PCs Still Kicking Puppies OOC [CLOSED, original players still welcome]

[Brother Shatterstone]

It helps a bit I'm not sure I agree that all NPCs are just there for PCs to react to;

Actually you have it backwards, the NPC react to the PCs. The PCs are the center of the story and even the "king of all the lands" actions are only note worthy when they affect the PCs.

Just replied to your email. I really need to check it more often now

Hmmm... I didn't get it yet. :\

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Hmmm... I didn't get it yet. :\

I got it sometime ago and replied to it too.

 

[Serpenteye]

Serpenteye: I'm a little confused on who Alicia is "flirting" with. There aren't any male clerics (priests) in the party. If you meant Accalon, he's an Unholy Warrior, and probably doesn't verbally promote his religion (although I guess, in a sense, he "spreads" it ), so you probably wouldn't see him as religious.

I was a bit pressed for time, but still wanted to make my first post and get into the game. I didn't actually have the time to read the entire thread but there was some mention of a paladin frequenting the house. I'll edit.

 

[Cepter]

Trying to catch up, but I'm an English teacher and the school year is closing out, meaning tons of work all around!

Your assessment of Sunedilar's HP seems good to me, so I'll make the adjustment. The skill points were deliberately left off. They were to be filled in with languages once the GM let me know what was available as far as human dialects and common trade tongues. If you can give me an idea, I'll fill in.

Oh, and I'll be posting on the board as soon as I catch up. Been out for so long, gotta get back into character.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Trying to catch up, but I'm an English teacher and the school year is closing out.

I piety you... I imagine you see enough bad writing and then you get to try to wade through my posts for fun...

Been out for so long, gotta get back into character.

Well your first post was interesting enough and had me running to read your characters history.

 

[Telsar]

Trying to catch up, but I'm an English teacher and the school year is closing out, meaning tons of work all around!

Ack! First the pressure from just starting to DM a PBP game, and one of my player's is in English teacher? Talk about stress. Please try not to think too badly on my cliche-filled writing style. I was much better at math and science.

The skill points were deliberately left off. They were to be filled in with languages once the GM let me know what was available as far as human dialects and common trade tongues. If you can give me an idea, I'll fill in.

Since I took over this campaign from someone else, I hadn't really thought too much about this generic world, just the city you're in. There will be a trade tongue, called the Traveller's Tongue, which is kind of a amalgamation of many of the world's languages, that merchants have used for centuries. Traveller's Tongue is missing a lot of concepts, particularly abstract ideas, but has words for all kinds of products, coins, means of travel, and services, the words being known by merchants the world over.

Beyond that, there's bound to be foreign languages compared to where you're at, but I haven't even made a map, so I'm not sure what they'd be yet. You can leave the points unspent until the day I do work up a world view, and perhaps at some point in the story I'll have foreigners whose language we can say you've always known. Or you can go ahead and spend them on the languages from the PHB and/or Traveller's Tongue.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Telsar, hey did that email from last night? I haven't see a reply, and I'm not sure what, if anything, to post.

 

[Telsar]

Telsar, hey did that email from last night? I haven't see a reply, and I'm not sure what, if anything, to post.

Just sent a reply. Had to think of a... compromise first.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Just sent a reply. Had to think of a... compromise first.

Indeed, nicely done, hopefully you agree with me that it was worth it. I do need a reply btw as I was still curious on stuff, as you will find out in the reply.

 

[Guilt Puppy]

Guilt Puppy: I get your total skill points as 56 (8+2(Int))*5(2nd Rog) + (4+2)(Ari)), and it looks like you spent 52
Also, I have a house rule I use in my tabletop games I'll let you use, if you want. The NPC Classes are generally much less useful than PC classes, so, in the case of Aristocrat, you can count 2 levels in it as 1 level for fitting in the campaign, so if you want you can be Ari2/Rog2. This is effectively the same as getting a -1 Level Adjustment (as long as you have 2 levels of Aristocrat). If you do this, you also will be 4 hit dice, and therefore will get your ability bonus. If this is all too complicated, then just skip it, but if you want to add another level of Aristocrat, you can.

Re: Skill points, the first level was in Aristocrat, so it's (4+2)(Ari)*4 + (8+2)*2, or 44 total... So it looks in fact like I overspent by 6.

I'll go ahead and take the extra level of aristocrat, though, which'll bring my total up to 50. BTW, I do have one question about that -- should I consider myself at 3000 or at 6000 XP, in that case?