Twigs |
With a look of righteous fury the Paladin, tries the door knob quietly.
I'm not trying to poke fun, but in the sleep deprived, spoilt-on-too-much-Downton Abbey state I'm in at present the image of Gregori daintily turning a doorknob just conjured this unshakable image of a grizzled paladin doing everyday domestic tasks with an unfaltering scowl on his face and I just can't help but chuckle.
With a steely glare that would give a Balor pause, the Paladin fastidiously dusts the mantlepiece.
As if his hand were guided by the shrewd judgment of the heavens, the Paladin separates his whites from his colours.
With a fury that could rattle the gates of the Abyss, the Paladin presses his favourite pair of trousers.
Joana |
Yeouch. Now I see why Joneth was contemplating letting the paladin stride forth and take the brunt of the attack.
Joneth should be spared the first two of those claw attacks thanks to Harrol's shield of faith.
And those were the most damaging hits, too. Well-timed buff, Harrol. :)
Twigs |
Ha, no kidding! It's oversized, but Harrol might claim this one if there's no objections. My small sized bonus and bless should be enough to cancel out the -2 penalty, and it'll be a fair bit more effective than the dagger. Plus the image of Harrol trying to heft the thing just lends itself to hilarity.
Eudocia Fairday |
Yeah, the paladin gets the Mighty Morphin' Sword of Awesomeness, they throw in a bunch of +1 morningstars for the clerics, and the non-divine PCs scramble on the floor for the dregs like the unworthy dogs they are! ;P
Twigs, nice image of Harrol with a weapon as tall as he is; very David and Goliath. :)
Loot list updated. Every time I have to go back and check if it's adamantine or adamantium; I never remember which is D&D and which is Wolverine. :P
Joana |
AP as written in this case... I'm guessing maybe because morningstars are reasonably common as favored weapons for deities? *shrugs*
Intriguingly, just Milani, of the major-ish deities. Also, the NE earth elemental lord Ayrzul and empyreal lord Chucaro, Maiden of Haze and Whimsy, none of which seem like slam dunks for crusader PCs.
But it is a simple weapon, which ought to be usable by just about anybody ... as long as the non-paladin subset of your party isn't a wizard, a bladebound magus, an inspired blade, and a halfling. Still, there's no reason to have two magic morningstars; could have made one a heavy mace for virtually identical stats.
DM - Voice of the Voiceless |
Another day another disappointment from your DM...
After getting elder child to bed at 8pm, younger one didn't succumb until 10pm - then exercise and food prep took me through to midnight... when I sat down to update with a cup of coffee in one hand... and the younger awoke with a chesty cough and needed chest-sleeping for a couple of hours. 2AM brain does not make for nice updating status, so suffused with solnolence I instead slept... fingers crossed for tonight though.
DM - Voice of the Voiceless |
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Littlest was neck deep in a cold last night, so it was another evening of chest-sleeping him on the couch.
As to endearing I must say the bargaining to not go to sleep can be amusing at times. After proclaiming that he was thirsty and hungry and getting shot down he paused for a minute and came out with:
"I need a haircut."
DM - Voice of the Voiceless |
It's been a fortnightus horribilus for me as far as updating goes. Gastrointestinal distress, sick kids, sick wife, not-sleeping childers and last night an unscheduled upchuck from the youngest.
I am still here and will get to it... eventually. I thank you for your patience.
Also a small foreboding of the span of days 14-30 December - I will be on a short hiatus as I'll be travelling down to Australia to do the whole family christmas thing.
DM - Voice of the Voiceless |
After a quite reasonable suggestion from one of my players I'm making an executive decision to call an early start to my hiatus for christmas. That will meant that the studio lights on this campaign will dim from now through until I'm back in country at the end of December.
I'll repeat that I'm still interested and committed to coming back on board and keeping this chugging along, it's just been a tyranny of circumstance over the last few weeks that's crippled my ability and effort. Come the new year I should hopefully be re-freshed, re-newed and re-ady to go.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Peaceful Positive Emotion Holiday Related Occasion with No Baggage... depending on how the case may be ;) Eat lots, have fun... and I shall see y'all come January.
DM - Voice of the Voiceless |
Honesty and forthright confession time - at this point in my life/work/schedule I'm not cut out for PbP DM'ing.
You will have noticed that I've been getting sketchier and sketchier with my update regime over the last probably six months. More and more excuses, less updates and when they do come I think you'd agree that the standard isn't as good as I'm probably capable of.
Apart from the usual familial death lurgies and erratic little kids, one of the other contributors has been that I've started exercising in a fairly big way. Which has been great - as I've dropped about 15 odd kilos, but it also both wipes out a good 1.5 hours of my night as well as tiring me out body and brain. Thoughts of PbP updates get pushed to the back of the night... generally not starting till post midnight, then get rushed, or put off, etc.
So with a heavy heart and much apologizing, I think the only logical and sane thing to do will be to close up shop for a period of time. I'll still be around the boards as a player - but the DM side of me just isn't up to scratch to run games at present. Good luck, god bless... and I'll see y'all round the boards.
If I do get to a position later on to start up another game - I'll come to you guys (and those in the other PbP that I'm also shuttering) rather than open recruiting to give you first right of refusal on giving me another shot.