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In a local game Lukan, we wouldn't have this problem at all. Every group we have talked to said that this system has never been used before and didn't make any sense with all the explaining you guys were doing. I regret that you feel you must step out but that's your decision.

@ Bron the instance you describe is easily negated where person with lowest magical item or least effective item gets the new improved item say fighter a has +1 sword and fighter b has a masterwork sword they then find +2 sword fighter b would get it since he has "worse" sword. Yes I know they're instances where that system is perfect but honestly there's 2 casters here so that really rules out magical weapons for them and any armor, we would only need rings of deflection and things such as that cause only source of armor and again it would be based on who would need it the most

Zayne actually bristles at the remark. "I did no such thing, Drakor is no demon. I simply grafted the two of our essences together by taking Drakor's mark. I am a Summoner, a practitioner of the magical arts, and he my Eidolon, or companion. Together we are a mighty force to be reckoned with and we grow stronger together. I feel his life as my own, as he does mine, we are Soul-bound to each other." He glances back at Drakor, then flushes a little bit. He had never before spoken aloud the intimate connection he felt between he and the outsider.

By closing his eyes and concentrating, he could very distantly feel the air rushing in and out of Drakor's lungs, the small surges of elemental energy that rushed throughout his altered body like blood in a human. His connection to Drakor is not yet fine-tuned enough to allow him to share Drakor's sight and senses, but he enjoyed the feeling of having Drakor as a loyal companion, if not friend.

Drakor again blinks, clearly not understanding. "What point make laugh when killing so much easier?" he inquires in the kind of tone one might ask when inquiring about purchasing a piece of fruit.

Zayne gives Cambyl a weak smile that looks more like a grimace and then shakes his head, looking back at Ganit as they continue riding.

listen guys, im not being childish im simply telling you that neither i, nor my brother, are going to pay the rest of U for equipment we find on the road. especially since ALL items YOU guys sell only goes for half, so im actually losing twice as much money than I would have made anyways. if lukan finds a +2 scimitar, he takes it, and nothing else. if he then finds a +2 spiked shield, which i have never seen in any adventure path i have ever enountered, but for exposition sake say he does, HE is the only one who uses them, and it simply is good luck for him. so he takes the shield. but when we find +2 scalemail in the next encounter, he does NOT take it and gives it to whoever else needs it because he gained 2 good items and thus it is only fair for him to give up other good stuff to make up for it. so again. I. am. not. paying. you. guys. for. LOOT. period.

and i'll give u a moment ganit to read my 2 posts

I am NOT paying you guys for an item that i know is beneficial to me. What i think is completely fair, is taking an item from the stack, and then nothing else. If u see a nice sword, and it makes sense for ur character to have it and no one else argues w u over it, u take that sword, and nothing else from the pile, allowing everyone else to get what they want, even if its only money.

Zayne seems eager to respond but Drakor hurries to catch up to the ranger first, glowering straight at Ganit's face with his glowing yellow eyes, his lips drawn back into a snarl.

"Drakor. Not. Pet!" he growls in the Common tongue before Zayne catches up and pulls the Eidolon aside, speaking quietly to him in Draconic, then replacing the Eidolon at Ganit's side.

"Sorry, he's proud as can be, and he isn't even human." he laughs very weakly. "As far as i know, Baltahzar was the only sorcerer i have ever heard of capable of binding such a powerful outsider into such a form. When my master tried summoning him, he refused to take upon himself Drakor's brand, and also seal his soul with the creature. Drakor, furious, then tried to kill Balthazar, who imprisoned the poor beast inside of a magical prison."

He shrugs at Ganit, shouldering his longspear, still not used to the motions of horseback riding.

Meanwhile, Drakor, still seething, glances back at Cambyl who rides next to him. He blinks his yellow eyes at the half-elf slowly. "What joke?" he asks, genuinely puzzled.

