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

[Stargate525]

Markas likes cheese....

okay then...

[MittenNinja]

As far as Duncan's (Barber's) background goes here's what he gave me.
 [spoiler]Pale's problem was never that he was a bad a student. In fact, many of his teachers considered him to be too good a student. For a student of the art of swordfighting he was a little...bookish.

While the others would spend their extra hours working in the training yard, Pale would spend them reading books. Books about fighting, yes, but the books were never quite as good as learning by doing.

After an argument with one of his masters, Pale left in a huff on foot (or possibly stealing a small boat, if he could be the sailing type) for Ceros. He took some books from the library with him, all but one of which have been lost, burnt in the wilderness, or traded away.

He enjoyed his travels, never really wanting to return, though it's probably someone is after him for the books he took. He learns new maneuvers (at level up) from the book he has left.

After Ceros, he traveled through Irva and Belston before arriving in Xian, looking to trade his manual of the Setting Sun, possibly to find a manual of the Diamond Mind, or a teacher who was more receptive of his personal learning style. (I kind made these books up, but feel free to run with it, if you like).

For balance and play reasons, he'll have maneuvers from disciplines other than Setting Sun, but Setting Sun will be his style of combat, redirecting strength. Feel free to add anything you think might integrate him with the party.

Attached is the character sheet. Any rolls have been made in my first post.

Philosophy of Combat: Anybody who's a book-learner AND a fighter probably has one of these

Everything (including things outside of combat) can be represented as a pattern. Some patterns are easy to decipher, some are not, but if you understand the pattern, you can apply it to any similar situation: Understanding the pattern is superior to understanding any specific maneuver.

If you can identify the pattern your opponent is using, you've essentially won. It's like having foresight. (This all very lawful, I know).

The greatest swordsmen hide their patterns, and make them flexible. The greatest pattern is like a quantom electron (he wouldn't think of it that way, but it's a good analogy): impossible to discern until it's already happening.

He's tried to explain his ideas with varying success. Only a couple people in Talos ever listened, and they were younger than him. He's either an up-and-coming genius or mistaken: Your choice. It won't affect his combat numbers anyway.[/spoiler]

And here's what I added.
 [spoiler]Duncan studied at the Four Winds Monestary in Talos under the hand of Liu Ze. Duncan's father was an accomplished martial artist and handed down to him a scroll that contained his family's techniques. This is the scroll that he retains possession of currently. Not everything written within the scroll is achievable to you at this point and it is your family's legacy so it's something that you probably wouldn't part with.

Talos is home to a majority of the martial arts instructors of the world and so finding others elsewhere will be more difficult, especially in Xian since it is a city with a strong arcane focus, but not impossible.

The world is recently recovering from a worldwide demonic war that lasted well over a century and so during your travels you have seen and been involved with many dealings with the infernal. How you want this to have affected Duncan is up to you.[/spoiler]

So then were just waiting on beejazz right?
Anyone heard from yoda?

[Poseptune]

Markas still likes cheese....


When I figure out how we are starting off (as a group or individuals), I will post anything relevant from Markas's background.

[Poseptune]

Hey while we're waiting, could some one look over my character sheet and see if I made any mistakes?

[Stargate525]

Hey while we're waiting, could some one look over my character sheet and see if I made any mistakes?

You've got no total HP, but other than that it looks good.

[Higgs Boson]

Would that imply his character is literally a meatshield? Since he has no HP, thus no health, thus no life, he wouldnt mind being stuck with a few thousand arrows and/or axes now and then. In fact, he would be able to benefit from this experience, he would in fact gain massive levels of the class Meatshield (aka PHB Fighter), then after twenty useless levels, he would finally learn the ultimate attack of the class: Axe stab

[psychoticbarber]

Voranlllezou, I think you're thinking too hard. A character with no discernible HP just means a character without any J.K. Rowling.

Or something like that.

[Poseptune]

Rolled HP and put the link to it in the notes section of his character sheet.

[MittenNinja]

Well, hows this? If you guys would like to figure out for yourselves why you would be together (for whatever reason) feel free to discuss amongst yourselves. If anyone doesn't come up with a connection I'll use my magical DM powers to make up a way to introduce you myself.

[psychoticbarber]

Well, I'm leaving tomorrow so I'll probably have to be introduced a bit later, but Duncan is a fairly nice guy who travels a lot, so the possibilities are basically endless.

[Stargate525]

I'm pretty open too, the only stipulation is that you guys would have had to have met me fairly recently.

Poseidon, sine you're a dragonfire adept, and I'll be too, you want us to have met up somehow? Of the guys who've got characters, you'd probably make the most sense for my character to know.

[Higgs Boson]

I had a strange idea, if there were three of us. I would pretend to be a wizard with SG as my "familiar". Poseidon would be the fighter. We essentially hustle people with fighting, where SG and I would set up the matches, and Poseidon would fight with me spamming Black Karma Curse Silenced or Still, and we would each split the money.

[Stargate525]

What is your character, Voran?

I like the idea. One of the first ideas I had with this character, oddly enough, was to fake as someone's familiar.

[Higgs Boson]

I'm a beguiler.

[Stargate525]

You threw me off, with you and your name changing-ness.