Cool. Just realized I haven't leveled to sixth. Also, we're going with direct approach but what is our actual plan to get in?
Did I get my 4 alchemists fires? I'll go ahead and claim the Frost Ward Gel.
+8 hp
Combat style feat: Rapid shot
+1 BAB
+1 to all saves
Extra use of Ranger trick
Adv Skills: +1 to Climb, Heal, Knowledge Nature, Perception, Ride, Stealth, Survival
Background Skills: +1 to Handle Animal, Knowledge Geography
Edit: Leveled.
Did I get my 4 alchemists fires? I'll go ahead and claim the Frost Ward Gel.
Cool, there are two Frost Ward Gels, and they're yours.
I didn't level either! Here we go:
Archetype:
Gained Evasion
Can take 10 on Disable Device
Trap Sense +2 (+2 to Reflex saves vs. traps, +2 dodge AC vs. traps)
+1 BAB
+1 F/R/W
+8 Skill ranks (Perception, Bluff, Diplomacy, Disable Device, Knowledge Arcana, Stealth, UMD)
+1 Background Skills (Knowledge Local, Knowledge History)
Does the city guard have a particular uniform? Ingrit would alter her clothing with the sleeves of many garments to match a guard uniform and would have hade the papers made to match.
Did I get my 4 alchemists fires? I'll go ahead and claim the Frost Ward Gel.
Any item costing 13,300 or less is assumed to be available.
Does the city guard have a particular uniform? Ingrit would alter her clothing with the sleeves of many garments to match a guard uniform and would have hade the papers made to match.
Because the Winter Guard has only recently been assembled to replace the old Iron Guard, they don’t yet have a uniform. The Iron Guard had gray tabards with an ice blue crest in the shape of a crescent moon, emblem of Baba Yaga. The Winter Guard at present have an emblem associated with Queen Elvanna, a dark blue hexagonal shape with a spiky snowflake, which they wear as a badge and on an armband over their left upper arm. Their armor is a mix of light and heavy armor and their weaponry is likewise diverse.
The Winter Guard patrol the streets of Whitethrone to maintain the peace and keep tabs on the citizenry. These units typically patrol in groups, or at minimum in pairs. A standard patrol consists of one guard captain and four guards. They carry saps for use in subduing those that resist them, but will use deadly force if threatened with the same.
Guard patrols are fairly predictable and easy to avoid if one knows their beat path and timing. The area around the tower tends to be quiet as people fear the residents of the tower enough to keep clear of it, so the guard does not patrol the tower regularly.
@Andarien shoot, run down the alley, draw them into an ambush?
@Ingrit: my thoughts exactly.
I'm slammed at work today and for the rest of the week, probably, plus my wife is not feeling well and I lost some sleep last night dealing with an emergency. But I'll try to get something up soon.
Take your time, sounds like a lot going on.
Agreed.
We'll be here. Real life comes first
No hurry, no worries!
Status update.
I continue to have trouble finding any time to post. This past weekend, I worked every free moment on class preparation and grading and still had to start work early to keep up all week. I'm in the process of evaluating a new curriculum for the class I teach, so it's all new assignments, a new textbook, new presentations. Even grading takes longer because in the old course, we had an online grading program that we aren't using anymore.
On top of that, my wife has had to go to the emergency room a few times for treatments, which has elevated my stress levels and meant more chores for me around the house. Thankfully, she is doing fine now.
This coming weekend will probably be about as bad as last and I may not be able to do much significant posting until after my next term starts, which will be after next week. This won't go on forever, however, so once again, I am grateful for your patience and I will be back as soon as possible. I very much look forward to seeing how the PCs do against the dragon and concluding the 2nd book.
Sorry your wife is having so much trouble. Hope she has cleared all of the troubles. And thanks for checking in. Take care of yourself!
Hang in there, DM. There's no rush, and I hope your wife continues to feel better!
Sorry to hear that you're dealing with all of that. Glad your wife is beginning to feel better. Take all the time you need.
Do what you gotta do - we ain't goin' anywhere!
