Thread of Unknown Purpose...OOC for Immortals

[Nerre]

How complex are you planning to run this game? Much roleplay, smalltalk? I did just sign up for Willpells game, so another complex D&D might be too much, especially if there would be a need to read a lot on a daily base.

[Quarg]

How complex are you planning to run this game? Much roleplay, smalltalk? I did just sign up for Willpells game, so another complex D&D might be too much, especially if there would be a need to read a lot on a daily base.

This will focus on the story aspect and character building more than just mechanics...

[Quarg]

where is the link to thuntian goblins at?

http://www.goblinscomic.org
Yeah base your goblins on Thunt's work rather than the description in Pathfinder...Race is either -2 STR, +2 DEX or the standard -2 STR, +4 DEX, -2 CHA depending on the type of tribe your associated with...

[Synch]

Hmm very good point. I wasn't sure if we would be exclusively in cities or travelling through the wilderness etc, but given you've said its very Venetian-esque then I will go with the Gunslinger or Knife Thrower. How common or uncommon are firearms in your world? If they are near non-existant I'll go with the Knife Thrower.

Quarg, you may have missed my question. Is your world 'blades only' or are there firearms/gunpowder?

[Quarg]

Hmm very good point. I wasn't sure if we would be exclusively in cities or travelling through the wilderness etc, but given you've said its very Venetian-esque then I will go with the Gunslinger or Knife Thrower. How common or uncommon are firearms in your world? If they are near non-existant I'll go with the Knife Thrower.

Quarg, you may have missed my question. Is your world 'blades only' or are there firearms/gunpowder?

Nope, just haven't gotten to answering it yet...Firearms will be allowed but me and Pathfinder have some *Issues* I need to work out...

Edit...Alright second post now has the firearms rules...Firearms are not that rare...but they are quite limited in distribution being primarily items of the governments/nobility and seafarers (mainly because of Pirates)

[Synch]

Oh ok, sorry.

If its easier to negotiate Pathfinder I'm quite happy with making a knife thrower.

[Quarg]

Oh ok, sorry.

If its easier to negotiate Pathfinder I'm quite happy with making a knife thrower.

Nah, the big thing was the firearm attributes of matchlock, wheellock, and flintlock (though flintlock is 1610...I'm pushing it forward a bit in this world history)

And now it is finally up...

[Arch Lich Burns]

where is the link to thuntian goblins at?

http://www.goblinscomic.org
Yeah base your goblins on Thunt's work rather than the description in Pathfinder...Race is either -2 STR, +2 DEX or the standard -2 STR, +4 DEX, -2 CHA depending on the type of tribe your associated with...

Hmm. Well i was asking because i thought it was some homebrew thing and i knew that thint dod not put Nything up

[Amara]

Question on which point buy method.
Is this starting with a base of 8 or 10, and is it on a 1-1 or a scaling ratio?

[Quarg]

10 and the cost is the scale provided in the Core Book

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Now if you think that's too conservative in your experience, IM me about it....I'm not above taking advise

[Amara]

That's fine. It just always pays to double check. C: Lord knows assuming never ends well for me.
I'm packing this weekend, but I will start putting a character sheet together for review. If anyone needs, I can host the blank sheet for people to download, if, like me, it's easier to have a PDF to look at outside of the forum.

[Arch Lich Burns]

Um...I am trying to figure out wether or not I should be a witch or summoner. I went with summoner route because...create your own monster.

[Quarg]

I thought he was going to be a Magus...but either is acceptable...
The only thing is your first summoned monster must have been a damn surprise to your warcamp...

[Arch Lich Burns]

Yep. Espessially with a flying snake that can fly!


...Uh so do we use mystic weavers or what to make our sheets?

[Quarg]

Mystic weavers works...
What I need is access to it via the web, I'm not going to get overly pushy about a single format...
(mostly because your base stats are going in a spreadsheet for me to reference also but I need your sheets also...)

