The Kobold Klan's page

*Bump*

I have Just decided to Poke everyone about this because i am likely to run this game

Howdy! now I want to be very clear Up front I am Just poking to Gauge interest in this setting, I Recently got myself the Humblewood Setting Book From Deck of Many.com, and am super interested in the setting. of course since this is online that's gonna limit my party to anyone who Payed the $30-40 for the Book. HOWEVER!!! I will Happily Provide access to a PDF(one you cant copy) to anyone interested in the setting but who is also Poor like many of my friends are.

For anyone not Familiar with Humblewood- it is a D&D 5e setting Based in a World where instead of elves, dwarves and such- there are instead Sentient animals Via the secret of Nym or something similar.

for the most part.... this is just an Intrest check.... that i really want to Run.... but with some very big things i need to adress:

1) I am currently in 2 games on here, as well as one on D20. meaning i have 3 games ongoing at this time. this means i might not have the time to Run a game like this(as a DM)

2)This is D&D 5e, which compared to my Knowledge of Pathfinder, is very limited(I have only played in 5e games and never DM'd one)

3)I am actually throwing this out more as a "Please will someone else run this for me and let me be a player" because i actually want to be a PLAYER more than a DM of this setting

SO! with that said! I am tossing this out into the Void in the hopes that someone else will see it and agree to run it....
if that doesnt work, I will of course try to run it myself! because the only way to get more familiar with a setting is to run it

Discussion dot

First off, i like to see most folks choose good as their alignment, That makes me picking a team that blends well super easy as well as giving me plenty of room to TRULY BE EVIL with my bad guys. as the planescape is a very Grey area on the chart of good and bad, it's more a game of law versus chaos setting, because the line between law and chaos is alot less grey than the line between good and evil.

but because most folks are Good, i can easily play with the good vs. Evil aspect- but here are my choices and why i choose them:

Bonehead @Origami Dog- 1) I love kobolds{yeah i am biased :P} 2) your background has a lot in it that i like, and when Picking a party A bard is an excellent place to start.

Believer @blue Dove- 1) this character is a beautiful Archetype of tormented soul, the teifling struggling against nature with one of my Favorite gods as your patrion- perfect 2) Mechanically we don't have many Tank characters, and frankly I will very much like to see how this character develops both mechanically as well as storywise.

This Last choice (yeah im only choosing 3 of ya) is actually quite difficult, alot of the remaining characters are very simular mechanically, or in the case of our one arcane character- are the only option. thing is I struggled to choose because I didnt want to choose a character just because thye where the only option, and neither did i want to have too many characters who where simular, i mean we have a bard, a Paladin/oracle, then most of the other options where melee divine builds, or Bloodragers.

but I decided to go with-
Rorx @Albion the eye 1) out of the remaining characters you have a very interesting backstory with a mix of darkness and light that will give me plenty of room to mold you as we lay out the story and forge a path through the planescape- as you learn how to control your powers and gain your Divinity and place among the gods.

with that i will Officially open up the Discussion in a moment, and would like you folks to report there where we can Discuss your builds, round out some corners, as well as explain to you what's happening at the start of the game so that you are not quite surprised when i throw you into a starting scene where all the enemies are significantly more powerful than you

oh! sorry for the Delays, some stuff came UP IRL, i got invited into some games on here myself, as well as one over on Roll20, so my schedule suddenly filled up unexpectedly and this fell to the wayside, HOWEVER! i dont intend to let this die here without at least trying to get it going! so Im here to officially close recruitment and Review the Finished submissions.

well, I havent Closed Recruitment Offically, I might give it a few more days if people are truely interested but just didnt see the recruitment

Also one question, Can we have crafted things for our starting equipment?

only if you don't craft them with a curse.

