Aubrey's Rise of the Runelords campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Aubrey the Malformed

heh heh.....serves me right I reckon.

Actually, I have no idea how many xp you have. That is something you do need to track for yourselves.

Yeah, by "keeping it together" I meant not worrying about individual XP so we level at basically the same time, rather than keeping track of it for us. You have by far enough to do!

We have enough people keeping sensible track of it though that I just confuse the issue by not doing a proper job of it. So I've stopped trying.

I`m pretty sure my current total is correct.

I`m pretty sure my current total is correct.

If it's cool, I will use that as my starting point, then.

Did you guys ever actually sell that giant polearm you had?

No. It is still stashed in Vethran`s house in Sandpoint.

OK, I think we need a bit of a roll-call here. Some people are posting very infrequently and we need some decision-making about what to do next.

I'm around.

Still around.

Aye.

Here!

Sorry. I'm here. I just started a new job last week and just now finally got a workstation issued to me. My time at home has been crazy and I haven't been following as closely as I ought to have been.

I've moved to a new hotel and luckily have wifi in the room. Jo and Elliot headed back to Athens today so I resume life with some free time. But it was a real treat taking a two year old to awesome French parks and carousels and interactive children's museum type things. :)

SO how much longer are you in Paris?

3 weeks at best, 5 weeks at worst. But like I say, I am solo at the moment and once I warm up here in a bit I'm going to catch up and resume posting. I should be very available with the exception of a 4 day period during the third week when Jo and Elliot will return for a long weekend. Even then, the hours are better here. During this last stay I was waking up at 4:30 am going to work then catching a suburban train line in to Paris to see them and have dinner, then back altogether and in bed by 11:30pm or so. I had no wifi access during that routine. Now I'm in the city and waking up at a reasonable hour for work.

Hello,

My computer's kinda iffy now; if I seem to disappear in the next few days, that's why. Trying to see what I can do, maybe I'll get a new one IDK.

Yeah; computer's borked up at home.

I can sorta get on but it's a major pain in the ass; probably be off until the situation's dealt with.

My wife has been taken ill, so I might not be around for a few days.

My wife has been taken ill, so I might not be around for a few days.

Urgh, hope it's nothing too serious!

My Mrs is out of hospital and having spoken tpo her this morning she sounds alright (better than me, actually). She's staying with her mum and dad at the moment, who are looking after James too. Yesterday was fun, as I drove from my parents to her's (4 hours) and then drove back home with one car (2 1/2 hours) so a lot of driving. I'm taking the train up tonight after work and I'll bring her back tomorrow, so I might not be around much then.

Ach! The hospital! Seriously, that's more serious than I expected. Either way, you know the sentiment - take all the time the two of you need.

Six and a half hours if driving gets you how far, if I may ask? Around here, that's going to be several hundred miles or a lot of circles.

From what Aubs has said about here he lives and his in-laws live, I'd put it at 200-300 miles, you have to go out of your way a bit due to a big line of hills (that I live on the edge of) and the passes though them between the decent motorways.

For those to whom it means anything, it's up the M50 from Ross-on-Wye (well, a bit further, as my parents live in a little village called Ewyas Harold), up the M5 to the M6, up the M6 to the M62, down the M62 across the Pennines (said hills our Lancastrian friend refers to) to Halifax, and then up the road to Bingley. I was doing pretty much a steady seventy, with a two stops of maybe a total of fifteen minutes or so, so after four hours that's probably a good 250 miles. Then I drove home from Andrea's parents, which is around 120 miles and two-and-a-half hours to Rugby, along the M62 and then down the M1.

From what Aubs has said about here he lives and his in-laws live, I'd put it at 200-300 miles, you have to go out of your way a bit due to a big line of hills (that I live on the edge of) and the passes though them between the decent motorways.

Isn't 300 miles pretty much the entire length of Great Britain?

In all seriousness, good to hear that your wife is doing better, Aubs. I know the feeling of having a spouse in the hospital.

You jest, but...

Oh it wasn't ENTIRELY in jest. I didn't bother to Google the specfics, but I figured it couldn't possibly be more than maybe 500-600 miles from the northern tip of Scotland to the English Channel.

We Americans have a tendency to think of distances of less than 500 miles as "not THAT far." Having personally driven from Arizona to New York (a distance of over 2200 miles), 300 doesn't seem like a lot to me. But that's cultural differentiation for you. ;)

I don't suppose you did it in a day, though...

That's not a lot less than the distances I was picturing here for that amount of time spent driving. I can make it to the three metro areas people assume I shop in (because who would want to actually spend money in their own home town, you know). I've got 'em fooled, though - I don't shop.

Really glad your wife is on the road to recovery.

I drove about 2000 miles in 2 days when I moved to ny.

