I've really been enjoying it, too. Thanks for playing along. A minor couple of missteps along the way, but I'm learning. :-)
I can post frequently due to my job as well. I'm out Alot and use my iPhone almost as much as my PC. :)
Good advice, I like it. And it wasn't too late to change it. Thanks. :-)
Yeay! Over 100 in-game posts already, and with the same set of characters we started with. And we've only been playing ten days. I'm hoping this bodes well for the future of the adventure. :-)
Cool. A milestone. Let's keep it up.
Sorry for the slowdown this week, but work had been extremely hectic last week and probably will be so next week as well.
But that being said, here's wishing everyone a happy holiday season.
Happy Holidays all!
Yes, I hope everybody enjoys their holidays. :-)
Thx :)
And same, some slowdown to my posting this weekend due to holiday gatherings and rounds to make. :)
Happy new year, gang! Looking forward to more CC goodness.
5 hours to go on this side of the date line, well not really side as the centre. ;-) Happy New Year and Best Wishes to you all. :-)
Cool that you were able to use our avatars for the map. Feels like you're using a mini.
Thanks, I'm glad you like the results. I'm using Adobe Photoshop to create the maps -- just lots of layers and transparency effects. :-)
The mapping is the only thing holding me back from running a PbP myself. I'm ok with photo editing software, well enought to get by (I use the last version of CorelPhotoimpact, formerly Ulead iirc), butI love the cleanliness of your map along with the lighting. It shows a pretty accurate range of vision.
Is this easy to do?
The other thing is paizo's maps. You could only enlarge them south before they get pixelated. How do you keep them so clear?
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If I could do maps like yours, I'd probably make time to run a PbP myself. Good Stuff, Scar! :)
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If you're using windows, I suggest trying Paint.net. It's free/open source and fairly easy to use, and can do many of the things you can do with Photoshop. Certainly enough to do nice map effects like Scarogoth is doing. It also can smoothly enlarge maps without pixelation pretty well.
If you're not using windows, try GIMP. It's not as user friendly, but very powerful and has even more features.
Thanks :)
I'm on windows 7 atm.
Alessa's dice are hot as of late. :)
Hello, sorry about slow down -- one or two things at work. Shall hopefully have a chance to put a post together this evening or tomorrow.
Are we still in business?
Hopefully so. Scarogoth said it would be a slow campaign. I'm assuming he must have periods where he gets really busy and bogged down. I think he said he was a teacher. Maybe he's grading some really big assignment or something.
Very accurate assessment! Work is manic. Apologies, the delay is because the next post needs a lot of crafting, and I've just had no time. Please be just a little patient, and I'll try and get something up soon.
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Holy crud - I hadn't actually looked a the material component for that spell. I can't believe it actually costs as much to cast as to buy the stuff - that severely limits what I was intending to do with this character (it's one of only two 1st level spells I get).
Well shoot. I may have to re-think things. I wish I had known that when I was putting this character together.
We lose Cassie?
Unfortunately now my work has gone crazy. everything should be back to normal starting next week but my posting rate will be waaay down until then. I'll try to get something up tomorrow.
Holy crud - I hadn't actually looked a the material component for that spell. I can't believe it actually costs as much to cast as to buy the stuff - that severely limits what I was intending to do with this character (it's one of only two 1st level spells I get).
Well shoot. I may have to re-think things. I wish I had known that when I was putting this character together.
You could ask Scarogoth if you can adjust your spell list. I'm sure he wouldn't mind. He seems like an easy going guy. Bless Water is expensive. It's probably another one of those balance issues with money generation over power. They didn't want some clever player making tons of holy water and selling it. Even at half price, they could make a killing if they didn't put a pricing restriction on it. I think that's what made them include the expensive component that made it the same price as purchasing holy water from a merchant.
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You could ask Scarogoth if you can adjust your spell list. I'm sure he wouldn't mind. He seems like an easy going guy. Bless Water is expensive. It's probably another one of those balance issues with money generation over power. They didn't want some clever player making tons of holy water and selling it. Even at half price, they could make a killing if they didn't put a pricing restriction on it. I think that's what made them include the expensive component that made it the same price as purchasing holy water from a merchant.Holy crud - I hadn't actually looked a the material component for that spell. I can't believe it actually costs as much to cast as to buy the stuff - that severely limits what I was intending to do with this character (it's one of only two 1st level spells I get).
Well shoot. I may have to re-think things. I wish I had known that when I was putting this character together.
Yeah - I understand their reason for doing it - but it sucks, and makes the spell almost worthless. GM, you mind if I adjust my spell list? Unless you're willing to DRASTICALLY reduce the component cost of the spell, I'm just never going to use it.
