Eberron: Shadows of Breland (Fantasy Noir)

Game Master Elton

Did you reveal your royal eye status?

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Essar called Xov 'Royal Eye', but Xov responded telepathically...the only person it would be revealed to would be scryers. But that's enough for Xov to be worried. He's not going to answer to the phrase 'royal eye' out loud, since it would be conceding his status to anyone scrying on us. He is hoping that anyone who heard that just thinks Essar is rambling randomly...

Yea, Xov is getting annoyed at Essar's lack of discretion:P

i mean i was wondering if Xov ever revealed to to Essar that he was a royal eye

Ressir did, the others were inducted into the Citadel, remember?

nope, forgot. haha

haha! :)

Psst: Tenro, Ebran was asked a question by Xov ;)

woops, accidentally read that as you asking Essar vice Ebran

Sorry fellas, been out of it for awhile- trying to catch up now...

Woo, go Real Life!

Wait a minute...

GM Elton, you have been throwing fertilizer and water on the seeds of extreme-self-importance in Essar's mind.

I deduce that this is part of your evil plan to make him crazier, so that the other PCs hate him more, so that the party will be torn apart from internal conflict and the Quori will conquer the world!

Your plan is revealed! It shall not come to pass!

muahaha! I'll just make my next character an Inspired!

Wait a minute...

GM Elton, you have been throwing fertilizer and water on the seeds of extreme-self-importance in Essar's mind.

I deduce that this is part of your evil plan to make him crazier, so that the other PCs hate him more, so that the party will be torn apart from internal conflict and the Quori will conquer the world!

Your plan is revealed! It shall not come to pass!

Pffffttt!

Nonsense. The player is just playing his character.

137ben wrote:

Wait a minute...

GM Elton, you have been throwing fertilizer and water on the seeds of extreme-self-importance in Essar's mind.

I deduce that this is part of your evil plan to make him crazier, so that the other PCs hate him more, so that the party will be torn apart from internal conflict and the Quori will conquer the world!

Your plan is revealed! It shall not come to pass!

Pffffttt!

Nonsense. The player is just playing his character.

Aha! The subtle tone in your voice when you said 'Pffffttt' and the fact that you included exactly three 't's, gave you away! You have just confirmed that you are actually an Inspired:)

In the event that Danir actually did set off the explosive runes...

how many hero points does everyone have? He just needs to be within 4 of the DC to avoid triggering it, and he can get +4 per hero point, and anyone else can give him +2 per hero point. So I'd estimate two hero points from Danir, or one from Danir and two from other people, would stop it from exploding. Then he could back away and let Ebran shoot down the door...

i have one

Would anyone have gotten hero points after the 8 zombie fight where we all nearly died?

yep

Well, I currently have 0 hero points to use, or else I would have used on the roll- but we haven't been advised that we've earned any for a while now...

Well if you got one from the zombies, you'd have 1...

Thanks for not getting too far ahead of me guys...

My keen vulkoori senses predict that a lot of people are having busy real-lives.

still here, please don't mention RL...its bad for morale.

still here.

same

Looks like Elton is doing another recruitment thread...that could be keeping him occupied.

Well, I guess maybe everyone can try perception/detection/whatever while we're waiting?

ah yeah the Phaeselis one? we seem to have lost a player in that game so he had to get a new one.

Yep! :)

More than three days since we rolled initiative...
is this sort of wait normal for pbps?

Kinda.

I've had some distractions on my time. :)

It happens to all of us:)

I thought about my 'plan' for dealing with Essar's cousin again, and I realized something:
it requires half the party to do stuff while the other half of the party waits around outside. IMHO, that's not something I think should happen if it can be avoided.

I (the player) can think of a few alternate plans that are at least as likely to work (and one of which would probably be more effective), and involve everyone, so I can have Xov suggest an alternate plan after the ogre goes down...

The reason I'm bringing this up here, though, is that what I said above is almost entirely within the realm of metagaming. Normally I hate using metagaming to gain any sort of advantage, but trying to make strategies that involve the whole party seems to me to be the good kind of metagameing (it's a somewhat more mild version of coming up with reasons not to kill other PCs.)

The in-character justifications I can give are that
a)Xov is not particularly confident in himself, so he is unlikely to favor a plan that involves cutting out part of the group, and
b)The PCs were ordered to learn to work as a team, so Xov would be far more likely to try to convince the other party members to use a strategy that involves everyone.

I'm bringing this up now, out-of-character, before I bring it up in-character, partly because I want to know what other people (especially you GM_Elton!) think:
Is having Xov suddenly oppose the plan he previously suggested appropriate (there are in-character reasons, and an alternate plan could help keep the group together)? Or is it inappropriate metagaming?

Since there are very strong IC reasons for suggesting another plan (and I can think of a few other plans that are within the realm of stuff Xov could come up with), I think it is okay, but I wanted to check first.

