[OOC] 'Round the Table

Chit for chat

What's up my chat-chums?

Hey there all! Looking forward to exploring the bottom of a pit trap with y'all!

Oh you're in there all right, but you're not alone XD

So what's the starting level? Seems we've known each other for a while now and have SOME sort of small town renown... Three?

Also, since BF has a lot of supplemental material and optional rules such as cantrips, various mage abilities, optional classes like assassin, illusionist, barbarian, etc, what will be allowed in?

Stop kidding yourself, Dom. You'll be playing a Dwarf Fighter or Cleric.

My father-in-law is in the ICU with heart trouble. I do want to participate and will try to keep pace, but if I miss a beat here or there, please be forgiving. I expect this will be at least through the weekend. They are putting a permanent pacemaker in him tomorrow and then he just has to conquer aspirational pneumonia and get his kidneys back on track. As many of you know, my wife is blind and I serve as her eyes, including driving her to visit him (45 minutes away).

Dwarf fighter is just such a perfect adventurer...

Man I'm sorry to hear that WhtKnt, hope the good sir is okay.

It's fine, WhtKnt! We won't be playing proper for at least a week while I go over things.

That said, I was actually looking over most of the things available a la carte. I can certainly say the additional classes, cantrips/orisons, gnomes, and half-races are available for you lot.
I'm still determining the starting level because of the differing XP amounts. For now, players may go off of 5000 XP - which, funnily enough, is about 3rd level for most classes. I might raise that amount, since 5000 was the lowest is was thinking.

Rolling 3d6 straight down or assign at will or some other method?

I've been debating that too. I've been stuck between 3d6 vs 4d6... Hrrrmmmmm...
Y'know what, 3d6 will do fine. Down the line, with one free swap between stats.

Ho boy, here we go...

Oh FFS... I don't think I've ever rolled a three before! Good gods, he's gonna be SOME sort of troglodyte, that's for sure 😂

Ooooooooough, now THAT is hilarious! Too bad an 18 wasn't in the mix, then you really would've had the min-max special. But hey! 15 & 16 ain't bad to compensate!

Let's get this train a'rollin!

Three 14s in Str, Dex, and Cha. And 10s in Int, Wis, and a 9 in Con. I could swap Str and Int to make a dagger-throwing magic-user. Or stay as is for a good thief.

Really, this damn character could be anything. That's almost frustrating.

Difficult on a tablet, but lets see what I get.

Surprisingly, I can live with these rolls. Looks like a good cleric to me, so I’m going with a dwarf cleric who complains about everything, but is extremely loyal to her allies. I’m swapping Charisma and Constitution.

Strength 14
Intelligence 11
Wisdom 15
Dexterity 10
Constitution 11
Charisma 8

Will have to wait until I can get to the books to do the rest.

Could I perhaps swap two of my attributes? I'm thinking with a 3 stat the only truly viable course would be to make a half-ogre or bisren fighter or barbarian who's too stupid to even speak but feels eternal kinship and protectiveness over his companions for being the only people ever to not scream and spit at him.

I would want to swap Dex with Int and Str with Wis to end up with:

Str 16
Int 3
Wis 8
Dex 9
Con 15
Cha 12

I'm thinking of going with Tibor the Yellow (or Tibor the Subversive), Human Magic-User. He is known for causing as many problems as he solves, for the stagnation of society is one such problem he has sworn to correct.