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[Acanthus117]

Damn, I just realized I needed to DL stuff for this D:

And since this is a shared PC, that won't happen D:

Oh well. This happens ALL TEH TIEM D:

[Fortis]

Thanks Neruz

[Level_8_Mudcrab]

If there's still space i'll join. As I mentioned a few pages back I have alot of the books so i'll make a character and scan the sheet when i'm done.

[Pillow_Killer]

Eh, Cerej, how much predefined backstory, in pages, you ideally need?
Im not a big fan of writing up something right away, as it usually conflicts with GM a lot.
It would be much more conventional to just bounce a few things, basic, with GM in real time, over IRC or something, than just writing few pages owrth of backstory and information and then scrapping it because it conflicts with GM.

[Level_8_Mudcrab]

As a note on backstory, does is matter which one of the different planes/worlds we come from?

[Cerej]

Eh, Cerej, how much predefined backstory, in pages, you ideally need?
Im not a big fan of writing up something right away, as it usually conflicts with GM a lot.
It would be much more conventional to just bounce a few things, basic, with GM in real time, over IRC or something, than just writing few pages owrth of backstory and information and then scrapping it because it conflicts with GM.

At minimum I need a paragraph about who your character is, and why s/he's gone to Thornvine Forest.  Feel free to actually give your character a starting quest.  I can't promise the first adventure will be about it, or even the second.  But it gives me ideas that fit your character (and anyone else's) better than throwing adventure hooks until one sticks.

The ideal level is probably a page, with most of the emphasis on who your character is.  I've fallen into the trap of writing mostly "what he's done" backgrounds, and they've never actually been helpful, to me as a player.

If you want to avoid background conflicts, I've got the Hamachi server running whenever I'm on the computer, and Hamachi has (basic) chat functionality.  Or, I'm also on Skype frequently, so we could exchange contact information for that.  There's also two guidelines that should prevent any trouble.
1: Don't put your background in previously established places without talking with me.  Otherwise some details might have to be tweaked.
2: Your character has not come from, and has not been to, any kingdoms that have lasted for hundreds of years in peace and prosperity.

As long as you follow those two guidelines, the burden of avoiding background conflicts is on me.  And I'll share a secret.  The 2E Abyss had paid writers working to fill out information on it.  Some of the 666 layers didn't even have a sentence describing them.  It's not going to be hard fitting your character's background into my setting.

If there's still space i'll join. As I mentioned a few pages back I have alot of the books so i'll make a character and scan the sheet when i'm done.
As a note on backstory, does is matter which one of the different planes/worlds we come from?

Nice to see another interested player.  If you're interested in coming from Malebranche or Thornvine Forest it'll work more smoothly if we talk about it.  Same if you want to come from Cagazan because of the name. (Since I still haven't retyped what Cagazan actually is.  Sorry.)

Otherwise, not so much.  There's more blank spaces on the map than I'd be able to fill in.

[Virex]

Ok here are my Character sheets, I just uploaded it to mediafire, to save me the hassle of converting them.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?mfj5gtjozzh

And a real description and background (still under construction but much better now. Will hopefully finish it Sunday):

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History
Live in the Desert of Krin is harsh and food is always in short supply, but at least we enjoyed freedom. We lived of the land and were, overall pretty happy. Not so the Kalendu. They were a harsh folk, serving a dark mistress. We had struggles with them from time to time, but nothing serious, untill the 3th of Nium. We happened on a large force of the Kakendu, who asked us kindly to come with them. We kindly seperated some heads from their necks, but in the end we were overhwelmed and the survivours were dragged off to Kepshis. I passed out during the dragging and didn't wake up until I was strapped to an altar. Ther she stood, bowed over me, with blooded lips, carving a small cross across my chin. I had heard references to the queen of Kalendu, of her unnatural beauty and her incredible age, but that was the least of my thoguhts, since I was about to be sucked dry and turned into a thrall or something. Luckily someone didn't want to have anything off that, because the moment she sank her teeth into my neck, a bunch of bolts flew all over the temple, impaling a bunch of them thrals and tossing miss sunshine off of the altar. It wasn't long untill the entire temple was empty and a bunch of cloacked figures had freed me from my chains. Not that that helped much because they wanted to kill me because I would change into a vampire too, but I managed to convince that it was just a flesh wound.

