first time dnd rping expecting fails everywhere

I'm up for it.
Where and when in golarion, or determining this by the characters that come in?

>>317484
Separately, rolling or point buy, psionics included in the SRD allowance, and monstrous races negotiable?

>>317484
Golarion?

Setting is handcrafted, though I'm going to do like half the worldbuilding after the campaign starts. I don't have the setting book, so I can't exactly use the setting, sorry.

(I don't like using premade settings anyway)

>>317485
>rolling or point buy,

Your choice, but you get ONE reroll if rolling - it's only encouraged if you don't really care about class or anything.

psionics included in the SRD allowance and monstrous races negotiable?

Depends on the monster race, but I'ma have to say no to psionics - sorry.

>>317486
Alright. Any basics that you would like known, race/setting/rules/equipmentwise?
And which method of rolling or point-buy?
Apologies for question barrage, I just like to have specifics.

I just hate to be the guy that shows up with a ninja in pseudoeurope, or an artificer in a low-magic, low-tech game.

Current concept is earth aspected magician of some kind, represented with the Synthesist Summoner to represent drawing up a shell of earth and stone to fight in. I'd prefer something corgi-ish, but that's just personal preference. Solid, stolid, and workaday, in any case. Maybe trade out some spells on the list for earth domain stuff and switch the casting score to wis instead of cha?

>>317487

>Alright. Any basics that you would like known, race/setting/rules/equipmentwise?

Races in the SRD. You can try to convince me of more, maybe, but I'd need some pretty solid proof of balance.

Setting is on the verge of gunpowder - cannons are the RAZOR EDGE of tech, when it comes to war.

Rules are as they are in the SRD. Equipment is there too.

>>317488
Eeeeeh, BIG maybe there. PM me on IRC and we'll talk. I have a few ideas.

Also, I forgot to say: IRC is Waking Nightmare.

>>317489
Sorry, #wakingnightmare @Rizon

>>317487
>And which method of rolling or point-buy?

Derp! Standard fantasy point buy, 4d6 keep three highest for rollan. If your net bonus (That is, the bonuses from each stat added up) is -3 or lower, you get a free reroll, but anything with +4 or higher total is kept unless you want to reroll once more and keep THAT one.

In-universe common knowledge for all PCs for the setting:

The small nation of Radamant is known for being mostly wild and untamed. THe majority of the land is thick, dark forest on the verge of being jungle-thick, and old nations that tried and failed to conquer it litter the interior of the Dark Wood.

There is any number of small farming hamlets on the rolling plains north of the Dark Wood, and further north, all roads lead to Garz, the capital city of Radamant. However, Garz is still small in comparison to the rest of the Nine Nation's capital cities - it is not very large, and only has a few inns that double as bars. The main trade and export is food, as the rolling plains and forests allow for a very fertile soil, and the discovery of rotating crops allows for a consistant harvest.

All races are welcome in Radamant, though some find it more appealing than others. Elves, namely, enjoy the untouched beauty of its nature, while dwarves enjoy greatly the local brew (Said to be some of the best in the Nine!), and gnomes love the need for innovation and invention that farming and feildwork can bring. Half-orcs find simple work as tavern bouncers and gaurdsmen, and half-elves find themselves often used for diplomacy with the local elves.

The Dark Woods are known to the elves as the Eternal Forest. In ages past, a druid worked with the people of Garz to settle a dispute over logging with the elves. She gave her life, on accident, to ensure that the forest would never grow thin, and it doesn't. To the mysterious border of the forest, any felled tree grows back in mere months. There was a dire warning placed by the druid not to abuse this, and so the people of Radamant have long heeded the warning.

Lately, livestock in the southern farms near the Dark Wood have gone oddly missing, only for partial, perfectly clean skeletons to show up the very next day. Confused, the farmers have sent a petition to Garz - who then hired adventurers to seek out the cause of the trouble.

rolled 2, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, 3, 2, 5, 1, 3, 5, 6, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 5 = 75

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Wish me luck.

rolled 1, 2, 5, 6, 4, 4, 5, 4, 1, 5, 1, 3, 6, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 2, 6, 4, 1 = 87

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Decent, but I can hopefully do better.

