Sword and Sorcery: Fallen Angel (OOC)

[Tinkerbell]

Character List
Tiaya Ion’Vanatril - Nineofspades
Brogoth Stormkissed - flynnarrel
Galen - catsi563
Japeth Marvel - Mark Reuter
Aerythis Hlaearnith - kirinke
Plensania Moradren - Femme Fatale

Original Post(kept for completeness sake)
So, I'm getting the itch for some Dungeons & Dragons style adventure. Not gritty "low level", but not godly "epic level" You will play the role of career adventurers. I have a couple of adventures forming in my head at the moment, I'm wondering if you guy would take the bait.

Races should be humanoid in appearance. Maybe a few frills, but lizardmen and full-blown werewolves will be met with mobs of torches and pitchforks

This type of world doesn't have a "magic store", so any item that's not normal is a device.

That said, magic exists and is not taken lightly. It's like fire. You can use it to help yourself, but you might get burned in the process if you don't know what you're doing

Arcane powers will have a backfire complication.

Divine powers come with the complication of "please your god or get smacked and stripped".

No psionic powers that anyone knows of.

PL8, 135pp, second edition

IMPORTANT STUFF I WROTE LATER IN THE THREAD

Well, I'm trying to make a custom setting so I can fill in the blanks as I go and have the players input too.

Right now I'm thinking of a wild frontier of exploration. With western European type priests and mages and knights (oh my!). The gods appear in dreams, not full out in the mortal realm, but their followers are blessed with power. Magic itself has no god. Magic is a chaotic force that everyone is trying to temper, hence the backlash sometimes. Everyone has at least heard of backlash, so that either drives them further to search for it or away from it.

Races are not restricted to straight humans, they just have to look humanoid. orcs and goblins get the suspicious eye. Elves are welcome, but are thought of as nitpicking bastards. While you might enjoy your time with a dwarf, it's almost unlikely that you'll hang around the hedonists during the day (no dwarven women don't have beards ). No one can tell gnomes and halflings apart but gnomes and halfling, both are fastidious workers. If you want quality you go to a gnome, you want quantity go to a halfling. Any other races, run by me.

What about Druidic Magic?

I think this would fall under "revere nature or have some angry nature spirits take away your powers and smack you around a bit." Divine and Druidic magic are tempered by gods and spirits. so once you start messing up they get angry and take away the power they're trying to mitigate to you.

Intrested.

Arcane powers will have a backfire complication.

Can this be explained in more detail?

Arcane on the other hand has no mitigating spirit or god. You're dealing with direct chaotic power. To use the fire metaphor again, instead of putting the fire in the stove, you're cooking by throwing food in a bonfire. so you're not going to lose your powers but the backlash will hurt more than just a reprimand.

The build is fine, needs a little work. Though we're not dealing with a world Asgard in it. The gods are D&D standard (except no god of magic).

Love the idea. I'd like to know if it will be set (to use D&D terms) in the material plane, or will there be the possibility of extraplanar adventures?

Well, not right away, but it certainly might be later.

Since magic is uncontrolled, would a person be able to naturally harness it? I'm thinking along the lines of a sorceror with a magic staff. The power comes from the sorceror, but the staff would help refine and control the magic. Mechanics-wise, I'd have the character have the ranks and use the staff for extras/feats. Example: character can blast magic, but uses the staff to shape it and stop her allies from getting caught in it.

Magic is still chaotic while in a device. But it's more damaging to the device than the user.

One more question: morality? If somewhat dark, what about a necromancer? Not insane, talks-to-corpses necromancer, but animating/controlling the dead necromancer.

I see no problem with it, but you do have to travel in a group. So it might do you good to not be the guy who creeps the team out

So I've been debating what the Chi backlash should be. Seeing as it's part bodily perfection and part enlightenment, I'll go with "you lose your power until you meditate and fill your chi again". which losing power in battle could be more devastating than having your powers backfire. So there you have your complication.

Speaking of, what about magical creatures? Do they explode too? Say I wanted to play a fey creature. What would my chances of survival be for existing?

magical creatures are born with chaos in their very essence. Such creatures appear human and can even interact with humans, but that doesn't mean they're not chaos made form. No they don't explode accidentally, but they're far too inhuman to be played as characters.

[XLS]

Not sure if I can fit it in, but I'm curious. What sort of world are we talking about? Are you going to use something like an actual Forgotten Realms-type thing, or is it entirely made up? I know it's an interest check and not an actual recruitment, but I wanted to know where you were thinking of placing the setting...

[XeroKhan]

I am interested. If I may ask, may I have a Valkyrie character based on the one from the "Book of Magic" scourcebook? It has 107 out of 120 points required.

[optionqb]

Ooooo...interesting. I'd like to know more about the setting, but I'm definitely game.

[Hound]

You have my attention Tinkerbell.

Please, tell us more.

[Nineofspades]

Agreed, I am definatly interested in a dungeons and dragons style game! Count me in

[Tinkerbell]

Well, I'm trying to make a custom setting so I can fill in the blanks as I go and have the players input too.

Right now I'm thinking of a wild frontier of exploration. With western European type priests and mages and knights (oh my!). The gods appear in dreams, not full out in the mortal realm, but their followers are blessed with power. Magic itself has no god. Magic is a chaotic force that everyone is trying to temper, hence the backlash sometimes. Everyone has at least heard of backlash, so that either drives them further to search for it or away from it.

Races are not restricted to straight humans, they just have to look humanoid. orcs and goblins get the suspicious eye. Elves are welcome, but are thought of as nitpicking bastards. While you might enjoy your time with a dwarf, it's almost unlikely that you'll hang around the hedonists during the day (no dwarven women don't have beards ). No one can tell gnomes and halflings apart but gnomes and halfling, both are fastidious workers. If you want quality you go to a gnome, you want quantity go to a halfling. Any other races, run by me.

[Plan B]

Intrested.

Arcane powers will have a backfire complication.

Can this be explained in more detail?

[Nineofspades]

A further question. What about Druidic Magic? Where does that fit in, since it dosn't come from gods or from arcane forces, but from communing with nature/nature spirits?

[Tinkerbell]

What about Druidic Magic?

I think this would fall under "revere nature or have some angry nature spirits take away your powers and smack you around a bit." Divine and Druidic magic are tempered by gods and spirits. so once you start messing up they get angry and take away the power they're trying to mitigate to you.

Intrested.

Arcane powers will have a backfire complication.

Can this be explained in more detail?

Arcane on the other hand has no mitigating spirit or god. You're dealing with direct chaotic power. To use the fire metaphor again, instead of putting the fire in the stove, you're cooking by throwing food in a bonfire. so you're not going to lose your powers but the backlash will hurt more than just a reprimand.

[XeroKhan]

I technically asked this earlier, but what about Valkyries?

[Tinkerbell]

The build is fine, needs a little work. Though we're not dealing with a world Asgard in it. The gods are D&D standard (except no god of magic).

[Plan B]

Greyhawk gods, i can dig it.

How D&D are we because i'm considering a armoured caster somekind?

[XeroKhan]

From the looks of D&D gods, my hero would most likely serve Ayailla, the demigoddess.

[Tinkerbell]

Greyhawk gods, i can dig it.

How D&D are we because i'm considering a armoured caster somekind?

Yeah, we're using M&M rules not D&D rules. So as long as it makes sense for your character. Explain how they cast in armor. Heck make spell failure a complication if you wish or don't if it doesn't make sense for your character

From the looks of D&D gods, my hero would most likely serve Ayailla, the demigoddess.

I can dig that for a valkyrie.