sure, let me read up on him and the current situation.
I'm about to post for him, got it half done, so don't worry about this round.
Hey guys, this has nothing to do with the fire that just got lit in the gameplay thread, I promise! =P
As I've been copy/pasting in all my pbp discussion threads, I just wanted to let you fine folks know that I'll be visiting an old college roommate this weekend and there's a good chance I won't be able to post much (if at all). If I do get the opportunity, I'll try and check in with my phone. Should be back to normal when I roll back into town Monday night.
Have fun! Don't worry. We'll just be here missing with our attacks, too.
A week from tomorrow, it will have lasted 3 months.
Just for clarification. In case no response was intended to mean no change, I don't read it as such. To me in PbP, no post means no one has had time to post, so I tend to be very lenient (especially given my posting rate).
That being said, I also only move forward when an action has been declared, since I don't want to risk making decisions for the players.
That's a good clarification. I'll do a better job of putting in an "acknowledgement" post to show I'm up to date and ready to move on, even if I don't have anything dramatic to add.
Would you prefer those IC or OOC?
For the 'nothing to add' posts you could do either. Say in OOC that you don't act/react to the event. Or you could acknowledge with an IC along the lines of 'shrugs and dismisses it' or 'ignores it and brushes it off'. I don't need them all the time, but primarily when the ball is in your court and there have been no actions for me to push forward off of.
Uriah, I was looking at your profile, and saw you had a lot of feats. I know where most came from, but it seems like you still have 1 too many.
Silent Spell from oracle Deaf curse
Weapon Finesse I gave for free
1 from human (Rapid reload?)
1 for 1st level (extra revelation?)
Okay, I think I found it, did you take Weapon Mastery as your extra revelation (therefore also a Battle oracle)? If so, could you put these somewhere in the profile?
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Spot of a question, but Uriah, if you are still here, I would Loooooooooove to talk to your character until this whole mess on the other side of town is over.
This is forever going to be a lesson that you should never split up on a no-gameboard game.
Incidentally we shouldn't let Apollo split apart ever. Cuz dam.
Spot of a question, but Uriah, if you are still here, I would Loooooooooove to talk to your character until this whole mess on the other side of town is over.
This is forever going to be a lesson that you should never split up on a no-gameboard game.
Incidentally we shouldn't let Apollo split apart ever. Cuz dam.
That might be difficult. If your mask resembles anything like what is depicted in your avatar, I'm not going to be able to understand/"hear" you. If you have a Batman style mask that does not cover your mouth, or you are willing to remove it, then a conversation will be possible.
For the 'nothing to add' posts you could do either. Say in OOC that you don't act/react to the event. Or you could acknowledge with an IC along the lines of 'shrugs and dismisses it' or 'ignores it and brushes it off'. I don't need them all the time, but primarily when the ball is in your court and there have been no actions for me to push forward off of.
Uriah, I was looking at your profile, and saw you had a lot of feats. I know where most came from, but it seems like you still have 1 too many.
Silent Spell from oracle Deaf curse
Weapon Finesse I gave for free
1 from human (Rapid reload?)
1 for 1st level (extra revelation?)Okay, I think I found it, did you take Weapon Mastery as your extra revelation (therefore also a Battle oracle)? If so, could you put these somewhere in the profile?
I added an Oracle spoiler which specifies mystery, curse, and revelations.
Faed, that was some high-quality stabbing! Well done!
*bows*
I warned her!
Oz, does the mask cover your lips such that our deaf oracle can't read them?
OMG Oz! You won't believe! The filth! WTF! No hugs yet.
Oz, don't know if you noticed, so I wanted to tell you that you are officially back with the others now.
I welcome it! As usual, me too.
I wanted to make sure everyone is clear, that this is the time to get a lot of your questions answered before going to the Crow. So any thing you feel you need or want to know from either Sheila or Natalya, feel free to jump in and ask.
