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Chat Log List - 2023 07 21 - Island Time - Formatted - Story

Chat log with automatic formatting applied 'JtomTMO' connected

BOB Hello there sir

'TMO' connected

BOB Hello TMO

TMO: hello

TMO: JTom/Mini should be here too. Had him install and login earlier to get all the downloads

BOB He logged in earlier

BOB He did not type yet

TMO: he's setting up behind me

TMO: so I can kibbutz his entire evening. :D

BOB grins

TMO: Aarakocra Wind Priest for me!

TMO: :P

'Lemon' connected

Lemon: Oooh, fancy new background

TMO: Spell Tokens v7.17\r\n

JtomTMO: Hello

BOB Hey there Lemon

Lemon: Hello Mini!

Lemon: And other people too, I guess

BOB Lemon, TMO and JTom

BOB so far

TMO: Bob = "Other People"

BOB LOl

BOB So Lemon and TMO are calling the shots right now

BOB Give me your questions about this new Era

Lemon: First question: Can you please tell me what to do next?

BOB Ask questions

BOB Seriously, that is how we start

Lemon: Done! Next

BOB I have answers to give, and also things that I do not know until players ask and we discuss to make it real

Lemon: Ok so... I know I'm human, what else do I need to know before I can make a character?

BOB Also for the background decal for our starting of the new Era, it is called Kelpie Eye

Lemon: nice

BOB Do you want to be a fighter Lemon? I thought it would be good for you but want to be sure

BOB and TMO what are you interested in? and JTom, do you want to be a fighter ?

Lemon: Yeah, I was struggling to decide between mage or fighter, so fighter sounds fine to me. Makes my decision a little easier

JtomTMO: \scaleui 1

BOB You will be on the island of Boriquen, the NW corner, the sugar cane fields, the distilleries etc

BOB I think you will have fun with a fighter Lemon

'Spring' connected

BOB you can still be smart, know more things etc

BOB Hello Spring

Lemon: Yay, hi Spring!

Lemon: It wasn't that I didn't like being a spellcaster, I just didn't like having SO MANY spells

BOB That is partially a function of being higher level

BOB and you can hold off on your choice for now

BOB see what everyone else wants,

Lemon: Yeah, and that was partially why I was excited to start over from zero. I learn better that way

BOB I was thinking Lorie would be good

BOB as the Mage of the group,

BOB but there can be two or more

JtomTMO: I'm thinking of making a mage

BOB Nice JTom

TMO: I'll be almost anything

BOB I know TMO, and I want you to be what you WANT to be this time

Lemon: My first thought was druid, but Carissa said there are no druids in this part of the world, so I'm not really committed to anything right now. Not particularly interested in being a sneaky person, but everything else would be fine with me

BOB and not worry about making it fit

BOB there are no druids, there are Druids with a capital D but then human sacrifice, etc. so yeah not a good choice

BOB Especially here on Boriquen, you would have to hide your religious practices, etc.

Lemon: I just want animal friends that aren't circus boars lol

Lemon: I was like oh man, sea creature friends would be awesome! was literally the only thought I put into it

TMO: What types of societies are available? Is it all civilized, are there uncivilized, nonhuman enclaves, etc?

BOB Depending on how your dice are you could be a Fighter, a Ranger, or a Paladin

BOB You are all from Civilized society but there are uncivilized Mountain Men up in the mountains that are strangers

TMO: oh, and are you expecting the PCs to all already know each other and be a group, or do you have a Session 0 planned?

BOB These are our session zeroes

BOB so yes everyone will know each other or OF each other

BOB and the first story arc is what will bond everyone together

BOB I have the first three story arcs in my mind,

TMO: how do you handle bards at low level?

BOB then we see where we go

Spring: hi everybody, sorry for delay

Lemon: Fantastic. Can't wait to meet Michael's character and bombard him with "Hey, I heard you..." rumors

BOB Bards are Bards

BOB You just start off that way

BOB just need the stats

TMO: I got stuck thinking of 1E bards for a minute there and confused myself

BOB I will tell you that I am going to give everyone 1 free NWP to start with

BOB Swimming or something you pick if you want somethign else

BOB that is on top of your normal WP, NWP, and INT slots

BOB and everyone gets at least one piece of gear free, Carissa got a cannoe

Lemon: Adventuring on islands, I will gladly take swimming

Spring: Scrolling up to catch up brb haha

TMO: do we want to roll stats to get us started with our limitations?

TMO: I don't know swimming, just floating. :P

BOB Talk it out and rolling is the plan for tonight

Lemon: Well I will definitely be here next week, so I suggest everyone else get their stuff done first, in case they can't make it

TMO: going to teach JTom dice rolling for a moment. prepare for dice

BOB and also want to point out that Boriquen is 100 miles across, so 20,000 miles of coastline, Mountains in the middle with possible snow sometimes, caves, etc. so lots of things to do here on this island, ..... then 20 other islands in the local area as well

TMO: I don't know swimming, just floating. :P

JtomTMO: [d20 = 17]

Lemon: Yes... have you read and/or do you remember very well The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?

BOB Of course

JtomTMO: [TOWER] [d20 = 2]

BOB yes to Jtom that worked

BOB it sucked as a roll, grins but it worked

TMO: [3d6 = 13]

JtomTMO: [3d6 = 10]

Lemon: Ok, so my dream is to have a story arc kind of like that. Check out a bunch of tiny islands, all with weird mysteries on them

BOB TMO you should show him how to change his dice colors so you can be different from each other

TMO: will do

BOB and I have MANY ideas along those lines Lemon,

BOB including some you have not dreamed of

JtomTMO: [d100 = 98]

GM: [d100 = 89]

Lemon: It was my favorite Narnia book by far, so I am very excited to have something like that

BOB Remember the last time we did this back in 2010 we went 13 years to get to the full blown Dragon Fen Estate that you were all in

BOB You get to build all that up yourselves now

BOB so there will be adventures you did not foresee, and some that you create by your actions, and some by your desires

Lemon: Idk man, my dreams are pretty wild. I used to have recurring nightmares about an orange monster with a hammerhead shark style head but an accordion style neck, and when I would try to hide under cars from it, my neck would also turn into an accordion and the car on top of me would just be bopping up and down and swaying

BOB I will add that to my plans

Lemon: hahahaha

BOB There is an adventure for much later on in your adventuring lives call Evil Tide

Lemon: Idk man, my dreams are pretty wild. I used to have recurring nightmares about an orange monster with a hammerhead shark style head but an accordion style neck, and when I would try to hide under cars from it, my neck would also turn into an accordion and the car on top of me would just be bopping up and down and swaying

TMO: [d100 = 37]

BOB I have intelligent sharks ready for you

TMO: Excellent!

Lemon: I didn't do the second one!

BOB and because I am obsessive I have the next fall back position ready too

BOB So Spring, with a wide open field and all the possible things you can do, what sort of character are you looking forward to playing?

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BOB and because I am obsessive I have the next fall back position ready too

BOB So Spring, with a wide open field and all the possible things you can do, what sort of character are you looking forward to playing?

BOB DOH Spring is not back in yet

BOB SO we have Lemon playing some type of Fighter

BOB JTom playing some type of Mage

BOB TMO is undecided

BOB But seems to be heading towards Bard

TMO: For me, I do need stats before I can start picking, so I'll wait until we're at that stage.

BOB For the island, you know that the Church controls a lot of land, including many plantations, and they control almost all of the distillieries

BOB There are lots of plantations, sugar cane fields, etc

TMO: actually, the bard question was because JTom asked about them. ;)

BOB sandy beaches, cliffs, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, mountains, caves, etc

BOB so Lemon and anyone can roll dice to get started if you like, 4d6 drop the lowest number and do that six times

BOB Also you can look at Vee, the character that Carissa created

BOB so you see what she is doing,

BOB we are building as a group

Lemon: We don't want to let the TMOs go first? In case they have a life next week or something?

TMO: [4d6 = 12]

TMO: [4d6 = 16]

TMO: [4d6 = 10]

TMO: [4d6 = 16]

TMO: [4d6 = 14]

TMO: [4d6 = 18]

Lemon: Oh, now I see the "and anyone"

TMO: [4d6 = 18]

Lemon: Just needed to actually read

BOB LOL

TMO: ignore last roll, got carried away

'Spring' connected

JtomTMO: [4d6 = 14]

JtomTMO: [4d6 = 15]

BOB so for TMO 10 13 9 14 12 16

JtomTMO: [4d6 = 10]

TMO: thanks, was just doing that

JtomTMO: [4d6 = 16]

JtomTMO: [4d6 = 13]

JtomTMO: [4d6 = 11]

BOB For JTom is 11 14 9 14 12 10

BOB So for JTom those are good for a Mage, an Int of 14

TMO: slighting and favoring rules?

BOB ?? for TMO?

TMO: the d4?

BOB Ahh yes

BOB that is next

BOB after assigning

BOB What questions do you have Lemon?

BOB What do you want to know about the place you grew up?

'Prospective TMO' is at 'Normal' encumbrance. Movebase now 1.

Jtom: [CHECK] Intelligence (vs. Target 9) [FAILURE by 7] [d20 = 16]

Lemon: Idk.. I was kind of thinking my character would come from a family of fishermen... fisherpeople? And was just super not interested in that life. Does that work?

BOB That works very well

BOB Super believable

BOB So your parents own a fishing boat, they wanted you to carry on the family business and you are about to decide to just say no

BOB have not told them yet,

BOB But you are getting to that point

BOB Goign to the bar to be with your friends from town to go talk it out with them and see what advice they have for you

Lemon: Well, I was kind of thinking maybe it's a big family, my character is the youngest, and he's kind of been a slacker the whole time so maybe they see it coming, even if they don't like it

BOB Does that sound right?

Lemon: So he probably already has a bunch of friends from the bar

Spring: haha

BOB Even better, they want you to be part of the family business but your older sister? brother? will be in charge so does that really mean anything for you?

BOB and Welcome back Spring

Lemon: Exactly!

Lemon: Like, why do I need to stick around? They don't really need me

Lemon: Plus fishing boats smell

BOB And you are a fighter, you learned from ??? and you have friends who care about you,

BOB grins

BOB Sounds like a very nice start Lemon

Lemon: I probably learned it in my spare time slacking off with people who pass through the bar

BOB Spring what are your desires?

Spring: Thanks. I was about to say that I haven't had time to catch up on the environment yet.

Spring: Right now I'm looking at the list of gods in the Discord chat, but I'll look on the site to see what intel is available.

BOB It is almost a blank slate you ask me questions and I will tell you

BOB If you look at the Island Time Era page there are links there

Spring: I'd like to not be a cleric this time. I feel like I've done that thoroughly.

BOB getting them for you now

BOB Yes to Spring, be something new, spread your wings

BOB (LINK)

<a href="http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Borinquen">(LINK)</a>

Spring: I recently discovered "Read Aloud" in Micorosft Edge, so I look forward to hearing the page.

BOB That is the island you grew up on

BOB Nice Spring,

BOB I think the site is fully compatible with that,

BOB and with screen readers to navigate

BOB if not I will update things as I can

BOB I am trusting that TMO is working with JTom to start off his character sheet

Prospective TMO: yes, offline talking going on

BOB added a teenage portrait for him

Prospective TMO: hehe

BOB can change as he desires

BOB EVERYONE is a teenager again, starting at age 16-18

Prospective TMO: he's reading wiz kits right now

BOB Look at Sea Mage also

Prospective TMO: is that in FGU?

