Children of the Void (Inactive)

Game Master therealthom

I'm definitely planning on picking it up again, but work and RL are busy now. IIRC, I had to do the same thing last year -- a couple weeks with minimal PbP.

Totally understand - RL comes first being probably the most popular phrase I've heard in PbPs.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas to you all!

I will be on the road for approximately 72 hours starting tomorrow, so my ability to post may be limited, or non-existent.

Feel free to DMPC me whilst that is going on.

Thanks for the heads up, Luke.

I did my usual weekend slow down, so you won't miss much.

Hey, sorry about the unexpected absence - it's been a really crazy couple of days here (evidently now I'm a sleepwalker!) and now I have friends from out of town visiting. I will update as things die down.

Just a heads-up that I will be on the road for the next couple of days, so my ability to post may be limited. Feel free to DMPC me if necessary.

This will not be a regular thing, I swear! I am moving house, this time...

Cool, Jelloarm and Luke.

I just finished up a big project myself. Now I only have to do the zillion other tasks that piled up while I polished that one off.

Sorry bout my lack of posts, lucky I am playing a somewhat strong but silent type. However I really do intend to post more and now that the first week of school is over without too many problems things should start settling back into their normal routine and I should be able to post at least once a day.

Sorry about slow posting. Work will be super busy again today. It may be Friday night before I get back on track.

Also sorry about high-jacking the game. I have to kill some time in game and it might be getting out of hand. I'll try to reign myself in.

Quick question: Resting overnight for 8 hours, that heals us 1 hit point per level, doesn't it? So basically 3 hp's healed overnight for anyone who is still hurt?

Or am I thinking of 24 hours?

Yeah, it's HD hp overnight. (So, for us, 3.) It would be more if we had 24 hours of care.

If Mordecai didn't want to get some sleep himself, he could double that with a Heal check, but he's not real motivated to offer to stay up all night playing Florence Nightengale.

(The Heal skill was carefully designed by a panel of experts to be useless, nine times out of ten, it seems.)

Thanks, that's what I thought.

Come to think of it, for such a handy skill, I rarely ever remember using it. It seems quite useful if you have in game time to kill. But who does that, honestly? Other than that, then I guess the only thing you normally do with it is bind wounds.

Never really thought about it. I guess that would happen when you pretty much never use it.

Come to think of it, for such a handy skill, I rarely ever remember using it. It seems quite useful if you have in game time to kill. But who does that, honestly? Other than that, then I guess the only thing you normally do with it is bind wounds.

It's one of the skills that I wouldn't mind seeing totally re-written. It shouldn't be able to match magical healing, but it should at least be useful in conjunction with magical healing, or for stop-gap medical use.

Even 'though Pathfinder did step tentatively in the direction with Treat Deadly Wounds, it's still not really enough to make sense.

25 gp. (5 uses from your 10 use 50 gp Healing Kit) for a *chance* to heal someone of 1 hp / HD? When you could buy a CL 1 potion of cure light wounds, or two CL 1 scrolls of cure light wounds, or use one and a half charges from a CL 1 wand of cure light wounds? Just doesn't make sense.

At *1 use* of the Healing Kit, it would make more sense (5 gp / attempt), and I'd be inclined to say that normal uses of the Healing Kit (long-term care, treat caltrop wound, etc.) don't expend 'uses' at all.

I'd love to see a skill-using Apothecary or Herbalist or whatever class that uses the Heal skill to get the job done, neither stepping on the cleric's toes, nor being so ineffective as to not be worth taking. An 'alchemist' sort of character that has no magical potions or elixers or extracts or mutagens or bombs, but manages to upgrade alchemist's fire and Heal and whatnot to be effective at mid and higher levels.

It's one of the skills that I wouldn't mind seeing totally re-written. It shouldn't be able to match magical healing, but it should at least be useful in conjunction with magical healing, or for stop-gap medical use.

Even 'though Pathfinder did step tentatively in the direction with Treat Deadly Wounds, it's still not really enough to make sense.

25 gp. (5 uses from your 10 use 50 gp Healing Kit) for a *chance* to heal someone of 1 hp / HD? When you could buy a CL 1 potion of cure light wounds, or two CL 1 scrolls of cure light wounds, or use one and a half charges from a CL 1 wand of cure light wounds? Just doesn't make sense.

Wow. That's absolutely worthless. I knew you could use the skill to help regain hp's but I didn't know it was at this cost.

At *1 use* of the Healing Kit, it would make more sense (5 gp / attempt), and I'd be inclined to say that normal uses of the Healing Kit (long-term care, treat caltrop wound, etc.) don't expend 'uses' at all.

This would make a LOT more sense.

I'd love to see a skill-using Apothecary or Herbalist or whatever class that uses the Heal skill to get the job done, neither stepping on the cleric's toes, nor being so ineffective as to not be worth taking. An 'alchemist' sort of character that has no magical potions or elixers or extracts or mutagens or bombs, but manages to upgrade alchemist's fire and Heal and whatnot to be effective at mid and higher levels.

