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I am a born again RPGer. I played as a young man, stopped, and took it up again about nine months ago and have been playing on a weekly basis. I am now moderately obsessed. I would love to play in a PBP game but have never seemed to catch any new threads at the right time. My question is this...Do any of you wonderfully bright and creative DMs have time to run a first time PBP for me and whoever else would like to join in? I am competent with rules, enjoy RPing, and love tactical fighting and creative character builds. Have lots of 3.5 books and access to the others that I don't have. Let me know if anyone is interested.
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Hmmm... I've got one game going already but, if I were to start up one for you guys, how often would you be able to post? I spend my day at work checking these boards about once every half hour or so, which means that I should be able to keep things moving at a solid pace but if you're only available to post once a day or so, the game will drag.
If you guys can commit to at least 3 posts a day each, I think I can work something out. I would like to limit this game to four players but I would expect ALL of the players to uphold the posting frequency I'm requesting.
Bear in mind that I won't be doing much posting (if any at all) on the weekends. Weekends are family time. Let me know! Thanks!
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Cool. Do you have any class preference. Maybe, if we look like we are on the ball, any potential DMs would be more willing to sign on. I am pretty open but generally lean toward the melee role although was thinking of playing a druid. I am open to anything, though.
I would be looking at a rogue or scout which should work with you melee role.
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Hmmm... I've got one game going already but, if I were to start up one for you guys, how often would you be able to post? I spend my day at work checking these boards about once every half hour or so, which means that I should be able to keep things moving at a solid pace but if you're only available to post once a day or so, the game will drag.
If you guys can commit to at least 3 posts a day each, I think I can work something out. I would like to limit this game to four players but I would expect ALL of the players to uphold the posting frequency I'm requesting.
Bear in mind that I won't be doing much posting (if any at all) on the weekends. Weekends are family time. Let me know! Thanks!
I pretty much have your same situation, I can post at work (8 - 5 MST) pretty much every hour if not more but the weekends and nights are family time for me also. I will be gone the 9th - 11th of May but I don't think we will be rolling by then.
I have been (somewhat at Magnus' urging) considering DMing a PbP. If the above option doesn't work out, I would consider jumping in.
It's not such a burning desire that I will be disappointed if that doesn't happen however.
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I have been (somewhat at Magnus' urging) considering DMing a PbP. If the above option doesn't work out, I would consider jumping in.
It's not such a burning desire that I will be disappointed if that doesn't happen however.
By all means, sham, jump in if you've got the urge. I've got one game going on currently but I thought I'd drop a line here to offer my services if no one else wanted to take up the reigns.
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Fatespinner or Shamgar?!?!!?!!! I have enjoyed many a post by Mr. Spinner and I know Mr. Gar all too well. I would be honored to have either of you as my all-knowing PBPDM. Maybe you could each run a portion, switch back...could be interesting. However it works out, let us know.
I could certainly post three times on most days, especially if the weekends are downtime. I don't work from an office and check my computer at odd times so my turnaround may be more varied than yours, but I am dependable and timely most often.
Dreamweaver, Rouge or Scout sounds great. I will come up with something, either a Druid or Fighter type. Kinda depends on the DM and what tpye of setting they're thinking of.
Glad to see this thing starting to get off the ground.
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I have been (somewhat at Magnus' urging) considering DMing a PbP. If the above option doesn't work out, I would consider jumping in.
It's not such a burning desire that I will be disappointed if that doesn't happen however.
I would love to play, but cannot post three times a day as Fatespinner has requested. I could post Mon-Fri at lunch and sometimes before or after work.
If shamgar runs it instead and is willing to let me post less often, I would love go game with him from the other side of the screen.
I'll play anything that's left over if my posting isn't a problem.
If there would be space in said campaign I would be happy to join in. I am in several other PbP campaigns so if there is someone who is less involved in PbP I'm willing to step aside for them. I can usally post 3-4 times a day.
What books are allowed? Whatever I am it will probably be a halfling.
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All are welcome. That makes four and a full party, we just need one of the DMs to take the lead. Actaris and Charles, do you have any PC ideas?
I wouldn't mind playing an arcane caster or divine caster. I like some of the alternative class features in some of the Wizard's book. Let me look at the options and post some ideas.
Also, my playing will depend on the DM being okay with it. Some days I may only be able to post once.
