OOC

@Alepous Yeah, RP stuff can get kinda text-wall-y. Unlike combat, though, you can easily address something that's been said several posts back without too much trouble.
>>>I can understand the hesitancy in using AI Art. It's something I use to flavor things and get some kind of reasonable representation of NPCs. My own art skills are woefully inadequate for such things 😁

@Dmbrainiac Feel free to use whatever character sheet format you like. I just provided one for anyone who wanted to use it. I definitely get how difficult it can be to wade through the code for those sheets.

Oh—should I also have 3 general skills?

Here’s what I have so far:
• 3 archetype skills (starter kit)
• 3 class skills (starter kit)
• 1 racial skill
• 3 general skills (?)

Yes. Your character should have 3 General Skills in addition to what you have.

Updated!


And I also learned that a bass lute is a real thing, and it would make a good* weapon!
*oversized = good

Yeah, as soon as I saw Bard Style was both unarmed strike AND El Kabong, I was actually glad Monk was already taken.

🤣🤣 Ah, classic Hannah-Barbara

That Bass Lute is ENORMOUS! Good thing you can reasonably keep it in your Inventory Bag!

I meant 'Bard Style ' to be a bar-fighting kind of style, so it covered unarmed and impromptu fighting styles. It seemed like a fun fighting style.

I was sold at first glance. It definitely is a fun visual!

For the party, I decided to take the healing harmony. I think I’ll take Meditation as a general skill so I can replenish MP faster.

…and done!

I knew I missed something...

I edited the OOC to include the requested info. Thanks for following up on that!

Atlanta herself is a newbie, and the former child of conspiracy nut-balls one step short of being cultists, so is unlikely to really know any of you. Maybe we did the tutorial together, but unless one of your characters is in law enforcement of family services, we would not have meet IRL.

I like the idea that some of us may know each other IRL, but probably not close to the extent that we recognise each other right away? I'm open to more in-depth ideas of how/when we got to know each other, or we can wing it as the story develops further.

Oh wow… I almost went with a real life player in a weird situation. Not exactly this, but similar enough that I’m glad I scrapped it.

Instead I’m going with:

Grace O’Bass is, in real life, The Grace of Bass. It’s her stage name which she legally changed to become her real name. Then The Three Graces broke up and years went by and her solo act, The Amazing Grace, didn’t work out. She turned to gaming and liked the char-gen feature that uses a web cam to play a version of yourself. This Grace O’Bass would be the best bassist in Elderscrollsville!

Grace is new to gaming.

I will be on vacation from 6/17-6/30! I won't be posting until I get back to work on Monday, 7/1, after which I'm sure I'll have a lot of catching up to do. 🙂

Feel free to bot Raquel as needed during this time.

As far as her life before the Apocalypse, Russell was a 38-year-old man in a dead-end job who largely kept to himself. It's possible he might have gamed with some of the other gamers before like Fren or Calamity, but would likely have no connections to the others.

Thanks for the heads up, @Dmbrainiac. I'll bot Raquel around til you're back. Have a great trip!

I don’t think Detect Unusual requires a roll. That’s my action, if I can do that.