OCULUS SINISTER: A Ravnica 5E Game (Looking for For 4-5 Players)

[Pink Professional]

Ooooh, two new characters popped up while I was adding Kozim's backstory. Three lovely characters already, and a plethora more on the way.

Also Muse, definitely the Red Head.

[evilnerf]

Hello, is this still recruiting?  It says 4-5 and I see four characters.

If there's still a spot I'd love to roll up a Azorius Wizard

[Pink Professional]

Characters are getting in on a Quality basis, not a First-come-first-serve basis.

[Chulanowa]

man, I'm torn; do I want a firbolg Simic druid? A fire genasi boros wizard? A human / helf / aasimar Orzhov Bard? a totally-Azorius-and-not-at-all-Dimir monk? 

[Drowdeviant]

Hmmm idea. A playful, mischievous half elf rakdos mistress of ceremonies and dancer bard.

Question: could we not take a guild’s background but have acquired membership in a guild as a part of our background for the sake of guild spells? I only ask cause I’m thinking a kind of having my gal come from a family of guildless thieves and conmen who joined up with the cult of rakdos cause she found she liked the spotlight.

[evilnerf]

Eleni of Gnat Alley
Azurius Human Wizard
Lawful Good

Personality:  Naive, precise, cheerful, scarred.

Biography  She was born a child of violence and murder.   She grew up for the first few years of her life in a small hovel along Gnat Alley, Ravnica's crime ridden street.  Elenor believes they were good people who had the simple misfortune of being in the wrong place and the wrong time.  She will never know for sure though, because they died a horrible death before she was 9 years old.

She was taken in by the man who found and arrested their murder.  Arrestor Thelcles.  He was a harsh, who taught his adopted daughter about right and wrong and the spectrum that exists between them.   He also taught her to never let her judgement become clouded by emotion. 

At first, she intended to become an Arrestor like her adopted father but she was picked out personally by Lawmage Glosterkhan for her aptitude at magic.  With his patronage, she was enrolled at the Azorius Academy.  She was studious and even tempered and saw an innate connection between the laws of Ravnica and the laws of magic.  She graduated from the  Azorius Academy at a relatively young age.  She was supposed to start her apprenticeship under Glosterkhan, but he was trasferred to serve as a Warden at Udzec prison.

Without either of her father figures to guide her, she was on her own the big city.  Naïve in some ways, traumatized in others, she believes in the perfection of the Legal word to an almost holy degree, and hopes to one day write the laws, not just enforce them.  She keeps the name "Eleni of Gnat Alley" to remember where she came from and remind her that no one is outside of the law's reach

'Character Stats'

Hit Points:  12
STR 13
DEX 13CON 12INT 16
WIS 11CHA 14
Proficiency Bonus: +2
Weapons: Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs.
light crossbows
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills:  Insight, Investigation
Background: Azorius Functionary

EQUIPMENT
A spell book
A staff
A Rod (10 GP)
Component Pouch
Scholars Pack
Parchment (1 GP)
Ink (10GP)
Ink Pen (1 cp)

Spells:
Spell Save DC 13
Spell Attack Modifier: +5
Total Spells: 3 cantrips, 8 1st level, 2nd

Cantrips: Mage Hand, Friends, Message
1st: Ensnaring Strike, Command, Detect Magic, Magic Missile, Shield, Tasha's hideous laugher, Charm Person, Disguise Self
2nd: Hold Person, Calm Emotions

Class Features
ARCANE RECOVERY
You have learned to regain some of your magical energy by studying your spellbook. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined leveI that is equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher.
For example, if you're a 4th-leveI wizard, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. Vou can recover either a 2nd-leveI spell slot or two 1st-levei spell slots.
ENCHANTMENT SAVANT
Beginning when you select this school at 2nd levei, the gold and time you must spend to copy an enchantment spell into your spellbook is halved.
HYPNOTIC GAZE
Starting at 2nd level when you choose this school, your soft words and enchanting gaze can magically enthrall another creature. As an action, choose one creature that you can see within 5 feet of you. ]f the target can see or hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your wizard spell save DC or be charmed by you until the end of your next turn. The charmed creature's speed drops to O, and the creature is incapacitated and visibly dazed.
On subsequent turns, you can use your action to maintain this effect, extending its duration until the end of your next turn. However, the effect ends if you move more than 5 feet away from the creature, if the creature can neither see nor hear you, or if the creature takes damage.
Once the effect ends, or if the creature succeeds on its initial saving throw against this effect, you can't use this feature on that creature again until you finish a long rest.

