Linpul |
Or reading up on game systems your group will never be willing to play.
On that note, I finally got my group to play L5R 4th edition. Only 3 people, 2 are enjoying it, 1 is not enjoying it, but he's usually the chaotic neutral person who doesn't like seeing the consequences of his actions bite him in the behind.
Sarainy Malki |
Lol, yeah I GM too for two real life friends. I spend far too long working on stuff that my player's won't ever see or as Linpul says reading about game systems my group will never play.
We finally started a Trail of Cthulhu game, and have played one session about a month ago. It's a total change of pace to anything we have done previous (D&D 3.5, Dark Heresy and Pathfinder) and really hope we can continue... currently 4 months of weekly sessions into Way of the Wicked and they are loving it however.
What is L5R like? I've never played any edition or seen anything of it, but both of my players are Japan fanboys.
Sarainy Malki |
Also regarding your last gameplay post Linpul, I saw that you made a Concentration check to cast a spell, even though the enemy was blinded.
Is this something you think worthwhile for all spellcasting, even if no AoO presents itself?
I worry already that my posts and dice rolls take up too much space, but maybe it's worth adding for completeness?
Linpul |
Mostly an I don't know what else could be lurking within the walls kind of thing. So cast defensively with a DC of 17.
As for L5r it's a very interesting game. One where I am trying to get my players to take a more proactive approach to their game. It is also very backwards during character creation.
Example, in Pathfinder if you want to be say a member of the Pathfinder society you have to say you are and possibly take a trait depending on the gm. Higher organizations etc are all determined based on how you play etc. In L5r everybody is a member of a larger family and clan. Example, one of my players wanted to play a bushi (warrior) and looked through the different clans and families and said "I am going to be a member of the Phoenix Clan, and a member of the Shiba family. My upbringing was as a bushi so I was trained at the Shiba Bushi School with an emphasis on being a yojimbo." So because of that he gets his school ability, school skills and a pool of points to build his character with.
Sarainy Malki |
Huh that is kind of strange. I don't think I've played a game that functions in that way at all, so don't really have anything to compare it to.
Thanks for the info, maybe if my group doesn't really like Trail of Cthulhu I'll suggest L5R!
Sarainy Malki |
Current Loot
This does not include anything since gained prior to Book 2.
6 glass jars of pink gel
5 gunslinger pistols, 15 bullets and 12 doses of black powder
2 mwk hatchets
2 greenish spheres with dials and buttons (poison gas grenades)
mwk hide armor
5 mwk leather armor
5 mwk buckler
5 daggers
3 silverdisks
30 gp
Until the end of the adventure each of us can cast Cure Moderate Wounds once (whoops forgot all about this...again!)
Laser Rifle (Timeworn 8 charges) - Rakdon has
3 gunslinger pistols
20 bullets and 10 doses of black powder
3 vials of soothe
mwk leather armor
mwk bucklers
+1 greatclub
+1 hide armor
3 daggers
2 red potions
white wand with x's (34 charges)
black wand with skull (18 charges)
red wand with lines (16 charges)
2 gas grenades
4 vials of pink gel (Soothe)
dagger
Magical Cloak
48 gp
7 batteries
22 silverdisks
a pouch of 12 fire opals
three large garnets
a case of 14 vials of Soothe
three grenades (explosive)
2 scrolls Animate Dead
1 scroll Command Undead
1 scroll Technomancy
43 silverdisks
a very large timeworn technological gun (14 charges)
three grenades with a gray sunflare
a pod shaped device (18 charges)
3 charges of a brightly colored neon green clay
a timeworn, bright red plastic cylinder, 6 inches by 2 feet(3 charges)
a timeworn 2 foot long egg shaped device
a timeworn yellow gun
the corpse in the chair is wearing a red suit that seems to reflect light and has buttons on it (light armor)
a small box with a slot
a necklace/circlet with glowing blue jewels
Deevor |
Nice stuff on levelling on Solaria.
If you wouldn't mind keeping Solaria going, and you don't mind, I am getting used to the new job and despite not being able to access the Internet until after or before work, I would really like to rejoin the game. I am busy this week getting ready for PaizoConUK next weekend. Then I have a couple of absences in August, holiday and a trip to MotoGP when it hits Silverstone in UK.
