City of Ashes
(Inactive)
Game Master
Grimmy
Round 4
Fire Mephit (steals the amulet)
Uurnir (scorpion style)
Magma Elementals (attack)
Lilia (magic missile)
Ronen <<<<
Ares <<<<
Priscilla <<<<
Battle Map
Campaign Map | Equipment Sheet | Campaign Journal
Guys this is how I usually do my combat maps, tell me if this link works and does it let you move your token
Battle Map
Female Human Oracle 3
Cut to temple. Urrnir, Lilia and Priscilla can make an entrance there anytime.
Ronen, Erin, Cairenn and Lueck will be at cemetery I guess..
The Professional | Female Human Unchained Rogue 8 | HP 51/51 | AC: 20/15/15 | Evasion | ImpUncDodge | Danger Sense +2 | F:+4 R:+12 W:+7 | CMB: +7 CMD 22 | Initiative +5| Perc.+15 | SM+13 | Lowlight Vision
I make about 75% of my posts on my iPad/iPhone so I can't edit the map for those posts. When I'm in the office, I can use my office computer to move my token around then.
Ok well, being able to move the token is just a perk, before I discovered google docs I used to just do my maps in gimp and upload them to an image hosting site.
I can label the grid with grid coordinates and you can just tell me where you move if you're posting from iOS.
The Professional | Female Human Unchained Rogue 8 | HP 51/51 | AC: 20/15/15 | Evasion | ImpUncDodge | Danger Sense +2 | F:+4 R:+12 W:+7 | CMB: +7 CMD 22 | Initiative +5| Perc.+15 | SM+13 | Lowlight Vision
Aaand I will probably continue to be slow the next few days. New job with a three-day out-of-town job orientation starting Monday. If needed, GM Cairenn rather than delay the game.
s'ok we can kill some time in the abyss and the muir temple before we catch up with cairenn
Erin and Ronen you guys still here?
This multi weave set-up is kinda tuff, can everyone follow ok?
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Female Human Oracle 3
Great post Lilia, I think that is an example of what the PbP Guide calls the "push and hook".
Great posts all around guys.
Male Human Cleric 1/Monk (Weapon Adept) 2 | HP 26/26 | AC: 15 T:15 FF:14 | F:+7 R:+5 W:+9 | CMB+3 CMD 17 | Init. +1 | Perception: +8
Sorry Grimmy finally posted something. I didn't get a chance over the wknd but I'm hoping to get a few posts off each day before I leave. That's my intent anyhow.
Right well I didn't know if you guys were just waiting for the narrative to catch up with your characters or what.
I know this setup has some of you kind of waiting in the wings.
Female Human Oracle 3
No worries. I need to find a scene i can enter her in. either in her masked form, but then she won't join the party just yet. Or her normal "bubbly self"
Cool. I'm thinking when everyone gets to the cemetery Erin will be there dumping a body or something like that. Then maybe I will have some sort of incident occur that can pull you all in together.
Female Human Oracle 3
Sure. But that she will do masked. =^^=
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Ok guys a couple quick thoughts to share.
It didn't fully dawn on me until now but this character Erin has some heavy duty mature themes going on. The idea of her being a cold killer when she wears a mask but essentially an innocent young girl without the mask touches on things like dissociative identity disorder. A game with strangers on the internet who are bound to have various comfort levels with such things is not the place to delve deeply into such a weighty and potentially disturbing topic.
Seth I'm not saying to scrap your character, but I would like it if you could find a way to play down the fragmented psyche aspect somewhat so this can stay a general audience PG kind of affair. I'm not doubting that you are capable of a mature and compassionate take on this character, but even a mature and compassionate take on a character with a shattered psyche and a severely traumatic personal history is something I'm realizing I don't want to be confronted with day in and day out in a light hearted game I play as a fun escape from the stresses of the real world.
So Seth, I guess what I'm saying is, you don't have to scrap your backstory or anything, if you can just kind of keep it "off screen" for me. I'm afraid that story deserves a novel or movie or series of it's own and it's just not going to slot well into the collaborative storytelling medium of a pathfinder game without stealing the whole focus and altering the whole tone.
I'm sorry this didn't occur to me earlier and I hope you still have a desire to play Erin as the party rogue with tiefling blood, I just don't want to go deep into the split-personality/killer for hire stuff. I'm realizing it is just too weighty of a subject.
