Role play heavy game

[Auranghzeb]

Here's my WIP.

Tedras
Tedras gimmick is to be dashing with a sword, persuasive with words, and spend like a high roller when money is good. I'll use Battlemaster for control and support more than damage. But Tedras can pack a punch if needed.

[JNAProductions]

What's the general pitch for Keys From The Golden Vault?
Is there a player's guide available online or anything?

I want to make sure I make an appropriate character.

[agignac]

What's the general pitch for Keys From The Golden Vault?
Is there a player's guide available online or anything?

I want to make sure I make an appropriate character.

The Golden Vault is a secretive organization committed to righting moral wrongs. Membership and activities are almost impossible for outsiders to track. They are known to support virtuous underdogs and handle delicate situations that local authorites won't touch. Their mottos is "Do good, no matter the cost." Missions are often illegal, but they always support a just, moral cause.

Missions / heists take place in the forgotten realms, sometimes between planes.

Each mission is written so that combat can be avoided if you want, and stealth is generally preferable. Like any good heist, there will be a lot of preparing for the mission, exploring the surroundings, and talking to NPCs.

[Lioslaith]

I think the general idea is heist. So just think Oceans 11 or whatever your favorite heist movie is.

Also, apologies I wasn’t trying to ninja the response. Just wasn’t sure how often you checked the forums. Excellent synopsis btw.

Hit points as typical in 5E?

[JNAProductions]

Leaf is made!

Spoiler: Backstory

Show

Born to half-elven parents, Leaf was the eighth of eight kids. Her parents worked their butts off to provide for everyone, as did the elder siblings, but their success was limited. As such, Leaf spent a lot of time wandering the city, unsupervised. She got into her fair share of trouble with the law-harmless things, mostly. Pranks and practical jokes, minor thievery (usually food), and the time she discovered her magic by summoning a wolf to attack a bully. (He lived, and wasn't even seriously injured, but it sure scared the crap out of him.)

It was after this incident that her parents were able to do something-it helped that they no longer had all eight kids around, the elder few having moved out and found lives elsewhere. They contacted the Emerald Enclave, informing them of Leaf's talent with summoning, and made clear to her that she was to listen to them, learn from them, and behave!

Leaf agreed. At first. The good behavior lasted about a month, before she started sneaking out again. But she did learn quite a bit about how to use her own magic. She didn't know it, but the Enclave considered her a prodigy, with how fast she was able to learn. When she turned 20, she finally returned home, to find her parents doing much better. Without all the kids needing to be fed, they actually made decent enough coin, and were able to live simple, but peaceful, lives. Leaf's siblings occasionally visited, and everyone was doing okay.

But, after her time with the Enclave and her use of magic, Leaf was not content to simply stay home. She wandered, helping people in need and doing adventurer-type things. It was during this period when she was contacted by the Golden Vault, offering her a mission that was far more impactful than the little tasks she had been doing.
She didn't take much convincing to join in.

[Lioslaith]

I hadn’t realized how tedious it is to make a character without dnd beyond. lol

[Dusk Raven]

No Echo Knights.

Well, there goes one concept. A concept that admittedly doesn't quite adhere to the intended fluff - the idea was a character with an "imaginary friend" who turned out to be sort of real. But, I have more ideas!

The Golden Vault is a secretive organization committed to righting moral wrongs. Membership and activities are almost impossible for outsiders to track. They are known to support virtuous underdogs and handle delicate situations that local authorites won't touch. Their mottos is "Do good, no matter the cost." Missions are often illegal, but they always support a just, moral cause.

...That reminds me so much of something from my own work that I might just import a character from there. The problem being that most of them don't make for good D&D characters on account of using a very different magic system.

Even so, that gives me a lot of concepts. Tempted to list them... especially since, given these are roleplaying concepts I'm choosing between, talking about them might help me decide which I actually want to play.

[agignac]

Yes - typical hit points. Full at first level, then half+1 moving forward.

We have some good candidates so far. I'm hoping to get enough on this thread, but if necessary I'll open up a separate recruitment thread to garner more notice.

Player	Character name	Race/class
Lioslaith	Fenris	Pallid Elf Inquisitor Rogue
Progress Paladin		Changeling Whsipers Bard?
Auranghzeb	Tedras	Human battlemaster fighter?
JNA Productions	Leaf	Half-elf Moon Druid
samduke	Elise	Kender beastmaster ranger
Infernally Clay		Hexblade warlock?
Archemist		Rock gnome cleric?
Dusk Raven

[samduke]

Well I will drop a prospective pending interest, and request the race Kender from Dragonlance, pending that will decide things

[agignac]

Well I will drop a prospective pending interest, and request the race Kender from Dragonlance, pending that will decide things

Sure, kender looks good.

[Auranghzeb]

Do we need to post on the other thread?

[Lioslaith]

Here is my rogue, close to done I think https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheets/?id=2882003

[samduke]

@ agignac (GM)

I am looking at Kender
Background Outlander
Ranger, beastmaster subclass

using the Spirit of the Land companion from Tasha's and the Watchers dark gift from VRGtR.

But I wanted to see if you were allowing the (Optional) things

also
can I trade out a musical instrument prof. for a tool prof. or a language?
can I sell items gained from background and class starting equipment, if so do I get full value or some other ?

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[agignac]

Do we need to post on the other thread?

Nope, my hope was to direct people here.

[agignac]

@ agignac (GM)

I am looking at Kender
Background Outlander
Ranger, beastmaster subclass

using the Spirit of the Land companion from Tasha's and the Watchers dark gift from VRGtR.

But I wanted to see if you were allowing the (Optional) things

also
can I trade out a musical instrument prof. for a tool prof. or a language?
can I sell items gained from background and class starting equipment, if so do I get full value or some other ?

