Skull & Shackles | Pathfinder (NO LONGER SEEKING)

[PhantomPistoleer]

THIS GAME HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Characters admitted into this game can also participate in my Pathfinder Universe IC chat, which is found here: https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=302636.0  -- If you have ever been admitted into one of my games before, you may re-use your character there.

~ SKULL & SHACKLES ~
A Pathfinder Adventure

IMPORTANT ADDENDUM:  Please notify me in PM if there are players whose exclusion from the game will result in your non-participation.  Here is a sample note:  "If _______ is not admitted into the game, I will respectfully withdraw."  Also, the reverse.  PM if there are players whose inclusion into the game will result in your non-participation.  No need to defame anyone, though.  Here is a sample note, "If _____ is admitted into the game, I will respectfully withdraw."  I really don't care why you feel the way that you feel, but I should probably know that you feel that way, capiche?

Brief Synopsis:  You got shanghai'd, beeyotch.

Status:  Currently seeking a party of 4-6 players.

Notice:  This is the last and final Pathfinder adventure that I'll be running.  I am currently running the Shattered Star, the Dragon's Demand, the Crypt of the Everflame, and a small adventure called Into the Forest.  I will not be running any other games.  I am a bit confrontational, so if you're not posting in a timely manner, expect to find me all up in your PMs.

Character Creation Rules: 

• 25-point buy
• Max HP at first level/roll subsequent levels
• 2 background skills
• 3 traits (one must be a campaign trait; no drawbacks)
• half starting gold;

The GM prefers attractive characters over ugly ones and normal races over abnormal ones.  Please no small races.

New Players:  New players are welcome.  I am happy to help new players create characters and learn the rules.

GETTING STARTED:  The adventure begins as the PCs wake up in the hold of Captain Barnabas Harrigan’s Wormwood. The campaign traits from the Pathfinder Adventure Path Skull & Shackles Player’s Guide provide information about how each PC ended up on the Wormwood. It is not necessary for the PCs to know each other—they’ll have plenty of time to become acquainted during the coming weeks aboard the Wormwood. Whatever their reasons for being in Port Peril, each of the PCs spent the previous night drinking at the Formidably Maid, a notorious drinking establishment in Port Peril, where a press gang from the Wormwood marked them as targets.  After drugging the PCs into unconsciousness, the press gang dumped them in the ship’s hold to sleep it off, where the PCs soon get a rude awakening.

Posting Style:  Check my other game threads to see how I run a game so you aren't surprised.  I expect players to post at least once a week.  You are not required to post lengthy posts -- just enough to reasonably convey what you want to do within a round.  Sometimes, I'm just going to want a list.  I cannot stress this enough: SHORT POSTS ARE ACCEPTABLE.

Sex Stuff:  Acceptable between players, but I run my games pretty straight-laced.

Character Submission:  Your character doesn't need a long background.  Your character's origin doesn't have to be interesting or intriguing.  Do not put a lot of effort into it.  If you and I have had a tiff before, whether actual or imaginary, please talk to me in PM before you start working on a character.

Your character background can be as long as the blurb given in the campaign trait you choose.  If you must know, I admit players by asking myself the following questions:

1.  Do I like this player?  If no, not admitting;
2.  Do I like this player's character's picture?  If no, not admitting;
3.  Do I like this player's character's sex appeal?  If no, not admitting;
4.  Do I like this player's race?  If no, not admitting; and,
5.  Do I like this player's character?  If no, not admitting.

In that order!  I -almost- don't care about backgrounds.  You should know that I am not very likely to read a very long background.  I know, I know.  You have to read all of my shit and I won't read all of yours.  It's unfair.  Additionally, there is this whole thing about my choosing players based on my subjective likes and dislikes and stuff, and I get how some of you might find that unfair, but I pretty much don't care about that either.  So sorry, but not sorry.

Character Sheet: Not necessary for admission.

Variant Rules:  Initiative has been completely overhauled.  All enemies operate off of the same initiative.  The first round will consist of actions taken by allies who have a higher initiative than the enemies, then the enemies will act, and then all allies will be able to act in one huge initiative block.  Following rounds will simply consist of two initiative blocks: enemy actions and party actions.  Turn order is NOT respected.  Furthermore, you may perform free actions freely throughout, but those free actions may only be performed within six-seconds (since that's the length of the round).

Leaving the Game:  Sometimes you gotta leave the game because life/work/depression/animosity-towards-the-GM.  That's fine.  However, please tell me, preferably in PM, that you're leaving so that I can find a replacement.  Since that can be a daunting challenge for some, I have taken the liberty of drafting up a sample note that you can send me in PM should you need to leave:  "Because of reasons, I gotta go, Phantom.  I will/will not be back (circle one).  Thanks and sorry."
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[Ixy]

Tavhitta Kol, Level 1 Tiefling Bloodrager (Pitborn, Abyssal)
((work in progress))
Not knowing the origin of her father, Tav was born and raised on boats and in barrooms throughout the Mwangi expanse by her transient mother, knowing indentured servitude and primal survival in equal measure.  She was taken by pirates more out of curiosity than in any true attempt to take a valuable crewman... she seemed positively dangerous despite being attractive enough for entertainment 'below-decks'. 