BOB Yeap

Lemon: Why does TMO look like Branwyn?

Spring: That's good to know.

BOB I think it is, Sea Ranger was

Prospective TMO: only Sea Ranger

BOB But we have the Ships and Sea book for all sorts of things too

Prospective TMO: that pic came up at random for me Lemon

BOB I just grabbed a young teenage boy

BOB so Spring are you thinking Fighter?

Prospective TMO: that book isn't available for me Bob

BOB It is not in FG

BOB sadly

BOB if only we knew someone who knows how to create modules in FG

BOB hmmmmm

Spring: I was thinking another thief or maybe bard. But I could be persuaded fighter.

Prospective TMO: :P That was why I asked if it was in FGU Bob. :P

BOB Sea Mage might be in FG

BOB Ships and Sea is not

Spring: I think TMO or JTom is going for bard?

BOB You can have two bards

Prospective TMO: no to bard, at the moment.

BOB Jtom is a mage

Spring: I think a pair of bards would be fun, actually.

BOB his rolls are not quite there for a Bard

Prospective TMO: JTom is mage, I am undecided. the bard was based on a question JTomi had

BOB But TMO on the other hand

BOB If you like the idea of a Bard Spring you can roll the dice and see if you get those stats

Spring: And evil characters still disallowed, I assume.

BOB exactly

Spring: And also bonsai treants.

BOB For now yes

Spring: grins

BOB But I will let somethign like that in later

BOB I have plans

BOB Carissa has inquired about Aquatic Creatures

<font color="#000000">GM : [Translation] This is what Aquatic Creatures sound like in chat

<font color="#000000">This is what Aquatic Creatures sound like in chat

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BOB Translation: This is what Aquatic Creatures sound like in chat

BOB BUt there are mountain birds, tropical creatures, lots of things to explore

BOB This is a very different and new experience for everyone

Lemon: Hey, I also inquired about aquatic creatures! I called them friends but same thing

Lemon: Can we put in an Atlantis somewhere? I want an Atlantis

BOB Smiles with lemon I knew you would want to also

BOB That is a future Era

BOB I have that with a nice twist for you

Spring: Now is there a mechanical means for getting your character creation dice rolls into your sheet? Or you just enter by hand?

BOB You have to enter by hand

BOB just roll them here 4d6 drop the lowest

BOB and you have to create a new chracter sheet of course

BOB We are taking our time... there is ZERO rush, we are not starting the first story arc until the end of next week or the session after

BOB Think, FEEL, let it flow

Jtom: I am interested in doing a sea wizard

BOB Good JTom

BOB I will double check if there are anything special for you in the other books now

Spring: Okay I'm trying to find how to roll multiple dice at a time, and it's taking a LOT of time to find out.

Prospective TMO: right-click on the dice

Spring: Oh the little x is how many?

Prospective TMO: yes

Spring: K. Thanks.

Prospective TMO: I'm also in voice on discord if anyone needs me. I'm muted by default though

Spring: And now I am too :-)

User has gone AFK. (JtomTMO)

Spring: Can't wait to get my eye prescription redone. This is hell on my neck. Only the lower part of the bifocals work.

User is back. (JtomTMO)

Prospective TMO: JTom has assigned his stats, btw

Prospective TMO: oof, sorry Spring. that no fun

BOB and so for JTom there is the Fathomer which is a mage kit that is a specialist of the water elementalist specialist

BOB so you might want to look at the Tome of Magic here in FG for the Water Elementalist

Dunno Yet: [4d6 = 9]

Prospective TMO: he did look at that one, but the Sea Wizard and Water Elementalists are rivals, fwiw

Prospective TMO: I've sent it back to him

BOB True TMO

Prospective TMO: "I've sent him back to it"

BOB The Fathomer that I mentioned is out of the Ships and Sea

Prospective TMO: also not in FGU, I presume?

Dunno Yet: [4d6 = 17]

BOB They are not specialists like a water elementalist

Dunno Yet: [4d6 = 12]

Prospective TMO: NICE ROLL

Dunno Yet: [4d6 = 15]

Dunno Yet: [4d6 = 8]

BOB but they get bonuses about water spalles

BOB spells

Dunno Yet: [4d6 = 10]

BOB so for Spring you have a 8 16 11 13 7 8

BOB Roll a D4 Spring

Dunno Yet: [d4 = 2]

BOB You get a bonus of a +2 to any one stat

Spring (Dunno Yet): Cool beans.

BOB I want everyone to start with at least two nice comfortable stats

Prospective TMO: Bob - do you have PDFs of the relevant books? JTom does want to do Sea Wizard, so I can work on coding it in

BOB that you feel you can excell at

Spring (Dunno Yet): And we are not applying them in order? We can choose what stat to apply what score?

BOB Looking for that one in particualr now TMO and yes to Spring you get to assign them as you wish,

Spring (Dunno Yet): Thanks.

Spring (Dunno Yet): Where did the idea of Sea Wizard come from?

Jtom: Do I roll a D4 to add to one of my stats?

BOB There is a mention of the Sea Wizards on the site, I am looking for the details now

BOB It is a specialist like Illusionist etc

BOB and yes to JTom for rolling a d4 BUT you would be rolling a d4 and substracting that from one stat to add to another

Prospective TMO: I did get it off the site, but it doesn't list the spells for it

BOB so hold off on that until we know the required stats for a Sea Mage

BOB Also Lemon I am listening for you too

Lemon: [4d6 = 18]

Lemon: Wait, what am I doing

Lemon: I just started going then realized I forgot what I was supposed to be rolling

BOB You are rolling 4d6 and dropping the lowest

Prospective TMO: 4d6, drop lowest, 6 times

Prospective TMO: oop, Bob back, ignore me. :)

Lemon: 6 times????

BOB 6 stats so yes

Lemon: Ugh that's so much work

BOB I am here and there and going through all the various books

BOB LOL

Lemon: [4d6 = 18]

Prospective TMO: *pat* *pat* *pat*

Lemon: [4d6 = 10]

Lemon: [4d6 = 14]

Lemon: [4d6 = 16]

Lemon: [4d6 = 17]

BOB Excellent

Prospective TMO: we're not worthy!

BOB So Lemon has 15 16 9 12 14 15

BOB those are really good numbers

BOB Paladin even

BOB or Ranger

Lemon: But don't paladins have to always be good? No thank you to that, I am a slacker

BOB LOL

BOB You can be a slacker and still do good

Prospective TMO: Good can be Lazy

Jtom: LOL

BOB hang out in the bar, and Geez stands up, Get your hands off of her you lout, you can see she does not want that ... just leave NOW and SHOVE

Lemon: I like to think of him as also a little bit slack in his morals

Lemon: Like not evil, just... they are permeable boundaries

BOB Ok then yeah

Prospective TMO: slack in the morals =/= paladin

BOB So maybe Ranger, or just a Fighter with good skills

BOB 16 str 15 Con 15 Dex goes a LONG way

Lemon: Either one of those is fine... can rangers do melee or are they... ranged

BOB Both

Lemon: Ok then sure, I'll try a ranger

Lemon: Since my last character wanted to be one anyway

BOB For JTom the Sea Wizard on the site has all the things you need to know

BOB (LINK)

<a href="http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.SeaWizard">(LINK)</a>

BOB That is out of an old Dragon Magazine article

BOB I do have that in PDF

BOB but the spells are in the Wizard Compendiums so we can add more of those as needed

Lemon: Is there a list of family surnames in the area, or are we free to choose whatever?

BOB For Lemon there is the Ranger page

BOB (LINK)

<a href="http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Ranger">(LINK)</a>

Prospective TMO: okay, so we'll ahve to do the spells manually. He's assigned the stats so he meets the minimums

BOB You can choose freely Lemon

Jtom: [d4 = 2]

Lemon: So how do I make a character sheet?

BOB For Lemon and your Ranger ideas, I think you might want to pick some things that match the going into the forests and mountains to be the counterpoint to your fisherman family

BOB and go to Characters and the plus sign at the bottom

BOB creates a new blank sheet for you

Spring (Dunno Yet): BTW while I'm being all silent-like. I'm looking at kits.

BOB Glad Spring

Jtom: Do you have a prefered elf type for a sea mage?

BOB No Elves JTom, only Humans

Jtom: Got it

BOB Everyone starts off with humans

BOB 90%+ on the island are human

Dunno Yet: Oh.

BOB There will be opportunities in the future, for henchmen, friends, etc

Dunno Yet: Beeping sound as Spring backs up considerably.

BOB What was your thought Spring?

Dunno Yet: Battlerager dwarf from the mountain.

BOB No dwarves sorry

Lemon (): Lol, ok, the lag gave me this portrait, but I'm sticking with it until I go make my own

BOB BUT you can do all of that still

Spring (Dunno Yet): I like it, Lemon.

BOB there is a Mountain Man society

Me too! Not for this character, but I might stick with the mohawk now that I've seen it.

BOB Where you would have almost all those same type of feelings,

BOB There are not dwarves or elves on this island that anyone knows of

BOB gnomes are unknown for the most part in the Island Kingdoms

BOB weirdly there is a group of halflings, but you will encounter them later on

I can learn priest plant spells later!?

BOB Just worry about what stats you have, we will get into Non-Weapon Proficiencies and Weapons etc in a little while

BOB Yes to Lemon, that is something that Rangers get at high level

BOB Priest Spells

niiiiice, something to look forward to in 15 years

BOB and Animal Companions

BOB LOL not that far off

Prospective TMO: Swashbuckler kit Bard?

Idk, it says 8th level, that's pretty far off

BOB BUT this does give us one of our starting points, Vee (Carissa's character) and Lemon's new character are both Rangers, two different types but that is one reason to know each other, compare notes and work together

BOB and yes that works nicely for you TMO

Prospective TMO: I'll need the Ships and Sea PDF then also, so i can code that this week too.

BOB Gettign that now

Spring (Dunno Yet): TMO are you interested in being a pair of bards?

Nice. Carissa's character will enjoy being annoyed at my slacker

Prospective TMO: Spring - Absolutely!

Spring (Dunno Yet): Hee!

Prospective TMO: Carousing Buddies!

Spring (Dunno Yet): I'm getting El Dorado vibes

So do I need to put my stats in something specific to qualify for ranger? And/or anyone have any suggestions as to where I should put them?

Prospective TMO: LOL

Prospective TMO: Ranger reqs: Str 13; Dex 13; Con 14; Wis 14

BOB OCR version of the PDF uploaded for you TMO

Prospective TMO: got it!

Spring (Dunno Yet): Bah, I don't have the stats to do the swashbuckler kit. I'll have to be a less dashing bard.

[CHECK] Constitution (vs. Target 9) [SUCCESS by 2] [d20 = 7]

oops

BOB How far are you off Spring?

Prospective TMO: I may not have it either then. I was working off a summary

BOB And or TMO

BOB As always we have gone with the idea of the "fighter who thinks they are a ranger" before

BOB but I do want to do what we can to create characters that you enjoy

Spring (Dunno Yet): Well, there's two versions. The one I was looking at required 13 in four different stats

BOB without just handing out everything

BOB To become a bard, a character must have a Dexterity of 12 or more, an Intelligence of 13 or more, and a Charisma of 15 or more.

