Assuming you are accepting more players
Starting gear: It is a good thing I start with a lot. Wallet, My Debit card (My Debit Account and it is electronically linked to a savings that has over 200,000 in it and it has a beneficiary my parents, so even if argued the money disappears upon death cause it goes to the government, I would still have it and use my debit account to buy things. It has 5.27% APR interest paid monthly. The catch is that it is only online transfers and it takes 7 days from the money to reach the savings to the debt account or vice-versa and requires a computer). The wallet itself also has credit cards and shopping/rewards cards in them and $20.
Other stuff, cell phone, charger, car keys, usually wearing jeans, a ballcap type hat, Running Shoes, and a T-Shirt. Flashlight with charger, has 3 modes bright, dim and blinking.
I'm not one to tell people about what I own in real life cause of hackers and whatnot, but you said we get our real life starting gear.
Wish: For a few extra spell slots and to prepare extra spells, cause I'm playing the Arcanist class. DMs choice. So let me know what it is. It can be If I can cast 3rd level spells, I get 1 extra 3rd level spell, or 1 extra level 1 and 2 spell slot. 2 extra level 1 spell slots regardless of level. Maybe I can prepare 1 extra level 1 spell for free or prepare and additional spell of the highest level I can cast.
I had a similar dilemma for another character in another campaign. I would wish for double the spell slots. That way you get more spell slots per level.
You could come in as one of the elven maidens that are with us.
You have been in the Golden Glade for a while bypassing you to 5th level. Another option is you started in a dungeon!!!
Sounds fine, I suppose. Do I just write myself walking out of a cluster of elves and goggle at the Dragons? O_o
Sounds like something I would do, lol!
I haven't been accepted yet, unless you guys want to accept me, but for reference
15, 13, 13, 10, 9, 8 and dropped (7) were my rolls.
We are level 6 right
16 Strength (15 and +1 at level 5)
15 Int (13 and +2 Human)
13 Con
10 Dex
9 Wis
8 Cha
And just because I was rich in real life doesn't mean I get that in the game, just thought I'd bring it up. Maybe 200,000 translates to only 100 gold or US dollars means nothing in this game.
Fire is my special ability
Will have fun roleplaying myself. And I'll tell you my fun backstory.
As far as the wish, DMs choice, I want to avoid a curse if that helps, so obviously 2 extra spell slots of every level would probably do that while 1 extra spell slot of the highest level or 1 extra of each below the highest level I can cast or a straight 2 extra first levels won't do that, so give me what you think is fair.
If you come in as a 5th level, you need to have a reason/background. Most new players would spawn in New Beginnings and head to New Faces. Thus going West.
Coming in as a 5th level means you used your wish and have likely gone through some hardships. Party members dying, fighting monsters, and dealing with scoundrels.
Some suggestions include:
Mercenary
Guard for a merchant caravan
Spawned in a Dungeon
Spawned in a magical academy or library
Etc.
Your life flashes before your eyes as your life is cut short before it should have ended. Then you find yourself in a black room with no light source but it seems you are glowing as you are able to see yourself and the chair you sit in. It doesn’t even seem there is a floor, walls, or a ceiling, more like a black void. Please spoil your response as each of these will be unique to each player.
After a few moments a gorgeous glowing girl appears before you and says in a disinterested voice, "Ah another life cut short before experiencing a full life. Welcome to the afterlife. You are in fact dead." She waits a few moments to let it sink in before touching up her hair and continuing in a prideful way, "I am Alethia, a goddess that guides humans who die young, unfulfilled lives, or those who try to make a heroic sacrifice to the afterlife."
Getting a bit serious she gives you your options, "Now you have two choices before you. You may ascend to heaven, to tell you the truth heaven isn't the dreamy place you all imagine it to be. The dull place is full of spirits, you don't even have a physical body anymore so you can't do anything sexual, either. Just basking in the sun and working."
"Or go to a new world one of adventure, action, and like the world that you came from. This world has been invaded by dark forces that continue to spread and decimate the population of the world. You get to go with your body and memories intact. You will get to bring one great ability with you as well: a weapon of great power, a supreme ability, or even an ally of some sort."
"There will be many opportunities to change as you wish." She spins and a flurry of cards come from her hands and land before you as suggestions. After a few moments she says annoyed, "Hurry up and choose.... you know that I have a lot of dead people to offer this choice too as well."
