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Title: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on February 09, 2019, 12:40:48 am

IC thread can be found here. (http://IC thread can be found here.)

The orcs have rebelled.
The Emperor is dead.
The Empire is crumbling.
The Shadow draws near.
And in the outskirts of Tomrik's Hollow, a farmer is convinced that someone is stealing his goats.

Take Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, mix with Dungeons & Dragons (mostly 5E), add in a splash of Darkest Dungeon and a pinch of Numenera, and what comes out is Shadow of the Demon Lord. It's a grimdark take on fantasy tabletop roleplaying games, where casualties are high, the monsters are vicious, and sanity is fleeting. Gameplay is relatively simple, with just four characteristics and a small collection of derived stats, and no skills whatsoever other than what can be assumed with a little common sense. It also has one of the more interesting character advancement systems I've seen in a tabletop game. I want to give it a shot.

I'm looking for four to five players willing to start as level-0 scrubs. This game will be run in a play-by-post format, right here on Bay 12. This means that I will probably have to do all of the dice rolling, but unfortunately my schedule is a little loopy so I can't really commit to live sessions. Rolling the dice is a small price to pay.

Spoiler: Who are the players? (click to show/hide)

The beginning of the game will take place in and around Tomrik's Hollow, a walled town of a few thousand people in the Northern Reach. Player characters may live in Tomrik's Hollow or the surrounding lands, or simply be passing through on their own business. I would advise that at least one character live in the town proper, but of course that is not required.

It is possible for some characters to know each other before the game begins.

Spoiler: Character Creation Rules (click to show/hide)

1: All Ancestries from the core rule book are allowed. Ancestries from supplemental material might be allowed, subject to review.
2: You may roll or choose on any of your ancestry tables, whichever you wish. The exception is your background. That one must be rolled - you may re-roll once, and may choose whichever result you prefer.
3: You may roll or choose your profession(s).
4: Your starting wealth level defaults to Getting By. If you choose, you may roll for a different option. Be warned that you must take the result of the dice roll, even if it is the same (or worse).
5: I recommend rolling on Interesting Things, as there are so many options. If you spot one you really like, however, bring it up with me.
6: When the time comes to choose your Paths, all Paths in the core rulebook are acceptable. This will give you plenty of options. Again, however, Paths from supplemental material may be allowed on a case-by-case basis.

Spoiler: Sample Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Ancestry:
Gender:
Age:
Background:
Professions:
Size:
Speed:
Wealth:

Damage/Health:
Strength:
Agility:
Intellect:
Will:

Healing Rate:
Defense:
Perception:

Insanity:
Corruption:

Weapons and Equipment:

LEVELS
--Fill this in as the group level increases. List the paths you take (if any) and your bonuses.--

Since this game is pretty new on the forums (a casual search seems to show that no one has tried to run SotDL here), I'll give prospective players at least a week, possibly two, to get their sheets together. Obviously if there is a glut of characters by the end of the first week there won't be any reason to wait longer.

Send me a PM if you don't have access to the core rulebook, and if anyone needs help with character creation, please don't hesitate to ask! Good luck, have fun, and remember: there are far worse fates than death.

Current Party
Imrak the Dwarf (Kagus) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173221.msg7928038#msg7928038)
Raina the Human(?) (IcyTea31) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173221.msg7928146#msg7928146)
Maraline the Human (GiglameshDespair) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173221.msg7928168#msg7928168)
Hate the Orc (lawastooshort) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173221.msg7929356#msg7929356)
Weaver of Secrets the Clockwork (Rockeater) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173221.msg7933245#msg7933245)

Waitlist
1: Sigmund the Human (randomgenericusername) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173221.msg7937895#msg7937895)
2: Gorma the Orc (scriver) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173221.msg7938655#msg7938655)

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: micelus on February 09, 2019, 05:28:06 am

Well, I generally don't play tabletop rpgs on forums anymore, but I'll be happy to watch! I prefer playing on discord for text stuff these days~

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 09, 2019, 12:00:03 pm

Spoiler: Basic Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Imrak
Ancestry: Dwarf
Gender: Male
Age: Middle Aged 51-100 (84)
Background: Came into money, start with 2d6 cp (7)
Professions: Scholar/history, Common/entertainer
Size: 1/2
Speed: 8
Wealth: Comfortable
Languages: Common (speak/read/write), Dwarfish (speak/read/write)

Damage/Health: 0/13
Strength: 9
Agility: 9
Intellect: 11
Will: 10

Healing Rate: 3
Defense: 9
Perception: 12

Insanity: 0
Corruption: 0

Weapons and Equipment:
dagger
sling with 20 stones

fine clothing
backpack
cloak

rations 1wk
waterskin (full?)
healing potion

coil of rope
tinderbox
2 torches
pouch with 16cp
writing kit
strange book


LEVELS

Despite doing everything at random (even going so far as rolling for race and digging up the old WFRP table of random names for dwarfs), I seem to have ended up with a remarkably generic dwarf...

Imrak is of average build and appearance, taking reasonable care of himself and keeping his beard well-groomed. He is profoundly honor-bound, and maintains that a dwarf who sullies his honor or brings shame upon his people is not really a dwarf at all. He absolutely loathes trolls.

Born to a respected dynasty in the mountainhome, Imrak received the education and disposition his family's wealth and station provided. He became an orator, proudly retelling many tales of his people's victories against all foes, and of the treasures and glories they had accumulated through their valor. He delved deeper into the unending volumes of recorded dwarfish history; intent on finding ever more stories he could recant in order to verify his people's (and, by proxy, his own) superiority.

But, deep within the musty corridors of the mountainhome's library, he found an unusual tome... Written in a language he did not understand or recognize, it contained a number of handwritten notes scrawled in the margins, in what appeared to be a hasty attempt to translate portions of the book. Stranger still, the notes themselves were written using the Common alphabet. This was clearly not the work of a dwarfish scholar.

The translated notes hinted at an unfathomable conclusion regarding the mountainhome's ancient history. Deeply disturbed by the implications alluded to in the book, Imrak hurriedly grabbed the text, packed a few belongings, and set out into the strange and barbaric world outside the mountainhome. He would find the author of this outrageous account, or at least the obviously incompetent translator, and he would set things right.



There's some specific rolled stuff, such as his racial attributes and his wealth, that isn't included in the basic sheet there. I've got it on my own sheet, but I dunno how much needs to be laid out here.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 09, 2019, 12:29:21 pm

Each ancestry has its own racial tables (most of them lacking mechanical effects), so it'd be tough to include them all in a basic universal sheet. Your method - writing up Imrak's appearance, personality, and reason for adventuring - is actually a great way to do it!

I'll add a wealth section, though.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 09, 2019, 04:12:48 pm

Sure, this seems interesting. Made my character mostly with honest rolls on physical dice.

Spoiler: Backstory (click to show/hide)

Raina entered this world eleven years ago at the age of nine, the firstborn of her family farming near Tomrik's Hollow. She herself didn't pay much mind to not remembering anything before then; for all she knew, her three-year-old little brother was similarly mindless and would become sapient at the age of nine, though those might have been too big words for her back then. One big word she did know, however: medallion. She didn't remember where she'd got it, but the image on the little silver disc was very pretty, a rampant horse that she imagined sometimes talked to her.

Her parents, however, thought Raina was sick for having lost her memory. She lived happily for a few weeks, but suddenly one day, her parents took her to a healer in the big town. The healer inspected her for a while, then called her parents to another room. She didn't hear much of their conversation, though her mother's shout followed by a crash were hard to miss. When her parents returned, her mother was quiet but intensely staring at her, while her father calmly said there wasn't anything wrong with her after all.

Normal life resumed. Raina's father notably told her to stay away from the tool shed, calling it "too dangerous", but was quite loving generally. Her mother, however, got colder and colder as time passed, until three summers later something snapped. That day, while her father was out to visit the market, Raina made some small remark, she doesn't even remember what it was, but her mother took offense. Her mother called her "not her real daughter" and threw her out, telling her to never come back. Crying, she ran to the woods.

For a few days, she slept under the stars and subsisted on berries, until in one quiet clearing, she chanced upon an injured man in a robe lying on the ground. He introduced himself as Walter, a healer in service of a local peasant rebellion. He said that his companions had gone to seek help, but he doubted their abilities, being that they were quite dimwitted in his opinion. He did, however, see a spark of kindness in Raina's eyes, and asked her to help. She gladly did, and with his instructions she splinted the limbs almost too well, considering the improvised tools. By the time the other rebels returned, Walter was already talking of taking Raina in as an apprentice, upon hearing that she didn't have anywhere to go. Though the rebellion fell apart for the peasants not really knowing what they were doing, Walter kept teaching Raina in Tomrik's Hollow for the next two years, until the bombing happened.

Walter had raised another rebellion, this one in the town itself and with access to gunpowder, having support from a local noble. Walter had tried to indoctrinate Raina against the Empire, to some success, but he had decided a practical demonstration was necessary to show its weakness. The town hall was damaged and a dozen people injured, but Walter's plan had failed. Rather than fully turn to his side, Raina was disgusted by the lack of concern for others' lives. Was this what a healer's job is? She spat in his face and left, ignoring his pleas of "only doing this for her" and how he "loved her". What a creep.

