OOC: Short but sweet, time for a new Chapter...

[GandalfOfBorg]

Since we started before the release of PotW, I suggest not retroactively altering our Lore skills because that would mean we'd have to know what were the past advancements for the characters as well as reallocating the initial picks would be a headache as well.

[Stefan]

Nain's Advancement picks
1) +2 weaponsmith
2) Enchanting class skill

[GandalfOfBorg]

Oops Tomcat, I should've said Accurate (Shortbow).
Thanks

[Palandil]

Fengel's Advancements:
AC: Polearm +1
Observe +1
Swift Strike +1

[tomcat]

Okay, just waiting for Dirnhael's advancement picks... Galudir will have to wait until the end of this next chapter. 

Paul, did you get back into the RPG Web Profiler?

Let me know.

I will have the new chapter posts up by Sunday.

[Palandil]

Paul, did you get back into the RPG Web Profiler?
Let me know.
I will have the new chapter posts up by Sunday.

No, I tried every password I could think of.  I am registered under Palandil, problem is my email address has changed as well.

[sdrotar]

Okay, just waiting for Dirnhael's advancement picks... Galudir will have to wait until the end of this next chapter. 

Paul, did you get back into the RPG Web Profiler?

Let me know.

I will have the new chapter posts up by Sunday.

I'll try to get them tonight; if not - then I'll have them first thing tomorrow. Sorry about the delay...

[tomcat]

Since we started before the release of PotW, I suggest not retroactively altering our Lore skills because that would mean we'd have to know what were the past advancements for the characters as well as reallocating the initial picks would be a headache as well.

Hey GoB,

I have added a new Language/Lore section to the online character sheets and it now breaks out the skills into Groups; Sub-groups; and Specialties. Due to the fact that we created these characters prior, I am going to leave Durgil's current Lore/Race alone, but that is the only one. Any new lore will have to be bought by groug/sub/ and then any specialties.


No Problem Shawn...


Everyone's character sheet is done otherwise. When you look at them, you will see I also added some additional lines for specialties for different skills. But, if you run out of room here, the sheets still have the Additional skills section.

[tomcat]

Hey all,

I know I had a poll going here to inquire the usefulness of the PDF character sheets that I had available for you to download, and whether they should be kept or not.

Well... sorry to say, but even though the consensus was for them to stay, I have pulled them from the website - now you will only have the online character sheets available. Understand the online character sheet can be printed and it comes out as a very nice three page sheet (just follow the instructions on the Character Sheet thread if you have any problems).

I will keep the PDF's and the original Word docs that I print the PDF's from, but it is getting to hard to maintain the sheets with the ongoing advancements - much moreso than it is to just update the online sheet - primarily because I an running out of little cells to enter any new attained skills.

Anyway, if you would like the original character documents, just let me know and I will e-mail them to you.

Doug

[GandalfOfBorg]

Ah well I guess wasn't as bad as I thought.  Since 1 pick was spent for each of those specialties and there is an equal number of ranks, it not a big deal to me to break them up into separate skills with 2 ranks in each.

[BrianM]

Anyway, if you would like the original character documents, just let me know and I will e-mail them to you.

Doug

Sure I'd love to have a copy of the document. It's a really good sheet that I can use for other characters as well. Do you have Edrahil's grimoire in a form-fillable format?

Thanks,
Brian

[BrianM]

I have one more question about the online character sheets, about the Improvements column for Abilities and Edges. For Spellcasting, Edrahil has taken the Ability 4 times, so this makes sense. On the edges, when you say "1" for Stron-willed, tireless and Resolute, does this mean that these edges have been picked only once (the first time), or have they been "improved" once?

My guess is that each edge has been picked only once.

Thanks,
Brian

[tomcat]

Hey Brian,

You are correct... when I transfered the data to the online sheets, I put a 1 for the edges that had been picked once (thus Strong-willed 1 gives a +2 bonus, Strong-willed 2 gives +4, etc.).

I will e-mail you both forms for you to use at your leisure. They are in MS Word format. If you need any of the fonts, let me know.

Doug

[BrianM]

Thanks!

I'm playing around with creating another character for a different game, and I have one more question that I think you guys can help me with.

When creating a background package, it appears that adding an Edge to it still costs only one pick (rather than two as in the Advancement table). I suppose someone into min-maxing could pick 6 Edges in this way to get the most out of their points. My question is, are racial skills (for the purposes of Advancement points) the ones listed in the Background Package, or are Racial skills any skill listed for that race. My gut feeling is that racial skills are only those from the background package (so that there is motivation to pick skills as well as Edges for the package).

Oh wait ... found a note in the errata that says the one point cost for "Racial" skill advancement is only for Native Languages and Lore - unfortunately, this really makes it easy to want to pick all Edges for a background package - is there some limitaion on this that I have missed somewhere?

Thanks,
Brian

[Palandil]

Hey Brian,

You are correct... when I transfered the data to the online sheets, I put a 1 for the edges that had been picked once (thus Strong-willed 1 gives a +2 bonus, Strong-willed 2 gives +4, etc.).

I will e-mail you both forms for you to use at your leisure. They are in MS Word format. If you need any of the fonts, let me know.

Doug

Hey Tomcat, could I get you to email the forms to me as well?  Pleeease...