You are all GODS!!

[Voda Vosa]

Just checking MyL character, I didn't find anything amiss. Congratulations for your sheet format, it's quite nice! A couple of questions:
Why, if you are the goddess of light and such, you have time stop and mage disjunction as spell like abilities? I mean, of course you can, but I don't see the connection with the background.
Also I don't understand the place where you put your caster level and that, in one sblock it's listed 1, 20 10.. don't really know what that's about.

 

[Voda Vosa]

I was thinking in somthing like this:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkGZsYIgn79wdFlla1NRVnlvYXFfS3VqS1M0eE9xZnc&hl=en

 

[Theroc]

Hey guys just gave are your posts a glance and since I am getting off an 11 hour day don't have the energy for to much reading sorry this thread will be my first to be caught up. But I was thinking about you all today, and while I was offline I wrote this:

New advancement rules to help speed things along.

Take and add a second class to your characters, and add it on as if you are multiclassing. You advance in both classes at the same time. So your Ftr1/Clr1 will be Ftr2/Clr2 at 1,000XP.

This should help, if you advance one "multi-combo class lvl" per month you all will be the equivalent of a 20th lvl character in 10 months (not bad for pbp standards).

Character level advancement bonuses will be done by total character lvls not total XP. So when you hit 1,000XP you will get the character lvl three feat and the lvl four ability adjustment. So it would be best to have those builds thought out I think advancement will be fast, in the begining.

So any comments let me know. See you tommorrow.


HM

This sounds like the gestalt rules, Holyman. Were you aware of the similarity?

Gestalt Characters :: d20srd.org there's the link.

Anyways, did not touch Torath tonight... being that I was drinking for the first real time in my life, and ended up overdoing it... still feeling the hangover.

 

[Frozen Messiah]

Why don't we just start off with our own islands all of the same size (fairly large) all of equal distance apart, this is where we will start. As time goes on the we will fill in the spaces in between as we see fit. This will mean we will slowly create the continent/s that we will be working on.

Now I understand that Lavaria won't be too pleased with all of the water but she can live in a volcano. One and the Many may also have problems with this approach but he can make the oceans and the land that he is on plentiful.

I think this is reasonable and will allow us to move the game along until we get to the point where we need to expand, but we will figure that out when we get there.

 

[HolyMan]

I am not total familiar but I am playing a gestalt character in a pathfinder game and when I learned how we are to advance the thought came to me that it would be a good way to get your characters up tp those godly 40th levels a little quicker.

You know the rules then?? If we character lvl about once a month in the beginning do you think that would be ok?

HM

 

[Voda Vosa]

Why don't we just start off with our own islands all of the same size (fairly large) all of equal distance apart, this is where we will start. As time goes on the we will fill in the spaces in between as we see fit. This will mean we will slowly create the continent/s that we will be working on.

Now I understand that Lavaria won't be too pleased with all of the water but she can live in a volcano. One and the Many may also have problems with this approach but he can make the oceans and the land that he is on plentiful.

I think this is reasonable and will allow us to move the game along until we get to the point where we need to expand, but we will figure that out when we get there.

I like that idea, the only problem I see is that being separated gives our humble DM some difficulties at the time of giving us a mission.

 

[Sunking]

I think I'm adding 'Dark Mother' to Ubariya's list of titles. She'd do it just to irritate Ras-gul. Don't take it the wrong way, though, Sunking; she would prefer Ras-gul to any of the other deities in the Mist now that Sirion is on vacation. At least for the moment.

Re: Oceans.
Just because we don't have an ocean god doesn't mean we can't have oceans. But since some of us seem reluctant to have them we could just make them shallow seas studded with islands large and small. It fits with the 'young world' idea that has been presented.

Its ok you might be the dark mother of this world but you are never gonna be his darkmother...

and the suggestion about no oceans or atleast no big ones comes from that as stated earlyer about portfolio and also about it could be cool and give "new" world a special flavor which i find to be good.

ohh yes ML don't know if you saw it but some while back Sirion gave you the naming rite of this new world (a new begening) and no one objekted.
Just if you missed it, if you saw it and ignored it just ignore this to... it just it would be easyer to refere to a name the skipping around it.

