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First, for RP posts it tends to be easy to follow certain standards. Descriptions and actions can be described through normal text. Dialogue should be bolded, thoughts italicized and any out of character commentary using the ooc tags. Information for just specifc people, or the results of skill checks will be hidden in spoilers. We operate on the honor system with those.
The vampire crept slowly into the room, considering his victim. Or more accurately his victim's throat. His mind seemed to echo every pulse within calling to his hunger. Finally my thirst will be slaked... Yes, you will do nicely. Leaning over the prone victim, his voice comes out in a low almost soothing whisper Sleep now, embrace being mine...
<spoiler>Perception DC 20 You wake feeling a presence looming over you.</spoiler>
<spoiler>Will Save DC 16 There is a sensation of control washing over you but you manage to shake it off.</spoiler>
Hopefully that gives a fair idea of how posting should be formatted so that everyone can communicate effectively.
I try and be a very responsive and flavorful DM for combat situations, taking your rolls and giving a little fluff to them to add to the dynamics of the situation. When we are on initiative count, I find it easiest to post in any order with any applicable rolls(attack and damage, even if you don't know if you hit for instance) as well as a backup plan if there is any chance of your main one getting disrupted. Ex: I strike the goblin next to me, if it is already dead then I charge the bugbear.
Once the next person in initiative has posted, I will create a combat post of fluff and results for him and anyone else who has already put up their actions who goes after him. Basically, combat in play by posts already take time, so I am looking to avoid any extra holdups because the person who goes second happened to be on an hour before the guy who goes first, and now we are waiting another full day for his post. Obviously when a surprise event happens in combat I will pause to let anyone who has already posted modify their actions, but it should make normal round by round combat go faster.
For the campaign itself, I feel there are two things that are important in advance. First, I wanted to make sure that everyone was able to access the google docs. I'll likely use a spreadsheet on there to act as a battlemat for us and will put up handouts and maps there for everyone, so if someone can't get to it let me know so I can come up with a better workaround. I use roll20 for other things and it could be interesting to try and make use of for a PbP since it would give me a lot more control over things and has some nifty features, but since it requires registering(though its free) I didn't want to assume that. Just a possibility.
Secondly, and more story-wise, there is a behind the scenes mechanic that will be taking place during this campaign and I wanted you to all be aware of it even if you never see the actual numbers. I will be keeping a running tally of things called 'victory points' that essentially are how well you are doing on your current large scale goals. Because this overall campaign is such a sandbox adventure, and it never really requires you to complete any specific tasks this gives me a method of keeping track of things you have accomplished and will let you feel some benefit come from tasks that in other stories might turn into questing for loot or experience.
As an example: Should your over arching current goal be to defend a village against a gnoll incursion, then you may gain 1 victory point for spending time training villagers, 1 victory point for somehow securing them better equipment, 2 victory points for bringing in military reinforcements, ect. When the time for the massive battle comes, the number of victory points the group has will play a role as modifiers or alter the landscape of the battle completely. Basically, anything you guys are doing can have an effect, positive or negative, on over arching events. There will be large scale battles and story changing events, not all of which may go your way, but win or lose the war continues.
At first, it feels as if you must be dreaming. The sense of dislocation, the giddiness, the feeling of flying rapidly through space, all add to the unreality. Where are you? What were you doing a moment ago? These thoughts arise in your mind, as if you were half-awake, on the borderlands of consciousness.
Perhaps you have been knocked senseless, or poisoned with some hallucinogenic drug. One thing is certain; you are in a strange place and you do not remember how you came here.
What you can see before you is as clouded and vague as the contents of your mind. There seems to be nothing but mist, swirling in eddies around you, with a suggestion of huge shapes briefly glimpsed through it. The mist is cold on your face and with a start you realise that this is no dream. You are here, physically here in your body, fully dressed and carrying your equipment. There is wet grass beneath your feet. You feel no pain, so it stands to reason that you were not knocked out and dragged here. How, then, did you come to be here?
