Dice Press Start! OOC [Fabula Ultima]

[Zufaix]

Hey all! Welcome to the campaign. As I said in the interest check, you can call me Zufaix, Zuzu, or Sky. While I'm new to PbP campaigns I'm not new to TTRPGs. I've DMd for about 6 years on and off now (mostly within 5E but also a bit of PF2E), and I'm incredibly excited to try out a new system. I've ran the Press Start! Module before to great success with my home table and am currently in the makings of starting up a full campaign. This system is much more rules-lite than others I've seen but still has a great deal of customizablity for both players and GMs. So, with that said, I hope we can all have fun and tell a great story!

First, I'm going to dm you all a link to a Google drive with both the Press Start and Core Rulebook pdfs that I personally own (so please don't just share them around). If you dont feel comfortable with Google drive, please let me know and I can find another way to give you them. From here I'd like everyone to take a look over the Press Start! adventure module and see if it's something you guys would be interested in. Otherwise if everyone is fine with it, we can jump straight to the world building and character creation sections of the Core Rulebook (pg 146) for our own original campaign. Of course feel free to read the rest of it at your own convenience.

Once everyone has an idea of what they'd like to do or contribute, we can move forward from there.

Feel free to ask me any questions you may have!

Nellancholy Lost Martian ERode StardustTroubadour

 

[ERode]

Are you good with using classes and hijinks from the High Fantasy expansion?

 

[Zufaix]

Are you good with using classes and hijinks from the High Fantasy expansion?

High Fantasy is fine with me. I'd like to avoid using the Techno Fantasy Atlas for now as some of its mechanics and classes can be hard to integrate into a normal fantasy campaign.

 

[Nellancholy]

Alright,having looked over the module I think it might be interesting to run it first,and then maybe conceptualize a different,original campaign.

Would help to get StardustTroubadour up to speed with the system.

HOWEVER,because of our less compressed timespan of PBP (we're not sitting at a table or in a Discord call),I also agree with the idea of jumping into an original campaign immediately if the majority goes that way,since creation is a big part of the fun for most TTRPGs anyway.

It's less urgent to make sure everyone learns everything "right now".

 

[StardustTroubadour]

I was actually skimming the books before I noticed this. Sorry for the lateness to the party. I'm on board for High Fantasy stuff. The Techno stuff did pique my interest but only cause of my love for F.F. VIII. I want to do either Red Sorcerer, Spell Fencer, or like a Traditional Paladin with like Spiritist/Weapon Master.

 

[ERode]

Off the top of my head, Im provably gonna do Fury + Dancer.

 

[Nellancholy]

We start with 5 levels,right?

I was thinking I might kick things off with something like Sharpshooter 3/Entropist 1/Orator 1.

 

[StardustTroubadour]

As soon as I read Monkey Grip. I knew that Ninja was back on the menu like it's FFT. ERode

 

[Zufaix]

We start with 5 levels,right?

I was thinking I might kick things off with something like Sharpshooter 3/Entropist 1/Orator 1.

Yup 5 levels to distrubute between 2-3 classes of your choice.

 

[Nellancholy]

Anyway,once we get Lost Martian on board,we can decide whether we're going to run the module,and what kind of story we're gonna tell if we go straight to an original campaign.

The class combos are pretty agnostic,but knowing what the campaign actually is will inform our character concepts better.

 

[ERode]

Roll20 also has a Fabula Ultima sheet, but since we're doing it PbP, found this one which seems useful enough.

 

[StardustTroubadour]

That's so cool!

 

[ERode]

Also, if you end up really wanting to support the designers for whatever reason, right now, the entire Fabula Ultima package is going for around $15 USD.

 

[Zufaix]

Roll20 also has a Fabula Ultima sheet, but since we're doing it PbP, found this one which seems useful enough.

This is really nice. Alternatively there is Fultimator, but I think this might be preferred as you don't have to download an app for anything.

 

[ERode]

Agenda secured. Rogue + Dancer + Weaponmaster.

Gonna go debuff chaining with Rogue and Dancer, then follow up with Breach hijinks from Weaponmaster. Gradually move forward with the Counterattack + Dodge scheme from there.

 

[Zufaix]

Damn, not even into the first post and I'm already afraid for the villains lmao

 

[Nellancholy]

I didn't have a strict plan going for my character,but I was gonna start with Aceelerate with my first Entropist level,then Stop as a straightforward way to tip things in our favor.

Condemn from Orator.

And then just focus more on Sharpshooter for straightforward damage output before learning Entropist ritualism and more spells.

 

[ERode]

“Nice villain. Would be a shame if their stats all dropped by one tier at turn one.”

Vs

Multigrain Skin Gloves

 

[StardustTroubadour]

Idk how good this is gonna be but this sounds fun. My plan's to go 1 Fury, 3 Guardian, 1 Spiritist. It reads like I can kind of heal, frenzy for guaranteed crits with brawling weapons. Fun fact I can wear double shields punch you in the mouth with them and that counts as brawling. I am pretty much cap from End Game. I'm taking minimal damage and I can just shrug it off with heal.

 

[ERode]

Yeah, Fury and Guardian is funny. When I played it, I snagged Weaponmaster as well so every time someone failed to hit me, I had a chance of shieldbashing them for free.

 

[StardustTroubadour]

I was thinking Weaponmaster originally. But having stuff like Soul Weapon, Aura/Barrier, and Torpor just sounds too good on paper.

 

[StardustTroubadour]

Besides if my damage drops off it sounds like you guys are gonna scale with Sharpshooter and Rogue.

 

[Nellancholy]

Nice,we have a Spiritist on board. If this campaign goes long enough for me to get more levels in Orator I could be a backup healer too.

Just gotta see what our final party member will be.

 

[Nellancholy]

Lost Martian once you're read the books,feel free to discuss your character choices/ask any questions here

 

[StardustTroubadour]

Idk how much damage can be sustained even with me being able to half physical damage. So unless Fury's 5 point heal is enough to sustain throughout the game irdk? Sell me on Weaponmaster's Counter? ERode