Who wants to be a Wayfinder?

[SelcSilverhand]

I'd love to see these characters keep on going. This is the first pbp game I ever tried to DM and I'm real pleased to see it has lasted this long. I think I've only been in two games that actually finished and didn't just fade out. It's rare to see games like this. I've been slacking a lot lately but I'm going to try and reinvigorate the game again. I'd hate to see it end, and hope I haven't given the impression I was bored with it.

Here are a few things I was thinking about.

I'm fine with either pathfinder or 3.5, Eberron or Golarion. It would be pretty easy to use pathfinder rules in an eberron world if that's what you would like. You could keep your characters mostly the same with only some tweaking of skills, class features, and feats.

Most of the modules can be dropped in either world. I've got a pile of pathfinder books to draw from since my group tends to buy either the books or pdfs as they come out.

I also have the option of writing up a new adventure for eberron. I can set it up like our start of the adventure. I'll give you a list of ideas and you guys pick the one you want to pursue the most.

I look to pathfinder a lot because my RL group plays it so the world and all its factions is relatively fresh in my mind. I will have to go back and read a bit for Eberron to write up a new adventure so I can stay somewhat true to the worlds storyline. Mostly it's all the factions and names to get right. I wrote up short notes for this adventure in the document I keep everything for this game organized in so I haven't had to look them up for a while. But like I said, I am good to go with either one, just let me know what option to go with and I will start brainstorming and reading.



I may attempt to run a second game with the other book just because I love the city Kaer Maga ever since I read about the troll augurs using their own guts instead of chickens for divining in Rise of the Runelords. Along with the module I bought the City of Strangers book that fleshes out the city.
Godsmouth Heresy: The church of Pharasma (deity of births and deaths) maintains the catacombs where the rich dead people are buried. Bodies have started to disappear and the church needs to find out why before people start to talk.
The crazy thing is that I wrote up an adventure proposal nearly exactly like this module for the Living Eberron World back in 2007 but there were never enough people in the tavern to start it.

After DM'ing RotRL for my group, I always thought it would be well suited for a PbP game because there are so many options for some good roleplay. My group is high on the hack and slash side and I'd like to see how it does when given the full treatment.

 

[jkason]

I'll admit pretty much all my RP now is Pathfinder (with a smattering of 4e), so I'd be up for trying a conversion, though, as Shayuri points out, some folks will convert more directly than others (though it occurs to me swapping out a bloodline power--maybe aberrant or protean?--for the usual changeling ability might be a reasonable compromise).

As for working out a transition, this adventure itself has had a lot of us messing with otherworldly forces, and cut off from the rest of the world while we did so. If we wanted to port over to, say, Pathfinder as a system or Golarion as a setting, I think we might be in a place to do that in character, with the world and / or ourselves having been altered through all the energies unleashed during the multiple fights with crystal-bound dimensional invaders (or, heck, I suppose we could encounter some sort of 'reality storm' on our way home).

 

[SelcSilverhand]

I'm not too concerned about the changling race to be honest. All the racial abilities look compatible with pathfinder.

One downside of changing worlds with current characters would be re-writing backstories, and I know Doral has an extensive one tied to his former spying days.

 

[Walking Dad]

Will play whatever game you do. Would you like to start Godmouth a little bit later? The other DM is fairly new to the board. I'm willing to give trust, but I always fear he could vanish before really starting. Hope I'm just paranoid.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

I can change Doral's backstory if we change over to BECMI or CnC.

Ok, or Pathfinder.

I don't own 4e, so that would be a show stopper for me. Not sure how I'd port a beguiler yet, but if I have to make a Pathfinder character I can make him a Rogue w/ spells, Sorcerer or Wizard Specialist. Maybe even a bard.

 

[Walking Dad]

Not sure what Glaive would become...

Neither race nor class is present in th Pathfinder rules... would maybe have to make a new character.

 

[Dr Simon]

Witch is the closest PF equivalent to a Warlock, but for both Warlock and Beguiler I can't see why you can't just port them across to PF. The skills might need readjusting and perhaps HD bought into line with the PF standard but I've got a duskblade and a dragonfire adept in a PF game and, so far, the wheels haven't fallen off anything.

 

[Walking Dad]

That would work for me, too.

The abilities are pretty straightforward and I would have just to redistribute the ranks I spent on concentration and figure out CMB (+7) & CMD (20).
And hey, would I get d8 HD, like a rogue?

 

[SelcSilverhand]

I bet someone out there has already done the legwork of converting warlocks and beguilers to pathfinder. But that was my thought too, keep the same classes and just tweak them for PF if we go that route.

 

[Walking Dad]

Found conversions here and here, but I'm fine with just changing skills and giving the class an 8HD.