dr. kekyll's page

you can be from anywhere in the world as the PCs will be assembled in Vienna at the start of the Chronicle

i'm interested mostly to see your tweaks to the system. i don't particularly care what is run.

oh you are recruiting. guess i should have asked lol.

@Rigel i am a fan of blue on what should be called the "Motivational" rather than "Emotional" spectrum.

Oh yeah, I never got an answer about a good or non-evil deity with the Light subdomain (which is in the Sun domain which seems backwards...)

@Dr Kekyll-- it can be however you want it to be, I meant mostly just a description of the "type" not necessarily a specific class, but however you interpret that is fine

Cool cool. Yeah, I see the Order as composed of both mounted knights and holy men while the Shadowkeepers are sneaky arcane casters.

oh i meant to ask...

is there a non-evil deity with the sun domain (as that's where the light subdomain is)?

was the elite unit supposed to be a base class or an organization (potentially with a prestige class option)? because i was imagining the latter.

Four on one!? Dat's fightin' dorty!

Yikes... I feel for you, Evilserran. I obviously don't have the entire story, but from what you said you've only hoped the GM would say something about other players bending/breaking rules. Have you tried approaching them privately with your concerns? They may think everyone is enjoying themselves.

Nevermind I reread and you have tried. Sorry that's happening.

I suppose I'm still unclear on what being a munchkin has to do with one's ability to role play... which is what I was getting at. Like... you can be a munchkin and also want all of those powerful options to fit into a flavorful background that can't be achieved by the rules' default setting but is absolutely conceptually cohesive. As Derklord said, tying things to flavor isn't balancing. A GM should be free to tie things to flavor and lore, but, ideally, the game is balanced from a setting neutral perspective.

If flavour is ignored in favour of mechanical superiority then the game is reduced to a fairly clunky squad based war game and ultimately just a bunch of people sat round a table seeing who can roll the highest number on a dice. The roleplay element is lost.

This reeks of that weird belief that system mastery and role playing are on a sliding scale and people with mechanically sound characters must have sacrificed role playing ability.

Fortunately that's nonsense, and anything can be reflavored. If a GM has an idea about the setting and doesn't want things to be reflavored, that's his/her prerogative. I don't have a problem with sticking to the given flavor, but doing so isn't superior to not doing so, and quality of roleplaying isn't affected.

yeah, i had also assumed the ST had picked players already and i missed this. i'll throw up an application in case the ST returns if someone wouldn't mind summarizing what applications there already are.