Hello and welcome to those of you that have been selected to play Hell's Rebels! It was a tough pick but I'm happy that we will be getting started soon. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here. Same goes for comments about availability and anything else you folks want to chat about. I'll make a gameplay thread soon for everyone to go ahead and introduce their characters.
We now have a gameplay thread. If you'd like to put in a physical description of your character as well as any other information regarding your arrival to the protest, feel free. Actual gameplay will not start until Monday, so feel free to take your time.
If anyone wants their characters to have prior knowledge of each other's characters please use the discussion thread to talk about that. I'm looking forward to GMing my first PbP with all of you!
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Thanks for including us!
Hi everyone! I'm super excited to get started. Before I post anything character related though, I just wanted to make sure everyone was good with the characters and classes as in the final post. If so, I'll be playing a wizard focusing on ranged combat. But if anyone was going to change their role, or there's a general consensus that there's a different role in the party that needs filling with the current party list, I'm flexible in my character options and don't mind adapting to what the party needs since I have so many characters that I want to play regardless.
I'm happy with where I'm at. Do what you think will be the most fun, we'll hopefully be stuck with these personas for quite a while. :)
Glad to be aboard! I'll post something into the game thread either tonight or tomorrow.
I am good with playing Til as a Bard, or I wouldn't have offered the swap.
Anything the group REALLY wants me to have as a skill since I have to do a little rework? I payed with the rebuild once already, and as I recall, his trained skills didn't change, MUCH, even though he loses a couple. I drop Intimidation since he can use Perform to cover the only aspect of it he was likely to use anyway. Can't say the same for Diplomacy/Deception.
Will be doing the rebuild tonight, I think. Doesn't mean I can't tweak it if needed . . ..
Edit: And finished before the 1 hour timer passed on this posting!
@Pyropaki: I think the submitted builds are part of how we were selected. Tweaking to work together is a lot different than playing a completely different character!
Hello all! Looking forward to playing. :)
I should have my character fully built over the weekend, though I'll probably make a post in the gameplay thread sometime before then.
Oh, and Tilorean is a noble who has been slumming a lot, so if anyone wants to know him before we start, tell me. We'll work it out. I'm good either way.
Lucius might know Tilorean then; he is in a similar situation, the son of a Knight who is spending a lot of time with the common folks at the protests.
To clarify, should we be choosing one of the reasons to protest from the player's guide?
Well, Til's pretty new to this protest game. Thrune's been in charge for 7 days, and Til's girlfriend was slaughtered by his guards only a day or two ago . . .. She had him running around doing naughty things, but selfish naughty, not political naughty.
I mean, he learned stealth and thievery . . ..
Hemdar, that's what I did. I don't know if the mechanical bonuses will still apply but they're solid reasons to be there.
Ah, I completely forgot about the reason for protesting bit. Go ahead and pick one, hopefully I'll have some time before Monday to get some mechanics for those.
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By the way, if you want to find some good character art or want me to find it based on your character description, I always offer to create tokens from those images for any game I'm in.
Here is what they look like:
It's always nice to have something that more closely resembles your mental image of your character as opposed to using the forum avatars from the Paizo site here, which are limited in number and selection. This avatar for example is about as good as I could get for Lucius, but is nowhere close to what I actually envisioned.
Let me know!
In that case, I'll work on finishing up my character as said and post something! If there are any spells/skills someone thinks would be particularly useful to have as a wizard in this party, let me know.
@Lucius I appreciate the offer, if I find something not awful I'll absolutely let you know!
Hey Lucius, that's great! Would you mind making one of Enara, using this image? Thank you!
I also appreciate the offer, but the alias for Jilvinirri honestly matches pretty closely with my mental image of her, and besides her Chameleon ability will make any single "look" out of date pretty quickly
Cool. Not sure I want to spend the time hunting for "the right" image, though.
So, what stats do you WANT in our tagline, GM?
It's silly but I'm the sort of person who does that as part of the creation process, haha.
