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That is true, most of my books are just sitting there, never even been opened even for curiosity, but as the D&D 5e/Pathfinder Fan that I am, I have them because I must have them. I'm hoping to DM a couple of times to make them useful, or hopefully a friend DMs somewhere and borrows them. I thought about reading the storylines to see what they where about and what happened, because I would never remember where the treasure is or what monsters there are if I read it through once. I would need to play or DM it to remember stuff like that, but then again I might, but if all you are doing is reading through it to know the storyline, you aren't really caring all that much about what treasure is where and what monsters there are, with the exception of bosses they are kind of hard to forget even at a glance.

Anyway at Rednal. Are you hoping to play specific Scenarios/Modules/Aps with specific characters? Is there any character that you think fits exceptionally well in a certain scenario? I know some people are like that, this specific character must play this specific scenario, or this character would have a hard time with this scenario for roleplaying reasons.

Rose, as I mentioned, is the kind of character that would work well in many normal campaigns and adventures - she's a bit on the silly side, but is fundamentally heroic. I'm most interested in using her because she's flat-out amusing to me and would probably be pretty easy on any GM. No super-stealthy stuff like ducking past every obstacle you make, not likely to horribly derail things by acting in a way the game doesn't expect, but still flavorful and interesting.

Valissa is a better option for games featuring infernal and/or Lovecraftian foes - a major element of her character is that she understands such foes and refuses to be intimidated by them. Rather, she'd be ruthlessly exploiting any and all weaknesses. The original story with her had her as the military officer in charge of protecting the world's Dreamlands - another Lovecraftian idea, and in-setting, the only thing stopping Eldritch horrors from returning to the planet - but that wouldn't need to be a part of the story here. It's just the kind of thing I have in mind for this character. ...I might crack open Spheres of Power to make her, actually...

Titus works best with urban campaigns - perhaps an Absalom-centric campaign, very scenario-based as he tries to run his business (threats eliminated, items found, etc.) and get paid. XD Of course, there aren't exactly many high-level scenarios hanging around, but you could adapt some stuff from modules or APs that take place in a city to use at that point.

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Other than a loose idea of what setting would work for a given character, I'm not really attaching specific missions to characters. I am trying to give GMs as much creative freedom as possible - and surprises really do help.

Yeah, for Titus I'm planning to home brew it if chosen. I was thinking Absolom, or maybe one of the border cities in Cheliax - somewhere with infernal corruption but the populace isn't happy about it. It's always fun to have sections of the local government being nice and corrupt without everyone being that way.

Huh. Looks like I failed the map link, haven't tested it before now.

This should be the right one.

"Which part of the bureaucracy will screw me over today?"

XD

@Arae: Ooooh, hand-drawn maps! ^^ I mostly stick with cropping pics, myself - I have no faith in my artistic abilities. XD

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And here's another character idea, just for variety.

Tatti, the Runecaster, is a scholar of symbol-based magic and ancient runes. As a child, she was raised near a particularly large and complicated set of Thassilonian ruins, with one of the few intact temples dedicated to the goddess Lissala - and the extraordinarily complex runic markings that covered the walls of this place had a lasting impact on Tatti's young mind. With plenty of time (and talent) on her hands, Tatti started studying the ruins in earnest, and the end result was teaching herself an unusual type of rune-based magic that she soon put to use in furthering her explorations. Now, older and more capable, Tatti makes a living as a professional archaeologist and explorer who investigates ancient ruins for a variety of patrons.

Commentary: Tatti is an 'explorer' type character. She doesn't visit places to help in the way Rose would, but instead is basically exploring for its own sake, and would probably be a good character for a mid-low plot/high dungeon-crawling sort of game. Class-wise, I'm thinking an Armorist/Incanter/Something (the first two are from Spheres of Power), flavored with drawing runes in the air or on objects to activate their powers.
GM Rednal wrote:

"Which part of the bureaucracy will screw me over today?"

XD

@Arae: Ooooh, hand-drawn maps! ^^ I mostly stick with cropping pics, myself - I have no faith in my artistic abilities. XD

It's not like I'm an artist or anything myself, but I had to fit this map into this one if I wanted a map at all, so it was just easier than messing around with paint XD

By the way, do you have a cut-off day for applications, or are you just waiting to see one turn up that you like well enough to start?

If it's the latter one, I think I'll go put up a public recruitment thread; I've found I really want to run this thing.

I'll probably make a decision by the end of the week. ^^ This is fairly important to me, so while I don't want to wait too long to get started, I also don't want to take forever to decide. XD

I am super interested in running Valissa. Kind of horror Ustalav stuff yes!