Now, she was on the streets again, but at least a healer was never out of a job. She joined with a mercenary company, the Silver Order, who at least seemed to be more reputable in their violence than most. This was a terrible idea, though it took her far too long to really understand it. The horrors of war were quick to jade her mind, and she even had to defend herself a few times; the enemy would not respect her as a non-combatant. But what better response to that than to become a combatant? She was always large for her age and wielded a spear as well as an adult. But talented or not, it couldn't continue; she was too young for this.

She opted to instead join with the local chapter of the House of Healing. Her skills spoke for themselves and she had no trouble getting in for the years of study necessary to truly master the art. This was what she enjoyed, and she even made plenty of friends (no doubt in part due to how her figure changed as she matured). Of course, some tried to bully her over her low birth, but the masters of the House had none of that. Except one, who seemed to avoid her, and perhaps seemed a little familiar. How odd.

Today, she is nearing the end of her studies in the House. She hasn't yet been taught the magical traditions of healing, for "not being pious enough", but she doesn't even mind right now. Only today, she walks home bearing the red cloak for the first time. Though it isn't quite "the" red cloak, as it is ragged and barely covers her neck, more a scarf than a cloak. But it is a symbol: not yet a master, but not quite an apprentice anymore either. If only her mother could see her now. What would Raina say to her?

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Raina
Ancestry: Changeling
True Age: 11 (adolescent)

Apparent Ancestry: Human
Apparent Gender: Female
Apparent Age: 20 (young adult)
Apparent Build: You are very tall and heavy.
Apparent Appearance: You have several attractive physical qualities that make you quite comely.

Background: You have no idea that you’re a changeling. You think you are a member of the ancestry whose form you adopted. Add an extra random profession. Until you become incapacitated or touch iron for the first time, you cannot use Steal Identity.

Professions:

• Martial: Mercenary
• Criminal: Rebel or terrorist
• Academic: Medicine

Languages:

• Common Tongue (literate)

Strength: 9
Agility: 11
Intellect: 9
Will: 10

Healing Rate: 2
Defense: 11
Perception: 10
Size: 1
Speed: 11
Power: 0

Damage/Health: 0/9
Insanity: 0
Corruption: 0

Talents:

• Immune: damage from disease; charmed; diseased
• Iron vulnerability: you are impaired while in contact with iron.
• Shadowsight: you see into areas obscured by shadows as if those areas were lit.
• Steal Identity: You can use an action to alter your appearance to match that of a target living creature you can see within short range. The target must be Size 1 or 1/2 and have a humanoid shape of flesh and blood. Your body changes so you look like the target, though your clothing and possessions remain unchanged. The effect lasts until you use this talent again. If you become incapacitated or touch an object made from iron, you immediately revert to your normal appearance.

Weapons and Equipment: (Lifestyle: Getting By)

• dagger (1d3, off, finesse, thrown(short))
• staff (1d6+1, two, finesse)
• basic clothing
• backpack
• rations (1 week)
• waterskin
• tinderbox
• torch (2)
• pouch (2 cp)
• silver necklace with medallion

Levels:

• None

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: GiglameshDespair on February 09, 2019, 05:28:40 pm

Have an entirely rolled character.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Maraline Stukberg
Ancestry: Human
Gender: F
Age: 15
Background: 7, 14
14: You received an education. You know how to read the Common Tongue.
Professions: Fence, Conscript
Size: 1/2
Speed: 10
Wealth: Getting By
Languages: Common (literate), High Archaic

Damage/Health: 10
Strength: 9
Agility: 12
Intellect: 10
Will: 10

Healing Rate: 1/4 health
Defense: 10
Perception: 10

Insanity: 0
Corruption: 0

Weapons and Equipment:
dagger
sling with 20 stones
basic clothing
a backpack,
a week of rations,
a waterskin
tinderbox
1 torch
pouch containing 6 cp
A box of 6 iron nails

LEVELS
--Fill this in as the group level increases. List the paths you take (if any) and your bonuses.--

Spoiler: rolls etc (click to show/hide)

Personality and appearance:
9: Maraline puts the interests of herself and her friends above all else.
18: Maraline follows no god.
6: She is an adolescent, 12-17 years old.
6: you are short.
13: You have a physical quality that makes you attractive to others. You might have pretty eyes, lips, hair, shape, or something else.

Gear:
1: 1 torch
6: 6 CP

Professions: 3, 4
3: Criminal: 7: Fence
4: martial: 14: Conscript

Wealth:
12: getting by

Interesting thing:
2, 13, 6
A box of 6 iron nails

Maraline is a short girl of around fifteen years of age, with unruly long dark hair covering tanned skin and startlingly green eyes. She is pretty enough to soften the occasional hard heart, and perhaps will grow into a pretty young woman if she lives long enough.

Maraline grew up in the criminal belly of Tomrik's Hollow. Her mother was a washerwoman, her father was a right-hand man in the Tomrik's Hollow underworld: with no siblings, she was soon taught the family business of selling on stolen goods, working out what was profitable, what was too hot to sell, and who would rip you off (or, indeed, rip you up). Tomrik's Hollow isn't a vast town - the Stukbergs made a decent enough living. Her father kept a ledger to ensure he wasn't cheated - and, as an educated man, he taught her to read and write.

Alas, it was not to last forever. A sweep of the local law enforcement rounded up much of the criminal element. Rather than executing them straight off, the local lord isntead decided to press them into military service to combat the peasant revolts that continously seemed to crop up in the area.

Being young as she was, it was clear Maraline would be no use on the front lines - she wasn't large enough to go toe-to-toe with anyone, though she was remarkably strong for her size and age. Instead, she was given the minimum of equipment and used as a skirmisher, harrying the enemy with a flurry of slingstones before the proper troops closed in to fight.

With the local rebellion quelled for now, Maraline was released from service until the next war, and is now looking for a job.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 09, 2019, 06:40:10 pm

Just as a musing on the rulebook... It seems as though grabbing really doesn't serve a whole lot of purpose offensively. Like, you can either maintain your grip on something, or you can move it, or you can do something else to it. But if you do anything other than maintaining a grab, you'll just let go of the critter at the end of that turn.

Really the main use I can see for it is for a big PC to act as a mode of transport for someone smaller, either by having the little'un cling onto them or by having the big one drag them around. Why that would be important, I'm not entirely sure... Since you can't even have someone hanging off the back of a big orc while blasting away at the enemy, since that would constitute doing something other than maintaining the grab... So they'd just get bored and drop off.


Although, RAW, it does seem to allow for everyone to grab the big PC, whereupon the big one can run around like some kind of horrific opossum mama carrying the rest of the party on their back.


Also, Giglamesh, I take it you chose not to do the -1/+1 stat adjustment?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: GiglameshDespair on February 09, 2019, 07:13:31 pm

Quote from: Kagus on February 09, 2019, 06:40:10 pm

Also, Giglamesh, I take it you chose not to do the -1/+1 stat adjustment?

Actually I just forgot I could do that in the midst of character creation.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 11, 2019, 04:15:58 am

Quote from: GiglameshDespair on February 09, 2019, 05:28:40 pm

Alas, it was not to last forever. A sweep of the local law enforcement rounded up much of the criminal element. Rather than executing them straight off, the local lord isntead decided to press them into military service to combat the peasant revolts that continously seemed to crop up in the area.

This could have been around the same time as Raina was with the mercenary company. A possible connection to be made? Hell, maybe they even were on opposing sides. Even if not, it's possible that they'd have met or even befriended or each other as fellow residents of the town. Got any ideas for that?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: GiglameshDespair on February 11, 2019, 07:48:35 am

Quote from: IcyTea31 on February 11, 2019, 04:15:58 am

Quote from: GiglameshDespair on February 09, 2019, 05:28:40 pm

Alas, it was not to last forever. A sweep of the local law enforcement rounded up much of the criminal element. Rather than executing them straight off, the local lord isntead decided to press them into military service to combat the peasant revolts that continously seemed to crop up in the area.

This could have been around the same time as Raina was with the mercenary company. A possible connection to be made? Hell, maybe they even were on opposing sides. Even if not, it's possible that they'd have met or even befriended or each other as fellow residents of the town. Got any ideas for that?

The peasant rebellion mentioned in Raina's back story is what led to me mentioning it in mine. So yeah, I'd be fine with them having met and/or becoming friends.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 11, 2019, 08:02:29 am

boop

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 11, 2019, 01:44:34 pm

Is that a "boop, I want to join so I'll make a sheet later" boop or a "boop, this is interesting so I want to follow this thread" boop?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: SOLDIER First on February 11, 2019, 01:54:33 pm

it’s up to reader interpretation

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 11, 2019, 02:13:16 pm

If you put money on it, it's a betty boop.


There are some rather, ah, "interesting" items on the "interesting things" tables... Play a clockwork who ends up with a reputation as an amazing lover? Sure! Fisto's firmware is always up to date!

A donkey-pulled wagon, a can of beets, a bag full of "fleshy rods", a bizarre fetish (I'm going to interpret this as the inanimate object with religious or mystical associations definition of 'fetish'...), unrequited love, the ubiquitous 10' pole... Certainly an eclectic collection.


