DM Barcas - Kingmaker: New Beginnings (Inactive)

Game Master Isaac Duplechain

Well, interesting. USA has no such holiday, though I think that it would certainly be helpful. Our closest is Halloween.

Oh bother, and I did not ogle anybody, how goche(sp?).

The Ultimate Magic previews are starting. Once the book comes out, you can tweak your characters to include the new stuff.

Class Archetypes
Alchemist: The chirurgeon, clone master, internal alchemist, mindchemist, preservationist, psychonaut, reanimator, and vivisectionist archetypes.
Bard: The animal speaker, celebrity, demagogue, dirge bard, geisha, songhealer, and sound striker archetypes.
Cleric: The cloistered cleric, separatist, theologian, and undead lord cleric archetypes.
Druid: The dragon shaman, menhir savant, mooncaller, pack lord, reincarnated druid, saurian shaman, shark shaman, and storm druid archetypes.
Inquisitor: The exorcist, heretic, infiltrator, preacher, and sin eater archetypes.
Monk: The high-fantasy qinggong monk archetype.
Oracle: The dual-cursed oracle, enlightened philosopher, planar oracle, possessed oracle, seer, and stargazer archetypes.
Paladin: This section presents the oathbound paladin archetype.
Ranger: The magic trap using trapper archetype.
Sorcerer: The crossblooded and wildblooded archetypes.
Summoner: The broodmaster, evolutionist, master summoner, and synthesist archetypes.
Witch: The beast-bonded, gravewalker, hedge witch, and sea witch archetypes.
Wizard: The metal elementalist and wood elementalist wizard schools and the scrollmaster wizard archetype.

What has me laughing the most is the bard archetype "celebrity". What? You give up inspire courage to get a chihuahua familiar? lol :D

I'm pretty pumped to get my mits on that book. I doubt I'll be making any changes to either of my characters, but I could see the mooncaller or pack lord Druids possibly being a good fit for Wesh if they end up being worthwhile. I know Duron will most likely find some useful spells and feats and the like :)

Incoming! If not for Zander, you'd be dealing with another ambush.

I'll definitely take a look at the clerical archetypes, but my guess is none of them will be quite suitable for Verik - although I have some hopes for cloistered cleric. Probably be new spells though, the clerical spell-list could use some spicing up!

As for Wesh, well, he is already an archetype as a Lion Shaman, so its perhaps unlikely he will be able to fit in another.

Regarding the encounter are we actually sleeping for the night yet? I want to know if Verik has changed into his chainshirt pjs yet.

The expedition was not yet asleep, and only preparing for it. Everyone should be in normal gear. Zander likely spotted them in the positioning stages of their raid, which would have surely come in the middle of the night.

Had an unexpected internet downtime the last 3 days - will catch-up tomorrow. Hopefully at work if it isn't too busy...

Anyone get to see the first episode of A Game of Thrones btw? Thought it was pretty darn impressive myself, I'm happy with all the characters, and Peter Dinklage rocks my socks off as Tyrion - the Imp beingquite possibly my favorite character of all time.

Oh bum, just noticed that the leader was previously listed as having a +3 will save as opposed to the +1 he was listed with in the last post - that means he passes sadly. Ah well its a dice game after all.

I did catch the GoT premeire and was also super impressed. My girlfriend who watched it with me and just finished reading the first book was super pissed that the wedding night scene with Dany/Drogo was way more rapey than in the books, but I think it made sense given how they couldn't really have filmed it as written and it also served the purpose of filling in a lot of her internal monologue later about how she hates her life (before she starts to like it).

Minor nitpicks aside though, I think they did a fantastic job and it will definitely prove to be the best fantasy tv series of all time (not that it has a lot of competition in that field). Did you hear they just announced they've renewed it for Season 2?

Yep, jazzed about that, the scene with Danerys was rather uncomfortable, but I think that kinda works. Its much better tackled this way, 10 hours should just about be enough to tackle a book a season, a movie just would not have been able to encompass the plot properly.

Grrr, frustrating - but he would have provoked three AOs had I rolled a 13 or less for his save so I still think it was the better option... More grist for Verik's self doubt I guess.

I'm with smashthedeans girlfriend. I watched the show last night, and they totally missed the point of that scene. Which is to set up Khal Drogo as more than just some brute.

Otherwise impressed, even thoguh I was initially skeptical of the casting of Robert and Eddard.

Jemini: 'Finish him!'

FATALITY!!!

Yeah, I'm hoping next week they are able to fix things some, but we'll see. I'm imagining they had to squeeze things into the first episode more than others to establish all of the characters and time it to end where they did.

Yes even with 10 hours to play with there is a great deal to fit in.

