Den of the Slave Takers (4e)
Game Master Rev Rosey

Whoops it was actually Ecky Thump! The killer Martial Art!

Tiberious' IC point reminds me, if in combat you wish to have Luce attack with Commander's Strike feel free to roll the attack yourself. If that is alright with the GM? That way you will get to roll and it won't hold up play.

The other thing I was thinking was creating a second Avatar for Luce in Beastform; if this would help the GM keep track better. Although I know your book-keeping is immaculate Rev Rosey.

By all means roll for Commander's Strike any way you like. I'm all for keeping things moving.

Another avatar for Luce in beastie mode makes sense and would certainly help identify what she is and when. My book-keeping may be good, but my sense of direction is appalling. I cannot tell east from west or left from right. Be warned when the maps go up.

OK so on commanders strike while im thinking on it it says allys base attack damage does that mean plus their str as normal or just their weapon damage?

I believe it is their normal base attack (which should be in their profile) & for Luce in Beast-form can be her Beast Form At-Will. Although I will defer to the more experienced.

Had that in a real-life game, as I am the mapper (we are old school) I was telling the others that the entrance to the dungeon was to the west (it was on the right on the map!) and our group were walking around for hours (in RL & game time), before I spotted the error. The GM is one for verisimilitude therefore didn't say a thing about where I was going wrong.

Commander's Strike uses the ally's base melee attack, so that is indeed plus Strength as well as weapon damage. Some powers may let you use them as basic attacks as well. Warlock Eldritch Blast is a basic ranged attack, for example.

Cart picture or Pen & Ink Cart, basically it's a simple tip-cart that's used to take goods to market.

You can certainly take it and Betsy through the woods, but at some point that combination is going to be conspicuous.

By the way, I'm never allowed to map our home games. I've lost us far too often.

My actual dungeon maps can be quite... unique, but generally they give a great indication of where we have been even if it does lose accuracy. Or course it gives the other players something to tease me about.

Yep, Betsy might have to be tethered soon/now so long as it's not certain that she heads off to the knackers yard.

Holiday got put back to saturday afternoon, probably. But feel free to NPC me as required.

Here is the alternative 'Beast-Form' Alias. I will try to post in the alias that I will be in at the end of the post. (Ie if I start as human and turn to a wolf, then I will post as a wolf.) I might also try to vary the avatar to reflect the animal; which is easier with the new filters but there are still not lots of different species of creature.

There aren't a huge number of options. If you run out and suddenly turn into a kobold, I'll understand.

It's really nice out here. Although driving in the twisty turny roads in a wide American car is crazy, especially at night, slippery roads with the mist. Last night we couldn't see the roads 50' ahead of us. But having a great time.

Wow, at least the rolls I'm getting so far seem to somewhat alleviate all of Arakan's dismal failures.

Awesome rolls!

You bloodied C2 in one hit. At this rate, the combat will be short.

Whose Arakan?

Arakan is one of Aardvark's characters in another pbp. Aubrey's Dark Sun campaign. He is a particularly cowardly bard and his run of bad dice rolls is the stuff of legend.

I have a warlock in the same pbp and she spends a lot of time either dragging Arakan back from the dead or watching him like a hawk to see that he doesn't run away.

DING A NEW HIT COMEDY SERIES! Araken the Bard!

Sorry I acted out of turn :S

It's fine in this case, as you didn't do anything that would affect anyone else.

Thank you very much for that information. Yeesh that's alot of work!

You're welcome. It feels as if I've just created a mini-PHB.

Edit: It was a really useful exercise for me in fact. Helped to highlight the differences in a way that I hadn't really thought about before.

The poor dizzy girl cannot make a save if her life depends upon it. :)

Sorry about rushing off ahead (both IC & OoC), not sure if we are going into turn/round order. But IC it would probably be the sort of impulsive thing she would do, also tactically if she actually manages to get across it might be useful to have someone at both ends of the bridge.

Or a great way to get cut off... But since we are hearing screams, it seems a perfectly valid thing to do in-character as one of the prisoners is your brother. And Vondal is right behind you. Well, somewhere behind you.

Ooo, that's weird, I've just lost the last week-and-a-half's play on this thread. I assume it will return anon. Oh wait, this is the discussion thread. All is explained.

