DM Barcas - The Carrion Crown

Game Master Isaac Duplechain

I hope you've been enjoying the slow dread I've been trying to evoke. This is certainly a bit of a slow burner so far.

Expect fiery arrows in the windows as you sleep, though. You know how much I like ambushes.

Pajambushes!

I've been expecting things to happen at any moment. Something spooky jumps out at us and the WAAAAAAGH! starts.

Sorry for the relative lull in posting this last week. To say that I've been busy would be putting it mildly. I get most of my posting done at night, and this is the first time I've gotten an opportunity to post from someplace other than my phone in almost a week.

I've been thankful for the lull as I was pretty worried about getting left way behind with my being out of town. Unfortunately I'll probably be posting even less in the next couple of days, but I'll make sure to keep up somewhat.

Agh. The college internet is gone, I've hiked to the library to get on now, and I've too much study to catch up. My internet should be fixed monday, at which point I'll catch up properly, I'm very sorry for this.

BTW whats your take on trick for animal companions DM Baracus? I've had a range of start with as many tricks as the animal can know - to represent a starting animal having been with its druid for years, etc. - to you only begin with the free trick. I'll be bumping Ramon's Int to 3 so I don't have to worry about them ASAP, but in early play tricks are quite a big deal, especially given the foes we are likely to be facing.

In RL games, I tend to enforce tricks and treat animal companions as an NPC rather than an extension of the PC. However, in PBP, I'd rather have you simply play Ramon accordingly. Keep his tricks as normal: "An animal trained to bear a rider into combat knows the tricks attack, come, defend, down, guard, and heel." (We'll ignore that riding thing.) I suggest you use his bonus trick to attack anything, so he can fight undead.

Hmmm, it seems like you are saying he can be trained to a purpose, but I would much rather he had the Hunting purpose and Trick set than the Combat Training one. That being attack, down, fetch, heel, seek, and track. I think that would fit a lot better, since Ramon has effectively been more of a hunting buddy than a battle cat. Is that acceptable? I would indeed use the "free trick" for a second attack so he can tackle unusual creatures.

Sounds good.

Groovy. :)

Ut oh. I am too drunk to read that whole big post. I'll check in tomorrow dudes... in between catching monstrous fish that is!

Ut oh. I am too drunk to read that whole big post. I'll check in tomorrow dudes... in between catching monstrous fish that is!

Sounds like vacation's going swell! :-D

Holy crap I hope I did everything right in that first combat post 'cos if so, that's some epic business going on, esp. for a first round of fighting for this PC. :-p

'Course now I've probably set the study on fire. (>_<)

Still cannot see the map, I've requested access a number of times, but no joy. Can anyone tell me if I am doing anything wrong?

I don't have access either...

I was able to go right to it. Granted I was already all signed-in to Gdocs and whatnot, but it just worked for me.

Definitely signed into google docs, etc. And have signed out and signed back in again several times to no avail. This is what I see...

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So I've requested access, but there does not seem to be anything else I can do.

I haven't had any trouble.

Didn't we have the same issue for Kingmaker? I'll work on it tonight.
The cultists go at the top of the round, by the way.

I did not have these issues with the Kingmaker maps, I could always see them was just an issue of getting signed in with the proper account, but this one I cannot see. Does not show up in my google docs either.

Combat eh? Well I'm back from the coast now, but not home yet. Depending on how pooped I am when I get home, I'll either catch up on things tonight or in the morning.

Also for a trip report: My pole broke while fishing so that didn't work out so well, but we turned the focus of the day to crabbing and made out like kings! I am now going to eat me some crabs and then hit the road home!

Yay, I can see the map! Huzzah!

Aand I'm back.

As I was typing this last post, I came up with a fun new thing for Duron. You may have guessed it, but that voice he heard was the voice of his own self before he lost his memory. I'll probably have this pop up occasionally and I encourage Barcas to use it as well whenever you feel like revealing something to me or spicing things up.

Have we played the "Who would play your character in a movie of our campaign?" game? If not, it's a good question.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think a young Wachim Phoenix with a scraggly beard. He's got that edge that I think Wesh would have and a slightly unsavory look, and the recent pics of him with a wild beard would fit pretty well if you knocked of 20 years or so.

Wow. I honestly have no idea. I don't watch enough movies to have any clue if there are actresses tall enough and/or thin enough who also have ridiculous elven cheekbones. I mean Run is really skinny.

