I still need to know what kind of point buy we use. Please see my post above. I would like to get the stats out of the way.
Sorry Taliesin, I missed your post regarding the point buy. And I didn’t mean to imply there was a rush. I wouldn’t start with out you.
I am open the pbp thread. Good luck all of you and I hope you enjoy.
I hope this character sheet passes muster. If there is anything you would like me to edit or add, please let me know. I am also unsure how to make dice rolls with Rufinus in invisible castle. Is there an f.a.q somewhere that explains the protocols in a PBP?
I believe you will find some instructions at IC (they are brief and right under the text input windows on the 'roll dice' page), or a little playing around with it will probably reveal all. You'll find that after your roll is complete you just have to click on the bbcode below and it will automatically copy to your clipboard. Then you just paste it into your post.
I am going to get rufinus to roll sense motive as a test of the dice mechanics.
Hey Rad,
Modius ha just sort of latched onto you recently, recognizing his need for a little brawn around to keep him safe. Of course, this companionship is accompanied by a constant and no doubt annoying chatter about either Jesus or Modius' manifold plans to get rich and retire in the country.
Hey Rev,
I caught your ooc, let us make like we're together. We can start up a conversation with Rufinus and Gnaeus on the game thread and that should do it.
With one Goth friend already and in the international spirit of the city, it seemed appropriate to befriend someone from farther east as well.
Let's all just say we 3 were on our way to a meal when the rain struck, and we can take this opportunity for some in character talk and meeting the other 2.
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Hey Rad,
Modius ha just sort of latched onto you recently, recognizing his need for a little brawn around to keep him safe. Of course, this companionship is accompanied by a constant and no doubt annoying chatter about either Jesus or Modius' manifold plans to get rich and retire in the country.
Copy... brace Modius for Hrothgar's heathen ways.
Works for me. Will fix the game post.
Cue some less than subtle sniping from Isat about Modius's evangelistic fervour.
ATTENTION ALL:
I edited my game thread post so that any of you who have already met me can just sort get into it. Feel free to make stuff up about me as you please in order to bring the whole thing together.
Rev's post says we all know each other....
ATTENTION ALL:
Rev's post says we all know each other....
Not any more. Just changed it so Modius, Hrothgar and I know each other. Isat is just about to point out the non-axe wielding barbarian type examining the marble work.
ok, all is cool.
we just need to make friends with the others.
that's what happens when everyone posts at once, lol.
that's what happens when everyone posts at once, lol.
Getting son off to school with correct PE kit lull for me.
Modius doesn't really know much about Christianity. Please forgive him for his vivid imagination.
Modius doesn't really know much about Christianity. Please forgive him for his vivid imagination.
The Wise Lord is a forgiving god. Isat isn't as competent as he sounds either - he's just enjoying winding Modius up.
Yes... forgive him o Lord or smite him where he stands, either way will reveal a portion of Your Divine Wisdom
"Hrmf. If he was to do any smiting it should have been when they were nailing him up."
lol
Okay, I think we've established that religious humour will not bother anyone in here.
Okay, I think we've established that religious humour will not bother anyone in here.
I know, just making cutting remarks about Christianity can bring responses that make the 4e threads look like the 'Care Bears Hug-n-Love Hour'. Just prefacing that any smarmy remarks made by our cynical Roman friend are owned by him alone, and that the puppetmaster does not claim them himself. Standard disclaimer stuff :)
I know, just making cutting remarks about Christianity can bring responses that make the 4e threads look like the 'Care Bears Hug-n-Love Hour'. Just prefacing that any smarmy remarks made by our cynical Roman friend are owned by him alone, and that the puppetmaster does not claim them himself. Standard disclaimer stuff :)Okay, I think we've established that religious humour will not bother anyone in here.
Just joining the standard disclaimer gang. And "Care Bears Hug-n-Love Hour" had me spitting coffee. Btw, my user name is just a kind of bizarre in-joke, it's not an indication of evangelism.
Just joining the standard disclaimer gang. And "Care Bears Hug-n-Love Hour" had me spitting coffee. Btw, my user name is just a kind of bizarre in-joke, it's not an indication of evangelism.
Glad my hallucinitory early morning humor can get your coffee moving. I figured no one playing in Evening of an Empire would really have a beef, but I know lots of people lurk around PbP threads (I'm one) and might take the comment out of context.
I am a bright, but I like to play religious characters. I also like to play a different character concept each time. I find I have to keep my tongue around religious people, because they seldom get called out on their disease, and they get very defensive very quickly. Telling a madman that he is mad does not endear them to you.
"All hail the one true god... ooops wrong character."
About the start of combat. In your absense, we got quite involved with forging links between our characters. I was not expecting combat, so I started to narrate a few actions. If we suddenly backtrack to before any of us said anything to anyone else, it seems we will have lost something. Would it be possible to keep what we have written so far, and adapt to it?
I am a bright, but I like to play religious characters. I also like to play a different character concept each time. I find I have to keep my tongue around religious people, because they seldom get called out on their disease, and they get very defensive very quickly. Telling a madman that he is mad does not endear them to you.
I make a habit of not sharing my spiritual life with people not because I'm sensitive about my madness but because of my aversion to religion. Some of the religious are decent people and their faith is an integral part of the good deeds they do in the world, which is fine, but others sicken me so terribly and use their faith to such loathsome ends that I actually begin to feel sick around them. I do my best to keep them apart, mad though they both may be.
