Also, selling starting gear, do we get a third, half or full price?

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From the description in the OP, it seems that however the band came together, that the band has come together prior to our waking up in a strange bed and with matching tattoos (what did Grim put in that last batch of beer?)

Anyone given any thought to how our characters would interact?

Beyond making sure people have clean water to drink or healing potions, one thing I've tended to overlook or gloss over in the past is the Dwarven Combat Training part of the race. Which is making me wonder if Grim wouldn't seek to be someone's sparring partner to keep up his training.

Checkmate would definitely be personable and try to make friends with almost everyone in the group. She’d even offer to mend any holes in their clothes, play Dragonchess, or offer to tailor something just for them.

The only exception to this would be Lulli Mello. She’d note how easy it is to anger him, and how he reacts. She’d keep her distance from him and let him cause damage to his reputation by himself. She does not want to be associated with him.

Sure, I'm OK with that! - Although, I will say, Lulli is polarizing but a good source of conflict. Maybe you wouldn't wanna hang out with him in real life but it's definitely gonna be more interesting to have your character interact with rather than avoid him. Also his character arc will be rewarding to be a part of when he turns a new leaf.

Sure, I'm OK with that! - Although, I will say, Lulli is polarizing but a good source of conflict. Maybe you wouldn't wanna hang out with him in real life but it's definitely gonna be more interesting to have your character interact with rather than avoid him. Also his character arc will be rewarding to be a part of when he turns a new leaf.

So long as your health insurance is good, Grim will get you patched up

Anyone given any thought to how our characters would interact?

Beyond making sure people have clean water to drink or healing potions, one thing I've tended to overlook or gloss over in the past is the Dwarven Combat Training part of the race. Which is making me wonder if Grim wouldn't seek to be someone's sparring partner to keep up his training.

There weren't any tieflings, halflings, kobolds, or dwarves back where he came from, so Checkmate, Aso, Lulli, Illa, and Grim are likely the first of their kind Fyodor has ever met. Predictably, this makes him somewhat distrustful of the least human looking party members.

Checkmate's charisma is sufficient to bypass enough of this distrust for the occasional round of Dragonchess with a side of wine, but he's in no hurry to come to her for clothing related assistance.

I shall hold off on definitive answers regarding Aso and Illa until I have more details about how Fyodor will interact with them.

At the time of the game's beginning, Fyodor will have no memory of who Lulli Mello is. Given Lulli's self absorbed nature, I am fully confident that hilarity will ensue as a result of this.

And while he is more of an archer than a melee fighter, Fyodor knows his way around shortswords well enough to serve as a sparring partner and would be willing to do so if Grim were to ask,

Simon would also be up for sparring with Fyodor and Grimm

He would probably be annoyed with Lulli, but won't go out of his way to avoid him. There might be a few comments about not knowing when to be quiet and comparisons to noisy birds, but if Lulli is willing to throw dice to pass the time and is buying the ale, Simon will put up with him for a bit.

As for the others, I'm not wholly sure yet what Simon will think of them.

Sure, I'm OK with that! - Although, I will say, Lulli is polarizing but a good source of conflict. Maybe you wouldn't wanna hang out with him in real life but it's definitely gonna be more interesting to have your character interact with rather than avoid him. Also his character arc will be rewarding to be a part of when he turns a new leaf.

Thank you for letting us know. ^_^

Sorry if my previous post was rude at all. ^^”

I will admit that I am a little leery, because 2 past RPs I was in died because IC arguments came up between an obnoxious character and another character, and nothing got better. The games became less fun and more irritating the longer they went on as a result of those arguments.

My and my characters’ reactions clearly didn’t help in both cases, so this time I’m having Checkmate avoid Lulli to start in order to try and prevent the same death from happening in this game.

I think the most Checkmate would interact with Lulli at the start is to point at an enemy, tell Lulli that they insulted him and he should give them a piece of his mind, and boom! Instant distraction achieved.

Haha, don't worry! I didn't think you were being rude. Everything will be OK, I'll make him bothersome for the sake of plot but not insufferable. We're all good!

I'm actually looking forward to Lulli in action.

I'm imagining something like Ruby Rod from Fifth Element, demanding a cup of tea and then doing the dismissive hand flip to tell Grim to go away.

And Grim will just roll his eyes and go back to sparring and/or making beer.

Standing at 5 foot 8 inches on his tip toes, Lulli considers himself the leader of the three shorties as he's much, much, much taller than Grim and Illa.

Also, he's kind of OP... with Halfling Luck, he's very unlikely to critical fail anything and then Silver Tongue treats any charisma roll under 10 as a 10... with +5 proficiency in Persuasion and Deception, that's a minimum of 15 on all his bullshitting, hahaha.

Edit: oh wait, I forgot Expertise doubles his proficiency bonus... so Lulli's minimum rolls for Persuasion and Deception checks are 17.

Optional class features: let me know what you have in mind and I’ll decide from there.

Equipment sell at half price.

I’m going to aim to kick this off on Saturday so if you could aim to get completed characters and sheets in the character thread that would be great.

Also to echo a point made earlier re: IC and OOC disagreements, while I don’t expect every character to get along with each other all the time (and it would be both unrealistic and dull for that to be the case), I also would not expect or accept that to bleed over into the OOC.

If there are any disagreements or concerns OOC with players I would ask you to first DM me them privately rather than taking it to the board and allow me to review this.

@Valen

Simon's character sheet is available in the CS tab for review.

@Valen

Everything's set for Grim, I think. Let me know if the Alchemy Jug is approved or not (the Star Map druid focus is a powerful enough item that I'm happy to forgo a starting magical item). Its mostly for roleplay purposes because the beer must flow even on the road

I'll be able to stay up later Friday. I'll try to finish then

@Valen

Everything's set for Grim, I think. Let me know if the Alchemy Jug is approved or not (the Star Map druid focus is a powerful enough item that I'm happy to forgo a starting magical item). Its mostly for roleplay purposes because the beer must flow even on the road

Alchemy jug is approved.