Children of the Void (Inactive)

Game Master therealthom

part 2 of Second Darkness


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Male Aasimar (Plumekith) Occultist (Psychodermist/Reliquarian) (AC 25/17/20; HP 52/52; Fort +9, Ref +10, Will +8; Init +8, Perception +17, CMD 22)
Mordecai wrote:
Mordecai raises an eyebrow at the chatter, When he has hooked a shark, the wise man cuts bait, Lothan.

I laughed out loud when I saw this one :-)


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

The interplay with you guys is a lot of fun.

UNfortunately today is an airport day. No internet for me until tomorrow.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Also, last minute work trip. Hopefully I'll have internet on the road. Else, you'll hear from me Friday.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Guys, you've been really patient with my delays and I feel I owe an explanation of sorts. I work for a small company -- about a dozen guys. Well it was about a dozen guys. Over the past six months we've lost 4 guys and added 3, and we were thinking about hiring when the defections began. Company wide work load is about the same or maybe even up slightly, but the three new guys are really still in training. We're hiring 2 more in early June. Training new people is the kind of thing where you wish you didn't have to because it takes longer than doing the job alone, but we've got to get them up to speed so we can spread the work out again. Anyway -- it's meant more time at work with less opportunity to post, less time with the family (which means time I would have spent posting from home no longer exists) and much less time for posting.

Could be six more months of this before work is back on an even keel.

I'm still enjoying the game. I hope you all will hang in here with me.


M Ghoul (human) Cleric (of Urgathoa) 5

Do the real-life thing first, obviously.

I'll totally be in it for the duration of this island exploitation, as Mordecai was my first PBP character, and I'm not giving up on the guy until he's zombie-chow!

Or undead. :)

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Male Halfing Barbarian 4

As always, do what you have to - Kuva will be ready to dance the dance of battle whenever you are.


Male Aasimar (Plumekith) Occultist (Psychodermist/Reliquarian) (AC 25/17/20; HP 52/52; Fort +9, Ref +10, Will +8; Init +8, Perception +17, CMD 22)

I am just grateful that you are still running the game :-)

Tyrrol is certainly not going to go anywhere!

@Mordecai: So, you want to become undead? Does that mean that if we come across any 5th level or higher non-good clerics that happen to have Animate Dead prepped, we should say goodbye to Mordecai? :-P


Male Half-Elf Slayer 14th; Hp's 118/118; Perc: 34; AC 27/touch 16/FF 21, CMD: 32, Fort: +14/Ref: +18/Will: +12

And what good is Tyrrol without his ol' buddy Lothan,(we go waaayyy back), to keep him honest, humble and caring of others! ;)

At least that's the vibe I'm getting from Tyrrol. Everyone is with me on this, right? I hope I haven't missed something. scratches head, wondering. :D


M Ghoul (human) Cleric (of Urgathoa) 5
Tyrrol Radanavich wrote:
@Mordecai: So, you want to become undead? Does that mean that if we come across any 5th level or higher non-good clerics that happen to have Animate Dead prepped, we should say goodbye to Mordecai? :-P

Mordecai has standards, sirrah. Ghoul is the absolute least form of undead he'll become, and even that will just be a pit-stop on the way to lichdom. Or mummification, depending on his mood.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4
Mordecai, the Deathless Hunger wrote:
Tyrrol Radanavich wrote:
@Mordecai: So, you want to become undead? Does that mean that if we come across any 5th level or higher non-good clerics that happen to have Animate Dead prepped, we should say goodbye to Mordecai? :-P

Mordecai has standards, sirrah. Ghoul is the absolute least form of undead he'll become, and even that will just be a pit-stop on the way to lichdom. Or mummification, depending on his mood.

Zombie. My final offer.

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therealthom wrote:
Zombie. My final offer.

Hmm. Seems like it would limit role-playing opportunities. :)

"Actors don't like to play comas. They feel it limits the range..."


Male Human Diviner Wizard 6

DM, how do handle the costs for writing spells into a spellbook?


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Lecian, given the lack of resources on the island, I'm inclined to just waive the costs. You've only got your free spells per level and the spell books to draw from. I don't see any need to gimp you more.

Set, you're the man. No reason in particular. Just an aggregate of good, cool, funny, or awesome posts in various threads.

Now the bad news. My parents are in town for the week, then it's family vacation time -- two weeks on the road drifting from hotel to hotel. Work will also be amking some extra demands, so RL will be busy.

This is going to negatively affect playing time, so as I reach a good stopping point in each, I'm putting all the games I run on hold for the three weeks. I'll start posting again around June 20th or 21st.


