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[LordBucket]

One spot left. game will start tomorrow whether or not it's filled.

About to eat dinner, so probably won't validate last player until tomorrow.

Spoiler: Crazyabe (click to show/hide)

Crazyabe

Skills: Priest of Ra(Major), herb lore(minor)

Background: I Was abandoned by my mother at a Temple, the monks living there Raised me to be a priest of Ra, the god of life and light, I was taught some small practical blessings and that all things that live do so by his command by them and stayed with them for many years. at the age of 32 I left the monks to seek guidance from Ra; I wandered for 21 years helping any who needed help, blessing weddings and such. at the age of 53 I found my guidence, Ra came to me in a dream and told me to return to the place I was raised; but upon my arival there I found the monks had been slaughtered, and the blessed dead had risen... so he grabbed a mace from a dead monk, Baried the dead, and left to seek revenge; for now he knew what Ra wanted him to do...

Description: An old wizened man, he has blue eyes that are filled with rage, grey hair, and white skin which has tanned do to his travels, he normally dresses in white or plain robes.

Equipment:

 * Plain robe
 * White robe
 * Leather boots
 * Necklace
    * Iron ankh

 * Leather belt
    * Belt loop: iron mace
    * Goatskin (3 days of water)

 * Leather pack
    * Book of prayers(2)
    * Glass bottle of blessed ashes
    * White robe
    * Plain robe
    * Food(Dehydrated fruit, nuts, beef jerky)(3 days)

Crazyabe approved

[Andres]

Sorry for the late reply. I didn't get any notifications for replies on this thread so I just thought this game died.

Can I go for Blocking (major) and Swords (minor)?

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name Abstract "Traitor" Hero

Background:ATH is a young noblelady and ridiculously rich coming from centuries of heroes she intends to become the greatest hero ever and is a fairly merry fellow always laughing and smiling but is infamous for lack of manners and social grace seemingly saying whatever comes to mind regardlsss of the consequences but surprisingly has shown to be a excellent leader leading with kindness and understanding she appears to be lesbian surprisingly she has also taken up singing as a.hooby,Her family the Heros as they are called are obsessed with honor and glory money and wealth she was hoped to be the same they were wrong she was unlike them in almost everything believing in lude disrespectful and Bruttaly honest and most likely gay she was a disaster and hearing about this current opportunity they hope she will redeem herself for they will not be helping her no matter.how much she might beg.


Description
6ft5 with a tanned complexion and green eyes and blond hair,Female,Toned and relatively sturdy build with roughly b cup boobs she wears The female version of these clothes She wears a blue circular sapphire around her neck.

Equipment
List any equipment you have:Tons of money maybe 20000 or 30000 the clothes she wears and a few days of food and drink(3 or 4),A small dagger.

Skills
Minor:Singing Major:Leadership

[IronyOwl]

New, hopefully more useful character:

Spoiler: IronyOwl (click to show/hide)

IronyOwl

Skills Enchantment(major), Divination(Minor)

Enchanting, as IronyOwl practices it, is the art of teaching objects to want things. A sword wants to be sharp, armor wants to deflect blows, a hammer wants to hit things. Wood wants to rot, steel wants to rust, stone wants to remain as it is. By encouraging them to do or not do certain things, one can highlight their strengths or blunt their weaknesses.

Divination is the art of knowing the unknowable by seeing its shapes in other things. The entrails of a diseased rat might mimic the state of a kingdom, the patterns of clouds at dawn might share the fate of a hero, and the way runed bones fall might be similar to the way betting on that horse will go. As with all magic and all translations, the validity of these interpretations are debatable, sometimes fiercely.

Background:
A sorceror from the Cult of Rackt, a magically inclined cabal seeking knowledge in all its forms. IronyOwl has come to battle the necromancer because the sheer, ludicrous magnitude of his magical power demands study. He's less concerned with the necromancer's downfall than with examining his works, but is no less determined for it.

Being a sorceror, he's somewhat eccentric, and tends to hold himself and other seekers of knowledge above common rabble. He's also realistic about his ability and desire to perform manual labor or hand to hand combat, however, and so tends to get along with said rabble reasonably well.

Description
A tall, swarthy man with a thin build, short black hair, and a pointed, carefully trimmed beard and mustache. His eyes are dark green. He wears dark blue knee-length robes over black cloth pants and black leather boots. He sports a noticeably ornamented belt, necklace, and rings.


Equipment:
 * Clothing
 * Leather Boots
 * Sturdy Bronze-Shod Staff
 * Oversized Bronze Bead Necklace
 * Copper Ring, Feather-Etched Silver Ring, Thick Brass Garnet Ring, Red Jade Ring, Ivory Pink Pearl Ring

 * Ornate Leather Belt
    * Sheath: Ornate Curved Dagger
    * Cloth Pouch: Runed Fortune Bones

 * Leather Pack
    * Charcoal and Parchment
    * Chalk and Small Slate
    * Magnifying Glass
    * Cloth Pouch: Small stones of assorted colors and shapes
    * Goatskin (3 days of water)
    * Food(Dehydrated fruit, nuts, beef jerky)(3 days)

[LordBucket]

Party now full
Game post as soon as I'm done typing it. Anybody who didn't make it into the party, let me know if you want to join the waitlist.

