Drow War Team 1

Game Master Tarlane

Aw you guys. <3

Mogwai was in the middle of stalking off, so I'll get in a post to rectify based on what you guys have said.

The more Mogwai is seen as this intelligent and thoughtful creature, the more excited I am for a combat encounter in which he actually displays a blood-thirsty rage - since no one has seen that side of him yet.

I hope I didn't cut you off Mogwai, I threw my post on the campaign up there before I saw you saying you were going to rectify what you were doing. It sounded like you were heading out with the intention of going on your own and then everyone else was following after, so I ran with that in mind.

Oh no worries, I just edited mine.

As far as how much we're spending - I haven't actually kept track of what we've earned at all. I've got 118gp from character creation, so I'll throw that all in. Possibly we can barter a few things we've collected, or even just give them to the Hobgoblins? I'm not sure what that actually consists of.

Either way, food/water is the most important thing, but I'd also like to pick up any kind of supplies that might help them for travel. It appears as though they'll have to travel a distance after all.

And I was so hoping to adopt Leth, too.

Bah, whatever, I'll handle treasure.

Gold Sheet.

There's a section for each of you to the right. I'll use it to track my resources, and you may track yours there, if you want. It's heavily automated, so it should give you finished numbers (and even colors).

The rest leave up to me.

@Mogwai: I'm gonna bully you cause you're the only one around here who does not have str 14. ^_^

I see that you are one of those people who likes spreadsheets, whipping all that together certainly will be more useful than the word document I linked for everyone to use. I'll link to it in the campaign description so there is always a link easy access for you guys(It looks like you linked to it in your avatar summary too).

Good work on it.

Thanks. I have about a dozen or so of that already, but this game have different kind of equipment (with the legendary and such) so I asked for anyone else to do it, but I'll do it without a problem.

Together with it there's also an NPC chart I've made.

Aetherni, in terms of adding stuff to it for each one of us, what is the best way to do that, just grab a row and start typing?

One of the rows to the right have your name on top of it. It has encumbrance settled for your strength (the colors will turn from green to yellow and then red depending on your load), and the money there represents the 300gp you had in character creation plus whatever we have gathered so far.

So just grab your row and start typing (if you want). I find it simple enough to use it as my personal loot tracking sheet, easier than to have to edit my profile.

I went ahead and started mine as well. I had to edit my load limits, as the masterwork backpack helps with that, but I am still coming up with different numbers. I am missing something like 8 gold somewhere in the course of things. My profile on here says I spent it, loot tracking says I haven't. Tarlane, I don't care which way you want to go, but if you want to run through the numbers, I wouldn't mind. I just can't remember spending money anywhere so far. Any ideas? Did I buy drinks for someone maybe?

You did buy drinks to everyone on the Inn the first time we arrived there, didn't you?

Aye, you are right, post #265 - 7 gold for drinks, dinner, and accommodations.

You're so gentle!

So I guess I'm thinking like:

- 4 Halberds (40gp)
- No Bedrolls or Tents, because I can't imagine Hobgoblins have much use for them. But maybe like, 8 blankets (40sp).
- 4 Bear Traps (8gp)
- Signal Horn (1gp)
- Maybe 10 days worth of Rations for emergencies (10gp)
- Donkey (8gp). Can easily carry supplies and be slaughtered when necessary.

And then the other like, 40gp+ on just food, since that was their biggest problem prior.

If everybody is fine with Mogwai's breakdown, maybe the rest of us could chip in for a few guard dogs to help keep them safe? Each is 25g a pop, but it would be worth it I think. It'll show that not only are we concerned with their survival, but their safety too. We want them alive, beyond just being fed.

Dogs are a damned good idea - both for defense and hunting.

I was also thinking like, a map or a compass, but I'm not sure how much they'll already know where they're going?

I'm going to give a little metagaming info here, but I'm going to be being the badguy in the story coming up here shortly and some of these plans are going to get disrupted, so don't worry about spending a bunch of time on this. It was much more how much gets spent and just for practice on skills that will be helpful in the future(sort of like getting used to juggling politics and loyalties in the city which is small and going to be left soon is good practice for larger world events), rather than for needing to know exactly what they have.

