[D20 Modern]Department 7 (OOC)

[Voda Vosa]

Character ready to roll, a tough hero from china, who uses sword and crossbow. His peers call him Terracotta Soldier, as he dresses like those soldiers, and wields similar weapons. Will have a background soon.

 Name: Ming To, Aka "Terracotta Soldier"
Tough Hero 1
Occupation: Military

Str: 14 +2 (6p.)     Level: 1        XP: 0
Dex: 12 +1 (4p.)     BAB: +0         Hit points: 10+3+3= 16
Con: 16 +3 (10p.)     Grapple: +2     Wound points: 16
Int: 10 +0 (2p.)          
Wis: 10 +0 (2p.)     Init: +1     
Cha:  9 -1 (1p.)        

Defense:  12 = 10 base + 1 class + 1 dex
Ranged: +1
Melee: +3

Unarmed: +4 for 1d6+2
Chinese straightsword: +3 for 2d6+2 19-20 critical
Crossbow: +1 for 1d10 19-20 critical

                           Base   Mod  Misc  Total
Fort:                      1     +3          +4
Ref:                       0     +1          +1
Will:                      0     +0          +0

Languages: Chinese, English


Feats: Brawl (Occupation), Simple weapon prof (Class), Exotic Weapon prof, 

Toughness.

Skill Points: 12       Max Ranks: 4/2
Skills                   Ranks  Mod  Misc  Total
Consentration               4    +3          +7
Hide                        4    +1          +5
Move silently               4    +1          +5



Talents:
Remain conscious

Equipment:               
Chinese straightsword(Katana)(WC check 

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2345293/ sucess, drop W by 1)
Crossbow
Bolts
Pepper Spray
Chain shirt (WC check http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2345292/, sucess, drop 

W by 1)
Caltrops
Bolt cutter
Duct tape
First aid kit
Backpack
Rope



Wealth: 10(-2 from equipment)
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2345282/

Age: 25
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 170 lb.
Eyes: Green
Face Hair: Black
Skin: withe

Ming To was the only son of a rich man of china, who owned several carbon companies. His mother died at childbirth, and since then, his father moved with him to USA.
He grew up surrounded by luxuries, and trained with great martial art masters, in the manipulation of the own body and of various weapons. His favorite was always the sword. He developed a taste for his country's history, for old armors and weapons.
But his father was deep into corruption and black business. One day, Ming's father was found in the river with concrete shoes.
All the sudden, Ming was alone, with nothing more than his few thing; all that belonged to his father was taken away.
Strong willed, he decided to make something out of his life, and redeem the memory of his father. The tall and strong Chinese soon found job as guard; his martial arts paid his food.
Later in his life he found job in a casino, in Las Vegas, which was orientally themed. A huge Mandarin warrior, with Sword and Armor was perfect security.
It was then when the government found him. He beat the hell out of three federal agents, who were drunk and tried to enter the casino without authorization.

 

[ThWatcher]

VanorDM,
Did you decide on the number of points to use on ability scores?

Also, how do you want to do wealth levels?

Once I have those, I can finish my character and post him.

 

[Voda Vosa]

I used the standard points buy

 

[OnlytheStrong]

Post edited cuz I remembered about the SRD's.

I will post a character asap.

 

[VanorDM]

VanorDM,
Did you decide on the number of points to use on ability scores?

Standard point buy which is 25 points to spend.

For wealth I wouldn't worry too much about that considering how the campaign will run. But you are free to buy anything you can get with your own starting wealth. Once we start then you'll be able to request equipment needed for a mission.

 

[ThWatcher]

OK, I have to seriously rework him. I did an initial build using 32 points because I couldn't find where in the D20 Modern book the standard points were.

It will be late tomorrow before I have him fixed.

 

[OnlytheStrong]

 Name: Diego Ordonez
Fast Hero 1
Occupation: Adventurer

Str: 10 +0 (2p.)     Level: 1        XP: 0
Dex: 16 +3 (10p.)     BAB: +0         Hit points: 8
Con: 11 +0 (3p.)     Grapple: +0     Wound points: 10
Int: 12 +0 (4p.)          
Wis: 14 +0 (6p.)     Init: +3     
Cha:  8 -1 (0p.)        