Just triple checking - starting wealth is 1000gp, correct?

yes, but you will be stripped and your equipment will be.... actually i wont spoil it- just know you wont have it at the start

Flaws for her powers, my bad, Make them removeable and linked, as they are linked to her being possessed by a Spirit, if the spirit is removed than most of her powers are removed

well, this is Black Fox so far, planning on doing some complications, so far all ihave is her powers and skills, and abilites, and advantages, I am planning on having her be a former Assassin imbued with the powers of a dark Fox Spirit, and will add some disadvanteges and such related to that to give me the power points i need to get her some equipment :P

I think Im gonna Make My Black Fox then, An Anti-hero Shady Assassin type With a League of Shadows-esk origin

WONDERFUL! although i might actually have my character be a Mix of magic and skill, like, they are super skilled but all the super-human stuff they do comes from Magic.

well, it's more like this

Inherited(born with it, it's inate, you're superman and happen to be on earth)

Enhanced(you where normal before but aquired powers it from some outside source, i.e. you are spiderman, cyborg, ect)

An Augmented(you are still normal but have some outside force giving you powers, i.e. a power suit or magic book. i.e. you are Iron-man, Dr. strange, Blue Beatle, Green lantern, ect.)

(I believe that's how S.H.I.E.L.D> Categorizes them anyways)

that would be random chance or made it yourself

i'd Honestly like to hear your ideas, as my idea will likely be based on how powers are like, gained in the world

i know when it comes to powers there are generally 3 ways you get them:
1)Born with it
2)aquired it though Random chance
3)Trained for it/Made it yourself

(i personally will want to do a Dark Assassin type character, or an over the top showboater Warrior type character)

oh hold on, are we all allowed to play then? if so i was gonna make myself a deadpool-esk Twin-sword wielding weapon build with heavy focus on Swords and Guns

this of course would work for a big city or a Superschool wither way, i do intend to have his main power be that is is super-soldier level of power, enhanced hearing, physical power, and speed, but average to low mental capacity, that kind of junk

of course you can always make yourself a weak normal person that can summon a super demon

hmm... I will work on this

edit, also nice nat 20

or my personal favorite: a Villan ran dystopia where the heroes fight to bring down the evil goverment

No mature content, Does that mean my Character can't be an Anti-Hero? Becuase I'm 90% sure most folks don't play M&M to be big blue boy-scouts, they play it to be the Batman. Because you can be whoever you want but if you can be Batman, always be batman

ah i have the 3e mutants and masterminds rules i believe, and a few ideas i have wanted to toss around in the system, but i have never really played M&M(my friends where never that interested in it) and i have always wanted to try something in it

Edit: derp. sticky keys don't like me, sorry i

Honestly, if I was to pick a race that is my favorite out of the core races- it is dwarf.

Yeah, I have a question! How is a dwarf gonna be attracted to anything without a beard ;P

I have an Atomie archer idea I've always wanted to play. Would you have any problems with a 2 HD race?

Edit: and how should I do ability scores? Just use the base stats, or add 25 points on top?

Yes I would have a problem with a 2HD race, Although I would not be against a 0 HD race that is Tiny and not Diminutive using the race-maker rules, otherwise Up to you

(Should be noted they made Sahuagin a 0HD race despite actually haveingg like 3 or 4 HD if I remember correctly)

And @Ouach: if you got feats to burn, Then you must not be taking those feat taxes ;P
But yes you can Varient multiclass- I should have mentioned that at the start.

Hmm, I actually belive there is a first level feat that lets you do that, My friend used it to make a Demonic Aasimar with the maw/claw trait of a Teifling but still using Aasimar.
Otherwise I'm afraid I can't quite allow a Teifimar as that kinda Breaks some of the Rules of the universe. I mean, not against it but a half-teifling half Aasimar would have their traits either Canceled out and just be a Human, Or you'd be a ah.... The Teifling Equivalent for the Chaotic alignment, I forget what they are called.

Well, 2 six and 2 one average at 3 and 4 that accounts for the .5 and that's average. Sometimes the Dice god Nuffle smiles Apon you and Somtimes he just likes seeing average.

I would like you to not be so famous that they'd send an adventuring party after you, Or at least Not be tied to people who would come after you. I essentially want you to be lost to the world, You are the shards of Hope that where stolen from your worlds for nefarious reasons I will not spoil.

