Dien's Rrrise of the Rrrrunelords

Game Master dien

But in the end, isn't that true wealth?

... ya know, the weapons with which we'll slaughter our enemies. :D

Thanks, E.

Okay guys, sorry I've been so slow. ;__; Got home from a trip and have been resettling into the grind. Post coming shortly.

Might be a bit slow until Monday! Heading out on a trip, but I'll try to check daily.

Hey guys, figured I owed an explanation for my slownesss. Some of you know this already due to talking outside the game, but: my primary job is as a full-time live-in caregiver to my grandmother, which I've been doing for nine years now. Around the start of June, she started hospice care and has been fully bed-bound for most of that time. We don't have an exact timetable for how much longer she'll be with us, since dyin' ain't that convenient and orderly, but I don't personally think she'll last out the end of July.

This is not meant as a sympathy fishing! though of course you can offer sympathy if you like, I'm not a jerk-- just an explanation of why I've been slow. We have family visiting a lot to say their goodbyes, and of course there's the actual caretaking elements which in some ways are less time consuming than they have been in the past but in other ways more so. Emotionally it's also a bit draining; I've been meaning to post nights for the last week and wind up falling asleep in my chair fairly consistently, woops.

The upshot of this is that it's something that I do envision having an end-date to, even if I don't know exactly when that end-date is. I am still super interested in our game, and our party, I'm just needing to time-manage a bit better so I have the energy to keep us going and lettin' you all be the heroes I know you can be. *dramatic theme music!*

Anyway, I'm going to try to get a post up now. *Scurries to do so*

Oh no! Don't worry about me, I'm find going at whatever speed you can do, I just hope you get through your rough time as best as you can!

Take your time, darling. I completely understand <3

Thanks, both of you <3

I think we can now safely say that Rokan is invested in this town's survival. :D

We did it! Lets throw a festival! Oh, wait, hmmm

It's not like we'd get party crashers twice, is it? :)

I'm sorry for holding things up! My next post is probably gonna be a big one. I'll get it up tomorrow

The Seraka monologue we've been waiting for?! :D

Honestly, though, i look forward to it. :)

Hey guys, today was the day, regarding my grandmother. Might take me a little bit to get back into regular posts. Thanks for the patience.

My thoughts are with you, Dien. We'll be here when you've had whatever time you need.

Bleh, post coming soon, guys. We're in the middle of the actual funerary stuff right now, but hopefully done soon.

Hey guys, I'm on a birthday trip this weekend. I'll have my netbook with me, so I might be able to post... but bot me if you need to progress.

So I had some free time the other day and started planning out future feats and spell choices a little bit, and oh geez, it's really hard deciding between the best tactical choices, and the most fun rp-fitting choices. I doubt anything I plan is safe from me making split second decisions by the end hahaha

Sometimes you swim where you want to go.
Sometimes the current takes you.

I like RP choices, I'm not so much about optimizing (usually). (My Hell's Rebels character made fun feat choices based on what I saw him doing during down-time. We survived, mostly.) :)

I optimize in the sense that if my picture of this character in my head is good at something, I am going to make damn well they are good at it mechanically. Likewise, if the picture in my head should be bad at something, they should be bad at it mechanically. I also balance those considerations with making sure that I'm good at the thing my party is relying on me for. I tend to make conservative numbers estimates of what my character will look like at every level. I almost always end up changing things up down the line, as the story progresses.

Here's my tentative feat list up through 13. Bonus feats are from revelations and Bloodrager bloodline.

1 Mad Magic
3 Combat Reflexes
B Weapon Focus (bardiche)
5 Phalanx Formation
6(B) Intimidating Prowess
7 Martial Focus
B Improved Trip
8(B) Improved Critical (bardiche)
9 Difficult Swings
11 Cut from the Air
B Greater Trip
12(B) Improved Initiative
B Greater Weapon Focus (bardiche)
13 Smash from the Air

Yeah! I'm having fun trying to beef up the psychic themeing as much as I can (can you believe the bloodline doesn't come with telekinesis as a bloodline spell??), and also trying to figure out what sorts of spells Sonya might want if she was retired some day - having all fireballs and lightning bolts doesn't help run a business very well, huh?