That would be interesting. An archetype based on the alchemist, maybe???

Nice discussion on healing, Set. I quite agree it needs revamp or house rules.

On the downside, work continues to kill me. Sorry, but I'm looking at Tuesday night now before I'm free to post properly.

Well, finished the big project. The eastern US storm is going to hit me hard. Just got into work 3 hours late. I'll be shoveling snow tonight and tomorrow morning. I promise a post by Friday night though.

Tell me about it. Here in Texas it's mostly ice. Since Monday night it's been below freezing. Not suppose to get above freezing until Friday. And we ain't use to know consecutive days of freezing here in Texas. We have summer here 11 months and 24 days out of the year here. (Okay, I'm being a little facetious, but not much. ;) ) I wished it was snow because ice sucks to drive on. I can deal with snow. I'm just glad I'm off work this week.

This winter is unbelievable (New Hampshire, here). I had to wear *pants* the other day. It was unreasonably cold (-10 ish at night), but thankfully, no wind chill so it was still okay to run around during the day and do stuff that needed doing.

When the wind is whipping road salt and ice crystals in your face, it's not even worth going outside. Sit inside, brew up something hot to drink, and wait for it to end.

The weather changed so fast that the bushes in the front yard are still green, having not yet had enough days of low temperatures to realize that it was 'autumn' yet (it was in the sixties in December). Now the bright green leaves are frozen in a rime of ice, and weighted down with snow. It looks like something from Narnia.

I'll trade you for the 40 degree centigrade weather we are experiencing in Sydney, if you like...

In Vermont, we don't blink much at snow, but this weather did a serious number on us. One of the local schools closed for the first time in three years from snowfall. I work with kids, and kept thinking I was going to lose a 1st grader in one of the larger drifts.

/delurk

Re: Lecian's spoiler... No one else peek!

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/delurk

Re: Lecian's spoiler... No one else peek!

** spoiler omitted **

Joana, :

Joana:

I thought you couldn't make knowledge checks over 10 if you didn't have any ranks in it? Or is this an exception or a house rule or something?

I figure the poorly named Know(local) skill is an exception to this. It covers life in general as well as knowledge peculiar to a locality.

So I house rule anyone can try know(local) no matter the DC and I will often give circumstantial modifiers. In this case the closer to an arcane magical class you are, the easier the roll.

It is actually impossible for Kuva to make that roll - he doesn't care a lick for 'wizard's work.'

Cool. That's what I was wondering.

Thanks!

It is actually impossible for Kuva to make that roll - he doesn't care a lick for 'wizard's work.'

That's why your DC was so high. I didn't realize I had made it impossible though.

Nah, no worries - perfectly in character that he's not going to know.

As I have said before, if anyone finds Tyrrol's randomness/weirdness too distracting, please let me know - I do not normally play CN characters, but I feel that a devotee of the Lord of Armageddon/Entropy should be a little... odd (without detracting from his ability to work with others).

I like Tyrrol so far.

I would like to second that, I enjoy everyone's char so far and Tyrrol's peculiarities are fun.

On a different note, I am not sure I would want to play a class with an animal companion again in a PbP, seeing that series of attacks I just posted, it looks messy. In the future assuming both Wilam and Sora are getting full attacks is the a better way to post it that would make it easier for you to read?

On a different note, I am not sure I would want to play a class with an animal companion again in a PbP, seeing that series of attacks I just posted, it looks messy. In the future assuming both Wilam and Sora are getting full attacks is the a better way to post it that would make it easier for you to read?

If you want to spoiler them to take up less room, that might make it seem tidier.

I'm playing a Summoner in a Kingmaker PBP, and I found it so much easier to just put the attacks in the Profile (or on a text or word document on the other monitor, or something) so that I could cut and past them into the post, as necessary, and just modify anything that changed (like bard bonuses or smite bonuses or charge bonuses). Between the panther-shaped eidolon getting three attacks, or the celestial eagles that replace him getting three attacks, it's just too tedious to type in all the [ooc] and [dice] formatting for three attack rolls and then three damage rolls.

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In other news, I'm ready to go to the darn island already. I'm about ready to toss the gnome down a storm drain and head for the boat. :)

We've definitely burned any chance we've got of coming back to Riddleport, unless the encounter after coming back to Riddleport is 'kill alla Boss Croat's men.'

Hey, sorry about slowing the game down. I completely blanked that everyone had posted their turn first, just because the round before we'd done posting in init order. I'll toss up my post ASAP.

To be honest, I intially thought it was your turn as well. But I think it's actually Staff guys turn. You hit him real good but it doesn't appear that he is dead though.

I could be wrong and just missed something.

Edit: Just saw that Lecian hit him with an mm. Still not sure if that killed him though.

Truth. It's also looking like Thom has been off the boards for a couple of days, so I'll make a post just in case and resume the waiting game.

Sorry, guys, 12-16 hour work days and a 4 hour roundtrip commute for a few days there.

