Magic adds complexity but I approve of its use, within setting for this time period your likely looking at: red priest, maester (Valyrian steel and black links)

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Asshai: Moqorro’s blood magic, on the silence Cthulhu stuff

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Warg and greenseers are in the base book.
If a house had a character With any magic I’d suggest a cost of house resources and  limit the number of characters to whatever the gym is comfortable with (like a maester)

Sorry for typos, on my phone.

In reply to Red (msg # 25):

As I understand it, the other resource books (Chronicles of Sorcery) have ‘magic’ type of effects. Like divination (Used by Maggie the Frog and Melessandra very differently). Ritual magic, blood magic, sympathetic magic, trance, purification, etc. Not all of them are traditionally RPG magic like we would think about it. Some are just abilities that can grow over time (but that don’t necessarily grow).
Take the warg and greenseer powers ...

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Bran, Arya and John all have Stark blood and all have the ability to Warg into animals. Bran is the only one who expands on that original power by being able to warg into Hodor. Jogen and Bran are both greenseers, but Bran becomes the three eyed ravin.

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There are many levels to how far down the rabbit hole someone wants to go. I agree with limiting the magic users in a house, but if someone wants to have one power like

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  that should be less restrictive vs. someone like

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who has more than one power and “levels them up.” I would want to limit someone that powerful to one in our house.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:57, Tue 09 June 2020.

Well met, everyone.

I guess I should weigh in on all this stuff too.

* How often are you comfortable with posting to a game here at Rpol?
 Every other day probably, maybe a couple times a week. I've got stuff I deal with that might make it hard to post super frequently.

* What style do you want posts made in?
  Third person, past tense is my preferred method as well.

* Standard or mature?
  As many others have said, mature definitely fits the setting more.


And as far as magic, I am actually kind of appreciate the magic-lite nature of Westeros at the point in the timeline you said you wanted to start. A lot of fantasy settings become so over-saturated with magic.

Also, WOW, we've got 11 players?  Are we all going to belong to a single house are we going to split into multiple houses?

We discussed the pros and cons of multiple houses in the other thread, and ended up going with a single house.

Frequency: Every other day or 3 days per week. I'm not arround on Sundays so those end up being the same thing. Some say they can post more often, but at least we have a baseline.
Style: Third person, past tense.
Rating: Mature


On these forums, I have been trained to use [OOC: in brackets]. "Spoken words should obviously be in quotations." And some use color to make it even clearer what they are saying. I do not, but feel free to do that if you like. I would expect characters to speak in first person like people normally do.

I don't recall having seen anyone indicate an internal monologue by parenthesis, but those that use color to indicate what they say, don't use color for their internal monologue. As for using first or third person, that is up to you, it's in YOUR head!

And as pointed out by Brown earlier, having a common format is beneficial to the flow of things on the forums.


Some are familiar with the rules, some have the core rules, others may not be so familiar.

We have different levels of familiarity with the setting from the books and/or the TV show.

So please keep this a friendly learning environment for all. As I think I've mentioned to everyone, I do have the core rules, but I'm not familiar with them.



In regards to magic, Blue, Brown, Purple, Red, and White have expressed ProMagic views. While Gray wants to keep things magic lite.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:24, Tue 09 June 2020.

So...has anyone started thinking about what types of character they might like to play?

I am still running a number of ideas through my head.  Just thought I'd see what others might be thinking.

Three ideas, I'll pick one according to the preferences of others:

1.Daughter and possibly only heir to the House, who is also slightly mentally unstable.

2.Maester or ambitious Septon

3.Knight sworn to Head of the House. I might even make her female and Dornish (not knight but a competent warrior in that case)

I figured I would wait and see the state of our House first and what sort of events led to its founding before figuring out what kind of character to make.

In reply to Gray (msg # 33):

I am kind of doing the same.  I have some general thoughts...just nothing really firm.

Loosely related, are we using the on-site character sheet section or should we just keep track of our sheets however works best for us?  I know some GMs like being able to review sheets on the site while figuring out posts.

Thank you for bringing that up Orange. Just because the House is located in the Vale doesn't mean that all characters have to be from the Vale. They can be from as far as Dorne or even from Essos.

Good question Gray. We will most definitely use the in game character sheet area once the characters have been created. I prefer completing the creation process in a PM thread so that I can see how the character evolves.


Are there any good character sheet templates that we can use?

Message 95 in this thread has one.

link to a message in another game

How elaborate do you like the sheets to be?

I'm usually pretty bare bones. But I liked the one Blue suggested.

In reply to White (msg # 31):

If possible, I would like to be ‘the Maggie the Frog of The Vale.’ Perhaps as a part of the court as an eccentricity (not necessarily a part of the family by blood... if anything through marriage). One trick pony kind of divination ‘magic’ but with a heavy sprinkling of theatricality to really sell the fake stuff when she is inevitably asked to perform and is unable to. That is IF we are even having magic. Without the magic she would just be like an ‘Old Nann of the Vale.’ I haven’t looked at the mechanics of character creation yet, but that is my concept so far.

Who is Maggie the Frog? I think that is the 2nd or 3rd time I've seen the reference on here.

In reply to Gray (msg # 41):

In the show, she is the one who predicts Cerci’s future.

Maggy the Frog was a fortune teller from Lannisport who dealt in cures and love potions. Her true name has been forgotten, while "Maggy" was likely a bastardization of the word "maegi".[1] In the television adaptation Game of Thrones she is portrayed by Jodhi May.

In reply to Brown (msg # 40):

My mentally unstable heiress might have some interesting past with the Vale witch.

In reply to Orange (msg # 32):

Usually I play a daughter, kind of a Sansa-type. Although I have a couple of situational other ideas if someone is wedded to that concept

I'm thinking Scout/Warg. Since this is my first time trying to create a character, I recognize I may need to build up to things, but ultimately I want to go the Skinchanger route. Probably shadowcat, but I haven't decided yet.

I think I would like to play a schemer type. Possibly heir or ward. I want to gain all the leverage, favor, and power for the a House that I can manage. If this won’t work, perhaps a scheming maester or some other character build will benefit the House as well.

If you want a Maester in the House, you will have to invest 10 of your currently 22 Wealth Resource.

The events of our founding will adjust our current stats, won't they?