Alone in the mist, you wonder why you do not feel more afraid. There is a presence here, something old and comforting, like a childhood memory. The mist begins to clear. In the faint light of a new day, you see the huge forms that you glimpsed before. They are megaliths – standing stones that tower over you, set into the form of a circle. This place is achingly familiar to you, yet you have never been here before.
Through the thinning mists, you see that you are not alone. There are others here, and by the look of them, they are as surprised to find themselves here as you are.
Alexander looks around. He feels very confused. He yells
"I am Alexander BadAxe son of...." looks more confused.
"Who are you?"
"Hmm.. This isn't the Boskenlands.. Very strange indeed.. Some sort of teleportation possibly.." Looking around.. She first notices the Megaliths.. "Hm.. A place used for rituals.. Interesting.." Snapping out of her reverie she notices she's not alone.. The figure yells causing Selene to go on the defensive.. "I am Selene.. Did you bring me here?"
Upon closer inspection Selene looks.. Well weird if you've never seen a Samsaran.. Regardless she stands roughly 5' tall, very slender almost frail looking.. Her skin is a light blue, her hair is a darker blue.. There are wispy tattoo's in multiple places visible. They almost appear to be ghostly in appearance..
Rusigari looks around himself curiously.
What just happened? This places feels...familiar somehow. But how? I'm certain I've never been here before.
His line of thought is broken by a loud yelling, and then a quieter question.
"Me? I am Rusigari. Rusigari Rashiska. Do you know where we are...ehm, 'BadAxe', was it?
Perception:
Kn. Arcana:
A proud, yet confused looking armored half-orc looks down at its hands, flexing them, oblivious to his surroundings. What... am I? His eyes look up his arms and down his body and then again at his hands. Something tells me... half-orc... what does that mean? The hands touch the armor he is wearing. I... feel... reborn?, he takes a breath. I am alive. He becomes aware of the sound of nearby voices as he touches his pointed ears. I hear... I am not alone... But who am I? A name... it's... "Tenoch... Tenoch Itzcoatl," he says his hands going to his toothy mouth in shock at the sound of his voice, before finally falling to his sides. Where am I? These others don't seem to know either. "Is there any here who can tell us where we are? And why we have been brought to this place?" From where? Where do I come from?
What in the great beyond just happened ? checking his surrounding.
Wouf replied Fred licking Sumak's face
"We seem to have been brought here for somethings assuagement"
Alex looks around
"it is likely watching us right now. Isn't that right!"
"Well im here for noone's amusement.. Do any of you reconize this place? These huge stones here are called Megaliths and they each have a carving representing one of the constellations.. The megaliths are carefully aligned so that the constellation inscribed on each would match up with the stone on midsummers day.. This is most likely a site of some ritual importance.. Knowing all this ill ask again if any of you reconize this place, or have ever heard of such a thing.."
"I do not know this place. I...," Tenoch begins and then stops looking around the area again. "Yes... you are correct. This place seems... familiar..." But how? I've never been here before. Have I? "But I don't recall a specific instance where I was here." He then goes pale before continuing, "I don't seem to recall much of anything..."
"Whatever we were brought here for, amusement or appeasment, I feel as if the presence here... is not malevolent. I..." he then pauses and steps back in shock as he seems to become aware of something. I seem to have a sixth sense of a sort... Of course... To identify the foul dark ones in order to destroy them and preserve the light... What does that even mean? He passes his hand before his eyes and looks around again.
on a side note please use the race/class of the char info sheet to put your vitals (like i did it help the healers and the DM)
I will be going with lance as primary weap
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It looks like you purchased your scrolls at half-price(assuming you prepared them yourself). I'm fine with that, I just wanted to verify that money calculations aren't off somehow.
Otherwise, it looks good, I kept writing down questions and finding the answer somewhere else on the sheet.
You've only spent 12 gp from what I can see on a pathfinder kit, so go ahead and finish buying your equipment.
Otherwise, I don't see any problems.
I'm not seeing where you are getting endurance and diehard from. You only have one feat to take, orc ferocity is similar but not quite the same as diehard.
I wanted to make sure you realized that the spike chain is exotic so you are not proficient with it and would take a -4 to use it.