I'm not proceeding until we have all agreed on a looting system that is right for everyone. in me and my brother's opinoun, the system is not able to be fair to the person on the buying end. say u find a +3 sword that's easily worth over 10 K gold. Noone is going to be able to afford that. for a very very long time, and neither of us are willing to go along with DEBT to the party as well as 0 gold until we get enough to "reimburse" the rest of the party. there are items and equipment that are ideal for certain characters. so im sorry but I'm not going to pay the rest of u for say a magical wand that only has 3 charges left on it that is going to be worth ,say, 6000 g. also ur all making this sound like organized play loot system. Say we find a +2 Dragonbane greatsword and we then sell it. are we then saying that on top of having to pay thye others the rest of the money that we also can have multiple copies of a unique weapon or item? sorry but no, not going along with this.

Drakor gives his master a look then starts to grunt and rasp in a repeated, fast-speed manner, making Zayne stare at his Eidolon for a second in concern, then his face flattens with confusion.

"What in the world are you laughing at?"

Drakor glances back at his master, away from the knight-man, still chuckling oddly.

Zayne stares at his companion then shakes his head and mounts his own horse, much less gallantly and needing a boost from Drakor to hoist himself up into the saddle. He looks back at Cambyl. "Apparently Drakor finds it ironic that we are hunting bandits, and Sir Bron's horse's name is Bandit. His grasp upon humor is...odd."

ok here's my only concern with the looting system Lukan. say you find something REALLY nice, like a +2 sword, but u know u dont have nearly enough money to afford it. are we saying that you then have to build up that much money to even afford it? I haven't played kingmaker b4 but im pretty sure its gonna cost huge amounts of dough to fund and build a kingdom. w the system as it is now, someone like u could probably only afford that sword 6 levels or so later on, when u've probably also found something even better. just my 2 coppers

Zayne blinks and glances back at Cambyl. "Oh..." he glances at Drakor thinking about it then gives a small shrug. "As far as my studies into outsiders go, he should be able to speak any language I do, but he prefers to converse in the language of Dragons alone. It is one of the most ancient tongues known to man. Even with that language however, it can be hard to understand him. He rarely speaks within context you see. I speak a few other languages but he never responds to any of them beside the Common speech and Draconic."

He gives the cleric a small smile and then cocks his head in return at Cambyl. "If I may return the question...when we enter battle, what tongue do you speak in? I can not understand it at all, though it is a beautiful sounding language."

Zayne gives a small sigh, looks over the buried treasure and shrugs, seeing nothing that would benefit him besides the tome Tholamin is already avidly perusing. "Well...I guess I'll go...umm...check on the horses...Come on Drakor" He jerks his head at his Eidolon and then turns to trudge back towards the horses, spear leaning against his shoulder and Drakor close behind.

He turns back to look at the group and sighs, looking up at Drakor.

Zayne

Drakor gives a small growl and pats his master on the head with one huge taloned hand.

Zayne grimaces at his large dragon-like friend and then gives a weak chuckle which makes Drakor baring his fangs in the mockery of a smile.

"That's quite all right Drakor. You go ahead and tear apart any bandit you see.." he says in a half-joke.

Drakor beams even wider.

Zayne sighs and smacks himself in the forehead. Great...Now Drakor thinks killing makes me happy... "Sarcasm is a foreign language to you...isn't it?"

Zayne watches the others dig, glancing at Drakor and shrugging then dismounting and hoverly nervously by Bronwyn, to whom he has taken the most liking too besides Cambyl and the silent Tholamin, who seems busy investigating the tree.

"Is there anything I can do to help Sir Bronwyn? Or anything Drakor can do to help?" he asks hopefully, not wanting to be the useless one in the party, which he realizes that without Drakor he really would be.

Sorry DM aron i've been out of game for a while now :( been out of town as well as the last time i looked there was nothing i felt i could add. A summoner to me doesnt have much to do with the natural world, being more tied to the world where his Eidolon comes from :( ill try and post more often. THere's gotta be somethin Zayne can find to do or say that contributes.

