I've played Pathfinder for over a year, and know the ins and outs of the rules and character creation. I've just never played on this website. I'd love to be a part of a larger adventuring group, but I want to play for once. I'm usually gangpressed into being a gm.
I'm willing to play almost anything, and I'm okay with blending into the background if needed.
Welcome to the Boards! :) Hope you find what your looking for!
Welcome to the Boards! :) Hope you find what your looking for!
I can't find the help subforum to learn how to pBp
I don't think there is one really. If there is I have not seen it. I'd suggest just watching a few in progress Threads on the PbP IC board. You'll pick it up fast. It is not too difficult. It is mainly all about the description. All of the dice are rolled on the boards. To learn all that, just click the "How to format your text" button under the Text box. Other than that... It is all down to the GM.
You're in the right place now. Someone may come by an invite you to their game in this thread, but it is good to be proactive too. There are many recruitment threads here for new or ongoing games. When you enter them there will often be character creation guidelines. You'll want to build a character following their specifications, possibly with its own alias, usually complete with background along with the crunch and hope you're picked.
Generally when you post: "You'll bold your character's speech." 'Italicize their thoughts.' "Whisper small."
EDIT: Forgot dice and OOC, but it is all below. And DarkestHeart ninja'd me.
Its cause I'm little!
Its cause WERE little! :P
Ahem.... It's spelled .
:)
-Sigh- Okay okay! We submit. My defense? It is nearly 5am here! :D
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
WERE little!
Is that when someone becomes a halfling during the full moon?
Aside from what was already given. I'd recommend picking up the trial version of Hero Lab or paying for the full version if you want to support them or have money to spend.
The trial works well in a pinch, though and speeds up character creation when applying for games in the recruitment section. Copy/Pasting a stat-block is easy enough, it also allows you to pre-check your character to make sure it's legal for play and you didn't make any mistakes during character creation.
It's not too difficult to learn how to use it, but it's immensely helpful both as a tool for applying for games that are recruiting quickly without too much time investment as well as useful in home-games or for DMing purposes.
It can be irritating creating a character for application to a game and spending a considerable amount of time doing the crunch work only to not get accepted. Hero lab conceivably can reduce that investment of time considerably so it's less of an inconvenience to apply for a game.
Good luck!
No... -Looks around shiftily-
Who told you that? It is a lie I tell you!
I am always a Halfing!
ARRRROOOOOOO!
See...? Wait... No that is a Wolf... Blast!
Jig is up!
WERE little!Is that when someone becomes a halfling during the full moon?
Note to self:
Adventure idea; werehalflings.
Note to self:
Adventure idea; werehalflings.
-Puts up hand- I'm in!
-Puts up hand- I'm in!Note to self:
Adventure idea; werehalflings.
Me, too!
Oh, and I know how to make a character sheet...I just don't know what file or link to make to it.
Aside from what was already given. I'd recommend picking up the trial version of Hero Lab or paying for the full version if you want to support them or have money to spend.
The trial works well in a pinch, though and speeds up character creation when applying for games in the recruitment section. Copy/Pasting a stat-block is easy enough, it also allows you to pre-check your character to make sure it's legal for play and you didn't make any mistakes during character creation.
It's not too difficult to learn how to use it, but it's immensely helpful both as a tool for applying for games that are recruiting quickly without too much time investment as well as useful in home-games or for DMing purposes.
It can be irritating creating a character for application to a game and spending a considerable amount of time doing the crunch work only to not get accepted. Hero lab conceivably can reduce that investment of time considerably so it's less of an inconvenience to apply for a game.
Good luck!
Thanks, I'm trying it out!
Here's an example of what Most DMs look for in a Character Submission.
Click on my name to view this Alias's profile.
To create an Alias go to my account near the top of the web page. Log in if it prompts you to. At your profile page there should be a section that manages your aliases.
Click on Create New Alias. Make up a name and select an avatar if you want. After return to my account and click on the Aliases name. It will prompt you to create a profile.
Then start to create one trying to factor in for readability by putting things in spoilers is nice. You can save the changes and re-work on a character at your own leisure you can also edit the name however you like. Hero Lab simply offers a quick mechanism for creating character sheet that's quite prolific around here due to the fact that it creates a stat-bloc that's very easy to simply copy/paste into a profile.
When you make any post it will prompt you at the bottom of your posting to post as any one of your aliases select the correct one for the correct game your currently in when you post.
