Rush for approval by Dracos

[Dracos]

Guys, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but the last thing I really want is a stack of messages or disagreements when I get home.

If you have a question, email me or better yet ask it on the board.  I really have enough gamewise on my plate learning the two books and converting  things into this system as it is.

Dracos

[Dracos]

Ask your questions here please so we are left with a record visible by those not in the room :)

[Dracos]

Is religion and the inquisition and the Vaticine around?
Probably.  Not fully decided yet.


The game provides a lot of 'if I have x, and y occurs, I get more xp, drama dice, etc':
I will largely be taking the largest xp reward anyone in the party earns each session and giving it to the party.

Starting Resources:
75 guilders.  No salaries.

How much do 'mini-pistols' cost?

For Iddy, I said he could use minipistols which are functionally bows in every respect, cost 1.5 times as much and yes, use arrow costs for ammo.  Gunpowder costs the same and has the same usage.

[Dracos]

Alright, simply put: 7th sea is rather difficult to recompute a character sheet.  And I can't find any cheat sheets to help with that.  Sucky.  I'm going to assume that you guys are being numerically honest because it feels like I'd spend hours catching fault.  If anyone does find a quick calculation sheet, I'd welcome it.  Or even a shorthand rules sheet so I don't have to keep looking them up in the book until they become second nature.

Comments:

3 players and 3 different sheet styles.  Owie.  Of the three, I would prefer if you all used Merc's because that lets me see all of your sheets without having four windows open.

You all are part of Dyne's pirates still.  :) We are keeping that backstory.  Just so you know.

No one took any backgrounds.  Was that intentional?  Some notes on intended personalities could help a bit.  I'll pick it up mid game anyway, but you'll get more mileage if you put it in early.

No one took any sorcery?  Intentional?  I'm definitely not blocking that area :).

I'll be posting a full remapping later but:
Valua - Montaigne
Nasr - Vodacce
Pirate/sailor/shrine/dagrel islands - Vendel

For those curious on how things that we've been to map.  I will likely use the 7th sea names to make it easier for folks.

As folks guessed, I will largely handwave languages.  That said, buying them isn't a total

Merc is missing:
Drama dice, equipment, physical desc, any background changes, and wealth.  I like that you put down your special advantages from your swordsman school.  Others, please follow suit as it will help considerably with it being taken into account.

For advantages make a note of what the advantage does.  Same for the hubris.

Have a dramatic wounds category to update between sessions in case you get lasting wounds.

Trunky:
Please convert to an in post sheet.  Background, equipment and wealth please.  Otherwise looks good.  If you have any apprentice bonuses, make sure to note them.

Iddy:
Background, Yay! :D  Inventory, Yay.  Add: Physical desc, wealth (Remember to pay for your extra weapons!).  Any swordsmanship guild bonuses need to be noted and well please convert as while you were diligent in covering all the basics (thank you), I find the XOOOO  hard to read quickly.

[Edward]

No one took any backgrounds.  Was that intentional?

Based on your stated plan for giving experience, taking Backgrounds is just wasting character points.

I'll be posting a full remapping later but:
Valua - Montaigne
Nasr - Vodacce
Pirate/sailor/shrine/dagrel islands - Vendel

Presumably still using the Arcadia map.  The 7th Sea map looks like it was drawn by someone who had never seen a real map before.  One of the things I never got around to was redrawing it to make sense.

As folks guessed, I will largely handwave languages.  That said, buying them isn't a total

Handwaving languages is very true to Arcadia.  And if you didn't, no one in the party could talk to anyone else.

Have a dramatic wounds category to update between sessions in case you get lasting wounds.

Since everyone has Brawn of 2, I'd expect some Dramatic Wounds.

I do note that no one has Doctor, so Dramatic wounds will stay for a while, too.

[Dracos]

Fair point.  Mmm, I wonder if I should give some points just for that area given that context.  I don't want you guys to be wavering in and out of having about the same amount of xp to throw around.

