolling hills.

Age 2, Turn 1

Sheher 1d20 ⇒ 16 Power 2d6 + 0 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (5, 5) + 0 + 3 + 1 = 14

Zanthreair 1d20 ⇒ 5 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 11 ⇒ (4, 2) + 0 + 0 + 11 = 17

Shelayyen 1d20 ⇒ 18 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 1 ⇒ (1, 6) + 0 + 0 + 1 = 8

Ryazan 1d20 ⇒ 17 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 5 ⇒ (2, 4) + 0 + 0 + 5 = 11

Shylar Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 28 ⇒ (4, 4) + 0 + 0 + 28 = 36

Kelnet 1d20 ⇒ 4 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 8 ⇒ (1, 3) + 0 + 0 + 8 = 12

Fenii 1d20 ⇒ 12 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 21 ⇒ (5, 6) + 0 + 0 + 21 = 32

Kawliga Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 31 ⇒ (2, 3) + 0 + 0 + 31 = 36

Aninga 1d20 ⇒ 3 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 15 ⇒ (3, 3) + 0 + 0 + 15 = 21

Orregr 1d20 ⇒ 14 Power 2d6 + 0 + 0 + 8 ⇒ (3, 4) + 0 + 0 + 8 = 15

Turn 1 order
Shelayyen

Ryazan

Sheher

Orregr

Fenii

Zanthreair

Kelnet

Aninga

I wouldn't mind getting Orregr's 8 points if the offer still stands :)

They were donated from my last turn, so I should have 15-8+1=8 points this turn.

They are yours, Sheher.

Thanks very much Orregr, I have 22 points to play with :)

Ryazan we are well into your window for this turn.

Hey Browman, do you think a 13 RP race would be hit with the slow progression nerf? It's far less than Aasimar's :). Let me know as I have an idea for a race and I don't want to keep it within the appropriate level.

It depends on what exactly the 13 RP are spent on. The race builder isn't the most balanced thing ever.

Alright I'll run it by the discussion tab first.

Working on my post now.

Ok so here are the stats for the three races.

Buldar

Type
Humanoid (human)0 rp

Size
Medium 0 rp

Base Speed
Slow -1 rp

Ability Score Modifiers
Standard 0 rp
+2 WIS +2 STR -2 CHA

Languages
Standard 0rp

Racial Traits

Feat and Skill Racial Traits
Flexible bonus feat 4 rp
Natural Armor 2 rp
Stubborn 2 rp
Skill Training 1 rp

Choice of (Bascially alternate racial trait):
Craftsman 1 rp
Or
Relentless 1 rp

Total 9 rp

I think I've built a good race for PC fighters, clerics, monks, and even druids. Cha based classes would be harder to pull of but I think that fits them well.

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Intki

Type
Humanoid (human)0 rp

Size
Small 0 rp

Base Speed
Normal 0 rp

Ability Score Modifiers
Standard 0 rp
+2 INT +2 DEX -2 STR

Languages
Standard 0rp

Racial Traits

Feat and Skill Racial Traits
Cat's Luck 1 rp
Skilled 4 rp
Master Tinker 2 rp
Urbanite 1 rp
Burrower 3 rp
DarkVision 2rp

Total 13 rp

Really aiming for Skill Monkey here basically but I also had the concept of a race that could go underground and so create a flip on underground races being evil. Meerkats are cool in any case. This is the highest RP race I've created I hope that it doesn't get hit with a nerf bat though as I think the bonuses are well spread out among different categories and Master Tinker and Urbanite are very situational in any case. Skill Monkeys, casters, and ranged characters should do well being Intki I think.

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Gilem

Type
Humanoid (human)0 rp

Size
Medium 0 rp

Base Speed
Normal 0 rp

Ability Score Modifiers
Specialized 1 rp
+2 WIS +2 CHA -2 CON

Languages
Linguist 1 rp

Racial Traits

Feat and Skill Racial Traits
Skilled 4 rp
Emissary 1 rp
Silvered Tongue 3rp
Total 10 rp

Party faces and good at reading other people to boot I made these guys to be uber diplomats. Should make for great bards and oracles, a bit harder to make paladins out of them because of the Con bonus but should be do-able.

What do you guys think? Also.. uh, am I the only one still playing?

I'm just a-waiting my turn.

And contemplating
a) a race of Storm Dragons, that would clearly NOT be a PC race.
b) a race of humanoid Storm Dragonlings that could be a PC race.

Everything looks good Sheher,

I too am concerned that people seem to be disappearing.

Aninga either of those should work in some capacity.

sorry, I am here, just college+ work takes up a lot of time, also have a game I am GMing that is quickly catching up with the amount of plot I had planned....

Orregr are you acting this turn?

We're up to Kelnet now. I know it was the weekend but still there's been one post in six days.

Hate to be pushy but maybe in a few days we could say that people who can't continue faded away as deities as Act 1 ended and we can recruit some more 'younger' gods for Act 2?

What does everyone else (who is even looking at this) think?

I hate to say it, but I think it might be just down to the three of us now.

I would suggest that in future we skip initiative. Let people post their turn whenever they can, and then when everyone's posted a turn, move on. As it is, I've been sitting on my hands for several weeks.

I think both those suggestions might be needed.

I will implement the removal of initiative as of now. So if Ryazan wants to act this turn he can.

Yeah it's too bad. Maybe the person who wants to go next can call out on the Discussion tab that they're ready to go next and then get a day to do so.

*raises hand*

I'm still here guys :D

I kinda agree it might be time to start cutting our losses. Tbh, this is kinda to be expected when doing pbp with a large number of people