Put your left foot in and shake it around.....
Whoa, up early today, J?
Just a little bit
lol, I know you were up EJB, I was talking about Jason :P
I normally don't see him on the boards when I get out of work. You weirdos and your obsession with daylight.
Ahhh I see
What plays in the background as the elven druid leads you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz2GVlQkn4Q
safe for work :)
Is she a panther or a cougar?
;-)
Hard to tell with those elves :P
Argon does. Or rather, Dorian is protective of the group, and someone attacked one of us. So, IF he had a short fuse Argon thinks that would set it off.
It's good to know Dorian has some self control.
Did Zafe return our Pass Stones? Just wondering for our sheets.
Sorry about the lack luster post last night, tabletop D and D ran longer then I thought it was going to.
No, you never got the stones back :)
Alright, so I have a few things to wrap up, but I plan on handing over the reigns to Mike here by this weekend, Monday at the absolute latest.
Also, everyone is "officially" level one at this point, 'cause a certain God of Magic said so. Who am I to argue? Your still Child template for a bit longer, but everybody is a blooded adventure :P
Finally, if there are any plot seeds that needed to be planted, now would probably be a good time to message me about those.
No, I'm not really expecting anyone to recite the adventure so far :P
More of a "Character eats their favorite food, asks final questions, game continues," deal.
Thanks for stepping up and running our motley band of phr34k2 Russ!
your welcome. Any other plot seeds you three need worked in?
Not I, I think you did everything that I need for a later from my current perspective , unless we want to do a seed for my character becoming a God one day : )
I need to stay a bit more flexible to adapt to choices that are made between now and then which might completely turn anything I plan on its head.
Did you guys work out who is running what levels now ?
Sent from my EyeFon
I think we are going with Mike's suggestion of a 4 level rotation. I believe it was going to be Mike, you, than EJB. Since Jason had to opt out due to time restraints, I think we are going to do a repeating cycle at that point.
Of course, I imagine if a particular DM is one a roll and wants a little more time, the next probably wouldn't complain.
After we go through the first rotation, do we want drop down to every 2 levels switch repeating the order? Since generally, it will take a little longer to level up at that point.
I like the 4 level rotation that leads to 2 levels afterward.
To protect the longevity of the game, and thank those giving their time to run the game, I would like to offer a thank you gift to each DM after they run their piece of the game (recruitment/organization, 4x levels, volunteering to check over sheets, volunteering to do an ongoing adventure synopsis). I'm wide open to accept ideas for this. It could be feats, traits, items on a random table (I really like this idea), skill points, gold, titles, contacts (like Shadowrun, people that owe you favours), etc. It's a thankless job at times, so I don't think we can go over the top with too many thank you's, though we have to be careful to not make it overpowering in anyway shape or form . I'm 100% planning on going to level 20.
Thoughts?
Ooh, that's soon!
When I take over, I'm expecting the group to be full grown and at the beginning of level 1, with 0XP. Were you going to run to that point? We could just ask each player to provide another update going through whatever the character needs to go through to reach it.
Argon needs an epiphany of some sort to suddenly become a zealot. That is done easily enough...
Also, Russ, I'm going to need private notes from you detailing your information (even if it's only currently in your head) about Dainoth, Rygear, and, to a lesser extent, the other important NPCs (Zafe, Diva, Baba Yaga and Penelope).
Did anyone recognize Penelope from anywhere?
Speaking of favors, I was going to have Argon tell the guard he owes Ssilax a big favor, to be collected at some point in the future.
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I certainly feel badly for opting out of my DM position. If something changes, then I will pop in for a bit, if viable. I definitely understand the job (I am running a weekly home campaign) and I appreciate all you guys efforts. This campaign is one of my highlights of the day. I am really enjoying it.
Thank you guys again for allowing me to join your table!
Anyone planning to attend UCon the end of November?
Is that the anime one that takes place near Detroit? I've heard it's pretty fun from a couple of different people.
Ooh, that's soon!
When I take over, I'm expecting the group to be full grown and at the beginning of level 1, with 0XP. Were you going to run to that point? We could just ask each player to provide another update going through whatever the character needs to go through to reach it.
Argon needs an epiphany of some sort to suddenly become a zealot. That is done easily enough...
Also, Russ, I'm going to need private notes from you detailing your information (even if it's only currently in your head) about Dainoth, Rygear, and, to a lesser extent, the other important NPCs (Zafe, Diva, Baba Yaga and Penelope).
Did anyone recognize Penelope from anywhere?
Speaking of favors, I was going to have Argon tell the guard he owes Ssilax a big favor, to be collected at some point in the future.
Yes, I plan on handing it off this Monday to you (assuming we get this next little bit finished up :P), if your ready. The characters will be fully grown, and be level 1.
Hmmm, what deity does he follow when an adult? I'm planning on have another 4 year stretch pass (so everybody be thinking about the last 4 years of their young freedom). We could have it happen during that time frame, or perhaps work something else in.
I was going to have everyone make a DC 15 Int check to pretty much figure out why they recognize her.
