Yeah DM Skull, I meant wait under the schedule you defined.
If that is the case, and there is no answer from Aarya, I would like if we could assume that she has abstained, at least making Reknar shut up :D
He just won't accept an impromptu leadership - the man has issues with authority and leadership just "because", and even worse if it is simply to hurry things along - it is too deep set in the character, and he's had a couple bad run ins with such situations in the past.
Change of plans. Attribute this to impatient clerk XD. And you can decide your leader later, right now we just need names.
And Shalira was concerned about name dropping...
Plans within plans my little duckies. Muahahahahaha!
And Shalira was concerned about name dropping...
Well, she said:
Shalira nodded to Aarya. "Thank you. It's not such a big secret anyway, because I am not going to lie about it when they ask for my name in the town hall. I just want to avoid drawing unnescessary attention to it."
While he didn't explicitly ask for it it's clear that he wants the full name... She is concerned, but she's also honest.
You can still omit your last name or call yourself Underhill...
You can still omit your last name or call yourself Underhill...
Aleidi doesn't care. She was planning on saying it when it was asked for at the time of receiving the charter.
On a random note I've decided I'm in the mood to expand my skype connections. Anyone feel like sharing?
Skype: corilithil
I won't be able to accept till later when I arrive home.
Sorry, it has been a busy day. Only just got a chance to get on now.
Ooooh Skype messages might speed up some of the deliberation between posts and side notes.
Hm. I am currently busy writing at another episode for Shalira's background, taking place briefly before the existing one. Words come easily, but I don't have enough of a real story yet, so I just write in hope a good idea will present itself...
However, a German langage play-by-post forum took over a mod for status posts I programmed. Have a look at that - I justed wanted to show it off a little. It's nothing big, but now that it's actually online I am kinda proud on it:
http://games.dnd-gate.de/index.php/topic,7542.msg878852.html#msg878852
Nice! It's always exciting when something you made is available to be used by others ^^ Congrats!
Dot/bump?
Interesting little status mod program you made, I think it's kind of a nice touch.
Can today be friday? I'd really like today to be friday.
I feel kind of the same way with how my classes are going currently. *Is feeling really fried*
Today is the day after we did a total software update for a big company. And things went wrong. My brain is fried. Spent all morning fixing things. Not to mention part of that was my fault. I forgot to add a couple fields to a database table that messed one part up. There were other things wrong, and my mistake was a quick fix. I knew i was going to be walking into this but doesn't make my brain less fried.
Hrm. Since the woman directly addressed Aleidi, Shalira has nothing to say at this point.
You could always interupt...
Just got into work. I'll post with Aleidi here soon.
Hardly fast traveling news Reknar, she was there before the group decided on it's final name. And you're hardly the only smart fighter out there XD.
Hey! I want to be the only smart one!
It was simply a way to say "What business is it to her anyway?" without getting all offensive.
He's starting with baby steps, trying to be a better person :D
And that took way longer than i meant for it too. Phone calls just far enough apart.
Well, since the Magistrate asks her to sign the charter on the behalf of her father, and the charters are officially issued - at least the one Mikhail had - by the "Swordlord of Restov" (unfortunately Ervy didn't mention his name earlier) I guess that's her father.
Did everyone have a good weekend?
Kind of running around, but very good nonetheless. And yours?
Not bad at all ^^ My sister was in for her fall break. I got to spend a few days with her. Though we may be going to see her this weekend. That's not set in stone, because it depends on something we find out thursday. A five hour drive both ways is rough to do in a weekend just to go see her again.
Eh, for me it could have gone better.
Eh, I was just working. Now my four days off have started and I can unwind a little after an unusually long set of shifts (I usually work four nights on, four nights off, but because our manager left with only a few days warning the other night guy had to cover some day shifts, so I worked four days on, two off, then five on. Looking forward to my 'weekend'.)
There are times I am glad I'm out of school, and others that I miss the time off it allowed. Though money to pay for things is always nice.
Productive weekend working with interior artists on a personal Pathfinder project and waiting on another assignment coming in from Paizo. All-in-all pretty good.
You, sir, have my envy.
And mine...
I miss our DM Skull though ;)
I've had enough of writing for Pathfinder things and programming for a while so I just played some games...
