Freedom of the Open Seas

Game Master Steven_Evil

Yep option 2 is great. I think I will wait to summon a mount till next level and just take boon companion so its at full level. Would you be ok with the Roc. A flying mount seems like a good aid at see as it can be used to scout or help to find other ships to take as prize's.

Alistair: The only stipulations I put on "exotic" mounts like rocs or dinosaurs are this:

1. It has to fit into your backstory, ie how you got it, is it from the same area as your character, etc.

2. You put the time and effort into acquiring it, ie searching port cities for exotic animal merchants, or searching the area such a creature habits.

3. (And this is the one you fit into) Your character needs to know about the creature. Say you heard about such a creature from one of the people enslaved with you onboard the Horned Trader. You then do a bit of research, learn more about it, and summon one.

Basically, just work it into your character roleplay and it's yours.

All: I'm typing up the synopsis of your current location throughout the day. It should be ready to post later. It's not a hard reset, per se, but I am taking this opportunity to clean up on characters that have left and plot lines that no longer matter.

Part of what happens will result in you losing the Inauspicious Grin and sailing a very battered Horned Trader to Rickety's Squibbs (A place where pirates take captured ships and have them cosmetically overhauled to not resemble their former selves. You should discuss among yourselves what you want to name your new ship. Take some time to look through the Skull and Shackles players guide and decide on ship upgrades when you get said new ship squibbed and ready to sail. We'll use the loot points system and the ship upgrade system from module 2. Those worked well for my real life pirate game so I'm bringing them into this one.

Sounds great, I will make it point to start to gather information when we get an chance. I assume next level is a ways off still so no hurry.

we will need a captain, and possibly some new crew.

as for names, Noro prefers something easy to say and spell

Alistar will nominate himself as captain. As he is the chosen of Besmara. High Charisma and social skills has all Knowledges and with his insight knows a lot about a lot. Also keeps you all going with his healing. So do the right thing Vote Alistar :)

Can he be sailin' an' navigatin' a ship?

Is all well an' gooder.. but if'n he dun't know where we's goin', like......

ya know with a quick glance at first I thought Alistair was a Love Oracle.

anyway, You can be captain, at least until ya make me mad then I will punch ya and toss you overboard.

Sailing I have Profession Sailor +8 so not terrible, Navigation is K.Geography wich can be up to +25 so check, Besides sailing is up to the Helmsman, the captain is hardly ever at the wheel. I got to plot courses and plan the taking of our prizes yar. or something. right. :)

If you wan't him to be a love oracle he can be Noro, it gets lonely out on the waters and all.

If you wan't him to be a love oracle he can be.....

Ye had me vote at "Love Oracle" t' boot! (^_^)

*Salutes* Aye, aye Cap'n Luurve. :D

It's taking a little longer than I like to get the synopsis done but it's still in the works. Keep talking amongst yourselves about the captainhood and the name of the new ship.

I haven't been thinking about it but I think that I could be a good Captain, I have got the skills for it and the stinking pet monkey that would be an awesome ships mascot! Woot. pick me for captain and your shares shall be split between us and the crew, on our choice. of %'s

Synopsis will be up today for sure. I wanted to give you guys a little more time to decide your ship name and captain but you can finish that up after I post. So far we have Harvey and Alistair clamoring for votes.

Ooooh! Is we gon'a see 'em all wrastlin' ta prove they's dominance? XD

whoever can pin noro gets the job...

*Squee's* (^_^)

*Throws self @ Noro...*

Whut is we wrastlin' fer agin?

Giggles (^_^)

If Harvey wishes the job he should have it. Alistar will take care of all as you are his crew no matter the title. We are all equal here.

*Continues to wriggle and attempting to wrap self around Noro...*

CMB:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

okay.

Interesting/amazing job there Master Dm of winding things up and moving things along. :)

Though, I'm a bit confused.

We've lost the combat ship?

We've escaped the previous encounter?

We're sorting things out as people/crew come to terms with developments?

Yes?

Very much cheers to all and maybe a 'Role call' or 'Roster' of who've we've got left.

Players and NPC's alike?

Yes. The Grin is lost.

It killed the dragon before it sank.

Yes, you are sorting out roles, people, destinations, survivors, etc.

Hope that helps. :)

Nicely done. Posting in game now.

