Me'mori tickles your fancy sounds good, but what about a hybrid Minotaur Scholarly Investigator(Empiricist) thus you can also create a bit of both ideas. Further the Scholarly part would tie well into Dakaal*looks askance of the GM with starry eyes*
Uhm . . . you do know that Minotaurs might have a level adjustment, right?
There's a reasonably powerful 3pp Minotaur race that might be preferable to the RP 30-something Minotaur.
There is this Racial Class that might fit the bill for removing that LA, if it suits?
Though to be honest, the Racial class would be offset by the Player class 2:1 at least...
*considers* What motivates a Minotaur Scholar... Hmmmm...
There's also Dragonlance Minotaurs, in Races of Ansalon.
We also have an option between the 30 RP version and the 11RP samurai Sheepdog version.
20 RP minotaur It retains large size, if that's interesting.
Sticking within 1st party material, refluffing a Ragebred (Boar) Skinwalker as a Bull themed one is extremely easy.
Basically, there's a lot of options.
Yes. There is a lot of options.
Oh wow so Ivo is dramatically morphing then??
Investigator(Sleuth). Half-Orc, most likely.
I'll skip the extra bells and whistles, as there's no magic there, and keep it simple. I'll swap aliases over to Mira, and build from the original rules. The professor and School as a hook, a chance to use the knowledge is the motive, and the internal motive is competition.
I like it
Alright, what do we need to go forward?
Maybe Professor Klarn could give us a bit of a timeline? When are we meant to be leaving, that kinda thing.
Yeah with the restructing of the group it might be good to also know who is actually present in this meeting by having our esteemed Professor go about addressing each person individually. I know two of the charaters Kozzemo and his brother but I believe the other two have altered into some other folks causing some character's to become NPCs that are now bowing out of this expedition. That is if we are to keep continuity intact.
How about an introductory post from the new characters. Then I can go back into planning mode.
Kozzemo has mentioned multiple new PCs several times, who's the second one?
Okay I might be wrong but it sounded like to me that both you (Storm Dragon) and Me'mori were changing the basics of their characters?
Which if wrong would be a good reason to know what characters are still here Dakaal and I (Kozzemo) are both using our character identities to post within this thread so we all know these have not changed but I do not believe there was a PC named Me'mori nor a PC named Storm Dragon. So perhaps this as lended to my confusion.
I don't use IC aliases in Discussion, as the conversations here are inherently OOC (and I'm too lazy to punch a dropdown box for every Discussion comment).
Why are we assuming the airship can't take us the whole way again?
Also its per the GMs direction -- the Airship will only take us to point B and we need to get to point C
Ah, I'd assumed the opposite since one of the primary NPCs here is indicating strongly that the airship is the way to go.
I'm still honestly not convinced of the value of skipping from point B to D if the rest of the expedition team still needs to make the whole trip, honestly.
Aren't we supposed to be setting up an archaeological dig? We assume at least in-character that this is not just going to be a dungeon crawl handled exclusively by four people, there's actual logistics that need to be considered.
Storm Dragon is right. You are supposed to set up an archaeological dig. :)
Wow okay I missed that part, thanks Storm Dragon I for some reason got it in my head that we were just going to and retrieving something. Did not realize it involved an actual archaeological dig. I thought more of an Indian Jones go in and get it kind of thing.
Okay, I didn't get that from the briefing either.
Do we know what the rest of the crew is? Do we know the size of the dig? Do we have any way of finding it? What do we do about the group that has over a week's head start?
I don't think that we can plan a dig without more information.
That's info I'm curious about as well. I'd been under the impression that Klarn had planned the expedition, but I may be wrong. Is the funding he was talking about our personal "security fund" or is that the total expedition fund, and we're meant to be recruiting people, taking care of supplies, etc.?
A few potential emergency/generally useful items:
-Traveler's Anytool
-Salve of the Second Chance and Scroll of Reincarnation (if anybody can cast the latter; these two are a unit)
-Oil of Gentle Repose
-Small, all-terrain pack animal of some kind (mule, giant lizard, etc.)
--A human hireling who can serve the same purpose
We could possible get another bird from my family for pack transportation however they would need to be compensated for that.
I'm still here.
There was a lot of work that was put into planning the expedition, so I have no desire to step on toes by suggesting anything. I'm just waiting for the planned departure to introduce Mira.
Then I think that we're ready.
Yep. I'll have a post up shortly. Work has required hours that are less than respectful of time outside of it.
I'd suggest quitting, but homelessness tends to interfere with the ability to post regularly.
What they have free WiFi these days and free outlets to recharge devices and being homeless you have all that extra time after visiting the soup kitchens.
Yes, you can get free WiFi.
Wait I am not understanding something the elemental of the 4 that were conjured who suffered no damage from the trip wire what happened to it as far as I know nothing hit it nor damaged it and that is the one with Uwe -- the other 3 with Zen'Zot, Mara, and Karita were the only elementals to get damaged??
Huh?
Okay to clarify:
Mara summoned 4 elementals, sent one with Uwe and the other 3 ahead of the rest of us.
The 3 elementals tripped a trap and took some damage, the one with Uwe did not trip the trap and thus took no damage.
Something happened or something was misunderstood and the elemental with Uwe has been eliminated (see the map). Thus my question. Because as far as I am aware no damage has occurred on the elemental with Uwe so why was it eliminated??
Okay to clarify:
Mara summoned 4 elementals, sent one with Uwe and the other 3 ahead of the rest of us.
The 3 elementals tripped a trap and took some damage, the one with Uwe did not trip the trap and thus took no damage.
Something happened or something was misunderstood and the elemental with Uwe has been eliminated (see the map). Thus my question. Because as far as I am aware no damage has occurred on the elemental with Uwe so why was it eliminated??
Now I'm confused, are you sure you summoned the four elementals with this game?
It seems to be happening in a game called Maximum Profit.
It seems to be happening in a game called Maximum Profit.
Oh, that's not my game.
Ooops my apologies for the missed placed post and Dakaal is correct.
Question: does everyone still want to play?
I still here and anxious to continue
I gave it another shot, but I am actually bowing out this time. The game has been active for 4 months, and we're not even past the opening narration. It seems clear the game is going nowhere.
I want to play, but when people aren't following up, it's time to call it.
I'm here– and willing— my difficulty is that the adventure was spoilered before it began, so the initial joy for discovery and mystery was absent, and those developments are often what propel a game out of the opening stages as characters find their feet, connections develop, etc... The other part that gave me difficulty was that things were mapped out OOC, rather than the conversations happening IC, but that's my preference. I acknowledge that it isn't everyone's.
If we're looking at a posting time basis? Call it.
Posting does not feel like this story is gaining momentum, and I fully recognize and accept my part in that. That's why Mira is somewhat bumbling around and serving as a resource, rather than a motivator.