Shattered Kingdoms : Strands of Fate [OoC/Setup Thread]

[Stargate525]

MittenNinja, how rare or fitting would dragon hunters be? Asking because I have an idea for party cohesion. I was thinking about making a reformed dragon hunter. He became reformed after meeting and conversing with Stargate [if he plays a dragon].

That would be awesome.

[Poseptune]

Stargate what class/party role are you planning on filling with your dragon?

Yogurt same question without the with your dragon?

[Higgs Boson]

Probably mage. Seriously though, we shoul.d all play dragons. It would be awesome. and it seems that we all have the Draconomicon. *posting from UCLA now, at a programming camp there learning J# & C++ (not trying to drag this off topic)*, but it would be pretty cool for an all-dragon party. If we were all the same type, we could be like broodmates or something. Although, I would rather play Infernal-Celestial-Draconic Heritage Sorceror.

[Poseptune]

I'm pretty set in my [reformed] Dragon Slayer character, so no dragon for me. :)

I'm just trying to decide my classes for the character. I was thinking of mixing a warlock with a fighting type [Probably from ToB:Bo9S]. Since your going to be a mage, my character will probably be more fighter type than warlock. But I have a few other options if Stargate wanted to be a fighter type. I could go the roguish route. The only type I don't have an option for is a divine caster.

[MittenNinja]

Playing true dragons may make things messy. I'm not all too familiar with the rules for it, plus there are way more half-dragons and dragontouched than true dragons. In the entire metropolis there are somewhere between 30 and 40 True dragons walking about. with a population of nearly 85,000 thats a vary small percentage.

As far as posting the material I have most of it all ready to go in website format and I'm just waiting for the hosting to become available again. But in the meantime here's the entry on Xian...

 [spoiler=Xian]

"Watch your step here young ones. You walk the streets with the oldest and most powerful creatures in all the land."
- Karth Ebonflame, Xian Dragon Guard

Xian has always had a long tradition of draconic heritage in it's history. It's royal bloodline is thick with dragon ancestry and has had many (and up until recently, exclusively) true dragons as it's lord. Lady Elsa however, is the first non true dragon to ever hold the throne. If it weren't for the fact that she is a direct descendant of Abalax, one of the greatest rulers in the city's long history, the skepticism of her taking the throne would have easily led to her demise.

Architecture:
The great dragon city is truly a sight to behold for those who look upon it. Beyond the gold and red walls and majestic standards over the golden gates that protect the city from the ravages of the Wasted Plains lie hundreds of sparkling spires with grand walkways connecting them to one another. Throughout the entire city there is hardly a structure that isn't directly connected with another nearby via walkway. The most impressive structure (and one of the few without direct access to surrounding structures) is the Maw. The Maw is the great towering palace where Lady Elsa and the other royalty reside. Atop the Maw resides it's most dominant feature, a large smokestack or sorts that is constantly bellowing out green gases which are vented from the Maw's alchemy labs (known as the greatest in all of Karis).

Demographics:
Xian is the only city in Karis where you are likely to ever run into a true dragon walking down the street browsing through the wares being sold in the market. For the most part all the true dragons that reside within the walls keep to humanoid forms as to not intimidate the smaller folk of the city. Humans make up the largest group of Xian's populace, but even so a large portion of them can trace their ancestry back to draconic roots. No race is shunned from the city and (especially since the Abyssal Wars) many people who originally lived in the surrounding areas flocked to the great city.

History:
Originally founded three hundred years before the start of the Abyssal Wars, Xian was a small merchant village populated by many individuals with ties to the draconic world. However, the villagers had unintentionally settled within the hills of Abalax's liar. Abalax was a great bronze wyrm who ended up taking interest in the dragon bloods that now inhabited his realm and offered his services as a protector in exchange for a small yearly tribute in wealth. Not willing to pass up the protection of a powerful dragon the citizens of Xian quickly accepted.

Through the years Xian's populace grew, and so did the city's draconic influence. Within 50 years of it's founding, Xian already had 8 true dragons among it's citizens. The city was gaining popularity as a gathering place for all those with draconic heritage. Dragons of all walks came to share information with their peers (and barter their services for tribute to those who would seek them out).

At the start of the Abyssal Wars Abalax was now the first Lord of Xian, and as the infernal armies marched he personally led the defense of his people. Abalax managed to fend off the forces of three abyssal lords before his life was taken in the midst of battle. After seeing their lord fall to the powers of the lower planes, Xian's forces rose with a vigor unseen by man, they held the lines for two solid weeks while reinforcements were en route. After hearing of Abalax's fall, dragons from all walks came to Xian to help rid the city of the plague that had arrived.

The years of the war were long and hard, 21 lords and ladies of Xian fell to the hordes of the abyss during the 100 year siege of the city. The 22nd Lord of Xian, Carrick the Vigilant, a silver dragon of immense valor saw the city through it's final days of war. Carrick then saw the city through it's regrowth. Conscripting the building of many of the structures that are present to this day, including The Maw. After the city was rebuilt in all its golden glory Carrick stepped down from the throne knowing that he was a leader of a warring nation and not a lord for peaceful times. He handed the throne to Lady Elsa, a human female directly descended from the first Lord of Xian, Abalax.[/spoiler]

[Poseptune]

did you read the news? It's up again!

What about dragon hunters? Rare?

How do you want us to do our abilities? Roll 4d6 drop lowest? Point Buy?

I like using this dice roller, is it ok? http://invisiblecastle.com/rolldice.py

If you say roll stats, I will roll under Shattered Kingdoms and put Poseidon in the note (this way you can see I only rolled once, playing other places I've had people keep rolling until they got the stats they wanted.).

[MittenNinja]

I didn't see that! I'll be getting that up and running soon then.

And yes do 4d6 drop lowest and afterwards if you're not happy you can use a 32 point buy.

[Stargate525]

Well the thing is I looked at the charts, and I'll be doing pretty much dragon racial levels for a while.

And I'll be 1-3 years old, essentially a newly hatched one.

What if Poseidon found me irresistibly cute ( :D ) after he killed my parents (way away from this society), and decided to keep me. After I changed his ways (being the cute little guy I am), we decided to come here so that we could actually have a life without me being always in my alternate form.

Once I can actually get character levels, I'll probably go with a fighter type.

oh yeah, and MittenNinja, my La is going to be absolutely crippling, especially as it grows. Could I use the variant La payoff rules to keep it to something reasonable, especially since I'm going to have to take dragon levels too?

[MittenNinja]

I'm not to sure if I'm going to allow true dragon PC's yet. I will definatly be allowing half-dragons, spellscales, dragonborn, the racial variants from dragon magic etc. though.

[Stargate525]

*prays*

[Poseptune]

Well if your going fighter, I guess I'm going to go with a roguish type.

[Higgs Boson]

please? and if true dragon PC's are allowed, these the ones I would like: Either Prismatic, Radiant, Golden, Red, Green. And SG, where are the racial level charts for dragons, as in what book?

[Stargate525]

draconomicon page 143.

If you allow it, definitely going copper or brass, simply because their LA is somewhat decent.

[Poseptune]

If mittenNinja says no I wouldn't push it any more. Though if no one plays a dragon I have to come up with another concept...

[Higgs Boson]

we could be a group of merc dragon hunters...