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I'm going to veto any material from VRGtR.
Yes to the prof. trades. You can "sell" starting equipment at full value. Check out my house rules in the big 16 for the "smarty pants" rules, which also gives extra languages.

[Infernally Clay]

Then I shall repost here...

I will make... A Hexblade Warlock. They rarely seem to get played at high levels because they're treated explicitly as a dip class but 9th level is when they get their fifth level spells slots so that should be really fun.

I'm thinking a master swordsman who died unfulfilled and unsatisfied by the opponents they faced in life so they were offered an opportunity to be resurrected and challenge greater enemies and they took it, unaware that there is a higher price to be paid.

[samduke]

I'm going to veto any material from VRGtR.
Yes to the prof. trades. You can "sell" starting equipment at full value. Check out my house rules in the big 16 for the "smarty pants" rules, which also gives extra languages.

okay but you did not exactly answer this - are you allowing the (Optional) things

example with ranger is - Deft Explorer (Optional), Favored Foe (Optional)

[agignac]

okay but you did not exactly answer this - are you allowing the (Optional) things

example with ranger is - Deft Explorer (Optional), Favored Foe (Optional)

Apologies, I misunderstood. All the optional class features and content from TCoE is permitted.

[samduke]

Apologies, I misunderstood. All the optional class features and content from TCoE is permitted.

all good.

Here is Elise - should be complete - backstory on sheet

[Archemist]

Echoing the repost from the other recruitment thread - I'm working on a rock gnome cleric, will try to finish up a sheet in the next day or so.

[agignac]

Player	Character name	Race/class
Lioslaith	Fenris	Pallid Elf Inquisitor Rogue
Progress Paladin		Changeling Whsipers Bard?
Auranghzeb	Tedras	Human battlemaster fighter?
JNA Productions	Leaf	Half-elf Moon Druid
samduke	Elise	Kender beastmaster ranger
Infernally Clay	Rafe	Hexblade warlock?
Archemist	Siobhan	Rock gnome cleric
Dusk Raven
the hellbug	Ennius	Half-elf warlock

We've got some solid applications so far. I'll give people until Sunday night (GMZ-8), and make decisions and get started on Monday.

[Auranghzeb]

Tedras is finished. I just added a rogue level, but Tedras is more the Gambling-Forging type of rogue than the stealthy kind. The only decision is the uncommon object: right now I have an immovable rod, but I may change it.

[JNAProductions]

Yay! Solidity!

Quick question, Agignac: How do you rule wildshape and held objects?

As an example, from a past game of mine. The party was raiding a mage's study, and they needed to get a lot of documents fast. One of the PCs lifted the desk, wildshaped into... An elk? Something quadrupedal, melding the desk into the animal form and fleeing the scene. Then, when wildshape was over, they just dropped the desk where they were.

[agignac]

Yay! Solidity!

Quick question, Agignac: How do you rule wildshape and held objects?

As an example, from a past game of mine. The party was raiding a mage's study, and they needed to get a lot of documents fast. One of the PCs lifted the desk, wildshaped into... An elk? Something quadrupedal, melding the desk into the animal form and fleeing the scene. Then, when wildshape was over, they just dropped the desk where they were.

That is funny. But now how I rule it. Items worn are melded into the animal form. Items held will be dropped unless the new form has a grasping limb that can also hold it (monkey, racoon, elephant trunk etc).

[JNAProductions]

That is funny. But now how I rule it. Items worn are melded into the animal form. Items held will be dropped unless the new form has a grasping limb that can also hold it (monkey, racoon, elephant trunk etc).

Fair enough. Glad to have that established up front. :)

[The Hellbug]

Interested. I think I'll be putting together some sort of nerd (tome) warlock.

[Infernally Clay]

Rafe Haugen Dhampir Hexblade Warlock 9 AC: 19 | HP: 75/75 | Initiative: +2 STR: -1 | DEX: +2 | CON: +3 | INT: +1 | WIS: +4 | CHA: +8 Spell Slots: 5th: 2/2 Hexblade Curse: 1/1 Accursed Spectre: 1/1 Ghostly Gaze: 1/1 Active Effects: None Concentrating: None Conditions: None

I present... Rafe Haugen.

In life he was a master swordsman who hunted bounties like a cat playing with a mouse, ever eager to face a worthy opponent against whom he could really enjoy dueling. One day, however, he died. Not in battle to a superior foe but to an underhanded trick only a coward would employ. He was fatally poisoned by his current quarry, who had somehow gotten wind that Rafe was coming for him.

And so Rafe died and he was angry about it. Not because he died, which is something he knew would happen one way or another, but because he was unfulfilled and unsatisfied. Both with the method of his demise and the lack of worthy opponents he had faced in life. He wanted more, to reach ever greater heights in the only way he knew how - crossing weapons with the best warriors to ever live.

Then the offer came. Be resurrected and seek the satisfaction that he had been robbed of. Rafe eagerly accepted the deal, unaware of the grave price that would be paid either by Rafe or those he fells in glorious battle.

[samduke]

We've got some solid applications so far. I'll give people until Sunday night (GMZ-8), and make decisions and get started on Monday.

sorry agignac, but I am having to find another location, ability to host a character sheet, something that is not MW.
if this puts you in a bind for being able to select me then I totally understand

[Archemist]

sorry agignac, but I am having to find another location, ability to host a character sheet, something that is not MW.
if this puts you in a bind for being able to select me then I totally understand

Apologies - I also hadn't seen where mythweavers was a requirement, and had been working on D&D beyond. It's not the end of the world for me to transfer the character over to MW but let me know if that's a must-have, yeah.

[JNAProductions]

Yeah. I use Myhtweavers because I like it, but Agignac hasn't stated where sheets must be hosted.
I would assume anything she can easily access and read is fine.