The Nebten's Demand (Inactive)

Game Master Nebten

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Hello friends and thank you for joining me on this grand adventure.

Let's start off with a few housekeeping issues.

Those of you "in the family" that wish to trade out an traits or feats, you may do so. But in reviewing the sheets, I don't think this will be an issue. If the players want to know each other before hand, I'm find with that.

I'm not seeing anybody that selected Drawbacks, so we can skip that.

Hero Points:
The use of Hero Points I'll leave up to you guys. I've never played with Hero Points in Pathfinder, but I've played in systems that use a similar mechanics (Savage Worlds & FFG Star Wars). In those games, such mechanics definitely add a flare for the dramatic and the gamerunner doesn't have to worry about pulling punches.

There would be some modifications however. The Bonuses would be average than which is listed. So +6 to d20 rolls when used and +3 to aid another. Also, some enemies would have access to Hero Points. Typically it would just be a handful throughout the module, the Named Bad Guys.

If we do agree to include Hero Points, PCs can switch out any feats or spells now to accommodate this. However, there will probably not be access to the magic items that relate to Hero Points.

Please discuss your thoughts on this matter.

Quests:

As The Dragon's Demand proceeds, the party will uncover numerous quests that can earn them additional rewards in the form of experience points, treasure, or reputation. I'll list them in the campaign tab and notify you when a new quest has been unlocked. Not all of them are required proceed through the campaign, they can just provide XP to assist in your journey.

Treasure:

The party needs to keep track of their own treasure. I recommend dividing it up as soon as its obtained. That way encumbrance can accounted for. Again, the "haul and liquidate" method really won't work for this adventure. Outside of material goods, spell casting services and henchmen could be purchased as well.

Gameplay OOC:

Try to keep most OOC comments out of the gameplay. A little here and there isn't a problem. But when a field of blue crops up, it takes away from the tone I'm trying to display.

Prologue:

I'll have the Gameplay up shortly, but I have a few ideas I have to craft before we get this adventure started. I've wanted to run this type of Prologue for a few years now, so you guys are my lab rats =v). If you don't have time to do a proper 1st post on gameplay, at least do a stealth dot (post something, then delete it).

Keep this in mind: you cannot stand toe-to-toe with the dark horrors you are about to confront. Only rapier wit can even the odds.

PFS?:

Do we have at least 3 PFS players that want credit for this module? Remember the module must be completed in its entirety to get the credit. The official game date will be our ending day.

I think that's it for now. If there is anything else, I'm sure I'll bring it up. If there is anything on your end, please don't hesitate to post it here or PM me.

~DM Nebten


M Half-elf Cleric (Devout Pilgrim) of Erastil 2, AC:16, 0/4 channels used
Nebten wrote:
All right, all right, all right [/Wooderson]

Got my car, got my weed, got my music... Where's the chicks?


Huh, I got in! Sweet! I've been down with strep throat for the past few days, hardly even posting on the games I'm in already though I did give them a heads up, I was worried my absence from the recruitment board might hurt my chances on getting in. Though it seems it did not. Well now with the antibiotics and steroids in my system for 48 hours I feel pretty good! So let's do this! ^_^ I look foreword to playing with all of you.

As for the hero points, I've only ever used them once in a game and it was pretty cool! I'd be up for using them again.

Sovereign Court

Treasure Witch 2 | HP -3/14 | AC 11 touch 11 flat 10 | Fort +1 Refl +1 Will +4 +2 vs. enchant | Perception +5, Sense Motive +9

Hello loves.

I can do PFS, and am neutral towards hero points.


M Half-elf Cleric (Devout Pilgrim) of Erastil 2, AC:16, 0/4 channels used

Alright!

And, to answer the questions: also can do PFS and hero point neutral.

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

Thank you for the invite, Mr. Nebten! I'm actually quite excited about this adventure.

I do have this character as a PFS alias, but quite frankly, I'm new to PbP and don't have that much of a care towards PFS points. In short, if there are PFS point, I'm going to be "Hurray", but otherwise, "Ok, cool, let's dive into this".

