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We will draw the winner on September 12th and we will mail it when we have our hands on it! Good luck!
I'm be GMing so no character for me, but the campaign I'd love to play is an exploration of the darker side of the iron kingdoms, seedy Ordic taverns, running jobs for pirate kings and merchant barons, and haunting the streets of occupied Llael. Managing crappy slapped together steamjacks and investigating a duke's secrets at the same time. Maybe even visit Blackwater...
ReplyDeleteI want to play something that makes me think "Xerxis," the no holds barred commander that carries a big stick and charges warbeasts with reckless abandon.
ReplyDeleteI will almost certainly be GMing, but if I were not - we've been kicking around the idea of a whole crew of pirate gobbers.
ReplyDeleteI would love to play a Trollkin bodyguard, someone tough who can hit hard and hires himself out to keep people safe. People he feels deserve his protection (but he still needs to eat, and get beer), not criminals like he used to work for.
ReplyDeleteI play Trollbloods in Hordes, and they're one of my favorite fantasy races.
I followed the blog on Google Reader, not sure if that's indicated somehow.
Count me in! I'd love to play as something akin to the Cryx solo: Gerlak Slaughterborn. My favorite pac-man for munching rows of bad guys!
ReplyDeleteI plan to play an Exemplar Knight, maybe a Knight/Warcaster. Though odds are I'll be GMing, mainly.
ReplyDeleteI will play A Gunmage with a magelock rifle, probably mix in soldier and play a sharpshooter, picking off everything in my path.
ReplyDeleteI plan to play as an Ogrun Aristocrat/Pirate. I hope to convince all of the people I am playing with to have Pirate as as subclass so we start with a boat and essentially just sail about doing cool stuff, the real meat behind my character will be the Aristocrat, specifically an Ogrun Aristocrat.. I plan to use this model for my character if it - http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat670009a&prodId=prod1320010a
ReplyDeleteThat's right, Greasus Goldtooth, now I plan to say the Gnoblars are actually Gobbers but I imagine it would be quite funny if with a little modification so it's on a correct base for me to roll about the game as a super rich, super fat ogrun who just throws money at problems until they go away.
I'm probably just one of about a million people who are going to do this, but from what I've seen so far I'm leaning towards a trollkin gunmage. I'm not too versed in War/Hordes lore, but 'pirate troll with magic guns' is something that is quite hard to go wrong with.
ReplyDeleteIf a pirate wouldn't fit in whatever game I end up in, then I'd be like Sean and go for the sniper route. I'm anxious to get my hands on the book eventually, just because it seems there's a ton to sink your teeth into.
I will almost certainly be GMing because that's the way things always seem to end up (whoever has the idea ends up doing all the work). The campaign I'm interested in is cold war urban exploration, set in and around the ruins of Fisherbrook (so lots of 'factions' can be pulled in). There are ruined towns and cities and encampments and battlefields all the way along the borders between the Iron Kingdoms. There's good stuff out there; cortices, escaped prisoners, old smuggling routes that now afford a back door into enemy territory. There's also no way in hell that the nations of the Iron Kingdoms could move into those territories openly without the recent hostilities kicking off again, so what they need is plausible deniability...
ReplyDeleteTested the idea out under Pathfinder last year - it worked, but I wasn't mean enough about getting people in to play regularly and so it stalled.
If I did get to play I'd play an urbanised trollkin - a big blue street kid with a Caspian warblade, a fat cigar, and a gambling problem. Really out of touch with his people, and but not totally in tune with humans either.
I would end up GMing, it's always been my role. But if I coul play I'd want to be an Orboros werewolf hiding in the city and trying to keep his wild side hidden and in check.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to get my hands on the actual book to certain, but I'm thinking of playing a Human Duelist/Highwayman. Debonair robin-hood type, except for the give to the poor bit. The less fortunate get all the breaks.
ReplyDeleteI would play a fatalistic Iosan exile cutthroat/Mage hunter. I'd lean more towards a female over a male. She would have committed an atrocity that caused her exile and a loss of her good left eye so she is forced to ply her trade up close rather then with the traditional crossbow.
ReplyDeleteAs a longtime fan of darker sword and sorcery novels, the works of Moorcock and Leiber, with character who live by their beliefs and morals that others may question appeal to me. I'd like to again play a less then likeable character on the surface that takes matters into her own hands, living on the fringe of society doing things others eschew. Though a fatalist and a up close and personal violent character I'd like to surprise players with a woman who has a wry and spirited humor and joy for life.