Charlie
heh born again RPGer; I like that hehe on several levels.
What level is the campaign going to be? Who's DMing?
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Hold on Actaris, we are waiting on either Shamgar or Fatespinner to commit themselves. Fatespinner told us earlier that he doesn't view these boards much if at all over the weekend, so let's let it be til Monday. Then we will know the answers to all these questions.
I know this much, if Shamgar runs it, almost any book that's not setting specific, ie FR or Eberrron, will be allowed. 32 point ability score buy. LA races would need to be OK'd by him. He's very open to interesting, creative character builds. I guarantee that he will fill us in on the rest.
I have never gamed with Mr. Spinner, but from what I have seen, I am guessing he is fairly easygoing as well although the specifics may differ. I am sure that whoever takes on the mantle of DM will be wonderful, creative, intelligent, fair, and omniscient. Is all this brown-nosing having any effect on our as of yet non-committed DMs?
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After a talk with Shamgar, he has decided to be our DM. Thank you Fatespinner for your interest and allowing Shamgar to run his first PbP game. Keep an eye on it and let us know your thoughts.
To the players, it will be first level start, 32 point allocation (the elite array from the DMG), open to any WOTC printed material that is not campaign setting specific. I was thinking about taking on the tank role in some capacity. Haven't decided on character concept yet. We have a rouge and probably an arcane type so post your thoughts and we can get this ball rolling. Shamgar has a PC background questionnaire that he likes his players to fill out so post your email addresses and he can send them out. If you are wondering how I know all this, Shamgar is my pen and paper DM and he is a good one. It will be a good PbP game and I, for one, am terribly excited. He is shooting for a start date of next Monday so we've got a little time to get our party in order. i will post a further developed character concept tomorrow afternoon or wed at the latest. Let me know your thoughts/ questions and I will try to get back to you. Shamgar won't be viewing this psot til early evening tonight so don't expect to hear back from him til then.
I hope that we can all post regularly and really make this a nice little game as I am really anticipating a good experience.
Cheers!!!
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Great glad to get this going. Shamgar send the questionnaire to cguthrie@zootweb.com and I will fill it out and send it back. I will spend tonight making up a scout character and will hopefully get it to you before I leave on Wednesday morning so I will not hold up the start date. Where is this going to take place? Are we talking a homebrew world or just a general D&D world? If this is a homebrew I would like some info to make my characters background a little more interesting. Glad to be a part of this and can't wait to see where it goes.
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After a talk with Shamgar, he has decided to be our DM. Thank you Fatespinner for your interest and allowing Shamgar to run his first PbP game. Keep an eye on it and let us know your thoughts.
Certainly! I'm glad that Sham has decided to get involved in the Play-by-Post craze and I will certainly be watching your adventures. Those of you willing to take a peek at the dark side of D&D are always welcome to view my current PbP campaign as well. Good luck to everyone and have fun!
My character concept has changed. I'll be playing a halfling Monk. Where should I send my character sheet? Sned me the questionnaire at wraith6@raresteeds.com and I'll get it filled out as soon as soon as I can.
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You are truly fast. Shamgar should log in soon to tell you where to send your info. I may have a copy of the questionaire and I will email it to you. Dream...I won't be playing a ranger, I know that much, so the choice is yours on the trackin'. My character will be chaotic good and a fighter of some type, maybe straight fighter with a bizarre history, something like that. I will look into a fighter/ caster mix cuz we maybe short on magic. It will depend on what Charles was thinking of playing. i love halfling monks, Actaris, small little butt kickers that no one can hit...awesome.
I am gaming with Shamgar tonight and I am sure we will be talking more about this so I will post tomorrow with more info.
Thanks for the link, Fatespinner, will check out the evilness. As Navin R. Johnson said in The Jerk, "Roll the ugliness."
After much pleading, begging, and fawning by Magnus (not really, but hey he wouldn't know me if I didn't pick on him :) I guess I'm ready to jump into this head first. Here's hoping I don't land on my head and split it open. *laugh*
I only have a few minutes so I will give a few details now and more later tonight or tomorrow.
I will be able to post morning and night most days and during the day a few times a week. I'm hoping we can average at least 2 posts per day and if we get real lucky three. If we do that, I figure we can make about as much progress in a week or so as my group usually does in a session. That will give a nice flow of advancement both of plot and character. I am up quite late many nights and tend to make my longest posts then.
