What characters are you thinking about running?

[renau1g]

I'm thinking a doppelganger feylock, born in the Isle of Laughing Gallows and grew up learning how to survive there. He'll have a heavy focus on social skills, and have travelled to the Fey Island encountering a water spirit, who killed his companions, but bestowed a gift of power to him, reflecting the capricious nature of these spirits.

He'll currently be in Daunton, integrating himself there, his goal will be to establish an information network there, a semi-thieves guild, but not involved in petty thievery.

He knows he'll need wealth and power to complete this goal, so he is interested in travelling around to acquire both these things.

 

[Graf]

The cat ninja island people thing would be an interesting near land; or part of the jade kingdom. The only issue is that it'd have to be NPC only (unless we change the rules on including non-core material).

I've already rolled up a hobgoblin warlord, thinking "monstrous pirate" like everyone else. But if we get a dozen of those, I might put him on the shelf and do a warlock of some kind.

I wouldn't dump this idea so fast... what if there actually are 5 monsterous pirates, the sole survivors of a shipwreck.

your first adventure could be a treasure hunt; and could each have kickers related to your shared background. One guy has [the strange compass I stole from the navigator] another [I was the first mate and betrayed my captian. Every night when I wake up the room I've slept in smells of dead corpses, and their are puddles of sea water on the floor.... but he's dead. I saw him go down with a spear in his side and a curse on his lips...]
just riffing

He'll currently be in Daunton, integrating himself there, his goal will be to establish an information network there, a semi-thieves guild, but not involved in petty thievery.

This is another great idea for a kicker/goal.
If you added people to your guild you could easily get a little mini-campaign arc going....

 

[garyh]

I wouldn't dump this idea so fast... what if there actually are 5 monsterous pirates, the sole survivors of a shipwreck.

your first adventure could be a treasure hunt; and could each have kickers related to your shared background. One guy has [the strange compass I stole from the navigator] another [I was the first mate and betrayed my captian. Every night when I wake up the room I've slept in smells of dead corpses, and their are puddles of sea water on the floor.... but he's dead. I saw him go down with a spear in his side and a curse on his lips...]
just riffing

This is another great idea for a kicker/goal.
If you added people to your guild you could easily get a little mini-campaign arc going....

Sounds like fun to me. We have all this great monster pirate material, there's no reason our first adventure can't dive right into it.

Also, thought I'd point out the new Dragon article on the bugbear mafia. Looks like lots of stuff we could run with.

Hmmm... the link button isn't working. Here's the URL.

The Bloodghost Syndicate

 

[renau1g]

I saw it yesterday too and thought it was perfect, but then enworld went down...

 

[renau1g]

This is another great idea for a kicker/goal.
If you added people to your guild you could easily get a little mini-campaign arc going....

Yeah, especially if I could get my PC to like 2nd level and maybe he can be the NPC giving a quest to the PC's of first level...

That way he's a character, but if I run a game I can involve him as well.

(and of course nobody would know his true identity )

 

[Erekose13]

My 1st character is going to be pretty run of the mill. Human wizard... Always wanted to bring my favorite 2ed character forward in the new edition and decided he would be the first character I create (Iridian doesn't count cause he's a pregen). So in this incarnation he'll be a knowledge hunter from Daunton scouring the ruins of pre-Imperial civilization on the isles (particularly interested in the portals on the Isle of Opposition).

 

[Graf]

Yeah, especially if I could get my PC to like 2nd level and maybe he can be the NPC giving a quest to the PC's of first level...

That way he's a character, but if I run a game I can involve him as well.

(and of course nobody would know his true identity )

I thought about playing a changeling and having multiple identities too. That could be very awesome.

 

[Dunamin]

Speaking of changelings, I had another character idea that I'm tempted to replace my fighter with: A doppelganger with a chameleon pet.

Not sure whether I want it as a classic doppelganger infiltrator with a chameleon assistant, a doppelganger wizard with a chameleon familiar, or a doppelganger pirate with a chameleon on its shoulder, though.

 

[Graf]

I think there are familiar rules coming out at some point. And pet rules are in Martial power right?

 

[Halford]

Well I'm still agonizing, but I'm thinking of going with a Cleric. Probably a half-elf or human. I'd like him to be very pious almost exalted without being exalted, so he probably wouldn't fit with a monsterous pirate group.

But on the other hand I'd really like to play in a monsterous Pirate group! Hmmm, maybe a nastier Cleric, a Bugbear Cleric? Hmmm, I need to take another look at the pantheon...