Z 2011/08/01(Mon)17:45 No. 317495 ID: 7aedd2
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Top half of Kindle

Z 2011/08/01(Mon)17:45 No. 317496 ID: 7aedd2
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bottom half of Kindle's sheet

2011/08/01(Mon)19:20 No. 317497 ID: 7b774b
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Third time's the charm.

Psithief 2011/08/02(Tue)00:55 No. 317498 ID: 3bad4c
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Yli the Xeph Rogue

A_zoo 2011/08/02(Tue)01:04 No. 317499 ID: 8894bf
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derp

Z 2011/08/02(Tue)16:19 No. 317502 ID: 7aedd2
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Character pic for Kindle

http://www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=21594

Bam.

http://www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=21642

rolled 4 + 5 = 9

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>>317513
Here.

rolled 18 + 5 = 23

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rolled 4 + 2 = 6

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In the raw, you can make crafting rolls to make money. It simulates having a job. You roll a d20, add your skill, then make half of that in profit. Gallus has 10 alchemy crafting. He has mastercrafted tools that provide a +2 circumstance bonus. He has a potion which replicates a spell called crafter's fortune which provides a +5 bonus to any crafting roll. That is a total of +17. If Gallus rolls a 1 every crafting check he makes 9 gold a week at the absolute minimum. You can, in fact, take 10 on these crafting checks. That makes it an entirely respectable 27. 13.5 gold a week. At least four weeks in a month, plus change. That's 52 gold a month.

Five plat is 50 gold. We have a deadline of a month.

Gallus may, in fact, be losing gold by adventuring.

>>317520
Maybe this is true - however, adventuring has other boons he would not recieve from brewing hangover cures.

Excitement is one. Possible additional income (From ruins, enemies, etc) is another. Experience (Which helps him craft better) is yet another. References from the kingdom for better jobs.

Many missions and adventures don't even formally pay!

We really need a new dicebot. Tabbris is unreliable as hell as to when it is online.

plz help.

>>317521
Or pay in vague, congratulatory measures.
Still makes for interesting motivation.

Shot!H508X.HbJ6 2011/08/11(Thu)18:48 No. 317542 ID: aa66a4
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Battle arrangement.

Shot!H508X.HbJ6 2011/08/11(Thu)23:13 No. 317544 ID: aa66a4
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>>317542
And map 2.

Tried to maintain everyone's tokens and whatnot.

Eagles are lemures.

Initiative

Kindle 11
Krysnt 18
Pwll 16
Yli: 4
Antal: 13
Lemures: 12

White boxes are impassable.

Shot!H508X.HbJ6 2011/08/11(Thu)23:40 No. 317545 ID: aa66a4
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>>317544
Updated.

Shot!H508X.HbJ6 2011/08/11(Thu)23:57 No. 317546 ID: aa66a4
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>>317545

Shot!H508X.HbJ6 2011/08/12(Fri)00:36 No. 317547 ID: aa66a4
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http://pastebin.com/DbGD22MC Session 2 and updated fight map

Krysnt 18
Pwll 16
Antal: 13
Lemures: 12
Kindle 11
Yli: 4

I have just run across a problem.
I haven't been on IRC due to driving up to school on Wednesday, and I have arrived to find that the campus internet not only blocks IRC, but shuts down the connection for an hour if you attempt it.
May I request that the sessions be moved to hamachi-supported maptools or something similar, at least for the time being, as I have not found a way around the block as yet?

>>317558
Who is this?

>>317558
Alright, so. Shit happened, I understand. I'm downloading OpenRPG know - let me know if you can as well. Drop me a line at the provided email and we can discuss.

>>317561
OKAY SO.

Turns out the person playing Pwll will be unavailable for IRC discussion and etc, so we're going to move this to OpenRPG by next week! I know it seems a bit odd to do this for one dude, but looking it over, it seems pretty handy anyway.

http://pastebin.com/c80Azf9L

Here is SESSION THREE in all its glory.