You... overlooked my post. Look at the time stamp. It was on page 4. Plz.

All the same problems remain. You're basically asking again for the same thing I've already said no to twice.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I thought of a better name for duel weilding - ambidextrous.

Changing the name doesn't change the balance problem. Ambidexterity isn't even what you're asking for. You want two attacks per round using two weapons at the same time. Ambidexterity would be being able to use one weapon in either hand. Those are different. By way of analogy, think of somebody who's able to write both left and right handed. How many of them do you think can write two different sentences at the same time? Probably not many. It's a different skill.

For movement, I mean that if I'm not in combat, I can't, say, run forward and attack twice. Or attack twice and disengage.

That doesn't change anything. I've already said I won't be mapping this. I've proposed alternative, both here:

If you want to do something like, everything has a bonus to hit you, and you get two attacks per turn, but have a penalty with both of them, we could probably do that. But I'd like to clarify, that if you deliberately don't take a weapon skill, and take a dual fighting skill instead...your skill is in fighting with two weapons. So you're still going to get that penalty even if you drop one of them. Otherwise, you're basically using your one skill to get more than everybody else is getting for their one skill.

And here:

it's not fair to give you twice as many attacks for the same skill cost. If you want multiple attacks, make regular swordfighting your major skill, dual wield your minor, and I'll give you the second attack with either a to-hit or defense penalty. If you're not willing to do that, then no, I'm not giving you free double attacks.

I haven't seen you anywhere say that yes, this is acceptable. Instead you're still asking for the same movement penalty that I've already said doesn't affect anything:

I'm not going to be conducting mock battles on a map with miniatures, so "can't move and attack on the same turn" doesn't really affect anything. Same with initiative and attacks of opportunity. I'm not going to be using them.. Combat is going to be, players go, zombies go, players go, zombies go.

So, no. That doesn't work.

New, hopefully more useful character:

Skills Enchantment(major)

Enchanting, as IronyOwl practices it, is the art of teaching objects to want things. A sword wants to be sharp, armor wants to deflect blows, a hammer wants to hit things. Wood wants to rot, steel wants to rust, stone wants to remain as it is. By encouraging them to do or not do certain things, one can highlight their strengths or blunt their weaknesses.

Unfortunately, I can't approve this one either. Enchantment has been discussed at length. As was described in the how magic works summary:

Magical artifacts are things that could take months or years to create. there will be no casually sorting through the pile of glowing swords after every battle to see which of the low-level mooks had +2 swords, then tossing away the piles of worthless +1 ones.

..so, are you going to sit down and start enchanting, and then maybe by the time the game ends you've finished an item? That doesn't really work. It also has basically the same problem that crazyabe's original "religion" skill concept posed: it's a wildcard "I can do anything" skill.

A sword wants to be sharp, armor wants to deflect blows, a hammer wants to hit things. Wood wants to rot, steel wants to rust, stone wants to remain as it is. By encouraging them to do or not do certain things, one can highlight their strengths or blunt their weaknesses.

So even just from the examples youve given, you're talking about being able to add to hit and/or damage bonuses to weapons, durability/protection bonuses to armor and probably buildings. Which is fairly close to specifically the thing I said wouldn't be happening with the above quote about sorting through the pile of +1 swords. And taking the concept to its obvious conclusion of "enhancing item wants" that leads to a variety of obvious things like maybe enchanting fishing poles to collect more fish, enchanting bandages to do more healing, enchanting bags to carry more stuff, etc.

It's entirely too broad a skill.

Sorry for the late reply.

Can I go for Blocking (major) and Swords (minor)?

That's fine.

Andres approved

Spoiler: Andres (click to show/hide)

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Andres
Skills: Blocking(Major), Swordfighting(Minor)

Background:
Born to two retired adventurers, Andres joined up with the Adventurer's Guild and now looks to go on adventures for fun and profit.

Description:
Brown hair, brown eyes, male, average body type, good-quality clothes.

Equipment
Worn
 * Wooden roundshield(arm)
 * Steel, visorless barbute helmet
 * Chainmail tunic
 * Fine clothes
 * Leather gloves
 * Leather boots
 
 * Leather belt
   * Leather scabbard (one-handed longsword)
   * Leather scabbard (Steel dagger)
   * Cloth Pouch (10 copper)
   * Goatskin (3 days of water)

 * Leather backpack
   * 20 feet of hemp rope
   * The Adventurer's Handbook
   * Cloth bag(glass, stoppered vial of insect repellent(1 dose))
   * Cloth pouch(1/2 pound of crushed glass)
   * Food(Dehydrated fruit, nuts, beef jerky)(3 days)
   * Leather scrollcase(Area map)

[LordBucket]

Game thread is now live.