What kind of game would you prefer to run Valissa in? At the moment, I'm leaning towards Arae/The Dragon for her, and having a rough idea of what sort of game you'd run would be very helpful.

Incidentally, since they're separate characters and I might be using the initial build, Valissa would probably show up as a Warpriest (Sacred Fist)/Kineticist/Incanter. Quite good at punching things, defenestration, and various magic effects. Might replace the Warpriest's spells with Spherecasting - it's pretty straightforward.

Quite fine by me, if I end up GMing for you. I don't have SoP, but I've been meaning to get it regardless. Not familiar with the Incanter though - is that one from Spheres of Power as well?

And how would that interact with the Recharge magic rules you want to use?

SoP is absolutely worth picking up - the Incanter is indeed from that, and is the basic 'full caster' class for the book.

I actually wrote up some Recharge Magic rules for Spheres of Power in case it became relevant in my other games. XD This will make a bit more sense to anyone who has the rules for spherecasting in front of them, but the basic idea is that if a sphere is like a spell with a long recharge, then the sphere also has a long recharge, and higher spell point costs equal longer cooldowns (and prevent further uses of that sphere, even at the basic level, until the recharge is complete).

Special Cases

Spheres of Power: Spherecasting falls under a 'Spell-Like' judgment category for recharge times.

-General casting (such as the Destruction sphere's Destructive Blast) does not have a recharge time, and can be used as normal. However, augmenting a general cast (such as by adding talents) imposes a 1d3 round cooldown.

-If a spherecast is like a spell with a specific recharge time (which usually, but not exclusively, involves things like enchantments, creation, divination, powerful illusions, and so on), then it also has a specific recharge time, based on the specific recharge time of the spell it is most similar to. Use the list on d20srd.com's page for Recharge Magic to determine recharge times.

--All spherecasts should be discussed with the GM prior to use, with recharges clearly listed in the player's alias once accepted. When possible, the discussion should cite the spell the player believes the cast is most like, and the GM will either agree and accept that recharge or assign a different recharge time.

-If a spherecast has a spell point cost and does not have a specific recharge - even if it's a basic ability of the sphere and not augmented by any talents - the recharge is 1d3 rounds per spell point used. This is in addition to any costs from augmenting it, even if the spell point cost comes from a talent - in other words, using talents with spell point costs means a cooldown of at least 2d3 rounds.

-Outside of spherecasts with specific recharge times (which only have cooldowns for themselves and don't cover other casts, per the normal rules for recharging magic), Spell Recharge in spherecasting applies to that specific sphere. For example, if Destruction is on cooldown for two rounds, a Spherecaster could not cast even a basic Destructive Blast, but could cast Ghost Strike from the Death sphere (if they know it) as an alternative attack.

Okay, I went and bought the thing. Interesting stuff, even if I'm not quite sure I'll wind up using it myself. We'll see.

Regarding the warpriest, I think it should look something like this:

Mid-caster(Gains first caster level at level 1 and skips the caster level increase at level 2).
Wis Based
Magic Talents: Gain a magic talent at first level, and at every level you gain an increase in caster level, except for levels 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20, where you benefit from the Necromantic Focus ability instead.
Necromantic Focus: Gain access to either the Life or Death sphere at first level depending on whether you channel positive or negative energy. Gain a talent from the appropriate sphere at level 4 and every 4 levels thereafter.
Assumed Casting Tradition: Verbal Casting & Focus (Holy Symbol, may substitute Focus Weapon)

Fervor lets you cast any ability on yourself as a swift action, but it can only target yourself, regardless of how many other targets it could normally affect. For example, you could use it to activate the Serendipity Consecration of the Fate Sphere as a swift action, but the aura would only affect yourself.
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Also, while I think your conversion looks quite all right at a glance, I'd like to have the rule put in there that you can't create effects that would normally require spell points in excess of what your spell pool would normally contain. I haven't read the system in fine detail yet, so the clause might not be strictly neccesary, but it'd make me feel better.

I suspect that last rule will not be necessary - most things only cost 1-2 points, and Spell Pools (for holding points) tend to be Class Level + Ability Modifier, so pretty much any character would be well in excess of the limit. I'm not aware of any way to pay high SP costs (except maybe via metamagic), though there could be a rule or option buried in there somewhere - if so, I'm happy to assume that bit's in force.

