Royce the Orphan's page

yep

Still here.

Did you see those CRs? We'll be murdered. The Heartless Queen is someone we work towards, not tackle right off the bat.

Royce speaks Aklo.

I don't really care where we're from as long as it's somewhere that could have a "dark forest with a broken tower in it" nearby.

GM, can you give us an idea of where our characters are from and some ideas of where we'll be starting.

I think we should come up with a few ideas of how each of us might know a couple of the other party members.

Being one of the young one, I was thinking Royce and Emmy might know each other, possibly having grown up in the same town and known each other before they were each cursed/changed.

I was also thinking that Arwyne might have been the one to show Royce how to get to the old tower where he met the Shadow Lady.

I prefer any name that's easy to type. :)

Setting up the gameplay thread for us to dot will help us track updates easier.

Protip: Dotting the gameplay thread, and then deleting your post, keeps the thread clean but the site will still count the post so it will show up in your campaigns tab.

I'm done with the exception of my tale feat and campaign trait which I'm still waiting on.

Same here. I have some ideas, but I figure I'll wait until sunday's selection before grinding those edges off.

I'm… just here.

@Royce: It's like you're secretly incredibly sadistic and you think no one knows.

I know.

That would be because you can spot your own. There isn't a creature anywhere that can out-sadist a cat.

Speaking of which, Royce, you're almost certainly going to be called a demon child at some point or another. Good boys should be out playing tag or with their mothers, not orphaned and creepy.

Baseline difficulty to notice anything strange about Royce: Perception DC 22 (to beat my average Disguise), followed by Sense Motive DC 18 (to beat my passive Bluff from Childlike).

Someone might notice something odd about Royce eventually, but if they do it tells me that they are people worth being concerned about. It's like an auto-filter for high level NPCs. :)

Good lord, what happened in this thread? There's been almost 200 replies today!

Something I've been thinking about as this has progressed that might be worth considering:

When RVT first pitched this game the idea was that we would be playing in a rather oppressed/oppressive setting kinda like ravenloft with a less 'gothic' and more 'fairy tale' theme to it's horror.

The intended party seemed to be (fairly) ordinary people (with the exception of monkeygod's fae character).

Looking at things now, we have quite a few completed submissions that would probably have townsfolk going for torches and pitchforks.

Please don't take this as a personal criticism. I'm just concerned about losing the intended themes of the story under the flood of intersting-but-strange character concepts.

It might be a good thing if the inhuman characters tried to include some way of at least passing for human when needed. Hats of Disguise are pretty cheap and could be re-flavored as just about anything.

Weird to think I might be one of the normal ones...

Royce covers the rogue roll. He has trap finding and rogue-y skills. He's just a lot more dangerous in combat than your average rogue.

Checking in and ready to go.

I left Royce's background and storyhook intentionally vague so he can be easily worked into whatever starting premise RVT comes up with.

Royce will eventually be a Shadowdancer. The lady in his backstory who caused him to become one of the Booged will be staying with him (as his shadow), and eventually manifest as his Shadow Companion. For now she's just flavor.

preliminary backstory up

Doomed Hero here. This is the basic outline of my character. I decided to go with the Swashbuckler rather than the Brawler since Aldrah already expressed interest in that class.

Full write up to come soon.