[BlackStone]

What about an aquatic gnome?  Call it a racial variant on Gnome like the aquatic elf is for Elves?

[PhantomPistoleer]

Tavhitta Kol, Level 1 Tiefling Bloodrager (Pitborn, Abyssal)
((work in progress))
Not knowing the origin of her father, Tav was born and raised on boats and in barrooms throughout the Mwangi expanse by her transient mother, knowing indentured servitude and primal survival in equal measure.  She was taken by pirates more out of curiosity than in any true attempt to take a valuable crewman... she seemed positively dangerous despite being attractive enough for entertainment 'below-decks'.

I always auto-accept Ixy.  But this time, I also would have auto-accepted this character purely for how sexy she is.

What about an aquatic gnome?  Call it a racial variant on Gnome like the aquatic elf is for Elves?

You can submit any character, but I don't particularly like small races, and I especially dislike gnomes.

[ravinwulf]

Any issues with monstrous races, like gnolls?

[PhantomPistoleer]

Any issues with monstrous races, like gnolls?

I prefer normal races over abnormal ones.

[BlackStone]

Alignment restrictions?

[PhantomPistoleer]

Alignment restrictions?

None, but some alignments fare better than others.  Consult the player’s campaign guide.

Also, the character should be cooperative.

[ravinwulf]

kind of a lot of odd restrictions for a pathfinder game based around pirates and being presganged.

[BlackStone]

Character Basics
Name: Sharn
Gender: Female
Race: Half-Orc
Nationality: None
Class/Build: Druid/Aquatic Druid
Diety: Gozreh

Character Appearance
Apparent Age: Young Adult
Height: 77"
Weight: 195 lbs
Hair Color: Black with midnight blue highlights
Eye Color: Black
Build: Muscular and athletic
Distinguishing marks: Tribal tattoos on the face

Alignment/Personality: Neutral.  Sharn is an isolationist and does not go out of her way to find trouble.  She does not back down from a fight however, and is cunning in her ability to draw her enemy towards the sea were her abilities, and her animal companion, a tiger shark she has named Tooavh-Pros, can make short work of them.

History: Sharn is the only survivor of an island settlement of half-orcs, offspring and outcasts from their tribes who banded together to make a living and to claim the island as their own.  All was well till an unknown pirate group came about and wiped out the village.  The reason for it was unclear.  Sharn herself only survived because she was shot with a crossbow and flung over the edge of a hillside into the ocean where the current carried her away.  She prayed to Gozreh for her survival, and the means to one day find vengeance upon those who killed her people and razed her island.  Her prayer was heard, and a tiger shark half carried her, swam with her till they reached land.  For the next year they would start to travel and search for signs of the pirates.  Needing to replace some equipment, Sharn wandered into Port Peril.  It was about the last thing she remembered of the evening before waking up in the hold of a ship.

Character Sheet:
Pending

[PhantomPistoleer]

I will give this game until the end of the week (April 5th) to gain some traction.  If it fails, then I will have to set the adventure aside.  I can understand why there isn't much interest in it, as two crews already set off on this adventure within the last two weeks.

[LordAnubis]

Name: Sahed

Gender: Male
Race: Undine
Nationality: None
Class/Build: Wizard
Diety: None spoken of

Heigh 6'2"
Weight 210
History:Sahed was orphaned young enough he has no idea who his parents were.  Whether they were alive or dead didn't affect his life growing up.  When he was old enough to work he was apprentenced to a wood worker, because in the shackles there was always work if you were a wood worker.  The Master woodworker "adopted"/purchased Sahed when he noticed the boy had some incline towards magic, realizing the people caring for Sahed didn't know and the Master had designs on enchanting his woodworkings.  Sahed worked as a apprentece to pay for his own magical schooling, and once he was well versed enough to build his skill on his own, Sahed used his newly master of magic to open the door to his room and leave the house he grew up in and made his way to the first ship leaving port.  Sahed plyed his wood working skills, magic, and some understanding of medicine to work his passage on ships until he ended up in Port Peril.

Character sheet Pending

[Autocad]

Phantom Ahoy! Make ready for booty boarding action!

Toka Agano
Human Ranger (Freebooter)

Originally hailing from the faraway land of Tian Xia, Toka ended up in the Shackles after many voyages, serving as a sailor on board all kinds of ships from merchant vessels to men-of-war (plus the occasional stint as an overland caravan guard, but that doesn't get talked about nearly as much). She must have been running away from something, seeing as how she sailed further and further away from Tian Xia over time, though she never told anyone why. Her last voyage ended in Port Peril, and she was staying there for a few days looking for passage and employment aboard southbound vessels, when something unexpected happened...

(Character sheet pending)

[PhantomPistoleer]

Thanks for your submissions, but I am not optimistic that we will have six viable characters by Friday.

[Elven Sex Goddess]

I will throw my interest in if have me PP.   I might not get something together in time by tomorrow but at least by Saturday. 

[PhantomPistoleer]

I was just telling someone else that this game was probably dead in the water due to lack of interest.  :/

I really think I can do this module, though.

[PhantomPistoleer]

All right, everyone -- thanks to everyone who showed interest.  However, due to a lack of submissions, I will go ahead and terminate the game.