Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords, Burnt Offerings OOC

[hewligan]

My last ipod was the original one, 5gb, bought ... well, YEARS ago, and it lasted for a good 4 or 5 years. Only died when I replaced the battery with a longer-life third-party one, and then three months later that basically melted. Even then, the iPod still functioned as an external hard disk. Those old ones were built like tanks. The new ones seem pretty tough too!

I am Mac through and through, which is making me a little nervous about the new Digital Initiative from WoTC. I got my first Mac back in 1999, and have had them ever since. Currently using a very nice MacBook Pro with the new-style LED backlit screen.

Oh, I just made a new IC post.

 

[Rhun]

I don't have an actual iPod. However, I put a 4 gig micro SD card in my Blackberry Pearl, and it does a really good job of working like and iPod.

 

[hewligan]

Blackberry Pearl = best invention since .... well, for a while. I love mine!

 

[Rhun]

Blackberry Pearl = best invention since .... well, for a while. I love mine!

Agreed. Except that it means work comes with me everywhere I go now!

 

[Friadoc]

I'll be the first to tell you that I HATE the Blackberry, but I'll just as quickly admit that the Blackberry Pearl is a fine lil' piece of work and is above and beyond it's predecessors.

Up until it, I thought all Blackberries were up-jumped beepers and hold outs to an old tech, but now I see something nice and new for the future, so it's all good.

 

[Fenris]

Hewligan,
How do you want to handle HP at second level?

As I recall ( but can't find the post), you were going to accelerate one of the advancements, but I don't recall whether that was feats or stats. Anything special at second level?

 

[Rhun]

From the recruitment thread:

Character Creation:

I need 4 characters, as mentioned above, and all need to be created with reasons to be in Sandpoint at the campaign’s beginning (they could have been sent to take part in the dedication of the new church, they could be locals, merchants, even minor criminals allowed to watch the ceremony under the supervision of the sheriff on grounds of good behaviour. Whatever that takes your fancy.

1) Point Buy System: 28 points. Sounds low, but it is a lot more than the sample characters provided in the adventure, and I will be allowing a single point attribute increase at each even level, so my advice would be to not waste your points with 18s at level 1
2) Any standard race and class (so no drow or tiefling)
3) Standard starting gold, and feel free to buy whatever you can afford, although you can leave equipment until I narrow down the final four
4) Only good characters, or at worse I will consider LN
5) We need 1 each of the following:
- Fighter/Paladin/Ranger/Barbarian/Monk - aka "damage dealer"
- Cleric/Druid - aka "damage healer"
- Wizard/Sorcerer - aka "magic monkey"
- Rogue/Bard - aka "skill monkey"
6) If someone has posted a fighter already, but you think you have a great ranger concept, go for it. I am not going with the first to post, but will pick the best entries. If there are two good entries in one class, and none in another, I may ask someone to take part, but chose a new character if they don't mind
7) Full hit points at level 1, you are going to need them!
8) Starting gold, use the average as listed on page 111 on PHB (see post 11 below)
9) You can take a free feat from the Pathfinder players guide, if desired. Yes, free!!!

I don't see anything on how to handle hit point advancement.

 

[Friadoc]

Hoodey-Hoo!

Leveling! *grins*

 

[hewligan]

Indeed - you all get to level up 1 attribute.

As for hit points: I don't like rolling, rewards some and punishes others rather randomly. My preferred approach is to take full at first level, and then rounded down half + 1 at other levels, so your hit points would be like this:

1d4 = 3
1d6 = 4
1d8 = 5
1d10 = 6
1d12 = 7

If you absolutely hate this approach, let me know and we can change it to a rolling system. I will cross post this to the character thread.

 

[Fenris]

In that case, I'm done leveling