[Geeklet]

Couple questions: Since we are starting at level 3, for HP, are we rolling for level 2 and 3, or going with the average value rule?

Also, since I am playing an Arcane Trickster, the class itself says that the spells are essentially restricted to Enchantment and Illusion spells (with a select few exceptions). How would the guild spell lists (Izzet in my case) be dealt with for this class? Are they just extra spells available, but the class restrictions for Enchantment and Illusion spells still apply, or would the restriction in this instance be Enchantment/Illusion/Guild spells?

[RedPhoenix]

La La Daiza

Class/Level: Cleric 3
Background: Selesnya Initiate
Race: Loxodon
Alignment: Neutral Good




Age: 24
Height: 7'11"
Weight: 380 lbs
Eyes: Elephant
Skin: 大象
Hair: слон

Appearance: On the big side for a Loxodon, La La always stands as if she's trying to make herself smaller, hunched over shoulders and a softly smiling face that seems ready to apologize for existing. She is always clutching something to her chest, a book, a flower, a satchel, something to hug to herself so that she knows what to do with her hands. Her trunk usually curls up close to her face, trying not to get in the way. Her smile is sweet and contagious and filled with hope. Typically La La's face will be painted with very bright colors in all sorts of patterns, to honor the joy that Mat'Selesnya can bring to the world. Her tusks are decorated with simple bronze rings. She usually wears a soft green robe, but will put on her massive set of chain mail and take up her shield - a lovely design with proudly bears the tree of Selesnya - when she has to venture outside of the garden grounds.



Stats

Armor Class: 18
Initiative: +2
Speed: 30'
Passive Perception: 13
Hit Point Maximum: 24
Hit Dice: 3d8
Proficiency Bonus: +2

Attributes

Str: 11 (0) Dex: 14 (+2) Con: 14 (+2) Int: 10 (+0) Wis: 16 (+3)  Cha: 10 (+0)

Saving Throws

Proficiencies: Wisdom, Charisma

Str: +0  Dex: +2  Con: +2  Int: +0  Wis: +5  Cha: +2

Skills

Proficiencies: Insight, Medicine, Nature, Persuasion, Survival

Acrobatics (Dex): +2 Animal Handling (Wis): +3 Arcana (Int): +0 Athletics (Str): +0 Deception (Cha): +0 History (Int): +0 Insight (Wis): +5 Intimidation (Cha): +0 Investigation (Int): +0 Medicine (Wis): +5 Nature (Int): +2 Perception (Wis): +3 Performance (Cha): +0 Persuasion (Cha): +2 Religion (Int): +2 Sleight of Hand (Dex): +2 Stealth (Dex): +2 Survival (Wis): +5




Languages: Common, Loxodon, Elvish
Weapon Proficiences: Simple Weapons
Armor Proficiencies: All Armor, Shields
Toolkits: Glassblower's Tools

Features and Traits:

Conclave's Shelter - The conclave will shelter you, because you are a good elephant.

Powerful Build - Counts as one size larger for determining carrying capacity.

Loxodon Serenity - Advantage on rolls against being charmed or frightened.

Natural Armor - 12+Con, helped by shield

Trunk - Fuck yes.

Keen Smell - Advantage on Perception and Investigation when smell involved. Cuz she has a trunk see.

Spellcasting - Prepare WIS + Cleric Level (6) spells per day.

