Welcome and congratulations! Let's go ahead and get our characters statted up and ready for play. I'd like to start by Monday, if possible.
Remember: 20 point buy, Max HP at 1st level, average starting wealth, and two traits (one must be from the CotCT background traits).
Roll Call:
Devrim Ornelos - Magus
Solace - Cleric of Pharasma
Tyr Wulfskald - Barbarian
Jack Allorei - Synthesist Summoner
Aerodus Crispin - Wizard
Once you have your alias created and stats incorporated, post here and I'll look over it for you. If you'd like to modify your backstory so that you know each other, you may do so as well. Now's your chance to discuss and get to know each other a little bit before we start.
Reporting in. Alias and stats are up, I'll finish up with my spells and starting gear by this evening.
Does anyone else in the group happen to worship Pharasma?
Oh Captain, my Captain! I'll be finishing up last bits of Devrim's info today/tonight.
@Solace: Right now, Devrim isn't following any particular deity. I'm sure some in his family worship Asmodeus and Nethys but so far, he hasn't found a faith to truely call his own. So he's open to conversion if someone makes a convincing argument and the deity's ideology meshes well with his own outlook.
Crispin signing in. I finished up the character sheet given what the rest of the party is. I think it's all good to go, upon approval.
Greetings everyone, nice to meet you.
Wulfskald's recent history takes place within a Korvosian prison which he has been in for quite some time. One (or more) party members may have had a hand in his escape just prior to the adventure. (Escaped to gether, old friends, or hired by a third party-Shaman,etc.). The adventure could also start with the party meeting him for the first time. Open to suggestions.
Jack here. Don't follow Pharasma, but open to any suggestions on how to get the party to know each other.
Ready for final look over and approval.
The module has a method of putting everyone together. However, if you want to know each other before hand, that is fine too. When it comes to Tyr's current imprisonment, I have a plan. But if you have ideas of your own, I'll be more than willing to incorporate them. The more you make this your own story, the better!
Since they both attended the Acadamae, I'm sure Devrim and Aerodus know one another in some capacity, maybe even went out to get a drink together once in a while. Gods know, they studied hard enough to need it. Devrim might of even put in a good word with a friend of the family to help out a fellow unemployed former student...
Aerodus didn't drink before being kicked out of the Acadamae. And was almost certainly a complete jerk to everyone he met while there. Before his "accident" he was arrogant as hell and didn't think he needed anyone. He had a few friends from childhood, but I'm sure he made essentially no friends while at school.
Jack seems to be the odd one out of the learned group...though if any of you hung around the Temple of Nethys alot, you might have met up with Jack.
Solace: You are missing quite a bit from your character sheet. Would you fill in some combat information, like AC/Touch/Flat, Fort/Ref/Will, Initiative, Perception (useful for me), and CMB/CMD. You can stick all of these (along with HP) in a block of its own for ease of reference if you'd like. They do need to be there before we can start though.
Devrim: Everything looks good from here. I think you are ready to go!
Aerodus: The only thing missing was CMB/CMD, but that is easily solved (I think you are just +0 and 11).
Tyr: You look ready to me!
Jack: I think you are ready!
Here's what I need:
Everyone, in this thread, tell me what you would be doing at mid-morning (an hour or two after dawn) on a normal day. Again, if you want to be together at the start, this should be reflected in your posts. You may post this in character, or not, I'll leave that up to you. I'll be using this to start my first post in the main thread.
Once I have this information and Solace's character sheet completed, we'll start.
A couple different things come to mind. Jack might be studying in the temple, or possibly running an errand for one the Priests. He doesn't usually hunt for Gaedrin till after sunset.
I put in my CMB/CMD under combat information. Crispin is probably waking up and packing his things as he plans on what to do now that he's moving on from his former job.
Solace: You are missing quite a bit from your character sheet. Would you fill in some combat information, like AC/Touch/Flat, Fort/Ref/Will, Initiative, Perception (useful for me), and CMB/CMD. You can stick all of these (along with HP) in a block of its own for ease of reference if you'd like. They do need to be there before we can start though.
Here's what I need:
Everyone, in this thread, tell me what you would be doing at mid-morning (an hour or two after dawn) on a normal day. Again, if you want to be together at the start, this should be reflected in your posts. You may post this in character, or not, I'll leave that up to you. I'll be using this to start my first post in the main thread.Once I have this information and Solace's character sheet completed, we'll start.
Sheet is completed. :)
Aerodus: Ah, I see it. Thanks!
Solace: Looks great, thank you!
Solace would have already finished with her morning devotions and often visits the marketplace in the mornings, running errands for the more senior clerics of her temple.
Since he lacks servants to wake him up now, Devrim is probably sleeping until an hour after dawn. For the next little bit, he'd be eating breakfast at a local bistro while he planned out his day and methods to clear the mud off his name.
And we're off!
Tyr, I know you didn't post what you would be doing, but given that you were imprisoned, it was pretty obvious.
Quick FYI, I'm going to have a relatively busy weekend, so I'm not sure how much time I'll have to post. Feel free to use this opportunity to have your character interact a little bit. If I do manage to find time to post (and everyone has posted their response to entering the shop), then I'll go ahead and move us along. Until then, roleplay at will!
