Character Creation

Discuss what type of character you want to create and make connection between the characters.

As stoked as I am about this, and while I did already have the Sky Wars PDF, I hadn't read a lick of it. May take me just a bit to grok any differences, specs, etc. Sounds like we all may be in the same boat in that regard though?

Yeah, I'm reading through it. At the moment I'm leaning toward playing a dwarf paladin. Are there any major differences from this and Edge of the Empire that you guys have come across yet?

Mostly weapon damage, and change in skills. Ranged Light and Heavy is just Ranged. And Brawl and Melee is just Melee now. Then there are a few other new Knowledge skills and Piloting is now riding. There's a slight different to how weapon damage work. You gain more starting XP than in EotE, which I like (though I would have given around 100 XP for stats and the rest just for skills and talents). Every class now has one talent tree and one ability tree so more to spend XP on before you switch specialization.

I would anticipate myself wanting to try out whatever they did with magic but I won't have time to look at any of it until tonight.

Thanks for the add! I have a friend that may want to run this kind of thing in person, so I'm stoked to play and get used to it. Plus I am just a sucker for this system.

I'll have to look through it as well. To be sure, we are using Sky Wars: Edge of the Kingdom PDF conversion right? I would hate to read through the wrong one.

Yup. Looked like the most well done version.

Great! I'm in for a busy weekend, but I'll give it the ole look through. Just initial pangs, but I am leaning towards a thief character.

It's a stunning production for a fan based conversion, I've had a flick through it and the few changes they've made seem to make sense. Think I'll be going with a fairly simple fighter type to be honest.

I frequently play something priestly -- but may poke around the various Magic-using classes to see if there's something interesting there. Also a good way to give the spellcasting system a good workout. :)

Dang. Was really unimpressed with what they did for Magic. Leaning toward Druid now.

Looking through it, I am getting really interested in playing an Air Pirate. How big a roll will air ships be in this particular campaign bossman?

Since I'm using an Pathfinder Adventure Path, not so much. But I can easily add them if anyone wants to be an Air Pirate. Everything will be a little harder to get too and suddenly some enemies will have an air defense. It's an adventure path with a lot of travel, so an airship could be handy.

I'll keep that in mind. Air piracy sounds really up my alley, but if you'd rather stick to something easier for you I can be just as happy with a thief.

Are we using the standard pathfinder pantheon?

No problem. I like airships, so that's no problem.

With the addition of airship, this will become a bastardized version of Golarion so if you have another type of deity you'd rather use I'm open to it. But unless otherwise specified it would be easier to just use Golarion's.

Just starting to sit down and go through building a character, just wondering if there's a rarity cap on any equipment we can get at the start?

Rarity may have been a bit of a moot point as I realised I couldn't afford what I was looking at anyway!!! I've had a stab at a character, he's here if anyone wants to take a nosey to see how he turned out

Most of the way thru my character creation ... should be able to finish it up tonight.

You can get whatever gear you can afford. The best way to stress test a system is to let players run wild :P

We have a Paladin and a Knight right now, so far a heavily armored group. I'm hoping to start the game at the beginning of next week at the latest (earlier if everyone is done before)

I am focusing on shapeshifting initially as my Druid, and accordingly will be kind of a "Heavy" too. (Unfortunately?) that was where the most synergy lay.

Team Heavy!

A heavier focus on combat was a stated design goal in the book, for better or worse.

roger that -- will get something put together before the EOW. Tonight and tomorrow are a bit sketchy due to work commitments.

I'll try to get my air pirate done tonight as well.

Hey, What is our starting obligation and can we increase it? I've played in games where the GM put a lid on that before.

Obligation 10, and you can increase it up to 10. But if everyone does, you will have 100 obligation and sure to activate often.

Query: how many career skills do you get? in EOTE it's usually 3 career skills and 2 spec skills, IIRC -- is it the same here?

Its actually 4 career and 2 spec ranks. Thats what this one uses too according to the character creator.

Thanks!

Is there a post chargen pocket money roll like in EotE? Didn't remember reading about one but don't have access to he PDF atm...

I don't think it says so in the book, but yes, since it doesn't say there shouldn't be, I am ruling in favor of it.

Rolling for pennies then

All that glitters IS gold.

Starting Cash.

All -- I keep trying to get a character finished only to get trolled by work or life (and making sure my existing obligations here on GP are in good shape). I may need to bow out, especially as I'm hitting another 3 days of work travel this week.

Amnesia, lemme know? Happy to give you the slot back for someone else to fill.

I'm willing to introduce your character whenever your ready, but if you feel you have overextended yourself and it is a bother, I could open it up for someone else.

Hey there -- I'm going to drop out. I'm swamped @ home and @ work and have vacation coming up -- so I'm over-extended enough that I need to step away. Sorry 'bout that! I was intrigued about the system and will certainly be interested in an update after y'all have had some time with it!

That's ok. Thanks for letting me know.

Also sorry to the rest of you for not updating yet this week. Work has been crazy this week. We have started a big new project that means overtime and less slack time while at work. Hopefully it will calm down soon.

No worries mate.

With one player down, and Filgird not posting in a while I'll advertise for a couple of new players.

I'm reading through the Beta Rulebook now, will get a character generated as soon as I can. I appreciate the invite. Looking forward to gaming with your crew.

