Drow War Team 2

Game Master Tarlane

Other idea:
Would it make sence for her to be capture by evil bad guy and taken?

If that isn t possible the i think that it would be better for her to die and have the stone drained at the same time by the new arrival.

Also i game with a few good people if you want i could ask them

How do you feel about retraining rules, Tarlane?

Because if my luck keeps going as-is (I believe I've rolled above an 8 exactly ONCE for attack rolls) I may bite the bullet and respec my Sorcererly powers into more of a utility caster role, with your blessing, since Saradel was our skill monkey for the group I think.

I'd need to get rid of Crossblooded ASAP and maybe change the Bloodline (straight Rakshasa, perhaps?) but it wouldn't really change anything about the character except for lack of lightning based vengeance and the exact details of his birth.

I'm a bit torn on whether I actually want to do it though. =/

Alternative to the "Starstones spent so can't raise" idea, is that we bring the body back to the starstones, but it results in her coming back as the new character, as if one of the other starsigns was asserting itself over the original.

That being said, I'm ok with it staying with 4 if that's where folks want to go.

The story behind the "staying with 4" angle could be that the evil presence was able to overwhelm either the starstones, or Saradel (such that she was effectively disintegrated and thus nothing to bring back to the stones).

If we're worried about skill monkeys, we could always share the burden of skills (so some of us focus on certain skills, while others focus on different ones). That way each of us will cover the gaps in others.

If we're worried about traps, someone could either use summons, or (by next level and with a higher charisma = higher saves) Tenoch could plug his ears and start stomping the ground in front of us (or really be the one to set off an unavoidable trap, since everyone can search for one).

i liked the raised into new character as a matter of fact

For Rusigari, if we are dropping a character and you want to rebuild a bit to make up for the gap I am pretty alright with that. We don't need to go through all the normal rebuilding steps, just having it be an adjustment to rebalance the party a little. Decide if that is what you want to do, if it is less me see how you'd respec and I will give approval.

Traps aren't a -huge- issue in this adventure overall because its a broad adventure rather than a dungeon crawl, but there are points where it certainly could be useful. Having more skills is always useful, and this campaign will certainly make use of them. All the knowledges and social skills in particular will have a lot of chances for use, with all the others being quite nice based on play style. Not having to split them up as much can allow for things like everyone having some stealth ability for when you decide discretion is the better plan, or just being better to deal with troubles like physical obstacles- The lift comes to mind.

Straight Arcane bloodline is pretty good Rusigari.. If you wanna go blaster i would suggest one of the primal elementals..

I wish i had a way to make stealth a class skill...

I've done pretty good with this blaster set-up before, I just forgot to account for the fact that what might be fun when you're starting at 8th might not be good in the intervening time, heh.

I'll think about it some more.

This would be the set-up I'd probably use.

Rusigari decides brute force is ineffective, and thinks back to how his wit and guile is the only thing that's worked for him so far.

He decides shaping the minds of mortal creatures is the truer path to power, in the long run.

=)

Gist of the build:

Rakshasa Bloodline.

Skills changed to Disguise/Bluff/Spellcraft/Kn. Arcana/Sense Motive

Spells changed to Sleep and Grease (Cantrips add Light).

^Does that sound okay, Tarlane? If so, I'll go with that.

I owe everyone an apology for having gone quiet on you recently.

Unfortunately, the family member who was having some issues the other week(they went in for surgery at the time) has taken a bad turn during their recovery. Right now, it isn't entirely clear which way things are going to turn out.

I am very much enjoying this game and don't want to see it sputter out, so I hope you will all bear with me as I am unsure how much I will be able to post for the immediate future.

As long as you give me news every so often i'll be sticking to the End with this game.

I do enjoy the premise and the concept you laid out for us.

Sorry to hear that, man. Here's hoping they pull through.

Take your time, the game's not going anywhere.

Thanks for everything guys. My world is still sort of up in the air, but I have some other family who are now out here to try and help out with things that will allow me to have a little more time even if my brain isn't all that focused yet. Trying to get moving again as best I can.

Also Rynjin, I'm sorry I didn't answer earlier but I have no problem with those changes at all.

Take the weekend off DM breath and relax we will be all here come monday :)

That's good. I know how stressful it is to be in a hospital like that, and how hard it is to focus on anything but the family member, especially if you're the one holding people together.

Any change in his condition, if I can pry?

Not a clear on, Rynjin. She's had just about every issue imaginable for a long time now so that has been something accustomed to anyway. Her heart was having a bunch of issues a couple weeks ago and had a pacemaker put in which is why I was gone briefly then. The medications and just stress on her body after the surgery have had a lot of the other problems really flare up severely. The biggest problem right now is that they aren't able to get her blood sugar levels under control because of the blood thinners she has to take and they have been hanging at really dangerous levels.