Also, I do have to wonder how someone manages to go through a career as a medicus and a mercenary without ever coming into contact with iron. This must be the poorer part of the country, where people have to make their own tools out of dirt.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 11, 2019, 03:24:51 pm

Quote from: Kagus on February 11, 2019, 02:13:16 pm

Also, I do have to wonder how someone manages to go through a career as a medicus and a mercenary without ever coming into contact with iron. This must be the poorer part of the country, where people have to make their own tools out of dirt.

Hey, the dice said what they said, so I had to write a contrived series of coincidences: a mercenary clad in leather wielding a wood-shafted spear (and lucky enough to not come in contact with the enemy's iron), a healer with a mortar and pestle of stone. A physician is not a surgeon, so no need to worry about scalpels or other metal tools. I'd also imagine that of the starting equipment, the dagger happens to have a wooden handle, the clothing and backpack happen to not have any buckles or other metal parts, and the tinderbox happens to have pyrite* instead of refined steel.

This is all very unlikely, of course, but it has to have happened for the rolled background to make any semblance of sense. Still, I'm fairly certain that Raina's preternatural luck about iron will run out in maybe a week of game time.

*which is technically 46,5% iron by mass, but that's probably not pure enough to count. If it were, even human blood would be a problem.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 11, 2019, 03:35:52 pm

A week? Hah, you'll be lucky to get through the first adventure :P

Quote from: Kagus on February 11, 2019, 02:13:16 pm

a bizarre fetish (I'm going to interpret this as the inanimate object with religious or mystical associations definition of 'fetish'...)

In this setting? It could easily be either definition, though given the PG-13 nature of the forum I'd probably veto the other interpretation just to be on the safe side.

And you know, you can reroll things if they simply don't make sense. Like, given Raina's odd background and profession rolls, I would allow either to be re-rolled to avoid these sorts of brain-twisting explanations. Unless IcyTea is okay with the combo, of course.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 11, 2019, 03:42:00 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 11, 2019, 03:35:52 pm

And you know, you can reroll things if they simply don't make sense.

Heresy.


We'll just say that Raina has a very magnetic personality... Of the same polarity as every piece of iron she's encountered so far.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 11, 2019, 03:51:47 pm

It's not really a brain-twisting explanation, it's just really implausible for someone to go 11 years without touching iron. But I don't mind; I've played characters with less likely backstories. At least I didn't have to include time travel in this one. (What if an unaware changeling's true age was more than their apparent age?)

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 11, 2019, 04:01:16 pm

It's sorta less the improbability of never encountering iron, and more the improbability of encountering the stuff in her professions. There is a lot of iron in medieval arms and armor, and even if Raina never picked up a scalpel and started cutting into people there are various tools made of iron. Though I imagine that tools made of other metals, such as brass, exist. Well, it's up to you. Just probably don't expect the secret to last long.

As for your other example, that'd probably be vetoed. Mental gymnastics are all well and good, but some things just add needless complications.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 11, 2019, 04:24:09 pm

Probably still a fair few copper tools going around, which I believe were still used by poorer communities for a fair while after iron was the hot new thing.

Really though, leaving it as just "iron" is kinda rough on the fae creatures... Normally you see stuff like "wrought iron" or "cold iron", which applies a level of specificity to it that lets you finagle things a bit.


Like, most weapon/armor-quality "iron" was actually steel, more or less... Is steel also iron? Perhaps worked, refined iron-steel is fine for the fae, while "raw" iron is dangerous to them. Dunno.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 11, 2019, 04:33:37 pm

I believe one of the supplements makes it clear that it's the magnetic qualities of iron that fae creatures find difficult to be around or, especially, touch. I'll have to check and get back to you.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 11, 2019, 04:52:32 pm

"Fuckin' Magnets: How Do They Work?", the RPG

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 11, 2019, 05:12:52 pm

Quoted from Terrible Beauty, the supplement with rules for playing as pixies, hobgoblins, and actual elves:

Quote

Faeries cannot stand iron’s touch. Even its smell offends them. The trouble they have with iron has to do with the metal’s magnetic properties, which interfere with faerie magic. Being magical creatures, the same disruption causes them extreme discomfort when they touch the metal, and some find their magical abilities start to unravel. Extended contact with iron or any of its alloys can leave burn marks.

Fortunately, the rules allow for non-iron weapons and armor; after all, this is a world of magic where iron vulnerability is a known factor for many creatures. Even better, the stats and prices are identical. The only real difference is that non-metal weapons can shatter on impact with metal, and you have to roll a 0 or less for that to happen.

(The background options for some of these faerie creatures are absurd, by the way.)

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 11, 2019, 05:34:31 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 11, 2019, 04:01:16 pm

There is a lot of iron in medieval arms and armor

Looking at the prices in the rulebook, I'd actually expect a mercenary company (which, let's be honest here, is more a band of brigands than a legitimate army) to use surprisingly little: with metallic armour starting at a crown per suit and swords at 5 shillings, I'd imagine the rank and file would use the cheaper leather armours and spears, and that the officers in heavier gear wouldn't trust the newbie girl to heal them. Raina being in a non-combatant role, it's possible she wasn't even given weapons or armour of her own, and she only grabbed one in self-defense when the time came.

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even if Raina never picked up a scalpel and started cutting into people there are various tools made of iron.

Physician's tools of the time: Linen bandages. Herbal remedies. Leeches. Prayer. Magic. Maybe a trepanning drill if a surgeon isn't available. Making those herbal remedies requires more tools, which might be made of metal, but they're mostly sharp and/or hot while in use with little reason to touch them beyond accidents. Which is where we come back to improbabilities but not impossibilities.

It's worth noting that Raina's profession is Academic:Medicine rather than Common:Healer. I'd say the former is more likely to be a classical physician, while the latter is more likely to be a barber-surgeon or the like.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: lawastooshort on February 12, 2019, 05:35:26 am

I would like to display my interest with the below WIP entirely rolled sheet.

Spoiler: Hate the Orc (click to show/hide)

Name: Hate
Ancestry: Orc
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Background: Earned a living working in your profession.
Professions: Grave robber
Size: 1 (7.5ft)
Speed: 12
Wealth: 6cp

Damage/Health: 0/10
Strength: 10
Agility: 11
Intellect: 9
Will: 9

Healing Rate: 2
Defense: 11
Perception: 10

Insanity: 0
Corruption: 1

Languages: You speak the Common Tongue and Dark Speech.
Shadowsight: You see in areas obscured by shadows as if those areas were lit.


Weapons and Equipment: A dagger, a club, basic clothing, a backpack, a week of rations, a waterskin, a tinderbox, 2 torches, a pouch containing 6 cp, and a tin whistle.

Being a grave robber, Hate is aware of the shame she should feel grubbing around amongst the decomposing dead, and as such is awkward with others, alone or in groups. Indeed, for her there are strangers, and then there are people to be afraid of: people she must deal with for everyday living, and people who make her run for the shadows. She is acquainted with the less reputable merchants and healers of the town, as they are to whom she must sell her treasures of metal and flesh. She naturally avoids agents of order, and is wary of those who are outwardly intelligent – they will surely use their intelligence to cheat her. She does not remember ever knowing anyone closely enough or long enough to consider them a friend. That said, when the barrier of fear is passed, Hate is often helpful to others, wanting to please, and has a dutiful sense of keeping her word. Unfortunately this barrier of fear is sometimes passed impulsively, not so much against her better judgement but without judgement: which is where her fear of being cheated may come from. Her willingness to please has been taken advantage of in the past because of this. Although Hate likes to help, and to keep her word, she may be erratic about doing this. It’s hard to fathom what makes her think a particular word is one to keep, perhaps.

Hate fears, quite generally. In particular she fears all that could pass judgement on her for parasiting off the dead; and she fears the undead, although she makes light of this: she's never met a moving body part she couldn't club into submission, she would like to joke. Corpses and death and blood, however, hold no fear for her. She doesn’t know that she values it as such, but Hate more than anything would like a feeling of security: she’s never felt more than a wild and fearful animal. She yearns in a way she could not express in words the security of not being hunted for what she does, and, although she is not so aware of this, the security of friendship – or at least, of the company of people who may not judge her for what she does, and is. Despite her sense of dutifulness, she has no real sense of honor – it’s been erased by the shame of years spent in the dirt. The one physical item she wouldn’t part with is her tin whistle. The sounds she makes from it are the only beautiful things that have ever been hers. It is perhaps the only way she expresses her fears and loathings and longings.

Indeed, playing the tin whistle is the only thing that Hate might consider an achievement. For months and months she would hide in the shadows listening to Angwyn, a local bard, and remember the rising and falling melodies, and later try to recreate them in the dark grubbiness of her hole. She is a self-taught musician, and both proud and insecure about this. Hate would prefer to have nothing to do with authority. She does not want to command, nor be commanded. If you ask her nicely though, she is likely to do what you need.


I haven’t thought of a secret yet.


