Triple Quest: Planning and Character Creation
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Hello, everyone, kirk, here to share a little something extra with you all in advance of this week, regular epo de, which will run on thursday. As always, as i'm sure you're aware, we recorded a special three part dungeons and dragon's adventure with a very special guest, dunch master critical roles own Matthew mercer. IT was a ton of fun.

We recorded the first two parts in a hotel room in los Angeles just after doing our live showdown there this past summer. And then we recorded act three, the grand, finally remotely, a little bit after that. Now what you're about to listen to actually happened ahead of that hotel recording session.

We got with mat on a call and did what's called a session zero, where we talk through our three characters, world stats and generally planned things out. So that's what this episode is. If you want to skip straight to act one and get right into the story, you can totally do that.

That episode, act one is also live in the main feed. It's right after this one. This ones fun, but it's just kind planning and a lot of rolling dice and picking stats.

So it's cool if you're incidence and dragon's, but you could skip IT and go straight into the story if you want to. Of course, we are only able to dedicate the time and money to making things like this because of the support of our wonderful maximum fund members. We've been publishing episodes, a triple test a month early in the maximum fund feed just for them.

So if you want to go and immediately went to act to after finish one, and let me tell you an act, two things get pretty spicy. Go to maximum fund dot org slash join and become a member and act two will be waiting for you. And well, it's cool to get things early.

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Last thing just to say again, to be sure everyone knows we will still be doing a regular typical lic episode week that will be out as scheduled, no changes. Okay, let's get this thing underway. Let's roll some stats and name our characters. Thanks, as always, for listening.

I'm matter mires, i'm Jason sher.

i'm kr campillo and i'm Matthew s. The end of this is triple quest. This is triple quest.

All right, we are here with the one, and only Matthew mercer allow. Man.

welcome to the show. Like me, i'm excited to throw this together with you.

Yeah, yeah. This is gonna be so much fun. So on this episode, we are going to be doing some prep work.

We are going to be creating our characters and interesting our characters, the world, and talking about how they all know each other. Mad, how should we get started? How we, how should we go about doing this already?

So a lot of times, the actual creation of your character, like their statistics, their abilities, can inform aspects of their personality and kind of things you're going to play with their story. So let's start with the very bare bone basics of character creation for you all. H, let's see. I, I, A, I want to take a about unto who wants to go first.

I can go first. I go first.

I was nominate Jason if he didn't pick himself, because Jason, out of the three of us, I think, is the most coherent attached to with the character he created, I don't know, but this he seems early game name.

He seems to have a strong sense .

of just something to have a strong .

lately .

is on .

the person that's like, I have a few ideas, but like he could change. I don't know we're going to see what happens when next thirty minutes of my life.

Okay, Jason.

go do that case.

Jason, uh, what, uh, raise you are thinking for your character?

Okay, my character is, his name is leon pedal berg. He is a, he is a sorry, no that scratches that. My character's name is leon gold peddle and he is a high elf. Uh, arcane trick ter rog a from the city of water deep.

great. That perfect all right. So um to that point um so we have your have an elvan background high of particular chosen and we're going to arrange ics going rog just hurt one who's listening those two.

We're starting these characters for this one shot at fifth level that allows everyone to kind of lean into a sub class or even some some early stages media multi classic if they're feeling IT um as well as getting those nice fifth level beginnings of the real meat potatoes of most D N D classes as a fifth level rogue that gives you of magic as well as some decent buff to a your sneaker attacked abilities as well as few other fun features and skills that you can focus on. So that's awesome. Uh, give in that case now for the next part of care of creation, let's go here and jump in to getting your attributes figured out now.

So for this process for each, the players are the way I to do IT for my games is have each of you rule a set of six statistics. For each statistics you will roll uh four d six at four six at a dise and then drop the lowest number that you roll, add the rest of them together and then just make a note of that number of and making note them here for you. So you don't have to worry about that yourself first class.

And then you can arrange them however you walk betwen your strength of dexterity or constitution, intelligence, wisdom or Chrism. And we can take IT from there. So Jason, sce of doing you first, uh, go head roll your first four days six and let me know the numbers that you roll.

Yeah, I just have two.

I'm just going to do a twice.

Okay, five, six, three, five.

So gone. It's a sixteen, first all.

Yeah, that's a great first role. sixteen.

So next one.

Okay.

the arcane work.

Three, three, okay, so five, three, three. So that's eleven.

eleven. good. The third, one.

four, two, one, six. So that is a twelve .

already.

One, four, two, one. So that's a seven.

Heck, yeah, I love me of a low step.

There's your strange that.

okay, yeah. Two, five, six, three. So that's a fourteen.

fifteen. great. And for the last one.

yeah uh three, four, four, six o so that's a fourth and that's a great spread.

Actually it's higher than average and IT has my favorite thing, which is a stat lower than ten. So like ten tens are considering average standard across the board. So anything below at ten means it's maybe something you're not the best at which for me informs a lot of ropy choices and gives you a fun aspect of a character weakness to kan into for the fun of the story.

Um people love ruling high and being successful, but anyone who's played the d nd for a certain amount of time begins to realize sometimes rolling low and doing poorly can be as fun or if not more fun in certain moments. Succeeding for sure. IT is a great spread. So for for leon gold peddle um where are you talking about putin that that sixteen .

yeah the sixteen that I feel like should probably be dexterity it's .

very good call.

And then maybe take the fourteen and put that in charisma. I think he's a charismatic, quick, simple, fast fingered rog please.

Also considering is a high elf nark tricked, you do have some a intelligence space spells your rapid war. So you to show, maybe I put the seven in your intelligence and you really want to, which also is pretty funny.

I think this is in strength. I think we got a, we got a super. We're got a weak dude. So I have a whole backdoor I can tell you about that is definite weak. He's got the seven and .

strengths and then ah .

we can give the intelligence what was that at twelve as the third higher one.

you have two four thousand and two thirteen .

and fourteen crews about fourteen intelligence the sixteen dex fourteen ker is my fourteen e intelligence and then one of the other two numbers, twelve and eleven .

is at twenty .

years yeah so maybe like a wisdom and one of my forgotten .

and .

constitution so like twelve twelve wisdom and eleven constitution is okay. What makes them a sense for leon?

fantastic. I love IT.

