DM Talomyr's Kingmaker

Game Master Talomyr

I already adjusted Garethane's stat's up by 4 points. I'm still short by 9 stat points. That vampire lady was mean!

Can we retcon a couple d4s from lesser restorations?

Yep.

So is the plan to take the Lizardfolk leader with us, to establish his claim when we take out the wisp?

Ah, that reminds me, the lizardfolk do send a delegate.

Celebeth has been arranging a lot of the back-and-forth with the lizardfolk in Elkmark, and so they decide to saddle her with their representative: Krezzik, an up-and-coming warlord.

Krezzik is a gray-green lizardfolk with a powerful jaw, who carries a shortspear and a shield. He (?) wears leather lamellar armor, a bit more than many lizardfolk warriors. He also carries a drum, and he is an excellent war drummer. He is brusque and straightforward and aggressive, but he also seems to be smart enough to realize that he doesn't want to alienate the group—though he does seem to test the waters of authority from time to time.

Ah, the true path to power and securing your realm...putting loyalists on thrones.

So there's this position in the kingdom-building called viceroy, which is someone who runs a separate vassal kingdom on your behalf...

Oh I think Tove would like that idea. More a union of Greenbelt kingdoms than one homogenous country filled with subdugated tribes...

Oh, if you like that idea, lemme tell you about my plan to have an elven town in the Narlmarches!

Do we have a plan here? I can act as a distraction if need be, or once we get in I can attempt to demoralize everybody.

Is the plan to open the gates and we all charge in? Enter through stealth?

Imma sneak up and knock the gates open.

Okay. That works.

Does anyone else have any plans/readied actions for when Celebeth blasts open the gate with knock?

I guess I'll Taje center stage and challenge then all, attempting to denorailze them all before combat kicks off.

I think I will go invisible and try to sneak in as soon as the gates open, to get around the defenders right away if possible.

Garethane will have Longstrider and Barkskin going. With feral focus of the owl, the hunter will shadow Celebeth.

A bit of bookkeeping: Lesser Restorations: 3d4 ⇒ (2, 4, 4) = 10 All better!

Starting tomorrow, my posting frequency as a DM may fall off a bit as I will be out of town on vacation. I still intend to post, but it will certainly only be once a day.

Welcome back DM! Hope you had a good vacation!

Sorry folks, it has been an exceedingly long day, I'll update tomorrow.

Sorry folks, late night tonight so no update. I'll update the game tomorrow

Hello everybody! Hope y'all are doing well. I thought I'd drop in and see how everything's going. I'm happy to see the game's still moving along.

Hi Terri! We just finished the wisp. Looking forward to more exploring and kingdom building.

Cool! I haven't caught up on the game, yet, but I plan in it soon.

Hi Terri, still chugging along at our glacial pace.

Speaking of that glacial pace, it would seem there is an appetite to continue to explore. Where would you all like to go?

Yeah, I think we could get another hex or two under our belts!

I suggest southeast and maybe explore a bit more around the Tuskwater?

Wherever there is treasure!

Works for me.

Apologies for the lack of posting recently, it’s been a hectic week. Re Garethane’s question Tove’s response would be similar to Celebeth’s. The major threats of the Shaman and the wisp are dealt with. If there are other dissenting voices in the tribe they shouldn’t be too difficult for Vesket to handle internally.

Also happy to travel wherever.

The Hill giant stuff reminds me of this for some reason.

FYI, I am on Christmas break December 16-January 2. I might get on somewhere in there, but the likelihood is not high. I will have zillions of relatives here taking up all my availability. Apologies. Please bot me or have me lapse into a coma or whatever for the duration, and I'll check back in in a couple of weeks.

Happy holidays everyone :)

Happy Holidays!!!

Happy Holidays!

It's funny that it's legitimately a thing

That is funny. Great research. :)

Have we lost our Duchess of Elkmark? I (and I think the rest of you) are waiting on Tove to proceed with how to deal with the giant.

She's certainly had her ups and downs... maybe she's in another downtime with real life messing with things.

I think it's pretty clear we don't want to kill the giant if we don't have to, and maybe wanna strike a deal if possible. Longer-term arrangements will depend on how that plays out anyway, so we can defer that decision.

Yeah that's pretty much it, though Rhiannon won't hesitate if he gets aggressive. But yeah that's pretty much the case.

Same... and okay with fast-forwarding if you just want to narrate that part and move us on to the next hurdle.

Okay, will do after dinner.

Sorry!! I’ve been pretty busy yeah, was meaning to post Monday night and I guess it’s Friday now. Please feel free to fast forward, I think we’re all on the same page about what how we want this to go.

Is our Baroness still with us?

Question time - Are we still interested in continuing?

I am happy to do so, but we have not heard from either Kalaman or Tove in nearly a month. (A month and a half for Tove in the gameplay thread) and Garethane has been absent for two weeks.

I fully recognize that this is a leisurely paced game (to put it generously), but half the party has not posted in two weeks or more.

Thoughts?

I am very eager to keep playing. If we need to shuffle our roster, then so be it. I have a long list of dead games here and every time one collapses I have a sad. :/

I like this game, and would love for it to continue.

It really isn't my call though... I wasn't here in the beginning and even after joining, I left for a while because the person I was replacing came back (temporarily) and I felt like I was stepping on that person's toes, so I am sure I don't get any dedication points. :)

I'm here to back up anyone who wants to stay though, and fully intend to stick with it.

Definitely would like to continue, though we should probably figure this out before engaging an owlbear with only 3 party members.

With the party missing half its membership, tackling this mega-owlbear seems like a losing proposition, and I don't wanna make the DM bot three characters at once!

Yeah, We should probably head back.

I definitely want to continue! Sorry for the extended absence but I should be good to post in gameplay again now. Had a close friend who was going through a real rough patch and it was taking a lot out of me to be there for her. But I’m back! Just catching up on the gameplay thread now.

If we need some replacements, I can think of a couple folks to ask who're still around the boards.

That might be a good call.