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Post by HorizonsDream on Nov 6, 2017 20:10:36 GMT -8
The way that I am setting up my character, she uses her arrogance as a defense mechanism to her fear. Seeing a Drow for the first time is probably going to freak her out because she had heard of tales of "dark elves" all of her sheltered life. Of coirse, the moment he ends up being afraid of her, she'll just assume (at least in the beginning) that he has simply recognized his natural place when it comes to her. In her mind, he would be the only one acting like they should be.
Of course, this is only in the beginning. Providing that I can use the kit that Daos mention, the visions (which I plan on her having painful visions such as ones where she can feel the pain that people are going through) are going to help temper that arrogance.
As for having a fellow person from Krynn (even if it is a human might be of some comfort to her).
As I am on my phone, and I am at work, I can't really reply with everything I wish to reply to.
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Post by notARobot on Nov 6, 2017 21:04:30 GMT -8
Of coirse, the moment he ends up being afraid of her, she'll just assume (at least in the beginning) that he has simply recognized his natural place when it comes to her. In her mind, he would be the only one acting like they should be. As for having a fellow person from Krynn (even if it is a human might be of some comfort to her). I think she'll like my character (let's call him...Sebastian), then. He's a mild-mannered scribe who knows he's in way over his head, so he'll be easy to push around (at least most of the time). The fact that they both see themselves as servants of the gods of Krynn ought to give them additional common ground, I'd think. |
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Post by Daos on Nov 6, 2017 21:47:16 GMT -8
As both Theron's and Heather's characters came from Krynn, do you think that's coincidence or that they arrived together somehow?
Something else to think about--what time period from Krynn do they come from? If you're both clerics, that eliminates a few time periods. Not during the Age of Despair up until the War of the Lance and not between the Chaos War and War of Souls. I also think Heather said she wanted her character to be from Silvanesti, so that also eliminates the period during the Nightmare and any time after War of Souls, too.
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Post by HorizonsDream on Nov 6, 2017 22:10:58 GMT -8
I guess that brings up the question: Can our characters be from different time periods? Should they be from the same time period to make things easier?
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Post by Daos on Nov 6, 2017 22:14:00 GMT -8
I don't see how. Unless one of you is put into some kind of stasis or something for a certain number of years? Because time flows normally for all dimensions, as far as I know.
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Post by notARobot on Nov 6, 2017 23:15:56 GMT -8
I guess that brings up the question: Can our characters be from different time periods? Should they be from the same time period to make things easier? I was wondering the same thing. Having all the various planes of the multiverse chronologically synchronized in lockstep almost seems more complicated than portals allowing time travel as well as space travel. All the same, I think we ought to be from the same time just for the sake of simplicity. Can you imagine the difficulties that would arise if one of us was from pre-Cataclysm times, and the other after? Or pre/post Chaos War? Heads would explode. Daos helpfully broke down the ranges where it wouldn't make sense for clerics to exist...I'm okay with pretty much any of our available options. I was thinking maybe sometime between the War of the Lance and the Chaos War -- if you're partial to some other point on the timeline though, I can work with that. If Heather's cleric was in Silvanesti immediately prior to her planeshifting, then I doubt Sebastian could have traveled through the same portal...he'd have been killed on sight by the elves, right? Otherwise, it would be fun to somehow tie our backstories together. Sebastian recently graduated from the University of Palanthas, and applied to join the Aesthetics working in the Great Library...but their Order was unimpressed with his graduate thesis (a treatise on a rare species of beetle), so as a precondition for admission, they sent him [someplace] to go investigate reports they'd heard of strange phenomena occurring around what turned out to be the portal. If your cleric and Sebastian both came to Sigil together, where would that portal have been? |
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Post by Daos on Nov 6, 2017 23:33:44 GMT -8
I do believe that is the time period Heather is most familiar with. Maybe around 360 AC or so? Shortly after the War of the Lance. The Nightmare isn't entirely cleansed yet (that won't happen until 382, literally a year before the Chaos War starts), but it should be cleansed enough that at least some of the Silvanesti have returned home.
Heather said she wanted her character to live in Silvanesti, but I'm not sure if she meant she never left it. Unless that's not the case, it's possible she was abroad then at the time. Maybe on a pilgrimage of some kind? And it just so happened she passed by the same place your character was investigating.