Edit: swordsage'd by flitter.
Thats not too complicated...
Step 1 - Click on the "My Account" option on the top bar.
Step 2 - When your Account page comes up, scroll down to the "Messageboard Aliases" section and click "Create New Messageboard Alias".
Step 3 - Choose a name for the Alias (Usually the Character Name)
Step 4 - After entering the name and choosing an avatar pic, confirm the new alias.
Step 5 - Click in to the new Alias, on the "Messageboard Alias" section and it will say it does not have a profile. Click to create the profile then just paste the character sheet in to the available section!
Click Save and your done.
Simples! :)
Thanks, you guys!
Heh! When I saw you got there first Vlad I nearly deleted it but figured I'd leave it up! :)
"Glad to be of service ma'am! Us Halflings got to stick together!" Flit grins, pulls his hat off his head and bows.
Heh! When I saw you got there first Vlad I nearly deleted it but figured I'd leave it up! :)
"Glad to be of service ma'am! Us Halflings got to stick together!" Flit grins, pulls his hat off his head and bows.
That's because together you are almost as tall as normal folk. Get a long trench coat and you might even be able to stand on one another's shoulders and trick a bartender into serving you Cheliax.
Flit grumbles softly under his breath. "Flit the God killer... Yeah... Thats a good name!" Cocking his crossbow, Flit grins at Ringtail viciously.
I joke, but think of all of the perks of being small folk; you pay hardly anything for rent when a broom closet is a spacious studio apartment and you can bathe in a mop-bucket- which is also convenient since you'll be using one for work.
I'm running low on halfling jokes, but I think I have a few racially offensive half-orcs quips that served my last gnome illusionist well.
:)
Flit grumbles softly under his breath. "Flit the God killer... Yeah... Thats a good name!" Cocking his crossbow, Flit grins at Ringtail viciously.
Bergi pulls out her healer's kit. Somehow, she knew that this would end in one of two ways: utter awesomeness or humiliation for herself and the rest of her race.
"Don't forget to point it only at things you intend to kill, Flit the God Killer!"
"Kill? Nah I change my mind... I'm gonna wing him then laugh as he hops away!" Flit grins and levels his crossbow again, shooting a bolt to thud in to Ringtails knee. "HAH!"
Don't small weapons weight half as much as medium weapons? And if a bolt is 10 to 1 lbs., then a small bolt is 20 to 1 lbs.
That is less than an ounce. I think I just got shot with a sliver. How does Flitter keep making gobos asplodeded!?..."Ow! That's apparently how." *Hobbles off.*
- - -
"A half-orc walks into a bar. His gnome friend ducks! Ha! Just kidding- gnomes are short, they don't have to duck. That joke was mean and misleading, I suppose; gnomes don't have half-orc friends."
"What do you do when a half-orc attacks you from across the room with a crossbow? Pick it up and shoot him with it! Ha!"
I miss that character. The party's half-orc paladin probably didn't.
Its been YEARS since I've played a halfling. I miss Roscoe Greenbottle III. Halfling fighter 3/swashbuckler 3/rogue 3. Fun times. But lately, when I've played small, its been go gnome or go home.
"What brings you to Sandpoint, anyway?"
Bergi put a hand on a skirted hip.
Oh, please say he's an adventurer... and that he's from somewhere interestingly different, by Chaldira! Look at his attire!
Don't small weapons weight half as much as medium weapons? And if a bolt is 10 to 1 lbs., then a small bolt is 20 to 1 lbs.
That is less than an ounce. I think I just got shot with a sliver. How does Flitter keep making gobos asplodeded!?..."Ow! That's apparently how." *Hobbles off.*
- - -
"A half-orc walks into a bar. His gnome friend ducks! Ha! Just kidding- gnomes are short, they don't have to duck. That joke was mean and misleading, I suppose; gnomes don't have half-orc friends."
"What do you do when a half-orc attacks you from across the room with a crossbow? Pick it up and shoot him with it! Ha!"
I miss that character. The party's half-orc paladin probably didn't.
Its been YEARS since I've played a halfling. I miss Roscoe Greenbottle III. Halfling fighter 3/swashbuckler 3/rogue 3. Fun times. But lately, when I've played small, its been go gnome or go home.
-clapclap-
I miss that character. The party's half-orc paladin probably didn't.
