AP Forums Tabletop Gaming Thread: ROLLIN' DICE AND PLAYIN' NICE

Ruin

(Turns out we didn't actually have one)

This is a thread to discuss tabletop gaming of all kinds, either physical or digital.
With online resources like Roll20, it's become easy for people online to get together and enjoy the likes of D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, and Shadowrun, along with it being easier than ever introduce people who might be apprehensive to these kinds of games.

So, you know, talk about 'em

I've been lookin' to rustle a little group together for some D&D5e, myself. My current group is on hiatus due to real life stuff, so I was curious to see if anyone here was curious about that.

Other than that, just use here for talking about tables and dice

SpaceCowboy

After reading some reddit d&dgreentext stories I actually have some curiosity about trying one of these, I just don´t know anything about, well, anything.
My biggest concern is how much time something like this could take.

KaizokuJinbei

I love table top gaming, however, every time I try to get in one with friends it always falls through and we're never able to complete it.

Ruin

@SpaceCowboy:

After reading some reddit d&dgreentext stories I actually have some curiosity about trying one of these, I just don´t know anything about, well, anything.
My biggest concern is how much time something like this could take.

Depends, really. Sometimes, it's just a oneshot that lasts 4 hours, sometimes it's a long reaching campaign that can go on for over a year.

A one-shot that I ran ended with a lizardman PC getting into a boxing match with a skeleton warrior that went on for several turns because both of them just kept missing, so anything can happen, really.

*Meh*

I had a DM training session once where my friend (a veteran DM) ran a group of 1st level characters (well, 1st level stats) through a wilderness trek to test my ability to use the DM's Guide and the Monster Manual (2nd Edition). One group got annihilated by troglodytes, another group killed two hill giants that couldn't find their ass with both hands~all due to the roll of the dice.

If your friends are more interested in a campaign that's story-driven, and the dice simply will not cooperate, then as a Dungeon Master, Game Master, Referee, or Judge you have the right to make an on-the-spot decision to get the story moving. Just don't abuse this right to railroad your players.

Ruin

I like to let the dice and the players do the talking for the story
If they wanna mess around during pressing matters or do something just that dumb? They totally can, but they'll need to live with the consequences!
Luckily, I haven't had too much experience with anything like that. My group is pretty respectful about keeping pace and we all hate railroading

Noqanky

@KaizokuJinbei:

I love table top gaming, however, every time I try to get in one with friends it always falls through and we're never able to complete it.

Exactly my problem. Unlike video games, board and tabletop require that one spec I never really have access to: interacting with other people.

Ruin

@Noqanky:

Exactly my problem. Unlike video games, board and tabletop require that one spec I never really have access to: interacting with other people.

Being perfectly honest, it's a learned skill. When I was starting out, even though I was playing with my good friends, it took us all a while to really start just playing and stop worrying about all the minutia of the game.
Once you really get the hang of it, it's wickedly fun.

Noqanky

To be specific, it's not easy to actually find people, and the couple of times the opportunity came up the people weren't exactly friendly or people I was comfortable interacting with.

Ruin

Yeah, that's always a bum deal.
Honestly, that's part of why I wanted to make a thread here? AP is a pretty knit community, compared to others I've been in, so I felt comfortable enough seeking other people here who may have wanted to play.

Kitsune Inferno

I'd totally be interested in something like this, but probably after the semester winds down. Too much going on on my end right now.

That said, I've never actually played DnD or any kind of roleplaying game so I have no idea what to expect.

Noqanky

I'd be interested pending on timing, given I have work, school and lots of other games to focus on as well

The Franky Tank

I would also love doing something like this. However, I wouldn't be able to do an on going campaign, as my work can have me leave at any moment. If there was ever just a one off deal I would gladly join pending availability.

Ruin

One-shots are also just a good way for people to learn the ropes and get comfortable with all the ins and outs of the game, I've run and done more than a couple one-shots, myself, so I wouldn't be averse at all to anyone wanting to do one either because they're new or just due to availability

Mr. Zoro

I got into D&D about a year ago, and I liked it after it took me a few hours to really get into it. I did it with a group of friends so we never had a big problem with anything, and the experienced players were super patient and accommodating to the newer players (like me). And most importantly, no one was super strict on how you should or shouldn't be playing, and we did fine on getting on with the story and just having fun.