Yeah, leon is an same. Actually, he is this. Well, love isn't so that yeah, so leon is. He's the higher from water today.

He grew up with under as part of this like, super rich novel family, and his parents were got all the time. They were traders, they were out in the world. They left him to be raised by his mates.

And he grew bored and kind of lonely and detached and sad. And he wanted finding that he the only thing that like, got him through life that made him happy was stealing. He started off small, like stealing trinkets from stores, and like, like things out of is like his classmates lunches and stuff. And then as he got older, he found that he was actually pretty good at and he started getting getting little more into IT. He got wound up with the feeds guilt um and of course um he got into some trouble with unscrupulous thieves along the way, got beaten up a couple of times, one of leaving water deep and getting into the kind of the whole the criminal underworld elsewhere and now he's been through a few things he seen some shit he's gone and some some hides including with these guys which are is how the three of them met and now for this adventure, of course the three of us are reuniting for one, one more adventure, which will get into in a bit. But now leon is this kind of, so he's got this noble background where he's been kind of Operating under the law away, like outside of the outskirts of the law.

are quite some time now. Great IT awesome. Uh so for that um as you are an L F you do add plus studio dexterity scores that would buck up to an eighteen.

Nice, beautiful, beautiful.

great.

That's a shit.

exactly. And as I have, you also get to at a plus when your intelligence scores see your intelligence because the about fifteen you have some mother cool abilities like a health weapon training, which means you get proficiently like long sorry short sord short bowl long bow putting on what your preference is being a deck space character.

I recommends weapon with um some uh vertit ity views in dexterity that would be something that is uh considered a light weapon. Um you can use dex for your attack modifier. But as far as your weapon and equipment goes, we can go ahead and kind of delvin at that right now. We going to do this fast and loose.

Yeah, leon likes to dual wheel daggers when he does have to, he doesn't like to get into hand hand to and combat. But when he does, he is the door building doctors and he's got a bow that he is when necessary is well, which he, I think, prefers over. May I combat beautiful?

It's great digging. If this weapon means that you can add you next to that. That was the term I was looking for.

Not light, but light works to. Because if they are listening, this is going, like he said, doesn't like. It's a lot of things in this system.

yes. So greatest of a nice weapon. You got dull digger.

That means for your action and combat. You can you make an attack, action. You can attack with your main dagger. And as a bonus action, attack with your offhand dagger with these two chances to sneak attack so that one misses you get another shot at that which is great.

Um as far as equipment goes for your armor, for this being a deck space character, you I one army, it's fairly light. So IT doesn't impede your movement, your stuff um with a pretty decent dex mod. I recommend something in a light armor category mean I perfectly study leather armor which gives you IT arma classic twelve plus your decks modifier which at one eighteen plus four which is pretty slick.

The lions the stead he'll take the study head.

awesome. So with the stead of the armor that puts a man in A C of sixteen base, which what enemies have to roll equal to or higher to be able to hit you in combat, but also not too bad, not too bad is a quick one.

Plus, depending on the spells you pick, which adds an arcade trick ter as a rope, you do get access to some spells to pick, hoping over that here at fifth level, you know, four spells from the first level spell list of wizards, so you can choose four spells and three cantrips of the the wizard classic. D, like to, you can decide this later if you wanted. Take some time. Yeah.

i'm going to pour over this fell C, I got my players, my players hampole right here. Definitely going to take some magic missile, but other I have to decide. I'll go through. And by the time we start, i'll have my spells picked out. And I think one of these kentry PS, if I remember correctly, is made hand that I get or maybe that's an addition to the other earth.

No I I me see here I want to check here under the the rug here for this swan um as an as an arkin trick or you ah know you learn make a match hand and two other ones yeah so you could choose two other cantrips um and then you can choose three or four of spells that you know uh of the other spells you can cast three of them per day. You get three spell spells you can use for those first level .

spells um yeah .

I will get back to you because I have to look at the spell, listen, make some calls .

to take time in a research and the that we don't need that moment we the road strokes here for ourselves and for me to to ruminate on this, to prepare for our sessions to come. Dull digger wielding other bearing high elf arcade tricks to rog named leon go go pedal Jason.

Is your character really tall? Because he's ohio?

Yes, he's actually kind of annoyed by that. How total he is interesting because he actually think he's been looking he's like looking for ways to make himself smaller, but be thrilled if he had like I like one of those like some sort of transforming ability or rain or something like that, but has not been able to find one co.

okay, his biggest weakness .

is being tall, right?

He would stick out and he is always making.

yeah, yes, I can .

really .

do this at all, but sure.

why not honestly? Well, there's a lot of privilege. The, but sometimes is .

a tally you yeah .

example yeah moving through .

a door way anywhere in europe. Oh, that's just me.

I can only the imagine as a very average hided fella, that's a phrase. I have walked through european hallways and stairways and been thankful that i'm just barely clearing IT. So I can only magine the chAllenge you suffer.

This is a like, a fantastic. So I think .

you .

I end up being the shortest character here.

Well, I guess i'll see what happens at the end.

Once again. IT hasn't benefits.

IT does. IT does. We're doing a east someone he's got to be song right?

It's going over the quick, quick and dirty over the rogue. Um what you can look forward to um you do have some decent hit points, your professional theeves tools which you'll start with, you will be able to to be able to like pick locks and disabled traps with fairly decent argument. Um you do get to choose two skills ah that you are proficient with at first level uh from a list acrobatics, athletics, deception, insight, intimidation, investigation, perception, performance, side of hand and steff um if you look at the care to sheet as a full list of skills that are available, you do you have any two that stand out to you as once you've really.

really good at let me go through those again. Yeah, i'll pick with with my spells as well because go, I have another chance to rereview them just yet.

A good thing to note to is, as a rogue at first love, you get to really called expertise, which means you get to choose the basic, your two skill proficiencies, though, when they are proficient. And you can double that proficiency bonus theory, even Better at those than most people .

can hyper specialize.

exactly. You have a sneaky attack, which is a kind of a standard damage dealing road ability, where as long as you're attacking somebody with advantage or you have a friend or ally of yours that's next to the person are attacking, you can do additional damage to them if you managed to hit, which at this level is an additional three d six damage regardless of the weapon um which is freaking awesome nice um you also have cutting action, which is an a where as a bonus action on your turn you can take the dash, disengage or hide actions Normally a person that's a full action manuvers that means very much quicker about a field or you can get a trouble without being attack as an attack opportunity or you can just to hide and try not to be seen, which is fun.