Gigla - it occurs to me that via Maraline's father, to whom perhaps Hate sold her stolen grave goods and cadavers and organs, the two might have an acquaintainceship of sorts. I expect that Hate would also know a few other similarly disreputable types, and the type of healer or academic who likes dissecting bodies and such like.

edit: Oh! I forgot to add that Hate the Orc is quite attractive, for an orc. Skin blotchy like a toad, thin patchy fur and a forehead like a melting brick, but once someone described her as having "somewhat less brutish" features, which she took as quite the dashing compliment. It's hard to tell which features are the less brutish ones though, amongst her imposing frame of 7 foot 6 and 550lbs.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 19, 2019, 12:55:01 pm

How about a little bump? We've got four characters put together; should be enough for a game.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 19, 2019, 04:56:17 pm

Probably, yes. I was kinda hoping for five but four will probably not be too much more difficult.

I think the amount of overlap in professions and backgrounds might cause a bit of difficulty (nearly everyone has martial and/or criminal origins, which while useful means that a lot of more esoteric knowledge will be hard to come by), but since a lot of paths grant additional professions y'all ought to be able to branch out a bit.

I would like the four prospective players (Kagus, IcyTea, Giglamesh, and lawastooshort) to give some thought on what sort of paths your character might pursue over the course of the campaign. You don't need to have every single thing sorted, but a general idea - even just your novice path - will allow me to get a better feel on what sort of loot should be available at what points. I don't want to, say, drop a bunch of heavy armor and two-handed weapons when everyone is planning on dedicating themselves to magecraft. Or the other way around, for that matter.

I'm planning to open the IC thread this Friday, possibly Saturday if Friday turns out to be especially busy.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 19, 2019, 06:44:37 pm

I'm going for healing and transformation spells, and later a bit of support from another school, probably divination. I'll probably wear light armour and wield swift weapons (I'm particularly keen for a sabre) and pistols (once I can afford them) for some swashbucklling action when not transformed. Of course, if the story takes Raina to another direction, I'm open to change.

Spoiler: Planned leveling choices, likely to change as we play (click to show/hide)

• Become a Rogue (Trickery is the big one here, as it doesn't specify "with a weapon" unlike most damage-boosting talents)
• Roguery Talent: Magic, discovering Life and Transformation, learning Minor Healing and Flowing Form
• Become a Witch, learning Improved Animal Shape (The magical expert paths are all a little too specific for what I'm going for, but Witch seems like a solid choice alongside Artificer)
• Learn Vitality Burst (Doppelganger's Advantage is interesting, but I think a support spell is more worthwhile)
• Nothing to choose
• Discover Divination, learning Epiphany (Rogues don't increase in Power until later, and I have all the spells I want from the current schools at this level. Epiphany seems like a solid boost for my own ability)
• Become a Healer, learning Greater Cure (Easier healing in combat goes above a +1 to my own transformed Defense that Shapeshifter would give, and the level 10 Healer talent is crazy good)
• Roguery Talent: Magic, learning Total Healing and Foretell
• Learn Greater Animal Shape
• Learn Resurrect (I'm torn on which of Greater Animal Shape and Resurrect to take first, but that's not a decision I need to make right now)

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: lawastooshort on February 20, 2019, 04:30:41 am

Hum, I had a better idea at the time of rolling the character up where she could develop, let me see.

The obvious next step is Rogue or Warrior, depending on what develops, since her Will and Intellect are a little inferior, and she's got a sneaking about kind of background. And then quite likely Scout (more probably than Ranger), as that would fit into her character of not being comfortable with others but still wanting to fit in with others. And then depending on how things work out for her and the group, Executioner, Explorer, or Infiltratror might be appropriate.

(I did consider that if something terrible happens to her she might become a Cleric of the one-eye god, in a very bloody way, and then an Executioner.)

I am very happy to be guided by what happens in the story, and by what is useful to the group.

edit: if crazy stuff happened to her, it would be nice to develop into some kind of bard or shaman... but a useful Rogue-Scout-Explorer might be... useful.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 20, 2019, 07:14:50 am

A question about transformations, by the way: the sidebar on page 147 notes that I can use a triggered action to "switch between forms". Does this mean that while an Animal Shape spell is active, I can suppress it and then continue it later, for instance if I want to cast other spells (which transformations prevent because you need to be able to talk to cast), or simply that I can cancel an Animal Shape spell at will? Depending on the answer, my plan might change to include the lesser Animal Shape spell for flexibility.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Rockeater on February 20, 2019, 09:30:55 am

Too late to join?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: lawastooshort on February 20, 2019, 09:43:09 am

Quote from: Sirus on February 19, 2019, 04:56:17 pm

I'm planning to open the IC thread this Friday, possibly Saturday if Friday turns out to be especially busy.

I apologise in advance for possible weekend reply-tardiness, I am not at a computer as much as I am during the week...

Quote from: Rockeater on February 20, 2019, 09:30:55 am

Too late to join?

I think Sirus' last post suggests it wouldn't be.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 20, 2019, 09:57:47 am

Quote from: Rockeater on February 20, 2019, 09:30:55 am

Too late to join?

Certainly not! We haven't begun yet, and more cannon fodder brave adventurers definitely doesn't hurt.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 20, 2019, 10:10:35 am

Quote from: Rockeater on February 20, 2019, 09:30:55 am

Too late to join?

Not at all!

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 20, 2019, 12:50:07 pm

Quote from: Sirus on February 19, 2019, 04:56:17 pm

You don't need to have every single thing sorted, but a general idea - even just your novice path - will allow me to get a better feel on what sort of loot should be available at what points. I don't want to, say, drop a bunch of heavy armor and two-handed weapons when everyone is planning on dedicating themselves to magecraft. Or the other way around, for that matter.

You speak as though we're going to survive this ordeal.

I take offense at the insinuation.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 20, 2019, 01:44:15 pm

I'd be a pretty lousy GM if I didn't at least get you to Level 1  :P

Level 2 on the other hand...

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Rockeater on February 20, 2019, 03:38:49 pm

WIP

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:Weaver of secrets
Ancestry:Clockwork
Gender:
Age:7 (experienced)
Background:Goblins captured you and almost took you apart
for scrap materials. You have replaced your missing
components with bits of wood, old weapons, and
other rubbish.
Personality: You search for meaning in a world in which you have
no place.
Form:You are a small spider-like clockwork with functional
hands. You ignore the effects of difficult terrain when you climb. You are 3
feet tall and weigh 50 pounds.
Appearance:You have a mere suggestion of facial features.
Professions:
  Wilderness:
    Hunter
    Outlaw
Size:1/2
Speed:8
Wealth:Poor

Damage/Health:0/9
Strength:9
Agility:8
Intellect:9
Will:11

Healing Rate:2
Defense:13
Perception:9
Power:0

Insanity:0
Corruption:0
Languagse:Common (Speak)

Weapons and Equipment:
sling with 20 stones
patched basic clothing
a sack
bread
a waterskin
a tinderbox
a candle
a pouch containing 4 bits

Intresting thing:A small dog with a tendency toward viciousness.
Immune:damage from disease and poison; asleep diseased, fatigued, poisoned
Key: Remember to put somewhere
Mechanical Body.
Repairing Damage
Purpose:inexplicable (Will +2)

LEVELS
--Fill this in as the group level increases. List the paths you take (if any) and your bonuses.--

Spoiler: Backstory (click to show/hide)

Weaver of secrets is a small spider looking clockwork with small dents in the place where human eyes would be.
This was the name given to him by his maker, a hermit with fascination with magic by the name of Henry.
His pursue then was to do everything Henry didn't do himself, if it's to get the materials and animals for Henrys experiments, hide things needing hiding, and supporting the material needs of Henry and the animals.

This all changed about two years after his creation, group of goblins were attacking his creator's home destroying and stealing everything they could put their hands on and still attacking and breaking Weaver of secrets apart in the search for more, in the end he barely escaped, needing to rebuild himself with parts he found in his way, with some of the animals test subjects.
His master dead in the attack and his former home destroyed, Weaver of secrets did the last thing he could, support the animals under his control, this was a hard mission, between the constant need to feed them and make sure they aren't fed upon, searches from authorities trying to find the source of the illegal hunting done in the  area, and attacks from goblins and criminal groups, Weaver lost all the animals besides one.

Now, with only a dog he named snow, the last of his master's experiments at his side and a failing in every mission he had, Weaver of secret is looking for a new meaning in life.

Anything I need to improve?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 20, 2019, 04:14:24 pm

You appear to be missing a name and an Interesting Thing. Some sort of bio would not go amiss.

You might be a little frail and lacking in combat power, but being a small spider thing could provide a number of advantages. Don't write off your character just yet.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Rockeater on February 20, 2019, 04:21:41 pm

Apperently the wip wasn't typed right before, fixed, I'll finish this tommorw.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 21, 2019, 05:03:29 am

A spiderbot poacher made from gears and twigs, and his faithful dog... Yeah, that's only mildly terrifying.

Should've rolled the "small mechanical spider" interesting thing, and had yourself a mini-me. Maybe we can dress the dog up (https://youtu.be/lqx9jFWjbS8) for... tactical purposes.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 21, 2019, 05:02:17 pm

Quote from: IcyTea31 on February 20, 2019, 07:14:50 am

A question about transformations, by the way: the sidebar on page 147 notes that I can use a triggered action to "switch between forms". Does this mean that while an Animal Shape spell is active, I can suppress it and then continue it later, for instance if I want to cast other spells (which transformations prevent because you need to be able to talk to cast), or simply that I can cancel an Animal Shape spell at will? Depending on the answer, my plan might change to include the lesser Animal Shape spell for flexibility.

