Chronicles of Arcania: B/X Homebrew game.

Game Master Peet

What did I do?!?!

You let me roll for your initiative. :P

Not sure if I hit or not 7 could go either way. I will hold my second attack until after the result is known.

Also is there any bonus for attacking a prone person? If my first target dropped Ferrous would push through the door and attack the prone but awake person if possible.

Their AC is clearly better than 7 - in fact, since they are wearing chain mail as a warrior your guess would be AC 5.

You have +2 to hit a prone but conscious person. They have a -2 to hit you from that position.

Fistep wrote:

What did I do?!?!

You let me roll for your initiative. :P

Ah! Serves me right!

Next round everyone Except Fistep will go before the masked men, so you may post actions for the next turn too. This means Ferrous and Talikshim get double actions.

What did I do?!?!

Apparently we are just more awesome than you!

Ah the dangers of playing in more than one game with more than one ruleset....

I just based my action on the Dungeon World rules for poultices...
Do not use this!

Can we just say I used the scroll?

Travelling till Wednesday. Please DMPC my character.

Ah the dangers of playing in more than one game with more than one ruleset....

I just based my action on the Dungeon World rules for poultices...
Do not use this!

Can we just say I used the scroll?

I'm not familiar with Dungeon World. But yes, you can use the scroll if you want.

such horrible rolls

Funny... when I ran this F2F the guy playing the dwarf was known for terrible rolls also. Eventually it got to the point that if he could hit creatures with a natural 4 he was golden but otherwise he was useless.

Jokingly we call that the curse of the rubber sword....

I will be at Origins over the next few days. I don't think that will cause an issue with my ability to post based on the frequencies attained thus far.

luck continues

What part of murder hobos did you not understand?

Huh?

What part of murder hobos did you not understand?

So it is not just Fineous and the rebels!!

So if I'm doing this right, after resting the following will change...

1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 HP

+1 to manipulation scores.

So if I'm doing this right, after resting the following will change...

1d4+1 HP

+1 to manipulation scores.

Yep, looks right. The thing about 1e thieves is that they level up fast but each individual level doesn't give them a whole lot.

LOL. Well I guess I am two for two with these "masked men".

Well, you didn't actually kill Orocrinos. You dropped him to 1 hp though, so a rat bite was enough to kill him.

Well, you didn't actually kill Orocrinos. You dropped him to 1 hp though, so a rat bite was enough to kill him.

Oh sure take the glory away! :D

Lost City DM wrote:

Well, you didn't actually kill Orocrinos. You dropped him to 1 hp though, so a rat bite was enough to kill him.

Oh sure take the glory away! :D

Feel free to brag about how you slew Orocrinos the Mighty Werewolf whenever you like, if that's your thing. :)

FYI I may not be able to post again until Sunday night. Busy weekend. :)

All for smashing the buggies. There may be food in the crates.

The beetles are food!

Wow my axe is more cursed than Montague's bow. I did some analysis for our collective amusement. Out of 23 attack rolls the average is only slightly below statistical expectation of 10.5 at 9.2 The mode however is 3 with a count of 3 occurrences. The median is 9. The telling number is that only 4 attacks were greater than a 13 which would allow me to hit AC 5 or lower. So effective hitting about 1/6 or in baseball terms 0.167 striking average compared to a statistical expected hit rate on AC 5 of 7/20 or .350. With a sample size this small it is tough to make any significance claims but it is safe to say that Ferrous is under-performing.

keep your eye on the ball.

FYI: The median AC for a 1 HD monster is typically around 6 or 7. The best AC you have faced so far was 4 - the fire beetles.

You could try this:

"Ferrous makes a false swing to try to fake out the RNG. Then he attacks."

Fake: 1d20 ⇒ 6
Actual Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 13

Success!

Brilliant.
How many hp does the RNG have?
All attacks of Ferrous will be directed at this dire enemy.

Sorry, guys. Running behind. Will post in about 8-10 hours.

Whoops read LCDM's initiative list without putting much thought into it. Fistep is the one who pre-rolled a 10 not Ferrous.
Either take his 7 as when I bash in Ringo or the below.
Init: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 6) = 12

been rolling the wrong die this whole time. I will now be attacking with 3d6 instead of 1d20. jk

Whoops read LCDM's initiative list without putting much thought into it. Fistep is the one who pre-rolled a 10 not Ferrous.