It's incredible how useful boulders get.

Three was teach hiding and then being open for a speak. Oh yeah.

I love you because you are fourth level, you also get to choose an ability score improvement, which means you get to either add plus two to one of your attributes, plus one to two of them, or you can take a feet if you're feeling IT.

So I can make my decks .

twenty that yes k most .

likely do that.

okay. We yeah have time to think on and you're going to look to the different fees that are available to you as well if you prefer to go that up. But you do have an option to either make your deck make up of the stats one higher or choose a feat will zero that before we actually play the first cool. The last cool thing I mentioned is that the ability uncanny dodge, which means if someone is attacking you with an attack um an attack mining anything that requires an attack role, so a spell that they have to roll to hit you or a weapon that's trying to strike you, you can use your reaction to make the damage hoved .

but only do that .

once around since uses your reaction so you can want to make sure you do not something that's .

media scary nice um last .

thing to consider uh is your background like major things to consider um so based on what you are talking about, there are many different backgrounds uh either in the facebook will jump off of things like entertainer or criminal or sharleen kind of inform who you were in the past that could be something that what you are still currently doing is a ocean or something that you were along ago but you moved on from and to inform some of the skills you picked up along the way um other ones include fulk hero or guild artists.

Are we all criminals? So we might be.

There's a novel one.

right?

So is a novel .

for nothing to go.

no background? Yes, let's do IT make sense. As a rogue, you're already pretty criminally steped. But the novel and gives you a little bit that flavor that fits out side.

that s yeah.

so yeah, there only so much you can do to break away from his novel past.

perfect.

And sometimes that comes in handy, i'm sure. Knowing who .

to talk to .

to thirteen, yes, he knows the difference between a caviar fork and a yeah.

that's my only take on rich people on what they know is forks. That's all I got. I got the movie tie tani. That's as far as I got with them.

taught us everything we needed to know.

Do the future eat yourself then I guess it's a great as part of the novel. You get you automatically professional in the skills history and um so you get those out of the game .

and you're proficient .

in one type of gaining set. So you're good at cards guys. Any sort of gaining set you anna pick, you can decide that later, you like. But you have that option.

Can IT be .

A X box? Yes, indeed. And here in in the realm of the got around, there is indeed a dark box that gets past a certain events. You place your hands, yeah, all the but the x box is, if you want to put that, us gain the .

lean has got a dice. He's a nice player and nice.

And then to choose a language if you want, and you get some fine clothes, you get a signal ring. Start with a little extra gold. You you came from a life of luxury. You were kind of a slight po baby.

And so you need more. The lean is a .

big time.

Now the major abilities to .

you get from this is called position of privilege in which you, because you are a little more welcoming to high society, the making moments where you can find accommodation for you and your friends, you can kind of a slightly tamp down heightened emotions from people of a of an upper class background. So get to keep in mind that because you have a novel background, you know how these places work and you know how to deal with the one percent of you.

Will this survey unwell, along with these two on various heights and missions and and thefts that that he and the three of us .

we've got on beautiful. So leon has leon has the the IT is disposable when he needs IT vacate. I think that feels pretty solid to build off of and leave the rest court side for a session you feel in competition. Thank you.

Me some idea. Yes, this is good. This good.

Ah yeah, yeah. Leon is leon is is called back into action um and he just can't help himself at this point in his life. Again, we were we level five.

We've been doing this for a while, maybe maybe a little bit on the older side, all three of us, I think, and leon doesn't need the money from any of these kind of criminal explains. He never did. But even now especially, he's made enough half of his crime and feather ving in height. But he's just addicted to the address.

And yeah, he's in he's in IT for the rush.

Again, from the right, he just loves, he just can't get and I felt never thought h yeah as much as he pretended y might not be interested in this reluctant class test.

Nice, perfect. It's good.

I like that. Fantastic.

great. We'll leave leon gold peddle to simmers behind the scenes of the time being, a current mati. Which of you would like to make .

your care connect? I think I want IT. I think I free. I think I have a few ways that my character .

could play off off on.

So my character is a tea fling barbarian named being his only name. His name is just a like share and he is he is A A very tall, deep red and skin tea fling was beautiful flowing uh purple hair that he wears in a uh kind of a large, not at the end of his hair for for reasons that relate to his back story.

Cool, I don't get cause of fun.

All right. So so yeah, what do you do first? I have more back story .

we can get into yes, now going .

to choices we background at the let more the back store begin to flow from that since inform .

elements of IT too beautiful, okay, cool. So i'm .

like forty six .

and right, cargo is going to be like being actually that was a meeting.

Someone will have to explain into that why thing is an inside jack. Okay, so I love this is we get rid of the one. So this is a fourteen teen.

good. first. All out of the gate. fantastic.

Your second.

Oppoa, come on.

I'm sure I see this is that this is a eleven.

eleven. Good.

little bad, average. great. Stay here. The this is a thirteen. Well， a nine.

great. We first below .

very well. So that's for how many am I doing a more? How do more see of that too? We got another eleven. And a ten ten, okay. So here's a clearing .

middle of the road.

Very is. So here's .

here's why used to do for my campaign is if the care of that spread s below a certain threshold, I can allow a rule unless you want to build from here so you have A A decently big middle, the ground middle road stat spread um if you prefer to start from beginning and do one more kind of full pass on IT, we can um I cannot guarantee to be Better or worse but the choice is right yeah I don't know.

I guess i'm not totally sure and because I know there some step bonus's right for arbor in and for a tea fling so we could wind up because you obviously think i'd want strength in constitution to be pretty good and i've really only got that fourteen and then I guess a thirteen, it's not the huge deal if they're lower and being with all of the road is okay. But yeah, I guess I was kind of visioning a very a very strong and not very great character. So I don't know if people really went to listen to me world day.

Yeah, you.

can. Okay.

i've moved my following .

mice and we're going again.

Let's go.

Okay, thanks.

Fourteen, fifteen, maybe they are just good die.

Yeah, there at the numbers are too high .

because the dice are too good. elect. twelve. Two, two and eighteen, eight, two, three, six and a five.

