Hello everyone please dot to make sure I have everyone
I've updated spells and equipment and can't wait to start.
I still need to equip myself, but otherwise I am ready to go.
Dot! Slay the dot! Catch it!
OK I'm all set and equipped. Let's boogie!
Who are we missing at this point?
I think everyone is present now so I will start the opening once I finish eating.
Sorry, I think I'm going to have to duck out of this.
Sad face...
Well Raziel is here :)
Sorry to hear that, Paige. Hopefully, you can come back soon.
That bites. Sorry to hear, Paige.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Do we press on - or will you recruit someone from the boards?
I invited Tim frie and he said he would like to join so once we we get his intro we can finally start. Sorry for all the delays.
I invited Tim frie and he said he would like to join so once we we get his intro we can finally start. Sorry for all the delays.
No worries - real life happens to us all and delaying a day or so to start the campaign in earnest is a tiny price to pay.
Hey y'all! This is TimFrie. Just woke up, so I'll put up a quick intro and then I'll try and post something a little more substantial after I get home from work.
Kewl beans. Welcome to the fray, Tim.
Wow you guys are amazing thanks for continuing the gameplay section without me. A little update my modem currently broke and a technician is coming Monday I will continue the campaign but expect me to be light in the posts since I can't spend a decent amount time due to the library time rules.
Ouch that really sucks, hope you get it fixed soonish.
Monday is the fastest that they can come and fix it so hopefully by then I can pay full attention to this campaign that I so want to. I'll try my best but I don't know how much I can completely due with 1 hour time frames.
No worries. PBP is slower paced than most games. We get it :)
Hey guys. Just letting you know I won't be able to post in gameplay until after work today. So, maybe around 6pm PT tonight.
Has anyone heard from densetracker yet? It looks like we've gotten as far as we can in the gameplay until our DM steps back in.
I think we may be a bit over zealous :)
This is his first time GMing after all.
Sorry it took so long everyone there was some other complications with my telephone box but it is all fixed now thanks for all the patience.
Thanks for continuing on so well without me it helps me a lot.
Just letting you know that I made a change on my character: I realized after the fact that I did not add my Cha bonus to my Diplomacy. I've made the change on the sheet, but not that it did any good on my roll...
Quick question would you guys prefer that you level up through xp or I just level you up based on the ap.
Story based. It makes things feel more real, and I hate tracking xp :)
I'd vote story-based too.
Okay good I just wanted to make sure so I don't assume anything.
Hey guys. Sorry for the silence. Last couple of days have been crazy. I'll look over the things I missed and post shortly. Memorial Day weekend is crazy here in Las Vegas. Even the week leading up to the holiday has been busy.
Story level ups make more sense to me. You get a bit of time in between big encounters to learn a new ability, or perhaps in the midst of the last big brawl, you character goes 'Hey! That was a pretty good move back there... I should work on that.'
I've never done story level ups, but I'm okay with using it for this. I won't go against the current. Besides, it's always nice to learn new methods of doing things.
Story level ups make more sense to me. You get a bit of time in between big encounters to learn a new ability, or perhaps in the midst of the last big brawl, you character goes 'Hey! That was a pretty good move back there... I should work on that.'
wow I never thought about it like that, that is actually really cool.
I tend to make any levelling up part of the story. If I know I want to add a skill or language, I will look to work it into the role-playing somehow - so when I take the skill, it makes sense. For example, learning Draconic would be easy to do - as Kjellberg is around people who speak it.
If I wanted to learn Giant, I would probably have her buy (or find) a book written in the language and have her learn it.
I'm not saying it has to be done this way - but this feels the most honest to the character I've created.
Please tell me if there is anything I need to improve on as I want to make this enjoyable for everyone.
Players on the boards are quite vociferous (I'm a GM, so I should know). If things need to be 'better' expect people to shout up - but it's good to have asked us.
^Ditto^
Everything's been good so far. :)
I have a question. There are side encounters that have nothing to do with the story and I don't feel like I should be wasting the gameplay thread on encounters that could take a few days. I was wondering do you want to skip those small encounters completely or do you want to play them out in the discussion section. you still lose resources or health like normal but we can continue the gameplay thread at the same time. If we do that important fights will still be in the gameplay thread.
For myself I'd say skip them. We're doing sorry based leveling so the xp isn't important to us, and I'm sure you'll make sure we have enough gear and wealth to not be being the curve for battles. I'm okay just going through the main plot. But I'd not be opposed if everyone else wants to do them.
The only reason I posted this is for the difficulty reason. It might be easy to win a fight when you are fully stocked on everything but if you are constantly wearied down by small encounters it could become harder but it is all up to you guys I don't mind either way.
Would it be feasible to use the Fast XP track and roll along the main storyline? I haven't checked into XP at higher levels, but it seems like if you stripped out the side quests, there would still be enough XP doled out to level up normally.
Okay I will strip out the side useless encounters. I just wanted to make sure that you guys did not want the side encounters since some people like it. The XP doesn't matter since we are leveling by story.
--valid point. XD
Either way, our chief job here is to get up top and slay the Storm King. Let's concentrate on getting there. For now, anyways...
Have fun with low food :P
Coming in late to the discussion - but agree with the approach. APs can take literally years and years to complete if you run every side encounter. I often bulk up the main encounters to compensate. For me, an AP is about the story (but that's just my opinion of course - some of my players live for every encounter they can find).
I think that, given that we are not worrying about XP, and given how huge this particular AP is, missing some of the side encounters (as long as we don't miss out on some crucial aspect that is integral to either the plot or a character) won't be a big deal to us in the long run. We'll be playing this for the next couple of years, and we'll have plenty of time to accumulate wealth and power.
Just my 2cp.
I feel your pain, Gnawl. I just realized that I also forgot to buy gear.
sorry I was quiet recently I had a long few days but everything will be back to normal tomorrow morning.
no worries.