I made up the inn, of course, but my goal was to have Dareon waiting for a potential courier within 5 minutes' walk of the Lodge. He was keeping Shiela's request for anonymity in mind, and didn't want to meet guards at the Lodge itself.
Sorry for the long delay in my posting!
Duboris - it looks like you're missing the stats in your status bar thing that the rest of us have. You might want to add that (and I presume something similar for Penance too for ease-of-tracking) before we get to the Crow!
Indeed, if it helps, he should REALLY read the spoiler I wrote for him a couple posts ago in the discussion. Otherwise he's in for a nasty surprise.
You did do the stats in the main page but that's not the concern. There have been weeks of you being asked multiple times to do the status bar and make a profile for Penance and you haven't done so.
Yes, that was exactly the issue, thank you Dareon.
Everyone (including Oz, but excluding Kascio and Esmeralda), all I could find that you gathered from the rooms is the bronze statuette and amphora of coins. There are some small gathers (little coin, single item here and there like smokestick, rope, or harness) which I don't know if you recorded on yourselves.
Did any of you even track gathering the coin from the bodies? I would like to put up a total, but I don't know if anyone has already recorded small amounts or not.
Could you each go through your posts and give me a list of what you collected so I know what was left and what was taken?
I think I did. But as I understand it, it was just 15gp per Tower Girl, which rounds out to 5gp per person per Tower Girl...I think we killed seven of them?
The only update I've made to my character sheet is the silk rope and the climbing harness. No coin or anything else.
First Tower Girl Fight
Dareon claimed: climbing kit, second-story harness, grappling hook, tanglefoot bag (from Oz)
Faedrin claimed:
Oz claimed: Tanglefoot Bag (1)
Tanjvats claimed: Smokestick (1), scroll of silence (from Faedrin)
Uriah claimed: silk rope (50ft), hand crossbow bolts (15)
Gold Recovered: 30gp
Tower Girls' Treasure Room?
Dareon claimed: amphora filled with coins (not yet valued/appraised/counted)
Faedrin claimed:
Oz claimed:
Tanjvats claimed:
Uriah claimed:
Left Behind: 5lb bronze statue covered in runes
Second Tower Girl Fight begins
Fight ends
Dareon claimed: masterwork short sword, potions of lesser restoration (2)
Faedrin claimed:
Oz appraised: 100gp platter, 250gp pottery basin - left them behind for later
Tanjvats claimed:
Uriah claimed: tanglefoot bags (2), smokesticks (2)
Gold Recovered: 177gp
Tower Girls: 2 left unconscious but stable, Terisha and 4 others killed
Notable Gear Left Behind (Terisha's): mwk chain shirt, mwk hand crossbow, mwk whip
Final Tower Girl Fight
Dareon claimed:
Faedrin claimed: hand crossbows (3), bolts (30), short swords (3), climber's kits (3), grappling hooks (3), silk rope (50ft x2), theives' tools (3), smokestick (3), tanglefoot bags (6), second-story harness (2)
Tanjvats claimed: silk rope (50ft), second-story harness
Uriah claimed:
Gold Recovered: 45gp
As far as the loose gps are concerned, if it's a 3-way split between Dareon, Fade, and Tanj, that'd be 84gp per person.
If Uriah took a cut before heading off on his new assignment, it's 63gp per person.
That is amazing, Faedrin, thank you immensely for that!
With that, split the coin gathered by 4 (Uriah would likely take his share at the very least), and disregard anything he picked up.
Now, are you guys doing anything with what you have gathered?
Selling?
Using and selling your old gear?
Other?
I have the harness and the silk rope, and my other, plain rope is left behind at the Manor.
I haven't claimed anything else, but will add 63gp to my wealth.
Let's get back in the dungeon!
Faedrin's not of a mind to spend the morning shopping or selling off the previous day's haul. That stuff can all wait for after the job's done as far as he's concerned.
