Thunderspire Labyrinth

Abelard · 4:25am

Question #1, from Abelard (yeah, I talk to myself; so what?)
Why are you running this game?
I've had a bunch of games fall apart this year, so I figured that the best way to avoid this would be to run my own. I know everyone has things come up in life that push playing internet games off the priority list. I promise to do my best to not let that happen, and I hope all you applying will make it, too.

Question #2, from IronChef33
Would you allow the Seeker class?
Oooh, showing off your DDI subscription?

Actually, I'm going to say "no" to this, only because it means that players without DDI can't see your character traits and options, so it makes it harder to discuss planning. And I realize that when I started planning the game, I was going to require use of the Character Builder, and now I'm ruling out exclusive DDI content, which is a complete 180-degree shift. But in my RL game, we have started to discuss how if we take power X next level, it means if someone else takes feat Y, it can work well together, and that teamwork is cool.
**UPDATE** see answer to #6, below

Question #3, from FieryGriffin
How much gold do we start with?
Whatever standard starting gold is for a 5th level character... which I think is whatever a 4th level item costs. Even if that's not correct, let's go with it.

Question #4, sort of, from TheHumanDynamo
I will finish my application tomorrow if that is ok with you.
Certainly. I think I may have sounded like a jerk before, so let me re-phrase: as long as you're posting something resembling an application (or questions) and not just "Interested! Will write up character next week!", that's what I'm looking for.

Question #5, not actually asked, but alluded to once or twice in messages
What about Primal characters (Warden, Barbarian, etc.)?
Since Primal Power is due out in a couple of days, that is legal, as are any excerpts from it you find on the WotC D&D website.

Question #6, from a private message
Would you accept material from the Abyssal Genasi article [in Dragon 'Magazine']?
I've got to admit, I'm torn on this one. On the one hand, citing #2 above, that means that players without access may not be able to work as well since they won't know your character. On the other, you've paid a sub fee for that information, and it's a shame that you can't use it. Wow, I didn't know DM'ing would be so hard! I'm willing to allow this since it just gives a few options for the race, as opposed to, say, the Seeker class (see #2, above), where this is a whole new class with. I think in general, articles from Dragon/Dungeon are going to be OK. I get that it's not 100% consistent, but there you have it.

Question #7, from Cronje
Would you accept character options from third-party publishers, such as Mongoose Publishing's The Quintessential Wizard?
No; WotC only. I often tried to sneak Mongoose stuff past my DM in 3.5, and back then it was overpowered. I've not seen their 4e stuff yet, but I presume the same. In fact, now that I check it out, I don't see that Mongoose has published anything for 4e, so one of us is really confused.

Question #8, from the brilliant Abelard
What are your feelings about those you’ve played with before, or veterans vs. players new to 4e?
I enjoy the lone game that I am currently in because the players are great. And it wasn’t so long ago that I couldn’t buy my way into a game because I didn’t have history on Myth-Weavers. Anyone I’m currently playing with is welcome to submit an application, but I won’t be giving them any special preference. However, I do intend to give a little extra weight to either newish 4e players or those new to this site. I’m not saying that anyone will definitely get a spot, but I am willing to be a little more accepting. That being said, if anyone doesn't want to play with noobs – and I’m not saying that anyone who has already applied is like that, only that those people do exist – please PM me and I will skip over your application when I make my selections. No judging (well, maybe a little).

Question #9a, from TheHumanDynamo
Since we are about half-way through, would you offer feedback to those of us that ask for it, so we have time to tweak stuff if needed?
Question #9b, from bloodrever
Did I include everything needed in my application?
I didn't mean to set everyone's insecurities to red alert with my post about some incomplete applications. I think the ones that are incomplete are obviously incomplete, and I hope the posters come back to finish them. However, if you PM me, I will let you know if it is complete, or if anything is not correct. Note that I'm not looking over them too carefully until the deadline so I don't get the early ones stuck in my head.