As Magnus stated we will start at 1st level. I enjoy higher level stuff but for complexity's sake as well as my nigh-virginal PbP DM self's sake this will work. I own pretty much every 3.5 book and resource that is by Wizards and non campaign specific. You may use any of those (I will) but I reserve the right to challenge overly crazy builds (yes, Magnus of the craziness, that means you. :)
We will play in my Homebrew world. The world is Shalon. The largest continent (amazingly large in fact) is called Alon. That is where you will be. I will have regional information to you by tomorrow at the latest. I am deciding between two areas and still need to sort it out.
We will play mostly RAW as I don't want to add to the complexity with a ridiculous amount of house rules. A few we will use however include:
1. At first level you get max hp as RAW. At level up you may choose to take the average (round up at even levels and down at odd) but you much choose whether or not to do so prior to rolling.
2. Intimidate may be used as either a strength or charisma based skill and will different effects/reactions depending on it's use.
3. All spontaneous casters get eschew materials as a bonus feat.
4. Whisper gnomes are +1 LA
5. Ray of enfeeblement is a 2nd level spell.
6. Spot and listen are considered class skills for all characters.
So far it seems we have a halfling monk, an elf scout, a tank, and whatever Charles wants to play. That is very light on magic of any sort. You can play that way if you like as I'm not one to force a certain group together, but be aware that of the challenges that can create. I will not penalize you for it, but I won't be overly nice about it either.
As a note, this is a mid-magic world.
I generally prefer 4 players, but I'm not tied to it. I don't want more than 5. IF there is a 5th player out there looking who can post consistently, please let us know.
Finally (for now) my email is djmacblue@comcast.net. Please email me your character sheets and filled out background forms. I know the forms take a while but I find they both give great depth to your character which allows you a better experience and provide me with endless hooks with which to ensnare you. Bwhahahahaahaha.
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So far it seems we have a halfling monk, an elf scout, a tank, and whatever Charles wants to play. That is very light on magic of any sort. You can play that way if you like as I'm not one to force a certain group together, but be aware that of the challenges that can create. I will not penalize you for it, but I won't be overly nice about it either.
As a note, this is a mid-magic world.
I generally prefer 4 players, but I'm not tied to it. I don't want more than 5. IF there is a 5th player out there looking who can post consistently, please let us know.
Finally (for now) my email is djmacblue@comcast.net. Please email me your character sheets and filled out background forms. I know the forms take a while but I find they both give great depth to your character which allows you a better experience and provide me with endless hooks with which to ensnare you. Bwhahahahaahaha.
If shamgar is okay with five players than I'll invite my friend Rom to jump in. He said he would cover the divine magic and I'll cover the arcane.
I'll send my character to shamgar tonight.
Charlie
Hi guys. Charlie said there might be room for a 5th wheel in the party and I agreed to take on the role of the undead-bane healer. I'll post my char to the board tomorrow, k?
Good. We seem to have the players all set. Now to finalize the party/characters. I still have an hour or so of work to do tonight and it's already 1am so I will have to try to catch up tomorrow. It's possible some of it will have to wait until Wednesday morning.
I can tell you that you guys will be starting in the small walled town of Barren Falls. It is on the eastern edge of a 90%+ human kingdom named Ildonia. This kingdom is run by a chaotic evil ruler known only as 'The Emperor' and is not a very nice place in general. The military is uncouth and mean. That said, there are decent folk about as well. This town is a border town so sees more racial division than elsewhere. You are on the edge of the mountains which lead to the elven lands of Lyrantul Kalana. West of Ildonia are the halfling lands of Lidralen. A low (in height) magical wall separates the two kingdoms and protects Lidralen. To the north is the land of Vorland and then the ocean. Vorland is home to Dwarves of all types but the majority are Duergar who make their homes in the mountains. To the south is a land of wild large humanoids. Souteast is Dreskana an ultra militaristic country of Lawful evil humans primarily.
My wife is calling so I will post more later. Have a good night!
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Hello all and welcome newcomer Rom. While Shamgar was running us through the Red Hand of Doom last night, he and I discussed a little of his intentions for our PbP. He gave me NO spoilers, just talked about the setting and the general tone and I am very excited. I will let Shamgar fill you in because he is the DM and is, as such, all knowing, but I will say that the town/ city that we will be starting in for one thing is universally evil and, sorry Dreamweaver, hates elves.
