[OOC]Live By The Gun

One-Winged Eagle

Player's Guide. Get it here.

Should we do the bounty hunter thing again? I got rules for those kinds of firearms.

Also, the next couple of weeks is preparing for my exams, so we can only start after that.

Salix Babylonika

I kinda dislike guns in D&D but if other people want them I'm not really objected to it.

Yarrun XIX

I've had Zankas in cryo-storage for years, waiting for this moment.

One-Winged Eagle

How about being a ragtag team of constables in a figurative and literal boomtown?

Yarrun XIX

Yarrun XIX said:

I've had girl-Spellsword-Zankas in cryo-storage for years, waiting for this moment.

Salix Babylonika

can I play as a cute sfirvneblin earth witch

One-Winged Eagle

Sure.

How ragtag should the team be? Should you all be on the chaingang first?

Tanya

I'll join.

One-Winged Eagle

Cool. Submit your character sheets whenever.

Oh, I think we'll start at level one.

Corvina

If only I weren't already running a Vampire campaign and playing a Pathfinder campaign..

One-Winged Eagle

Things I Want To Try (that are in the GM's book):

• Western-ish setting. Duh. But not the one we played. Something new.
• Hero dice. You start with 5 hero d6s. You can add it to any d20 roll (attack roll, ability check, or saving throw), to buy against failure. You only refresh/gain more hero dice when you gain a level.
• Honor ability. It would be on your sheet just like any other ability. Honor being how much you adhere to the code of the frontier, how you respect other heroes.

Thoughts?

Salix Babylonika

I'm still like really bad at D&D so I'd prefer to avoid anything that complicates the mechanics too much, personally.

Yarrun XIX

-shrugs-

One-Winged Eagle

Alright, never mind, then.

One-Winged Eagle

So instead of everyone having their own Honor ability, the group as a whole will have an Honor stat, which I will track. It functions similarly to a reputation stat.

Whenever you do something honorable, I will award an increase. Whenever the group does something dishonorable, I will decrease it. You can also all use the Honor ability for certain social checks or saving throws, so you when your reputation is damaged, you can't always just talk your way out of it.

Alduin

Are we rolling for scores or is this point-buy?

One-Winged Eagle

You can roll for scores, point-buy, or choose a static score.

But what this choice applies to everyone. If you're going to go for rolling, then everyone has to roll. And everyone has to agree that they want to roll.

Salix Babylonika

I would rather do point-buy because getting fucked over by dice at character creation is never fun.

Yarrun XIX

Planet Jane said:

I would rather do point-buy because getting fucked over by dice at character creation is never fun.

Corvina

Yarrun XIX said:

Planet Jane said:

I would rather do point-buy because getting fucked over by dice at character creation is never fun.

One-Winged Eagle

I've never liked rolling, myself.

Yarrun XIX

Player's Handbook doesn't want to load.

I'll see if downloading works better than whatever viewer's Mediafire's using

Yarrun XIX

yeah, working now

Yarrun XIX

Submitting custom 5e duskblade class for approval

One-Winged Eagle

You want to use this? 

Seems reasonable to me. I guess.

Yarrun XIX

Just keeping that in hock, actually. I thought about it, and rewriting Zankas as a hard-boiled investigator rogue was way more appealing for this kind of set-up.

Yarrun XIX

Where are the rules on pistols?

Sherlock the Dwarf is all ready except for those

One-Winged Eagle

Muzzle-Loading Firearms (Simple Ranged Weapons)

• Black powder pistol (1d10 piercing); 250 gp; 3 lb; ammunition, (range 30/90), loading. 
  
• Musket (1d12 piercing); 500 gp; 10 lb; ammunition, (range 40/120), loading, two-handed. 
  
• Musket ball (10); 1 gp; 2 lb. 
  

Revolver-/Lever-Action Firearms (Martial Ranged Weapons)

• Revolver (2d8 piercing); 3 lb; ammunition, (range 40/120), reload (6 shots). 
  
• Repeating Rifle (2d10 piercing); 8 lb; ammunition (range 80/240), reload (5 shots), two-handed. 
  
• Shotgun (2d8 piercing); 7 lb; ammunition (range 30/90), reload (2 shots), two-handed. 
  
• Cartridges (10); 3 gp; 1 lb.
  

The difference between loading and reloading is that you have to load after every shot, and reloading allows you to make a number of ranged attacks until you have to load again. You can shoot as many times as you have ranged attacks per round, but that's not really a concern right now.

There's no listed prices for the second section, so I'm going to rule it that you can't buy them with money. You can only take them in character creation, replacing any similar weapon in the Starting Equipment section of the Class chapter. For example, if it says you can start with a rapier (a martial weapon), you can replace it with a revolver.

I'd also say that if you're proficient with multiple simple/martial weapons, you're also proficient with similar firearms.

One-Winged Eagle

My exams end on the fourteenth, so I should be ready by the eighteenth or nineteenth.

Salix Babylonika

hey

can everyone possibly post here what classes they're interested in playing?

Obviously I wanna play a spellcaster first and foremost but I can make something else work if everyone else is going wizard.

One-Winged Eagle

Yes, that would be good. I assumed you folks would do that.

Yarrun is playing a rogue.

Yarrun XIX

I kind of figured that you were playing a spellcaster, which made me decide against choosing a warlock. 

Also, Dwarven Sherlock was just too good to pass up.