If somone is willing to come after you to save you(Esspecially early on in the game) then it would be alot harder for those that stole you away to do what they want- having to kill your old friends and family because they are annoying ;P

I don't know how too explain it that well- basically I would like it if You didn't have too much of an investment in your individual world is what I'm really trying to say

*Sees the Kobold's stats and wonders how they got 3 18 and a 20 out of a 25 pt build*

Hmmm, Well I actually Tie the motivations of the BBEG based on how the players gain their Mythic status, As that's kinda his entire motivation, but both of those sound like great ideas, Infact a little Diversity like that is exactly what I was hoping for when I have y'all freedom to create your own Background.

Otherwise- I would preffer you don't get too Overpowered. I started y'all at lvl 3 so y'all can have some experience and have some room to flex and give yourself something to have as a background, But not too much so you can't have done something that you'll be missed in your world with... Or maybe you will

Like I do want you to have that freedom, Just try not to Have a Background that would require me to bend too many rules

@Trevor: as long as you Use My Custom Version of the dragonborn I have Labeled up in the first post that would work fine, And as for 3rd party Content, I'm gonna have to say No- it's not something I'm familiar with so I would have no idea what adding that content would do and I'd prefer to stick to what I know.

Well, Theros itself is based on Greek Mythology, It doesn't use Greek Mythology, Opting to replace many of the gods with their own and even having their own Version of the Underworld, Multiple Death gods, And an entire Diffrent way that Undead work.

Infact I belive the world's Version of Zeus (Kranatos or something like that) is actually also the god of Knowledge

It's more designed to emphasize the system's 6 Mana colors(Counting Colorless) more than Actually be accurate to Greek myth

*sees MTG and one of the better settings* oh yes, I will be highly interested in this kind of Game, Although i wonder if you'd allow for somthing like a Custom Satyr, Since in Theros they are kinda the World's version of elves.

id be interested in playing a Satyr of some sort of Melee build if possible, I wanna be a Xenagos (red/green) worshiper. Possibly be a barbarian or Skald to Emphasize that

Since no one asked yet, normal feat rules or are you using the Elephant in the Room feat tax changes?

while i agree that feat taxes suck, i am not using those rules mostly because I personally don't wanna have to deal with going through every monster who has improved trip, grapple, ect. and giving them new feats because those ones now don't exist.

and @Ouach: you didn't have to roll for alignment, but i do appreciate the attempt at randomness. I am more using the numbers to help decide when and if any alignment changes happen, as it turns out, you'll probably be dealing with the alignment based planes than the inner planes. and when dealing with planes saturated with your opposing alignment it gets real muddy real fast.

Hah, yes that indeed is, I suppose Rolling 2d100 for alignment is possible if you can't really decide.

Okay!

Boggart: I would preffer you Play it as is, If there is a trait that lets you swap that out(like in the case of Kitsune) then sure but if not, Then sorry

Drow Noble: I will 100% pick a Normal drow over a Drow Noble any day in favor of balance. Like if two people made the exact same Character and one just used Drow Noble instead of Drow... I would pick the normal one.
Try not to pick races for powergaming reasons

For the alignment numbers the exact on the line numbers are 33 and 66 but because we can't have numbers like 3.33333... then I have made just rounded it up a little to account for the 0 also being a Number. So there are really 101 numbers with 50 being exact center. Then rather than take the easy route and do 25 and 75 as the break off- I felt that didn't represent it well enough and neutral took up way too much of the scale. So I changed it to 1/3 instead of 1/4 ratio with 1/2 of it being Neutral. It's wonky, But it's mostly for Show. The Numbers just represent how close you are to shifting. I will not really be changing them unless you do something that is worth noting, or are influenced by an outer force.

Let me ask again cause I'm getting mixed messages.

You're saying yes to post-faction war because the lore for post-faction war is garbage?

IIRC post-faction war the Godsmen and the Signers merged. My first thought was to play someone close to achieving those faction's stated goals. Ascending as a deity/being the One.

Oh! It's pre faction war, Sorry

I just misunderstood what you where asking, sorry
Like I read it as somthing Diffrent, blame my Dyslexia

Well, Yes because The lore on post faction-war is (And pardon my major Bias) Absolute garbage.

