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Sounds interesting. I'll make something up.
Ability scores: 101714161416
Name: Sniv Class: Sorcerer (Draconic) Race: Kobold Background: Shiv grew up a bit of an outsider, enjoying playing pranks and living as a street urchin. As he got older, he realised his sorcerous powers and began to try to fit in more within his kobold society. In an expedition to explore some new islands, his group was ambushed by several giants. As far as he's aware, his friends were killed in the attack, but not before he managed to Kill a couple of them. Now, he awakes to find himself caged in the giant's arena, after all he did kill a couple of their own so watching his demise will be truly rewarding.
This is a terrific concept. Really like the world you're building.
Please consider me for your campaign:
Ability scores: 131317101515
Name: Uthal Mountainjumper Ogolakanu Class: Barbarian - Level 3 - Path of the Berserker Race: Goliath Background: Mountainjumper's tribe lives in the mountains in the northeast, living a simple life of climbing, wrestling, and feats of strength. They had hoped the Giants had forgotten about them. And for a long time they were right. But a young Giant noble, eager to make his name wanted to explore the north and with a very large battalion of his family's home-guard with him he came up the Ogolakanu tribe and overwhelmed them. Mountainjumper wasn't in the village at the time as he was out hunting and climbing. But he came back to find his village destroyed and everyone gone or dead. The trail was easy to follow and in a rage he raced after the invaders. When he came upon the Giant and his men, the site of some of his clan in chains, and the scalps of others hanging from hobgoblin belts enraged him. Without a thought he raced at them and started hacking and slashing. But there were too many and he was eventually brought to his knees. The Giant was roaring with laughter at the fighting and Mountainjumper's rage. "That's arena material if I ever saw it."
NOTE: I can check in at least once a day. I'm not super familiar with discord but should be able to get comfortable with it. And, interacting with another group might be a lot of fun, especially if there's some friendly competition involved.
I'd like to roll for gold to buy equipment, but i'll hold off for an answer from the dm.
Due to the arena setting, equipment will be a little weird. Some basic gear for everyone and weapons etc to be worked out during a pbp variant of session 0.
Backstory: Root waking up found himself surrounded by humans in a small fishing village, getting up exhausted he asked what happen. A young village woman named Yvette helped him up, she explains she found him washed up on the shoreside. Trying to remember Root recalls being on a boat traveling somewhere but he could recall where. A storm must have came crashing down on him and the crew but to forget why and where, perhaps this was a sign from the gods. Grateful Root bows and vows to repay her kindness she gave him. Root stayed and helped the fishing, he was abnormally quick often catching fish with his hands or using his fire breath to roast fish for everyone. He had many fun memories and he grew fond of the village especially Yvette and their peaceful life of fishing but something kept crawling to his mind. An omen, a warning perhaps it was destiny calling but, one thing was certain he would miss the village. Packing his things Root set out to find his past but first he promised Yvette and the villages once he was done with his pilgrimage of self discover he would return to stay for good.
While traveling on a boat, Root's passage was attacked by a raiding Ice Giant Pirates. Trying his best, to save the crew Root set fire to the ship while the crew escaped. Saving some of the crew Root accepted his fate and fought as bravery as he could like his ancestor did. As he began to go unconscious the only thing the crept in his mind was Yvette. Waking up Root found himself aboard the raider's ship in shackles and enslaved.
Class: Oath of Conquest Paladin ( I figured I should do a tank as most applications are squishy casters :)
Race: Half elf
Backstory: Tyrn's biological parents met when his mother was hired to guard a caravan of elven diplomats. She and one of the diplomats grew to love each other. When the elves' mission was complete, they moved to [insert city name] to settle down. Soon after Tyrn was born, his father grew gravely ill and perished. Their house and lands were revoked soon afterwards. Tyrn's mother moved to the slums of the city and purchased a small shack with what little money they had left. No one would hire her, so she turned to selling her body to anyone who would pay. As a result, Tyrn became estranged from the other kids his age because of his mother's job. As money was very tight, Tyrn would try to do odd jobs for anyone who would hire, but he was not very successful finding any. He was a pariah. When he was 19, he came home from searching the garbage for dinner to find his mother dead. One of her employers was drunk and killed her in a fit of rage. Furious, he sought out the drunkard and beat him within an inch of his life. After realizing what he did, he left the city to hide from the law. Later that night during a storm, he dreamed that he was on a storm cloud looking over the land. When he turned, a man was behind him. The man revealed himself to be Kord, God of War. Kord said that he had chosen Tyrn to become his champion. The giants have lorded over the land for far to long. Tyrn was tasked with ending the rule of giants. With a crack of thunder, the dream ended and Tyrn awoke to find his body changed. His body transformed into that of a warrior's. Not knowing how to start, Tyrn left his hometown and traveled to the domain of the giants. He was captured by a roving band of giants, but not after taking one of them down. As punishment, the giants condemned Tyrn to perish in their arena.