I show, I just see.

I really want.

maybe terrible.

nope. IT is not there. It's a fifteen, fifty.

Oh my god. Being is bless. Okay.

so are smart. everything.

Being more the scholar .

than I had planned but you .

so maybe he just has high emotional intelligence like he's not very well red, but he can read the situation really well.

Yeah street smart. Um okay, so all right. So there .

we go antipa, uh, how do you want to to to read that for amongst beings, different ability scores?

So let's see here. So I guess i'm looking in D N. D B N can actually just do this in the APP to to assign, yes, you should be to.

yeah, yeah. I O, K, yeah.

you can do manual and little drop down. You see that?

Yeah, alright. So oh, I see. I kind of already ruled them. I'll just and I want some of dn, D, B on dressed nuts where I like does things for me and I don't know how to undo them.

Um i'm just gonna assign these in this and my little note document. okay. So let's say eighteen strength that seems good for burberry an right? I will say sixteen is gonna constitution perfect? Um i'll take out eleven and put that .

on intelligence .

already and twelve and wisdom I think yeah yes we'll say fifteen decks and .

fourteen .

my is a pretty great spread .

fantastic all right. So with those stats chosen, um there's a pretty, pretty decent spread for a barbarian which is .

red yeah kind of unexpecting vely well around the bar areas.

Well, this is about, I mean.

it's cause even hanging out with .

leon first yeah and I IT actually is um there they go back but get into that perfect.

Uh, so given that case, as a Tiffany barbarian, uh, you do get a some stat bonuses for being a team that begins with, I get to increase your intelligence by one and your Christmas score by two now and d ndd on if you already chosen teaching as you race IT adds those automatically. I believe you choose the origin ability increase, which means you can choose that, uh, you choose in constitution and strength for those are you can change those if you'd like, or you can keep me there.

I think that makes sense so that the those step bonus's ses go to constitution and strength instead of Christmas and intelligence okay, yeah, that makes more sense, I think for .

the great sounds alright. Uh, so you have dark vision, a define which is great. You also have resistance to fire him and having that kind of somewhat finfish history to your blood line as well.

The thomebody gy can trip and a couple of few handful spells, the kelley review and darkness that you can use once per day, which is fun as far as the barbarian goes, if you get some funny ilium. For those aren't familiar bavarians, meet the the real britton. Butter the meat.

The class is the rage ability. yes. So at fifth level, you can rage three times per day. In the rage lasts until you either take around without doing damage and taking no damage, or you decide to end IT prematurely. You can to clear your head.

Or when I log out of twitter .

and go for right. Real very .

hard to do though.

Yeah some scale .

checks there that .

makes sense.

Uh, so as as barbarian, you also all region, you do an additional plus to do any image that you deal. At fifth level, you also get an extra attack, which means when you use your attack action on your come out round, you get two attacks instead of one, which is awesome.

That's while raging.

Write a second att the second attack you get any time.

That's just like a level five .

onus OK no bonus being a martial class baby the rage ous means they do more damage when you do hit um you also have reckless attack which means when you are attacking someone you can decide I don't care about myself and just give you yourself a advantage on all of your attacks, which is awesome downside all enemies have advantage on tax against you so you're a bigger you're bigger target.

But the other cool thing about raging is why you're raging. Any sort of standard uh, bludgeoning, slashing or piercing damage you take is half. So you just have like half damage from most weapons, most physical attacks. You're .

resilience and the fuck wants to to a, well, I could be in trouble.

yeah. Depending on the on the path you take, which being the fact that you are at this level of iberian, a third level, you get to choose a primer path, much like how there was no pain trick rogue when Jason was making his character. You get to choose one of the pml pattern for your barberie. Do you know what kind of direction you, anna, take?

I'm not totally sure. What are the what's the jeh?

Some of the the options include, uh, path of the battle rage that's more about the warming style. There's path of the bisco CER, which means while your region you are even more intense and you can get a third attack as a bonus action while you're frenzy, essentially your frenzy while your in the middle burberry, an rage. So you're you're of a dangerous front line fighter who just in a full on feral rage you go, which is pretty great.

Problem is is when you're no longer rage, IT makes you exhausted, which is OK. Um you can have path of the total m worry we you choose an animal totem that represents like a spiritual guide or someone that's a spiritual print on you and when you raise you get a benefit based on what sort of animal is your totem. There's path zilla where you are a very first say pious, but you have a very strong a belief of faith in some sort of entity, or daddy. And when you rage, that zell ery makes you more of a dangerous holy .

warrior OK OK. what? That's a, well, magic.

The idea of.

I like the idea of having an animal, I like the idea of a brazil ker. So I think i'll go with one of those two and maybe make my mind up before we start.

Sounds good. You got time to think on IT. You also have an ability score improvement. You can consider a much like Jason s city for leon. You can choose to increase one of your statistics by two, two than by one, or you can choose a feet. So do I think we should think on before we start the next session?

right? My skills already pretty good.

So I might want .

to look at this.

That's true. Feet, okay, let's keep good. I think it's just here needing to, beyond that, chosen an animal hyda athletics fences.

I think that dn, D, B on shows that for me. So presumption, I M bad. I like the idea being kind of a pro animal character so you can .

think about that so we start and you are some coolly called danger sense which is ah you have an advantage on dex ity savings throws against effects that you can see so when someone has to spell on you, you see them casting IT at you and IT requires a dexia saving throw. You automatically have advantage on that saving through any traps a those kind of things. Uh, you just are really, really good.

It's like spider sensing, if you will, before IT goes off. And IT gives you a little bit of a Better chance to avoid IT got that's prety fun as far as your equipment goes. Considering a uh, your teeth ling barbarian that you've created, a what sort of weapon are you considering utilizing?

I guess something big, right? Seems like I should be something big. Maybe a, maybe a great road or a hammer hammer or kind of huge I ice person, or do a little bit more del a delicate work these days. Yes, there are some tax, I suppose. I think maybe a great sort seems like easier to to put that underneath something or or stell IT away when I need to.

I love, I love IT teetering barbarian with a great sort.

Massive dy, your how? How did a barbarian? How did get into high?

I we're onna .

get again.