BOB That is the base line

Dunno Yet: with the +2 i can make 13 in three stats only with a deficit of 5

Ok new question... how do I change the stats?

Spring (Dunno Yet): okay a general purpose bard i can be

BOB Lemon you just type them in

Dunno Yet: just no buckle to swash

Also thank you TMO for the requirements... that was super helpful

Falso to just typing them in... at least not on the main character page?

Prospective TMO: Bob - just read the first paragraph of Fathomer for JTom, and it's underwater exploration oriented. The rest of us aren't going to be able to go with him on those trips any time soon I'm assuming. So it would make more sense to go for an above-water kit?

BOB Yes to Lemon you are just changing your character page

It is zero percent letting me change things

'' is at 'Normal' encumbrance. Movebase now 1.

Prospective TMO: click the Gear in the upper right

I did that

Ah, got it, thank you

BOB Depends on what JTom wants to do... he could have that special feeling/drive that makes him want to do underwater things, or just have the Water Elemental intution that makes him in harmony with all water things

BOB Yes the group overall is unlikely to have underwater survival type magic soon

BOB That is a long set of story arcs to work through

BOB As Lemon said, priest spells are coming, just not in the next few months of real time

Levi Reed: No offense to mini, and I truly hope he will stay interested that long, but that's a LONG time to wait for something, as a teenager

BOB Growth

BOB Personal and character growth

BOB He is almost in high school (sorry TMO) he will learn and grow

Levi Reed: Yeah, I'm just saying, he may not want to base his character choice off something that will not happen for months of real time

BOB Also yes to JTom doing what he wants and (&(*&(*& Dad, I want to go chase after that (insert creature here) and I do not care what you say

Prospective TMO: JTom does like Sea Wizard + Fathomer combo, so I'll work on getting those coded.

BOB Two different kits one or the other

BOB Sea Wizard is a specialist mage so no kits added, or a base mage with the Fathomer Kit added

BOB Sea Wizard is like being a Necromancer

Prospective TMO: he says Sea Wizard

BOB good

BOB Not in the undead sort of similarity but in the focus similarity

Spring (Dunno Yet): Oh hey, selecting my class set up a bunch of stuff for me in the character sheet.

BOB yes Spring, that is the advantage of FG

BOB It just knows things

Prospective TMO: yep, that's why I have to do coding for all these new things, so that all works behind the scenes.

Prospective TMO: "It *JUST KNOWS THING*"??!!!

Spring (Dunno Yet): It wasn't intuitive how to select. You click to get the list then drag and drop what you want onto the sheet. The checkboxes are misleading.

Spring (Dunno Yet): Does the kit do that for you in the Kit section?

Prospective TMO: yes

Spring (Dunno Yet): Nicey nice

BOB Yes to Spring

BOB Smiles see TMO is the brains behind the operation

BOB Before you pick NWP and WP Spring we want to talk

BOB Same with everyone

BOB Stats, class, kits are where we are at now

Prospective TMO: [d4 = 4]

Prospective TMO: I'm only 1pt shy of the SwashyBuckles requirements. Do I have to take all 4, or can I only shift 1?

Spring (Dunno Yet): Okay not picking yet.

BOB You can shift what you need to make that happen TMO

Spring (Dunno Yet): heh i think that makes me the sidekick. that's even more fun

BOB We have four more Players to create characters still

BOB I want everyone to get a chance to be part of the full party, creating and building

Spring (Dunno Yet): i have to kick you in the side, because i'm the side kick

BOB There are the other questions I had for everyone, your family: brothers, sisters, etc. where you are from,

BOB For Lemon I can see you being from the hills

BOB The group will start off in the northeastern corner of Boriquen

BOB a deep harbor for fishing, with a reef that wrecks some ships if they are not careful

BOB a larger town and a smaller hamlet both on the shore, with two more small hamlets inland also

BOB sugar cane plantations, two distillieries for rum

BOB a Keldorian temple at each, plus a large Keldorian church in the main town

BOB the Bards can decide if they use drums, or flutes, or strings, or......

BOB conch shells?

BOB the Sea Mage will have lots of opportunities for water spells

User has gone AFK. (Spring)

BOB the Rangers are split (maybe?) between the water and the land

BOB what do you think about that Lemon?

Levi Reed: I don't know what that means?

BOB Vee (Carissa's Ranger) is a Sea Ranger.. is Levi a Ranger that is focused on the land? Hills etc.

Levi Reed: Ah, yes

BOB Ok

BOB So that is a nice balance

BOB One thing to consider for a ranger is a species enemy, you particularlly hate one type of creature

BOB That can be anything, sometimes intelligent monsters, sometimes just a creature you despise

Prospective TMO: Lemon - Intelligent Sharks

BOB Anything spring to mind for you Lemon?

BOB LOL TMO it does need to live on land for her to be focused on it

Prospective TMO: Intelligent Landsharks

User has gone AFK. (Spring)

User is back. (Spring)

Dunno Yet: Oi BOB, what's the shortest a human can get before they lose movement?

BOB It could be monkeys or salamanders or bugbears

BOB Hmmmm

BOB 4 foot 6

BOB For Spring

Spring (Dunno Yet): Fanks!

Dunno Yet: Okay what do we need to talk about before choosing WP and NWP?

BOB I sent you a PM Spring

Dunno Yet: Ack

BOB and I would like to have the four characters here set with Stats, Class and Kit

BOB Then some of the family things

BOB so we know why some of the other choices come out

Levi Reed: Anyone now what format I need my picture in so I can upload it?

Spring (Dunno Yet): Okay, if I'm not working from a kit?

BOB for example Carissa has tridents because her mentor teaches them, not because she thought she wanted to know them

BOB Put it in Discord and I will upload Lemon

BOB So Spring we are building together so I want other players to help with the reasoning

Dunno Yet: For sure.

BOB I do not want to dictate and I do want some random but want everyone to learn and know the new lands together

Levi Reed: Somehow I accidentally finished my drink during that process, afk to make some coffee, after I catch up on the chat

BOB smiles

Spring (Dunno Yet): I need coffee also

User has gone AFK. (Spring)

Levi Reed: Ok, as tempting as monkeys is... the website says I have to pick that before reaching level 2, so I have time, no? I was thinking of waiting a bit to see what's around the area that might be pestering my fishing family, that my drunk lazy dude could start hating on

BOB I am working on that image Lemon

BOB and yes to Lemon that works also for determining the enemy

User is back. (Spring)

BOB Not sure why that image is not loading Lemon, but I will get it to work this weekend for you

BOB I might have to restart to get it to load

Levi Reed: Cool, thank you

BOB SO TMO and JTom how do you feel about things?

Spring (Dunno Yet): So, bagpipes?

Levi Reed: The only thing I know for sure is that I definitely want botany again, which also works with being a woods/hills ranger or whatever I am

BOB Oooo Spring, that is interesting I will allow it

Spring (Dunno Yet): hehehehehe

BOB means I need a backstory to create but yes

Spring (Dunno Yet): bagpipes do come from islands

BOB Is like why there are lighthouses in Drillian, no one expected that until I revealed them

BOB so yes Bagpipes on sailing ships is a nice fun new thing

BOB Go for it

Spring (Dunno Yet): to be fair, bagipes come from islands where sheep are raised. i don't think we have them on this island tho?

BOB Now before you put it on your sheet

BOB you have sheep here too

BOB and long haired goats

BOB see we are creating a making things up as we go, this is why we are doing it this way

Spring (Dunno Yet): maybe .... i INVENTED the bagpipes!

Spring (Dunno Yet): or at least think that i did

BOB before you put that on your sheet though we have to look at bagpipes versus woodwind instruments, etc

BOB There are options for Bards

Levi Reed: Yeeeees, inventing the bagpipes is awesome! Then you have to leave on adventures because you've been driven out of the bar because of your pipes

'Michael' connected

Spring (Dunno Yet): hahahaah!

BOB Michael!

Levi Reed: I kind of want to hate the long-haired goats. But when it comes down to it, it will probably be monkeys. I'm not crazy about them IRL either. Like, they're just uncanny valley for me, creep me out. So close to human, no thank you.

Michael: Hey :) Please please have patience, I'm tired, hot, sweaty, and pretty sure I ahven't eaten in awhile now

BOB smiles

BOB relax Michael we are here to have fun

Levi Reed: Go get a snack, there's no rush

BOB We are only a quarter of the way through

Spring (Dunno Yet): yes eat and cool off

Michael: Well, let me just grab a drink for now, I'm so tired of driving back and forth between Utah. At least when this is all donw, I won't have to keep doing this.

BOB You need the new flying car

BOB only $300,000

BOB Was on the show this week

Michael: Don't get me wrong, the drive is beautiful, it's also just 9 hours of irritation. And, bob, I was literally about to type that when you posted the price

Michael: Must be nice to be rich eh?

Michael: LOL

BOB grins

BOB Have to listen to the show to hear my take on it and why I am not thrilled with it

BOB Hint not the price

Michael: Probably doesn't have the range either yet, but hey, I'm still with New Age Hindenburgs. With the way remote work is starting to take impact, I see no reason to take more time for slow travel with better ammenities

Michael: Well no bob. no one wants to look up at a clearless sky because there are rich people dumping their mcdonalds on the poors

BOB Slow time with good emmenities is a nice way

BOB Get your drink and them come back and hear what the group has created so far

BOB so you can ask questions

Spring (Dunno Yet): The more I think about it, the sidekick shouldn't play the bagpipes.

Michael: Oh I'm here. Walking around with my laptop....what sorts of questions should I ask? TMO you are great with ten second TL;DR's. What's the scoop you are laying down?

Spring (Dunno Yet): They aren't really for accompaniment, are they?

BOB You should ask anything you want Michael, these are new lands you are living in, new characters, new ways of thinking etc

BOB and Spring I am all for the bagpipes for you

Prospective TMO: sorry, was running around the house fixing everyone's problems. ;)

BOB they are a great idea

Spring (Dunno Yet): Human. You must be human.

Michael: Ok. I must be Human?

BOB Yes to Michael

Spring (Dunno Yet): OOOOOO maybe I will invent the QUIET bagpipes

Michael: Are we all Human?

BOB LOL to SPring and yes to Michael

Michael: Is this a different world bob? Or a different place in this world

Prospective TMO: JTom is content with his character I think, but there's not much more he can do with it until I code in the Sea Wizard for him. I think I'm happy with mine, got set up to consider proficiencies, but can wait on that easily.

BOB Different place on the planet

BOB Thank you TMo and Jtom, we will get to adding in proficiencies next

BOB Spells are later

Michael: Ah, so different races still exist right? Just a house rule we must be Human. That's good to know

Spring (Dunno Yet): It's because most of the other races haven't come this far out.

Michael: Are these islands the islands from previous games? If so, do those references hold the history of whever I am?

Spring (Dunno Yet): Just halflings apparently, and darn few

Michael: Thank so much Spring! That's a great help!

BOB The Island Kingdoms yes from this world, it is all one world Michael

BOB you are just starting off in a different part of it

Michael: I'd imagine there are intelligence sea life?

BOB Yes to Michael

BOB That is one of the things your Sea Ranger is interested in

Michael: Thank you bob. And not trying to be a pest, just gauge what I need to gather for my historical toolseet

BOB ZERO pest. I NEED people to ask lots of questions

Michael: So, who is my Sea Ranger now?

