Shards of the Silve Flame -- OOC thread

[drothgery]

Okay, nitpickery on your character sheets...

Drue -
Gnomes get +2 Con/-2 Str, so the costs you paid for your attributes is wrong, though this doesn't have any effect on your actual point total.
HPs should be max at first level (6 from d6 HD + 2 from con = 8) and 1/2 max + 1 for each additional level (4 from d6 HD + 2 from con = 6) * 6 levels = 36 + 8 = 44
The +2 mithril shirt is over the 5000 gp maximum for one item; I know it's just barely, but...
Drue is Small; his carrying capacity is 3/4ths that of a medium creature; I'm assuming most of your stuff (other than weapons and armor) is in your haversack, so you're not over encumbrance limits (and this is probably the last time I'll look at the numbers)

Oswin -
It looks like everything's okay, though I'd like to see where everything's coming from a bit more clearly

Hariel -
looks good

Dain -
still on the light side in equipment, but we've discussed this in email

 

[Anax]

Brother Shatterstone has informed me that he won't be playing in this game. I think I'm going to stick with five PCs for now.

I’d like to keep my connection to Lord Alistair’s daughter, even without Brother Shatterstone. (I am sad, though. Aww. ) Could you give her a name, if the idea is okay with you?


In other news: I think I’m going to spend at least some of the rest of my ready cash now. I started thinking about which things Hariel carries with her, and which things she stows in luggage, and the like, and it became too much of a pain. So I’ll probably be grabbing a handy haversack for 2,000 so that I don’t have to reorganize much when we head out. (I expected to probably get one, in any case, but wanted to delay for character reasons.)

 

[drothgery]

I’d like to keep my connection to Lord Alistair’s daughter, even without Brother Shatterstone. (I am sad, though. Aww. ) Could you give her a name, if the idea is okay with you?

BS's character was actually playing the part of a grandniece (daughter of one of Lord Alistair's older siblings), not a daughter; I'm not inclined to use the backstory if he's not running the character. On the other hand, I could create a spouse and children for Lord Alistair without too much trouble.

 

[Anax]

BS's character was actually playing the part of a grandniece (daughter of one of Lord Alistair's older siblings), not a daughter; I'm not inclined to use the backstory if he's not running the character. On the other hand, I could create a spouse and children for Lord Alistair without too much trouble.

I was assuming that the whole doppleganger thing wasn’t going on, yes.

I like the idea of Hariel having become friends with some relative of Lord Alistair, though. Presumably someone Hari could have met or been introduced to at some point when she met with Lord Alistair. Without BS’s character, this is nothing more than a name, a mark of Hari’s outgoing nature, a person Hari would want to visit if she was in the right area and not pressed for time, and a thread that you might be able to yank on someday if you wished.

I just feel happier with this in Hari’s backstory—huzzah for verisimilitude!


Edit: Oh, and I’ve finished making changes to equipment, now. I added the Heward’s handy haversack, and shifted things around to put some items in it. I’ve also invested in... er... some clothing. Always good to be clothed.

Any remaining purchases will be after we know where we’re headed. (The main things I could see coming up are: camping supplies, if we’ll be roughing it; additional breaking and entering supplies if we’ll be sneaking in somewhere; weapons of exotic materials, if we expect that sort of trouble; probably some light sources no matter what.)

The only further change of any sort (besides the above-mentioned purchases) I foresee making is to tweak the Lord Alistair’s relative background bits to provide a name and a correct relationship to Lord Alistair, or to remove those bits entirely.

 

[stonegod]

Okay, nitpickery on your character sheets...

No mention of mine, so either it was so bad it blew your mind or was so good it blew your mind.

Or maybe not.

 

[drothgery]

No mention of mine, so either it was so bad it blew your mind or was so good it blew your mind.

Or maybe not.

Or I just forgot this bit...

Saalin
- looks fine

 

[drothgery]

I was assuming that the whole doppleganger thing wasn’t going on, yes.

I like the idea of Hariel having become friends with some relative of Lord Alistair, though. Presumably someone Hari could have met or been introduced to at some point when she met with Lord Alistair. Without BS’s character, this is nothing more than a name, a mark of Hari’s outgoing nature, a person Hari would want to visit if she was in the right area and not pressed for time, and a thread that you might be able to yank on someday if you wished.

I just feel happier with this in Hari’s backstory—huzzah for verisimilitude!

Okay, Lord Alistair has a wife (Melindri, of the same old Thrane noble stock as her husband, and his age); their only child is a daughter named Kahlia, who's in her early twenties. Kahlia's a slight woman who, like her father, has rather eclectic interests (which sometimes overlap with his, but sometimes do not) and is generally introverted, but has yet to develop true expertise in any field.

Edit: Oh, and I’ve finished making changes to equipment, now. I added the Heward’s handy haversack, and shifted things around to put some items in it. I’ve also invested in... er... some clothing. Always good to be clothed.

Every time I make a Star Wars d20 character, I always end up putting some note on the character sheet that unarmored clothing appears to be free and weightless in that game

 

[Anax]

Every time I make a Star Wars d20 character, I always end up putting some note on the character sheet that unarmored clothing appears to be free and weightless in that game

Heh. It’s mostly true here, of course... except that I’ve bought a set of courtier’s clothes as well as free traveller’s clothes (since the basic sets don’t include courtier’s clothes, and they aren’t so much for everyday wear, anyway.) I’m assuming that whichever set I’m actually wearing is weightless.

I’ll make the changes to Hariel’s background based on what you’ve said, thanks!

 

[Anax]

Hrm. I take back what I said about being pretty much completely done. I’m now looking at shifting skills around a little bit to cover some of the core rogue options, since we won’t have a full rogue with the party. Specifically, Disable Device, and more Open Lock. Although I’m not sure where I’ll pull the skill points from, yet.

Edit: Okay, the skill changes are done. I’m kind of sad to have removed some of the skills I pruned out, but the whole package is a bit cleaner now. There are the skills I take two ranks in each rogue level (maxed on rogue levels, currently 10 ranks): Disable Device, Open Lock, Search; the skills I take two ranks in each swashbuckler level (maxed on swashbuckler levels, currently 9 ranks): Balance, Climb, Jump, Tumble; and the skills I take one rank in each rogue level (3 + rogue class level, currently 7 ranks): Diplomacy, Hide, Knowledge (local), Listen, Move Silently, Spot.

Hariel is a bit less good at social situations than she was, but better in the field. And the two core skills from that skill set (Diplomacy and Knowledge (local)) are now focused on a bit better than they were.

Now I think that’s the last of the changes I’ll be making. Skill points are so stressful.

 

[ShaggySpellsword]

I added some detail to where everything comes from. If there is something still unclear, just tell what, specifically, needs more detail and I will detail it out.