# D&D setup thread – game 2 (Mediaeval English background) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 8, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583 "2008-03-08T13:06:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/61 "2008-03-14T03:20:07Z")
**What Exit’s** Druid has been sent out and I’m working on **NAF1138** ’s Cleric now. **Paladud,** **Wolfman** , **ArrMatey!** and **Little Plastic Ninja** : do you need any more info? Do send a description of your character, plus stats, weapons and NWP’s. (If you’re not sure, just say roughly what you want and I’ll supply the nearest equivalent.) **Fluiddruid** , I’m sorry I didn’t give full descriptions of the NWPs. (The file got corrupted in a crash.) I’ve got some holiday time coming up and will try to type them all out. When those descriptions are published, players are welcome to change their character’s NWP’s. Party: **Malacandra** Illusionist / Thief (Gnome) **Fluiddruid** Fighter (Lizardman) **What Exit?** Druid (Human) **NAF1138** Cleric (Human) **Paladud** Paladin (Human) \*\*Wolfman \*\* Ocean Barbarian (Human) **ArrMatey!** Magic User? **Little Plastic Ninja** Ranger? **appleciders** is our standby (if he wants) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/62 "2008-03-14T03:25:24Z")
[QUOTE=glee] **What Exit’s** Druid has been sent out and I’m working on **NAF1138** ’s Cleric now. [/QUOTE] Are you sure? I got two Emails from you, a question and a nevermind. I did not get one with an attachment. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/63 "2008-03-14T03:45:40Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Are you sure? I got two Emails from you, a question and a nevermind. I did not get one with an attachment. [/QUOTE] Sorry about that. :o I can only say that BT recently ‘upgraded’ my e-mail and that in trying to avoid the incessant advertisements and use the new system, your character got left behind. :eek: I’ve sent it again… ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/64 "2008-03-14T05:24:29Z")
[QUOTE=glee] **appleciders** is our standby (if he wants) [/QUOTE] Sounds good. If you’re looking to procrastinate or something, I’ll probably try out your Warrior Monk, if you feel like rolling up stats. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/65 "2008-03-14T09:51:09Z")
[QUOTE=appleciders] Sounds good. If you’re looking to procrastinate or something, I’ll probably try out your Warrior Monk, if you feel like rolling up stats. [/QUOTE] The characters are getting successively quicker to do, so I will be happy to roll up a reserve for you (once I’ve done the others). Bung me a history of how a wandering Monk with unusual combat skills and rumoured mystical powers (both learnt in the Orient) has turned up in the middle of the English countryside and I’ll send you a character. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/66 "2008-03-14T10:04:45Z")
I have now got both information from both **Wolfman** and **ArrMatey!** , their characters have joined the processing queue. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/67 "2008-03-14T20:13:17Z")
I have sent \*\*NAF1138 \*\* his Cleric and am starting on \*\*Wolfman’\*\*s Ocean Barbarian. **ArrMatey!**'s MU is next. (There goes the weekend!) Still waiting for a character description from **Paladud** and **Little Plastic Ninja** … ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/68 "2008-03-15T21:38:24Z")
**Wolfman** ’s Ocean Barbarian is done and I will tackle\*\* ArrMatey!\*\*'s next. Still nothing from **Paladud** or **Little Plastic Ninja**. I’ll probably send round a group e-mail once \*\* ArrMatey!\*\* is sent. We could certainly start with just these characters: **Malacandra** Illusionist / Thief (Gnome) **Fluiddruid** Fighter (Lizardman) **What Exit?** Druid (Human) **NAF1138** Cleric (Human) **Wolfman** Ocean Barbarian (Human) **ArrMatey!** Magic User (Human) ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/69 "2008-03-16T03:02:29Z")
[QUOTE=glee] **Wolfman** ’s Ocean Barbarian is done and I will tackle\*\* ArrMatey!\*\*'s next. [/QUOTE] _Hulgfar looks up, glances around the room, subtley nods his acknowledgement, then gets back to work on his huge tankard of ale and enormous platter of really stinky herring_ ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/70 "2008-03-16T11:14:25Z")
Paladud’s Paladin has checked in. 🆒 If all goes to plan, both the MU and the Paladin should be ready today… ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/71 "2008-03-16T13:42:45Z")