Im a big fan of redemption stories and I'd like to play one that may or may never redeem themselves and possibly could damn themself
I'm trying to get my friends into trying this when it comes out, and I would love to play an Iosian adventurer-scholar, who would be driven by trying to seek out clues as to the fate of his gods and what those damned humans have done with them. Pretty much a more pissed off elven Indiana Jones with a pair of pistols and a sack of nasty explosive toys to freely distribute among those who displease him.
ReplyDeleteIn a similar explorer theme, a human riflemen-explorer seems pretty appealing to me. Something of a gentleman explorer from the Cygnar nation with strong ties to a wealthy patron.
ReplyDeleteIf I was GMing I would love to attempt the witchfire trillogy. Never played it nor read the book and thus have no idea how difficult it would be to convert across.
ReplyDeleteBut playing is where I hope to be as I've never been part of a RPG (cause MMORPG's don't count with all the grinding). There I would like to play a displaced Llaelese. I'm waiting till I get my hands on the book to settle on the careers but the archetype would be Skilled or Intelligent for certain. This guy (or girl) would be distrustful of pretty much everybody as a refugee. Khador invaded, Cygnar ain't helping much and the Protectorate is marching through the homelands. And they couldn't really trust another person from Llael as who collaborated with the invasion. The sort of person who gambles expecting to lose and winnings just get sunk straight back into the game.
Looking forward to playing a Blackclad druid, formerly a worshiper of Menoth who was spirited away from his old family to live amongst the wildes and learn that his Wyrde ways were not Menoth's blessing afterall, but the taint of the Devourer Wyrm.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to do some kind of awesome cinematic campaign. Getting chased by a Kraken along a Khadoran harbor, sneaking deep into Menite territory, Metal Gear-style, to destroy a Colossal. All that fun stuff. It'd be a game full of ADVENTURE.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be DMing for my group, since i know the Iron Kingdoms the best out of my group of friends.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to start the players out as initially being paid by Cygnaran Intelligence to track down a gang that's been stealing arms shipment, it'll be revealed that the arms shipments are being taken by the United Kriels to arm their forces. From there i'd like it to be a choice for the players if they want to side with Cygnaran Intelligence or throw their lot in with the Trollbloods. Since i'm a Trollbloods player i'm planning on framing this as a conflict between what's morally right and whats legal.
Whichever way it goes, i plan on having an epic train heist, with Trollkin Long riders galloping up alongside a military train and having the players either jump onto the train, or try and repel the boarders, as they try to decouple the carriages and steal the weaponry.
I'll probably DM as well. Even though I'd love to do something insane like be a Vassel of Menoth...
ReplyDeleteI will be running a game, although I would like to play a warcaster gunmage. The idea I had for my first game is the players will be mercenaries in and around Llael, they will be given choices to either help or hurt the free Llael cause. Fighting the Khador, Cryx, or Resistance fighters will be the order of the day. In an occupied country anything goes, so we will see what the players decide.
ReplyDeleteI have already heard from one of my players who wants to play an Ogrun with heavy armor and an "anti jack" cannon. So it should be fun game.
I rolling with a dual pistol wielding gun mage/duelist. Kinda a mix between Nicia and Ryan of B13th. He's going to be a member of the Unseen Hand.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for this as it'll be my first RPG experience!
To everyone posting these ideas, we are reading them all! They're super cool and I really enjoy hearing what other things people have in mind. I might even borrow an idea here and there for the campaign I'm going to run.
ReplyDeleteProbably a Nyss Explorer/Alchemist. I love the idea of an ugly elf going around and stealing artifacts and making weird potions and bombs out of them
ReplyDeleteMyself and someone in my local game store will be taking turns with GM'ing. So as such:
ReplyDelete- Character: Ex-Widowmaker. Depending on the timing of the RPG; I may play him as someone who grew up in Llale and was unable to continue after hearing plans of the invasion, or a widowmaker who refused to shoot his own captured compares and went rogue. After departing from the services of Khador, he sold his talents as a marksman and scout.
- Campaign: "The Cortex dogs". Something I'd like to run a campaign for is a salvage company that tries to raid war zones either immediately after or during battles to steal and sell cortex's. The group will be united in the interests of profits, but will quickly find themselves in more and more activities that pit them in the middle of the iron kingdoms political circles. Possible op's include the:
* A train job! The group is sent to a recent battle zone where they are supposed to arrive well ahead of local salvage teams only to discover the parts have already been retrieved and being shipped by train to a nearby repair depot. With little choice, they have a train robbery complete with jumping from car to car, horse chases, and harrowing combat.
* A recent battle resulted in complete annihilation of both sides when a stray shot brought down an avalanche upon the combined forces. The 'dogs' however know the mountains well and decide to try to navigate the mountain's cave network to see if they can find anything of value.
