Only in dreams, we see what it means
But when we wake, its' all been erased,
And so it seems, only in dreams
"The land of Dol-Makar is your home. Your two kings rule it fairly. It is a vast land, home to deep oceans, craggy mountains and verdant forests. It holds vast opportunity, dangers and treasures. There are feuds with neighboring kingdoms, the Iron States, that need solving. This year's harvest has been underwhelming; there is talk of rationing. Large problems, that need serious people to solve them.
But we should be clear about one thing. You are not one of this land's heroes.
You are a shit shoveler. Peasant. Strictly working class.
Sure, you dream big. Who doesn't? You daydream about being a member of the nobility, solving important problems and hobknobbing, only to be rudely shaken out of it by your next customer. You spend your nights dreaming about what life would be like if you had drawn a different lot...if you were one of the few who actually had power. What your life would be like..."
Here's a map of the setting:
The party:Gwyn-Lai, Genasi Monk (played by Rainfall)
Laineth The Free, Half-Elf Battlemind (played by delroland)
The Feathered Maiden of Riddleport, Human Rogue (played by interroband)
Aemille the Nine Lives, Human Bard (played by astrobstrd)
Nimaran, Gnomish Wizard (played by Zaximus)
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DUN DUN DUN!!
I assume our peasant submission wouldn't actually be statted out, then?
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
Ideally.
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also love that you posted a map, that makes backstory worlds easier since you dont have to make grand assumptions about the landscape.
EDIT: where on the map are we starting btw?
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Edit: What would be level appropriate gold?
Other than that, nothing's really verboten.
Woog: You'll be starting in either Whistledown or Illsurian, your choice. Also, as I said, you don't need to know the other party members right away, so keep that in mind as you create.
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Same here. Will be fun to watch though!
Cake - 3rd level chars start with 520 gold.
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I'm already playing in too many games so I shan't be submitting for this one, but it certainly sounds like a fun one to watch. Good luck all!
PS - Farangu: Where do you get those maps?
2011 PAX Warmachine/Hordes Champion
Also I just do a GIS for fantasy maps or D&D maps, usually I find a nice looking effort fairly quickly
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Here is a quick thing I wrote out for Naell the Deaf, I'll have some stats later today (and hopefully flesh out the whole deaf part).
His clothes were in tatters and he sat in the alley behind The Purple Daggoth Inn in the port city of Sandpoint. He had learned long ago not to play on the main road, where he had earned his fair share of kicks to the teeth.
Every day Naell started by looking for work. Sometimes the local tanner would allow him to help with the scouring of flesh and fat on the leathers, the butcher would let him dispose of intestines and other unsavories. But the young man had a significant disadvantage; he was deaf.
Once a smart, imposing young man of academia and music, Naell's life was turned around through the same tragedy in which he lost his hearing.
And so now, in the midst of winter, on the cusp of his 18th birthday, Naell played what he could remember of the ballads and ditties, of the symphonys and epics. But as he lost strings, the playing of songs by memory of string plucking became more of a guessing game, the same game which caused what once were pitying smiles and a spare copper, to turn to annoyed grimaces and a mouthed curse.
When Naell could no longer endure the sharp looks and hurtful glares, he began to close his eyes while he played. His day-dreaming took him to a place where those same cruel passerby's turned to look at Naell, smile and clap, he envisioned them taking time out of their day to stay and listen. Eventually a crowd formed and Naell could hear the music, the complicated songs he longed to play as a child, could hear the sharp *CLINK* of silver as coins were thrown at his feat. And now he was playing inside the Purple Daggoth Inn, with a stage and nice clothes. For the first time in years he felt himself smiling, and then in the corner of the Inn he saw the Baron, the same noble who took everything from him. He smiled at Naell right as the bards own smile faded.*CLINK*
Naell opened his eyes hoping to find a coin. Instead he found himself with a three stringed lute in the middle of winter, on the cusp of his 18th birthday.
"Fuck."
A thousand ducats to you
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It was a dreamworld/real world parallel type game, which I won't go into in case this game has similar ideas, however the campaign took a turn for the bizarro when the DM (who none of us knew beyond acquaintence) started having sadistic stuff happen to our "real" family members.....murders...rapes, in entirely more detail then should ever be gone into.
Dude was creepy.
needless to say we never returned to that guy.
But Snowdown do you think you could pm me the kinds of paralells and goals this guy did? Can't hurt to hear more ideas that I might use later.
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First there is Thordain, the Dwarven Barbarian
And secondly, we have Owen, the Human Paladin
Like I said, I still have work to do on their back story. Fortunately I have the basic framework in place so I just have some fine tuning to do. I've played a lot more 3.5E/Pathfinder than I have 4E, so if these are a little off just let me know.
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3DS FCode: 1993-7512-8991
Ender I grabbed the map from a GIS
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Thanks, and I'm not totally tied down to the official Warforged lore. As long as a "mechanical man" can exists, I'm fine with whatever lore you want to throw at him to tie it into the world. If you have anything specific, please PM me, and I'll see about working it into his character a bit more.