Alright guys. Good luck. Try not to die.

[Dustan Hache]

I was posting before the IC was announced. I guess that makes me a hipster?

[Kashyyk]

For context, what could i buy for 10 copper?

[LordBucket]

For context, what could i buy for 10 copper?

That depends entirely on what the person you're trading with thinks 10 copper is worth. This is a zombie apocalypse scenario. You can't eat money.

[IronyOwl]

..so, are you going to sit down and start enchanting, and then maybe by the time the game ends you've finished an item? That doesn't really work.

Oh, I was thinking of temporary enchantments, as with the warding example. I didn't intend to spend six months making a given sword forevermore sharper than other swords. More like enchanting it for a given battle, or maybe building up and maintaining a specific sword if I was particularly dedicated to it.

It also has basically the same problem that crazyabe's original "religion" skill concept posed: it's a wildcard "I can do anything" skill.

So even just from the examples youve given, you're talking about being able to add to hit and/or damage bonuses to weapons, durability/protection bonuses to armor and probably buildings. Which is fairly close to specifically the thing I said wouldn't be happening with the above quote about sorting through the pile of +1 swords. And taking the concept to its obvious conclusion of "enhancing item wants" that leads to a variety of obvious things like maybe enchanting fishing poles to collect more fish, enchanting bandages to do more healing, enchanting bags to carry more stuff, etc.

It's entirely too broad a skill.

I had thought the lack of power would limit the versatility on its own, though I'm not so sure of that any more. But presumably the extreme examples like making steel burn or letting bags hold a room full of loot would have been in the same league as warding air from reaching a target's lungs or raising an army of the dead to fight for you: Theoretically possible, but only for absurdly powerful practitioners.

All that being said, I was trying to be versatile, which may not have been the right direction to go in. If you were to recommend a valid magic skill to complement the current party minus one, where do you think you'd go with that?

Alternatively, if the magic angle doesn't work out I might just make a Carpenter. Hiding in existing buildings might not cut it forever.


As you might have surmised, I'd like to get on the waitlist and am not terribly convinced I'll be waiting all that long.

[LordBucket]

I'd like to get on the waitlist and am not terribly convinced I'll be waiting all that long.

With this many players, I'd guess as likely as not we'll have somebody simply disappear from the thread as likely as actually die.

If you were to recommend a valid magic skill to complement the current party minus one, where do you think you'd go with that?

I can think of a lot of ways for that divination skill you chose to be useful.  Not sure I want to lead you for your second choice. Though I'll point out that the party has two healers, so probably doesn't need a third.

Alternatively, if the magic angle doesn't work out I might just make a Carpenter. Hiding in existing buildings might not cut it forever.

Curiously, out of 8 characters, two skills each, the entire party has not one crafting skill.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name Abstract "Traitor" Hero

Background:ATH is a young noblelady and ridiculously rich coming from centuries of heroes she intends to become the greatest hero ever and is a fairly merry fellow always laughing and smiling but is infamous for lack of manners and social grace seemingly saying whatever comes to mind regardlsss of the consequences but surprisingly has shown to be a excellent leader leading with kindness and understanding she appears to be lesbian surprisingly she has also taken up singing as a.hooby,Her family the Heros as they are called are obsessed with honor and glory money and wealth she was hoped to be the same they were wrong she was unlike them in almost everything believing in lude disrespectful and Bruttaly honest and most likely gay she was a disaster and hearing about this current opportunity they hope she will redeem herself for they will not be helping her no matter.how much she might beg.


Description
6ft5 with a tanned complexion and green eyes and blond hair,Female,Toned and relatively sturdy build with roughly b cup boobs she wears The female version of these clothes She wears a blue circular sapphire around her neck.

Equipment
List any equipment you have:Tons of money maybe 20000 or 30000 the clothes she wears and a few days of food and drink(3 or 4),A small dagger.

Skills
Minor:Singing Major:Leadership

Can't tell if serious. What in-game effect does "singing" have? I assume this was a joke submission.

[Andres]

Curiously, out of 8 characters, two skills each, the entire party has not one crafting skill.

Why would carpenters and blacksmiths want to go on adventures? They've got stable jobs that make decent money and don't require them to risk their lives.

[Kashyyk]

I'll try a different way. If I'm sitting in a safe pub nowhere near any zombies,  how much would a standard fare meal cost?

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Put me on the waitlist No it wasent really a joke submission Singing is a relatively calming thing and a way to try and gain revenue I've seen dungeon traps where singing was the answer so it's a serious sheet.

[Pencil_Art]

However, singing likely isn't a priority skill when fighting zombies, and nobody is going to be convinced you can lead them, even if you singing is alright.

We are also not dungeon crawling, at least not yet. This is a relatively low magic scenario.