As you state what you want, she smiles at you and gleefully says, "You have chosen well and for that the inhabitants of Arcanium will know you as a Chosen. May you prosper and do well in Arcanium! Should you find and destroy any of the 13 dark souls you will be granted a wish. Also closing any portals to other worlds will gain you another wish to make Arcanium safe once more. Good luck and may your travels be blessed."
If you want to add or change anything please let me know. Otherwise you may go to the gameplay thread and begin.
Okay thought we scaled with party. I’ll be level 1 with extra spell slots, whatever you decide is fair as well as preparing more spells without a curse.
Does my social media work here? It is 500 years in the future, but I can always get new followers on Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Bumble BFF and so much more when I check my phone.
You are more than welcome to come in as a 5th level character but you must explain to me how and why.
If you want to come in as a fresh recruit... you likely will be falling from the sky! A miscalculation on the goddess or maybe not...
As it seems you are looking for me to make a decision for you... feel free to drop into game play as a 1st level. Or with an explanation for 5th! I hope to see you both soon!
Ok, replying here so I don't muddle the gameplay thread yet. Wish and special ability requests are included below. Will wait on the Ok to go further with adventures!
After a few moments a gorgeous glowing girl appears before you and says in a disinterested voice, "Ah another life cut short before experiencing a full life. Welcome to the afterlife. You are in fact dead." She waits a few moments to let it sink in before touching up her hair and continuing in a prideful way, "I am Alethia, a goddess that guides humans who die young, unfulfilled lives, or those who try to make a heroic sacrifice to the afterlife."
”Young?” Ramie scoffs, ”Well, I suppose everything is relative. You sound like you’re describing a game… Is that what it is?”
Getting a bit serious she gives you your options, "Now you have two choices before you. You may ascend to heaven, to tell you the truth heaven isn't the dreamy place you all imagine it to be. The dull place is full of spirits, you don't even have a physical body anymore so you can't do anything sexual, either. Just basking in the sun and working."
Heaven really wasn’t sounding so bad, she had hoped to see the folks there, since they had both passed already. But then the last bit caught her attention, ”Wait… working… in the sun? How does that make any sense? I at least had a nice indoor job back home. Heaven is a downgrade?” She shakes her head sadly in confusion.
"Or go to a new world, one of adventure, action, and like the world that you came from. This world has been invaded by dark forces that continue to spread and decimate the population of the world. You get to go with your body and memories intact. You will get to bring one great ability with you as well: a weapon of great power, a supreme ability, or even an ally of some sort."
"There will be many opportunities to change as you wish." She spins and a flurry of cards come from her hands and land before you as suggestions. After a few moments she says annoyed, "Hurry up and choose.... you know that I have a lot of dead people to offer this choice too as well."
”Oh, so there’s magic in this world? Well, that makes this easy. I’ll take the deal.” She selects a card with a fox-faced humanoid. ”Could I be a Kitsune? They have some ties to Fey, if I remember correctly… Also there’s a Fey called a Gerbie that has a special ability that would really come in handy.
Any creature within 60 feet of the character must succeed at a DC 18 Will saving throw or have its attitude adjusted to friendly toward both the character and any other creatures currently within the aura’s area of effect, as per charm monster. This positive attitude toward other targets of the ability lasts for 1 day after leaving the character’s aura. A creature that leaves and reenters the character’s aura can attempt another saving throw. A creature that successfully saves against this ability is immune to that character’s aura for 24 hours. Being attacked by another creature within the aura (including the character) immediately ends the forced friendliness toward that creature and prompts a new save against the aura, with the standard +5 bonus for being threatened while charmed. The save DC is Charisma-based.
As you state what you want, she smiles at you and gleefully says, "You have chosen well and for that the inhabitants of Arcanium will know you as a Chosen. May you prosper and do well in Arcanium! Should you find and destroy any of the 13 dark souls you will be granted a wish. Also closing any portals to other worlds will gain you another wish to make Arcanium safe once more. Good luck and may your travels be blessed."
”I’d better say some prayers to Desna… As I set off on this journey, I honor your name, Desna, Oh Greatest of Dreamers and Wandering Star, may my feet never fail to meet the road beneath me and may I meet unexpected friends and challenges worthy of your blessing along my way.”
Nah, I'll just start at level 1 and pick my wish. I'll make the alias.