So, are we supposed to download OpenRPG now?

>>317566
Eyup. Sorry for the inconvenience.

>>317567
Technically, I should be apologising.
Sorry for the trouble, everyone.

>>317568
If you're familiar with this, could you set things up for me, or tell me how?

>>317558
>>317568
Who is this? Is this Ark? If it's Ark, come back to us! We miss you! ;_;

>>317570
Planning on it, but at the moment I'm trying to work up a way around the block.
You'll get your ghost story ending eventually.

All players are now level 2! Yes, that includes you, Ark.

http://www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=22621

rolled 5 + 2 = 7

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rollan for health...

rolled 6 + 2 = 8

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>>317574
Or I could derp it up due to a d8 HD.

http://www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=22956
Updooted.

Might be a mite early, but how is the server setup going to work?
All I'm getting is a list of servers including 'Naruto PW' and 'Adult Roleplaying Community', which is not terribly encouraging.

>>317577
Those are like IRC servers.

Go into Blackstar.
Join the Room WakinNightmare.

The password is Derp.

I'm still learning this shit, yo.

Prole 2011/08/25(Thu)16:34 No. 317581 ID: 1e78e2
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ANTAL JAMIR AT YOUR SERVICE BITCH

Psithief 2011/08/25(Thu)16:49 No. 317586 ID: 3bad4c
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Charsheet

OpenRPG blew up, room password isn't working.

>>317587
Halp, in case that wasn't clear.

http://pastebin.com/awXDGBHu SESSION FOUR, WHICH WENT EXCELLENTLY DESPITE ALL PREVIOUS ERRORS.

>>317589
Um...
Is it supposed to have your whispers?

>>317590
... YES.

No game this week.

Sorry, bros - cleaned a whole goddamn house.

http://pastebin.com/b0N7MTK5

WE ARE CONTINUING TOMMOROW AT 5

http://pastebin.com/tpBh4Qhs

TL;DR?

They all got in the manor, there was a bugbear and three cloaked people. Kindle rushed the creature, Pwll knocked it out, and Kindle ran upstairs to confront the enemies. Arthur Macduff expected this, and attempted to bring forth the evil entity hiding in Kindle's body.

Meanwhile, Yli attempts to attack one of the other figures - but fails, and he dashes away through a lain deathtrap. Yli activates it, and nearly is killed for his trouble - but the room is on FIRE, now, and soon escapes the room.

Meanwhile, Pwll and Antal attempt to fight the now-conscious bugbear who is revived by mighty feindish power. It nearly kills Antal, but is brought down by Pwll's cunning manuever of surgically removing the rock that held the beast. In more practical terms, he just tore it out with a crowbar. Sometimes it is easy to forget we're talking about a corgi.

Anyway, upstairs, Kindle is possessed by a powerful demon, and Arthur Macduff makes passing reference to an individual named "Sanguinus", referring to him as a Lord. The demon is expelled, however, through the sheer insane WILLPOWER of Kindle's spirit. Arthur draws his blade and attempts to hold off the attacks of both Kindle and Yli as fires surround them, Pwll freeing the hostages they came for while Antal, by now revived by Greybeard, runs up the stairs to assist.

However, he is only in time to watch the villain make a horrific pun, slicing open Kindle's chest deeply while he himself bleeds from multiple wounds doled out by Yli and Kindle.

Antal coldly fires his crossbow and strikes Arthur Macduff in the heart, and, shocked, the nobleman falls from the balcony. But all that lands is a sword and a robe.

Everyone escapes, of course, and they agree: The fight is far from over. They decide to return to town to rest, heal, and plan.

Oh, and somewhere in there, it is revealed that Krysnt is one of Sanguinus's servants, and the other is highly skilled with chemicals.

>>317609
Them bolded terms? Imagine them like the words that are colored red in most Zelda games. They're the shit I want you to keep an eye on.

