Creamsteak
Explorer
Clearly I'm all for buying horses as it means more animals to distract me from attempting to kill the wizard.
(CSRHoD) CS's Red Hand of Doom [OOC]
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Anybody interested in playing Paizo's Entombed with the Pharoahs? It's a 6th level adventure from Paizo's Gamemastery line. Our game over on Playbyweb.com has just started, and the 'good' team is one player short due to a very early drop-out of one of the characters. We're set up to run two teams going on the expedition, a group of Pathfinders, and an 'evil' group. Both teams will compete against each other throughout the adventure.
Pathfinder Chronicles
There are currently two Paizo games ongoing there, Crown of the Kobold King (those marked with HLH in front) and now Entombed with the Pharoahs. The only boards you'll be able to access to have a look is really the Entombed with the Pharoahs board and the OOC III Board.
We typically post once a day during weekdays, but not during weekends. I think we've got a good group together. The DM doesn't want to delay too long, so whoever is interested will need to create a character fairly sharpish.
If more than one person is interested, I suspect that we can take either 1 or 3, so that both teams will have the same amount of players.
Let me know if anybody wants to play, or if you have any questions, and I'll get the DM to open up the board so you can 'Request to Join'. If you're not familiar with Playbyweb, I'll give you a run-down if needed.
Thanks
Pinotage
Pathfinder Chronicles
There are currently two Paizo games ongoing there, Crown of the Kobold King (those marked with HLH in front) and now Entombed with the Pharoahs. The only boards you'll be able to access to have a look is really the Entombed with the Pharoahs board and the OOC III Board.
We typically post once a day during weekdays, but not during weekends. I think we've got a good group together. The DM doesn't want to delay too long, so whoever is interested will need to create a character fairly sharpish.
If more than one person is interested, I suspect that we can take either 1 or 3, so that both teams will have the same amount of players.
Let me know if anybody wants to play, or if you have any questions, and I'll get the DM to open up the board so you can 'Request to Join'. If you're not familiar with Playbyweb, I'll give you a run-down if needed.
Thanks
Pinotage
Arkhandus
First Post
I might be interested, and I've taken a brief look at PbW, but I have no idea what the party makeup is or what the setting of Pathfinder is like. From what little I could read and figure out, some elf named Xalim dropped out? But I have no idea what the group consists of already, or what the starting area is like.
If I could have some information on the game/group, I could make a character over the weekend.
If I could have some information on the game/group, I could make a character over the weekend.
Arkhandus said:
Arkhandus, the space has now opened again. Player committed and then jumped ship again! So, it's basically yours if you want it.
The adventure is called Entombed with the Pharoahs, and is for 6th level characters. The DM is running two teams - an evil team of Expeditionaries under the auspices of renouned collector Julistar, a servant of Cheliax, and a good team of Pathfinders. The space is for a player on the good team of Pathfinders. Currently they have 3 players, a cleric, a rogue, and a fighter/barbarian. Normally we don't pay much attention to party make-up, although you might want to discuss that with the other players if you decide to join.
The Pathfinder Setting is the World of Golorian, and in particular in Osirion, a desert Kingdom. Here's some background on the capital of Osirion:
[SBLOCK=Sothis, Stormhaven of Osirion]
SOTHIS, Stormhaven of Osirion
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METROPOLIS conventional (dynastic king with council)
Demographics
Population: 111,989
Type: isolated (98% human, 2% other races)
Authority Figures
The Ruby Prince Khemet III (male human)
Ojan and Jasila, frequently absent twin heirs to the throne (male and female humans)
Dahnakrist Phi, First Speaker of the Council of Liberated Slaves (male human)
The Khopeshman of Sothis, master of both the watch and royal guard (male human)
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Sothis grew organically around the hollow carapace of a gigantic scarab beetle discarded following a molting centuries ago. In times past, during the khamsin storms, the populace retreated inside the cover provided by the great iridescent shell until the sandstorms abated. Over centuries of inhabitation, the inside of the Black Dome, as it came to be called, became lit with hundreds of concentric continual flame and permanent faerie fire spells, all cast in harmony with the shell's natural reflective plating.
Today, Sothis's wealthiest citizens live underneath the shimmering sky, enjoying clusters of man-made oases. Although the bulk of Sothis's population has long since grown beyond the shell's confines, the glistening black exoskeleton remains the city's centerpiece.
Standing in the very center of the Black Dome, encircling the city's largest oasis, are the towers of the Palace of the Forthbringer, residence of the ruling Ruby Prince Khemet III, the third in a recent dynasty of enigmatic thaumaturgists. Khemet’s family claims that Sothis owes its prosperity to the web of pacts they have painstakingly negotiated with elder elementals and carefully chosen outsiders. The towers are said to house interconnected mazes of summoning circles within their white limestone walls.
Much of the day-to-day management of Osirion, however, is in the hands of the Council of Liberated Slaves, a lower house which debates the minutiae of domestic policy.
Other points of note in Sothis include the Necropolis of the Faithful, the city's holy graveyards, and the Malhitu Bazaar, a titanic tent city of cutthroat mercantilism. Premier dromedary camels and desert horses may be purchased at the Overlander's Emporium in the Malhitu Bazaar. [/SBLOCK]
Here also is a brief background:
[SBLOCK=Background]The desert wastes of Osirion have always been home to competing clans of nomadic elementals of air and sand, best known for ushering in the blinding khamsin on a seasonal basis. Something changed this year, though, and the elementals went berserk, scouring the desert with tireless fury. Thousands of tons of desert sand shifted, with entire towns buried and valuable oases lost. As a result, the caravan roads have become incredibly deadly. But one man’s disaster is another man’s opportunity, for in the valleys and canyons left behind by the storms, ancient wonders from fantastic myths have resurfaced. A dozen previously unknown pyramids now miraculously rise from the sand.
