Character Creation Phase

[lordgersh]

Welcome, everyone, to DARK ENTERPRISE!

We're now in the character-creation phase of pre-adventuring. Please take a look at the wiki page on Dark Enterprise at the obsidian portal site www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/ambitions/wikis/dark-enterprise.

Character creation is going to take a little longer than normal, basically because I want the characters to be much more a part of the world than in most games. Also, you will have pre-existing relationships with everyone or almost everyone in the party, so here's a chance to flesh those out. I'll try to keep this thread updated with the public information so far.

For example, Rachael is playing a Human Warlord who worked her way up through the army until she was noticed by Mayor Varien. She's been working for him for about six months. Zach is playing an Assassin who at the very least looks human. He's been working for Varien for about two months.

Therefore, Rachael's character and Zach's character know each other, have probably worked together, and already have opinions of the other. What are those? Where would you like your characters to go? What are their personailities, goals, Ambitions? (see what I did there? ;D)

This forum is the place to work all that out.

3, 2, 1 GO!

[Zguy]

Name: Raven
Age: uncertain
Race: Human... ish?

Description: A very disconcerting looking man, Raven is about 5'9" tall, with a very lean build. His skin is dark, but not tanned. It almost looks like there is a constant shadow over him. He has short black hair and eyes that are completely matte black. No difference between his sclera and iris coloring. He admits that this was mostly the reason for him taking the name "Raven".

Personality: Quiet, perceptive, a bit odd at times, especially when it comes to conversations about past events. He doesn't tend to lie very much, but he often avoids topics rather obviously. Some of the ways he stares at things with his all black eyes can be unnerving to others.

Job: Spy, Assassin, Scout, Tactician

Weapons and Armor: When on a job, he wears leather armor stained specifically to not shine in the light. His weapon, a large bastard sword always slung across his back has a similar oil worked into every metallic surface to give it a matte finish. The blade itself often looks charcoal gray in color.

Known information: Raven began working for Varien about 2 months ago. Before then, he was taking jobs for unimportant or random people in the Docks district (a very seedy area of the city). Varien recruited him personally, and as far as anyone knows Raven has only taken jobs from Varien ever since. He spends most of his free time either alone in his room or in one of the many libraries Varien has granted him access to. What he researches is something you would have to ask him.

[lordgersh]

Everyone's current homework assignments:

1-Figure out your personalities and pre-existing relationships. This forum is the place to do that. Rules: None, but I'd prefer you don't openly hate each other.

For reference, at this point, Keidra (Rachael) and Gareth (Sean) are founding members of Varien's little special-forces group, and Raven (Zach) joined about four months later (two months ago).

2-Character background up to when you are recruited by Varien This will determine your background bonus.

My homework assignments:

1-Flesh out the Hestavarian Order and the Joint Mission of Celevar (for Sean)

2-Figure out how to bloody use MapTool.

[lordgersh]

Kevin is playing an Eladrin Swordmage (Shielding or Ensnarement, probably Shielding). He joined the party 3-5 weeks ago. Long enough to have done a mission or two with you guys, not enough to have really strongly gotten to know the whole group.

By the way, would it help if I gave a "mission" that the party went on for Varien prior to the start of the campaign? You all could use that as a jump-off point for discussing how you would react to the danger/situation, what you would do, etc.

[Zguy]

Yeah that would work out pretty well. That would give us the ability to react to each other in our direct jobs for Varien and how we work together and such.

[Zguy]

Rachael - unless I'm really screwing up my math, I think you're missing 1 point in your attributes. I've added it up twice and I keep getting 21 instead of 22.

[Palena]

No it was definitely 22, but that doesn't matter anymore because I changed them per DM suggestion.

[Zguy]

Ok I was probably just screwing up the math. Good to know you weren't missing a point!

And what you mentioned about modifications made me think about my character. The way I have him being RP'd actually didn't make much sense to have him with a higher Int and lower Wis, so I swapped those two around and modified the associated skills.