From Breland Forth

Game Master therealthom

That's two pro. Let's see what the others have to say.

I'm in. I have a funky character I like and I want to go places!

OK. A solid three works for me. So even before Jam and Uthar's players chime in, we' re on.

But, I've got some personal stuff this week and I'm on vacation the week after. Let's meet back here in two weeks and we'll pick it up again.

Sorry, I kept checking gameplay for posts, but didn't see new things popping up in discussion. Yeah I'm still down for Jaming.

Im still around and happy to play as long as everyone else is, im hoping for some good character development with Uthar later on!

Back from vacation. I didn't prep yesterday in the name of continued familial togetherness. I'll post tonight .

So a little pause for you to discuss amongst yourselves. Don't forget you've got plenty of NPC support. Syrus, 2 red shirts, and possibly Karl.

I am back and will try to catch up today between narcotically enforced sleeps.

Where's a cure moderate wounds when you need it?

I don't know why I tell you that I'll do anything at lunch. It only guarantees that I'll be working through lunch.

DSX, good to have you back. I'd given up on you to be honest. So happy you're still with us.

Sorry guys. Work and home have been hectic since I got back. I should have time tonight.

My parents visited this weekend. I took today off too to hang out with them. Traveling to Toronto again tomorrow. May be Wednesday before I get another post off.

More proof that med school is useless if you can't roll a d20 well... ;)

Posting this week may or may not happen, since I am in Mexico at the moment.

Thanks for the heads up, Meows. Have a good time.

Thought I had posted this yesterday but I hadn't.

I noticed yesterday that I had three separate ability scores for Uthar, one in the stats part, one in the hero-lab output and one in hero-lab itself.

2 stats differed across each one, wisdom and intelligence, the three sets I had were:

Scores catagories
Wis 13
Int 10

Output(may have been other-way around not too sure)
Wis 11
Int 12

Hero-lab
Wis 10
Int 13

Looking at the skills output of the character sheet, I would need an Int mod of +1 in order to have the number of skills I in fact have (this already accounts for picking extra skill points per level as opposed to extra HP). As a quick fix I have normalised all three to Int 12 Wis 11. I have otherwise made no changes other than DM requested since initial character generation.

I will be happy to set the scores to whichever you request Thom (if you drop Int below 12 I'll drop skills of your choice) provided you feel the need too, but I felt it best to inform everyone here instead of sneaking changes through (in retrospect I should have brought this up before normalising the lot.)

Thanks for the heads up, Nutter. I appreciate the honesty.

Looking at your skills again -- Acrobatics -1, -5 when jumping. Why that extra -4 when jumping?

Acrobatics_ -1 = 0 +1 dex - 2 ACP
Craft(a)_____ 5 = 2 +3 class + 0 Int
Craft(b)_____ 5 = 2 +3 class + 0 Int
Hand Animal _ 4 = 1 +3 class + 0 Ch
Intimidate __ 4 = 1 +3 class + 0 Ch
Know (nature) 4 = 1 +3 class + 0 Int
Perception __ 6 = 2 +3 class + 1 Wis
Ride ________ 4 = 2 +3 class + 1 Dex - 2 ACP
Survival ____ 5 = 1 +3 class + 1 Wis

12 skill points used. You get 8 from class levels, 2 from human. What did you do with your favored class bonus? HP or skills?

If you drop your wisdom, I think you'll lose that bonus to Perception and Survival.

If you want the wisdom bonus, the easiest would be to drop the two craft scores for now and put the points back in when you level up.

I see nothing game-breaking either way. Adjust the scores as you will so that everything adds up.

Hero lab is stating I have 2 ranks in appraise which I haven't got in the output. Hmmm. (My best guess is I intended to make a change before submitting the character, but only did it on hero-lab and never modified the online sheet for some reason.)

For simplicities sake I'll take those away and put Wis 12 Int 11, then I'll get extra skill-points if/when we hit level 4 and spend a point on Int. (This should also mean that I won't have been using certain skills with an effective +1 modifier.) I have used my favoured bonus for Skill points, which was why I was so confused (as if they were set to HP in hero-lab it would have been a quick-fix).

Sorry about all this, it could have been avoided by a second or third inspection. (I probably missed it as it was the only non-character skill with points in) I'll also re-output the character sheet to make sure everything is correct instead of just editing, let me know if there are any problems.

All of these shenanigans should have a net result of nothing on the gameplay side of things if I do it that way.

