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[mainiac]

I apologize, I'm paranoid about clicking links. Hmm lets see if I can read alot of this and still get a char sheet ahead of others.

I reserve the right to be completely arbitrary in deciding who gets in, so don't post "first post".

Protip: I'm looking for cool character ideas that fit the background more then completed character sheets.  So far I've been seeing a lot of first posts and zero character ideas.

Edit: And as another note, it wouldn't hurt to give your character ranks in one of the skills: craft (carpentry), craft (sailmaking) or craft (alchemy) considering that you are one a vessel held together by wood, propelled by sails and held up with alchemy.  I'm not saying that your ship is gonna get torn up, but it sure would be nice to be able to fix it if it were.

[mission0]

I apologize, I'm paranoid about clicking links. Hmm lets see if I can read alot of this and still get a char sheet ahead of others.

I reserve the right to be completely arbitrary in deciding who gets in, so don't post "first post".

Protip: I'm looking for cool character ideas that fit the background more then completed character sheets.  So far I've been seeing a lot of first posts and zero character ideas.

If that is what you are looking for then. I already have a character in mind. Since you seem to just want an idea here. If you wish it to be pmed I'll just delete most of this and pm it, however you seem inclined to it being here.

Spoiler: Marain (click to show/hide)

A Elf rogue who has grown up on his own, and while he is neither good or bad he does what he thinks must be done. His parents died during the the Age of Havoc leaving him on his own to learn and to grow. He only survived by taking what he needed from others, but what his parents did teach him when he was still a child has kept him from being overtly greedy when it comes to stealing.

When Marian saw the adventurers he saw a chance to move on with his life and see what there was to see, and perhaps find where he fits in within the world. As an abandoned child no one had time to care for or even watch over him since the rest of the town had their own shattered families and lives to pick up after the Age of Havoc. While he did not like to idea of having to join up with others, it was still an opportunity to do something other than steal a loaf of bread and do something meaningful and get his own name put in a record somewhere.

[mainiac]

Hm... I can't decide if you stumbled into a classic reverse Mary-Sue or if you correctly identified the fact that this is one of the rare settings where it's not pathetically melodramatic to have your character be a loner orphan who stole to survive...    Either way, congrats, your now on the top of the short list.  It's a very short list indeed right now.


The overall character concept is appropriate, but I'd like to point out that nine years is a very long time to survive as a thief in a community of only a few hundred people.  Might I suggest that Marian could have changed his habits after the Age of Havoc and stole only occasionally?  The local patron goddess in Haverlock is elvish, so Marian could have recieved some charity from the druid who mans her woodland shrine.  That would also provide a convenient plot hook for me to work with.  On the other hand, maybe Marian just has been stealing from the villagers for a very long time, in which case I imagine they are quite eager to throw his scrawny elvish butt out of town by now. 

[mission0]

Hm... I can't decide if you stumbled into a classic reverse Mary-Sue or if you correctly identified the fact that this is one of the rare settings where it's not pathetically melodramatic to have your character be a loner orphan who stole to survive...    Either way, congrats, your now on the top of the short list.  It's a very short list indeed right now.


The overall character concept is appropriate, but I'd like to point out that nine years is a very long time to survive as a thief in a community of only a few hundred people.  Might I suggest that Marian could have changed his habits after the Age of Havoc and stole only occasionally?  The local patron goddess in Haverlock is elvish, so Marian could have recieved some charity from the druid who mans her woodland shrine.  That would also provide a convenient plot hook for me to work with.  On the other hand, maybe Marian just has been stealing from the villagers for a very long time, in which case I imagine they are quite eager to throw his scrawny elvish butt out of town by now. 

I really like the first idea. A hand-out from a priest of an elvish god would be acceptable, and when that didn't meet the ends he would still steal. As for Mary-Sue? Maybe, wrote down the character that came to mind for the situation and figured a rogue would be a good type to have when magic is crazy and you don't know what is around the next corner.

Edit: Time Zone: GMT -5 Eastern Us

[Sannit]

Elf fighter in progress:

Spoiler: Calam Fletcher (click to show/hide)

Calam, as his surname suggests, hails from a long line of bowmakers who supplied the heroes of ages past with the finest of ranged weaponry.  Magical longbows of glimmering gemstone that shot fire, bone weapons that stole the souls of their opponents to fuel the strength of their owner, long arrows whose wicked heads drank the life from their targets as long as they remained embedded in their flesh, whose feathers cracked like the thunder in flight; all these were the province of his ancestry - or so the legends of his fathers told.  Such tales seemed to come from a time before the memory of any living elf, and that time must be long passed indeed.  But Calam believes in them nonetheless.

As a young elf he watched the world be torn asunder by the wrath of the Old Ones, firsthand witness to the grief and loss born of their rampage.  He learned an early lesson from the Age of Havoc: the futility of mortality.  The arrows of his fathers, fletched from the finest birds and tipped by the sharpest steel, failed to save the races of the world from divine anger - an anger Calam recognized, raging fire and cracking thunder, terrible and majestic and senseless demonstrations of raw power.  Somewhere out there, he knew, such power was waiting to be sculpted by the hands of mortals, and he yearned to draw it to his bow.

It wasn't until the travelers arrived, a decade later, and showed Havelock the airship - Calam's means to escape - that his dreams could begin to be realized.  Against the wishes of his family, he abandoned his future as a bowmaker, and began to build the airship.  Someday, he would find the wonder that his forefathers had lost, the substance of the gods, and return to his people a hero, the weapons of his ancestors in his quiver.

