I've stopped getting emails when I get a new PM.  I did check the settings, and it's still set up to email me when I get a PM.

At first I thought it was because I was over the limit, but it happened again when I got down to 2 in my inbox.

Any ideas?

I will be losing that excuse soon, so I will use it for all I can until then!

I also realized I need to do the same thing with Stealth... hee hee... I'm such a n00b 

Stunts
-1 Scholarship - Capable researcher
-1 Scholarship - Medical training (not quite doctor; maybe medic-level?)
-1 Stealth - Swift and silent
-1 Survival - *** I think I'd like to make a new trapping - or maybe it's extending the existing trappings - based on a background of spending time each summer camping, hiking, boating, and recreational shooting and archery....

Ok, so I shouldn't have something here without having a skill associated with it.  Question - if I don't want to add the Stealth skill, can I create a stunt that will pull on my athleticism (speed, agility, etc) plus Survival and/or some other stuff to give me something like the 'swift and silent'? 

Oh, lol. Duh.  I guess that makes sense doesn't it?   

Ok, I'm going to start posting some bits and pieces about my character... it's not fully fleshed out - what I have needs a lot of refining, and clearly there's a lot missing, so please give me feedback and ideas!

Character: Erin Stephens
Template: Focused Practitioner
High Concept: Helping those less fortunate  ** this is supposed to include what my focus area is - I'm not sure how to express it succintly, though - I want to be good at potions, salves, etc.... mixtures, I guess... I use them primarily to aid in healing...
Trouble:
Other Aspects:

Skills  *** I'm over here, need to make some decisions
+4 Discipline  (high discipline = concentration and emotional control)
+4 Lore (knowledge of potion ingredients, herbs, chemicals, etc)
+4 Empathy
+3 Conviction (gives 2 additional mental stress boxes)
+3 Alertness
+3 Athletics
+2 Driving
+2 Resources
+2 Scholarship
+1 Weapons
+1 Investigation
+1 Rapport
+1 Presence

Powers
-2 Ritual

Stunts
-1 Scholarship - Capable researcher
-1 Scholarship - Medical training (not quite doctor; maybe medic-level?)
-1 Stealth - Swift and silent
-1 Survival - *** I think I'd like to make a new trapping - or maybe it's extending the existing trappings - based on a background of spending time each summer camping, hiking, boating, and recreational shooting and archery....


Focus Items/Enchanted Items
TBD

Phase 1 - Background
Only child, raised in Manhattan, played lots of sports, very competitive in nature.  Large portions of the summer spent at a family cabin somewhere relatively remote - camping, hiking, boating, fishing, learning to shoot, learning archery, etc.   [more to come?]

Phase 2 - Rising Conflict
Had to learn a lot of first aid because of sports injuries and so much time doing crazy stuff outdoors.  Decided on education related to sports and medicine - goal to be a sports therapist.  [more to come...]

Phase 3 - Story
I'm thinking either something happened when friends and I were stranded somewhere in the wilderness, or when I was out of town with a sports team.... raised my awareness of the supernatural and a skill I had in mixing ingredients that helped with healing. 


That's really all I have for now.... as I said, still needs a LOT of work... I'm hoping some of you folks can give me some ideas to bring the ideas together and polish it up!

Since we don't have a better way to do this yet, a few of us thought it might be a good idea to open a thread where people could post some of their character ideas, to help us understand how we might play off each other.  (See, I learned something today!)


http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,18189.new.html#new

(we thought it would be a good idea to keep this current thread to city creation)

I am going to try to create location information for the Transamerica pyramid.

Be patient with me 

*worries*