BOB and I will be adding the new notes to the site

BOB Carissa has a Sea Ranger, and Lemon has a Ranger in the Hills

BOB TMO has a Bard and Spring has a Bard with bagpipes

Michael: So, a Water-based Ranger, and Island-Land based ranger?

BOB yes to Michael

BOB there are no Priests or Thieves yet

Michael: As for the Bard so.....just a bard

'JtomTMO' disconnected

Michael: lol?

Michael: I am a priest

Michael: Please

Spring (Dunno Yet): Up the mountain are some mountain men. There are some coves and stuff.

BOB You can be if you like

Michael: I feel i've earned the right to make up for last time

'JtomTMO' connected

Spring (Dunno Yet): TMO has a Swashbuckler. Mine's a sidekick

Prospective TMO: Need a list of the languages in the area, if there's anything other than Common we need

Michael: I mean, I'm going to be a very interesting quasi pacifist priest, but a hilarios one

BOB Only language is W Comm

Michael: Oh thank god!

Spring (Dunno Yet): TMO has a Swashbuckler. Mine's a sidekick

BOB unless you go with the Aquatic Creatures that your Sea Ranger has

Michael: That frees up a proficiency slot everyone!

Michael: Sigh

Spring (Dunno Yet): that will simplify things, one language

Michael: Or not

Michael: Oh wait, I'm a priest now! Tongues is a thing I think. Eventually. Or something.

BOB Grins

Michael: So

BOB So Michael, the Keldorian Pantheon rules the Island Kingdoms, along with Greek and Norse pockets

'Shislif' connected

Michael: Ah, so religions run island states?

BOB Boriquen the island you are on and are from, is controlled by the Keldorian church, they own most of the plantations, most of the distilleries

Michael: Or do they spread across various islands

Michael: (sorry)

Levi Reed: Ok, while I was making coffee... I learned all my melee from bar fights, and my ranged stuff from hunting. I'm lazy, and I like spending time in the hills, so I hang out there, hunt a couple of things, then trade them at the inn for food and beer

BOB there are hundreds of islands

Michael: (you are answeering)

BOB That sounds great Lemon

Michael: A ranger after my heart lemon :)

BOB So Michael your first choice is Keldorian, or Greek?

Michael: I seriously cannot wait to see what Zayden does. Like, it's seriously exciting me

Levi Reed: Same, and Ryan

Michael: Is there a lesser snooty one?

Sharif: hi everybody

Levi Reed: Ulrik and Zayden were fantastic

Michael: I'll go with the more tolerant priestly group

Levi Reed: Speak of the devil!

Michael: LOL

Prospective TMO: Keldorian and Greek are both somewhat on the chaotic side of things.

Michael: Hm. Let me rephrase

BOB So Welcome Sharif

Prospective TMO: I posted a list of the Keldorian gods on Discord. Greek you maybe know already

Michael: Less Crusader, more Dominican

BOB Michael I think you want to be Keldorian

Michael: Thank you :)

BOB and we will build your knowledge from there

Levi Reed: Do I need to pick a god? Or is that only priests?

BOB there is a list of the gods

Spring (Dunno Yet): hi Sharif!

Prospective TMO: don't forget the Greeks were spread across a lot of islands also! :D

Michael: I'll pull up site real quick :)

Spring (Dunno Yet): oh crap, gotta work BRB

BOB yes to Lemon you need a god from the Keldorian pantheon too

Prospective TMO: Hi Sharif!

User has gone AFK. (Spring)

BOB and Sharif, glad to have you

Prospective TMO: did I say Hi to Michael yet? Hi if not!

BOB Are you feeling anything in particular? having a good fighter feels good for you?

Michael: Bob (whines) google has bumped you down the list with pretenders to the dragonslayer throne!

BOB LOL how so?

BOB By the way we do now own www.islandkingdoms.org

Michael: You used to me number 1, now I have to scroll down the damn page

Michael: Oh my god bob. I fucking love you so much LOL

Sharif: hi thanks just trying to catch up :)

Prospective TMO: most browsers have this thing called "bookmarks", where you save the pages you want to visit regularly.

BOB Bows, thank you

Levi Reed: siiiiigh. I'm trying to figure out the site, but can someone link me to the gods please? All the island things I have clicked on are no tthe correct things

Michael: I'm going to design a flag

Prospective TMO: :P

Michael: Who's Levi, is that Lemon?

BOB YEs

Michael: And I'll pull up the link just one sec

Prospective TMO: (LINK)

<a href="http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Keldorian">(LINK)</a>

Prospective TMO: Keldorian gods there

Michael: (LINK)

<a href="http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Gods">(LINK)</a>

Levi Reed: It is indeed Lemon

Prospective TMO: summary list in Discord

Levi Reed: Thank you!

Prospective TMO: Greater Gods Drows - God of Swords (N) Locrin - God of Luck and Weather (CG) Lorin - Goddess of Marriage (LG) Trask - God of Deceit (CE) Wheen - Creator Goddess (NG) Intermediate Gods Bran - God of Law and Strength Gorby - God of Death (NE) Lesser Gods Addmere - Goddess of Chance and Skill Deltan - God of the Wild (CG) Dimere - Goddess of Domesticated Animals and Cultivation (LG) Retaw - Goddess of the Mists (CN) Demi-Goddesses Mernia (F) Saints Saint Delila (F) Klindon - Dead God/Patron Saint of Lost Causes

Sharif: Yea I think I'd like to try a fighter, maybe be a bit more useful in fights

BOB So for Sharif, the next thing is to roll some dice... 4d6 drop the lowest and do that 6 times

BOB also for Sharif and Michael I am going to give out one bonus NWP to everyone, swimming or something you choose

Sharif: so the 6 dice?

BOB When we get to that point

BOB Yes to Sharif

Sharif: what's nwp?

Michael: Non Weapon Prof

BOB ALso for Sharif and Michael JTom (TMO's son) created a character and is joining us

Sharif: do I want high numbers or low numbers or doesn't matter?

BOB Non-weapon proficiencies

Levi Reed: Does it have to be the same as my family? Because like, Deltan sounds like it would be my thing, but not necessarily my family's thing

Sharif: nice!

Michael: I recommend you take Swimming

BOB you would love to get 4 sixes every time

Prospective TMO: Definitely LOW numbers Shislif! Low as you can! ;)

Michael: Also Hey JTOM, great to see you again buddy :)

Sharif: ok swimming works

Sharif: ok I'll try!

BOB you get to choose Lemon

Shislif: [d6 = 2]

BOB and no worries on that one yet Sharif

Michael: Don't let me tell you, I just recommend it :)

Shislif: [d6 = 4]

BOB Wait

Sharif: ok

BOB right click and roll 4d6

Prospective TMO: JTom is afk, but he says Hi back

Sharif: oh ok

GM: [4d6 = 10]

BOB Like that

Shislif: [4d6 = 13]

BOB but better

Prospective TMO: I was kidding about the low numbers

BOB good

BOB and now five more times

Prospective TMO: you want HIGH

Shislif: [4d6 = 10]

Sharif: lol

Prospective TMO: HIGHER

Shislif: [4d6 = 15]

Prospective TMO: better, but HIGHER

Shislif: [4d6 = 10]

Prospective TMO: WRONG

Sharif: lol I need to warm up!

Michael: Jeeze TMO lol

Prospective TMO: Smelt those dice!

Shislif: [4d6 = 20]

Michael: Go easy on him, I'ts stressful bud

Prospective TMO: THAT 's IT

BOB one more

Shislif: [4d6 = 14]

Sharif: straight!

Sharif: ugh my dude is gonna be a dufus lol

BOB so Sharif has a 9 13 9 17 12

Levi Reed: Yeah, you gotta smelt those dice, show them who's boss

BOB and another 12

BOB so that is going to be a great fighter

Prospective TMO: btw, haven't said it yet, but I like your character's name Lemon

Sharif: oh cool

BOB Put the 17 into Strength

Sharif: me?

BOB the 13 into Constituion

BOB Yes for Sharif

BOB and others will help you organize

Shislif: [CHECK] Strength (vs. Target 9) [FAILURE by 9] [d20 = 18]

BOB smiles also take a bonus 1 to the strength score and make it an 18 to start

Sharif: ok did strength n constitution

BOB Lemon can you help Sharif please? restroom for me

BOB brb

BOB Help him start a new sheet

Sharif: I'm so strong!

Prospective TMO: Records Menu; Characters; the green plus symbol at the bottom right

Prospective TMO: I'm stepping AFK too, Lemon

thx!

Levi Reed: I'm worry, why is one of the god just "water" spelled backwards

Spring (Dunno Yet): I happen to notice we have a god of luck AND a goddess of chance

Prospective TMO: because Creativity!

Spring (Dunno Yet): hahahaha

Levi Reed: whoops, sorry, I was reading not paying attention to chat

Levi Reed: Who needs a what now?

User has gone AFK. (TMO)

BOB For Spring and TMO once we get to NWP Bards taking the Muscial Instrument NWP get multiple instruments instead of just one

Spring (Dunno Yet): i once counted Chinese gods of beauracracy and found 8 of them

BOB Sharif needs help creating a new sheet and filling in the stats like you did

BOB He now has his new sheet but can use help

oh I got help

Spring (Dunno Yet): Oh good! about the instruments

but just 18 for strength n 13 for constitution, not sure about the rest of em

Levi Reed: Ah, ok

Levi Reed: I googled my stuff, ngl, but I can tl;dr for you

BOB Start with a beginnign name, grins does not need to be permament

BOB and Strength, then Constiutin, then Intelligence or Dex, then the other one, for a fighter

BOB then Wis and Charisma

BOB for the final two

BOB for Michael

how do I know what numbers to put in?

BOB Now you know you want to be a priest you can create the character sheet and roll some numbers

Levi Reed: they are the ones you rolled

or do I have a certain number of points to spend?

Michael: Sounds good Bob. I've never created anything in FGU, so how should I get started?

Michael: Is there a file "new sheet?"

Levi Reed: 17, 12, 13, 9, 9... what was the last one?

BOB so Sharif has a 9 13 9 17 12 12

thx

BOB There you go Michael

BOB put in a name first

BOB just a temp one

Levi Reed: I like to put it in descending order. 17, 13, 12, 12, 9, 9

wisdom vs intelligence which is more important?

Levi Reed: Strength is how good you are at hitting stuff, con is how good you are at getting hit and not dying, agility is how good you are at getting out of tricky situations, intelligence is your smarts, wisdom is your gut instinct, and charisma is how cute everyone thinks you are. Correct me if I'm wrong

BOB intelligence of 12 is what you want

BOB Yes to Lemon that is a nice summation

oh I don't get to pick which number goes where?

Levi Reed: For my guy I went with slightly dumber so he could be cuter

good choice!

Levi Reed: lol thanks fives

smarts are overrated

BOB I take that back Sharif, you might want your 13 in Intellgence to be a smarter fighter with more skills

Levi Reed: hahahahaha

ok

Levi Reed: BOB saw what I did and is now course correcting with you :P

BOB a 13 intelligence gives you one bonus NWP than a 12 does and a 12 or a 13 in Con does not change anything

ah makes sense

BOB BUT Sharif, you totally get to pick anything you want, just making you aware of where the break spots are on the charts for the various stats

yes that's helpful thanks

I guess after Zayden it makes sense to go with a low charisma character lol

Jericho: Alrighty bob. What now?