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Ability scores: 121810121211
Name: Saji Class: lv 3 Fighter (Battlemaster) Race: Goblin Background: Once, Saji was an apprentice to a respected jeweler. She was happy with her trade, certain that she would eventually earn her mastery and perhaps even open her own shop, but all her future plans were destroyed when she made a mistake on a delicate armband intended for a powerful and picky customer. Perhaps if the armband had been intended for someone else this would have only been a minor issue, but this patron was influential enough to make sure that her punishment was enslavement. Even worse, he was petty enough to make sure she was sold to a local arena.
She wasn't a fighter then, and both the patron she had angered and the others at the arena expected her to die quickly and messily. Instead, she survived and she kept surviving. At first it was largely through sheer luck and determination, but she learned quickly and the longer she survived the more skilled she became in surviving and killing. She's been fighting in arenas for several years now and her abilities and track record are the reason she has been chosen to fight in the giants' latest entertainment.
(You only mentioned the arena the characters will be fighting in, but I assumed that there must be other, smaller, gladiatorial arenas within the giant's empire. If I was mistaken about that or if there's anything else in my backstory that doesn't make sense with your lore, I'd be happy to tweak it. I think this seems like a really interesting world and story and I'd really love to play in it.
If you do end up running more than one campaign, I do think it'd be pretty neat if they were in the same world and might run into each other. But I know that can be difficult if the different campaigns don't progress at the same rate of in universe time.)
I will be leaving this up until at least this coming weekend. Looks like I will have enough for two groups. I think I will try and have it so things that one group does might affect the others, but not have the two groups interact. I will notify people selected and get some details sorted out before assigning groups.
The giants wiped out my tribe and captured me. I had been a brood mother and found the only way to cope with losing my tribe was in caring for those of the weaker races the giants captured, epecially goblins. It amuses the giants greatly to pit me against those I’ve tried caring for. And each time my hatred of them grows deeper.
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Ability scores: 171014101614
Gonna try this
Name: Tanduil D'Lariss Class: Fighter (Eldritch Knight) Race: Drow Background: Tanduil is of a rare Noble line of drow that exhibit latent magical talent, Tanduil's talent manifested early in life and they have honed it to a distinct fighting style. It was this that made them a prime resource for their liege, who traded Tanduil to the giants to curry favor. (I think that should be enough given the hook. Background is Noble)
Name: Tanduil D'Lariss Class: Fighter (subclass flexible, but I would love to do a Psi-Knight) Race: Drow Background: Tanduil is of a rare Noble line of drow that exhibit psychic talent, Tanduil's talent manifested early in life and they have honed it to a distinct fighting style. It was this that made them a prime resource for their liege, who traded Tanduil to the giants to curry favor. (I think that should be enough given the hook. Background is Noble)
I’m going to have to pass on psionics, feel free to adjust though and I’ll take another look. Still looking for 3-5 more people to round out the two groups.
The giants wiped out my tribe and captured me. I had been a brood mother and found the only way to cope with losing my tribe was in caring for those of the weaker races the giants captured, epecially goblins. It amuses the giants greatly to pit me against those I’ve tried caring for. And each time my hatred of them grows deeper.
I think I forgot to mention, you can use the wildmount or eberron variants for the orc if you’d like.
Backstory: Root waking up found himself surrounded by humans in a small fishing village, getting up exhausted he asked what happen. A young village woman named Yvette helped him up, she explains she found him washed up on the shoreside. Trying to remember Root recalls being on a boat traveling somewhere but he could recall where. A storm must have came crashing down on him and the crew but to forget why and where, perhaps this was a sign from the gods. Grateful Root bows and vows to repay her kindness she gave him. Root stayed and helped the fishing, he was abnormally quick often catching fish with his hands or using his fire breath to roast fish for everyone. He had many fun memories and he grew fond of the village especially Yvette and their peaceful life of fishing but something kept crawling to his mind. An omen, a warning perhaps it was destiny calling but, one thing was certain he would miss the village. Packing his things Root set out to find his past but first he promised Yvette and the villages once he was done with his pilgrimage of self discover he would return to stay for good.