Actually Ganit I'd prefer if we didn't start down that road. I've been in other groups that tried that for looting systems and then all everyone thinks about is "Oh i have to kill everything and no one else in the group matters cuz i want all the loot" and the story, character progression and everything else goes out the window.

Lolz i really was confused i was going back and forth through our past postings going "Who the heck is this guy? Do we have a silent party member? I swear we only had a set number!" then i clicked on the picture and saw his alias XD my bad

Zayne gives Cambyl a weak smile and then jerks his spear jerkily out of the dead kobold. He looks down at the sad crumpled body then suddenly drops the spear and hurries off into a bush to start throwing up. Drakor hurries over to make sure he is not ill while everyone else goes about their usual after battle business.

usual newbie character lolz, he's never killed b4

Dm aron could we please clarify who is getting the rules for mounted combat and who isnt? mounted combat has a lot of rules we aren't incorporating.

woah woah woah. As i understand it, the kobolds are sickened, which i believe is a -1 AC. Both Bronwyn and I got 14's, or 15's if we are using that horses grant higher ground. Why is it that I miss with a 14/15 but Bronwyn hits with a 14/15? im just a little confused here

@Cambyl Lolz that's why being a 5th Level Cavalier in my other in person game is great. You start with a combat-trained mount (began the game at lvl 1) that functions as a Druid's animal companion for levels. i don't have Herolab on my laptop right now :(

Claps a hand across Swaney's mouth! Silence you fool! You're going to jinx that too!!! XD

considering that bless lasts for like hours or minutes per level yeah i believe we're all still getting it. no idea if u hit or not, Zayne got a 14 on the kobold on G6. hopefully we'll both have a kobold thing apiece :P...*weak laugh turns into sobbing* poor Drakor

being mounted does not give u the higher ground bonus, i know this from playing a rly badass cavalier and i wanted to take the feat Death from Above. no dice unfortunately lolz

Oh! Oh no! Swaney! You just jinxed it! XD i know the feeling. Drakor hasn't hit anything either, and yet >.> Zayne has? tis very sad innit?

Drakor looks back at his master and gives a grunt of approval at his first real kill then turns back to the remaining lizard-rat and roars, charging straight towards it before it can stab the knight-man in the back.

Charge to F10

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Damage: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (1, 2) + 4 = 7

Drakor mistimes the last step and smashes his fist into the ground next to the creature. Zayne seeing his large companion miss again due to the Kobold's tiny stature, takes a deep breath and moves his horse closer to the one kobold next to Swane and stabs yet again, daring to hope for such luck again.

five-foot step onto I6 into range on Kobold on G6

Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 8

bwahahahahaha! i cannot believe Zayne got that hit lolz. XD lolz sorry little victory for the guy with the LEAST amount of combat experiance.

Zayne is torn between hilarity at the kobold's antics at attemtping combat and at slight sympathy for the no doubt doomed little gluttons.

Drakor meanwhile blinks down at the kobold still tring to tug its spear out of the dirt and reaches down to try and simply crush the little miscreant's head before it can embarress the essence of combat further.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Damage: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (6, 1) + 4 = 11

Seeing Drakor miss the Kobold by a hair's breadth, Zayne sighs and gulps before gripping his spear tighter and hesitantly moving his horse up behind Drakor to attempt to stab the filthy little cretin with his longspear.

Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 8

To his utter amazement his spear strikes the kobold impaling the child-sized lizard-thing through its throat.

lol u all have so many choices to make at future levels. i like the idea of Bronwyn multiclassing as equal parts Bard and Cavalier. However, I have the easy-hard job of simply going straight Summoner. every level makes Drakor stronger and bigger and that's all i'm rly going for. lolz well whatever u guys decide it should be fun.