Salix Babylonika

Warlock?

I really need to read these new 5e PDFs I suppsoe

Salix Babylonika

not fixing "suppsoe"

Salix Babylonika

yep there's totally just a Warlock in the basic 5e player's handbook.

Going to probably roll with that or Wizard.

One-Winged Eagle

Musket balls now cost 1 gp per 10, and revolver, rifle, and shotgun cartridges and slugs gost 3gp per 10.

One-Winged Eagle

I'll try to get a setting notes post going later.

Yarrun XIX

There is a minor chance that I'll matriculate into arcane trickster when I get to level 3, but I'm leaning more towards the burglar archetype, so little worries.

There is a greater chance of me using matriculate incorrectly here

Salix Babylonika

if I want to do a combination of burning things and summoning monsters is Wizard or Warlock the preferable class

incidentally if it turns out that going squish is a bad idea I'm also going to make a cleric as a sort of backup character.

One-Winged Eagle

If you were going to go squishy, then someone may want to be the big guy of the group.

Yarrun XIX

New Zankas is very squish. Cleric isn't a bad idea.

Salix Babylonika

what is a zankas

One-Winged Eagle

Zankas is Yarrun's character.

Salix Babylonika

making a cleric will be more work (and will require more collaboration with Mach) but I'd be willing to do it.

Yarrun XIX

Planet Jane said:

what is a zankas

I'm legitimately surprised.

I've used variations on him, like, at least three times here.

Salix Babylonika

Yarrun XIX said:

Planet Jane said:

what is a zankas

I'm legitimately surprised.

I've used variations on him, like, at least three times here.

I'm bad with character names

what's another thing he was in

Salix Babylonika

I have not an actual character sheet, but a rough character sketch of sorts outlined below, let me know if anything unacceptable is here (I know clerics can't normally use swords but I figured it would not be a huge deal):

• Name: Asai [Coalthroat ?]
• Race: Fire Genasi
• Class: Cleric 
• Deity: [unnamed], fiery god of invention and guile [Light domain? idk]
• Alignment: Neutral something
• Equipment: Shortsword, iron parma, revolver, basic leather armor, tricorne cap.
• Appearance: Tall, athletic build. Obsidian black skin, bright red hair and golden eyes.
• Personality: Somewhat temperamental, devout, intelligent.

Yarrun XIX

The last 5e game we did.

That one game you ran in that half-Japanese, half-American island (which was a rather interesting set-up)

The dwarf in Naney's game was originally named Ankas, but I changed it to some Q-name halfway through development.

Salix Babylonika

The last 5e game we did.

That one game you ran in that half-Japanese, half-American island (which was a rather interesting set-up)

I am not sure I remember that

not Toyekken?

One-Winged Eagle

Okay so, there are two main sets of gods.

First are the immaterial Old Gods, from the Old World, who are following you across the seas to the New World. While in the past they could have followed any alignment, as of now their morality is overridden by a deep and abiding hunger. While their demi-god offspring make havoc in the world, one can still call upon their power at the present.

• Chel was the Turtle Father of Alb, and embodies the domain of Tempest. Chel is the least given over to Hunger, and actively struggles to maintain his alignment of Lawful Evil.
• Huang is the Serpent Mother of Hua, and grants the power of Life. For exactly half a year, Huang tries to raise her Lawful Good following up, and then immediately spends the other half eating what she's built.
• Orel, the Double Eagle of Rus is the bird of Light. Their moments of clarity are rare, but when it does arise, they manifest glimmers of a Neutral nature.
• Khan, the Tiger of Arun grants its followers the might of Nature. There is nothing left in Khan but the Hunger.

The Four Kings are what happens when sylvan legends blossoms beyond control; the legend becomes a god. The four warlords became the Four Kings, deities incarnate in the material plane.

• The Reigning King is a citron sylvan, and their Armored Corps is the largest of all the four armies. Kind but determined, merciful but firm, the Ruling King is the youngest of the four kings but the most physically powerful of their peers, and embodies the domain of War.
• Heading the knightly Skyward Lances is the Conquering King, a plantain sylvan. Ruthless and ambitious, the Conquering King is the physically weakest of his peers, but makes up for it through the loyalty he inspires, the glory he promises, and the daring he embodies. Knowledge is his purview, and the knowledge he prizes the most is that he is supreme in all the world.
• The Secret King is a pomegranate sylvan. Quiet and scheming, vindictive and controlling, she is the most clever and cunning of the Warlords. The Secret King’s use of guile, espionage, and questionable tactics has kept her Imperial Guard strong, along with its use of highly-trained and specialized operatives, all empowered with the domain of Trickery.
• The last and numerically least of the four armies is lead by the Ruling King, a papaya sylvan. While it is neither the smallest nor the strongest, the Words of Rule owe their high standing from the mystical syllables from which they take their name that grant them strange powers, which manifests as power over the Death domain. The Ruling King is an older individual, and holds itself with an unshakable dignity but also deep arrogance, and bears the scars of over a century of nigh-constant battle experience.

There are also various small gods that grant their power to a small handful of followers, and these lesser deities have power in any of the eight domains.

Yarrun XIX

Planet Jane said:

The last 5e game we did.

That one game you ran in that half-Japanese, half-American island (which was a rather interesting set-up)

I am not sure I remember that

not Toyekken?

That's the one. ZANKAS was the name of the AI my guy had in his head.