Vasilyan Medvyed |
I'm sorry for the delay in my posting, but I though I had posted. Indeed, I did post one day ago, but it seems like Paizo ate my post. I'll make sure it won't happen again :)
Alexei Robertovich |
The code goblins like eating posts, especially if you take a while between starting and finishing.
Arisl'arial Tathmir |
You can have the charm, Alexei. Sorry for the lack of posting. It's super bowl weekend, and I happen to have been a Broncos fan since like age 7. Old habits die hard.
Kingmaker Wolfspirit4W |
I changing up what I'm doing with the first room slightly, I should have it posted at lunch. In the meantime, can you guys give a "Standard Operating Procedure"? It would take *forever* to have everyone roll perception checks every room, so if you tell me SOP: After combat we search the room and use detect magic. Raven searches for traps." (as an example, we'll roll with that. The map is here, and I'm adding it to my sig line.
Alexei Robertovich |
I watched the superbowl once. There was an earthquake. Since then I have not watched the superbowl nor felt any earthquakes. I think the logic is sound.
As for SOP, our current marching order looks good to me. I'd recommend Vasilyan and Arisl use detect evil and magic respectively, while Raven and I search the room. That let's us have two on the look out, Vorsirion has good perception and Lucius is tough, while we zip through the room quickly. Thoughts?
Raven Sirkas |
That sounds good.
Vorsirion the Revenant |
Since Vasilyan wanted to go last, I've gone ahead and swapped positions with him and put me in the middle with Arisl.
Since he's ranged and I'm more melee/switch hitter, that might work better.
Kingmaker Wolfspirit4W |
Rather than looking through everyone's characters... does anyone have Trapfinding? Not that it's relevant at all...
Alexei Robertovich |
That's what we have a heal bot for. ^_^
DM, did Arisl find the stone quill or did Raven/someone else?
Alexei Robertovich |
Sorry! Mardi Gras today, will post tomorrow morning.
Kingmaker Wolfspirit4W |
So, looking at the content that is remaining, I've come to the realization that despite some liberal paring down, this still might be a bit of a slog, especially with a ton of secret doors, traps, and the like. I think I'm going to rejigger things so that there's just a couple combats and some RP rather than the long drawn out exploration, so we can get to what's really interesting.
Vorsirion the Revenant |
I have no problem paring down the remaining parts of this. It can be fairly long, and I'm sure a few of us have played it (though I note you have switched some stuff up!). :)
It's been fun so far!
Arisl'arial Tathmir |
I haven't played it, but just from the amount of map that's covered, this could be a long one. I'm cool with paring it down.
EDIT: Sorry for the speed of posts. It's been a rough week at work.
Kingmaker Wolfspirit4W |
I've been surprisingly busy recently as well (sick pets and weather) so I can sympathize with slow posts.
There have been a few people messaging me concerned about the overall lack of posting / momentum of the group. I've been trying to keep things moving and not completely losing the enthusiasm of the group (that started out great!) That's part of why I was looking to scrap a lot of content and dungeoncrawl aspects that clearly weren't working in favor of getting towards the Kingmaker portion quicker. Ironically, Kingmaker would be easier for me to run now that I've got the groundwork done for the other group, which is rolling along well.
I have contacted Lucius to see if he was still around and haven't received a reply back. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt (the unforeseen happens), but days long without contact will get people written out of the group.
So, where we're at: I have a (hopefully!) interesting combat planned that we're going to speed to, some additional roleplaying, and then moving to Kingmaker assuming people are still on board. It's a losing proposition to try to regain momentum right before the weekend, so I'll start the combat up Sunday Night or Monday morning, and let's steam along.
Sound good?
Raven Sirkas |
Yeah, cool!
Vasilyan Medvyed |
So, where we're at: I have a (hopefully!) interesting combat planned that we're going to speed to, some additional roleplaying, and then moving to Kingmaker assuming people are still on board. It's a losing proposition to try to regain momentum right before the weekend, so I'll start the combat up Sunday Night or Monday morning, and let's steam along.
Sound good?
Sounds good GM, thank you for giving our concern an efficient answer! :)
Vasilyan Medvyed |
GM is there any particular reason for Vasilyan going fourth instead of first? Also, he should have a +3 bonus to his initiative check.Thank you!
Kingmaker Wolfspirit4W |
It's group initiative, so the exact order doesn't matter. Also, for some reason it didn't have your bonus in it, which puts you in the first group (you're up!)
Also, I got a message back from Lucius that he has a new job that will be preventing him from being able to reliably participate and is withdrawing. We'll see how things go with 5
Alexei Robertovich |
A thousand apologies and may my house be made into a dung heap. There is something of a story, but the short of it is the car is working once again, the database has migrated, and the relative has been relocated.
Raven Sirkas |
S'okay, Alexei!
Anyways, here's some epic battle music that I believe is fitting for the situation at hand.
