Hello hello everyone! *Cracks neck, while smiling* seeing all your bodies on the ground, hahahahaha. Don't worry, i always get my prey! *Insane laughter* My last victim you would say was ...killed with his heart and his liver missing and hung from his roof top. I would say it was a sweet taste of victory. Don't worry i have other plan for most of you i am up againist. Let see who will be my poor..i mean Lucky victim. *scare smile*
I like Cashmere!
FH
I would have to say the same thing is the same for my character Aldurin too, my first evil character ever YAY! The most creative for me, and creepy too.
It sure is interesting listening to all you guys talk yourselves up.
I think it indicates that you are lacking in certain.... departments, and perhaps over compensating.
Keep up these simple attempts to distract from your inadequacies, I will let my actions do my "smack" talking for me.
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Is there still time for me to join in? Dreamweaver didn't bother to tell me about this until a few minutes ago. Ah husbands what will us girls ever do with you guys!
I am cussing out Dreamweaver as I write this!!!
I believe the overall idea here is that there will eventually be a bunch of players and many teams with a couple different PBP DMs to run the matches.
So make an alias stat up a core only PC and be ready (although I think the first match is already full). Be first to the second match!Character Gen rules are on page 1.
FH
New map is up. I suggest you print it out to keep track of movement. It should be obvious, but the Red team starts on the south side and the Blue team starts on the north side. Head over to the PbP thread and post your starting position and Init.
Eitrande Sint reports for duty! A highly disciplined, yet flexible, fighter, Eitande Sint will fight for either the Blue or the Yellow teams - he will even bring his own equipment! What are you waiting for - hire Eitrande Sint today!
I think a Paladin would go very well in this environment, so I'll enter one for the next battle. Obviously Lawful Good, so battling for the Blue team.
Need to come up with a name, but will be a wood elf (from the MM).
Stats
Str 18 (16 +2 Racial) 10 Points
Dex 12 (10 +2 Racial) 2 Points
Con 12 (14 -2 Racial) 6 Points
Int 10 (12 -2 Racial) 4 Points
Wis 12 4 Points
Cha 14 6 Points
I'm on Blue team aren't I? Because if i am I can see a problem involving a paladin. I'm a psycho.
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Yes Shins, for this fight, your on the blue team. But if we can get enough people onboard, there will be four teams: Blue for LG, Green for CG, Red for LE, and Yellow for CE. I'm working on a website with all of the info on it. It's slow going because I'm doing every thing in HTML.
Yes, Fake Healer has the gist of it. I'm hoping to get a bunch of players and a few PbP DMs and have regular fights. I'll be keeping a leaderboard on the site.
I've decided that charcters can use any race from the MM as long as it doesn't have an ECL of more than 1. The reason I want to keep it at the 3 core books is beacuse if someone makes a character with a splatbook and the DM for their match doesn't have that splatbook, it creates a problem. Once I get a few Arena Masters signed up, we'll see what splatbooks we all have and se what we can include with out unbalancing the game. We'll probably get the Complete books and the Races books, so keep your fingers crossed if you've got a splatbook class or race you want to use.
I might be interested in being the Arena Master for a game at some point.
Sign Grom up for the yellow team!
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Sign Grom up for the yellow team!
Unless Vissi has decided to expand the rules a bit, monsterous PCs aren't allowed. You may need to discuss with him.
To Vissigoth---->
I plan on running an arena bout after the current one is done, Vissi, so you need to stat up a PC so you can join and let me return the favor.;)
Anyone planning on joining the gladiatorial stables should start submitting PCs ASAP.
We will figure out who is in when the time comes and if the teams are formed.
FH
I've decided that charcters can use any race from the MM as long as it doesn't have an ECL of more than 1.
I can change out the race if necessary.
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Fakey, thats great. I already have a human fighter rolled up.
I'm almost done with the site. Once I get it up and running, I'll be able to start posting poeple's characters.
Grom, your race is fine. Jacyn (one of the players in the game now) is a gray elf.
Cool, sorry bout the confusion, I was going with the first post for charGen not the second. My bad.
FH
Fatespinner here. I've got another gladiator for ya.
I've alreadly have an half-orc barbarian made up. I have to get vissigoth to look over when he gets home to make sure I did everthing right. so as soon as it done i can get it to ya.
I'm working up a human rogue. I'll post his stats in his profile by Thursday (Ihope thats soon enough?).
Made a human fighter and emailed his stats to you.
The Website and leader boards sounds great.
I have a few other suggestions.
1) Maybe open up the allowed materials to include the entire SRD. As it is available online, everyone should have access.
2) Most people on this board are fairly good at regulating themselves / each other. I think it would be alright to open up the number of books involved. Even if the Arena Master doesn't have the actual book, it shouldn't be that hard for all the players to keep each other honest. But I would suggest not allowing everyone to use whatever books they want. I would suggest limiting it to 3 other books (apart from the SRD) to provide more options for character creation.
