Rise of the Runelords AP

Game Master Varrian Lunari

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Varrian Lunari wrote:
Sorry guys, yesterday was my birthday and my wife threw me a party so all day was awesome. I will get on and get to the list today or by the latest tomorrow. Thanks for bearing with me! Als o sorry to hear Alitsa, I hope everything works out for you. Thank you for submitting a character.

Nice :S BTW Happy birthday!


Party! Sweet! Happy birthday, hope you got what you wanted

Sczarni

It was a good party. Thank you for the birthday wishes!

Alright so I have made my choice and let me tell you it was a hard one. However, going threw backgrounds and IC posts, along with taking into consideration party dynamic and myriad of other issues I have narrowed the list down to five instead of four.

RotRL Applicants:

Final list!
Liliana Tesseran (Cleric) - KyleS
Remy Deverin (Rogue) - Wildebob
Lars (Fighter) - Duboris
Kortus Ironhelm (Druid) - Digger
Anaach Sklar-Quah (Barbarian) - Death_Keeper

Now I will put a disclaimer up right now. After reading the last topic of sexuality on the discussion page I will warn everyone that made it; just as KyleS said:

This AP is/can be dark and mature. I will not run watered down versions of this game unless it was for a kids group. However, rules on the forum are straight forward and I will not allow raunchy behavior.

But do not expect this to be a dungeon crawl or just combat after combat. There is a lot of story here and I will RP it as I see fit and to the best of my ability so the PC's get the most out of it. If there is some suggestive dialog it will appear in gameplay. Actual acts of sex will not be allowed though. PM each other if that is what you wish. The GM will not PM you for this or be involved in it in any way.

I will be as descriptive as possible in the battles to paint the scene.

If the idea of flirting with an NPC or another PC offends you or descriptive acts of violence or harsh language bothers you, that is your right but please consider if you want to be part of this AP because it will happen with NPC's and most likely at least one of our PC's. This may not be the game for you.

Thank you to everyone who applied it was a very hard decision. I appreciate your hard work.

Those that made it stick around while I take the next day or so to give you additional game and character info.

Anyone wanting to RP out that did not make it may whenever they like. Once the gameplay thread is open the discussion page will be for OOC talk and GM/Player communication.

Thanks!


No worries, like I mentioned earlier, I know how to keep within the lines. If you feel I am pushing them, please let me know. I'm glad to know that you don't intend to run a watered down, that lets me know that I don't have to worry about what Liliana says (for the most part anyways), and I look forward to the interesting debacles that could put her into.

As a fellow GM of this AP for my fellow party members, I highly advise you take what Varrian says with much thought if you need to. I've yet to get a party past the first book without either a TPK or the party falling apart, but even then, there's parts of just the first book where I've made them speechless for running the full thing (sometimes you learn the statement "Bring on the sex and blood" brings a little more than you expected) as intended, with my brand of style anyways. And that's just the first book, heck, not even halfway into it. Glad to see that there should be plenty of story put out, but with some of the NPC's that are encountered in this AP, if you are personally uncomfortable with your personal moral boundaries, this AP honestly may not be for you. I'll leave this with what I tell my players about this campaign in a spoiler should you want to read it.

Disclaiming question I put for my players:

Although I know a few of you are already familiar with this AP, but if you don't fully remember, then let me remind you. This AP starts off a little dark but down the road gets real dark and gritty, and as a true horror fan, I love the hell out of it. However I obviously can't speak for your tastes. Would you rather me keep it as clean as I can to keep the story moving forward, ease the amount of intensity until we find that level of "Okay, too intense at this point", or do we think that this group is mature enough to handle the statement of "Bring on the sex, blood, and gore!!!"? I'm fine with all three, and am capable of toning it down. If the third option is chosen though, I will warn you that I will be as graphic as I can when it comes to the gory bits, NPC's will have colorful language from time to time (which means that if anything said is actually extremely offensive to you IRL, let me know and it won't happen again), and sex very well could (and may depending on circumstance) come into play. As for going graphic with the sex I won't do (this isn't a porno after all). If that occurs, I'll handle all the "behind the door stuff" and inform you of anything bad that happens.