But I won't say no to A Planiar in my game, But as for the powers and factions and such- Due to you being Mythic.... You eventually will get to the point where your closeness to Godhood will not allow you to enter Sigil due to the Lady not liking you. So it would be pretty hard to join a Faction when you can't even enter the Cage.

As above, That's How you can tell :P

I mostly just Want y'all to be Some primes that don't know who the lady of pain is and get confused by all the Slang that Sigilites use :P

As well as be unaware of some of the Rules regarding the Cage as you are godlings... And there are some very important rules in sigil about gods.

K Klan, do we need to include getting our mythic rank in our backstory, or is that something we get to experience as a group?

I would like you to have gained your first rank before the game, As it is the trigger as to why you are where you are at. The start of the game.

I knew I forgot somthing! I would ask you to start with 1000gp but be aware you are a Prisoner and have all your equipment stripped at the start of the game because they can't have you attacking people now can they?

Yeah, Who wants to be a Divine caster? They are just the most powerful classes in the game not like their spells do stupid damage and completely ignore the fact that they also are wearing Full plate.

I mean seriously? Who wants all 9 spell Levels and an animal Companion as well as 75% of all the best Buffing spells that can turn you virtually invincible.

Sounds boring to me

Nooooo, When it comes to the planes, The Prime material plane, Feywild, and The Shadow plane are all seperate planes, But one can only get to them through the prime material plane, Astral planes, Or Ethereal planes. In the Planescape they are pretty disconnected to the total Planescape as they are more reflections of the Prime than any real plane of existence.

The Fey/shadow planes are to the Prime material plane what the Astral and Ethereal Planes are to the Planescape. They are connected to everything in it but not to each other.

You wanna get somewhere fast in the Planescape? Use the Astral/Ethereal planes. You wanna get somewhere fast on the prime? Use the Shadow/Feywild. Of course a good Gate spell can always Get you anywhere on the prime. In the planes of you are in the Elemental plane of fire and want to get to The nine hells you have to go through the Astral plane first because The Planes are not connected. I have a map somewhere it's pretty complex

And I mean pretty Complex because if you can read this map you have a good idea

Probably The 31st, I'm planning on giving y'all plenty of time(9-10 days seems enough to me) to get your characters made plus my Birthday is this month and it gives me time to do that before I have investments in a game

Dotting in, This is very much a Game I have wanted to get I to but have never had the Chance to, So I'm gonna probably Make up my character and Apply Somthing For this-(I've had an idea for this game for a long long time)

I have now posted a Full Recruitment Thread! Titled "Gods Among Mortals".

And @Oauch- No they are not a bad choice I would allow that, I just Would much rather you take advantage of the freedom that choosing any world you want to make gives you over having a Generic Fire Genasi from the plane of fire

It's Cold ... Or is it? Hard to tell as you wake up, The Room spinning as light folks your eyes, The gentle Creeling of wood and metal filling your ears...

Welcome! this is the Offical Recruitment Thread for my Planescape Mythic Game.
For those of you who didn't read my initial Interest check here are my Rules for character Creation, As well as a few Rules I Also had in mind

Other than That I Might be missing something... Let me know if you notice anything missing, But otherwise I do encourage you to do whatever you want.
You want your Sahuagin Druid lady from a Sea world? Go for it! You want your Good Drow from a World where elves and Drow Co-exist? Go for it! You want your space faring Scientist from a World where Technology has allowed for space travel? GO FOR IT!

Of course I will have you be aware that Despite the tec level of your World- Sigil and the Planescape is somewhere In the Renaissance Era with a little Steampunk and Pure Chaos slammed in for good measure.
Of course when it comes to magic you can never Have a Set Tec level

(Some Custom Races I made/Comverted)

I'm gonna be Honest, I'm not the best person to ask about Sigil (because i would spend the next day typing up everything I love about it) and It wouldn't be productive to let me Rant like that ;P

But with the interest here I'll Collect what I have Written and Post a Legit Recruitment In the Morning-(it's 10 PM for me as I post this) and I will lay out more detailed Rules as well as an Opening Scene to give you an idea as to what you should expect

How are you doing stats? Point Buy, Rolled, etc?

