[OOC] Life in Vein - Recruiting Replacement Player!

[Steve Gorak]

Nice. Consider this idea yoinked for my RL game that I run. I just got me 2 good NPC's.

Jhilahd

Enjoy Jilahad, as long as one is named Steve and the other Gorak!
Actually, I'll post the ida on Monte's board, for the enjoyment of all.

Cheers,

Steve Gorak

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Steve, yes I'd allow the Peaceful Mage feat to apply to runes. As for Greenbond, I'd say you'd only have the Complex and Exotic Plant and Positive Energy spells for your Greenbond levels.

 

[Steve Gorak]

Steve, yes I'd allow the Peaceful Mage feat to apply to runes. As for Greenbond, I'd say you'd only have the Complex and Exotic Plant and Positive Energy spells for your Greenbond levels.

Kewl! That's fair. The greenbond thing was worth asking, but I must admit that I was suprised when I saw on Monte's boards people arguying that you can get P+PE exotic spells with only 1 level of GB.

Cheers,

Steve Gorak

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Eh, generally if is sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Technically you probably shouldn't be allowed to apply feats to runes, but I don't mind with the Peaceful Mage feat. I'd probably allow it on others on a case-by-case basis.

 

[mpickett81]

How about this concept: a set of Human twins, born with a degenerative Human disease (congenital, and there is no cure / or we're too poor to have someone cure us / or we have evil/nasty parents and no one wants to help us). We're both in our late teens, and things are going downhill (i.e. we're going to die soon).
(liberal edit for space-saving)
My character will view the Mojh transformation as a good thing, but he won't necessarily venerate dragons. He'll appreciate usefulness of the transformation as a means to acheive goals.
Steve Gorak

Sounds cool Gorak. I really like the congenital disease idea. I'll split the difference of my two ideas and go for a mojh akashic, possibly with mojh or runethane class levels as well. To add a little flavor, let's say that our characters faced some opposition, especially from the giant hierarchy in their pursuit of mojh-dom. You seem to be building your character around a very friendly, well adjusted archetype (with the peaceful mage feat and possible greenbond levels). My character, on the other hand, is more bitter about the opposition he faced. While he still sees the mojh transformation as practical like his brother does (not as some veneration of dramojh), he isn't nearly as willing to turn the other cheek to those that look down upon him as a mojh. He is particularly resentful of giants, seeing their paternal aristocracy as hypocritical and no better than the dramojh.
Let me know what you think.
-Mark

 

[garyh]

Great ideas on the mojh brothers! Nice stuff.

 

[mpickett81]

FaenFriend.... I was looking over your character. I didn't look too carefully, but I did notice that you forgot about synergy bonuses on your skill bonuses. For example, the fact that you have 5 or more ranks in tumble means you get a +2 on balance check. Go through the skills section and look under the "special" heading of any skill that you have 5+ ranks in to see if you missed any other synergies.
Also, it's my general suggestion that you not spread out your skill points so much. It's not necessary to max out every skill, but I find it is preferable to be highly-skilled at fewer things than to have a ton of skills you are so-so with. This is especially true in a large adventuring party like ours, where there is a good chance at least one PC will be an expert at any given skill.

 

[Steve Gorak]

Sounds cool Gorak. I really like the congenital disease idea. I'll split the difference of my two ideas and go for a mojh akashic, possibly with mojh or runethane class levels as well. To add a little flavor, let's say that our characters faced some opposition, especially from the giant hierarchy in their pursuit of mojh-dom. You seem to be building your character around a very friendly, well adjusted archetype (with the peaceful mage feat and possible greenbond levels). My character, on the other hand, is more bitter about the opposition he faced. While he still sees the mojh transformation as practical like his brother does (not as some veneration of dramojh), he isn't nearly as willing to turn the other cheek to those that look down upon him as a mojh. He is particularly resentful of giants, seeing their paternal aristocracy as hypocritical and no better than the dramojh.
Let me know what you think.
-Mark

mpickett81, that's a great idea. It's also going to help me avoid having a "goodie two shoe" character. I'll be friendly, but I'll believe that it's time humans do their own things. I'll also have good knowledge of ancient history, and will desire the creation of autonomous human kingdoms.

OK, so lets say our family works for the Giants in city X, and are loyal to them. Our father could have been a medium level administrator, a warrior in their army. This could explain where the family got the funds to have 2 kids get their education (Runethane & Akashik). When the two of us found out about the transformation, the family wasn't open to the idea (imagine if you had a dying son, and the only way to save him was to transform him in a giant lizard), but being part of the family, they felt it was the better of the two evils (a lizard son is better than a dead son).

The giants hyerarchy (bosses, business partners, etc) however, were completely opposed to the idea, seing the ritual as something of great evil that would transform us in the embodiment of ancient demonic oppresors. They could have threatened to banish the family from the city (or something like that), if we went ahead with the ritual. I think we need to work on the story of the threat and what means they took to stop us: imagine, two sons of a human that works for giants, transforming themselves into something many giants died to eradicate!

In order to save the family from this shame/torment, we could have fled, or even better yet, we could have faked our funerals to avoid the ire of the giants

Of course, this doesn't mean the family accepted our transformation entirely. We could have gone to visit them after the ritual (during the night, of course), and there could have been a sceen: mom crying, pops renouncing his lizard sons, the kid sister completely freaking out, the dog barking like crazy... Anyways, you get the picture.

Also, How old do you want to be? I have a problem with the starting age of 60. It's way too old. I was thinking more of late teens or early twenties (if the DM is ok with this, of course). Do you have a preference?

Hey, I love where this is going!

Cheers,

Steve Gorak

 

[mpickett81]

Some more good ideas Gorak. I should have my character posted pretty soon. I agree on the starting age issue. It seems to me that a mojh should be able to have a starting age as young as any human's starting age, for obvious reason. Early 20's seems to fit our backstory better.

 

[Steve Gorak]

My character is up!

OK, it's a work in progress, but a good chunk of work has been bone.

Question for the DM: Do Mojh levels stack with runethane levels for Rune effects.

For Example, will my rune of conjuring create a creature that's going to be present for 3 rounds, or 2 rounds (I'm a Runethane 2, Mojh 1). If not, I may drop the Mojh level. If yes, I'll keep it, and probably take a few additional Mojh levels during my career.

Thanks and cheers,

Steve Gorak