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Male Mazinger-type Fan of Go Nagai level 38

But now i'm a bit lost.How many sub damage Quina sustained?


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)

Currently 1. Quina was at 1 before we all fell into the water, thanks to a critical success that took 1 off from her 2. Then she had a regular success that kept her from taking more. Then after we got the sail up into a shelter of sorts, she failed her save and took 1 more -- but we all recovered 1 (due to keeping more body heat in), which cancelled it out. So it's still 1.

Edit: Just look at Xenh's latest Gameplay post. It has your current subdual and conditions. I'm keeping track of even more than that as healer, but that's the easy way for you.


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress
Gandal wrote:
But now i'm a bit lost.How many sub damage Quina sustained?

Through the witchcraft of natural 20's and regular healing (you gain back 1 subdual damage every hour of rest) you are at 0 subdual damage.

You remain exhausted until you have rested for 1 hour of complete rest, so you should proceed to fatigued in short order. Fatigued will remain until you all warm up significantly.


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress

When the level 2 "ding' comes along (don't get excited, it's not here yet) your character will need to persevere through Mike/Revery's pass with a fine-toothed comb. If you're wondering if there's anything that still needs to be done, please touch base with Mike.

Xenh wrote:
Went fishing for some input on the resurrection thing here: LINK

After some serious contemplation, on the experience thing, I have decided:

- We will use group experience (awards for extra effort/wonderful roleplaying will be delivered in other ways/opportunities for your character).
- Accept that the 7 training points balances the barbarian character creation slam advantage, which places Gwendalyn on par with the other characters.
- Resurrection will continue as per the game rules, but there will be one change, and that is that the experience hit will follow Pathfinder's lead of having a negative level, which can be removed using costly spells (less costly depending on the level of the spell).

e.g. You die and are brought back by a reanimation spell (level 4 cleric).
- You have 0 mana and 20% of your total hit points.
- Any buffs/negative effects that were in place have been lost.
- You are nauseated for the next 5 minutes and are exhausted
*NEW*- You have a negative level, taking a cumulative -1 to ability checks, attack rolls, maneuver checks, saving throws, and skill checks.
*NEW* - You can remove the negative level by spending 1000gp on a Complete Healing spell.

e.g. If the 66% resuscitate spell was cast on you then instead of spending 1000gp on the healing spell you would be spending 340gp.

If you have any questions/concerns feel free to throw them my way.


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)
Xenh wrote:
- Accept that the 7 training points balances the barbarian character creation slam advantage, which places Gwendalyn on par with the other characters.

Okay, okay, I accept it. :p I was just thinking the other day about how happy I am with Gwendalyn. I felt a bit guilty at first for being so self-indulgent and going with a shaman instead of a cleric (which is really a very much better healer), but time has shown her to be an excellent choice. 8)


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress
Gwendalyn wrote:
Okay, okay, I accept it. :p I was just thinking the other day about how happy I am with Gwendalyn. I felt a bit guilty at first for being so self-indulgent and going with a shaman instead of a cleric (which is really a very much better healer), but time has shown her to be an excellent choice. 8)

Don't feel selfish, the shaman offers some different things than a cleric, but they are far from a shabby fill in for one.

p.s. There's no need for Gwen to cast the second healing spell. She took 3 damage +1 for a critical failure, healed 1 in that hour, but her resistance ate up 3 of those points, so the net is 1 damage. If truth be told there's no need to heal that 1 damage either, since you'll heal that in your next hour.


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)

Oh, that wasn't for the subdual. It was for the 4 hit point damage that she took when Faydedar hit the slave ship. She's been itching to heal herself this whole time, but never pulled the trigger, in case someone else needed it more. Same with Sajeek, since she only healed him for 1 before that.


Female Koada' Dal (High elf) Magician 1

Sorry i spent the day almost exclusively sleeping and eating (and playing Dragon's Dogma).
Quina will be back posting soon;she will provide all the bread and water her mana allow her to,if she got the chance of meditating (since i guess Gwen did) she should be at full mana.


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress
Gwendalyn wrote:
Oh, that wasn't for the subdual. It was for the 4 hit point damage that she took when Faydedar hit the slave ship.

Oh gotcha, I was hoping I didn't confuse everyone.


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.
Xenh wrote:

When the level 2 "ding' comes along (don't get excited, it's not here yet) your character will need to persevere through Mike/Revery's pass with a fine-toothed comb. If you're wondering if there's anything that still needs to be done, please touch base with Mike.