BOB The numbers you picked look good

BOB and nice name Michael

BOB you now roll 4d6, drop the lowest and do that 6 times

Michael (Jericho): Thank you I picked it myself :)

Jericho: LOL

BOB and for Sharif, now you get one more roll, a d100

'Carissa' connected

BOB You want very high

Jericho: [4d6 = 9]

BOB Hello Carissa

Jericho: [4d6 = 17]

Jericho: [4d6 = 14]

Jericho: [4d6 = 16]

just 1 d100?

BOB Yes to Sharif

Jericho: [4d6 = 14]

Jericho: [4d6 = 14]

Shislif: [d100 = 28]

dang it

BOB So for Michael you have a 8 15 13 13 13 11

BOB that is ok Sharif

BOB It just means you are very good not super man good

it's like below an F -

BOB HAH

oh ok lol

Michael (Jericho): LOL

Jericho: So for bob, is that my STR, DEX, etc? In order?

Levi Reed: Dang, those 13s. Michael's character is maybe cursed or maybe going ti win Yahtzee

BOB no to Michael you get to put them in the order you want

BOB so the 15 for Wisdome for a priest

Jericho: Best suggestions folks for ordering?

BOB PLUS Michael after you put them in order you get to roll a d4

food?

BOB and subtract from one and add that to another

BOB smiles with Sharif

Jericho: Okay LOL! one thing at a time so I don't do somethign incorrectly :)

Jericho: Bob, if you were me, how would you align these best?

Jericho: I haven't played a magic for many years now

Levi Reed: I feel like you want high int for a priest?

BOB For Sharif, your strength is a 20% chance of walking up to jail cell bars and just BENDING the iron open and walking out

Jericho: no, Wisdom I think Lemon

BOB NO to Lemon high Wisdom for Priests

Jericho: [CHECK] Wisdom (vs. Target 9) [SUCCESS by 6] [d20 = 3]

oh nice!

Jericho: Sorry, trying to edit fields

BOB the gear Michael

Levi Reed: Ok OR you could listen to me and just be a bad priest. That's an option.

BOB LOL with Lemon

Carissa: (Hi all. No clue who is who, but just letting Lemon know I'm here so she can't beat my attendance record!)

Levi Reed: I am Lemon, hear me roar

BOB LOL with Carissa

Spring (Dunno Yet): hi Carissa!

lol

BOB So for Sharif, you get a plus 3 to damage when you hit things

BOB and a plus one to hit them

nice

Jtom: Hi Carissa

BOB so you will do a bunch of damage

awesome

BOB you are a strong fighter

Carissa: Hi Mini@ Long time, no murder.

Carissa: *!

BOB you can press 280 pounds all day

Did I hear mention of Greek before? Are we going for Greek names?

lol

BOB You can if you like Sharif, but we should all talk about that

oh I'm not picky just wondering what category of names I should be going for, I'll wait till we have that discussion

Jericho: Okay, what rolls now when you get a sec. I've arragned

BOB This is the spot for everyone to talk about who they are, what they think their family is like, what they see as their character's place in the world

Spring (Dunno Yet): HAND SNIPS as a weapon?!?!

BOB You are all starting in the same town

Michael (Jericho): (I also keep thinking I'm howard for some odd reason....)

BOB LOL yeap Spring

Spring (Dunno Yet): not picking it but damn

Michael (Jericho): (I also keep thinking I'm howard for some odd reason....)

BOB There are shepards out there that will CUT you

Jericho: Oh wow

Jericho: Are we in a port town?

BOB Yes to Michael

Jericho: Or more inland Islan

Jericho: Gotcha

BOB and Lemon I need something from you please

Jericho: So, what was the 1d4 roll?

User is back. (TMO)

Levi Reed: Depends on what it is. I have been reading a book about boundaries.

BOB For Michael the 1d4 is if you want to roll it, you get to take that number OFF of one stat and add it to a different stat but you have to use the full number

BOB I will do my best to test your boundries Lemon :) HUGS

BOB But right now I need a name

Levi Reed: No, that's the opposite. I need better boundaries.

Jericho: [d4 = 4]

Levi Reed: What kind of name?

Jericho: Hehehe

Jericho: Oh boy I'm goinng to blow your minds

BOB so Michael you can subtract four from any stat and add it to one

Jericho: [CHECK] Dexterity (vs. Target 11) [SUCCESS by 3] [d20 = 8]

Jericho: sorry

BOB and also JTom I need a name from you too please

Levi Reed: What kind of a name? For a person? Or like... a species of animal? An island?

BOB a place

Carissa: (don't start with

Levi Reed: Ah, ok

Carissa: P)

Jericho: So for the group in General, what would a Priest use for the intelligence stat for what kinds of rolls? I'm min maxing by taking the points from Int and placing in Wisdowm. What would that affect for me?

BOB LOL Carissa

Jericho: I have a 19 Wisdom, which is kind of the plan

BOB Lower Int means fewer NWP Michael

Jericho: But need to know where I should "best" take the points

Jericho: Hm. How many will I get with 9 Bob?

Levi Reed: Lemonshire

BOB so taking from Con or Dex would be better

Jericho: Off top your head?

Jericho: Dex?

Jericho: OK

Jericho: [CHECK] Intelligence (vs. Target 9) [SUCCESS by 3] [d20 = 6]

BOB a 9 Init gives you two NWP

Carissa: a bit egotistical, but great way to take advantage

Rothuss: random name generator included 'Achild' as a random name for JTom, and I vote we make him take it! :P

BOB a 12 Int gives you three

Jericho: Hm.

BOB Yes to TMO

Jericho: You know what

Levi Reed: Lol, poor mini, can't even have his own identity

BOB Lemonshire and Achild are the two names

Jericho: I think if I get swimming for free....I'm going to take the lower NWP

Jericho: Is that okay with you bob?

Levi Reed: At least mine isn't called Penissa. Just saying.

Jericho: Ok. Any more rolls bob? Or is my foundation good for Jericho

Levi Reed: Also it's definitely pronounced lemon-shurrrrrr

Jericho: By the way, I'm going to find his horn as the culmination of this story arc

Jericho: :)

Carissa: ...sorbert?

Levi Reed: Qbert?

BOB (LINK)

<a href="http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Borinquen">(LINK)</a>

BOB Will look at your sheet now Michael

Jericho: Thanks bob. Let me know what I screwed up :)

BOB That looks good

Jericho: Hm, that means something is definitely up!

Jericho: Lol

Jericho: Now for a serious question bob

BOB so Spring, TMO, JTom, Carissa, Lemon, Sharif, and Michael all have characters now

Levi Reed: Ok, so I'm on this website "fantasynamegenerators.com" and it has just so much different kinds of generators, and it also has a link to a "random generator" so OBVIOUSLY I clicked on that

BOB Listening to everyone first before answering

Michael (Jericho): (Ok, will wait :) )

BOB I want your questions

MeStrong: what we waiting for?

BOB Michael, etc

Jericho: Oh, how hard is CE on the group for a priest

Levi Reed: And the one I'm on now is "fantasy creature name generator" and it has things you'd expect... "insane chimeras" "glass titans" "timeless hellhouds" all fine... but then it's got "almond doppelgangers" and if we don't fight an almond doppelganger at some point in this adventure, I'm rioting.

Spring (Ratbone): I don't know how to fill in hit and damage for weapons

BOB it means you roll up a new character

BOB No evil

Jericho: LOL

BOB period

Jericho: So, that means I can't pick Trask

Spring (Ratbone): ROFL!!!

Jericho: for Diety worship

BOB You do not Spring we do that

BOB later

Spring (Ratbone): Ok cool

BOB and FG will update everything as we go

Jericho: Then I'll just find a L,E,N Good around that pantheon

Carissa: (did we add armor?)

Jericho: That was pretty much it

Jericho: Roll for anything else?

BOB No to equipment things Carissa

Carissa: (okay wasn't sure if we forgot when we did mine as she has no armor)

BOB Now we are workign through the family, background things

BOB so we can move to Weapons and Non-weapon proficiencies

Carissa: got it, boss

BOB first we need to know family connections, why you know each other, where you are from etc

BOB Then we will know how to pick NWP etc

Jericho: I just patch them up for cash when they get into trouble. I kind of make a tidy living healing these people

Jericho: LOL

BOB we know some of those things based on class and kits

Rothuss: got JTom named

BOB See it Jtom

Rothuss: his character is currently female, mine will be male. ignore the default icon images FGU assigned us. :)

BOB I assigned some tof them

MeStrong: where can we check out all the proficiencies?

BOB but those will change

BOB First Sharif, tell everyone about your family

BOB why are you a big burly fighter

BOB in a fishing village

Rothuss: he eats 5 dozen eggs every day

BOB Lemon tell us about Levi

BOB Carissa tell us about Vee

Rothuss: and he's roughly as big as a house

Michael (Jericho): (is his actual name MeStrong? Because if Yes, I've fully jumped on the Sharif Train. All aboard!)

BOB to give everyone some ideas

Lemon (Levi Reed): Nooooo oneeeee fights like MeStrong

Jericho: Oh my god, it kinda fits that song!

Carissa: oops sorry what? I was just providing funny commentary tonight I thought

Michael (Jericho): Bonjour!

BOB Remember this is all for the group including Ryan and Lorie who need to know about these characters when they create their own

BOB We are doing this as a group

Rothuss: since Spring and I are buddies, we'll need to put our heads together to determine our dynamic before I do too much background.

BOB Go for it TMO

Carissa: (I can copy past in Discord)

BOB do it here in the open for everyone to see and contribute

BOB it is on your sheet Carissa

Spring (Ratbone): hee!

Jericho: Are we just spitting it out there or going in order?

BOB in the Notes section

BOB Spit it out Michael

Rothuss: So Rothuss and Ratbone?

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): long night, thinking is hard, let me look

BOB so everyone can see and everyone can adjust

Jericho: Ah, okay Let me dig out that notepad file

Jericho: one sec

BOB I can paste for you Carissa

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Daughter of Emilia French and Troy Barlett. Step-daughter to Rocco. Born as Virginia, but prefers to go by Vee with those outside of family. Emilia is a cleric of the Keldorian faith, spending her life on ships and missions. She met Troy Barlett, at a younger age, the self-proclaimed tavern wench (barkeeper or just worker?). They fell in love and had a daughter (Virginia) and a son (Leo) with him. But as time passed, and Emilia kept to her ships, distances had them amicably drift apart. In those years, Troy met the handsome Rocco who readily took in Virginia and Leo as his own. While Leo is her direct blood brother, Virginia has an assortment of half-siblings and step-siblings, many she's sure she's yet to meet given her father's promiscuous encounters before settling down with Rocco. At the least, she's recently been building her relationship with one known half-sister, Gloria. Although she rarely hears from her mother, Virginia inherited her loves of the seas while her father taught her openmindedness. At a young age, while hanging out at the docks, she thought she heard a high-pitch screeching. The aquatic tongue was one she was still desperately trying to learn, but she coul detect the obvious distress. Upon investigation, she discovered an incoming ship trying to anchor in the reefs as it waited to dock. Rather than wait for diplomacy, she jumped into the water and cut the anchor free, doing her best to tug it somewhere less destructive. Jia-Jie, a ranger looking forward to retirement, who still found herself taking easier jobs to pay the bills, watched, impressed, and took Virginia under her wing. Although Vee still doesn't know what brought Jia-Jie to their island, she learned much under her tutelage.