This just kind of dawned on me when your character appeared and I'm looking at the tableau wondering gee, how on earth are Ronen and Erin going to stay in character here without this devolving into PvP?
So what I propose is you two RP a bit, and if necessary I will provide the tried and true method of bringing unlikely bedfellows together... zombies!!
The rest of you, if you think I'm over-reacting let me know, maybe the story of a split-personality young girl killer is suitable for our game to explore somewhere down the line, but not now when we are essentially all still strangers. Hope you understand where I'm coming from Seth. It's the kind of thing I would watch and appreciate in a film, but a film is two hours long and then it's over. A pbp is day-in day-out for an indeterminate amount of time, so I think a little levity is required.
Ok lol just saw Cairenn and Ronen's posts so I guess my PvP panic was unfounded. Ok game on.
Female Human Oracle 3
okay. will edit post a bit. delete it at this point if i still can and redo it. will tone it down.
but work now. so post will have to come when im back
Male Human Cleric 1/Monk (Weapon Adept) 2 | HP 26/26 | AC: 15 T:15 FF:14 | F:+7 R:+5 W:+9 | CMB+3 CMD 17 | Init. +1 | Perception: +8
Hey Grimmy,
That very thought of one day Ronen/Ares and Erin being engaged in a PvP battle seems forseeable, but if I remember right Erin's identity was to be hidden from everyone. How long it remains hidden I guess would ultimately be up to Erin and yourself.
Regardless Ronen is LG and his first reaction is not to engage in a fight with Erin.
Erin you don't have to edit the post, the post is fine how it is. I just don't want things like PvP or any heavy duty mature subject matter at least until we have all gamed together and know the comfort levels of the table better.
That's really what my long-winded post boils down to. But your post was A-Ok, I just had those things on my mind ;)
Female Human Oracle 3
Okay. What if instead of the "switch" she just acts like that to dissuade people to try and link her two guises?
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Sure, if that doesn't ruin your idea that would be cool. Really I was probably worried about nothing, I just don't want to deal with PvP or anything too disturbing, that's it.
I just thought for a second Erin and Ronen were going to end up in a stand-off. But when I saw Ronen's post it all went smoothly.
Female Human Oracle 3
Well. I did not threaten him. So if hes LG and not LS i think i was safe. =^^=
No it doesnt change. Can still play her. But it does make her allignment change easier ;) if that has to happen
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Yup, exactly, looks like Ronen is LG but not LS!!
Erin the Cursed wrote: sorry. Was in a rush. I ment to type "no disrespect ment" english is not my first language. So i make mistakes now and then
No problem buddy, sorry I put so much weird pressure on you. We are all just here to have fun.
Female Human Oracle 3
I know. Its not why i was rushed. At work. So i post when i get time =^^=
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Guys I'm at the hospital with my grandfather. They gave him till the morning. We are/were close.
I still feel like posting, just mentioning it because it's probably why I've been a little off, or extra intense :/
Just wanted to share that, I'll still be here posting though.
Female Human Oracle 3
Good luck. Prayers for you and family. My the Lord carry you in this hard time
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Female Human Oracle 3
Just know that if you look back and see only 1 pair of footprints, it's Jesus carrying you
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Male Human Cleric 1/Monk (Weapon Adept) 2 | HP 26/26 | AC: 15 T:15 FF:14 | F:+7 R:+5 W:+9 | CMB+3 CMD 17 | Init. +1 | Perception: +8
Grimmy I echo Seth here. Stay strong and reflect on the happiness he brought to you and those you love.
The Professional | Female Human Unchained Rogue 8 | HP 51/51 | AC: 20/15/15 | Evasion | ImpUncDodge | Danger Sense +2 | F:+4 R:+12 W:+7 | CMB: +7 CMD 22 | Initiative +5| Perc.+15 | SM+13 | Lowlight Vision
If you need to take time away and refocus things, I completely understand, DM. Take your time. We will be here when you are ready.
Thank you Gerald, actually I'm in a good place now. I'm happy to keep posting, no time away needed.
I think I was a little too obsessed with gaming the past few weeks because I was looking for an escape. It's been a painful battle he was fighting. My whole family is very relieved he's at peace now.
I guess I just shared this with you guys to explain why i've been a bit more bonkers then usual :D
But yeah. Game on!