In Greece it takes a hell of a long time to get anywhere because everything is mountains.

three metro areas

Huh. I thought you lived in Kansas? ;P

Nevynxxx wrote:

From what Aubs has said about here he lives and his in-laws live, I'd put it at 200-300 miles, you have to go out of your way a bit due to a big line of hills (that I live on the edge of) and the passes though them between the decent motorways.

Isn't 300 miles pretty much the entire length of Great Britain?

In all seriousness, good to hear that your wife is doing better, Aubs. I know the feeling of having a spouse in the hospital.

Ahh but you Americans also get *far* more straight lines than we do, we don't seem to like straight roads.....

Yep. I think from Oklahoma to Arizona the interstate is almost literally a straight line for hundreds of miles and for large parts of that everything is flat so that you can see no cars are anywhere within miles of you.

AinvarG wrote:

three metro areas

Huh. I thought you lived in Kansas? ;P

Heh, that would hurt if I cared. I did not say they were all in the same state as I. Denver to the west, Kansas City to the east, Wichita to the southeast. Topeka probably counts as metro, but I don't know anyone that goes to Topeka when they "go shopping" - if they are going to drive that far, they will go another hour to KC instead.

Yep. I think from Oklahoma to Arizona the interstate is almost literally a straight line for hundreds of miles and for large parts of that everything is flat so that you can see no cars are anywhere within miles of you.

Yeah, there's a highway east to west that runs straight as an arrow in a shallow bowl - instead of it disappearing on the horizon, it has the slightest rise, so you can see it for like twenty miles. And last time I was on it, it was smooth as glass.

That kind of road can get a person in trouble if they wanted to put their foot in it and see what the car could do. Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.

I spent a year in southwestern Nebraska as an exchange student way back when. Every month or so, we`d drive two hours to North Platte so we could hang out at WalMart... I lived on a farm, so I drove a truck with a few cows in the trailer to Stillwater once - i.e. across all of Kansas and then some. Long, boring drive. You wouldn`t happen to be living somewhere around Concordia? I dimly recall stopping there on the way back.

Speaking of straight roads - there`s a famous picture of a highway in North Dakota; as the road follows the longitude line, it needs to make a jog once in a while to compensate for the curvature of the earth. The results look like this.

The photographer is Alex MacLean, and his webpage is pretty much the definition of distilled awesomeness.

Nope. I have tried to make a point of getting to know my home state, driving to all parts of it, but the Concordia area is one I have not seen much.

You probably saw or rode on Interstate 70 - you'd need to get on it and go west a ways to find me. Out here, a community is a "big city" if it has 20000 people.

My home town area has 80,000 people and everywhere I've lived since refers to that as "small town." Haha. I really lived in a town of 4,000 nearby so that must not even register as a settlement for them.

Yeah, my hometown is not on most maps. I think the most it has had during my lifetime was 60 people. Now the only business left is the grain elevator, but during the 20's, 30's, 40's era, it had at least two motels and three lumber yards. Big time out here. Oh, and a lighted baseball field. Really big time back then.

Sadly, most that remember its 'glory days' are disappearing and no one thought to write anything down. When it's gone, there won't be a history to show it was there, just some abandoned buildings.

I don't suppose you did it in a day, though...

No, that's true. It took 4 days. I did, however, once drive from Phoenix, AZ to Dallas, TX in a single day. That's just shy of 1100 miles.

Hello,.....

well, my new computer won't boot according to my wife, so if I'm missing for the next while that's why.

"NOW IN TECHNICOLOR" Sounds more like you're now by carrier pidgin ;)

So, uh, I didn't realize it until just now, but Vethran has message prepared as a cantrip as well. Chalk it up to the chaos of the moment and a lapse in judgment.

Retcon - Sefayll's shopping in Magnimar resulted in a Ring of Protection +1, Cloak of Resistance +2 (upgrade), and money to upgrade her armor to *2 if our stay was too short to do it immediately. Cool?

EDIT: The cloak is +3 and the cash for the armor is spent. I'd forgotten the bonus on the cloak. She also had them remove the insignia from the cloak.

Cam- I learned a new (to me) rogue trick the other day and thought I'd share in case it was new to you as well.
Sneak attack damage takes on the type of the base attack. So a rogue with a cheap wand of acid splash and the UMD to use it can sling around some decent acid damage when necessary. Still have to set up the conditions to qualify for a ranged sneak attack which isn't easy but it is something to think about.

Ohhh, that makes sense. Makes flaming, and frost weapons fun too I guess....

You would still deal precision damage with those because the base damage is weapon damage. You need the initial damage to be energy in order to convert the precision. To energy.

I bought a mobile pass for today btw. There is a lot of standing around waiting in lines going on.

Wand of ray of frost would provide some variety. Wand of magic missile would not work because the attack must require an attack roll.

I might be a bit patchy for the next few days. In Swindon for two nights for work.

Sorry for being a bit quiet. Had a few days chilling after my Swindon trip.