LF Pathfinder GM for Planescape Rock(?) Band on Tour

[Chanticleer]

Questions to be considered:

We seem to've gone with the multiverse idea, so which universe is your character from? Do we want all of our characters to be from one particular setting, like Faerun (I like Faerun, yes I do...Okay, I also like Eberron. And that creepy Athas place, too, I guess, and...)?

How did your character get started playing music?

At what point did they decide they wanted to be in a band?

At what point did they decide they wanted to be in THIS band?

It's possible to land in Sigil accidentally (Portals! Portals everywhere! I'm not saying it was portals, but...Portals!). Is that how the band gets there? Or did your character end up joining the band in Sigil after getting there on their own?

[Thorne]

Hm.. Cyrellia might have been based in Golarion, but falling through an overgrown archway in Sigil will broaden anybody's horizon.
… and bonus, she isn't going to be the oddball in the city. Just, you know, Clueless...

I think I'll start there, see where this goes. I'm yet not sure how she's going to get involved exactly.

[Chulanowa]

Okay, this will be difficult. *Swoons* Hold me, somebody. I'm being completely and laughably ludicrous rules-wise here...

But it's all in pursuit of 'rule of cool' and 'IS IT METAL ENOUGH?' just for the sake of the crazy.

Barring excessive screaming, Marli will be...a kobold with:

Adopted trait, raised by bats elves (Racial Trait: Weapon Familiarity: Blah, blah, bah, stuff, blah, rapier, bow...Anything with 'Elven' in its name = Elven Curve Blade, which is a finessable 1h weapon), 1 level of Swashbuckler (Picaroon) (Two-Weapon Finesse = finesse/TWF but ONLY with a 1h finessable weapon (ECB) and a 1h firearm (dagger pistol, yay), Weapon Focus: ECB at Lvl 1, Cavalier (Ghost Rider), Order of the Flame, now has access to heavy armor, a summonable ghost wolf mount, Kobold preferred class bonus adds 5' level to mount's speed when used to charge/withdraw, Glorious challenge to keep up rolling challenges all day, every day, bonus to Intimidate when at full (or better) health, Slashing Finesse: ECB at Lvl 3 (Dex to Dmg but only when off-hand is empty). Weapon cord on the dagger pistol.

Kobold riding a big spooky ghost wolf and wearing partial gothic plate plackart with faulds and tassets over a corset and long ruffled dress, plate gauntlets and greaves, swinging a curve-blade as tall as he is and with the occasional florentine moment with a dagger pistol in the off-hand.

Total album cover material.

You may now commence throwing things at me.

I like this idea a lot! Anyone not like this idea?

So a swashbuckling salamander on a spirit-wolf. Well, that doesn't knock too heavily into my (revised) plans to go with some sort of big melee-type. Though it does have me re-ponderign lighter melee / skill-heavy.

It's not that I wait to see what everyone else is making, it's that I'm so slow deciding what I want to do that everyone else has already taken everything isn't a fucking rogue 

Also, what other contenders did we have for the band name that got multiple people weighing in on them besides Six Demon Bag and Velvet Overkill?

I'm sticking by Dëthflümph.

[Thorne]

Velvet Overkill seems fairly appropriate for what this crew is physically looking like so far, honestly.
(Although I know some people who would loudly approve of Dëthflümph. ^^;

[Bibliophilia]

Hey, guys, do you think we need a recruitment thread, or should I just toss up an OOC and a Character Sheet thread?

I can collate and list our agreed-upon creation guidelines in the first post.  I can also pop our GMing guidelines in the first post of our game thread, so that any future DMs have ready access and we can add to the list as time goes on, should we decide on new ideas together.  I'll probably also make the second post a spot for episode recap summaries, so any new people coming in can get caught up without reading through all the posts that came before.  Useful for potential DMs, and any players who just like feeling up-to-date on things.

[Chanticleer]

Hey, guys, do you think we need a recruitment thread, or should I just toss up an OOC and a Character Sheet thread?

I can collate and list our agreed-upon creation guidelines in the first post.  I can also pop our GMing guidelines in the first post of our game thread, so that any future DMs have ready access and we can add to the list as time goes on, should we decide on new ideas together.  I'll probably also make the second post a spot for episode recap summaries, so any new people coming in can get caught up without reading through all the posts that came before.  Useful for potential DMs, and any players who just like feeling up-to-date on things.

Sounds like a plan. I don't think we need to do any more recruiting at this time. As active as this thread has been, I'd think other interested parties would've weighed in.

Maybe put up a band-name poll in the OOC thread. It looks like we've got (in order of appearance) Six Demon Bag, Velvet Overkill, and Dethflumph. Any others?

