DM Dr Evil Presents Serpent's Skull - Group B

Game Master DM DoctorEvil

as well it should...

Wow, this opening is harsh! I like it :P

Harbek would not have worn his armour to dinner unless the ship had been frequently attacked by pirates... Making his AC 12.

Are we all still sickened?

Post Combat Wrap up

Harbek 8/13 hp (5NL)
Celine 9/12 hp
Felix 10/10 hp
Marik 10/10 hp
St John 11/12 (1NL)

Sorry for my absence this week. Things are quite busy, but trying to find time to stay with the game still.

Just an FYI, I will be on vacation starting tonight and may not have particularly good access to the internet. I will try to post, but it may not be possible. Please bear with me and I will get the game back underway when I return to civilization in a week.

No worries. I'm enjoying this. Thanks DM DoctorEvil

Same!

so I sent Marik a PM asking him to either rejoin the game or officially withdraw, and he has not responded. He continues to post in different threads but has not appeared here.

I am ready to boot him, but wanted to run it past you first, and see if any of you wanted to try to reach out as well.

Secondly, I attached a loot tracker at top. If you haven't seen my version, it has three tabs, the first showing unclaimed or new-found treasure, some of which may need identified or appraised. The second tab shows cash tracking so as you find coins or make purchases (not likely on this island I realize), that balance changes. The third is the distribution of what has been claimed by individual players.

To get that started, can you each post your current balance of money starting the game? I need that to begin the cash tracker accurately. I also assume you will split the coins found evenly, if that changes, please LMK.

21gp 2sp 8cp.

Boot him if you need to. We can either ask from our other games or you can contact one of the other arcane entries from the recruitment.

Boot him and be glad. I might have someone interested in playing an arcane.
CP: 3
SP: 6
GP: 3

42 GP
3 SP
8 CP

It's a shame that he has dropped of this game and continues to post in others without letting you know. I say Boot him.

We should get our Rations sorted out too.

Looking at my character sheet it appears that I have made a terrible error in that you can't eat gold...

Harbeks rations: 0

Celine's current balance:
38,68 gp

24 rations from the ship
2 rations of fruit found by Celine
5 rations (from Felix)
10 rations (from St John)
5 rations (from Celine)

46-4 PCs and 4 Npcs

38 rations.

Hello, I will be on Holiday for a couple of weeks, will try to log in when I can but please bot Celine as you see fit. Thank You!

Hello all

What are your thoughts about bringing over a player or two from our Group A discussion which has now fallen down to just 3 active players?

Mikail, the bard, is for sure interested. Looks like Varya the paladin will pass, and not sure yet about Dragolan the life oracle.

Are you willing to round out yoru group with these castaways? They are not any farther in the story than you at this point.

Every good adventurer needs a home!

On a family holiday at the beach when I was a kid, my sister and I were walking along the beach after dark. Every step resulted in a crunch sound. Crunch crunch crunch. I pointed the torch at my feet and the whole beach was full of tiny crabs!

I'm fine with them coming over if you feel you can handle the bigger group.

Sure. It is up to you how you want to handle it with more people!
But I a am utterly confident you will manage!

I'm here but on IPad takes forever to write ten words. Be back in about ten days, I'll read when I can. Ok for more people esp. Mikail.

Hello!
Hes is Mikail if you want to look it over.
I like the character but if needed and doctor Evil agree I can remake him changing his class.

With enough development Mikail will become primarily a buffer, while I see that Felix is more of a combatant, so there isn't to much of an overlap between Felix and Mikail.

A question for him:
You think to take roguish skills? At second level you will receive Clever Explorer and I will receive Magic Lore so we will both have some ability in that field, but your bonus will be higher.
What do you think?

I think Felix and Mikail are totally diffrent chars.
You go the brain, I the brawn road. :-)

You're already solid on the healing front while lacking a full arcane caster, so I was initially thinking to convert Dragolan into a sorcerer. That wasn't working for me, so with the ref's permission I'm coming up with a new character. Wizard, working towards the Magaambyan Arcanist prestige class. I'll have more on the character later.

I have changed my avatar, Marik was using the same I was using.

I'm on the road through tomorrow, and will post something then.

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A bit short on informations, for now.

Hello guys! Just got back home from Vienna, going straight to bed, I'll be back and resume regular posting Tomorrow.

Welcome back.

I've put some background on Chikura on his profile.

OOC discussion about survival
The best option seem to have 3 teams with the person with the highest skill level gathering food and the other assisting him/her.

Survivial:

Mikail +4
Felix +5
Celine +3
Chikura +2
Harbek +1
St. John +4

Taking 10
Mikail 14 = 3 days of rations
Felix 15 = 3 days of rations
St. John 14 = 3 days of rations

Helpers: if they are able to make a DC 10 check they will add another day of provisions. With average results we can hope for another 2 day of food.
With 6 PC and 4 NPC we would produce approximately the same quantity of food that we consume.

Doing it individually and taking 10 instead of using the aid another action would work even better but it would strain verisimilitude (or at least it seem so to me). having people foraging in pairs seem more credible.

The problem is that aid another only add 2 to the check, so it will produce food only for 1 more person regardless of how high is the check result.

24 rations from the ship

2 rations of fruit found by Celine
5 rations (from Felix)
10 rations (from St John)
5 rations (from Celine)

46-4 PCs and 4 Npcs

38 rations.

38 - 6PCs and 4 Npcs

28 rations remaining.

+5 from Mikail
+2 from Chikura

34 rations remaining.

OOC discussion about survival

The best option seem to have 3 teams with the person with the highest skill level gathering food and the other assisting him/her.

