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[My Name is Immaterial]

Sure. I'll type it up in a minute.

[Pencil_Art]

Thanks.

[Dwarmin]

When are you going to choose the players, Dwarmin?

Well, soon, but likely not today. I'm feeling pretty lousy.

[Flying Dice]

Now try to talk Dwarmin into using the Poison and Splash weapon houserules Hans, GWG, and I built so that it's worth bothering with poisons, hehe.

Do they also fix the problem of it taking 50 gp and 20 days to make a poison?

Yes. Lemme find them...

Okay, here's a summary:

1. Same crafting rules as Alchemy; pay 1/3 product cost for materials instead of being required to go out and kill things to gather doses.

2. Use Wrex's crafting rules: Nonmagical items created at a rate of 1000gp worth/day. For craft times of <1day, <50gp = 1h, 51-250gp = 2h, and every further increment of +125gp = +1h.

3. 6 ranks in Craft (Poison) removes the 5% chance of accidentally poisoning yourself while applying them &c. No Craft (XX) or skill ranks in 5e, but I don't think the PHB has any rules about poison use or making anyways.

4. Splash/grenade type weapons which deal damage can crit (20/x2) and be used to sneak attack (successful Sneak Attacks apply damage of the same type as the thrown weapon).

5. When you crit or Sneak Attack with a splash/grenade/thrown weapon which has a DC roll, a confirmed critical multiplies the DC by 1.3x, and a successful Sneak Attack adds +2 to the DC for each Sneak Attack die you have.

That's all, IIRC. Of course, that was from 3.5e, so some of it might not translate well. One of the big things is (AFAIK) a lack of Far Shot, as well as not having things like the Belt of Many Pockets or Hidden Pouches, Glove of the Master Strategist, and a whole lot of the really useful thrown stuff like Aboleth Mucus.

Pretty much all of the poisons are going to either be conversions from 3.5e or complete in-house fabrications.

[mainiac]

I'm gonna write up a mastermind rogue. http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=182861

Spoiler: character backstory (click to show/hide)

The name Chaevee once was a respected name in scholarly circles.  For generations the Chaevee's served as curators to the Great Library of Tymore in the kingdom of Iyys, a peaceful land near the empire.  Alchemists, Sages and Wizards knew the name of Chaevee corresponded with the family of the library who were known as the "Spiders of Tymore" for their ability to scurry up and down great shelves of books to find any long forgotten tome a seeker of knowledge might want.  Many of the men and women who invented the great sailing ships and chemical weapons of the past century corresponded with the spider family.  It was into the life of the library that Natalie was born and spent several years of a happy childhood.
The happy times in the library came to a close when war came to the kingdom of Iyys.  King Steranko conquered the land and the traditional neutrality of the Great Library was soon undermined at every turn.  Seekers of knowledge from other lands were turned away while cronies of the new king picked through the library for profit and power.  Finally the curator to the library, Natalie's grandmother declared a boycott and shut the libraries doors.  The king arrived at the head of an army to reopen the library and finally in a fit of rage the curator killed the king.  Soon after the library was pillaged and it's inhabitants forced to flee to distant lands.
The still underage Natalie lived for a time with her father, Mattias, in a distant land.  Embittered by the loss of his home and life he had a grudge against mankind and felt that taking from others would even the score.  Mattias and Natalie lived constantly on the move as he used his knowledge to traffic in illegal and stolen valuables, antiquities and firearms mostly.  Every day Mattias repeated the same lesson to Natalie "honest doesn't pay".  There might have been a good living in it if not for Mattias' pathological need to hurt and betray everyone he ever did business with sooner or later.  Unsurprisingly when Mattias fought the world eventually the world won.  Natalie came home one day to find the house ransacked and her father gone.  He was arrested and extradited back to the kingdom of Iyys to spend a life in the mines.
With her last link back to the library gone, Natalie ran.  She found herself on the coast and got work on a ship heading to the new world.  It was backbreaking work but when the day ended she would lie awake half the night thinking about her life.  Her father had wrecked himself with rage and gotten nothing.  Her grandmother and struck down her enemy and died shortly as a result.  Natalie decided that she was going to fix the world not fight it.  That is what would keep her alive, keep her sane.  She had a plan...
Step 1: Getting a ship

[My Name is Immaterial]

When are you going to choose the players, Dwarmin?

