DM Fang Dragon’s Ruins of Adventure (Inactive)

Game Master FangDragon

I'm flying on business to Canada for 10 days, so there will be a couple of days I can't post (although the hotel and the office will have WiFi). Still with all the forum downtime nobody will notice anyway...

I'm tired tonight, will update tomorrow.

Apologies, but We have a wedding to attend tonight. As such, I shall catch up on my games tomorrow.

OK so basically you have the rest of the day to do whatever you like, and tomorrow afternoon there will be another meeting. I'll write something up for Azarra soon.

You don't have to write anything for me if you don't want to... just want to make sure no one tried to execute them again, and that they are actually going to have a chance at a life. :)

Ishta is going to research a bit on how to deal with the active wards in the library, as it seems pretty probable they'll end up going there the next day. If a spell is needed, she'll look for someone who might sell it in scrolls (maybe she'll learn it herself from the scroll, or from her own notes if we level up).

She's totally in favor of financing a place for orphans to stay, dedicating a portion of their earnings to it. Or of her earnings, at least. Children about to be sacrificed by orcs was a situation that has touched her, with motives.

Some solitude is a worthwhile reward for a day of slaughter.

All, I've been trying to compile the loot from the Temple of Bane portion of our adventure. I don't see a loot list for the Croc-Men that we defeated, nor the first batch of half-orcs that we encountered. I don't know that we said we searched them, either, for that matter.

For the last two big bads that we faced, I know I wrote that we searched them, but I think we moved on before the loot was listed. FangDragon, can you tell me what they had on them?

Thanks!

Lathander bless your diligence.

The croc-men didn't really have much loot on them apart from shredded clothing and two unholy symbols of bane. The half orcs had quite a lot which I totally forgot to use against you.

scroll of cure moderate wounds, wand of burning hands (CL 5th, 9 charges), alchemist’s fire (3), tanglefoot bag; Other Gear chain shirt, dagger, masterwork club, cloak of resistance +1, belt pouch, manacles (2), silver holy symbol, spell component pouch, 2 gp
Betty (+1 bardiche), light crossbow with 20 bolts, scale mail
potion of spider climb, scrolls of cat’s grace (2), scroll of slow, acid, tanglefoot bag; Other Gear light crossbow with 10 bolts, masterwork spear, bracers of armor +1, collection of dolls’ heads, 28 gp
+1 human–bane arrows (2), +1 orc–bane arrow, potion of cure moderate wounds; Other Gear +1 chain shirt, shortbow with 20 arrows, trident, anchor feather token, wooden holy symbol, 256 gp

Mace had this: +1 breastplate, masterwork heavy mace, cloak of resistance +1, holy symbol, 736 gp

The final half-orcs had this: +1 breastplate, +1 whips, +1 battleaxe

All in all you made a good haul there, which thanks to von Urslingen isn't getting taxed.

I was intending to move us forward but I've had a headache all day and I think I'll get an early night. Besides you might want to go shopping with the previous post in mind. NB you're pretty close to leveling, and I expect that'll happen mid adventure next - so something to bear in mind.

Holy Loot, Batman!

Sorry to hear that, I hope it passes soon. I'll be gone most of tomorrow, but I'll try and check in tomorrow night! :)

Alrighty, I think I have everything in the loot log. Looks like if we sell everything, everyone gets 5,876 gp & 8 sp. I would personally like to keep the Headband of Inspired Wisdom +2 and just remove 2,000 gp from my total, if no one minds.

I really don't mind. Primary stat boosters should be cherished. You have my blessing ;3

Sounds wise to me!

If no one opposes, I would like to do the same with the Headband of Intellect. Are you ok with it, Kardas, or do you want to keep it yourself? I have already a high Int.

I'll add up then the rest to what I already got and see what I can get with it.

Edit: Which skill does the headband bonify?

Apparently it's supposed to be a random knowledge skill by default according to the item description.

1=Arcana
2=Dungeoneering
3=Engineering
4=Geography
5=History
6=Local
7=Nature
8=Nobility
9=Planes
10=Religion

1d10 ⇒ 9

It grants Kn:Planes

NB I'm allowing retraining rules if you wish to train out of the ranks you have in Kn:Planes.

We also have 2 +1 Cloaks of Resistance. I'd personally like one of those, as well, but I think Azarra, Ser Armithia, and Kardas should have first crack if Ishta and I get the headbands.

Also, there are a few healing potions in there, as well. Should we hold onto them, or nay?

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Take it, Ish. I already claimed a +1 sword before *and* anything that makes me hit harder and better is more beneficial than an +int bump.

I think.

I already got myself a cloak of resistance +1, but we really need to get everyone into one of those so, please, pick one up. Saves are so darn important r_r

My saves are good, so Zane and Azarra, as she is in melee enough to get targeted.
I shall go shopping tonight...lol.

I'll take one of the cloaks. I don't think that you guys/we need to donate money to use something though... let's just use what we can, and divide the rest. Just it still belongs to the party, so if we can't use something anymore, we pass it on or sell it and divide it at that point. I don't want anyone to feel like they can't use a valuable item because they don't have enough gold to give to the rest of us. Does that make sense?

I'm in agreement with that logic, as I think we had discussed previously (and I forgot all about). I'll remove the cloaks, headbands, and potions from the total.

Update: 4,651 gp 8 sp for everyone

Alright, I agree.

