The Sands of Solaris - OOC (Closed)

[Argent Silvermage]

*Camel’s not priced. A horse is more useful in combat, and costs 75 gp; I believe that the Arms and Equipment guide pegs a camel at 60 gp. Also, although I don’t think a camel uses a conventional saddle, etc., I just paid for the standard gear on the assumption that whatever they do use will cost the same. Your call.

You sir have never ridden a camel I take it. they are every bit as good as a horse. just far more tempermental.

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

You are correct; my expierience with camels consists of watching "Lawrence of Arabia" (hut hut hut!). But statistically speaking, they lose two hoofs, their bite counts as a "secondary" weapon, are slower, and they gain that nifty ability not to die of thirst. I believe that culturally in desert areas, camels were for everyday use and horses for war (although some people rode camels into battle and vice versa, although less so).

So price-wise, 60 gp (vs. 75 for a light horse) sounds OK to me; Pheonix may disagree . It makes sense to me that they'd charge less for an Arabian than a dromedary.

Ftr, mage, monk and rogue. sounds like a well rounded party. No healing though.

Which it makes it not all that well rounded. Between no endure elements, no healing, and 22 point buy, the alternates would do well to have their characters ready.

 

[John E Smoke]

I just wanted to post this to say that I haven't forgotten/ignored finishing my character, I'll be right on it when I get home from work tomorrow.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

I believe that culturally in desert areas, camels were for everyday use and horses for war (although some people rode camels into battle and vice versa, although less so).

Camels do have one extremely useful trait in battle, though; they spook the everliving hell out of horses. Any horse that hasn't been raised among camels, even warhorses, is going to be shaken at the very least, possibly frightened.

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

Camels do have one extremely useful trait in battle, though; they spook the everliving hell out of horses. Any horse that hasn't been raised among camels, even warhorses, is going to be shaken at the very least, possibly frightened.

It must be their funny mouths. Have you ever looked closely at those things? So wierd...

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

It must be their funny mouths. Have you ever looked closely at those things? So wierd...

Actually, it's the smell. Have you ever smelled a camel? I'd run, too.

 

[Phoenix]

Camels, fantastic creatures. Though some personalities, camel must surely top the table simply because you can give them better names....

60gp sounds fine, can't find the damn things in my Arms & Equipment, but I'll go with it no probs. As for languages, I was going pretty much for a common slate of creature-based, common, and the trade language (there are more then enough just there to give a linguist nightmares). If I decide to use dialects I'll just give them Int DCs to understand complex phrases.

IdentityCrisis, sorry if I ignored you, but I'm sure we can squeeze you into the game. I was hoping to have a small group at the beginning and build on it as the game progressed, I'd like the chance to build a party away from the old 'all 47 of you meet in an inn at the same place, at the same time'. There will be chances for people to get into the game soon enough...

I have no problems with the switch from rapier to scimitar either Thomas.

Follow the yellow link road peoples........

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74567

 

[John E Smoke]

Alright, I'm pretty sure I'm done with my character. I switched out the elven rapier proficiency in favor of scimitar, and out of the monk proficiencies I swapped out handaxe and sling for katar and chakram respectively. That said, point out anything I might have missed, and if it's good, then I'll go ahead and stick 'im up.

 

[Phoenix]

I've found the stats for the chakram in the FR book, but for the life of me I still can't find the katar. Can you give me a reference on that one? Apart from that the characters look great, I'm going to get into the nitty-gritty checking all the numbers tonight, then I will put the first post up immediately should the all check out. Nice people, very nice.
Oh, Paxus you're missing a couple of stats in your character description (AC and others), can you update that for me?

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Oh, Paxus you're missing a couple of stats in your character description (AC and others), can you update that for me?

Sure thing.