“Hey, is someone eating herring in here, or did a herring eat them and sick them up again?” The speaker is a small unprepossessing gnome who is chewing on the stem of a short curly pipe that appears to have been stoked with some very old compost, in between humming a little ditty that is tuneless and repetitive enough to be really annoying, and not quite quiet enough to be on the edge of hearing. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/72 "2008-03-16T14:40:30Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] The speaker is a small **unprepossessing** gnome who is chewing on the stem of a short curly pipe that appears to have been **stoked with some very old compost** , in between humming a little ditty that is tuneless and **repetitive enough to be really annoying** , and not quite quiet enough to be on the edge of hearing. [/QUOTE] And that’s on a good day, folks! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/73 "2008-03-16T18:02:50Z")
I can hear the song now. “I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves” ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/74 "2008-03-16T19:29:31Z")
The MU has been sent; the Paladin is next… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/75 "2008-03-16T19:42:34Z")
Allow me to introduce myself. I am \*\*Cullen MacLeod of Skye \*\* wears the [Green Tartan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MacLeod_tartan_%28Logan_%26_Smibert%29.png) Kilt of his clan and is proud of his heritage growing up in the presence of the Am Bratach Sith or The [Fairy Flag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Flag) of the clan MacLeod. His family is renown for their friendship to the Elves, Faerie Folk, The Good Folk and animals. Cullen is a tall Scott, standing 6’2” and weighing a respectable 220 lbs. He is ginger haired but not so fair as a true ginger. He is a youthful 26 and is looking to learn more of the Faerie Rings and the ‘Ley’ of the Land. He is not ashamed to admit he hugs trees and has hopes of saving more of the old woods from those humans who fail to respect nature. He is a believer in plant a tree wherever you cut one down and kill no animal you don’t need for food. He comes from a large family and is one of innumerable great nephews of the MacLeod Chieftain. His immediate family numbers 10 and he is in the middle of it and would be an unnoteworthy son if not for the skill he showed young with herbs and animals and getting accepted for Druid training. I have several animal friends. A loyal Bloodhound, a Kestrel & a Weasel I am skilled in Herbalism, Agriculture, Ancient History, Spellcraft, Mandolin & First Aid. _Please note: I forgot the Highlander use of MacLeod as a name. I chose the name base on my visit to the Isle of Skye and my fascination with the Am Bratach Sith._ ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/76 "2008-03-16T20:58:06Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] I can hear the song now. “I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves” [/QUOTE] It sounds even better in Gnomish. 😃 > [@What Exit](#): > > Allow me to introduce myself. {blah blah blah TMI blah blah} “Sorry, skirt-man, do you think you could say all that again? I’m afraid I wasn’t really listening.” ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/77 "2008-03-16T22:55:59Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] It sounds even better in Gnomish. 😃 [/QUOTE] _Shudders_ A friend of mine sings it occasionally when he wants to portray an irritating NPC. Fortunately he doesn’t know Gnomish. What Exit, a Scot has only one “t” in his nationality. Just so that you know in future. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/78 "2008-03-17T00:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] _Shudders_ A friend of mine sings it occasionally when he wants to portray an irritating NPC. Fortunately he doesn’t know Gnomish. What Exit, a Scot has only one “t” in his nationality. Just so that you know in future. 😉 [/QUOTE] Aye, I know that , I was just testing you. Damn typos, I really do know that, it slipped past me. ☹ In my first draft I also had Good People instead of Good Folk. At least it wasn’t Goodfellows or even Goodfellas. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/79 "2008-03-17T03:25:37Z")
The Paladin has been sent; character backstories to follow tomorrow… You are most welcome to introduce your characters here. Partly for the interest\*, and partly to save repeating in the main game thread. Please note that you will not necessarily all be standing together when the adventure starts… \*especially for the spectators 😃 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583/80 "2008-03-17T03:27:34Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] It sounds even better in Gnomish. 😃 … “Sorry, skirt-man, do you think you could say all that again? I’m afraid I wasn’t really listening.” [/QUOTE] If you’re nice to the Druid, he could set your song to music :eek: and accompany you on his Mandolin. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-setup-thread-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/440583.md?page=5)