Xenh wrote:
Went fishing for some input on the resurrection thing here: LINK

After some serious contemplation, on the experience thing, I have decided:

- We will use group experience (awards for extra effort/wonderful roleplaying will be delivered in other ways/opportunities for your character).
- Accept that the 7 training points balances the barbarian character creation slam advantage, which places Gwendalyn on par with the other characters.
- Resurrection will continue as per the game rules, but there will be one change, and that is that the experience hit will follow Pathfinder's lead of having a negative level, which can be removed using costly spells (less costly depending on the level of the spell).

------------------8<

If you have any questions/concerns feel free to throw them my way.

It's all good with me. I'll try not to get killed....


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)

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If we go with everyone rowing, then Gwendalyn would suggest her and Sajeek on one side, with Revery, Maruusk, and Quinaweniel on the other. Nearly even side-to-side, and a little back-weighted to keep the front from digging in (if they actually get any speed). From front to back:

.....
Q....
....S
M....
.....
R...G
.....

It would list a bit to the port side, except that there are 2745 square feet of sail and hundreds of feet of rope to account for. Put just a little bit of it opposite Maruusk (instead of in the center), and you're done.

The difference between Q and R is about 40 lbs., whereas the difference between S and G is about 30 lbs. But my intuition is that being further out makes more of a difference, so having Q farther forward than S would close the gap and eliminate the diagonal skew. I think.

Maybe swap S and M, I don't know. (And get your mind out of the gutter! You're blocking my snorkel.)


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress
Quinaweniel wrote:
mana not sure if she recovered the 2 pnts spent; i guess she has no need to roll chann.checks for casting Summon Drink and Summon Food

I get your rationale that they're not needed, but humour me and please include channeling checks in your posts when I call for them. Otherwise you just put the workload on me and I will take one of Quin's limbs as payment for each roll (aside: when I run out of limbs I'll start with vital organs).

If you have any OOC comments/questions/complaints, pretty please with sugar on top put them in the discussion thread.

If Quin was resting/contemplating then she has recovered her mana.

Gwendalyn wrote:

.....

Q....
....S
M....
.....
R...G
.....

Works for me.

There's almost no room between the Q, M and R side, since that's only 7' long (imagining you're not using the long edge, since that would mean that one side would need to row over a 4' wall, correct me if I'm wrong).


Female Koada' Dal (High elf) Magician 1

Then assuming each casting of each spell creates 3 loaves of bread and 1 gallon of water i'ld need to cast at least 2 times each, which leaves me with no mana.


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

I'd give you some of mine. I ooze mana.

But you do get it back, and at a reasonable rate, too. And you wouldn't need to cast all of those at once.


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress

Cripes, with spot checks like that you also find Jimmy Hoffa.


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)
Xenh wrote:

Works for me.

There's almost no room between the Q, M and R side, since that's only 7' long (imagining you're not using the long edge, since that would mean that one side would need to row over a 4' wall, correct me if I'm wrong).

Actually, I hadn't been picturing it correctly. Not that it matters any more!


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

K = X - 13 (half an alphabet back)
h<->e
a = n - 13
e<->h

Coincidence?


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

There's a character in Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" (as we call it in English) who was so into numbers and conspiracy theories. But you could see that he could always "find" correlations between numbers and anything else. In other words, he could use numbers to illustrate correlations between just about any two things, making it easy to show conspiracies where, perhaps, none existed.

As I have done with Xenh and Khae. :-)


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress
Revery wrote:
As I have done with Xenh and Khae. :-)

Khae = worships a god

Xenh = worshipped as a god

You're right there is a lot in common!


Male Mazinger-type Fan of Go Nagai level 38

Per me si và alla città morente
Per me si và all'eterno dolore
Per me si và alla perduta gente

Fecemi la divina potestate,la somma sapienza e lo primo amore
Dinanzi a me non furon cose create,se non eterne
E io eterna duro

Lasciate ogni speranza oh voi che entrate.

Looking at the game's feel so far, i thought this lyrics was appropriate:
it is the writing engraved above the door leading to hell, in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia).

Not for nothing, the last line (Lasciate ogni speranza .....) means "Abandon all hope you who enter here"


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress
Gandal wrote:
Not for nothing, the last line (Lasciate ogni speranza .....) means "Abandon all hope you who enter here"

<swoon>

I do have a tendency to make people bleed that don't escape in time :)


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress

Everyone that has their character done to Mike/Revery's satisfaction by this time tomorrow will get a bonus.

