Get well! And no worries, you didn't miss much. Things are starting go crazy now :)
Yeah hope you feel better, and glad to have you back.
On a side note I was in a game and the Gm told another player that he was in another game with her and I thought hmm, lets see if I am and low and behold I am. Lilly I am Shara in the Jade Tea Palace game. Just thought that was cool.
Yep! Play enough games and you'll wind up in some overlapping tables! :D
Next week I'll be moving to a new country (and continent) so my life is going to become an uncontrollable mess. I will try to post as often as I can as this serves as a nice outlet but I may not be able to keep the pace of the action. Feel free to use Jaed's abilities the best way you can think of.
Aw man, good luck to you. My wife and I moved across the country a week ago and now are closing on a house. It's a lot, have fun with it.
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Wow! Best of luck! Hope you are safe and happy!
I'm assuming that "the jig is up!" and we are probably not gonna leave these guards in a salvageable condition, and this is our big chance to break into some place deeper in the compound and find actionable evidence. So I'm gonna start blowing through spells and stopping hearts!
Good luck, Jaed (where are you moving, if I may ask?) =)
Also, I share the feeling the gig is up. Let's try and get armour and rest of equipment soon, though.
Good luck with the move! I hope it goes smoothly.
Thank you guys! As you are curious, I'm moving from California to Germany. I also really hope everything goes ok! :)
I apologize for being absent for a while. I had to force-disconnect myself from the internet for a while and it made doing play-by-post games difficult.
However, that is part of the reason for this post. I've realized that I've been putting way too much time into play by posts, and have signed into WAY too many games for me to reasonably handle with my current workload and changes to my life situation. I needed to cut down the number of games I am in, and this one is one of them. I am sorry. I was having fun, but these games were getting to be one of my causes of stress, and that was what tipped things for me. Thank you for the opportunity to play with you all, and I am sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks for letting us know Sato! Hope things get better in the future.
I'll bot Sato until there's a good time to have him run off to do his own thing. This means that at least for the rest of the in-game night, you'll still have access to his various charm abilities.
In other news, for those of you unaware, there seems to be an issue with update notifications. Hopefully it'll be fixed by tomorrow, but I'm guessing it's messing with everybody's ability to see what games have updated.
Notification updates seem to be working again, so hopefully the rest of the party notices and posts actions. Normally I'd just bot them, but I'm honestly kind of uncomfortable doing that for half the players, especially when I know paizo's website has been having issues.
Yeah that notification system through me for a spin there, glad to see it didn't last long and Paizo got it fixed.
Hate to see you go Sato, hope everything gets better for you.
Sad to see you go Sato!
Just a heads up, I'm going to be traveling Saturday through Tuesday, so I may not get much posting in. We'll see though.
I will be camping this weekend and may not have internet. Bot if needed!
Is there anything in particular that anyone wants or doesn't want? Jaed has of the armor I believe. Do we have someone keeping track of all this stuff?
Yes, that studded leather will be very useful for Jaed. Not only because of the +1 but mainly for the lack of armor check penalty.
I can write down the money to divide at the end of the adventure but we probably cannot carry all the rest of the gear. Jaed is already carrying a potion of CLW and a potion of invisibility from the last adventure. He could get an extra one but I don't know if any of you would need them more.
Are the studs made of metal? Because if they aren't Finnrick would look right dashing in some new armor.
Finnrick will be taking 1 mwk rapier, 2 sunrods and a smoke stick. I could use another CLW pot for Millsy, but for now she is just going to stay in the back. It looks like Lilly could use one as well.
The studs are metal, but the text for the special material suggests that studded leather armor is mostly leather, so I'd say a druid could still wear it.
Haven't heard from Artair or Etam for a while. I'm going to send them both a PM, but it doesn't appear like they've posted elsewhere in a while either.
Any opinions on what to do if they've both disappeared? I can continue to bot them all, though that feels a little awkward since it would mean I'm controlling half the party. Or I could write them out and scale everything down for 3 players. Alternatively, I could try to recruit some new players. My one hesitation with that though is that I'm going on vacation for two weeks starting May 24th, and it'd be a shame to recruit new people only to have them disappear while I'm gone and have to do the process all over again (I've seen it happen, though admittedly the absence in question wasn't pre-declared).
