Noonan - while I appreciate your enthusiasm... asking if you knew anyone interested =/= reopen open recruitment. Those sorts of decisions should be and are mine to make as DM, and I don't really appreciate them being made without consultation.
That said - cat is out of bag... so I'll roll with it, but please ask either here or via PM next time.
My apologies
Gear bought
Longspear 5 gp 1d8 x3 damage brace/reach
No worries Noonan - and no issues with the purchase.
Uhm, hello? I don't want to barge in, it is just, I have it heard there is a need for gladiators around here.
I used to have a Retiarius (trident/net guy) in an ill-fated 3.5 game once. So I could help out with him. If that's okay with you.
Hey Lycar, this is Louie. Head over to the recruitment thread to see the rules for making PCs
Wolfwaker reporting. Are we supposed to form teams/partnerships?
Here I am.
My original idea was for three sets of duos... but for the next wee while I think it's just going to be you as a group vs world. As far as a wardee - you've got a choice between the green guy and the mage ;)
Albion - answering your recruitment question - additional spells can be purchased at their regular cost. ie. buy a scroll of them and transcribe.
Dotted. Albion here.
I think most of the character is done, including gear. If VoV agrees, I'll come up with the list of spells I would like to add to his repertoire in the next hours?
Another question, each level 1 scroll will cost me 25gold. Is this correct?
I can choose a new ward with 10 minutes prep, so it doesn't have to be the same each time.
Yep - 25g for a 1st level spell.
Pop a dot into the game thread if you haven't already... map and combat will be up tonight.
I am standing with Jaren and Gurthock, right?
Correct - map will be up when my little ones are in bed.
Gurthock partners best with melee guys it should be said. Raging song doesn't give much to casters or archers without the adaptive feature on their bow.
Why would Medren bother delaying after Jaren?
He goes immediately after you and you're a wizard. He's a melee guy.
Set the pace, We'll follow whatever field you create.
I was trying to decide my positioning, since I do not actually know how far you guys can move - if I overstep and you guys do not protect the frail wizard (maybe you can't move 30'?), I think a couple of gnolls and hyenas will have a field day :D
But I am here not only to play with VoV [I admit I applied to one of his games before and was not selected ;)], but to learn from master Tark *bows* so I [i]would go forward with my actions right away, but I cannot see any grid.
However, I'll just go ahead and make a conditional post.
There is a faint grid on the map if you zoom in on it - I admit it isn't the starkest and clearest... but between the faint tramlines and estimating off the width of your icons (which are exactly 5ft x 5ft effective) we should be able to muddle it?
Safe bet is 20ft. movement for guys like me who sport medium armor.
I wouldn't sweat it altogether too much. When you have initiative and the capacity to make someone lose their turn or take a major fall you may as well use it. Arrows will likely fly your way anyway and this makes things easier on future turns when you'll be laying out pain just before the big two handing warder will rip apart.
Need to figure out if we're allowed a turn or two to buff before we run out next time.
Pre-buffing is something that I'm fairly leery of... but it will be applicable in some cases.
Jaren - no guardianship for this fight, but you'll have plenty of time to initiate before the next.
No problem, he'll find someone in character.
Going to randomly select my readied maneuvers since I should have done that previously.
all but
While I'm thinking about it are there any rage pwo.ers some of you might be interested in? I've had a few thoughts on it, spirit totem to be exact.
That seems like a good one. I'm afraid I have too many Int-based abilities to give in to the rage very much, but maybe when I run out I will unleash my fury.
Just to sum up, in case anyone has no idea how my class works (and I am learning), I have 2 stances I can use anytime (change as a swift action) and 4 maneuvers prepared. Once they are used, I can recover one with a standard action, or 3 (Int) by using Defensive Focus. This is a full round action but it lets me make up to 3 (Combat Reflexes, using Int) AoO's in a 5' area and I may move as part of an AoO.
I can also leap to my ward's defense but I don't have a ward at the moment (takes 10 minutes discussion of tactics).
Sorry guys - I'm recovering from a chest cold and maybe overdid the exercising tonight.... need to get zzzzs.
Tomorrow's a busy work day as well, so might be 24hrs before I can get the next post up.
Grab some rest VoV, we'll be here when you get back.
OK, I didn't notice that "improved aegis" (altered by the Zweihander Sentinel) was part of the "aegis" ability. I will drop the ZS as the Sworn Protector was what I was building around thematically. That will change what maneuvers I have access to. Want me to change it after this combat or now?
Re: inspired rage, I interpret the warder abilities as requiring mental focus, but I'll take GM input on that. The good news is it looks like each round I can choose whether to rage.
If a raging song affects allies, when the skald begins a raging song and at the start of each ally's turn in which they can hear the raging song, the skald's allies must decide whether to accept or refuse its effects. This is not an action. Unconscious allies automatically accept the song. If accepted, the raging song's effects last for that ally's turn or until the song ends, whichever comes first.
Jaren - after combat's fine.
Re: Inspired Rage - I'm open to allowing maneuvers in the short term, and seeing how we go.
Is there a skill or action to provoke opponents into attacking?
You could attempt to Intimidate / Bluff / trash talk / etc
Small child awakened at inopportune time... apologies for delay till tomorrow.
Children will do that ;)
Date night plus exercise = 1 AM = no update = bad DM
Oh the shame!
I have no excuse bar getting to the end of the day drained and too tired to wade through the update.
Apologies.
That's no excuse, that's reality ;)
No problem.
Martials think can-trip is an attack of opportunity.
Unless you have Improved Can-trip
Another day another disappointment from your DM...
After getting elder child to bed at 8pm, younger one didn't succumb until 10pm - then exercise and food prep took me through to midnight... when I sat down to update with a cup of coffee in one hand... and the younger awoke with a chesty cough and needed chest-sleeping for a couple of hours. 2AM brain does not make for nice updating status, so suffused with solnolence I instead slept... fingers crossed for tonight though.
Good luck! I finally got my new dishwasher properly installed about 10 pm. Only took me 3 days! (Untrained skill check.)
It's been a fortnightus horribilus for me as far as updating goes. Gastrointestinal distress, sick kids, sick wife, not-sleeping childers and last night an unscheduled upchuck from the youngest.
I am still here and will get to it... eventually. I thank you for your patience.
Also a small foreboding of the span of days 14-30 December - I will be on a short hiatus as I'll be travelling down to Australia to do the whole family christmas thing.
After a quite reasonable suggestion from one of my players I'm making an executive decision to call an early start to my hiatus for christmas. That will meant that the studio lights on this campaign will dim from now through until I'm back in country at the end of December.
I'll repeat that I'm still interested and committed to coming back on board and keeping this chugging along, it's just been a tyranny of circumstance over the last few weeks that's crippled my ability and effort. Come the new year I should hopefully be re-freshed, re-newed and re-ady to go.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Peaceful Positive Emotion Holiday Related Occasion with No Baggage... depending on how the case may be ;) Eat lots, have fun... and I shall see y'all come January.
Merry Christmas! Enjoy!
I wonder if this is a good time for me to rebuild to fix my archetype conflict? (I'd also like to change my feat to Power Attack.)
I'm also interested and committed, in spite of lying on the sandy ground.
Apart from that Merry Christmas! ;)
And your DM has returned hale, hearty and surprisingly healthy from his sojourn downunder. I'll be getting back up to speed with PbP over the course of today and tonight... so hopefully can get a post in thread soon enough to get us back up and on point.