Hey there. Name's david, i'm a 22yo dutchman who spends way too much time on this site. Steampunk is something that always draws me for some reason, and for a while now i've wanted to see what a Pathfinder game would be like when making anywhere from more to full use of it's tech and firearms rules. A Big City setting is something that also seems quite intriguing to play. First i will get the technical stuff out of the way, which is me not being able to play on wednesdays (another campaign i play in runs on that day, though there is a slim possbility it could be rescheduled), and that i would very highly prefer starting at 7pm CET or before, with regards to people in my house needing their sleep. 8pm for four hours could be doable, but it will mean that sometimes i won't finish a session or i'll be really quiet/type for the last 20-30 minutes. Now as for telling you about me. I've been playing RPGs all my life, but never had the friends for tabletop gaming. A little over half a year ago i discovered itmejp's rollplay, and they got me into the idea of roleplaying online. Eventually i realized that it was quite simple to look for games, and started playing myself. Right now, i spend a whole lot of my free time on roleplaying games, following a bunch of series every week, and having been in multiple campaigns almost throughout the entirety of my "stay" here on roll20. Mostly it's been Pathfinder, but i've had experience with shadowrun 5th edition, stars without number, apocapyse world, and a bunch of other systems. Out of all those things, Pathfinder has become my favorite, mostly because the amazing wealth of options it provides for building a character, and conversely the fact that any concept i can think of is something that is very likely to be a viable thing in pathfinder, in addition to the fact that almost every single class and race has a lot of flavour and lore associated with it and encourages me to roleplay. I thorougly enjoy the options that Pathfinder gives me, and because of that i have no problem at all being a player that "fills" a role that is simply needed for the party to function (in my other party right now, i'm the 'face'). Most of the time, i also don't have any one set "character concept" that i come into a campaign with. While i am the kind of person to have a folder with loosely defined character concepts more-or-less ready to go, i'm not all that interested in typing out an entire backstory right now. Everything i will come up with WILL change to fit within your world, and rest assured that if i enter this campaign, i will spend hours creating a backstory that feels real to me - because i'm doing that for myself anyway, since it's my favorite part of the game in general. What I do most of the time, GM willing, is i ask a lot of questions. About the party, their classes, backgrounds and stories, the world, the setting of the campaign, and the kinds of thing we will be expected to be doing. It's after that i really start looking seriously at which character concept i might grab, or if i want to come up with something new entirely, and this is when i "really" start making a character beyond a basic concept. That said, of course I can try to give you an idea of what kind of a player i am as best i can. General observations i can make about myself: I tend to play people with at least some kind of high mental stat. Because of that, I usually end up as some kind of spellcaster, spellblade or battlemage; it's safe to say i really enjoy having magical and/or supernatural powers and roleplaying them out. I find it hard to justify not having at least a decent intelligence, i really like my skill points and on top of that, i find it hard to roleplay a person that's supposed to be significantly more stupid than me. I generally tend towards Dexterity based characters stylistically, but i find myself designing more and more characters with Strength as it can be hard to fit dex-to-damage into a build in Pathfinder(especially with the weird errata to make it even worse). The stats i would say i most enjoy roleplaying being high are WIS and INT, but i also find enjoyment in playing a face who can talk circles around people, as that's not generally something i'm capable of in real life. What i don't really like a lot are fully martial characters, classes with a moral code (though i still play clerics and paladins regardless, as i think the whole idea of them is awesome) and classes where i feel like i don't have many options, whether in combat, out of combat or both. While i am mechanics-focused and talk about stats a lot in this post, i also go a lot for the rule of cool, what makes sense, and don't minmax characters into oblivion. I won't purposefully create a "cheese" build, i dislike multiclasses that don't make sense and i want my character to feel like a real person, not a sword attached to a player. I would classify myself as an Optimizer, but not a Min-Maxer. That is to say, my base of the character concept, the stats he gets, the weapons and spells he uses and the class he is, will all be decided by the rule of cool. But within those parameters, i will still try to do my best to play effectively, take the most efficient feats when i'm not taking them for flavour, etc. If you'd be interested in having me, i'd very much like to text chat (or speak , if you prefer, but i don't really prefer that today as i'm feeling like shit right now) over skype about the party and the campaign. In the interest of not having contact info out in the open, you can send me your skype adress in a PM or send me a PM/reply here asking for mine.
