Chronicling is just an on going narrative of action, which allows the players to go back and read the story without reading through all the posts to get there.
Often a PbP dungeon crawl can take weeks or months of RL time to complete, and by the time you emerge, many have forgotten why they went in there in the first place (especially if you play in multiple games). The chronicler just re-tells the story in narrative form on a Google Word Document that anyone can read (or edit, if they like). It doesn't have to be updated daily, in fact it may take a week for a sentence of narrative to play out.
"The party arrived in Sandpoint and met each other for the first time" may cover 100+ posts...
I do have a Loot Tracker form, as a Google Doc. We can link it to the top margin if it looks like what you'd like to use, or you can link it to your stat block.
LOOT sheet stickied. See first line of my profile.
You guys doing ok so far? If you've played RotRL before you probably recognize I am not starting at the usual place but introducing the town, some of it's places and NPC's instead. If not, enjoy the town, there's lots of places to go and look around, so make yourselves at home.
If you have constructive criticism on the game etc, I am all ears. I want you to enjoy it after all.
I'm loving it so far, Doc. The extra effort is really appreciated, especially the prose. Methinks, I need to step my game up.
Also I would like to volunteer to do the Party Chronicle. I can get started with what we have this weekend. At this point there won't be much to it, but all the same.
So far so good, I can tell you and Sandpoint are old friends and establishing setting does a huge amount to improve the game. The stuff written in the book can get started when it gets started.
I'm happy even if there was some confusion about the feedbag but that was us screwing up.
Hey, guys, this is the Campaign Log. I'll leave the link on my character sheet, but you might want to bookmark it anyway.
Love it! Really great idea.
Thanks for the effort. I know from experience that as we get into complicated weeks long combat, players tend to forget some of the prior happenings.
This system should give everyone a quick place to look back to.
I love that there were 16 posts for me to read when I got to check the thread tonight! Awesome! Hope you are having fun so far. We'll get to the combat soon, I promise...
Yep. Many spectacles. Sorry for confusion.
Glad it helped. It was an awesome dice moment, for sure!
Judging by my rolls he'll be out by round 3 if he can't take me out before that. Oh yeah and DM Beromar will always be taking two attacks per round due to flurry!
I've just finished updating the campaign log. I have to say, I've actually enjoyed working on it. If you think I left out something important just let me know.
kudos on the recap. I like that it has pictures and links. nice touches!
Wow nicely done!
Very cool!
ONe of the classic scenes from Pathfinder is about to play out, but first I need a description of how you are armed and armored. I want you to consider OOC that you went out for a festival not a military campaign. I am guessing most of you would've left heavy armor and many weapons behind. (a few of you did tell what you left the Dragon with, but please repeat for me.)
Good luck, and godspeed!
My character has no armor on, and only his silver mace for a weapon. I'm hoping to scrounge up some gear as I go. Thankfully, being a support character, I can hang back a bit and use my spells and powers.
My armor class has been adjusted in the Stats line to AC 14. There's even an asterisk there to remind me it's been adjusted.
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Loges has readied himself prior to leaving the Inn.
He then readies himself for what is sure to be a splendid day filled with diversions not to be found at school.
He packs his tiny possessions into his pack and slings it over his should.
He then speaks a cantrip, waving his hand over his robes, cleaning them and changing the color to match a more appropriate Varisian style.
He wonders down to the common room to enjoy some breakfast before venturing out.
If you were to press a rogue from a mold he'd look like Viro. Explorer's outfit, leather armour, rapier/shortsword, a bow, and some standard adventuring gear. He's always 'dressed to work'.
Unarmed but wearing Chainshirt underneath his clothes. No good Dwarf would leave home without it...
Just a quick couple of notes about combat since we are entering our first real fight.
1) We will use maps for combat. Link is at top margin. You should have ability to move your own token, but please use an arrow to mark your movement path, in case any AoO's or other effects need to be considered.
2) I will roll initiatives, and post the order, as you have seen.
3) you need not wait until your initiative count to post your actions! In this format, we need to move the action along every chance we get. Post anyway, and I will re-summarize in order. If your actions are dependent on something else to happen, use an "if/then" format or give a secondary action. If your intended action becomes not applicable due to something else happening, I'll ask you to re-post, always erring on the side of the players. In PBP, waiting until your count to give actions will slow us down dramatically!
4) If you cast or use a special effect etc, link the ability as best you can, please. It saves me having to look it up. Eventually, I'll get used to your common tactics, but for now give me a break and link it.
5) In my games, taking common monsters below zero HP kills them (unless they have a special ability like ferocity), no need to go around butchering unconscious corpses. Channeling energy around a bunch of dead goblins will not make them rise from the grave (it may aid wounded ones however). If you want to bring back a "dead" monster for interrogation purposes, or if the enemy is a key NPC, they will usually have the same death rules as PC's (bleeding and stabilized, etc).
6) No critical fumbles. I'll make the encounters challenging enough without worrying about dropping your weapon 5% of the time. Critical hits still follow Core rules.
Have fun, and kick some ass!
I finally had a chance to update the map from this morning. Man, today was a busy day.
Campaign Log has been updated.
Hey,guys, I'm considering a single level dip in Ranger. It'd be nice to use a longbow and unlock some class skills. If I do it early enough it shouldn't affect my casting too much. What do you think?
From a mechanical perspective you should never dip out of a casting class. You will regret it level 3 at the latest once you miss out on second level spells.
If you do go ranger go trapper ranger to pick up trap finding.
Fair enough. I'll put it off at least until 4th level. And at that point, I can revisit the issue. Trapper is a good idea though.
It doesn't really matter when you dip it always hurts a full caster. But I know where you're coming from. To me the Cleric Class feels kind of empty as basically all you have is full casting and Channel. Compared to the Oracle who has 4+INT skills and a way better skill list and equally powerful casting plus revelations (imo on a whole better than 2 domains) I feel like they could have at the very least allotted the Cleric a better list of Class skills.
If you want to pick up some extra skill proficiencies go for the additional traits feat, but really two skill proficiencies for a feat seems like a lame trade off.
If the DM allows it you might get more joy from rebuilding as an Oracle, also mechanically stronger for halflings.
Nah. I actually like the flexibility of a cleric. That's not to say Oracles aren't fun. And Bruin is not exactly rocking the high charisma anyway.
I can just tough it out for now.
Campaign Log has been updated.
Nice updates. I like the links and pictures. Thanks again for volunteering!
::shuffles big hairy feet::
Aww, shucks.
It's been no problem. Kind of fun actually. Eventually the top will be a "Road So Far" a la Supernatural where I have a cliff notes version of the story. And then underneath will be the various books of the AP in more detail.
Sorry I have been away so long, been on the road with limited to non-existent (depending on the hotel) internet access.
Will be back with you tomorrow (tonight is RL game). It appears we have lost our Druid for real, so not sure if you want to continue with 4 (as the AP is designed) or if you want to go fishing for another.
Olywnn will exit after the fight is done.