I'm not the biggest fan of Hero Points because I like the idea that making a terribad decision can have dire consequences. However, I also understand that its existence can allow the DM to be a little bolder. So, my stand is: it's cool if it's there, but if I have the deciding vote, it'll be 'no'.

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

Quick equipment question: Although we have nothing on us, are we to assume we're butt naked or can we have some clothes on?

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

I've been reading through the other player's sheets as I like to know the characters I'll be relying on. I mean no offense to anyone, please note.

Xylas, I loved the idea of your character, the good Pilgrim. You're very brave running with little AC and HP! I've only been confused with your prepared spells... Shield isn't a priest spell and you don't need to prepare cure spells, as you can spontaneously cast them!

Kale, you scare me and I hope to always be on your good side.

Iulia, I'm just wondering how you got to 11 Diplomacy. I counted 1 rank, 3 class skill, 1 trait, 3 skill focus. What am I missing? Loved the cupid theme though =)

Calli, maybe someday we'll have a drink. I don't know much about the monk class, so I didn't read your sheet thoroughly, but it seems to me that you'll be joining me, Guillaume and Kale on the front line. That's great! Another target and flanker!

Guillaume, it seems to me that you also had to learn to live without a rich family, huh... Nice to see yet another melee!


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Finally here, thank you selecting me and I'm looking forward to playing Calli (again)! :)

Calli can definitely help with flanking and she'll also be pretty good at grappling if we want to take people down using non-violent means. With the way I built her, her damage won't be quite as hefty but the Sensei archetype gives her a few rounds of bardic performance each day so she'll hopefully make up for it with some support abilities.

This is also my second time attempting to play a monk. I briefly played this character as a 3rd level monk a couple of years ago but the game sadly folded pretty early. So...bear with me while I get the hang of it :)

Hero Points - I'm neutral on those. I'm in a few games that use them, but most of my games seem to do okay without them. Then again, they're all still rather low level as well.

PFS - I do have a couple of PFS characters so I'd be happy to get chronicle credit for this if everyone is cool with it.


M Half-elf Cleric (Devout Pilgrim) of Erastil 2, AC:16, 0/4 channels used
Haruf "Eight-arms" Sefka wrote:
Xylas, I loved the idea of your character, the good Pilgrim. You're very brave running with little AC and HP! I've only been confused with your prepared spells... Shield isn't a priest spell and you don't need to prepare cure spells, as you can spontaneously cast them!

Spider- Ouch! way to point out a lad's inadequacies. Note, I do intend to keep at least half an orc between myself and danger at all times. Also, the shield (of faith) may help (but see the following).

As for praying for CLW, why even maintain the facade that a L1 cleric is going to get to cast anything other than CLW?

Sovereign Court

Treasure Witch 2 | HP -3/14 | AC 11 touch 11 flat 10 | Fort +1 Refl +1 Will +4 +2 vs. enchant | Perception +5, Sense Motive +9
Quote:
Iulia, I'm just wondering how you got to 11 Diplomacy. I counted 1 rank, 3 class skill, 1 trait, 3 skill focus. What am I missing?

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My secret, dear, is the love pig!

Sovereign Court

Treasure Witch 2 | HP -3/14 | AC 11 touch 11 flat 10 | Fort +1 Refl +1 Will +4 +2 vs. enchant | Perception +5, Sense Motive +9

Xylas:
Although it matters almost not at all, the actual name for your classes archetype is Varisian Pilgrim, not devout pilgrim. d20pfsrd had to change the name for legal reasons. You don't, of course, actually have to be Varsian. Awesome archetype, by the way.

I can potentially be the tracker of treasure, if nobody else is keen. I have intimidating google sheets for tracking treasure for other games. ( They even use regular expressions :D )


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That would be great if you already have a general format that you can use. If you host it on Google Drive I'd be happy to try and help keep track of things too if need be; I'm a note-taker for a couple of other games and treasure tracker for another so I understand how much work it can be :)

Dark Archive

So it looks like Gully will be the tie breaker for Hero Points.

