ACKS and Character Creation

Message

thirdkingdom · #101 Post by **thirdkingdom** » Fri May 31, 2013 1:36 pm

sulldawga wrote:
His short intro is:

Harald was a thane to the local jarl in his homeland. When the jarl died in combat, another family took over and he lost his position of power and prestige. He's come to this new land to carve out his own jarldom.

Perfect.

As an aside, one of the central themes of this setting is a lack of central authority. You're not going to a land with a bunch of kingdoms and settled domains. This is a land of independent city-states, with large tracts of wilderness between.

Hrafn · #102 Post by **Hrafn** » Fri May 31, 2013 2:02 pm

Bangerang, saved by cost of living!

I think I will keep the wagon – it's easier than recalculating all my expenses and less useful to steal than a pile of money – and we can just send an outrider on a fast horse to deploy it if necessary. As for Villa, I have a portable workshop specifically because I plan on conquest and expansion into the unknown; any house is as good as another when none of them are home.

And credit where it's due, 'twas Rodriguez who knew how saddle bags worked.

drpete · #103 Post by **drpete** » Fri May 31, 2013 2:30 pm

http://www.autarch.co/forum/animals-henchmen-0

The XP progression is pretty steep already, but at least they don't really need a share of the treasure.

I'd vote for keeping the lab at a home base, and doing the research during downtime. With healing from wounds and hiring and such, we will presumably have some. I wasn't planning on having a big purse to make much of a contribution to a house to start, but I could change that, if necessary.

Hrafn · #104 Post by **Hrafn** » Fri May 31, 2013 3:48 pm

drpete wrote:http://www.autarch.co/forum/animals-henchmen-0

The XP progression is pretty steep already, but at least they don't really need a share of the treasure.

I'd vote for keeping the lab at a home base, and doing the research during downtime. With healing from wounds and hiring and such, we will presumably have some. I wasn't planning on having a big purse to make much of a contribution to a house to start, but I could change that, if necessary.

Having a home base is "free", or at least we already have one due to Cost of Living. So I've got a wagon and four draft horses for when I need them, but won't have to bring them if I don't need them. I'll grab some mapping utensils and call it a day

thirdkingdom · #105 Post by **thirdkingdom** » Fri May 31, 2013 7:51 pm

Shit, one more PC to go. If we can get everything up soon I'll go ahead with the first IC post early. I'd like you guys to make sure you've subscribed to the IC and OOC threads.

NJWilliam · #106 Post by **NJWilliam** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:46 am

Given the current party makeup, I think I may change to a mage or warlock with an explorer henchman.
Would this upset the apple cart too much?
I know some others may have not taken an explorer since I had one in the works.

Hrafn · #107 Post by **Hrafn** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 7:58 am

NJWilliam wrote:Given the current party makeup, I think I may change to a mage or warlock with an explorer henchman.
Would this upset the apple cart too much?
I know some others may have not taken an explorer since I had one in the works.

Your call. I'm pretty locked in at this point, but remember that either choice – being a character or having one as a henchman – works well enough. We also have both a witch and a warlock as henchfolk on another sheet, so we do have some arcane might along with two free communes per week. Unless you are positive that bringing one in will add something we lack, it may just be bothersome for you to rejigger.

thirdkingdom · #108 Post by **thirdkingdom** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:06 am

NJWilliam wrote:Given the current party makeup, I think I may change to a mage or warlock with an explorer henchman.
Would this upset the apple cart too much?
I know some others may have not taken an explorer since I had one in the works.

As long as its done by Sunday.

drpete · #109 Post by **drpete** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:21 am

Whatever you think would be fun to play, man. We don't need to fill every niche or anything. Magic would be cool, but the explorer will also rock for our overland adventures. We can just pick our battles to maximize our strengths. If you went venturer, that would push us in a different direction, which I could also see working.

sulldawga · #110 Post by **sulldawga** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:23 pm

Be whatever character you want. We'll make it work.

NJWilliam · #111 Post by **NJWilliam** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:10 pm

Mage with Explorer henchman it is, then.

Unnamed Mage "volunteered" (was chosen) to search the lands for his college to find a location for a new college sanctum. Many of his college are smarter than he is, but none are as ambitious. He brought with an explorer henchman who is from a military group connected to the college, and who had some personal problems with a ranking officer and needed to get away.

1. 4d4 roll for hit points, please.

2. He would also like a familiar.

3. I'd like to trade his clairaudience potion for two formula. If he can choose the formulas, healing and oil of slipperiness.