Male Humanly Awesome 'n Totally Rockin' Paladin of Greatness
Mordecai wrote:


They can't do that! They're just animals, man! They're just animals!

lol! Again, I am reminded of said line: "Game over, man! Game over!" (Aliens pbp crossover, hey Set?) ;)


Male Humanly Awesome 'n Totally Rockin' Paladin of Greatness

I think I finally found the right thread this time. :)


(AC 19, hp 33 of 37) Human Cleric (Urgathoa) 6

4th level hit points 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Eh. Beats rolling another 1.

OMFG. I just updated him to 4th level and the darn thing didn't save. Grr. 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back. :)

Chose +1 Wisdom at 4th, +1 hit point for FC bonus (with +4 hp from Toughness and +2 of his FC bonuses to hit points, he's up to average hit points for his level), more Diplomacy, Sense Motive and Perception skillz.

Grand Lodge

I may be a little while getting Kuva updated, but I'll try for tonight or tomorrow at the latest.


Maps, etc...

No worries. I'm in no hurry.


Male Human Diviner Wizard 6

HP: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7


Male Humanly Awesome 'n Totally Rockin' Paladin of Greatness

Ameliorated?!? Are you serious?! Look, I don't call you names! ;)


Male Aasimar (Plumekith) Occultist (Psychodermist/Reliquarian) (AC 25/17/20; HP 52/52; Fort +9, Ref +10, Will +8; Init +8, Perception +17, CMD 22)

+1 level of Fighter

+1d10 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8 hp

+1 BAB

+1 Ref, +1 Will

Skills: +1 Climb, +1 Perception, +1 Swim

+1 Str

Overhand Chop

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Male Halfing Barbarian 4

Leveling up Kuva:

+1 level of Barbarian

Taking Powerful Blow as his new Rage Power

+1 BAB
+1 Fort

+1 Con stat increase

and skills updated - Intimidate, Perception, Acrobatics, and Stealth.

HP increase: 1d12 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12


Male Human Diviner Wizard 6

I never added the '+1 skill point or HP bonus' to my character for having levels in a favored class, so I'm now adding 4 HP to Lecian's maximum HP.

Wizard 4
+1 Climb, Ride, Swim, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Knowledge (Arcana, Geography, History)
+1 BAB, Will
+1 2nd-level and 1st-level slots


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Sorry, I should have caught that. Hey, by way of compensation, I will mention you are unlikely to use Ride in this adventure.

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Male Halfing Barbarian 4

Unless we can convince him to tame an akata...


Male Human Diviner Wizard 6

Anything's possible.

I changed Ride to Stealth and bumped up CHA by 1.

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Male Halfing Barbarian 4

Fun fact: Kuva is now my second small-sized character to be currently drowning on the pbp boards. Hence-forth all of my characters are going to be medium-sized characters with 20 Str and max ranks in swim, even the sorcerors.


I had a halfling almost drown in a PbP, too. (She did end up dying in the water later, but that was due to being stabbed to death by lizardfolk ninjas.) What is it about halflings that makes DMs want to throw them in the water? ;)


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Work is pounding me this week. I will be dropping my son at college Fri-Sun.

I'll try to post when I can. Don't hold your breath.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Set,

question. In dabblers RotRL game Vaclav just hit 3rd level. Are you happy with what you got out of craft wondrous items as Marak's feat choice? I know the party didn't really take you up on it. What do you think?

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Some dude
therealthom wrote:

Set,

question. In dabblers RotRL game Vaclav just hit 3rd level. Are you happy with what you got out of craft wondrous items as Marak's feat choice? I know the party didn't really take you up on it. What do you think?

We happened to be at a point where we had a week off or something when I took it, which allowed me to make a couple items for myself at half cost, which pretty much was a cool deal at the time, but we haven't had a lot of breaks since (and he doesn't have much cash lying around to take advantage of it anyway), so it's kind of a hit or miss thing.

In a Kingmaker type game, where you know you'll get days, or even months off, periodically, I could see the feat rocking. Perhaps Jade Regent has some opportunities built in as well, with the weeks of caravan-stuff. I'd rate Craft Wondrous Items (for headbands and belts and stuff of stat enhancement, cloaks of resistance and haversacks), Craft Arms & Armor (self-explanatory) and Craft Rod (metamagic rods) as the top three choices.

Rise of the Runelords doesn't seem to have as many convenient pauses in the action, to do that sort of thing, although you can check with Dabbler, to see how it will work in his game. He might be willing to build in some breaks for you to do crafting. Or he might hate the idea of you spending a feat and everybody's WBL for wondrous items is effectively doubled.

This is just my experience, but after I pick up Improved Initiative, Toughness and / or Augment Summoning, I pretty much don't care where my feats go for spellcasters. In the absence of cool stuff like 3.0s Reserve Feats, most spellcaster feats, IMO, are total crap anyway, so even if Marak never has a chance to craft another item, he's still gotten more use out of it than he would a metamagic feat (hate the mechanic) or Dodge or Power Attack or whatever. That is purely an artifact of my playstyle, though. Marak (like most of my Clerics) is a support cleric, not a front-line combat dude who would have a use for Power Attack or Dodge or whatever, so it might be more accurate to say that there are crap-all for feats that support my playstyle. :)


Thanks for the input, Set. I hadn't even been thinking about craft wondrous til hogarth suggested it. I guess part of my question is are there enough cool things you can make at third level.