Good enough?

[mainiac]

Looks like good stuff, but I'm a bit too tired to comment more extensively, atm.

[Grek]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The son of a alchemist, Martin Von Havelock was still a child of eight when the age of Havoc ended. He is thin, somewhat effeminate and pales at the sight of blood. However, he considers himself to be brave, strong and quite good looking.

As a child, Martin was trouble. He'd hog-tie cats, lie, "borrow" dangerous alchemical supplies, lie, scribble on walls and generally make a pest of himself. He's calmed down since then, but he's still got a bit of a bad reputation.

Martin has an unhealthy fascination with fire. He likes alchemist's fire when he can get it and oil lamps when he can't. (Un)fortunately, Martin did not have any alchemist's fire to bring on the trip and his lantern is completed covered with glass, so there is very little chance of him burning down the ship.

Martin likes to be prepared. Perhaps even to a degree others would consider excessive. Why, precisely, does one need a pound of soap, a grappling hook, a whistle and a fishing net? The world may never know. His mother gave him a small holy symbol made of ash wood to hang around his neck for luck. Martin took his entire cache of alchemic supplies and a backjack along with him.

When the travelers arrived, Martin pestered them non-stop about their journey, of distant Kistful, and about their craft, unable to hear enough about their tales.

[Sannit]

Calam Fletcher

Think he's pretty much done.  Two things, though: first, I have tools to make arrows because that is what I do, and I'm not sure of their cost.  They were probably given to him by his father anyway, so if I were the DM, it'd be nothing, but I'm not the DM.

Second, thanks for making me do math.  I suck at it.  I hope all those drachmae and solidii and everything are correct.

[mainiac]

I think it's fair for you to pick up the tools of the trade for free if you've invested 4 ranks in the skill.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The son of a alchemist, Martin Von Havelock was still a child of eight when the age of Havoc ended. He is thin, somewhat effeminate and pales at the sight of blood. However, he considers himself to be brave, strong and quite good looking.

As a child, Martin was trouble. He'd hog-tie cats, lie, "borrow" dangerous alchemical supplies, lie, scribble on walls and generally make a pest of himself. He's calmed down since then, but he's still got a bit of a bad reputation.

Martin has an unhealthy fascination with fire. He likes alchemist's fire when he can get it and oil lamps when he can't. (Un)fortunately, Martin did not have any alchemist's fire to bring on the trip and his lantern is completed covered with glass, so there is very little chance of him burning down the ship.

Martin likes to be prepared. Perhaps even to a degree others would consider excessive. Why, precisely, does one need a pound of soap, a grappling hook, a whistle and a fishing net? The world may never know. His mother gave him a small holy symbol made of ash wood to hang around his neck for luck. Martin took his entire cache of alchemic supplies and a backjack along with him.

When the travelers arrived, Martin pestered them non-stop about their journey, of distant Kistful, and about their craft, unable to hear enough about their tales.

Seems alright.  Does the name Von Havelock mean that he's the son of the local pre-Havoc nobility?  Also, are you planning on making this guy a sorcerer or what?

[Karik]

*Hopes you haven't chosen players yet*

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Desten, a young educated man of 24, is the son of one of Havelock’s merchants.  Though there is little of value in the village Desten’s family is one of those better off.  His father, seeking to have Desten take his place as operator of the modest shop, has tutored Desten himself for years, though Desten is fairly educated his mind grows bored of the quaint town and focuses more on getting off the island to see the world as described in the books he has read.

The airship that came did nothing to help this ambition.  With a small group of others Desten helped fund the creation of the airship, and using his alchemical training was able to help imbue it as necessary to help create this flying wonder. 

Havelock is a place where his talents are wasted, or so Desten believes, and though he might disappoint his father by not becoming some merchant in this tiny town, he will forgive him in the long run when the riches of the world are at hand. 

Spending his free time practicing with crossbows and swords Desten is a fair hand at fighting, but he himself rarely picks fights when out in the town.  He much rather swipe the coins of the poor bastard who Desten feels has earned it, or make his life hell in some other way.
 

Also!  I have like all (most) of the books, so if you want I can play some different classes than the base, but as of right now a rogue.

[mainiac]

I think I need to be a little clearer about something:

If you get in a boat and sail out onto the ocean, you die.  First there's the storms, which make it dangerous to sail even close to the shore.  Then there's the mother f-ing sea monsters in your mother f-ing seas.  It's a fairly simply formula the ocean equals death.

It may be that there are a few more sheltered archipelagos somewhere that you don't know about and there some merchants still sail trading ships.  And presumably way on the other side of the world, the other continents are still there.  But for you guys, the village of Havelock is the only place you or anyone you know has seen for the past nine years.

Sorry if I'm going a little overboard, but this idea is somewhat central to the campaign after all...

[Karik]

Ah well I was thinking a small island chain, but that is easily fixed.

Edited the char description.

Re-Edited

[mainiac]

Okay, Karik's idea for an artificer is very setting appropriate so he's getting a spot.  The other spot is going to mission0, mary-sue-ness aside, his character seem pretty interesting.

[alfie275]

If there is more room or a waiting list I would like to give this a shot, I've always wanted to play some DnD but had noone to play it with.
My character:
Xen


I need some help with the sheet, I am sure there are errors and I don't know how much that equipment would cost. Where do I put my character's class (alchemist and wizard)?

[mainiac]

1) no wizards and we already have an artificer...
2) kinda full up
3) You didn't make that character sheet public

Maybe I should do a second party...