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Greetings, Welcome to the meat grinder!

Please feel free to introduce yourself and chat here.

Just a reminder, we will exclusively be using the variant human race found here, and will be making use of the Darksouls Rule Variant. Other then that go wild with anything from WotC published materials. If you need help finding information just ask.

Oh and so that I don't feel bound by the lore, let me remind you that though we are playing in the Darksouls world but in a region of my own devising, so the setting is generally the same, but names of places and people may not be there.

Hello! I am new to play by post format. It will be my 1 game on GP. I want to create character mechanically, and story wise simple. (I am not very good at describing my moves and talks). In game I look forward for good story, even linear one (Storyteller archetype of player).
Currently I am deciding which class (or character archetype) I want to play. Options are : warrior, paladin or cleric. Probably paladin.

Don't worry too much about backstory, the undead are cursed to forget:
"You will lose everything...
... once Branded.
The symbol of the curse.
An augur of darkness.
Your past. Your future. Your very light.
None will have meaning, and you won't even care."

I am taking some inspiration for the narrative style from the games themselves, trying my hand at a more "linear branching" story style to my more improvisational approach. Will be interested to see how it turns out...

.... Especially as we have two people going paladin (Goody :) )

Hello. Post format games aren't new for me, but this is my first game on English, so i previously apologise for my future speaking mistakes. Maybe this will be a character feature (deformed mouth/tongue, damaged speaking centers or she will be just a foreigner). I'm very interested in grimdark such as DS' atmosphere, so i hope that this story will be a good one. About classes: i think about barbarian, Light/War/Death (if this one is possible) cleric or druid.
And i have a question: can we use SCAG class features?

Yep, I'll allow pretty much anything put out by Wizards (I might even be convinced to allow stuff from Middle Finger of Vecna on a case by case basis).

There are a A variety of accents pressent in Darksouls, so I see no reason why we wouldn't share that in our game. Glad your a fan of the grimdark atmosphere because that's pretty much all I'm good at (well that and cosmic horror, and that really only on PbP).

What character generation rules do we use? Point buy? And for hp - max values? Equipment standard or we can buy something (for rolled/standard money)?

I prefer point buy but if you want to roll, do so in this thread.

For HP use the standardised progression (half hit die plus one, ie if your hit die is 1d8, just take 5+con mod per level with max at first level). Or if you really want to roll, do so in this thread.

For games starting at 3rd level, you just get starting equipment, I do allow for selling and buying though, as I acknowledge that the starting equipment isn't perfect. You will also get estus flasks but I still haven't decided whether you should start with them or get them in game.

Well it's late here, I'll be back tomorrow, hopefully to let the last person into the game!

Sweet! I'll start thinking of a starting place for the solo threads and then you can jump into the game!

So, i wrote kind of character concept. And yes, my character has a bond with Mihey's Yaro - Romuald saved him and brought into his spiritual journey.

Life. Death. Do that words have any meaning? Not there. Men of this land don't know any difference between zsitye and smjercy. They call that cycle of lives "curse". I call that state of soul "blessing". Gods of my folk gave us that blessing and we learned depths of their grace. But men of this land don't want to learn. Their eyes are blind, their ears are deaf. But now things will change. I, Romuald of Balcescu, driven by will of my gods so far from home, will change that people. They will learn how to respect forces of zsitye and smjercy. With help of those who learn or obey - like this warrior Yaro, my new follower - I will teach this land.
Tak, ja privjadu szej rod k rozumenyu vjalikago porjadka.

Ok then, I'll probably start you two in a duo thread then, considering your characters will be together.

Hey all! Really looking forward to doing this with all of you. I haven't gotten around to playing dark souls yet but I'm a big fan of grimdark. I'm working on my character right now and should have it uploaded soon.

A woman. Wrapped in fine silks. Reaching out to me, calling my name. No matter how fast I run I can never catch her. I see the waves of darkness wash over her body as she is consumed by some unknown force. I see her death, my failure, every time I close my eyes. I was tasked with keeping her safe and locating an... artifact? No, it was a ring. Definitely a staff, unless.... oh who's to say, everything is so foggy now. I must get back to finding it, whatever "it" is. Perhaps I can locate some people to help me search. But first, one more drink, just to dull the pain, just one more.

Hello. Nice to see one more player here.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to bow out of this game. Sorry to inconvenience you all.

Not a problem, have fun elsewhere cmbrian.

Con1vn, is your character not undead? I highly discourage this as the game is balanced assuming you can use Estus flasks and re spawn at bonfires. On the subject of which I highly suggest you rest at everyone you see...

He's definitely undead, sorry, if my posts made this unclear. About prayer: cause my character is a priest, he wanna thank his gods before filling Estus.

So i was thinking of playing a paladin using oath of vengance, also what is this about undead, i apologize for my lack of knowladge towards the darksouls world, havent played the game but am a fan of the grim style worlds

Hello Alph5! All necessary mechanic information you can get from here http://www.middlefingerofvecna.com. Also we use only this human variant for races. Lore wise in unknown. We may or may not be in DS world. So you just need to read mechanics.