I think this will work better, no one would/could unserstand my orders once in combat unless they speak aquan so Harvey will be a better captain.

ok catch up and decide what to do..

I would have thought noro would punch more stuff, especially the opening fight scene. Oh well I'll punch more stuff later.

I'm sure Noro punched the hell out of everything. Lol. I just forgot to mention her as much. My bad. :(

I'm gonna need a little time to figure out what Olhas will do.

I forgot about you as well, sorry, didn't see you posting so assumed we lost you. Good to have you back.

I am here, give me a couple to re-read everything and come up with a post

I am alive

On my carribiean vacation

Will return march 13th

Noro is where all tha' real Pirates are! :D

WIshin' every one all'a very bestest! (^_^)

Work has been kicking my ass the last couple days, so I'll try to post tonight. Sorry for disappearing for so long.

The next update will be the arrival at Rickety's Squibbs. To save time, go ahead and decide on two things: The name of your ship after it's squibbed and what all upgrades you want Rickety to put on.

The base cost of the squibbing is 3000gp. All upgrades after that cost extra, and a list can be found here.

Currently, you have 5 loot points (5000gp) worth of goods that you can trade to Rickety for more or less full price. That's 3000gp for the base squib and 2000gp to put toward enhancements and upgrades during the squibbing process. After draining the Sczarni vessel (which was named Miriam's Love, by the way), you currently have a weeks worth of food and water for the crew of your ship.

You'll also need to try and pick up some new crew, but that is a process I'm going to make easy. It will work like this:

Anytime you raid a ship, it is assumed that enough sailors join your crew to replace any lost in the fighting.

Anytime you are in a port city and are able to raise your infamy score, you acquire enough sailors to refuel your crew, and 1d4 of them will actually count as having NPC levels, making combat much easier for you, and they will act as NPC's in the same manner that Ulrak does, following orders well and being capable of protecting the ship in your absence.

That system can be found here.

I will spoiler the infamy and disrepute system in the campaign description line as well.

Expect this game to get a lot busier from here on out. I now have much more time to give to it, and I have a lot of really cool stuff I want to do with it.

Noro will work on translating the log book she found during the journey

Also working on a new look for Noro... possibly something similar to this

I like this also

sorry home sick yesterday, didn't make it to a computer. Glad the game will get going I like it alot.

Noro not sure if you shared it yet because I haven't read the GP yet but if you share the book I have linguistics and can trance on it for a +20 so I can figure out what the book you found says no problem.

I have two ship names to submit and see what you guys think.

The Plundering Dragon, The Howling Wolf. If we go with the Howling Wolf I think the crew should howl and carry on durring an attack acting feral and primal to instil fear.

because of the ship's markings and her past, she wanted to be sure of some things first. there are parts of her past that she wants to forget and anything that may bring those things to light concerns her.

she will share the info but for personal reasons she wanted to check it out privately first.

yeah no worries just letting you know incase you can't figure it out after you posted here you found a book.

@GM what is the base cost of our ship so we can figure the cost of upgrades.

I think we should get a figurhead based on the name and a Ram and see what we got left over.

I'm at work right now, so I don't have that with me.

However, if you can find the base cost of The Man's Promise from the skull and shackles ap, just take that and increase it by 15%. That's all I did when I made a The Horned Trader due to it being slightly bigger.

Small update. I changed the name of the adventure for now, considering you're no longer on the Inauspicious Grin...

DC 27 for an Infamy check. I don't have any of the skills needed but that is going to take some good rolls plus someone specialized.

I like what Alistar stated. The plundering Dragon! I think it suits us. What does everyone else think?

I can see us with that.
I have to go back and see what the ship has currently for weapons etc. I think that we will need to make sure that not only is it sea worthy but that we can hold our own in combat.

We really do not have a Wizard.

@gm, I know you stated that we can pick up some people is possible to get a wizard to join our crew as an NPC? even if we have to pay him as a henchman etc? I will be glad to parlay with them if they need be or we can capture one, but I think having one that has loyalty to us would be best.

I will do what I can today to get information on how to update our ship from the skulls and shackles but if someone else is faster that would be awesome too.

Remember, Olhas is an arcane caster, and he messages me a couple of days ago saying he hasn't forgotten the game, only he has a lot of RL stuff to take care of.

That being said, yes, it is entirely possible to pick up an NPC arcane caster to fill in while he's gone, and possibly if he doesn't return.