Masterweaver · Oct 17 '09, 12:10am

Oh goodie! I had a character I made for another RP but she wasn't ready before the deadlin.
Name: Zrrverlia
What you see: Female Teifling
What you get: Devoted Cleric
Eye candy: Zrrverlia is unusually small, except for horns which she ineffectually tries to cover with long black hair. Her yellow eyes are nervous, darting, as though she fears being disliked. Her red skin is covered by her white cleric's robes, and her tail is usually held straight down.
The walk, the talk: Zrrverlia is disgusted by the history of her people, and goes out of her way to show that she is not an evil woman. She is polite, demure, and willing to aid anyone in need. Sometimes irrationally willing.
The dark and misty past: Zrrverlia was an unhappy child, disliking tales about her ancestors and their acts and feeling that her dark blood was a constant danger. One day, she made a decision: When she came of age, she would join the Avandran order. Her parents objected, telling her that she was better suited for a soldier or even a spy's work. They couldn't stop her, though; so they disowned her instead. She left her family, her parents, her two sisters, on that fateful day, and though she has had some regrets, she doesn't look back. Her loyalty to her order, and her compassion to the wounded, have been brought to the attention of Sister Linora, and so she has been summoned to join this group...
Technicalities that must be addressed: Still smoothing out the actual sheet. And the items.
Who, me?: I'm a role-player, not a fighter.... although my lack of any reference books makes me a bit slow regarding rules. Any help you could offer would be appreciated. still, the online resources have already helped me construct most of my character, and I can assure you Zrrverlia will be as well acted as I can make her.

SoulessServitor · 5:22am

Character Name: Shathys Valcyan
Race and Gender: Male Shadar-kai
Class/Build: Ranger/Two-weapon fighter (Chain Mastery Multi-class build)
Description: Shathys stands a little shorter than average for human height and is very thin, almost frail in appearance. He has alabaster skin with ritual piercings across both cheekbones and a fine silver chain that falls from his left nostril to his left ear. Shathys has shoulder-length black hair, and lustrous black eyes that seem to lack both sclera and pupil. He prefers to dress in drab grey traveling attire accented with a silver-trimmed black cloak and a swath of red cloth tied about his waist. Over this cloth is lashed a fine steel chain that contains several serrated barbs that seem to bite through the cloth and into the shadar-kai's flesh, making one wonder if the red of his belt sash is not made of his own blood.

In times of trouble or when expecting battle, the shadows seem to coalesce about the shadar-kai momentarily, falling away in misty tendrils to leave the ranger wrapped in dark leather armor. About Shathys' neck hangs an iron amulet forged in the shape of a raven's head.

Personality: Shathys is out to prove himself. He is known to be brash and even fool-hardy at times, though he knows his limits and is not suicidal. The shadar-kai is deeply devoted to his goddess, The Raven Queen, and can be heard offering small prayers to Her throughout the day. The shadowy ranger speaks with a gravely tone thanks to the thin strand of muscle known as a Tongueworm that has been implanted in his throat. Shathys is friendly to those that mean him no harm, and is curious about things in which he has little experience, such as the strangely-familiar mirror-world he finds himself in.

Why are you on this adventure?: Shathys is a brash fellow out to prove his worth to The Raven Queen in everything he does. He has hunted the undead beings of the Dark Lands, he has acted as guard and guide to those lucky enough to have had the foresight to hire him before entering the Skins surrounding Gloomwrought, and he has even quested to enter the temple Zvomarana, yet was found unworthy in the eyes of his Queen. This dismayed the shadar-kai, for he thought none were as worthy of Her favor as he. As a result, Shathys has doubled his efforts to prove his worth, and in his fervor he crossed the boundaries separating the Shadowfell from the mortal world. Though he managed to track down and destroy the undead creature responsible for his being ejected from the gloomy realm of his goddess, Shathys now finds himself trapped in a sunlit world that is as unfamiliar as it is known to him.

While lost in a world that is both familiar and unknown to him, Shathys still feels the need to prove his worth to his goddess and Queen. When word reached him that the brave were needed for a service to the Baron, Shathys knew he could not ignore the call to battle. Should he die in his endeavors, he is comforted by the fact that he will rejoin his Queen in Letherna to serve Her as She sees fit.

I will provide an in-character post for this as soon as it is complete, which should be shortly I hope.

What are your level 6, 5, and 4 items?: Level 6 = Summoned Leather +2; Level 5 = Quickhit Bracers; Level 4 = Deathstalker Spiked Chain +1

Tell me about you as a player. While I have almost 3 decades of experience with D&D, I have had little experience with 4e. I have also had little experience with pbp, though I have enough to know how it is done. I hope to launch my foray into 4e with this game and look forward to a very entertaining time here at MW.