Well, soon, but likely not today. I'm feeling pretty lousy.

I would really appreciate it if you waited till Wednesday; I want to put more effort into my sheet, but I just don't have the time today or tomorrow.

[GiglameshDespair]

The faint beginnings of a sheet here: http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=183338

[UXLZ]

Blaaargh, I am so at odds with whether I want a Human or a Wood Elf. The stats and racial traits of a Wood Elf suits the class so much better than a Human, but  I don't really think it fits the backstory. T_T

Woe is me.

[Pencil_Art]

Heh. What backstory?

[UXLZ]

The backstory that I just finished sorta-writing. http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=181629
As well as the way Dwarmin seems to be gearing his campaign towards non-humans. (Reminds me of Witcher-verse, where racism is quite common.)

I'll have more stuff down tomorrow properly, but this should be a fairly interesting. Thank god the boxes can scroll, otherwise there wouldn't be nearly enough room.

Oh, and to make some parts of his background feel a little less absurd,

Spoiler: Monastery (click to show/hide)

Though it is fairly respected as an Order of monster-slayers, I envision his monastic tradition as being somewhat lopsided in their teachings. The practical skills themselves such as fighting (and thieves' tools for breaking into old crypts for instance) are still taught well, but other aspects like theory (for instance the type that would let a graduating student know that trying to kill a dragon by themself was insanely insanely stupid) is fairly skimped on, though more basic stuff is still taught. (E.g. undead=weak to holiness.) However, it also kind of goes with an 'All monster-type creatures are bad' teachings. Thus, there isn't anything distinguishing the types of dragons and which are good and evil. They see a Gold and Black as the same thing - Something to be killed indiscriminately.

[Dwarmin]

Blaaargh, I am so at odds with whether I want a Human or a Wood Elf. The stats and racial traits of a Wood Elf suits the class so much better than a Human, but  I don't really think it fits the backstory. T_T

Woe is me.

Heh. What backstory?

Lol, what he said.

It's an open world, you can make up whatever lore like. I mean, Wood Elves would actually be more likely to be in the New World...

[UXLZ]

We aren't actually at the NW yet. :v

Oh, and I edited my other post while you were typing if you didn't notice. Also, I have literally no idea what any of your deities are. Are there any devoted to the 'hunt'?

[Dwarmin]

Posting it all here for sanity.

I probably missed someone.

Player List
Londo Cherrin, Human Paladin (Heydude6)
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=180228

Ker Packbrother, Human Ranger (Frying Dice)
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=180516

Astrith Bane, Human Fighter (Twinwoof)
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=181747

Nigma, Changeling Rogue(Mynameismatteral)
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=180881

Aesalam Furtrainer, Wood Elf Range (Pencils Art)
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=182691

Natalee Chavee, Halfling Rogue (Maniac)
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=182861

Clarion, Air Genasi Fighter (Gagglemesh)
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=183338

Ispil Desdaea, Human Monk (UXLXQQ)
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=181629

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Good thing being in a party isn't mandated. xD

Interesting, real conflict! Perhaps the characters will end up at odds at some point if they both get in.

By the way Dwarmin, how likely are we to be able to solve stuff via pure (or mostly) RP/skill tests? I mean, is a combat-built character absolutely necessary?
Then again, you don't really have much of a choice in DnD. Everyone does combat...

Also, missed this question.

Sandbox means you can try to solve problems any way you like. Of course, combat WILL happen. But you can avoid alot of it.

[UXLZ]

Yeah, that's fine. As long as the possibility to try and solve stuff through non-combat means is there it's fine. I was jsut curious as to how many options one would have.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I've finished fleshing out my sheet for now. It's done, for now.