Wow, this must be the first time that a PC's gone off on his own and run into more than he can handle.
Oh, wait. No it's not. We've all done it. :-)
No, he had not drawn a weapon, he was relying on his spells thus far. He should have drawn one when he moved, but alas I did not think of it, so neither did he.
Regardless, Oz, you just need to Withdraw. Full Round action, move twice your speed, treat your starting square as not-threatened.
You don't provoke an AoO for making a full withdraw action.
Lesson learned from this Oz?
The pugwumpi's revenge. A pox on your house, Sir!
I do believe it's your turn, Aardvark.
Didn't you tell me yesterday, Dareon to use the Discussion thread for things not related to the game. Does this have to do with the game
Whoa now Elrawien, don't you want to at least wait for the second chapter before you've slept with everybody in the party?
I think what he meant is the ones that are purely out of character, non-game related. There's a difference between including a comment in a post where you perform a game function, and a post that doesn't affect gameplay/IC RP at all.
All the same, Dareon, the alternate location for temperature is rectally. Not necessarily sexually.
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Yes but it was in blue text and accompanied by his actual post, so it's open game. You used to be doing blatant black text that had nothing to do with the story at all. So he's clear.
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Oz walked into the bar, taking a good look around and making sure that it wouldn't end up the same as when he'd fought the sorcerer so poorly. he almost made it a point to keep an eye out for wands. Rather paranoid, to say the least, but it wasn't without just cause.
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You could have just attacked him. What about the goblin in P12?
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This is just innane. Many of us have done that.
I might not be on too much this weekend, I am starting to write Chapter 4 of my dissertation.
Good luck on the writing!
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So I'm a spectator until you guys get back to heidmarch mannor and I show up half-dead. Hooray!
In other news, I recently started my second Dirge campaign, and this one's a one-man campaign.
Also, on a note actually related to this, I wonder how the lady is going to respond to me learning of this "Corporation" and "Consortium" thing. I think oz is smart enough to keep the fact he dropped his association quiet though.
Let's just hope his bluff is good enough for that, haha.
I think I'll take Darkvision as my rogue ability, that, or fast stealth, but I don't think that's came into play yet so I'm not sure.
As another plan of action, I might just take fleet or something that improves my speed. Running away seems to be my specialty so far.
Just a head's up, I hope your all not waiting on me for anything, I haven't seen any action declarations that are waiting for me to adjudicate.
Oz, the word was Consortium, twice. There was no mention of Corporation.
In other news (Dareon and Oz), I think Apollo is acting suicidal since his PC hasn't turned out the way he had hoped. I've seen players do it before where they get reckless in hopes the character dies, so they can do something else and hope it turns out better.
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I just hope I'm the one that gets to do the deed. I can picture it now~ Him sitting down, impaled on a piece of wood going unconcious, having endangered Kori and the rest of them with his recklessness, bleeding out. Him, out of character, pleading and pleading to roll heal checks to stabilize him, and me, walking up, Dmitri all nonchalant.
He'd talk a bit about how futile the idea really was. How he'd gotten too into it, and didn't think too clearly, and how he himself was a man of simple pleasures. That'd be the moment he ran the whole blade through his chest, taking a little more fun out of it than he should have. It would be a shame, really.
Dmitri's all play, but he knows where the fun stops. He'd run if things looked particularly grim, or he was taking too much damage, he's evil, after all. I can see the "We're not so alike after all" talk being given.
I'd shed manly tears of joy doing it.
Sorry for any delays. My school just started (taking 2 classes) as well as my kids', my coworkers have all been out this week at appointments, my anniversery was yesterday, and I get wife aggro anytime I look at the computer at home. I will do my best to update the game tonight.
Actually, it's been a great time for the game to be slow. Busy week. I'm ready when you are.
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We've honestly got everything we need for good role-play here, but it all stems from racial hatred, haha. Tanjvats, half-orc, hated by dwarves. Elfs, also hated by dwarves, for the most part.
Essentially, and I find this the funniest part, I don't think the Dwarf who Should be the most hateful person in the party hasn't so much as casted a cursory glance at anyone so far, correct?
And them I'm just sitting over here running away and not dieing, surprisingly. So that's nice.
How did the Dissertation go, I wonder? I'm an At Major so I can't be sure how bad those are.
On another note, what are your guys's opinions on this thread? http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q51h?A-Dirge-for-Everything-A-single-player-Ca mpaign#1
I am conducting my interviews now, hopefully by Christmas I will have my Ed.D
What is an AT?
Lucky you. I had to write a thesis for my MA and now a dissertation for the doctorate. Almost done though.
Daeron is clamining Fade as his own which is strange especially after he outed himself a month or so ago, lol.
I have no problem with the house rule on doors. My house rule is that it takes "2-squares of movement". But "free, with a limit of one (but not a swift)" is fine, too.
This could be years of misunderstanding on my part or a house rule we established back in the 3.0 days that we used for so long we forgot it was a houserule, but I've always played doors as being openable as part of a movement (similar to drawing a weapon if you have +1 BAB), unless they are latched or stuck or what have you.
Regardless, I'm cool with whatever. RAW, Houserule A, Houserule B, it's all good.
First, I updated the map link to reflect the current positions.
Interesting ideas, open/close doors as either part of movement, or costing extra movement.
The only issue I see with the extra movement, is it makes the slower races/encumbered people less able to open doors. As part of movement, is it only at the end or beginning, or can be at any point during the move? Does it include opening and closing or only one?
I wouldn't mind finding a decent alternate rule for doors that everyone agrees on, so please feel free to add input.