TheHumanDynamo · 3:48am

Name: Whurthric, the Iron Champion
Race: Dwarf, Male
Class: Warden (Wildblood)

Tedronai · 6:31am

I've got a Dwarven Barbarian that I've been wanting to play ever since the game I wrote him for died in its infancy

Name: Thun 'The Bloody' Ahmair Nallien
Race/Gender: Dwarf, Male
Class/Build: Barbarian, Rageblood
Description: Rather tall, for a dwarf, and powerfully built, Thun dresses in rugged clothing of cured leather over fine wool, in addition to his armour of stiffened exotic hides.
Personality: Concise, often even curt, in his speech when it is needed, Thun would much rather allow others to speek what must be spoken, even sometimes, to the point of allowing them to speek for him. Thun is surprisingly patient so long as he does not feel himself to be threatened, but prone to resorting to extreme measures to remove such threats when they do arise unless there is someone nearby that he trusts to convince him otherwise.
Purpose: (currently retooling background to better fit this campaign, will update soon)
Items: +2 Mordenkrad (level 6), +1 Hide Armour of Durability (level 4), Gauntlets of Blood +2 (level 4), with a +1 Badge of the Berserker (level 2) purchased from the 840gp cash, along with miscellaneous mundane items

Thun the Bloody, Dwarf Barbarian
Init +8 HP 56/56 Bloodied 28 Healing Surge 15 (0 used /11)
AC 19 Fort 18 Reflex 16 Will 15 Speed 5
Str 17 (+5) Con 17 (+5) Dex 14 (+4) Int 10 (+2) Wis 15 (+4) Cha 8 (+1)

Howling Strike
At-Will ✦ Primal, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Requirement: You must be wielding a two-handed weapon.
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: [2d6] + 1d6 + Strength modifier (7) damage.
Level 11: 1[W] + 2d6 + Strength modifier damage.
Level 21: 2[W] + 3d6 + Strength modifier damage.
Special: When charging, you can use this power in place of a melee basic attack. If you are raging, you can move 2 extra squares as part of the charge.

Howling Strike,

Pressing Strike
At-Will ✦ Primal, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Effect: Before the attack, you shift 2 squares. You can move through an enemy’s space during the shift, but you can’t end there.
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: [2D6] + Strength modifier damage (7), and you push the target 1 square. If you are raging, the attack deals 1d6 extra damage.
Level 21: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage.

Pressing Strike,

Basic Melee
At-Will ✦ Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: [2D6] + Strength modifier (7) damage.
Increase damage to 2[W] + Strength modifier at 21st level.
Special: You can use an unarmed attack as a weapon to make a melee basic attack.

Basic Melee,

Basic Ranged
At-Will ✦ Weapon
Standard Action Ranged weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength (9) vs. AC
Hit: [1D6] + Strength modifier (6) damage.
Increase damage to 2[W] + Dexterity modifier at 21st level.
Special: Weapons with the heavy thrown property (see page 216) use Strength instead of Dexterity for attack rolls and damage rolls.

Basic Ranged,

Swift Charge
Encounter ✦ Primal
Free Action Personal
Trigger: Your attack reduces an enemy to 0 hit points
Effect: You charge an enemy.

Swift Charge,

Avalanche Strike
Encounter ✦ Primal, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: [6D6] + Strength modifier (7) damage.
Rageblood Vigor: The attack deals extra damage equal to your Constitution modifier (3).
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, any attacker gains a +4 bonus to attack rolls against you.

Avalanche Strike,

Blade Sweep
Encounter ✦ Primal, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: [4D6] + Strength modifier (7) damage, and each bloodied enemy adjacent to you takes damage equal to your Constitution modifier (3).
Rageblood Vigor: Each enemy adjacent to you that is not bloodied also takes damage equal to your Constitution modifier (3).

Blade Sweep,

Combat Sprint
Encounter ✦ Primal
Move Action Personal
Effect: You move your speed (5) + 4. You gain a +4 bonus to all defenses against any opportunity attack you provoke with this movement.

Combat Sprint,

Rage Strike
Daily (Special) ✦ Primal, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Requirement: You must be raging and have at least one unused barbarian rage power.
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC. To make this attack, you expend an unused barbarian rage power.
Hit: You deal damage based on the level of the rage power you expend:
1st level 3[W] + Strength modifier
5th level 4[W] + Strength modifier
9th level 5[W] + Strength modifier
15th level 6[W] + Strength modifier
19th level 7[W] + Strength modifier
25th level 8[W] + Strength modifier
29th level 9[W] + Strength modifier
Miss: Half damage.
Special: You can use this power twice per day.