While traveling on a boat, Root's passage was attacked by a raiding Ice Giant Pirates. Trying his best, to save the crew Root set fire to the ship while the crew escaped. Saving some of the crew Root accepted his fate and fought as bravery as he could like his ancestor did. As he began to go unconscious the only thing the crept in his mind was Yvette. Waking up Root found himself aboard the raider's ship in shackles and enslaved.
Name: Kali Class: Barbarian Race: Wood Elf Background: Kali grew up regularly accompanying her parents as they were hired as guards for merchants traveling to and from the gnomish cities. As she grew she proved an apt fighter even as her thin frame suggested a lack of strength. Her first solo contract was supposed to be a routine trip to a nearby town. Nothing that was ever dangerous.
Of course that would be the time and place some giants would want to have some fun. Instead of killing them outright, the giants carted them off to be sold as slaves. Due to her aptitude with animals, Kali quickly found herself working in the stables. Her strength and animal handling skills came in great help, especially with the hot, temperamental stallions her master liked to keep.
The only days she truly dreaded were when they got a new horse or two to introduce to the herd. Especially when they were stallions. The battles to determine everyone's place in the hierarchy were brutal, and who really cares if a slave gets hurt, or killed, trying to stop the worst of them. It was after one such introduction that the master's prizes stallion developed an infection in a wound that had been overlooked. After several weeks, the stallion's health was so bad that the only thing there was left to do was kill him. Of course the death had to be someone's fault, and it is much easier to blame the slave that had been working rather than the healer in a rush to get out of the horse's way.
As punishment Kali was sent to fight in the next arena battles, with the expectation that she will not survive the first few days.
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im intrested but how would we roll in discord
Ability scores: 10129131213
Name Jarfras Delmirev
Race dragonborn
Class cleric war domain
Backstory jar was a captain in the dragonborn army loyal to bohmet and is a was a caring person he was captured by the gaints at the age of 10 and was transported to city to city watching many of his comrades being sold into slavery and braking up his family in rage he attack one of the gaints that guarded the slave house and lead a roit/break out, it failed and as resualt was mark and has scars around his arms and right eye barley seeing anything out of it and now want freedom and to over throw the empire the gaints made.
Backstory jar was a captain in the dragonborn army loyal to bohmet and is a was a caring person he was captured by the gaints at the age of 10 and was transported to city to city watching many of his comrades being sold into slavery and braking up his family in rage he attack one of the gaints that guarded the slave house and lead a roit/break out, it failed and as resualt was mark and has scars around his arms and right eye barley seeing anything out of it and now want freedom and to over throw the empire the gaints made.
Rolling in discord is with the avrae app, fairly simple to use.
Sounds interesting. I'll make something up.
Ability scores: 10 17 14 16 14 16
Name: Sniv
Class: Sorcerer (Draconic)
Race: Kobold
Background: Shiv grew up a bit of an outsider, enjoying playing pranks and living as a street urchin. As he got older, he realised his sorcerous powers and began to try to fit in more within his kobold society. In an expedition to explore some new islands, his group was ambushed by several giants. As far as he's aware, his friends were killed in the attack, but not before he managed to Kill a couple of them. Now, he awakes to find himself caged in the giant's arena, after all he did kill a couple of their own so watching his demise will be truly rewarding.
Character Sheet: https://ddb.ac/characters/33108748/SLoweG
This is a terrific concept. Really like the world you're building.
Please consider me for your campaign:
Ability scores: 13 13 17 10 15 15
Name: Uthal Mountainjumper Ogolakanu
Class: Barbarian - Level 3 - Path of the Berserker
Race: Goliath
Background: Mountainjumper's tribe lives in the mountains in the northeast, living a simple life of climbing, wrestling, and feats of strength. They had hoped the Giants had forgotten about them. And for a long time they were right. But a young Giant noble, eager to make his name wanted to explore the north and with a very large battalion of his family's home-guard with him he came up the Ogolakanu tribe and overwhelmed them. Mountainjumper wasn't in the village at the time as he was out hunting and climbing. But he came back to find his village destroyed and everyone gone or dead. The trail was easy to follow and in a rage he raced after the invaders. When he came upon the Giant and his men, the site of some of his clan in chains, and the scalps of others hanging from hobgoblin belts enraged him. Without a thought he raced at them and started hacking and slashing. But there were too many and he was eventually brought to his knees. The Giant was roaring with laughter at the fighting and Mountainjumper's rage. "That's arena material if I ever saw it."
NOTE: I can check in at least once a day. I'm not super familiar with discord but should be able to get comfortable with it. And, interacting with another group might be a lot of fun, especially if there's some friendly competition involved.