No problem. Glad to have you here. Mind you, that it may move slow, as work has been busy and now I've gotten the krutacking flu :/

I approved your character. Feel free to roll Vigilance in the game thread and introduce your character.

Looks like a very cool campaign, glad to be a part of it.

Still coming up with a bit of backstory but mechanically I think I'm gtg.

Greetings, can I get an overview of what characters there are before I settle on a career/spec? Originally I was leaning towards a half-orc Natura/Barbarian but a read through suggested that the group has enough meat-shields already.

On a side note anyone think their powers/abilities are a bit uber/easy to get cheesy with?

From what I've read that's the intent, you are starting off as pretty much high powered established heroes and the 'designers' have made no bones about the fact this is a very combat focused mod.

okay... well here's to dropping pipe organs on people and stopping time for extra turns through the power of magic... XD

Thinking that I'll go with the Natura/Barbarian, but incorporating a few elements from my D&D/Pathfinder setting. Nothing major, just enough to give him a few odd quirks and flavor.

A warrior's code and some cultural stuff like that are the kind of things I'm thinking of, I like playing foreigners/outsiders.

Sounds good. Also has a new player in Starkiller, so the game should fill back up before long.

...I did not realize before sitting down how crazy this guy's durability was going to be. He's got a Wound Threshold of 18 and can for a time boost his Soak up to 10. Provided that nothing outrageous happens, he can ignore hits from any weapon that he carries. He is not going down easily.

Character has been submitted, rolling for pocket change.

Didn't realize there was free coin to be had...

Hey guys, glad to be part of the campaign. I'm playing a Priest character. I'm new to this system but it looks like it's not the ordinary, "we all suck and will be killing 72,000 slimes to get to level two and upgrade from our wooden sword to a sharpened wooden sword". I like the idea of starting out as someone who can actually do something.

On a side note, noticed that the Priest has Melee as a class skill, but not ranged so I guess I'm going to be doing melee. That's a little odd to me as a former MMO player but I guess it will all shake out in the end.

You can still do ranged combat if you have the weapon it's just not as easy to level up.

That's something I'll have to look at then because as a Priest, I'm not really looking at building a tank type character.

Well there are a few of those in the group. Spell casting is hindered though by wearing full up armor and shield though. If you have meta questions let us know though.

Oh, I'm glad we have some tanks. I can heal from medium distance, so I don't see much of a need to get up close and maybe get my face torn off. You guys keep me alive and I'll keep you alive.

hehe that all depends on if the GM leaves you alone. XD. I'm going to imply the 'no means no' policy myself and use my quartstaff like a hockey stick, high sticking all day.

So should I just jump into the IC thread?

Get in there Meribson. We have to meet up sooner or later. If you want, you can be the Barbarian who got overpowered by the goblins and knocked unconscious.

"You awake in the middle of the street. Everything hurts. You have a feeling that the goblins did very bad things to you". A tall, handsome priest putting the last of your Gold into his purse, because he doesn't want you to suffer under the extra weight. He offers to heal you, for a nominal fee. You pat your pockets and find nothing. Your armor is gone, your weapons are gone, everything is gone. You notice your backpack sitting behind the priest. You can see your armor and weapons sticking out of it. The priest smiles at you sadly and tells you that he'd like to help you, but it would set a bad precedent if he helped you for nothing.

Just kidding but yes, get in here. I think we're getting ready to take off.

Might be a good idea to join up now. Looks like we're rolling out.

@Starkiller are you Dual Spec'd?

Yes. Priest & Sorceror. Buff and heal, straight up support role.

Well that's one magi spec I don't have to buy. Three enough.

Hey guys, I'm a new player. I am trying to play a Druid - is that okay with everyone? I won't be a super hippy kind of druid, more like the druid from Shannara Chronicles if anybody has seen that series. How do I go about figuring out my starting gear?

Works for me, Never read/saw the series. Page 19 I think has it at 500 and we rolled 1d100 I think. Games been kind of slow though so you have time.

how slow is slow exactly? Has anybody thought of moving to discord?

No slower than most PbP games. I'm not really interested in playing on another platform as this site is probably the best way I've seen to do PbP games.

slow is as slow as family, work, life coming up and saying deal with me. Sometimes people have time to give a heads up sometimes it's after things die down. I guess if you'd like to try Discord that's an option. unsure for gaming mechanics how that pans out by good luck.

The advantage of PbP is playing with people all across the world. Tried roll20 with a group over in America once, and ended up staying up until 6 o'clock in the morning :P

This one has gone slow lately because work has been piling up.

A Druid would be a welcome addition. I was thinking of timejumping a few days ahead once you are finished with your character, and wait for any major new posts until you are ready to be introduced.

It's hard for me to find time to sit down on a PC and jump in. On discord I can type pretty much whenever, and so my discord pbps usually move pretty quickly.

I'd love to play here, but give me some more time to mull it over, maybe this platform doesn't work for me.

*checks game's pulse*

Well Seth went inactive although I did see that coming. We still pushing forward like it didn't happen since he wasn't introduced or what we doing???

Yeah. Sorry. Work has been crazy busy, I'm in charge of a new project for a new client and have to be finished by end of November. I'll try to get the next post up this weekend.

I’m still lurking about too :) Looking forwards to this picking back up again but totally get RL stuff taking priority mate

No worries, I figure things are going to slow down a lot come next week until after New Year's Hangovers are cleared up.