Alright: Final Character Creations
Backstory: I was always the smart one in school, getting As and Bs. I've always had very few friends. I've played soccer, basketball, and wrestling in middle school. Swim Team in primary school. High school I joined chess club, dungeons and dragons club and many other nerdy things. College I still had few friends, but was in a fraternity, not a party type fraternity. Accounting degree with a C+ average. Got out of college, could not find a job in my degree, so I had worked in customer service for years. I was always smart with money, finding the best deals, using the best cash back rewards credit cards, and finding the best savings accounts even if online. Later I volunteered at haunted houses and made new friends, as well as joined other D&D groups, mostly 10 to 20 years younger than me being in my 30s. Had a girlfriend but broke up with her because she was rude and disrespectful to her dad even though she lived with him. Dated her because she bragged about being a 4.0 student since grade school and she was unemployed.
My Rolls. My Class is Arcanist.
15 Strength
15 Int (13 and +2 Human)
13 Con
10 Dex
9 Wis
8 Cha
My Special Ability is Fire
My Wish: To cast more spells per day. I can cast an additional 2 spells per day equal to the median level of spells I can cast, so at first level that is 2 additional level 1s. Fractions are split. So if I can cast Level 2 spells as my highest spell slot, my median level of spell is 1.5. Thus I can cast 1 extra level 1 and 1 extra level 2. When I can cast level 3 spells, my median level is level 2 spells, thus I can cast 2 extra level 2s per day. At level 20, my median level of spells is level 5 assuming I have the intelligence to do it. So I can cast 2 extra level 5s per day. At level 17 it would be one level 4 and one level 5 since the highest level is 8.
Feats:
Level 1: Spell Penetration
Bonus Feat: Great Fortitude
Traits: (No traits in this game can really match anyone's lifestyle considering the world we are in, so I'm just picking 2).
1. Reactionary: +2 Init (every once in a while I was bullied, not physically but made fun of).
2. Heart of Clay: +1 Fort (It does talk about the afterlife in this game and this is it).
Equipment: Tons of credit cards and a debit card attached to a really high bank account which probably means nothing in this game. A Star Wars T-Shirt, Jeans, Light blue colored jeans in good condition size 34/30. My belt to keep my pants up. A Demon-Drop hat I bought from Kennywood over a 2 decades ago. My Car Keys. My cellphone loaded with tons of social media platforms (which may or may not work in this world), a charger and a rechargeable flashlight with 3 modes with its charger. Spellbook as the class comes with it.
The Arcanist's class skills are Appraise (Int), Craft (Int), Fly (Dex), Knowledge (all) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Profession (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), and Use Magic Device (Cha).
Skill Points at each Level: 2 + Int modifier+1 Human Bonus. So 5.
1. Acrobatics: 1 Point, 0 dex: 1 Total
2. Knowledge Religion: 1 Point, 2 int, 3 trained: 6 Total
3. Stealth: 1 Point, 0 Dex: 1 Total
4. Swim: 1 Point, 2 Str: 3 Total
5. Spellcraft: 1 Point, 2 int, 3 trained: 6 Total
Background Skills
1. Knowledge Arcana: 1 Point, 2 Int, 3 trained: 6 Total
2. Appraise: 1 Point, 2 Int, 3 trained: 6 Total
Class Stuff
Arcane Reservoir is 4.
Consume spell is once per day is Cha is -1.
Arcane Exploits
Spells
Arcane Exploits
1st: Energy Shield
Spells:
Can prepare 4 Cantrips: Light, Mage Hand, Ray of Frost, Spark.
Can prepare 2 Level 1s. Can cast 4 per day. 2+2(wish): Magic Missile, Vanish.
Spellbook has
All Cantrips
5 Level 1 Spells (3+int): Burning Hands, Detect Metal, Shocking Grasp, Magic Missile, Vanish.
Languages: Common, Dwarven, Elven (since I get 2 extras for intelligence)
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@Wolf, @Zaidel, @Jean
Sorry I haven't posted in a very long time.
Been a combination of things, including kicking off the new career as a ProGM, dealing with my in-laws after my MIL passed, and the general stuff that happens on a farm in the spring and summer keeping my focus elsewhere.
I'll try my best to get myself back up to speed and post soon.
No worries Reckless I understand, I myself have done my best to post when I can with summer and being a full time dad.
Ramie, your wish is authorized. Now the question is have you made the wish yet or not? You have the card and a black wishing stone.