Completely forgot to answer this, my bad.

I'm leaning towards the "cancel spell at will" definition. Being able to stretch a single casting over long periods of time, especially if you're casting other spells in the meantime, would be a bit of a bookkeeping headache as I'd have to track exactly how long is left in your Animal Shape spell duration (or any other transformation spell when it comes to that) and also "reserve" the spell slot so it's both available and unavailable at the same time.

There is an alternative I might be willing to accept: you'd be able to shift back and forth, but the spell duration still counts down even when you're not in your animal shape. The problem with this is that Improved Animal Shape specifically states that you "remain in that form for the duration", and the feeling I get is that the other transformation spells work the same way. The point of the "switch between forms" ability seems to be so you aren't stuck as, say, a wooden box for the full 8-hour duration of Object Form.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: IcyTea31 on February 21, 2019, 05:33:26 pm

By "suppress" I meant indeed that the effects would be inactive, but the duration would keep ticking. The point wouldn't be to stretch the casting over a long time, but to allow using things like hands and speech while the animal form isn't necessary. The spell's primary purpose would be to fight, and the 1-hour duration is enough for multiple fights, but it becomes an inconvenience if between those fights the user has to remain an animal.

I'm completely willing to accept the "cancel at will" definition, though, it would just mean I'd grab the lesser Animal Shape spell as well so as to have more "bullets".

Quote

The point of the "switch between forms" ability seems to be so you aren't stuck as, say, a wooden box for the full 8-hour duration of Object Form.

That's fulfilled by the fact that Object Form requires concentration and is cancelled if you stop concentrating, i.e. at will, so that's probably not the expected interpretation.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Kagus on February 21, 2019, 05:34:33 pm

And that was when Snake learned to become the box.


Anyways, I'm thinking Imrak will probably go the Magician route, because brainsdwarf. Might even pick up some naughty knowledge from that book of his, who knows? I certainly don't know what's in it.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 21, 2019, 06:44:44 pm

That's fair enough, I guess I missed the Concentrate part of the Object Form spell.

I'll think on it and maybe check online to see if it's been errata'd anywhere. At the moment though, I'm still leaning towards the cancellation effect. It occurred to me that if you could switch back and forth for the duration of the spell, it might also allow you to swap between many different forms. You wouldn't have to choose between combat or utility for the hour, you'd be able to go back and forth as needed. That's an incredible degree of flexibility for a single spell slot, something I'm not sure other spells can match.

Like I said though, I'll think on it. Open to suggestions as well.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread!
Post by: Sirus on February 25, 2019, 05:28:50 pm

Well we started a little late, but the game is live! (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173355.0)

Kagus, IcyTea, Giglamesh, and lawastooshort are all in and ready to go. As Rockeater did not finish their sheet, their character isn't in at the moment.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Rockeater on February 25, 2019, 09:20:22 pm

Sorry about that, got away from the computer for the last few days, will finish soon.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on February 27, 2019, 11:30:36 am

I imagine we are just waiting for the other two to come in? I'm not sure it would be terribly in character for the two of us to strike up a conversation :)

Unless my grave robbingness is notorious, and Raina wants tips.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Kagus on February 27, 2019, 12:38:43 pm

So, how do we handle rolls and such? Do we announce intentions in the other thread, or make a secondary post here and hope it's understood which IC instance is being referred to?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on February 27, 2019, 03:48:12 pm

You post what you want to do in the IC thread, preferably in bold typing so it's easier for me to recognize.

Examples: I attempt to stab the goblin, or Raina changes her appearance to match that of the dead bandit. The pronouns and tenses are basically up to you, so long as I can understand what you're trying to say.

If a roll is called for, I'll roll the required dice (either real dice or, more probably, the dice app on my phone) and post the results. If no roll is needed, I'll simply post what happens.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: High tyrol on February 28, 2019, 06:23:35 pm

This looks very interesting, I will definitely be watching this.

Is it too late for me to join?

How often do you plan to run updates? I am interested in joining this roleplay if I would not have to create actions more than once a week and this is still open for new players.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on February 28, 2019, 07:05:50 pm

At the moment we're at four PCs. I can probably handle one more but after that you'd be waitlisted.

Of course, considering that death is quite possible and extremely difficult to cure, I'd wager that waitlisters have a decent chance of getting in.

I run updates whenever possible. In combat or other dangerous situations I'd prefer active posting so that other players aren't waiting too long for their turns.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Rockeater on March 01, 2019, 06:07:46 am

I finished my sheet actually.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: IcyTea31 on March 01, 2019, 06:50:23 am

I presume all the misspellings are a stylistic choice? I don't see any problems with the sheet, though you might want to give the dog a name.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Rockeater on March 01, 2019, 06:59:34 am

Quote from: IcyTea31 on March 01, 2019, 06:50:23 am

I presume all the misspellings are a stylistic choice? I don't see any problems with the sheet, though you might want to give the dog a name.

Why this always happens to me, I'll fix it soon.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: randomgenericusername on March 01, 2019, 07:47:57 am

Seems like the game is already full, so I'm going to try to create a sheet and join the waitlist. Could you PM me the books, please?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 12:06:52 pm

I'm mildly perturbed by the fact that, were I to go by the roleplaying lore in the core book and the dwarf supplement, Imrak would actually be even more of an incorrigible asshole.

Canonical dwarfs are apparently so obnoxiously paranoid and xenophobic that they're effectively incapable of interacting with anyone that isn't another dwarf.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: IcyTea31 on March 02, 2019, 01:11:57 pm

Those are the non-adventurer dwarfs, who stay put in one place and see a non-dwarf maybe once or twice in their life, or worse, only see monsters that attack them. Someone who travels around and ends up dealing with different people on a daily basis will eventually have to admit that maybe there is some merit to other cultures and tolerating them. There probably isn't a very large population of dwarfs in Tomrik's Hollow, so Imrak wouldn't have survived this long without learning to deal with humans.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 02:00:19 pm

Well, "this long" isn't really that long so far as I'm aware, he's basically fresh out of the mountainhomes. He only left because the book pissed him off enough that he had to find out more, which necessitated leaving the halls and venturing outside for the first time. He's academically aware of the other races, being a historian, but he's never had a reason to care about them because dwarfs are obviously the best.


I mean, tolerating other races is one thing, but the splatbook mentions that dwarfs don't even trust other dwarfs that much, which are already considered to be the only living beings capable of being trustworthy or honorable. Or even just competent.

There's even an inherent feeling of "deep frustration, sorrow, and dissatisfaction" in all dwarfs that, not being consciously aware of where it comes from, they generally blame on everything that isn't a dwarf.


It's a bit... One-dimensional.


EDIT: In other news; the goblin splatbook includes new chargen rules that would, with the right rolls, present you with a character that is so small it no longer exists.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: randomgenericusername on March 02, 2019, 10:54:43 pm

I've been working on a sheet and I have this so far. Character details like backstory and personality coming tomorrow. Is this good so far? I added the "Power" and "Languages" sections to the sheet as those were missing or I couldn't find the correct place to put those on.

EDIT: Finished, I guess.

Spoiler: Sigmund (click to show/hide)

Name: Sigmund
Ancestry: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Background: [13] "You traveled extensively. You speak one additional language."
Professions: Magic, Folklore
Languages: Common, High Archaic, Elvish
Size: 1
Speed: 10
Wealth: Getting By

Damage/Health: 0/9
Strength: 9
Agility: 10
Intellect: 10
Will: 12

Healing Rate: 2
Defense: 10
Perception: 10
Power: 0

Insanity: 0
Corruption: 0

Weapons and Equipment:
Staff
Basic Clothing
Backpack
Rations (1 week)
Waterskin
Tinderbox
3 Torches
Pouch
-3 cp

LEVELS
--Fill this in as the group level increases. List the paths you take (if any) and your bonuses.--

Spoiler: Character and Backstory (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Rolls

Background: [13] "You traveled extensively. You speak one additional language."
Personality: [14] "You help others because it’s the right thing to do."
Religion: [6] "You were raised in the teachings of witchcraft."
Age: [15] "You are a middle-aged adult, 36 to 55 years old."
Build: [7] "You are slender."
Appearance: [6] "Most consider you homely: not quite ugly, but a bit worse than plain."
Interesting Thing: [6][7] "A recurring and disturbing dream."

Sigmund isn't particularly interesting to look at, looking like your average middle-aged man. His only defining features are his copper hair, short beard and slender physique, and many would describe him as bland-looking.

While Sigmund isn't exactly heroic or righteous, he always tries to do the right thing as long as it's reasonable and doesn't put his life in risk. He would prefer dying peacefully while surrounded by friends and family than falling in combat, having his life cut short in a painful way.

Sigmund had a normal and stable childhood, or at least as normal as it can be when one is the son of both a witch and a wizard. His mother was from a coven that disbanded when one of their members was captured by witch hunters, while his father was traveling for research purposes.

