''Y'all Meet at a Saloon'' Discussion Thread

Salix Babylonika · 2013-09-30 14:37:20

Mo is doing the thing again where he proposes something but has little idea how to do so.

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had any interest in GMing a play-by-post Heapers' Hangout game (a session game on an IRC channel could be set up too I guess, but I wouldn't know how to do that).

Pretty much everything is open at this point, I'm personally just looking to get into the game and have no particular preferences re: editions, etc. I do sort of have a character cooked up, but that's irrelevant here, mostly.

I was also thinking it'd probably be start to, at least to start, do a single adventure as opposed to a longer campaign, to see how it pans out.

Suggestions etc. are very welcome, but this is mostly a general interest check.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-09-30 14:46:39

I've always wanted to take a shot at this. I'm in.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-09-30 14:49:22

also I (and I imagine at least some others) will likely need some help with the mechanical side of character creation. I did it once before but I lost that particular sheet when my computer burned out on me.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-09-30 20:54:54

bandp

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-09-30 22:17:22

I've played a little (like two sessions' worth) of D&D. For the Fourth Edition playtest.

In my opinion, it is one of the simplest, most streamlined, easy-to-understand editions of D&D.

Of course, I still don't feel it is the best, most streamlined, easy-to-understand, or flexible system out there, but I'd like to help regardless.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-01 18:21:51

Yeah I'm fine with any edition that people actually play (that is, generally 3.5, Pathfinder, or 4e). I don't have much of a preference.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-01 19:37:30

I was actually thinking of like, Fate Core or Apocalypse World, neither that are D&D systems.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-01 19:43:20

well I mean the name of the thread is "a D&D game".

Yarrun XIX · 2013-10-01 20:35:00

Last time I made a D&D character, I think we were playing 1st Edition. Y'know, for legacy and whatnot.

If 4th Edition's what we're going with, I don't think I'd mind poking around and learning how to make my own character. Might save some time.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-01 20:37:26

we do need to find someone to DM, tho.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-10-01 20:54:48

And when we find that person, I'll have a fresh character waiting for them.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-01 20:56:13

Well when some folks say "A D&D game" they mean "I want to play fantasy."

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-01 21:12:04

well, that is not what I meant.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-10-01 21:36:47

Alright, I've decided on a race, class, name and backstory. Now all I have to do is decipher this character sheet I downloaded off the internet and roll some numbers.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-01 22:00:01

we haven't actually picked an edition yet, have we? I mean, we're all OK with 4th but that doesn't mean we'll go with it.

and we have no DM yet.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-10-01 22:00:27

Right then. I'll stop putting the cart before the horse then.

MetaFour · 2013-10-01 23:14:36

I'd be interested in playing.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-01 23:54:49

I'd be interested in DM-ing, if nobody minds.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-01 23:56:09

as long as you're willing to run a fairly typical setting I'm fine with that.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-01 23:58:50

What's "fairly typical"?

Actually I have like a hundred questions, but lets start with that.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 00:01:56

Nothing that would be overly difficult/offputting for new players who are mostly looking to get into the game.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 00:19:48

I suppose I should post my character concept if you're going to be our DM.

Hold on a moment while I dig it up.

Buttwangs · 2013-10-02 00:21:46

I would be interested to be a player

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 00:23:55

wall of text incoming:

Ludmila "Ludmi" Ingosi, "Malefic Swamp Witch, Daughter of Ura Baba, Eighth Heir to the Wooden Throne"
Human Wizard, Neutral.
Equipment
⦁   Staff & attached Incense Vessel
⦁   Dagger
⦁   Robes & Hat
⦁    The Great Swamp Grimoire (spellbook)
⦁   A large pipe
⦁   a number of spent magical baubles.

Ludmila is a talented, rather conceited witch from the swamplands. She traveled to the cities on a quest for personal power, knowing it was at best unlikely she'd inherit the position of her mother (the aging swamp duchess Ura "Baba" Ingosi), and content to let her older sisters squabble for the succession. Ludmila learned magic--particularly, curses and attack magics--from her mother at a young age, and now seeks her fortune amongst the adventurers of the world. Ludmila is by far the least powerful of Ura Baba's eight children, and generally avoids the swamplands (and their wrath, as their alignments range from Lawful Good to Chaotic Evil) at all costs nowadays.

Ludmila puts the livelihood of herself and anyone she consideres a friend first and foremost, things like ethics and morality are a distant trailing second to her despite her not being evil, and as such, she is squarely neutral. Ludmila is not particularly religious, although she believes in the gods and has what can be described as a distant reverence for Wee Jas.

The Great Swamp Grimoire is an oversized spellbook (as well as a geneology of the Ingosi family, a short history of how Ura Baba came to power, and a life advice book, amongst many other things) written in a Common-Draconic pidgin called The Ingosi Cypher. There are nine copies of the book, Ura Baba's own, and the eight she gave to each of her daughters, including Ludmila. Ludmila's is the most heavily annotated, containing more efficient methods of casting certain spells, revisions, and roughly a hundred entirely new pages. The Grimoire itself also quotes large passages from other spellbooks, including The Black Pullet, The Grand Grimoire (aka The Book of the Red Dragon), The Book of The Shrieking Owl, and there is even an unsourced passage attributed to the great Magician Al-Hazred.

The Grimoire is further subdivided into The Ingosi Family Geneology (which is historically accurate for seven generations before it begins interweaving myth and reality), The Wooden Throne, an epic poem about Ura Baba's rise to power in the swamplands, The Book of Etiquette & Rulership, a section containing advice on everything from how to dress well for formal occaisons to how to properly blackmail another individual, The Book of Pyromancy, which deals (despite the name) with offensive spells of all types, and lastly, The Book of The Hexenmeister, which deals with curses. The Grimoire is also cursed, in the hands of a non-Ingosi family member, although no details of said curse are known.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 00:26:41

4e leaves open the question of where she'd fit as far as classes go. I had been assuming that no one would want to play anything but 3.5 (where she fits in neatly as a wizard). Here, she's sort of between a wizard and a warlock, and I'd rather not multiclass my first character.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-02 00:33:06

Well pick whatever you think fits best.