Are we (all us PCs) ready to get back to the Crow like Tanj suggests? I am.
I'm with Tanj and Fade.
I'm in!
More than ready.
No, you are not. I and others have asked, cajoled, or harangued you repeatedly to put the status bar into your profile. I even specifically gave you a spoiler saying that every hit will connect and that every amount of damage is more than you can take, because I can't see your AC or HP.
I also asked that Penance have either a separate profile or be included in the status bar you should have added a long time ago. This seems like it is becoming a reoccurring theme, and is actually bothering more than just myself (as it has bothered Lein in his LoF).
By the by, overnight I healed myself for 4 points of damage without asking you if that was the proper amount.
How I usually do it is HD+CON mod nightly, which is what I did. Is that okay?
Overnight healing is HD/night. So you guys would each heal 2 hp/night of rest.
Well, with an 11 AC most everything will hit regardless =P
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At the very least, I've got shield, and I'll likely take mage armor in the future. Essentially I'll have an AC of 19. Honestly Mage Armor would have been a better choice, but Esmeralda is going to avoid combat as much as she can when it breaks out as she is extremely frail. She's likely to enlarge Penance and then get the hell out of the way, knowing what she needs to by communicating with her Eidolon or just listening in general.
I chose Shield because I was worried about magic missile, honestly. Penance is the exact opposite of her, however, and I'll be making it a point to keep him alive with Infernal healing and whatever else is necessary. It can help everyone else out too.
I'd love to turn it into a wand, but I'm just as likely to take to brewing potions to help everyone else out, or I would, if Dareon wasn't already an Alchemist.
I'll probably take to craft wand when I can get that, though, assuming I don't find something else.
Honestly I'm just focused on keeping Esmeralda alive.
Does infernal healing work on eidolons? I thought you needed eidolon-specific healing spells to recover their hp?
There are indeed eidolon-specific healing spells, but there's nothing on an eidolon's stats that says it can't be affected by spells just like every other outsider, and infernal healing's target is "Creature touched". It doesn't specify type like enlarge person or make whole or such.
I prefer to use infernal healing over the rejuvenate eidolon line because it, on average, heals more until you're level 5.
Esmeralada, I wonder if you're getting the 10 minute figure from your Summoner's Call feat? The benefits of it last for the first 10 minutes your eidolon is summoned.
/shrug
Sorry for my recent silence. I have a business trip coming up next week and have been trying to prepare. I promise I will post tomorrow. I may have more time for posting next week depending on how good the wifi is at the hotel (since I will have nothing but time at the hotel).
Starting some travel tomorrow. Won't be totally offline, but will have more family commitments, through Tuesday.
Okay, so I was skimming the forums, and ran across these two gems:
Painlord's Guide to PbP GMing: Make Your World a Better Place
Building a Better Doomed Hero: Painlord's Advanced Play-by-Post Play
I would suggest that anyone playing PbP read them, as they are quite inclusive.
They got me thinking about what bogs me down when it comes to keeping my pace up. I think any time I have to update the map, I balk and stall. So, in the end, I'm looking to find any better ways of mapping, but I need to be able to access it both at work and at home. Also, I really don't like the homemade colored blocks of drawing it in googledocs.
Does anyone have any good ideas for mapping, or any other things to help maintain a better pace?
Honestly - and you know this - my first instinct most of the time is just to not map at all. Players have got good imaginations.
As opposed to pace - cut the games that aren't as exciting. Recruit players that interest you and settle for nothing less than exceptional characters. If you're invested, it's easiest to keep yourself posting.
I think that may be one of my mapping options. I try to map it all, so it's clear, but I only really need a map when the fighting starts. I can't do mapless completely, too much of the game rules and options revolve strictly around proper positioning.
As far as cut games, do you mean altogether or the ones I run? I won't drop any of the ones I run as I actually enjoy the games.
I mean to say play games that excite you. That's all, really. And don't play games that don't excite you, because if there are things that don't excite you about getting on paizo, you won't do it as often.