I will say though, I wasn't prepared for the reading and learning the math on making/distributing stats on characters, so that was kind of overwhelming at first. But making the characters personalities and backstories? I was really into that! Here's a few brief description of some I made for a few campaigns:
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Wonka III- The descendant of a well known sweets merchant, but never knew his grandfather. Had a tendency to yell "flame on" anytime he initiated an attack.

Ramsey Armageddon- Imagine the Punisher and Judge Dredd had a love child, and it grew up just like its parents and has a southern accent. I mainly gave him this name so I could do some neat & lame one-liners whenever killing enemies ("This is the end of your world" and other lame stuff like that).

Atticus Bulletknuckles- This one was for a Supernatural inspired one-off. Sincere guy, until he found out you were a vampire. Then he'd get ultra violent and punch you with bullets between his knuckles.

Flintlock- Saul Goodman. But as a bard. Had a coin that would always flips against your favor. DM figured out what I was trying to do with it real quick, so I wasn't able to do a lot of fun things with it for too long :P
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Made me realize I have a tendency to start out with jokey stories/characters, and then slowly evolve them into serious ones.

@Ruin:

I like to let the dice and the players do the talking for the story
If they wanna mess around during pressing matters or do something just that dumb? They totally can, but they'll need to live with the consequences!
Luckily, I haven't had too much experience with anything like that. My group is pretty respectful about keeping pace and we all hate railroading

Our group once took over this vampire's mansion, and then spent a stupid amount of time debating what we should do with it. Rent it out? Sell the thing whole? Which would give us more money? Did we want to get a long term investment going? In other words, we spent more time talking about real estate than fighting during that session. Wild tangents like that can be pretty fun, though :)

Unfortunately, some of the D&D friends I played with have moved away, and I really don't like the idea of joining a local group of people I don't know. But the idea of an online one sounds interesting, as long as I get a general idea of what the time commitment would be. At most, I don't think I could do sessions that went over 3 hours. What's the general norm, anyway? I know a group that would do it every Saturday for 6 hours, but that always seemed unusual to me.

Jabberwok

I started my first ever campaign with a couple friends on roll20.net about a month ago. We've had some fun so far even if we're still only second level. I've been enjoying myself even if I haven't quite gotten the hang of standard play yet.

Capt Haggis

DnD is something I always wanted to try and get into. I been following Critical Role on geek and sundry (a bunch of professional voice actors playing DnD which pretty much describes how much fun it is.) and that's really got my interest up.

Angelos17

I am glad this thread was started.

Do you think I can bring up my simple table top/ board game that I've been developing for a while now? Would this be the right place?

And after reviewing Roll20, I hope to make a didgital online version if my game is decently successful (maybe after letting you lot review it)

Wagomu

If people want to do a D&D thing, I'd love to join in a campaign. I've never actually played a game, but I've got a leftover Half-Orc Bard from the one time I tried (was DOA since the group split before we started a game lawl) that I've been itching to play.

Ruin

@Wagomu:

Half-Orc Bard

yessssssss

Anyways, I'm glad there's as many people interested here as there is.
Once it's convenient, I can go through some character creation process for people new to the game (for D&D 5th Edition), and provide some extra resources.

KaizokuJinbei

@Noqanky:

Exactly my problem. Unlike video games, board and tabletop require that one spec I never really have access to: interacting with other people.

We all interact fine it's just schedules and stuff like that eventually it just gets hard finding a time where everyone has time off.

Sakonosolo

Never played any tabletop games but I've been kind of wanting to eventually. Some of the World of Darkness games sound fun. Traveller is also another one that interests me.

Huschel

@Capt:

DnD is something I always wanted to try and get into. I been following Critical Role on geek and sundry (a bunch of professional voice actors playing DnD which pretty much describes how much fun it is.) and that's really got my interest up.

Yeeees. Critical Role is amazing. It took me about a year of watching that to finally decide that I wanted to give the game a try myself.

Just last Sunday I DMed three other new players through the first part of the 5e Starter Adventure. I had prepared for several hours and then when we started I was immediately overwhelmed. XD But everybody had fun anyway and if the group can lean a little bit more into their characters and if I can deliver some more interesting descriptions, this will be even better.

My favourite part: The Dwarven cleric with ridiculous Armor Class gets hit once during the entire session. With a devastating critical hit that knocks her unconscious. Fortunately the goblins were more interested in looting her body than finishing her off so her companions managed to carry her out of there.