If she did mean for her character to be in Silvanesti, it's not impossible for a human to be there, at least at the time period I suggested. I mean, yeah, if he just shows up and crosses the border without permission, they won't like that. But if the phenomenon he was sent to investigate was in Silvanesti, they might allow him in assuming the Church of Gilean managed to get him diplomat status.
But this is all just brainstorming. It's possible they didn't arrive together, too. Or they arrived at different times (that is, maybe one of you has been in Sigil slightly longer than the other). It sort of depends on what you two want to do.
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Post by GravityEmblem on Nov 7, 2017 4:35:20 GMT -8
Hmmm...do our characters have to be from Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk? I have little experience with either of those settings.
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Post by Ezeze on Nov 7, 2017 6:46:46 GMT -8
The way that I am setting up my character, she uses her arrogance as a defense mechanism to her fear. Seeing a Drow for the first time is probably going to freak her out because she had heard of tales of "dark elves" all of her sheltered life. Of coirse, the moment he ends up being afraid of her, she'll just assume (at least in the beginning) that he has simply recognized his natural place when it comes to her. In her mind, he would be the only one acting like they should be. is going to be an interesting dynamic, because I can see it sitting without really hurting anything for a few in-game months then suddenly exploding dramatically when Mas'erin feels pushed too far. As of this moment we've got two clerics, a wizard and a fighter/paladin. Sounds like we need a skill monkey, which will fit Mas'erin just fine. I'll look more closely at the thief, bard and ranger kits later to see which one I like best. Side-bar; are there official 2nd edition rules for guns and how would we feel about incorporating them into game? I'm thinking a rudimentary blunderbuss, or maybe a circa 1500's revolver. |
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Post by GravityEmblem on Nov 7, 2017 7:40:07 GMT -8
I've looked into it more, and I think I'll be a Halfling. Conjuration or Transmutation specialty.
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Post by Ezeze on Nov 7, 2017 7:51:15 GMT -8
I started talking at my boyfriend about this game and he expressed interest in playing, if that's alright.
He's really into playing weird shit so a planar game is right up his alley  |
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Post by Jherek Everfull on Nov 7, 2017 8:48:46 GMT -8
The glory of Planescape is you can come from anywhere.
I dont mind, it is Daos' site though.
The Planar characters can take the Planar kit, and an additional kit...So Daos could play a Planar Inquisitor Paladin...or a Planar Specialty Priest of Gond...etc.
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Post by GravityEmblem on Nov 7, 2017 9:03:06 GMT -8
The glory of Planescape is you can come from anywhere. I dont mind, it is Daos' site though. Very well, my character will be from the world of Tsentasia. A world of diversity and peace...but with the looming terror of the rapidly advancing Eternal Empire on the horizon. Lead by a trio of mages who have lived for centuries, the denizens of all of this world cower in fear at them... Oh, and Vampires are legitimate race. I'm not one, I'm just putting that out there. |
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Post by Daos on Nov 7, 2017 10:03:25 GMT -8
Nah, your Clueless can be from any setting. Eberron, Dragonlance, Mystara...or even a homebrewed one. The last Planescape game I was in, my Clueless was from one of my own settings, in fact.
There are, but they suck pretty badly. The PHB has rules for an arquebus. There are some rules for pistols in Spelljammer, I think. I houserule my own stuff for guns in my own games, because guns are practically unusable as written.
The basics though are that range penalties are doubled, you can only fire every third round (it takes two rounds to reload; and you can't reload if you are being attacked), rolling a 1 or 2 on attack causes the weapon to backfire, doing 1d6 damage to yourself (and damaging the weapon so it cannot be fired again until you take 30 minutes to fix it), and the gunpowder needed to fire it is considered a magical item (which means, by core rules, it cannot be bought in stores). The plus side is that the way damage works, if you roll max damage, you get to roll again and add it together. If you roll max damage again, you keep going. So theoretically, you can roll infinite damage, if you're lucky enough.
So I don't know if it was an oversight or not, but in the house rules Jherek put up on the first post, he seems to have left out the one about any race being any class. Assuming that was intentional on his part, halflings cannot be mages.
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Post by GravityEmblem on Nov 7, 2017 10:12:52 GMT -8
Oops, sorry. I'll probably be a Half-Elf, then.
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