Yahoo!
Hi! I didn’t realize this was connected. Thanks for letting me know!
I’ll get a post up today. Out right now but I’m happily here :)
I was refresshing each day to see if the other tabs were activated yet, but they were not showing up.
I am doing some reorganization on my computer today, and made an extra desktop for PBP, and the other tabs showed up.
Apologies for the delay.
Had no idea the Discussion thread was up. Good to go.
No problemo!
No worries.
Don’ think I had rolled my starting gold yet.
= 120 gold.
Ok, equipment is done. Decided to go with no armor, otherwise all Thief skills are crap :O
So not much fighting from me these early levels, apart from thrown daggers before melee is engaged, or the eventual backstab and retreat.
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No worries.
Don’ think I had rolled my starting gold yet.5d4 = 120 gold.
Ok, equipment is done. Decided to go with no armor, otherwise all Thief skills are crap :O
So not much fighting from me these early levels, apart from thrown daggers before melee is engaged, or the eventual backstab and retreat.
Get in those sweet sweet backstabs. Shortswords and daggers.
Hope so! ;)
Think we are ready to move to the tavern.
I am also ok with handwaving the tavern RP, and just do some rumor gathering rolls and keep going toward our destination straight away.
We might have lost Gloin. Could we have his character, as a merchant, potentially be an NPC until he returns? Even if he doesn’t, it would be nice to have his character around as part of world building. That, and if we have arcane questions his character is someone we could go to for info, so quite useful!
Why have we lost Gloin?
He posted just yesterday, did he not?
He did! My apologies. I think that I got confused. Please, accept my apologies for having Int as a dump stat.
Unexpected stuff on the homefront came up, that took up most of my free time today and will take up some of my free time for the next few days. Will still try to check and post daily.
Take your time ;)
heads up: homefront situation is going to make posting as frequently as I have been a bit difficult for the at least the next two weeks. I will still try to make sure I am checking daily, but it might only be once per day instead of multiple times throughout the day until homefront stuff is more managaeable to return to checking multiple times throughout the day.
I hope everything goes well.
Homefront is the main front - make sure to keep that one running smooth :)
S%$@.
I am terribly sorry to hear that - my condolences to you and your family...
Indeed, my condolences
I cannot begin to properly express how sorry I am for your loss.
No Thanksgiving this side of the Atlantic, but hope you guys had a good time with family.
Thanksgiving in Canada is in October, not November.
When some WWE stars did an episode of The Weakest Link, Booker T answered "October" to the question, "Which month is Thanskgiving in?" There were at least 3 Canadian wrestlers on that episode. The British host should have been voted off as the weakest link when she told Booker T he was the weakest link for his 'wrong' answer. It was disappointing that none of the Canadian wrestlers pointed out that there was no "American" or "Canadian" qualifier in the question, so Booker T was not wrong.
Canadian Thanksgiving was the first Thanksgiving (1578) while the first one to occur in the U.S.A. was 1621.
Had over all nearby family, plus some very close friends. Ate far too much, and watched toddlers run around like crazy people. It was a great time. :)
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Thanksgiving in Canada is in October, not November.
When some WWE stars did an episode of The Weakest Link, Booker T answered "October" to the question, "Which month is Thanskgiving in?" There were at least 3 Canadian wrestlers on that episode. The British host should have been voted off as the weakest link when she told Booker T he was the weakest link for his 'wrong' answer. It was disappointing that none of the Canadian wrestlers pointed out that there was no "American" or "Canadian" qualifier in the question, so Booker T was not wrong.
Canadian Thanksgiving was the first Thanksgiving (1578) while the first one to occur in the U.S.A. was 1621.
Why does Canada celebrate Thanksgiving in October, always been curious
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Canada (Second Monday in October)
Earlier harvest: Canada's colder climate means the harvest season concludes sooner, so celebrating in October aligns with the gathering of crops.
Official date: The date was officially set by the Canadian Parliament in 1957 to the second Monday in October to acknowledge the end of the harvest.
Historical roots: While influenced by American Thanksgiving, it is also rooted in European harvest festivals and a 1578 celebration of Martin Frobisher's safe return to North America.
United States (Fourth Thursday in November)
Historical event: American Thanksgiving is strongly linked to the 1621 feast shared by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, which occurred after the harvest.
Established date: It was officially declared a national holiday by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, and the date was later set by Congress to the fourth Thursday of November.
Later season: The November date reflects the later harvest season in many parts of the United States.
Hey Critzible, I think it was a good effort in trying to run this one, but I guess we lost momentum and now it is dead in the water :/
Most players are not posting anymore it seems, and you are understandably not moving the game forward. I get that of course.