Being an archer pretty much chooses a ton of Rokan's feats for him. Luckily, the Zen Archer does a TON of the heavy lifting to attain them. :D

(Rokan's is actually in a spoiler on his page, but here it is in case you guys want to take a gander).

I always have at least a loose outline for a good amount of my characters' feat and ability choices down the line, and for very similar reasons as Seraka's. I want to make sure my characters excel at "their thing".

Rokan still has a good amount of room for more organic choices down the line (again, thanks to the generous amount of bonus feats).

For those that don't know yet already, I recently received a promotion. I'm moving into a new work environment on Tuesday (The 1st is my start day!)

I don't see this effecting my (admittedly slow-ish) post ability, but Monday and Tuesday of next week may be super hectic as I finalize gathering my stuff and setting it up the day after.

Similarly, i'm headed out to vacation tomorrow morning. i'll be at the beach with my family until next Wednesday. If I can post, I will. If not, bot me.

Just a heads-up that I'm leaving at the crack of dawn tomorrow to move to San Francisco, so I probably won't have my desktop available tomorrow until late tomorrow evening at the earliest. I'll be around today wrapping up stuff (figuratively and literally).

SF!

It's been so hot here recently, I'm pretty sure I'm jealous. ;)

It's been so nice and cool! I'm loving it. Still getting settled, and also have to find more permanent housing (just have a month sublet atm).

Good hunting!

Rolling something random, high good for the party: 1d100 ⇒ 84

Aww, whaat?? I didn't know that about rapiers, I didn't really check the extra stuff since I'm not wielding it finesse, boooo

I guess Sonya won't be fancy after all, since not being able to 2-hand is a bit too much of a mechanics downside to write off for theme

Lo siento. *pat pat* You could pick up a fancy longsword for theme?

But yeah, it's there in the rapier description. I just now thought of it when going 'gosh she is hitting hard... oh I bet she's doing str an a half'.

Sorry I've been so slow, guys, this week has been crazy. Aaaand I'm also about to vanish for a few days, going camping. But I'm going to go post now, and once I'm back on Monday I will try and get us back into proper momentum.

Hey guys, it's the 'apology for slowness' again! Sorry, I sort of signed up for more games than I probably should have this Gameday, and, as I always feel guilty when I sign up for Gameday without GMing, I'm GMing a game, and you'd think I'd learn that GMing two PBPs at once is a little drain on my resources after this. I promise I'll stick to just ours for a little while, hah... after this one concludes.

And I also have a work deadline. But all of this is just to say I haven't forgotten us or lost interest in us and I intend to get a post up later today.

Cool. Take care of yourself; I'll be here. :)

<3

:)

We'll be here <3

I'll update later today guys and gals, promise with chocolate on top.

Mmmm..... chocolate....

I poked E, but if he doesn't get a chance to post Wednesday I'll bot him.

Hey, guys. I'm back, and I'm still committed to his game. I'm evaluating if I need to drop a few games, but this game is definitely one I'm staying in. So sorry for going silent on you all.

No worries! It happens.

I'm going to hold off on posting until Sonya moves up (which I'm assuming she will). I'm planning on grabbing my favorite feat again, Phalanx Formation, and hitting stuff from behind her until we can inch in the room more.

Won't likely post until Mondayish, going on a short camping trip.

Ugh, sorry for the silence, I've been dealing with a family member in the hospital. Going to go post shortly.

No worries!

I accidentally got logged out and thought there were no new posts, woops, woopsie, ouch

I didn't even accidentally do it. I've just been getting logged out pretty regularly lately. Not love that. :/

It's the site, there was a big code update and everything's been bullshit. It seems to have partially evened out, but basically, double-check you're actually logged in any time you're on the site, heh.

Sonya, I think you were still down a fair chunk of HP, did you want to do anything about that before door opening?

You're right, its done it again!

Gluuuurggh, I'm sorry gang, I'll get us back on track later today.

This constant log out thing is a pain in the butt!

Is it still happening for you? Weird. I mean, it's stopped for me-- the site's been a little slow, but stable, with no constant logging. I don't know if clearing your cache might help or anything, but to the best of my knowledge the log-out thing is mostly fixed site wide, so you might want to check one of tech support threads for it or something.