The Power of One - A WFRP2e Solo Experience (OOC)

[BananaPhone]

Well, right now, it's the Rampollo's call as the regional 'lord' stand-in as to whether or not you can rent or buy Verezzan land at all!

And he is currently looking for a wife...

Sure she's got that facial scar, but other than that she's a nice, homely girl with a big brain and a towering cross-fitters physique, can't deny she'll provide strong, strapping, smart sons lol. [sales pitch]

[BananaPhone]

Actually, could I swap out Trade (Farmer) for Heal with advancements? Heal and reading/writing seems like good things to have started learning from Madre, her 'farmers' side so far by being trained in Animal Care.

I haven't used either yet, and she hasn't really started "Trading as a farmer" just yet either, despite some eggs.

[BananaPhone]

Well, I'm pretty confident the one in the Armory is the fabric - the columb it's under is titled fabric, and it's measured in yards next to canvas, linen, and silk! So it's gotta be before the production line,

As for IWTO's figures... Well, I'm not sure what to do about that. That's just a big discrepancy between what they're saying and what the sources I saw online were saying. Hmm. Lots of little farm community pages saying "I usually average 4lbs of wool off my sheep when you cut off the poopy bits etc", but Big Sheep over here claiming to crank out twice that much. Is this because they are genetically uplifted ultrasheep, more fleece than beast? Are they shaved twice a year and regrow real quick? I cannot say.

But I DID calculate out to the estimation of 9 Yards of Cloth per meter, and the site says '10+ Meters', so that seems to land alright. Let's go with your 12 Yards average, since that's slightly more than 10 Meters.





I appreciate the reformulation, but I just can't get away from that distance between the raw wool and the yards of fabric. At some point, someone is going to sell the 12 yards of wool cloth made from one of your sheep's fleeces; and they'll do so at 12GC in cases when they are not suckers because the guy buying it will make 8 cloaks out of it and sell those for 5GC a pop, or whatever. So 12GC is the fixed endprice that the wool is going to have down the line. I just can't imagine it being much worth a dealer's time to buy the raw material at more than half that final cost. So I think I'm going to say your typical Per-Sheep wool yield will be 6GC, with a good seasonal sale ranging up to 7.5, a bad one to 4.5, and a desperate same-day sale value of 3GC per fleece. Since 3gc per fleece is already 1GC more than the cost of a whole-ass sheep, that feels like about as far as I can imagine it going.





Speculation is fun and I like the moxie. No reason you couldn't leave assets behind when you go adventuring and come back to see what's become of them later.

I thought you were Aussie when you used the word 'chook' though you might have already told me elsewhere! :D





The problem is really geographical. I didn't know it until I binged the videos, but the Cheese Cave/Refrigeration thing is a big deal; and without it, you basically can't maintain a steady temp at a cool enough level to prevent rot and promote aging. Geographically, you'd have to be higher in the mountains where such caves could be for cheese aging; down in cereal country, the best you can hope for is some hobby cheesing, like the initial proposal. But that won't come through until there's lambs anyway, yet!



Well, right now, it's the Rampollo's call as the regional 'lord' stand-in as to whether or not you can rent or buy Verezzan land at all! You're still a very unknown quantity, and you might have to do a fair bit of proving yourself before that's possible. On the bright side, that means you're part of Gaulfredo's household for tax purposes; even if it does limit your space for project growth just now. Kill a few trolls, do a few deeds; see what comes of it.

Tomorrow: Troll Meeting 2: There be Trolls

That could be a wonderful name for her farm. "More Fleece than Beast" Or her metal band.

I do find it kinda fun though that we've been making our own OOC Haggle rolls over digital farm produce. So, 6gc worth of wool per sheep, 7.5gc on a good roll, 4.5 on a bad one, 3.5 on a terrible one, that's an income spread of 21 to 45gc.

Bringing her yearly total up to 6gc for the eggs, 4.5gc from the cheese and 21-45gc from wool, and 10-20gc for the 5-10 lambs (if she sells them, situationally), for a total of 36.5gc to 75.5gc. On top of that, she's the new girl under Madre, the locally respected Wise Woman and learning communal physician skills.

Assuming nothing changes, and even if things go poorly, she's on track for a successful first year, or a really successful first year, financially, socially and professionally. After ten years under the awful ratmen, she deserves it. Go Taalia, I believe in you!

[BananaPhone]

Perception check: (1d100)[25] vs TN 69.