I wouldn't be too concerned about height as that can be fixed with effects, I'll have to give this a little more thought though myself as I'm not coming up with any sure-fire picks. Elves are hard to cast it turns out.

Is the main cultist still alive and what does he have in hand please DM?

Sounded like he disappeared into the night to me?

Wesh gets to go before he goes again, so he does not seem to have the actions to vanish into the night.

He indeed vanished into the night, though it looks like he didn't get the prize he was after.

None of this is in the AP, by the way, so the destruction of most of the journal's contents is something I can easily work with. I'm deviating pretty far off page. The opening scene in the AP is a rowdy group of townsfolk trying to prevent the Professor's burial.

DM Barcas

I'm lurking with interest your Carrion Crown AP. I've just started my own (or should I better say I'm in the process - officially we are in the prelude at the moment with game start this weekend - but we managed the first 30 posts IC despite not having started yet).

The main reason for posting: I just used the YouTube Thunderstorm link you provided. I hope this is okay that I took it and that I might take bits and pieces of interest in the future. If not - please let me know and I stop any further stealing from your campaign.

Should you find anything of interest from me - feel free to take it. Unfortunately I'm a little bit behind you right now.

And yes - I noticed the 'off page' developments. No - I don't plan to follow your route.

Thanks

Thod

It's no problem. Feel free to take whatever you need. I tend to make the APs pretty different so as to not spoil the "traditional" version (for new APs like this one) and to allow people who have already played it a new experience (for older ones like Kingmaker).

DM Barcas

Thanks. I just wanted to ensure good etiquette. Too much online nowadays just gets copy&pasted without ever asking.

And with this I go back into lurking mode and won't disturb you any more.

Thod

Did the barbarian just encourage caution and rational thinking?

Did he ever!!!

I'm only nuts in battle... and when he's not trying to hide the fact that he's terrified of Harrowstone!

Oh man, hahaha - I can already see it: Ramon has 10 times the class of Wesh, hahaha

Lol, pretty much, Ramon is very laid back and typically feline as opposed to an obnoxious teenager.

So...thinking of crafting Identify, Detect Secret Doors, and Cure Light Wounds for tomorrow's extracts for our trip to the crypt. Anyone else wanna weigh in on what I should or shouldn't prepare? I can always leave a slot open, of course, but it can't be for anything we'd need in a hurry since it takes a minute to prepare an extract in the field.

I'd leave out Identify, it just does not seem to be that useful in PF and Run has a decent crack at making an identifying most items we are likely to get without identify, he would have to roll less than ten for most items we can expect to find - not sure if he could take 10.

Does she have a formulae known list?

Hmm. Thanks, Wesh. I'll ditch that one, then.

My seven (base 2+ 5 INT mod, yeah?) 1st-level formulae are:

Comprehend Languages
Crafter's Fortune
Cure Light Wounds
Detect Secret Doors
Identify
Shield
True Strike

...and I can make 3 a day.

That was a lot of haunting!

After today's impressive Kingmaker posts, I hope that we can match it with an equally productive Carrion Crown day.

A minute isn't that bad and I can't see us needing to find secret doors or identifying magic items in a hurry so I'd suggest prepare the Cure Light Wounds and then leave the other two open. It seems to me that one of the greatest strengths of the Alchemist is their ability to quickly prepare their extracts in the field so I say take advantage of that.

That's a good point. I suppose if I'm going to prepare anything ahead of time, just stuff like True Strike or Shield or CLW or other "oh crap! combat!" extracts should be my main candidates.

I like the paranoia that is setting in.

Just what I was going for.

Or was it...

Sorry that I have been relatively light on updates. It's been a crazy week. I had a hostage situation that turned into a major drug bust (illegal steroids, cocaine, ecstacy, some meth and other stuff), a rolling stolen vehicle that ended up yielding an aggravated robbery suspect (not for the vehicle, but for one that the driver had committed earlier in the day; he had reported it stolen a few months back but forgot to report it recovered), a major accident in which one car was basically annihilated, and filing some warrants on a gang member who punched an 11-year-old who was trying to defend his mother from the suspect's threats.

And that's just the last 48 hours.

I'll get things all caught up, all caught up.

Good heavens, man! No worries, for sure; keep your city safe, we can wait. ^_^

But also; yikes! What a crazy couple of days.