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Post  The Warrior of Many Faces Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:40 pm

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^While on the subject of expansions, I thought I might also ask, but are we going to use the Talent Show too?

BTW - Yeah, I'll go with Mechanics as my main stat then.

I hope so. I got half my talents from there. XD
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Post  XandZero2 Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:46 pm

The Warrior of Many Faces wrote:
XandZero2 wrote:

^While on the subject of expansions, I thought I might also ask, but are we going to use the Talent Show too?

BTW - Yeah, I'll go with Mechanics as my main stat then.

I hope so. I got half my talents from there. XD

^I just noticed that while looking over your character.

BTW - I like the character. Looks like a fun one. Also, I'll give you bonus points for creativity on the ring placement (;

-Only thing that concerns me - I'm 3/4 Cajun, but I don't have a clue how to read French. Hopefully it won't prove to be that much of a problem in the campaign.

On a final note - how did you get the character image to appear on your sheet? I've been wondering how you do that on Google Docs.
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Post  The Warrior of Many Faces Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:48 pm

XandZero2 wrote:
The Warrior of Many Faces wrote:
XandZero2 wrote:

^While on the subject of expansions, I thought I might also ask, but are we going to use the Talent Show too?

BTW - Yeah, I'll go with Mechanics as my main stat then.

I hope so. I got half my talents from there. XD

^I just noticed that while looking over your character.

BTW - I like the character. Looks like a fun one. Also, I'll give you bonus points for creativity on the ring placement (;

-Only thing that concerns me - I'm 3/4 Cajun, but I don't have a clue how to read French. Hopefully it won't prove to be that much of a problem in the campaign.

On a final note - how did you get the character image to appear on your sheet? I've been wondering how you do that on Google Docs.

Thanks! Very Happy

Don't worry, I'll provide a translation.

There's an Insert Image button right next to the Insert Link button.
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Post  Dr Blight Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:59 pm

I don't know what Talent Show is, but at least none of the talents chosen for Halynn seemed like anything I'd not allow so it's probably fine.
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Post  Xel Unknown Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:05 pm

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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:11 pm

Xel Unknown wrote:The Talent Show

Oh, I mmay borrow from this.
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Post  Dr Blight Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:20 pm

I gave it a read, yeah, Talent Show's fine too.
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Post  The Warrior of Many Faces Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:41 pm

Dr Blight wrote:I don't know what Talent Show is, but at least none of the talents chosen for Halynn seemed like anything I'd not allow so it's probably fine.

Dr Blight wrote:I gave it a read, yeah, Talent Show's fine too.

Shiny. Very Happy
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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:09 pm

Oh dear Celestia, why are there so many talents? What to do, what to do?
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Post  RavenscroftRaven Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:15 pm

Start by isolating the ones you can take, which makes the list much shorter, then since you can pick a ton of 'em, pick whichever strikes your fancy or that you think may be useful. I like taking one Freaky Knowledge as a flavour-builder too.

I'm done Talents, just need combat and my sheet'll be up.
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Post  tygerburningbright Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:25 pm

Blight I took one talent that is not offical is that ok?

I have the feeling that we are going to have to have the it belongs in a Museum debate and also in a diffrent situation one member will try to arrest another. In party conflict yay!
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Post  Dr Blight Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:30 pm

tygerburningbright wrote:Blight I took one talent that is not offical is that ok?

I have the feeling that we are going to have to have the it belongs in a Museum debate and also in a diffrent situation one member will try to arrest another. In party conflict yay!

PM me with which it is and any information about where it's from so I can make sure.
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Post  Dr Blight Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:58 pm

So, as I said before. I've been working on a map. It's fairly simple and more or less done. Gives you a decent idea of where one thing is in relation to another but...I realized only now that I didn't make it with any real-world measurements of scale in mind.-head desk- Should I still use it?
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Post  SilentBelle Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:13 pm

Dr Blight wrote:So, as I said before. I've been working on a map. It's fairly simple and more or less done. Gives you a decent idea of where one thing is in relation to another but...I realized only now that I didn't make it with any real-world measurements of scale in mind.-head desk- Should I still use it?
Definitely. In fact, it would be kind of neat to give the map as a resource to the players as an inaccurate reference to the world around them. It's not entirely necessary to have a 100% accurate map, you just need a general idea of where stuff is.
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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:20 pm

Dr Blight wrote:So, as I said before. I've been working on a map. It's fairly simple and more or less done. Gives you a decent idea of where one thing is in relation to another but...I realized only now that I didn't make it with any real-world measurements of scale in mind.-head desk- Should I still use it?
Definitely, but I have an idea. Don't give us the map at start, make us find or IC make it ourselves. Carrot-on-a-stick kinda thing.
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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:22 pm

Hey, for the character creation sheet, do we not pick traits until we level up?
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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:55 pm

Barring any final edits you guys may have me make, I present to YOU... HEALING TORCH!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AhDZFP3opURFVvllrd3C9njQqfZG9Q7u5YIhDOxJKYk/edit
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Post  Dr Blight Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:18 pm

Well I'm happy to announce that I think I'm about ready to make the OOC. Not too much still left to do now on my own so I think we might even be able to start by Monday if not earlier. Just gotta finish detailing some of the NPCs and monsters, post the monsters up for review. And from there work with you all to get things started.

Oh and name the campaign. I have no idea what to call this. Anyone have any tips for naming your campaign?
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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:23 pm

Well, considering the characters and the little bit of backstory you gave us, I'd say something B-Movie-ish, like, IDK, the Isle of Memories or something.
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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:27 pm

Hey, um, I'm a bit confused on a few things. For one, how does this play by post thing work? Also, How do the dice rolls work, not d20, like, d8 and d10 and d12, and what the buck does 3d8 and 2d10 and the like mean?
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Post  Dr Blight Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:35 pm

2d12

The first number is the number of times you roll. In this case 2, so you roll two dice.

d stands for dice

the second number is the number of sides the dice has. In this case 12, so the dice you roll are 12-sided.

as such, 2d12 means "roll two 12-sided dice." Some people use actual dice, some people use a random number generator.

As for how a play-by-post works. I'm not sure I understand the question.
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Post  tygerburningbright Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:41 pm

sub to answer someone makes a post in the campain page then the DM reactes to the post so on and so forth this is the only time that spliting the party makes the game go faster.

Side note did you just give your character the exact same stats that I gave mine? Evil or Very Mad
Side Side note why does a doctor need history? that training could be better spent in an other stat.
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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:45 pm

Because if you read his backstory, you'll note that he is an insane reader, and as such, has learned a lot about the history of many things, as well as reading lots of medical texts. Also, what are your characters stats? Have you linked a Character sheet yet?
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Post  SubjectZ Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:45 pm

Also, Thanks Blight!
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Post  tygerburningbright Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:49 pm

Re: Character Sheets
tygerburningbright on Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:58 pm

.The PC I most likely will be using in Blight's game

Meet .

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