Your first wish is 100% guaranteed to not have a curse.
Some asked for a specific magic sword and asked if they wanted the legendary form of it. Then they got the super ampped sword and it was intelligent with a bit of an ego.
Ramie don't worry about de leveling, if anything just take 4 negative levels.
Ramie, your wish is authorized. Now the question is have you made the wish yet or not? You have the card and a black wishing stone.
Your first wish is 100% guaranteed to not have a curse.
I'm going to go with yes, given I already updated the sheet. XD
Might have been smart to stay human at level one for the extra feat, but seems like things advance pretty quickly so I'd rather not make more adjustments yet, lol!
Quick question: Does a Race Change wish fix a need for corrective lenses? Or maybe since I went with a Kitsune, I might only need them in my human form? BD
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Quick question: Does a Race Change wish fix a need for corrective lenses? Or maybe since I went with a Kitsune, I might only need them in my human form? BD
I am fine with that. Once you become a Chosen your first reward would include that.
You could roll or develop yourself. Everyone has rolled which is the easiest route. Yes I will look through your backgrounds in the next few days to see what bonuses you will get.
Please take your time to fill out your 'vital' and 'skill' info like Drake.
Jean, Stratton, and Zaidel: Adjust as you feel is necessary! ;)
That looks cool, Jean! I need to steal this idea!!!
Awesome, thanks Jean!!!
He shows the golden screen and it says:
Rights of Ascension
☆☆☆
Legendary Quest
☆☆☆
You will become a mythic character.
☆☆☆
Requirements:
1) Take apart of the quest: Mandrake of Greed. One of your team must attain at least one fruit.
2) Finish the quest: Of Lions and bears, Oh My! Big Game Hunter I
3) Sacrifice 500 offerings to the deity you follow.
On to the goblin show? How are you getting there?
Zaidel will walk with Ramie, Zano and Krysta to the outskirts of the goblin outpost.
Apparently you are walking, it takes about three hours to get near to the goblins.
Cool. It will give us some RP together. Answering questions, cracking jokes; all the good things
Sorry if it was unclear, Farmer Holt's place is miles away from the stone guard house... Ramie if you want to run there, you have been there before.
Ok, the locations and distance are confusing. I'm really trying to avoid being a delay on the party just because I'm trying to store some eggs here. >.<
Are they special eggs? Do they detect as magical? I thought they were just food, but if they are more than that I'll take the time.
Looks like your post got cut short Jellena.
I know it can be confusing without a map. I need to make one but I only have so much time in the day to devote to the boards. This is why I want everyone to ask questions here! :P
Oh come on everyone needs the eggs! ;)
As you can tell they are just normal eggs.
Yeah, i saw that. I'll get something up in the morning.
After around 2pm on 7/31 I likely won't be able to post again due to being at Gencon until I get back Sunday afternoon.
Oh, I did think of one thing to ask while I am thinking about it. Does the breath weapon naturally level up with my character level since I do not have racial hit dice?
Thanks for letting us know Krysta.
Yes the breath weapon naturally levels up with character levels.
I think I found Ramie on Pintrest.
I think I found Ramie on Pintrest.
Not bad! Coloring is spot on. I might try and generate an image for her. And that's pretty modestly dressed for this campaign. XD
I liked this one for her fox form.
I think I found Ramie on Pintrest.Not bad! Coloring is spot on. I might try and generate an image for her. And that's pretty modestly dressed for this campaign. XD
I liked this one for her fox form.
Really nice!!
Zaidel and anyone else that is willing to work through the info, would you please compile all of the bonuses from Cayden and the Mistress. I think a few things will need to equalize and then I need some ideas about Desna as it seems Ramie is headed that way.
Anything else or shall we start the gobin raid?
She continues, "Yes you would get the template too. Though you should likely use your wish to cement it without curses, same goes for getting Gestalt."
Just double checking, this seems to imply that I should not apply the sublime template yet, or else I might get a curse to go along with it... is that right?
Well if nothing else prompts it we will begin the scouting of the goblin fort Sunday night. Jean are you going to relay what you learned?
It happens. Catchup when you can.
So you want me to repost the spoiler for you... ok!
Zano is bowing out.
AW MAN!!! That's a real shame! I would have liked to explore his bringing-technology-to-Arcanium story.
I very glad we still have our new engaging members!