Channel Divinity - Turn Undead / Charm Animals and Plants
 



Spells

Spellcasting Ability: WIS
Spell Save DC: 13
Spell Attack Bonus: +5
Levels/Slots:
4/4 1st
2/2 2nd

Cantrips:: Druidcraft, Guidance, Sacred Flame, Shillelagh

Prepared Spells:  (6)
Bless, Cure Wounds, Guiding Bolt, Sanctuary, Aid, Animal Messenger


Domain Spells
1st: Animal Friendship, Speak with Animals
2nd: Barkskin, Spike Growth


Additional Guild Spells
1st: Animal Friendship, Charm Person
2nd: Animal Messenger



Attacks/Spellcasting:

Shillelagh
+5, dmg 1d8+3, magical weapon

Guiding Bolt
120', +5, dmg 4d6 radiant, next attack has advantage before my next turn

Sacred Flame
60', dex save or 1d8 radiant damage, no benefit from cover

Sling
+4, 1d4+2 dmg



Equipment:

Robes
Selesnya Insignia
Chain Mail
Shield engraved with Holy Symbol of Mat'Selesnya

Belt Pouch

Lucky Stick - Brightly colored painted wand-like thing
Sling

Priest's Pack
Set of Common Clothes
Healer's Kit
Lots of Colorful bodypaint!
Big fluffy stuffed loxodon

10 gp





Backstory:

Ally: Sibling is an instructor at the guild's training grounds
Rival: A good friend has risen to become a Ledev guardian.
Non-Selesnya: I have a sibling in the Simic Combine and we argue every time we see each other!

La La grew up in a very mixed family, most of her siblings adopted from various orphaned young ones. She has brothers and sisters that are Loxodons and Goblins and Humans and Centaurs and Minotaurs and everything else you can find in Ravnica. Most who heard of where she grew up would say it was an orphanage, but it never felt like one. The many happy volunteer parents of all walks of life who would come by made the children feel loved and cherished and never once did La La feel sad that she never knew her real mother or father. All of the children who grew up there bear the last name Daiza, the name of the wonderful white stone building set on the edge of gardens and fountains that they grew up in.

She did know her biological brother though, as the two were orphaned together in what almost everyone believes was an accidental building collapse. Her brother was always faster than her when it came to his brain, although much clumsier when it came to his feet. The two would laugh and tumble about when they were babies and little ones, trumpeting happily all the while. As they grew up though, Babar's insistence that he could fix everything started to annoy her more and more. Rather than stay and become one of the Selesnya, he vowed to harness the magical lightning of the Izzet and seek revenge on his parents murderers! The fact that there was no reason to think his parents were murdered didn't slow him down, but the fact that the lab he was supposed to audition in blew up before he could even try out for the Izzet caused him to reevaluate. A week later he was determined to harness the powers of the Simic Hybrids and fuse them with the might of the Loxodons to seek revenge on his parents murderers! He would not listen to La La as she tried to tell him again and again that nobody thought they'd been murdered. Babar's refusal to let reality slow him down has proven a great boon in the Simic Combine. Him and La La still exchange letters. His are long rambling manifestos that usually weigh in at several dozen pages. Hers are usually two pages with lots of pictures and a genuine and heartfelt expression of love and hope they can get together for some nice bark tea.

One of her best friends, a half-elf named Poxy, has grown to be an instructor in druidcraft at the training grounds. Poxy is an immensely skilled druid, but poor La La was too timid to try to shapechange and so she went to go be a cleric instead. Still, Poxy and La La remain excellent friends and enjoy painting each other all sorts of bright colors and frolicking in the gardens.

Finally, her rival is Demetrios, a hulking half-orc who rides a massive dire wolf in the Ledev guardians. Despite this, he also grows the most beautiful hybrid roses, always crushing La La's dreams of winning the annual Flower Festival's gesture of appreciation for prettiest rose as easily as he crushes invaders and looters under his massive maul.

La La's official assignment is taking care of a serene little garden that is used by high ranking Selesnyan's to meditate in. She has hopes of expending this garden but needs the proper permits from the Azorious to do so as it would involve growing taller plants that would cast shade onto the nearby unclaimed territories. Due to a horrific misunderstanding, La La accidentally took one of Poxy's letters when she last visited her friend, and now believes she has been called to protect the secret lore of Orator Radu in exchange for receiving her gardening permits. It seems like a bit much to her, but she doesn't like to make a fuss.

[Bibliophilia]

-squeals and hugs LaLa.-  I adore her so much.

[RedPhoenix]

Thank you (^j^)

[Bibliophilia]

She reminds me of my favorite character from Sing!

