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Fighter 1 [b]HP[b] 13/13; [b]AC[b] 16, T 10, FF 16; [b]CMD[b] 14; F +4, R +0, W +0 (+2 v Enchantment); [b]Init[b] +2, [b]Per[b]+5
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Welcome! I've been wanting to start a PbP for a while and some great work by DM Papa here helped me settle on the Reign of Winter.
Without more delay, here we go:
I'm looking for 6 people to join me on a mythically enhanced version of the Reign of Winter Adventure path. This is more than the AP calls for, but I want to build in some resistance against people having to leave due to unforseen problems. When the party is large, I will adjust the encounters to maintain the challenge level. If we lose too many people, I'll have to re-recruit but I'd like to avoid that as much as possible because of the delay it would cause in play.
My goal as the GM is to provide a fun and challenging play experience. I hope to find players who value role play as well as roll play and want to stick with the AP for the long haul. I can certainly see why Reign of Winter is considered a difficult AP and I want to play the NPCs in an intelligent way. I will also include some content Mythic Adventures, at about the rate of 1 mythic tier per book. If you are unfamiliar with this AP, go here.
Posting and interactivity - once a day during the week and once over the weekend is what I would call a minimum. My goal is twice a day - once early in the day and once later in the evening. If you want to post more, I'll do what I can to move faster.
Combat:
- I will roll initiative for everybody involved and post initiative order when a combat begins. You can post your actions in any order and I will execute them according to initiative in a summary post for the round.
- Post all appripriate dice rolls with appropriate labels in your posts. So, attack and damage rolls if you are using a melee weapon, plus critical confirmation and critical damage rolls if you score a critical threat.
- Casters, please include the DC requirement and save type when you cast the spell.
- If you need to coordinate tactics, please do it in the discussion thread.
Character Mechanics:
19 point buy - Please avoid obvious stat dumping.
Races - Any Paizo published is fine, but I have a preference for core races. If you want to use a featured or ARG race, your backstory and character creation should be more compelling than average.
Classes & Archetypes - Any Paizo published and released is fine. The Advanced class guide isn't final yet, so I'm saying *NO* to that right now. Also no on 3PP material.
2 traits - one must be from the Player's guide, available here. If you really want a drawback and a third trait I won't stop you but I will try to abuse your drawback in the game.
Starting Wealth - Average gold per class + 25GP. See the note below about supplies.
Character history - Write a background. It should explain why you are in Heldren and your starting class, traits, and feats. I want to like (or hate as is appropriate) your character and see them as more than just a stat block.
Mythic Path - You don't need to declare your path now, but be thinking about it. The Mythic Ascention will happen fairly early.
Miscallaneous rules, questions, and comments:
- There is no common or undercommon language. Common is replaced with Taldane if you are from the Inner Sea or Tien if you are from Tien-Xia and Undercommon is replaced with the racial languages of the races who live there. This is important when you get to places where Taldane is not commonly spoken.
- Hit points as PFS rules.
- Firearms by the Emerging Guns rules.
- Summoners: Once you spend points from your evolution pool, they are fixed. If you want to buy something that costs more points than you get in one level, you will need to save points for several levels. This also changes the rule that says evolution points cannot be saved. I can give more examples if you fall in this case.
- Any alignment is OK by me but you must be able to play well with others.
- No retraining. Make your choices wisely the first time.
- I plan on tracking supplies and consumables closely. Make sure you have food, water, enough arrows, and all that sort of gear.
- I own the following books: Core Rule Book, Advanced Players Guide, Ultimate Combat, Ultimate Campaign, Ultimate Magic, Inner Sea Magic, Inner Sea World Guide, Lands of the Linnorn Kings, Adventurers Armory, Cheliax Empire of Devils, Irrisen - Land of Eternal Winter, Dwarves of Golarion, Faiths of Corruption, Orcs of Golarion, Mythic Adventures, Varisia: Birthplace of Legends, People of the North. If you want to use someting not on this list, I will want to see the text from your copy of the book or PDF. I won't give it away or copy it or anything like that but there are lots of small details not available on the various web resources.
Extra credit: In character apps and/or role play with other people in the recruitment thread will get you extra consideration.
The last thing: I want to pick the most interesting or eye-catching characters that get presented here. I will make very little effort at party balance. Once the game gets started, you'll need to either find ingenious ways to overcome challenges, ask some of the characters to multi-class. I'd like to think this is part of the fun.
Recruitment opens now. I would like to keep apps open until about 1/22. Once apps close, I will ask everybody to PM me your two favorite characters. I'll use this player feedback in my selection. Once I get everything tabulated, I will announce my preferred picks by 1/29 with the intent of starting the AP by the first of Feb.
Questions, comments, or criticisms are welcome. I will check the thread periodically to answer questions, post updates, and the like.
Good luck to everybody and remember to bring your snowshoes!
