If you have a re-imagining of your character you want to pose, PM me.  While this current game stuck pretty close to the core rules, with a few neat house options, like the Fate Points, I am going to have a few more house rules.  I understand the concept for the Dual Class vs. Multi-class and an attempt to balance human vs non-human power options, but some of it plays pretty silly. In a lot of such games, the starting rules say to take max Hp's for first level.  In that case, all human mages should start as Rangers (if they have the stats for it) or at least fighters if not, and immediately switch to mage.  Still have all the mage skills and 10 or 16 hp's to start.   Weird, and nonsensical, but allowable by rule. I'd rather have things make more sense and tweak a few a rules.   Anyhow, this will be a continuation as much as you decide to make it, it will quite naturally be different, a parallel world perhaps.

Might be interesting for Rath to begin developing Cleric abilities. Not sure how that would work, rules-wise.

Let's talk.

Hmmm... in a perfect world, how would I tweak Ben? Fascinating idea...

I had considered cleric, and I can see how that would make a little sense. Does your alternate set of rules offer anything new and interesting to thieves, or have any fun mechanisms for assassin? Be funny to be a thief-Paladin, but that would require a world like mine, where every god has Paladins, and alignment is more flexible.  Be fun to have 'sense loot' instead of 'detect evil' as a power, and instead of lay on hands, lay on purse which puts a few coins into someones possession.

In reply to Ben Scristos (msg # 18):

Glad to hear you are enjoying the book so far. It is/was one of my favorite fantasy books I've read in a long while :)

I'm not sure how much reimagining is really possible with a ranger, so I will declare myself content.

Ben, I also had a world where all gods had paladins.  I used to play them all the time, kinda a fascination of mine for years.  I even had a set of six types of LG paladins, the most powerful of which had to commit an act so evil they could never be forgiven.  Therefore, their acts of good and kindness were not predicated on a promise of eternal bliss, they were doomed to hell, and still did good for goodness sake alone.  No wonder I'm nuts :-).  Anyhow, I have an intriguing idea, just need to think it through a bit, but I think you'll enjoy it.

Excellent! It would be nice to suddenly be a tad bit more useful...

In reply to Ben Scristos (msg # 27):

You do have a 1st ed Players Handbook handy?

Several...

Probably not. I pared down my games to just two (one as GM and one as player) and am kind of enjoying the "break". Not only that, but trying to focus on studying for promotion and starting up a new game won't help that endeavor.

:)

Come on over.  I still estimate it will be Monday after next before I begin any in game posting.  And believe me, I may stumble a few times over technical issues for a little while.  In fact, I already got a warning, first from Mr Storm, and then from the rpol moderators, for creating a second account.   Oddly, after finding out it wasn't allowed, I still couldn't figure out how to delete it.  They have taken care of that for me, and I assured them it won't happen again.  Anyhow, I think you'll need to RTJ and once approved go ahead and set things up and level up if it was due at the end of the adventure.  Things should look pretty familiar.

link to another game

Downloadable game files for anyone who wants them:

https://drive.google.com/folde...iQ0k&usp=sharing

Awesome, thanks so much.

Wow, thanks for this! :)

I notice several of you log in from time to time. Hope all is going well with each of you in your lives and continued adventures in Stormhaven!

I also pop in from time to time in your game, but I can't see the active game thread, so I am not really sure what your characters are up to these days, but I am sure they are living up to their reputations :)

Thanks DM Storm, I'm sure you could be added as a lurker if you wanted? :)

Yeah I come into the old game to look up details a lot of the time and relive the good times!

Good to hear from you, Storm.

Hello all! Do any of you know whether Ben ever reappeared?

No word from Ben, I’m afraid. We still refer to him occasionally.

He is a legend who's name and exploits will live on!

After he vanished from posting for quite awhile, I went and checked out the games he GM'd and he'd vanished there too.

I kept reaching out to him for awhile and finally he r-mailed me in May 2017 to say he'd been having a tough time of it but things were looking up and he'd be back in a few days.  That was the last I've heard from him.  I keep pinging him though. Hoping he's ok.   Ben as a character is still alive but is "on assignment", so if he ever shows up again and wants to rejoin, he could.

Thanks. I always wonder what might be going on when players disappear without any warning. Hopefully things are going better for him now.

Yeah, I'll add myself to the group that misses Ben and as you say I hope things are going better for him.

It is nice to hear from you DM Storm. How are things going? :)

Things are going well for me and the family, Saliq. I have moved back to the mainland and now live in South Carolina...at least for the next year or so. Who knows where next? :)

I still have a few games here on RPoL:

1) 5th edition D&D game set in the Icewind Dale region of Forgotten Realms
2) Basic D&D conversion of the Red Hand of Doom campaign for 3rd edition
3) Castles & Crusades game set in a Conan-esque style setting

Pretty close to wrapping up the 5th edition and Castles & Crusades game, well at least close by PbP standards ;)

Offline, I am currently running the 5th edition Tomb of Annihilation adventure. We are about 6 sessions into that adventure and having a good time romping through the jungles of Chult right now.

Hopefully all is well with you too!

In reply to DM Storm (msg # 44):

Thanks, yeah things are going well. I became an uncle last year which has been an adventure. :)

Cool to hear you are running games in real life. How are you finding 5e after some experience?