[OOC] Constables of the 14th Ward

Leif · Jun 15, 2007

James Heard said:
Ditto for me. I know I've presented quite a few concepts and haven't fleshed them out mechanically, but I'm a bit resistant to crunching numbers (which isn't that hard, but is a lot less fun than imagining quirky, interesting characters) before I know if I have to.

In any case, even though I've got more than one concepts presented I'm not particularly committed to any single one of them - and if there are portions of any of my concepts that you guys like that aren't exactly attached to the character concepts you'd be inclined to accept then I'm willing to try to shove things together and see if they make more sense. I'm also aware that some of my concepts have ah...possibly GM intensive NPC interactions that might make them seem a little less stellar from the "why should I make work for myself" department of running games. Details like that write themselves out as easily as they write themselves in sometimes, but I'm also picking up that sort of slack if you'd like too. While the varied and dysfunctional home lives of some of my character concepts might be complex, I like to think that they'd mostly be more of self-interactive backdrop to present the character on, rather than functional portions of the plot that require a lot of attention from the game masters. On the other hand, I'm probably not going to complain if someone decides that the plot hinges on some familial/background detail Return-of-the-Jedi moment and wants to give a voice to folks I've wrote in either.

Okay, Mr. Heard, I guess that I should elucidate my reaction to the characters that you have presented. Ordinarily, I wouldn't bother, but you seem to have (for some reason) a genuine interest in our game. Your characters presented here are quite complex and well thought out. However, they each are about 250% more quirky and peculiar than we are looking for. We seek to have an ENSEMBLE CAST of characters, and your proposals hog entirely too much of the spotlight. We are not prepared to devote a significant amount of our total DM time to explaining why one particular oddity of one character does not immediately disqualify him for service as a constable in Lauralie Summerhome. Each of the characters you have presented has several of these oddities. So, you can hopefully see that we, as conscientious DMs, can't afford to spend 75-85% of our time working with one player to overcome the difficulties that he INTENTIONALLY wrote into his character. To do that is to be totally unfair to every other player in the game. And I have not even touched yet on the irrevocable damage that would be done to our story! We do have our own ideas about this world, you know, and while we do seek players that will collaborate with us to make the story even greater, we are not willing to allow the story to be totally hijacked by ONE character.

That's just the way I see it.

James Heard · Jun 15, 2007

Fair enough. Plenty of other games out there then. Best of luck to the rest of the folks.

jkason · Jun 15, 2007

Alrighty, Moru's all done. I edited the original post to try to save space, Here's a link to the orginal post

I neglected to ask what feat sources we could use, but since a few of the Complete Arcane classes are on the chargen list, I thought that might be acceptable. If it's not, I'll be happy to swap out the CArc feats for others.

As for hooks, Moru's immigrant parents would seem to be easy fodder; I established that they had financial problems, which might express themselves in any number of issues that Moru might be asked to tend to. Ties back to the college (and/or trouble he might have unintentionally caused there) seem open sources, as well. Plus, of course, Moru himself has a hard time resisting a new curiosity, so who knows what he might nose in on by accident.

Now I'll just sit back and cross my fingers.

Leif · Jun 15, 2007

Moru looks pretty good, jkason. We're still working our way though the recruitment process.

Iggy will tell you this however: "Lad, ye might as well let that beard grow ALL the time. 'S'a losin' battle yer a-fightin' with that bloody razor!"

Maeglin · Jun 16, 2007

Visual Aids

Hello again!

I promised myself I was not going to spam your thread anymore, but I just couldn't help myself. Here is a picture of Rahvin Stormcrow.

It is courtesy of Claudio Pozas, and a little Photoshop. (My photoshop-fu is strong!

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I also include Mr. Pozas beautiful original artwork. He truly rocks!

Enjoy!

Maeglin

pathfinderq1 · Jun 16, 2007

Despite the impressive array of information available, I had been holding off on submitting an application until I was sure I'd have the time available to commit to this. Now it looks like I have that time, and empowered by watching Hot Fuzz and rereading The Phoenix Guards, I'm going to put something together.

My first two potential concept ideas:
1. A human monk attached to a small monastery of Barcarus- like many monks of his order, he has been sent to the constabulary for 'worldly experience'. A bit naive, perhaps, but quite enthusiastic- perhaps his superiors sent him to Ignatious Ironshirt to blunt that enthusiastic but unrealistic worldview with the best dose of hard realism available...
2. A human arcane caster (either pure Beguiler or Beguiler/Sorceror blend)- intelligent, driven, and highly capable but physically a bit frail. Already an experienced constable, transferred to the 14th because of the opportunity for advanced experience. Think Hermione Granger meets Sherlock Holmes. Possibly might have Andrew Dresden in passing, given their shared fondness for books and knowledge.

