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Good luck everyone!

Hot Theadora’s stat block up! I just need to finish purchases and do another pass-through on everything and she’s totally done!

Hello, dears!

Sorry to be a late addition, but I just noticed this recruitment yesterday. I’ve got a character in the works who is mostly done aside from her stat block. You can find her profile here. Regarding the mechanics, she is an arcane duelist bard and has the Pathfinder Exile as her trait. I expect to get the rest of her stats finished today.

Happy to have you!

Aha, then we are on the same page! Sounds like we are all good as I’m concerned :D

Hi there! This is Abella’s player. Thanks for throwing your hat in.

Roll20 is great with me. I GM on it myself.

I’m with you on most things, though I do have some concerns about being loose with the rules. I’ve had GMs just decide in the middle of a combat that a prepared player spell doesn’t work because they don’t like it, and that was supremely frustrating. I like a collaborative atmosphere, and will do whatever is in my power to contribute to that. I will regularly make GMs aware ahead of time of weird abilities or things I know they will be unfamiliar with so that they have an opportunity to make rulings then. Essentially, I can be okay with things shifting, but I prefer a warning.

All of that said, it’s just a concern, and I certainly don’t want to deny us a game over it. I just want to let you know where I’m at

I have a character concept that I think would here. I’ll think on it and see what I come up with

Had a busy weekend but I should finish Palladia’s purchases tonight! She’ll be completely done and ready to go then

Updated Palladia with most of the stat block. I'll finalize the rest of her purchases and double check for any errors over the next few days.

The point isn't to keep everyone at full. It's to keep everyone alive and active enough that they can keep doing their own damage. Smoothing the curve out, so to speak. Part of being a dedicated healer is also maintaining the ability to clear conditions, which can make a huge difference in action economy for your party as a whole.

If you are playing enemies as making choices primarily based motivations and self-preservation instincts, then it's even less necessary, as no one in-universe is going to be thinking in terms of "aha, they are healing 15 DPR but I can do 25 DPR so it's only a matter of time before I win!" With realistic motivations, it can take a lot out of an enemy to see that their powerful, tide-swinging blow was minimized or completely erased, even if the GM knows that they can probably keep swinging that sword longer than their enemy can keep up that kind of healing.

I really like roleplaying romance, since I'm a big fan of the whole genre. In theory. I haven't actually played in any games where it came up, I don't think. XD

I've got a couple going atm. One with an NPC from the character's background (her best friend growing up that she could never admit she had feelings for) and the other with another PC that just started. It's quite fun! I hope you get more of that yourself <3

The funny thing is, if healing worked more like fighting, and was more feasible during combat (I've only played 1E, just as a disclaimer), it might be pretty fun to play more healers. Diving through the fray to heal a comrade is just about as exciting and expressive as doing so to attack someone, since it has the added "directly saving colleagues' lives" angle that always makes for juicy RP.

I never agreed with the common wisdom that 1e healing is bad or suboptimal. I did all of Mummy's Mask with a 4 person party that included a completely dedicated healer (spirit guide life/life oracle) and he made it so much easier. I'm playing a healer in Tyrant's Grasp and I also have zero complaints. I think the issue is more that most people just really do not feel the way you (and I) do that healing someone in the fray is as exciting for them.

Totally in the same place as KC and Liliya. My comfort zone for characters is strong, charismatic, heavily-armored lady with a romantic streak and a little bit of magic. Works super well for PbP. And I took just enough fencing and longsword that I can write the martial aspect half-proficiently.

The link to my submission profile in the other recruitment thread was broken but should be fixed now!

Alrighty, here's all the background, appearance, personality, and character prompt stuff for my submission. I just need to finalize the stat block and I can post it, too.

I’d definitely be interested in playing, too. Only in 1st ed though

You know, I’ve been wanting to try playing a starfinder AP, and this seems like a good opportunity. I have a concept based on Athena from Borderlands that I’ll play around with

Good luck everyone!

I usually save goofy concepts for organized play, since I know I won't get much time to flesh them out for each table of new people. Part of the fun of PbP for me is the opportunity to have a character with a fleshed-out inner life and a long-term arc. What works best for me is to find various tensions I want to focus on with the character and play with them as the game continues and various elements push and pull them in different directions. Briar is in tension between her desire to be good to other people and live a happy life and her chosen path of revenge, for example. I find it keeps my interest a hell of a lot better on the multi-year commitment of a play-by-post game.

So many skills to take, so few skill points - and I've got 6+Int per level!

This is always my problem. Part of the issue is that the character concepts with lots of skill points NEED all those skills to fulfill the fantasy of playing them. The image of a vigilante needs to be kinda good at everything. But also, I just love skill points :D It's part of why I keep making characters with the evangelist prestige class hehe

Alrighty I decided to submit! I believe I have finished tweaking her for your game’s starting requirements. Here I present Briar. Let me know if I’m missing anything or there are any questions!

