I guess there needs to be this, too, if this game is going to happen.

Welcome along, my friends.

Please be gentle with me,  this is my first experience with the system.
I’m a competent enough role player, so hopefully I’ll pick things up fast enough ... and make it interesting enough for you all to make it fun.

Some great questions by prospective players.  So to share my answers:

1/  Yes, I’m willing to consider Words from other Godbound printed sources.
- please make it part of your character concept that you are selling to me:   Convince to use the Word by giving me a good character proposal.
- give me the complete Word write-up; citing the sourcebook and page, please.

If I feel comfortable with it, I’ll publish it into my Words thread ... and it’ll be available to everyone, including you.


2/  I’ll be starting each character seperately; in true Sandbox style.   Characters can crosses paths organically.
This can include characters hearing rumours of each other and NPCs (I’ll make that happen), and can seek other Godbound out.
But I’ll also give you all the chance to move towards each other through storyline’s that you’ll all approach from different angles.

I’m doing this so that I can learn the rules/setting via a variety of characters: but also so that, at least at first, we can move each character’s storyline at our (GM+ player’s) own pace.

Welcome, Chandiss, Xin and Zuana.

I’d like to start by thanking each of you for your applications ... and your willingness to be, effectively, my guinea pigs as I explore this system that is new to me.
Excitingly, you all conceptualised three very different characters, which is awesome.

And all of you have, at the least, the free-PDF that I have.
I was going to invest some time in transcribing across into this game’s threads more information ... such as scribing the Gifts for each of the Words.  But as you all have access to that information, I think I’d prefer to invest in the character development process.  I’d like to get to know your characters better: and a bit more about each of you, by default.


My intent is to run each of you solo, at least for the first story.
That gives me time to explore the system as pertains to each character ... and lets us establish your creation at our own pace.
Once that is done, I’m happy to find narrative ways to link up (one way or another) any of you who would prefer teaming.


Several of you have a lot more experience with the system than I.   While I am comfortable with my STing ability, there may be times that I flounder with the rules system.   Please do feel free to offer your advice or suggestions: politely.


So, rather than ramble any further,  I’ll go now open up character sheets for you.
I’ll post a sheet that has been kindly donated by one of you: but to be honest, if you have your own style, do it.   So long as the info is there somewhere.

Then, I’ll get to talking with each of you about your characters: their locations and situations, and their GOALS.
I am a very big ST for player drive, and once I know what type of story you want for your PC, I enjoy crafting something to take them there.


In conclusion, welcome ... and thank you.

Glad to be here, hey there folks.

Oh, hey!  I got in after all!  Yay for none of that first-come-first-served nonsense!

Anyway, Artifice focused superheroine from the Bright Republic here, pretty much a mobile flying artillery piece at the moment, but will transition over time to something more honest and legitimate.

Though the flying heavily armored artillery piece bit's probably never going away, on account of "Everyone wants our shiny tech, doubly so when it gets shinier after an Artifice focused Godbound showed up"
This message was last updated by the player at 22:15, Mon 29 July 2019.

Hi everyone.

I'm playing a character who kinda falls somewhere in the middle ground between Overwatch's Sombra and an Assassin's Creed protagonist, spreading a spider's web of covert influence from behind masks and proxies that they might judge those with power and remove them if they prove unworthy of their station. Naturally such a service also positions one quite nicely to ensure that someone 'better' takes the reigns in the aftermath.

I came in with the intention of going Deception/Knowledge/Night but I've soured on the last of those the more I've come to think about it. Any suggestions what might make for a good replacement?

Awesome.

Also making an Artificer, but in a radically different direction than that, and not taking the Word of Artifice.  Earth and Sorcery, and I might do Fate, but I'm still trying to figure out what that's going to look like.

@Zuana  Knowledge seems like it would be such a fun word, but it kind of ends up being the solution to everything so much that it loses some of it's luster.

Night is my all time favorite word because of Orienomancy, the magic of dreams.  Ever read the Dreamblood Duology by N.K. Jemisin.  Think of dream viruses that spread Deception.

Deception + Shapeshifting is a hilarious combo, as A Familiar Face lets everyone completely ignore the gibbering horror having tea in the middle of the market square, and further plays into Night's dream/nightmare motif.

Hell, I'll take Night if you don't want it.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:03, Tue 30 July 2019.

Hi guys. This is my first time playing godbound, the sheer openness of the game kinda scare me a little, but since I first read it I wanned to play. Lets see how it goes. :)
This message was last edited by the player at 00:52, Tue 30 July 2019.

Offering free unasked for advice?

Make a character with a clear goal, and a clear obstacle, and a long term objective after that.  The people who get stuck in this game and stop posting are the ones who load their Godbound up on really cool combat powers, and then just kind of twiddle their thumbs with no idea who to shoot their awesomeness at.

Take a mix of Gifts, including ones that give you clear non-combat objectives and a purpose.

Pick one of the nations in the free book, it's only a page long so they aren't hard to read, and make a character from one of those places.  Give them a mission, personal politics, and an objective.  Give them something to do when none of the other PCs or the big baddies are around.  Some projects that always need working on.

"Building your cult" is not a good long term project, it's something you will do automatically anyways.  If you set that as your main goal?  You're gonna have a boring time.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:49, Tue 30 July 2019.

Yeah, like, Tisiphone's an heiress of a big corporation, was being groomed because of being a super genius lady to take over, and then they got wrecked by a conspiracy, so she's going all superhero to delete the list of names involved while also keeping the Republic from getting eaten in the meantime.

Still poking between reference images (Descriptions are hard otherwise on account of my aphantasia), but the current frontrunner is this one here.



Artifice/Sky/Bow Words, combat in the form of being a flying artillery piece who can effectively snipe anything in a mile of her at any time, while having enough heavy armor plating and non-combat applications to shrug off any real counterfire.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:03, Tue 30 July 2019.

Earth/Sorcery/Fate ended up being my final pick.


This message was last edited by the player at 05:30, Tue 30 July 2019.