 

[Myth and Legend]

OK come to think of it, the real-world map sounds fine. It will be easier for logsitic's sake. Dibs on Japan! It has the awesome Mt. Fuji and it's an island, which reminds me of Evermeet, FR's own Sun Elves domain. So there!

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VV: I don't have any particular RP justification for the SLA's i took, they just happen to be the most useful and non-redundant spells a Deity would need IMO. I don't think we need to go that deep in the RP department - so long as i don't have Heliasillyel cast Darkness and Necromancy spells it's fine i think. Plus there are not that many Light spells that i can cast outside of my Sun domain, and we already have a fire-based deity.

Of course i admit it's also a powergaming choice. In Jemal's Legends game i learned the hard way that blasting (aka. direct damage spells) is severely underpowered in the later stages of the game, as HD and HP continue to progress but damage dice stay constant. My lvl 20 Wizardress emptied several 9 and 8 lvl spells only to have most of them nullified by a char with a high Dex save and Improved Evasion, and a fat 500 HP bear tank them all (complete with a critical from Meteor Swarm)

This is the case for most AOE spells. Meteor Swarm is nice but it's good when cast with things like a Rod of Metamagic Empower, Divine Metamagic, Energy Admixture etc. which will come later on (so, taking it as a SLA is useless for me).

Sunking: Heliasillyel can name the world? Seeing as how the other Deities didn't agree with Sirion for the most part, I doubt she can use this as a pretext to do that without pissing them off. I myself can think of a name though, if you guys want me to.

HM: Dual classing seems like a good choice. It will take us 20 months to max out our deities, which is bearable. So should i use the rules you posted for the second class or the Gestalt rules in the SRD?

 

[GlassEye]

My personal preference is for HM's second class idea and not the gestalt rules. Though I'm having a hard time deciding on the second class.

I'm thinking I'll place the Mountains of Remembrance in the location of the Ural Mountains. My mountains, however, will have several 'arms' of the range radiating outward from the Cradle. Though I kinda am interested in being near water, also. So it's a toss-up between the Ural and the Dinaric Alps/Carpathian/Balkan Mountains region...

IIRC, in the IC thread Duretep said that we can place his city wherever we want... So what do you guys think? England, where the fogs could roll out from the Metropolis Lucid? Northern Russia, where dream phantoms might roam the dark northern forests? Other ideas?

Myth, I have some geographical ideas for you if you are interested in hearing them. If not, that's cool, too.

Myth, as long as the name isn't too elven sounding I don't mind if you name it. (It took me a while before I felt comfortable with Heliasillyel's name and I still can't pronounce the second name.)

 

[Myth and Legend]

The Balkan - "The Old Mountain" as we call it in Bulgaria. You can't go wrong with that choice, it's close to the Black Sea and not far to the South you have Rila, Pirin and the Rodopi mountains. To the North there is the Danube, cradle of life for Europe according to Celtic myth and lore.

Plus my home town is at the base of the Balkan mountains

For Duretepp's realm i'd say Iceland. It's remote enough and can be viewed as "the end of the earth" by some.

Your suggestions? I'd be glad to hear them! I'm thinking of making Mt. Fuji a plateau instead of an active volcano, and having the city founded there, although without magic it will be hard to provision it with food from the lowlands. I'll have to give it some more thought, but I also have things to do for my own game as i'm 3 days late with the update, so it might be some time.

Heliasillyel would give it a very Elven name. Me as a player - something appropriate. Contrary to popular belief i am not equal to my characters In fact, a good fantasy writer can put his or her mind to a multitude of personalities, characters and cultures. Fantasy is above all else, diversity.

For the name - Heliasillyel, i think it rather obvious: Helios - Titan of the sun in Greek mythology. Helia - female variant. Sillyel -l an Elven sounding group of syllables. The -el suffix comes from Tolkein, as one could have guessed. Sillyel just has a light feminine sound to it. Hence Heliasillyel. Nuevuyar - nuevo is new in Spanish, coming from the Latin novos. Uyar sounds like a good word for light in Elven. Well something like uyall would sound better but it would be too many "L" sounds in the name, so Nuevuyar it is (new light). There, now you have the reasoning behind the name, maybe now it will be easier to comprehend