So thank you for another attempt at running an old-school game (I have been with you in a few by now), but I guess these are fated to failure here on the Paizo forums.
I am officially bowing out, and hope to see you around the boards all. Take care!
Argh!
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Hey Critzible, I think it was a good effort in trying to run this one, but I guess we lost momentum and now it is dead in the water :/
Most players are not posting anymore it seems, and you are understandably not moving the game forward. I get that of course.
So thank you for another attempt at running an old-school game (I have been with you in a few by now), but I guess these are fated to failure here on the Paizo forums.
I am officially bowing out, and hope to see you around the boards all. Take care!
Yeah I think its easier to do Pathfinder and 5e here. Might have to look into that.
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Speaking of 5e I was wondering if a Gesalt-type campaign would work.
Might move into something with that. As I think that may work. As I need something more narrative and less rules-heavy I am learning that that sort of RP works better here.
I keep trying the old methods I am not used to for a TTRPG, and should work more with collaborative like a text-based RPG.
It took way too many failed starts to get to this idea.
Gonna try to figure out what sort of story I want to tell and seek recruits. AS well as Ideas about 5e Gesalts
Gestalt is always fun, regardless of edition. In general, each character is about 1.5x character strength.
If the issue here is 2e…why not pick this story up with 5e gestalt rules instead? I’d happily just use Bharaz for that.
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Its more my style needs up dated, I keep trying a in person table style instead of the text based one. Probably trying to add the rules jars me. Which is weird I can play pbp just fine, its the DMing.
I can keep a similar concept as this one and rebuild.
If you guys are fine with that and put this on a small hiatus. If you are interested in a 5e gesalt.
I am good with converting our characters to D&D 5E gestalt characters.
I have played 5E (not via PBP yet) and have never played a 5E gestalt character.
Critzible: Should we stick with 1st level for our characters when we re-create them as 5E gestalts?
Do not be surprised if I have a working (sans gear maybe) 5E gestalt Tommy Body posted before the new year begins. :)
To work in the backstory of why our specific characters might have been chosen to travel across the sea to look for new land for some of our people back home to migrate to, I think us being already established (higher than 1st level) adventurers back home makes in-game sense.
If I recall correctly (sans human having an option at 1st level) the first level that (non-multiclassed) PCs gain the option to gain a feat in 5E is 4th level.
Maybe 4th level (at a minimum) for our converted PCs, which allows more tailoring for our characters (by having option to work at least one feat into character's abilities/backstory before traveling across the sea).
I have never played 5E, and I don't intend to start now.
Can the DM please just mark my PC as inactive in this game please?
I will make a request that for 5E we use the original 5E book, not the 2024 one (so that it is easier for some of us who do not have the new 2024 edition.
Aside buying a few 5E books, Wizards lost me as a consistent product purchaser (while TSR still owned the company: I have all the BECMI main 5 boxed sets, Wrath of the Immortals boxed set, all the creature crucibles and gazetteers). At one time I had the entire collection of the 2nd Edition brown-soft cover backed 'Complete' players books). Wizards bought the rights and made 3rd edition. In addition to the three main hard cover books, I had all (except very few) entire hardcover books of 3.0 and 3.5 as well as the soft-covered rules books. I continued with 4th edition, buying all the players books, up to at least Players Handbook 3, even though overall I did not play/run much 4E (though the system works so much better for a miniatures game rules set than the official miniatures rules set they put out during 3.5). But during the age of 4E it became evident from their sample new 'D&D cards' that clearly had an icon in the corner of the cards with a rarity color-coding - as a forwarning they were going to try to make D&D (like Pokemon and Magic) into a game that had a 'pay to win' element to it. That was when I stopped regularly supporting the company that received a sizeable 'tithe' from my paycheques for the better part of 2 decades.
Apologies for the mini-rant. Now you know why I am not going to be buying any more Wizards D&D products.
If we stay with this overall campaign...but just move it to 5e gestalt...then lvl1 or 4 I could see it working.
I'd love to keep Bharaz. I enjoyed writing up his backstory and the setting. What I would likely do is this:
Rolled: 17/16/16/15/15/12
Race: Mountain Dwarf (well...sundered. But I suppose here it just means that his clan were mountain dwarves who lost their home. That is cultural, not racial)
Stats: Str: 16+2=18
Dex: 12
Con: 16+2=18
Int: 15
Wis: 15
Cha: 17
Gestalt 1: Celestial Patron Warlock, Pact of the Blade
- He gained his power via taking up his hammer. This *feels* like that.