>>317609
Seriously, someone remind me to get that thing blessed at a temple of the Free Man.

>>317611
Speaking of Gods:

PROMETHEUS, LORD OF THE FORGE: A God of fire and steel and forging, Prometheus brought the advances of metalworking first to the dwarves, then to other races, by inspiring individuals with visions. These "First Forgemen" are revered as great preists, who teach the sacred art to others. Not all blacksmiths revere him, but the ones that do are said to be blessed in the ways of the craft.

THE ONE FREE MAN: God of laborers and the dead. Said to be a man who wore plate the color of autumn leaves, he weilded the weapon of a simple worker to bring down many evil threats against the world. He brings peace to the undead, and is well-known for being worshipped by slaves seeking to escape servitude. Since slavery is still legal in some areas (though how they are gained is rigidly enforced), he is something of a polarizing diety. Churches are often marked with the symbol of the church, and are simple affairs. Shrines often are tucked in out of the way areas similarily marked, nd often contain helpful packages of supplies for runaway slaves.

More to come!

Your TL;DRs should be shorter than the maximum length of a post that can be displayed before this board gives a 'Message too long. Click here to view the full text.' notice.

TL;DR; TL;DR is TL.

So my sister's birthday is this week! And that means, sadness of sadnesses, I won't be available for thursday, or friday. I will be back on saturday, however, if the whole gang can be here, we can still have a game this week.

>>317623
I'm up for it.

That's Sunday for me, and that's my game day.
I can't make it.

God shot your sister's so greedy, can't you tell her to have a birthday on any other day of the year?! And I bet you won't even bring us any birthday cake. It looks like at the very least Psi/Yli can't make it, so i don't know if we should continue otherwise.

So no game this week. ;-;

However, we will be playing next week! Been actually writing up the session and everythiiiing!

>>317633
Sorry to see you leave.

Trying to paste a log of the session... hope it works. http://pastebin.com/DAWcR1nt

That's about enough of that Big Dumb Argument. If you wish to continue this discussion, do so privately or head to the Big Dumb Arguments thread.

There will be a game tomorrow!

If there's anything you'd like to do between sessions or resolve here, please post it and I'll mediate it here.

So... Delayed, or canceled, or am I in the wrong room at the wrong time again?

Welcome to level 3.

rolled 5 + 1 = 6

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>>317679
I'd also like to note that I'd like updated sheets at this point, too. Every odd level~

>>317683
Updooted one further up the thread.

rolled 3 = 3

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alright so there won't be a game today. instead i want everyone to put forth what they plan to do in town.

you have a 5000 gold budget to work with. available allies are the druid from the capital, the priest, and the townsfolk in general. there's a forge, materials of decent quality, and plenty of helping hands.

your new items are:
flaming lance +1
dueling rapier +1
greyflame warhammer +1
spell-storing staff +1

these are all in the pfsrd so feel free to look them up. :3

if you need rolls for crafting etc please roll here.

I steal hall of the weapons and sneak attack the party.

Seriously though, 5000 gold EACH or split between us?

>>317713
I'm sure I can find some use for the staff.
Guessing the 5000 is separate...
In any case, invest in some healing potions, hold Marina upside down and shake her until I get at least a pearl or two, for spell components.
Make sure Kindle gets his due.
Also, if possible, shell out for a chain shirt or equivalent practical working gear.

5000 split.

If you revive Kindle, it'd be like spending his share on it, and each of you get 1k, etc.

Well I'd obviously insist on a four way split since the dead are dead and heck, the ORIGINAL party had Gallus and the druidess and Yli, and sure as heck I'm not splitting it seven ways to share with traitors and corpses.

>>317726
No contacts for Yli, and the other two are possessed or some shit. On the other hand, Kindle did die on this expedition, and the least I feel I can do is repay his support. 250 gold from each of us is not really that much for his sacrifice.
>>317723
Not suggesting revival, possibly not even aware it's an option.

Still on this week?
Should be able to make it easy on this end.

Unless something pops up, we're a go.

Then again we might run late - thanksgiving and all.