BOB or not

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): got it but thanks since it was on notes

Spring (Ratbone): Yup, when I saw your name, mine spring to mind. i think they work

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): you did half the work of pasting it into notes, lol

Levi Reed: So Levi is the youngest of four. Family of fishing people. Three older sisters. They're taking over the family business and totally immasculating him. But zero interest in that stinky life anyway, plus he's not about to be bossed around by his sisters for the rest of his life, even if his parents so desperately want the family name to be passed down with the family business, so he goes and hangs out in the woods, then trades whatever he hunts for food and drinks at the inn/tavern, because that's way easier than working for a living, plus he can pick up cute guys that way. Ok yeah, jokes on his parents, he's not carrying on the family line anyway.

Rothuss: Ratbone plays the bagpipes still?

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Sweet. So Vee can boss him around instead!

Ratbone: Yes, hang on a second ...

BOB Just copied that to your Notes section on your character sheet Lemon

Ratbone: [d6 = 2]

Ratbone: Ratbone is female

Spring (Ratbone): She believes she invented the quiet bagpipes

BOB Jtom I am not ignoring you, I just want you to be able to do your own thing away from certain family members

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): *cough* Old TMO *cough*

BOB LOL

Lirtimya: I don't know why that happened, I didn't even realize it did

Spring (Ratbone): Definitely going to take a Musical Instrument NWP for a second instrment, probably one that's good for accompanying voice

BOB smiles with Jtom

BOB and Lemon that works great

BOB Give me a name Lemon for the Mentor who taught you to be a ranger out in the hills and mountains

Ratbone: Rothus, did you pick instrument(s) yet?

Rothuss: I have not, no

BOB Ratbone who taught you the bagpipes

Ratbone: i invented them! i was bored

Ratbone: the first ones were too loud

BOB Nice

Levi Reed: Rennet Borian

BOB Thank you Lemon

Ratbone: my granny taught me the pipes, but i wanted to blow them with my arm

MeStrong: Many jokes were told about how my father must've been a whale, and my a mother a creature that fornicates with whales. It should of been a joke told once, given I shadowed over them, but it was told over and over all the way through to my manhood years. Still, they always found a way to appreciate my strength. It was during my manhood years that I learned the truth. That my mother wasn't my mother, and that my father wasn't my father, although I always knew that because they met when I was 5. She said one day she simply heard a cry by the frozen river in the dead of winter. At first she ignored it, thinking it a baby steer or something, but apparently I persisted. The next morning, she went to check out the noise, and there I was. She had no idea how long I'd been there or from where, or who, I came. She coult tell by my size, however, that I was not local. So she picked me up, with an exhalation, and took on another burden.

BOB a magically frozen river for Sharif

Spring (Ratbone): heart heatt heart

BOB and that is very nice

MeStrong: lol yea wasn't sure about that but figured whatever

MeStrong: maybe she was lying!

Levi Reed: Exaggerating for emphasis. Reality has no place is storytelling.

MeStrong: thx :)

MeStrong: fair fair

BOB Added that to your Notes section on your sheet Sharif

MeStrong: ok thanks, sorry I missed the chatter before that I was pretty focused

MeStrong: if anything important was said

BOB Not at all that is a great thing

MeStrong: thx it was fun

BOB MeStrong, Levi, and VEE all have good strong stories on their sheets now

MeStrong: MeStrong is a holder name though!

BOB JTom tell me why you are a Sea Mage

Levi Reed: Sure but someone is for sure giving you that nickname. Me, if I have to.

BOB What makes lirtimya want to spend so much time in/around/controlling the water

MeStrong: Hmm well maybe I'll just tweak it like MuStrung

MeStrong: Mistrung

Levi Reed: Just uncapitalize it. Mestrong. Heck, one of the gods is water spelled backwards. Gnortsem.

MeStrong: lol

BOB smiles

MeStrong: We I like doing the double capitals thing and then kinda like it's an irish name or something

MeStrong: like Mc

BOB and Sharif I do need a name please for up in the hills

Levi Reed: McStrung would be a great name for a bard

MeStrong: true

MeStrong: ok one sec

MeStrong: Melange

Levi Reed: MeLange with the french accents over everything

MeStrong: oohhhh yeah I like that

MeStrong: MeLange

MeStrong: and lets pretend Lange is some language for "strong" :)

MeLange: Boom

Levi Reed: It's a combination of long and strong!

MeLange: ohhh

BOB Melange for Michael

Levi Reed: Or... land and strong?

BOB That is the temple you are from

MeLange: who needs charisma :)

BOB They control over 5,000 acres of sugar cane

MeLange: huh?

Levi Reed: Did you just steal his character name and turn it into a temple? Rude.

BOB I asked him for a name for a place up in the hills

MeLange: I give Levi my time

Rothuss: Let the Spice Flow!

MeLange: well there can be more than MeLange

BOB yes there can be

MeLange: plus that's Melange, I'm MeLange

MeLange: clearly very different

BOB and if you do want a different name please change it Sharif, give me a new one for the temple

MeLange: what kinda temple?

Levi Reed: Hahahah, I look forward to your character having to explain that to everyone they meet

MeLange: does sound ripe for comedy

BOB I just want a name for a place up in the hills

MeLange: hmmm ok gimme a sec

Rothuss: Rothuss and Ratbone are siblings, Ratbone is the 'annoying' little sister. :)

BOB And Ratbone is always late :)

Rothuss: quite possible a bit of a Gaston & LeFou vibe going; combined with Road to El Dorado

Levi Reed: Oh god, you guys, I just stumbed across a "vocal group name generator" in my "random generator" fun

Levi Reed: "Choral Reef" is one of them

BOB NICE Lemon

Jericho: Jericho hails from a long line of smugglers, and none of them trusted him because he chose to believe the best in people. In fact, he was kept so in the dark, he mostly thought he was helping to run an oddly profitiable and legitimate shipping business. However, when his mother died, the family trade eventually turned to more lethal) forms of Piracy as his more psychotic brother took the reings of the family business. Jericho finally saw the writing on the wall when in a fit of rage with a "business partner" his brother gutted the woman and had her intestines spill on Jerichos feet. Jericho claims he is a pascifist, but finds creative ways to work around that framework, using tricks of language to infer he dislikes violence, but really just want's to make money, be left alone, and ponder the meaning of Locrin's ways. Ironcially enough, Jericho never intended to be a priest, but on the night he fled his families island, he found an odd glowing note, telling him the gaurds shift schedule and a line that said "Called to serve, Locrin awaits." He mostly is like the waves, riding them as he pleases, and making money. He has been saving for many years to purchase a ship and crew for medical healing from Island to island as it's own business. Jericho isn't afraid to fight, but dislikes it, and actively avoids confrontrations when he can help it. He isnt the smartest, but he understand this about himself and actively finds ways to educate himself to shore up those weaknesses. His family certainly thought he lacked a few screws, but he also chose to see the best in them. So, more fool them.

BOB So Michael very nice except the "Many Years" is 6 months

BOB You are all only 16-18

Jericho: Let's go with 6 months then LOL

Jericho: :)

BOB And everyone has been learning to be what they are for Classes and Kits

MeLange: Nice

Jericho: A beginning of a dream how about?

Levi Reed: What.

Levi Reed: I gotta age down my dude

MeLange: Ohh for the temple in the hills I have Agoowah and Pescal as options

BOB Thank you Sharif

MeLange: I'll say from not great with names lol

MeLange: now

MeLange: I liked the part where that dudes guts spilled all over

Levi Reed: Ok but I just found a "warrior cat names" generator and can something please be named Badgerstar

Jericho: I thought it would be an education experience for Jericho lol

MeLange: lol

BOB I have added to the notes on the site

MeLange: yup, adding that touch component really helps the learning

Rothuss: how many big cities are there? just the one?

BOB There are several large towns, one that is a city in all but name,

BOB Cities have thousands of people living in them, towns are hundreds

'Lorie' connected

BOB On the Southeast corner of the island there are several very large towns

Rothuss: R&R are from one of the other large towns. We might have kinfolk in big city, but not close family

BOB Hello Lorie!

MeLange: Hi Lorie!

BOB R&R are from how far away from Achild?

Spring (Ratbone): hi Lorie!

BOB dozens? a hundred miles?

Rothuss: is Achild a town name now?

BOB grins yeap

Jericho: So it's the greater Southeast Metropolitan Area. Got it :)

BOB Northeast

Lorie: Evening all... just walked in the door -- how is it going?

Levi Reed: Wait, do we live in Lemonshurrrrrr?

BOB You are from the northeast

Lirtimya: My character could be from a small island, and traveling to the city to, maybe look for more oportunities to learn?

BOB and yes to Lemon

Levi Reed: nice

Jericho: My character was on one of those hundres of islands who's family just based their smuggling out of. Sure why not?

BOB and small thorp on a small island off the coast of Boriquen for JTom

BOB Jericho is from Boriquen like everyone else Michael

Jericho: then sure

BOB there is 20,000 miles of coastline to smuggle things on

BOB the island is 100 miles across

BOB so Lorie when you are caught up have questions for you

Rothuss: R&R are in Boriquen to avoid fallout from a *totally* harmless prank involving sheep. We swear.

BOB Boriquen is the island you are on, you are in Achild because of the prank

Rothuss: As in, "Don't go back to Achild until they've had time to clean it up and forget about it."

Rothuss: Oh, Achild is the city we're currently in?

Rothuss: I missed that, sorry.

BOB And that prank happened in the town of ??? (Carissa will give a name) that is up in the hills and is famous for its goats

Lorie: What do we have so far?

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): (uhhh)

Ratbone: Sheep

Lorie: 2 Rangers; 2 Bards; Sea Wizard?

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Eternal Pearl?

Ratbone: so, every herder marks their sheep with colors

BOB So far we have two rangers, two bards, a sea wizard, a priest, and a fighter

BOB thank you Carissa

Ratbone: we thought it would be funny to switch out some of the colors

BOB Eternal Pearl in the hills east of Achild

Ratbone: and mark some with a color nobody uses

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): named after a racehorsed

Ratbone: and they didn't like it

Rothuss: from the town of Eternal Pearl. Got it.

BOB on the site now

BOB (LINK)

<a href="http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Borinquen">(LINK)</a>

BOB So for Lorie and (when he gets there Ryan) you can create anythign you want of course. The only restriction anyone has hit upon so far is only Humans

BOB What will be fun for you Lorie?

Rothuss: And ntoe Evil

Rothuss: not

Jericho: Was about to point that out LOL

BOB Also everyone will get one bonus NWP to start once we get to that part of character creation

BOB You have a very strong fighter from Sharif in MeLange

BOB You have a fearsome bard with bagpipes from Spring with Ratbone

BOB you have Lirtimya the Sea Mage from JTom

BOB You have Vee the Sea Ranger from Carissa

BOB you have Levi the Ranger from the hills from Lemon

BOB you have Rothuss the Bard from TMO

BOB and you have Jericho the Priest from Michael

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): two notable characters... and then the rest of you, got it. I see how it is now :P

BOB LOL

MeLange: Sea ranger sounds cool

BOB To this point the rest have not made a strong impression

BOB But that is what the rest of tonight and next week is about

MeLange: reminds me of waterworld

Lorie:

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): kind of my thought process

MeLange: so we're doing more backstory?

<font color="#000000">GM : [Translation] This is the fun part of the creation process

<font color="#000000">This is the fun part of the creation process

[understood by: Virginia "Vee" Barlett]

Lorie: Okay... I'm not sure what I want to play...