Wagomu

There are some systems besides D&D worth trying, too, if anyone would be up for them instead.

I've played a round of Fate, which is looser and more dynamic than D&D (though it requires a lot more judgment on the GM's part). I know there's more, too, but that's the one I know. It all depends on what you want out of the game.

DarthAsthma

Sounds awesome. From what I've seen DnD looks like a super fun game but it has quite a the entry barrier at least with the current circle of friends I have.

Jabberwok

A big part of the entry barrier comes from the different classes, races, and spells. If you limit your selection of races, classes, and archetype paths at the beginning it's a lot easier to manage, and then you can expand to some of the other stuff later.

So like start with a dwarven Fighter or something and don't worry about the customization options until later.

Cyclone_Baroness

Omg I would so be down for a game!

I got so used to having active sessions but with friends being so far apart, sickness and family stuff It's hard to keep one going.

I've played so many systems over the years but I would say Rifts/Paladium is my favorite then D&D then Warhammer Fantasy then Marvel D20.

I try to keep my GMs on their toes by coming up with unusual personalities and race/class combinations.

Also I love Marvel D20 and Warhammer Fantasy cause you can random roll everything about your character for even more hilarity.I have kept practically every character sheet since 2001.

DarthAsthma

@Jabberwok:

A big part of the entry barrier comes from the different classes, races, and spells. If you limit your selection of races, classes, and archetype paths at the beginning it's a lot easier to manage, and then you can expand to some of the other stuff later.

So like start with a dwarven Fighter or something and don't worry about the customization options until later.

For me that's less of a problem cause I actually love to dive into systems with depth like this. I actually recently just did a quick read of the free DnD rulebook that's out there. Making characters seems like totally in my wheelhouse.
For me the far higher entry barrier is like getting a group together. The people I currently socialize with, I have a hard time imagining them being into it judging that general interests don't seem to mesh all that well.
And then there is the fact that even if I get a group together I would probably have to be the dungeon master and you kind of want to do that part well cause if you suck and the game has bad flow people are probably not going to play again.

Would be far easier to convince my highschool friends but we're all living in different cities. Such is life.

Silence

I actually play Pathfinder and more recently D&D 5e with some former APers and college buddies via Roll20; and we have a lot of fun!
But much like others have said, trying to get six adults' life schedules to align is the hardest boss battle of all.
It takes work, but once you have a group of people you mesh with who are ALSO reliable, you're really in good shape!

We're about halfway through Curse of Strahd right now, and I fear that by the time we actually enter Castle Stradhlevania, there won't be much of Barovia left to save (our party puts out fires with gasoline).

Wagomu

Does anyone here DM? If we plan on getting a game together, that's important.

I'm interested in learning, but that will have to wait until after this quarter of school to happen.

Ruin

@Wagomu:

Does anyone here DM? If we plan on getting a game together, that's important.

I'm interested in learning, but that will have to wait until after this quarter of school to happen.

I've DM'd a couple one-shots, but I'm still learning.
best way to learn is to do, though, so I'm willing to work stuff out.

TLC

I've never played but have seen the game be played on Twitch. I'd love to join a group and learn, I even downloaded a character sheet generator!

Cyclone_Baroness

I dislike GMing. Last time I did it though was a Big Eyes Small Mouth game and that has the least amount of rules so it's annoying to keep stuff moving along.

Ruin

alright cool it's time for resources and stuff for D&D5e
I'll be linking to some basic resources for people just getting started along with a basic rundown of how character creation goes in the easiest way I can

To start off, I'll be linking directly to the Wizards of the Coast website where you can download a .zip file that contains the standard 5th edition character sheet, along with some alternate sheet designs and stuff for casters. But focus on the regular character sheet for now.
just click the box that says Fifth Edition Character Sheets and you'll be good to go

! http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/character_sheets

Next, since I assume that many of the people here do not have a bunch of dice, I'll be linking to a digital dice roller as well. It's a handy tool (but physical dice are better)

! https://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm

If you want PDFs of entire handbooks, that's on you. They aren't hard to find but I'm not linking any here.

Moving on to the actual character creation. I'll preface this by saying that my one-shot is balanced around your character being Level 3 so keep that in mind if it's what we do.