Male Aasimar Cleric-3 | HP: 27/27 | AC: 15(17 w/shield) T:12 FF:13(15) | Fort:+5 Ref:+3 Will:+6 | Cmb:+4 CMD: 15 | Perception:+4
Sorry to hear buddy, sending some positive energy to you and your family Grimmy.
Mat from D20Pro sent me a pre-release of the content for the big dungeon up in the stonehearts. The first 4 levels are done. The maps look great.
Male Human Cleric 1/Monk (Weapon Adept) 2 | HP 26/26 | AC: 15 T:15 FF:14 | F:+7 R:+5 W:+9 | CMB+3 CMD 17 | Init. +1 | Perception: +8
Nice sounds like another mega dungeon?
Male Human Cleric 1/Monk (Weapon Adept) 2 | HP 26/26 | AC: 15 T:15 FF:14 | F:+7 R:+5 W:+9 | CMB+3 CMD 17 | Init. +1 | Perception: +8
Oh Grim question what area does the Sinnar Region map detail? Is it the area south of Freegate?
Ronen wrote: Nice sounds like another mega dungeon? Yeah, stoneheart dungeon is a mega-dungeon beneath the ancient burial halls of Muir and Thyr. It's just north west of the Twin Shrines and the Crystal Lake, where Priss and Ares made their stand. So, it's a good candidate for a follow up adventure to this one. A lot of people use it as a lead-in to Rappan Athuk or Slumbering Tsar.
Ronen wrote: Oh Grim question what area does the Sinnar Region map detail? Is it the area south of Freegate? Good question Ronen. I developed my map back in the days when all these modules were plug n play and we had to make our own maps to link them. If you compare your official maps to my one for this campaign, you'll see mine is not cannon.
Greg Vaughan told me Endhome should be like 800 miles away from Bard's Gate iirc. But I have it much closer.
All I have in front of me is Greg's color pencil map of Gulf of Akados, so I'm not sure, but I think you were correct in your guess. The Sinnar Coast map shows Endhome, which is south of Freegate in the cannon setting.
On my map, I have moved that whole region up, swapping Endhome in for Freegate. If you crossed out Freegate on your map and made it say Endhome I think you would basically end up with the same map as me (porting the surrounding wilderness of Endhome with it, like the Penprie Forest).
Male Human Cleric 1/Monk (Weapon Adept) 2 | HP 26/26 | AC: 15 T:15 FF:14 | F:+7 R:+5 W:+9 | CMB+3 CMD 17 | Init. +1 | Perception: +8
Thanks Grim that's some good info. I'm working on my SoA campaign (btw nothing conflicts with the area we are exploring). But I was wondering if I should purchase the FGG one just to add to my collection. I also have a copy of the gulf of akados map.
Yeah I want those maps and that SoA book, I'm just too broke right now :)
My other game had 46 posts in gameplay and 38 in Discussion today!! That hasn't happened in a while.
I had one game last year that used to get over 20 a day average but that game died. I think PbP is a marathon not a sprint.
Still fun to shred through 2 or 3 combat rounds in one day once in a while though.
Male Human Cleric 1/Monk (Weapon Adept) 2 | HP 26/26 | AC: 15 T:15 FF:14 | F:+7 R:+5 W:+9 | CMB+3 CMD 17 | Init. +1 | Perception: +8
Now those are some big numbers. what's typical for a pbp. If there is even a typical number to begin with hehe
Hard to say what's typical Ronen but if you check out the games forum here and sort it by number of posts it looks like only a few groups have made it through a whole Paizo AP to conclusion.
I started four games last year and only one of them really proved strong enough to last so at least in my experience it's tricky!
I'm hoping this slow start we're doing will be a good thing, once we hit the action we'll already have some interesting dynamics established between the party members.
I have the service tomorrow and I'm with the family getting everything ready tonight so I might not update gameplay with a post until tomorrow night or so, unless I think of a good post sooner :)
I'll be back full force by sunday at the latest.
Male Human Cleric 1/Monk (Weapon Adept) 2 | HP 26/26 | AC: 15 T:15 FF:14 | F:+7 R:+5 W:+9 | CMB+3 CMD 17 | Init. +1 | Perception: +8
Alright Grimmy. I'm just about to post and will probably have time to post again one more time before signing off for vacation.
Have a great vacation Ronen.
Everyone else, you guys want to start the adventure? How does wed sound?
Cool, let's find out where Dien is at with RPG superstar and new job, but if everyone else is game, I say on wed we cut to the cemetery with everyone there and blast off.
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