[MrAbdiel]

Nice.

Spoiler: Results:

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As you are leaving the tinker-shop, you notice there are two brass cylinders on one the shelves of one of his open cupboards - they remind you very much of the brass oddity you recovered from the looted slingbag!

[BananaPhone]

After giving up trying to modify my prior OOC character sheet because of the mind-boggling complexity of the thing, I decided to transfer it all into this simpler format.

Taalia

Spoiler: Taalia image

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Spoiler: Personal Details

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Age: ?? 17ish
Gender: Female
Hair: Blonde-to-white.
Eyes: One is green the other is blue.
Right Handed
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 75kg
Religion: None, but slowly Myrmidia.
Birthplace: Unknown, suspected to be the Wastelands.

Family:
Father: Unknown.
Mother: Unknown.
Brother: Unknown.
Brother: Unknown.

Foster Father: Gaulfredo
Foster Mother: Ariana
Step-brother: Vitorio

	M	WS	BS	S	T	Ag	Int	WP	Fel	A	W	FP	IP
Base	4	44	41	39	36	32	39	34	34	1	13	3	0
Advance	-	+5	-	+5	+5	+10	+10	+5/5	+10/10	-	+4	-	-
Current	4	49	41	44	41	42	49	39	44	1	17/17	3	0

XP: 1,400 total/1,400 spent

Spoiler: Skills

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Animal Care, Charm, Speak Language (Queekish), Speak Language (Tilean), Haggle, Heal, Gossip +10, Blather, Common Knowledge (Skaven), Concealment, Heal, Read/Write, Perception, Search, Silent Move, Trade (Farmer).

Spoiler: Talents

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Resistance to Magic (+10% Resistance to magical effects)
Resistance to Disease (+10% to toughness to resist effects of disease)
Flee! (Gain +1 movement for 1d10 rounds when life is threatened)
Acute Hearing (+10% to Hearing-based perception checks)
Night Vision (see out to 30 yards normally at night)
Natural Weapons (always count as armed)
Surgery (+10% to Heal)
Rover (+10% to Silent Move and Concealment in rural settings)

Spoiler: Trappings

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Peasants outfit (average craftsmanship), 1 Slingbag, 1 handful of mushrooms, 1 animal skull necklace, 1 cloth scrap, 1 book (Damaged), 1 flint and steel (poor quality), 1 clay jug (1 gallon), 1 brass oddity), 1 large tent (poor quality), 1 lucky charm. 1 * Best Quality Clothing (Women's, red.), 1 * Wide Brimmed Hat (Women's Red), 2 * Perfume, 1 * Writing Kit (10gc), 1 * Cloak, Red, 2 * Sandals, 1 * Good Cosmetics, 1 * Disguise Kit (5gc), 1 * Pouch of simple jewellery, mostly wood and glass beads, 1x Antitoxin Kit, 1x Healing Draught, 1x Healing Poultice, 5x Bandages, 1x bottle of whiskey, 1x trinket (Trolls Tooth)
1x "Lucky" silver shilling coin.

Farm:
5x sheep, 1x ram (Hermes) (good quality), 10x Chickens, 1x Rooster (Hurico), 1x puppy (Corvo).
4x little ram lambs (2x good quality, 2x food quality) 1x ewe lamb.

Weapons:
Throwing Knife (poor craftsmanship), Quarter Staff (Str -2, Defensive, Pummelling)
Sword (Hand Weapon, Common Quality, Str+SB damage.
Shield (With Bulls head sigil, free parry each turn at +10%)

Currency: 12gc, 13s 3p

Spoiler: Background

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Scars:
The First Scar - The Burning House - Three ‘claw’ marks, Over the Left Eye: +1 Wound.
The Second Scar - The Boy’s Gift - Bloodletting scar over Upper Abdominal: +5 WS.
The Third Scar - Spite of the Barren - Intersecting Stripes on the Back: +5 WP.
The Fourth Scar - The Rat-Merchant's Lesson - Half-Inch Wide Line On the Right Side of the Neck: +2 Wounds.
The Fifth Scar - The Old Man's Gesture - L shaped tear hidden in hair at the crown of the head: +1 Wound.
The Sixth Scar - Snitch-Biter's Mark - puncture wound on the left thigh: +5 Toughness.
The Seventh Scar - Claws of the Wererat - Deep scratchmarks on the left ankle: +5 Agility.
The Eighth Scar - Rashabang's Reward - Burn scar over the floating ribs on the right: +1 Wound.
The Ninth Scar - Shacklebite - Two curved lines on the interior of the right ankle: +5 strength.
The Tenth Scar - Kiss of the Poison Wind - Chemical burn on left forearm: Gain Flee! Talent.
The Eleventh Scar - Skee-Ruh-Kris's Blow - Groove over the left temple: Gain Acute Hearing talent.
The Twelfth Scar - Skee-Ruh-Kris's Eulogy - Criss-crosses scratches over the right arm, wrist to elbow: +10 agility.
The Thirteenth Scar - The Price of Freedom - Shallow Cut over the left trapezius muscle: Gain Night Vision talent.

