Aubrey's Eberron campaign. (Inactive)

Game Master Aubrey the Malformed

Jeez. Two more 'safe' jobs I didn't get last week. I have to admit I'm not really feeling the RP vibe right now.

The bigger deal is that this probably means the end of our Norwegian adventure. Erin thinks she can get work right away in Phoenix; as she and Emma are already there, I'll probably move there in a few weeks. If so, I'm going to be busy for a while. I'm not gone, though, just distracted.

Sorry to hear about it, man. I definitely feel your pain RE: employment woes. I've had 5 jobs in 3 years here in upstate New York. None of them have lasted more than 8 months. Hopefully things will work out for you guys in the long run! Best of luck.

I have a safe job, it just happens to be dull and poorly paid. I could live with that if I had reasonable working hours, but I work a lot of evenings and weekends as well. That's no way to raise a 2-year-old.

Sorry about that; hope it turns around for you.

Yes, the job market is crap at the moment. Hopefully things will turn round for all of us.

And I didn't even notice Father's Day - on holiday we forgot about it and I got my card a day late. But I think it was good.

Jeez. I did the math - my little girl is 29 months, and I've been away from her for 12 of them. I really need to figure out a solution to this Norway/US thing.

That's tough! Really hope you work stuff out.

Just to let you know, I will be on holiday and incommunicado for a week from Saturday.

I've caught up with the story, noooooooo!

Such good reading you guys, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for what happens next in this spooky monastery.

Once this is over someone should turn this campaign into a book I swear.
Maybe I'll look into doing it if I find the time. I'd love to have all the combat math side-barred as well, that's a part I really love about reading pbp's.

Some advice I can't stand not sharing (spoilered in case you don't want it):

Thanks for the suggestion. Of course, rangers don't get second-level spells until 7th level at earliest, so it would be a while before Runzyl would have access to that spell if he plans on taking further ranger levels - which I don't think is a given.

Janosz could definitely benefit from it, too, but he's only sixth level and advancing in a prestige class, so it will depend on his plans.

Might be a good choice for a wand, though - Gil is good with wands. ;-)

Sorry about not updating - busy on Tuesday and couldn't actually get on the site on Wednesday. Hopefully I'll manage something today.

Once this is over someone should turn this campaign into a book I swear. Maybe I'll look into doing it if I find the time.

Then I'll be forced to sue you.

Just kidding!

"Rendar Thalidor wrote:

Once this is over someone should turn this campaign into a book I swear. Maybe I'll look into doing it if I find the time.

Then I'll be forced to sue you.

Just kidding!

Well of course all authors of the original content would be appropriately cited and compensated. You guys have done all the heavy lifting already so it'd be more yours.

I've never written anything longer than a short story but this kind of thing might be fun to work on. And given it's lengthy timetable would be easily accommodated in my busy schedule.

I remember you guy's lamenting the (temporary) loss of such a big damage dealer as Lightbringer (torch-holder, lol). I remember him slicing an evil cleric in twain with his two handed power attack charge one time.

But look at Master Frogshanks go, with his "clustered shots" feat the damage total here is 70 hp (assuming all hit) with 16 of that being fire and 11 electrical. That's a pretty big hammer to punch through any DR. Plus if he uses Versatile Weapon on his arrows he'll bypass any mundane DR as a matter of course.

"Burn, twiggy! BURN!!!" Janosz steps underneath the tree's grasping branch-hand and lets loose.

It missed me. I take a 5' step to P25 before pincushioning T2. I'm using Point Blank Shot, Manyshot and Rapid Shot. Also, as I have the Clustered Shots feat, all the damage gets totaled before DR is subtracted - i.e. all the shots essentially counts as a single mega-arrow.
Attack 1 (w/Manyshot): 11+19+1(PBS)=AC 31, damage 2d8+6+2(BPS)=19+4 fire + 3 electrical
Attack 2: 10+19+1=AC 30, damage 1d8+3+1=9+4 fire + 4 electrical
Attack 3: 11+14+1=AC 26, damage 1d8+3+1=8+5 fire + 2 electrical
Attack 4: 9+9+1=AC 19, damage 1d8+3+1=7+3 fire + 2 electrical

It's official - I'm moving back to Phoenix at the end of the month. The pros (I get to see my family) balance out the cons (Phoenix is a s+&$hole and the AZ economy is pretty bad). I'll be pretty distracted over the next few weeks, though, so I apologise in advance.

Hooray for reuniting! I hadn't realized you guys spent so much time apart until you mentioned it a while ago.

Sounds like a good thing, Vattnisse. Good luck on the move.