This whole deal with the gnome just kind of got out of hand. Brief explanation spoilered:

Oh, those tricky gnomes. You gotta watch out for them!

Sorry to hear your real-life has been keeping you hopping, but it totally takes priority. Food and a roof over your head always comes first!

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Mordecai, despite being all eeevil and opportunistic, is also a bit craven and short-sighted, and has too-slowly realized that he's just burned his bridges in Riddleport by screwing over Boss Croat in this manner. He may loathe the town, but he's less than comfortable with the uncertain future looming ahead of him...

Will it be Magnimar? Korvosa? Kaer Maga? Will it be Riddleport, and a string of assassination attempts leading to back-alley shadow war that ends in the destruction of Boss Croat (or himself?)? Who knows!

He's also got a preference to never look like he regrets his choices (even if they turned out to be terrible), or that something has surprised him, to preserve his 'mystique.'

That's the only reason he didn't piss himself and scream like a girl when the panther/cougar/giant-effin-cat-thing jumped into the fray and started ripping people up. :)

I don't see how you do it. If I had to work that many hours, you might as well go ahead and bury me.

I'd never last. When I was 19/20, I was working two jobs that went from 7 am to 10 pm. I did that for 2 years. I was young and able to manage but it still kicked my butt. I was constantly tired. Eighteen years later, I work 40 hour weeks, and I'm still constantly tired.

Pathetic. I know. :)

I don't see how you do it. If I had to work that many hours, you might as well go ahead and bury me.

I'd never last. When I was 19/20, I was working two jobs that went from 7 am to 10 pm. I did that for 2 years. I was young and able to manage but it still kicked my butt. I was constantly tired. Eighteen years later, I work 40 hour weeks, and I'm still constantly tired.

Pathetic. I know. :)

At the post office, over the holidays, tons of casuals come in and work an eight hour shift, despite already having another full time job, and I just can't believe that they are able to do that. And there was the young guy who would throw sixty lb mailsacks into and out of aircans for eight hours and then brag about going to the gym afterwards. I was like 'shut up, punk.'

I worked a 17 hour shift once, as a kid, and I was such a zombie that I ended up waking up in a strange house with a shotgun in my face, because the owner of the house had no idea why some kid had wandered into his house at 4 am and crashed on his couch...

So, really, overworking *almost killed me.* :)

Dude. Now THAT is some serious "overworked". I can't even imagine(nor do I want to) what waking up to a shotgun would be like.

On a lighter note, love the 'shut up punk'. (I just fell out on that one! Mainly because it's so true.) :)
There are drivers that do the same thing at work, so I think I'm gonna use that next time I hear such blah, blah, blah.

Dude. Now THAT is some serious "overworked". I can't even imagine (nor do I want to) what waking up to a shotgun would be like.

Every kind of flip jaded action-movie cool, that was me. My brain didn't process what was going on. I told him to be quiet, I was trying to sleep, and rolled over and pulled a cushion over my head. It's a miracle I'm not dead, since he would have been legally justified to shoot an intruder.

They left me sleeping there for a few hours (because he didn't want to spend the rest of the day talking to police and scrubbing brains out of his furniture? I don't even know.), and I woke up and apologized for getting the wrong house and went back to work.

This was, of course, the 'good old days,' when the notion of locking your doors when you were at home didn't occur to people, and some even went so far as to leave the keys to the pickup hanging in the ignition so that we wouldn't have to search for them before we went out. :)

Like most people, I imagine, I look back at some of the ways I flirted with death as a young man and cringe.

Set, you continue to intrigue.

On my part, three days of that schedule wiped me out. Yesterday was a nice to catch up with the family.

Hey Aravan, if Wilam doesn't want to (or can't, due to spells prepared today) set the half-elf's leg and heal him up so that he's not a cripple for life, Mordecai will do so, but I figured I'd stall a moment in case you wanted to RP that. (Mordecai will use a prepared spell, since it's not worth the 15 gp a wand charge represents to him. A charity hospital, he's not.)

Helping people out of the goodness of his heart isn't Mordecai's first inclination, so it's totally in character for him to dither before deciding that 'he's sick of the kid's whining' and doing it. :)

Yes, yes, I'm playing an evil character who doesn't particularly like to see people in pain, or to walk away knowing that his actions (or inactions) may result in ruined lives. He's selfish, short-sighted, full of himself, gluttonous, materialistic, cowardly, greedy and opportunistic (and wants to be a lich, someday), but he's not particularly sadistic.

He's cafeteria evil. He embraced some of the deadly sins, and said 'no thanks' to a few others. :)

Sorry, guys. Same customer as last week called Tuesday, "Can you be here this afternoon?" Trying to catch up on all the stuff we dropped to take care of them. It pays the bills anyway.

Anniversary this weekend; got some plans with the wife. I'll try to get a post or two in this weekend though.

Has the loot been split or are we still working on the logistics of that?

Tyrrol's breakdown is cool with me.

Just wondering how we are to record this on a character sheet. Or if we are gonna record it as a group.