Oh this is very tempting! I have a character from a game that’s currently on hiatus that would be perfect for the Pamodae’s Catspaw trait. I will muse on the subject and see what I decide

I’m waiting for when y’all find me, else I would give it a go myself

Tewa has been ready for a bit. I did as I usually do and made her in hero forge for fun. I’m particularly happy about how her face turned out!

*waves* good to see you, too!

Hi there! I’m one of the other possible new people. Here’s who I would be playing: Tewa She.

Worked a bit more on Abella last night. Necromancy specialist wizard with fighter dedication because I had my heart set on a rapier. Fetchling with tiefling heritage. I was wondering if perhaps I could flavor the claw from Form of the Fiend as a golden skeletal arm?

Ianthe once just attached another person's arm to her stump because she needed one in the middle of a fight, so I would say Risky Surgery sounds like something she'd be up for.

Pharasmins would be a great contrast, as the main inspiration I'm drawing on would be Ianthe Tridentarius from The Locked Tomb trilogy. A caustic, superior exterior but ultimately more of a follower than a leader, happy to just tag along and make snarky comments while she does her own thing.

In between writing, I had a blast of inspiration, and I think I'd like to do a fetchling wizard

Hey everyone! Thanks again for the invite! As I told Henderdoug, I have a big writing deadline Tuesday, so I probably won't have much time to work on a character until after that. Nevertheless, I will be keeping an eye on the thread and musing on options in free time when I get the chance.

After spending some time putting Genevieve together, I think I’m gonna shift her class to slayer. Can get the familiar with feats and slayer fits the concept better. Still gonna be a trapfinder once she picks up the talent at 2

Money: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 4, 3) = 12

Name: Genevieve and Hayseed
Race: Human
Class: Genevieve: Rogue (carnivalist, scout), Hayseed: Raven (ambadassador)
Campaign Trait: Reformed Bandit
Motivation: Genevieve was once an archetypal princess trapped in a tower out in the wilderness of the River Kingdoms near Embeth by a witch. When nobody came to rescue her, she took matters into her own hands and started working her way down the tower’s monster-filled levels with a mixture of luck, tenacity, the help of her tiny fey friend Hayseed, and a heck of a lot of of spider poison. Now, she can hardly go back to being a princess after all that rough and tumble—particularly since she doesn’t even know where she’s a princess *of*—so she’s trying her hand at the one thing she knows she isn’t bad at: fighting monsters in dungeons. Having difficulty finding an appropriate dungeon, she has made due for the past year as a bandit. Hayseed, who is now her girlfriend/agent, was recently off in the First World facing disciplinary action for dereliction of duty (“Your job is to make buttercups reflect on the chins of people who like butter, NOT assisting the idle rich in disputes with local herbalists!”) and has been demoted to a raven until such a time that she proves herself worthy of returning to feydom, whatever that means.
Background Skills:
Craft (weapons) and Craft (armor). Genevieve had to teacher herself how to produce her own weapons and protection from what she found and fought in the forty-flight tower she was trapped in.

@GM I have a concept that’s forming that overlaps between Slide and Spider. I’ have to look at the rules more closely to see which fits better. Also, where can I find more information about the setting? It will help me get a bit more grounded.

@Itzi I am a romantic at heart. My character will assuredly be a gay (possibly trans) woman like her player so that will have to be kept in mind of course!

@WW I am surprised all the time! I usually don’t know what my next post will be like in any but the vaguest terms until I actually write it, and even then it may change. I have to maintain a certain fluidity to react to other PCs and NPCs in a natural manner, after all. To go back to my earlier example, I came up with Val because I knew I wanted to play someone who was worldly, outgoing, who likes adventure and anything that makes her feel good, and who would rather do than act but most of the details as to how those are expressed were left unwritten. I discovered she doesn’t actually enjoy killing because it does not make her feel good about herself. I also discovered she hated having to live under an assumed identity because it meant she had to hold herself at a distance. She only enjoys trickery when it’s a game, not when it’s work. What interests me most about characters (and people in general) are contradictions and understanding the source of them. And I need established traits to build those off of.

@Wandering Wastrel I appreciate the feedback. Nevertheless, I prefer to have a more solid idea starting out for a few reasons. First, a game is a commitment and I want to make sure I will be enjoying the character I am playing. Second, I play my characters more like a writer than like an actor. I plan and project and pace. I start with a general idea of where the character’s arc would go, but leave the details to be played out with plenty of room for just listening to where the story takes me. I am directing the character, not embodying them.

For example, my rise of the runelords character is a woman of high society and former party girl in Magnimar who is on the run because she was framed for murdering her children by her husband (I was loosely inspired by Medea). She has an alcohol problem, is
in denial about being in love with her best friend Sapphira, wants to clear her name, wants to kill her husband, and she has some self-loathing and guilt she needs to get past. How and when these issues come up in her story are to be determined, and some may get far more play than others. I tend to make up lots of details as I go along, but the general topics I’m interested in having the character deal with are there. I have a graduate degree in writing and am working on finishing my first novel right now, so it’s just how I work. Play-by-post is one of the methods I use to practice writing something creative everyday.