Not to sound like im complaining too much about the said Gnome alchemist, but it amounted to that the player himself didn't care at all that he could potentially kill off other society members in a way he can't be penalized for, in fact if someone started to make too many jokes about him he seemed to make a point to throw the most bombs towards that person while engaged in combat.

also he refused to take another weapon besides his bombs so he wouldnt join the fights any other way. lolz now u see our exasperation.

Zayne blinks at Bronwyn and glances back at Drakor who gives him a small nod, no longer wearing a cloak since they are away from the fort and the danger of soldiers attacking out of fear was much less.

"To be honest Sir Bronwyn, I know very little more about Drakor than you do. My old teacher, Balthazar, trapped him inside a magical scroll over 30 years ago when an attempt to summon Drakor for the first time almost resulted in Drakor's slaughtering of my to-be-tutor. I found the scroll in Balthazar's study the same day he was...taken from me."

Here, Zayne's eyes grow sad and distant. "Bandits...attacked while I was out. They killed my teacher and set our hut ablaze. In a rage, I summoned Drakor, unknowing of what the spirit could do once unleashed. I didn't really care as long as it took my venegance for me. In exchange for my revenge, I took upon my visage this..." he points to the massive twisting black rune. "Once summoned...Drakor tore apart each bandit, and once he was done, he pledged himself to me to serve as my Eidolon, a summoned outsider bonded to a Summoner...or me."

He looks away sadly and Drakor pats him gently on the head even from their height difference with Zayne mounted.

Drakor will growl and stalk over to stand by Sir Bronwyn. "Drakor with Scar-face knight-man!" he rumbles. "Take fight to puny humans before we miss chance to slaughter with no reprisal."

Zayne blinks at his companion then smiles weakly. "Apparently Drakor is with you Sir Bronwyn. And by necessity, since I can't stop him once his mind is made up, I'll be going too."

Drakor gives an affirmative snarl then pats Bronwyn on head once or twice then stalks off with Zayne so he can return to his home plane to rest.

Drakor sniffs at the man 'Jhod' then looks at Zayne, a silent conversation going on between them. Zayne drops his voice and draws in closer to Jhod, looking the man in the eyes. "Sir Jhod, is there something you aren't telling us? Don't be afraid, we're here to help. Any additional information you can give us about this temple would aid us greatly in reclaiming it in your god's name."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

Zayne glances at Drakor who gives a nod then approaches the cleric and shakes his hand. "I'd be honored to assist you in this endeavor. Loyalty and service to your chosen god is one of the most commendable services man can offer. I, and my companion, are at your disposal."

Drakor gives a grunt of acknowledgement.

easy enough to say for u but what is going to last over 10 rounds that ill be able to do anything useful? anyways im droppin it, thanx for the advice ganit but i think ill just focus on Drakor. I can make him one mean sonnova dragon-monster thing with all the buffs and evolutions i can give him.

also it takes a full minute to summon Drakor in combat.

he's why i made Zayne in the first place so i think i'll pass on the summoning of bears or wolves. ive plotted out most of Drakor's evolutions so far and i think by the time it matters Drakor will be the most useful to me. plus Zayne rly only has a connection w Drakor

actually its still not going to happen. drakor can still take damage (force of explosion) from fireballs erupting all around him. im not taking the evolution to make a kamikaze Carnivean, im taking it as part of his character. if u want zayne to try and cast Fire Immunity on Swane and then U give it a shot, be my guest XD

im not so much into that, but i cant summon anything while Drakor is out anyways. now one of his mutations im taking at much later levels is "Immunity to Fire" due to where he's from, the plane of Fire, but thats just part of his character.

In fact, Drakor's answer to any question asking him to blow himself up is "Bad human idea" and then smooshing the offender lol. thats just how the character is. now if Zayne told him to hold them here while we retreat, then yeah actually he would stay and fight, and mostly likely do some significant damage before they killed him.

All of the summoners spells go into enchanting and buffing, thus u guys will probably see Zayne doing a lot of buffing magic on either Drakor, primarily, and anyone else who could need it.