And I will send you my notes, I just have to let them ooze out of my melon first. I'll send them via email. Plus it will help me when I put up the NPC's and places that have been a factor in the game so far. Lol, damn synopses always feel like fragging homework. I have to work this weekend (kinda a whore for overtime), so it might be a little late this weekend.
No sweat on the timing. I'm also working stuff out in my head, though some of it is written down on solid bytes.
For Argon, I envisioned this: He's always been interested in weapons and metal devices. He stumbles upon a clever metalsmith who is also a cleric of Ptah. Argon gets to know him, and the cleric teaches Argon his craft(weapons) skill, and he makes his own first Falcatas. And he teaches him about Ptah, too. Argon is hooked then.
Did you want Perception checks from all of us, or just Dorian?
Perception checks from everybody, please :)
Dexter, pretty much 10 minutes away from Ann Arbor
I'd have to double check the date, to see if I'm working or not. I'm not sure if I would play at a game or not, I would definitely be wandering around for a while looking at stuff, new and old games and various knick knacks that make there way into cons. Not to mention people watching :P That's usually worth the price of admission right there. I haven't been to a gaming con before, EJB has. I believe he's gone to Gencon a few times.
Anyhoo, working on a post :)
Ah, screw it, I imagine most of you are awake and near a device. I'll be alive for another hour or two before I climb into my coffin for a nap.
Happy Posting.
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Before or after I take over, I'd like to know a little bit about your character's intentions, goals or plans. What do you see in the future for yourself? Publicly or privately, either is fine.
As a heads up, you will be starting with equipment worth the max 1st level gold from the rules, plus your heirloom, and one other thing I will mention later. That other thing will be an opportunity to introduce a symbol of some sort for your character. It can be an animal, a shape, a letter, a word, or whatever. Even a concept (i.e., disease). Argon's will likely be the head of a lion, for instance. Or maybe a volcano :-)
To protect the longevity of the game, and thank those giving their time to run the game, I would like to offer a thank you gift to each DM after they run their piece of the game (recruitment/organization, 4x levels, volunteering to check over sheets, volunteering to do an ongoing adventure synopsis). I'm wide open to accept ideas for this. It could be feats, traits, items on a random table (I really like this idea), skill points, gold, titles, contacts (like Shadowrun, people that owe you favours), etc. It's a thankless job at times, so I don't think we can go over the top with too many thank you's, though we have to be careful to not make it overpowering in anyway shape or form . I'm 100% planning on going to level 20.
Going to offer a bonus feat for everyone as they start up their tour of duty to thank everyone for stepping up to take extra tasks on when we know how slammed/busy everyone is.
I will toss a free feat to Russ for taking on the introduction, one to myself for doing the recruitment/organization to start this behemoth, and one to Mike for stepping up to the plate to carry the torch forward from Russ' introduction.
If anyone would like to volunteer to do the ongoing fine-toothed comb work on everyone's character sheets (to ensure the math adds up and they're consistently finished/legible) that would be another feat, as would someone doing an ongoing adventure synopsis.
Once someone has received a free feat a different prize will be offered....
/lure with unknown bait...perhaps it's soot and poo
Wrathe's Background
He is doomed, and was doomed from his cursed birth, due to a pact his great, great grandfather made. Wrathe was raised under a psychotically-oppressive degree of austerity, a slave from birth, without anything approaching attachment or love
Impossible to break, so they tore his eyes from his head to teach him a lesson, they were replaced after two years of darkness. He had only one creature he trusted, which was a fellow Xthian named C'yne who was the closest thing to a friend he had ever known. C'yne was forced to torture Wrathe. C'yne gave him an old amulet, his blood dripping down the metal a reminder of the latest torture session.
"Two anni I spent dwelling in the depths of total darkness with my eyes torn from my skull. During that time I was thrown into a dank cell and left to rot among the damned. Many tales were uttered between the constant torments, but my rapt attention was fixed only on the feathered one speaking of the pursuit for knowledge beyond a mortal's ken and sorcery."
Mordsine had an acidic tongue, no sense of humour, and an ill-temper. The volatile tengu wizard had struck the blind child with a closed fist often, and extorted him for the meagre scraps of food provided. The inquisitive Wrathe cared not, the search for forbidden knowledge was all the nourishment that he required. It was the tengu that had forged the young Xthian's eyes from cast-off silver, and it was a debt owed, either in freedom for Mordsine, or death for Wrathe.
Escaped from Hell, or was set free, perhaps he will never know.
Possible family supports?
His biological family lost him as a child, right from his crib, and he was held in Hell for decades, where time passes at different speeds. He had memories of them though, and will watch over them from afar, but is unsure if she should reconnect. Wrathe descends from tribesmen in upper Aenghus who would view him as a weakling, unworthy of any respect, because of the curse that stole the strength from his sinews.
Why did your character get started in their chosen class?
Why is your family heirloom important to you and what is its story?
C'yne wields an amulet, which represents the only person that Wrathe has ever called a friend before being transported to Sel Torin. C'yne was enlisted to torture Wrathe from that day forward. Wrathe clutched the amulet until it cracked during one session. It is his only belonging of that time and his people.
Character's goals/purpose?