Mature Themes
I'm also good with mature themes. I have seen all-too-well what people would subject me as a woman gamer to, so you have no worries there. If something does come up that crosses a line, I will say something. If I do, it's not meant to be personal; it's about the behavior. I dislike grudges and ultimately just want everyone to have a good time.

Classes
I tend to come up with a concept first and then mechanics for it, so I wouldn't commit to any one of them until I have something solidified. That said, certain *types* of characters tend to appeal to me, and those would roughly map to Cutter, Slide, and Spider. I'll start musing on a concept.

Crew
I could see potentially enjoying almost all of them. I'm not much of a saleswoman so hawker is less interesting to me, and I have a hard time imagining a cult I would actually enjoy playing in. Lovecraftian cults do not interest me and I have a hard time playing fanatical characters. My only one plays that aspect of her personality more for comedy and it's a good deity.

Howdy, y’all. *waves at fighting chicken* I should hopefully have an opportunity to look over stuff in detail this evening.

I’d consider applying for Ironfang Invasion, inspiration permitting of course

Agreed <3 Wishing our dear GM the best

Hmm Curse of the Crimson Throne is on the wishlist, and I do love skilled characters. I shall have to deliberate on this and see if inspiration hits

1. How experienced are you with PFS2/2e/pbp so far (I'm mostly just curious but try and include at least 1 new player in all my low level pbps)

I’ve been doing PbP for the better part of a decade. Longest running game is going to be 6 years this fall

2. Something awesome about yourself.

I have the most amazing wife in the world and I’m the luckiest woman in the world to have them in my life!

3. I like recruiting players rather than characters but I would like bit of info on the character you're most interested in bringing. A brief bit of description/background/mechanics is plenty.

Genevieve was once an archetypal princess trapped in a tower out on the Fogfen by a witch. When nobody came to rescue her, she took matters into her own hands and started working her way down the tower’s monster-filled levels with a mixture of luck, tenacity, and the help of her tiny fey friend Hayseed. Now, she can hardly go back to being a princess after all that rough and tumble—particularly since she doesn’t even know where she’s a princess *of*—so she’s trying her hand at the one thing she knows she isn’t bad at: fighting monsters in dungeons. Hayseed, who is now her girlfriend/agent, is off in the First World facing disciplinary action for dereliction of duty (“Your job is to make buttercups reflect on the chins of people who like butter, NOT assisting the idle rich in disputes with local herbalists!”) and is currently not with her.

Mechanically, she’s a human rogue with the ruffian racket. She’ll be taking the familiar master archetype for Hayseed, who will get “demoted” to a raven, at least for the time being

Hmm not super big on dungeon crawls but I’ll make an exception for players/GMs I like. Only perhaps the bare beginnings of a character idea at best atm though, so I’m going to muse on it

Alrighty, I've got a concept! Just gotta write up her backstory.

Color me intrigued. Let’s see if I can come up with someone interesting

I have two concepts that are foremost in my mind: a Lastwall paladin who communicates primarily through books she’s read, or a tiefling sorceress based on Cio from Kill Six Billion Demons. I’ve played versions of both of them in PFS and think I would be happy playing them for a whole AP

EDIT: Wow, I'm looking at the player's guide and my paladin's story hooks already fit really well into it. I think that puts in me in the "definitely leaning to her" category

I don't know if Tove will be courting anyone yet, but she's more the kind to find a worthy person follow and stick by them.

I'm going half-orc and would prefer the more traditional table

I won’t be sticking around if you are trying for a huge table, and I will seriously consider jetting if you want to try to link up tables. The former just sounds like a way to have little party cohesion and will make people even more competitive for kingdom roles. I’ve seen the latter kill campaigns and I have no interest in trying it again.

Main: 10 + 2d4 ⇒ 10 + (3, 4) = 17<
Main: 10 + 2d4 ⇒ 10 + (4, 4) = 18<
Main: 10 + 2d4 ⇒ 10 + (2, 4) = 16
Median: 10 + 1d6 ⇒ 10 + (3) = 13<
Median: 10 + 1d6 ⇒ 10 + (6) = 16<
Median: 10 + 1d6 ⇒ 10 + (2) = 12
Subpar: 14 - 1d6 ⇒ 14 - (5) = 9
Subpar: 14 - 1d6 ⇒ 14 - (5) = 9<
Subpar: 14 - 1d6 ⇒ 14 - (3) = 11<

Got a skald concept I'll finish writing up

Color me intrigued. I actually have a couple of concepts that would work for this and I know the players are good :D

I'll see if I have time to pull something together