DoubleGold |
Wanna play a Wrath the Righteous without Mythic but still be epic? This is the campaign for you.
1. Core Races only (but I have given each race 1 extra defensive racial trait totaling 2 RP or less, I can't tell you what they are until the game start, as I don't want this to affect your decision. Humans could have spell resistance or they could have natural armor. Each race also has one skill racial trait added worth 2 race points or less.)
2. Core classes only, all archetypes allowed, including ones that give guns.
3. One stat is a free 18, the rest is split among a 25 point buy.
4. Download the Players guide, pick 2 traits and a 3rd trait which is a campaign trait and write me a backstory.
5. 1000 starting gold and no traits that increase gold, seriously, you get a 1000 to start with.
6. Accepting 3 of you.
7. Accepting applications until March 10th.
Ellina Sensewi |
The Dragon |
Dot. Not quite sure what to go with. Maybe a caster or something?
Edit: Would you be opposed to a warlord?
Edit2: oh, just noticed the core classes only thing.
The Dragon |
Hmm... It seems the bids for the martial spot is going to be pretty numerous. I'll probably make one of Wizard, Druid or Cleric, which is of course to say that I have no clue.
If only they hadn't rolled back the SLA rules I could've run a mystic theurge with great success... As is, I'm thinking cleric.
DoubleGold |
People ask me, how am I going to recruit this game...
1. The player seems to understand the rules of character creation and the game. He/she does not ask, hey can I play a tiefling, because the answer is no. Core class and core races.
2 The player has a complete character including a background, and I'm not talking 3 sentences but a complete background.
3. I select 3 different classes, sometimes I balance it, sometimes I won't. If the game has a wizard, sorcerer and a rogue this game, then so be it.
4. The player has good post history.
5. I don't mind stat dropping, but if the player stat drops everything to get a few 18s, that is bad as since there is only 3 of you this game, the character has to be good in other areas. with a free 18 and a 25 point buy among other stats, even the fighter can excel at more than just combat.
6. I may be done randomly from here.
DoubleGold |
Have you DM'ed other games? Could you provide links to some aliases that has backgrounds you've let into your prior games so we can get a gauge of what you like?
I don't select characters based on backgrounds, I check to see if they are there, and if they aren't I ask people to get them up or pm them to me. I'm horrible at separating good backgrounds from bad ones. I have a hard time judging how well the person is going to roleplay based upon background. I do read them though to know about the character, and I do want them, but I don't select based upon background. It is a part of the alias though and not having a background is one way not to get picked.
The Dragon |
Okay. I'm done with the crunch of Vaseida Aveadan.
Aestethically, she's a blatant rip off of Kyra, the iconic cleric NPC. Fluffwise, I'm going to be doing something else with her.
I'm planning to play her as a somewhat naive girl, who tries to see the best in everyone, and always feels a tad out of her depth. This leads to her preparing for all the scenarios she can.
She came to Kenabres to help set right what she's heard described as the greatest evil currently plagueing golarion, although her main goal is finding her mentor, who was reported missing in the worlwound a few months ago. He took her there, many years ago, and that's going to be the tie-in to her campaign trait, whatever I end up picking.
By the by, you don't object to me spending my money on crafting scrolls, do you? I took the feat and everything.
DoubleGold |
I haven't looked through all the books, yet, but I can't guarantee there will be time for crafting as I will be tracking time and time limits, so if the game has any time limits and you don't have enough time to craft, then you wasted your feats and skill points. Even if there is no time limits, I'll be running it as if it had some, after all the city is being attacked by DMs, I'm not going to give characters a weeks rest just to craft things even if there is no time limit, in that one weeks time a city could be demolished.
The Dragon |
Meh, I'll take my chances. One feat isn't that big of an expenditure`, after all. Are you going to be imposing additional time limits through the whole campaign, or will you let some of the existing free time stand?(I haven't read through the books either, but paizo always puts in at least some slow parts for this purpose)
Will you be running with xp, or follow another schedule for leveling?
Typing up fluff now.
DoubleGold |
if the book has no time limits, I add them, because it has to make sense, if you wait weeks until you move on, then really the monsters should not be there, but there is a chance they moved on, because you got the next part a few weeks late. If the book already has time limits then I use those. Other parts won't have time limits, but there will be consequences. I'm going for a realistic feel, so if a couple of hundred terrorists were invading the United States of America and the government did nothing for several months, terrorists would still most likely be there and hundreds more dead or enslaved as a result of them doing nothing. If the government did nothing for a day or two, then not much probably happened within that day, though you never know. The longer you wait in that situation the worse off you are, which is how it is going to be here in pathfinder.
I'll be using xp with random encounters happening every 15 pages in the book. With 3 people, you will be a level ahead at some point, but you won't be ahead by much.
Sedoriku |
I'd love to try making a spirit binder wizard who bound the spirit of her paladin lover. If familiar archetypes are allowed I'm torn between the Protector and focusing one whatever and taking the feats or the school familiar archetype, with a focus on conjuration, allowing her poor paladin to take over a celestial creature from level 11 on...
Elendyr |
This sounds interesting. I still have to finish updating the character, but here's Elendyr. He's a half-elf, starting out as a straight rogue and moderately good party face (Diplomacy, Sense Motive) and multiclassing into straight ranger after a level or two of rogue. He's going to be a switch-hitter ranger, taking archery combat style and using his feats to punch up his melee ability. I see him as a versatile combatant in melee and at range, with enough social skills to make him valuable in noncombat settings.
