All:
I'll be headed to Dragon Con this Thursday afternoon and will not return until Monday late. I am not sure how much free time I'll have or what the internet situation will be like. I predict my posting will be sparse, but not nonexistent. Please bot me if I am too slow to support the group.
Hi all. I am back from the con. I played nine 5 hour slots of PFS and averaged maybe 5 hours of sleep a night for four nights. I'll be doing my best to catch up on everything and post tomorrow. Its good to be back home, and back with the game. :)
lol, nice! Wish I could have made it down there. Next year I'm putting it on the books for sure.
Dropping a note to all of my games. I'm out of the loop until Monday, fulfilling my VC duties and running a convention this weekend in Lexington, KY. I'll be back on Sunday but will probably be passed out from exhaustion and getting some rest. I'll see everyone on Monday!
Cool Beans. Have a good con.
Guys, I apologize but I feel I should probably take a break from PbP for a bit. I just wound up leaving a Campaign I had a great deal of time & enjoyment invested in because what I felt was a simple miscommunication snowballed rapidly & to be painfully honest, I can't tell if I was over-reacting or took too long to make the break.
I'm going to take about a week off, Captain Trips, please go ahead & 'bot' me if needful.
Will do.
I am ready to roll. I can see the post count for the other group and am jealous. Lets get some explorin done. :)
I am ready to roll. I can see the post count for the other group and am jealous. Lets get some explorin done. :)
And meanwhile I see your side of the campaign get new posts much more frequently than ours, and I am jealous as well. :P
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Guys, I'm dealing with some work related issues and am otherwise detained. I should have this wrapped up by COB today and will be able to resume in the morning.
Very good Trips. I understand busy. :)
Castor - we seem to be in a lull - took lots of time to do nothing with the old potions guy and the lots of time to explore an empty hole. lol.
After the fact, I realized a further contributing factor was that last week was finals week for my accelerated college class. I have three five-week classes, of which one just finished, so I believe that in the interests of not having another episode like this past week, I will likely be taking another hiatus when my next final comes up in about a month.
Yes, I'm back.
I'm thinking about taking some liberties with the exploration system, as I feel it is somewhat bogging things down with the PbP nature of this AP. While it is a big part of the initial phase of the game, it doesn't have the proper flow in my opinion to work well in this format. Picking directions for example becomes a fairly complex and time consuming task.
What are your opinions on shelving it in favor of something that is more driven by myself and less cumbersome overall?
It would mean some seriously abridged timelines but would allow us to focus more on the actual important areas within the adventure.
I'm going to cross post this to the other group as well for their feedback.
If I understand your proposal Trips I am in favor of it. You can move us forward to each next reasonable encounter after a previous one, based on our skill sets and our desire to explore the entire area, and not have to worry about a difficult to conduct poll of opinion for each choice along the road. I will not feel rail roaded at all. Promise. :)
You could always make more interesting things happen regardless of what the dice say, I am definitely starting to see issues with it for sure, but I bet you will figure something out.
I trust whatever decision you decide upon in this matter trips.
The exploration sub-system has frequently been one of the harder things to mesh with the overall game. I suspect that is a big part of why it was so simplified & streamlined in the first place.
I am entirely ok with however you want to address it Captain.
Traveling today for work folks. I'll try to post an update when I get home if I have some time, but I have a 6pm game I'll likely be late for, so I may not have an update for you till tomorrow morning.
k- thanks for the heads up. :)
So for my next character I'm thinking.... :D
Depending on what happens in the next two rounds, this indeed could end up very badly. I half expected everyone to approach the area and search, so folks standing back actually made this encounter a bit harder than I had intended.
No, you'd absolutely be able to make a new character. There is even the opportunity to take over the persona of any NPC not directly tied to future events (Kesten, Oleg, Svetlana, etc.).
No self respecting VC plays Encounters. What is wrong with you! :)
A head's up for everyone, I'm going to be away this afternoon, running a PFS special event tomorrow, and dealing with my home game of Skull and Shackles on Sunday. So I'm fairly out of the loop until Monday.
That is a nice trip. Wish I could afford to take an 8 day trip... I work too much!
For the record, I don't have time tonight, but I'll get a loot split document up for this outing's loot as soon as I get a chance.
I don't think my side of the group found any loot, did we?
No Loot?!? What have you been doing? We have masterwork armor and magic weapons and potions and even a gem mine. :P
We've been getting slaughtered by a bear and increasing the fort's production by bringing back some reformed bandits, actually.
Oops. Should be publically accessible now.
Your value on the short sword is off by about 500gp.
Weapons and other non gem or art items are sold at half price, are they not? The value of the sword as part of a share is therefore only worth that much.
Also, the loot splitting sheet now has a "Paid from pocket" field if a player wants to add gold from his own reserves to compensate for a larger claim.
Oh! Right. My bad. That's what I get for making loot split sheets at night.
In my mind, a +1 weapon was 1000 gp, not 2000.
Reporting for duty.
Likewise.
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I will get you all started today. Please make sure you check the other gameplay thread for information I sent out this morning.
Also, Den I think you were in the other group, might want to confirm that. If you want to join this group against the kobolds I have no problems with that either.
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Head's up to all my games that I will be out of town visiting Gatlinburg, TN from tomorrow afternoon until Sunday night, so my posting will be infrequent. I will try to get up early enough each morning to get online and make a post and will try to do so at least once in the evenings, but I can't make any promises.
Thanks for the heads-up.
No, I am in this group. Not sure what you mean. Against the Kobolds?