Due to the arena setting, equipment will be a little weird. Some basic gear for everyone and weapons etc to be worked out during a pbp variant of session 0.
Can Dragonborn be monks?
Name:Root
Class: Open Hand Monk
Race: Red Dragonborn
Background:Fisher
Backstory: Root waking up found himself surrounded by humans in a small fishing village, getting up exhausted he asked what happen. A young village woman named Yvette helped him up, she explains she found him washed up on the shoreside. Trying to remember Root recalls being on a boat traveling somewhere but he could recall where. A storm must have came crashing down on him and the crew but to forget why and where, perhaps this was a sign from the gods. Grateful Root bows and vows to repay her kindness she gave him. Root stayed and helped the fishing, he was abnormally quick often catching fish with his hands or using his fire breath to roast fish for everyone. He had many fun memories and he grew fond of the village especially Yvette and their peaceful life of fishing but something kept crawling to his mind. An omen, a warning perhaps it was destiny calling but, one thing was certain he would miss the village. Packing his things Root set out to find his past but first he promised Yvette and the villages once he was done with his pilgrimage of self discover he would return to stay for good.
While traveling on a boat, Root's passage was attacked by a raiding Ice Giant Pirates. Trying his best, to save the crew Root set fire to the ship while the crew escaped. Saving some of the crew Root accepted his fate and fought as bravery as he could like his ancestor did. As he began to go unconscious the only thing the crept in his mind was Yvette. Waking up Root found himself aboard the raider's ship in shackles and enslaved.
https://ddb.ac/characters/32981526/B7NS2n
Felix Windfall(Human-V Lv.7 Rogue) killed in ToA, Vallan Houndstrider (Halfling Ghostwise Lv.1 Fighter) in DiAScores: 18 11 14 8 13 18
Name: Tyrn Felderwiod
Class: Oath of Conquest Paladin ( I figured I should do a tank as most applications are squishy casters :)
Race: Half elf
Backstory: Tyrn's biological parents met when his mother was hired to guard a caravan of elven diplomats. She and one of the diplomats grew to love each other. When the elves' mission was complete, they moved to [insert city name] to settle down. Soon after Tyrn was born, his father grew gravely ill and perished. Their house and lands were revoked soon afterwards. Tyrn's mother moved to the slums of the city and purchased a small shack with what little money they had left. No one would hire her, so she turned to selling her body to anyone who would pay. As a result, Tyrn became estranged from the other kids his age because of his mother's job. As money was very tight, Tyrn would try to do odd jobs for anyone who would hire, but he was not very successful finding any. He was a pariah. When he was 19, he came home from searching the garbage for dinner to find his mother dead. One of her employers was drunk and killed her in a fit of rage. Furious, he sought out the drunkard and beat him within an inch of his life. After realizing what he did, he left the city to hide from the law. Later that night during a storm, he dreamed that he was on a storm cloud looking over the land. When he turned, a man was behind him. The man revealed himself to be Kord, God of War. Kord said that he had chosen Tyrn to become his champion. The giants have lorded over the land for far to long. Tyrn was tasked with ending the rule of giants. With a crack of thunder, the dream ended and Tyrn awoke to find his body changed. His body transformed into that of a warrior's. Not knowing how to start, Tyrn left his hometown and traveled to the domain of the giants. He was captured by a roving band of giants, but not after taking one of them down. As punishment, the giants condemned Tyrn to perish in their arena.
I hope that works :)
DM- Azalin's Doom
DM- Surviving the Unsurvivable
Ability scores: 12 18 10 12 12 11
Name: Saji
Class: lv 3 Fighter (Battlemaster)
Race: Goblin
Background: Once, Saji was an apprentice to a respected jeweler. She was happy with her trade, certain that she would eventually earn her mastery and perhaps even open her own shop, but all her future plans were destroyed when she made a mistake on a delicate armband intended for a powerful and picky customer. Perhaps if the armband had been intended for someone else this would have only been a minor issue, but this patron was influential enough to make sure that her punishment was enslavement. Even worse, he was petty enough to make sure she was sold to a local arena.
She wasn't a fighter then, and both the patron she had angered and the others at the arena expected her to die quickly and messily. Instead, she survived and she kept surviving. At first it was largely through sheer luck and determination, but she learned quickly and the longer she survived the more skilled she became in surviving and killing. She's been fighting in arenas for several years now and her abilities and track record are the reason she has been chosen to fight in the giants' latest entertainment.
