OOC: Tales From The Old Bald One-Eyed Salty Red Dog Tavern!

[Lazlow]

HOLY CRAP, PEOPLE

Wow. I really didn't expect such an enthusiastic response. ELEVEN people with character ideas so far, and I know of two others who might be interested who haven't posted here yet!

Thanks a lot for all of your ideas. While I would love to have you all play, I think we'd all agree that it would be a logistical nightmare (well, it would be for me, anyway). So while I hate to do this, I'm going to have to suck it up and hand-pick a few for this first group. I'll take a look at everyone's ideas so far and see what would make the most interesting party. I'll go ahead and max it out at 6 players. I'll try to post a roster no later than 24 hours from the time of this post.

And yes, I did say "first group". If this goes well, I'm seriously considering starting another party to go through the adventure once this first game gets well established. Anyone who didn't get picked this first time around will be on the "priority list" for the next group. And I trust that we're all honest enough to keep from giving away information between games...

 

[Ranger Rick]

HOLY CRAP, PEOPLE

Wow. I really didn't expect such an enthusiastic response. ELEVEN people with character ideas so far, and I know of two others who might be interested who haven't posted here yet!

Thanks a lot for all of your ideas. While I would love to have you all play, I think we'd all agree that it would be a logistical nightmare (well, it would be for me, anyway). So while I hate to do this, I'm going to have to suck it up and hand-pick a few for this first group. I'll take a look at everyone's ideas so far and see what would make the most interesting party. I'll go ahead and max it out at 6 players. I'll try to post a roster no later than 24 hours from the time of this post.

And yes, I did say "first group". If this goes well, I'm seriously considering starting another party to go through the adventure once this first game gets well established. Anyone who didn't get picked this first time around will be on the "priority list" for the next group. And I trust that we're all honest enough to keep from giving away information between games...

So should we wait to develop them further? I know mine was not very developed because of a time constraint yesterday afternoon. For those not picked, can you tell why? Following your rule of not peeking, makes it hard to see what you where looking for.

 

[Lazlow]

So should we wait to develop them further? I know mine was not very developed because of a time constraint yesterday afternoon. For those not picked, can you tell why? Following your rule of not peeking, makes it hard to see what you where looking for.

Sorry, I meant to set a deadline for submissions. Since I've already got about a dozen responses, I won't give a whole lot of time - let's say tomorrow (Thursday the 18th) at noon CST. It's still open to everyone, and if you've already given me an idea, you can submit another or tweak the ones you have.

As far as what I'll be looking for, well, I don't have any specifics in mind really, I'll just be looking for what I think will make a good party. I don't really have any criteria in mind. It may be a well-rounded party, class-wise, or it very well may be that band of six gnomish barbarians I mentioned before. The adventure doesn't really necessitate any particular class or group of classes.

As far as overall character design, I did mention that Branding Opportunity had some really good ideas - and this is because a lot of those ideas were very similar to characters that I have made in the past, like the barbarian gnome who thought he was a scholar (8ish intelligence) or the delusional GURPS character who wore a Lone Ranger mask, believed himself to be a law enforcement officer, and had an insatiable curiosity for buttons, levers, and switches. As I mentioned before, it's not a super-serious campaign; I guess the best advice I can give you is the quirkier the character, the better.

 

[Ranger Rick]

Sorry, I meant to set a deadline for submissions. Since I've already got about a dozen responses, I won't give a whole lot of time - let's say tomorrow (Thursday the 18th) at noon CST. It's still open to everyone, and if you've already given me an idea, you can submit another or tweak the ones you have.

As far as what I'll be looking for, well, I don't have any specifics in mind really, I'll just be looking for what I think will make a good party. I don't really have any criteria in mind. It may be a well-rounded party, class-wise, or it very well may be that band of six gnomish barbarians I mentioned before. The adventure doesn't really necessitate any particular class or group of classes.

As far as overall character design, I did mention that Branding Opportunity had some really good ideas - and this is because a lot of those ideas were very similar to characters that I have made in the past, like the barbarian gnome who thought he was a scholar (8ish intelligence) or the delusional GURPS character who wore a Lone Ranger mask, believed himself to be a law enforcement officer, and had an insatiable curiosity for buttons, levers, and switches. As I mentioned before, it's not a super-serious campaign; I guess the best advice I can give you is the quirkier the character, the better.

Damn, En world was down and I missed your reply. I can not get a submission in till monday as I will be offline till than.

 

[Lazlow]

Damn, En world was down and I missed your reply. I can not get a submission in till monday as I will be offline till than.

Howzabout I keep you on the short list for the next group?

 

[Wystan]

[sblock] I would like to play an elven warrior with a medium strength and a pretty good int. Sort of meant to be a wizard but didn't like the schooling... He decided that when he was younger he would go for warrior training. He tends to dislike blood however so he is working to get blind fighting to learn to fight without seeing the blood. He also does not like dark colors and tends to dress very bright and hates to whisper. He feels it is below him to not give an enemy an idea that they are about to be slain by him.[/sblock]

 

[Ranger Rick]

Howzabout I keep you on the short list for the next group?

Well I guess I should accept that and be happy. I did expand him a bit more.

 

[Lazlow]

Well I guess I should accept that and be happy. I did expand him a bit more.

That's all I really want right now, I don't need a complete character sheet just yet, just a solid concept. Go ahead and post that and let me look at it.

 

[Agrajag]

This is just an idea (that has probably already been taken) but anywho...
[sblock]An athiest Cleric who just like the quirks that come with the class, though he hardly realizes that there is no one to really give him powers...also he likes wearing white flowing robes[/sblock]

 

[Lazlow]

Recruiting Update

Now that the boards are back up I can make a few clarifications.

- Deadline for character idea submissions (not necessarily completed character sheets) is still tomorrow at noon (Thursday 18 May, CST). Sorry if that ticks anyone off due to the boards being down, but...

- ...I've already got over a dozen submissions right now and it won't be first come first serve anyway. Like I said, I'm going to pick the characters I think will best fit in a group. That being said...

- ...I will be running a second group through this adventure. It'll be the same adventure (at least in the beginning, my adventures tend to morph into entirely different things as they progress - I'm more player-driven than driven by what I've written down), so no peeking and no leaking info and all that stuff. If your character is suddenly blessed with Amazing Powers Of Precognition, he or she will most likely be suddenly blessed with my Even More Amazing Powers Of A Ticked-Off DM.

- For those who care (you never know, some do), the groups aren't going to consist of "the best" and "the rest". I've got plenty of characters to choose from that will give me ample opportunity to make two groups of Pure Awesome. You're ALL winners in my book!*

- What I'm looking for as far as character ideas is a little something more than "Elven wizard" or "Human fighter". Like I said before, take a peek at Branding Opportunity's preliminary ideas in his first post above if you're having trouble. If you don't want to peek, here's an example I just thunked up of the top of my head:

"Indur Anvilson is a Dwarven fighter who loves his hammer. I mean he LOVES his hammer. He keeps it in a fur-lined carrying case when he isn't using it - which isn't often, because he uses it for EVERYTHING. Back scratcher, fork, bookmark, you name it. Problem is he likes it so much he hates getting it really dirty, especially with the blood of would-be attackers, so he tends to let others do the fighting for him, unless really pressed into battle."

:\ Okay, that's kinda sucky but you get the idea. Quirky is good.

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*Not really. Refer to first post on the types of things I'm most likely inclined to say.