Hey, I think I may have found a solution to our battle map problem.
While Lurking in other games, looking for formatting Ideas I saw a guy with a battle maps link, it linked to Google Slides and they had made a grid with images and any player who clicked the link could move the icons on the grid around, Seeing how I cant use Roll20 at work this might work well, find images you like for your characters and upload it to the top slide.
A Thanks to a GM_Armok who I stole this idea off of.
Mia Auset I'm going to start posting stuff for you soon, My only question would be why are you down in the Tunnels? What was your reason for coming to Mann?
She's a cat, obviously she's there hunting rats for sustenance.
Trust me, You really don't want to eat these rats...
Well as a magician, there may be knowledge in the Grand Library you my wish to acquire, Or you deduced that the minimum human contact due to the God rays there may be troves of untouched spoils to acquire, You could be a member of the Church of Heavenly light and are making a pilgrimage into the Holy City. Sounds like you came down here to scavenge though, is that right?
I'm not entirely set on her background story yet... I was thinking of making her a somewhat spoiled born-with-a-silver-spoon type that is somewhat vain and self-centered, but still generous.
Originally, I was planning on making her an ambassador from a distant land, but that might be too high profile/influential... So instead, my idea is that after causing some trouble back in whatever kingdom she comes from (by escalating a minor grievance between wealthy families), Mia is sent by her family to study abroad, so now she studies/teaches/researches archaeology in whatever is the equivalent of a Royal University in the equivalent of "The Capital"... Since she's still causes troubles (and is kinda annoying at times), but comes from a wealthy family and is technically a good professional, the University tends to give her assignments that require long trips.
Basically a mix of Emma Frost, Lara Croft and Harry Dresden! XD
That way, Mia could be in the city looking for an ancient relic or artifact, for example. Or having been sent to contact some famous archaeologist or professor, who either disappeared in the ruins or sent word to the university about an important archaeological discovery.
That's the basic idea, anyway... I can easily adapt it to the setting and type of campaign you want to run. Maybe a background with fewer strings attached might be a good idea, if we're going to be travelling a lot.
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PS: BTW, the numbers between brackets in her description are her AC when she's under effect of Mage Armor.
nah that backstory can fit, If you really want to go down that silver spoon angle, She can be from one of the crystal cities, Basically a cluster Elysium style cities states. Very Magical, Extremely elitist. they support themselves by hording Ancient technology and maintaining a large workforce and army of slaves. Many of them having willingly submitted themselves to slavery at the promise of food, medicine, and the slim chance of earning citizenship.
Sure... That works.
So Lem I have to ask, do you only have one shoe? cause you're searching real hard for that other one :D
Mia doesn't approve of ethnic cleansing... Bur helping Dr.Ratstein seems to be the way to move the plot forward and "coincidentally" meet the rest of the party. XD
The Line between curing life shortening cancerous mutations and ethnic cleaning has never been so gray. fair enough.
BTW, Darn, if you aren't GMing other PbP games, I suggest adding a link to the campaign's map and relevant documents in your profile, like I did with this one. This way we get a quick link to whatever material is important to the game.
it's already in the campaign description. it's been there since I said I put it there like a long time ago.
I know... But this way we don't have to scroll up all the way to the top of the page when we need to give the map a quick check. ^^
I'll consider it.
Real question here, Since Nicos has vanished into the ether for now, how should we treat his character? I don't really want to run him, so do we just proceed as if he's not there? I would not mind that.
I think that's the best way to handle it, yes... Although he did say he was going to start posting again this Wednesday. Just pretend his character isn't present, and if Nicos does come back, then his char suddenly remembers he's there and starts doing stuff.
I added Mia's token to the images' page.
I've been in a motivation slump but I'm going to hammer out some posts here in a bit, and keep them regular