Party wise we have Cleric and Warrior (and probably another paladin). If you join us as paladin we can go on holy crusade. I wanted to go paladin too, but my friend (Cleric) wasn't convinced to be 3 rd paladin.
4 paladins of apocalypse...

Edit; I found "Brother of Sunlight's" oath for paladins. Praise the Sun.

Also what deities exist in this world?

Sweet definetly doing a palidian most likely of vengance or possibly of the sunlight i just wasnt sure what this world was like so im trying to find my "bearings"shall i say in creating my character.

Before you use material from "Middle Finger of Vecna", wait for GM approval. I think this oath is perfectly suited for our game, but GM may have his own vision on this matter.

Ok ill make my character this way and if he says no i can change it.

I'm a wizard, just throwing that out there. That double and triple damage taken is going to hurt

Wizard(INT), Fighter (DEX), Cleric(WIS), Paladin(STR) - I like our party composition.

Ah yes, we will be using the Darks Souls Rule Varient. Part of this assumes that all the PCs are undead, branded by the darksign you can never truly die every time you fall the reforming at the last bonfire you rested at. You are also able to use estus flasks, wondrous gifts that allow you to heal. Read over the rule variation so you know whats going on.

The other rule variation we are using is a limitation to your race, you must use one of the varient human races.

Other then that, a approve the pally. If you need any help on any of the concepts that come up as we play, feel free to ask me or the others in the chatter, as I think most of us are at the very least passingly aware of Darksouls lore.

I have finished my charachter and submitted him to the game @Genisect

Np, also Praise the sun!

Like the character build and I certainly approve of using that build from MFoV.

As for what deities are in the world. There are some that I have names, but they will emerge through game-play, I encourage you to invent your own religion.

In terms of backstories, part of being undead is the loss of your memories, then the slow loss of identity and purpose as you go hollow. You can have a vague idea of what you were in life, but details such as names of places and loved ones fade quickly.

I'll start your story latter tonight Alph5

let the sun scorch our foes and warm the bodies of our friends: Merrik Sunspire, paladin, Brother of the sun.

I apologise for not understanding before but i forgot to have merrik forget

So i was thinking about how undead forget i think a cool idea would be that when awoken after receiving the curse to find the symbol of the brotherhood of the sun on my sheild and tabarb thus creating a personal mission to find who i was

That sounds amazing!!!!

OK Alph5 your up!

Im peacing out for the night

cya

My first roll was a 0. Off to a good start ha

Also I assume using the cantrip create bonfire won't work for resting will it? :)

How do i write in ooc

Click the ooc button above the text box and write what you want inside of it

Sadly there is a difference between a bonfire (a big fire) and a bonfire (a coven sword staved into undead bones and em minuting divine warmth) nice try though.

Lol

I will be traveling for 3 days back home. I will not have internet for that time. ( GM you can have control of my pc in order to advance the story, I embrace the consequences.)

Ok, we're about to enter a combat scene so I expect the pace to slow down a bit, you shouldn't miss too much.

I've rolled a 1, 7 and 3 so far. Things are looking grim ha

Well, all I can say is... That's darksouls!

Or do you mean dark ROLLS, lol

Badun Cha

Ah, YOU DIED. The corner stone of any darksouls experience....

By the way, while resting at a bonfire you can examine any item in your inventory to receive information about it. You can do this away from bonfires but I will require relevant checks. I'm going to be pretty libral with magic items in this game (after all, this is a pretty hard game...), though you Akmo got really lucky with his first ever loot roll!

Few questions: How long after death do you revive at a bonfire? And since you regain hit points do you also regain spell slots? Now that I've died and have my hp halves do I know what humanity is and that I need to consume it to regain my hp or do I need to find that out in game?

It probably is on the order of minutes that you will need to wait to to return to life. You would probably know that you need to find some humanity to reverse hollowing, unless you want to play it differently. Consider dying a long rest.

Thanks for clearing that up. I was also curious about what happens to the body when it dies. Like if we kill someone does their body and items disappear or is that mechanic more for the pc's?

The bodies of your enemies turns to ash and embers when they perish. But there is a chance they will leave loot behind.

I will also be doing the enemies reset after rests and deaths (but not traps)

Sorry guys, really dropped the ball on this one. I promise to be more vigilant now that I'm over my flu.

Glad to read that. I am alive and ready to fight again. Sorry for my disappearance.

So is this game dead?

It looks like it's only you and me at the moment.

If you want we can do a 'time is convoluted' and just play a 1 on 1 game with the same character...

I'm still here. I posted last so was just waiting for others

Sorry that's right, Alph you need to make your next post in this thread.

Ok given the pacing issues with this game I'm going to offer an interesting alternative, setting along the lines of how dark souls actually works.

You guys will all return to your original solo threads, play the games there, following your paths independently, but whenever you come across a challenging area you can put down a summoning sign, which will allow you to join other players threads as a phantom to help them overcome their challenges. That way we should be able to have each thread moving at a rate more comfortable to the players...

That sounds kinda odd but ya we could

I'd be down to try it. I'm pretty interested in this game and would like to continue it

Well all the descriptions are set up so just return to your solo threads and we can continue.