So I'm teaching a new class. I'll still be very busy during the week but I hope I won't be pulling all-weekenders to keep up. It is a large class, so my grading time will increase and I still am working on new assignments. So I'll still probably be prone to day or two gaps in posting, but I hope it will be constant enough to keep things moving. Thanks for your continued patience.
Hope your wife is well again.
Hey DM, absolutely no judgement here, as I've taught before myself and know just how draining and time consuming it can be. But I thought it worth asking: do you think we should officially pause the game for now until your schedule reliably clears up? I don't want this to be a source of stress, and it sounds like you have a lot on your plate right now.
The worst of my work project is past, so I'll be starting to get back to the games I've had to take a break from. Look for something tomorrow. Thanks again for your patience.
Hey, good to hear from you, and welcome back!
Well, my last post was overly optimistic. While my project was complete, I got so far behind on my grading working on the project, that I had to spend all my free time getting caught up.
I'm teaching a new class now and although it is a very large class, I expect I'll be able to get back to regular posting. I'll also have two weeks for winter break when I'll have lots of time to post.
I expect I'll post most days in the early afternoon, after I've gotten all my grading and class prep done before teaching a night class (M-TH).
Once again, thanks for your patience.
Thumbs up!
Sounds good!
Hooray.
And Fiske says "meow"
Cool
Since it's been over a month since we left mid-melee, I'm going to say that the players overwhelm the slavers and the witch. I tried to pick back up, but there were things I could not reconstruct without spending a lot of time, so we'll get back to the main task of infiltrating the clock-tower. This melee was ad hoc after someone blew a stealth roll or one of the enemies made an exceptional roll (can't remember which).
I'm here, too.
After spending the weekend getting caught up on holiday preparations, I was going to get up to date on all my PBP games yesterday. But I’ve been having severe GI distress that has everything on hold until I feel better,
I hope everyone has a happy holiday season.
Oof.
Feel better GM.
My older boy just had a couple days like that, you have my sympathy.
Happy holidays, RoW peeps.
Holidays are a good time to take a PbP break generally.
Happy holidays everyone!
I'm thinking the gods don't want us to continue this game. I've been sick all week and now my computer is on the Fritz. I'm still committed to the game and will resume when able.
I hear a lot of folks are getting sick this holiday season. Here’s to a speedy recovery for you and your silicon.
So I'm feeling a good deal better and am able to access a computer at the library until my PC gets fixed (any day I hope). Classes start back up for me next Monday.
I think I can keep things moving now. The encounters set up inside are an interesting variety of challenges, so I look forward to what happens next.
Back from vacations - looking forward to diving back in.
Just a reminder that currently Anadrien is under the effects of a Disguise Self spell and looks like a brutish male slaver.
TBF: Erland has no idea how to handle this next bit. Perhaps we can use some judicious slumber hex & CDG action, even if that seems a bit cheat-y to me as a player.
My stress level with a Bluff +1 PC being the only one who can talk with the troll is increasing.
You've seen the troll take in children and she just mentioned that her larder is well-stocked, so unless she's also running a day-care center, it would not be evil to dispatch her as effectively as possible, IMHO.
Also, know that the noise by the machinery of the clock is loud enough to make it harder to notice noises coming from adjoining rooms. Just saying ...
Yeah, you have a green light to start combat. All we wanted to do was to enter the building.
Ingrit figured they'd be eating the kids and has every intention of killing them both.
It's up to you guys how this starts. First person to make an attack or cast a spell will trigger initiative. The male troll in the other room has gone upstairs to fetch tea and so the female troll is about as isolated as she will get, although you should know she has a battleaxe.
Could we bluff her into picking something up in the corner of the room, or turning her back to us, so we get a surprise round on her?
To all my games: I'm extremely busy at work at the moment, which is making PbP hard. This will pass, but for now, please bot me as needed. Looking forward to connecting again when the storm passes.
I expect to resume posting in 1 week.
Apologies, when I stated Anadrien was on watch I thought that implied she was readying an attack.