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[STILL RECRUITING ALTERNATES] Lobo's Eberron Game

Ankh-Morpork Guard said:
As Changelings aren't part of Dragonmarked Houses, etc, Rik can't take the Regional Feat for Breland.

What's that? Is that how it works. I swear I read over that section 9 times looking for how to use that and couldn't find it anywhere. You don't have a specific page number do you (I'm not doubting you, I just want to go and re-read the section for myself).
 

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At this stage in the game Lobo, where all-new games starting on ENWorld appear maybe only once a month... once someone puts in a call for players you're gonna get probably a dozen people saying they want to play. That's when you as a DM have to decide who/how you are selecting your players, cause you'll have no shortage of ideas/concepts... but not necessarily the STYLE of players you want. After all... some make posts of one or two sentences, some make posts of three or four paragraphs... some talk in character, some don't... some are players who are already participating in a half-dozen games, some are newbies, some are in-between... some post three times a day, some post one a week or more... so many types of players that you need to figure out the kind of roleplayers you want to have in the game. Whatever will make your life easiest and most interesting (especially as you said this is your first attempt at DMing a PbP here on ENWorld).

And as far as warforged House members go... I think that they CAN'T be actual members of the House, but they CAN belong to the Guilds that are run by the Houses. The way I've always seen that relationship (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong)... is that you have the various Guilds that employ pretty much anyone regardless of race. The Guilds are RUN however by the members of the Houses (some dragonmarked, some not). It'd be like a family-run business where only the members of the family "own" the business, but they'll hire other folks to come in and work. And usually those people hired to work do a lot of the less-important jobs that the "owners" wouldn't do. So a warforged might very well be a member of one of the Guilds... might very well be an important member of the Guild (even working hand-in-hand with a House member or two even), but would never truly be a member of the House itself.
 

Yeah, I see that now. Heh, as soon as you started talking about Guilds I thought. ...duh, it's a HOUSE... as in, a NOBLE House. That requires you to be family which, lamentably, excludes warforged. I see your point about the guilds though.
 

Doh, missed another game of yours. Love to join in, count me as an alternate. I've always wanted to try my warforged warmain, but as an alternate I'll wait and see what the main group is playing before I decide.

Edit: It looks like you are taking concepts and full characters then deciding. So I'll have a character up tomorrow hopefully. Wish the books were all here at work...
 
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Lobo Lurker said:
What's that? Is that how it works. I swear I read over that section 9 times looking for how to use that and couldn't find it anywhere. You don't have a specific page number do you (I'm not doubting you, I just want to go and re-read the section for myself).
My brain is currently fried and the book is out of reach for the moment, but...Breland has only one Region feat, which is Favored in the House(similar to that name at least). Changelings/Warforged/Shifters/etc are not part of any houses(also cannot have Dragonmarks) from what I've read.

Even if they ARE, though, the concept of having anything at all to do with a house, especially being favored, goes COMPLETELY against my character concept, which is developing to be a spy for hire type.
 

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Oh, okay, I understand (I too lack my books while I'm at work). :)
Hmm, well then take the Talented feat (+2 in two related skills; example, Alertness (+2 Spot/Listen). That way you don't lose out on a feat and the others won't feel as though you selected your region/race combo as a way to circumvent the rules.
 

Lobo Lurker said:
Oh, okay, I understand (I too lack my books while I'm at work). :)
Hmm, well then take the Talented feat (+2 in two related skills; example, Alertness (+2 Spot/Listen). That way you don't lose out on a feat and the others won't feel as though you selected your region/race combo as a way to circumvent the rules.
Alrighty. I'll swap out Urban Tracking for Alertness. Fits the character just fine. :)
 


Well beeing thinking a lot on class, and I think I should go for a barbarian. So hard to decide... Well im going to work on stats tomorrow.

He had walked for many blocks trying not to step on the dead ones. He still didn't know what had happened. "Big blast" "big light" he said to himself. He felt his right leg not moving correctly "oil, i need some oil" he erratically lifted bodies, boxes, beds and whatever that he thought could have some healing oils.
"The whole town must have been destroyed, no survivors... nothing" In desperation he yelled at the sky that brought the light... the death. "HEEEEEEEELP!!!"
It was this day he started to believe. From a corner a girl showed herself, she couldn't have been more than 12 years old and she had been crying... he could tell. “Are you alone?” “can I help you?” after some minutes the girl still hadn't answered his questions “can you help me” he finally made to say... “oil have you seen oils? The one that heals my kind?” The girl just saw right trough the metal and wood he was made of.
Once he had a job, escorting a child to and from school, the only person that was allowed to talk with the girl, was her best friend, Anya. Talking about Anya always made the otherwise lonely girl happy. “do you go to school little girl?” “Are your best friend hiding somewhere?” from her eyes tears began to fall making white stripes in the dirty face. The memory of her best friend awakened her from her apathy. The girl lifted her arm pointing at the rest of a brick house. “basement” she said.
He used the rest of the day lifting materials looking for the entrance to the basement. The girl did not talk more that day, or the day after, or the one after that again. Once he found it he lifted the heavy double door entering the basement. He found quickly what he needed. Oils and a lot of them all in a wooden box. The inscription on the box was carves in the wood by skilled hands 'Liam Xandiz proud son of Cyre' he looked at the wall seeing a wooden plate carved with names... 'genealogy' that is indeed one of the most beautiful things humans have. He took the plate down from the wall hiding wrapping it in 3 winter blanket, he took water, food and some human stuff. One's outside with the girl, he looked at her trying to make eye contact “leave this place with me” “I will take care of you” “can you tell me you name?”
“Thaanas” she told him. “Thaanas Xandiz”... “my dad made that” she said indicating the wooden plate “he is a great artificer” “he was teaching me the art”.The years went on making the girl woman and making the warforge her family. With the work the warforge made she could pay her education. At one of the many battles he was shoot in the head and he lost conscience. X was unconscious long time, even so long that he was thrown away. X was meant to be chopped up and re-sold as parts to others warforges.
In a touch of destiny X (party member) stands upon his head while seeing what part he could use (maybe a artificer?), X awakens, with his last memory. The one of trying to use his crossbow, realizing that he isn't on the battlefield he causes just moderate damage on the facilities and stops before really harming somebody. “Where I am” “Where Thaanas be?”
 
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