Create your character concept - Basically just think of what you wanna be. Think of your character's name, age, physical characteristics, background, species/race, alignment, etc. from a standard human fighter named Jeff to a tap-dancing half-orc bard that communicates through slam poetry, just do what you want. I'd actually recommend making multiple character concepts, just in case one happens to not fit, but that shouldn't be a big problem. The setting I use for my one-shot is very hospitable to most things. Look into any racial bonuses your character would get too. Those are important to remember.
Choose your class - this determines a lot of the stuff you can do. Each class features different abilities and all that jazz. But very importantly is your hit dice. Hit die will determine how much health your character has to work with, ranging from very little (d4 for wizards and sorcerers) to a lot (d12 for barbarians). Look up the hit dice for your chosen class along with whatever else you want to know about them. Furthermore, I don't apply any alignment restrictions to classes. just do whatever works for you. Look up the speed of your race and your class as well, This will determine your movement speed in battle and other fast moving situations. Furthermore, you'll want to know what Saving Throw Proficiencies your class has to, since they'll help you. With Saving Throws (it's very intuitive you see)
Roll your ability scores - this is where numbers happen so I'll be more meticulous here. As many of you well know, the six primary scores in D&D are Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Before getting into actually rolling, I'll let you know that you can opt to take the "standard set" of scores if you don't feel like rolling your own (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, and 8, to be distributed to any stat of your choice). This is a good setup for new players, since it lets them decide a character's strengths and weaknesses, without making the character particularly powerful or woefully weak in any area. But anyways, the formula for a character's ability score is to roll four six-sided die (or 4d6) and then drop the lowest die. (eg. I rolled a 6, a 4, a 3, and 2. I drop the 2 and my ability score is 13). Do this six times and you'll have your six ability scores. Place them whereever you deem them to be most appropriate for the character concept that you've made. Remember to add in any racial bonuses to your scores as well, as every point can count. If you opt to roll your own scores but you're still worried about being screwed by the dice, here's a little extra rule I use every now and again: If your total roll (the sum of all 4 dice) is a 9 or less, just reroll it. But again, it's all up to you.
Modifiers - This is directly built off ability scores but it needs its own section because it's very important. Each ability score will give you a modifier in that stat, which will affect the outcomes of your rolls. We'll use the standard set to give a rundown on the modifiers. A character with 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, and 8 would have modifiers of +2, +2, +1, +1, +0, and -1, respectively. In case you can't extrapolate that, I'll break it down. score of 1 is -5, 2 to 3 is -4, 4 to 5 is -3, 6 to 7 is -2, 8 to 9 in -1, 10 to 11 is +0, 12 to 13 is +1, 14 to 15 is +2, 16 to 17 is +3, 18 to 19 is +4, and 20 is +5. Don't concern yourself with any above 20, it's the natural cap for abilities. Modifiers will affect a lot of things but the big ones are: Attack Rolls and Damage (Strength and Dex), More HP on level up (Constitution), Passive Perception (Wisdom), Armor Class and Initiative (Dexterity), and other stuff. Another important modifier that everyone just has is Proficiency Bonus, which starts at +2 at level and then increases by 1 every 4 levels (+2 at level 1, +3 at level 5, etc). You use proficiency bonus for a lot of stuff, just make sure you have it on your sheet and it's just a little extra addition on a few rolls.
Equipment: Load your dude up with weapons and armor and stuff. Normally, there's restrictions on armor and weapons and stuff but for a one-shot, I don't care. Just load your dude up with whatever you think is most appropriate for the character. Just don't go overboard or you'll be dragging a tractor trailer through town. Anyways, your weapons and armor will affect stuff. When choosing your weapons, be sure to note what die they use for damage, any particular damage type (piercing, slashing, bludgeoning), melee or ranged, etc. Armor you really just need to know what the armor class is. Armor Class is how easy or hard you are to hit. you calculate it by adding 10 + what your armor and stuff like shields gives you + your dexterity mod
Skills - oh boy skills. Basically skills are specific stuff stuff you can do that are built upon stats that aren't constitution. On the sheet you'll see a list of skills from Athletics to Survival, for most characters just check off four of those and bam those are your proficient skills, any checks you make with those skills will have an additional +4 to the roll. Bards, Rogues, and Rangers get to choose 6 skills in addition to choosing a skill that they have expertise in, which gives them an extra +4 in that particular skill. Your characters background can also affect skills but that's up to you. Additionally, here's the list of what skills get which stat, so that you know what modifier to add when you roll. Strength (Athletics), Dexterity (Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, Stealth), Intelligence (Arcana, History, Investigation, Nature, Religion), Wisdom (Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Perception, Survival), and Charisma (Deception, Intimidation, Performance, Persuasion).

wow that was a lot, hopefully it's not too hard to understand. if you want a better process just go look up the player's handbook. it'll be more coherent than my tired key clattering.

hopefully having the sheet will make what I'm saying easier, and feel free to ask any questions.

