No you're fine Oscar. This is supposed to be very disorienting for the characters, having all these memories that don't seem possible because this guy just popped up out of literally nowhere.
For my Psychic Reading spell, do you want me to look at his sheet and just have my character know those three things, or do you want to relay them to me?
You can just look at his sheet.
Okiedoke.
You are catching him in a lucid state...lol. Also, he has paranoid trait!
Marching order? Theo would prefer to be 3rd or 4th?
Also, as we move, he will either have Detect Magic going ( standard: concentrate move: 30').
Or he could have Dancing Lights going?
Dervak is normally first in the marching order. His AC is quite poor and he tends to get hit a lot. But he has good HP and Uncanny Dodge, and he can do a lot of damage.
Mara will be in second position, or third if N'Dateh wants to be closer to the front.
I stand at the back. Usually. When ambushed, I'm now at the front!
Here's the roll20 link Theo! Glad to have you on board. If it doesn't work just say so, I've had trouble with inviting people before.
His AC is quite poor and he tends to get hit a lot.
As soon as Mara gets a chance to memorize new spells, she'll be able to cast Barkskin to help with that: +2 AC for 30 minutes.
@GM it keeps saying that mobile browser not supported. I am using my phone, since my laptop died.
Good move, Dervak! I would imagine the Ratling is very vulnerable to being grappled.
It's been a while since Mara memorized spells (Oct 10!), so I went back and checked what she's used. It's a good thing I checked: it looks like she has one more Bless left! Here's a rundown on her available spells/hexes:
Spells memorized and available:
Orisons: Detect Magic, Guidance, Light, Stabilize
1st lvl: Bless (CLW and another Bless cast already)
2nd lvl: none
Healing Hex (once per creature per day): used on Dervak and Oscar
Heaven's Leap Hex: not used on anyone yet (took this at lvl 3 — I'm assuming it's usable immediately)
On the road between Friday morning and Sunday night. Please bot me as needed.
I'm presuming that Ratch is referring to the farthest room down the western corridor (left side of the map). The door at the top of the map doesn't have look to have a trail leading to it.
My thought is to avoid a direct confrontation with the ghouls until we have rested. That way, Mara could cast Barkskin on Dervak and N'Dateh. Better AC hopefully will mean fewer fort saves required.
For now, we could explore the northern hallway, perhaps concentrating on the doors without the slime trail.
Considering Theo's Hex is mind-affecting and his go to offensive spell is cold damage; he readily agrees that the ghouls should be avoided.
Dervak would love a reach weapon to deal with ghouls but if he can't get one, he'll manage.
I am fine with exploring the other doors or going to the library to do research.
With time to prep, Theophilus could switch spells to deal with undead, true? Chill Touch or CLW? And he could do both with his cards?
Yuppers. That's why i went with Cardomancer! Looked fun!
Mara's ready to do some reading!
Oh s@%$, I though I had posted something like two days ago.
Looking forward to Oscar's scholarly insights!
Please note I'll be travelling from Friday morning to Sunday night, with little to no opportunities to post. Please bot me as needed.
Perhaps bot Oscar for now and send him a PM?
He hasn't posted in over a week but we need to keep momentum up.
I agree — let'd move things along.
GM? Can we bot Oscar's Research check and move on?
Have we lost Oscar?
There are a lot of books...
Things in real life have started to pick up and I find myself with less time for PbP. I need to let a few PbP games go. This is one of them.
I'm sorry to leave you all hanging. I thank you very much for this game, in particular GM Madman! It was great fun.
Happy gaming,
DW
Hey everybody, Since it seems like we lost oscar and N'dateh's droping out I believe I'll skip the re recruitment process and simply Add Mala as a GMPC so we can start the game off quickly after my little hiatus there.
Sorry about the wait, but I swear I wont just leave you guys.
So what are we doing here?
It seems we're a bit stalled.
Still here. I mean he did swear he wouldn't just ghost on us...
We are having bad luck with this AP....lol.
I'd volunteer to take over but I am running another game and am not sure I could do justice to two at once. Running games takes a lot more time than playing in them.
Wait a while longer for Madman to return?
Seek out another GM?
I say allow it to just play out. If he doesn't return this thread will just have actually gotten caught by the fog....
Maybe wait a little longer. If we don't hear from him, recruiting another GM is totally possible. We successfully recruited a new GM in my Hell's Rebels game recently.
Okay, I'm going to post for another GM. BTW, Julius would be happy to get back into the game, so that would get us up to 4.
I would like this game to keep going. Also, four would be welcome...lol.
Thread is up!
Hey, guys! So first off, I'm sorry I kinda ran off before, I got a new full-time job and I kind of let everything on the forums slide while I got into it. But things are going well now, and Dervak asked if I would be interested in coming back, so here I am! I think my character sheet is all good, I just added an alchemy kit to my inventory so that I could make extracts and stuff.
Welcome back! The rogue has since disappeared so your Investigator skills will be most welcome. Once we have a new GM.
Heads up! A potential DM has shown interest in the DM recruitment thread.
Sweet!
Thank you all for giving me a chance to DM this AP for you. I will admit that I'm still a little green wrt with PBPs. I have plenty of experience DMing IRL, but if you have any tips or suggestions to help things please let me know.
I took a glance through this discussion and found the roll d20 map and it seems you were less far along than your level originally suggested. In fact its pretty close to where I left off my other game. I'm a little relieved by this since it means less catch up work for me.
Speaking of roll d20, its a system I'm not too familiar with but I know it's potent. So my next goal is to get up to speed there.
The previous GM boosted us to 3rd lvl ahead of the normal time, because he was concerned about our survival. It would be up to you whether you want to go along with that.
Many GMs use Google Slides which I find to be much more convenient than Roll20 (for example, it's easy to use on smartphones). I can keep using Roll20 if you want, though.
I wrote up a summary of the game to date that I can send you.
And dropping back to level 2 would be okay with me if we are getting two additional PCs. I chose not to make Dervak highly-optimized since I don't think PCs curb-stomping the opposition makes for a fun Lovecraftian horror campaign. So with only 4 of us, level 3 would result in appropriately edge-of-your-seat dangerous fights. With 6 of us, level 2 might do.
Hello Dm. Thank you for picking our motley group up...lol.
I would be willing to level down, although I wouldn't also mind being able to make a few adjustments?
Either format is fine with me; but, as, Dervak mentioned, roll20 isn't really mobile device friendly.
A few of my games use google maps, I believe.
And, yes, thank you for agreeing to take this on!
It's actually google docs. One of my PbP uses it. I like it but not sure how it works. My teck skills are lacking...lol.
I use Google Slides in the game I run.
Some games use Google Drawings but that can't be edited on mobile devices.
Both are applications within Google Docs.