I'll be asking all the questions and linking to the 4E rulebooks later tonight.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 00:35:12

I have the Player's Handbook .pdf downloaded already.

I will be a wizard if no one else wants to be, and a weird warlock if someone else does.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 00:37:35

actually kinda thinking I like the Warlock better.

Can I be a warlock and just have the spellbook for flavor reasons?

Buttwangs · 2013-10-02 00:39:25

So is it going to be 4E or it's up to discussion?

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-02 00:41:07

I only know how to use 4E, really.

Mo: You can have a book with magic in it that is of significance to you, but it won't be a wizard's spellbook, if you get my meaning.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 00:41:37

I think we're going 4e since it's what our DM is familiar with.

I myself am more used to 3.5 but that is reeeeeeeeeeeallllllly not saying much, and I think I'm actually liking 4e a little better as I read the the handbook.

Buttwangs · 2013-10-02 00:46:14

I know 2e, 3e, 3,5 and Pathfinder, but I'm always eager to learn new game system. So as soon as I can get my hand on 4e I'll begin reading.

Is it okay to wait for more info on the setting before I start fleshing out a character?

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 00:47:04

I had Ludmi mostly pre-fabbed, so I'm pretty sure it's fine.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-02 07:31:06

holy shit I was so wrong.

I played 5TH EDITION, or D&D NEXT, not 4th Edition. Which is to say, the beta-test version which is not yet done.

You guys still want to do this? I can hook you folks up with the rules.

glennmagusharvey · 2013-10-02 07:44:26

I might join if not for the fact that I've already joined a D&D game.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-10-02 07:45:28

Question: How much would anyone mind if I chose a Minotaur for a character race?

I've just had this idea with a Minotaur that I want to do.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-02 08:08:55

There's a 5th Edition Minotaur here, you could play that. I'd say being that monster is worth 5 Levels, so everybody would be 6? 7? You take the monster template and slap a class on it.

If we're doing this.

Bunny · 2013-10-02 09:16:18

I have a strong temptation to join and play a bard.

...Bards are cool.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-02 09:18:30

There's no bard class in 5th Edition. Sorry.

I wanted a bard too.

Bunny · 2013-10-02 09:23:23

...poop.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-02 09:32:49

Classes available in 5th Edition:

Barbarian (Paths: Berserker, Totem Warrior)
Bard (Bard Colleges: College of Valor, College of Wit)
Cleric (Deity Archetypes: Arcanist, Reaper, Lifegiver, Lightbringer, Protector, Stormcaller, Trickster, Warbringer)/(Domains: Knowledge, Life, Light, Nature, War)
Druid (Circle of the Oak)/(Circle of the Land, Circle of the Moon)
Fighter (Fighting Style: Archery, Defense, Great Weapon, Protection, Two-Weapon; Martial Paths: Weaponmaster, Warrior)
Mage (Arcane Traditions: School of Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion)
Monk (Monastic Traditions: Path of Mercy, Path of the Phoenix, Path of Four Storms, Path of Stone's Endurance)/(Way of the Four Elements, Way of the Open Hand)
Paladin (Oaths: Cavalier, Warden, Blackguard/antipaladin; Mounts: Celestial Charger, Summer Stag, Bound Nightmare)/(Oaths: Oath of Devotion)
Ranger (Path of the Colossus Slayer, Path of the Horde Breaker) and
Rogue (Schemes: Acrobat, Assassin, Thief, Rake, Treasure Hunter, Scout, Trickster)/(Rogue Style: Assassination, Thievery)

Main races and sub-races:

Dwarf (Hill Dwarf, Mountain Dwarf)
Elf (High Elf, Wood Elf)
Halfling (Lightfoot, Stout)
Human
Dragonborn
Drow
Gnome
Half-Elf
Half-Orc
Tiefling
Warforged

glennmagusharvey · 2013-10-02 09:49:30

What are these different rogue schemes?

Also, no dark elves?

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-02 10:21:17

Not yet, anyway.

So each of the things I listed after the class grants you access to different benefits. Paladins have different oaths to fit different themes. In particular, the Rogue Schemes grant you certain skills, bonus feats, and different ways in gaining advantage in a fight.

For example, an acrobat can get advantage on a melee attack if they started to attack about twenty feet away, while an assassin gets advantage by attacking a hostile enemy within five feet.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 10:53:42

I'd rather not play an edition that like, isn't out yet.

It seriously limits the things we can do and it's unlikely we'd ever play it anywhere else.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 10:59:22

Especially since I was mostly done statting my character.

One-Winged Eagle · 2013-10-02 18:59:43

There are like, rules and everything. I have them. I can share them.

It'll be like playing a beta-test!

Tachyon · 2013-10-02 19:05:54

i'd quite like to try 5th edition, if you decide to do that

Tachyon · 2013-10-02 19:06:32

by which i mean i am interested and here i am registering my interest

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 19:42:21

I'm mostly afraid that our options would be severely limited.

Also Bunny wants to play a Bard and I have a Warlock mostly done.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-10-02 19:56:12

4th edition has an minotaur PC race in one of the sidebooks, so I'm leaning towards that edition.

Salix Babylonika · 2013-10-02 20:01:05

Would you be willing to try, Crackers?

I had proposed we do just one adventure to see how things shake out before committing to a longer campaign, if it doesn't work out we can try something else.

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