Which actually, to that point, what would you consider as beings background before he got into this criminal circle or he always been one.

you're change. So being was working as a mercenary with his sister and they had been kind of a strange from their family. And we're just picking up jobs, whether they could around water deep.

And then we're hired as muscle by various theeves and eventually fell in with the thave skilled of water deep. And a job went sideways. And being sister was captured by the authorities and being barely made IT out and Carries quite a bit of guilt over that.

And the the authority of water deep executed being sister, at least that's what being understands happened. So this was this was A A really tragic turn of events, but that enraged being and has turned him against authority figures in general, and especially those in charge of water deep and over the course of that job, being and being. And leon go pedal works together for the first time actually, on that job.

And leon was the reason that being got out of the job alive. So leon, leon got being out alive and being kind of, oh, leon one. And they began to work together there more closely after that, and eventually when leon sort of peeled off from the thigh, skilled and set on on his zone being, and leon teamed up. And i've been working together ever since for quite some time now there, I would say pretty good friends. As long as Jason, you think that that that pex story works.

sure. yeah. I'm curious to see how much capture plays into yes. We can take you with the relationships .

a .

lot of bit more once all of our characters exist yeah yeah all .

of these ideas are they .

ve ve no .

yeah yes didn't .

um .

last thing to go over .

to you do have the abilities .

of the barran called on .

armor defense .

which means if you're wearing no armor your ac your our class uh is ten plus your dex mode and your constitution mode um that in the case as you have uh pretty decent decks and calm out of fire, two decks and uh three constitution which could even be adjusted to based on that ability score increase. You mentioned earlier I put in fifteen ac possibly sixteen.

If you are above up your dexterity um you could go at that or you can choose be a barbarian who wears armor which is also totally viable up to you. What are you feeling you think you're so bare chest in IT and combat? Are you only wearing some some heavy, heavy equipment to keep you safe?

I think actually, given the kind of work that we do, that not wearing armor is probably a little bit more flexible. So I think people see being and don't think warrior immediately and then maybe underestimate him as a result. So I think i'll probably go with unarmored as a result that and probably want to a bufton at my deck.

great. That sound fantastic. I think that's that's the the the strong threads for being that we can go hedden before and on and fine tuned between here in the first session. I anything on to one throw around before we move on the matter?

Can you can you explain the about what being?

Being is just .

a sound that I .

make when I met IT in our show. I say being before I come in and make a correction or an edit. And so it's kind of become a little bit of a inside joke on her, her listeners .

being once they go back in time and saved his sister.

Being being, should concern be correcting.

may be, maybe being will bring his way into reality and change the but what an I appreciate .

the context already and perle's I I have you a have you figured out what kind of care do you wanna make a more .

or less but I think I A couple more moving parts and Jason and current do. So I know her name um and I know she's going to be a magic ur so i'm gonna name her keys and dream and i'm going to put IT in the chest so people know how to spell that and i'm going to say that's not her real name but is a name SHE came up with because he thought I was cool .

IT is cool so props to her in but i'll .

explain more about that later when we get to the back story part. Uh, so math, this is more of a question for you. So when I sort of came up with like what I wanted her character to be like in my head and then I was reading the character classes and I was like sourcing would be really cool because that's like the sort of wild magic manifestation like I was kind of thinking of.

Her is almost like a Carry type where like magic comes into her life suddenly. And but, but then I was reading about how sourced actually work in the game. And IT seems really, really hard. So that was like, what if she's a war lock? Because that had a lot easier. But I am open to feedback on this because I know what like has its own kind of additional parameter ers where at that point he needs to be sort of in a partnership with the some other being in order to have her magic correct yeah so yeah .

because magic is innate, is inherent. And especially in the case of what you're creating for key um IT is something that perhaps you weren't expecting and are still trying to wrestle with this in a power that yes Operate in unexpected ways. Um it's uh I would say it's no more complicated than a war lock. This is a different kind of .

complication. Okay.

the the fun thing about IT is you have the ability to use sorcery points. So outside, like your spells, like used to cast spells, you have at fifth level, actually a vital sourcing.

This is what I was starting to read about. And like this seems like a lot of math, but go on IT .

just means you have you have five points that you can spend my girl say likely the one channel be many one, maybe two days at most so you can um that can buffer your spells or rejuvenate them so uh the the complication here uh with sourcing you have let's spells to choose from the new wizard but you you are good at casing the ones that you have and manipulating them slightly through your social points.

So you can either spend social points to recover, expand its sales spell lots, so you can spent two social points to recover a first level spell. Slide three to recover a second. There's a meat little table there in the care testy that we can can like tack on to your character for easy access if you ever want to look that way.

Um but also at third level you get was called mea magic and you can choose two of these different abilities. You don't get all of them you about the full spec of them, you just get two of them. You pick that can you can kind of tweak and manipulate the the basics of spell craft by spending survey points.

You have call abilities like uh, distant spell, where a spell has double the range. You can hit something, it's farther away. You have empowered spell. We can spend a point to rerun some of the damage, guys to make sure that IT hits harder. Nothing sucks more than rolling a firewater involving getting a Better one.

There's extended spell where things can last twice as long, which is fun, or like a quick and spell where you can cast you still can't cast more than one main spell per turn, but you can cast a big spell and quick and spell to cast a can trip in the same term because so you can do, yeah, it's a pretty decently throwing IT all out of one round if you want to, there is twin spell. Or if you spell, you cast as a single target. You can spend a service points to target a second creature in the same casting.

which is pretty, pretty cool matter.

I played a source and bounders gate and IT was awesome and not too complicated.

So I yeah, you too are kind of take me into IT. I mean, I did I did read enough about IT to a even understand some of what you were saying. I was like, all the twin ma magic sounds really cool like that.

I could just like add on another thing and the extended one sounded neat because I was like, okay, so let's say we're doing a high speak out to break into a castle or something. One, if there's a guy that's really far away that I need to hit, that would be really useful. So I was come like thinking ahead about like what are some situations that we might be in and where I where .

would I adventure useful or .

yeah if I don't know that works that way. Like if if i'm invisible, I don't that's even ability i'm going to end up having or something like that and that I extend IT, then it's like, oh, I could maybe go further or whatever.

You now are all exactly viable perspectives on this in a fun way to consider creating this character. The story does have a lot of options, which can seem like a lot of front. Once you can choose the things you have, once you have your choices made IT pares down that school, much smaller. And it's not quite as overwhelming.