Well, I'm ok with any option. It's true that the DM controlling half of the party will probably be weird but it may be easier for you. So, whatever you think is better and it's not going to give you too much extra work. If there is a hiatus in the story that matches your vacation start we could stop there and do the recruiting after that, maybe?
By the way, thank you for the hard work to keep the game running :)
My feelings mirror Jaed's. If we need to pause and reconvene later, we might as well recruit replacements then.
We might hit a natural pause point if we go report in and then we get reinforcements and go back to finish off the temple - though that would be difficult since they'd be on alert and it would be less stealth, more fighting all the cultists!
hi all,
I'm terribly sorry and feel very ashamed about the silence. I think it's very disrespectful on my part to simply disappear without warning, so you have my deepest apologies.
The reason for me falling off the map is that I'm on the last stretch of my thesis, so basically all my waking moments are dedicated to that.
I'm unsure on what to do, to be honest: things will only get worse until I am finished (around the end of june). At the same time, I agree it is weird to have the DM botting Eram for such a long stretch of time (besides, it might give them more work than they might have signed up for and distract them from all the other things a DM needs to keep track of). Perhaps the cleanest (and saddest) solution is indeed for you to open recruitment. Then, after the thesis, I'll keep my eyes open in case you ever need someone else.
I'd say scaling encounters is slightly easier than running a bunch of botted players and also less awkward. Depending on if there's someone you like to keep around in terms of helping round out encounters, I can send the 2-3 botted characters off to "get help". We see how far we get before my vacation, and when I get back I'll do a recruitment to be the help the botted characters went for (Note none of this excludes you from sneaking out yourselves to join them in getting help for yourselves). Thoughts? Would you want to keep one of the bots around or just scale everything to 3 people?
@Etam: Good luck with your thesis! Let us know when you're free again, and we can see how the party is doing in terms of size.
I would like to keep Etam around, I feel like we need him to tank as none of the rest of us really can. Plus I like Etam. Good luck on the thesis. I don't want it to be more work for you though Puppet Master. Perhaps one of us could control Etam. He's pretty straight forward in combat.
Agree, we need a front line fighter. I don't think Jaed would be able to hold by himself for long.
@Etam: Good luck with your thesis. It is hard but it'll be worth it, trust me ;)
@Artair: Were you planning on continuing this game? You posted in gameplay but not here. If you are, you can be the front liner in the group. If you're not, I'll keep an Etam!bot around to help out.
Exhausted from Google I/O. Will try to draft a post on my commute tomorrow, so I'll hopefully have something up before noon PST (or PDT, whichever one it is now).
Sorry, fighting health issues and have not been on. I will try to be more attentive.
Sorry, fighting health issues and have not been on. I will try to be more attentive.
That's ok; we're about to take a break while I'm on vacation anyway.
@All: As I mentioned earlier, I will be traveling/on vacation starting Wednesday May 24th through June 7th. On the 7th or 8th I will make a post in discussion basically saying, "Speak up if you're still around," so make sure to check back on those days (technically, you can do this even if I haven't posted just yet). If we have less than 4 people (or if people say they want to go back up to 6), I'll post a recruitment thread (probably on Sunday June 11th) to refresh our numbers. Recruitment would likely last a week.
Have fun on your vacation! I will most probably continue playing but I will reconfirm when you post again.
I'll keep playing too. And have fun.
Still here! :D
have fun
Ok all, I'm back. Still recovering a little bit but hopefully mostly over my jet lag. Who's still around, so I know how many people to try to recruit?
Still here!
I am here
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Still around.
In the process of getting a recruitment thread up. Will edit this post when done. Looks like we have 3 people still here, though Artair mentioned having issues. I'll give him a bit more time to check in, but I'll be trying to bolster the party back up to 6. I'll post a follow up to Jaed's latest in game post tomorrow, but if you want to wait until recruitment's done to respond, that's fine. In the meantime, go ahead and level all your characters to level 4.
Edit: Recruitment thread up. I told them we're looking for at least 1 frontliner but I left the other 1-2 slots open to whatever. Feel free to post on the thread with any info you think is relevant about your character, especially if you're worried about someone making a character too similar to yours. Recruitment will go on a week. Towards the end of that, I'll ask people to PM me any thoughts they have, and I'll try to take that into consideration. Just be aware that my personal bias is towards the fluff part of submissions because stats sheets start to look more or less the same to me after a while.
