Busier at work today than usual so I didn't get around to doing this earlier.
Oh well.
Discussion thread open.
hello there
"Hi Aisling" a cute little halfling girl asks looking at Aisling real close, "You should smile more. Maybe you are ticklish, Truffles like to have his belly rubbed, you wanna rub his belly?"
Looks like high time I open up the gameplay one :p
Reporting for duty! This is gonna be a new one for me... never played a ranged cleric, believe it or not.
There's soo many characters I never played... Then again somehow I always end up being the DM so technically I've played loads of them. Most never live beyond 1 encounter though :p
Jilhanna reporting in.
Excellent :)
Totally OOC. Woohoo my oldtimer car is fixed! Me being so happy about that made writing the more sour guards a bit harder ;)
Yeah, sometimes things happen that make it hard to get into a character mindset. X)
COngrats on the car!
Yeah that oldtimer Subaru is really my baby. I'm very happy she's ok again. To put it very mildly :p
Updates in the IC thread tomorrow. Went to a gig by brother in law and a bit too intoxicated to make coherent updates I think.
Suggestion: we skip the mayor essentially ordering you to be the "volunteers" to do the quest and we fast forward to the morning when you leave.
I'm willing to do the meeting as well not sure which is the best approach.
I will leave this one up to you all actually.
It's a hard choice between more RP before the story really gets going and getting the story going.
I am good either way. We did have some late arrivals so a small intro could help though.
I need to learn to read the Discussion page before the Gameplay page.
I'm happy to do it either way.
And I do actually enjoy the improvised bits of RPGs anyway. Apolgies for less talkative posts over the weekend and yesterday. That was a rough weekend ;) I'm getting too old to party that late at pubs that have a band playing :p
hey guys, sorry, very busy yesterday. plus holiday stuff. (well for those that celebrate 4th of July).
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Are we waiting for the wizard or just going ahead?
I favor going ahead actually. I haven't heard from the Chess since he said he was interested.
Truffles will have to do the wizarding :p
Right looks like that warm-up part is done?
Note also I won't be posting tomorrow night. I'm doing a charity evening drive with the oldtimer. I should be active over the weekend though. Unless of course the car breaks down and I go into panic mode.
Sweet! Hoping it doesn't break on you! I hate that feeling...
Working long hours nxt couple days posting will be minimal
That charity drive was actually a pretty brutal one.
What was supposed to be a gentle backroads drive was a navigation rally worthy of what we drive in our championships.
47 started, 139 km long trip, only about half the cars made it back in time (i.e. in 6 hours). We made it, with 8 minutes to spare. And with 165 km on the counter. Was a tough one ;)
But I'm back.
The car BTW did great, she spit out some water but that's because I overfilled her a bit after the previous breakdown. She did the whole thing without complaints. And I had no idea there were so many unpaved roads near the city where I work...
I may have found us a wizard.
DM Baktru, check your PMs
Ok.
Replied. He can jump right in. Run right in actually. Late for the ceremony... Tssk tssk... :p
His character needs to drop back level 1 but otherwise it will be good to have a mage along.
Thanks for the invite.
I'm still adjusting the stats, but I thought I'd get going in the gameplay thread so I don't hold anything up.
Yeah take your time on the stats. We're not in any fights yet anyway. And welcome.
Awesome! Always good to have another hand on board!
Thanks for the welcomes.
DM Baktru if you want to take a look at my character, I think it's ready.
I don't see anything obviously wrong with it other than the masterwork cane. A bit expensive for your 70 starting gold. And Mage Armor currently not being up, I suppose?
Wizards start with a bonded object of masterwork quality. I think in Anton's case, it's his cane. I've done this a number of times myself, like my sorcerer with a masterwork shortbow as his bonded object. Helped offset his weak combat skills early on.
Ah ok. I'm still too used to 3.5. Please do point it out when I make 3.5 is not PF mistakes.