Another feat I've been considering is Selective Channel. So far this party gets sandpapered a lot and it would be handy to be able to throw healing at multiple party members in a turn.

Improved initiative is a good idea too. I do like going first.

Summons. I probably don't do enough with them. Vaclav is a pretty straight-forward shoot'em dead kind of guy.

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Human 10th Cleric of Nethys | AC 21/T 12/FF 15, CMD 20, HP 103 / 103, F+12, R +7, W+15, Per +8, Init +6
thereal thom wrote:
Thanks for the input, Set. I hadn't even been thinking about craft wondrous til hogarth suggested it. I guess part of my question is are there enough cool things you can make at third level.

I put a list in my profile, one sec while I dig it up...

Here's the stuff that he has the spells for, on his Cleric list;

Spoiler:
Healing Belts, for those who don't already have them, perhaps? (500 gp to craft)

He'll be able to craft Belts of Giant's Strength +2 or Mighty Constitution +2, Headbands of Alluring Charisma +2 or Inspired Wisdom +2 as well (or Physical Might - Str + Con, or Mental Prowess - Wis + Cha). A +2 belt or headband is 2000 gp to craft, and one that gives +2 to Str+Con or Wis+Cha is 5000 gp to craft. (He'd need another caster present to be able to craft an item with +2 Dex or +2 Int, to cast Cat's Grace or Fox's Cunning.)

Cloaks of Resistance +1, also an option. 500 gp. to craft. Won't be able to make +2 cloaks until sixth level.

Pearls of Power (1st - 3rd level), 500 gp, 2000 gp or 4500 gp.

Others; Bottle of Air, Candle of Truth, Circlet of Persuasion, Minor Circlet of Blasting, Cube of Frost Resistance, Elixir of Truth, Gem of Brightness, Goggles of Night, Helm of Comprehending Languages and Reading Magic, Helm of Underwater Action, Horn of Fog, Horn of Goodness/Evil, Lantern of Revealing, Medallion of Thought, Periapt of Health, Phylactery of Faithfulness, Robe of Bones (naughty!), Silversheen, Sovereign Glue, Stone of Good Luck, Necklace of Prayer Beads (bless, healing), Sustaining Spoon, Unguent of Timelessness

Note that other stuff, that he lacks the prereq for, just adds +5 to the DC (and might be counterable with a second caster present to fill in blanks like Fox's Cunning or Cat's Grace).


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Leaving Friday afternoon for the land of very little internet. (My parents.) Back Monday.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Work and the new online campaign forum have/had me a little messed up. Should resume posting tonight.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Surprise business trip keeping me offline yesterday and today.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

I'm traveling on a new job Monday through Wed. and still sorting out last week's debacle. Posting may be tenuous for the next week. I'll do what I can.

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Male Halfing Barbarian 4

Hey, sorry about not posting initiative - just had a really busy week and am struggling to catch up online. Did Kuva's turn get skipped in the first round? We can say that he was still sleeping.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4
Kuva Azul wrote:
Hey, sorry about not posting initiative - just had a really busy week and am struggling to catch up online. Did Kuva's turn get skipped in the first round? We can say that he was still sleeping.

oops. Rolled init for him and then didn't move. It's top of round 2 so you can still take your Round 1 actions.

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Some dude

Dayum! Lecian is busting out the lazer beams! Good shot!


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Set, only two paragraphs, but that last post of yours was loaded! Nice writing.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Guys, sorry I've been AWOL. Should be able to post tonight! ~fingers crossed~

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Tyrrol wrote:
"It is possible, we may not have gotten to it in time, and something *could* in fact be eating him - irritability and personality change could be some of the early symptoms..."

Awesome!

Grand Lodge

I cracked up upon reading that. Excellent work, sirs!


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Happy thanksgiving!

With the holiday and work I may be slow posting for te next week or two.


Male Humanly Awesome 'n Totally Rockin' Paladin of Greatness

Happy Thanksgiving to you all.


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Work, holidays and prepping visits by the in-laws is leaving me rather busy IRL. I'd like to put the game on hiatus for a bit.

I'll see you guys shortly after Christmas. Not sure of an exact date because my wife is planning a last minute holiday trip with my mother-in-law.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.


Male Humanly Awesome 'n Totally Rockin' Paladin of Greatness

To you as well, Thom. Enjoy your trip, buddy.

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Male Halfing Barbarian 4

Happy holidays and safe travels!


Cookie Jar Pilferer 9 ; Dimensional Explorer 4

Merry Christmas! Looks like posting will be sketchy next week.

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