Laine, you'll also need to see if mdk is allowing increases of more than one step at a time.
Yep! I'm not sure what else I would put a point in, but right now, I'm just waiting.
Still learning the game, but I'll get there eventually.
I wanted to give a heads up that I will be on vacation and traveling through central Europe from May 9-May 25. I'll be able to post some while traveling but will have to do so from my phone or iPad. So please bot me if required and know that I'll post when I can.
I'm just kind of quiet because I'm utterly swamped at work.
Monday : 4 hours driving, 6 hours work
Tuesday : 9 hours work
Wednesday : 10 hours work
Thursday : 9.5 hours work
Friday : 6 hours work 4 hours driving
Saturday : 5 hours work 3 hours pick up mom at Airport
Sunday : 2 hours work 3 hours deal with dimentia suffering father watch movie with mother and wife, 4 hours driving
Sorry everyone. Work is kicking my ass. I'll try to get posts up today.
Still here.
Still checking everyday
I am still here as well. In truth this is a nice break for me since I am traveling and having not lost from my phone. I'm back on the 25th.
*sigh*
Monday : Work
Tuesday : Sick
Wednesday : Sick
Thursday : Sick but still worked, behind on work
Friday : Worked, father sent to hospital, Drive 4 hours
Saturday : Father sent home (dehydrated from not drinking liquids, didn't want to 'go to the bathroom every 5 minutes' so blood pressure spiked)
Sunday : Ran around all day getting rental cars switched out, 4 hour drive to Dallas changed to 6 hour drive due to rain and car accidents
Monday : Behind from last week, work, plus work at hotel after work on second client
Tuesday : Behind from last week, work, plus work at hotel after work on second client
Wednesday : dead in the water, still behind, client killed my login to their system, waiting on it to get fixed. Hooked up tether to phone, posted here. Client's system blocks the Paizo site.
Ok, I actually have a 3 day weekend this weekend (yay!) so I can hopefully get everyone's characters up to date (can't until then, on the road, not at home computer).
In the meantime, I'll go ahead and post. Just remember any bonuses you will gain from spending exp on skills.
Just let me know if there's any skills from those I was asking about that I can't train, I guess (local language from the prisoners, ogre-thingy phisiology)
I am back from my trip. Had a great time but glad to be back home and working to get into a regular routine again. Ready to jump back into this game and to really re-learn the GURPS rules. :)
You can train local language, but you get basically broken language in it. Pidgin for now.
Cool. Let's go on a road trip!
Are my skill upgrades alright? There was some stipulation in the book about upgrading skills at the same point of buying them.
Sorry Nadezhda, I'm not tracking the question. Can you clarify? My own fault, brain dead and sick again today.
No problem! I purchased and wanted to upgrade Acrobatics by a rank in the same session, but there's some clause somewhere in the book that says that's up to the DM or generally not allowed. Or something.
Oh, that. You can dedicate the point toward it, you can't spend it immediately, but by allocating it it clicks in at some point without requiring down time.
So I have asked IC twice if we are to return if we find a large force to report it, or if we should keep scouting. I have not yet received a response. Is that intentional?
Sorry, I misunderstood your question. You would return to report it.
OK. Thanks!
Should we be choosing trade goods/cargo from a list of things, or should we just expect it to be a sort of standardized set of gewgaws they give us?
Up to you, I can give you a list to choose from, or you can assume you have generic stuff. Or a combination, you give me one item each you want to carry with you, and the rest is generic stuff.
I'm fine with "generic trade goods," as long as we have plenty of medical supplies.
We should give them blankets! The locals -love- blankets! Nice, clean blankets! Nothing wrong with deeeeese blankets, no sir! Just some fresh smelling blankets!
This is how we conquer the countryside.
Oh I love that idea, we need a merchant to diliver the salespitch
You forget Daniel's heritage...
I mean no, it's terrible. Synthetic fabrics might be decent, especially if they're incredibly warm, but probably have more trade value as socks, shoes, or coats. Still, metals would be the most valuable if we were trading with Medieval people--Silver's not a bad trade idea, but ingots of aluminum or stainless steel tools would be hugely valuable.