I've given Aurix, Anastria and Tiberious a free move so they can keep up with events.

Drat!

Bound to happen. You all rolled insanely well in that first fight. Apart from poor old Luce and her magnetic attraction for creatures that can daze.

Actually by drawing S OA for the round it will allow others to get through his threatening spaces. That's if monsters only get 1 OA a round.

Sadly not - they get one per round per enemy.

Man Tiberious the d6 on here is NOOOOT liking you :/

I have to say that the online dice roller is a bit random in its randomness.

Just so you know, if you want to home roll, go ahead. I'm happy to trust you and we're all grown ups here.

Just putting it out there that I don't mind a bit of 'friendly-fire', if that's what you plan. Especially since they are quite well spread.

Man, I am harsh on my character's ☺

Just a couple of little things the +1 to AC & Reflex (& +2 speed) is until end of the encounter not just while bloodied. Also Luce is still bloodied as the Second wind =+5 & SD did 6HP damage.

But she is a lucky lady

Sorted it :)

Sorry didn't want to clutter the IC thread up too much :)

:D

It's pretty cluttered, I must admit - but to be expected where everyone is learning the rules.

Off topic - It's amazing how a good RL session can alter your perceptions of how a game is runnning. Just finished GMing a game and it's gone from meh (for me) to interesting. Which is especially nice as I usually spend an hour walking and mulling over the game.

I notice that all the time. Interesting isn't it :)

The same applies to PbPs. Some days I really feel confident and on form, others - not so much.

To me, 'that moment' is generally characterized by a lack of simple tactical combat, especially metagaming, and instead replaced with a real connection to a character.

I saw one of those in a game I ran in the actual first session, the distinctive differences in everyone, and how people started to mesh almost instantly.

When a player of a character can look at another's and go, "Yeah, that's CLASSIC (character name)" then you know you've got that attachment.

Heck one of my favorite characters has yet to do a single point of damage in 6 levels, and I know, that anytime I make a good remark or (non)combat action that really sinks in, I know everyone who has played with her, make that association too

Exactly. Although weirdly with this game, it's 9 sessions in and finally they have the first combat which seems to have brought together my GM'ing ideas. But the players all seem to be having a great time anyway, it's just me that's no really feeling the game's structure.

Whereas one of the last games started 'In-Media Res', which didn't work when none of the players know the system (or setting).

Since we have completed 2 combats now, just working out the party roles:

Tiberious - Leader, melee, healer.
Anastria - Striker, ranged, individual.
Varis - Striker, individual, Ranged or Switch hitter?
Aurix - Defender, melee.
Vondal - Controller, ranged, Area.
Luce - Controller, switch hitter?

Just trying to get a feel of our positions in a combat (when Luce doesn't do something stupid) and what Luce should do. As with her speed she is awesome at flanking for CA.

The singularly most balanced group i've played in YEARS!

I know and it's not just the stat's/numbers that 4th Ed does right; there appears to be a great mixture of styles of PC. Especially with everyone having potential healing powers/attacks, thus no really dedicated healer.

The one thing I do wish I had changed about the character was the statblock since everyone seems to take advantage of minuses and putting extra points into other things. Charisma is sort of a useless stat for Fighters but I always felt bad by taking a minus just to make my other abilities a little better:/ sorry just thinking out loud.

I know, I always like having a half-decent CHA. But the good thing is even if your max stat is 2 points less it's only a -1 and that seems to make less difference, especially since defenses have 2 options.

No, a bit of my earlier statement was thinking of multi-classing or future role for Luce. She could be a good close-combat striker - especially with Tiberious 'Commanders Strike' alternatively she could be a decentish healer by going warden rather than Barbarian.

Personally I think Warden just sounds cool, but I have no idea what it is. Anyways not here to hawk my distaste for stat dumping, just eager to see this continue on.

I'm thoroughly enjoying this group - it's a blast to run and the characters are great.

I'm heroically busy today, but should have a little time this evening to move you all on.

Agreed on the stat dumping. I hate doing it as well.

Re Wardens - they are extremely potent. They have an extremely powerful class power which allows them to make a save at the start of their turn as well as at the end. So, if you're dazed, you can make a save against that at the beginning of your turn and then take a full turn. If you make the save of course. That came out clunky, but it's early for me and I'm about to hit a 9 hour set of rehearsals.