Anyways, I look forward to what should be a fun game! Oh, and before I forget... Thanks for the acceptance Varrian!

Sczarni

House Rules

Mana:

1. When a PC gains magic loot from an enemy (such as enchanted weapons/ armor , any item that grants an armor/shield/deflection bonus, or items that grants an upgradable plus to something [for example cloaks of resistance]) that item will stop being magical and whichever PC the players choose will draw magic into a personal pool of Mana. The value of Mana is the sale value of the item (half the purchase value most of the time). Mana is used like gold to upgrade your own items. All magic items may be drained for Mana but not all are automatically drained.
2. Mana from your pool can also be spent to heal yourself as an immediate action. This will cost 4x what a potion of that healing spell would cost. For example a potion of cure light wounds costs 50gp so as an immediate action you would spend 200 Mana/gp to use cure light wounds on yourself.
3. Mana may be spent at double the cost of the material components to use any restoration, raise dead or resurrection spell.
4. Mana may be used by arcane spell casters in place of expensive material components to cast a spell. Mana used this way will be 10% more than the material component’s cost. This option does not include any of the spells above.
5. Mana may not be transferred between PCs or NPCs.
Your Mana Pool will need to be tracked on your profile. All PC Mana Pools will start at 0.
Please place a mana pool area in your background

Hero Relics:

We will be using a modified Hero Point system. This is to say that each PC will have a hero point pool. This pool will start at 0. Points will be given out by the GM when deemed earned. The rules for Hero Relics are as followed:
1. Hero Relics are very rare items with immense power. These Hero Relics are weapons and items lost to time and memory. Although powerful, all Hero Relics also have drawbacks. These drawbacks will manifest during use.
2. Hero points will be used in place of drawbacks if available. Hero points are the internal power true heroes have within themselves; a power to overcome even the worst situations.
3. Hero Relics cannot be made and if used by beings without the true power of heroes, the relics will turn on their possessors. This usually results in physical or mental damage, possibly even the complete destruction of said beings.
4. Hero Relics must be used with care and cannot be detected by magic. Hero relics are not known to any being on Galorian, these relics can only be unearthed/found by PCs.
5. Hero Relics will be a kind of side quest eventually. There are a limited number in the world and finding one is an enormous under taking.
6. If the group stays together after RotRL which may be a long time I will implement a campaign that will revolve around the Hero Relic system. This is an alpha test to see how players respond to it.
Please put a hero point section in your background.

Formatting:
Please read up on DH's Guide to Play By Post gaming I expect players to follow as much as possible to this standard so everyone knows what the other is doing.

Death:

Death comes to all in one fashion or another. I do not necessarily pull punches to save a character. I play in an all-out fashion. Each adventurer understands the peril they embark on when flirting with monsters and the unknown.
That being said some of the above House Rules will allow for reincarnation. There will be very few opportunities in game to come back from death. If a PC does I will work with the player because being ripped out of the nether realm is a terrifying and draining experience no matter what spell you use.

Character Profiles
Please make all character profiles match this one: Set-Up This will allow me to go through your character fast when I need to.
Please also go back over the OP as this will give even more info about gameplay and the like.

Backgrounds
Please take the next week to go through your background and work on expanding it. I would like to see possible RP hooks such as family, friends, enemies, even weapons with special names, how you got your weapons, armor, animal companions, etc…
I will work with anyone to flesh out backgrounds if they wish.