Well, we managed to get out unscratched and parted ways. I would not come across "the Wayward Bolt", as they called themselves for another year. At that time I was working as a travling entertainer with a band of bards. We met eachother in a bar, where they were preforming as well, to earn some extra money. Needless to say we got togheter to exchange stories. It appeared they were bards and hunters, always out to stirr trouble and then sing about it. There most recent victim, however, was less then happy with their exploits and decided to take care of them in the bloodiest way possible. The town was under assault for half a month by monstrosities I still not dare to recount. Fallen comrads would rise again to strike at their friends and fiends would scale the walls, ripping stones out and cause them to crash down upon them with reckless disregard for their unlife. Exhausted, starving and thirsty we were reduced to barely two dozen men, standing against a huge army. Pelenor, the last of the Wayward Bolt to be still alive, Imhid, the town's mayor and I were defending the north gate while the others retreated into the town's inner sanctum, when both Pelenor and I were hit by arrows. I managed to draw the arrow out but crippeled my left arm in the process. Pelenor was less lucky, being struck in the chest, coughing blood and all. "Bite me, Frost", he said. "It was more then a flesh wound and you know that. Bite me!"....

It was his blood that saved me and gave me the power to flee the now overrun town. But it's also his blood that sticks to my hands. When I learned it was her who had again killed my friends, I swore a vow to hunt down her evil pressence where and when possible, and to slay as many of her kin as possible while I was at it and the Raven Queen replied. That was 6 years ago. Since that day I have wandered the desert and surrounding lands, looking for traces of the Kalendu. It was as if they had vanished. Dazed and without aim I stumbeled through portal after portal untill I ended up in a small town, where I stayed to get to my senses and gather information. I've been here for about 4 months now.

And looks and manerism:

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Frost has a somewhat flat face, with deep lying hazel eyes and small ears. His chin is covered by a thin, light brown beard except for a small cross-shaped scar. He's slimm and agile, moving with a certain grace and having a slight aura of arrogance and nobility. His fangs are pronounced, even for a shifter, yet he hates to show them and tries not to laugh.
He preferes to wear kaki and bron colours and light clothes and holds a kopesh and a symbol of the Raven Queen as his most precious possesions. Somethimes he will preform on a flute if he can borrow one but he doesn't have one of himself. He used to have a very pretty ivory one, but apparently he lost it somewhere.
He's far from silent, but his conversations are rarely cheerfull, rather factual and cold often. Suffering and death seem not to harm him and somethimes even fill him with a macabre interest. He's known as 'the undertaker', since he preforms rites for the dead and offerings to the Raven Queen if someones dies. He also pisses off the local clergy by opposing their practice of "meddeling with fate", which almost got him kicked out of town several times.

[IronyOwl]

Looked it up, there is a Raised By Dwarves background. Either makes Dungeoneering or Endurance a class skill, or grants a +2 bonus to one of them.

There's also a monastic background, but I forget the associated skills. Probably History and something else.

[Fortis]

I'll go with that. Endurance seems to fit her background better.

[IronyOwl]

At least one of the characters I'm contemplating would be Dragonborn, so I have to ask... what would you think of Dragonborn with a tail? Tail-less lizardfolk make me sad. 

[Fortis]

I've got eight legs and a spider for a butt. I don't think that a tail will be any problem in comparison.

[Neruz]

At least one of the characters I'm contemplating would be Dragonborn, so I have to ask... what would you think of Dragonborn with a tail? Tail-less lizardfolk make me sad. 

So long as you're not expecting any gameplay bonuses from it, you could have six arms and a fish face.

[IronyOwl]

At least one of the characters I'm contemplating would be Dragonborn, so I have to ask... what would you think of Dragonborn with a tail? Tail-less lizardfolk make me sad. 

So long as you're not expecting any gameplay bonuses from it, you could have six arms and a fish face.

That's not a claim to make lightly with me. The thought occurred to me to play a mirelurk.

[Neruz]

At least one of the characters I'm contemplating would be Dragonborn, so I have to ask... what would you think of Dragonborn with a tail? Tail-less lizardfolk make me sad. 

So long as you're not expecting any gameplay bonuses from it, you could have six arms and a fish face.

That's not a claim to make lightly with me.

4e dissasociates flavour from mechanics. You can describe your character and powers literally however you feel like, so long as you use established mechanics in combat.

Before the Artificer class came out i ran a Quickling Artificer, since Quicklings didn't have PC stats, i used the Goblin stats and the Wizard class, and merely changed the flavour text of each of his abilities (so Scorching Burst became Firebomb). Mechanically he was a Goblin Wizard, but i described him as a Quickling Artificer.

[Cerej]

At least one of the characters I'm contemplating would be Dragonborn, so I have to ask... what would you think of Dragonborn with a tail? Tail-less lizardfolk make me sad. 

These questions raise grave concerns.  How could Wizards make default Dragonborn tail-less?  What kind of DM would raise a fuss over changing that?  These questions have scoured my soul, and I've found no answers.  I'll have to call off the game and retire to a life of monastic seclusion until I know the Truth. 

Seriously though, tails are cool with me.  And I honestly did think they were standard.

Virex, looks good.  I'll be sending you a PM with a couple questions.  Nothing you need to change, just a few things I'd like clarifications on.