[Interest Check] No Maps For These Territories - new PbP game

[quote="Hardrada"] Color me interested, though I may struggle with the posting requirement between work and the Central European Timezone. [/quote]

Between you and Dave R, I've got two interested guys in different time zones.  Plus I've got a couple other guys potentially interested who can't commit to multiple posts a day.  So it may end up that this becomes a "post when you can" game and I give folks 24 hours to respond.  I'll let you know.

I'm interested.  I'm going to be travelling for the next couple of weeks, but after that I should be able to post more regularly.

I think I'd rather have Hardrada and Dave R as players than worry about game pace.

Waiting on one other player and then we'll get started on chargen.  Should be a slow enough process that kalstone won't fall behind.

I would be interested as well!

I am in the CET Zone.

I think five is a good number.  Let's get started.  I will request a game thread.

If you guys want to begin discussing the game here, while we wait for the game thread to be created, that's fine with me.  

Confirm one last time that you're interested in playing and I'll get you some Ability Score rolls.  I'm going to do five sets of 3d6x6.  You can choose your PC and any initial henchmen from those rolls.  Because I like the idea of adventurers being exceptional individuals, I will give you one of two options (for your PC only):

You can change any one score below 9 into a 9 

or

You can swap any two scores (for example, you have a PC with high WIS and low CHR and you want the high score in CHR, you can swap the two).

Still interested.

Confirmed and hoping for some good rolls! :)

Still interested.

I’m here.

Never give up! Never surrender!

I'm not a fan of the dice roller here.  Can't put more than one roll on each line.  I'm gonna do this quickly on another site and copy the results here.

Kalstone

10,13,7,11,13,9

9,8,9,10,10,8

13,12,9,11,16,14

10,12,3,12,4,4

8,10,12,8,12,10

Rodriguez

11,13,15,8,10,12

9,4,16,6,8,9

12,15,9,8,11,13

9,9,9,9,12,9  (this guy is the most average guy ever!)

13,8,14,17,10,11

Dave R

7,10,15,10,7,8

8,11,11,12,12,16

12,12,12,12,13,15

8,14,10,14,12,14

12,8,11,12,7,12

tk

11,10,10,8,16,12

10,9,12,16,5,12

9,12,8,12,15,11

11,16,11,10,6,13

10,11,13,14,11,9

Hardrada

13,12,11,11,12,10

8,8,7,5,5,14

6,5,9,13,7,7

11,11,8,12,15,15

15,7,14,13,15,6

Two for one point swap to raise primes, or no?  Shouldn't make a huge difference to me, but might affect my approach.

Yes, that's allowed.

Some rule questions:

The rolls are "Str , Int , Wis , Dex , Con , Cha"  right?

Max Hitpoints on first level?

Roll one dice and add on each level up or reroll all HD each level up?

Magic Item for Gold trade in as "Playing with advanced characters"?

Spell repertoir filled with random spells as Adventurer Tier advanced characters?

 

And a campaign / group question:

What should be the dominant group alignment?

In twenty years of D&D I've somehow never played a high level mage.  So I've got this knee jerk urge to take #2 or 3, swap Cha for Int, and buy a lab and library out of starting funds.  On the other hand, "king of downtime" doesn't seem like the best plan for play by post.  And I like a high charisma character as well, especially for a fighter or cleric.

So I guess I'm just thinking out loud at the moment.  I'll play around a little and compare what I can do with henches and stuff out of 100k.

Or, wild card:  humanized dwarves machinist?  Kind of fiddly, but at least I could afford to start with an automotan.

[added:]  3 could point-trade into a 16 Str, 13 Con & Cha fighter.  Solid, but a little close to Hengist in Bobloblah's game.  18 Int mage is just in reach and still tempting, but that starting gold would go fast.

2's clearly a bard or a venturer, but I've never yet been big on playing bards.  

4's a respectable thief as-is; could take Dex higher, but I'd hate to lose the Int and Cha doing it.  5's a passable assassin if primes trade up to 13.  I see both as henches rather than main character, which starts to say something interesting about my PC, whoever that is.