A Rise With A Difference

Game Master Dabbler

jlord wrote:

therealthom wrote:

Can't say I've been up that way. Is small town Michigan as badly affected by the auto industry's woes as we hear on the news about the urban areas?

Probably, Its pretty bad.

Here in Mass, things aren't great. I know a lot of people looking for work, but most families are still scraping by on one income. There's foreclosure sales, but not enough to drive prices below where they were 5 years ago. So it's mostly survivable, but a huge comedown from three years ago.

What we hear from Michigan sounds much worse, but reports seem to be centered on the Detroit area. Houses selling for pennies on the dollar. Incredible unemployment. Municipal governments on the verge of bankruptcy.

Interesting times.

Yeah, Its bad. Half a million dollar homes are going for less than 100, and they still can't sell them. An unbelievable amount of foreclosure. Alot of people lately have taken to setting homes they have been forced out of on fire.

Once again, it seems there is a vacancy as Mundin appears to have dropped out with Quar. If anyone knows a player willing to play (preferably) a psion ...

Once again, it seems there is a vacancy as Mundin appears to have dropped out with Quar. If anyone knows a player willing to play (preferably) a psion ...

If nobody responds to your recruitment thread, I can see if one of my at home group wants to give pbp and the psion a try.

Sorry if this sounds really n00b, but I'm still pretty new to the Psionics stuff, So how do I do Psionic focus and what can I do with it? Was it in one of the pdf's we downloaded?

Sorry if this sounds really n00b, but I'm still pretty new to the Psionics stuff, So how do I do Psionic focus and what can I do with it? Was it in one of the pdf's we downloaded?

It takes a full round action to focus yourself. Once you're focused, there are several possible benefits:

• Some feats or class abilities give benefits if you're psionically focused. For instance, Gornak's Psionic Weapon feat gives a +1 bonus to weapon damage while he's focused.
  
• Some feats or class abilities give benefits if you expend your psionic focus. For instance, the Psionic Weapon feat gives a +2d6 bonus to weapon damage if you expend your focus and hit with your attack. More importantly to you, Thanadros can expend his psionic focus to increase his manifester level by one when using his Prevenom Weapon power.
  
• Regardless, you can always expend your psionic focus to "take 15" on a concentration check (i.e. treat it as if you rolled a "15").

Cool, thanks Hogarth.

Dabbler wrote:

Once again, it seems there is a vacancy as Mundin appears to have dropped out with Quar. If anyone knows a player willing to play (preferably) a psion ...

If nobody responds to your recruitment thread, I can see if one of my at home group wants to give pbp and the psion a try.

You might want to sound them out on that ...

jlord wrote:

Dabbler wrote:

Once again, it seems there is a vacancy as Mundin appears to have dropped out with Quar. If anyone knows a player willing to play (preferably) a psion ...

If nobody responds to your recruitment thread, I can see if one of my at home group wants to give pbp and the psion a try.

You might want to sound them out on that ...

Still need me to?

If you can, we haven't had any takers from the other thread.

Ok, I will see if any of my friends from my rl game wants to join. Not sure if they will though. They will be totally new to the pbp experience if they do... and psionics. I am assuming that the position is specifically for the psion?

Yeah, doesn't look good with any of my rl players, they're not interested in psionics. Sorry... I have one other player who missed that I asked, but I doubt he will be available. If he is interested I will let you know... keep trying the recruitment section, I'm sure that someone will want to give it a try.

Thanks for asking them, jlord. We'll see what else turns up, but we still have a viable party regardless.

Thanks for asking them, jlord. We'll see what else turns up, but we still have a viable party regardless.

Yeah I agree.

Well, here comes your saviour. :p

I'd like to join this game with a Psion, though what discipline I will chose is still not decided. If you have any suggestions they would be welcome.

I'll start building the character now and we will see what we turn up with. :)

By the way, do I start at level 1 or 2?

And how do you look at the Psionic races, as I love the blue but I don't know how well one would fit with your party seeing as you are fighting goblins. :) Though maybe we could come up with some good idea together?

Welcome aboard, Adrian!

Rolling for hit points. 1d8 ⇒ 5

Gornak will "take 5" on his hit point roll. I hate rolling for character stats. :-)

Adrian: Hi, my name is...
Thanadros: Goblin! Kill it like the rest!

Seriously though, welcome aboard. I'm not sure if those races were one of the ones dabbler let us choose from, but a really good intro might be needed if you are going to be goblin-like. Thanadros thinks of goblins as violent pests that need to be killed on sight, and I imagine that the town might be on a very similar thought process due to recent events so be careful. I'm still pretty new to psionics so I have no idea what discipline to choose.

Leveling up:

Gornak will "take 5" on his hit point roll. I hate rolling for character stats. :-)

Argeed! I will be doing the same. Dabbler, just noticed that the PW has d8 hit dice, and my character had d10, not sure what happened, but will fix accordingly with the level...

~~LEVEL UP!~~

Thanadros's Level increases to Lv. 2!

Thanadros's Attributes Improve:
+7 hp (includes fav & con)
+1 Base Attack Bonus
+1 Fortitude
+1 Power point

4 skill points earned!
+1 Acrobatics
+1 Autohypnosis
+1 climb
+1 Perception

Thanadros has learned the Psionic Shot Feat!