Play it the way that the character would- he's a spy after all and coming up with new plans on the fly may be SOP for Xov...

Splitting up the party like we discussed doesnt bother me. it can actually be somewhat challenging, especially when no clear signal is given, and the ones waiting in reserve must interpret signals from a situation they cannot see, etc.

but putting everyone together works too.

Indeed, I've run some interesting sessions with a split party. Short-term splits are fun.

Last time my real life group split up, we started a plague zombie outbreak, burned down a quarter of a city and started a slave revolt. But we killed the 10ish assassins that came after us and got out of town quick, it was a busy night.

Othan crits like a boss when enlarged, ;)

Leveling up:

1. I guess I can continue keeping track of xp...
how much did we get from
a)the four zombies?
b)the explosive runes/alarm trap (if any)?
c)the ogre?

That's assuming you want to keep using xp at all...

2. Since we're probably going to be seeing more psionic creatures, it may be a good idea for a few of us to train knowledge (psionics)...
Ebran , Danir, and Othan have it as a class skill (Danir may also have the highest INT?)

EDIT: And one more question,
can I learn spells from Rite Publishing's "101 0-level spells"?
In particular I'm thinking of learning mishap for dealing with magic traps and enemy buffs.

Othan already has it trained, he just doesn't always remember it in the heat of battle ;)

Edit: HP on Level Half rounded up or roll?

Well more ranks couldn't hurt:) *
*unless of course you need the skill points for something else.

Ya know, it had not occurred to me until just now how obnoxious Xov's long-winded speeches must sound to the people who actually hear it...thank the sovereign host this is a pbp:O

And on that note, I hope to have the next entry in my character/campaign journal up soon.

I am increasing Ebran's level now.

Also, i noticed that he should have had some Psionic Talents (cantrips) that i did not give him before, so i am adding that. One of the talents i picked up was Trick Shot, so i imagine that is going to be a lot of fun. Also picked up Detect Psionics, coupled with actual ranks in knowledge psionics so that will help.

Since i found myself sorta acting as the party's scout more often that not, i decided to go down the Sniper combat style rather than the Volley combat style i had planned to go down.

I chose thrown weapons as my favored weapon, since that is what he ends up using most of the time.

as of the time of this post, i am still thinking about what feat i will choose, because there are a lot of good choices, but if i cant decide i will probably just go with Psionic Meditation since i will be expending focus more often now.

EDIT: went with Far Shot as a feat (half penalties for range increments)
EDIT 2: Ebran is fully levelled up

Essentially done leveling: I trained Sense Motive, Knowledge (the planes) and diplomacy...
learned ghost sound and either mishap (if allowed) or mage hand.

What Xov thinks of the other PCs, part 3

Overall Xov's 'trust' of the other non-Karn PCs is getting better. It will still be a long time before he would be willing to tell them anything close to true about himself or his life, though.

Ok, I've updated Danir's sheet to 2nd level, just waiting to hear from GM the answer to whether we roll for level HP or average/round up...

Actually GM Elton, I have another question- to do with the Craft Reserve value. When I wrote up my own version of the Artificer for Pathfinder, I times the value of the Craft Reserve at each level by 12.5, the rationale being in 3.5 you paid 1/25th the full price of the item in XP to craft it and the craft reserve was intended to help defer these XP charges, making the Artificers the magical 'gadgeteers' in essence that I feel they were intended to be. Now that PF only requires GP cost to craft items, the old craft reserve values are no longer of any use at all, as it costs the character x12.5 as much gold now to make an item as it did XP previously.

Therefore, I was wondering if you would consider revising the amount of GP value provided towards item crafting at each level so that the feature is useful again? Mainly at this point it would just make it easier for me to use the spell storing infusion to make one- shot magic items without having to go completely broke in the process. What do you think?

Is everyone leveled up aside from the still-lingering questions?
Let's see if I got everything...

HP on Level Half rounded up or roll?

1. Are we still tracking xp?

1 a)If the answer to (1) was yes, how much did we get from
a)the four zombies?
b)the explosive runes/alarm trap (if any)?
c)the ogre?

2. can I learn spells from Rite Publishing's "101 0-level spells"?
In particular I'm thinking of learning mishap for dealing with magic traps and enemy buffs.

<Stuff about the craft reserve conversion to PF, see above.>

Okay, guys, I have to level with you. I am not particularly alert and wonderful today. I feel fatigued after waking up. :)

1. yes.

2. I haven't checked yet.

3. No, you can't. I don't have a copy of the book.

Othan is leveled up and ready to go.

Othan doesn't always see the value in trying to be stealthy.

Well when you're intentionally setting off an alarm ward, there's only so much stealth you can have:)

Leveling up:

1. I guess I can continue keeping track of xp...
how much did we get from
a)the four zombies?
b)the explosive runes/alarm trap (if any)?
c)the ogre?

That's assuming you want to keep using xp at all...