This would be the only game I would be playing. I understand if you want to invite someone else, after my dropping from the game. I'll look in and see what you decide.
Sarainy Malki |
I'm jealous of your going to PaizoCon UK! I'm down in Kent and unfortunately spent all my budget on doing stuff like that this year due to LAN parties. Have you been before?
Deevor |
I'm jealous of your going to PaizoCon UK! I'm down in Kent and unfortunately spent all my budget on doing stuff like that this year due to LAN parties. Have you been before?
Been to the last 3 or 4, this year I'm GMing a couple of sessions and playing the others. It really is a good weekend of fun. Shame you aren't closer, I'm along the south coast in Portsmouth. If you make it next year, we'll get together and should be able to swing you into the same game with me, either playing or GMing.
It's the only Con I make annually, there's a couple of other I might turn up at, but always make PaizoConUK if I have the budget.
Sarainy Malki |
Have fun man, yeah I would love to try and make it next year.
I actually haven't played in person roleplaying for like a decade... my recent group has always been Roll20 online.
Would love to play some games in person, but am kind of nervous too you know?
Rakdon Tripus |
The only in person games I get to do from where I'm at is 5th addition. I want to go back to 3.5 or Pathfinder, but finding a group that does those things in my area is hard. At least 5th addition is adventures league that I do in person, because I can't play homebrews. I've tried, I don't enjoy homebrews regardless of what DM there is. I like a well told story, and official Paizo or Wizards stuff is the best. Sometimes 3rd party stuff too, but not all that much.
Sarainy Malki |
What is adventurer's league, is it like Pathfinder Society play?
You say that you don't enjoy homebrews, but do you mean entire homebrew settings?
Like if someone ran their own campaign in the Golarion setting of Pathfinder, you'd try it? Or literally you don't enjoy running anything that isn't an official scenario, module or adventure path?
Rakdon Tripus |
I mean entire homebrew settings. Modified APs that have homebrewing to them, still have a set or a modified formula and still have a fair mix between roleplay and combat and allows you to roleplay as much or as little as you'd like. But if an AP is going to have homebrew to it, as long as I don't see flying zombies without the means of technology, or the ability to shoot lasers out of ones eyes that do 8d6 fire dmg at level one. And High-Tech Guns in an AP would be okay if I was warned about this ahead of time.
Curse of the Coral Throne for example is something I would play, if I was into aquatic games.
Adventures League for D&D is like PFS, only the rules are much different. You don't get a set amount of gold, so you have to actually search for it all, then divide up the gold amount.
Sarainy Malki |
Oh hum, interesting. I've not played any of 5th edition and only one game of 4th.
Yeah I get what you mean with flying zombies and random eye lasers! My initial reaction to Iron Gods / Technology Guide was "Thanks but no thanks." but that quickly passed and my interest was piqued.
Reign of Winter still puts me off though, that's just too far out there!
Sarainy Malki |
If it wasn't obvious I'm good to go with the Lord's of Rust. I realise my posting frequency has dramatically increased recently. Would rather not be dominating the posting, sorry if it feels like I am.
Sarainy Malki |
6 glass jars of pink gel
5 gunslinger pistols, 15 bullets and 12 doses of black powder
2 mwk hatchets
2 greenish spheres with dials and buttons (poison gas grenades)
mwk hide armor
5 mwk leather armor
5 mwk buckler
5 daggers
3 silverdisks
30 gp
Until the end of the adventure each of us can cast Cure Moderate Wounds once (whoops forgot all about this...again!)