With that being said, I'm reluctant to distract from the current conversations to say, LEVEL UP!
Important HP die-rolling rules to follow:
For HP, you can roll or take half (not half+1), whichever is higher.... with one stipulation. HP rolls will be included in the first post after the posts that say to level up, and only in the discussion thread.
So, if your first response to this post does not include a HP roll, I'm assuming you took half. Any rolls after your next discussion post, or in the gameplay thread will not count for HP.
I'm sorry to come off like a stickler about this, but there are ways to get around things in PbP. I'm not saying any of you do or are going to do it, but it makes me feel comfortable having a standard in place to prevent it. I know I have trust issues when it comes to dice, and even make my kids roll their rolls in front of me, just from playing with enough people to make it an issue so often that I feel I like to place security measures.
I have to confess, one of my favorite things to do when DMing is to loom over each of my players individually as they roll for hp during level ups. I'm convinced that, like how some particles behave differently when observed, hp rolls tend toward the delightfully low end of the scale whilst I loom and cackle over the person rolling the dice. =P
That being said...
Level 2!
Magus 2
+1 BAB
+1 Fort
+1 Will
+ Spellstrike
+1 Cantrip per day (4)
+1 Level 1 spell per day (2)
+2 spells added to spellbook (shield, shocking grasp)
+6 skill points
I absolutely agree. I have a player that rolls at least twice as many crits as everyone else combined, so I made him switch dice and stood over him while he rolled single digits for the first time ever.
Level 2!
+ Level of alchemist (vivisectionist, internal alchemist)
+2 Fort, Reflex
+1d6 sneak attack
Bonus Feat, Brew Potion
+"Alchemy"
+Mutagen
+Breath Mastery
+1 extract prepared per day (plus a bonus one)
+5 extracts added to formulae book (ant haul, cure light wounds, disguise self, enlarge person, shield)
+8 skill ranks (1 craft (alchemy), 2 knowledge (arcana), 1 knowledge (dungeoneering), 1 knowledge (history), 1 knowledge (nature), 1 Knowledge (nobility), 1 sleight of hand)
I'll have the profile updated later in the day. Got stuff to do currently.
EDIT: Forgot about the other thing I was gonna do. Changed.
Level:
+1 Con
+1 skill point from Favored Class
+1 to Heal, Know Religion, and Sense Motive
Extra 0 and 1st level spells per day.
It seems FuriaRi0t (Gaileyon's player) hasn't been on the boards for quite some time. He's vanished from all his games and none of his aliases have posting activity more recent than the beginning of December.
So, I'm presuming this is the scene where Gaileyon and Elrawien will depart our company?
Oh dear sweet christ it's so difficult to level up a rogue... So many skill points...
Also I've totally forgotten, but what became of our Dwarf?
Just curious... why would you opt to take half hp, when you get to choose the higher number in roll vs half comparison?
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Uriah, do you realize that your first post after the call to level-up was a question about someone choosing not to roll? Yet you didn't include a roll in it, meaning that you will be taking half, and not getting a roll unless you get it in before the edit period closes.
Actually, no he can't. He will be joining shortly, just not in the middle of the night as you guys are discussing the shard, the Crow and the Tower Girls. It's cool, we've talked about when he will be popping in.
so... shield and shocking grasp are already in Faedrin's spellbook from level 1 =P
I'll pick up magic weapon and obscuring mist instead. The latter may prove REALLY handy to grant us cover by boat as we approach the Crow.
I can go buy a scroll of touch of the sea, scribe that s!!@ into my spellbook, and just go swim, what with my 14 hours of breath-holding powers.
Speaking of scribing, Faedrin, how do you want to be handling spell-sharing? Do you think the pair of us are ever gonna do it?
Alchemists can learn from wizards' spellbooks, does it work the other way 'round? I didn't think it did.