I'll work on fleshing these out over the next couple of days, but I'm headed out for the day soon so it will have to wait for a bit...

Leif · Jun 16, 2007

Problem solved, Fenris?

Fenris,

I admit that I wasn't thrilled by the idea of your father being a human Shiv. That guild was intended to be a repository for the smaller races, halflings and gnomes mostly, with some dwarves added for spice. But, I awakened this morning with a new epiphany to solve this problem! I have told my co-DM about it via email, and I await his response. I think we're going to be able to work it out, though.

Shoot, dude, if we can solve this problem, we can work out ANYTHING!! hehehe

Leif · Jun 16, 2007

pathfinderq1 said:
Despite the impressive array of information available, I had been holding off on submitting an application until I was sure I'd have the time available to commit to this. Now it looks like I have that time, and empowered by watching Hot Fuzz and rereading The Phoenix Guards, I'm going to put something together.

My first two potential concept ideas:
1. A human monk attached to a small monastery of Barcarus- like many monks of his order, he has been sent to the constabulary for 'worldly experience'. A bit naive, perhaps, but quite enthusiastic- perhaps his superiors sent him to Ignatious Ironshirt to blunt that enthusiastic but unrealistic worldview with the best dose of hard realism available...
2. A human arcane caster (either pure Beguiler or Beguiler/Sorceror blend)- intelligent, driven, and highly capable but physically a bit frail. Already an experienced constable, transferred to the 14th because of the opportunity for advanced experience. Think Hermione Granger meets Sherlock Holmes. Possibly might have Andrew Dresden in passing, given their shared fondness for books and knowledge.

I'll work on fleshing these out over the next couple of days, but I'm headed out for the day soon so it will have to wait for a bit...

Either one of these looks pretty good. Actually, we already had a player who wanted to take a monk, but, 1. We haven't heard from him in a long time, and never on ENWorld, and 2. he didn't have a background worked out like yours. So....if
a) he ever does show up and still want to play a monk, and
b) if you also choose the monk and you don't have any objections,
we might make the two of you from the same order. You staked out this territory first, though, so if you want to keep this detail yours exclusively, that is entirely your option. Just let us know.

Leif · Jun 16, 2007

For pathfinderq1

pathfinderq1 said:
Despite the impressive array of information available, I had been holding off on submitting an application until I was sure I'd have the time available to commit to this. Now it looks like I have that time, and empowered by watching Hot Fuzz and rereading The Phoenix Guards, I'm going to put something together.

My first two potential concept ideas:
1. A human monk attached to a small monastery of Barcarus- like many monks of his order, he has been sent to the constabulary for 'worldly experience'. A bit naive, perhaps, but quite enthusiastic- perhaps his superiors sent him to Ignatious Ironshirt to blunt that enthusiastic but unrealistic worldview with the best dose of hard realism available...
2. A human arcane caster (either pure Beguiler or Beguiler/Sorceror blend)- intelligent, driven, and highly capable but physically a bit frail. Already an experienced constable, transferred to the 14th because of the opportunity for advanced experience. Think Hermione Granger meets Sherlock Holmes. Possibly might have Andrew Dresden in passing, given their shared fondness for books and knowledge.

I'll work on fleshing these out over the next couple of days, but I'm headed out for the day soon so it will have to wait for a bit...

Either one of these looks pretty good. Actually, we already had a player who wanted to take a monk, but, 1. We haven't heard from him in a long time, and never on ENWorld, and 2. he didn't have a background worked out like yours. So....if
a) he ever does show up and still want to play a monk, and
b) if you also choose the monk and you don't have any objections,
we might make the two of you from the same order. You staked out this territory first, though, so if you want to keep this detail yours exclusively, that is entirely your option. Just let us know.

Fenris · Jun 16, 2007

Leif said:
Fenris,

I admit that I wasn't thrilled by the idea of your father being a human Shiv. That guild was intended to be a repository for the smaller races, halflings and gnomes mostly, with some dwarves added for spice. But, I awakened this morning with a new epiphany to solve this problem! I have told my co-DM about it via email, and I await his response. I think we're going to be able to work it out, though.

Shoot, dude, if we can solve this problem, we can work out ANYTHING!! hehehe

Hey no problem. I had no idea from the background material that the Shiv were slated smaller, though I with their monopoly on the Understreets I can see why, though no as much the ferries. But Nothing is set in stone, so if we need to change things around, I am flexible.

[sblock=Leif] Actually I had considered a smaller race intially, so if it's a problem, but you like the general idea and background, I would consider even switching his race, most likely to gnome or dwarf. Feel free to email me at fenris dot kaern at gmail if this needs further discussion, assuming of course my character merits it [/sblock]

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