Word has spread. Renowned treasure hunters from across the globe congregate in Sothis, Osirion’s bustling capital, to prepare for some of the most anticipated dungeon delves in centuries. Within this community of rogues, bandits, mercenaries, and tomb robbers, a rumor has spread like wildfire. One of these resurfaced structures towering out of the desert floor is none other than the legendary pyramid complex of the Four Pharaohs of Ascension.[/SBLOCK]
You're right that the elf Xalim dropped out, and I suspect he was some sort of arcane caster, though don't view that as a constraint. The adventure involves two conflicting teams attempting to infiltrate and find the legendary Pyramid of the Four Pharoahs of Ascension. The adventure starts during an auction (where the rest of the characters are at present) for artifacts recovered from the desert. How it progresses from there, I do not know.
Anywho, if there are any other questions, let me know. Posting rate is 1/day, except over weekends, the groups is normally 1:1 between combat and roleplaying, and from experience I know that you'll be playing with some of the best PbP roleplayers I know. I hope you'll join us.
I believe that the Pathfinder team is going to continue until you have time to join. Naturally, the quicker you join, the less you'll miss out on.
Pinotage
Arkhandus
First Post
Well, what are the char-gen guidelines? I.e. ability scores, hit points, starting wealth, acceptable sourcebooks. I'm only going to be using the SRD core, probably, but I'd want to know if Unearthed Arcana, Player's Handbook II, or Tome of Battle are acceptable to some extent.
[sblock]After thinking about it, I started work on a human evoker wizard 5/fighter 1 intending to go Eldritch Knight at 7th-level onward, to fill the arcane caster role and be a secondary warrior. Main weapon would be a glaive, for the reach, and a composite bow for ranged combat. Focused on Dodge and Point Blank Shot feat trees, heading for Spring Attack at 7th (as EK bonus feat) and probably Rapid Shot later on.
But I'd like to know beforehand if that's really possible, since the group may be running off exploring/dungeon-delving/whatever and then I don't know if he'd be able to take the prestige class? I figure he's been training in some kind of mixed arcane-warrior tradition already, since his feats focus on the fighter aspect even though most of his other training is wizardly so far (I just figure it's important the group have an arcane caster with 3rd-level spells, since it's a module).
The only things I was really considering from UA were the specialist Evoker replacement for a familiar (choosing an energy type, and casting spells of that type at +1 caster level, in this case choosing Fire), which I'm not sure of since I normally like familiars, and the wizard bonus feat option for replacing wizard bonus feats (scribe scroll and the others) with fighter bonus feats at the same levels (1st, 5th, etc.).
I figured the PHB 2 might have some useful feats and spells for the character, but that's all I was considering from there. Still definitely focusing on core-rules feats and spells primarily, regardless. I'd avoid stuff like Arcane Thesis or Robilar's Gambit anyway.
ToB I was only considering as a possible source of a few feats and/or a level of Warblade (I avoid stuff like Iron Heart Surge and White Raven Tactics altogether, mind you). Reflex is this PC's worst save, which Warblade would help a bit, plus his AC is weak without lotsa buff spells (Stance of Clarity would help), and it'd make him a bit more useful in melee. Still meaning to go Eldritch Knight at 7th onward, though.[/sblock]
[sblock]After thinking about it, I started work on a human evoker wizard 5/fighter 1 intending to go Eldritch Knight at 7th-level onward, to fill the arcane caster role and be a secondary warrior. Main weapon would be a glaive, for the reach, and a composite bow for ranged combat. Focused on Dodge and Point Blank Shot feat trees, heading for Spring Attack at 7th (as EK bonus feat) and probably Rapid Shot later on.
But I'd like to know beforehand if that's really possible, since the group may be running off exploring/dungeon-delving/whatever and then I don't know if he'd be able to take the prestige class? I figure he's been training in some kind of mixed arcane-warrior tradition already, since his feats focus on the fighter aspect even though most of his other training is wizardly so far (I just figure it's important the group have an arcane caster with 3rd-level spells, since it's a module).
The only things I was really considering from UA were the specialist Evoker replacement for a familiar (choosing an energy type, and casting spells of that type at +1 caster level, in this case choosing Fire), which I'm not sure of since I normally like familiars, and the wizard bonus feat option for replacing wizard bonus feats (scribe scroll and the others) with fighter bonus feats at the same levels (1st, 5th, etc.).
I figured the PHB 2 might have some useful feats and spells for the character, but that's all I was considering from there. Still definitely focusing on core-rules feats and spells primarily, regardless. I'd avoid stuff like Arcane Thesis or Robilar's Gambit anyway.
ToB I was only considering as a possible source of a few feats and/or a level of Warblade (I avoid stuff like Iron Heart Surge and White Raven Tactics altogether, mind you). Reflex is this PC's worst save, which Warblade would help a bit, plus his AC is weak without lotsa buff spells (Stance of Clarity would help), and it'd make him a bit more useful in melee. Still meaning to go Eldritch Knight at 7th onward, though.[/sblock]
