I didn't even think about having rations in my sheet. I buy the [class] kits as a matter of course in character creation. Most of that stuff is probably back in his apartment. Not much reason to carry it around in the city.
Thanks for checking in, I had a busy week with yearly OSHA training and wasn't able to push us out of the stall, I figure after this weekend we should be back to normal.
Apologies all, I'm traveling for work this week and my normal posting routine has been shifted from my mornings to my evenings. There shouldn't be any major lulls but things will be back to normal next week.
Just a quick heads up that I'm off to a beer festival for the weekend tomorrow, then on holiday with my family next week.
I'll try and keep up with all of my games but posting may be a little erratic so please bot me if required to keep things moving.
I'll be away this weekend visition my dad. I dont expect to be able to post. Feel free to bot me.
Sorry to butt in and be a rules lawyer. By RAW, Laika can perform any trick she knows (Attack, Attack Any Target, Combat Riding, Come, Defend, Down, Guard, Heel). The DCs are for teaching a new trick, or pushing the animal to do a trick it doesn't know.
True, the trick states:
Come (DC 15): The animal comes to you, even if it normally would not do so.
But I think its fair (and therefore up to GM discretion) to define what 'normally' would mean. Even when knowing the trick, an animal would most likely not be inclined to follow a command if that command was dangerous to itself.
It might 'come' if it has to cross a stream, even if it doesnt like getting wet, but it would most likely not 'come' if it has to cross lava.
Jumping down a straight hole is very dangerous, so specifically issuing the command is not farfetched in this situation I think.
Yeah, I might have jumped the gun. I know it was a rule that I didn't understand for a long time, maybe I was projecting.
No you’re good Blue Thorn. I fully endorse open conversation of the rules and apologize that I didn’t make a comment here sooner. A busy and distracted work day. Anytime is a good time to bring something up and if I’m corrected of a bad move it can be retconned if it hasn’t influenced stuff further down the line. I’m by no means an expert on the RAW, mostly fancy myself as a storyteller in this medium.
I made the call for the same reasons Agnes stated, it seemed like a dangerous and counter-intuitive thing for Laika to do without sufficient convincing. I kept hinting at Laika though in hope that Agnes wasn’t discouraged if they really wanted the wolf to accompany you all.
Is everyone cool with my reporting this adventure for PFS in campaign mode?
Yes. I dont know to which character to give credit to, but we'll see when we get there :)
Sure, fine with me.
Not 100% sure hat that means, but it seems fine.
No idea what it means either, but seems fine.
It's just gaining credit for Society play. Totally harmless but nice for if/when people play PFS.
I got food poisoning this weekend, and I was in too bad a state to let you know. It might take me a bit to get back up on my feet. Feel free to bot me untill Im back.
Sorry to hear it! Rest up, do what you need to. We'll be here for ya.
Just a heads-up that I'm going away for four days after work this evening so my posting might be a bit spotty. I'll try to keep up with things while I'm away but normal posting will resume on Monday.
In the same vein, I'm playing eyes of the ten coming friday/saturday, and I'm demo-ing Pathfinder at a game day on sunday. I'll probably be too exhausted to post.
Cool cool, thanks for the heads up and enjoy you're adventures this weekend!
I'll be on holliday in the UK from tomorrow (18th) till next tuesday (24th). Friday, saturday and sunday will be PaizoconUK, so I wont have time to post then.
Feel free to bot me when needed.
Apologies, this delay is on me. Life got hectic last week but I'll try to update by tonight
I'm off on holiday for a week and a bit tomorrow so my posting might become a little patchy.
Apologies in advance, feel free to bot me if needed.
Dotting in again, since the Fiend is sitting off in another room:
Yay level 2! Here's a summary of the Fiend's level 2:
I realized I short-changed myself some spells, I was supposed to have 3 + INT (3) spells at level 1, and I began with 4, instead.
New spells:
Protection From Evil
Touch of Blindness
Chill Touch
Shocking Grasp
Vigilante Talent:
Only other new option is the Vigilante talent.The Fiend will be taking Lethal Grace, which will retrain my level 1 Weapon Finesse to Two Weapon Fighting and hopefully help close the damage gap.
@GMBugman, what's your preferred method for HP?
We're doing half+1+CON for HP.
That's a nice bump in spells and damage, Fiend! I'm excited to see how everyone else levels.
My supposed lack of spells was bad formatting. I'll only be gaining two new spells, until we can go shopping, I'll be getting Chill Touch and Touch of Blindness. Sorry for the confusion.
Carl is taking sure casting and vanish as his new spells, and Arcane Striker as his new Vigilante Talent. This gives him the Arcane Strike feat and down the road will allow him to do more when he activates it.
Agnes and Laika have been upgraded. Took Toughness for Laika, and Close the Gap for Agnes.
