OOC chat

Perhaps on your crew, and perhaps someone you're not keen on. While connections between characters is great, I assume we're going to have to work together at some point. That may become difficult to orchestrate if Kasrik has a job to knock you upside the head.

This is true plus if it's a crew member the other crew will end up trying to stop him from doing his job, I mean a handful of pirates wouldn't sit back while a crew member gets taken by one man

Exactly. I was thinking my target might be someone who fled to Leander some time ago, and the border opening has allowed me to resume the old contract and seek them out. It's a straight up assassination gig. Kill the guy, and get proof. Could be, to keep me in the city, my employer has come with me to see the spectacle of the tournament (and so I can 'finish the job' cleanly without having an outstanding obligation to leave the country).

You cannot kill someone during the tournament itself in the fight if that's what you're saying, magic is protecting the fighters from killing blows, pretty much in a downed state like normally would when you lose all you're HP but stable, that doesn't mean anything else can go on, poison, magic, bribes, etc

No I wasn't thinking of killing the target in the tournament, that would be bad anyway as killing someone in a battle to first blood while being watched by thousands of spectators is probably a really good way to get arrested and hanged! I expect my tournament participation is a way to locate my target, I know they can't resist a good fight and they'll be involved. Once I get eyes on them, then, after the tournament is over, I can see about taking them out more covertly, say, as an unfortunate death during a particularly rowdy tavern brawl.

Could the bounty have originated from Stal's pirate captain, and he (or she) is here to oversee your assignment? Trying to come up with ways that Stal would be given leave to join the party after all is done.

That works out well. Always nice to have connections between characters, perhaps I travelled here with you and it was your idea that I join the tournament as a way to track down the target. Plus, our sparring matches proved me to be a surprisingly capable fighter; especially given my lack of training. You figured, it's a long shot, but who knows, maybe I'll get lucky (a Dwarf with 20 Str, even without a class, might just eek out a win or two).

Am I gonna have to put up a travelling to the grand tournament thread? Lol

Would people mind if I was a bard but actually was a somewhat alchemist where instead of music instruments or magic I used like vials and shit

So cantrips like heals would be potions and like stun/dazed effects could be vials as well as buffs but not unlimited like cantrips are but a certain amount until short/long rest

I would strongly encourage just retheming the bard's mechanics and not making up new or adjusting mechanics. Customizing and modifying classes can be a recipe for balance disaster.

Maybe bard isn't exactly the best option to retheme to this, wizard does with its spell book being changed to a note book with the recipes plus it goes on intelligence instead of charm which the bard is

Then you just describe magic as throwing/using potions. Druid could also work, where the preparation of spells each day is rethemed to preparing the days worth of potions bases.

Yeah, I'll look properly look through both

Ah man moon Druid would be so sick with what I'm playing since I want to play a fox folk (in homebrew race discussion) then instead of transforming I just swig a concoction and almost become like a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde thing, I don't transform per-say but get the stats and everything from it, foxes can bite and claw so if I transform into a wolf it'll be the same thing just not becoming a wolf psychically but stat-erly lol

So are we getting a GM PC then? I may have missed that discussion in earlier parts of one of these threads.

Yeah I'll have a PC during this

Given that it tends to be somewhat taboo (and that we have such a large party already), I'm curious: why you are going to be running a GM PC in the game?

I am usually pretty wary when the GM has an actual PC in a game. Especially when things are being heavily home-brewed. That's not to say it never works out, but it's a hard thing to do well.