3 gunslinger pistols
20 bullets and 10 doses of black powder
3 vials of soothe
mwk leather armor
mwk bucklers
+1 greatclub
+1 hide armor
3 daggers
2 potions of cure moderate wounds
wand of enfeeblement (34 charges)
wand of exhaustion (27 charges)
wand of scorching ray (18 charges)
2 gas grenades
4 vials of pink gel (Soothe)
dagger
cloak of resistance +1
48 gp
7 batteries
22 silverdisks
a pouch of 12 fire opals
three large garnets
a case of 14 vials of Soothe
three grenades (explosive)
2 scrolls Animate Dead
1 scroll Command Undead
1 scroll Technomancy
43 silverdisks
a very large timeworn technological gun (14 charges)
three grenades with a gray sunflare
a pod shaped device (18 charges)
3 charges of a brightly colored neon green clay
a timeworn, bright red plastic cylinder, 6 inches by 2 feet(3 charges)
a timeworn 2 foot long emergency shelter
timeworn mind burner
red scatterlight suit (light armor)
Skillslot
envoy's mouthpiece
Dr. Lendaro |
Likely selling... (Dunno how good of a deal we'll get, but gold is listed at straight half of price - and half again for timeworn with charges)
6 mwk leather 80x6=480
6 mwk bucklers 76x6=456
8 pistols 500x8=4000
2 mwk hatchets 153x2=306
mwk hide armor 82
+1 hide armor 632
+1 greatclub 1002
timeworn mind burner 14,000?
3 large garnets 50x3=150
12 fire opals 500x12=6000
subtotal = 27108
I'm sure we're going to want to sell a few more of that, but there's a start. Grenades to Uran. Spellcasters decide if wands would be of use, etc...
Sarainy Malki |
The list looks good! That works out to 3,872gp each to spend if we want to split it 7 ways. Is that how we are going to handle it?
With my existing 720gp that gives me 4,592gp.
If so I would like to purchase:
+1 Mithral Shirt (2,100gp)
Cloak of Resistance +1 (either the one we have or 1,000gp)
50 Cold Iron Arrows (5gp)
Selling my existing studded leather for 12gp that leaves me with 1,499gp.
Sarainy Malki |
If anyone wants to borrow 1,000gp or so, I'm more than happy to lend.
Also Solaria has 1,417gp + 3872gp = 5,289gp. We should probably do something with that!
Sarainy Malki |
Perhaps she individually sold something you did not? Sorry obviously have no idea exactly how she got the money she has... just reading it from her pre-existing sheet!
Thera Flidais |
Thera has pretty much nothing but the clothes on her back atm, and Solaria has gear + extra cash, so I must have missed something. I'll go back and check through everything I guess.
Sarainy Malki |
If it helps, her gold total is 5289gp and her gear value is 4300gp or so.
As per Wealth by Level she should have around 10,500 gp, which is probably accurate when you add the wands and scrolls we aren't selling.
Sarainy Malki |
Well I mean I'm all for having Solaria come back once Deevor is ready... but obviously it's your campaign Demonmoose!
I'd rather not gouge her gear / loot though from a roleplaying perspective. It seems wrong not to give her a fair share along with the rest of us, whether she is leaving in character or not.
Just my opinion though :)
Sarainy Malki |
Dr Lendaro wills another round into his chamber, and fires a disruptive shot into one of the orcs attacking Rakdon. He then immediately reloads by hand.
39 total damage vs blue orc
That's a lot of damage! You actually rolled very low on the crit damage dice as well. Crazy :)
Solaria Jesari |
Away at music festival from now and all weekend, please bot Solaria as required.
If I get tie I'll pop by, but don't let me hold you up.
Remember she'll do door sight 6 times, she'll heal as she can provide spells and fight defensively if the occassion requires it.
Linpul |
I'm getting sent up to the Wauwatosa, WI for a couple of days, so just bot Linpul in where needed. Shield plus her verminous aspect should jump her AC by +4, if she is trying not to get hit total defense for another +4, if she needs to attack or do something use her last 2nd level spell of the day as a bull's strength or Gusting Sphere. All of my statistics should be in my stat block, as well as Tetsuda's.
Sarainy Malki |
Sorry for the formatting error on my latest post. That's what I get for trying to post from my phone! Wayfinder still refuses to log me in.
Solaria Jesari |
Solaria will carry the notebook found in Hellion's priests possessions, unless some has a real desire to do so. Being an unholy text, Solaria would want to protect her friends from its evil.
Sarainy Malki |
Have fun with the moving, Linpul! It's never fun during, but nearly always oddly satisfying after :)