And then I just have to get to know what I have. And then I only need to an expert in a couple of things.

And I don't.

Not saying i'm GTA .

do that over and over.

just a small .

fireable conversely to go .

over the world lock to make sure to have that perspective as well. Um where is like A A A wizard or sourcing at at the lever you're talking about will say a fifth level has IT knows six spells total has four first level spell lots, three, two, three second level else lots and two third levels slots as well .

as five cantrips to pick .

from but you know once when you pick them, it's not that massive, but it's still you know um you can cast all these things essentially once per day until all your slights are spent um warlocks have a more narrowed spectrum, uh, where they like the friends to fifth level you only you know six spells and you can only cast two of them outside of cantrips one you recover those two spell slots whenever you take a short rest which is like and our most like sitting and taking a moment kind of recollect yourself a drink some water and just kind of concentrate on rejuvenating the magical essence um so you you cast you have less spell slots to spend but your cm trips can be beefed up pretty slickly to be decent uh for the ones even just cast infinite through your invocations which go into here in the second and uh whenever you do cast your world log spells, they are maximized to third level regardless. So you can cast them twice but their third level out of the gate and you get them back after a short rest. So the the source are has a lot more options worked has less options um and less spells, but they recover more often and they're bey when you use them on top of that uh water locks they make a packed so they .

draw from oh yeah.

oh yeah so what one thing about what to get three for from a player character is you don't get to did too much into the pact a relationship as a player though you do get a lot of IT through will and that's .

what I say yeah, I didn't play one but well was the part of what taught me a lot about .

that yeah worked out fine. Ah yes.

Win win.

yeah. So the the chAllenge there, but also the fun aspect of a warlock is you have a relationship with some other world, the entity that lends you its power to create this magic. So you then have to occasionally, depending on what your attempting to accomplish or what you're asking of this patron, to have to negotiate and road play that dynamics.

Sometimes they're like a very cool. You depending on how you build your character in their relationship, maybe they would love what you're doing. Maybe themselves are like cheering you on.

They're excited for you to do cool shadow criminal shit. Maybe they want to keep you focused on their own personal interests. So um the complication in them is that you have now that dynamic to have to contend with.

And sometimes if you're taking actions that your patient doesn't agree with, they feel as a distraction. Maybe they don't fully lend you all the power you want. It's a nice little complication.

Yeah and it's like a whole other character to contend with that would be like part of our group and away matter. Do what I get. So first, yes, but he does just change things. No, I know you do but I ve got like walkee would probably mind I feel like character wise um I don't know like Jason, if you think playing a source er is fun and you're gona inspire me and I think I can do IT I wanna tell myself I can do IT because even though it's complicated, I think IT fits with who I see her being as a person.

It's not as complicated as you think because once you win w IT down you're just like, oh OK, I can just enhance these spells and that's a life to worry about.

And part of IT is that I don't think that she's the kind of person who would be willing to make a deal to get magic and that instead she's like, i'm going to take what I want in life and that's part of how SHE ends in this, in the life of crime that he said is because he is like, well, i've been fucked over so many times in my life because we have gotten our backdoor yet.

But like I see here, somebody who grew up and sort of like medival fantasy Foster care essentially, who was like kind of often and then trade from home to home. She's she's a half, by the way. SHE doesn't fit in anywhere.

So leading to a life of crime is just kind of like part and parcel with that because she's like, well, this is what I got ta do to survive and I just don't. I think that being a source or of fits with that more because she's like that this is the power I deserve. This is like thing that finally coming up lucky for me is that I magical ah so that that was kind of how I was going with with keys all care drug. But I guess you were also some .

days yeah also what raise you taking for key?

Oh, half else.

half off.

So Jason and I are not going to necessarily get along which I like or rather leon and I because he might be like all you're just half of not like me not not of .

noble birth and his .

he's of noble birth. So I think it's interesting that we've ended up forming alliance and there's .

like a lot yes, I think there lean has spent enough of his life like dealing with .

beaves and and sure yeah that you're willing to respect me but .

maybe i'm defensive about IT and like I social tension .

yeah that I assume people are judging me when they're really a lot you know .

that kind of thing stood yeah that's a funding amy .

to explore definitely is this .

roling time you me roling time else actually i'm really write .

into the mike that's what you want, right?

Like just yes, worms you really make IT part one of them .

literally fell on the ground. I got .

little something.

Oh no, I am played .

as IT lies or reroll IT. This is, I think all of three of our desks are not really set up for this ruling. And like .

turning .

and fit in midday, I ve these .

rollers.

right?

You're going to love this low role because it's three, three, two and four so that's a ten .

yeah .

ten written so five.

one, two, three so that's also already. Uh, six, two, four, one.

twelve.

twelve and doing so much public mass here, you guys were so much faster.

I S.

And like it's like adding number, right? Are six, six, five, one.

seventeen ready to?

Six, five, four, one feel like i'm reading off like video game codes. These are the one more. Is that what i'm going?

One more you got IT. I wasn't .

running any of these sound, so I hope you were.

I know.

don't IT six, three, four, two .

already already that puts us at thirteen.

great. That's I um so probably the highest one, so I I need my magic. So that's going to be in current, right?

correct. So what's my house?

one? eighteen?

seventeen?

I was seventeen. okay. What's my next size number?

Next size fifteen .

are right. okay. So like what do I mean you tell me for a sourcing? I am assuming like is IT intelligence or it's intelligence .

that they need? Well, actually for sensor, Christmas is the basis of splits sting. The is up to you. It's going to help kind of go over how these things to help you through the roping experience you know, intelligence is your knowledge of the world. You're believed to recall information, to investigate details in the scene.

A A lot of like history, rules and things that you are call information about, uh, mysteries around you are locations that you encounter or creatures that you see. A lot of can be intelligence based wisdom is your instability, your insight to the world around you. So being able to tell someone's lying .

or telling the truth, which I feel like it's more keys speed like street smarts, is wisdom is kind of way you're telling me. So we should put my next higher stat into wisdom.

right? Fifteen wisdom.

all right. And then I want to me down to couple of fourteen.