They both met by chance in an alchemist's shop, fell in love and you know the rest. Since then, they lived together in a cottage close to a small village, small enough that it wouldn't draw the attention of criminals or monsters, and the few would be scared away with their magic.

His mother instructed him in the ways of witchcraft and teached him about their ancient traditions while his father educated him in the methodical field of magic. While clearly possessing magical heritage, just like both of his parents, he has been so far unable to cast even the most basic spell.

The nightmares started when he was 13. At first, they only happened once or twice during each year. Then it was every few months. Then each month. Then each week. Now, they happen almost every odd night. In the beginning, they weren't too bad, and ended shortly after they started. But every time it happened, it would be worse than the last time. What once was just a quick scare was now hours of disturbing visions,

Dreams of a place that could only be described as hell itself. A crimson land of brimstone, fire raining from the sky and emerging from the depths of earth. Every time, he would try to escape the crawling flames, only to be slowly consumed by the blazing inferno and burned alive. Every time, he saw himself be charred to the bone by hellfire, conscious during the whole process until he wasn't more than ashes.

When he was 20, before the nightmares got worse, he decided to leave the village his family lived in to find a meaning to his dream and a way to awaken his magical potential, if it even existed. Every month, he sends a letter to his (now aged, but still alive) parents describing the things he found on his travels and the places he visited.

While the world wasn't exactly a pretty place, one could enjoy it as long as one was careful enough to avoid trouble and not draw unwanted attention. Even then, he still tries his best to help those in need, despite his frail body and limited skills.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on March 04, 2019, 04:20:53 am

Quote from: Kagus on March 02, 2019, 02:00:19 pm

EDIT: In other news; the goblin splatbook includes new chargen rules that would, with the right rolls, present you with a character that is so small it no longer exists.

Please reroll as this if you die.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Kagus on March 04, 2019, 06:18:09 am

Well I'd need to get 2-3 consecutive 3s on a 3d6 roll, but yeah.

Quote from: Different Breeds of Goblin

Mite: The smallest of their kind, mites stand around 18 inches tall and weigh about 15 pounds. Their thin, spindly bodies typically have coal-black skin. Mites live alongside other goblins.

Quote from: Character Development Table: Breed

3 = Mite. Decrease your Size to 1/4 and your Strength by 2. Increase your Agility and Perception both by 1.

Note: This is actually a little odd, as the size fraction is supposed to be based on humans. So size 1 is the size of a human, 2 is twice as large, and 1/4 would be one quarter as big as a human... Which apparently means 18 inches, 15 pounds.

Quote from: Character Development Table: Build

3 = You are quite small. Reduce your height by 3d6 inches and your weight by 2 pounds per inch.

So if we hit 3 on this table and then roll 18 for number of inches reduction, we've already ceased to exist. We also weigh -21 pounds, and as such are apparently made out of dark matter.

Quote from: Character Development Table: Age

3 = You are a child, 6 years old or younger. Halve your Size, height, and weight

This table actually comes before Build, so if we managed to roll 3 here as well then we'd be at size 1/8, in this case meaning 9 inches tall and weighing 7.5 pounds. If we then rolled hard on the Build table, we'd stand at a full height of -9 inches, and weigh in at just about -28.5 pounds.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on March 04, 2019, 06:56:06 am

That's great.


Possibly hard to handle as either a player or DM, but great. Probably my favourite thing of the day so far, thank you.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Kagus on March 04, 2019, 07:48:57 am

Yeah, I'm not sure how you'd work around having a... What would that be? A -1/8 size creature?

I mean, one thing is having negative mass, meaning that you'd need to grab onto the ground to prevent from falling into the sky via gravity pushing you away... But you also have negative volume, and I have no idea what that would do.

Like, in an abstract fuckery sense; I guess that means you'd be cramped and inhibited in larger spaces, but be able to stretch out your limbs and gain full range of motion in pockets and tiny cracks? I'm pretty sure I heard a folk tale about a trickster god who worked like that.

Or maybe you're just this roving "pinch" in reality, where everything nearby gets sucked in to compensate for your negative displacement. Then as you move away they stretch back to their proper shape and size, like one of those funky lens effects.


Of course, none of that even begins to make sense. Which is probably par for the course for a fae.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: IcyTea31 on March 04, 2019, 10:03:10 am

Don't forget that even though the character would have a negative volume, it would have a positive surface area. Possibly not in any two of the three spatial dimensions we're used to, but positive nonetheless.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on March 04, 2019, 10:38:52 am

So it could wear armour.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: randomgenericusername on March 04, 2019, 12:36:33 pm

Completely finished my sheet and added a backstory. Here. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173221.msg7937895#msg7937895) I tried rolling for most things due to a lack of inspiration, but still ended with a pretty average dude. Hopefully, it's good enough.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on March 04, 2019, 01:03:25 pm

Magic and folklore, nice.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: scriver on March 04, 2019, 07:25:53 pm

I too would like to sign up for the waiting list, if I may. Character is entirely rolled, but not with dice, because I lack d20s.

The whole land for military service thing in his backstory I concocted from what little I read from the Orc Splatbook preview pages on rpgdrivethrough.com. It said, basically, that while nearly all Orcs are enslaved to the emperor, there do exist Orcs outside of his slave army; mostly in the form of Orc settlements established to promote the idea that Orc Retirement actually exist -- I figured pseudo-free land-for-service contracts would be a sort of natural extrapolation of their place in society. Hope that's okay for messing with the setting with you. Otherwise I could also see "Privilege to hold Orcs" as being something granted by the Emperor to trusted supporters and vassals, and that being the origin of the settlement and the contract, if that sits better with you.

Spoiler: Here's Stormin' Gormin (click to show/hide)

Name: Gorma
Ancestry: Orc
Gender: Male
Age: 22

Build: You have an average height and weight.
Appearance: You are ugly. You have thick tusks jutting from your broad jaw, a sloping forehead, and tiny eyes set deep in your skull.

Background: The Gods of Blood and Iron visit you in your dreams. You start the game with 1 Insanity.
Personality: KILL!

Professions: Peasant conscript, Mercenary

Size: 1
Speed: 12
Wealth: Getting By

Damage/Health: 12
Strength: 12
Agility: 10
Intellect: 9
Will: 9

Healing Rate: 3
Defense: 10
Perception: 10

Insanity: 1
Corruption: 1

Weapons and Equipment:
Dagger
Staff

Basic clothing
Backpack
A week of rations
Waterskin
Tinderbox
3 torches
Pouch of 2 cp.

A medallion depicting a hideous woman’s face.

LEVELS
--Fill this in as the group level increases. List the paths you take (if any) and your bonuses.--

Spoiler: More characty stuff (click to show/hide)

Relevant rolls:
Background: The Gods of Blood and Iron visit you in your dreams. You start the game with 1 Insanity.
Personality: Kill!
Professions: Peasant conscript, Mercenary

Gorma doesn't know when he started having the dreams. Perhaps he has always had them. For as long as he can remember he's had nights where he's been intruded upon by gruesome images and terrifying voices, filling his dreams with blood and violence, with brutality, savagery, and war. Neither does he know where the voices come from or who they belong to, but they hold his sleeping mind in an iron-handed grip. Sometimes they show him feverish visions of death and murder or whisper to him malevolent secrets, at other times they rise to a crescendo of commanding and demanding shouts. In his dreams he has killed a thousand men in a thousand ways and died a thousand deaths. When he wakes, he wakes in terror; sweat pouring from his skin, blood still racing through his veins, his muscles tense and strained, and always exhausted, as if he'd had no rest at all.

During the days the voices are quiet, but the their words and images still linger, like the rumblings of a faraway storm or a headache he cannot be rid off. When he looks to other people he sometimes sees them as they might have appeared in the dreams, dead and broken before him, many times by his own hand. The voices, he knows, even when he can't hear them, wants blood on his hands, commands him to make the visions reality, demands that he revel in the slaughter. But while he is awake he can deny them, and they respond by sending him dreams filled with scorching anger and indignation.

Gorma was born to a household outside of the emperor's enslavement of his kin. Not that this meant they were free people -- the tiny settlement he belonged to were beholden to a local lord, receiving the right to their miserable little plots of land in exchange for military service. His days a child was framed by fighting and violence; when he wasn't being prepared for service he'd spend his time quarrelling and scrapping like dogs with his peers over any and every thing -- what you couldn't defend, you couldn't keep, be it food, valuables, or any other possessions. He hated the village and his life there, and though he were to young to understand it yet, he wished for a place he could call his own, where others wouldn't boss him around and he wouldn't have to spend every moment guarding everything that was his, lest any moment somebody else would walk in and take it from him.

-----In that way it was somewhat of a relief when his military service began, routines, rules, and regulations ------ he had always had a gift for fighting ----- headhunted by mercenaries -------- when emperor dead, left to go north to seek his own fate -----

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on March 05, 2019, 08:06:22 pm

Hey folks, sorry for the delays. Things have been a bit hectic at work. On days like today I barely have time to shower, eat dinner, and make lunch for the next day before going to bed.

I have some time off starting tomorrow though, so things should improve quite a bit!