Trouble is although Verik has selective channeling he can only exclude 2 creatures from his healing, but its a nice quick fix up out of combat.

Yep. Some criminal masterminds in my city. The bank in question is in my district. All the good bank robberies happen on my days off.

Can't decide wich is more stupid; Doing the crime or posting it on facebook... but yeah, lol!

The stupidity of criminals often boggles my mind, but I suppose it shouldn't. If they were smart guys they wouldn't need to rob a bank. There aren't too many robbers who are like the various bank robbing geniuses you see in movies.

hah! Reminds me of the movie Megamind. The difference between a villain and a supervillain? PRESENTATION!!

Facebook: bad presentation...

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And @Zander: I had a good laugh at the falcon :)

I am a bit confused by Taisper's auras that he sees, because I am pretty sure we have not met anything that would give off an aura yet. Probably not Orlivanch, and not the bugbears - except maybe the leader though I really doubt it.

To give off a faint aura a creature must have at least 5 HD unless it is either undead or an outsider.

Is this Taisper being crazy or do we have a rules misunderstanding?

Creature/Object Aura Power

None Faint Moderate Strong Overwhelming
Aligned creature1 (HD) 5 or lower 5-10 11-25 26-50 51 or higher

its in a table, there is an errata? next to part of it, but a search of the site quickly shows that this was because it was a change to 3.5 and Paizo intend the 5 or lower to be in place. This of course applies to all the detect alignment spells.

Is this Taisper being crazy or do we have a rules misunderstanding?

Just fluff. Taisper can't tell the difference between his (relatively) new Detect Alignment at-will ability and his own righteous and misguided convictions, so right now as far as he knows anyone he fights has an evil aura, and he doesn't know that the 'auras' he sees for most things are just in his head. Since we've not fought anything that is powerful enough to actually put out an aura for real, he has nothing to contradict his mistaken belief. He'll be in for a rude surprise, though, when that Sp finally works and shows an enemy to not be aligned as he thinks it is.

Ah good, I thought it might be that, yes that will make for some fun RP! I can't imagine we are far off either! :)

Oh man, you're right. Probably just a level or two. Eep!

I doubt it, if we are third level now - I imagine this will pretty much have leveled the rest of you - I would think it will happen this level. 5th level is very reasonable for a 6 man 3rd level party after all - at a guess I would say we have already faced 4hd foes or at least foe.

I can't say I didn't see Taispars incredulity coming. I was wondering if anyone would launch a complaint over Tandlra suggesting we put them to sleep permanently.

Should be interesting, as far as Tandlara is concerned, bugbears deserve no mercy as bugbears. They hunt her people and where thier ears as trophies.

Interesting that the old trope playable race racism would come into it, I mean bugbears are evil, and mental, but is it okay to assume that? Where do you draw the line? Because its not like real life, almost all bugbears are serial killers by their very genes.

Should be an interesting conversation, but I hope the fight doesn't get too heated.

Actually, Taisper had no intention of bringing it up. Verik's SM check totally caught me by surprise. It also crushed my comparatively meager +6 to Bluff. :-(

I would also like to say that I think Charlie the Falcon should be a nominee for the group's mascot. He'd look great on a t-shirt.

I'm pretty much using my own view point as Verik here. Assuming Bugbears are unfamiliar, but all I've heard is that they are vicious killers. If we just met them I would be wary, but not instigate, if they attacked, no mercy - well not torture of anything, but I'm not going to try lugging a creature larger and stronger than me about especially if they outnumber us, etc.

Verik would have liked one temporarily spared for interrogation purposes, but did not think about that until after he was done healing everyone. If he can get one to talk - and he has that speak language spell prepared in case the flunkies don't speak common - then he would probably be against killing it, though only if he can come up with a practical option. Like getting it to negotiate and offer trade to its fellows if there is a settlement or tribe. Verik believes that even evil people ought to see the benefits of civilization if they only thought about it.

Isn't Reggie our mascot?

And yes Verik's Sense Motive is pretty impressive, and will grow more so as his wisdom, ranks, and silver tongued haggler increase. I really like Silver Tongued Haggler its not that good at the moment, but its a half your level - rounded down - bonus to bluff, diplomacy and sense motive. And Verik gets enough uses that he can use it on virtually every check. :)

WOOT! Their showing Going Postal tonight on TV :)

I'm pretty much using my own view point as Verik here. Assuming Bugbears are unfamiliar, but all I've heard is that they are vicious killers. If we just met them I would be wary, but not instigate, if they attacked, no mercy - well not torture of anything, but I'm not going to try lugging a creature larger and stronger than me about especially if they outnumber us, etc.