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): yar

BOB See it will be fun

BOB Give us your hesitations Lorie

BOB we are working on this togetehr

Lorie: I had considered a ranger, but there's already two. So, I think otherwise now

MeLange: can I get the link with the like the info on our town n the like?

BOB (LINK)

<a href="http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Borinquen">(LINK)</a>

BOB That is what we have so far Sharif

BOB we are creating as we go

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Mage can be fun

MeLange: I thought a ranger would be cool too, but i'll save it for antother time I think 2 is enough

MeLange: thx

BOB You can definately be a ranger if you get the rolls Lorie

Lorie: Nah... there's already two

BOB Sharif did not have the rolls to get that

Lorie: that's more than enough

BOB Ask questions about where you are, what the place is like Lorie

MeLange: oh excuse me didn't realize it was about rolls

BOB maybe that will help spur some imagination

'Lirtimya' is at 'Normal' encumbrance. Movebase now 12.

Lorie: I'm essentially somwhere between Aruba and Abaco, right?

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: Magic or no magic is a good starting point. Frontline or support.

Rothuss: one is a Sea Ranger, one is a regular Ranger. A second of either could totes work

Michael (Jericho): oh my friend, this is D&D...it's all about the rolls :D

Michael (Jericho): :P

BOB That is a nice point Lorie,

Lorie: Are we closer to the Aruba end or the Abaco end?

BOB you are on a very large island, Boriquen is 100 miles across, so 20,000 miles of coastline

Michael (Jericho): If it helps Lorie, I'm fully planning on support class, not frontline

BOB so more towards the Cuba end of things

Michael (Jericho): Not sure if that helps

Lorie: As in, is it hurricane or non-hurricane season planning?

Jericho: LOL

BOB Very much hurricane planning

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): hopefully someone wants weather sense... yes....

Lorie: Well, Cuba doesn't get the brunt of most hurricanes thans to hills

Lorie: Got it... Abaco

BOB the SE corner of the island gets hit more, the NE corner is closer to the deep sea currents that sweep by

BOB you are starting on the NW corner of the island

Shislif (MeLange): lol

Michael (Jericho): I'm going to select Skiing, as a NWP I think. How about it?

BOB There are mountains with potential snow in the center of Boriquen

Lorie: Is it a flat island or Dominican Republic island?

BOB Lots of hills, mountains, caves, etc

Michael (Jericho): Jeeze bob. You ruin my fun

Michael (Jericho): lol

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): water skiiing!

Jericho: THERE YOU GO CARISSA!

Michael (Jericho): See, Carissa got it :)

Lorie: Any active volcanoes?

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): lol

Jericho: lol

MeLange: Kinda Chile like

BOB No active volcanos here on THIS island but yes off in other islands nearby

Lorie: Ahhh Monserrat in the distance... lovely

BOB and see gestures to Lorie, see how much world building you can do in five sentences

BOB Smiles

Lorie: Okay... let's see what the dice hold for me

Rothuss: "A harmless prank involving recoloring the goats and sheep of the town of Eternal Pearl has meant the pair have 'escaped' to the city of Achild to avoid retribution. They should be able to go back in a year or two... they hope."

Lorie: Who shaded sheep?

BOB TMO and Spring

Rothuss: R&R

MeLange: brb

Lorie: Ahhh color me surprised

BOB HAH

User has gone AFK. (Shislif)

BOB 4d6 drop the lowest Lorie and arrange how you like

Lorie: [4d6 = 14]

BOB Five more

Lorie: 14 / 9 / 6 / 15 / 12 /16

Lorie: Did they not all go through??

BOB Nothing came through

BOB they did not roll in the chat

BOB But we can take those

Lorie: Okies... I'll reroll I dropped them in the chat,

BOB Those numbers are good

Lorie: Not sure why they didn't go through...sorry

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): (those are without dropping the lowest)

Lorie: (no, those are dropping the lowest

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Wouldn't 14 be 12?

BOB When the dice roll off of the chat box they do not show up

Lorie: [4d6 = 14]

BOB Like that

Lorie: [4d6 = 16]

Lorie: [4d6 = 15]

Lorie: [4d6 = 12]

Lorie: [4d6 = 19]

BOB So Lorie has 12 13 13 13 10 15

BOB Still good numbers

Lorie: Yup

BOB and after arranging them you get to roll a d4 and subrtract and add that to a stat

BOB What type of class are you thinking

MeLange: back :)

BOB Good for a thief

BOB with the 15 Dex and potential higher

Lorie: Can I be a druid?

BOB Or just about any one

Lorie: I have the CHA / WIS

BOB No druids, or Druids here on the island but there are nature priests in the Keldorian pantheon

Lorie: Ok

BOB OR Greek or Norse

BOB there are small pockets of both around the Island Kingdoms

BOB and Boriquen is large enough to house both

BOB all three

Michael (Jericho): (forgot reading was a np proficiency bob. If you are okay, I transferred the four points back to INT, and removed from DEX)

BOB But the Keldorians have the main land holdings

Michael (Jericho): let me know if you don't want me to do that

BOB and yes to Michael, we are not picking NWP yet until everyone is happy with Stats, class, kits,

BOB and backstory

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): new islands! time to reinvite, isn't it?

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): *invent

Rothuss: Bob - ethnicity wise, is this a Pacific Islander, Native Caribbean, or African Caribbean?

BOB yes to Carissa

Rothuss: or more of a 'who cares"?

BOB African Caribean

Rothuss: got it

Michael (Jericho): I'm more of a who cares myself, but

Michael (Jericho): ...

BOB because of Kapyrimtiya

BOB That is the large continent to the East of the Island Kingdoms which is the "african" area of the world

BOB plus north of that is the desert area of the world, ancient egyptians, etc

BOB so there is a valid background for a family to have emigrated to Boriquen from someplace else

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): :(

BOB but your current characters are born here, from here

BOB Why frown Carissa?

MeLange: well we don't know about MeLange

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Desert

BOB This is why we are starting here, there will be some good starting points on Boriquen and then LOTS of adventures over the coming years in very different areas

BOB Not THAT desert Carissa

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): A desert is a desert!

BOB That desert is a thousand plus miles away

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): I mean, it isn't and I know that more than anyone, but it is in my simplified mind now :P

BOB OH I have desert islands for you, grins

BOB Just you wait

Michael (Jericho): Carissa, I will make it a point that we sail to the first desert place for an adventure lol

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): No no I want a tropical place

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Let's be clear: I wanted desert with old characters but with NEW I want tropical paradise. And weird animals and stuff.

Spring (Ratbone): definitely weird animals

BOB you mean giant salamanders with poisonous skin kind of weird animals?

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Only if I eat it

Michael (Jericho): It will work out :) Besides, don't feel bad. Bob didn't just slap me down hard for questioning an evil character, he basically said roll up a new character. Trust me, we will find a desert

Michael (Jericho): With tropics too :)

BOB Grins, it is a specialty served only in the finest establishments, you just have to trust the chef

Michael (Jericho): ew

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Like fugu! Fugi? Whatever it is

BOB and Lorie is thinking

BOB You know how to create a new character sheet Lorie?

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Fugu. Google says I was right the first time.

Lorie: No

BOB Lemon you are up

Lorie: I'm not feeling any of the basics right now, but keep going...maybe I'll get inspired

Levi Reed: Um, at the bottom of the character selection, you click the plus sign

Thanks, I am staring at the sheet...

Levi Reed: Ok then you just type in a name

BOB JTom I need the name of the thorp/island off the coast of Boriquen that you are from

(I'm staring at it for inspriration... LOL)

Levi Reed: And then on the main page, click the gear next to the "abilities" title and then just type in the stats you want where you want them

BOB Sharif and Michael I need the name of the patron that helped you learn XXX skills

BOB Grins with Lorie, I get it

Michael (Jericho): The diety or whomever taught me?

MeLange: huh?

BOB Michael the Priest who taught you? Sharif the person who helped you learn to utilize your inherent strength to be the beast that you are now

Lirtimya: Would "Aida" work?

Jericho: Thank you for Clarifying

BOB Yes it does Jtom

BOB Thank you

MeLange: oh ok gimme a sec

Jericho: I have no idea how the religious structure works here

Jericho: Hm

BOB Just need a name Michel

Jericho: Michel it is

Jericho: French Caribbean style

Jericho: :)

MeLange: so is this a safe fishing town? Or do they get like raided and stuff?

MeLange: or colonized

MeLange: ?

[CHECK] Dexterity (vs. Target 9) [SUCCESS by 1] [d20 = 8]

MeLange: also brb

User has gone AFK. (Shislif)

Jericho: So Tortuga, or St Bastillion is what you are asking Sharif?

It won't let me modify these 9s for stats

BOB Both to getting raided and also safe because the local guard and priests STOMP on pirates but no to colonized

nevermind

BOB Remember everyone we are doing more over the week and next session so that all the characters get fleshed out

Spring (Ratbone): by the way, i am having a more than average amount of fun for the character creation phase. FYI and thanks.

BOB Very glad Spring

Michael (Jericho): I know I am

BOB The last of next week will be very In Character and talking and learning and the next session will be the first story arc

BOB I have the beginnings of stories and adventures for the next couple of years, now

MeLange: I mean I guess yea

BOB It just took me a week to stew on it and Presto it all came out

MeLange: ok cool caught up

MeLange: yea character creation is fun

BOB Lorie are you leaning towards any particular class?

Spring (Ratbone): wow, i never realized you actually see people typing in character names

BOB Nice I like Hyacinth as a name

Hyacinth Jeffers: Given the rest of the group, I guess I could be a rogue

BOB That will be fun to see

Hyacinth Jeffers: But I can't get it to load... I might not have the right book loaded?

MeLange: Does the fishing town have a library?

BOB I can help with that

Rothuss: Spring - are you back enough to look at Artbreeder with me? There's some good pics to start from?

BOB first a question for you Lorie, do you want to be a trouble shooter for the Church? going after people who are causing problems? or be someone in the shadows trying to find a way around the restrictions?

BOB The church is in charge of the Distilleries for example

BOB and the taxes

Levi Reed: Don't be a rogue unless you think it will be fun. Pick something you WANT to play. Don't worry about the group dynamic, we will make it work

MeLange: 2nd

Hyacinth Jeffers: we're past what I wanted to play... it's more what will work for the group

Jericho: Yeah Lorie, we love you and want you to actually have fun :)

Hyacinth Jeffers: In any case, probably the former over the latter

MeLange: mmm 2nd

Levi Reed: We aren't. If you want to be a ranger, be a ranger

BOB There is a library in the larger town but not the smaller one

MeLange: what types of public institutions are there in general?