It doesn't, no, you can't learn from mine...but I can learn from yours :D
Uriah, do you realize that your first post after the call to level-up was a question about someone choosing not to roll? Yet you didn't include a roll in it, meaning that you will be taking half, and not getting a roll unless you get it in before the edit period closes.
Doh! I was in hurry to catch a shuttle and fully intended to roll. Oh well. Half it is.
Just to see what I would have got. Ha! It was fate.
The piling is about a half mile from shore, so 2640'. Double-moving at a 1/4 speed (swimming speed) with a base of 30', it would take 176 rounds, or 44 rounds with Touch of the Sea. Which is funny, because it says it would be a 1/2 hour by boat, or 15 minutes with a successful appropriate skill check due to the choppy water of the bay.
Either way, I would suggest against swimming. As a group, going by boat may make more sense. Maybe when and how you go by boat could vary, but I would still suggest using a boat.
It doesn't, no, you can't learn from mine...but I can learn from yours :D
This is tough. While it's certainly helpful to grant each caster-y character as much versatility as possible, I just don't think Faedrin likes or trusts Dareon enough at this point to loan him a dagger let alone his spellbook.
He's still (and will likely remain so for quite some time) appalled by Dareon's ruthlessness outside of Natalya's hideout.
In the interest of being in character, I actually really like Faedrin's response. I see a lot of times where you have casters handing around their hard earned knowledge all relaxed and happy like there's nothing wrong. It always seemed like a major trope with casters is that they are highly protective of their spells and spellbooks, and even reluctanly share them with friends without some kind of fair trade.
Oh, I don't have a pic to link, but I will do so when I get home. If you want to know which piling is the Crow, find a map of Magnimar. it is the furthest one from shore in the west group of detached pilings (on the map, East is at the top).
Oh, I expected such, Fade, I was just asking to make sure. I guess Dareon'll just have to save your life a time or two first. I wish I didn't want Improved Unarmed Strike next level so I wouldn't feel bad about taking the infusion discovery at 3rd.
I can pay for formulae, anyway.
OOC, do you guys have a problem with what I did? I mean, I know you guys are all naive youngsters in-character, but are you guys like...mad at me, leinathan?
As a player, I was a little confused and surprised to see a Lawful Neutral character just stab those dudes to death in their front yard. That kind of struck me as the absolute opposite of lawful, but as that's an alignment issue and they tend to be a little wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey, it's entirely in the GM's lap and not my concern.
The biggest difficulty I've had with it as a player has been forcing Faedrin to stay in the group in light of Dareon's streetside brutality. A much more natual reaction from him would have been to bolt straight to the guard, return with them to ensure Dareon was taken in on charges, then abandon adventuring life and return to his family repenting the error of his ways. =P
In parallel, Oz's attempted ambush of that dude in his shop makes me suspect Faedrin will feel similarly of him soon enough.
TLDR; nope, not mad at you the player
I try not to think about "Law" as necessarily "law-abiding". While Dareon is, for the most part, it's much more that he has pretty strict guidelines that he refers to. He would, for example, do the same to those guards if presented with the same situation again, and would continually do the same thing if presented with the same situation yet again.
I've always envisioned Dareon as leaning a little bit towards Evil. Not like villan-y, Zon-Kuthonite "I LOVE TO CAUSE YOU PAIN" or Rovagug-y "some people just want to watch the world burn" evil, but more like...if you're in his way, he's just going to kill you. He really doesn't care if you have children to feed, you're stopping him from getting to his goals.
Of course, he is mutable, and he won't ever, ever betray any of the party members or work against their goals, and if there's some sort of argument about what to do with prisoners and such, he'll go with the public opinion, but that's how I've envisioned him.
His lack of social graces kind of takes him away from trying to resolve things diplomatically. He knows from experience that he's no good at it, and getting his goals completed is paramount in importance to him.
Makes sense, no?
So can I assume that most things are going to be available for purchase within Magnimar?
Someone make that Local check!