Rage Strike,

Bloodhunt Rage
Daily ✦ Primal, Rage, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: [6D6] + Strength modifier (7) damage.
Miss: Half damage.
Effect: You enter the rage of the bloodhunt. Until the rage ends, you gain a bonus to melee damage rolls equal to your Constitution modifier (3) if either you or your target is bloodied.

Bloodhunt Rage,

Silver Phoenix Rage
Daily ✦ Fire, Healing, Primal, Rage, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: [4D6] + Strength modifier (7) fire damage, and ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).
Miss: Half damage.
Effect: You enter the rage of the silver phoenix. Until the rage ends, you gain regeneration 3. In addition, the first time you drop to 0 hit points or fewer, you can spend a healing surge as an immediate interrupt.

Silver Phoenix Rage,

Armor of Durability
Property: When you spend a healing surge to regain hit points, you regain additional hit points equal to the armor’s enhancement bonus.

Armor of Durability,

Badge of the Berserker
Property: When you charge, your movement made as part of the charge doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Badge of the Berserker,

Gauntlets of Blood
Property: You gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls against bloodied targets.

Gauntlets of Blood
Notes +5 on saves vs poison
speed unaffected by armour/load
second wind as minor action
reduce forced movement by 1
+Con mod temp HP if drop a foe
free melee basic attack on crit 1/turn

no OAs on a charge
vs bloodied targets: +2 damage
+1 HP on healing surge

Me:I'm still relatively new to pbp games, though I've been on Myth-Weavers for a while, now. I've been in several games, but they rarely seem to go very far before dying.
I only have about 5 or so years of pen-and-paper-style rpg-experience in real life, but tend to pick up systems relatively easily, and quite enjoy telling an exciting tale.

Tobas · 7:15am

Peren Farstrider
Male Half-Elf
Protecting Paladin

Description: Average height, broad shoulders, a ready smile, and perpetual helmet hair. Clad in pitch black armor with Avandra's Symbol hanging round his neck.

Personality: Easygoing, quick with a story. As at ease sleeping under a wagon with caravan guards as dining at a baron's court. Bold to a fault, averse to settling down, fiercely protective of his freedom, and that of others.

Why is he on this adventure?

Magic items:
Level 6: +2 Holy Symbol of Avandra
Level 5: +1 Flaming Longsword
Level 4: +1 Black Iron Plate Armor

Me as a Player: I have plenty of experience with 3.5, but this would be my first 4e campaign.

FieryGriffin · 10:15pm

Name: Arashi Rayo
Race and Gender: Firesoul Genasi Female
Class/Build: Swordmage/Assault Swordmage
Description: Only problem with this is she only has 1 sword.

Some say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Personality: Arashi is quickwitted and she knows it, some people would call her flirtatious but she dosent do it on purpose. Arashi is bi-polar one moment she'll go around donating all her money to the poor the next she coundlt give a rats ***, but most of the time she's happy.
Purpose: Arashi was once a slave so she knows how it feels to be looked down apon and beaten, she now goes around killing all slave traders, bargenirs and exploiters. In herself she feels a very high un-explained level of responsibility for taking care of people less fortunate then herself.
Me:As a player of 4e you coundlt call me experienced, ive played 3.5 for a couple of years and know how to play 4e but i do screw up so please call me on it. On this site i have not played a single 4e game. I like to be strategic sometimes and sometimes i wanna watch stuff burn, overall i wont jeperadize my teams mission by walking threw the door then slamming it knowing there are hundreds of goblins around.
Magic items: Level 6 Amulet of protection +2 level 5 Bloodthread leather Level 4 Counterstrike guards.

Blackknight1239 · 9:51am

Character Name: Naesala
Race and Gender: Male Earthsoul Genasi
Class/Build: Tactical Warlord

Description in 40 words or less: Naesala is an almost short for a Genasi, and sports a slight physique. His eyes are golden as well as the lines for energy that decorate his head. He wears simple, darkened hide, and a brown cloak.

Personality in 40 words or less: Most see Naesala as a scoundrel out for himself. Basically using the people he leads to his own ends, vaulting his status among those with influence, and using that to become as such. They really wouldn’t be far off. His eyes glow with the gleam of his own ambition.

