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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1558610" data-attributes="member: 18837">I’m interested, although this would be my first PBP game I’ve been involved with.  I’m interested in starting one myself, but figure I should play in one first to get a feel for it.My character idea is a local resident of the village, detailed here.  I need to know if you’re allowing any feats from any other sources besides the PHB before I decide what my last feat is.  And I hope the background isn’t too elaborate (I started typing and took a bit to get all the ideas out):Name: RhodhanMale Human Wizard 1Alignment: NeutralStr 12 (+1)  [4 pts]Dex 14 (+2)  [6 pts]Con 14 (+2)  [6 pts]Int 14 (+2)  [6 pts]Wis 12 (+1)  [4 pts]Cha 10 (+0)  [2 pts]Hit Points: 9 (max 1D4,+2 Con Bonus,+3 for familiar)Armor Class (Full/Touch/Flatfooted): 12/12/10 (+2 Dex); 16/12/14 with Mage Armor (+4 Armor, +2 Dex)Initiative: +2Speed: 30 feetSaves:Fortitude: +2 (+0 base, +2 Con)Reflex : +2 (+0 base, +2 Dex)Will : +3 (+2 base, +1 Wis)Base Attack Bonus: +0; Melee: +1; Ranged: +2Skills (16 ranks available):Concentration +6 [4 ranks,+2 Con]Knowledge (arcana) +6 [4 ranks, +2 Int]Knowledge (local) +4 [2 ranks, +2 Int]Knowledge (the planes) +3 [1 rank, +2 Int]Spellcraft +6 [4 ranks, +2 Int]Profession (tailor) +2 [1 ranks, +1 Wis]Languages: Common, Draconic, ElvenSpellbook:0-level: all1st-level: Mage Armor, Magic Missile, Magic Weapon, Comprehend Languages, Disguise SelfFeats:Scribe Scroll (free)Point Blank Shot (Human)Undecided (1st level)Familiar: ToadBackground: people in Karin-Kurr know more about Rhodhan’s father than Rhodhan himself.  Rhodan’s father, named Russert, was an intelligent sort, the kind destined for big things, who studied wizardry under the village’s aging protector, Zellifizer the Mage.  When the mage died of natural causes, Russert decided to leave the village to study and adventure, and everyone assumed he would make good use of his abilities, and become a well-respected wizard.  He wanted to take his childhood sweetheart, Karyne, with him, but her father, the local tailor, forbid it.  Karyne didn’t fight her father on this since, truth be told, she was somewhat afraid of the world beyond their village, but she asked Russert to return to her if he couldn’t find the adventure he sought, perhaps to take over his mentor’s position in the village.Russert didn’t return to Karin-Kurr for 14 years, and when Karyne, now the village seamstress, found him knocking at her door, she saw that he was badly injured.  She did her best to tend to his wounds, but as she talked with him, she realized this was the not the same man who had left.  Russert was now bitter, spiteful to those he saw as his enemies, and arrogant to those he deemed beneath him.  It broke her heart to see how he changed, and she could think of nothing else but guilt, guilt for not leaving with him.  She was sure if she had been by his side, he would not have changed so.  That night, she invited him to her bed, and he accepted, them both imagining the life they could have had together.The next morning, they were awakened by armored men bursting through her door.  A group, calling themselves the Company of the Steel Heart, claimed that Russert had started a mystical plague in a nearby large city, and although they wounded him, he managed to escape, and they tracked him here.  Russert didn’t deny the accusations, and the hurt look on Karyne’s face made him realize they’d never be together again.  In a rage, Russert began throwing spells at the adventures, who valiantly fought back, the battle moving outside into the street.  Locals rushed out of their homes to watch the spectacular battle.  In the end, Russert’s spells weren’t enough to protect him, and the company’s leader, a Paladin, slew Russert with a sword through his heart.Soon thereafter, the Company left, and the villagers were left to speculate on what had happened to Russert to turn him so evil.  Some said magic did that to the weak-willed.  Others thought pacts with demons must have been involved, or maybe he was under a spell or had been possessed.  And when Karyne, a single woman all her life, was visibly pregnant within a few months, everyone knew who the father was.It was under this cloud of gossip and fear that Rhodhan grew up.  Nearly everyone in town decided there must be something wrong with the boy, that whatever made Russert evil was in him as well.  And to them, the boy never acted right... glaring at people and acting twitchy all the time (which was really just a reaction to how people treated him).  But he was entirely different around his mother Karyne, thoughtful and caring; with her, he needed no one else.  And she saw such promise in him, the same promise Russert had, so when she found that Rhodhan had discovered some of his father’s papers and spellbooks (the low-level stuff he learned before moving), she encouraged him to learn magic as well.  No local wizards would teach him (even if they didn’t believe he was “corrupted” by his father, they really didn’t want the hassle from villagers that tutoring him would bring), so Rhodhan worked by himself, and also studied under traveling wizards when such people would happen through town.And now... the house has appeared, and the dreams have begun.  And some small part of Rhodhan might think the villagers deserve this for their treatment of him, or that he deserves it if what they all say about his father is correct.  Regardless, his mother doesn’t deserve the encroaching madness that has started showing in her, as it has in most of the villagers.(And I’m putting this here, but other PCs shouldn’t know it) And one other possibility terrifies him.  That the house, and this man in black, is the force that corrupted his father.  And now it’s here to do the same to him.BTW, I’m not trying to usurp your plot and say that there is any real connection between Russert and the man in black.  It’s just the way Rhodhan would think. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Let me know what you think, if there’s anything you want me to change.  And if you’d rather start with people with PBP experience, then hopefully I can be an alternate in case someone bows out.</blockquote>

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