S you got thirteen and twelve. And in two thousand.

thirteen and twelve, let's do .

thirteen .

dexterity. Twelve intelligence. And then i'll put my tends in constitution in strength. I guess i'm a little similar to Jason way. I feel like being is gonna take care of us.

That's great. That's kind of like being like.

So I think I think we're gonna be okay because we're going to have a couple of like sr. Alex, and then we're going to have our big .

friend I love IT, all right? So we're going to five levels of sources here.

but here we go. Here we go. You do have your ability score improvement.

which means you can decide now or later, but you can either increase one of your statistics by two, took them by one, or choose a feat. Um as fetish dn d goes, you are modified the thing that improves all your spells and your spell class disease and stuff a improves every eve level. So um getting like you're seventeen in Christa to an eighteen a would be a bump to that modified but like an eating to nineteen wouldn't do much. However, a half elf you do get some racial bonuses to that. Let me pull that up pair o fast.

Yeah I think I you get some extra chism a.

you get plus to your Christmas so you're Christmas audio nineteen and you get to choose another ability score doing proved by one.

if you'd like. I mean, I could just have that twenty chis ma.

I think IT has to be a different one than the first one you show.

Just dump at everything in the one.

All right, i'll give my wisdom a little bump. And that can .

be sixteen as they are in under .

the race section.

You can choose here. Ability score for alc.

right like under store calculations.

I'm so I saw that two other abilities scores increase by ones you can increase your wisdom. And what's the other way to increase by one?

Um I guess security dexterity you ve got IT.

okay, but those are in there. Uh, you also are proficient in two didn't skills. You can decide that later, if you like.

These are all those are laid out in dn d beyond for you, as well as your class proficiencies. The fun things to consider. Now your source is origin. So this is kind of the idea of where this innate magic comes from, where in your blood line, where in your history or familiar history has this magic come to you? Options include, the basics are like chronic blood line, where there is some sort of dragon ic blood and dragon influence in your family history that is bring this magic to you.

They're shadow magic or something touched your a yourself of any line and infused you with kind of shadow based darker magics the storm source three were like the elements of the the males um the storm itself is under your control. There's wild magic, which you mentioned earlier, which is some weird flu of the way the world's magic functions when you do cast magic. Is a chance something weird about to happen as well?

I like that one. Unfortunately for my adventuring party, I thought that one sounded.

Yeah.

I was like that sounds like that has a lot of potential version and games.

Oh, very much so, very much.

And fits with the kind of happens stancy nature of key's life, of just being shuffled from home to home and just being like passover a and then having wild magic be something that he also can rely fully control, and feels like, really, really, this is funny to me, darkly funny.

Maybe the trauma of her child.

right? Yeah.

actually her magic into wild magic.

yeah. I mean, that I was kind of what I was picturing. I didn't really have like a good like, you know, awakening origin story, but I was like, maybe one of the times that SHE like runs away from my house that's not working out.

She's SHE IT manifest in some way in that moment because she's lake. I'm going to i'm going to try to force myself to grow up and beyond my own. And IT manifested a magic power, but that what doesn't always work in her favor .

does IT does. Depending see if those familiar as a wild magic sourcing, whenever you cast to spell a first level or higher, i'm not a heavy role in additional d twenty. So most .

what happens .

a most times, nothing will happen. But if you managed to roll the one on that d twenty, then we get to roll on the wild magic surge table, which has a unch of weird things that can happen, some positive, some really not so positive. So it's it's a fun little bit of chaos that's instid into your magic casting abilities capability called tides of chaos, which is once per day you can just choose to gain advantage on an attack role and ability check or saving throw, you regain the use of that once IT spended every time you have to roll the wild magic table. So IT benefits you be a little .

so I remember that that there once a day and I to remember use player break. I what is IT?

I'm sure kem, remember IT, you also get to choose your two meta magic options so we discuss earlier the things you can three points on. You don't have to decide right now. You can research them and think on IT before we play the next session. But you know you have that at .

your disposal yeah I as .

well as your spells and can tribes to choose you have a quite a bit that you can choose from as a source um you don't have to pick them now again you know I point I want to research, read through and see what what fits to the best of key abilities and what excites you in that regard.

The main things to know is that at fifth level you have a five can trips that you know you can choose from the source spell st as well as um five sorry six spells total that you know it's like unlike a wizard which has A A massive book that can grow and they can essentially have an ever growing uh selection of spells, they can only just memorize a handful every day. Source ers have a much narrow scope of spells that they have access to, but they can cast them off and and manipulate them with your sorcery points, that kind of a benefit of the sources. So research in your own time before we play a for recession and choose what makes sense for key. Give me the questions. You can let me know, and I can offer that guidance the last little bit here to play more into the story is, what do you see as keys background, who watched before this criminal path that brought her in patches?

So I I don't know what town she's from, maybe what SHE be water .

because .

we mean around water.

I an of been .

thinking like how would he have met leon or being? I am not quite sure about that because initially I was like SHE seems like a lan. And after he gets magic, which I see is like kind of almost an x men ask story line of, like, you know, teenage coming of age, running away, getting magic and then sort of a like it's kind of hard to find food, maybe I shall go back and like continue to secretly train my magic and live at these various homes that I hate um and started turning to a life of crime because SHE realized as she's good at .

day there's gill definitely goes to these Foster homes to find recruits so possible you ran into us through them packing you and bringing you in to the fall yeah.

got hired maybe for a one off. We needed some magical help and there was a rumor that are there's this there's this girl who can do magic and maybe can help you with that we met you kind of that way or something something like.

yeah, I mean I am down for the thieves iled back story but then still key not necessarily being so much of a joiner that she's like super into being in IT but maybe he kind of knows leon from that yeah exactly um and i'm like like he's rich kind of suck up but he actually he's already he's really good at what he does. And then through whatever confluents of events are, we end up doing a high together at some point in the past, and that's how we went wrong.

Could wind up being maybe some sort of instigating event for all of us where that we had to leave water deep .

after that maybe did he go wrong? wrong.

And that's when the .

three of .

us did .

together live being sister. And being sister is kind of the fourth member of our party .

who and I were a partner ship.

It's and so we're all kind of connected to being sisters, and we all have that kind of bit of us are.

And like since then, we had to leave water deep because like the lords or whatever, like they had they knew who we were and and maybe been years since then. And we've been out of the working together. You and like is not like key like fully joined up. He is always been a little bit, but we're not like associated with the water deep theeves sgl LED anymore. That was just of the brothers.