I am also happy to run a Battle as an Arena Master. Let me know the details.
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The Website and leader boards sounds great.
I have a few other suggestions.
1) Maybe open up the allowed materials to include the entire SRD. As it is available online, everyone should have access.
2) Most people on this board are fairly good at regulating themselves / each other. I think it would be alright to open up the number of books involved. Even if the Arena Master doesn't have the actual book, it shouldn't be that hard for all the players to keep each other honest. But I would suggest not allowing everyone to use whatever books they want. I would suggest limiting it to 3 other books (apart from the SRD) to provide more options for character creation.
I am also happy to run a Battle as an Arena Master. Let me know the details.
If I were to vote on the 3 other books I would say:
PHB2Tome of Battle
DMG2
I have seen a lot of abuse/cheese with the "complete" series and the "races of" series
These 3 would only add 8 base classes and a few prestiges, but would open the arena up to swift and immediate actions......maybe not such a good idea for a PBP arena combat.
more thought needed.....
FH
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I would vote against anything beyond the three core rule books and the SRD. I think it is reasonable to expect everyone to have access to the three core and the SRD, but not additional material.
If some people are using rules from other sources that others do not have access to, it puts some at an unfair disadvantage.
And how to fairly decide on which additional books to limit it to?
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As an aside, I was thinking of putting my hat in the ring for the next round as an orc barbarian ... but as I see we already have an orc barbarian and a half orc barbarian, I might need to rethink!
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I would vote against anything beyond the three core rule books and the SRD. I think it is reasonable to expect everyone to have access to the three core and the SRD, but not additional material.
If some people are using rules from other sources that others do not have access to, it puts some at an unfair disadvantage.
And how to fairly decide on which additional books to limit it to?
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As an aside, I was thinking of putting my hat in the ring for the next round as an orc barbarian ... but as I see we already have an orc barbarian and a half orc barbarian, I might need to rethink!
Yeah, I am leaning that way again too. Not only are swift and immediate actions tough to do in a PBP, but certain classes just plan would whup arse in a one fight, spherical objects to the wall type of fight.
A duskblade not worried about holding back anything would own.I think I will stat up a kobold paladin and whup all the tall-boys next.
;p
anyone want to put together a totally kobold team and rain scaly death upon our opponents?
FH
anyone want to put together a totally kobold team and rain scaly death upon our opponents?
Me! I've always wanted to play a kobold. You have my help, my scaly brother!
I love making crazy characters.
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I say stick with the SRD and Core 3 here. It keeps everything fair and balanced.
Perhaps, however, we could have 'level adjustment' tournaments where you set a specific LA (say, +2 or +3) and everyone makes basic characters who have to be of a race with the stated LA. Obviously anything with racial HD would be out, but everything else in the Monster Manual should be kosher.
First things First.
anyone want to put together a totally kobold team and rain scaly death upon our opponents?
I'm all over this. I'll play either a Kobold Monk, or Kobold Sorcerer. Either would be a blast.
I have a few more thoughts for rules to get sorted before this thgins takes off too far.
1) The cost of 1 shot items. I suggest that these be raised in cost to Item x Level. Otherwise, it becomes to easy for high level characters to just buy a stack of high level spells on scrolls, and it becomes an initiative war.
2) Hitpoints. I suggest these are just max every level. Makes the games last longer, and has the benefit of helping the high hit dice characters more than the mages.
3) Buffs. I was thinking maybe you should be allowed to start the fight with any buffs that last for more than an hour already pre cast. The characters should know roughly when their fight is scheduled to start, and so should be able to prepare accordingly.
4) Rethink the re rolling of initiative every 3 rounds. It's a cool idea, and i get why you want to do it, but my thinking is it just screws up spell durations too much. It makes them too tricky to adjudicate properly.
I think that is all I had at the moment. I'll let you know if more come to mind.
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Personally, I think we should do away with limited use or one-shot items all together and I'm not just saying it because my character is currently on fire, either. :)
Otherwise, people who rely on gear (fighters and rogues) will be severely hampered compared to the mages and clerics who can just sling scrolls and wands all over the place.
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Alrighty then: Team Kobold will consist of myself, Arctaris, Vattnisse, and Mevers.
Vattnisse- if you would stat up a cleric.
Mevers- monk or sorcerer if you would, let us know which.
Arctaris and myself will fill some other rolls. I think I need to ditch the Paladin idea, though, due to alignment issues. I assume we wish to be evil;P
I am leaning towards a fighter type(fighter, barbarian, monk, martial cleric, ranger).
Remember guys, this is an arena. We don't need to fill each of the 4 common rolls for dungeon delvers.
We can start another thread for discussions and profiles if necessary.
FH
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I disagree with the notion of doing away with single shot items. They add a fun dimension to the game - Fatey's on fire; ha ha ha! - and I think you are penalising the characters that can use these things. Once a caster like a wizard has fired off his spells, he is basically stuffed without something else to fall back on. It is true that an equipment dependent PC would have fewer of these items - but he also has weapons and armour which operate without "running out" like spells. And are we suggesting doing away with healing potions? Surely they would be staples in an arena like this.
