CanadienneBacon
Explorer
Silly. Of course. Everyone here is a friend. You wait, I'd lay money that after a little while of gaming together you'll call some of us good friends, even. My bad about several of you taking off for Thanksgiving without bringing a PHB; I said I'd post this bad boy on Dec 1, then got hot under the collar to get it rolling early. Ya'll can be reading along here and there and mulling over concepts in your heads until your return. For my part, I will be here and present to answer questions. My spouse is a pastor, so Thanksgiving and Christmas are high holy work weeks in this house; we don't travel anywhere. Our home is where others congregate, and I'm the primary chef, but other than that, I'll be kicking around the site for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Don't try to find me the second week in June, though. That's beach time, baby.First, this is my first PbP. So please be kind!
So far, no one has definitively spoken up for a caster roll. One person made mention to me via PM about possibly playing a caster, but hasn't decided yet what route to take. If we wind up without a spellcaster, that'll be fun. I can make anything work. You guys' job in the here and now is to draft the character that you most want to play. This is to be a long-running game, so it's important to me that everyone have the character they most want.Moving on ... my preference is to play a non-spellcaster.
First, I'm kidding about the blahs. Second, I'm thinking about all the games I've DMed, both tabletop and PbP, and I can think of only one monk I've ever seen. And that was for 3.0, The Sunless Citadel. So, yeah, Monk sounds cool. Also, I confess I had to look up Haruchai Bloodguard. And Donaldson. But then I saw Thomas Covenant, and was all, like, ok, I've heard of that. Super grim and gritty, right? Sounds perfect for OotA.blah blah blah Haruchai Bloodguard from the Land (Donaldson, if you're familiar with it). blah blah blah
So this is where I interject that I really don't know squat about the Realms, and Realms knowledge won't feature very often in my game. I mean, I have that big fancy 3.0 FRCS book that many of us have, but I've only ever skimmed a few sections. I certainly never read anything close to even a complete chapter in that bad boy. If anyone's a Realms lover, you're absolutely welcome to draw on your love for and knowledge of the Realms as you draft your character and as we play. I won't be able to keep up with you, and I won't try to do so, but I'm sure I'll benefit from and enjoy your knowledge, particularly if it means it helps you finetune your roleplay. I provide the link to the Realms wiki because it's a resource I occasionally use in-game, and I like the idea of providing as much support to players as possible. I'm certainly no Realms-lore treasure trove, though.I'll have to start looking at some Forgotten Realms info to better place him in the campaign world.
Brilliant. This is exactly what I hope to hear at this stage; players who have an idea forming on the fringe of their mind that they're not quite sure how to realize but are stoked about seeing coming to life.I've never played a monk class in my many years, so I'm fairly excited about this.
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