Tsuto is at 1 hp, hopefully Denlar comes back to us so he can finish the fight...
Happy New Year, Everyone.
Here's to many more adventurous japes, larks and frolics for 2018!
Should be a good year!
We've been playing for a little more than a year at this point, and I realize we haven't made nearly as much progress as I would like. We've also lost 50% of our players and I can't help but think its my fault for not running a better game.
So I made a (delayed) new years resolution to be more active and try to improve my GMing here. This could mean being a little more aggressive with botting people (which I only did if they asked me to or after big periods of inactivity), so please bear with me.
I also plan on keeping only 3 players for now, with an NPC helping the party. I'll try to find more players when we get to book 2.
If RL is interfering I can understand, I have 2 games and they feel slow to me but if people only do 1 post a day it will be slow.
It's all good.
Running a bit slow is better than not running at all, I reckon.
If you want help with improvement, feel free to PM me if you ever want advice/help/opinions. I don't mind taking the time to give meaningful feedback.
Other than that, for increasing game tempo I can only promise 1 post per day. I will admit I've been behind on this, but I have also been tidying up other stuff so that I can manage that better.
I'm good for one post a day.
Most days, anyway...
TO play Denlar as a Pusher and damager I am going to have to invest in combat expertise, which isn't to bad but not so fun just to get improved bull rush.
Power Attack and Furious Focus are good too...
I believe one post per day on weekdays plus a post on weekeds is plenty for us to have some meaningful progress, as long as the pace remains consistent. You guys were generally already doing that so it would be mostly me keeping up with the speed and not slowing down on the few times someone doesn't post for a while.
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Denlar, if you don't like Combat Expertise, Dirty Fighting could be a good alternative.
Grudge Fighter is also a cool feat for rough-and-tough-and-can't-get-enough half-orcs.
Basically it's a freebie +1 to hit and damage against someone you're fighting anyway...
Ya I liked the look of this Archtype, thinking it would be fun to bullrush and push things around the field of battle.
To be on the safe side, I think we should call it a day. I think we could beat them, but we would probably risk someone going down pretty hard.
That is fair.
Sounds good to me!
Especially with me currently lacking what firepower I do have.
Just wanted to mention this: I am having a lot of fun with this game. Denlar and Garbund you are being great and keeping the pace, and GM Wilken you are running the game quite well.
I just feel the need to tell you guys because many other players in other games I am in/run just don't keep up and it drags the game down.
Yes I have a few games that I am in that it happens, are we going to recruit a 4th?
Thanks; I try keeping up.
This has been pretty cool so far.
Despite the embarrassing bit of facing off with an irate father ... :p
I'll do my best to make this game as fun as it can be, I'm not at the level I want to be yet, but i'll keep working towards that, thank you all for keeping the pace and not giving up.
About recruiting a 4th player. My idea was to wait the end of book 1 before before trying to recruit one or two more players, but if you want it to happen earlier than that we can do it. My main reason for wanting to wait until book 2 is that the transition period between the two adventures seems like a more natural time to introduce new characters and that a new player/character entering right know would probably have a hard time keeping up with all the events that happened before.
Sounds good to me.
I suggest starting recruitment when you think were about 2 weeks out from finishing the first book, that way they're ready to go when we head into book 2.
That sounds good, so a new fourth player won't be spending as much time trying to get up to speed with what's happening.
So I just finished a pretty long post and then the Paizo boards said "nope, try again".
So I'm trying again tomorrow.
I generally copy/paste to text document prior to posting... To many lost posts. Hope you don't have the problem again in the future.
I tend to do that as well. But I forgot this one time and of course it came back to bite me.
That does always seem to be the case.
I will make a post tomorrow. Occupied tonight.
This week I probably won't be able to post because of work. Everything should be back to normal by thursday.
"Work" is a four letter word!
(figuratively [u]and[/u] literally!)
Thanks for the heads up.
@GM Wilken - Everything going alright?
I'm good. Sorry, rough weekend.
No worries, hope your week is better than your weekend.
Map has been updated for a while. Just pointing that out in case you were waiting for that to happen. Guess I should also point out that when I wrote "Skeleton" I wasn't meaning the undead monster Skeleton.
I've just been a bit stunned with a cold for past few days...
Just to keep you guys updated, you're currently at 2683 xp, so a level up is on the horizon! Wait...Much closer than the horizon!
"On the Horizon" almost sounds like "There's light at the end of the shaft"
(A shaft with no ladder in it!) :D
Yes 617 xp to go
I am sorry about my recent posting. It should get better come May. Currently I have a work project that's taking far to much of my time and attention.
Still, I will try a bit harder. Good job with keeping the game moving.
Thanks for the heads-up, don't push yourself too much.
`allo, `allo, `allo!
Sorry I've not posted a thing for four days.
I had a decidedly unplanned trip to the hospital.
And there's no Internet access where I was, sad to say...
Thing is I had a spill down [u]two[/u] whole stairs in my flat and landed just right (or horribly wrong) on my right knee.
Turns out I tore the patella (?) tendon that holds my right kneecap in place.
I've been in the hospital from Thursday night until an hour ago.
Had to wait a while for the surgery because of a crazy busy weekend at the hospital ER and all that.
So I ought not be going anywhere outside my flat for quite a while. Have to wear a knee immobilizer for six weeks. Lotsa fun .
But if I do go off radar again like this, please feel free to bot me.
This was rather unexpected, and hopefully won't happen again!
Thanks for your patience, all!
I'll post a bit later tonight; I just need to have a bit of a lie-down for now...
@Garbund No problem, welcome back, hope you get better fast.
Wow, that was a brutal encounter, I felt a TPK was surely coming your way, in fact, I'd say a TPK was the most likely scenario.
On the bright side, you all get 650 exp and are now at exactly 3333 experience, which puts you at, guess what? Level 3!
Wooo-hooo!
Leveled Denlar, took Combat Expertise to get the Bull rush and over run feats to add in.
I've levelled up Garbund as well, with the following changes:
• FCB: +1 level 0 spell
• Third level bloodline power: Dragon Resistance (fire 5, +1 natural AC)
• Third level bloodline spell: Enlarge Person (Efreeti)
• Level 0 spell: Read Magic
• Level 1 spell: Magic Missile
• Skills: disguise +1, know (arcana) +1, perception +1, spellcraft +1, and use magic device +1
• Background Skills: know (engineering), know (geography)
I will be travelling this weekend, you probably won't hear from me until Sunday but I might find time to post. I will definitely be levelled up by Monday.
I am currently partial to time hopping to next morning to begin the next day in the dungeon. If anyone wants to do something else I am all ears though.
No objections
Denlar is good with that as well
Forgot to tell you about Erylium's loot, she had:
+1 cold iron returning dagger, tiara worth 50 gp, obsidian unholy symbol of Lamashtu worth 10 gp
If no one wants the dagger, Viridi could use the dpr boost while she is in the party.
That works for Denlar, I have the Ranseur