Yahirma |
Y-you get to play? I remember getting to play. Now that convention season is effectively over (Kyle recently got us involved in another convention in 5 weeks' time), I'm going to run some GM training and design a few store events around introducing new GMs so that I might get some play-time.
I believe there were 14 slots over the course of the weekend (11 plus 3 slots of "Midnight Madness"). I think I ended up GMing 3 on Friday, worked 8 hours on Saturday, oversaw the Special, 3 on Sunday, and one today; amazingly, I wasn't roped into GMing the last slot of the convention, and that gave me a chance to visit the dealers' rooms.
Sadly, my table (GM) of Midnight Mirror fell through. Even so, I had fun.
Appario Lind |
Y-you get to play? I remember getting to play. Now that convention season is effectively over (Kyle recently got us involved in another convention in 5 weeks' time), I'm going to run some GM training and design a few store events around introducing new GMs so that I might get some play-time.
This kind of stuff worries me, Yahirma. I can't imagine working any GM that way at any convention (unless they requested it). I know we did a few less tables than DragonCon (170ish to 120ish), I know that we had only 2 GMs who GM'd more than 4 tables and we had 30+ who just GM'd 3 of the 11 slots.
I hope the GM 101 training spurs more GMs, however, I begin to think that the problem is more endemic than that.
So yeah...our GMs play a lot. I hope you'll come out sometime to see. :)
Xerath |
Overall the con was a lot of fun. Met great new players and the mods were pretty good. I recommend the Golem-works Incident.
DM Are |
Appario has no problem with slaying of evil, especially those as evil as them dark creepers/stalkers.
None of the dark folk were evil at all, actually :)
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So you're actually getting to play about 1/3rd of a season at a single convention (well, except Yahirma who has to GM all of those instead)? That's a pretty good deal.
Maddok |
Yeah, the con was a blast. I don't know if I'm ready to be an adult again.
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We should be good to resume regular progress today/tomorrow.
DM Are |
The forum just impressed me! Internet Explorer decided to get an error when I previewed the post for the second time (after having already previewed some of the die-rolls earlier), and then threw me to the messageboards main page when I refreshed.
So I had to click my way back into the campaign thread before attempting the post again, figuring I would have to go with a "trust me, that's what those rolls were" kind of solution. I had copied the post, as usual, but I assumed the rolls would be lost by making a new post. But the forum actually remembered the rolls despite all that :)
Maddok |
That was actually something I got fixed a few months ago.
I was in a PBP with a guy that I'd caught wind of cheating and after reporting it to Gary he fixed it.
DM Are |
Good thing you (and Gary) did :)
By the way, considering the misfortune tracker question; I have a txt-file where I keep information on various things (damage, ongoing effects, spell slots and class abilities used, etc). Should I post that information to the game thread as well (in a spoiler tag)? If so, how frequently?
Appario Lind |
Appario has a strange memory. This is the first locked door (as opposed to hidden) you've encountered in this entire building!
Uh...maybe Appario mis-thought. He meant to say traps! Yeah...that's it...traps and illusions.
How can people really function in a trapped, mostly-illusioned lair!?
And them dark folk are totally evil...
DM Are |
It's going to be tough getting in the room without continuing to stand in a lightning bolt formation.
Well, as long as Maddok is determined to be adjacent to Derek there will always be a lightning bolt formation :)
Besides, lightning doesn't hurt some of you that much anymore, plus wizards typically don't have limitless amounts of each spell prepared (and staff charges deplete quickly).
Appario Lind |
I've been spending some time figuring out what a spellcaster can actually do while grappled, which turns out to be woefully little. If you're a spellcaster and you get grappled, you better have a group of friends to help you or get lucky relatively quickly :)
Yep.
There are solutions, hopefully none that he has.
I'm going to keep trying to pun him to death. I'm going to make it un-bear-able to be in that room. Of course, sadly, there will be some collateral damage.
I can't believe that we're lvl 8 and don't have a solution to invisibility amongst all of us....no glitterdust, nor faerie fire, nor purge, nor nothing else. Of course Appario is as guilty as anyone of this.