Game play is now up. There will be another post in about 10 hours (or when ever I get up in the morning). I want this first post to sink in a bit so you don't feel as if you are being slammed with walls of text. And I like to build suspense. I ask that you DON'T post in game play until after my second post. Not even lingering dots, please.

Spell casters, you can go ahead and have spells memorized as if you were exploring and expecting danger (like caravan guards =v)

Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon's fire
And of things that will bite


M Half-elf Cleric (Devout Pilgrim) of Erastil 2, AC:16, 0/4 channels used

Ah, I was reminded that my archetype is properly called Varisian Pilgrim in ISM. I'd forgotten. It's changed to devout pilgrim on the srd. I'm not sure why they didn't just go with pilgrim for the sake of brevity...

GM- weapons like sling, quarterstaff and club are free sooo can we have those?

i'll take magic stone either way so I have some sort of weapon.

Dark Archive

Items will be provided Heir Foundling. Worry not. Everything will come together in due time. [/evil Nazi voice]


M Half-elf Cleric (Devout Pilgrim) of Erastil 2, AC:16, 0/4 channels used

improvised weapons!
how much damage would a slightly burned wagon wheel do?

; )


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Once you make your next Gameplay post, will all the threads be linked? :)

Dark Archive

Oh oh! I know the answer to that one! 1d8! Happy to have a fan.

The threads should be linked. Let me know if you are not seeing the tabs.


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All nice and linked, thanks! :)

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

I have a noob question. The game doesn't show on the campaigns tab on my profile. Does it show only after posting in gameplay?

Sovereign Court

Treasure Witch 2 | HP -3/14 | AC 11 touch 11 flat 10 | Fort +1 Refl +1 Will +4 +2 vs. enchant | Perception +5, Sense Motive +9

See his prologue comment (and yes).

Sovereign Court

Treasure Witch 2 | HP -3/14 | AC 11 touch 11 flat 10 | Fort +1 Refl +1 Will +4 +2 vs. enchant | Perception +5, Sense Motive +9

If you are new to the boards, if you are ever writing something large, do it in a text editor and copy it over. The board timeout eats posts.

Dark Archive

Or if you use Chrome or Firefox, get the Lazarus add on. A life saver for PPB DMs/players. I would recommend reducing the time retaining time to 1 to 2 weeks because any longer can put a strain on your system from caching so much information. At least it does for my PC.

OK, game play is now open to react to the Second post.

Time to Dance in the Graveyards

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

Quick question:
We're assumed to know each other, I suppose, as in the prologue we're in the same house/inn/place, talking to the same people. How well do we know each other?

Dark Archive

How well you know each other I'll leave up you to. You could infer that as a group you've been on at least one caravan guard mission.

But the past is the past, man. It's all about the here and now, dude.

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

Hahahaha. Ok, sure. I'm thinking I might have robbed someone in the party sometime in the past XD.


Wow, I'm finally up and about thanks to the meds and I have so much to do! XD

Don't worry Haruf, so long as you don't get too grabby we'll get along swimmingly! ^_~


Male Tiefling Bloodrager 2 (Primalist, Steelblood)

Hey folks, sorry I'm late. For some reason I hadn't seen any new posts in the recruitment thread in a couple of days and thought we were still in a holding pattern. Will try to get something up in the IC thread momentarily.

I'm not really familiar with hero points. How do those work?


Male Tiefling Bloodrager 2 (Primalist, Steelblood)
Haruf "Eight-arms" Sefka wrote:

I've been reading through the other player's sheets as I like to know the characters I'll be relying on. I mean no offense to anyone, please note.

Xylas, I loved the idea of your character, the good Pilgrim. You're very brave running with little AC and HP! I've only been confused with your prepared spells... Shield isn't a priest spell and you don't need to prepare cure spells, as you can spontaneously cast them!

