Yamazaki

World Monarchy [1 Spot Open; Pathfinder]

Looks like we've got a cross between Pathfinder and Ebberon. An advancement of Dungeon Punk. I can get behind this sort of setting. Question - who are we going to be aligned with/working for/pretending to work for?

BTW, I'm assuming that starting gold is average for our class. That's the usual for 1st level characters, unless we're getting more than usual.

Looking for Pathfinder PbP campaign

Now that I'm back online (wednesday nights are my live game night, but I'm tangential again), time to catch up.

*cracks knuckles* I'm not actually sure what I want to play for this game. I know I said Alchemist or Rogue earlier (they're what I tend to lean towards), I'm bouncing around a million ideas. So I'd like a bit of feedback on some ideas:

Magus - Greensting Slayer/Beastblade archetypes (slightly sneaky with a familiar down the road). Likely half-elf

Fighter - mutation warrior/eldritch guardian (mutagen buff, power attack, and a familiar for flanking). Human

Alchemist - either grandier (for explosions!) or toxican/vivicectionist (poison/sneak attack route). Possibly Tiefling

Slayer - vanilla ver, using a polearm (maybe naginata?). Maybe elf? Not big on this one...

Rogue - unchained ver, dual short swords for maximum stab. Likely half-elf again or maybe Fletchling if allowed.

Thoughts?

Looking for Pathfinder PbP campaign

1st level is okay. Personally, I like starting a bit higher (should've seen the epic level 3.5 game I was in years ago... story for another time), but for the sake of simplicity for everyone involved, starting at 1st is fine with me.

Side note: any limitations? Like are firearms, hybrid classes, occult/psychic classes, the new vigilante class, etc, okay? I'm making the assumption that all 3rd party content is banned/GM approval only.

@Rock - if you don't have any of the books, don't dispair. Thankfully, Paizo, in all their kindness, set up Pathfinder to be Open Source Content, which translates to all the rules, classes, feats, skills, spells, and other game info is free. That said, all the Pathfinder setting stuff, is not (they want you to buy those books).

That aside, like Speedy, I'm happy to help you with teaching the system. I've had to teach my live group before. It's not too bad. It's mostly about figuring out what you want to play and going from there.

Looking for Pathfinder PbP campaign

So we got one for each, eh? Hmm...

There is in fact a dice rolling system on here that could be used to see what you roll. Tested it out just now, myself. You can find it here.

Only problem is that it doesn't show what each individual die rolled... so that's kind of a bummer. And I can't find any other dice roller that displays all your rolls. Unless you all wanted to go through the trouble of recording your rolls on video or something? But all in all point buy might be the easier way here.

@Speedwagon

It looks like you can copy/past dice rolls. Testing... link? EDIT: it seems to work, so that issue is resolved. Not terribly robust though.

Normally, I'm all for dice rolls for character creation, but given that the dice roller here is somewhat limited, point buy may be the safest/easiest route. Shame Invisible Castle isn't around anymore...

Looking for Pathfinder PbP campaign

What type of style would everyone prefer? Rolling or point buy? And if rolling, would you prefer 4D6 and discard the lowest, 4D6, or 3D6? I'm asking because I might be able to GM if there's enough interest. I'm still relatively new to GMing having only done it for about 3 months now, and it would also be my first time doing it on a forum instead of in person; but I'd be willing to give it a try if the party were the right size (I'd say a 4 person party is a nice number).

@Speedwagon

Personally, I like rolling for stats. When I run, I use the usual 4d6, re-roll 1s, take the best 3. It gives the players reasonably decent stats without breaking past 18 (before racial modifiers).

Forum based is a tad different than usual, although Pathfinder usually works out alright compared to other systems. If there's no dice roller on these forums (I haven't been around long enough to tell), then it would be wise to find an online one to verify rolls. I used to use Invisible Castle years ago, but it seems that they're not around anymore? I can't tell.

Looking for Pathfinder PbP campaign

That would be nice, but GMs can be difficult to find. Typically, a player will break down and just run. I've done that in the past more times than I care to remember, but I've burnt out on running beyond my live group (and none of those bozos are willing to actually learn the bloody system enough to run *sighes* )

But yeah, I've been itching to use either one of my alchemist or rogue builds I've had sitting around...

Looking for Pathfinder PbP campaign

So, I'm new here, so I'm not exactly sure how things roll in these parts. However, I do know that I've been looking to join in either a Play by Post style Pathfinder campaign, or gods willing, a Shadowrun 5e campaign. I don't have high hopes in the later. I normally GM, but I'd love to be a player for once in my life. Anyone know of any campaigns that need a new player?

-Yamazaki

Greetings

How's it going, people? Folks? I dunno what the lot of you refer to yourselves as here. As one could easy guess, I'm new here. But not new to roleplaying, especially the play-by-post sort. I'm a veteran of both free-form and tabletop RP'ing, being an admin for a small D&D PbP forum used by my friends. I also run a live game for my group of friends/family, usually it's Pathfinder, but I'm on a Shadowrun kick these days.

Anyhow, I have come here in hopes of finding fresh hunting grounds for my desire to be involved in PbP RPs, freeform or tabletop style. If anyone is recruiting, lemme know. I'll take a look.

-Yamazaki