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Apr 11, 2025 10:32 pm
@wizard11. Oh wow. She stole Scarlet's precious green eyes!

Scarlet likes green color clothing too. And by the way, she doesn't like RED and been tag'ed enough from her name.

Scarlet's character sheet is completed now. And in library.
Last edited April 11, 2025 11:15 pm
Apr 12, 2025 2:32 am
Still got a few things to finalize but most of it is done.

Caradoc the wandering priest

https://i.imgur.com/fvVZTkX.jpeg


Caradoc had a relatively normal childhood. He lived with his father a fisherman on the outskirt of Milborne. They were poor, but missed nothing. All that changed when they were attacked by a roaming band of orcs on their way to Harlaton. He managed to escape but hurt and scared he was in a real.bad spot. Lost he wandered around for a few days until he wad found and healed by the traveling priest Lafayer. For the the next few years he learned of his way, how to help people and how to survive. But now its his time, ton show what he had learned, to travel on hos own and help those he could.

Combat Skills: Morning Star, Sling
Non Combat Skills: Healing, Survival, Knowledge (Religion), Fishing
Spells: Cure Light Wounds, Remove Fear
Apr 12, 2025 5:41 am
Excellent stuff everybody, keep them coming! Looks like we're almost done with character creation, so I'll set up the opening story post soon, give everyone a chance to describe and introduce their character.

Also, while we're at it, I'll be using a calendar to log campaign time and track events, but I'm too lazy to randomly invent one, so I'll probably use one from an established setting (Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms etc). Anyone have a specific preference or aversion to one of them? And would you be willing to roll for when is your character's birthday:P
Apr 12, 2025 10:29 am
And would you be willing to roll for when is your character's birthday:P

Funny you should say that. Today is my Birthday. And I'm not purchasing the huge cake it would take to hold all the candles either. Hate seeing the fire department come.
Last edited April 12, 2025 10:30 am
Apr 12, 2025 4:19 pm
I just need to finish equipment and I'm ready to go. Thinking that Umbar comes from outside of Harlaton, in a gnome settlement tucked between the Thornwood and Patchwork Hills, likely in the Terraces. Gnomish settlements are rarely on maps, and that's just the way they like it. There's been many a time when a trader has followed a path from a local guide to find that it ends in nothing. Was there really no settlement? Was it an illusion?
Apr 12, 2025 4:54 pm
Sounds good @cowleyc
Happy birthday @WanderOne
I should have the first post up during the weekend, give everyone a chance to introduce your characters while we wrap up the last bits of character creation.
Apr 12, 2025 8:32 pm
Dark, did I miss you deciding on the gold for multiclass issue, or have you not decided that yet?
Apr 12, 2025 8:48 pm
The book says to use the more favorable dice roll!
Apr 12, 2025 9:26 pm
Forgot to answer that, cowleyc beat me to it. Indeed, "Starting money" in pg. 43 states "Starting funds are based on class, and multiclass characters pick the most advantageous row."

Just need a character from @WhtKnt now.
Apr 12, 2025 10:02 pm
* Recent Portrait

https://imgcdn.stablediffusionweb.com/2024/5/5/0bf2010f-bb1d-44ef-90ec-191d40934f1f.jpgAs Scarlet came to age, she left home to start her own life. Being a very bright young girl, she caught on things fast but also being very much a weakling. It made jobs harder. She learned to cast spells as that didn't tire her. So, now she sees herself as an adventurer (Wizard/Mage).

Name: Scarlet Meyers
Nick Name: Scarlet
Race/Gender: Half-Elf/Female
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 101#
Age: 21 Years Old
Eyes: Very Precious Hazel
Alignment: Neutral Good
Languages: Common, Elven, Goblin (Illiterate)

Side Note: She really dislike Red. Been nagged too many times about her name. She had very red hair as a baby; hence her name.