BOB The library is controlled by an old mage

MeLange: church i assume

Jericho: Also let's be serious, you rolling up a ranger to add would be pretty funny and ensure our group is badass. If it helps, I am literally going to be a doctor. That's it. I'm literally putting all points into healing stuff

MeLange: oh cool

MeLange: I like that thanks

BOB I keep adding to the notes

BOB Borinquen By far the largest island in the group of islands near Seagate there are several deep harbors that cater to both merchants and those who skirt the rules in making their ways around the islands. With a hundred mile width there are more than 20,000 miles of coastline around Borinquen. The mountains in the center of the island have been known to have snow on their peaks. There are several deep water lakes that are feed by mountain streams and lead to rivers that drain away to the coasts. The southwestern coast line has steep cliffs while the eastern shoreline has wide sandy beaches and excellent deep sea fishing in the currents that sweep past. Locations Bahia Harbor Crash Boat Cove The Rusty Pelican is a reputable inn on the southeastern corner of the island just off of the Bahia harbor. It is run by a retired halfling who was a paladin in the Mieszecz Group of islands. The Busty Pelican (large hanging sign of a pelican with a womans breasts) is a brothel a couple of blocks away. On the northwest coast of the island is the large town of Achild with a small hamlet of Lemonshire to the west along the coast where some fisherpeople have established the messier fishworks. Up in the hills from Lemonshire the temple of Agowah controls over 5,000 acres of sugar cane fields. Pescal, (insert long title here) is the priest in charge of the temple. Achild has a small library controlled by an old mage, she is strict with who can borrow any materials, and would rather they sit in front of her and read so she can make sure that they are treating the materials with respect. Eternal Pearl is a small thorp in the hills east of Lemonshire, known for their goats and the hair they gather from them. The goats and sheep are all marked with special colors to indicate which family they belong to for the shepherds to keep track. A small island half a mile off of the coast from Achild is Aida. A small enclave there works hard to use the gifts of the sea as best they can.

BOB That is what all of us have created so far tonight

Jericho: I spewed liquid with that 2nd paragraph bob

Jericho: I'm naming my RV the Busty Pelican

Lorie (Hyacinth Jeffers): (The Rusty Pelican is an iconic South Florida restaurant... )

Jericho: How about the Busty Pelican?

Jericho: google says i'm clear

Lorie (Hyacinth Jeffers): (No comment)

BOB and that is also a nod to Lorie for both the SoFlo reference and for her soon to appear own child who was born after I started running this game and now she will be playing with us (Tmac)

Jericho: LOL

User has gone AFK. (TMO)

Lorie (Hyacinth Jeffers): (No ADawg)

User has gone AFK. (Spring)

BOB Ahh

User has gone AFK. (JtomTMO)

BOB Crazy that Lorie has Multiple kids born after I started this campaign

BOB grins

Hyacinth Jeffers: I'm old... I know LOL

BOB So lorie if you do like the roughe idea of working for the church, that does very much fit in with what I already have for the third story arc

BOB BUT I want to make sure you feel it,

Hyacinth Jeffers: It's fine.

BOB Ok

BOB so we are only missing Ryan's character now

BOB We will want Hyacinth's family, and her mentor, who taught her those skills that the church values but does not teach themselves

BOB So I want to pause so I can look at everyone's sheet to make sure how many WP, NWP and Int slots you get to spend on top of what you already have on your sheets

BOB and I will help tweak what you currently have

BOB carambola wine added to notes

Levi Reed: So are we picking NWP now?

BOB OK I want to make sure everyone feels they have the beginning of their character

BOB You can if you want Lemon or you can wait until next week

BOB and talk about it during the week

BOB I need to look at all the individual sheets to make sure you get the slots you should have

BOB grins, this is why I said it would take two sessions to create

BOB Plus I have other things to add and create and gift

BOB Then at the end everyone gets to roll to see if you are lucky enough to have a minor magic item

Jericho: NWP: Reading, Writing; Healing, Herbalism

BOB Will mark that as choices Michael

BOB But you get many more overall

Jericho: TY: Swimming is the Freebie :) Which by the way thank you bob. That was a kindness

MeLange: Despite his large size and semi-Herculean strength, Melange was not great at making friends. His Mother, even, simply put up with him, registering his existing without celebration. While perhaps emotionally negligent as a Mother, she did have something, and that was collected tales of underlife mythology. In there, MeLange could find peace, even connection. The tales of Gods so strong and sleek, so smart and impactful, swept him away. As the tales came to an end, the thirst contnued. MeLange knew the trip to the library was neither easy nor cheap. He remembered the tale of the god cursed to forever push a sea urchin with his foot and a seagull on his back, and thought he had it easy. The first day at the library was a moment he got stuck in... At least until he met the librarian. She was oddly big and attractive for a female, MeLange had never met a librarian before. Her initial attitude was hesistant, rude even. Jokes about his size, the smell of fish, and ignorance of men. Still, MeLange was persistent, sticky, difficult to remove. Day after day he showed, any time he wasn't needed for tasks of strength, he'd be found in the library between books, the Librarian ever with her watchful eye. Little by little, without a speck of magin, the Librarian Mage's walls began to lower, and she begain to take an interest in the child. She saw his honesty, his naivete, his strength. She saw the many hard days that were inevitable to come, and realized what this moment truly was. She decided, then, to take him under her wing, to teach him what he would need to survive, how to use his strength and his smarts, his darn garn stick toit-tiveness. She would do this because this child clearly had nobody else, and she was kind of bored.

BOB You might want to think about agriculture

Jericho: I may....at a future data

Jericho: *date

BOB added that to the notes Sharif

Michael (Jericho): Swimming is probably going to be important. But, if you also are suggesting it, that tells me something too

BOB I mean as one of your Priestly Duties Michael

BOB is why we are waiting till next week

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Michael (Jericho): Oof. I really wanted to be a doctor :(

Levi Reed: I can't figure out how to add NWP anyway

Michael (Jericho): Alrighty, I'll wait

Levi Reed: I know I want swiming and botany and then I think I get one more

BOB You can Michael no reason not to

BOB You get more than that Lemon

BOB again why we are waiting

Levi Reed: oh

Levi Reed: nice

BOB I will go over everythign done tonight this weekend

Jericho: Cool beans. So Discord chats then everyone?

BOB smiles Michael

Jericho: Agriculture was unexpected for Priestly Duties. Any reason why bob?

BOB Sugar Cane plantations, and Lorie just invented Carambola vineyards

MeLange: thx

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): people gotta eat

Lorie (Hyacinth Jeffers): (Which Deity Michael... that might be a factor in your NWP)

Jericho: Nods

BOB and HAH see Carissa wants more than drink

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): given I don't really drink, yes please

Jericho: Will consider :), just have to be careful with my NWP. Since we are starting out at....level 1 bob? I'm not sure I have to be TOO stingy

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BOB and Lemon and SHarif have creatures up in the Hills that they are worried about

BOB everyone is 1st level

Jericho: Then it will only take a few levels to gain another NWP

Jericho: I don't have to wait years

Jericho: So I think I can relax just a little bit

BOB everyone gets 1 bonus NWP and one piece of gear,

MeLange: creatures up in thehills?

BOB Carissa got a canoe

BOB Mountain Men

Jericho: In real life or in game?

BOB up in the hills

Jericho: Oh, Canoe in game

Jericho: My bad

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): lol

Jericho: Also something that would help me plan bob, what Sphere is my god. That might actually influence NWP a bit

BOB My guess is by October everyone will be second level, and some close to third

Jericho: You give experience just for healing people right? LOL

BOB remember Roleplay Experience Points at this level add up quick

Jericho: That's why I might take up Agriculture a bit later for NWP

Jericho: These are the foundational ones for my character personally I think

Carissa (Virginia "Vee" Barlett): Hey guysss! Wassup?! (RP done, gimme)

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: Hey guysss! Wassup?! (RP done, gimme)

BOB When you are needing 90K for XP 100 to 200 XP is small but when you need 1,000 XP for level you can get 10% in one night

Jericho: LOL

Jericho: Carissa :)

BOB LOL Carissa

Jericho: So would you probably Guess Major Sphere would be Travelers bob?

BOB So this was a good start

Jericho: I dont' mind, just planning

Jericho: and plotting ;)

BOB I will update your sheet Michael if they are not on the site they will be and on your sheet by Friday and likely before

BOB JTom still needs to roll to Know spells as a Sea Mage

Jericho: Cool beans. Then I love you all, I am exhausted from a ten hour drive. I'm going to crash on my hotel bed now

BOB Lorie gets to pick LOTS of new skills

Jericho: HUGS

Levi Reed: Goodnight Michael!

BOB Go Michael

BOB see you soon

Ratbone: gnite michael!

Jericho: :P Love all

Rothuss: yes, we still need to do JTom

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: night michael!

MeLange: night!

Hyacinth Jeffers: Good night

BOB Spring and TMO are going to make sweet... well at least Music together

Rothuss: 's spells. Can you get me his spell list so I can share it with him?

Jericho: And Seriously Lorie, do everything you WANT to do :) This is a chance for you to have lots and lots of fun :)

MeLange: 2nd

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Rothuss: Phrasing Bob!

BOB I will try TMO but mostly is just any Water Elemental spell

Rothuss: Okay.

BOB more to come of course for everyone

Levi Reed: Yes, please, for the love of all the gods, pick something that you will enjoy. I know you struggled with Licornah, don't want to repeat that

BOB PLUS Ryan gets to build a character

Hyacinth Jeffers: I didn't want to retire and roll a level 1... so I'm trying to get into this.

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: Ulrik the Storm...wave

Hyacinth Jeffers: I'll move on and figure it out

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: With his mother's trident

BOB Yes to Lorie, it is a struggle Carissa can fully identify,

Hyacinth Jeffers: I've been playing AD&D for too many years.. unless this is Killer Breakfast

Levi Reed: Exactly why we want you to pick something you will have fun with

BOB But overall it will be good for everyone

BOB warm smile no one else will get that from Lorie but that was a great Gen Con event

BOB Some of the creators of D&D host a breakfast and killer characters about 1 per minute or faster

BOB It is very funny stand up comedy type of thing

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: It's a struggle, but I know Lemon is estatic to start over so I'm drawing from her excitement to temper my sadness

Levi Reed: If you have to do something you didn't really want to do, might as well make it fun. Think of this as the airplane noises as the spoon flies into your mouth

BOB For what it is worth Lorie, I think the idea of a thief on the side of the church will be an interesting character, you can have fun with it

BOB breaking all the rules and then "ooops here is my get out of jail card"

Hyacinth Jeffers: I think more pirate over rogue... but sure.

BOB Privateer

BOB Letter of Marque

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: Pretty sure we'll all be pirates in the end...

Levi Reed: Ok Yout

BOB Whispers just wait until you get to try to take over a flying island

BOB But that is an adventure for the Birthday Game 2024+

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: lol

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: to both

BOB I have ideas

BOB grins

BOB and Plans TM

BOB I know you are shocked

BOB Quote for Lemon

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: You just quoted yourself?

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: That feels like cheating.

BOB Bows

Levi Reed: I am the quote decider! You can add whatever you want but I don't take requests

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: Shameless!

BOB LOL

BOB Love you all

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: :)

BOB go get some sleep

MeLange: night everybody

BOB I will restart and post chat

Levi Reed: I mean I'm about to video game until way too late but cool

Levi Reed: Goodnight friends!

Virginia "Vee" Barlett: Night!

Hyacinth Jeffers: Good night

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BOB We are off to a good start

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Rothuss: one sec Bob

BOB Yes

Rothuss: Spring is uploading her pic

BOB No worries

BOB but I will need them all anyway to make sure they are in the correct folder for archiving in case of issues

BOB We will do that over time

BOB and I will create the start for the ancestry pages for everyone too

BOB plus the new party pack, etc etc etc

Rothuss: Portraits are loaded. JTom and I will work on one this week for him

Rothuss: sorry, for her

Ratbone: okay all done

Ratbone: have a good night!

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Rothuss: buh bye

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