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I was considering putting in a manservant/chaperon PC a few days ago but I couldn't think up a good characterization at the time and seeing as I'm in a pile of games already I decided against it. I'll probably stick around and read though, maybe I'll submit him if a bunch of characters die.TychoBrahesNose posted:
Six of those eight are casters and who needs a sword when you can incinerate someone with your mind?  The majority of the casters also have sixteen dex while the other two of the eight are rogues and why would you ever take strength over dexterity as a rogue when your main damage dealing ability and your armor all key off of your dex mod. 
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My only regret is that I couldn't also get Charisma to 16, but oh well. Eldritch Bolt should solve most of my damage output problems if my longbow doesn't. Note to self: Get proficiency in Stealth somehow.
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Aug 26, 2015 00:27
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A Darker Porpoise posted:Six of those eight are casters and who needs a sword when you can incinerate someone with your mind? Muscle wizard is actually a rather effective build, if Hoard taught me anything. Waador fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 05:14
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Brewsuke posted:My only regret is that I couldn't also get Charisma to 16, but oh well. Eldritch Bolt should solve most of my damage output problems if my longbow doesn't. Note to self: Get proficiency in Stealth somehow. There's probably an invocation for it somewhere considering there's invocations to do any thing.
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Aug 26, 2015 10:46
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djw175 posted:There's probably an invocation for it somewhere considering there's invocations to do any thing. For getting Stealth proficiency? Or getting charisma to 16? If Charisma really mattered to me, I could've rolled up a Drow.
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So I had a hell of a time selecting the best 6-8 characters given so many strong builds, compelling backstories, and enthusiastic posters; therefore, I have decided (to paraphrase the immortal words of The Onion): gently caress Everything, We're Doing Ten Players! They are: Reava d'Medani, Half-Elf Warlock played by djw175 Lieutenant Celio d'Lyrandar, Half-Elf Rogue played by Quorum Kalud d'Torrn, Half-Orc Druid played by Drone "Cain Arkans d'Orien", Changeling Sorceror played by Quadratic_Wizard Nebra d'Cannith, Human Artificer played by Ryuujin Bastion Nine, Half-Elf Rogue played by Waador Tharn d'Cannith, Human Cleric played by Epicurius Leshanna d' Colum "the Old Badger" MacCullach, Human Barbarian played by DaemonWyrm Elizara d'Sivis, Gnome Bard played by Old Kentucky Shark One way that I think this will work is for me to try to incorporate player-specific "side quests" in parallel to the overall plot -- that way you all are not inflicting ten simultaneous attempts at Persuasion upon one hapless NPC, given that some of you will likely be focused elsewhere at least some of the time. I'm also envisioning this game as being a bit more sandbox-y, up to and including some mild PvP elements (since in the setting, the various Houses are in conflict with one another at least as often as they cooperate), although I'm definitely not going for direct physical confrontation among party members. Apart from that restriction, don't necessarily expect me to prompt you with explicit options for your actions; ideally, you will decide that for yourself -- in fact, I'm rather excited to make this more of a collaborative storytelling endeavor. Since the party is 25% bigger than I figured going in, my updates may take slightly longer to post (especially if the party splits up), so I'm hoping you can all be patient with me. Conversely, I'm hoping that you will all ensure that the rest of the party is not waiting too long on any one of you in those situations where a specific character's actions are needed to move things forward. Similarly, if Real Life intrudes for whatever reason and your character needs to be NPC'ed for a period of time, please let me know as soon as possible in this thread. With that said, while this is a bit of an experiment on my part, I do think that 10 players is manageable. In other news, I do have the initial game post very nearly finished (I was actually working on that quite a lot while I was pondering my character selections), so you can definitely expect the game to go live in the next 24 hours. TychoBrahesNose fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 15:21
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Good Lord 10 players 
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Aug 26, 2015 15:28
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10 people huh? This'll either be amazing or a complete clusterfuck. Either way, I'm glad to be a part of it!
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Aug 26, 2015 16:00
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My character's not for you, he's more of a Shelbyville character. 
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Aug 26, 2015 16:49
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Haschel Cedricson posted:My character's not for you, he's more of a Shelbyville character. Now, wait just a minute. We're twice as smart as the people of Shelbyville!
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Aug 26, 2015 16:58
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It will likely be wise to have some sort of IRC channel to coordinate the complexities of a 10-man party.
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Waador posted:It will likely be wise to have some sort of IRC channel to coordinate the complexities of a 10-man party. Seconded, I know one of the problems I often have with PBP is the lack of a metachannel to discuss fine details, small questions, and generally communicate amongst ourselves without clogging up the actual play thread.
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Aug 26, 2015 22:51
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That wouldn't be a bad plan.