You could ask Scarogoth if you can adjust your spell list. I'm sure he wouldn't mind. He seems like an easy going guy. Bless Water is expensive. It's probably another one of those balance issues with money generation over power. They didn't want some clever player making tons of holy water and selling it. Even at half price, they could make a killing if they didn't put a pricing restriction on it. I think that's what made them include the expensive component that made it the same price as purchasing holy water from a merchant.Holy crud - I hadn't actually looked a the material component for that spell. I can't believe it actually costs as much to cast as to buy the stuff - that severely limits what I was intending to do with this character (it's one of only two 1st level spells I get).
Well shoot. I may have to re-think things. I wish I had known that when I was putting this character together.
Yes, but even given that logic the most I could see would be 25gp for components since that would be the break even point (50%) for selling an item.
Good to have you back, Van. RL always comes first for me, I was just wondering if this PbP was losing steam. I've read posts that more than a few PbP disintegrate early.
I know it's typical for PbP, to have an always varying frequency of posting (tends to slow down on weekends too). I was just checking. :)
It is 25 gold per casting.
Maybe Paizo made it over half-price to keep it from being too abundant for low level characters when it is most powerful. At low level it is fairly effective against skeletons, zombies, and other low level undead. It's an AoE weapon on top of the 1d6 to the main target with a touch attack. Pretty potent at our level, but almost worthless when it easily affordable.
It is 25 gold per casting.
Maybe Paizo made it over half-price to keep it from being too abundant for low level characters when it is most powerful. At low level it is fairly effective against skeletons, zombies, and other low level undead. It's an AoE weapon on top of the 1d6 to the main target with a touch attack. Pretty potent at our level, but almost worthless when it easily affordable.
Yeah, My bad. For some reason I had holy water cost 50gp stuck in my mind. That's what I get for posting before I've had my morning cuppa. In my opinion the material cost should only 12.5 gp's then.
I'm happy for Shanoa to adjust her spell list, if you wanted. On the other hand, it's not like silver dissolves in water... so if you needed 5lbs of silver to make holy water, I reckon you'd still have 4.99lbs of it at the end of the process! But Xavian is right -- you did already pick up six vials between the four of you in the vault, so perhaps another spell might be better.
I think, incidentally, you all deserve another 100XP each for researching some more about the prison and its inmates.
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Well part of my initial concept of this character was heavily dependent on the holy water - I figured she'd keep a bunch of them on-hand due to her fear of the undead and imagined her walking along with them clinking happily at her side. So if you're saying I can cast the spell without spending exorbitant amounts of gold each time, I'll do that. Otherwise I'll just pick a new spell.
I prefer concepts to rules. Where 5lbs of silver could hide itself inside a pint of water is rather beyond me! So you bought that once, but can now reuse it. :-) hope no one else is too bothered by that.
No. I don't care. Like I said, holy water is fairly powerful at level 1 and 2 when fighting things like skeletons and zombies. It is fairly useless at higher level past 4 or 5. Even at 3-4 your often better off swinging a weapon. It's highest impact is as a splash weapon at low level. The only danger is the commerce part which I don't think Shanoa will be abusing.
It would be cool if they made a series of holy water spells or a class that could super charge holy water. 2d4 points won't be too bad at our level. But it would be cool if holy water were more useful at higher level.
Apologies, but I'm going to withdraw from this PbP while it's still new. It's really going much slower than I thought it would. :/
Thanks for having me along.
So is this over or we going to find a new person?
Sorry to hear that. I'm not sure what to do -- I don't wait for everyone to post and I get told off, and then I wait to post after everyone's commented, and that doesn't seem right either. I have been busy with work, it's true -- but I thought I'd done enough to keep it bubbling along, but perhaps not. I also can't help but notice Cassandra is now running this adventure as GM with a high posting rate, so I rather imagine she's fed up with me as well.
Well, I guess it's come to a end, then, if we're two down. I'm sorry for any disappointment-- I did genuinely start this with the best of intentions.
No one told anyone off. The pace slowed to a crawl with a smattering of posts every few days.
It did, and I take responsibility for that, though back in the day when this was Yahoo groups, I seem to remember much more inter-character play without input from the DM. I think the adventures were much more linear, though. This has been rather freer form than I think I expected.
I think we did quite a bit of interaction given the circumstances. But there wasn't much to talk to each other about. Maybe that might have become different after a few sessions or adventures together, but at this point we were focused on the task. Nothing we can do about that with each other.
Oh well. Happens to quite a few campaigns. In general people want a post a day or every two days at the most. I don't think a campaign will survive with less.
I'd still like to record thanks to everyone for playing along as much as you did. I enjoyed it when it was going well. If I do this again, I think I'll try something more structured, old fashioned dungeon sort of thing. This AP lark has too many sections that are implied rather than specific, and with my teaching and marking level going through the roof, I don't have the time to craft the responses you all need and deserve. So I guess it's so long and thanks for all the fish time. I expect I'll see some of you around. Live long and prosper whilst we're at it... ;-)
Thanks for trying, Scarogoth. I enjoyed your posts. Very well written and enjoyable to read. Would have been fun to see the narrative to its end. And I liked my character. Fit well with the AP. Hopefully see you in something else.