Combat:

I will be using photobucket.com as my preferred method of uploading images/maps/and the like. All maps will be battle grid and I will place PC’s/NPC’s/Monsters wherever you tell me to move them. Please see Pay attention to Ghiv’s posts and the map the GM provides. I would like a PC description of what is happening and then an OOC description during battle or OOC then battle description. This will add flavor but also allow me to deal with the technical side of things. Formatting will be most important here. Please take your time posting both in battle and RP. We have more than enough time and I would rather get good rp out of your posts to add to the game. Content beats all.
I am also pretty flexible, if your PC wants to try something, go for it and I will let you know if it happens. Moving half your speed and then sliding under a table only to come out the other side avoiding an AOO to attack a NPC is fine and encouraged! I will tell you what appropriate rolls need to be made or what happens to your character as they try it because it is just not feasible.

As we go through the game I encourage questions in the discussion thread and discussions of house rules and opinions on modifying them for better game flow or purpose. Please keep the game thread as RP as possible.


Cheers, Varrian. I'm excited to play with all of you!


Hell yeah Anaach made it in! I was hoping you would :D Can't WAIT to play with all of you, and many thanks to everyone who made a post!


To echo the others, I am excited that I made the cut and look forward to getting to game with everyone. I have had a great time getting back into PbP gaming now that I am not TDY all the time. I promise I will do all I can to give the game my best as it seems I will have some big shoes to fill to keep up with the group, :)

I normally can post from 0400 - 1600 and 2000-2230 EST. The gap in the afternoon accounts for the commute home and spending some quality time with the baby before she goes to bed.

Now time to go back through the history and enjoy the RPing in the discussion thread while we all hammer things out.


Okay, I'll try to reply to as much of this as feasible without my head exploding.

1. YAAAAAAAAY I GOT INNNNNN!!!!!

2. Blood, gore, gritty horror, BRING IT ONNNNNN!

3. This sounds like it will be awesome I am ready to roll.

4. I'm glad that 4 of the people in the posse were wrangled in :D

5. Woot Cleric!

6. Manapool/Relics, BADASS!!!! I was going to have Anaach show great reverance for his weapons, and never upgrade them unless they were destroyed, but this means I can just upgrade them while keeping the same weapon!

7. Thank you for choosing Anaach

Sczarni

What I like about the mana pool is that a favored or handed down weapon can become something of legend.

Either in the beginning or through the adventure I encourage people to work with me on coming up with names or being open to RPing out such an event. Think of Sting from The Hobbit. Bilbo named it because of what the spider says. You can also use the same type of RPing to do the same for your weapon.


Well, I have an idea for a name for Anaach's greataxe and his spear (if they survive intact that long) they will be named in his native tongue, but their translations will be decided through either the weapon's greatest achievement... Anaach's native language will be norse/norwegian ish...


TDY is always fun Kortus lol. What branch are you in if you don't mind me asking?

The mana pool is something new to me, but I like the idea and sound of it to be completely honest. Which is one of the things that drew me to this game lol.

Question for you Varrian though. Granted I could've put this in a PM for you, but since Liliana isn't the only resident of Sandpoint, would this guide be okay to use for some potential reference points of our backgrounds. The last section would honestly be a large help for me cause there's no real official details of The Pixie's Kitten, but there's other stuff in there that could possibly assist the other residents, as well as you in some plot hooks if you haven't already seen this.

Sczarni

Looks okay. I don't have the time right now to go over it. Sure go ahead and use it for background. If I find anything I do not like I will let you know.


Good luck everyone.


14 aboard ship and 3 as USMC support augment. Now I am a civilian after Uncle Sam and I had some fundamental disagreements on the structural integrity of my knees, but it is nice to have a beard and laugh when the people around me invite me to do a "fun run".


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Lol, fun runs... Just as much fun as mandatory fun days... 5 years in ARMY as a PATRIOT guy. I had the same argument regarding my lower back, which I still can't get any actual help with... Oh well.

Thanks Varrian. I'll probably impose a few things on that, only for timeline reasons, but it'll really help out with trying to flesh out a better background.


