DM Carbide's The Dragon's Demand (Inactive)

Game Master John Woodford

Chronicle sheets:

Lulu

Kiddrik

Ignaru

Dhemia

Let me know if there are any issues with them.

When you're all leveled up, let me know and we can move forward.

I'm leveled, but want to make sure we understand our loot/gear setup before I fully finalize. I'd like to upgrade/purchase some items.

Let me know if you're cool with that. And given that it's an immediate action, how you want to handle it in PbP (where these types of interruptive abilities can be wonky to adjudicate on the fly).

I can roll it, if you declare it as a possibility.

Cool.

Wow, I just found something called Draconic Perfume that increases one's Bluff by +2 for an hour! :D Can I buy some? Seems darn apropos for a bluffer-Bewildering Koan gnome. And I suppose Temperance should buy some whiskey.

This is the boring part, I'm afraid. It can pick up a bit soon, depending on which way you go from here.

I get that, and I'm trying to be patient. :)

From my perspective, I'd be fine if you wanted to summarize or clump together these "action less" exploration sequences. I mean, we seem to be falling into the same pattern. Stealth > Perception/Detect Magic > Disable Device where necessary.

Ah, but Carbide could be lulling us into complacency, so we just open doors without checking and… WHAM! Exploding doormat.

I'm pretty much there. :)

Reorg happening at work, so today was wall-to-wall meetings, and also ran late. I'll try to get something up tomorrow.

Gotcha. IRL strikes again.

Dispell Wall of Meetings!

It's funny being neither a detect magicker nor a trap finder in this game...that's what I get for making a weird build :D

I think our lack of an arcanist (the concept; not specifically the class itself) is showing itself as a problem.

Solutions? Swap out a PC? Rent-a-mage?

I dont' know. I have been avoiding taking any ranks in Spellcraft for backstory/concept reasons, but I could take some with Huc. I dont know how good he'll be at it, but it's a class skill and he has Detect Magic, so he'd have a shot.

I'd just need to figure out why a backwater woodsman suddenly has all this arcane expertise. :D

Arien is the ideal candidate, but we don't have a way to consistently (and easily) get her Detect Magic. She's already rocking solid Arcana and Spellcraft scores. So, a Wand of Detect? Can she actually activate it?

EDIT: I'm hesitant to push anyone to change their character because of this, but it'd be nice to figure out a solution.

I think I can activate the wand, but perhaps Carbide has some expertise, there.

I don't mind swapping characters. Temperance is a super interesting character, but we are down to: fighty-person, thiefy-person, and cleric-y-person, and monk. :D

Doesn’t Rowane have the skills for this? As well as anyone, I understand how real life can get in the way of posting updates, so should Carbide bot him for a while?

Sorry for the silence today; was out of town at a funeral.

Arien, you'd have to activate a detect magic wand via Use Magical Device.

Arien, you'd have to activate a detect magic wand via Use Magical Device.

Sweet. That, I can do.

Regarding swapping characters: I'll leave that up to you, Axolotl. I hate to suggest anyone have to do that, but if you're actually interested in doing so (and, of course assuming Carbide is amenable to it), then I say go for it. I think Temperance is entertaining, but I've gamed enough with you on the boards to know that a different character would be equally entertaining to play alongside.

Ha, I was already halfway to creating a tiefling wizard. :D But I'll leave this to Carbide.

I don't know; you seem to be doing pretty well so far. Let's see how things go while you continue exploring the mansion.

Out of town this weekend, and will be slow to post.

Traveling all weekend, but will try to post tomorrow.

I'm on vacation the next ten days or so, and will be slow(er) to post. Trip prep has eaten a bunch of my time this week, as well.

Enjoy!

Back from vacation and helping my daughter move to a new apartment. I'll try to get something up tomorrow.

I'll be camping this weekend, and busy for the next day or so getting ready--so no posts (or at least no substantive ones) before Monday, probably.

I'll be out from Thursday to Sunday with no cell signal. Bot me as necessary!

No problem; I'm going to be camping for a couple of weeks starting Saturday, and will have limited access myself.

I have a glitch in my forum view and can't see the last page (until I post, like this).

I'll be out this Friday to Sunday backpacking. See you on the flip side!

Back from vacation and catching up with two weeks of accumulated work. I'll try to get a post up tonight.

welcome back!

Welcome back from the outage, everyone! I would have been slow to post anyway, as I was away at a conference this past week. I should be more responsive now, though. Anyone want to make Diplomacy or Intimidate checks on the apparent servant?

Are Lekku and Eben still with us? I can't tell whether their recent silence is the boards' instability or actual absence.

ETA: I'm reachable on gmail; username is jbwoodford815. Copy it down in case you need to contact me while the boards are down.

I’m still here. I had trouble connecting last week, though. I’ll check on Eben.

We all had trouble with the site the past couple of weeks. Thanks for posting, and for contacting Eben. I know he had enough RL going on to drop some of his other games.

I will be camping from Thursday to Sunday, with no cell service. You musht bot me!

I'll also be traveling this weekend.

OK, I've put this off more than long enough. It looks like Huc is out for good. Anyone know someone who'd be interested in getting into this and playing a front-liner?

I don’t.

We could just go to the boards and ask.

I'm down for some fresh blood. :)

Posted to the Flaxseed recruitment thread.

And we have our replacement.

Hello all, good to be aboard! I'm working on half-elf shielded fighter at the moment, with a variant multiclass in cleric of Nethys.

I'll be out for a bit, but afterwards finishing him up shouldn't take long. Will also hold off on making an alias until then; I have a little graveyard of those I made for campaigns long ago that didn't end up happening.

Hey Crunch! Welcome aboard!

There we are! Everything is complete but equipment, which I haven't finalized. How much should I start with?