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on March 06, 2019, 03:53:34 am

No worries, it's understandable, and thanks for letting us know :)

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on March 07, 2019, 01:07:28 pm

Boy oh boy I am just all over the place.

Quote from: randomgenericusername on March 02, 2019, 10:54:43 pm

I've been working on a sheet and I have this so far. Character details like backstory and personality coming tomorrow. Is this good so far? I added the "Power" and "Languages" sections to the sheet as those were missing or I couldn't find the correct place to put those on.

EDIT: Finished, I guess.

Spoiler: Sigmund (click to show/hide)

Name: Sigmund
Ancestry: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Background: [13] "You traveled extensively. You speak one additional language."
Professions: Magic, Folklore
Languages: Common, High Archaic, Elvish
Size: 1
Speed: 10
Wealth: Getting By

Damage/Health: 0/9
Strength: 9
Agility: 10
Intellect: 10
Will: 12

Healing Rate: 2
Defense: 10
Perception: 10
Power: 0

Insanity: 0
Corruption: 0

Weapons and Equipment:
Staff
Basic Clothing
Backpack
Rations (1 week)
Waterskin
Tinderbox
3 Torches
Pouch
-3 cp

LEVELS
--Fill this in as the group level increases. List the paths you take (if any) and your bonuses.--

Spoiler: Character and Backstory (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Rolls

Background: [13] "You traveled extensively. You speak one additional language."
Personality: [14] "You help others because it’s the right thing to do."
Religion: [6] "You were raised in the teachings of witchcraft."
Age: [15] "You are a middle-aged adult, 36 to 55 years old."
Build: [7] "You are slender."
Appearance: [6] "Most consider you homely: not quite ugly, but a bit
worse than plain."
Interesting Thing: [6][7] "A recurring and disturbing dream."

Sigmund isn't particularly interesting to look at, looking like your average middle-aged man. His only defining features are his copper hair, short beard and slender physique,
and many would describe him as bland-looking.

While Sigmund isn't exactly heroic or righteous, he always tries to do the right thing as long as it's reasonable and doesn't put his life in risk. He would prefer dying peacefully while surrounded by friends and family than falling in combat, having his life cut short in a painful way.

Sigmund had a normal and stable childhood, or at least as normal as it can be when one is the son of both a witch and a wizard. His mother was from a coven that disbanded when one of their members was captured by witch hunters, while his father was traveling for research purposes.

They both met by chance in an alchemist's shop, fell in love and you know the rest. Since then, they lived together in a cottage close to a small village, small enough that it wouldn't draw the attention of criminals or monsters, and the few would be scared away with their magic.

His mother instructed him in the ways of witchcraft and teached him about their ancient traditions while his father his father educated him in the methodical field of magic. While clearly possesing magical heritage, just like both of his parents, he has been so far uncapable of casting even the most basic spell.

The nightmares started when he was 13. At first, they only happened once or twice during each year. Then it was every few months. Then each month. Then each week. Now, they happen almost every odd night. In the beginning, they weren't too bad, and ended shortly after they started. But every time it happened, it would be worse than the last time. What once was just a quick scare was now hours of disturbing visions,

Dreams of a place that could only be described as hell itself. A crimson land of brimstone, fire raining from the sky and emerging from the depths of earth. Every time, he would try to escape the crawling flames, only to be slowly consumed by the blazing inferno and burned alive. Every time, he saw himself be charred to the bone by hellfire, conscious during the whole process until he wasn't more than ashes.

When he was 20, before the nightmares got worse, he decided to leave the village his family lived in to find a meaning to his dream and a way to awaken his magical potential, if it even existed. Every month, he sends a letter to his (now aged, bust still alive) parents describing the things he found on his travels and the places he visited.

While the world wasn't exactly a pretty place, one could enjoy it as long as one was careful enough to avoid trouble and not draw unwanted attention. Even then, he still tries his best to help those in need, despite his frail body and limited skills.

This looks pretty good. You're officially first on the waitlist!

Quote from: scriver on March 04, 2019, 07:25:53 pm

I too would like to sign up for the waiting list, if I may. Character is entirely rolled, but not with dice, because I lack d20s.

The whole land for military service thing in his backstory I concocted from what little I read from the Orc Splatbook preview pages on rpgdrivethrough.com. It said, basically, that while nearly all Orcs are enslaved to the emperor, there do exist Orcs outside of his slave army; mostly in the form of Orc settlements established to promote the idea that Orc Retirement actually exist -- I figured pseudo-free land-for-service contracts would be a sort of natural extrapolation of their place in society. Hope that's okay for messing with the setting with you. Otherwise I could also see "Privilege to hold Orcs" as being something granted by the Emperor to trusted supporters and vassals, and that being the origin of the settlement and the contract, if that sits better with you.

Spoiler: Here's Stormin' Gormin (click to show/hide)

Name: Gorma
Ancestry: Orc
Gender: Male
Age: 22

Build: You have an average height and weight.
Appearance: You are ugly. You have thick tusks jutting from your broad jaw, a sloping forehead, and tiny eyes set deep in your skull.

Background: The Gods of Blood and Iron visit you in your dreams. You start the game with 1 Insanity.
Personality: KILL!

Professions: Peasant conscript, Mercenary

Size: 1
Speed: 12
Wealth: Getting By

Damage/Health: 12
Strength: 12
Agility: 10
Intellect: 9
Will: 9

Healing Rate: 3
Defense: 10
Perception: 10

Insanity: 1
Corruption: 1

Weapons and Equipment:
Dagger
Staff

Basic clothing
Backpack
A week of rations
Waterskin
Tinderbox
3 torches
Pouch of 2 cp.

A medallion depicting a hideous woman’s face.

LEVELS
--Fill this in as the group level increases. List the paths you take (if any) and your bonuses.--

Spoiler: More characty stuff (click to show/hide)

Relevant rolls:
Background: The Gods of Blood and Iron visit you in your dreams. You start the game with 1 Insanity.
Personality: Kill!
Professions: Peasant conscript, Mercenary

Gorma doesn't know when he started having the dreams. Perhaps he has always had them. For as long as he can remember he's had nights where he's been intruded upon by gruesome images and terrifying voices, filling his dreams with blood and violence, with brutality, savagery, and war. Neither does he know where the voices come from or who they belong to, but they hold his sleeping mind in an iron-handed grip. Sometimes they show him feverish visions of death and murder or whisper to him malevolent secrets, at other times they rise to a crescendo of commanding and demanding shouts. In his dreams he has killed a thousand men in a thousand ways and died a thousand deaths. When he wakes, he wakes in terror; sweat pouring from his skin, blood still racing through his veins, his muscles tense and strained, and always exhausted, as if he'd had no rest at all.

During the days the voices are quiet, but the their words and images still linger, like the rumblings of a faraway storm or a headache he cannot be rid off. When he looks to other people he sometimes sees them as they might have appeared in the dreams, dead and broken before him, many times by his own hand. The voices, he knows, even when he can't hear them, wants blood on his hands, commands him to make the visions reality, demands that he revel in the slaughter. But while he is awake he can deny them, and they respond by sending him dreams filled with scorching anger and indignation.

Gorma was born to a household outside of the emperor's enslavement of his kin. Not that this meant they were free people -- the tiny settlement he belonged to were beholden to a local lord, receiving the right to their miserable little plots of land in exchange for military service. His days a child was framed by fighting and violence; when he wasn't being prepared for service he'd spend his time quarrelling and scrapping like dogs with his peers over any and every thing -- what you couldn't defend, you couldn't keep, be it food, valuables, or any other possessions. He hated the village and his life there, and though he were to young to understand it yet, he wished for a place he could call his own, where others wouldn't boss him around and he wouldn't have to spend every moment guarding everything that was his, lest any moment somebody else would walk in and take it from him.

-----In that way it was somewhat of a relief when his military service began, routines, rules, and regulations ------ he had always had a gift for fighting ----- headhunted by mercenaries -------- when emperor dead, left to go north to seek his own fate -----

Your logic regarding orc settlements seems pretty sound. I imagine that there are also free orc enclaves scattered here and there, who don't want any truck with either the Empire or the orc rebellion. Your backstory sorta breaks up near the end, but I think it'll work out okay. Consider yourself waitlisted.

Quote from: Rockeater on March 01, 2019, 06:07:46 am

I finished my sheet actually.

Like I said, I'm all over the place lately :P

As your most recent edit was done before either of the above sheets were posted (it was very close!), Weaver of Secrets will be joining shortly. Just gotta find a place to introduce a clockwork spider with a yappy dog...

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: randomgenericusername on March 07, 2019, 01:17:40 pm

Fixed a few grammatical errors a few seconds ago, by the way. Glad to be first in the waitlist.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: scriver on March 07, 2019, 02:08:35 pm

Quote from: Sirus on March 07, 2019, 01:07:28 pm

Your logic regarding orc settlements seems pretty sound. I imagine that there are also free orc enclaves scattered here and there, who don't want any truck with either the Empire or the orc rebellion. Your backstory sorta breaks up near the end, but I think it'll work out okay. Consider yourself waitlisted.

