Damn it Olly, now I V for Vendetta in my head because you said verbose. LOL
btw, if any of you play a Rise of the Runelords campaign after this, you may notice some things missing. Flit and the Pathfinders and the Hellknights are all things that I added for flavor as the AP kind of leaves certain "motivations" missing.
Hope you enjoy the extra intrigue.
So a Goblin Pathfinder and a Hellknight column are GM improvisations, and a Shopkeeper's Daughter seduction attempt is not? Well AP's are......"more guidelines than actual rules." (<-- said with a piratey accent.) A cookie to whoever gets the reference.
Well, I only got if because you specified it said with a piratey accent. :)
Yes, I don't think I'd've recognized it without the accent either. :)
So going to replace Seldon as he hasn't posted for awhile, looking through the old message board and checking some other games for a player
He already made his choices and I didn't get in.
I wanted to play a cute little masochist con artist/burglar partnered up with an inquisitor/torturer type. Another DM expressed interest in running another evil game, so we might try to get our pair into that one if it happens.
Two newly discoverd, but ancient matching arches bearing Azlanti symbols that are really a linked gate. One in the desert that was previously covered in sand and one in the jungle covered with vegetation?
Just a heads up, September 6th and 7th may not see any posts from me as my wife and I are moving into our new house. Will be able to post again September 8th.
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a nature documentary when I'm busy checking my kids' hair for ticks.
Weekends are slow for me, will post update later today
what happened? the posting has died down.
Darius and Zella aren't in the same area, so they can't flirt. *sigh*
*laughs*
Yeah, we do tend to spam a bit with the flirting. I'm sure we'll get plenty of more chances to do so later. :)
I'm back in net-enabled land, so I'm sure Olly will be chattering away again soon. :)
Yay! My wing-woman is back online. Suit up girl, we got work to do. :)
And we have a new player joining us shortly to take over for Seldon
Hi, Alisand here jumping in to the game. Looking forward to playing with you all. Thanks for the invite Tierce.
Pleasure to meet you. Welcome to the party.
Alisand, please go ahead and post in the game forum, your character tried to make it to Sandpoint for the Shallowtail Festival, but you arrived a few days too late, to a town in uproar with Hellknights keeping the peace. A fact that the PC's are not happy with
Welcome! Glad to have you.
Welcome to the game. :)
Nice intro there Alisand. Did anyone else think of The Man with No Name when she mentioned the poncho?
I should have sung "wah wah wah...wada wah... as I walked into town. :)
I want cookies
Mm, cookies...
oatmeal chocolate chip....
My neighbor is making me cookies right now. White chocolate dipped oatmeal cookies in a addition to a random assortment of others. She loves to back and always has a freezer full of cakes and stuff thats she's made and doesn't know what to do with.
Think we lost Karas, as he hasn't posted in some time here, and hasn't posted as Marn or Matei in the other campaigns that I am with him in.
We will go on for now and see if he comes back to catch up
Beautiful. Where is that?
Grand Canyon in Arizona. We are still on our cross country trip.
Gorgeous!!
Sorry for the silence, but I'm actually having trouble finding anything to do for Karas.
He can't really do anything with the Hellknights since all he wants is for them to go and preferably also huddle up in some dark corner and die.
Performing also isn't his thing, nor does he care too much about just a performance as he comes from a place where those things always have meaning and feature as part of rituals.
In short, he's a bit lost
Sandpoint is quite a rich tapestry of culture, and a character will never see this amount of mesh of different races and intrigue. There are a lot of things that any player could accomplish. If you dream it, then we can do it. So if there is something Karas can do, we can RP it out.
However if you find that your character is not motivated at all, there is always the option of re-rolling. I am a very open GM in that way and if your backed into a corner and want to try something new, then please feel free to explore that option
However if you find that your character is not motivated at all, there is always the option of re-rolling.
As soon as I read it, this came to mind.
Back in the days with LFG was good. Now its kinda... not
I still read it, just to see what Richard is up to.
Richard still is good, or bad, or whatever
As for rerolling, I'm not sure. I made Karas because I really liked (and still like) the concept of the Wild Caller archetype. The problem is more that Karas as a Shoanti is lost in this strange world where nothing goes the way he's used to and the character's default response is to sit and wait, which doesn't really make for compelling RP. The fact that, thematically, he doesn't really mesh with the rest of the group (no one's fault in any way, just how it ended up being) makes it difficult.
In short, I'll think about it.
Also having a purpose I find helps your character get into a game. For me I have my side quest that I made up because I thought it would fit well with joining up with a party of other adventures but also gives Alisand objectives and drive. Background is important to a character but in my mind it should also drive the character.
Why is Karas in Sandpoint?
What does he want to accomplish, do, find, run from, learn about?
What would make him want to be part of a group of adventurers or force him to need the others?
Alisand has no interest in the performance but she has other things to drive her into the party.
Anyway that's just how I go about making characters.
The problem is more that karas has no reason to stay in Sandpoint but all the more reason to stay with the party when they leave it. Basically he's on a journey of discovery sent by his elders and the only reason he came to Sandpoint at all was the Swallowtail Festival. Right now he has nothing to do there, even less with the Hellknights there actually (Shoanti and Hellknights don't mix, especially Order of the Nail).
Basically his reason for being in Sandpoint has been fulfilled so to say and he has found it turning into a hostile environment over night, a hostile environment he could just walk away from.
Well I will say that this AP has a lot to do with Sandpoint. You will be here for several of the books
Let my try to clarify that a bit (I know we'll be there a lot and knew from the start): Sandpoint as a resting place between action (or as place of the action) is just fine, it's more a problem when there isn't much to do beyond village politics. At this moment he simply has no reason to stay in Sandpoint.
I'll figure out how to make him fit or make a character that does fit.
I hope you find a way to make him work. Olly is intrigued by Ignir. :) But obviously you should do what's fun for you.
Hey guys, letting you know that my posting will become staggered and less frequent as I switch ISP's. Hopefully no issues arise and I will be back to posting before you know it!
Good luck with that!
Meanwhile, I'm surrounded by boxes. And dust. *achoo!*