I do 90% of posts from my phone. You kinda get used to it after a while. :
*Edit: new page! W00t!
I could get a post in easily, but it wouldn't be a good one. I'm trying to get my thoughts in place and actually write up a good post. And I think my phone hates me - the touchpad keeps going nuts. I'll keep trying.
GAH! Couldn't post until just now and I log on to find almost 60 posts to read. SIXTY!
Ah, well. I'll be trying to get a post up in a little while. I still need to read the Gameplay thread. AS for getting things started. I'm probably going to skip ahead to tonight and then after that we'll get the ball rolling for real. So call it sometime next week? I hope that's not too long for you. I mainly wanted everyone to get a feel for their characters before I got started.
I think the general feeling is if we go much longer we'll run out if material for the real campaign, so I'm all for getting this ball rolling Indiana Jones style. :D
Alright apologies if the post coming up is not up to snuff.
I have plenty of material since Noro is most likely not going to be the social one
I forget who mentioned something about leaving nothing for the campaign, but I got the impression that people were using more of their character progression material than expected. Apologies if that was in error.
Oh, don't worry. I can give you lots more material if needed.
*grins evilly*
Sorry if we're going too fast for you, GM! >.>
Once the AP starts, I think I'll be able to keep up much better than now. As it is, I"m only able to post for a few hours each night during the week, so things can get a little over whelming. I can keep up, but I'm worried about slowing all of you down since I said that I'd prefer to play the NPC's I introduce.
On that note, I better get back to work on the next bit for both my games.
Well, at the moment we're just playing around. Once we have a big shiny plot to follow that can't advance without you, we'll probably have to slow down. :P
I won't be able to post just yet. I need to get through all the reading. I will post in a couple hours.
'Ey, GM. Just a question regarding bard spells. The CRB states that "every bard spell has a verbal component (singing, reciting, or music)". Does this mean spells that usually have somatic components don't, or just that spells that don't usually have verbal components do when cast by a bard? Also, does it have to be a particular word/phrase/set of musical notes each time the spell is cast, or can you improv, as long as you're providing a verbal component?
I know that the last bit doesn't really make a lick of difference game-wise, I just want to know for role-play reasons.
Honestly, I'm fine with whatever as long as you're not trying to do something like a true rez using a 1 cp kazoo. If the material component is greater than the limit set by the Eschew Materials feat, then you need the component. To me, somatic and verbal components aren't that much different, so it really doesn't matter.
Now, if you try casting spells while gagged and bound, I'm going to ask for some die rolls.
Better learn percussion performance styles, just for those situations.
Good idea, Thirzin. Would banging one's head against the ground count as the required verbal component? :p
Or stamping your foot in time, maybe. I mean, river dance is percussive.
Don’t worry about the ‘run away’ thing, Saroune. After all, dying does tend to, erm, impede one’s ability to perform ‘thrilling heroics’. Durkon’s recent antics notwithstanding. :S You’ll have your chance soon enough. ;)
And as soon as Olivius finds out you're a Mage you'll become co-protectee #1 right alongside Pavanna. :)
Rules query: assuming you use your normal move and standard actions in a combat round, can you take both a swift action and a free action as well? Or does using a swift action consume your free for the round? I’m having a little trouble navigating the rules forum to find an answer....
One each of move, standard and swift. Frees are a seperate thing and you cane take several.
Thanks for clearing that up. ;) The Combat chapter of the CRB is one of those things I’ve always been meaning to read in detail, but every time I make time, a new shipment in my AP sub arrives.... :S
Oh, man. My subscriptions never have the decency to wait until I've finished all my reading. *sigh*
I'm off to work, and I won't be back for about nine hours. Try not to move too far without me, please? ;-)
fair notice to all...
I will be offline starting early Friday morning till sometime Sunday Evening so Noro will be wherever Noro's go when not beating up bad guys
all times are EST (USA)
What's the plan, are we still fighting or are we going to run?
also, Pavanna, are the two thugs surrounding you still up? If you need help I can easily get to you and assist.