Nah, I don't think it is silly at all. Just not sure if my 1ed assumptions about what to put there are reasonable.
Oh, I meant looking for an image. As for the tagline, I went and looked through some 2e games on here to see what people did and these seem to be pretty consistent. Stealth is, in my experience, the skill most commonly used for initiative, other than Perception, so I put that in as well.
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I've done the thing, guys, and finished my character before the end of the weekend. See profile for all the info!
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Alright, for those who provided images I'll make up some tokens. Will post tomorrow night, I'm falling asleep at the keyboard at the moment...
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Think my build is finished.
For tagline I've been liking this one. Pretty much all of that is important, if you have a skill that you may be using for initiative other than perception rather often go ahead and throw it in there.
Looking for Trouble: Gain a +1 bonus on all Deception and Thievery checks made during the protest itself.
Looking for Your Idol: Gain a +2 bonus on all Perception checks made during the protest itself.
Meeting a Contact: Gain a +2 bonus on all Perception checks made during the protest itself.
Staying up on Current Events: Gain a +2 bonus on all Diplomacy and Performance checks made during the protest itself.
Tagging Along: Gain a +2 bonus on all Perception checks made during the protest itself.
To Protest the Government: Gain a +2 bonus on all Deception and Intimidation checks made during the protest itself.
So Lucius is protesting the government... he is terrible at deception, but the intimidation bonus will help.
Me, when I see someone with a leshy familiar.
:D
Yeah, I saw that was an option and I didn't even read the options past that.
Love the leshy! Emarel will be just people watching and staying up on events. Neither of those buffs are particularly useful for him, but it's really the only thing that fits with the character, so it works.
Alright, it looks like we've got a start from everyone over in the gameplay thread! I'll get things moving along here shortly. Until Lucius has those tokens ready I will just be using your forum portraits on the map, so no rush Lucius! We will be at this for a long while hopefully.
Just finished a deep audit of everyones' characters since I hadn't quite gotten around to it until now. If I found anything I have sent you a private message about it.
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Until Lucius has those tokens ready I will just be using your forum portraits on the map, so no rush Lucius! We will be at this for a long while hopefully.
Here are the tokens based on the images provided. I also switched out the token for Lucius for something more in-line with the other two. Let me know how they look:
Is it possible to get the map set so we can move our token around?
Those are great, thank you!
Map should be updated so that you guys can move stuff. I've changed the tokens to be the ones that you supplied. Thanks Lucius!
Well, might as well get all these rolls out of the way now, lol
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I updated the slides to include the rumors that you have gathered thus far. I will be adding character and NPC pictures as we meet them. If there is any other information that you want me to throw in there please let me know!
Feel free to shout down the Lord-Mayor with whatever obscenities come to mind. I'll be posting the crowd's reaction when I get home later.
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I'm going to be sending a private message to everyone with a form for an RPG consent checklist. While reading ahead to later books in the series I came across a few content warnings in them and realized that this is a matter that we have not discussed as a group. I'll be posted the aggregated results to the slides later with whatever the highest-rated restriction there was on any content type.
There isn't really a rush on this as for now the content of the campaign will be, for the most part, rather mild. As you further anger the House of Thrune and their diabolic patrons, however, the plot may take some turns in some dark directions.
That's wonderful, thank you!
Unrelated, but if anyone's worried I'm going to do something silly like pick a fight with the BBEG five minutes in, I'm not. Just being a tiny bit dramatic, since I feel like the whole protest is about to pop off any second
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Great idea!
And as for the protest, if anyone has picked a fight at this point, it's probably me XD
I bet we could take him. He's no match for the power of DEMOCRACY and JUSTICE.
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Also, I finally rolled above a 6 and what a roll it was lol
By the way, I realize I failed to write into my attack, but I wanted it to be non-lethal at this point. Pretty sure either way, Lucius hit and if it's double damage, than he did 24 points of damage.
Holy cow, we were on fire for rolls that round XD
That's a lot of damage. Thanks Paizo RNGesus!
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