I should amend this. The party's half-orc invoker truly did not miss him. My illusionist was also an accomplished alchemist- whilst paralyzed and grappled by a roper he go hit by a scorching ray that missed the monster by cover, setting off his 67 alchemist fires and 26 acid vials. Ever see a roper killed by 93 splash damage? Yeah, the DM didn't until that day either.
DM ruled that he couldn't be raised from the dead because there wasn't anything left of the body but a crater full of napalm.
Hey! I MADE AN ALIAS!
Hey! I MADE AN ALIAS!
Yep, easy as that. Soon you'll have more than you know what to do with. Some people on here have like...dozens of 'em.
"Well it was my damn Apprentice you see? He suggested that Sandpoint would be a good place to rest in our travels, take a load off if ya will. We got here and there are more damned Goblins than anywhere else we've been. And now that coward Half-Orc has run off and left me high and dry. No more miracle cures for old Flit. It has curtailed my night caps, that it has. Waking up in the morning with a belly full of ale and a head full of drums is not good for adventuring! Damned Apprentice!" Flit grumbles to himself softly, kicking at a loose rock before him, rolling the cigar between his teeth angrily.
Never got the whole Gnome thing. One of the few races I dont really play!
I saw my first bard killed by her electrically-enchanted mandolin. Character got critted and charred right in front of her adoptive grandfather, her cousin, and the hot-blooded female paladin. This is what a crit dice does.
I'd never seen players attempt to murder the gm before that. My halfling, too, was charred to ashes.
Actually, I die a lot in elemental fury. My gnome witch, Pai-Pai, got delayed fireballed while trying to carry her wounded comrade away from a field of battle.
Both of them died, but her fox familiar made its reflex save!
I have 15! :D
"Well, if it's no trouble... Flit, was it? Would you like to come to the Swallowtail Festival? It might cheer you up!"
The light in Bergi's brown eyes had reached a fever pitch. She would be hanging out with A REAL HALFLING ADVENTURER!
Characters.
Characters attempting to murder the GM is humor.
Players attempting to murder the GM is a felony. Probably several.
"Trouble? Going to the festival sound just about right. The Apprentice has disappeared but the old Flit can still have fun. It would be an honor to escort you. Flitter Whistles the name. Me ma, bless her soul, was drunk when I was born so that's the name I got. People call me Flit though!"
Flit bows, keeping his crossbow pointed at the ground, before straightening and slinging it over his back. "A pleasure!"
Heh! I would love to murder a few of my GM's but I don't. I get em back by being a badass!
Characters.
Characters attempting to murder the GM is humor.
Players attempting to murder the GM is a felony. Probably several.
I can tell the difference between reality and fiction. The gm's girlfriend, not so much. She's actually the reason I've been thinking about rping on here instead. D: She's kinda... a funkiller. She's an attention hog, she won't accept failure, and has a lawful good paladin playing a chaotic neutral character in EVERY CAMPAIGN. Oh, and she hits him, even though he's bigger and older and I'm like D:
Heh! We have a player in our RL group like that... Needless to say she isn't always invited.
I have a player who regularly invites many of his friends and family members to game without asking anyone else, or the GM (usually me) leaving the rest of us to look like jerks if we tell them no, since they were already told that they could play and took the time to build a character. He also invites himself to any game he hears about. Ever been stuck at a table with 13 players?
Hahaha! Yes. Once. On purpose. Tars player, my mate, and one of the guys did a duel GM game. Was fun!
If someone wanted to GM it, I'd love to play in an all-halfling game.
I have a player who regularly invites many of his friends and family members to game without asking anyone else, or the GM (usually me) leaving the rest of us to look like jerks if we tell them no, since they were already told that they could play and took the time to build a character. He also invites himself to any game he hears about. Ever been stuck at a table with 13 players?
Yes, as the gm.
If someone wanted to GM it, I'd love to play in an all-halfling game.
That would rockasaurus.
Hey there Halflingtime/Bergi. I'm running a ROTR pbem that could use a player, if you don't mind the slower pace. To upweigh the pacing, we've got great writing from all the players, making it an entertaining story indeed. Interested?
Hey there Halflingtime/Bergi. I'm running a ROTR pbem that could use a player, if you don't mind the slower pace. To upweigh the pacing, we've got great writing from all the players, making it an entertaining story indeed. Interested?
Sounds great to me! I'll take a look at it!
If someone wanted to GM it, I'd love to play in an all-halfling game.That would rockasaurus.
We could set out on an adventure to destroy a powerful cursed item......say a ring?