Umm... No. It's not game breaking, because it is not going to happen. Drakor is made for one thing, actually multiple things, and none of them is to blow himself up. ill certainly send him in to go multiattack on a group of enemies and do a lot of damage. and idc rly if its "wait a day and then its like nothing happened," not happening. i might just be a joke to u but its not funny to me, sorry.

lets just say in another game i did a while ago, i played a rather heavy hitting fighter. with abase speed of twenty i had to be near the front of the action otherwise itd be over b4 i could do anything. drakor only has 30 but still. if u wanna switch it up thats fine i guess

Its an ok marching plan but if something hits from the front I can't get Drakor to the front in time to do anything. also the character is that Drakor is protective over Zayne but he cares about combat much more, and he'd much rather be on the front line smashing stuff Hulk-style

no actually it isnt. we got20 g from selling all his equipment at half price PLUS 35g thats just money. 55g/6 is how much we get each

actually ganit we do NOT get that much money because when u sell something u only get half its base price back. so we only get 5gp from the armor, 5 from the sword and 10 from the amulet

umm excuse me i dont think it mattters much since u killed the spider but DM? u skipped my initiative completely. i was supposed to act right after ganit when he shot the thing. and cambyl was then supposed to take his iniatiative right after me before the spider went again

i hate to be the bearer of bad news but even if the spider only has 10 AC being in total cover grants at least a +4, so im afraid ganit wont confirm. but at least u still hit it for regular damage

i cannot summon a low level creature without banishing Drakor, cannot summon both a summoned ally and my eidolon at the same time,sorry

Zayne yelps and readies his spear, standing just within spear's reach of the hole, ready to stab at it should it emerge again from its hole. He also casts Mage Armor on Drakor. "I cannot Ganit, not while Drakor is still in this realm!"

Move me on my turn to melee reach with my longspear so i can reach the hole the spider came out of. Move Drakor to right next to the hole but between it and Zayne.

Drakor gives a snarl and stands just beside his master but also next to the hole, ready to pummel the spider into goo should it emerge anywhere close to his reach.

Zayne rises a while later than the others, stretches as usual then goes back behind the stables to again draw the summoning circle that will again allow Drakor to appear in the Material world.

"Well Drakor, let's hope today is a little more fruitful than just talking to a crazy old man who wants fangberries" he scoffs a little at the idea of berries with thorns so sharp they could slice the flesh of a man as easily as a knife blade.

Drakor growls in affirmation, itching to fight something, and follows his master to breakfast.

Zayne glances between Lukan and Kestan Garess, surprised at the similarities between the two then glances back at Drakor.

The Eidolon hurriedly covers himself with the cloak while the soldiers are occupied talking with Bronwyn and Swane, not wanting to provoke an attack from so many heavily armed men from his inhuman appearance. He might have been able to take down maybe one of them before they stuck him cruel and sharp steel-fangs, but he did not fancy the idea of fighting people when he had no chance of winning, unless it was to protect his master from harm.

Zayne looks back at the group of soldiers, nods a small greeting to the Guard Captain and hurries back inside the fort with Drakor before they can start poking questions at his huge cloaked companion.

Zayne glances back at Drakor who growls something and then the half-elf sighs as if tired "Well Drakor has put in the vote that we find more bandits to crush and kill, since he's apparently already bored." he rolls his eyes at the Eidolon then shrugs at Cambyl.

"Anything's fine by me but I do believe it's important to scout out the surrounding area."

posting assuming its the next morning a few hours after full dawn in case earlier birds wanna say they get up before he does.

Zayne wakes up a few hours after dawn and stretches then quietly goes outside and prepares the summoning circle by the stables to re-summon Drakor, hopefully at his full strength once again.

His brand flashes bright as the circle begins to thrum with power and then a wave of heat and ash erupt from the runes on teh ground before Drakor's familiar and monstrous precense resumes its place in the Material World.

The Eidolon shakes himself and then waits for Zayne to rise slowly back up to his feet.