Defense:  16 = 10 base + 3 class + 3 dex
Ranged: +3
Melee: +0



Changdao:  +0    2d6+0,  Crit 19-20, Slashing, Large, 6lb
Kukri:   +0      1d4+0,  Crit 18-20,  Slashing, Small, 1lb
Compound Bow:  +3   1d8,  Crit 20,  Piercing,  40ft incriment, Large, 3lb


                           Base   Mod  Misc  Total
Fort:                      0     +0          +0
Ref:                       1     +3          +4
Will:                      0     +2          +2

Languages: English, Spanish, German, Mandarin


Feats: Archaic Weapon Proficiency (occupation),
          Simple Weapon Proficiency (class),
          Exotic Melee Weapon Proficiency (Changdao),
          Track 



Skill Points:  24        Max ranks:   4/2

Balance:  +6             (3 dex mod + 3 ranks)
Hide:    +7               (3 dex mod + 4 ranks)
Move Silently: + 7    (3 dex mod + 4 ranks)
Spot:    + 6            (2 wis mod + 4 ranks)
Survival:   + 6        (2 wis mod + 4 ranks)
Tumble:    +6        (3 dex mod + 3 ranks)
Speak Language   3 ranks


Talents:
Evasion



Starting Wealth: 6
[url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2346326/]2d4=5[/url] +1 from occupation

Equipment:               

Katana [renamed Changdao] (decreased wealth score by 1, making it 5)
Compound Bow  (decreased wealth score by 1, making it 4)
Arrows x 24 (decreased wealth score by 2, making it 2) 

Kukri
Caltrops
Compass
Disposible Camera
Daypack
Rope
Penlight
Standard Flashlight

Ending Wealth:  2

Age: 22
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 165 lb.
Eyes: Light Brown
Face Hair: Dark Brown
Skin: Tan

[sblock=Diego Ordonez]

Diego was born and raised in the Fuller Park area of Chicago. Violence was everywhere, an everday thing. His parents managed to avoid that life. The interracial family was often the target of hatred, but that generally only happened when they were together in public. It seemed as if their front door could lock out all the world.

Diego's father was a Mexican, his mother was born and raised in Germany. His father worked construction. He worked hard almost every day, usually only having one day off a week. Diego's mother... had a less honorable job. She worked the streets as a prostitute. Diego spent many of his years alone, reading or playing Indiana Jones in the house.

He was 7 when the police came to his house. He will never forget the faces of the two officers. They asked him who he was. He had nothing to hide, he answered truthfully. The mustached officer proceeded to tell him that his parents were found murdered. In retrospect, the officer had to of kept talking. Diego heard none of it. His parents were gone. Murdered. His world went black.

Diego awoke some time later, in the house of some Chinese man and woman. They were all seated around the table, eating some kind of food Diego had never seen before. He was surprised to see that he had been "out" for nearly 3 days. Locked in the black recess of his own mind. He learned quickly that his father had followed his mother that fateful day. He saw her preform a "trick." It was a murder-suicide. Diego's father stabbed his mother nearly 50 times, then slit his own throat.

They were a nice enough couple, even put in to permanently adopt him. They moved to America from a rural spot near the city of Chiayi. Diego learned alot about the Chinese culture, their legends, history, and even some of thier martial arts. He became obessed with blades, and had a natural nack for archery. His father gifted him with a compound bow, styled to match (as close as possible) the ancient bows used by the Chinese military.

Diego never really spoke. He saw it as unnecessary. He could speak, in multiple tongues, he just refused to. Many people learned that when Diego did speak, he meant every single word that escaped his lips. He was kicked out of school at the age of 15, for nearly beating a boy to death. The boy had been picking on Diego for over a year. He finally crossed the line when the boy began yelling and screaming at him during lunch. The boy threw Diego's food on the ground, then picked some of it up and smashed it in his face.