SCA event this weekend so if you guys get busy on here and don't hear from me thats why.

@ GM if you are cool with it and Plundering Dragon is what we are going with then I would like to summon our mascot and my mount.

Tranced K. Arcana: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (9) + 25 = 34

So Dragonkin They have the same CR as a normal ROC, I am going to try my hand at making it a cohort and see what you think following how pathfinder did the ROC. Would you be willing to allow this and work with me. It will be similar to the ROC, probably a bit weaker physicaly but have a breath weapon but not the full 9d6 the Normal Dragonkin his. I will post the stat line I come up with here and see what you think.

Plan is still to take Boon Companion next level so it gets the level 7 bonus.

Dragonkin Gold

Starting Statistics: Size Medium; AC +3 natural armor; Speed 40 ft., fly 100 ft.; Attack 2 talons (1d4), bite (1d6); Ability Scores Str 14, Dex 18, Con 12, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 16; Special Qualities Darkvision, Low light vision, Scent. Immune to Fire, Paralysis, and sleep Dragon Traits. Breath Weapon 3d6 Fire DC 10+ 1/2 HD+ Con

7th-Level Advancement: Size Large; AC +3 natural armor; Attack 2 talons (1d6 plus grab), bite (1d8); Ability Scores Str +4, Dex –2, Con +6. Breath Weapon 6d6 Fire DC 10+ 1/2 HD+ Con.
Rider Bond
A dragonkin can form a permanent bond with its rider. Once this bond is made, a dragonkin cannot form another rider bond until its current rider dies. A dragonkin and its rider can communicate with each other as if they both had telepathy 100 ft. In combat, when a rider is mounted on his dragonkin, both creatures roll initiative separately and treat the highest result as their single result.

So its a little weeker Str, Dex then a Roc, Less Natural AC, but has dragaon traits, Rider Bond and Breath Weapon. Let me know what you think and if you want to make changes to allow it just let me know, thanks.

Oooo! Wishin' I'd realized Dragon-kin was available fer freindin'.

A in offerin' fer another game an' we's all usin' HeroLab. Got me a gryphon ta' be freinds with in that one. (^_^)

Now, if'n we's all get Dragon-kin we's can be Skull's and Shackles 'Top guns'! XD

Wishin' every one all'a very bestest!

After reading up on the dragon kin, it seems to me like they would be a bit annoyed by being "summoned". I feel like that is the solution for animals that are commonly found in the wild, like tigers and dinosaurs.

Now, I wouldn't have any opposition to one being, say, rescued from a bad situation on another ship that you just happen to come across during your illustrious pirate career, thereby creating a Han-Chewie type relationship.

The stat line you proposed looks balanced enough, it's not too far off of my hunter's tiger in a Jade Regent game. The only things on there that make me a bit concernicus are the int of 10, and the 100 foot fly speed. I would suggest is finding a medium between the two of us that we can agree on for the fly speed. Perhaps, make his fly speed 60ft when bearing a rider and 100ft when not? I'm pretty sure the int won't be much of an issue, though, but you would effectively by roleplaying two different characters.

What do you think? Does anyone else have any suggestions?

I has made a gryphon ridin' Suny in 'nuther game.

Is a gryphon too much of a steppin' down?

If Alistar haz his heart set on'a Dragon-kin, I is allokey with things. (^_^)

Adijustin' tha' fly speed seems okeys. Maybe pay off the dent with more feats up tha' line?

Also, since tha' critter be so smart, we should make sure it (Him? Her?) dun't be cheatin' at cards none, neither. (¬_¬)

Noro would like a monkey, but barbarians don't get animal companions...well not those kind at least.

( here is a picture of one that I like)

I honesty just went dragon based on the ship name. I was going to summone a Roc b/c a flying mount seems good in ship combat. I just went with the 10 int b/c Dragons are intelligent anyways and as a paladin mount it would have a 7 so it would still be pretty smart. Yeah a Roc has a fly speed of 80 and these guys are 120 so I split the difference, but slower is fine.

Hmmm.... You make a good point about splitting the difference. I hadn't noticed that.

Tell you what. Make the Int 7 and keep everything else like it is. We can work in how you acquire it together.

Everyone have a good and safe Easter weekend! (If you celebrate that particular holiday, if not, then just have a good weekend anyway! :) )

Happy holidays wishes ta' every one! (^_^)