This is the time to flesh out your character with personality, description, backgrounds, et cetera.

The effort will match the award.


Male Mazinger-type Fan of Go Nagai level 38
Xenh wrote:

Everyone that has their character done to Mike/Revery's satisfaction by this time tomorrow will get a bonus.

This is the time to flesh out your character with personality, description, backgrounds, et cetera.

The effort will match the award.

I'll have to wait late this evening to write it down,but can think about it during the day.


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

It's late for me, so I'll try to get to the sheet review tomorrow. Hopefully within 12 hours I will have them all checked.

Mike/Revery


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress
Xenh wrote:
Everyone that has their character done to Mike/Revery's satisfaction by this time tomorrow will get a bonus.

Took the opportunity to look over the sheets.

Need Mike to field the skill total question, I remember him explaining how it works, but I think he has lost it. That buys people a bit of a stay of execution until the answers come back to me.

Revery (Erudite Enchanter)
* Done

Maruusk (Vah Shir Rogue)
- Needs a first level feat.
- Needs a background.

Quinaweniel (High Elf Magician)
- Needs a picture.
- Needs a description.
- Needs a disposition.

Sajeek (Vah Shir Beastlord)
- 19 skill points spent. Not sure how that's possible with a 4x modifier to skills. To get 1 rank in CC skills it's 2x the cost, so 1 rank only buys you 0.5 of a skill.

Gwendalyn (Barbarian Shaman)
- Needs a picture.
- 21 skill points spent. Not sure how that's possible with a 4x modifier to skills. To get 1 rank in CC skills it's 2x the cost, so 1 rank only buys you 0.5 of a skill.
- Needs a description.
- Needs a disposition.


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)

How many times do I have to tell the sheet that Swim is not a cross-class skill??? It seems to have taken this time, but now I'm skeptical.

I'll get the rest done on Thursday, since I have the day off of work. I've already done a lot to flesh out the character along the way; I just have to translate it.

Oh, and I need to find a picture. Anyone know a good place to look for fantasy portraits that are legal to borrow?


Male Mazinger-type Fan of Go Nagai level 38

I still need to finish working on the pic,but am also very busy with RL schedule atm.It is 7:30 AM here and i just had to jump out of bed for a sudden job commitment,am just about to leave for the day, not sure if i can post;surely won't add description or disposition today.


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)

Due to my small problem with the skills, I'm auditing everyone's. But that's all. Just skills.

Maruusk: A rather large number of skills listed that don't actually exist in this game.

Quinaweniel: Technically, all of the ones that don't say (C) in the Skill Name should have a check mark in the CC check box, but it's auditable as-is.

Revery: He can get Animal Empathy as a cross-class skill, and Bluff should be a class skill -- but that doesn't actually affect any calculations.

Sajeek: Only Search should be CC, so his sheet is incorrectly tallying 3 extra skill points used from Balance, Hide, and Jump. Also, he can get Meditation as a cross-class skill (but won't need it until 5th).


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)

Making a new post for a new topic. Burst of Flame has a very interesting wording; here's the 3rd-level Magician spell Flame Bolt for contrast.

Flame Bolt wrote:
A bolt of fire shoots from the caster's out-stretched hand, dealing 3d10 points of fire damage to its target. The caster must make a ranged touch attack to hit the target.

Burst of Flame is completely different. Its save is Fortitude half instead of Reflex half. It appears to just spontaneously ignite whatever.

Burst of Flame wrote:
One target within range bursts into flame, taking 1d6 points of fire damage.


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

I haven't checked skills recently, but it almost sounds as if MW is doing some sheet shenanigans again, which so far I had only seen with Pathfinder sheets. Will check myself soon.


Cthulhu-Spawn DM/crazy person

the sheet resets the CC classes for me, so I have to occasionally go back and reclick them


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

Yeah, Sajeek's is all mixed up, but all the skills you taken ranks in are class skills, so it adds up to 16, which is correct. At least it doesn't add points or ranks, so your skill bonus is correct all the time, it's just the total at the bottom that gets screwed up. My sheet doesn't do that, so it's probably how the javascript on the sheet is interacting with your browser or something like that.

I've fixed my Bluff checkbox, but Animal Empathy is not something I'm likely to take soon... I haven't added all the cross-class skills, as there are so many.