Verik would have liked one temporarily spared for interrogation purposes, but did not think about that until after he was done healing everyone. If he can get one to talk - and he has that speak language spell prepared in case the flunkies don't speak common - then he would probably be against killing it, though only if he can come up with a practical option. Like getting it to negotiate and offer trade to its fellows if there is a settlement or tribe. Verik believes that even evil people ought to see the benefits of civilization if they only thought about it.

Cool, cool. Right on. And see, this is exactly what Taisper was planning on happening. He figured "oh the sleeping one will be made to stand trial," so then when it got axed, he was completely flabbergasted.

Taisper just thinks it's awfully convenient that Berrin gets to slaughter a sleeping innocent with no consequence while he got put through the wringer. Everyone seems really blase about it, in his eyes, which is frustrating for him since he's trying so hard now to play by "the rules," which he doesn't really understand to begin with, and which now suddenly seem even more complicated.

Paranoid delusions of persecution? Oh you betcha.

Also, to be fair, if Taisper had heard Jemini trying to make Berrin stop, that would have changed a LOT, but I'm assuming since Berrin couldn't hear it, nor could Taisper.

I enjoyed it, was last year I think they showed it over here, but a good version - much better than the other Terry Pratchett adaptions. The lead actor is great, he was the brightest point in Coupling - a comedy series - and has had some good rolls since. I really hope they do the other Moist Von Lipwig books with him.

Have you seen the Color of Magic one with David Jason btw Berrin? Decent you can find it here in case you have not... The Color of Magic. And Part 2

Great debate, guys.

Only 9 more posts until 2,000!

Here's to the best Play-by-Post group in the entire boards!

Have you seen the Color of Magic one with David Jason btw Berrin? Decent you can find it here in case you have not... The Color of Magic. And Part 2

Yup. Seen it, and now... watching it again :D thanks!

Here's to the best Play-by-Post group in the entire boards!

Cheers!

Now if someone has a link to the Wyrd Sisters cartoon, looking at that stuff made me want to see it again - its been a while. The Witches books are my favorite from the Pratchett stable, especially Lords and Ladies, which I just finished listening to.

Post 2000 goes to Taisper! Huzzah!

Didn't he get #1000 too?

Start leveling up. You'll all level up to level 3 when you return to Oleg's.

..aren't we heading for the boggard? That's what? Two days out?

Heh. I did get #1,000. That's hilarious. I didn't try for this one, just happened.

Fighter 3
BAB +1
Saves +1 Ref/Will
HP +9 (6 +2 con, +1 FC)
Skills 4 (2 class, 1 human, 1 int)
+1 handle animal, +1 knowledge (engeneering), +1 ride, +1 survival
Class Featuer; Armor Training 1
Feat; Cleave

oh yeah and
Hero Point +1

I'm a bit too knackered to make a coherent post today - very early morning. But I am a little confused by Hero Points, we started with one and gain one per level, nobody has been awarded any, is that correct? Meaning Verik would have 3 - not having spent any?

This is what'll happen to Jemini

Paladin 2
BAB +1
Saves +1 Fort / Will
HP 8 (6 + 2 con)
Skills 4 (2 + 1 human + 1 favored) +1 bluff; +1 diplomacy; +1 intimidate; +1 knowledge (nature)
Class: Divine Grace; Lay on Hands (6/day; 1d6)
Feat: dazzling display
Hero point: +1 (total of 2/3)

Jemini's saves are going to be absudly high!

I've had a busy 4-day weekend with my girlfriend's birthday on Thursday and then her family coming up for her's and her niece's birthday on Saturday and then making us Easter brunch this morning so haven't gotten to post much or have Zander weigh in on the various debating (I guess it's been taking him a really long time to clean off his face), but I should be able to get back into things this coming week.

As for leveling up:

Archer 3
BAB +1
HP: +8 (6 + 1 con + 1 favored)
Ref/Will: +1
Skills 4 (2 + 1 int + 1 human) Climb, Perception, Stealth, Survival
Feat: Deadly Aim
Class: Trick Shot (disarm)
Hero Point +1 (2/3)

Jemini's saves are going to be absudly high!

Ya :) - which is one of the reasons I'll be able to skip spending money on a cloak of resistance for a while.

Rock on:
Taisper goes up to Inquisitor 3
4 HP (PC Gen rolled a 3, +1 CON)
+1 REF save
+1 BAB
New class features: Solo Tactics, Teamwork Feat
Feat: Expanded Arcana
Teamwork Feat: Precise Strike
8 skill points: Bluff, Climb, Diplomacy, Heal, K(Planes), Profession(Cook), Ride, Survival
New spells:
0th - Sift
1st - Cure Light Wounds, Divine Favor