Sorry guys, I'll be unable to do a real post until Tuesday. I hate to make you guys wait that long, but there's not all that much I can do about it. Expect a new post on Tuesday, where you'll meet Yargin.
I'm thinking we'll start looking for a replacement for Tyr if he doesn't show up in the next couple days.
While Aerodus is not currently scared out of his mind, I certainly am for him. The gnome has 17 hit points? That's going to go...very poorly...for poor Aerodus. :P
Hehe, I wouldn't worry too much! I'm sure Devrim's got your back!
Hey guys, I'll be unavailable for much of the weekend, but might be able to get a good post in here or there. Then next Friday I am moving out-of-state and will have intermittent access to Internet for some time. I will most likely be unable to post at all on weekends until the second week of August. The weekdays may be a little better, we'll see.
For now, we're waiting on Devrim in the battle and Tyr appears to have gone missing as well. If they aren't around by the end of Monday, I'll go ahead and run them for the battle. Then I'll go ahead and see if I can find some folks to replace them.
Sorry about the slow pace so far!
Okay, I officially have internet in my new apartment and my computer is set up! That means I can finally update the map, probably this weekend. Before I do so, I want to see how many of you are remaining after this long hiatus and if there is still interest to continue playing.
So, please chime in if you are here! Thanks!
Solace and I are still here.
Yep, still here.
Ready to rock and roll!
Ok, we've got three of you. What do you guys want to do? Find a replacement for Devrim and Tyr, meanwhile I'll DMPC them until the end of the fishery?
That'd be fine by me.
Sounds like a plan to me.
Okay, a couple of things:
1) I can't update the map until probably Sunday, maybe Monday at the earliest, so we're still going to be delayed.
2) I have been reading the AP further (and the current module in more detail) and I'm not liking it nearly as much as I had when I first read this module. I'll continue the game if that is the wish, but I'm not sure this is the right AP for me to run. I think part of the problem is the hook doesn't really give the characters a good reason to talk to each other beyond just their hatred of a single man.
With those two things in mind, and the fact that we've lost two people, I have a question for those of you left. Would you be interested in playing a new AP? I could probably, fairly easily, prepare Kingmaker, Serpent's Skull or maybe Jade Regent in a relatively short amount of time. By then, we could have a quick recruitment thread to pick up one or two more players. You guys will have a chance to create new characters that will be guaranteed a spot (and you can work together in the creation if you'd like to have your backgrounds tied together).
Or we could continue playing too. I've promised you a game, and I really don't want to take that away from you without your input. Let me know what you think, please. I'm am very sorry for the lack of posts from me lately. The whole moving thing really threw me off, especially in regards to mapmaking...
Whatever works best for you man. I can easily tailor a backstory for whatever campaign you want to run. And who knows? I might end up playing something different.
Depending on which AP you pick I may write up a different character. Most likely still a cleric, though I may pick a different deity to reflect my new background.
I'm alright with a different AP. I'm not too interested in Jade Regent and I'm hoping to eventually play Kingmaker in a non-pbp game, but if you run a Serpent's Skull game, I'd probably be in. But I'm also alright with dropping a game. I'm in a bunch of pbp's and could do with one less.
DM, I was wondering what program you used for your map in our game? Trying to figure out how to make some of my own.
I was using Publisher from the Office Suite. Actually, I could probably just as easily use PowerPoint, which is my plan going forward. I just use Adobe Reader's "copy" tool to copy the map, move it to Publisher and then put a black shape over things you aren't supposed to see yet (plus add the grid). It takes a little bit of work to set up, but then it is easy once it's put together for the first time. I just haven't had time to recreate it in PowerPoint yet.
For tokens, I just use the Token tool from RPGtools (search it on google, it is freeware).
Any objections to Serpent's Skull? Wouldn't be difficult for me to read up on, since I've played through the first module and most of the second in a home game (which is now dead).
I'll give serpent's skull a go :)
Sure, I could do Serpent's Skull. Link the recruitment topic for me?
Start thinking about what you'd like to play. I'll set up a recruitment thread tomorrow when I have a little bit more time. I think we're going to go with 20-point buy, 2 traits, core classes and races only. UM and UC are allowed. New rule: You may not drop a stat below 10 prior to racial adjustments (to avoid dump statting).
One of your traits must come from the campaign traits in the Player's Guide, so please take a look at that as well.
I'll have a look at the player's guide and write something up and ready to post before tomorrow. I love character creation. :)
My character will be posted in a couple days. School starts tomorrow, so I will be really busy.
I understand about school... I have less time than usual now as well (working full time at a new job with more responsibilities than before and grad school starting up again). Anyway, I'm going to delay on the recruitment thread until I have an idea of what you all are looking to play. I'm going to round out the party, I think, and I want them to know what classes are already in the game.
Do you want a four-person party or five? Four would be more challenging, since I probably won't change the encounters too much (unless it seems too easy with five). The AP is written for four people.
I'm currently writing up a half-elf cleric of Gozreh. For party size, I usually go with one more than recommended just because it always seems like at least one person will drop in any given group. Saves time on finding a replacement. :)
Time to migrate over to a knew OOC!
Also, I didn't mention it before, but no gunslinger allowed. They really just don't fit with this campaign, unfortunately. Hopefully that won't be a problem.