Experience

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

I'm cool with being the comic relief. How about that decanter of endless ale though? Is 8,000gp appropriate, or could I get it for less?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Jemal, I'm sure this is going to be a no go, but I'm curious as my background, which I was in my original email, shows that I hate nation B, is their any chance I could have that as a favored enemy?

And if no, then could I have a list of monster that live in the area we are from.

Ray, good, I have high hopes for the entertainment value. Your character seems like he will be a riot, or at least cause one or two.

 

[DM_Matt]

Jemal, I'm sure this is going to be a no go, but I'm curious as my background, which I was in my original email, shows that I hate nation B, is their any chance I could have that as a favored enemy?

And if no, then could I have a list of monster that live in the area we are from.

Ray, good, I have high hopes for the entertainment value. Your character seems like he will be a riot, or at least cause one or two.

Can't you cover most people from nation B AND others too by picking humans? Thats what I did.

Regarding Rana, she'd make an interesting darker counterpart to Calixte, and would probably wind up mooching liquer from Granite while trying to keep up the facade that his common ale is below her.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Ok, Granite is now updated with Louella, his mule, and his hit points. I just need approval on my Pitcher of Endless Ale and I'm done!

DM_Matt, that sounds like fun, Granite will have some interesting things to say to Rana.

Bro - Yeah, I've always wanted to play the comedic character, and here's my chance! This is going to be a blast!

[edit] Oh man, I just saw the rest of Dorian, Manzanita's character's background. Dorian's a teetotaler! Oh this is going to be a riot, I can tell...

 

[Manzanita]

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Yeah, I hit alternate inspiration here in Ray Silver's postings, so I don't really need any more info, Dorian is good as written.

 

[Jemal]

DM_Matt - True, but remember 2 things:

1: You can only have your own race as favoured enemy if you're evil (So elves must be evil to hate elves, humans evil to hate humans, etc.)

2: If you have a race as a favoured enemy, remember you HATE every member of that race as a general rule, with VERY few exceptions, and then only b/c you've grown to respect them over time.

OH, and I'll be expecting you to roleplay your hatred of your favoured enemy.

Brother S - No to having the nation as a favoured enemy, but see above for race possibility. As for monsters, the lands are pretty tame, very few monsters are ever reported. Most adventurers head outside the nations to do their questing + adventuring, where there is pretty much everything you can think of.

 

[DM_Matt]

DM_Matt - True, but remember 2 things:

1: You can only have your own race as favoured enemy if you're evil (So elves must be evil to hate elves, humans evil to hate humans, etc.)

2: If you have a race as a favoured enemy, remember you HATE every member of that race as a general rule, with VERY few exceptions, and then only b/c you've grown to respect them over time.

OH, and I'll be expecting you to roleplay your hatred of your favoured enemy.

Brother S - No to having the nation as a favoured enemy, but see above for race possibility. As for monsters, the lands are pretty tame, very few monsters are ever reported. Most adventurers head outside the nations to do their questing + adventuring, where there is pretty much everything you can think of.

Um, arent we using 3.5 rules? In 3.5 you dont need to hate your favored enemy and don't need to be evil to hate your own race. This makes a good deal of sesnse, after all. A skill-based/stealthy character intended to be a soldier or law-enforcement type WOULD be expected to be better at fighting htheir own race.

In Rana's case, her ranger level is intended to represent special-forces style military training, in which case she would be trained primarily to fight other humans. The social-skill bonuses like bluff are more from her upbringing.

 

[Jarval]

OK, I've got a character concept, but it's strange enough that I thought I'd better run it by you all first.

I'm planning on my character being a deported convict. Only he's not been deported from another country, but rather another Prime. He's been on (insert game world name) for a few months (in other words, long enough to have picked up the language). If this seems a bit too out there for you, no problem, I can work up something different.

 

[DM_Matt]

OK, I've got a character concept, but it's strange enough that I thought I'd better run it by you all first.

I'm planning on my character being a deported convict. Only he's not been deported from another country, but rather another Prime. He's been on (insert game world name) for a few months (in other words, long enough to have picked up the language). If this seems a bit too out there for you, no problem, I can work up something different.

Being that just about all of us have some pretty serious issues, I don't see how a convict will make things suddenly too weird

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Convict, criminal's daughter, orphan, kid with abusive past, and alcoholic widower. Yup, not weird at all.