Also, before Rom joined, I was thinking of changing from a tank to a melee/ caster mix cuz of our low magic party. Shamgar and I talked avbout this as well and thought that a nice fit would be a favored soul. I have since fleshed out the character a bit and am going to stick with it. He will be a Hellbred Favored Soul with mostly martial focus(the hellbred race is from Fiendish Codex II). Now with Rom as what I assume will be a cleric type, we should be fine with healing and with a monk, 2 cleric types, a scout, and an arcane caster, we should be fairly potent offensively. I will try to post a history later today or tomorrow. My email is michaelkonas@hotmail.com, use that to send out PC histories, questionaires, etc. Shamgar, are we, the PCs, sharing character sheets, histories, bios or have we never met?
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Umm...if the plans (evil?) I have in my head firm up later today the others may have connections if they so desire but not so much for you. If things stand pat you will be in a...how shall we say...inconvenienced position as we begin. But that may all change by later today. For now Magnus may post a physical description of the character but should refrain from more. The rest of you may develop a connection.
One bit of clarification: while the country is wholly evil, there are those who are good in the town of Barren Falls (where you will begin). They are few and far, but they are there nonetheless. No one in Ildonia is a fan of elves due to some recent history I will post later (today I hope). The elven and halfling kingdoms are generally good aligned. While you may be from the area surrounding Barren Falls, I would prefer that none of you are from the city itself. It is a gateway on the trade road which is why it is slightly more racially tolerent than some of the other areas of the country. This is also why it would be a good gathering place. There is a monastery in the mountains to the east of town. I will give many more details both about the surrounding lands and the town itself in a few hours and will do so on PbP discussion thread so we can move the conversation there.
You may send all profiles, characters, and offline questions to djmacblue@comcast.net.
I should be able to post again in 4-5 hours or so.
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I am going on vacation tomorrow until Sunday night and I don't think I will have much time to check the post if any so you will probably not hear from me until Sunday night. I will also have no access to my work email either but I have my character done and he has traveled up from Dreskana to start the search for his parents killers in Barren Falls after leaving a military academy. Hopefully this will work with what ever Shamgar has planned. I will see you guys in Barren Falls.
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Sounds great, have a good vacation. My PC is coming along as well. Since Shamgar doesn't want me to share much of my history, I will give you only a physical description.
He is 6'2". 205. His skin is dark grey with a noticeable deep red tint. His eyes are pupil free and red. He has two horns, that protrude about an inch from his skull right above his hairline, barely noticeable. Black hair, relatively unkempt. He is always smiling and it is this that softens his devilish appearance. Because of his otherwordly countenence, he almost always wears his full combat gear, including a full helmet, especially in town. He is in decent shape, but not superhero size, built more like a runner than a bodybuilder. His skin is rough and scarred from what seems to be a life filled with hard work, his hands are calloused and he clenches them often, in an attempt to keep them working despite the wear they have received.
His armor is not of noble quality but is kept in fine condition. The larger surfaces are painted a deep blue, the smaller are steel with patches of a dark bronze patina. The robes he wears under his armor resemble a peasant's but are clean. He carries a longsword and a large shield upon which is painted a lightning bolt, designating him as a devout follower of Heironeous.
His name is Rasmus and through the face holes of his helmet you can see his red eyes and big grin.
this is his avatar and posting name. i know its a drow but they didn't have a lot of devils in the avatar collection.
Didn't know I had to switch the "Post as" menu everytime. That last post should have been as Rasmus....I warned you I was a rookie.
Just got done with conference calls. Ugh. Now I have to leave again. It looks like my updates will have to wait until late tonight or tomorrow am. My apologies.
*rubs hands and grins* Plot coming together nicely. Devilish you say? Mwahahahahaha.
I only have breif access to a computer until tomarrow night. I'll post description and history tomarrow. Where do you want me to send the character sheet.?
Now that we have (mostly) sorted out our game, we can move discussion to the new thread for our campaign, now known as theCrimson Conquest
A friend of mine just joined the site and was interested in PbP so I am stepping aside. He will be posting under Lord Hyrax. He'll probably be posting here soon.
I'm Lord Hyrax Friend of Arctaris.
I will be filling in his position in the campaign.
You can send the questionnaire to redgrifox@gmail.com