OOC for Arador's LotR Game

[ColonelHardisson]

I dont want to horn in onto what is the province of the DM, but do you have enough skill ranks?

Character creation is hard to re create since its kinda unituitive and they dont always have a mathmatical neatness to them. But it seems maybe youre a few skill ranks short. Did you take a starting package? I count just 24 total ranks outside of your language and lore skills. It should be 26 6 racial picks w/ 1 rank in each, 15 order skills ranks + 5 added to order skills. Granted some racial and order skills overlap and taking a second spceciality in a skill counts as a rank.

Just wondering- I am far from infallible. Skills are the hardest part of creation IMHO.

I didn't add in Attribute bonuses. Could that be it? I posted it to get this kind of feedback, so I appreciate the post. According to how I calculated them, this should be right. Maybe I missed something in the errata.

 

[arador359]

I dont want to horn in onto what is the province of the DM, but do you have enough skill ranks?

Character creation is hard to re create since its kinda unituitive and they dont always have a mathmatical neatness to them. But it seems maybe youre a few skill ranks short. Did you take a starting package? I count just 24 total ranks outside of your language and lore skills. It should be 26 6 racial picks w/ 1 rank in each, 15 order skills ranks + 5 added to order skills. Granted some racial and order skills overlap and taking a second spceciality in a skill counts as a rank.

Just wondering- I am far from infallible. Skills are the hardest part of creation IMHO.

I'm assuming that the numbers shown are ranks only and not the extended TN (meaning you don't have attibute modifiers or other bonuses added in). If this is accurate, then this looks ok to me.

 

[Daiymo]

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[ColonelHardisson]

Well that's the problem I don't have the book, and LOTR didn't go into much detail on that area. So other than what I have already said and what that implicitly implies.

E.G. good woodcraft, skilled with sword and bow, believes it is the Dunedain's duty to protect the common men and hobbits of the north, Supporting Aragorn over the nobles of the south, working with the elves, although certainly not to the extent to have been seen in court, etc.

Well can add that imagine he would have been trained and had these ideals instilled in him by his father, that he has an older brother who will be taking over the household when his father dies, but as his is the duty to protect he has been given the family sword.

Mother captured by goblins and presumed dead three years ago. Which if he didn't have a strong desire to defeat evil, before he certainly does now. Sister just now coming into her majority. Really only close to his father, since the others were trained differently, ie brother affairs of court, and sister in deportment and perhaps magic.

Can't think of anything else at the moment. Especially since I don't know order abilities, edges , flaws etc.

Here are some edges that will fit with this description:

Duty (which is actually a flaw, but you'll get an edge to compensate)

Elf-friend (possibly, but it's up the Narrator)

Faithful

Woodcrafty

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I'm assuming that the numbers shown are ranks only and not the extended TN (meaning you don't have attibute modifiers or other bonuses added in). If this is accurate, then this looks ok to me.

Correct; I didn't add in the Attribute modifiers. The way the rules discuss this, I was thinking that only ranks are written down, not bonuses. For example, my Armed Combat (Polearms (Spear)) skill doesn't reflect the specialization bonus.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

By the way, guys, I have no idea how to play in a game like this; this is my first play-by-post game. If anyone gets the chance, I'd appreciate an overview of what is done.

 

[arador359]

By the way, guys, I have no idea how to play in a game like this; this is my first play-by-post game. If anyone gets the chance, I'd appreciate an overview of what is done.

I think we may all need one. Gary, Can you summarize the basic flow of a Play by post game for us?

 

[arador359]

I'm not sure what you're getting at. The Dunlending is a Barbarian, which has different Order skills and abilities than the Duneadain character you're talking about, which will almost certainly not be a barbarian. The edges he has tie in with the background I wrote above pretty directly. There are a lot of edges. What am I missing? Is there some question that I copied your character concept? EDIT: Don't take that as hostile.

By the way, I used one of the Barbarian starting packages, the Mountain Barbarian one. I also didn't change much in the way of the skills or edges listed for that package, besides adding some discretionary and advancement points.

Based on the info Rangerjohn sent in, I think I can come up with a set of attibutes and skills that, while similar in a couple of skill areas to Lanwi, still has enough uniqueness and diversity to completely differentiate between the two.

 

[garyh]

I dont want to horn in onto what is the province of the DM, but do you have enough skill ranks?

Character creation is hard to re create since its kinda unituitive and they dont always have a mathmatical neatness to them. But it seems maybe youre a few skill ranks short. Did you take a starting package? I count just 24 total ranks outside of your language and lore skills. It should be 26 6 racial picks w/ 1 rank in each, 15 order skills ranks + 5 added to order skills. Granted some racial and order skills overlap and taking a second spceciality in a skill counts as a rank.

Just wondering- I am far from infallible. Skills are the hardest part of creation IMHO.

If the Col. is missing 2 skill ranks, perhaps he didn't use his Racial "Skilled" bonus?

 

[garyh]

I think we may all need one. Gary, Can you summarize the basic flow of a Play by post game for us?

Ya know what? I'm going to be writing and posting a PbP FAQ tomorrow as a seperate permanent thread. It's something GoldenEagle thought of over in Meta, I offered to do, and Dinkeldog authorized to flag as an announcement. This all just came up yesterday.

So, if you can wait till tomorrow, all your PbP questions will be answered. And, if they're not, you can add them to the FAQ.