DoubleGold |
One question re multiclassing--would you consider using the variant fractional accounting method for saving throw progression? Under that, a ranger/rogue wouldn't have quite as obscene a Reflex save, but would have a marginally better Will save and possibly a slightly better Fortitude save.
saving throws for multiclassing are calculated as is, add the totals from both classes and add your modifier from your stat. Just because you and I are good math people does not mean everyone is, plus I like to try to follow the official rules of pathfinder. I definitely don't want to make pathfinders do all this complicated mathematical calculations.
Elendyr |
Though I skillfully forgot to include a background for him. Here you go:
This changed when he was dared to sneak into the Worldwound with a few friends. He succeeded in getting past enemy lines, though the return trip turned out to be far more dangerous than he and his friends anticipated. About to be caught by cultists, he managed to draw them off long enough for his friends to get away; he would have been taken himself but for the help of a mysterious woman. She was far more skilled at deception than the young half-elf, and was able to get him back to safety unscathed. She vanished into the Worldwound just before a Kenabres patrol happened by. Some of her skill seemed to rub off on Elendyr, though, and the potential loss of his friends brought him a new seriousness. Now he’s becoming a much better scout, and has trained hard to join a crusading army. For the first time in months, though, he’s going to relax and celebrate at Armasse before he heads out.
DoubleGold |
It does not look like I'm going to get any new applications, so recruitment is closed. However, if you have already made a post here, you still have until the 10th to make your character.
Selection will be done randomly. However, I'm going back on my word of core with some restrictions. Everyone pm me if you want core restrictions or if you want them lifted before I roll the dice to see who gets in.
As a DM, I want to do a little experiment
1. If all 3 of you who get in says yes to core, everyone who gets in gets 3 extra buy points.
2. If one of you says yes to core and the other 2 who get in want the restrictions lifted, you will all still be limited to core and no one gets any bonuses, the same results apply if all 3 of you want core restrictions lifted.
3. If one of you wants the core restrictions lifted, but the other 2 say say core, the one person who voted against core gets 9 extra buy points, and can pick any Paizo class. In addition, the person who voted against core can also pick from any race, except 3rd party, but including those from the more races section, like Gargoyle, just think, you can be a Gargoyle or an Ogre.
You are free to talk it out among each other and you are free to post your vote here, but your vote will only be counted if you pm me. So you can say I vote for core on this thread, but then go behind everyone's back and vote against it. Also remember those racial bonuses I secretly gave every core class? You will gain secret bonuses as if you had chosen human if you pick a non-core class, so you don't miss out on anything either by backstabbing everyone. where is the twisted evil or devil stickers when I need them? But then again, it is possible the one person who tries to backstab everyone does not get selected, as this is done randomluy.
The Dragon |
Just so everyone is on the same page, what he's talking about is the Prisoner's Dilemma, except this one is more likely to f~$$ you over because of more participants.
Anyway, there are two reasons to not defect.
1) it means that you believe you live in a world where the 'best' choice is to defect. Guess what the other participants are likely to do? That's right.
2) It has repercussions on your reputation and how much the other players will like you. Defecting breeds resentment. Which is also why I think employing it in a recruitment thread is a bad idea. While WotR could probably use some character conflict between the party members, having the actual players dislike each other OOC leads to the not-so-nice kind of drama. Just something to consider.
That said for reason #1, I'll be keeping to core. I'm sending that message right now.
Edit: I've a question. Will archetypes and spells from outside of core continue to be allowed as they were before, or are they now the privilege of the defector?
Elendyr |
Unlike the classic Prisoner's Dilemma (and I was about to post the same link, btw, before you edited your post) the participants can coordinate in public. The catch, though, is that we don't necessarily have to do what we say we will, and can choose to try to screw over the other players. Which seems like an odd thing to do in an AP predicated on the characters being benevolent antidemon crusaders (i.e., it's not the Wrath of the Larcenous AP), and a particularly odd thing to do in a game that'll be restricted to three players who are going to have to cooperate and cover multiple roles.
DoubleGold |
Aaaaaaahhhh... I was literally in the process of dotting this when it refreshed and your most recent post went up. :(
I have room for one more application, but after this, it is officially closed.
are alternate racial traits allowed?
edit: nevermind, I guess I'm too late.
you are in too, today is the last day.
and remember to send in your pm choices. I'm here to prove or disprove something about human nature. Or maybe I'm just really paranoid in real life that I have to do this.
Edit For those limited to core, you are limited to core classes and races, but not core archetypes, ie. you can be the trophy hunter ranger, or the holy gun paladin. And you aren't limited to core feats either. All racial alt traits allowed.
DoubleGold |
Before I check my inbox full of pms, I just want to say, I did prisoners diloma incorrectly.
There are suppose to be 4 rewards
1. Highest reward: you defect, the other does not: ie, in that website, 2. you got off scott free.
2nd highest reward: nobody defects: ie. in that website, both get 1 year in prison
3. 3rd highest reward: both of you defect: ie. in that website both of you get 2 years in prison
4. Lowest reward: You do not defect and the other does: ie. in that website you get 3 years in prison.
I noticed how the one who defects is guaranteed something, so I was thinking about a way I can fix this and match the experiment without making people mad.
New change If two or more people defect, those who defect get the acrobat trait or the mathematical prodigy triat for free It for some people isn't a very good reward, but it still is a reward, and thus I still need a reward there for the experiment to work. Thus it is a 3rd place reward. Now since you can only have 1 trait per category, having this trait does not count against you in the social category, or if you went with mathematical prodigy, it does not count against you in the magic section.
If the new change causes you to change your mind, you can resend your pm. and remind you I'm making this change to correct the experiment before I check my pms.