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Alrighty then: Team Kobold will consist of myself, Arctaris, Vattnisse, and Mevers.
Vattnisse- if you would stat up a cleric.
Mevers- monk or sorcerer if you would, let us know which.
Arctaris and myself will fill some other rolls. I think I need to ditch the Paladin idea, though, due to alignment issues. I assume we wish to be evil;P
I am leaning towards a fighter type(fighter, barbarian, monk, martial cleric, ranger).
Remember guys, this is an arena. We don't need to fill each of the 4 common rolls for dungeon delvers.
We can start another thread for discussions and profiles if necessary.FH
No paladin? I'll make a priest of Kurtulmak (however that kobold deity is spelled), then. Scaly death from below!!
I would suggest limiting one shot items to a smaller percentage of the combatants money so that they cannot spend half their cash on a scroll of everyone else dies, but we could still have potions and other items.
I'll play a kobold Rogue. Sneak attacks from below!
Oh, and I agree with Zynete about single-use items. Perhaps 50% of out budget can be spent on such items.
Uh, mabye not ogres...
Besides, Ogres are at least +1 LA.
Here are my stats for my kobold. Now I just need a good kobold name. Too bad we're not using the Complete Warrior; I'd love to make a multiclassed Kobold Rogue/Swashbuckler.
Nice! Don't forget the racial stat mods, though - they are pretty hefty for kobolds. Here's my kobold cleric - not the toughest or most fearsome guy around, but he's hard to hit...
Sethess is ready to roll for Team Kobold!
I'll stat up a Kobold Sorc then. I'll have him ready this arvo.
I get the reasons for limiting books to the Core + SRD. Any chance we can also use (probabaly only WotC) we enhancements? Everybody shold have equal access to them, so nobody is disadvantaged. The web enhancements for races of the dragon could really help out Team Kobold.
Just to clear up my suggestion on the three book idea. It was not that everyone would be limited to the same 3 books, but that in your build, you can use up to three other books. So, for Jacyn, my Wizard, i would probably use Spell Compendium, Races of teh Wild, and Magic Item Compendium, while for my Kobold Sorc, I would use Races of the Dragon, Spell Compendium, and Magic Item Compendium. And if I was to make a melee guy, probably Tome of Battle, Complete Warrior, and Magic Item COmpendium (noticing a theme here?).
Basically, it is a way to provide a few more character options, without leading to players combining things from 20+ books. It also opens up way more character concepts, and classes.
I like Mever's idea. If allowed, for my kobold rogue I would choose the Complete Warrior, the Complete Scoundrel or Adventurer and the PHBII. If we don't take that path then would I be allowed to play a Swasbuckler (Complete Warrior) provided I posted the pertinent information regarding the class? That would make it accessible to everyone. If the Swashbuckler thing won't work than I'll need reassign some of my scores. If Swashbuckler isn't allowed I'll start out as a rogue and later multiclass into something else. If it is allowed I'll start out as a Swashbuckler, take three levels of that mixed up with three (or more) levels of Rogue and then I'm not sure what.
The newest member of team Kobold is ready to go.
Who's the first victim?
The site is up, but still not finished.
Due to the huge intrest, I'm going to ask everyone to do me a favor.
1) Go to my player page. Click "View" and "Source".
2) This should bring up a Notepad file with a bunch of code. Relpace my info with yours. Do not change anything between the "<" and ">" symbols. (if you know how to do HTML, feel free to set up the links on your page)
3) Click "File" and "Save As", type in your alias name using only lower case characters and use under scores for spaces. Then put ".html" after. EX: your_messageboard_alias.html
*You do not have to give out your e-mail address if you don't want to. If you are playing in the first game, you are considered a "Founding Member".
4) Go to the character template page, and do the same thing. Save as "your_character_name.html"
5) Send me an e-mail with these files attached. I only need one Player page per person, but I need a Character page for each charater you wish to play. My e-mail is: Vissigoth@aol.com
If you need help, just ask. Thanks in advace for doing this. This is going to save me a ton of work. If any of the webmonkeys out there know of an easier way to do this, or want to be the "Offical Arena Webmonkey" let me know.
I'm having problems with your site; most of the links I click on take me to a page saying "Webpage not Found". I also can't seem to find the 'view' or 'source' things. I ma be being obtuse; if this is the case please point me in the right direction. I'm no webmonkey, I'm afraid.
I'm having problems with your site; most of the links I click on take me to a page saying "Webpage not Found". I also can't seem to find the 'view' or 'source' things. I ma be being obtuse; if this is the case please point me in the right direction. I'm no webmonkey, I'm afraid.
The 'view' and 'source' are in your browser's toolbar.
Still awaiting an answer on the Swashbuckler thing...