Previous Trades: Brewing, Cooking, & Weaving.
Knowledge Areas: Astrology, Engineering, Herbalism, & Spellcraft.
Proficiency: Dagger
Spells: Read Magic, Detect Magic, Color Spray (In memory), Grease, Magic Missile, Comprehend Languages, & Mending
Last edited April 12, 2025 10:54 pm
Apr 13, 2025 12:48 am
gold roll

Rolls

gold - (2d6)

(41) = 5

Apr 13, 2025 1:13 am
I think Almadel is just about ready too - here's his background:

https://i.ibb.co/nqP4GHpC/image.png

Almadel is an outsider to this area, having come from the great city to the west, and having conducted much research there for his studies. He comes in search of artifacts and ancient items, having come across archaic reports that there was some sort of civilised culture here many centuries ago - though the manuscripts were rather vague, and he isn't sure whether they refer to this area or a nearby valley, and exactly who the inhabitants were is left unsaid. Still, there could be scholarly finds here worth reporting back to the universities of the great city to the west, and he could make his name in this place. After several weeks of travel, he's finally arrived, and made some contacts already - the old mage, Tauster, for example, who has given him hints of where to start his search, and Thimpsen, who seems to think that Almadel follows his own line of work, despite Almadel's more noble motives.

Almadel is a young elf, with closely cropped hair, slender body, and a tendency to wear somewhat monastic-like robes that give him an austere look. He is also rather attached to the ivory towers of academia, has little in the way of street smarts, and is probably woefully underprepared for what is about to occur.

If there's anything I've forgotten or missed on the character sheet, let me know.
Last edited April 13, 2025 1:18 am
Apr 13, 2025 8:16 am
Lemming23 says:
If there's anything I've forgotten or missed on the character sheet, let me know.
If he's not from the area, I'd suggest switching Tauster and Thimpsen from "people he's met" to "people he's been told to meet because they might know something to help with his research ". That aside, looks fine.
Apr 13, 2025 5:53 pm
I'm not finding a price for gem cutting tools, even in my 2e sources. How much would those cost? 50gp like Thieves Tools?
Apr 13, 2025 8:22 pm
I'm gonna assume your character has the basic light and portable tools for this trade, such as a magnifying glass to appraise gems, for free. Don't want to come up with rules for that and I'll be telling you the value of any gems recovered anyway, so no need to make it more complicated. Actually cutting gems to (hopefully) increase their value, as described in the Trade skill (pg. 41) will be more of a downtime activity, which we'll tackle when we get to it. Chances are you will have found a friendly Thief or Wizard (since it's a skill for those classes) by then, who'll let you use the tools and if all else fails, we can revert to the rules for Craftsmen Hirelings.
Apr 14, 2025 2:53 am
Apologies for holding things up! The weekend to-do list got away from me.

Rolls

Roll for hit points - (1d6)

(5) = 5

Cash - (2d6)

(45) = 9

Apr 14, 2025 3:27 am
How much do dried rations weigh?
Apr 14, 2025 3:46 am
Aldeera Four-fingers has been submitted!

Aldeera grew up in a small village. She got her unusual epithet as a youth. She was showing off with a knife and accidentally severed the pinky finger of her right hand. She hardly misses the digit, but it serves as a reminder that one can never be too careful.
https://i.imgur.com/OpOwXpG.jpeg
Name: Aldeera Four-fingers
Nick Name: None yet
Race/Gender: Human/Female
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 131#
Age: 19 years old
Eyes/Hair: Green/Blonde
Alignment: Lawful neutral
Languages: Common, local tongue

Knowledge Areas: Acrobatics, Appraising, and Jumping
Proficiency: Short sword
Last edited April 14, 2025 3:48 am
Apr 14, 2025 10:51 am
WhtKnt says:
How much do dried rations weigh?
I'll say 2lbs per day. The rulebooks gives a price of 10gp for a week's worth of rations and it's a 7 day week on the calendar I'm using, so it's 14lbs for a week's worth of rations and 10/7=1.42gp so let's say 14 silver coins for a day's worth of rations.
WhtKnt says:
Aldeera Four-fingers has been submitted!
Accepted!
Apr 14, 2025 3:05 pm
Not sure what the encumbrance values (Light, Moderate and Heavy).
Table 7.24 is rather confusing to me...

Adding roll for remaining gold
Last edited April 14, 2025 3:22 pm

Rolls

remaining gold - (1d3)

(3) = 3

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