Diego sat calmly at first. The kids that watched the ordeal said that Diego did in fact warn the boy that he needed to stop, before something bad happened. Witness' claim that the boy then hit Diego in the face with his lunch tray, bloodying his nose and promptly causing an eye to swell shut.

Diego was pulled off by three of the male teachers. The officers that came to see him said that he was defending himself, so no charges would be pressed. The school saw differently.

Diego gathered all of the money he had been saving through high school, and with help from his adoptive father, left for China. Diego spent the next 6 years in China, studying a rare form of martial arts in a place that even he was not sure how he got to.

It was quite by accident that Diego was "accepted" into this martial art school. He had simply been in the wrong place at the right time. Hunting in the wilderness, he came across a man wearing ragged clothing. The man looked as though he had been in the wild for quite some time. The man turned on Diego, sprinting (as fast as a man with a limp could) after him, a knife in hand. Diego raised his bow and fired, taking the man in the throat.

A short time after, a group of men emerged from the brush. They were a group of (for lack of a more Americanized word) bounty hunters. They hunted men for a living, usually for the government but occassionaly freelance. Diego had killed a former Chinese goverment assassin. A man the group had been hunting for nearly a month.

The group overpowered Diego and he awoke in a temple of some sort. As soon as he sat up a man came running towards him, kicking him squarely in the stomach. He swooned and nearly passed back out. Diego stood and began to fight back. His father had taught him the bare basics of Akido, which was enough to put the aggressive attacker on his face. Diego had him in a form of an arm bar. He was looking around when another heavy blow landed on the back of his head.

Diego spun, breaking the first attackers arm. During the spin, Diego kicked out his leg hard, clipping the second attacker in the back of the knee. Diego was in a full mount on the man's stomach even as his back hit the floor. It was then that a loud whistle filled the room, causing Diego to look around.

An old man that could of been straight out of a stereotypical Chinese martial arts movie was standing there. From the little Mandrin Diego had learned from his father, he gathered that it was an offer to teach him how to hunt. The man said that there were many at the temple who would teach how to harm, but it was not their main goal. They were the hunters of men, and he was invited to be the first Western man to experiance the training.

Six years passed. Diego broke more bones than he thought possible. Every day he trained. It was not unusual to break a foot, then track a man twenty miles through dense wilderness. Diego left at the age of 21, after receiving a letter that his father was dying.

It was a huge pain in the butt for Diego to gain his master's grace in leaving. Diego knew he was far from a master still, but he felt like he had leanred enough to carry on his schooling outside the temple. His master told him that in leaving, he would never be allowed to return. It was the way it had been since the temple was built, and the way it would be until it was destroyed.

Diego made it back to Chicago a full three weeks after his father's death. His mother had died shortly after his father, apparently from grief. Diego dropped back to the streets of Chicago. He quickly became known as someone to not mess with unless you wanted to be in a fight to the end. Diego's kukri (inherited from his father) claimed three lives in the first week back.

Such was his life. He had fallen back into the streets that his adoptive father had tried so hard to remove him from. He lasted 6 months before he "accidently" killed an undercover officer and had to leave the city. He is currently somewhere in the panhandle of Oklahoma, away from most people. [/sblock]

 

[VanorDM]

It will be late tomorrow before I have him fixed.

That's cool, I'd like to have 1 or 2 more people join up before I start. But if no one else shows interest maybe I'll just run it for you 3 who have.

 

[ThWatcher]

Another quick question:

In your world, does the mage have to specify which of his spells he has memorized at any given time and can only cast from his memorized spells?

Or can he, at the time of casting, decide which spell from his book he will cast?

Also, are you allowing either of the Psionic classes?

 

[VanorDM]

Or can he, at the time of casting, decide which spell from his book he will cast?

This

You'll have a list of spells you know, and you can cast any spell of that list as many times as you want based on how many spells of X level you can cast a day.

Also, are you allowing either of the Psionic classes?

If you have to ask, then you're not qualified to play a Psionic character...

Most likely but I might change my mind. I personally see little reasons to limit what classes someone can play.