[Geeklet]

*lets out an audible squee at La La*

[Chulanowa]

Still ironing out details, but Orzhov Bard incoming!

[Brittlby]

Couple questions: Since we are starting at level 3, for HP, are we rolling for level 2 and 3, or going with the average value rule?

Also, since I am playing an Arcane Trickster, the class itself says that the spells are essentially restricted to Enchantment and Illusion spells (with a select few exceptions). How would the guild spell lists (Izzet in my case) be dealt with for this class? Are they just extra spells available, but the class restrictions for Enchantment and Illusion spells still apply, or would the restriction in this instance be Enchantment/Illusion/Guild spells?

I’d say Average value rule for HP and Enchantment/Illusion/Guild.

[Geeklet]

Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply!

[Muse]

Hey now, don't let me keep you from playing something. Similar ideas can co-exist in the same game. :)

no no! :)  I was just opening up the board to ask people to help me decide if my wizard should be a street urchin taken in by the Izzet Guild, or if her family were members in long standing. 

i sincerely didn't know which to pick! 

Azinax

  Next, I need to put together scattered ideas to finish her up. 

  Her arcane focus is a copper gauntlet.  The gauntlet is wired to two tubes of reagents that run down her forearm.  When she casts spells, a combination of arcane energy and refined lemon juice batteries catalyses the reagents to create varicolored lighting arching through the tubes.  The spell is projected from various diodes on the copper gauntlet. 

  "It's my uncle's design.  I helped him!  I'm so proud of my uncle, and to be his apprentice!  If we can just acquire enough unobtanium we can make me one like my uncle has, complete with refined reagents and extra potent lemon juice!" 

[Isengrad]

Always enjoy goblins, liytle off the wall creatures of mischievous nature. Expect a simic sharkman monk later today.(maybe made by la-las brother)

[Pink Professional]

Goblins are great, but do remember we are level 3.

[Muse]

Did I miss something, Pink?

[Pink Professional]

The Azzinax character sheet indicates that she's a level 1 wizard, whereas we are Level 3 characters. Just making sure you didn't miss out on the HP or spells and stuff.

[Muse]

  I fixed it, thanks! 

  I made her at level 3, though i still need to get 2 more spells in her spell book. 

[Geeklet]

Reposted, with sheet this time

Tozispix (Character Sheet)
Goblin Rogue (Arcane Trickster) 3
Chaotic Neutral Izzet Attendant

Personality : Still young, capricious, and full of optimism. Has a sense of freedom since joining the Izzet, and does her best to infect others with the idea that there are no limits.

Biography : Toz was born into the guildless streets of Ravnica, and her first memories were always of the gangs that roamed the streets. She didn't have much choice but to join herself, as it was a sort of family tradition, what with her older brothers already being members themselves. But she was never happy with this life. This was when she began to hear rumors of powerful wizards and other worlds. And though it was often dismissed as fantasy, there was one in particular that drew Toz's attention, one of a powerful fire-wielding sorceress.

Even if it wasn't real, she figured if she could do something similar, it would pull her out of the gang's clutches and into a better life. And the best place to figure out something like that had to be an Izzet lab. Late one night, she snuck into the nearest one. And though she didn't find the exact answers she was looking for, she spent hours looking over various research notes and papers in fascination. She was so enthralled that she didn't notice the Vedalken that had stepped into the room. For a few moments, he watched in silence, a small grin upon his face. When Toz finally turned around and noticed him, she scrambled towards the window, startled. But he didn't call the guards, and instead had a better idea.

The spark of curiosity she had intrigued him, and at first, she worked quietly as an assistant, usually sent to procure various items the guild couldn't always legally obtain. But you know, the longer one is around mad wizards, the more one tends to pick up, and Toz was no exception. Not just that, but not only was she not looked down on for learning more, it was encouraged. At last, she finally felt free, and wanted others to feel the same.

[Pink Professional]

Tozipix is fantastic, and I'm looking forward to seeing her accidentally blow up a thing.

[Geeklet]

Ah yes. "accidentally"

[Brittlby]

As I feared... probably going to have to make it a six person team. Lol