Wagomu

This is going to take some time for me to go through again, and I'm busy right now, but I assure you that my Half-Orc Bard, Ivana Krushyu, will rise again.

Capt Haggis

Well it looks bad, but once you get started it's okay. I think I got it without to much trouble.

Cyclone_Baroness

Argh. 5th edition. The one I haven't played yet lol. I'll read through it when I can.

Below Average

I'd be down for this if my schedule permits and everyone doesn't mind me being a scrub. I haven't played D&D since I was in high school.

DarthAsthma

Since character building is fun I'm going to throw mine in here and hope it kind of checks out.
There are still a few things missing like spells, cantrips. Also the background is slightly customized to slightly fit better backstory wise.
Not clue about equipment so to be honest there I just scoured through different character shits and took within reason what seemed sensible.

! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Yopyxwm741RVQ1SnItT3J0UW8/view?usp=sharing
Fingers crossed that it works out schedule wise for me cause it sounds pretty fun.

A super rough backstory in case it's relevant as well as open to change in case it doesn't fit well

! So Raal was basically picked up by a priest when he found him seriously wounded near the stairs leading up to the entrance of the temple he was serving at. Raal doesn't really remember what happened before he arrived at the temple. His estimated age when he was found is about 10. The priest took him in but Raal being a Tiefling did pose a problem. The way they went around it was basically the Priest making him his personal assistant/scribe as well as him walking around with his face concealed + making it known among the others that he was under a vow of silence so he was generally left alone.
Of course this didn't last forever and circumstances in which his heritage was revealed led to the priest dying because of him as well as him being chased out of the city when he was about 18.
The way he managed after that was selling his services as a scribe as well as concealing his face with the excuse of hiding hideous scars. 2 years later he went into paladin training after certain events and I guess we're at the point now where he somewhat recently finished that training.

I'm probably going to do it properly later would be good to know about anything that might be off limits in your world Ruin.

Cyclone_Baroness

@DarthAsthma:

Since character building is fun I'm going to throw mine in here and hope it kind of checks out.
There are still a few things missing like spells, cantrips. Also the background is slightly customized to slightly fit better backstory wise.
Not clue about equipment so to be honest there I just scoured through different character shits and took within reason what seemed sensible.

! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Yopyxwm741RVQ1SnItT3J0UW8/view?usp=sharing
Fingers crossed that it works out schedule wise for me cause it sounds pretty fun.

Dayum. Those are some nice stats. A pally huh? Guess I can't go evil alignment lol.

DarthAsthma

@Cyclone_Baroness:

Dayum. Those are some nice stats. A pally huh? Guess I can't go evil alignment lol.

I'll say that my view on evil and good for this character isn't black and white not quite the stereotypical paladin.
That said if certain lines are crossed well people just gotta see :ninja:.
Also I hope it was correct to add the tiefling cha(+2) and int(+1) bonus or else it would be 16 and 13 which would make me swap str and cha probably.

Also for others I used this https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_jdV34agv5UVVVfYW5jdzhHT0k/view which is a editable pdf someone on the dnd reddit posted.

Jabberwok

Adding the racial bonuses is fine, but I'm a bit lost as to how you got some of your gear. Typically you either get the listed loadout for your class or you're given a certain budget to buy your gear with.

DarthAsthma

@Jabberwok:

Adding the racial bonuses is fine, but I'm a bit lost as to how you got some of your gear. Typically you either get the listed loadout for your class or you're given a certain budget to buy your gear with.