(You only mentioned the arena the characters will be fighting in, but I assumed that there must be other, smaller, gladiatorial arenas within the giant's empire. If I was mistaken about that or if there's anything else in my backstory that doesn't make sense with your lore, I'd be happy to tweak it. I think this seems like a really interesting world and story and I'd really love to play in it.
If you do end up running more than one campaign, I do think it'd be pretty neat if they were in the same world and might run into each other. But I know that can be difficult if the different campaigns don't progress at the same rate of in universe time.)
https://ddb.ac/characters/33134937/hDyQdI
I will be leaving this up until at least this coming weekend. Looks like I will have enough for two groups. I think I will try and have it so things that one group does might affect the others, but not have the two groups interact. I will notify people selected and get some details sorted out before assigning groups.
Ability scores: 13 14 14 13 15 12.
Name: Dura
Class: Cleric Nature Domain
Race: Orc
Background: Outlander
The giants wiped out my tribe and captured me. I had been a brood mother and found the only way to cope with losing my tribe was in caring for those of the weaker races the giants captured, epecially goblins. It amuses the giants greatly to pit me against those I’ve tried caring for. And each time my hatred of them grows deeper.
Ability scores: 17 10 14 10 16 14
Gonna try this
Name: Tanduil D'Lariss
Class: Fighter (Eldritch Knight)
Race: Drow
Background: Tanduil is of a rare Noble line of drow that exhibit latent magical talent, Tanduil's talent manifested early in life and they have honed it to a distinct fighting style. It was this that made them a prime resource for their liege, who traded Tanduil to the giants to curry favor. (I think that should be enough given the hook. Background is Noble)
I’m going to have to pass on psionics, feel free to adjust though and I’ll take another look. Still looking for 3-5 more people to round out the two groups.
I think I forgot to mention, you can use the wildmount or eberron variants for the orc if you’d like.
Dragon born can be monks, you can use the wildmount variants for dragonborn if you’d like as well.
Ability scores: 14 12 13 15 9 14
Name: Kali
Class: Barbarian
Race: Wood Elf
Background: Kali grew up regularly accompanying her parents as they were hired as guards for merchants traveling to and from the gnomish cities. As she grew she proved an apt fighter even as her thin frame suggested a lack of strength. Her first solo contract was supposed to be a routine trip to a nearby town. Nothing that was ever dangerous.
Of course that would be the time and place some giants would want to have some fun. Instead of killing them outright, the giants carted them off to be sold as slaves. Due to her aptitude with animals, Kali quickly found herself working in the stables. Her strength and animal handling skills came in great help, especially with the hot, temperamental stallions her master liked to keep.
The only days she truly dreaded were when they got a new horse or two to introduce to the herd. Especially when they were stallions. The battles to determine everyone's place in the hierarchy were brutal, and who really cares if a slave gets hurt, or killed, trying to stop the worst of them. It was after one such introduction that the master's prizes stallion developed an infection in a wound that had been overlooked. After several weeks, the stallion's health was so bad that the only thing there was left to do was kill him. Of course the death had to be someone's fault, and it is much easier to blame the slave that had been working rather than the healer in a rush to get out of the horse's way.
As punishment Kali was sent to fight in the next arena battles, with the expectation that she will not survive the first few days.
https://ddb.ac/characters/33158470/BJ2zcs
Haven’t actually read the wildmount book yet I’ll look into today.
Felix Windfall(Human-V Lv.7 Rogue) killed in ToA, Vallan Houndstrider (Halfling Ghostwise Lv.1 Fighter) in DiAim intrested but how would we roll in discord
Ability scores: 10 12 9 13 12 13
Name Jarfras Delmirev
Race dragonborn
Class cleric war domain
Backstory jar was a captain in the dragonborn army loyal to bohmet and is a was a caring person he was captured by the gaints at the age of 10 and was transported to city to city watching many of his comrades being sold into slavery and braking up his family in rage he attack one of the gaints that guarded the slave house and lead a roit/break out, it failed and as resualt was mark and has scars around his arms and right eye barley seeing anything out of it and now want freedom and to over throw the empire the gaints made.
Ability scores: 14 14 13 13 17 12
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Rolling in discord is with the avrae app, fairly simple to use.
Loyal to Bohmet? Who/what is that?
I think, ill stay with the phb dragonborn if that is okay.
Felix Windfall(Human-V Lv.7 Rogue) killed in ToA, Vallan Houndstrider (Halfling Ghostwise Lv.1 Fighter) in DiAYup, all good. Just wanted to make sure you knew of the options.
good guy. also I think Bohmet is meant to me Bahamut.
“I will take responsibility for what I have done. [...] If must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer.