Elven team in Campaign Elves vs Dwarves -- Dwarves and Gnomes Keep Out (Inactive)

Game Master Chainmail

I don't think i can keep up with you guys, and I'm having a hard time following along in combat.

Did Telethal do anything at all in combat? It seems to have resolved with a few folks being dragged off, but I couldn't' check back to the thread until it had already happened. I'm surprised that could happen before Telethal could close on them, but then, maybe I'm missing something.

I'm not trying to be dense,and I'm trying to be patient, but at the end of the day, I just don't seem to have the posting capacity to keep up with you guys.

I am pretty sure that you got at least one decent attack in. The combat was bloody chaotic, and hopefully will be better the next one that we come into. I would hate to see you fall to the wayside of the campaign, your character interests me, and the whole concept of an elven barbarian is most certainly intriguing.

None of us can force you to stay, all we can do is ask you to do so.

So this is Talon, asking you with all due respect to tough it out, and bear with this group

The slower pace of action in PbP makes split parties more difficult and you rolled a 4 for initiative. That made the round 2 retreat of the frogs well before Telethal could act. You ran 3x speed down the road round 1 but couldn't close in time. I would keep Telethal closer to the front, he is the true beef. It turned out that the 20 minutes of pen and paper D&D you missed turned into lots of PbP posts. If this game is not for you, I can understand. If the posting rate was slower you may have waited a week to get into the action.

Tel i'd hate to see you go. i have to be honest i'm actually on break from school and i dont have a job and even i am having a hard time keeping up!! Stick with it, i think things have got to get more manageable as we all get more used to the game

i had a hard time following combat though i think after a few more encounters we will get used to the format. i have work and uni and i cant always post regularly, but stick with it if you can it looks like its going to be good and worth it.

It's not a table game. I'd encourage people to stick with it. We'll find our flow if we just keep at it. The first part was great. This will be, too. Don't give up because our first real encounter is a little confusing. It usually is. PbP is just a little different, that's all.

I don't use grids in my PbP games because I'm so bad at it. Give it time. We'll figure it out, and there's nothing wrong with asking if something's not clear.

Aye, it helps that I have no job, no real commitments till monday, and so can spend most of the day online and not have to do a lot. Plus, I like writing, and will happily post a lot.

We will eventually find out flow with this, it will just take a little time is all. All of us are finding our feet with the game, and finding out the limits of what we can do and all. Plus, with Marlamin gone, that's going to shake the dynamic up a lot. We began this journey together, what say you we finish it together eh?

THis is my first pbp so maybe I'm out of line, but might it help to have a standard format to mark turns? just as an example it could be like

====>Kalthos' Turn<====
Seltyn>Elorin>bad guys>Kalthos>Talon
On my turn, if bad guy x has not moved somehwere i might provoke an attack of opportunity from I'll move to square a1 and attack bad guy y

if bad guy x has moved in the way then i'll do this that and the other

It'd be really nice to have something very visibile on the page to make it clear exactly what happened/willhappen during people's turns. I'm not sure if it would help, but it might!

Perhaps it might be an idea to use a system where Chainmail asks for all our actions, we post them. Then he gives us a summary of the round, and asks for the next rounds actions. That way we can post in whatever order we like, and all Chainmail needs to do is a quick summary of what happens in the round.

I'm sure Chainmail's working on it. Let's be patient and we'll all be fine. The grid and ordering actions are new elements, but we'll work it out. GMing is the hard part, and so far it's been excellent.

+1 to Seltyn's post

Gone? Still here. Just waiting to be rescued. :)

And I feel like we're finding our pace. Also, chainmail is clearly working his butt off, and despite the fact he nearly killed me off, I appreciate the work. ;-)

How much endurance can giant frogs have?

If you want to wait for Kalthos to catch up, we can do away with plotted movement and I can resolve everyone together moving in one group.

I would be voting for taking a minute for EVERYONE to catch up, then with Telethal and Elorin right behind me moving closer to these apes. Or rather, I will be going in and using wild empathy to try and improve their relationship to us.

I'm still here, and I'm not dropping.

This isn't actually my first pbp. I'm in a few at the moment.

Sorry I've been scarce over the last few days. I've had my boy with me (18 months).

Also, sometime yesterday, Chainmail said Telethsl was holding up the party due to his armor, but his speed is 30 even in armor... usually it's 40. Did I miss something?

I apologized for missing that in the main thread.

I just assumed Telethal had heavy armor for some reason--that is why I quoted the rule for running in heavy armor. I thought it applied to Telethal. Anyway, I have tried to fix this mistake, it probably won't be the last.

Funny, my main character is a barbarian--I don't know what happened there.

One of my friends was one of those crazy guys that ran a blacksmith forge, made his own weapons and armor, and dueled with people on the weekends. He claimed armor was harder to run with than Paizo did. His house rule was medium armor was limited to 3x speed, and heavy armor did not allow running. I try not to let house rules leak into PbP, but this one apparently was still in my mind.

It is funny, he loved dwarves and claimed they could do anything. I think he allowed dwarves to reduce their armor type one level when running.

Dwarves suck.

Yes, let's not forget what this is all really about. Let's not lose sight of our mildly racist guiding light. :P It's about beating those damnably clumsy simple oafs. Couldn't climb a tree as far as my granny! earthbound little sots.
(granted hatred between sub-races of elves is barbaric, as I'm sure it is between humans :P)

Aye, but also let us not forget that one of our own did not give himself a wonderful showing of grace and agility recently when it came to the climbing of a tree eh?

Am just teasing

ok, ok, so I can't climb a tree as far as my granny. But it's not really fair because she's middle aged and a 14th level rogue :P

Tel, I really hope you get to use that crit! :D

I know, right?!

Gotta skewer me some jungle-food!

Here's to hoping I didn't just bring the whole jungle down on us...

I'm gonna say that - for the uneducated - the only proper response to a 400lbs gorilla bearing down on you is to stab it.

Just sayin'

This called old school animal empathy :-)

maybe for a barbarian. I feel like for the rest of us it's to run the hell away! :o

Disagree.. I've provided you with a perfect flanking opportunity on the ape corpse. :)

better to leave your enemy unharmed and be alive than deliver a devastating blow and be mauled. ;)

I say, "why can't we have both?"

'cos i have a strength of 10 and 9 hitpoints :P You go on and have both. I'll just skulk along behind for a while :P

But... but.. we're a team. You better believe i'm going to take credit when you steal the pants off those damn dwarves!

Ugh...tel, keep your fantasies to yourself. I have no wish to see what aberration might lurk in a dwarf's pantes...between a dwarf's legs, male or female. :P *scampers up a tree to get away from the angry half elf* =P

Link to current map is in campaign description. I will try to always update the link with the latest. Feel free to remind me when it is the old map.

Holy carp, I'm on the map again!

Holy carp, I'm on the map again!

You were much harder to drag with all your gear.

Hey, Chainmail. Since the ape triggered my readied action last round, shouldn't my initiative be right before the apes now? :)

Let me know, cause i just had an idea for this round, and it only works if my initiative is before the apes.

You actually triggered his ready action.

You just blew my mind. :)

No problem. I can abide.

You just blew my mind. :)

No problem. I can abide.

You were the first into the clearing after the adults came down. After his move to the ground papa was waiting to rush the next one into the clearing and, sadly for him, that was Telethal.

What can I say, he scared me into action.

Another frog down--Telethal is making up for his lack of action this time. The penalties of a failed stealth check.

Thats right gents, and lady. Dont forget to heal me tho. ;)

Aye you will get healed. Not sure who will use their potion, I might as well. Certainly we need to learn better movement and the like discipline. If we are so easily snuck up upon then I am rather worried.

Well, bad rolls are bad rolls... nothing we can do about that but find ways to max out our perception and stealth modifiers.

Though I do agree that figuring out who our best strategist is and letting them either do battlefield commands or suggest them to Seltyn.

I'm all about a firm chain of command based on merit... even if we are elves. :)

Until we get things like Headbands of Wisdom etc, I cannot boost my perception any higher than it already it. As far as my combat utility goes, if I can get a composite longbow sorted out, then I will have an extra 15% damage for free with every hit, increasing to 25% if using Point Blank Shot. However, that means asking for the bow, as I cannot currently afford it, unless we find it in loot.

Seltyn leads us well, and as a character I like the guy. Not sure how much the character knows about battlefield command, but that is something that I would like to RP out at some point as a discussion between Talon and Seltyn.

Stealth is usually one that we do ok on. What really worries me right now is that we really ran too deep in on too many things at once. We could have handled the crocs and the frogs alone, or even the croc and the apes, but to have frogs and croc and apes is seriously testing our resources I think.

Also, the fact that we had Marlamin swamped and taken out in the first round more or less really didn't help, as we lost 20% of the parties actions possible. I was able to recoup that with rapid shot a little, but with Ingwe now also possibly dead, I really think the best thing for us to do would be to RUN!

Works for me, but I think Telethal should probably be the rear-guard. More HP and he's fresh.

As to Seltyn leading, I certainly didn't' mean to suggest he wasn't the right person. We just need to all get on the same page when it comes to our actions.

Telethal will be rearguard, with perhaps Elorin and Seltyn carrying the druid. Talon is also pretty fresh, so could stand to help with the rearguard action by slinging bows into the apes.

I think that makign ample use of the aid another action for skill checks might be appropriate in the future if were rolling low on stealth/perception :)

Sorry, I missed this bit, roll for hitpoints each level? do I have to roll or can i take half?
if i would be at -2 then i guess i have taken 11 points of damage (net), not twelve. :)
I'll level Kal up now, just let me know how hitpoints work

HD/2+1