Hope you all have a great campaign! Good luck on GMing your first PbP GM.

kK

Sczarni

Towards the end of the week I will review your completed characters and make sure everything is there. If you get it done sooner, even better. It will give me more time to take from your backstory.

Please review the character creation material and make sure characters match everything I am requiring. I know it is a pain but in the end it helps me and you have a smoother game. Thanks!


I matched Anaach up to your standards and tried to synch it with the provided character sheet.
So you can check it now, or whenever is convenient for you :D


Out of curiosity, do us Sandpointians want establish how we know each other in backgrounds, or let that out in roleplay?


I mean Lars is a straight up local sensation of strangeness. He's basically a hermit that earns his keep by bringing things from Junker's edge that are worth like 10 gold. Apart from that he just builds stuff on his hill, and is good at killing goblins as a result.


Liliana Tesseran wrote:
Lol, fun runs... Just as much fun as mandatory fun days... 5 years in ARMY as a PATRIOT guy. I had the same argument regarding my lower back, which I still can't get any actual help with... Oh well.

I can relate to that one, but mine has all been mastering the paperwork drill to just try to make an appointment to see a new Primary doc since we relocated to Mass. Even though all my records are online, they still want to pull the paper copies etc. Makes it hard to smile and nod when all I want to do is frown and knife hand. :)

But on happier footing....

Kortus would be a Sandpoint transplant at the start of the adventure. Having lived in/around the town for the past 12-18 months primarily doing freelance masonry jobs for donations and sleeping anywhere he happens to stop for the night.

The site of the squat bow-legged mason patrolling in/around the woods searching for "damn rock biters" would also be common enough.


Hope you guys have a great campaign :D

Sczarni

I have to say I am very excited to do this and have all of you along for the ride.

I know sometimes RL can get in the way and that is okay. If it does please let me know and I can take control of your character for the short term. :-) I want to try and keep everyone together, I feel great things from this group lol.

Also this Friday-Sunday I will have family in town I have not seen for two years. My posts if any will be severely limited. So once again I will say please have backgrounds fleshed out so I can add bonus material to the story and so forth. I will try to start the gameplay up next Monday.

If you guys have any questions feel free to PM or post them here.


:D

I start my first day of work tomorrow.

Varrian, are we starting tonight/tomorrow in the gameplay thread?

Sczarni

As I said above I will probably open the gameplay thread next Monday. I want backgrounds to be finalized so I can incorporate elements from them into the game.


Sorry about that, I missed that section... *facepalm*

Sczarni

lol N/P I need to be ready also so I can run a good game for everyone. Please go easy on me because it will probably start slow.

Sczarni

Are the maps in the Campaign Info tab working? I forgot to ask.


The maps are functional :D

Sczarni

Thanks!


Yep, you're good.


I am open to some joint hooks with Kortus if anyone is hitting the Sandpoint drought section. I have him coming to Sandport about 18 months ago and while saying he has been doing mason jobs and similar low level stuff is fine with me, I don't mind him branching it out.

Just want to avoid the "You all look like trust worthy fellows!" start, unless we need to do that.


Anaach is surprisingly honorable and trustworthy, you could probably just view him with normal suspicion at the start, and the group just gradually cleave together when the fighting starts.

Anaach is very much not from Sandpoint so much of the collective backstory will regrettably omit him...

Sorry if this makes anything difficult


So I just spent the afternoon working on expanding her backstory, my backspace key with a crappy mouse ate it. I'll have it up, but it's not going to be ready by the end of the week.

Sczarni

No problem, like I said I will not be on this weekend or if I am it will be very sparse. We will start gameplay thread on Monday and I can always incorporate backgrounds as I go.


Consider me unnaturally pumped.


I am also behind on getting my char sheet squared away due to some RL stuff last week and this weekend, but I will have it done by Wed of this week.

Can't wait to get started as well.


Consider me excited.


Sounds good.


I'm ready and waiting, excited to kick off.


Gameplay is open btw guys


Heading in now!

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