Even though I haven't been there for 4 years now, Phoenix is still vastly superior to upstate New York. :)

Take care and good luck with the moving!

heh heh

i had always heard upstate new york was full of beautiful rolling hills and picturesque sunrises and such.

having only been to arizona once, i didnt like it. but everyone i know from there loves it for some reason. looks like a cat's litterbox to me. but time with the family in a rocky wasteland is better than time apart somewhere nicer.

There's more to a home than the scenery. If there's not, it's not really home. My $0.02

I tell everyone the same thing about the Arizona vs. New York argument:

You don't have to shovel sunshine.

Hah! But I like snow. I just usually like it somewhere I can go to, and leave when I dont want it anymore.

anyone seen this gem? PF Eberron conversion.

Sorry for the delay. Been a bit distracted and - don't know if I was the problem of if it was the site itself - I couldn't tell anyone had posted.

It's been working here, but I think they may have been making changes for new features prior to GenCon. I haven't heard anything to that effect, it's just a theory.

regarding choking mechanics:

Chokehold

Jawbreaker

Just to let you know, I'll be on holiday from Saturday for a week (yes, another holiday - but the last for a while). There is a teeny chance I'll be able to update in that time, but it really is teeny.

On a cool note - if Linkedin is to be believed, Vatters now has a job as a consultant in international relations. Though I'm sure he'll miss his easy-pull-off tie.

Just to let you know, I'll be on holiday from Saturday for a week (yes, another holiday - but the last for a while). There is a teeny chance I'll be able to update in that time, but it really is teeny.

do you ever get any work done?

And then I'm sorta back. It's been ridiculously busy lately, but now work's mostly over, and I've managed to both ship the dog and sell my car and furniture. I leave for Phoenix on Wednesday.

The polic-sci job is mostly dormant - we're basically some pals from the U of Arizona doctoral programme trying to earn a little cash on the side. However, we haven't had much luck lately finding contracts, as we are open-source only. It might turn around, though.

Well, another school year is about to start here in Texas on Monday, so my posts may become irregular.

New administration for middle school (third one in five years) but I'm getting a transfer to a high school to a better paying job.

ah, you are a school teacher?

Not yet. Was discipline clerk, now one-to-one aide.

All the best, GG. I was in that world and found it not a fit for me. I have a great deal of respect for the folks that can make education their career.

Just saw off the movers. My flight to Phoenix leaves tomorrow morning; tonight I plan on getting hammered with friends I suspect I won't see again for years and years. So I'll see you guys again when the hangover and jetlag subsides in a few days.

Have a good flight!

And then I'm back in Phoenix. Man, it's hot here... Give me a few days to reacquaint myself with my family, and I'll get back to posting here as well.

EDIT: It was a nice flight. London-Phoenix direct, the back of the plane was mostly empty, so I had three seats to myself... In fact, it was nice enough that I'm reduced to grumbling about the songs on the British Top 40 show I listened to on the way - and while it's not exactly news that Rhianna and Nicki Minaj are awful, that's not British Airways' fault.

Wow nice! I love having more than one seat to myself!

Anyone seen this and got any comments (Tenro, I know you are aware)?

Damn.

He put a lot of work into that. My first reaction is that with this ruleset, I would have gone for a couple of plant grafts. I'll look completely f#@+ed up, but that's kinda Janosz' schtick already.

Ah yes I had looked at it. Pretty good work, in my opinion. I was debating the shifter conversion with MonkeyGod on another thread.

The warforged-can-wear-armor-now thing kinda threw me, but generally I like what I have looked through. His rework of the prestige class I had been considering so long ago removes the dead spell progression level which had been the sting preventing me from taking it once I qualified. So obviously I like that ;)

I haven't had time to check it out yet, but the reviews certainly make it something I want to check out.

Are you thinking of implementing these changes?

I haven't read it either - I was looking to see if it was worth it or not.

i didnt look at ALL the prestige class updates, just a small handful.

they didnt update any of the psionic eberron stuff to PF that i saw, most likely since PF doesnt have native psionics.

warforged wearing armor is a bit weird, but i imagine a GM playing it fairly realistically might have the warforged unable to just use any old armor.

Headed out on vacation for a week and I am not sure what my access will be like yet. Bot me as necessary. Thanks!

Looks like I should be able to post at least daily. Carry on!

Tzizimine also converted all instances of Action Points to use Pathfinder's Hero Point system. That alone must have been a lot of work.

He also wrote up a much more detailed, comprehensive and maybe complicated version of the chase rules from the GMG to keep them relevant as a skill challenge in the vein of Eberron beyond the first few levels.

Sorry about my recent absence. I started a new job this week and they offered me "as much overtime as I can handle" so naturally I've chosen to work back-to-back 66 hour weeks.

We don't have access to Paizo from the new job's network sooo... I'm going to be scarce until this new application rollout completes (at least a couple weeks). Apologies to all.

66 hr weeks :O