I'm still hoping for the best of course, but the multitude of problems aren't giving a real good prognosis. I will have some trouble getting on as regular still, but this is a good distraction more than anything so I will be posting whenever I can.

Hey man family and RL comes first.. You take all the time you need.. Im with the others, you have put considerable time into making this realistic.. Im on board for the long haul..

Hey all, sorry it was another long weekend of hospital fun. I opened the site last night and was so tired I couldn't even put together a coherent sentence so I figured it was better if I got a little sleep before trying to post. I'm getting one up now.

No worries. As has been mentioned: Family and life before all other things.

I was having errors when I tried to open the message board yesterday and sunday evening, kind of figured things were overwhelmed with them putting up that playtest.

I'm going to get a post up now with the assumption that sumak is going up after the figure to try and get an idea of who/what it is and the rest of you are waiting where you were just because I haven't heard different.

You are correct DM sumak is going after the hooded creature :)

I'm very sorry everyone for having disappeared on you all without properly keeping in touch. I don't really really want to get into details on the boards, but my RL has sort of imploded on me in unforeseeable ways. In the near future, I don't know if I am going to have any sort of regular internet access or much ability to get on the boards.

At the moment I am not entirely sure if it is going to be something of a short delay or if I could be mostly quiet for a bit longer term. I've really been loving this game and I hate that I am having these sort of interruptions and can't even tell you whether I just am asking for a pause in things or if I am going to end up dropping off the face of the earth for a while.

You all have been great players and I hope that no matter what we can stay in touch, if I start to get things under control again before you all drift off I will let you know, but I do want to thank you for the game we've had. Hopefully I will get to see you all again soon and I want to apologize again.

Sorry to hear that, with all the stuff you've been going through.

I'll keep checking back, hope you get everything under control.

DM,

i am will just wait for you to resume this game so that i can play this character again.

as for internet access just get a smartphone and connect it to a laptop and voila => internet.

or just a smartphone to post on the board. (that is what i do, as i travel around during the work day)

Ill be around as well.. Hope everything gets goin better for u..

I'll be around and can wait for your return. Take what time is necessary to get things in order.

I realize that everyone has long since gone their own way after my absence has gone a lot further than I intended it to, but I wanted to let everyone know that I am back around and apologize again for my departure. Hopefully the holidays have treated everyone well.

Yes....

you are back. So obvious question to resume or not resume? (i want to resume btw)

I've just had a baby (he's 1 week old now), so my posting may not be that quick for the near term, but I'm glad to see you back.

Congrats on the baby Tenoch!

It looks like the other group is picking back up their game since everyone was still around and active chatting in the discussion thread. I know that with my disappearance it may be hard to get things running, but if everyone is still around here and is interested in it, I would be happy to try and spark things up again.

i am in :)

Still around.. Still need to level Selene and im not exactly sure how to make the campaign show up in my tab again..

so far 4 of us are still around so i am still game to resume :) how about you DM?

if needed i can try to bring 1 or 2 friends if you want

I was just waiting to see if Rynjin peeked back in. We had already lost our alchemist, and I was thinking I would need to fill that spot at some point. Running a three person team will probably be a bit of a stretch.

ha i see....

Don't forget to pm him. Some people use different modes to track their campaigns...

He's active in the forums.

So....
Can we play DM? ;)

So, just noticed people had been posting here. Wasn't showing up on the main Campaign Info page when I'd check back periodically. Checked the "My Campaigns" page (which I've never done before) and here you are.

Is this continuing, then?

Hopefully ...

I had been waiting to see if you might still be around Rynjin, and was actually getting ready to fire over a message your way to check. It looks like we have our four people still here, and if you are all up for it I can try and get things rolling again.

I'll start the story back up now even if I do, but what is the vote on me trying to recruit a fifth to fill the slot we lost? The campaign definitely can be rough at spots and having an extra set of skills could be pretty useful.

Go for it Fire up this baby and get our 5th we could use and extra divine character...

so how goes recruitment for a 5th?

Sorry, things haven't been forgotten about. I just have been re-reading the original thread to get ready. I should have a gameplay thread up to start things off again at some point this afternoon/evening.

I'm going to get us going again and then I will look for our fifth.

Huzza !

Just a check here to let you guys know we have put up a post in the campaign thread.

Sumak, I realize you are all in with this but I think it might have been long enough that we are going to have trouble getting this off the ground again. I'm not sure that everyone else is looking to jump back in at this point, so it might be better to call it so everyone can move on to new games.

sniff...