Oops... my bad. Two characters whose name starts with F.

Don't think it changes anything though unless Fistep would have tried to draw "Paul's" fire away from you. If you hadn't killed Ringo then Fistep wouldn't be able to engage Paul anyway.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

I have added rules about non-proficiency under EQUIPMENT.

I have also added rules about CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT which includes specializations such as weapon specialization (which Fistep has already). These become available at 3rd level.

The process of editing these documents and transferring them from my old Lotus Ami Pro files is time consuming, but is ongoing. More to come. The links are also on the campaign page.

LCDM

I used to love Ami Pro. All my friends were WordPerfect proponents, but I was sold on Ami Pro.

I used to love Ami Pro. All my friends were WordPerfect proponents, but I was sold on Ami Pro.

It still handles styles better than anything else I've used. I still use it, through Oracle Virtual Machine.

FYI I am leaving town tomorrow afternoon and won't be back until Monday night. Don't think I will have internet access where I am going. I will be able to post again tomorrow during the day, then probably not until Monday night.

For those playing at home. Ferrous has made 7 attack rolls with his highest result being an 8. The probability of such a string of bad luck is 1 in 26,000. Amazing simply amazing.

I'm leaving for GenCon tomorrow... so yeah.

For those playing at home. Ferrous has made 7 attack rolls with his highest result being an 8. The probability of such a string of bad luck is 1 in 26,000. Amazing simply amazing.

Well... at least you aren't taking damage. :)

Ferrous Grimgond wrote:

For those playing at home. Ferrous has made 7 attack rolls with his highest result being an 8. The probability of such a string of bad luck is 1 in 26,000. Amazing simply amazing.

Well... at least you aren't taking damage. :)

The curse of the Rubber sword

Fistep wrote:

Ferrous Grimgond wrote:

For those playing at home. Ferrous has made 7 attack rolls with his highest result being an 8. The probability of such a string of bad luck is 1 in 26,000. Amazing simply amazing.

Well... at least you aren't taking damage. :)

The curse of the Rubber sword

Trojan man!

I'm leaving for GenCon tomorrow... so yeah.

Have fun man. Been there in the past but skipping this year as I got married in April and sucked up all my cash.

Understandable.

I've been going for like 10+ years now. :)

For those playing at home. Ferrous has made 7 attack rolls with his highest result being an 8. The probability of such a string of bad luck is 1 in 26,000. Amazing simply amazing.

Yeah, well, it goes like that sometimes. Other times it can seem like you are on fire.

This combat has certainly dragged though. Beetles effectively have armor and are tough to hit.

Climbs up on a crate, the wounds and the acid affecting him greatly.

Ferrous has made 7 attack rolls with his highest result being an 8. The probability of such a string of bad luck is 1 in 26,000.

It continues with yet another 1. This makes 8 attacks lower than an 8 in a row. The above quoted probability is off not sure where my mistake was since I did it in an Excel file. But the actual correct probability for 8 straight lower than 8 rolls in merely 1 in 1525. So I don't feel as screwed but I will list this combats distribution of rolls for Ferrous.

So my average on the 8 attacks occurring this combat comes to an astounding 3.375. The probability of that occurring is behind the course matter covered here but suffice to say small.

I recall that you said I was going to be likely the next one to level, but I have not been able to find the shaman class info in the campaign info tab......

If you can point me in the right direction...

The Shaman and the Cleric have an identical progression. The shaman uses the same table except that they trade some armor and weapon proficiencies for a bonus to healing and getting spells 1 level earlier. So just use the cleric table.

The Shaman and the Cleric have an identical progression. The shaman uses the same table except that they trade some armor and weapon proficiencies for a bonus to healing and getting spells 1 level earlier. So just use the cleric table.

FYI you needed 182 XP to advance. Fistep would be next with 252 XP.

The current encounter netted you a LOT of food, which translates into XP. So assuming you manage to get it all back to camp, this actually puts you VERY close to advancing to the next level - you now need 26 XP and one more encounter would likely do it.

Huzzah I killed something. uh wait it may have already be dead nevermind.