Alexei Robertovich |
Thanks. Nice choice Raven. I'm looking forward to the Stolen Lands, I think the Witcher soundtracks will be perfect.
Arisl'arial Tathmir |
Hi. I won't be able to post today, on account of massive layoffs at my job at the end of the school year. I'll either be depressed or drinking, not sure which.
Kingmaker Wolfspirit4W |
Hi. I won't be able to post today, on account of massive layoffs at my job at the end of the school year. I'll either be depressed or drinking, not sure which.
Sorry to hear that :( I've been there and know how much it sucks.
Raven Sirkas |
Yeesh. Well, good luck, Aris!
As an aside: "Holy Orders" is actually not from the Witcher soundtrack (the fact that you think it is makes me want to buy it, though!). It's actually a metal rendition of one of the songs from the Guilty Gear franchise, performed by Powerglove, who have made metal versions of many, many, many, many, many different versions of many different video game tunes.
In other words: I love the Powerglove. It's so bad.
Alexei Robertovich |
Ladies of the Woods is one of my favorite tracks.
Witcher OST isn't like Powerglove. I meant that I liked your music choice for this battle and was looking forward to when some of my favorite music would fit the situations we find ourselves in. Witcher is perfect for exploring a hostile, but beautiful, wilderness.
Black Mages might be more your style?
For my own curiosity, is Raven inspired by this fellow?
Wolfspirit, I don't think it makes a difference here, but, in case it does, Vasilyan's attacks don't seem to have the +1 modifier from Bless applied.
Raven Sirkas |
Oops, heheh, sorry, misread you there! Not trying to sound pretentious-I'm just a hopeless pedant.
Alexei Robertovich |
Arisl, how are things looking after the weekend?
Arisl'arial Tathmir |
You mean for my job, or for posting?
My job is safe until May, but I won't have it next year or anything. More frustrating are some of the other aspects of the situation.
As for posting, I don't know. I have to do some serious thinking about my games.
Raven Sirkas |
Jeez, sorry , Aris. S'cool if you have to drop out-real life always takes precedence over your imagined one, no matter how much you wish you were an elf with PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWAH! Take some time off to take stock of your options, look for a new job, etc. If you can't keep going with this game, no prob, we can probably open recruitment again so we can find another arcane type and maybe a frontliner to replace Lucius.
Good luck!
Alexei Robertovich |
Vorsirion, we need to get you some enchanted javelins. Clearly, you were meant to wield them.
Arisl'arial Tathmir |
Hi.
I was wrong, that's the first thing I need to say. I thought that if I had discipline, I'd be able to manage this many games. It turns out that I don't have that discipline. That's my fault.
I'd like to get through this combat with you guys, but I'm not in a position where I can maintain any sort of posting rate in as many as I have, and unfortunately, older games come first. I'll finish this up, but won't be along for Kingmaker itself.
Sorry.
Alexei Robertovich |
Sadness.
Hopefully we'll be able to play again sometime. Looks like Wolfspirit's idea to run a module first was a good one.
Raven Sirkas |
Sorry about that, Aris. Hope you can stay afloat out there.
As for the game as a whole: I really, really don't want this to die. I have about a dozen PMs to and from Wolfspirit about this game. The characters are great, and so are the interactions, and of course the GM. But we do need new party members. Lucius was gravy-great, but not necessary. But we do need a dedicated arcane caster. I propose that after this module, we open up recruitment for a tanky type and a casty type, or Wolfspirit looks again at his list from the old recruitment.
Vasilyan Medvyed |
What Raven said. Plus, I think that the lack of recruitment and the time passed since the original recruitment has somehow caused the hype to lower. If we open a recruitment, maybe we can gain a bit of fresh new hype again ;)
Kingmaker Wolfspirit4W |
I'm always sad to see people go, though I'm always glad to have gotten a chance to meet some great PbPers (for however short a time.)
We've probably got a day or two left in this combat at this rate, then some wrap up combat and conversation. I'll start reaching out to people to see if they're interested in joining, assuming everyone else is interested in continuing. I'll try to pull from the existing pool first, though I may stick to 5 people (I've seen that to be the PbP sweet spot.)
Arisl'arial Tathmir |
To clarify: I'll be around until the end of this fight. I hate abandoning in combat unless there's no choice.
Vorsirion the Revenant |
Yeah, I hate to see a couple of the players already bow out, but I'd much rather know now than later.
Hopefully we can find another player or two with some bandwidth to consistently post.
Alexei Robertovich |
Or we could all slowly fade away, until there is only a lone elf wandering the stolen lands with his skull.
^_^
Kingmaker Wolfspirit4W |
FYI: I just found out that I need to fly out first thing in the morning for a business trip, returning late on Friday. I'll have tons of time waiting around for flights, but I have no idea what my availability is like. I'll try to post at night, but I can't guarantee it.
Alexei Robertovich |
Anyone else having a terrible time with the site? Very slow to load and sometimes I just have to wait 1/2hr or so. Any suggestions?