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[Harry Baldman]

Can you link me a class description?  Sounds like a ranger/rogue cross from your description, would like to know a little more.

This has about the gist of it. It's like a rogue in that it's a skill monkey, but with some of the nature-focused stealth abilities of the ranger and druid, and the sneak attack requires 10 feet of movement instead of flanking and progresses half as quickly. It's from Complete Adventurer, as that link will tell you.

EDIT: How about the totem barbarian? I'm considering a Scout/Barbarian multiclass. I'm curious about the ape totem in this case, to be specific.

Edit:  So right now my provisional time is Monday or Tuesday, 7:30pm-10:30pm GMT, for sessions.  How does this sound?

Either works for me! That'd be 9:30 to 12:30 for me, which is a very good time for gaming.

[kilakan]

yeah, whatever works for me as well.  I've not had time to decide on a class or anything yet but am thinking something probably a bit more hack n slash... perhaps a Conquistador type of gentlemen.

[Iituem]

I'm fine with both of those classes, feel free.  Kilakan, you might want to consider a straightforward Fighter, or a Bard for the skill points.  Or others, if you prefer them.

Edit:  Love the Archivist, go for it Orange.  Also as a bit of fluff, scribing scrolls is expensive for you not because of the ink but because it requires specially prepared incense to be burned whilst you inscribe it, to 'hold' the divine magic.  You can produce this yourself with a Craft (religious paraphernalia) or Craft (alchemy) check, but you can also buy it from priests or clerics who have stores (if they have stores).

Here's a bit of off-the-cuff setting:

The Fringe:  North of the warm climes and plentiful food of the Jeweled States and their high city walls, life is harsher.  Rather than gathering bountiful fruits and crops, a living is brutally scoured from the land, often against the land's wishes.  The Fringe is a realm of ever-shifting borders and alliances, of small villages under the thumbs of small lords.  It is an excellent place to forge your own kingdom (as many orcish princes do) and an even better place to lose one (often the same princes in question).  The people of the Fringe are poor, but as is often the case, pride fills their empty coin pouches, and often has to fill their bellies as well.

[Orange Wizard]

Everything sounds good to me.

[Iituem]

Would anyone be interested in starting on say, the 11th of January?  (Monday, GMT time).

[Harry Baldman]

Seems as good a time as any.

[Orange Wizard]

Sure.

[Iituem]

Alright.  Post your character sheets here when you have them.  When writing up your character, be sure to include a Fear, an Aspiration and a Bond. 

A Fear is something specific that you are avoiding or running away from; spiders don't count, abusive husbands or your master's disapproval do. 

An Aspiration is something specific that you are trying to obtain.  Whilst this should be significant, it should have a specific target.  So instead of Greed, you specifically want enough money to buy your own ship, or to secure your family.  Instead of Ambition, you specifically want to be a lord with a castle, or you want to reach the top of the priesthood, or you want to be the best, like no one ever was.

No man is an island.  A Bond is a very definite entity that binds you to the world and makes you part of it.  Perhaps it is your master, your guild, your brother or wife or child.  Perhaps it is just your favourite sword, that you would kill to get back if it were ever lost.  Perhaps your love was killed by a man of power.  In one way or another, you swim in the muddy waters of the world.

Finally, as a House Rule, each starting character gets a free Skill Focus feat.  This must be used on a Craft, Profession or Survival skill, or another skill directly related to how you make your bread.  Characters who live in the wilds hunting, that's Survival.  Blacksmiths, it's Craft, Herbalists it's Profession (or Craft(alchemy).  Thieves could take Sleight of Hand.  This represents your background profession, even if it's begging.

[Harry Baldman]

I assume we can do point buy with 28 points, right? Figured I'd ask.

Also, where do we start out in?

[Iituem]

I'm cool either with 28 point buy or 4d6 take 3 highest.  I'll trust you.  You will all be starting in the Fringe, at a rural township called Frith not far from a set of ruins.  For one reason or another (maybe you live there, maybe it's part of your hunting range, maybe you came specially) you end up there with broadly aligning objectives (I can work this out if you prefer not to).

We will also be joined by a RL friend of mine, who is presently working out his character.  If you want to befriend me on Skype in advance, my callsign is iituem.

Edit:  You may take full HP at first level.

Edit 2:  As a result of fleshing the world out a bit with Harry, I can confirm that the light intoxicants of choice in this setting are alcohol and casual (rather impure) opium smoking.

[Rince Wind]

My character would be from a tribe loosely based on the Mongols, or basically any nomadic
. So far I said he comes from the west(ern plains). He does have a good reason to be away, and also one to return later. Is that OK, or should he come from another direction? There need to be some mountains around and a trade route through the area. I also made up a (very limited) pantheon, but I don't want to interfere with your world building.
As clerics don't get the weapon proficiencies that he would certainly be trained in, I thought of starting with a single level of fighter. Taking the War sphere for the bonus martial feet does not appeal to me that much.
Bonus skill focus would be riding or animal handling.

[Iituem]

We're using the default Greyhawk pantheon (Pelor, Nerull etc), but you can absolutely have your tribe's own folk gods (who may be different entities or the main players in a different guise).

The big steppe nomad expies in this setting would be the Hobgoblins, so you can play one of those, or you can be from a similar tribe of non-hobgoblin heritage.  There are trade routes through the starting area, although for mountains you would head north or south.  If you don't want to say your reasons in public, feel free to PM me here or on Skype.


Edit:  Must ask, would anyone be opposed to my recording the adventure for my channel?  Just the sound, no video.

[Harry Baldman]

I wouldn't be opposed, certainly.

[Iituem]

We now have a very bare bones Roll 20 set up for the sake of spatial placement and dice rolls.

Edit:  I now have Harry's sheet for Littleman in.

[Rince Wind]

What do you think about the unearthed arcana traits?
If you allow those, i'd like to take Saddleborn (+1 on Ride, -1 on Handle Animal), if not, no problem.