Character Selection

[TheFlax]

Assigned Characters

Tristan de Castelreng (King Phillipe)
Ramses II CP (Prince Louis)
mini (Henri)
Ibn-Khaldun (Charles)
TheFlax (Constance)
AussieGiant (Alain de Rohan)
Cecil XIX (Raymond de Provence)
Overknight (Hugues de Champagne)
General Hankerchief (Raynaud de Xaintrailles)
Ignoramus (Gaspard de Neufville)
Ituralde (Simon de Montpierre)
Northnovas (Robert Bouchart; reserved)
TinCow (Christophe de Perronne)
econ21 (Hermant Mauvoisin)
deguerra (Raoul de Chatillon)
YLC (Gaeten de Rethel)
Rowan (Alphonse la Hire; reserved)
Andres (Thierry de Rochefort)
woads&fang (Bertin de Montsault)
TheLemongate (Eloi de Montferrat)
KnightnDay (Thomas de Saint-Amand)
Cultured Drizzt Fan (Yvon Lacaze)
everyone (Pierre de Saint-Germain)
Marcus Agrippa (Alexandre le Sueur)
Vladimir (Gontran de Limar)
Beskar (Loup de Gisors)

Unassigned Characters

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Draft Order

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Reserved

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Assigned

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[Cecil XIX]

Aren't I playing the Duke of Burgundy? I thought that was Raymond de Provence?

[TheFlax]

Aren't I playing the Duke of Burgundy? I thought that was Raymond de Provence?

Mix up on my part. Apologies.

[TheFlax]

RGBs are up and ready to be picked. A huge thank you to OK for sending me all of the mugshots!

[Vladimir]

How was the draft order selected? My fingernails are in serious peril!

[AussieGiant]

Well golly gosh OK, will you pick already!!??

[OverKnight]

What the hell, I may not deserve it, but I'll take the fourth Duchy.

Hugues de Champagne it is.

[AussieGiant]

What the hell, I may not deserve it, but I'll take the fourth Duchy.

Hugues de Champagne it is.

Ahh jees. Now you've torn it OK.

[TheFlax]

How was the draft order selected? My fingernails are in serious peril!

Activity from previous games.

[_Tristan_]

There is one that is pictured twice... Deodat d'Armagnac and we're missing the possible adoptee of Louis (Ramses II CP)

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

how long do you all think that character selection and getting the game ready will take? I am leaving on Sunday to go camping and will not be back for a week......

[_Tristan_]

From the contacts I had with Zim, the game should be ready to go by the start of next week with the tournament once character selection is over

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

ahhhh, looks Like I will have to miss it then.

[Ituralde]

Glad to see you step up to the plate OK

Not to be too picky, but many times the last trait is cut off too much so that it's hard to make out the exact trait.

Also I wonder if anyone's gonna pick the 1 loyalty guy!

[ULC]

I see 2 that I want, but all bets are on that they will get taken

Alexandre le Sueur - Decent, nice name, and awesome portrait
Raynaud de Xaintrailles - High Command, has the "Smart" trait, decent portrait

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

I am not even going to look at any of them till its my turn, cause chances are every single one I like will be taken.....

[OverKnight]

Not to be too picky, but many times the last trait is cut off too much so that it's hard to make out the exact trait.

I wanted to avoid taking two captures and then slog through combining them when it was only one trait being partially obscured. Apologies. If someone has a specific question about the obscured trait on a character I'll be happy to take a look at the save.

As for the adoptee, it's up to Ramses as Louis to accept or decline the offer.

Considering a player hasn't been assigned to him and we have about 50 RGBs to choose from, I'd suggest declining so as to leave a child slot open.

ahhhh, looks Like I will have to miss it then.

As for Cultured Drizzt Fan, perhaps you could rank your peferences for the available characters, send it to Zim in a PM, and when your name comes up we'll give you the highest ranked available character?

[Ramses II CP]

If someone particularly wants the character up for adoption I will accept (Partly because he looks like Vissa from LotR), but there is little to distinguish him from the rest of the chivalry pack so if no one wants him, as seems likely, I'll decline.

[Ituralde]

I wanted to avoid taking two captures and then slog through combining them when it was only one trait being partially obscured. Apologies. If someone has a specific question about the obscured trait on a character I'll be happy to take a look at the save.

I actually managed to decipher those that I was interested in. Amazing how much you can deduct from just glimpsing the upper fifth of the text. My initial confusion came from some of the avatars having initial dread ratings and I tried to figure out from which trait the dread had come.

[TinCow]

Also I wonder if anyone's gonna pick the 1 loyalty guy!

The loyalty bit is a shame on a few of the avatars. Some of them have other traits I like a lot, but I really have no desire to deal with the possibility of a character going rebel after I've put a lot of working into creating them.

[ULC]

I dare Econ to take one of the "sexually liberated" avatars...

And Eudes d_Argouges is indeed an error, correct? Otherwise his last name would be a nightmare to pronounce - dunderscoreargouges

[TinCow]

There are several with the underscore error.

[TheFlax]

I'm pretty sure those are supposed to be apostrophes, so we can just treat them as such.

[_Tristan_]

The game wouldn't let me make names with apostrophes.. hence the underscore...

[TinCow]

Does "d'XXXX" have a different meaning than "de XXXX"?

[_Tristan_]

No, you could compare it in English with a/an... Depends if there is a vowel/consonant following the "de"

[_Tristan_]

Alexandre le Sueur - Decent, nice name, and awesome portrait

Nice name ? I'm not so sure... It would translate roughly as Alexandre the Sweaty

[econ21]

I wonder if it would speed up the character selection process if the top 5 players on the list just ranked 5 avatars in their order of preference? That way, if they are not online when it is their turn to pick, they can be given the available avatar highest on their list and we can move on to the next 5 etc.

Also, it might be an idea to have an "alert" system like we used for successor games - when one player picked up a save, we'd PM the next inline to alert them - telling them that if we did not get a response after a decent interval, we would move on to the next one. That way the game was not held up waiting for the next in-line. I'd suggest PMing players 1-10 in the list to alert them and tell them if they don't reply or post that they are ready and waiting for their turn, they may be skipped when the time comes if they remain unresponsive.

I'm just thinking some players above Vladimir have not posted on this sub-forum for a while.

[TinCow]

PMing everyone in advance is a good idea.

I will post my top 5 list after I get home. I'd like to look at the save before I make my selection, because the traits of the Kings, Dukes, etc. could theoretically impact my decision.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Sorry YLC, but I'm taking Raynaud de Xaintrailles.

PMing Ignoramus now. Let's hope his inbox is clear.

-edit- Woohoo! It got through!