Well, This is a good Question, with my friends I usually allow Rolls, But With Strangers I tend to preffer point buy because it lets me know that you are using point buy because it is the only option and not because you just so happened to roll poorly and choose to forgo Rolling for a Better point buy.

But for the most part I aim for 25pt builds. This way I can know that you are pretty Average and can scale enemies to you (although I also Activiley suggest not power gaming, as the eaiser you defeat the enemies the less fun it is for the rest of us).

Other than that, Glad to see some interest in the setting ^-^ my own personal Introduction to the Planescape was unfortunately in a game that had nothing to do with it- Neverwinter Nights and it's 3rd expansion. Where youre chucked into the 9 hells and end up meeting a Shadow dragon in a tavern who is fed up with this prime Berk who knows nothing bothering them.

Since then I've been facinated with the setting (even went so far to ask my Nerdy Dad about it and he lent me his books on it)

As for finding a good home Plane: Here's one for ya! The prime material plane!(sarcasm, sorry I can't help it) yeah with Infinite worlds it gets a little overwhelming with what you want! It should also be noted some world's may be connected to other world's that are connected to the Planescape but they have their own planescapes(Like Ebberon which is connected to Faerun but has its own versions of the nine hells and Abyss, and Even some planes Like Kyber and Xoriat that are Ebberon Exclusive)

There is also like... One world that I can't allow folks from just because it breaks Rules (Ravenloft), Because you don't come from Ravenloft... You get Trapped By Ravenloft

As I said- It's an Infinite Plane with Infinite world's full of Infinite possibilities.

But yes this is very much a Planiar Adventure, Going around and exploring the various planes.

The Setting itself is. Really just the planes, With a Few Specific ones being the main area. It's like Picking The Forgotten realms and deciding to base your game in Cormyr instead of the Sword coast. Basically the same game except everyone has a Wierd Accent and there are some Diffrent monsters around.

Oh! There are also some Rules around Magic and not talking about a specific Person under the risk of being turned into a pile of mush.
The magic rules are really just "some magic works Diffrent depending on your plane" some typical common sense stuff. Like Fire is more fire on the fire plane(of course fire is almost useless in the fire plane despite being stronger)

Oh and ah.... Never Trust a Slaad

On the Question of Deities- Yes they exist(all of them), Yes they have power, And yes how they grant that power Varries and Ultimately is unknown. Somtimes they come down and mess with mortals, Somtimes they sit around their plane being pacifist.

Hello,
I would like to Begin by saying that I'm coming back after a long break, And my Schedule is Kinda Chaotic so this game is more of a Test of Waters than an actual Recruitment or anything like that.

However Despite that I would Still like to Gauge interest as well as get some ideas from Folks to see if anyone would be interested in a Mythic Planescape Game where your characters are primes from Several Diffrent worlds kidnapped and Pulled into the Planescape for some Shenanigans and such.
This is an idea and a game I've been planning to play with friends but due to the pandemic I have been unable to run it so Instead I'm gonna try tossing it out here

Well! I belive that's all for now.... If I get some Decent Interest here I'll definitely Send out an Actual Recruitment, I have a Good Portion of this planned out but it Ultimately is supposed to be a pretty open game, Allowing me to Improvise Some Side quests and such while I have a Main Plot Hanging over it that occasionally pokes it head in and says boss fight or Evil minion.

I've tried somthing Like that, It could work, But I'd rather have some way to use a map.

.... Plus Maptools has mysteriously went down, Alot of problems just came up at once :P

It's real odd

Based on how it is going, Looks like I might have to if I wanna run this

I don't Expect A Dedicated group.
Luckily Using discord allows us to ashuffle around the day we play, As we can communicate with each other and set up a new day in case of holidays or work, or other stuff that may come up

I'm in Mountain Time and I'm usually Available 4-9PM MT, so that means I'm 6-11 EST, if that helps folks with Time Zones