And yup.  I will continue to use the arcadia map.  http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/gamecube/file/537506/21727  This for the most part.  I may move strong wind currents or other issues around as appropriate :)

[Trunkyboy]

Haha!  I said the same thing about backgrounds.  Background options seem silly to me in 7th Sea, basically you're wasting HP to tell the GM that you want to roleplay something later down the line.


Actually, I THOUGHT about taking doctor, but then I read that he can only do first aid and surgery once per act.  Since I assume an act equals a session, seemed kinda stupid to me.  Multiple people would have to be doctors.  And considering how much times passes between our sessions, I would have thought dramatic wounds would go away, unless something happens like we're fighting again on the same day in the upcoming session.  Then yeah, less dramatic wounds would help.  I still haven't typed up my char, not too late to finalize one skill change.  Thoughts?

[Iron Dragoon]

Someone should have some kind of first-aid/healing. I was going to do it, following the whole educated soldier thing (battlefield first aid), but I ran out of points.. Though I suppose I could shift things around and switch it out for one of those other civil skills.

[Merc]

The civil skill vguely reminded me of the entirely useless "Heal" from D&D. It's not quite as useless, but overall I agree with Trunky. Too many points to get soemthing that won't be that much use normally, and gimps you for what does matter. and honestly? Given our troubles with getting a healing type in 4e, that was the first thing I looked at.

I considered maybe looking at some sort of sorcery school with that, but sorcery also seems kinda troublesome and I didn't really see any school attached to 'healing' as it was.

I'm honestly still not settled into my current concept, that was just what I threw together after reading through PHB. I'm looking at other books, seeing if nothing else grabs my attention. Drac hasn't quite given us a "let's start playing agian on this date" date, but if he does, I may just fall back onto that concept just to have something ready. However, I do still kinda want to mess around with stuff.

[Edward]

Background options seem silly to me in 7th Sea, basically you're wasting HP to tell the GM that you want to roleplay something later down the line.

7th Sea Backgrounds do more than give you a chance to play certian plots.  They're also investing Character Points now in order to get more Experience Points later.

Except with Draco's planned experience method you don't get the payoff of those more Experience Points later.

Actually, I THOUGHT about taking doctor, but then I read that he can only do first aid and surgery once per act.  Since I assume an act equals a session, seemed kinda stupid to me.

Actually, a lot of our sessions have only been a Scene, not an Act.

First Aid can be done one per Scene.

Surgery can be done once per Act.

Unhealed Flesh Wounds go away at the end of the Scene.  Unhealed Dramatic wounds only go away after significant downtime, like at the end of a Story.

So First Aid is occasionally useful. 

Surgery can means the character has less or no Dramatic Wounds for the rest of the Story, which usually translates into multiple sessions.




Multiple people would have to be doctors.  And considering how much times passes between our sessions, I would have thought dramatic wounds would go away, unless something happens like we're fighting again on the same day in the upcoming session.  Then yeah, less dramatic wounds would help.  I still haven't typed up my char, not too late to finalize one skill change.  Thoughts?
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[Dracos]

it's possible as well to hire a doctor if none of you want to play one.

Anyhow, I'm sorry I've been absent lately.  Just RL things on my mind and gaming not really at all. 

We'll try to get going on the 20th.  Again, I apologize.  I was intending this weekend, but I simply haven't been in a state to get things going.

[Trunkyboy]

It's not that we don't WANT to play one, it's that considering the amount of dramatic wounds we could take, we'd need multiple doctors to get us fighting fit between sessions.  As Edward clarified, our sessions are a scene, multiple scenes compose an act.  The only thing that removes dramatic wounds is surgery, and that can only be used once per patient per ACT.  Diagnosis makes surgery easier, but that also can only be used once per patient per act.

[Dracos]

I'm listening, but I will worry about that more after we've played the game a bit.  Let's see just how common it is that it needs to be used.

[Merc]

Essentially done.

[Edward]

As Edward clarified, our sessions are a scene, multiple scenes compose an act.

Not exactly.  Some of our sessions have been a single scenes, some have been several scenes.

BTW, is it just me, or does Glubtz having the Large advantage seem wrong?

Dracos is right, we can hire doctors.  This is easier to to in port than on the open skies.