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OOC / Re: Pre-Game chatter
« on: April 02, 2014, 06:35:59 AM »
@zook1shoe: Meanwhile, since the summons for would-be-king adventurers came from Restov, it makes since that Vian and Arella would go there first before setting out. I don't know about your character's personality, but he could have joined them at Restov as the mercenary type. Obviously, we wouldn't pay him, but he'd get his share of the loot. Alternatively, if his lawful alignment is a significant element of his personality, he could already want to tame the lawlessness of the Greenbelt. In that case, he could join the party because of an alignment of purposes. My character is more concerned with establishing a good kingdom, but your character could seek the establishment of a kingdom simply because it's preferable to anarchy.

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Character Sheets / Re: Cass Talakhis
« on: April 02, 2014, 06:03:34 AM »
BTW, linklord231 did specify that one of your traits needs to be a Kingmaker campaign trait.

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OOC / Re: Pre-Game chatter
« on: April 02, 2014, 04:48:28 AM »
Hey Gazzien,
I was thinking about one of your posts, how you said you were trying to get to 15 TPA. It suddenly occurred to me, though it may not be news to you, that your simultaneous membership in the Pathfinder Society is actually quite fortuitous. The main obstacle in gaining prestige with the Kitharodian Academy is that not only are you not there, but it's exceedingly far away. Gaining prestige in the Academy is all variations on a theme; professors observing your skills. But you're nowhere near any of the professors to be observed, no matter how many demonstrations of your skills you make. However, if your skillful exploits are published in some Pathfinder Journals (and with the cooperation of the DM, they could be), then your professors could hear about them.

Under this pretext, you may not need to return to the bard college except very infrequently. I would assume it's like most bard colleges in that the learning is considerably self-directed, what with the students being so independent. That being the case, you may have thought that you would learn more traveling abroad, even if you did not want to revoke your attendance status at the academy.

In any event, a character tie-in we might want to consider is that you and I met on my travels. Adventurous as you may be, you might not have wanted to go as far as Brevoy, but I may have convinced you to come, saying there would be many opportunities to display your virtuosity and great need for your powers. For indeed, bards being what they are in a fantasy world, they can be very useful to armies, and are at least entertainment for the court. It may have been hard for you to find a position in courts that were already established. But if you befriend someone before he becomes a king, you've got a foot in the door...

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Character Sheets / Re: Cass Talakhis
« on: April 01, 2014, 11:11:01 PM »
Hey Scout89, just thought you might be interested, the Prehensile Whip trait looks pretty sweet.

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OOC / Re: Pre-Game chatter
« on: April 01, 2014, 07:44:33 AM »
Ok, looks like I'm having to eat my words from my character post, lol. We're going to have to share our character backgrounds if we, as players, want to formulate the party's origin story. My character is the son of a noble half-fey mother and an unknown man. The half-fey was evil and manipulative and eventually drove him to the brink of murder. However, the shame of the incident spurned him in the opposite direction, and the hatred he once had for his cousins who inherited his family's noble title was turned instead towards his mother. Eventually, this hatred melted and turned to pity, but not before it had the cathartic effect of transforming Vian into a champion of the downtrodden, acting as a leader for a group of orphaned children. He has the Noble Born (Medvyed) trait. His motivations for returning from his travels to Brevoy are mainly to establish a kingdom in those lawless lands so that those who are normally taken-advantage-of have a better chance of survival. He wants by good deeds to rewrite his character and maybe, in time, redeem his past. His main abilities are charisma and strength, so he makes for a good military leader.

Depending on the backgrounds of the other characters, my character can furnish a party origin story simply by being a leader/recruiter. Amongst those who are already good, he is persuasive but not pushy. He is only intimidating to those who have strayed from the paths of righteousness. So, he could be a magnet that attracted the party to his cause. He wants to set up a kingdom and can't do it alone. He needs allies and he found them either at or before Oleg's Trading Post.

Alternatively, he could take a less dominant role and find people with whom it is merely convenient to work together. He and other PCs wanted to establish their own sovereignties , but it would be best at this early stage to work as one.

If you're looking for other connections with my character, his faerie grandmother lives in the Gronzi Forest. He spent some time in Westcrown in Cheliax. And he spent some time traveling the places in between.

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Rules / Re: Posting
« on: April 01, 2014, 07:00:08 AM »
As the PC Vian, I choose green.

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Rules / Posting
« on: April 01, 2014, 06:59:18 AM »
In this thread I will discuss the formatting we will follow for this PbP game. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them below.