4. His repertoire is 3, 2, 2. If he can choose spells available for his repertoire, he'd like the following:
1st: detect magic, sleep, magic missile, (read languages)
2nd: invisibility, knock, web, (locate object)
3rd: fireball, fly, (skinchange)

5. Is there a limit, other than cost, to how many items he can create and research before starting?

Thanks.

p.s. Sorry if this is a double post, I don't see that it posted the first time.

thirdkingdom · #112 Post by **thirdkingdom** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:30 pm

No worries. Level of henchman? Mage is 5th level: result of 4d4 hp is 12.

Okay with change to formulae.

Since item creation is a function of 5th level, which you have just reached, I am going to say you have had three weeks of access to a workshop prior to leaving.

I rolled on a chart in Dragon magazine, April 1984 on page 11. Roll of 23 results in "Lizard, small", no attacks 1-2 feet in length, wide angled vision. For 500 gold I will reroll if you're not happy.

NJWilliam · #113 Post by **NJWilliam** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:10 pm

That's a nice familiar chart.
I'll spend 500 for another try on it.

thirdkingdom · #114 Post by **thirdkingdom** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:25 pm

NJWilliam wrote:That's a nice familiar chart.
I'll spend 500 for another try on it.

Shit, I left it at work. I'm going in for a bit tomorrow morning, and will reroll then. Or, if you've got it I'll just roll and let you read the answer. Rolled a 4 on my phone.

NJWilliam · #115 Post by **NJWilliam** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:45 pm

4-5 is Cat, Domestic 12" 1-2/1 (rear claws 1-2) superior night vision, good hearing and olfactory senses. AC 6 (AD&D armor class).

thirdkingdom · #116 Post by **thirdkingdom** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:49 pm

NJWilliam wrote:4-5 is Cat, Domestic 12" 1-2/1 (rear claws 1-2) superior night vision, good hearing and olfactory senses. AC 6 (AD&D armor class).

You cool with that?

How many XP are you giving your Explorer henchman?

NJWilliam · #117 Post by **NJWilliam** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:58 pm

In progress, please let me know if anything glaring is missing.

Still working on: Encumbrance, Spell Signatures, Henchman, spending remaining gold

Mage:

Familiar:

Henchman:

NJWilliam · #118 Post by **NJWilliam** » Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:42 pm

thirdkingdom wrote:
NJWilliam wrote:4-5 is Cat, Domestic 12" 1-2/1 (rear claws 1-2) superior night vision, good hearing and olfactory senses. AC 6 (AD&D armor class).

You cool with that?

How many XP are you giving your Explorer henchman?

Cat works fine, but I think I'll ditch the trained hunting falcon with a cat around.
Working on how much gold is left after spending on other things.

NJWilliam · #119 Post by **NJWilliam** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:55 am

I'd also like to spend 750 g.p. for 3 weeks work on potions he has formula for.

- He will try to make 4 potions of healing and 2 oil of slipperiness.

- As 1st level with formula, I believe each costs 250 g.p. and is successful on an 11.5 (not sure if that rounds up to 12).

He will also spend 1,000 g.p. for the 15% chance at two random magic items.

Gold spent: 10,000 magic items + 1,000 magic items + 750 potions + 500 familiar + 1,400 gear (estimated) = 13,650

2,350 g.p. remaining.

thirdkingdom · #120 Post by **thirdkingdom** » Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:02 am

NJWilliam wrote:I'd also like to spend 750 g.p. for 3 weeks work on potions he has formula for.

- He will try to make 4 potions of healing and 2 oil of slipperiness.

- As 1st level with formula, I believe each costs 250 g.p. and is successful on an 11.5 (not sure if that rounds up to 12).

He will also spend 1,000 g.p. for the 15% chance at two random magic items.

Gold spent: 10,000 magic items + 1,000 magic items + 750 potions + 500 familiar + 1,400 gear (estimated) = 13,650

2,350 g.p. remaining.

15% chance of two magic items: (1d100=89, 1d100=54)

Hmmm. NJW, I'm afraid that you are not going to be able to make the potions of healing.

From page 117.

An arcane spellcaster may never create magic items that are exclusive to divine spellcasters.

Now, there is a passage in the next paragraph that states a wizard can make an item if they don't know the spell, as long as they have the formula (or write a spell). However, I think the quoted text supersedes that.

Let me know what you want to do.

ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation

Re: ACKS and Character Creation