Spoiler: Personality

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Even as a slave to the vile ratmen, Taalia showed a good head for numbers and willpower that saw her through incarceration. Upon the surface and with an adoptive family, the girl is coming out of her shell and revealing that she is surprisingly ambitious, but also quite physically affectionate and loving, excitable, an eagerness for new experiences and a generous streak. Though her final personality is yet to solidify due to her relatively young age, she has so far shown grit, tenacity and ambition wrapped in a flowery, friendly and affectionate exterior.

Spoiler: Description

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Taalia is an unnaturally tall girl, and this is usually the first thing people notice. At six foot five there are even very few men who can look ahead into her eyes. Simultaneously, she is physically gifted with a proportionate, well-muscled physique that has been sculpted by years of labour that has also made her possessed of unusual physical strength and fortitude for a human woman, let alone one of her age. Nevertheless, despite her imposing stature, she has an angular, pleasing face that is marred by a scar that runs down from the left side of her forehead, across her eye and down onto her cheek, while all of this is framed by a crown of soft, white-blonde hair. Curiously, she has a genetic mutation known as heterochromia, which has made one of her eyes green and the other blue. When combined with her height, physique, scar and hair color, she is a striking figure that few forget.

When Taalia speaks, she has a smoky, sonorous and smooth voice.

Spoiler: Advances

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Fel +5 (100)
Int +5 (100)
Animal Care (100)
Read/Write (100)
Heal (100)
(500)

Fel +5 (100)
Int +5 (100)
Haggle (100)
Trade (Farmer) (100)

Surgery (100)

Silent Move (100)
Rover (100)

Charm (100)
Gossip +10 (100)

[BananaPhone]

I also made this, because I'm 100% certain Taalia thought this at some point these past few weeks.

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[BananaPhone]

Country roads, take me home: (1d100)[27]

[MrAbdiel]

And take you home, they have! Battle of the Bella Collina Road coming tomorrow!

[BananaPhone]

If given the choice, Taalia will use a bow, because they don't need weapon specialisations to use, but a crossbow does. That should be the other way around lol but there you go.

[BananaPhone]

Initiative: (1D10+4)[14]

Willpower: (1d100)[2] vs TN 34

[BananaPhone]

BS: (1d100)[64] vs TN 31

[MrAbdiel]

Somehow missed these!

And he is currently looking for a wife...

Sure she's got that facial scar, but other than that she's a nice, homely girl with a big brain and a towering cross-fitters physique, can't deny she'll provide strong, strapping, smart sons lol. [sales pitch]

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Actually, could I swap out Trade (Farmer) for Heal with advancements? Heal and reading/writing seems like good things to have started learning from Madre, her 'farmers' side so far by being trained in Animal Care.

I haven't used either yet, and she hasn't really started "Trading as a farmer" just yet either, despite some eggs.

Approved.

[BananaPhone]

Taking another shot: (1d100)[4] vs TN 31

[BananaPhone]

Damage: (1D10+3)[12]

So close to fury lol.

Still, shot 12 fire wounds into the Trolls head.

[BananaPhone]

Fear Test: (1d100)[26] vs TN 44

[BananaPhone]

Flee! for how many rounds: (1d10)[3]

[MrAbdiel]

Danger Level has been increased to Orange Threat Level: Dog in Peril.

[BananaPhone]

Just as an aside, I've found these videos really interesting to watch.

What did peasants eat in medieval times?

What did rich people eat in medieval times?

Medieval & Renaissance Italian Food

[BananaPhone]

I realise how out-of-the-blue my last post was, given the IC excitement heh, but I've been enjoying these videos recently.