- Gains healing pool, and healing spells. Keeps that 'cleric-y' feel
- Gives him Wis+Cha saving throw proficiency
Gestalt 2: Oath of Devotion Paladin
- Real "holy warrior vibe"
- Double up on healing
- Cha to all saves at lvl 6, which is better than proficiency. Even though warlock and paladin both share Wis+Cha, thus making saves worse until that lvl 6 mark is hit.
Or Gestalt 2: Eldritch Knight Fighter
- Pairs well with the warlock
- Has different kinds of spells
- Much better "Gish" feel
Something along those lines. Will wait to really figure it out once I find out what exactly we are doing. Much can change based on build rules and what lvl we start at.
Sounds good. As I love building characters, please let me know when you've got the build rules down. That way I can happily theory craft. :)
Here is a link to Tommy Boyd's 5E build.
It currently (as I type this) does not have the ranger class features gained spoiler completed yet.
Tommy's beast companion will be a (Tibetian) Mastiff, which is a large livestock-guardian dog breed.
which are the largest livestock guardian dog breeds?
I kept the following in mind when building him: a farmer (and brewer) who wants to keep his livestock safe from predators and enjoys entertaining the children (and adults) of the village. Events and circumstance made him into an adventurer. Once the adventurers have succeeded in founding a new settlement for a mass emigation of some back home, he returns to keeping his livestock safe and entertaining the children (and adults) of the settlement he helped to found (which he is much better at doing since before he became an adventurer, through the magic he is capable of casting).
Tommy was a farmer (goats, chickens, wheat fields) that was good at tracking the footprints of predators (wolves, foxes, coyotes) that attacked the animals of his and surrounding farms. He stood alone when a dire wolf was attacking one of his neighbor's cattle.
Defining event: He stood alone against a terrible monster (he scared off a dire wolf that was attacking a neighbor's cattle with the flame of a torch while the rest of the farmers fled) and became a folk hero.
Afterwards he was inducted into the plains circle of druids that included his village within the lands they protect and roam.
Some fun (and useful to the party) entries from his character build (up to 20th level)
Starting gear:
brewer's supplies, shovel, iron pot, set of common clothes, belt pouch containing 10 gold, sling, sickle, leather armor, explorer's pack, druidic focus.
His 10 gold pieces from the folkhero background for: herbalism kit (5 gold), one male goat (1 gold), three Nubian milking goats (3 gold), 24 hens (48 copper), 1 pound of salt (5 copper), 1 pound of flour (2 copper), 1 pound of wheat (1 copper); leaving Tommy with 4 silver & 4 copper
note: Without a rooster, each chicken will provide 1 egg every day (24 to 26 hours) that is safe to eat. Tommy will see about acquiring a rooster after he makes a new homestead.
note: A Nubian milking goat will produce 1 gallon of rich, creamy milk per day
note: Working with six PCs in the party, that is (when not used for Tommy's cooking/brewing) a half gallon of milk per day for each PC and 4 eggs per day for each PC.
15th level:
additional spell typically added to prepared spell list: antipathy/sympathy (great for keeping wolves away from the livestock)
18th level:
additional spell typically added to prepared spell list: animal shapes (In addition to the usefulness of this spell while aventuring, Tommy also uses it to put on fun plays with the children (and adults) of the settlement he helped found, as well as a teaching method to teach the children (and adults) about different animals (to educate them about which animals are ones to avoid (predators) and which ones are safe to approach.)
19th level:
Actor feat (+1 to Cha, making it 18, He has advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Performance) checks when trying to pass himself off as a different person. He can mimic the speech of another person or the sounds made by other creatures. He must have heard the person speaking or heard the creature make the sound, for at least 1 minute. A successful Wisdom (Insight) check contested by his Charisma (Deception) check allows a tistener to determine thatthe effect is faked.
Tommy uses the Actor feat to put on plays for the children (and adults) of the settlement he helped found, mimicking the voices and mannerisms of his old adventuring companions.
additional spell typically added to prepared spell list: shapechange (Tommy makes use of this spell when putting on shows for the children (and adults) of the settlement he helped to found, to change into the characters (including his adventuring companions) and creatures that were part of their adventures. He wears an oversized robe (that can fit dwarves and humans) while putting on a show, so the show stays G-rated for the children of the audience.)
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Switching to Nentir Vale.
Easier gazetteer to work with, using the default gods of 5e, aka gods like Avandra, Asmodeus, Raven Queen, ect,
Hammerfast is where most of the dwarves come from, you all probably came form outside it. Seeking to settle the lands that have not been claimed in hundreds of years
I will allow you to change races if you wish,
5e not 5.5 just 5e
allowing xorw, Xanathar, and Tashas
only races from the core. So Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, Humans, Teiflings, Dragonkin, Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, Halflings