Daniel wouldn't like that idea at all. Thankfully, we're not here to conquer this new land, yet.
Stupid site has been down most of the last few days. blech. Ok, everyone ready to move on?
Also, on the stingers, they are infrared homing, meaning that endothermic targets (like the flying reptiles) are next to impossible to hit with them. :)
Yep. Time to buy some overpriced local souvenir crafts!
sure, but even a flying cold NAD is going to be warmer than the sky behind it.
I don't think we need to be too flashy—don't want to be an obvious target for thieves or bandits—and hanging valuable stuff on the roof might be problematic.
How many MANPADs are we planning to stick in the car? I'd assume the 20mm works better against ground target, maybe we could just stock 1-2 emergency RPGs and decrease trad good space?
@Dawn - Yes, but it won't be warm enough to trigger the homing. Think about it, the homing systems generally ignore anything not hot enough to be a plane. There's good reasons for that, you don't want it zooming in to hit your men in the field. :)
The 20mm did wonders on the flying reptiles during the defense of the wall if you remember (those big guns on the wall were 20mm). They just didn't do anything against those really big monsters. Then again, the hellfires took awhile to affect them as well.
What about a Carl Gustaf with a handful of rounds, or a few M72's. Both are currently in use by the USA.
AN M72 weighs 5.5 lbs, and is point and shoot.
The MAAWS (Carl Gustaf) is a bit heftier at 18 lbs but its reusable and allows for multiple ammunition types.
They won't be as effective against a moving aerial threat, but they'll make a nice ground distraction.
Dawn would try and see if she can beg or borrow an M72 as part of her personal loadout anyway.
You already have some M72's in the commander's kit. Two of them in fact.
I'm wondering if it would be appropriate for one or more of us to be riding desant.
I expect that Daniel as the driver will definitely have his hatch open and head out. The turret has two hatches for people to stand up in.
I doubt we're traveling more than a 10 or 15 miles per hour as there aren't any roads. (Modern urbanized people tend to forget that natural land is rarely flat, even when it looks flat.)
Having us sitting up on top gives more eyes for obstacles and paths.
You've had a few sections where the land was flat enough to hit 45, letting you average 30, but yeah, for the most part, you're doing 15 or 20. The LAV is heavy and bulky enough that small stuff doesn't phase it (like parking curbs, small animals, VW bugs).
Oh, if we've already got M72s, then I'm fine not taking manpads.
Also if we buy a horse or a unicorn or something, I can ride on that for extra space in the vehicle.
I am about to be on another trip. This time I'll be gone from tonight until Sunday June 25. This time I will not eve have cell signal so I cannot check in. Please bot me as needed.
The average person walks 3-4 miles per day. Assuming eight hours of travel, that's 24-32 miles per.
Horses were not to travel faster, but for humans to not be tired from doing the walking themselves. and the horse could carry more.
During the US western expansion, the pioneers would generally travel about 10-20 miles per day, but that was with oxen which are slower than humans in cross country walking.
Well, historically speaking, the Mongols traveled roughly 100 miles a day on horseback. They owned multiple horses and could swap them out and remain at full speed without killing their mounts.
Also, there's this thing called a Tevis Cup, which is a 100-mile in one day horseback competition. I assume people have won this, so it's not impossible for a horse to travel that much.
No, however, it should be noted that the Tevis Cup is for exceptional horses/horsemen, not cavalry soldiers. And certainly not wooden wagons. Old West stagecoaches covered about 5-6 miles per hour, and about 60-70 miles per day.
Maps updated and linked at top of page. I hope those are sufficient for now. Sorry I don't have the entire continent mapped out (not that you could see the entire continent anyway).
So, it sounds like you're going after someone? Are you going north-north west, or north east? (Mounted Cavalry vs Heavy Wagon)
I take it we found easy crossing points for those rivers marked on the map? Can you also mark the red line on where the other scouts left our trail?
Yep, you did, the rivers are wide but not deep, so the deepest point was about 4 ft deep. I'll add those later, busy week, next week will be less busy.
Are the armored men using armor like those we have been fighting?