Survivial:

Mikail +4
Felix +5
Celine +3
Chikura +2
Harbek +1
St. John +4

Taking 10
Mikail 14 = 3 days of rations
Felix 15 = 3 days of rations
St. John 14 = 3 days of rations

Helpers: if they are able to make a DC 10 check they will add another day of provisions. With average results we can hope for another 2 day of food.
With 6 PC and 4 NPC we would produce approximately the same quantity of food that we consume.

Doing it individually and taking 10 instead of using the aid another action would work even better but it would strain verisimilitude (or at least it seem so to me). having people foraging in pairs seem more credible.

The problem is that aid another only add 2 to the check, so it will produce food only for 1 more person regardless of how high is the check result.

This plan sounds good, except that if we always spend half of each day gathering food we won't get very far in exploring our surroundings.

Maybe we could roleplaying it as gathering in pairs but still each take ten individually on the check?

Please note, that Jask, who has been made helpful, has said he can hunt. He just hasn't been asked to yet. I think using him, or making the other NPC's helful, will go a long way toward solving your food problem, leaving you time to check out the rest of the island.

I am holding off on posting until you come to an agreement on how to proceed.

OOC discussion about survival

The best option seem to have 3 teams with the person with the highest skill level gathering food and the other assisting him/her.

Survivial:

Mikail +4
Felix +5
Celine +3
Chikura +2
Harbek +1
St. John +4

Taking 10
Mikail 14 = 3 days of rations
Felix 15 = 3 days of rations
St. John 14 = 3 days of rations

Helpers: if they are able to make a DC 10 check they will add another day of provisions. With average results we can hope for another 2 day of food.
With 6 PC and 4 NPC we would produce approximately the same quantity of food that we consume.

Doing it individually and taking 10 instead of using the aid another action would work even better but it would strain verisimilitude (or at least it seem so to me). having people foraging in pairs seem more credible.

The problem is that aid another only add 2 to the check, so it will produce food only for 1 more person regardless of how high is the check result.

The math of the problem is very simple, sadly.

If we use aid another to help the main gatherer, each guy successfully helping (to use aid another you must roll the dice, you can't take 10) add a +2 to the skill check result.
That +2 translate into 1 day of rations for 1 person with each check.

So if we gather food together the result if each participant succeed at the aid another check is:
Felix taking 10 = 15
6 helpers (5 PCs and Jask) = +12
Total 27
And that give us 9 man/days of rations
Taking some failure into account a 23 is more credible, for 7 man/days of rations.

If we want to accumulate a reserve we need to spend a whole day gathering. That will give us 14 units of rations, so a surplus of 4 units after a whole day of gathering.

Gathering enough food for a 3 day expedition (30 man days of food) would require 8 days of full time gathering if done this way.

Splitting up in 3 groups will give us 9 days of rations from the 3 main gatherers and about 2/3 of a day for each helpers. With 4 helpers that would be about 8/3. Let's bee conservative and say 2 days of rations.
It would generate 24 units of food every full day of gathering.
We are consuming 10, so every full day of gathering would leave us with a 12 units reserve.
With 3 day of gathering we would have enough food for a 3 day expedition and some leftover that combined with what we already have will give us a decent buffer.

Please note, that Jask, who has been made helpful, has said he can hunt. He just hasn't been asked to yet. I think using him, or making the other NPC's helful, will go a long way toward solving your food problem, leaving you time to check out the rest of the island.

I am holding off on posting until you come to an agreement on how to proceed.

If Jask has the survival skill and wisdom 18 he can have a +5 in survival. Probably he has a +3 (no skill and wisdom 16 or 17).

That would make thinks simpler as they would be capable to manage while we are away.
At the same time our group will be able to gather food while marching. It would slow us down but it will allow us to stay away for an almost unlimited spawn of time (in an half day of gathering we would be able to gather approximately 6 units of food, exactly what we will consume).

With the boat we have made some improvement in Ishirou attitude. Any suggestion on how we can further improve the NPC attitude?

Diplomacy, Perfom are the typical ways to lift moral, also success

** spoiler omitted **

Will give Celine the rest of the day to post and run her myself tomorrow if nothing shows.

I will sen her a mail.

So... who or what are we waiting for?

Unfortunately, I think you have been waiting on me. It has become quite obvious that the rigors of my job post-promotion will prevent me from spending the requisite time to run this game appropriately.

While i like the game, and would continue, it is going to be on a rather slow-pace if I can only post 2-3 times per week (or less).

I am giving all the ability to opt out here with no hard feelings. I would completely understand if that pace is too slow for you, but I am usually booked solid until on work until after 10PM most nights and that leaves little time for gaming.

I am trying to finish a few PFS scenarios I am running to free up the time,but even then it won't be a daily game.

LMK if you wish to bail and we will either fold or regroup appropriately.

I'm fine with a slower pace.

So am I!

I am ok with a slower pace.
I hope in time you will find a better balance between job and life (non necessarily gaming, there are plenty of things in life beside it).
I am of the "I work to live" school, not the "I live to work". I know that sometime our jobs can be a wonderful and dedicating most of our time to them can be a pleasure, but they should never be everything we do.

Ok, thanks for letting us know, let's try a slower pace and see where it goes.

I'm happy for a slower pace as well.

I can deal with that as well. (Post-promotion can be like that, as I well know.) Incidentally, I was on the road this weekend, which is why I've been quiet. I'm also going to be away this coming weekend. My daughter starts a real job on the 12th, and we're moving her to her new apartment.

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I appreciate the vote of confidence. I will try to get back to posting quicker after I close out a couple of PFS games I am in the middle of. I have shut down 2-3 other threads as well in order to economize time.