Why become an adventurer?
How religious (the gods do exist, but do you care)?
The gods mean very little to him as he has been the pawn of beings far beyond his ability to affect the outcome, and that level of unwarranted control has helped to shape his belief system, which has no room for deities or the more strident of their adherences.
How important is the accumulation of wealth and status?
Wealth is but a means to an end to gain knowledge to avoid the executioner's axe. Status is a curse that will end him should his name and face become well-known, and with that in mind he spends much of his time in another form.
Do you have any enemies?
Wrathe feels that he has escaped from Hell, but he maintains lingering doubts that he was permitted to depart, and even a much darker thought that all of this is little more than a dream. Within the realms of Sel Torin arcana rhabdophobia is so common, as is a humanicentrism, that should the truth of his nature or vocation be revealed then he would be despised.
Have you ever been arrested?
Wrathe has been incarcerated nearly every day of his first 9 years of life and has only been on Saevia scant days before being taken in by Master Dainoth.
What is your view on other races? view on magic?
Wrathe's hatred extends to daemons and devils, and otherwise is focused only on actions, rather than deeds. Magics is second nature to him and embraced fully with an open mind.
Before or after I take over, I'd like to know a little bit about your character's intentions, goals or plans. What do you see in the future for yourself? Publicly or privately, either is fine.
My hope was that the guiding questions for character generation would be kept hidden for a time, so that everyone could evolve their character concept through play. I've posted mine (above) now that I've taken him out for a test drive/performed a seal test, and believe I have him much more locked in as a concept.
I invite everyone else to post theirs character creation questions, as we would any new player to the group, so that it provides information for each new GM to sink their collective fangs into.
As a heads up, you will be starting with equipment worth the max 1st level gold from the rules, plus your heirloom, and one other thing I will mention later. That other thing will be an opportunity to introduce a symbol of some sort for your character. It can be an animal, a shape, a letter, a word, or whatever. Even a concept (i.e., disease). Argon's will likely be the head of a lion, for instance. Or maybe a volcano :-)
Wrathe's symbol would be the pentagram that's is his Paizo Boards avatar, which is also the worn amulet heirloom he received from C'yne.
One question regarding gear: we had raided Dainoth's storeroom for meagre supplies during our level 0 adventures. Would our starting gold be required to pay for that as well, or would we make purchases above and beyond that?
That's a hexagram, unless I'm looking at the wrong thing. Could you point me to it (url)?
For equipment, that store stuff would be included in the total, but you could swap it out at no extra cost. In other words, start fresh if you like.
Hexagon's are a natural phenomenon, did you know? Here's one the size of a planet:
That's a hexagram, unless I'm looking at the wrong thing. Could you point me to it (url)?
For equipment, that store stuff would be included in the total, but you could swap it out at no extra cost. In other words, start fresh if you like.
/shakes his fist at math and all the naps he took during them
Indeed it is a hexagram
/smokes a plastic bubble pipe
Working on gear as we speak!
Math looks back dispassionately at Synxol and his shaking fist.
"No hurry," it says.
I wonder if we should put our character backgrounds in another place. Maybe Campaign Info, since we can't add it to the Characters tab?
PS. I know it should have been Hexagons and not Hexagon's. And it is killing me.
Sorry, taking a bit longer to post. Trying to figure how Wrathe and Daxniss are going to find Rygear, in a city the size of Caern, with no real contact base, or knowledge of Rygear's patrol route.
I think I have a solution.
I wonder if we should put our character backgrounds in another place. Maybe Campaign Info, since we can't add it to the Characters tab?
Added.
For reference I've also added a link to each of the different "chapters" from each different DM.
Now, i want to be clear, I'm not dismissing Daxniss's or Wrathe's plan out of hand. They are simple not going to find Rygear before Ssilax bleeds out. Out of game, his blood is not coagulating, and the poison is resistant to magic (it's expensive and rare, so it won't be showing up all over the place, no worries there).
Also, I'm trying to have everything set up for Mike to take over tomorrow. I might end up needed another day or so to finish wrapping this all up, depends on how much we can get done with today before I pass out.
Binding wounds tightly should help stop bleeding, even if there's no coagulation, right? I'm not knowledgeable about this - that's just my impression.
I wonder if we should put our character backgrounds in another place. Maybe Campaign Info, since we can't add it to the Characters tab?Added.
For reference I've also added a link to each of the different "chapters" from each different DM.
Thank you good sir!
Oh, can we edit that? I can't seem to.
Binding wounds tightly should help stop bleeding, even if there's no coagulation, right? I'm not knowledgeable about this - that's just my impression.
Depending on the size of the wound. He has about an 8 inch gash along his just under his ribs. It's bound, so he is only leaking blood, rather than it pouring out. This is where super glue would come in really handy, or a hot piece of metal. Of course, the damage from searing the wound closed would kill him, because I apparently am out to kill Ssilax (j/k)
And Dorian heart is totally in the right place, just not the best idea around a druid. They're kinda black and white about the whole undead thing. Now, if this was just a snake bite, and had happened recent, trying to suck the venom out of the wound would be a great idea.