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Aug 26, 2015 23:14
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I'm in, anybody know how to do that?
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DaemonWyrm posted:I'm in, anybody know how to do that?
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Waador posted:For the moment I have created #tenmanraid on SynIRC. Can switch it over to something else later if anyone has a more appropriate or clever channel in mind. This works. Thanks for setting it up! But what I want to know is: which one of you is Leeroy Jenkins?
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TychoBrahesNose posted:This works. Thanks for setting it up! But what I want to know is: which one of you is Leeroy Jenkins? Given our characters... probably me. 
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Aug 27, 2015 02:25
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I'm a scrub who doesn't know how to IRC properly. Someone walk me through it like you would if you had to teach a five year old or a really old person how to use it.
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Aug 27, 2015 07:06
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If you don't want to download a client or anything click this type in a username and then start chatting. I've started thinking up a build for my manservant character just in case 90% of y'all die so don't worry about a lack of replacements .
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Brewsuke posted:I'm a scrub who doesn't know how to IRC properly. Someone walk me through it like you would if you had to teach a five year old or a really old person how to use it. First, you need a client. You can have clients that run in your browser, or ones that are a standalone program. I suggest chatzilla, because it's the easiest to setup and use. http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/ Open it up, and you'll have a box you can type in text like a standard chatroom. Type "/server irc.synirc.net" into it without the quotes, then type "/join #tenmanraid", again with no quotes. Once you get that far, any other questions can be answered in the chat.
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A Plague On All Your Houses is now live! That's a big huge wall'o'text to start you off, but each of you will have one section with your name highlighted toward the top. Please do read the other sections at some point too, as there's at least a modicum of overlap for many of you. If there's anything that's unclear or any important information that's missing, please let me know and I will add it.
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Aug 27, 2015 07:59
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Are you looking for any particular posting format?
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Aug 27, 2015 09:46
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Brewsuke posted:I'm a scrub who doesn't know how to IRC properly. Someone walk me through it like you would if you had to teach a five year old or a really old person how to use it. I couldn't get the web client to work but it works on my android phone using andChat. https://www.synirc.net/servers | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.andchat
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I don't really know the ettiquette of PBP, is it cool if I stole your format Waador? I really liked the layout you used.
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By the way, we should probably all compare notes on timezones, just so nobody is expecting lightning-quick responses or anything when it turns out the other person is in the middle of sleeping. I'm Central Europe (UTC+1).
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Drone posted:By the way, we should probably all compare notes on timezones, just so nobody is expecting lightning-quick responses or anything when it turns out the other person is in the middle of sleeping. Eastern USA (Currently UTC-4 but UTC-5 when the winter comes)
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Aug 27, 2015 20:17
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Pacific Standard Time here (GMT -7)
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djw175 posted:Eastern USA (Currently UTC-4 but UTC-5 when the winter comes) Eastern time is best time.
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I am also Pacific Standard.
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us central time.
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US Eastern Standard, but I have to go to bed early on weeknights.
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I, too, am Eastern Standard time, but I'm unavailable on weekends, because I work 4-12. Mondays and Tuesdays are when I'm most available, because my work schedule is weird. But hey, that's retail for you. Also, I got rick-rolled in my character intro thing. I'm not sure how to feel about that.
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Aug 28, 2015 01:04
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Also Eastern time.
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I'm in Sydney (UTC+10). Also, counterintuitively, weekdays are better for me to post since I can take breaks at work, whereas on the weekends I'm mostly swamped with making sure the two small humans living in my house don't kill themselves.
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I've got this school thing all weekend so I might be a little MIA tomorrow and Sunday. I'm still reading and everything when I get a second but...my updates'll be a little short till Monday
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Quadratic_Wizard, running at the enormous monster is an inspired bit of lunacy. It still could go terribly, terribly wrong, but I can't think of any better way to get the other ravenous beast off your back.
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Since it was ignoring me, I was tempted to run up it and take a flying leap off it, just to make sure the owlbear would definitely get into its path. But considering that either of these things can snap me like a twig and I don't want to get into melee reach with them...this is probably the safest. Still crazy dangerous, but hey, yolo.
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So uhh, I'm just fighting the human guy, right? These predators closing in aren't quite there yet? Do I need to worry about map placement/maneuvering or anything or is it pretty much assumed that the human and I are already within melee range? And do I still get the bonus to druid stuff from being in this glade?
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Drone posted:So uhh, I'm just fighting the human guy, right? These predators closing in aren't quite there yet? The predators are close; exactly how close is unclear. You are definitely melee-close to the human. Yes on the druid bonus.
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So I think what we've learned is that Elven is not the language to speak when you're trying to hide information from this party.
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