You should have 2gp 7sp left over from my calculations
Bluff should be a +9(don't forget your trait)
I know you are planning on using lances but don't have one yet(or proficiency) I take it that will come later?
I don't see the actual adventuring kit you picked up, ultimate equipment has a bunch of kits but that doesn't seem to be among them.
Survival isn't a class skill for animals, so it would only be a +2
Chain shirt barding for your animal companion would cost 200gp, even without the adventuring kit you only had 146gp left.
Optimistic Gambler is actually a campaign trait from back when it was 3.5. At that point traits were made to replace a feat rather than be a half-feat.
I see you bought studded leather, a great axe and an amentum. I'm not sure what other gear you planned to make use of if you can finish filling that out.
You get either a +1 to HP or skill points, assuming that barbarian is going to be your favored class
For your attack bonuses you should have them be 1 higher(+6 or +3), I think you forgot your base attack bonus.
The damage with the greataxe would be 1d12+7(you round down), and the amentum adds strength so it would be 1d6+5
Your CMD should be 18 (10 + str + dex + bab)
Your will save should be -1, your wisdom is negative and you don't have country born
Perception should be 3, -1 wisdom, 1 rank, +3 class skill
Acrobatics is only 1 with armor check penalty
Intimidate should be +3, only a -1 cha
Please do what you can to clean up the character sheet, its pretty rough to try and find stuff, the skills in particular have a lot of information that seems off, but it looks like there are a lot of leftovers from past characters.
Just to info you all that i am leaving tomorrow until Monday in order to attend a friend's wedding. I won't be able to post more then once per day during that time.
Fell free to DM NPC Me
Yea she was a evoker at first and i forgot to swap that around.. Will do.. Oh and im gonna switch to Conjuration spec lol.. I just keep seeing her as a summoner of animals and all sorts of things so.. I promise it will be my last swap.. And yea i purchased the scrolls at half because of scribe scroll.. She will have to earn more money for ink/paper before she can scribe more though..
Ok all updates are made and finalized..
barbarian's don't get much starting gold so the basic weapons and armor were all I could afford.
I got rid of the profession sailor.
Added favored class bonus to skills for 4 skill points
I counted in Power attack for my basic attack sense I am going to be doing it about all the time. Not sure what I should be rounding down.
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barbarian's don't get much starting gold so the basic weapons and armor were all I could afford.
Not sure what I should be rounding down.
Everyone will start with 300 gold, not the standard for each class.
You should be rounding down your STR bonus to damage. When you use a weapon with both hands you apply 1.5 times your STR bonus as damage. If you have +5 STR bonus it would get to +7.5 bonus damage. This is what you should round down.Your sheet does say that your STR is 20, giving a modifier of +5. Anyway attributes are counting 26 points, if i'm not mistaken. Something is amiss.
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Also, as mentioned everyone started with 300gp for purchasing gear, so you should be alright to pick up some more stuff.
Things like escape artist still being in the skill list with no info next to it are part of what has it hard to read and there are a lot of little things like that. Makes it hard for me to find information when I will need it.
Let me know when you finish clearing up the other issues and I'll give full approval.
Selene addressed the group.
"Well im here for noone's amusement.. Do any of you reconize this place? These huge stones here are called Megaliths and they each have a carving representing one of the constellations.. The megaliths are carefully aligned so that the constellation inscribed on each would match up with the stone on midsummers day.. This is most likely a site of some ritual importance.. Knowing all this ill ask again if any of you reconize this place, or have ever heard of such a thing."
Rusigari thought for a moment before replying.
"Hm. This place DOES feel very familiar somehow, it's true. Though to be perfectly honest I can't seem to recall WHY that would be or what purpose this place would serve."
Thinking on it, Rusigari idly activates his innate magical senses to inspect the standing stone nearest him, in the hopes of finding some clue to its nature.
"Well it seems we have all been brought here for a purpose.. We might as well join up and do it together.. Safety in numbers and all.. I am Selene Solaris for any of you that missed it.. I suggest we have a look around this place and see if we can find any clue as to why we are here.." Walking around.. "Come let us have a closer look at these Megaliths.."