I see sorrow in Mogwai's future. :(

Could we find two dogs to buy in Bronce? If so, I am all for it.

71 gold on the specifics that Mogwai mentioned, 29 for extra food as Mogwai said. Then 50 gold for two dogs, brings our total for 150 gold for the hobbies. That would be 30 gold a pop. Sounds good to me.

Doing mean things to Mogwai does kind of feel like kicking a puppy.

So then don't do them! Be a Rogue GM and go off script! I have faith in you!

I personally love tragedy.

To be fair, we are already pretty far off script since the campaign certainly doesn't expect you to end up being particularly friendly with the hobs. But that is one of the things I enjoy about the campaign is that it is so sandbox, I can keep track of the progression of events as they would happen over time and adapt them based on your intervention. I don't need to worry about something you are doing hurting the story, just know the enemies motivation and capability at different points and the effort it takes to accomplish their goals/the process they need to go through for them.

I like having that kind of open freedom in a game while still having a solid plot in a published form. I'm the sort who normally totally changes up and modifies APs anyway, so having it built for that kind of freedom and seeing where the players will go is ideal.

I would definitely add climbing equipment (rope, hammer and spikes) to the pile. Don't know which way they are planning to go but it may involve some pretty rough terrain where that all may come in handy.

I know you are trying to help and all, but I believe we're offering too much already. They are having trouble hunting for food, so that's what we should give them. Otherwise it would be better to learn them to trade with the city, if they feel the need (which soon will be impossible anyway). They got this far alone, now Split-Ears' tribe will probably be wiped out, while they will be protected north of where the army will show, and afterwards will have free rule over all this territory...

Mogwai, unless you demand spending only your own money with this, I assume we're taking it from the group's pool.

Mogwai, unless you demand spending only your own money with this, I assume we're taking it from the group's pool.

I didn't say it had to be only my own money, but it was kind of my pet project and I have little need for money, so I don't mind contributing a larger amount.

Oh my goodness I am so excited for this.

It would appear there's been some changes to the boards, and with them, comes a problem with OOC formatting. Also, anything under a spoiler tag is automatically shown, without clicking the button first...

I think that it may be a mobile thing(assuming you are viewing from a phone). I looked on my phone and saw the same thing, but now I am on a PC and don't have that issue.

They are messing up with the site right now, it seems.

Nope, been on my laptop at home the whole time.

Yeah, it looks like they're messing with some things.

I've always hated the layout of the site (and the way it is coded is truly godawful) so I'm hoping there are some improvements coming.

I've noticed no differences yet. Course that doesn't mean there aren't any.

The space between lines have been reduced, probably because of the font used. It is worst than it was before, in my opinion.

Yeah, apparently they have done a pretty massive update to the site as a whole and are still ironing out all the bugs. Looks like the fixed the OOC/spoiler formatting ones between when I checked my phone and looked on the comp.

In the website feedback thread where they talk about it, they have said they are in the process of fixing the spacing issues and the like, and the slow performance of the site should be picking up as the maintenance gets finalized and they rebuild their cache.

Mogwai, someone brought up a question because a style sheet they made wasn't working and one of the coders mentioned that as part of this update they unified and cleaned up a lot of class names and legitimately took care of a lot of patchwork jury rigs they had to make on the fly over the years, so hopefully it will be looking better now.

Mogwai, someone brought up a question because a style sheet they made wasn't working and one of the coders mentioned that as part of this update they unified and cleaned up a lot of class names and legitimately took care of a lot of patchwork jury rigs they had to make on the fly over the years, so hopefully it will be looking better now.

As I mentioned in another game, I have a recurring dream where Paizo hires me to straighten all this shit out. There are so very many things wrong with how this forum software is written / implemented. Viewing the source makes me violently ill. I actually tried to write a Google Chrome plugin a few months ago to make it work better, but their code is in such a state that I couldn't even do that.

