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Yeah, it's been a week, what's the status?

Anyone else amused by the irony of someone named SkeletonBait playing a character leery of the undead?

What irony? I'm bait for skeletons because my character beats them up. It makes thematic sense ~

I guess that works. My character will still be really leery of anything that makes the dead get up and walk around, but I guess it could be bluffed out of.

Hello. I would like to add my character to the list of submitted characters. He is an Altmer Necromancer, who has performed the Rite of Unlife to become a Lich. I am relatively inexperienced with the system, and assumed that they would allow for the same amount of Characteristic Advances as Dark Heresy. In addition to this, I used Point-Buy to build his characteristics. I can easily redo these things if anything is found to be disagreeable by you. I respect your decisions as to the chosen four, and if I am not among them, I have no problem with your choice. However, I would prefer to be among them. This link should hopefully work, but requires an account on 4shared. If you do not know how to use 4shared, once you have an account you only need to click on the 'download' button, then choose the option for a free download and wait for 20 seconds. The link is to an edited editable character sheet, as given in the same Mediafire folder as the Core-book and Supplements. If the link does not work, merely alert me, and I shall change it to something else as soon as I can. Thank you for reading my message. I hope that you have a good day.

http://www.4shared.com/office/mHGjafF_ce/UESRPG_2e_-_Character_Sheet_v1.htm l

It's the DM's call, but I can't help but feel like playing a lich will somehow be disruptive to the rest of the party. At the very least, my argonian will immediately see it as an abomination to be destroyed, so...y'know, maybe invest in some illusion spells/a paper bag.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HUKTZ-E3JJMBZ3ZPLSItbv7Trkqf8gf4xJtzf7O xEbQ/edit?usp=sharing

I done goofed. Try this one.

EDIT: Paizo is doing weird stuff with links. It puts a space into the url. Take out the space and it works fine.

http://pastebin.com/G6A2wQPt
Breton sheet: pastebin edition

In fact, I think I'll fiddle around with my stats a little, if i don't have to spend on luck.

Revised sheet: http://pastebin.com/cAaqsmw9

Now I can get Crippling Strikes without having to pay a ton of extra XP to boost my strength first. Should be handy.

EDIT: A friend of mine is interested in joining, but cannot into paizo's forums. here's his character sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HUKTZ-E3JJMBZ3ZPLSItbv7Trkqf8gf4xJtzf7O xEbQ/edit

SkeletonBait wrote:

I hope I'm calculating luck correctly. It seems like it starts at 1, but I can't quite find the rules supporting that.

Luck is calculated this way:

Starts at 30, add 2d10 (or buy it up using points from the 90-point buy) for everyone. Page 28 of the PDF, under Rolling Characteristic Scores, second paragraph.

Starts at 30, for real? That seems insanely high...

Ah, yeah, it does say it though. Words it really weird, but there it is. Welp, Xa's luck should be exactly 30 higher, then.

During character creation do I spend half the Crp on my favored Skills or does this apply only to post character creation when I will be spending XP?

I'm like 90% certain that XP = CrP in all cases, except that XP can't be spent on certain things, such as Luck or starting cash.

Yay, DM returns. I had a question earlier if you missed it:

unarmed parrying doesn't actually negate damage from armed attacks, it only gives a chance to remove special effects from the opponent/allows for defensive SFX like any other parry. Is there going to be a houserule where unarmed parrying does negate damage? Perhaps with a talent I can get later? Or should I just use evade if I want to go on the defensive? It's not a huge deal - my evade is only 10 less than my weapon skill, and if push comes to shove I can always just use a staff or something, but I figured I'd ask beforehand.

So what are the powers of Dragonborn supposed to be because Second ED doesn't specify

Will it be just instant learn shouts with Dragonsouls and instant Thu'um mastery/less penalties or something?

The Arcane Arts Supplement has a section on Thu'um use.

Never said that all of ESO lore is crap, I played it for couple of months before quiting from boredoom, some of the lore is okay.

Still when they did s~@~ like wildhunt looking like red werevolves I got buttmad as f+$$.

Haha, yeah. It really, really looks like they thought the bosmer wild hunt and the hircine wild hunt was the same thing, and merged them into some twisted abomination.

Almalexia getting kicked out of her own temple by some mid-tier daedra cultist with no real background was what rustled my jimmies the most, though. So dumb.

SkeletonBait wrote:

argonians are genderless until roughly puberty/maturity, which is why they don't get a name until then.