I chose a free with limits, because you only get 1 swift a round, and unlike 4e you can't convert a move or standard into a swift.
We'd always done it as part of a move whereever in the move. Limits on the number of doors you could open and run through never really cropped up, and it never got crazy enough to make us add limits or anything to it. Generally, we had more fun things to do during combats than running around opening all the doors =P
Okay, Elrawien, one more thing. And just for clarification, this isn't continuing to attack you, just making it look good.
When signifying what you want your dice rolls to be, format it like [dice=Whatever it is]. It makes it look way better.
Also, I believe bless only modifies attack rolls and saves versus fear.
Wow continuing to attack, how nice and polite of you to tell me when you are NOT attacking me.
Is how it looks your discretion or mine? My posts I think my discretion.
In terms of bless this is why I said I wasnt sure if it modified or not and if it did then to add the modifier.
They're just the standards of formatting on these forums. You can look around, most people follow them. I'm not meaning offense, so I don't understand why you're taking it.
Okay, Elrawien, one more thing. And just for clarification, this isn't continuing to attack you, just making it look good.
How am I supposed to take it?
...That I want your posts to look better? It's just formatting, it's not like I'm telling you that your family is ugly or something.
this isn't continuing to attack you,
How am I supposed to take that?
Here's the post where Aard shared what his formatting standards are
While I prefer to include titles in my dice expressions like your post instructs, as far as I've been able to determine in reading back through the discussion thread that's all it is: a preference. And the internet being how it is, I can certainly see how the post about dice formatting could have been read as having an accusatory tone; if only because the part about formatting was written more like a command than a suggestion.
Example:
"When signifying what you want your dice rolls to be, format it like [dice=Whatever it is]. It makes it look way better."
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"If you'd like, you can format your dice rolls this way [dice=Whatever it is]. The green text can really help dice rolls pop."
/shrug
I figure Dareon's just trying to be helpful, but I also think the gesture ran afoul of a weakness inherent in internet/messageboard written communication.
I wasn't aware that Dareon was the rules and format police. If so, please give me a ticket. Give me a ticket whenever you want.
For me the kicker is, I am not continuing to attack you! Again, really? Is this what his constant do it this way and do it this way have been an attack?
I am really seriously considering not playing in this campaign anymore. Constantly being told that I am not doing it right is really getting old especially when I am trying to advance a story and we have people, I know that life gets in the way, not posting for weeks.
Maybe Dareon can just take over my character so we can ensure that it is done his way.
Um, hey everybody, how's it going...
Anyways, to include my input on this:
First, I actually don't like the green text in the die rolls. There something about the way it formats in the post itself which I think makes it look weird. So, I would prefer people NOT use the suggestion Dareon made, but if you like it better then go ahead and use it, as it doesn't much matter to me. I just need the clear distinction between speech, thoughts, mechanics and narrative. Whether the die rolls are either OOC blue, or Die roll green makes little difference to me.
Secondly, my experience with Dareon in another game, I can see why he would post the way he did that may have made it look like an attack. I am a player in one of his games, and whenever I make corrections to one of the other players, that player gets offended and thinks I'm attacking him. I see Dareon's wording as trying to avoid the idea that the correction might be taken as an attack in the first place based on the way it has resulted in the other game. I do believe he was trying to avoid a situation with his choice of words, but sadly tone doesn't carry over in internet text, and his tone while typing may have been extremely friendly.
One time is one thing, constantly correcting things that don't need to be corrected is another. Perhaps it is a poor choice of words but to read "I am not continuing to attack" implies that there has been or will be continued attacks if things are not done his way. I really don't have the time or the patience for that.
I've just been re-reading the gameplay post because I'm a loser with no life, and I was just thinking...
Damn, we have some good roleplay roots here :D I'm excited to see where this goes.
Map is updated.
Elrawien, it's your turn. Tanjvats, you can go ahead and act in the interim.
Aard, is there an opening in the wall above me that leads to the goblins? If it wasn't apparent, I've been trying to loop around behind them.
Sorry, for the delay, yes there is an opening. It's in the room description, but it is easily missed in the wall of text.
I've PM'd Elrawein, but he hasn't responded, though I see he has been posting on the boards elsewhere. I wasn't given an actual notice of quitting, so I will try to see what's going on.
In the meantime, Oz, since you have nothing going on during this scene, would you want to take over for Elrawien until I get an answer? That way you can at least play in the scene (it could be a decent length), and we can keep some continuity until the group gets back to the lodge and meets up with you.
Until then, I will post for her this update at least.
I want to thank you for this most interesting and learning experience but I think that I have made my decision to bow out of this game.
I made the decision in a deliberate manner not to post for a while to see if I was going to miss this game. As I thought more and more about it, I thought that games were supposed to be fun and not aggravating and unnecessarily petty. This game has stopped being fun for me. I am going to miss interacting with some of you. I used this game as a break from my doctorate to just try to RP and have fun. The constant picking towards me, this being my first real game, and the slowness in the story, has helped me to make this decision.
I do ask that my character be retired and not have something dumb, like take off all of her clothes and give her equipment to someone else, like happened in my first game, take place. Again, for the most part this was a good experience and I thank you all for this opportunity.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that you have decided to leave, and that my game had become unfun. Don't worry, I do not intend on being bitter about your departure. I had figured that if you were leaving I would have her decide that the filth involved in doing these Pathfinder duties are not worth all the disgust. She would retire to the Temple of Calistria to earn back her family's money, that way she at least has fun while earning at the same time.