The conversion looks good - I'll probably take Birthmark for a built-in Holy Symbol, just because Valissa's the unarmed type. XD
GM Rednal wrote:
What kind of game would you prefer to run Valissa in? At the moment, I'm leaning towards Arae/The Dragon for her, and having a rough idea of what sort of game you'd run would be very helpful.

Undead horror show. The Dragon is a great player and I will pitch Ideas for the other two characters as well.

So basically, I love the Ustalav lore, The whispering Tyrant's prison, Belkzan and the Orc Hordes, I'd probably do something along those lines. I have an idea, I can tell you if you want, or it could be a surprise.

*Taps chin* Mmm... yeah, Friday sounds about right for wrapping this up.

If you're interested in making a deal here, please post here by Friday to express your interest and explain the game you'd like to run.

@Bane88: What ideas do you have for the other characters?

I'm a bit flexible on what I'd like to run but...

You said Valissa is good for Lovecraftian stuff, so if you allow me to run her, I'd do one of three Paizo eldritch horror games, of your choice. Carrion Hill, Crucible of Chaos, or From Shore to Sea, all Eldritch Horror based. Or all 3 if you want. I also own most of Headless Hydra Games, which I looked over and reviewed some of which are Eldritch based, and willing to buy whatever one I don't own if you want me to run it, as I heard they are interesting. Headless Hydra 3rd Party Games

If you allow me to run Titus, I'll wonder how he will do in Gallery of Evil and/or Hangman's Noose.

I'd love to run Rose, I'm just having issues trying to figure what I'd want to run. It's honestly kinda hard for me to figure out what to run when I really don't know what exactly it is that you're wanting to put the character through mechanically. Story wise, I have no problem with, but mechanically...

@DM KLS: You're probably overthinking it. XD Basically, I'd just like the characters to be reasonably challenged - not stomping all over everything like it's not even there, but not at a 90% chance of dying in every encounter, either. In fact, given the LOSS of power by being solo (even a powerful character only has so many actions a round!), you might not even need to edit things too much. Just run encounters and challenges the way you'd like to.

(No, seriously, run the game how you want to. That's part of what it MEANS to be a GM, and outside of the build rules - which is what I'm testing - I'm trying to keep my hands off. Whoever runs the game is the GM, and is in charge, and I both accept and support that. I think they should absolutely be free to run it as they see fit.)

Hmm... I'm thinking Shattered Star or Jade Regent as a base and then going from there then.

For Rose(Fun Character) I think something along the lines of magical robin hood, possibly set in Cheliax, with Hellknight enemies, Stagecoach robberies, political kidnappings and ransoms, perhaps recruiting a bunch of misfits into a good hearted bandit group. (Rose's rough riders? Rose's Rabble Rousers? Rowdy Rose and the Quick-finger gang?)

For titus, I might do something along the lines of uncovering political corruptions, murder investigations, drug trade, kidnapping rings etc. Possibly the dirty cop with a good heart road, or only person who cares so action is left to him road.
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Bane88 wrote:

For Rose(Fun Character) I think something along the lines of magical robin hood, possibly set in Cheliax, with Hellknight enemies, Stagecoach robberies, political kidnappings and ransoms, perhaps recruiting a bunch of misfits into a good hearted bandit group. (Rose's rough riders? Rose's Rabble Rousers? Rowdy Rose and the Quick-finger gang?)

For titus, I might do something along the lines of uncovering political corruptions, murder investigations, drug trade, kidnapping rings etc. Possibly the dirty cop with a good heart road, or only person who cares so action is left to him road.

The first one sounds like a really cool game.

Yeah that's the one I'm way more interested in running.

All right, recruitment's over! ^^ Thank you all for applying, and after considering things over the last few days, I'd like to make the following deals:

DM KLS, I'd like to work with you on a campaign for Rose.

-Arae, I'd like to work with you on a campaign for Valissa.

Feel free to set up some campaigns now and send me a link so I can dot the gameplay and discussion threads - and we can talk about the games I'll run for you there. ^^

DAMMIT!

Have fun though...

Fantastic! I look forward to long and interesting adventures with you.

Here's the Discussion thread, you can get to the IC too from there.

Awesome! Give me a day or two to get things set up. Would you be good with Jade Reagent as a base?

You're the GM - it's your decision. XD Jade Regent should work just fine (though now I'm having visions of the "strange foreign lady" bringing gunpowder to the East... I'm not sure if that's good or bad. XD).

That just makes things fun lol.

Here you go Rednal.

Do have fun. I wish I had sufficient experience as pbp GM to actually have made a submission here, but best of luck for stuff to work out :)
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