The extra -4 to jump occurs because my armour reduces my speed (less than 30-ft speed penalty), the armoured hulk gains its move speed in 5t increments at levels 2 and 5 and only in heavy/medium armour. It is essentially to negate the movement penalty of armour.

Waiting for round 1 actions from various people. Work will have me socked until Wednesday. I'll post if able, but don't expect a lot.

WOrk and other stuff. I'll be back Thursday.

Sorry guys, 'stuff' has taken over my life for a while. I'll try to get something posted tonight.

Spotty Internet for a few days.

Still sick; please give me a day or two. Gracias.

No worries , Treppa. I hope you're feeling better soon. I've been absent myself lately.

Sounds bad. Cars are a right pain!

I had to take half a day off work, but I've got the car registered and insured. Hopefully that settles things for a while.

In the game, I'll give Jam and Karl til Sunday night. Then I'll post for them.

Sorry, my computer died last week, took me a good while to get a new one and get it all up and running. I have a new fancy laptop now, so should be easier to get some posts in.

Ooh, shiny!

COngratulations on the new laptop. What did you get?

My super late reply! It's an MSI GL62, and it's working pretty well for me so far.

Nice, Leo!

Guys -- work, the usual refrain. I should have a little time this week.

Nutter, have Uthar smash this cat and end this.

Felt like I had to bot Uthar to get the round moving again. Fortunately he scored just enough damage, in conjunction with previous damage scored, to make the d-beast flee.

Good job. That encounter was tougher than I'd expected. I went with 2 d-beasts for action economy, but de-buffed them slightly, and set a limit for them to flee at half damage. I didn't expect the miss chance to hurt you as badly as it did. But you stuck it out.

Now what?

New keyboard tomorrow. Will resume posting then.

Nutter sends his appologies, he has been having a rough time of late, but will stick with the game.

No worries. We're all having a tough time posting. I hope his problems are no worse than that.

I'll be traveling for a week with uncertain internet access. I'll check in on Thursday the 16th.

Back! But have to catch up with work first. Hopefully I can post tonight.

So, last chance to bail out on bandit chasing. Right now I'm assuming that that's what you want to do. Some of the upcoming RP may look discouraging, and it may look like you're on a major detour, but don't worry. You'll be on the track soon enough.

Oh I am good for bandit chasing! Tracking them deep into the Blackcaps looks like fun!

The usual refrain. Work.

Once I get a chance to post, the next few posts might be off-putting, but stick with it. I think it'll be a decent RP opportunity and I'll get you in the chase.

Sorry for the delay, but hurray! It wasn't work this time. Had the best weekend in a almost a month. Spent some nice time with the wife. We walked on the beach and along the rail trail. Had a nice dinner out.

It was good.

Work hit me again. Sorry guys.

I had been planning on sending you all on a diplomatic mission, but Lydia seems intent on bandit chasing. Rather than railroad her, I offer you a chance to split the party. Lydia is chasing the bandits. Linokashtai is offered a spot on Karrn's staff. Karl will be consulted about logisitics shortly.

Lydia's thread will be a straight forward chase the bad guys, wilderness adventure.

Karl or Linokashtai have the opportunity for diplomacy and or petty intrigue.

I have not forgotten Aljohar, Uthar, and Jam. GIven their backgrounds, Karl and Lino seemed the easiest entry points to a diplomatic scenario.

Everyone let me know which way they want to go and I'll smooth their path to that part of the campaign.

The split is not permanent. It will probably take a couple months IRL. Then we'll all get back together.

I am happy to do the diplomacy and intrigue route!

I'm happy to go off and do some intrigue :)

I thought we could infiltrate the camp as veterans disgruntled with peace.

Talk it out amongst yourselves. I'll roll with any plan. We can split the party three ways if you like.

Lydia's stated intention was to hit the trail of the bandits immediately. Which would mean more casting about in the wilderness, etc. Makes perfect sense for her.

I was offering a different kind of play for those who want it.

Infiltrating the enemy camp could be more of a long term plan, to be acted upon once the party comes back together.

So we probably should do some planning, then :P
Karl & Lino do some puzzling here, try and drum up enough good will & or other options for the bandits that want to leave? Since hanging them won't get the grapes picked.
Lydia & Uther head off after some of the bandits, maybe combine it with Lydia's infiltrating idea... to get some intel?

Lydia's a scout, not an infiltrator. She's happy to work with the party if they have ideas for getting back into the mountains be it for information, subversion, or whatever.

Jam will most likely go with Lydia to do scouting, recon and whatnot. He doesn't consider himself much of a diplomat, scouting is probably closer to his skill set.