Ah, typical. I must've copypasted the safety copy instead of the finished ark. I'll get to rewriting it and resubmitting it.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: IcyTea31 on March 07, 2019, 06:24:55 pm

Is there enough moonlight and starlight to raise the goat pen from "obscured by darkness" to "obscured by shadows"? In other words, does Shadowsight apply tonight?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on March 07, 2019, 06:27:00 pm

Yes, there is. It is not fully dark, just dark enough that humans will have a hard time seeing things.

(I gotta start remembering the terminology.)

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on March 08, 2019, 10:07:52 am

Yes, I am enjoying this dialog very much.

So it looks like the pairs are going to be Hate & Maraline, and Imrak & Raina. Two things to consider:

Which group will stay up first? Will you rotate just once or swap every couple of hours?
How will each group keep watch? Hide in the barn, patrol the pasture, etc etc?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on March 08, 2019, 12:10:25 pm

Hey, I was going to protest that at 10 Hate's strength seemed very average, but everyone else’s is 9. I could probably maim the dwarf by accidentally rolling over on him in my sleep, at 7ft6 and 250kg!

edit:
Um, half and half, and probably hiding would be best, because we don't want to scare off whoever does it, nor be separated from the other pair i.e. we want to tap them on the shoulders as soon as we see something.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Kagus on March 08, 2019, 12:40:52 pm

Well we know that the thing attacked just recently, and Dawls did say that it's never come twice in a row (so far as he's noticed, anyways). I figure right now we're best off learning as much about the area and the situation as possible so that we're ready for when it is time again.

Also this is an excellent "let's split up and look for clues, gang!" moment, why waste the opportunity?

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on March 08, 2019, 12:58:27 pm

As sensible as that is, Hate’s mind has been pointed towards the idea of coshing something round the head, so she probably wouldn’t suggest that (even though she is quite the thinker!) (sometimes!)

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: randomgenericusername on March 08, 2019, 01:46:35 pm

Since the thief or monster doesn't come twice in a row, then wouldn't staying there to watch over the goats be a waste of time? I feel it might be a good idea to explore and find whatever it's stealing the goats before the next night.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: scriver on March 08, 2019, 03:14:55 pm

mark my words, this will turn out to be a giant supermutant with camouflage ability and a minigun

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on March 08, 2019, 03:31:41 pm

/me crosses out his old notes

It will now!

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: IcyTea31 on March 08, 2019, 03:40:46 pm

>Level 0 characters
>Minigun

/me sweats.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on March 08, 2019, 03:43:31 pm

Gotta let those waitlisters in, don'tchaknow.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: scriver on March 10, 2019, 06:36:02 pm

So I finally stopped putting off rewriting this and finished it off. I'm reposting all of it for easy access, the new parts are labelled as such and at the end so they're easy to find.

It should be obvious, but I'm going for a future Berserker path walker here.

Spoiler: Here's Stormin' Gormin (click to show/hide)

Name: Gorma
Ancestry: Orc
Gender: Male
Age: 22

Build: You have an average height and weight.
Appearance: You are ugly. You have thick tusks jutting from your broad jaw, a sloping forehead, and tiny eyes set deep in your skull.

Background: The Gods of Blood and Iron visit you in your dreams. You start the game with 1 Insanity.
Personality: KILL!

Professions: Peasant conscript, Mercenary

Size: 1
Speed: 12
Wealth: Getting By

Damage/Health: 12
Strength: 12
Agility: 10
Intellect: 9
Will: 9

Healing Rate: 3
Defense: 10
Perception: 10

Insanity: 1
Corruption: 1

Weapons and Equipment:
Dagger
Staff

Basic clothing
Backpack
A week of rations
Waterskin
Tinderbox
3 torches
Pouch of 2 cp.

A medallion depicting a hideous woman’s face.

LEVELS
--Fill this in as the group level increases. List the paths you take (if any) and your bonuses.--

Spoiler: More characty stuff (click to show/hide)

Relevant rolls:
Background: The Gods of Blood and Iron visit you in your dreams. You start the game with 1 Insanity.
Personality: Kill!
Professions: Peasant conscript, Mercenary

Gorma doesn't know when he started having the dreams. Perhaps he has always had them. For as long as he can remember he's had nights where he's been intruded upon by gruesome images and terrifying voices, filling his dreams with blood and violence, with brutality, savagery, and war. Neither does he know where the voices come from or who they belong to, but they hold his sleeping mind in an iron-handed grip. Sometimes they show him feverish visions of death and murder or whisper to him malevolent secrets, at other times they rise to a crescendo of commanding and demanding shouts. In his dreams he has killed a thousand men in a thousand ways and died a thousand deaths. When he wakes, he wakes in terror; sweat pouring from his skin, blood still racing through his veins, his muscles tense and strained, and always exhausted, as if he'd had no rest at all.

During the days the voices are quiet, but the their words and images still linger, like the rumblings of a faraway storm or a headache he cannot be rid off. When he looks to other people he sometimes sees them as they might have appeared in the dreams, dead and broken before him, many times by his own hand. The voices, he knows, even when he can't hear them, wants blood on his hands, commands him to make the visions reality, demands that he revel in the slaughter. But while he is awake he can deny them, and they respond by sending him dreams filled with scorching anger and indignation.

Gorma was born to a household outside of the emperor's enslavement of his kin. Not that this meant they were free people -- the tiny settlement he belonged to were beholden to a local lord, receiving the right to their miserable little plots of land in exchange for military service. His days a child was framed by fighting and violence; when he wasn't being prepared for service he'd spend his time quarrelling and scrapping like dogs with his peers over any and every thing -- what you couldn't defend, you couldn't keep, be it food, valuables, or any other possessions. He hated the village and his life there, and though he were to young to understand it yet, he wished for a place he could call his own, where others wouldn't boss him around and he wouldn't have to spend every moment guarding everything that was his, lest any moment somebody else would walk in and take it from him.

-----Readded part starts here -----

In that way it was somewhat of a relief when his military service began, with the imposement of routines, rules, and regulations. Most of the handful of young Orcs who entered service at the same time had trouble adapting and were punished harshly, but for Gorma it came easier. He already made a considerable effort to resist his nature as it was, and finding himself in a society which rewarded that suited him just fine. Of course, it was by no means a peaceful existence -- the regiment existed to do combat, after all, and to intimidate and awe people with combat in mind -- and Gorma was despite his demeanour far from a cautious fighter. Whether in training or in actual combat, fighting was the one time Gorma let the voices guide and it showed that he had learned from their lessons. At times he even lost himself in the fight and had to be pulled off his own comrades, not knowing how to put and end to his bloodlust himself. He built a reputation for ruthless and cunning battler, with no scruples or regard for his opponents.

It was as such he was noticed by the captain of The Blackened Banners, a mercenary company temporarily contracted by his lord. As the sellswords prepared to move on, the captain made Gorma a simple offer -- desert and join their band, and they'd guard him from repercussions. It was an easy choice, and he left with them the very next day without looking back. He served with them for several years, and they kept their end of the bargain. Then, of course, everything changed, and with the emperor's death he was no longer in need of any protection. Having been far to the north of his childhood home when it happened, he never knew how things had played out for the people there, but he wasn't exactly curious to find out. Instead, he reneged on his contract with the Blackened Banners and set his eyes on the even further north. The place where it was said you could be truly free.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on March 11, 2019, 03:24:46 pm

Alright Rockeater, you're in!

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: lawastooshort on March 15, 2019, 09:38:56 am

I don't think Hate needs to do anything at the moment except wait to be woken? (just checking to not hold anything up :) )

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on March 15, 2019, 03:13:38 pm

Yeah, you're fine. Mostly I'm waiting to see what the awake people try to do.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: randomgenericusername on April 22, 2019, 03:17:06 pm

Sorry for bumping this, but I was wondering about the lack of activity in the IC thread. This is still alive, right? If it is, have you tried PMing the players to remind them to post? I wouldn't like to see this die from inactivity just like the Star Wars RPG game, since I was also looking foward joining this game.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Kagus on April 23, 2019, 11:23:33 am

I think things get a little bit confusing at times with trying to figure out who exactly is "done" doing something, and therefore who should find something new to do. At least that's been an issue for me, as I don't really know what else I'm supposed to be contributing at a given moment.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: randomgenericusername on April 23, 2019, 11:49:12 am

Isn't that what the OOC thread is for? If you don't know what to do and are confused about what's going on or who's doing what, you can ask questions and discuss plans here. Better than just not posting anything at all, I think.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: Sirus on April 25, 2019, 05:21:38 pm

Considering that I was at fault for this one, I want to give the players some time to respond. Of course, there's always the chance that I killed another game in its infancy.

Title: Re: Shadow of the Demon Lord - OOC and Recruitment Thread! Game is live!
Post by: randomgenericusername on April 25, 2019, 09:19:01 pm

Quote from: Sirus on April 25, 2019, 05:21:38 pm

Considering that I was at fault for this one, I want to give the players some time to respond. Of course, there's always the chance that I killed another game in its infancy.

But you did notify them, right? Maybe they just haven't noticed that you posted in the IC thread, or are waiting for the rest to post on it. I mean, it's been 12 days and only Kagus seems to have noticed. Sorry, but I just really hope this doesn't die too.