Talk amongst yourselves.
Discord chatter be here, yar: 7-day link
I will be going over statblocks more closely now that we have our player core and, if I have any questions, pinging you with them.
You are also welcome to discuss (here or in the Discord) what you intend your long term build choices to be, but I want to stress that nothing discussed is binding; gameplay MAY change your ideas of what class or classes you want to go for, and I expect we will have back and forth dialog about it since this campaign may stretch your plans a bit. /not ominous at all
Brimble signing in! Hello team!
Let me know if I need to change anything GM Dien. Totally flexible.
Hey everyone!
I can now verify that the process for creating an alias is difficult enough. No need to further raise the difficulty on that one
Not sure I'm in love with this picture. It seems the sort of thing a child might draw, while daydreaming. I hope I can change it if I don't like it.
'allo 'allo 'allo!! Xiramona is in the HOWSE!
Hello! Looking forward to playing with you all.
@Em Salt - I think you can change your picture up to the point when you've made 10 posts with an alias (someone else will probably confirm or deny this rumour). I agree that it's sometimes hard to find one that exactly fits or even feels sort of right. This probably wouldn't be my first choice but it was the best I could find from those available.
Close but not quite right. You can change your character image at any time, whether you have 5 posts or 500. At 10 posts, you can no longer change your character name (I think) and you definitely can't delete the character from your aliases. So, if you don't like your pic, you can always change it.
Howdy!
Sorry! Just now seeing this. Crunch is mostly done but not quite, I'll post in the Gameplay thread when I can.
Not to worry, we're still just doing prelude stuff. I'll probably be PMing people with thoughts and questions soonish.
When people get the chance, if you can format your stat line similar to Phantrel's - doesn't have to be identical to that, but at least the basics should be there. Em and Xiramona, happy to help if you need any assist with that since I know it may be kind of new to you both.
Good to know I can change my picture at any time. I'll have to see how I like this one.
I set up my profile. Let me know if the formatting is adequate. I'm still unsure on my second feat/third trait, since I don't know what character class or role I'm going to occupy. Examples of classes I could see playing include: Bard, Magus, Sorcerer, Oracle, and Unchained Summoner. I'm not sure how many generally useful feats there are that would work for all of those different classes, and I think it would be cool to leave my build plans up in the air for now. I'll have to think about the feat/trait some more
I know what you mean. I took one generally-useful feat (Toughness) and one... well, not particularly useful, but flavorful to this character and a potential feat tax for later (Endurance).
I appreciate that with the current state of unknowing about future builds, some things like feats and traits that you would otherwise be able to use to set up your build of choice feel murky right now, and I know it requires a bit of blind faith in me. I will say that the campaign will be generous with options for rebuilding feats AND even traits, so don't feel like anything you're picking right now is going to "trap" you in any way. If you wind up with something that turns out to not what you wanted, later, we can work to find an in-game way to adjust it, without penalizing you.
Basically, if you want to pick something like 'Toughness' right now just for general mechanical survival-- or something else you might not normally take because it feels more flavorful than useful-- that is absolutely a solid choice and it will not mean you are 'wasting' a feat. I promise!
Em, all of those feel like potentially fun options for your character. If you do want to lean into summoner, let me know, because it gives me ideaaaaaaaaaaas
Summoner sounds like it could be fun. If you have thoughts on how to set that up long term, I'm open to it.
I picked the trait/feat, so apart from equipment I believe my character sheet is all set up.
In terms of his build, my current plan is to go Paladin with Brimble. Depending on how the team shakes out, I could do AND/OR Investigator.
You'll no doubt be very surprised to hear that the treehugger is looking to move into druid as and when we get there.
I think I've spilled enough tea by now for you all to at least suspect that Xira will eventually become a harrow bloodline sorcerer. Most likely. I think. <_<
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Never fails to annoy me that I can't nest spoilers.
I have learned from Raka and Colin how to nest spoilers! Thank you, she said, belatedly. Learn new things every day!
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We are coming up on seven weeks of the game and I hope that nobody is too bored that we have yet to roll a single initiative check. I must say I'm very pleased with the players I've selected for this and that you're all sticking with me so far through the 'quiet' start of things. I was gonna say the following in the Discord but realized I don't think Raka/ST ever got a chance to join us there. SodiumTelluride, did you want another invite? If you just don't do Discord, that's fine, just wanted to make sure you had the chance. I do post images in there for convenience's sake, but I can rehost them elsewhere if needed.
Anyway, since nobody's gotten to do any combats, I will instead incentivize you all with praise! Spoilering for space but none of this is meant to be private.