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[Mark Causey]

I also just noticed that my TP has skills with less than rank 2. So, let me update it and add some spells to it. How does this work?

Initiate of the Underhalls/Välkejalokivikungatar's Valkyries Training Package

Skills                  Ranks
Appraisal                 2
Signaling                 2
Spells                  Ranks
Bless                     4
Elemental Weapon          3
Harm                      3
Minor Healing             3
Nature's Strength         3

40 * .75 = 30 point TP

If kosher, that would leave me with ... 24 points to buy other skills with. Does that seem right? I'm all googley-eyed now. --->@_@

 

[Old Fezziwig]

adamantineangel: That's good and should work well for you (10 DPs is a lot to save). It's a wildly different system from d20, but once you get into it (as I've had the luck to be doing while y'all are creating characters), you can really do some nice stuff. I'm loving the TP stuff.

Nick

 

[Mark Causey]

Alright, I'll adjust my character sheet then. I've actually got skill points to spend instead of just the defaults!

Okay, I'm done. Check 'er out.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

linnorm: Your ranger looks good.

JimAde: Sorry for not getting back to you sooner on this (I missed your post when page 3 popped up). That's fine — you can buy a skill as part of a TP and then buy more of it at the regular price.

adamantineangel: That's better. You do need to redo your bonuses for the skills — each of the first 10 ranks you have in a skill gives you a +5 bonus to that skill, so (for example), your Power Point Development skill, which has 6 ranks in it (2 from the TP, 4 from your class) should have a total bonus of +52 (+10 for being a dwarf, +30 for skill ranks, +12 for SD/In), meaning you have 52 PP. Likewise, your Endurance should be at +90 (+50 dwarf, +30 for skill ranks, +10 Stats), giving you 90 Hits. Every skill should have a bonus that's the total of the bonus from ranks, the two ability score bonuses (or one bonus twice), and any other bonuses from race/talents/profession. I think you'll see a marked change in how your character looks on paper.

Nick

 

[Mark Causey]

That's why skill ranks cost so much DP.

I assume I did okay on the purchasing of the correct minimum ranks to get the spells, though, right?

 

[Old Fezziwig]

adamantineangel: The spells are fine, you just need to carry out your bonuses for them and the rest of your skills (don't forget to do the same for your resistances). Also, don't forget the -25 penalty for being unskilled.

 

[Mark Causey]

-25 unskilled penalty on the Resistances?

 

[Old Fezziwig]

adamantineangel: Yep. It's harsh, but they're worth the 1 rank each (at least).

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Here's a little map of the world, just so y'all have an idea of what's where (in case you decide to go back to town). The keep (Carlamon's Tower) on the coast is the dungeon, and the forest surrounding it is a touch marshy. Sufford-on-Windirune (think "windy" as in "twisty") is a small town — village, actually — in the northern part of the North Kingdom, subsisting on agriculture and the goods made by local craftsmen, which are sent off to the seat of the kingdom (off to the south) and sold. Two men vie for leadership in the village: Canon Hegibert, who presides over the Church of St. Cuthbert, and Drogo, an ancient ranger-priest of the Old Faith.

Elves live in the forests, dwarves in the mountains. Hobbits (halflings) and humans in and around Sufford-on-Windirune. Rumors persist of a gryx encampment somewhere north of the Windyrune, and there've been reports of bandits (goblins, kobolds) in the Kingswood, potentially based in the tower. Other than that, the area's as peaceful and idyllic as anyone could hope (or, if you'd rather, as peaceful and idyllic as any rustic village is in an FRPG).

Anyhow, thought this would be nice for y'all to know. I thought that JimAde and adamantineangel's dwarves could be from someplace in/under the mountains on the map, and linnorm's ranger's family could live in the woods near the foothills (which'd give them plenty of contact with the dwarf clans). Anyhow, if'n there're any questions or comments, let me know. I was just goofin' around with Photoshop and thought I'd put what was in my head down onto paper.

Nick

 

[JimAde]

Cool. Since you haven't specified, I'd suggest the Dwarven homeland be called Alamaailmakoti, which simply means underground home. Their main city could be called
Välkeonkalokaupunki: City of the Glittering Cavern.