My shopping will consist of a Lesser Metamagic Rod of Selective Spell (3000 gp). No more including Ser Armithia on my cones! :) Also a cracked Dusty Rose Prism Ioun Stone (500 gp).

Let me know if any of those are approved.

Are approved? Is approved? Damn, I always forget these grammar rules...

Yes both items are available.

Somehow I failed to register we found a +1 chain shirt, but Kardas would love to take that if possible. It would put a 650gp dent in the party split - 130gp each - so as not to throw a wrench in everyone's current spending plans, I'll account for that loss.

As in, I'll 'buy' it for 520gp, giving every party member 130 gold. My bad, I should've really noticed that it was in the loot pool. It still leaves Kardas with a little over 5000 to spend, so really, don't feel bad :)

I hope that's alright.

I’ll just take 130 gold off my sheet to account for it. You’re welcome to it!

And Ser Armithia being a devastating maelstrom of justice surrounded in multi-colored lights is a good visual, I think!

Multicolored lights?

4521.8gp to spend....anything for my AC, i am thinking...lol.

Ring of Protection+1
DeathWatch Eyes

Awesome, so the 'cost' is down to 260 now. Will continue working with that number until/when Azarra and Ish confirm they're cool with it as well.

I'm cool with wherever you do, guys. You've been kind enough to bear with a (bad) blaster at low levels, what else could I ask for?

I disagree with that statement, but alright! :D

Yeah, I am cool with it, deducting from total.

Can I buy Bracers of Archery? (The lesser kind that is $5,000.) Would those be available? Then maybe I could use a longbow or even an orc hornbow and get a little more range and damage.

Going to upgrade my MW Heavy Mace to +1 for 2,000 gp, if that's ok. Also buy a Ring of Protection +1 for another 2,000 gp. Finally, since there's no official temple to Lathander in Phlan at the moment, the cause of the orphaned children getting a second chance will take the place of Zane's tithe, and he will entrust 500 gp to either Councilor Von Urslingen, or to Azarra if the man declines, for the care and disposition of the children.

Civilized Phlan currently qualifies as a small city so items up to 4000gp are available. 5000g is above that so it'll have a lower chance say 50% (rolling high is good).

1d100 ⇒ 16 Looks like no sorry, but the city will grow as a result of your actions which will raise the cap.

Oh, since I can't buy the bracers anyway, I should also give to the orphanage cause. I'll donate 500 gold as well.

Didn't we figure out what it would cost to buy a building earlier? Was it something like 2,000 gold? I can't remember. That might be a good investment, although of course if that is right it seems scary walking around with equipment that is worth more than a house. :)

Other than orphanage investments, since I can't improve my weapon, I think I will buy a lens of detection, which should bump my perception skill up so we can find more treasure, which will help more orphans and people in need. :) That is 3,500 gold, so available, right?

Kardas will buy (with 5455.8gp in his pockets)
-Ring of Protection +1 (2000gp)
-Amulet of Natural Armor +1 (2000gp)
-Pearl of Power level 1 (1000gp)

... leaving him with 455 gold and 8 silver of which he will donate 300 to the orphanage. So, after buying three items and making a donation, he has 155 gold and 8 silver left.

I added it to the loot log and his character page.

Thanks Kardas.

BTW folks let me know if I've got the mix of RP and combat right. I figured we've had quite a lot of back to back combats so a little RPing might be welcomed.

The rules for research are here. The council's archives contain: laws, local history, tax returns, census details, property records, birth and death certificates, other civic records etc... In game terms this means Kn:Local, Kn: History (Phlan), Kn: Geography (Phlan) with a +3 bonus on those. The base DC for checks is 20 due to the Byzantine filing system. It has 18 KP.

Ok, two questions:

a) Do I have to choose which one of those three to roll? What happens if I don't have the knowledge specifically for Plan?

b) Can I hire someone to aid me?

You choose the topic of research and hopefully it will fall into one of the knowledge categories. The library actually lets you make the check untrained, however in practice you may need to take 20 which will take a lot of time. Friar Jenkins has all the knowledge skills so it may be more efficient to hire him - assuming you trust him of course.

Alright, so having Kn: History won't work, I do need Kn: History (Phlan), right? I'm looking for something related to how was the Library protected magically speaking, and how could we overcome the defenses (possible passwords, shortcuts, etc). What should I roll then?

What I wanted to do was let Jenkins research while I also research myself, then hire another one to give me the aid another bonus.

So Jenkins has a +10 Kn:History bonus, and the library provides a +3 circumstance bonus. He's going to make that check pretty easily.

Aid another is also possible untrained using the town hall library.

I don't think that there would be a specialized knowledge history for Phlan (?), but perhaps that is where the Lore skill could come in... that would be the Phlan specialization if you wanted to specialize.

Sorry about this, but life...

I am moving to Texas next week, and won't be able to post for sure Monday-Thursday, and it just depends on what is going on whether I will be able to post the rest of the week. Hopefully will be back up and normal on Monday the 29th latest, since I start my new job that day, so things have to be resolved at least that much.

Please bot me as needed.

Thanks for letting us know :)

Good luck with the move and the new job! Hope everything goes as planned.

Thanks. :)

Indeed, I second the wishing of luck! Hope Texas is to your liking!

I'm also waiting for the Channel Energy resolution before posting my next action.