Loose arrows: (1d100)[43] vs TN 51

[BananaPhone]

Right arm.

Damage: (1D10+3)[10]

[MrAbdiel]

Just as an aside, I've found these videos really interesting to watch.

What did peasants eat in medieval times?

What did rich people eat in medieval times?

Medieval & Renaissance Italian Food

Ahaha, the unintended side effect of Tilean RP. I will blame this game for my uptake in pasta consumption...

I'm glad you hooked right into the setting, by the way. Tilean has a handful of lore fluffed out from the old Dogs of War books and bits and pieces in WFRP official stuff, but it's mostly open to interpretation; and I thought it would be fun to take someone from some other country, have them speak queekish most of their lives, and resurface in tilea which sounds nothing like any fragments of language they know. And filling out lore gaps is also fun for me. For example, the Republic of Verezzo is ruled by four color factions who jockey for power; but the whole class breakdown of senators, voters and rampollos I just made up because it felt cool.

[BananaPhone]

Likewise, I'm thankful you've been patient with my...over-active imagination and penchant for ambitious characters. I know that you're posting regularly with large page-long posts in several games, and then I come along with "I figured out money maker by farming derp!!!" can further strain ones time and patience. It has been a genuinely very fun and different experience than I'm used to on the forums, and if years ago you'd have told me I'd have a great time playing an escaped slave trying to become an entrepreneurial farmer in Medieval Fantasy Italy, I'd have thought you'd gone round the twist. But here we are, with a game and setting I'm really enjoying.

Of course, I know, that in a couple years In Character time to come that Taalia will have to move on in some way to adventures beyond and that will bring it's own fun. But I'm really enjoying it so far, and despite my penchant for throwing napkin economic math at you from time to time, I hope the fun is reciprocal.

[MrAbdiel]

Haha; reciprocated. Napkin math is also welcome; the worst I can say is "no, there just aren't that many people who want eggs".

Edit: Re: So many posts and threads.

Yeah, I bite off a lot to chew like that... I've rationalized it by saying this is how I keep my writing sharp, hoping one day to do something productive with that; and I know when too much is really too much, and when burnout comes; and I try to surround myself with tolerant gamers who don't mind that my reply time varies from 30 minutes to 12 days.

[BananaPhone]

Loosing another arrow: (1d100)[80] vs TN 31 TN.

[BananaPhone]

Fate point:

(1d100)[6]

[BananaPhone]

Another hit to the head.

Damage: (1D10+3)[9]

[BananaPhone]

Ahaha, the unintended side effect of Tilean RP. I will blame this game for my uptake in pasta consumption...

Hah it also helps that my mother is part Italian who developed under the supervision of her Nonna, so I've grown up on a similar cuisine.

Edit: Re: So many posts and threads.

Yeah, I bite off a lot to chew like that... I've rationalized it by saying this is how I keep my writing sharp, hoping one day to do something productive with that; and I know when too much is really too much, and when burnout comes; and I try to surround myself with tolerant gamers who don't mind that my reply time varies from 30 minutes to 12 days.

Yeah it can be hard. You're quite an excellent writer, so if you hadn't of hinted at already, I would've assumed it was related to what you did for a living.

[MrAbdiel]

Hah it also helps that my mother is part Italian who developed under the supervision of her Nonna, so I've grown up on a similar cuisine.




Yeah it can be hard. You're quite an excellent writer, so if you hadn't of hinted at already, I would've assumed it was related to what you did for a living.

...Well now I'm hungry. >:(


And hey thanks, I appreciate it. I'm trying to iron out my weird spelling error habits, and my bad tendency to use; a million; semicolons; or alternatively - not strictly good writing - use hyphens to bracket internal phrases. And I love adverbs, despite all the advice. So sue me... Bigly.

I used to do a lot of writing for my job; lots of speeches, mostly. Now I'm in a bit of a career transition and hoping to jump into something where I can write for a living, but getting on the copywriting/contentwriting ladder seems... very hard, if you're not a niche expert on something that people will actually visit a blog to read about. But I'll get there, God willing!

[BananaPhone]

Never thought I'd write this.

But quarterstaff attack against the troll: (1d100)[43] vs TN 69 or 99.

Reasons:

49 WS base.

69 = 49 base + 20% for 3:1 outnumbered opponent.

99 = 49 base + 20% outnumbered + 30% 'unaware' opponent. (it doesn't seem aware of her, so might not count)