Thanadros has learned the Precognition, Offensive psionic power!

Well, then it might be better to chose something else, though I really like the Blue. I'll see if I can come up with a good reason for him not to die in the first three posts otherwise I might just make a plain boring human. :p

It's up to you, Adrian, but the blue would not be ... impossible to work in, just awkward. You can start at 2nd level, too.

What speciality you choose is up to you completely, there's not better or worse option.

Edit: in fact if you really want the blue, I'm sure I could work it in.

I updated Gornak. I put his favored class points in power points, took Vigor as a power, and Power Attack as a feat.

Did we ever sell the loot from the goblins? I forget. I only remember getting 50 gp from Count Aldern so far.

Gornak isn't particularly prejudiced against goblins; he's a freak himself. :-)

I think Thanadros should have 7 pp: 2 from his class, +2 from his bonus feat, and +3 for a level 2 character with 16 Wis.

Did we ever sell the loot from the goblins? I forget. I only remember getting 50 gp from Count Aldern so far.

You did have some loot from the goblins but no-one has made any particular effort to value or dispose of it. As it was largely masterwork weapons you cannot use and you have a standing discount at a certain store near here, we'll make it up shortly ...

Hogarth, you have the right of it. Always recalculate your PP each level based on class, favoured class, race and manifesting stat.

Then I'll make a blue as I really love them. My favorite race of them all, they are really interesting. :)

To late to edit my last post. :/

Anyway, I might be looking in the wrong place but I can't find this table. Anyone care to direct me to the right document? :)

I don't think they reprinted that table in the Beta materials, so I'd just use it as-is from the SRD.

Gornak will "take 5" on his hit point roll. I hate rolling for character stats. :-)

Gutless! ;-p

But to be fair, had I rolled a one you would have suffered a long litany of whining about star-crossed fate and malign die.

Gornak wrote:

Gornak will "take 5" on his hit point roll. I hate rolling for character stats. :-)

Gutless! ;-p

Guilty as charged!

I'm a terrible gambler: I get very little satisfaction when I win, and lots of misery when I lose...

Sorry about being so quiet recently, and as a heads-up I may be sporadic over the next week or so as well (Finals). But I'll try to post when I can!

Anywho: LEVEL 2

Taking the 5 for the Hit Die. I don't feel like knocking on death's door.
Albrecht has now unlocked his latent psionic abilities!
Monk 1/Psychic Warrior 1 (Note: ML 2 due to Psionic Knack)
+7 hp
+2 Fort
+5 PP gained
lost Wild Talent feat
gained Psionic Talent feat
+1 rank in Acrobatics
+1 rank in Diplomacy
+1 rank in Perception

Class Features:
-Psionic Proficiency
-Mind Knight Warrior's Path
--Path Power: Inertial Armor
--Path Bonus Skill: Diplomacy
-Bonus Feat (Psionic Weapon)
-Learned Offensive Precognition
-Gain Class Skill: Autohypnosis

Given that you're all taking 5 on HP, does anyone else find it ironic that I rolled a 5?

Given that you're all taking 5 on HP, does anyone else find it ironic that I rolled a 5?

Not really; I'd probably find it more ironic if everyone rolled the maximum amount of hit points.

By the way, have we lost Hector's player?

Another one? Hector are you out there?

To late to edit my last post. :/

Anyway, I might be looking in the wrong place but I can't find this table. Anyone care to direct me to the right document? :)

It's the same table, no changes! Regarding introducing your character ...

Lets see if I do this right: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Hey Everyone!

I just wanted to apologize for being so silent. I've been totally slammed at work for the past couple of weeks and haven't been able to keep up with the game. Fortunately things should be slowing down after today, and I'll be able to focus my attention on more enjoyable pursuits. So I should have Aylmora updated to level 2 by the end of tomorrow.

Great rescue of the Barett's by the way. Nice shot Thanadros!

Gob Sickarm(lame name, I know), your new shaper reporting for duty.

Background comming soon. If somebody notices any mistakes feel free to tell me, it was a while since I made a Psion. :)

Nice! Double check your HP though ;)

Feeling lucky. Rolling for hit points: 1d8 ⇒ 5

Now how ironic is that!

With CON modifier that's a total of +6 hp for Aylmora at 2nd level.

Aylmora is updated. Learned Mind Thrust as new power.

Good ... you will likely need them ...

As a heads-up so there are no surprises, this coming week is my finals week so if I'm not posting with great frequency, you know why.

Thanks for letting us know, Alan. Things are about to get ... interesting.

Merry christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas!

And be ready to queue Gob Sickarm!

Gob queued!

Any Luck with Adrian/Gob? If he is still going to be out of commission for a while, maybe it would be a good idea to skip ahead and come back to his introduction later, when he is available?

+1. I don't want this game to die...

No reply to my e-mail, but he had a lot of problems to deal with. I'm pressing on, and if he joins us later great.

I think we should probably have a roll call to see who's still here; it looks like some people didn't make it back from Christmas vacation.

Gornak -- present!

Vaclav, "YO!"

Aylmora's here. Just posted in the IC thread.

Albrescht is still here!