Quinaweniel has Sneak on her sheet twice.

Maruusk has these extras on there (which are not EQ skills): Concentration, Craft, Decipher Script, Move Silently, Open Lock, Sleight of Hand (with ranks!), Survival, Use Magic Device.

Gwendalyn should have Listen and Spot on there, since she's +3 and it's a passive skill the DM will use.


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress

I will add in another 24 hours to finish these changes, since there are some questions that have popped up. Those that have this finished in by 10:00pm MST (the same time I posted last night and the night before) may add a +2 to any attribute.

Please see the spoiler, as well as Revery and Gwen's comments for suggestions on what needs to be fixed. If you have any questions then feel free to post them here.

Character Additions/Revisions:
Revery (Erudite Enchanter)
* Done

Maruusk (Vah Shir Rogue)
- Needs a first level feat.
- Needs a background.
- Remove non-EverQuest skills.

Quinaweniel (High Elf Magician)
- Needs a picture.
- Needs a description.
- Needs a disposition.

Sajeek (Vah Shir Beastlord)
- 19 skill points spent. Not sure how that's possible with a 4x modifier to skills. To get 1 rank in CC skills it's 2x the cost, so 1 rank only buys you 0.5 of a skill.

Gwendalyn (Barbarian Shaman)
- Needs a picture.
- Needs a description.
- Needs a disposition.


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

Sajeek's skills are correct, the only problem is that the sheet marks them as cross-class skills when actually they are not. He has 16 skill points and 16 class skill ranks.


Xenh wrote:
Xenh wrote:
Everyone that has their character done to Mike/Revery's satisfaction by this time tomorrow will get a bonus.

Took the opportunity to look over the sheets.

Need Mike to field the skill total question, I remember him explaining how it works, but I think he has lost it. That buys people a bit of a stay of execution until the answers come back to me.

Maruusk (Vah Shir Rogue)
- Needs a first level feat.
- Needs a background
.

I think I've decided that I liked to email posting better, since I could more easily follow the OOC discussions.

Some comments:
-I'm fine with whatever you do for res, etc.
-I'll come up with a background more detailed, even though it was requested that it be vague...
-I'll get a feat and my training points spent. Sorry, this stem is so like and not like 3.5 that its infusing to me.

Having a blast.


Gwendalyn wrote:

Due to my small problem with the skills, I'm auditing everyone's. But that's all. Just skills.

Maruusk: A rather large number of skills listed that don't actually exist in this game.

Quinaweniel: Technically, all of the ones that don't say (C) in the Skill Name should have a check mark in the CC check box, but it's auditable as-is.

Revery: He can get Animal Empathy as a cross-class skill, and Bluff should be a class skill -- but that doesn't actually affect any calculations.

Sajeek: Only Search should be CC, so his sheet is incorrectly tallying 3 extra skill points used from Balance, Hide, and Jump. Also, he can get Meditation as a cross-class skill (but won't need it until 5th).

Frankly, I'm not removing skills that don't apply, I'm just not placing ranks in them. The sheets tend to get wonky when you mess with hem like that.


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

If you just delete a skill name, the sheet should be fine. At least, I've never seen it muddle with that... Change Open Lock to Pick Lock, change Move Silent to Sneak, and get rid of the others, is my suggestion.

If you find you have extra numbers around on blank skills, you can just disable javascript on your browser, remove the extras manually, save your sheet, and then re-enable javascript.


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress

Would it not resolve every skill-based issue by ignoring the CC box and simply denoting them in increments of 0.5? The decimal would let you know whether its cross-class or not (0.0, 0.5, 1.0).

The goal of this requested exacting level of character sheet conformity is to save time/effort on the part of the volunteers working behind the scenes. Mike/Revery is donating his time to ensure the character sheets are up-to-date and accurate. I would like to be able to quickly pop onto someone's sheet to look up something without trying to guess where you might have hidden it. Please make that process easier for all involved.

As an aside: The request was for voracious posters, as we try to put together a fast-paced game for all involved. If you are already finding it problematic to meet the minimum posting requirements then I suggest you go PM me and I will place you as an inactive player until you can inject more energy into the game. The game was started early with the expectation that people would finish their characters on the fly, please make that a priority.


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

I don't have a problem with the CC box on my character sheet - it works fine for me, and calculates all my skill points vs. ranks correctly.

For those for whom it doesn't work, we could do it that way. It's easy enough, and it gives you the chance to put in odd numbers of skill points for half ranks. In fact, I just did that, and all the other good stuff works well still...