And yes, maybe the three of us haven't seen each other in a while and something brings us someone who knew us from that height like calls us all together, brings us back. So the three of its been well and three of us it's been actually since that height. The three of us haven't seen each other since then. And now we're kind of where we have to pads again another in this new city that's call.

Okay, cool. I'll think on that. What I might do is that I might start the next session with you all separate and do a little like three to five minute then yet of each of you being called to this meeting, and then you can kind of, we can start the story with you all doing that uncomfortable, you know, hey, it's been a while. And then comment about the beginning of this, this particular this calling this this this high school and requested to m make a ticket from there.

Yeah like.

yeah, that's great.

Yes, so we need a new city. Should we decide now or icon to decide before .

we finish for that background of them for key? Um are we thinking they .

have is to pick, yeah, I have to pick my like name.

technical bx, so what give me .

an urchin description because that sounds on par.

yeah. So version is some they have a lived in a big a urban environment kind on the streets as as an orphans, somebody who didn't have a lot .

of means I had to and liver to their way yeah very much.

So there's also if you wanted, if the criminal thing is a new and a fresh thing ah, then urban feels a little more comfortable. But if you want to have a little more experience in the criminal world, there is the actual criminal background where you've now you've made a career that have been a criminal. Maybe I maybe have been part of the guilt beforehand, and you've begun working in this spaces as a career. So I just depends on how deep pending this you want to be or how fresh you want to be.

I think originally closer because I see her as fairly experienced at crime because it's how he survives, but it's by necessity rather than for dopamine reasons like are .

being part of a big organization. Yeah I think that's a good character.

That's yeah and like i'd be doing this job because I need to yeah totally yeah.

So because of that, you start with the slide of hand and stealth as skill proficiencies you get from the background. So you're are actually naturally Better for those two things, because you have had, do be healthy and had this steel to survive. Now are proficient with thieves, tools and a disguise kit. So if ever the thing arises for those might be helpful, which in a haste they could be.

oh yeah, this guy's kit, the best thing in done, perfect.

Ah you also have a background feature called city secrets. Where is he says here you know the secret patterns and float to cities and can find passengers to the urban sprawl. Others miss when you're not in combat and you lead your companions. You can travel betwen locations twice as fast than you Normally would. So you know how to get through the city quickly, through the back streets, to the allies, to the sures seems useful.

This is useful.

perfect and very complimentary.

We're such a good higher team we're really doing IT can .

try out .

here OK cool at at that point um if you want to to build up the next city since you all since we've granted these current backgrounds in the forgotten alms that you want to create as you did exist, tear that you're traveling towards, or do you want to be an existing city in the forgotten romes.

what do you think that you know? Where do you want? Tell us you .

want to make up a city.

I mean, he doesn't to .

make up the city.

I have a question I guess that maybe could be helpful is if so, something that i've run into in the past with uh, campaigns i've done is we are in establish cities, uh in everyone and then I find that I want to extemporaneous sly like I just want to come up with, oh, well, i'm doing this because of this organization.

I'm working for these people, these artificers or whatever, and then realized, like I haven't memorized this massive amount of information that exists. So if we made up the city, would would be easier for us to like suggest something that's happening or like just improvise something then could just be you know magic into being by you basically because we said IT? Or does that not really make a difference? Does that question .

makes me now I see your question. I'm not worried too much for the purposes of this OK ah these episodes of this gaming session that we're doing session, I guess I got to say, uh, it's gonna be pretty much centers around this highly I are discussing there may not be a whole opportunities for like massive city exploration. And I think as players knowing that um likely not driven to turn this into a three hour shopping episode necessarily to go fine, but that whole place and others get you remember from the second game, yes.

So not do everything of the menu exactly.

Not totally worried about that. Um I guess, uh to that point, as I developed the story, I have more information on that end. We can totally start in an established city and then most of the the narrow be based around a location or locations in that place that i'll develop uh that maybe unique to my creation may be influenced by existing law.

Uh, the funding about this is, this isn't the standard forgotten ms. This is our forgotten ms for this games. So some things that might be familiar, some things might not. And we get to kind of roll with that vibe.

IT doesn't even have to be a city. Maybe it's some like arcane tower in the world that were hasting a lot of things here.

Whoever is bringing you together for this heist doesn't have to be the the target of the heights to. And if you meet up in the city, the haste may not be present in that city.

So I think of that actually.

I contemplate your characters in your background and generally where we're going with this. I'll think on the low cow. And as we kind of flesh out the characters dynamics and their story and between the first session output, some thought to what location is. And I can toss that to you, and I can introduce these facets of IT as part of the game when we actually play. Is that okay?

So next time we meet to, we will be doing a first session, and the three of us will have, like little separately, A S talking about. Maybe we can talk about what we've done since the water depth went wrong and then, but we are, we go from, yes, that is a find water deef job, the water deep job, water of job, right? We just referred to IT that way.

all capital letters because we all know what that means. Yeah.

something I was singing about. The first of all, being sister, I feel like could be a healer because that's the one we're missing.

I know. Yeah.

there's like kind of a vacant like a big hole here in our group. Also being sister, like we're all just kind of coping with her loss in our own ways because we're all we were all kind of good teacher and right.

we had our own unique relationships.

Yeah.

mabe out a little bit and then we can figure that out. You can figure out each of your individual relationships.

the name to have a name for her.

That point in between .

this and the next session um my my next really only task I have with the three of you is go head and if you have a little time right down the details, if your character story, your back story can be just a simple paragraph that can be a few paragraphs, i'd recommend not a twenty five page .

dissertation of few people .

who might all right he and it's be orts.

No, I have some bullet points.

Yeah, you can write as much as you want. Just the understanding that with the scope of the time we have in the game, most of IT likely what matter. But if IT helps inform you in your character, please be my I .

won't get to read my entire five thousand words law entry on my character out out .

on the same yeah what this person .

we want to release.

I it's like a dissertation .

red by being in character as being .

yeah that's great OK. I so I think to wrap up our prep session, thank much for helping his through these characters. Res were very excited to .

get started IT. Ah this is a really yeah yes.

this will be great. We'll see you all.

We'll see how you listen. See you then.

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