[Closed] Chronicles of Averancia (ACKS: HFH)

@Shadowknight, looks interesting and doable, but I will need some hand-holding as I have been pretty much exclusively AD&D/D&D until now. I think I'd be interested in playing a Freebooter (Scoundrel or Expeditionary) but that all depends on how the dice roll. I presume you are using Heroic, but not Legendary abilities. Are you requiring them in order or may they be assigned as desired?

I posted the character creation guidelines in the Game Information, but let me know if you can't access that. I am still learning Gamers Plane setup here.

I didn't see the link; my apologies. OK, rolls to follow.

Nice rolls. You got an 18! Miracle of miracles... So you could, if you wanted to, be a Chosen. It's one of the rarer classes in the game with the ability to be just about anything you wanted with it. Of course, very few Chosen are neutral in alignment, they usually choose to champion either Law or Chaos, so if you want to stick to something morally neutral (like a Freebooter) that works too.

For anyone who is interested, Lash made a beautiful character sheet in Google Docs and you can see it here for emulation and/or inspiration. I'd like to try and make something similar as a character sheet for Gamers Plane, but not 100% certain how to do that.

I am tempted due to the 18. If you don't mind, I'd like to think about it over the weekend (and read the rule books more closely). I'll get back to you Saturday Night/Sunday Morning if that's OK.

Outstanding. The dream hit on the 18.
The Chosen One.

Fellows, our humble DM is being kind, but in full disclosure that dope Character Sheet is a ShadowKnight, LLC design that I used as a template for the specialized blend of stats.

I've been tooling around with a GP custom sheet for my character. It's not pretty, but it has all the information in there for visibility on the game boards. I started with a D&D custom sheet from the list and then adjusted.

I'm not good at the coding, and I worked it in a rush - so I hard-entered all my PC information in there directly and dumped all the form-fillable fields and check boxes. Also, I dumped a lot of the sections that this character doesn't need (spellcasting, etc.) Sort of like hammering a square peg through a smaller round hole.

It might be a baseline to start with though, for anyone who is smarter techie and wants to convert it back over to a more universal, form-fillable template. And add other sections for more complicated PCs.
I'll make it findable on the Character Library for now, if anyone wants to see how it manifests on the boards and use as a beginning.
"Aundovald - ACKS Modified"

Throwing my hat in the ring. I'm only a third of the way through the choices and background, but it looks great so far. I'll start in on the character generation in a few hours from now, if there is still space @shadownight

There is, but if there are more than four applicants I will have to limit it down to four. But don't despair. If there is enough interest (and I realize that I have enough time) I might be able to do an additional ACKS campaign on here (maybe one on the Old Continent) that sounds interesting. And possibly even make it a chaotic campaign. We'll have to see how things go.

Stats!

Average Joe. I'll take some time to go over the classes and see what I can make of this.

Better than some other averages! :) Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

After a cursory peruse of the handbook classes, I think I know what I want to do. Occultist. Mr. Average Joe has hated that he is never recognized as the natural, benevolent leader and highly intelligent individual that he is. He is naturally drawn towards ventures and activities that have the aire of pomp, prestige, or power. Of course! That is what he deserves.

His class will be occultist, as he has learned that there is a true power to be wielded. But I think he wants to keep that side of himself a secret. On the surface he is a minor noble or merchant of some sort. Of course he would answer the call - he wants the recognition he deserves. He would almost expect to be so loved for his heroism, that he would be granted vast lands or a place by the side of the ruler.

This is just spitballing while on the road. More to come this evening.

Ave Santana Joe Regular

Secret society. Mystery School. Privileged noble exploring esoterica for the sake of power.
Sounds like a great story.

I have to admit that even though I was originally limiting this to lawful/neutral characters, I am intrigued by this concept, and as long as there's no direct conflict between the characters due to alignment differences I don't see any problems with it. I can say that the practice of black magics (and even black magic spell-like abilities sometimes) will be corrupting / mutating in the long run; so be very careful with your black powers there. The ceremonial magical instruments you would require would also be Chthonic in nature, so they would also seem "evil" to the good folk of Averancia. But I could see this playing out in some interesting ways. Also, since your character was the first to generate only one ability score with a positive modifier, I was actually thinking of a way to try to balance out your character with some of the other ones. I was going to create a special rule for characters with only a single +1 modifier (or no positive modifiers) that I called (and I kid you not) "A Deal With The Devil", where you can trade 2 Fate Points to increase one of your scores of 9-12 by +2. I haven't completely analyzed this to see if it's game breaking or not. When we start talking about rules from the HFH just to make sure everyone is on the same page, I'll be able to analyze this further.

Edit: Also, let me know if you plan on being a noble from the Old Continent or from Averancia (Town of Redstone). Either is doable. I'd just like to know for lore purposes.

Pointing out - with the rules outlined for hit points, each of us is superhuman. Commoners having an average of 2hp vs 10-16 hp heroes. Anything that can solo a village is obviously superhuman.

Possibly. I call the additional hitpoints Conditioning from training. You know how to take a blow (that would kill most people) and survive.

Edit: You could also think of it as a defense against averages. Considering the average amount of damage from a melee weapon attack is 3.5, anyone with 7 hitpoints or less would basically die or be severely wounded in two hits. Or one hit from a two-handed weapon. That would include Player Characters if we stuck with rules as written. So, to solve this and to give player characters a "fighting chance", having additional hitpoints at 1st level seems to be the best way to do this. I think it aids in giving players an epic feel about their character, and I think creates a slightly more permanent motif or vision of the character than OSR rules would normally allow for.

I would be happy without the bonus HP. Let the RNG gods decide who is epic. Knowing we are vulnerable just adds to the dark and gritty feeling.

Similarly, I wouldn't want to take the deal with the devil. RNG hath spoken, and RNG shall be obeyed!

The smallest nobility possible, whatever that ends up being, from Redstone.