Ranged attacks, you say? I might throw my hat back in the ring with Olnaris Valkavian.
I'm definitely interested. My former submission of a barbarian probably won't be the best choice if you're looking for range (though I could take the hurling rage powers and just throw random objects, I guess...). I'll probably stick to the concept of an Ulfen who wants to join the guard one day, but maybe a Kineticist, come down from the north and wielding the cold itself as a weapon.
A couple of question:
How are we doing HP?
Do we still need to take a campaign trait, coming in late as we are?
Edit: actually, a barbarian whose ranged attacks consists entirely of throwing random objects sounds kind of fun. Might just lean into that.
I'm interested and had apped in before with a velvet blade. I could probably re-jig her into something more ranged (and overall more combat ready, as I expect I overbuilt the original one for roleplay/social intrigue and verbal dueling). Will follow up with an actual build as soon as I can. (There is also a chance I keep bits of the background but fully rework her into a sorcerer or something.)
Re HP: Full HP for lvl 1, and half plus one for the remainder is fine.
Re campaign traits, yes please use select one campaign trait.
Oh one other thing, your character is one of Martella's Lotheed's agents. She's will have sent you to Meratt county to assist with the party when she discovered that poor Julia was too unwell to continue in her role.
It would be interesting to know how you met Martella and (briefly) what sort of skulduggery she's been keeping you busy with.
Hope to post something tonight, if not that by Friday afternoon at the latest.
I think its a straight level up to 4 for me, and house valaris may well be a habitual, if minor, ally of house Lotheed.
Alithera is, as a known fey foundling, absolutely not in line of succession, but presentable enough for noble purposes.
I intend to resubmit Diana as well. Curiously enough, I ended up resubmiting her as well to her previous PbP at about the same point in the story (and Lope took the spot on that one :)). This should help in getting her ready, as I already have part of the work done, altough there are some things I'll have to adjust (here's her previous submission if you want to take a look).
As for how she came to work with Martella, I'll try to expound on it later today, but I'm going with the idea that neither her nor Martella were particularly close until recently. They started working together after Martella set up a meeting with Diana's group to ask for their support, and that's when they found out about what each one was doing. With Diana recently coming back from one of her trips, Martella figured she would be an excellent choice to aid the party in their current mission with the Lotheeds.
Here is my submission: Naliah Lotheed
I switched from velvet blade archetype to sniper; that way she can serve this particular party's needs much better. Similar, but streamlined background, to my prior submission; in the original version I'd already suggested she'd gotten the attention of her cousin Martella after she killed her (corrupt and very bad) father, so I just added on to that and said she's been working for her as an information gatherer and, as needed, assassin. I left it somewhat vague only so if she gets in, we can discuss what's appropriate for her to know and not know. I didn't want to metagame in determining what her role has been so far.
As Princess Eutropia's spy master, Martella has many agents and often works through intermediaries so that sounds entirely plausible Diana.
With apologies if I inadvertently look pesty, just want to point to my post above since we ninjaed each other yesterday to be sure it was seen.
PS: I realized I forgot to give Naliah a feat for 5th level so I've fixed that now (Quick Draw).
Thanks for updating Naliah! The background changes make sense.
I've updated Diana to level 5, and added two additional story blocks, one describing her first "business" meeting with Martella, and another with my idea on how to justify Diana coming along with the party to the Betony estate instead of staying with the Lotheeds at the Palace of Birdsong. Let me know if there's anything you want changed or with more details.
I did forget to ask how you wanted to handle item creation feats with regards to starting equipment. My equipment reflects an increase of 25% WBL for having one, but I can drop the necessary items to be at normal WBL if you'd prefer.
Item creation feats are controversial at some tables, I think they're mostly OK since substantial downtime is needed to build the most powerful items. There is some downtime in this AP but not huge amounts.
I think I'm OK with 25% above WBL in this instance.
I think I'm going to step away from this one. Got enough irons in the fire at the moment. Best of luck all!
Thank you for the submissions, recruitment is closed. I'm just collecting feedback from the current players and will announce my decision tomorrow.
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After gathering feedback, I'm please to extend an invitation to Diana! We'll need to figure out how to introduce you to the campaign.
I liked Naliah too, if an opening crops up in future I'll reach out. Good luck out there with recruitment!