* Being at the wrong place, at the wrong time, a small seaside village comes under attack by a Cryx raiding party while the dogs are getting some R&R. The groups finds their priorities split between helping the locals evacuate, or trying to fight as the fighting force with any history of fighting Cryx armor.
* The 'dogs' are sent to find a particular cortex far from civilization, thought recently lost due to a loss of communication with its warcaster. Upon easy (relatively) retrieval of the cortex, they learn that the cortex contains the only proof of a particularly barbaric war crime which their employer and faction is refusing to admit to. The group is forced to choose between justice for the slain, or a tidy profit; but either way they are pursued from all sides by other parties.
Note: This might get switched around to a warcaster being brought up on warcrimes; and the cortex being the only proof that the caster is not only innocent but a hero for their actions. Rival politics within the faction don't want the proof coming out however, and the dogs find themselves on the run.
Other ideas rolling around, not all have to be based on that idea; but it's a start =)
I'm still pretty new to a lot of the lore and story behind Hordes / Warmachine but my first thought was to GM some campaign revolving around the faction I play, Skorne. I think it could be fun to pit my players with or against the invasion. Sabotaging key bridges or supply caravans. Traveling to between nations to aide forming alliances to stem the invasion. Lots of different possibilities.
ReplyDeleteHuman Gifted Gun Mage / Mage Hunter Pirate Captain. Challenge the Broken Coast! Break your backs and crack your oars, men! Barring that, Rhulic Mighty Trencher / Man-at-Arms? It really depends on what kind of game we end up going with for our local group. A 'mercenaries' game that goes on the grand tour of Western Immoren is a pretty standard and by the numbers way to get people introduced to the IK setting, plus it allows the greatest degree of freedom for character creation, so that may be the most likely campaign - alternately, I *do* have the Witchfire Trilogy around somewhere in hardcover...
ReplyDeleteI'd love to play a game of this. I've been a fan of the setting for many years. Given the choice of character, I'd run a Llaelese Gun Mage. In hiding of course, from the Khadoran overlords, and fighting the good fight for the restoration of Llaelese liberty!
ReplyDeleteCould I play a gobber with magical abilities. Maybe controlling a steamjack would be my main thing. Since he is so small and physically weak, the jack would make up for that. He would just have to stay out of the way.
ReplyDeleteJust posting to say that I am A) hyped as hell and B) damn near broke from my Nerd Crack hobbies.
ReplyDeleteAs for what I want to roll, I always regret never getting to play Trollbloods in earnest, and my first Hordes purchase was actually a (still unpainted) Grim Angus, so in honor of him and the general awesomeness of the bumpy-chinned ones I'm thinking a Trollkin Gun Mage/Bounty Hunter as my first character. Might not be the most sociable fella, but will stop at nothing short of threatening Everblight him(it?)self to get his contract. Of course, that still leaves the matter of why a Trollkin has Seduction 2...
Probably a Field Mechanik/Thief fixing people's warjacks and stealing their stuff on the sly.
ReplyDeleteYo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me.
ReplyDeleteI'm a firm believer there's no negotiations in the Iron Kingdoms that can't be made best at the end of a pistol.
I'd have to go for a Gobber alchemist. Home-made baffle driven acid guns, and potions full of alchemist's fire. Of course things would have to backfire, and a penchant for trying to fly.
ReplyDeleteOh to be a tiny springy goblin.
I have always like necromancers, and play Cryx in Warmachines so I would love to play eather an Iron Lich or a Necrotech type character.
ReplyDeleteI'll be GMing for my non rpg playing warmahordes friends. They will be playing as a Rhulic start-up clan on their first trading voyage, either by river or sea.
ReplyDeleteI don't know a whole lot about the Warmachine/Hordes fluff, but a Human Trencher-Rifleman from Khador sounds like it could be interesting. I think there's something for playing a relatively normal guy fighting in the thick of things with all sorts of technology and magic whizzing around him.
ReplyDeleteCharacter I am most looking forward to playing is a pirate aristocrat just to field my Lord Rockbottom =)
ReplyDeleteDon't know if I'm in time for this but I'm planning on playing as a Khadoran Arcane Mechanik who's a follower of Menoth. Don't know what the second class I'll pick. I've already gotten the figure for him. Found a Testament body and used Bastions arms at Gamers in their used bin and then added a GW scout backpack on him.
ReplyDeleteSo who won?
ReplyDeleteIt was announced here: http://freshcoast40k.blogspot.com/2012/09/fresh-coast-giveaway-ikrpg-book-winner.html
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