As for this flying snake...I think I want details...a flying snake might be okay...or it might break the damn game...
So please discribe your creation Burns...

[Arch Lich Burns]

When I said snake...I should have said snake like. Anyways, being medium size it is probably the size of a boa, or python. It has no venom of it's own, but it still can give a burning sensation. The wings is a cross between bat like and insect like. It has natural (or as natural as these things get) sack like thing on it's back, a kin to a saddle, and atteni-like guiders on it's head, streching back to the sack so that the rider could change direction if desired.

It can also force itself onto other people as a really snug scarf that may choke you to death.

[Tea]

[Editing: finished typing back story and making this look a bit more presentable]

Name: Aajej (still have to find her a family name)

Age 150 (or 180) whichever would work better for aging of long-lived races in this world.

Physical Description: A hundred years of sun and wind have darkened her skin to a deep bronze. Her hair is dark brown, bordering, almost, on black. Her eyes are silver. She is slightly shorter (not greater than 1/4 of a head) and stockier than average for an elf, but not enough that she is easily mistaken for a human.

Personality Description: Aajej prides herself on being pragmatic and fiercely loyal. Her upbringing in the often harsh deserts has made her carry a disdain for the ways of more temperate people, viewing them as soft and sheltered. While she doesn't mind people, she is often overwhelmed in large crowds. When not adventuring, she enjoys listening to others tell stories or slipping off to find a quiet place to read.

Race: Elf (I don't see a desert elf subtype, but Arctic Elf seems pretty darn close)

Class: Hunter [animal companion: fennec fox (whom she would like to name Simoom)

Background:

Way Back

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Aajej became an adventurer much later in her life than normal. Her mother was born to a band of nomadic elves in the deep desert, but at an early age, her family moved and settled in an elvin merchant community in one of the cities closer to the coast. Far away, her father was also born, but he tells her no stories from his time before he came to the desert. From his looks, she thinks he is from somewhere in the northern forests, but in all her travels. she has yet to meet anyone who looks like his people. He was, or had been also a hunter, but from her all times with him, he taught her little more than to survive and defend herself should she ever get caught alone. He says he set foot in the desert and the great emptiness calmed his spirit in a way that made him forget his past wanderings. Her mother says he's a romantic idiot who managed to get in father than he or his water supply was prepared for. The caravan that rescued him just say that if they hadn't. he would have been dead.

Her father stayed with the caravan, but it went farther than owing them for saving his life. They became fast friends and all but brothers. It was working with them he first met Aajeji's mother, and, later, when he was called upon to arrange his daughter's marriage, it was them he asked for help. Meanwhile, her mother was no longer a girl anymore, but had inherited her family business, and when she and Aajej's father fell in love, it was what members of both sides said had been expected. But, her father did not do well in settled life. For the first twenty years of her life, they all lived together in an apartment in the house of her mother's family (it didn't take long for her kin to amass a small fortune). Then, her father grew restless. One day, she got up early and found him packing his things. No one said anything. When she asked, her mother's kin just shook their heads in scorn. Her mother said he'd been fighting it, but in his heart there had always been that something else that had pulled him away and she looked off on the direction of the great emptiness, only, this time, it wasn't empty.

When she was 25, he came back, and this time, she went with him. For awhile, that was her life. She would spend a year or two in the desert with her father, and then he would return her and she would resume with her mother and her kin. She didn't think of herself as abnormal, she just saw herself as having two childhoods. In one, she lived with her mother, she played with the other children even though, sometimes, their faces changed more rapidly than she could keep up, and she went with her grandmother to the docks to see what their ships had brought from their trading partners in the lands beyond the sea. In the other, she traveled with her father--sometimes alone, sometimes with a band of desert elves. He taught her to survive, but he also taught her, in his bumbling and often incorrect way--to the amusement of anyone more knowledgeable with them--the old legends (even though she's pretty sure he was making half of that up on the spot).