And yeah wizards and sorcerers become powerhouses eventually but they usually have fairly hard starts.
Also yes good to have another hand on board, but of course that also means the encounters will be altered a bit for the added firepower ;)
Yes, the cane is his free masterwork bonded object, and he stores "Mage Armor" in it for his spell.
Mage Armor only 1 hour per day at the moment, so I'm hesitant to start it before things get dicey.
Note that all the AC numbers assume Mage Armor is in effect. And the cane stats out as a club. The Hand of the Apprentice numbers are usually for throwing the cane.
He only throws something else (dagger, usually) if he doesn't have the cane.
Ok. All good.
And yes Mage Armor is a great spell... Once it gets up to more time. 4AC is nothing to sneeze at. But at 1 hour of course that can be painfully short.
We're on page 3!
Just as a side note. I am trusting you all here. I did not reconstruct your characters myself to see they are fully correct, just answered Anton's question as he asked.
I will hide very few rolls and I will put most secrets in spoilers with a roll attached to them.
I trust you all to not read them if you miss the rolls.
Note I allow Knowledge rolls to be taken untrained, at least a number of them. Definitely local ones.
Not so much Arcana or Planes.
And yes the mayor did really say that ;)
Super busy, hope to post later tomight
Ok cool. Combat turn when you get to it.
hello, work is pissing me off, I can't catch a break. I am free almost all weekend. so Will make an effort to post more.
the only good thing is this past month I almost doubled my pay with the amount of extra hours I put in. I am told that they will hire later this year... if anyone interested we are looking to hire up to 85 new union positions this year and maybe more next year.
Yikes! Good on you for showing the initiative, though! I know your bank account will be happy to have that!
Yeah life can get tough like that sometimes. We can handle it. I wait for you to have some time every time.
was looking for a skull and shackles game to try a character idea, recruitment went up and was full in less than 40 minutes. GM took the first 4 people to post interest.
I always hated those kind of recruitments
My thing is I hate having to turn people down on mediocre character descriptions. And I AM new at this doing PbP. I chose to do first in with a decent character goes. So far it seems to work for our Everflame.
My other campaign may be starting to suffer from inactives...
Either way though Paizo forums suffers from the same problem as Roll20. Way more people wanting to play than there are people wanting to be GM.
I actually like being the DM. I would love playing a character again (which I haven't done in.. counting... some 5 years) but if my choice is between no DnD (ok Pathfinder) or being GM, that's an easy choice.
Either way, if I ever run Skulls and Shackles, consider yourself at the top of the list. In fact any of my current players go to top of the list for a next one.
I'll hold off on starting a third game for a while though. I want to be sure first I can handle what I have committed to first. If I felt really comfortable I could do a third one in parallel, I would do so, but I wouldn't even know yet what that would be.
A wise move. If a player is really into the character, they're more likely to stick it out.
And I personally find that a nonoptimal build helps make that work better. I find that an optimised character can be done well... but the odd or unoptimal character builds come with flaws that are, honestly, refreshing. That's why I tend towards weird or "sub-par" archetypes. You might not be smashing through challenges, but it's satisfying to swing and slug it out and come out on top with a well earned victory! And it comes with some tasty flavor!
I agree with that fully. It's the odd quirks that make a character feel unique.
And the thing is, not everyone are a wizard with words. Some people may have a truly great character idea, but have some trouble expressing it. Those people lose out in getting to play.
And yes, playing utterly optimised characters in Pathfinder isn't as much fun as playing somewhat flawed ones. The difficulty level of the adventures and APs doesn't expect super-optimised characters to begin with anyway.
In the other campaign all came back to being active as well btw... I was just handling their fight with just one goblin remaining wrong.
Maybe we're up and running now?
Anyway, I'm going to be gone until next Tuesday, so I'll catch up with everything then.
Yeah sorry Jil. First Paizo crapped out then my health did. Looks like I'm all back though.
going away for the weekend, probably unable to post till Sunday night