I’ve updated Reynard in HeroLab, but forgot to upload the sheet to my profile. Will do that later today.
Brianna the Blue Thorn Level 2 highlights
HP: 6 (5+1con)
Talent: Channel positive energy, 1d6 healing 5/day (works as cleric -4 levels, won't increase to 2d6 until 7)
Spells known: 0- create water, 1- Interrogation
Spells/day: 3 L1
Adun/The Pale Knight has levelled.
Vigilante 2
HP - 5+2(Con)+1(FC)
Skill points - Acrobatics, Climb, Intimidate, Knowledge (local), Perception, Stealth
Background skill points - Knowledge (engineering), Profession (builder)
Favoured class bonus - HP
BAB +2, base saves Fort +0 Ref +3 Will +3
Vigilante Talent - Lethal Grace
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Having a kid tomorrow, so I'll probably be pretty unavailable for a few days. Just feel free to skip past the Fiend or bot him in combat if I haven't posted in a day.
Congratulations!
Congrats! No worries and enjoy your time!
Congratulations! Don't worry about us, baby and mum come first.
In the Player's Guide there is a set of game rules for operating and building a rebellion. We're at the point where they can optionally come into play!
Having run some of Kingmaker by PbP, these additional minigame rulesets are fun but can really slow things down RP wise. So first off, I'm wondering where everyone stands on them.
If you choose not to, nothing in the campaign will be lost. I'll simply run it to a minor extent on the side for narrative direction. We don't need total agreement either, a few interested parties can operate the rebellion on the side pretty easily. Also, like any ruleset I think we can run it rules light as well.
So! How interested is everyone in digging into the minigame of managing the rebellion? And the heavy version, light, or GM mode?
I’m interested in using the Rebellion rules, I like how they allow you to feel like part of something larger, something alive.
I don’t think it’ll be a lot of extra work, but it could slow things down a lot if it takes attention away from the main plot. I’d favour using true rules but mostly keeping them in the background, maybe with an occasional report from the rebellion or interaction with the teams during downtime.
The Rebellion rules seem fine to me, and I'm willing to contribute to them. I like how they keep up the illusion that our organization is doing things even when we are not RPing.
How should we determine officers? I imagine Carl acting as either a Recruiter or the Strategist, neither of which depends on his stats.
I’m up for giving them a shot. If they slow things down too badly we can always ditch them later.
I do like the rebllion rules quite a bit, but I think discussion on the rebellion actions may prove to take a lot of time from running the RP. PBP is slow enough with this many players. I don't want to take over week to resolve a rebellion phase.
I'm fine with it running in the background in general (assign roles and resolve rolls), only bringing it to the forefront if a rebellion action will affect rp considerations.
Rebellion rules will be interesting to use, and see how they influence things.
We just need to keep an eye out if they dont distract/eat up too much time.
I'll be at a CON in germany this weekend. I'll try and keep posting, but I dont know how much time I'll have.
Sounds good, have fun!
Let's get the officers decided and run the first week of rebellion. There isn't any personal gain from the positions, so is everyone on board with placing people in the most adventageous places?
Sure, that’s fine with me.
Sounds good.
Sounds fair to me.
I'll have a read through the players' guide today to brush up on the rules.
This is about as optimal as I could work out the Rebellion positions. Our stats are not very spread out, but oh well. I suggest we simply use this setup unless someone has a specific objection.
Demagogue (Con or Cha to Loyalty) Pale Knight (CON+2)
Partisan (Str or Wis to Security) Blue Thorn (WIS+4)
Recruiter (+level) The Pack
Sentinel (+1 to all checks) Nightmare Beast
Spymaster (Dex or Int to Secrecy) Silver Shadow (INT+5)
Strategist (+1 bonus action) Rexus?
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With officers decided, we really only need 2 things to run the Rebellion turn, and they can be chosen for us if there's been no input.
Deposit or Withdrawl gold, and the amount
Rebellion Activities: These Actions are included in the complete rules in the Player's Guide. We really just need to decide what the actions are, as GM can roll for us.
That's for putting that together, Brianna! And I think the Fiend is the Strategist in your setup.
Some great news is that you already have one Unique team, the Fushi sisters! They function as a specialized group that grants the Earn Gold and the Gather Information rebellion actions. At the current rebellion level, you can make two actions. Let me know what they are and we'll roll it up!
Things you can do with the two actions:
Earn Gold
Gather Information
Recruit Supporters
Recruit Team (what which type of team you'd like to attempt for)
Based on our roleplay goals, Gather Information on our next activities and Recruit Supporters seem to best fit our goals.
Thoughts?
I move that we Gather Information and Recruit Supporters. :)
ETA: Ninja'd! Guess we're in agreement.
Oh, can we assign Rexus and Laria to be recruiters too?