Why are you on this adventure? "Let's face it. There's one way to better your place in society. Putting this noble in our debt would be perfect, if I do say so myself. Think of what we could get out of him, gold being the least of it...Besides, I hadn't had a job this fun since that time with that one Eladrin girl....Heh, good times..."

What are your level 6, 5, and 4 items?:
Lv 6- Amulet of Protection +2
Lv 5- Veteran’s Hide Armour +1
Lv 4- Bloodclaw Longsword +1

Naesala, Genasi Warlord
Init +5 HP 48/48 Bloodied 24 Healing Surge 12 (0 used /7)
AC 23 Fort 21 Reflex 21 Will 18 Speed 6
Str 19 (+7) Con 11 (+3) Dex 10 (+3) Int 18 (+7) Wis 8 (+2) Cha 14 (+5)

Commander's Strike
At-Will ✦ Martial, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: An ally of your choice makes a melee basic attack
against the target
Hit: Ally’s basic attack damage + your Intelligence modifier.

Commander's Strike,

Wolf Pack Tactics
At-Will ✦ Martial,Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Special: Before you attack, you let one ally adjacent to either
you or the target shift 1 square as a free action.
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage.
Increase damage to 2[W] + Strength modifier at 21st level.

Wolf Pack Tactics,

Inspiring Word
Encounter (Special) ✦ Martial, Healing
Special: You can use this power twice per encounter, but only once per round. At 16th level, you can use inspiring word three times per encounter.
Minor Action Close burst 5
(10 at 11th level, 15 at 21st level)
Target: You or one ally in burst
Effect: The target can spend a healing surge and regain an additional 1d6 hit points.
The amount of additional hit points regained is 2d6 at 6th level, 3d6 at 11th level, 4d6 at 16th level, 5d6 at 21st level, and 6d6 at 26th level.

Inspiring Word,

Earthshock
Encounter
Minor Action Close burst 1
Target: Enemies in burst that are touching the ground
Attack: Strength +2 vs. Fortitude, Constitution +2 vs.
Fortitude, or Dexterity +2 vs. Fortitude
Increase to +4 bonus at 11th level, and to +6 bonus at 21st level.
Hit: The target is knocked prone.
Special: When you gain this manifestation, choose Strength, Constitution, or Dexterity as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character’s life and does not change the power’s other effects.

Earthshock,

Warlord's Favour
Encounter ✦ Martial, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage. One ally within 5 squares of you gains a +2 power bonus to attack rolls against the target until the end of your next turn.
Tactical Presence: The bonus to attack rolls that you grant equals 1 + your Intelligence modifier.

Warlord's Favour,

Steel Monsoon
Encounter ✦ Martial,Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier damage, and one ally withinv5 squares of you can shift 1 square.
Tactical Presence: The number of allies who can shift equals your Intelligence modifier.

Steel Monsoon,

Lead the Attack
Daily ✦ Martial,Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: 3[W] + Strength modifier damage. Until the end of the encounter, you and each ally within 5 squares of you gain a power bonus to attack rolls against the target equal to 1 + your Intelligence modifier.
Miss: Until the end of the encounter, you and each ally within 5 squares of you gain a +1 power bonus to attack rolls against the target.

Lead the Attack,

Rock and a Hard Place
Daily ✦ Martial, Stance, Weapon
Minor Action Personal
Effect: Until the stance ends, whenever an enemy adjacent to you attacks an ally of yours and misses, you deal damage to the enemy equal to your Intelligence modifier as a free action.
Tactical Presence: If the enemy is marked by an ally, deal 1[W] + Intelligence modifier damage instead.

Rock and a Hard Place,

Shake It Off
Encounter ✦ Martial
Minor Action Ranged 10
Target: You or one ally
Effect: The target makes a saving throw with a power bonus equal to your Charisma modifier.

Shake It Off,

Guilieful Switch
Encounter ✦ Martial
Minor Action Personal
Effect: You and one ally you can see switch places in the initiative order. Your turn ends when you use this power, and the ally takes his or her next turn immediately, even if he or she has already acted during this round. You then act when your ally would have acted.

Guilieful Switch
Notes +1 to Saving throws

Tell me about you as a player: I like roleplaying. I like combat. I like running around yelling, but that’s not important. Eh, I’m a regular poster, so I won’t quit once the party is started. I’m pretty easy-going, and I fit easily into the party without causing trouble. Not that I want to make this sound like a résumé or anything. Hah.

Ironchef33 · Oct 17 '09, 2:33pm

Would you allow the Seeker class?