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So, my experience with PBPs is mixed one. I have one game with almost 6000 posts, that is about two years old, and I have a new game that is quite young, but it should ramp up a thousand posts any day now. The others mostly burned out, either because of players who lost the interest, or myself - because I got disappointed by the slow rhythm of the game.
I can't guarantee you that this game will not end the same way, but I'll try anyway.
So, I have this city in my home game, called Kaledun. The city is kind of Absalom, mixed with Ptolus, Kaer Maga and Korvossa. It is located in a small country that is essentially no man's land between two great states - Overduchy of Hohenbaurg and Sultanate of Tamur. The District and City of Kaledun was once ruled by Despot, but the last despot disappeared a hundred years ago, and after that the rule of the city fell to a Major, elected by various power-groups.
I will post more about the city itself, and the surrounding area, but - essentially, this is high-magic, high-power setting, appropriate for min-maxers, but with a lot of role playing involved.
I want to explore some of the aspects of the role-playing in the city environment, so I decided to start yet another pbp - hopefully, one that will last for thousands and thousands posts. :)
But there is a catch - character development will be a bit constrained. That is, I am looking for a specific combinations of races and classes. So, the character creation rules are as follows:
1) 4d6, drop the lowest, or 30 point buy - decided after the rolling for stats.
2) 1st level characters; max HPs and starting gold.
3) Two traits chosen from the list of traits that can be found by clicking on my profile and two traits chosen from any source published by Paizo.
4) 1 bonus feat in addition to all the other feats that characters receive at 1st level.
5) Upon creation, each character will receive a Heroic Path - a set of bonuses and abilities that you gain every level and are worth about a half of standard class level. This sets you as a hero chosen by fate (or whatever).
Race/class combos:
1) Asimar martial-oriented cleric.
2) Nagaji martial-oriented sorcerer.
3) Drow two-weapon soulknife (Dreamscarred Press)
4) Elven archer (Kobold Quarterly 20)
5) Samsaran witch
6) Tiefling ninja (called "assassin" in the game world)
The idea is for interested players to apply for certain race/class combo. The most interesting characters will be accepted, as well as two reserve characters, just in case.
Daily posting during the weekdays is required, though. Interaction between players is encouraged.
The basic premise of the game is that you are mercenaries from the Korvossa's Sable Company, called on a contract to another world. Your personal histories should be, therefore, tied to Golarion.
That's all for now. I hope that this game idea is interesting to enough folks.
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Your characters will be chosen based on their backstories, so right now I am more interested in their personal histories than crunch.
This recruitment will be open until the end of the week. If I don't get enough applications, I'll start another recruitment thread for another game, perhaps set in Golarion or Eberron or some other world.
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You are members of a mercenary company based in Korvossa. Your company accepted bodyguard contract on another world, so you are sent there. The opening scene of the game will be you arriving at your destination via plane-hopping ship. Your personal histories should be tied to Golarion. Everything published by Paizo is allowed.
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This is just a rough mock-up. I would love your feedback Nightflier.
Matthias Dren is a slave from Cheliax, but he is a special kind of slave.
Matthias is not the kind of slave who fetches food, or washes clothing.
Matthias is a tiefling; this is good for him.
When your mistress is a wealthy, superstitious diabolist and you are a manipulative rake spawned by the very devils your mistress worships, certain opportunities become available…let’s just say Matthias is a specialized servant. He kills the enemies of the family. At least he will now that school is out.
As a child, the young tiefling lied, threatened, flattered, and stole his mistress into sending him to train with the Tien ninjas. There he learned the eastern ways of mysticism, stealth, and deadly arts. Now that he’s back, Matthias is hell bent on earning the absolute trust of his mistress. All the better to elevate himself from slave to heir…
Hmm...sounds interesting. To you have a cutoff date set? Always helps me if I know when I have to have things done by.
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Here goes my rough idea for the Aasimar Cleric, Ozaziel.
Oz remembers nothing of the time before. He awoke one day on the edge of the forest outside the city, fully armed and armored. He tries to remember the times before but everything is fuzzy. He assumes he was religious by the holy symbol of the Empyreal Lord, Ragathiel hanging around his neck. His skill with the bastard sword has earned him at least some recognition around the city and has at least earned him some coin with the town guard.
The basic idea of this guy is that he is a fallen angel who has been battling the demonic forces in heaven for Ragathiel. He was wounded in battle and fell. He kept falling until he hit the earth. The spot where he landed has an outline of a large winged being. He is just the rememnants of the being that was. Dwarfed in size and power, for now.
This is the rough background for an Aasimar Separatist (representing his subsequent fall from the heavens) Cleric of Ragathiel. Crunch to come soon (hopefully tomorrow).
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Timeline:
The recruitment lasts till Monday. If I do get enough interesting proposals, we will proceed with character creation, and that will last two weeks. After that, the game starts.
If I do not get enough applications by Monday, I will start another recruitment thread similar to this one, but set in Golarion, most likely.
Won't have the new KQ until this weekend, but I'm intrigued by the Elven Archer.
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Dibella Krune opened her back door in the rain well past midnight. What is that crying? she thought.
Looking down, a naked creature lay squalling on her stoop. Its skin was smoke and crimson. Its eyes were black as coal. Its pointed tail flicked to and fro, and ever it tugged at its tiny horns. This creature, a devil-spawn from unholy carnal relations, was beautiful.