Hm. I eventually finished the main story line of Skyrim last saturday. I am considering to get me the extensions... but then, no matter what you do, Skyrim is simply Skyrim, regardless of what the mission is. A co-worker of mine has logged ten times the hours in Skyrim on their Steam account but not finished the story line yet (about 1700 hours instead of my 175). I am kinda in an enough is enough mood now. It's been a good game, but it wouldn't make sense to push it further.
After that I got me Arkham Asylum and Arkham City via Steam (both games together for about 13€) and am already through Arkham Asylum. Well, the storyline anyway. Not necessarily all riddles and not the challenges.
On the horizon of video games and beyond. Well, Elder Scrolls Online sounds promising, though I have a bit of a suspicion that it will be outright boring to anyone who isn't a fan of Eve Online as well - the "sandbox" approach driven to excess.
I am curious about a possible successor of the Mass Effect story arc. There was a lot of bad blood concerning the ending of Mass Effect 3 and I must say I am kinda tired of all the technical limitations of the game. It was pretty obvious in all the Mass Effect parts, that the areas in the game were designed to work with the limitations of a console with merely 512 MB combined video and main memory. While I understand that with a title like this you want to address more than just the PC audience, I find that limitation inappropriate for a several hundred million game. I really hope they are gonna let us create an own character in a future title and not nail us to a predefined one. Commander Shepard was nice, but I'd love to play an Asari now.
For now I have more than enough games I have never played through waiting to be played. After I am done with Arkham City there is still Bioshock and Tomb Raider: Underworld, both of which already have successors which I am also curious about. Other games, like Fallout 2, I am probably never going to play through, because I don't really like them.
I love Fallout. I just finally got around to beating New Vegas (it was so horribly buggy the first time I tried I never completed it and I had to cut this run through short - the further I got into the game the more it ground to a halt) and Beyond: Two Souls (which is very good, bar two really, really annoying points). Fallout 2 is actually my favourite. If only because you get Michael Dorn as a companion. All games are better for Worf.
I'm probably gonna go start Zombie U since I have my time off and not much to do in the evening.
Sorry for the absence, real life reared it's ugly head. Back now, posting resumes it's daily schedule!
I've played the mass effect series a few times to alter the story and yeah, wasn't happy with the ending. I love the gameplay, story, graphics, epic scale, music, everything. And I still play the multiplayer because it's cooperative teams of 4 and there you do get to play all the different races and classes. I've also played the hell out of Skyrim with all of the expansions and modded the crap out of it (jedi anyone?) but I'm ready for the Next Big Thing in gaming and right now I've got my eye on Pathfinder Online. I know thats years down the road but hey, everyone needs a hobby.
Ah Zombie U... I should go play more of that again.
I've been more play a bit of this and a bit of that here lately.
I have hours logged in Oblivion (just a little of skyrim because of what i must do to play it) because I am one of those 'Oh! Side-Quest!' people. Not to mention i get so distracted by mods.
I have Mass Effect 1 and 2 though that one doesn't get played as often because of the same reasons as skyrim. (Have to switch my OS around)
I love my computer games, but I play several console and handheld games too. Have any of you played Okami?
@Skull Real life likes to do that. Actually i think it loves to do that. Glad to have you back among us ^^
I've played Skyrim since the beginning and I still find quests i've missed. And once just to see how fast I could do it I played through the main story by level 13. I wouldn't suggest that though it's incredibly boring.
Ah now we are talking, this little adventure should be ready to roll on out and begin conquering the untamed lands.
Okay, looks like road-trip is a go this weekend. So I'll try to post best I can between the two long five-hour drives and the reason we are taking the trip in the first place.
Grab what you think you'll need for the journey but I'm going to skip the week journey thing. The road is heavily patrolled so you wouldn't come across any problems. Also remember that your heading to a trading post who should have supplies.
Alright I want a vote from all of you before I keep designing things for you to find/fight. I will admit that I am a power gamer. I love the kind of epic fights like the knight laying low the dragon or a wizard shielding an entire city from attack with a single ward spell. I love to play extremely powerful characters but this time around I will leave it to you. Should you vote to take this AP to epic levels I will scale the monsters and adventures to suit. Greater threat of dying but the rewards, both material and story wise, will be truly awesome. This will not be mythic but will push the Pathfinder rules as far as they will go and then some.
Or we could stick closer to the core Kingmaker AP. Either way you will be making a kingdom but which type will be very different depending on your choice.