I will require at least one responding post from every player as I want you to choose which text color will be associated with your character. Character speech will not only be in quotations, but will also be colored, like "red" for NPC speech. Character thoughts will also be colored and italicized, like so. This will make distinguishing characters easier. Narration of character actions will be left black. If you want to say something OOC that should accompany your gameplay post rather than go in the OOC subforum, please stay in character by confining such text to spoiler buttons.
(click to show/hide)
Otherwise, OOC chatter should go in a thread in the respective subforum. The gameplay subforum should be reserved for, you guessed it, gameplay. For those who don't know, the spoiler button is the one that looks like a hill with some clouds. All of the formatting options I've mentioned can be used by first highlighting the relevant text and then hitting the respective button.

We will not be using Min/Max Boards's die roller as Roll20 has an excellent one we will be using instead. Even if your die roll has nothing to do with a map, please be sure simply to log it in Roll20 to remain consistent. If your character needs to make indirect, tactical movements on the map, you can show which squares he has passed through by drawing a line of the color you chose for your character. The DM will delete this after he's seen it, but if you need to draw another line before the DM has gotten around to it, label the second line "2" the third "3" and so on. The line tool is accessed by clicking on the paintbrush icon. Of course, relying on Roll20 for die rolls and maps as we are necessitates that all the players have an account. If you don't already, free full membership can be acquired here: https://app.roll20.net/account/create. Once you are a member, navigate to this URL so that you can join the Kingmaker game: https://app.roll20.net/join/361170/hfLzLQ.

You may also want to get an account at Myth Weavers, as they provide excellent character sheets that practically fill themselves in. Free full membership can be acquired here: www.myth-weavers.com/register.php. If you don't have or get an account at Myth Weavers, I highly advise that you fill out a full character sheet to make sure you haven't missed anything. I have a free fillable pdf form that is excellent. Let me know if you want a copy. Either way, your character sheet or a link to your character sheet should be posted in your individual thread in the Character Sheets subforum.

The only two remaining subforums will be filled by the DM to be used as references for the players. Copies of the maps used on Roll20 will be found in the Maps subforums, but will not be the maps we actively use. Pretty much everything else will end up in the General Knowledge subforum. Finally, ...

Some Good Rules of Thumb
1. Ask questions of nobody in particular.
The main death of PbP is a bottleneck and resulting lack of interest caused by one player who stops posting. Don't make the game more vulnerable to this problem. As much as possible, ask questions of the group rather than one particular person. Otherwise, the narrative has to wait for that person to respond. Understandably, this can't always be helped.

2. State contingent actions.
If your action is dependent on something else, state what your contingent action(s) will be, if practical. This is a good use of the spoiler button. You'll probably find yourself most often in this position when your actions depend on an NPC's (the DM's) actions. I'm sure he'll appreciate you streamlining the process, so go ahead and post contingent reactions.

3. Within reason, narrate party actions.
Instead of four people saying the same thing or four people waiting for each other to say it for them, try narrating mundane or expected party actions. For instance, if your party enters a tavern, it is not unreasonable when you're posting to narrate that your entire party walks up to the bar, even though you're only supposed to control your own character. Another example would be a situation where the party is voting on a course of action, and you're the last person to post your vote. If your vote confirms a unanimous choice, then go ahead and narrate the party's course of action. If you're not sure whether party narration is appropriate in a given situation, then don't bother. In any event, each player has the final say in what their character does and the DM always has the right to retcon and the ability to modify posts, so any contradictory narration need not be permanent. That being said, if you disagree with any narration for your character, you have to say so in the immediately subsequent post. If you don't the assumption is that you're OK with the narration and any consequences it might entail.

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Character Sheets / Re: Vian
« on: March 30, 2014, 04:26:47 AM »
Oh, summer was a typo.

I didn't really find any archetypes that took archery in the direction I wanted to go, so I took the Weapon Master archetype as I was planing on specializing in the shortbow to the exclusion of all else anyways.

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Character Sheets / Re: Gror
« on: March 29, 2014, 02:12:28 AM »
IDK if you ever noticed, but linklord 231 said to just use average starting wealth, if you were wondering.

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Play By Post / Re: Kingmaker
« on: March 29, 2014, 01:38:43 AM »
Sad to say, the minmaxboards dice are easy to fool. If we decide not to use Roll20 and its dice, we shall have to disqualify any rolls from modified posts. That's the only way to ensure their authenticity.

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Play By Post / Re: Kingmaker
« on: March 28, 2014, 04:10:36 AM »
I decided not to go with an evil aligned character. I think it would be a headache. However, while I don't need a party's approval for alignment, my character sheet does need a look-over and approval from the DM. It's posted in the Kingmaker forum.