[Bibliophilia]

Oh!  I know the game isn't about sex, but there's been some groupie talk and the like.  Where do we want to put this game?  Light Exotic, or Bondage Exotic?  Or, were we wanting to go more extreme?  I tend to stick fairly vanilla if I include sex with my system games, so I'm good with Light or Bondage, but if others want to go to Extreme...I'm cool with that, so long as everyone is respectful of boundaries.

[Chanticleer]

Oh!  I know the game isn't about sex, but there's been some groupie talk and the like.  Where do we want to put this game?  Light Exotic, or Bondage Exotic?  Or, were we wanting to go more extreme?  I tend to stick fairly vanilla if I include sex with my system games, so I'm good with Light or Bondage, but if others want to go to Extreme...I'm cool with that, so long as everyone is respectful of boundaries.

Indeed, I was just telling me mum that this game is only about drugs and rock'n'roll. There's certainly no sex, and Marli is certainly not a subscriber to the 'Dragon of the Month' club.

(But he'd love to be.)

And if you believe that I've got a bridge to sell you. Came off a Fender played by the late, great Jimi himself.

I'm going to vote for...Hm, let's just poll it.

What's the band name? (If you have some other idea at this late date that you're keen on, just post it.)

And how sexy are we?

[Chanticleer]

Hmmmmm. The band name poll is all over the place. Velvet Overkill is ahead...But that's because it has 2 votes instead of 1.

And it's a DEAD HEAT between Exotic Extreme and Exotic Bondage, two votes each.

That's a little concerning. We do want folks to be comfortable. My personal preference runs to 'extreme' just for flexibility, but just so nobody feels uncomfortable, how about we keep the main roleplay down to levels of 'exotic bondage' and any deviations which require it might end up in their own sub-forum over on extreme, with participation always being a voluntary thing.

I'm pretty sure that's an Elliquiy site rule, that even in Extreme, player preferences must be respected. It's not so much a question of your level of control of your character as a level of what's okay to be portrayed. For instance, I think that possibly drugging and fucking the brains out of an entire orchestra so as to prevent them from getting on stage is getting in the vicinity of extreme due to being sort of date-rapey-ish.

Even though, yes, it was being portrayed with a "and hey, they loved it and were surprisingly fun!" sense of humor.

We still have one person who hasn't voted on either the band name or the forum, so this could go any which ol' way at this point.

[Chanticleer]

Instruments:

Since we're doing a multiplanar megaband thing, it seems completely reasonable to me that your character can have any instrument they like. Assume that if it's from a tech-based plane that it has had customization/conversion work to function alright in a magic/lo-tech environment. So if you want a Stratocaster, by all means have a Stratocaster.

Because trying to figure out actual cost equivalencies for all of these things would be ludicrous, I'm going to also suggestion that as a default benefit of 'this is a band game,' everybody has managed to beg/borrow/blow/steal themselves an instrument.

In order to support people who want an instrument that does things, just pay for the things and consider them to be part of the instrument. So, I believe the big question posed earlier was regarding an axe that looked like an axe and shot fire like the one from Fury Road.

• Axe-shaped guitar = Assumed to be free
• Battle axe = However many gold for the weapon itself
• Flamethrower = Wand of burning hands, which will need to be recharged like a normal wand of burning hands

Does that seem okay with everybody? Biblio, you're starting us off and it's your first time GMing, so does it seem reasonable to you?

[Vergil Tanner]

I would add that perhaps the instrument - being a custom job - would perhaps be a Masterwork Item?

Either way, I'm happy with whichever way the GM rules it. Wand of Burning Hands, or gas-fuelled thing that blasts out flammable gas. Either way, I would need a Feat and Burning Hands to recharge it

[Chanticleer]

I would add that perhaps the instrument - being a custom job - would perhaps be a Masterwork Item?

Either way, I'm happy with whichever way the GM rules it. Wand of Burning Hands, or gas-fuelled thing that blasts out flammable gas. Either way, I would need a Feat and Burning Hands to recharge it

I imagine it'll be masterwork if you pay for it to be.

I'm sure some of us will be upgrading our kit as we go, and it's entirely reasonable that what works when you're trying to get started in dive bars and small venues won't do so well in a 5,000-being arena, and vice-versa.

Bear in mind that this is all just my opinion and open to discussion/debate.

EDIT: Speaking of instruments, I think I may start Marli off with one of these...It's apparently a 17th-18th century 'keytar' called an orphica...

Imagine it's going to take a bit of enchanting to get the noises he wants out of it, but hey...

[Bibliophilia]

Okay.  I started working on the IC and OOC things.  They're still sort of in progress, mainly for the OOC just adding a list of all the creation and game stuff we've decided on.

Here's the OOC thread so we can move over there.  I'm gonna post some questions.

OOC Thread