I would ask people to PM me thoughts on submissions. But since we only have 1 right now that seems silly. Make sure you've all updated your characters to level 4. If you want me to provide you a stat block, I will (and you can make that easier by telling me what changed between lvl 3 and lvl 4, so I don't have to figure that out myself).
I will introduce the new person(s?) IC either tomorrow or Monday night.
Level 4 necromancer
+1 Intelligence
+1 BAB, +1 Will save
+5 hit points (favored class)
Skills: +1 Heal, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (history), Knowledge (planes), Knowledge (religion), Perception, Spellcraft; Craft (alchemy), Profession (mortician)
New spells: knock, scare
We leveled up. Hurray. I get some cool stuff. Does it take effect immediately or do we have to wait for a rest?
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I am a bit busy moving to a new apartment right now but I'll level up Jaed asap. It will probably take me a couple of days, though.
You get the benefits immediately. I'll also put up a gameplay post tonight introducing your new members.
@Lily, here's your lvl 4 stat block. Though honestly, yours looks better than what's outputted by Hero Lab, so you might not want to use it.
Elf necromancer 4
CG Medium humanoid (elf)
Init +3; Senses low-light vision; Perception +12
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Defense
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AC 13, touch 13, flat-footed 10 (+3 Dex)
hp 22 (4d6+4)
Fort +1, Ref +4, Will +6; +2 vs. enchantments
Immune sleep
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Arcane School Spell-Like Abilities (CL 4th; concentration +9)
8/day—grave touch (2 rounds)
Necromancer Spells Prepared (CL 4th; concentration +9)
Opposition Schools Enchantment, Illusion
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Statistics
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Str 10, Dex 16, Con 10, Int 21, Wis 14, Cha 13
Base Atk +2; CMB +2; CMD 15
Feats Greater Spell Focus (necromancy), Scribe Scroll, Spell Focus (necromancy), Turn Undead
Traits caretaker, seeker
Skills Climb +1, Craft (alchemy) +12, Heal +10, Knowledge (arcana) +12, Knowledge (history) +10, Knowledge (nature) +11, Knowledge (planes) +12, Knowledge (religion) +9, Perception +12, Profession (Mortician) +9, Spellcraft +12 (+14 to identify magic item properties), Swim +1; Racial Modifiers +2 Perception, +2 Spellcraft to identify magic item properties
Languages Celestial, Common, Draconic, Elven, Gnome, Orc, Sylvan
SQ arcane bond (object), elven magic, power over undead
Other Gear 3,000 gp
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Special Abilities
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Arcane Bond Use object to cast any spell in your spellbook. Without it, Concentration required to cast spells (DC20 + spell level).
Elven Immunities - Sleep You are immune to magic sleep effects.
Elven Magic +2 to spellcraft checks to determine the properties of a magic item.
Enchantment You must spend 2 slots to cast spells from the Enchantment school.
Grave Touch (2 rounds, 8/day) (Sp) As a standard action, touch shakes living foe 2 rds (frighten 1 rd if already shaken).
Greater Spell Focus (Necromancy) +1 to the Save DC of spells from one school.
Illusion You must spend 2 slots to cast spells from the Illusion school.
Low-Light Vision See twice as far as a human in dim light, distinguishing color and detail.
Necromancy The dread and feared necromancer commands undead and uses the foul power of unlife against his enemies.
Spell Focus (Necromancy) Spells from one school of magic have +1 to their save DC.
Turn Undead (DC 13) (Su) Receive Command Undead or Turn Undead as a bonus feat.
How do we do hit points? I can't remember
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Hi. I'm new. Nice to meet you all. I read through most of your adventure so far. Interesting stuff. :)
Also, Uthraed, in the recruitment thread we were told this:
"HP: Max 1st level. Future levels are rolled or half HD + 1 if that's higher"
I am guessing that is the same for you guys that were here before. :)
Thanks, That's what I thought but wanted to make sure. I just did the stats for Finnrick and Millsy. So I should be ready to go.