A Tale Of Peasants And Kings (Inactive)

Game Master Aku Warashi

I'm going to give everyone until tomorrow evening to decide what they might want out of the loot pile before I start liquidating, FYI.

I'm good with either approach, regarding Kressle, Vicar, and re-supplying.

Ahem.

"April yelps like a frightened puppy seeking refuge in Hylaen arms."

A more faithful depiction.

LOL...like that image....

Looking at the Loot List, I have a couple of suggestions and thoughts. Assuming that Oleg will let us store stuff at the guest house for future use;

1) It looks like rations are being tracked so don't sell rations but keep the "extra" at the guest house.
2) Same for arrows. Rendyl, especially, and Damiel will go thru a lot of arrows, so keep the "extra" at the guest house also.

We each get 69.7 GP from the initial sale of stuff to Oleg, right?
Damiel will take the five arrows he needs to have both quivers full.
Split the rations up, so we each end up with at least five days of "people" rations and five days of "horse" rations.

Looking at all the alias, only Damiel or Hylaen would benefit from the Studded Leather Armor. It is yours Hylaen if you wish as you ran up into the fray a lot quicker than Damiel ever will.

-- Damiel

@About trail rations.

Well, since we will move the game in a storyteller fashion-ish instead of full open sand box style, I do not plan to keep track of rations/water and those daily basic necessities.
That would just make things complicated.

I also need to think about gold in general. While using automatic progression, the amount of ‘gold’ will just pile up, since there is no ‘magic items’ for sale anymore.
I’ll consider some possibilities, and tell you guys later about it.

Also, we need a certain alchemist to identify the herbal potion from the loot. Wink wink. :)

Hey, guys.

I won't be able to post this night.
I'll move the game tomorrow morning.

Sure, I'll grab the studded leather armor, thanks.

Do I need to roll something to identify the herbal potion? I was only waiting until we got to the base to do that.

Had a quick look through the loot list and I can't see anything I need.

Vik is the same...he is good for now

I also need to think about gold in general. While using automatic progression, the amount of ‘gold’ will just pile up, since there is no ‘magic items’ for sale anymore.

There are a lot of miscellaneous items that are not covered by ABP, for example, Bags of Holding, Decanter of Endless Water, etc.

Will these items not be available, or just items covered by ABP?

-- Damiel

That's what I'm trying to decide. :D

Excuse the metagaming, but did you really mean to say that April has a +16 modifier to Bluff?!

Jeez. I can't beat that. Just assume if her lips are moving, she's lying, OK?

Yep.

April is not a level 1 character, and she's build exclusively around social encounters and manipulating people.
She's also an Eliciter

Re: "Magic Items" - Got it, thanks for the information.

Re: Bluff modifier - Yea, I cannot beat that. A 20 gives me exactly 26.

I'll get a proper moving along post later tonite.

Just couldn't resist answering Djebelle.

Yep.

April is not a level 1 character, and she's build exclusively around social encounters and manipulating people.
She's also an Eliciter

Why are you telling us so much about an NPC's abilities? (Not that I'm complaining.)

I've done the same sort of thing in the past as a DM - usually as a way of letting my players know that while there may come a time for confronting and defeating a particular NPC, that time is not now.

I've added to the map an icon on the place indicated by Kressle.

Why are you telling us so much about an NPC's abilities? (Not that I'm complaining.)

Djebelle told one of the reasons. One other reason is to give enough information to players figure out how things are being done on the NPC side (for those players who like such things).

A third reason is that, not every NPC is a enemy. Or today's enemy can be tomorrow's ally.

We'll see. I think I'll take this kingmaker for a huge spin. :D

Alrighty, based on the 1,000 gp limit per week at Oleg's, each of us gets 283 gp as our share of the loot sales.

DM Aku, I took the liberty of including the 400 gp Bandit bounty for the 12 bandits. Let me know if that's an issue.

@Bandit bounty.

Not that it really matters, but the reward will only be available in about a week (in game time). The lieutenant has to send word to Restov, and then they'll send the gold.

Alrighty, based on the 1,000 gp limit per week at Oleg's, each of us gets 283 gp as our share of the loot sales.

