Character Creation

Yep. Oh, I'm working on a bard btw.

Cyrind'ae Torviel



Cyrin'dae used to be an authority in the realm of ancient history. Many of the books she wrote on ancient battles, long lost-civilizations, and disposed dynasties of monarchs have found their way in various libraries and universities of the realms. Sadly, this was not to last.

One day she received a letter from her colleague Olrich Stonesinger asking about the coronation of the Resborough line, the current rulers of the kingdom where Cyrind'ae and Olrich were from. Looking in history books to find an answer for her colleague, she found some strange contradictions which she reported to her superior. The next day, she was discredited, several of her colleagues coming out and claiming she had made up facts in several of the books she wrote. Cyrind'ae was infuriated, and defended herself against such spurious accusations. She even offered to procure her notes to prove the accusation were false, but when she went to her study, she found it ablaze.

Disgraced, she had to leave the university where she was working. She though of visiting her colleague Olrich to tell him the news, but when she arrived, she learned from his family that Olrich had died two days ago under mysterious circumstances. What did Olrich uncovered and what sort of secret regarding the Resborough dynasty are people trying to cover?

Disappointed, she travelled the land, taking up the career of adventurer when she came upon an organisation called The Loreseekers. A group of adventurers dedicated to finding obscure knowledge and artifact of the past. She enlisted, received their official badge (a silvered star) marking her as a member of The Loreseekers, and set up to find buried knowledge from distant past, and perhaps, find an answer to this mysterious conspiracy covering the Resborough dynasty so that her colleague Olrich did not die in vain...

Thanks for joining Kalajel. 5e bards rock, I'm glad you rolled one. (My first 5e PC was a bard, too.)

I like the backstory, makes me want to... Nvm, I'll save that for a surprise.

Cyrind'ae had found her way to Marian Town, a crossroads within the Duchy of Harcourt. The whole town is talking about events yesterday where a jailbreak turned into a full blown demon invasion. A few adventurers were on hand to help set things right (with a little help from the local archmage, perhaps). Your pockets and cups runneth over that night, for generosity, gratitude, and goodwill keep the requests for stories, songs, and tales coming deep into the night. The center of action for you is the tavern The Lost Duckling, which was ground zero for the demon incursion. One of their regulars, Buxom Bella, was killed and partially eaten by the foul beasts.

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Not intending to start a role-playing thread here, just giving you background for the next chapter, which will start the next day.

Welcome Kalajel. Your bard looks great!

Thanks.

It's been enjoyably brutal around here so far. Welcome to the mayhem!

Rolling my starting portents for chapter 2:

A sixth player is joining us, Nikcollini. I'll post the starting thread later today or this evening, to get you lot going. We'll start the next morning in the same town.

for his 3rd level, my intent with Jhishma was to MC into warlock. Just double-checking that MC is allowed? Thanks!

Absolutely! I love multiclassing.

Rolls for stats as instructed:

I like those stats.
If its cool with you all, I will be playing a ranger that uses a crossbow. I will have a full thing written for him tomorrow or the next day at the latest. Sorry all if I am slowing the game down. I had a test sort of "pop up" that I thought was next week. Even still, I will have everything ready by Thursday night at the very latest.

That's cool Nikcollini, Thursday is fine. Just remember to drop the lowest of the 4d6 rolls ;-)

Also, check out the current post. Your character should be someone who volunteers to escort the letters to the king. If we get going before Thursday, you will be a nondescrip volunteer up to the point that you jump in.

Jhishma is 5 gp short of splint mail. Any chance I could trade in my heavy crossbow for the difference?

Keep the crossbow. You can get it with a 5gp discount.

Right, right, lull me into thinking how kind you are just before the vampire ambush on the "benign" letter carrying errand, right?

"You find a giant cache of healing potions and the games autosaves."

I am making my character's sheet real quick so I can get started tomorrow evening, and i've got a few questions if thats cool:
Am I allowed to switch out Longbow and quiver of arrows from Ranger starting equipment to a heavy crossbow?
Also are we allowing variant humans?

Yes and yes

I'll approve the character for now, but your stats are way too high. You rolled 11,11,15,14,14,14 after dropping the lowest. Variant Human gives you two +1s.

Also, in the weapon attacks, please put your attack bonus in the attack cell, rather than the damage type, and add your str/dex mod to the damage rolls (I.e., 1d6+3). This will save you and me both time later.