My habit of being blunt, however, and speaking frankly on the subject of religion, doctrines, and matters of spirit has seen me thrown out of three churches... and I speak as someone who has formally studied religion. So I can sympathize with your keeping your tongue although my reasons may take a slightly different shape.
Yes I can seen what your saying. Just give a moment to think things over
Armed as he is with only a scalpel (and that's packed away), Isat is toast as things stand. I think this is going to be one for our barbarian pals, with Rufinus in the front line, since he's roughly in the right place already.
Just to see if I'm clear what's happening.
Red heading towards fallen wounded (not in portico flexing - Isat suggested he get behind injured bloke). So he, Isat, Modius and Paper are all in the same general area.
Rufinus is with injured chap.
Crazy emerging from alley with hook/blade of some kind. Crazy is yelling, so we would have heard him?
Is that roughly right or have I missed someting glaringly obvious?
How far is Crazy in the alley from injured chap?
EDIT: Aha. Another of those lovely all post at the same time moments.
One of the things that I am liking about Modius is that he is an early product of a Church that had only recently become a form of social control for the Empire.
He doesn't have a spiritual life and doesn't really know much about religion, he just knows he's supposed to do what the Church says, and he's learned that if he talks about Jesus a lot certain people will look after him.
If I gain initiative vs. the assailant, I perform a charge against him using my 40ft. per round move speed and draw my weapons as part of my attack action, while at the same time I go into rage ala wolverine.
Yes I can seen what your saying. Just give a moment to think things over
Thank you for the prompt and gentle response. Let us sort this out before we start throwing spears at people.
Yes I can seen what your saying. Just give a moment to think things over
Of course. My earlier post was just an attempt to summarise, not force anything in any particular direction.
I get confused easily, so I spend my life writing lists - this is just another manifestation. Please accept apologies for any upset.
I have thought things over. And I think that it is best that I drop the Empire in evening. It has turned out to be a much more demanding endeavour then I had originally imagined. I have been out of the loop for a while having not Dm since 2ed. between researching rules, the campaign backdrop, composing my entries and my daily to living obligations I don’t seem to have enough time to adequately keep abreast with the posts and provide the experience you deserve.
I really appreciate the fullness of attention that you folks here have given the campaign and the creativities of characters and role-playing.
My sincerest apologies.
Perhaps take a day or two to consider. The mechanics are not important, story is. As long as you are able to spend a bit of time each day.
It is your decision. I hope the sequencing issue is not the cause. This was your first time. Go easy on yourself. Your start was very tight, your backstory interesting and your setting distinctive.
I thought of saying "mind if I take over as D.M?, and my wife walked in and said 'Honey, no. You don't have the time, you already have D&D Sundays, Magic Saturdays and Storyteller Thursdays'" Point.
Let us know what you decide.
Would it help if we change to a one post per day model, where you start off each round, and we respond to you? Perhaps the bunch of us getting into character with multiple posts as we have, with no combat to complicate the timeline? We keep what we started, and move on after a break?
Aww ... I just saw this. Herald, I hope you reconsider. This seemed like it would be an excellent game. If you feel overwhelmed, perhaps scale back on post times as suggested by Taliesin. Whatever your descision, thank you for your efforts.
-------Patrick
Of course you have to take whatever decision is best for you and of course I will abide by whatever it is. Can I also add how much I've enjoyed myself with everyone here - it's been fun, informative and helped reignite my long-dormant interest in rpgs.
At any rate, whatever you do decide, many thanks for what we've had.
Well, guys, anyone here an expert on the Roman Empire?
I know a lot, have read a lot, but my DM skills are sorely lacking. I think we should give Herald a day or two to think about it. If Herald stands by his descision I'll try it if perhaps you'd be my rule-supervising wingman Kruelaid.
PS: Sorry about Dead Horse. That was an avatar that did a lot in the line of doody.
I know a lot, have read a lot, but my DM skills are sorely lacking. I think we should give Herald a day or two to think about it. If Herald stands by his descision I'll try it if perhaps you'd be my rule-supervising wingman Kruelaid.
PS: Sorry about Dead Horse. That was an avatar that did a lot in the line of doody.
Gary and I have talked about it and everything is cool. I am (and already was) laying low on 4E and the alias is no longer locked.
I know a lot, have read a lot, but my DM skills are sorely lacking. I think we should give Herald a day or two to think about it. If Herald stands by his descision I'll try it if perhaps you'd be my rule-supervising wingman Kruelaid.
PS: Sorry about Dead Horse. That was an avatar that did a lot in the line of doody.
Only if you want to, we're not going to hold you to anything. And if you do, feel free to redact the game rules. There's a lot of customization here, in particular with Rev's character and it might be a problem for you.
I am already planning a pbp and I don't really want to take this one up....
I am vacillating between two things. Plan A is a Qadiran game, Golarion.
Plan B, which I might fish for first, is a Conan 2E game.
Plan B is touchy because very few people will have the rules.
Taliesin,
The first pbp I entered went the same way as this one. Please don't be discouraged by it. Of the five I entered this is the second to go south.
My sincerest apologies.
No worries. No hard feelings.
I hope you will stick around here at Paizo.