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I can't really vote on that without knowing what, mechanically, it would entail. The mention of "Epic levels" quite literally implies the post-20 content developed for D&D. Which, that's all well and fine, but we wouldn't be seeing it for *years*.
Mythic is another bag of cats entirely. If you wanted to make this a mythic game of Kingmaker, I would give you my firstborn. Or a puppy. Or a firstborn puppy. I think the mythic rules are exactly what you're looking for in terms of cinematic power and epicness.
Anything homebrew... I'd have to see it laid out before I could really make a judgment.
When I say 'epic' at this time I mean enormous in scale. I don't want to say too much without spoiling the story but I think I can give you this much:
Dragons
Lost Technology
Ancient Conspiracies
Chosen
All that while still doing Kingmaker. And i will have to take a good long look at mythic to see how much work it would be to alter the kingmaker books to work with mythic. But first I want to hear from everyone what they think about Grand Scale for a story before I do mythic.
I'll just come out and say it - I am all for bigger challenges and the correspondent rewards.
I am not obsessed with rules, though I do like solid character building - I am fine with Mythic rules from what I have read so far, but regardless of that, I would welcome some epicness into the game - simply because, in spite of having thought about it many times, I never had the opportunity to build a character into such dimension of play.
That being said, count me in for Grand Scale, though I believe for me it will be more enjoyable if slowly built upon - I'd welcome the feeling of starting it off quite simple, and seamlessly easing such events into the game, if appropriate - it becomes more consistent, and in my opinion, more enjoyable.
So... GO for it! :D
Well, I would always prefer if you do orchestrate your game as you see fit. I prefer a play style that really gives you the feeling that you deserve epic game content once you reach it. I know it's a tad difficult to get there in a play-by-post game, because the fights tend to take forever.
As far as I am concerned everything is already more epic than I'd make it myself. For example, I would let folks choose between Point-Buy 20 or 6x(5d3+3) and never use such house rules as you do...
On an entirely different matter, if we want to cut the rest short until we travel on (which is what we're about to do, right?) - it might take a bit too long playing that out:
I was considering "Profession (Hail Stylist)" and use Aleidi as victim. Shalira is notoriously envious for Aleidi's beautiful hair, but she is trying to overcome that envy. I might say that she always did that for her friends and her mother and do things like weave strains of ivy into her hair or try a palette of complex looks on her that would Princess Leia's look dull. Shalira wanted to ask Aleidi for that later when exploring the city and if she agrees buy stuff such as clamps, combs, bands and so forth.
Another option I've already been considering has been some drawing or painting skill, particularly geared towards maps which would of course come in handy right now. But a map isn't usually a work of art... so it's not ideal.
Those events or locations that will be Game Changers have been well hidden and will take quite alot of effort to access. This is to both pique the character's interest and weave more stuff into the overall kingmaker story without breaking it.
Edit: I was alread intending to move the scene to the group arriving at Oleg's as soon as we are done here. For expediancy you are all given either a light or heavy horse (your choice) that is not combat trained. You will have to do that yourself.
If you want to retcon any conversations the group might have had shoppiong for gear feel free to PM each other or exchange the information on this thread. Or if you really really want to I will wait until you RP that bit out but clocks a' tickin!
I like what I am hearing so far :D
I love this particular AP because there is no limit on what you make. Hundreds of years ago Brevoy and Numeria and the river Kingdoms all belonged to the Iobarian Empire. They were technically and magically advanced and then like so many other cultures they devolved into babarism and all thats left are ruins. Just think of everything there is to explore! Keep in mind this very true saying and think how it relates to what we are doing:
Wealth breeds more wealth.
So we've got 1 on the fence and 2 "Yes".
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Plot-wise, go off the reservation and don't look back. That's totally cool by me, take whatever direction you want and I'll be down with it.
Mechanically I just don't like huge surprises, like house rules not revealed until after it kills your character or stuff like that.
As far as mythic goes, consider it like being able to add 5 more levels of play wherever you want them. Mythic tiers (of which there are 10) are equal to 1/2 a character level each and are handed out largely by DM fiat after accomplishing enough "trials." Though the trials system is just a guideline and can be adapted to whatever pace you really want.
The mythic book and Bestiary 4 will all have appropriate mythic monsters too to add new and unique challenges. It might be worth looking into :)