Hopefully this quote from Gary makes you feel a little better anyway Mogwai, and it sounds like they are planning another update down the line to take it further.

Well, not much visible beyond what I've described above. But this is the most significant revamp in Paizo's history, and we've done a LOT of revamps. Over the years our order processing system has grown in complexity as we've added features. Along the way the codebase has grown brittle and increasingly resistant to change without putting up a really effective and quite vicious fight. To get an idea, check out Auntie Lisa's Story Hour; each pivot Paizo takes requires new code, and those pivots come quickly. So there's about a decade of changes, some hasty and poorly conceived, some from the excellent-idea-at-the-time-if-we-were-in-that-business-anymore department, and a healthy mix of "we just messed up a few thousand orders, what do we have to do to fix this before anybody notices" in there.

Well, good fracking riddance, that's what I say. This codebase is cleaner, way easier to understand, and now comprises a foundation on which we can start building new things rapidly, instead of continually bailing water and trying to figure out why the thing we built a year ago just broke today. No promises. But I think things are about to get interesting around here.

I approve of this message. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Mogwai for mayor!

I have noooo idea what to actually do with Leth. It doesn't seem like we'd have the time to, ah, rehabilitate him. I personally feel that he should have the opportunity for vengeance, though. And it's possible that this tragedy could be the end of his, you know, alcoholism. All the same, I don't want him to be a burden on anyone.

I was pulling for Leth the drunken hobgoblin you are trying to make sober who got ordered to sit in the corner everytime it got testy lol

That is one thing to consider when it comes to things like assistants or cohorts or even in situations where combat spills out to civilians. Remember that there is no raise dead or resurrection in this world, even if your group has a certain exception to that. If someone else gets struck down, even at higher level, they stay down.

Leth is a pretty open thing for you guys, with the tribe gone he is fairly aimless. He can try and join the other tribe, though with his own failings that could be trouble. But at this point, he is pretty unaware of the greater events outside of the trouble with his people, so at this point he isn't really pushing for anything on his own, he's just trying to deal with what is in front of him.

I don't think the other tribe would be particularly accepting - if they're even still alive. And it's not like he would be safe with them either, given how thoroughly this camp was decimated. It's not exactly safe with us, either, though. Whoever has been murdering people seems far more powerful than us. Not knowing exactly what they want doesn't put us in the best position, either.

I am wary of how the humans would treat Leth. They are prejudiced and would not understand. I don't really see any option other than to keep him with us. Perhaps Mogwai should have a conversation with him, but I'd prefer to hear from you guys first. Taking in another character (even if Tarlane will likely kill him in 3 pages) is something we should probably agree on.

Sorry if I took too many liberties, but I've tried to put the decision on his hands, making it easier for us.

I've often heard that harsh situations change people far better than long-term care, but who knows?

I personally love what you did. It's not something I could have done, and I think it needs to have been done. I also like your approach of dealing with it in character. I'm working on a post now.

Doing mean things to Mogwai does kind of feel like kicking a puppy.

More like

HI I'M YOUR GM AND I'M GOING TO BREAK YOUR HEART OVER AND OVER.

But really, I love this game so much.

Personally, I think we should give him a mission: to warn the other tribes, so that they can get ready for war. maybe he will fail and fall back on the bottle, but maybe, just maybe, he will come throough. He needs a purpose, and this may be it.

Sorry I got a little quiet on you guys over the weekend, I'm not sure if you were waiting for Leth to post or not.

I got laid off on Friday and have spent the last few days trying to scramble a bit to shore up and start on the job hunt. I'll get a legit post up tonight though.

Sorry to hear about you getting laid off. Take whatever time you need.

Anybody got any other ideas on what to do with Leth?

Sorry to hear, Tarlane. :( If you happen to be anywhere near Boston give me a holler and maybe I could help out.

I've got some unpleasantness happening, too, so I may also be off the boards for a day or two. DMPC me as necessary.