(ominous music)
- Hi there everyone, I'm Jason Bulmahn,
Game Master for the Knights of Everflame,
and today we're here to talk to Gina about Omelette.
Hey there, Gina, welcome.
- Hello!
Hello, hello, hello, hello.
- Today what I'd like to do
is go through the choices that went making Omelette.
Omelette's not your full name, though.
You're Omelette--
- No, Omelette Stonebreaker.
- Stonebreaker.
Now, let's start with the uh, the big question.
- [Gina] Yes.
- Omelette?
- Omelette. (laughs)
Yeah.
Okay, I can't take full credit
for naming her, unfortunately.
- [Jason] Oh no.
- No, basically I was in Europe
when we were making her.
(laughs)
And so I was in Prague, and I was sitting at breakfast,
being like, okay, so I gotta make a character.
I'm gonna be a dwarf, and what kind of names
would dwarves have?
And my boyfriend just looked down,
and he was eating an omelet,
and he was like, Omelette's a fun name.
I don't know if he was serious.
But I was like,
that is the most amazing name I've ever heard.
Yes. No other names. I accept. It has to be.
And so I built the entire thing around that. (laughs)
- So, you were lucky it wasn't like, you were having like
eggs benedict, or crepes, or pancakes
- No, it would have been that.
- So, the name came before the backstory.
- Yes.
- Yeah, built the whole backstory
around the name Omelette.
It was like, why would she be named Omelette?
Now we have to find out!
- Why don't you recount that story for us?
The reason why - uh...
Because we revealed it in Season One.
- [Both] During a drunken slur.
- The reason her name is Omelette
is because her family had fifteen girls
and they were waiting for a boy
to send to Lastwall,
as is family tradition at this point.
And they always use to say
"You gotta break a few eggs
to get an omelet."
And on the fifteenth-
by the time the sixteenth girl came around
they decided that I was the omelet.
- Yeah, and your mom at that point was just like
"No that's it, we're not having anymore kids."
- No more, no more!
- Yeah, that's it.
So this is it, this is what we're workin' with.
- This is it.
- We already spoiled that you decided to play a dwarf.
So when we talk about characters in Pathfinder
we often talk about building them via your abc's;
your ancestry, your background, and your class.
So ancestry for you is Dwarf,
but you have a heritage
that I'm not sure we've really talked about on the show.
I'm not sure if you wanna spoil it here or not, but...
- Oh! I mean I can...
- Sure! Let's chat about it a little.
- Okay! I am ancient blooded.
- Ancient blooded, now what's that do for you?
- So basically I'm resistant to magic
because I have the-
the flow of my ancestry envelopes and protects me.
- Well that's an interesting part of your character, too.
Because the lineage of the Stonebreaker clan
is a big part of your story.
So, you know, that makes perfect sense.
The fact that your clan
has been serving in Lastwall
for what, like a thousand years?
Let's talk about the second choice you made for Omelette
which was your background.
- Yes, yes!
- What did you choose there?
- I picked martial discipline.
And I picked that because
I'd sort of built this whole history of my family
serving at Lastwall
and me being the baby of my family,
and sort of having to catch up with my destiny,
and being immediately sent to train with my father,
and train at local...
- In the local militia.
- Local militia and things like that.
So that was kinda where she kinda grew up
just fighting and not really
being a part of her family's sort of
business.
And that just sort of being her path
from the get go.
- You're from the Five King Mountain Range.
- [Gina] Yes.
- So for you, the martial tradition there is very strong.
- [Gina] Yeah.
- It obviously makes sense
because you were being trained from a young age
to go join the army,
after your mom said no more kids.
- [Gina] (laughs)
- Alright, fair enough.
So let's get to the meat
of what makes Omelette tick,
and that was your choice of class.
You went barbarian.
- I did!
- Yeah, yeah.
So, not a lot of people know this
because we didn't really
talk about it too much in the first season,
but everybody started out at fifth level.
And about halfway through Season One, spoilers,
the group made it to sixth level.
So let's talk about some of the choices you made
when it comes to being a barbarian.
- Yeah.
- Let's talk about some of the feats
and some of the choices you made within that.
And the biggest choice you get to make
within the barbarian class
is what is your instinct.
- Yes!
- [Jason] Where did you go with that?
- I went all spirit.
I'm - full family, I want to make a full
very dedicated,
very rich family life for her.
Very big family,
not just her sisters
but like, the stone and everything.
So I- when I leveled up
really my choices for level up
was because of my greataxe.
There's a handy-dandy
fun crit mechanic
that when that happens,
I get to keep swingin' straight through another foe,
so when I saw cleave,
I was just
so excited,
that if I happened to crit and or kill the person,
just, bam bam bam bam bam
just so many!
So many times I get to strike!
- We saw that at the end of Season One.
So one of the things that I loved about Season One
was as we went through the season
everybody really started to click
on what their abilities were.
It was the first time playing
a lot of these characters,
and you jump in at fifth level,
and that can kinda leave you goin',
"How do I make this character work?"
And, you hit that point in the final battle of Kassen
where you just ran up and
with one action cut through like three undead.
- Yep!
- And everyone else at the table,
me included, was just like,
"What's happening here?!"
- It felt amazing 'cause I,
I've said before, I usually play magic users,
so this was the first time
I've ever felt like I put the correct
lego pieces in place
to do an epic turn
without feeling like
"Gah! I hit a thing.
Next."
It felt like,
"Oh I set it up right
and now I get to just flick the dominoes
and now everything gets to be
destroyed."
- So the spirit rage allows you to
call upon the spirits of your ancestors
to deal extra positive or negative damage,
which helped a lot against the undead in Season One.
- [Gina] Very much.
- So that's been really exciting.
Are there any other feats or choices
you made in building Omelette that you wanna talk about
or anything else that you know,
maybe is a little different,
or maybe a little unusual
that you wanna showcase or highlight
- Some unusual? Well,
I definitely built some stuff into her
from the get go,
that was just,
I picked a lot of feats that were
what I thought she would have grown up doing.
So, I have things like,
catfall, and rock running,
and things that I would have imagined
she would have done as a child.
'Cause I really wanted her to move.
There's this image of barbarians in your head
that are just slow, and heavy,
and maybe not so bright.
- Just kind of a lumbering.
- Just a lumbering violence machine,
and she's that,
but she definitely,
she moves!
I wanted her to be feisty
and have a lot of mobility,
because I didn't wanna be limited by
heavy armor and heavy footed and all that stuff.
- Well so you can certainly get around the battlefield.
- Very much. I wanted a parkour barbarian,
- [Jason] (laughs)
- is what I wanted.
I wanted to like jump off of walls
and slam things,
and that's kind of my imagination
of when I was creating her.
- You've touched on one thing that I wanna touch on
that I find so refreshing and unique with Omelette,
and that is you're not gruff.
You're a barbarian but you don't
just have the frown on your face all the time.
You're like the happiest,
most exuberant barbarian I've ever seen,
and it's a real delight.
- Thanks!
That was definitely a thing that I wanted
when I picked barbarian,
just as a...
this is a thing I have never even come close to playing,
with mechanics or RPing at all.
I really wanted to try and do that,
and I always like to try to be the exact opposite,
see if the exact opposite personality
can work in that setting.
And played around with it,
"What is a really happy barbarian look like?"
And turns out, a very small dwarf named Omelette.
- Well I wanna thank you so much for stopping by.
For all of you watching at home,
if you want to catch more of Omelette's adventures,
tune into Season Two of Knights of Everflame.
We'll see you next time.
Buh-bye!
(orchestral music plays)