If you want to make it law, it takes 30 seconds to change it on a sheet. So let's do that.

New rule: For cross-class skills (whether or not you use the flaky and counterintuitive cc check box), please enter any ranks other than 0 as decimal values, i.e. 0.5, 2.0, etc.


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)

Added Listen, Spot, and all the trained-only cross-class skills. Then attended to immediate survival needs. (Huh. It sounds irrational when I put it that way...) Next: fluff, fluff, and more fluff!

ETA: Also, Maruusk gets Language (Thieves' Cant) with 4 bonus ranks (misc mod) from Rogue.

ETA @Xenh: I'm leaving the Listen and Spot checks to you, so please tell me if I notice anything.


Male Mazinger-type Fan of Go Nagai level 38
Xenh wrote:


As an aside: The request was for voracious posters, as we try to put together a fast-paced game for all involved. If you are already finding it problematic to meet the minimum posting requirements then I suggest you go PM me and I will place you as an inactive player until you can inject more energy into the game. The game was started early with the expectation that people would finish their characters on the fly, please make that a priority.

I told from the start my posting capabilty.I can post twice a day, but in far different times from yours,and beside this in less than a month (about two weeks before Xmas) i'm not sure i'll be able to post at all for several days,will make you know.

This doesn't mean i want to drop out,but i don't always have all the time i'ld like; and i don't think i'm the only one.


Barbarian Shaman (Luminary Gwendalyn Shaughnessy the Giant Slayer)

I think that I'm done! I went with the Paizo avatar since I don't know where to find better fantasy art that I can use legally. I also moved the training points to Character Traits, so that I could use Additional Information for some declarations about Halas. Description and Personality have been added, and the background in Other Notes has been expanded. If approved, then I'll add the +2.


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress

Not going to hold Myth-Weavers flaking out against anyone in terms of how it assigns or misallocates skill points.

Grats on +2 points to one of your attributes!

Revery (Erudite Enchanter)
* Done

Gwendalyn (Barbarian Shaman)
* Done

Sajeek (Vah Shir Beastlord)
* Done


Updated feat and skill list.

Question - did we start with 5 base training points and 7 bonus (total 12), or 7 total?

Background in progress now.


Personal experience was when I messed with skill listings, I had them reset. I'll watch it and let you know.


Revery (Erudite Enchanter) in somnis veritas // Kspress (Iksar Monk) Your pain is the breaking of your shell.

12 total. That's how I was able to gain a point of INT.


Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress

Forgive the unwieldy fast forwards, but once you have navigated your way through the trials and tribulations I tend not make you follow the course to the bitter end. Things will slow down in short order to permit everyone to chat, bond and introduce themselves...should you live that long when my corrupted turkey gets done with you.

Maruusk wrote:

Updated feat and skill list.

Question - did we start with 5 base training points and 7 bonus (total 12), or 7 total?

Background in progress now.

12 total training points. That gives you enough for another feat, or to raise an attribute 1 point.

<holds the +2 attribute award just out of reach>

Maruusk wrote:
Personal experience was when I messed with skill listings, I had them reset. I'll watch it and let you know.

Clear em. Type em. Use my suggestion to use decimals for the CC skills. You won't have any issues.


Background added. Let me know if you want more detail. Not being familiar with this world at all, I'm sort of fumbling through. I used 3 points to set up Profession (Merchant) and will use the rest once my question above is answered.

Happy Turkey Day!


Xenh wrote:

Forgive the unwieldy fast forwards, but once you have navigated your way through the trials and tribulations I tend not make you follow the course to the bitter end. Things will slow down in short order to permit everyone to chat, bond and introduce themselves...should you live that long when my corrupted turkey gets done with you.

Maruusk wrote:

Updated feat and skill list.

Question - did we start with 5 base training points and 7 bonus (total 12), or 7 total?

Background in progress now.

12 total training points. That gives you enough for another feat, or to raise an attribute 1 point.

<holds the +2 attribute award just out of reach>

Maruusk wrote:
Personal experience was when I messed with skill listings, I had them reset. I'll watch it and let you know.

Clear em. Type em. Use my suggestion to use decimals for the CC skills. You won't have any issues.

OK, I 'll set up another feat, and save the rest for next level, or use it on a few skills.


I'll check in the AM. Off to bed so I can engage in the Black Friday special sales here in the US!!!

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