Yeah like I said I actually don't really know about that part. Ruin said to load up our chars.
The way I selected stuff was looking at some of the free starter character sheets from the official dnd site as well as some items from the background section and cobbled something together that would fit with my backstory rp wise(probably). The gold I think was 5d4 x 10 gold(Pretty sure I read this in the free DnD players guide but I might be wrong) + 10 from the background.
But basically if people would outline on how to choose equipment in greater detail would be great.

Jabberwok

If you're going with the 5d4 x 10 starting gold you unfortunately don't get anything from your background, including the 10 gp.

Plus, 5d4 x 10 gp is a maximum of 200 gp (and an average of 125 gp), whereas between your armor (200 gp) and your greatsword (50 gp + another 100 for silvering) you're almost twice over that. Obviously it's up to Ruin or whichever GM we have but that seems stretched a bit too far.

DarthAsthma

I see. Maybe Ruin can just set a budget for everyone so people can shop with that what they like.
Is there also a good list of items out there? I've seen some in the players guidebook but the actual lists are fairly apart from each other page wise makes it a pain to navigate to see what you really want/need/can have.

Ruin

Yeah that's more my personal belief is that as long as you don't go overboard and overload your character, equipment restrictions are kinda lame.

I understand armor restrictions so that we don't have super tanky wizards being impossible to hit, but other than that I think people are fine just loading up what they feel is most appropriate for their character.

If you want to follow a more traditional equipment loadout process, look up your character's starting class in the player's handbook, you'll find the normal starting load out listed under class features, along with what armor and weapon proficiencies your class has. Again, I'm loose with this. If you wanna be a warlock with a greataxe, go for it. Just be reasonable. The average starting coinage for class (barring Monks), is 3d4 x 10, with some variance if you wanna look it up the specifics, but for quickly rolling up a character, just use that. Monks only get a simple 5d4 starting coinage. You can spend your starting coinage to get additional gear outside what you start with, but it's deducted from the money that you'll start the campaign with.

You can find all this in Chapter 5 (Equipment) of the Player's Handbook. finding a pdf of it is really simple and I recommend it over buying the physical book because it gets expensive.

furthermore, your weight limit can be easily calculated by simply multiplying you strength score by 15, don't exceed that and you'll be fine, but being too heavy will give you disadvantages, even if you aren't over the limit.

Again, I'm not gonna be too hard about it for a one-shot, but if we start a true campaign starting from level 1, I would tell you to be more aware of the normal limits such that you don't go overboard. But I don't see anything wrong with Raal's loadout, for the purpose of doing a one and done.

Edit: if you want a standardized budget from me, I'd just say to roll your class's starting gold as listed in the handbook (or what I said if you don't wanna look it up) and then just add an extra 100. Gives you some wiggle room and lets experiment with different stuff.

Capt Haggis

Wait x 10?

I thought it was 5d4 + 10.

Wow. My monk got 11 gold. Guess the idea of him adventuring to raise money for a orphanage makes more sense now.

DarthAsthma

ok redid it with the roll my class gold + 100 thing breakdown is

! 230gp(13x10 + 100) 270lb(18x15)
-75gp(chainmail) 55lb
-50gp(greatsword) 6lb
-2 gp(backpack) 5lb
-1 gp(bedroll) 7lb
-10gp(Ink)
-80sp(40 paper)
-2 sp(waterskin) 5lb
-5 sp(clothes common) 3lb
-5 sp(tinderbox) 1lb
-1 cp(Whetstone) 1lb
-1 gp(rope hempen 50 feet)10lb
-20sp(4 days rations) 8lb
-1 gp(scroll case) 1lb
-1 gp(holy symbol)
-25gp(book) 5lb
! 230gp-177gp2sp1cp=52gp7sp9cp
! 117lb/270lb
Also don't mind changing it again, I'm happy to comply to whatever since I'm pretty much a newbie.
Looking forward to other people's characters.

Ruin

Question: Would y'all be alright if I made a discord chat or something for this thing? Roll20 has its own chat in the gamerooms and stuff, but a discord could be a good place to meet, organize, and such.

Wagomu

I got some pretty decent starting rolls (12 14 15 15 12 12). Would it be possible to +/- a few points within? I wanted to make my character kinda oafy, and I don't think that comes across with a 12 base intelligence.

At this point, I'm just figuring out spells, and considering redoing my background from what I'd written it as before.

A discord would be pretty nice. I'll have to wait and see how much time I can dedicate to this (school work is gonna be hell), but I can def set aside one day a week.