At adulthood, she married the child of another one of the desert bands. It was an arranged marriage, and mostly for political reasons (part of an alliance), but the two had been distant friends before, so they got along well enough, and she says that even though it wasn't by choice, they did grow to love each other. One day, her husband set out with a caravan and never came back (neither did the caravan). Her father stumbles upon the bones, but there are some things, he thinks, it is better not to tell. It has been many years even by elvish reckoning since he has visited his daughter and granddaughter and every year he finds it harder to to turn his path to point to the coasts. When he is declared legally dead, Aajej goes into mourning, but by the time it is announced, she has already stopped expecting him to turn up.

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After awhile, she too became restless, but the old, familiar places held no interest for her. She envied the people who brought back--often fantastical--stories of their adventures in the lands beyond the sea, of the great cities of the Empire, and of the wonders of the faraway Emerald Islands. One day, she was helping her mother organize a ship bound across the sea. She says she doesn't know how her name ended up in place of one of people who was going. Her half-cousin also doesn't know why instead of the ship he thought he was taking, he was assigned to accompany a caravan instead, but at least he is telling the truth. By the time her family realized she'd left, she was already well out to sea and not looking back.

Her mother's people shook their heads and said her father's people couldn't be trusted. Every few years she receives a letter from them requesting her to return home, but they have never gotten a response. She has taken up traveling, and transporting things when there's a need. She prefers letters, they're small and portable, and she doesn't have to worry about them having to keep up--they also are good about keeping quiet and don't need to be fed regularly--but she has yet to explicitly object to anything.

[Quarg]

Tea,
First, Yea the Arctic Subtype is best...the Arctic is a desert in many places....just one with tones of frozen water...
And no need to remove darkvision...the best time to do much in the desert is at night...

And I'm going to nix the camel period...*shudders* camels and boats...do not get along...
But I will let you take any desert predator and we'll just translate it to it's closest relative on the current list...or a horse...

Burns,
Yeah, at fifth level you can have a flying snake with wings...but I'm going to say you have to spend a good number of evolution points to get it to be able to fly with you and all your gear on it...and then it can't fly very high fully encumbered...

[Arch Lich Burns]

I am not too worried about encomberance, with how small my goblin is. And I spent points on fly AND mount abilities

[Tea]

Okay, now it's a draw between three canids: jackel, wolf, and fennic fox. (It was close between one of these and the camel anyway.)

[Quarg]

Wolf is already stated
Jackel looks to best be represented by the Hyena
Fennic Fox --Small Cat but the claw damage is removed and gets Energy Resistance Fire +2 AC to fire or heat attacks...
(Yeah, the Fennic Fox would get lots of comments by NPCs...)

[Tea]

I'm leaning towards the fox, but it's a little....cute.
maybe I'll just have to test telling everyone it's poisonous and likes to eat people to keep them at bay.

Almost done, editing completion into original post. Then it's wait and see who actually gets picked?

Another question: is the Republic of the Emerald Islands the same nation as the Empire?

[Quarg]

Lol...you just had me have an idea about an Urban Ranger concept...

Tea,
Well, I've been debating between six and seven characters....
What I am leaning towards is that my character, who's now a PPC-Psudo-Character Player...is going to interact with yours quite a bit but avoid being in direct contact with some of the people you meet and a good number of the battles... (This game doesn't need to railroad in any way shape or fashion after you all join on the mission...but damn it I want to at least RP with her a bit more!)

So...right now that translates into two open slots and three people showing interest in them...
and only one actually (you) have so far made a real bid...
At some point I need to get Chuck and Nerre to bid or cut bait...(Although I think Nerre has cut bait already)
Likely I will ping them both on Monday about it...

[Arch Lich Burns]

okay apparently mystic weaver does not have pathfinder. I don't know what else to use. Sigh.

[spiderwrangler]

Myth weaver does. Just sheets with some maths built in, so you'll still have to build it out mostly manually.