The hurdle of map-making is the singular thing that's kept me from GMing anything over pbp. There's no good solution that would let me manage one from behind my office firewall and, even if there were, the ammount of time maps take for my in-person group is daunting enough and pbp maps require even more attention with all the tokens and such.
I do find that the games which are less map intensive (not entirely map-less, just ones that require the GM to do less constant work maintaining them) seem to run more smoothly than the more intricate ones. A few games I'm in have maps that the GM somehow gave the players the ability to update, so we're able to move our own tokens (or other players' tokens even).
That being said, I appreciate the help maps can be in providing understanding and precision. The spearhead-room we just found, for instance, isn't something I would have understood correctly without the map. It would have been close-ish, but the map really helped it make immediate sense.
And with all the rules built up around flanking, AoO's, cover, range, line of effect, etc - there seems to be a definite need within the system itself for precise positional understanding for all the characters.
I use Roll20 for all my maps, and post screen shots onto Google. With the fog of war feature, it really cuts down on my prep time.
Okay, I've been toying with the google drive for sharing mapping. I attached the map in the usual link.
Could a couple of you go in and see if you're able to move your pieces around? Ideally to where you declared you were moving.
If so, I will start using this for mapping. Before, I would have to take pictures of the drawn map, uplaod to Flikr, then post the link. The process was longer and more involved.
I'm hoping this will take some of the map load off of me so I'm not dreading it and slowing myself down.
Map worked for me. Super-easy once I got used to the zoom controls and could grab my piece correctly. Tanjvats moved towards the middle of the room to reflect his darkvision sweep.
I won't be able to give it a go until I get home, and tonight's the office Christmas party right after work so it'll be a bit before I'm able to give it a go. =)
In light of the recent discussion, and my intentions, I intend to pick up the pace. All I ask is that you guys stay with me (it's not like I go super-fast, I just want to motivate myself and be motivated to go a healthy bit faster). To that end, part of the advice/discussion I linked is about tough love.
That means, if I do not feel I'm getting enough involvement out of someone, I may ask that they ramp it up. If they still don't deliver, I may have to ask that they excuse themselves from the game. I hate to do it, but I recognize that some of my delay comes from waiting on everyone to post, and sometimes just one person's silence may be the thing that's causing me to drag.
On another note,
My initiative tracker. Would everyone prefer it if the order never changed and I just highlight whose turn it is somehow, or are you guys fine with the way I cycle it?
Understood Aard.
Initiative: you can track Init however you want. I really like the round summary, damage information, and action list you provide, so please continue that part. Unless it's too much hassle, in which case I can suck it up.
Aye aye, cap'n!
In-game post later tonight.
For those that are unable to move their piece on the map, at least give a grid or location so myself or someone else can move you.
May ancient relics find themselves underneath your Christmas tree this night.
Esmeralda, you did not answer whether you can use the map or not. Knowing this will help determine what I need to do in regards to mapping.
It's the link on his Aardvark DM header. It's labeled "Sunday 23 Rova 4712".
Guys, I moved the loot link to the short description. That way it shows up at the top of each page. if you haven't done so yet, please check out the link and let me know if it does or doesn't work for you. It should be read only, as I have some hidden columns in there for my eyes only.
It isn't really filled in or fully ready yet, but I'm getting there. I just wanted to make sure it was working first.
I just want to make it perfectly clear up front, this is not a complaint at all.
There is a decent amount of posting, which I appreciate, and I enjoy the discussion and RP. However, there is not a lot of anyone doing anything actionable. Meaning, I don't actually have anything to post until there is, and I'm concerned that you guys might be waiting on me. If that's not the case, okay. I just didn't want you guys to think that I haven't been posting or ready to move forward. I just don't have anything to act on.
Also, as a point of preference, would you guys want me to put the houserules up where the loot link is, or leave them in the campaign tab?