I'm trying diplomacy. The bard wants some answers, damnit!
@ Akisame: by initiative order, Victoria’s charge at Thug #5 comes before anything you might do about him, so while he and Thug #4 have Pavanna flanked, they both have their hands full. Besides, after the way he just got stuck, Thug #4 might be thinking about pulling a quick fade
EDIT: if you want to foil Thug #4’s escape and put him in a full-nelson until the authorities/we can interrogate him, be my guest. ;) That said, I think Noro might need the help more urgently.
@ Horatio: Diplomacy is more than welcome, but what are we going to say? Pavanna would want to go with the truth — ‘We ran into Noro earlier, then a friend told us about this fight and asked us to watch Noro’s back’ — but I don’t know how well that’s going to go over. :S
"We had reason to believe this fight was rigged, so we came along to make sure our friend wasn't beaten to death under the pretense of a fair fight"? "We know this is an illegal pit fight, so we've conveniently got the guy running it hiding in a corner over there for your questioning"? "We were attacked by armed thugs without provocation"? I don't know; I just know that the only way out is past whoever spoke, and if I go in melee I'll probably die, so yeah, talking is pretty much the only real option I've got.
All good arguments to make — though calling Noro a ‘friend’ to either Pavanna or Horatio just yet might be stretching the truth a touch. ;) Here’s hoping whoever-it-is is in a mood to listen. It’d be awkward to start the AP from a jail-cell. :-/
"I'm keeping an eye on her because the woman I'm trying to seduce asked me to" isn't quite as good an argument. :P If Diplomacy fails, I have great Bluff, too. If that fails I have fascinate. If that fails, I'm out of ideas, and I say we hack our way out. XD
Call me a stick-in-the-mud, but I’d rather we exhaust all other options before we cut down any cops. (Well, assuming that’s who it is; the DM hasn’t said, yet.)
Think it was down for everyone. I thought my 'net was just being temperamental, until I saw a lot of people asking questions on the FB page.
Yeah. I tried to get on all night to no avail.
I'll wait my turn to do something.
Hmmm. Seems my new post count isn't updating automatically. That's inconvienient.
Bleh... I'm officially confused enough that I'm just wiping everything from the last end of round post forward. Olivius is still unharmed because I didn't remember the Bull Rush rules right, and he's atop the pile of crates with a clear view of the dozen guardsmen filing in. One more round and then we'll move on. (Although I'm sure that you guys would have won, I'm just regretting the decision to do this off the cuff, though it does establish someone's character.)
Also, everyone gets a free redo for this round if they want. See the game post for the new Initiative count. If you want to keep your action, right click the time-stamp and pick copy link address and paste it in a link tag.
{url=http://paizo.com/campaigns/DMSalsaPresentsRiseOfTheRunelords/discussio n&page=5#239}Like this{/url}
Just use [] instead of {}
of course noro made the tactical faux pas of trying to trick Gluck she was unconscious. if she stayed standing Gluck would be toast.
Next round Olivius is going to be all over that beast, if the cops don't break us up.
@ DM: Well, I did well enough that I’ll keep the ‘old’ version of my turn. Still no move action, but I can’t think of anything to do with it that won’t see me eat one or more AoO’s. :rolleyes:
@ everyone else: I kept getting ‘site unreachable’ pages yesterday, from when I first tried at 11:55a.m. through to when I finally managed to post almost seven hours later (all NZ time, of course). Vexing as all hell. :S
You weren't alone. I was afraid I was going to finally get it to come up then see a (274 unread) next to everything
I just kept getting "The server is busy" messages all day. When I could actually get back on, it was a beautiful feeling...
Gen Con started yesterday, right? I think the poor server just got hammered.
If you're right, then that would explain everything.
I think Thirzin and Olivius could get along swimmingly. And we need a good 'ol bromance to balance out all this wooing of the ladies. :P
The bromance of destroying stuff? Sounds good to me!
I gots me a real live game at a table with living people at it and everything tonight. so I won't be posting much.