[Lords of Creation] The Ubiquitous OOC Thread

Sarky

Sarky

Drunken master
Evening, folks.


I'd prefer to see your various characters before kicking off a story, to tailor it better to everyone, so if you could get on with the process of posting your character details in the appropriate thread I'd appreciate it.


I'm awarding up to 10BP for a decent backstory, 5 BP for a character portrait.


Sorcerers can swap up to 4 charms at character creation for a spell, from then on you buy with XP.


If there are any questions, post them up here and I'll answer as soon as I can.
 
Separate topics in the "Vagabonds, Warriors, Kings" subforum, I assume?


edit: and one other question. Supposing I have Increasing Strength Exercise, what's the cap on that? Do I have to be a certain essence before my strength can go over 5, or is that just for character creation?
 
My character is getting close to done, but the local game store didn't have a copy of Oadenol's Codex, and I think I should probably take a look at that before I finish it up. Going to hit up a few other places on Saturday so my hope is to have the character posted before Monday. My overall character concept is a bit like MacGyver meets exalted, but I don't have problems going the violent route. I plan to look into the artificer stuff a bit as well. I'm a bit behind the other three as I didn't come in with a character in hand. If you prefer to have a night caste I think I can work this character from that angle too.
 
Feantari said:
My character is getting close to done, but the local game store didn't have a copy of Oadenol's Codex, and I think I should probably take a look at that before I finish it up. Going to hit up a few other places on Saturday so my hope is to have the character posted before Monday. My overall character concept is a bit like MacGyver meets exalted, but I don't have problems going the violent route. I plan to look into the artificer stuff a bit as well. I'm a bit behind the other three as I didn't come in with a character in hand. If you prefer to have a night caste I think I can work this character from that angle too.
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I have Oadenol's; is there anything in particular you need to know from it, or did you just want to look over it in general?
 
I'd be grateful if any background rating higher than 3 could be brought to my attention. I'm not going to say "no, you can't have that" (unless it's really, REALLY daft), but 3+ dot artifacts, for example are rare items with histories and world-changing potential, so their value as plot hooks should be obvious enough. :)


Increasing Strength Exercise is capped by the character's permanent Essence, according to the book. Strength at character creation is capped at 5. The charm can raise your strength beyond the natural cap while active, so a Solar with Strength 5 and Essence 3 can use the charm and spend a scene with up to Strength 8.
 
Ironically, I'm going nearly artifact-free, 'cept for a 1-dot Perfect Boots. Do have that lvl5 factory-cathedral I mentioned earlier, but the plot hooks for that one we already talked about a little bit. Layna's only been Exalted a few days, ditto with Aeroulus, so the best they have is Exceptional mortal weapons and armor.


Thanks for the clarification on ISE. That actually works out just about perfectly for how much essence I was actually planning on using on it on a regular basis. One other question, though otherwise the character is about done: can we get a free combo, or would you rather we stick by-the-book?
 
Well, if you intend to take on Creation and win you're going to need all the help you can get. Go on then :)
 
Heh. No. I'm the type of GM that likes to distinguish between swords and daiklaves when specialising.
 
Bless you, sir. Polearms are terribly underused by players in any game I've ever run. I may demand wobbly-spear shenanigans.
 
It's fine if you elaborate on it a bit. I'll want details on just how you became so staggeringly rich, a couple of businesses you own, where they operate, that sort of thing. A paragraph or two in your backstory should cover it.
 
Sarky said:
Bless you, sir. Polearms are terribly underused by players in any game I've ever run. I may demand wobbly-spear shenanigans.
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Lady. Polearms, naginatas, and various other MOST EXCELLENT weapons are indeed horrendously underused, and I'll be damned if I don't dedicate my life - or at least this character - to remedying that wrong.


Plus, I mean, they're alright damage, and they look cool.
 
Apologies. I am old fashioned and assume everyone on the internet is male until otherwise specified.
 
The internet. Where the men are men, the women are men, and children are FBI agents. I'll pick spider Mecha-Hitler for $500, Alex.
 
So whereabouts in Creation are you guys based? Devlin mentions the West in his backstory, are the rest of you knocking around there as well or do you intend to have moved somewhere else by the time we kick off?
 
I'm thinking as long as we are all generally close to each other when we kick it off, so we can meet and do our thing then i doubt any of us really care that much. I know for me Blacklion, and Arri we don't really know the map well or the places so picking is harder for us and we wouldn't mind were exactly we are. So, if you want you can pick anywhere that more Continent for you. But that's just my vote i guess.
 
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I'm thinking as long as we are all generally close to each other when we kick it off, so we can meet and do our thing then i doubt any of us really care that much. I know for me Blacklion, and Arri we don't really know the map well or the places so picking is harder for us and we wouldn't mind were exactly we are. So, if you want you can pick anywhere that more Continent for you. But that's just my vote i guess.
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Yeah. I have a vague idea of where the major things are, but I left my bio as vague as humanly possible intentionally. I'm cool with wherever everyone else wants to start off.
 
Well, if you'd like to familiarise yourself with Creation, here's a map. Be warned, it's 3840 x 2303. But it does include a huge amount of detail not normally found on the "official" map. Prints out quite nicely onto A0 size paper.


Not a huge amount of geography in the West, not much farming, you really need a ship to be respected there. Pirates a-go-go there.


Anyway, it's up to you guys. I'm familiar enough with each direction, doesn't matter much to me where you want the game to start. Bear in mind that travelling anywhere in Creation takes time. Unless you're going to wear your sorcerer to the bone with Stormwind Rider or similar, you're looking at weeks to get anywhere important. The shortest route between the Threshold and the Blessed Isle is about two week's sailing, for example.
 
It's up to everyone, I still think West is a decent start. With 5 resources I could land us a ship and all that, so we should be set. Just its the time factor of traveling. Though like i said, i still think west is best. (totally did that on purpose)
 
Well, Revya and Aeroulus are fine wherever. We were intentionally super vague as to where we were, but since we ditched their old mercenary outfit a day or two ago, we're probably in some variety of town. I kinda have a hankering for some ARRRRRR PIRATES action, but I'm not too picky. Getting a ship would be cool though, and I have resources 3 so I can pitch in a bit for crew once we actually get started and everyone meets up.


...But yeah. Dev really isn't good for anything else, so I fully expect him to be our Stormwind Rider/Cloud Trapeze/whatever whore. <3
 
Also, because others will be posting their profiles at later times, even days from now, me and Arri were wondering if it was ok to start with just us two and add the others in as they finish up? Kinda would feel more like a traditional story that way as well, or at least like a traditional style RPG. As a game designer, I support this kind of story telling :D
 
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