DM Aku, I took the liberty of including the 400 gp Bandit bounty for the 12 bandits. Let me know if that's an issue.

is that in addition to the 69 gp.

Yes, that is in addition, good sir.

@Tegan.

I'll need some time to write a good answer for your post. I'll try to do it by tomorrow.

Flat tire on my way to work. That will delay things on my side.

That sucks, DM. Hope you got back on the road OK!

Seems like we have a decision to make, or several decisions really.

1) Kressle has told us where to find the Stag Lord - do we go straight there to confront him?

If so, do we

1a) Go it alone

1b) Take the other group with us as semi-reliable(?) allies(!?!?)

Or

2) Do we bide our time, build up our strength (aka level up) and do the exploration we have also been chartered to do, saving the fight with the Stag Lord until we're fully ready?

From a metagaming perspective, in the other Kingmaker campaign I'm in, the fight with the Stag Lord was the climax of the first AP module, and our (3rd level!) characters took a hell of a beating in the process. However, this version of the AP is already very, very different from the other one so I don't know what our DM has planned.

I would vote for option 2. This last fight with the bandits was a lot more perilous than the 1st encounter. Plus we can start exploration of hexes, fulfilling another mandate of our charter.

There is the problem of retaliation once the Stag Lord learns of the defeat of his northern force, but if I were him I'd consolidate my power or move on, not Attack. As an in game reason to delay, that is.

Hey.

I'm fine with anything you choose.
No matter what you decide, I'll act accordingly.

I've added the new quest to the tracker.
Svetlana's ring.

So I guess she chewed on the proverbial cyanide pill, eh? Guess that saves us the moral dilemma of deciding what to do with her.

I'd choose option 2 as well. We should explore some hexes, fulfill other tasks and tackle the Stag Lord once we are better prepared. Unless he forces our hand. That's a reason why we shouldn't take too long, in game, to go after him.

I'm fine with saving the Stag Lord for last. Especially if it's supposed to be the closing to the first book.

Also, I had NO idea you could buy a guinea pig for 1 cp in the Ultimate Equipment book. You can buy a lot of crazy stuff in this game.

Fine, onto the radishes! Djebelle doesn't have knowledge local, but hopefully one of you does. Be good to solve the mystery of Kressle before one of us gets it.

I'll update later today.

Busy day at work.

Hey, I'm innocent this time! They Kobolds are just saying that the radishes are theirs, and that if you try to take it, they'll attack!
That's a reasonable thing to say. Even Kobolds don't like to have their spoils taken by someone else.

Edit: Added a 'try to take', just to show they are not immediately attacking.

Site was off for a good part of the day.

I'll update later tonite or tomorrow morning.

Well, I knew that Kobolds aren't exactly that exciting as bandits, but I wasn't expecting this much... :D

I'll update later today when I get home, botting those that haven't posted yet.

Sorry for being unavailable. Camping season is over. Sunday and Monday packed up stuff, closed camper, packed cars came home, and spent the Tuesday and Wednesday getting things put away. It is surprising how much "stuff" we had in the camper that needed to come home.

We also both have had doctor appointments this week. My wife found out yesterday that she needs surgery, so around November 15th I will be unavailable for a few days. Not an emergency, but at our ages, any surgery can be harsh.

Will have a post out later today. Need to spend time with wife.

@David

Take care and take your time.
Care for your wife, and come back to us when you are ready. :)

What the DM said - best wishes to you and yours!

I hope everything goes well.

I will post in 5ish hours when I get home.

Thanks for the good thoughts...

He would rather she yell at him than give him that understanding, knowing look.

Heh. Guilt is one of the primary weapons in Good's arsenal :-)

@Tegan.

Fully exploring plains (the light green hexes) takes a full day.
Exploring the darker green hexes takes two full days.
Exploring forest, takes three full days.

@All

Congratz for surviving this far. Please update your hero for level 2.

Whoo hoo! Will do!

Yay us!

Awesome.

EDIT: Just read the gameplay post. NOT awesome :-(

@Rendyl

Don't forget it's full HP all levels.

Ok, I won't.

Thanks! :)