Kale, you scare me and I hope to always be on your good side.

Iulia, I'm just wondering how you got to 11 Diplomacy. I counted 1 rank, 3 class skill, 1 trait, 3 skill focus. What am I missing? Loved the cupid theme though =)

Calli, maybe someday we'll have a drink. I don't know much about the monk class, so I didn't read your sheet thoroughly, but it seems to me that you'll be joining me, Guillaume and Kale on the front line. That's great! Another target and flanker!

Guillaume, it seems to me that you also had to learn to live without a rich family, huh... Nice to see yet another melee!

I'm thinking more "prestigious" than rich. The very bottom rank of the nobility, knights whose wealth was most likely largely tied up in weapons, armor, horse, etc. A title in front of their name, and they get to party with the cool kids, but not exactly House Lannister.


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Glad that you made it, Guillaume! Now the gang's all here :)


Male Tiefling Bloodrager 2 (Primalist, Steelblood)

Well, this is going to be interesting. Who else has equipment they're not proficient with? lol


M Half-elf Cleric (Devout Pilgrim) of Erastil 2, AC:16, 0/4 channels used

They weren't intended for us. We were a wrong number so to speak.


Male Tiefling Bloodrager 2 (Primalist, Steelblood)

Oh, the monks put these there? I thought they were things we'd been entombed with, found with us when they fracked the sarcophagi.

Dark Archive

Yah. You were entombed with them.


Male Tiefling Bloodrager 2 (Primalist, Steelblood)

Hmm. Who buries someone with gear that makes no sense for them? I guess we're supposed to be confused, we just woke up in a strange place wearing strange clothes, etc. It's certainly working. lol


M Half-elf Cleric (Devout Pilgrim) of Erastil 2, AC:16, 0/4 channels used

yeah, no idea what's going on. GM's got some 'splaining to do.

Dark Archive

Talking about it here won't get you anywhere. That's what the RP in RPG is for =vD


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Phoenix Down, really? :P

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

I'm not giving up my vest.

Sovereign Court

Treasure Witch 2 | HP -3/14 | AC 11 touch 11 flat 10 | Fort +1 Refl +1 Will +4 +2 vs. enchant | Perception +5, Sense Motive +9

Well, it's not really yours to begin with. Easy come, easy go!

I wonder who these monks are? Like, where we are, who they are.


Male Tiefling Bloodrager 2 (Primalist, Steelblood)

Query: do we have a map?

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

I'm guessing I don't have to ooc my round. It's supposed to be evident that it was a move action to the unobstructed exit and a perception check, which is a move action.

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]

Calli, don't forget the +1 you get from Xylas' bless. Can't you summon another +1 from somewhere else? XD


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Heck, she already gets a +2 vs. fear saves from a trait and it still didn't do much...probably should've activated the Advice ability earlier but hey, hindsight is 20/20 and all that. We'll just say that she's still disoriented enough from the whole experience so far that it didn't occur to her. Don't worry, she'll kick herself for it later ;)


Male Tiefling Bloodrager 2 (Primalist, Steelblood)

Well, here's hoping one of y'all has the right skills to get him to open the door. Between no ranks in any of them and a Charisma penalty, I'm afraid we're doomed if it's up to me.

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]
Calli McDaniel wrote:
probably should've activated the Advice ability earlier

They don't stack XD

Liberty's Edge

Male Knife Master lvl 3 [27/27 - 0NL] | AC 15 T13 FF 12 | CMD 17 | F+3 R+6 W+1 | Init +3 Per +5]
Guillaume Coeur-de-Lion wrote:
Well, here's hoping one of y'all has the right skills to get him to open the door. Between no ranks in any of them and a Charisma penalty, I'm afraid we're doomed if it's up to me.

That depends. If it's locked, I got it.


Male Tiefling Bloodrager 2 (Primalist, Steelblood)

Yep, about as bad at dealing with people as you'd expect the guy who lives in the woods with hermits and wolves to be.


You guys always seem to be most active when I go to bed! XD

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