Yahirma |
We do have a reckless habit of picking fights with anything Yahirma doesn't lure into our increasingly motley crew.
Outsiders, ex-outsiders, hag-spirits, [purported] vampires, and [supposed] lycanthropes! You would never guess that the party is 90% human.
Oh, and an amorous satyr.
Maddok |
That satyr may begin wondering when he'll have his reward! :)
Appario was wondering about how to make coin off men and women's desires...
DM Are |
Let's see.. Assuming my tracking is right:
Appario has both his spells left, plus 1 use of smite and 1 use of lay of hands.
Derek has 0 3rd-level spells left, 3 2nd-level spells, and all his 1st-level spells, plus 10 rounds of bardic performance. He also has several of the Morrowfall's powers (1 sunbeam, 1 sunburst, 1 blindness, 3 searing light, plus the at will abilities).
Maddok has 0 uses of summon monster left, 0 3rd-level spells, 2 2nd-level spells, and one 1st-level spell, plus 4 rounds of rage.
Xerath has 2 4th-level spells left, 0 3rd-level spells, 4 2nd-level spells, and one 1st-level spell, plus all his uses of his bloodline power.
Yahirma has 3 4th-level spells left, one 3rd-level spell, 4 2nd-level spells, and 2 1st-level spells. She has no uses of natural divination remaining, 5 uses of reminder of death, and all 10 uses of undead servitude.
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Injury-wise:
Appario has taken 1 STR damage.
Derek has taken 46 damage.
Maddok has taken 31 damage.
Xerath has taken 52 lethal damage, 12 nonlethal damage, and has 1 temporary negative level.
Yahirma has taken 9 damage.
Maddok |
Are you impress me again.
I think we'll be good to press on if we can get patched up off of wands.
Derek/Yahirma has healing wands, we have TONS of potions of lesser restoration for Appario's STR damage, and I believe we have a wand of restoration for Xerath's negative level.
Yahirma |
I'm good to heal up a few party members and try the rest of the mansion proper. This talk of a treasury and the noble crime lord implied to be somewhere downstairs sounds like a bit more than we can handle in one go. Let's clear the upstairs and head to the ground floor.
I have that Yahirma has 4 3rd level spells left, having cast two renditions of resist energy, communal and one round of chain of perdition against that dark stalker. Perhaps I missed a few rounds of cure serious wounds?
Yes...I must have missed at least one CSW in Walcourt.
Yahirma |
I'm good with clearing anything on the ground floor. It sounded like there's a basement (dungeons), and that sounds a bit dangerous with slim resources. Clearing everything above the dungeons/basement sounds like a reasonable goal, after which we can assess the need for rest.
DM Are |
Yes...I must have missed at least one CSW in Walcourt.
So 2 CSW, 2 Communal Resist, and 1 Chain. I had missed something too, though, as you have one more 3rd-level spell per day than I had written down (I must have forgotten to check bonus spell changes when the headband of charisma was upgraded). So the final tally is that Yahirma has 2 3rd-level spells left :)
Yahirma |
So 2 CSW, 2 Communal Resist, and 1 Chain. I had missed something too, though, as you have one more 3rd-level spell per day than I had written down (I must have forgotten to check bonus spell changes when the headband of charisma was upgraded). So the final tally is that Yahirma has 2 3rd-level spells left :)
Spells and Pet Projects list updated
Maddok |
Yahirma's True Neutrality: Because victory isn't complete unless 50% of all of my enemies end up becoming my friends [without Appario's knowledge].
If anything I'd think she was hiding her scheming from Xerath, not Appario. Appario doesn't care who we make alliances with.
Xerath |
Yea, Xerath is the one who has a problem with allying with everyone that tries to kill us. Especially those that succeeded.
Appario Lind |
Yahirma wrote:Yahirma's True Neutrality: Because victory isn't complete unless 50% of all of my enemies end up becoming my friends [without Appario's knowledge].If anything I'd think she was hiding her scheming from Xerath, not Appario. Appario doesn't care who we make alliances with.
What? I think Appario is making it pretty clear that some are less trusted than others.
Livia? Fine.
Talking Devilshead of Pure Evil? Fine.
Xerath? Must. Be. Watched. ;)