I am pretty sure that this lore is only mentioned in one book in TESO and even there writer is not sure, I might be completely wrong though since I'm no expert on Argonians.

It was hinted at pretty strongly before ESO, particularly in morrowind with Traveling-New-Woman. She licked the hist tree prematurely, and was soon after found doing 'something' with a boy from her nest. Also, the name New-Woman kind of all but outlines it. There are other interpretations, but it still seems the most likely. Why else would they wait until that specific age before giving them a name? Considering that most argonian names employ pronouns of some kind, it'd be awkward to give them a name at birth if they'd just have to change it later.

Also, not all ESO lore is crap. It seems like a really specific fact for them to just pull out of their butts.

Sounds legit, the Argonians are pretty much stated to be nonsapient reptiles that the hist uplift via their sap, all argonian newborns are supposedly fed this sap at birth so they're made more than lizards. (presumably expatriot populations are regularly give supplies of hist sap on a regular basis)

Not newborns - they get it when they're adolescents/on the cusp of adulthood. They're still largely humanoid even if they don't drink the sap, but the amount of sap they drink determines how humanoid they appear. If they drink less, or none at all, you get stuff like morrowind argonians who have been held in captivity and thus look much more reptilian.

Speaking of morrowind, fun fact: argonians are genderless until roughly puberty/maturity, which is why they don't get a name until then. Presumably they'll develop on their own over time, but the sap helps them develop much more naturally (hence why morrowind argonians are much harder to tell apart, gender-wise). This is what the morrowind manual means by life-phases. Contrary to popular belief, they don't actually switch genders or whatever.

EDIT: by the way, unarmed parrying doesn't actually negate damage from armed attacks, it only gives a chance to remove special effects from the opponent/allows for defensive SFX like any other parry. Is there going to be a houserule where unarmed parrying does negate damage? Perhaps with a talent I can get later? Or should I just use evade if I want to go on the defensive? It's not a huge deal - my evade is only 10 less than my weapon skill, and if push comes to shove I can always just use a staff or something, but I figured I'd ask beforehand.

(quick note: favored characteristics are agility and willpower. Forgot that pastebin doesn't show the colors I marked them with in Word)

It seems like just about every 'mythic' art is somehow sound-based. Thu'um, sword-singing, tonal architecture, voice of the emperor (if that counts). I was thinking the Argonian variant would be based less on sound and more on touch/vibration, effectively feeling motions in the soil, or ripples in water. And yeah, it's possible that the Tsaesci Kiai may have been co-opted/integrated into the martial art Xa-Raku uses. Though originally it was developed by one of his predecessors during the Arnesian war to help unarmed slaves defend themselves (there's no direct lore to support this, mind you, but you see plenty enough monks working for the Twin Lamps in morrowind, and there are real-life instances of enslaved cultures that did the same sort of thing).

sounds legit Skeletonbro, admittedly the only thing Argonians have going for them is their connection with the hist and outside of Black Marsh that's of limited use so making deals with daedra, getting an artifact, or engaging in an unusual skill set is the only way to get mythic. Argonian Kenshiro sounds pretty legit. Would you take healing abilities so you can ATATATA someone into good health?

I'm taking a bit of restoration already, yeah. I'll also be using fortify spells so that I can make my muscles tear through my shirt when it's thematically appropriate. We'll see if we can't figure out some wacky pressure point/quivering palm shenanigans with the DM.

Nice to see some folks jumping in, but I'll have to catch up on it soon.

Will not be able to post until the morning, just got engaged!

Aw yis. Amulet of Mara, works every time.

Anyways, here's my character: http://pastebin.com/BJQhZGui
Accompanying picture if you want: http://i.imgur.com/w8m2GrN.png

I hope I'm calculating luck correctly. It seems like it starts at 1, but I can't quite find the rules supporting that.

I didn't really have a specific plan for a 'mythic' power or esoteric art, namely because argonians aren't known for having one. He's a monk who reveres the cycle of life though, so if my character is going to be LDB-tier it'll probably be by way of tapping into either nature powers or the flow of life energies itself, to kind of disrupt the bodies of opponents, particularly the undead/unnatural.

Argonian Kenshiro, basically.

welp, Saturday and sunday are both for sure free all day for me. The rest of the week is also negotiable as long as it's not too late in the day PST, particularly mondays and thursdays.

I've got an argonian prepped for this. Did it in medium powerlevel and everything. I can pastebin like summ gai or try using the excel format on the mediafire.

Also, Play by Post is fine with me.