Rystil Arden
First Post
This is a recruiting thread to pick up new characters for my Shards of Memory game, which has lost a bunch of players to attrition.
The game is Shards of Memory, an exploration-based Neo-Spelljamming game.
Conveniently, some of the AWOL players, and much of the ship's crew, have just been killed, and the remaining characters have managed to limp to Jhaar, a rough-and-tumble outpost on the edge of unexplored Wildspace and far from any civilised lands.
Your character is either a resident or visitor to Jhaar, hence the thread title--what sort of checkered past would bring someone to move so far from the comforts of anything familiar? Each new character should have something interesting in their backstory, and I won't necessarily select on a first-come basis if we get a lot of applicants.
I'm looking for 5th-level characters, using my new races and base classes (flavourful balanced gestalts, foundhere--you want the second .zip for classes, first for some random background info with races, etc).
I want you to roll for stats at www.invisiblecastle.com but don't roll those stats yet! I've been burned before on this, so please link me to a d20 roll using the name you want to use to roll your stats, and when I post to indicate I've seen it, then you can roll stats. Because my gestalt classes often need a bit higher stats all around, I have slightly different rolling rules--you still use 4d6.takeHighest(3), but roll 7 stats instead of 6. You can then drop the stat you don't like. Also, hopeless rules are a bit more lenient--if you don't roll at least a 15 in any stat, or if your stat bonuses don't add up to at least +2, you can reroll. Canny players on the borderline who want to reroll can drop the highest roll and put themselves into hopelessness if that would do so.
I think that's it, but please ask any questions you can think of!
Oh, wait--your first question is going to be money, but that will depend on your character--different places have different purchasing rules. You will probably be using the Jhaar purchasing rules, but maybe not depending on your backstories--we'll see!
Also of random note, in character, the characters are actually doing this recruitment, and they specifically are looking for at least one healer, so picking someone who can heal a bit might help your chances if nobody else does (and there are definitely a few healing classes with very good reasons to stay somewhere like Jhaar).
The game is Shards of Memory, an exploration-based Neo-Spelljamming game.
Conveniently, some of the AWOL players, and much of the ship's crew, have just been killed, and the remaining characters have managed to limp to Jhaar, a rough-and-tumble outpost on the edge of unexplored Wildspace and far from any civilised lands.
Your character is either a resident or visitor to Jhaar, hence the thread title--what sort of checkered past would bring someone to move so far from the comforts of anything familiar? Each new character should have something interesting in their backstory, and I won't necessarily select on a first-come basis if we get a lot of applicants.
I'm looking for 5th-level characters, using my new races and base classes (flavourful balanced gestalts, foundhere--you want the second .zip for classes, first for some random background info with races, etc).
I want you to roll for stats at www.invisiblecastle.com but don't roll those stats yet! I've been burned before on this, so please link me to a d20 roll using the name you want to use to roll your stats, and when I post to indicate I've seen it, then you can roll stats. Because my gestalt classes often need a bit higher stats all around, I have slightly different rolling rules--you still use 4d6.takeHighest(3), but roll 7 stats instead of 6. You can then drop the stat you don't like. Also, hopeless rules are a bit more lenient--if you don't roll at least a 15 in any stat, or if your stat bonuses don't add up to at least +2, you can reroll. Canny players on the borderline who want to reroll can drop the highest roll and put themselves into hopelessness if that would do so.
I think that's it, but please ask any questions you can think of!
Oh, wait--your first question is going to be money, but that will depend on your character--different places have different purchasing rules. You will probably be using the Jhaar purchasing rules, but maybe not depending on your backstories--we'll see!
Also of random note, in character, the characters are actually doing this recruitment, and they specifically are looking for at least one healer, so picking someone who can heal a bit might help your chances if nobody else does (and there are definitely a few healing classes with very good reasons to stay somewhere like Jhaar).
). They also have a few live former PCs--a Dolathi Swashbuckler, a Dolathi Eldritch Infiltrator, and a Larakese Samurai (I believe several of them have been level-drained and/or badly Charisma-drained though). Finally, there are a few NPCs on the ship, but they're generally low level.
), but just give me a d20 roll and you can get started rolling stats--it may be worth it to roll before picking a class (even if you roll the same point buy [36 for this example], some of my classes would be better served by polarised rolls like 18 18 12 8 8 8, whereas some would work better with 14 14 14 14 14 14, for example).