Dibella bent at the waist and gathered the crying tiefling in her own shawl and went inside.
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“Mistress?”
“Ah, Matthias! Thank you for coming so quickly.”
Mistress Krune sat up straight and folded her hands across her lap. Here it comes, thought Matthias.
“Ser Chronos, the Hellknight, do you know him?”
Dren nodded.
“His blasted dog barks at all hours. Be a good lad and deal with it.”
Matthias’ eyes narrowed. “I thought I was forbidden from killing since the troubadour girl?”
The mistress simply stared. Matthias straightened, nodded, and excused himself.
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“Mistress, I’ve been invited to train with the Black Adders in Tien Ja. This training will greatly enhance my ability to serve you. I humbly ask your blessing.”
“Begone slave. Your place is here.”
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“Damnit Dren! I told you not to leave the house!”
“I thought the racquet would bother you?” Matthias shrugged his massive shoulders as he wiped the gore from his blade. 3 minstrels lie gutted and dead at his feet in the yard.
The mistress smiled. “You are a thoughtful child Matthias, but you know how I feel about bodies in my court. Get rid of them.”
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“Dren! Here! Now!”
What is it now?
Dibella handed Matthias a crumpled parchment.
Why is she so upset? He started to read.
By order of Queen Abrogail of the Thrice-Damned House of Thrune, the tiefling known as Matthias Dren is summoned to court to answer for his crimes against Cheliax. If he is found guilty, he will be exiled to the Nine Hells.
Executed by Knight Commander Rennik Chronos
“What will we do mistress?”
“You will run. Run to Tien Ja and learn all you can. But hear me now Matthias Dren: You come back to me. Come back when you’re strong enough and we will bring Cheliax to its knees!”
Matthias left that very moment and no soul in Cheliax has seen him since.
Please tell me what else I can add. I still don't feel like it's quite finished...
I'll probably be able to fill it out more once I have my heroic path and some of the crunch in place. Again, thanks for the consideration!
This looks interesting. I prefer homebrewed adventures, they tend to allow for more exotic races and classes.
Is it possible to post more setting background, so I can develop some background for a character. I only have the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Advance Player's Guide, Ultimate Magic and Ultimate Combat for character creation. Thus my Glorion knowledge is very limited. You can see my aliases for the kind of backgrounds I create for the characters.
Rolls
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9
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Rolled points is: 13 (Way lower than 30)
Will use 30 point system.
I will go for something that has not been taken already by someone. This time something more martial.
I take the Drow two-weapon soulknife (though I see it mentions Dreamscarred Press, is this information available online). If I need to purchase the printed book it will take about 2 months or more to arrives.
Soulknife is a psionic class, never plade a psionics class, so this will be interesting.
What alignments would you allow for the drow two-weapon soulknife?
There is very little freely available information on the drow in Golarion. I found a small piece on Golariopedia. Any helpful extra information I can get to help me create a character. Drow being exceptionally rare on the surface world, it is going to need some creative thinking on how the character ended up in the mercenary Korvossa's Sable Company, to be sent off to another world.
If I get selected I will purchase the psionics PDF and use it while I await for the book. I will build the character once I have the psionics PDF so I can by the abilities correctly to suit psionics.
I see there is a noble option for the drow, is this option allowed.
Any additional information on the Korvossa's Sable Company.
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To be honest, right now it seems that I will not have enough people for this game, and not all roles will be filled. Therefore, I urge all of you who applied for this game to also apply for my Absalom game, since it's gonna be similar to this one. Also, I plan to develop the cities of Golarion in a manner more appropriate for my home brewed world, so that I can import them when I feel satisfied with them.
Thanx for the information on soulknife, now I have more an idea what kind of character the drow would be.
Also a better location of drow information on the Golariopedia.
I see what nightflier has to say about the drow noble.
Edit:
I see your request to move to another game. It is sad. No interest, then again I noticed people have little interest in homebrew games.
Would you still like to see the drow soulknife being developed?
I just looked at the other game, seems there are plenty characters in the other game already. Maybe see if you can get some to come this way.
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In that game, you can apply with whatever you like. You can also apply with multiple characters. I have posted some info on Soulknives there and one other player applied with a Soulknife Drow as well. You can work with him, if you wish, so that you do your backgrounds together - perhaps your characters can be brothers or whatever; you could also be friends, rivals, students at the same Soulknife school, escaped criminals of the Drow society...
Whatever you decide, roll again on that thread and remember that you can play whatever you wish there. If you still wish to play the Drow, roll 1d20. If you get 1, you are Noble.
Oki will do.
Though remember I will always be available for an opportunity to play home brew games. I like to give authors of homebrew settings to play test their creations.
I'm in for the Nagaji sorceror (bloodline arcane).
30 pt buy as my second stats in other thread were poor.
ST=14
DX=14
IN=10
CH=22
CO=12
WI=10
Traits Divine Weapon 2H sword (CHA vs STR)
Traits Charismatic (+2 CHA, -2 WI)
Plan on having some reptile pets
Spells Known
Enlarge Person
Mage Armor
Plan on having this sorceror buff and mix it up himself with his two handed sword while enlarged and mage armored.