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Character Sheets / Vian
« on: March 28, 2014, 04:10:09 AM »
Ok, sorry about the wait, but here's my guy. Vian's the name, mounted archery's the game.

http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=833987

In the past I've posted character backgrounds, but now I realize that might somewhat encourage metagaming. I think it would be more fun for the characters to naturally learn of one another's backgrounds. So only the DM knows my character background. That being said, we might want to have cooperative backgrounds, so if the DM finds some common thread that he would like to weave together, then I'm all for it. It beats meeting in a bar.

Anyways, linklord231, I have applied the oft-OP Unseelie Fey template to my character. However, not to worry, it hardly gets me anything. I really just wanted it for the Charm the Arrow feat, which isn't even that good with my charisma 17. I mainly like the flavor. For that template there are two sets of traits where you can roll dice to randomly select or intentionally select a racial feature. I have intentionally selected the result that grants no feature for both of these. So I don't have wings of any sort, nor do I have special senses. For the trait set that you have to choose from, I have not chose the winter one, which is absurdly powerful in the wrong hands. I have chosen the spring one, which is situational and not very powerful. With this I get Iron Vulnerability, which at low levels is no laughing matter. So I hope you'll approve this +0 LA template (it's in the Dragon Magazine Compendium, if you didn't know). You may be wondering about the alignment description, but as Savage Species clarifies, an align description that says "always of X alignment" means virtually always. In some rare and extenuating circumstances, deviations from this can happen. I think my character background provides a moving reason for his change in alignment, but let me know if you disagree.

I'm a part of the Medvyed family, because that fits in perfectly with the flavor. I also have the Unseelie Fey Noble Kelir bonus feat, again mainly for flavor rather than substantial benefit. In reality, my character wouldn't want to have anything to do with evil, wintry fey as a rule.

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Gaming Advice / AoO from Trample Feat
« on: March 27, 2014, 09:11:34 PM »
I have a fighter who has the Mounted Combat and Trample feats (from Pathfinder, IDK if that makes a difference) and a horse.

Do you guys know what options the trampled character has for AoO? Obviously, if he doesn't want to, he doesn't have to. But if he wants to take the AoO, does he get to choose between horse and rider? Or is he forced to attack one rather than the other? Please give citations. If Pathfinder rules don't clarify, I'm sure third editions ones would do.

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Play By Post / Re: Kingmaker
« on: March 26, 2014, 12:35:20 AM »
Yes I would.

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Play By Post / Re: Kingmaker
« on: March 22, 2014, 08:13:48 PM »
So, I'm still pursuing archery, but I've decided the monk isn't really good at it. I was going to try a multiclassed fighter. I would like to multiclass as an antipaladin. I could make sure his motivations would keep him in allegiance with the party. He would be the bastard son of a noble Issian who was never loved by his noble father. He wants to set up a kingdom to ally with Rostland in the hopes that a Rostland alliance will go to war with Issia. In the meantime, he would enjoy slaughtering anyone who opposed the establishment of his kingdom. Let me know if this is possible. If not, I have an alternate archer ready.

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Play By Post / Re: One-on-One Deicide/Apotheosis Adventure
« on: March 22, 2014, 02:13:55 AM »
I said LIKE that spell, not that spell exactly. There's Nixie's Grace.

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Play By Post / Re: One-on-One Deicide/Apotheosis Adventure
« on: March 21, 2014, 09:09:30 PM »
Yeah, you'd get 2 feats.

Your better off with transmutation spells for ability boosts. Like "Bite of X."

Concerning epic prices, it's like approaching the speed of light. Your acceleration gets less and less because it's harder to do.

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Play By Post / Re: One-on-One Deicide/Apotheosis Adventure
« on: March 21, 2014, 02:09:30 PM »
There may be some confusion here. To clarify, Deicide takes 10 rounds to come into effect, not to cast, which is 1 round.

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Play By Post / Re: One-on-One Deicide/Apotheosis Adventure
« on: March 21, 2014, 02:06:24 PM »
I would say the point of Pathfinder's revision was effectively to give all undead Unholy Toughness. That being said, with it being such a good ability, I might consider a CR reduction.

Class level hit dice will not be replaced with undead's d8s.

I need to calculate that. I certainly wouldn't mind help on this. Otherwise it will take awhile. IMO though the better magic items aren't actually that expensive. For now, I would spend extravagantly.

Yes, most requirements drop by 3 in Pathfinder.

I'm not sure what you mean by two epic bonus feats.

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Play By Post / Re: One-on-One Deicide/Apotheosis Adventure
« on: March 21, 2014, 04:42:32 AM »
Not to ruin your parade, but in Pathfinder all undead get CHA to HP.

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