GM Dak - Shattered Star (G2) (Inactive)

Game Master Dakcenturi

False (re)start?

Not sure. But I'm I the new place and have internet. So ready to go.

Catching up on it all. Post coming tonight to get things restarted!

Glad we're still going.

Same here. ^^

Here is the MAP once you have logged on tell me your name and I will give you access to your token then we can get everyone placed where they want to be.

I am known as Droviz D. on roll20.

I am Mark C. on roll20.

Joseph B.

Elan but I believe you included me already

Just need Judah, Rommin you need to login before I can assign you. Everyone else should be able to move their tokens as appropriate.

I will try to stay logged in.

Jasper. I changed my display name to my character name to simplicity's sake.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here that I can't find the game on Roll20. I am only seeing the Rappan Athuk game that I am in there. Any advice?

Have you tried clicking the map link at the top of the page?

Yeah I guess it didn't originally link you into the game or something because I don't see your name to add to your character. The link is at the top of the page but also for easier reference MAP LINK

Thanks! I can see the map now, but I cannot move the Rommin icon. I was just going to shift it between Judah and Valai to keep them from being rushed from inside, and to keep visibility outside in case someone tries to flank us.

I've moved myself. Taking cover behind some debris for now. ^^ Don't worry, though; once a fight breaks out, I'll be right by the rest of you with rapier flashing...! Since I don't have any heavy-hitting evocations prepped. ^^;

Would I be possible to get a sort of summary of what's happened and what we are doing, updated every once in a while. If the DM posts it under the Campaign Info tab in the short description area, it will appear at the top of each page. The game had slowed down for a few weeks and then stopped for about 2 months, so it might help everyone sort of get back into things and remember better than rereading the past posts.

Good idea, I will work on getting that together.

Sorry. I'm dealing with the field until Sunday, and where I'm at I get no internet. :( So slight pause for the moment. Please feel free to act for me.

So I built Judah with the starting concept that he really has no control over his abilities. He'll eventually learn, but for now they just happen when his emotions run high.

So unless he's interrupted somehow, I'm planning on having him summon something that will attack the party. I'm doing this to establish some of the themes I'm exploring with the character, not to start inter-party conflict.

I wanted to mention it here before it happened in game in case anyone is super dead-set against fighting an extra CR 1/2 enemy.

Does my attempt not count? :)

Nope. Spells are only interrupted by failed concentration checks, which are caused by damage, pain or violent motion.

Judah doesn't consciously realize what he's doing, so just shaking him and telling him its alright isn't going to stop the effect.

I was joking. I'm fine with you Rping it out. And honestly my character was focusing on RP and more the dagger than the spell.

The only remaining lead that you had, once Plutivarch was dead and you didn't have any others supposed slvaers to deal with, was to see Fenster the Blight. Kasadei gave you directions to the warehouse that he lives at.

As for spoilers I always do spoilers for information that should only pertain to one individual so that they can do what they want with that information. As noted here in the style guide section. :)

No worries. I just mean for me, you dont need to worry about it if you dont want too, (Ill tell the others). But if you want to, go ahead. :)

Checking in. Super busy lately. Sorry my posting rate has dropped. Please bot me as needed

Honestly, I should have thought of hitting this guy with an illusion sooner... ^^; He may be a bit miffed with me if we ever go back for more information, but the rest of you can just say you didn't know I was tricking him, right?

Sure. But its probably true, we dont know. :)

If anyone is at all interested, the Pathfinder Online Alpha opened yesterday. I jumped on as soon as I got the client downloaded and played for a couple of hours.

I livestreamed the playthrough on Twitch and archived the videos. I also did a highlight of some combat as a lot of the time was just running around exploring and playing around with things.

I will be livestreaming again tonight and any other opporunities I have if people want to check it out.

Dak's Twitch Channel

The what opened? *puzzled*

Pathfinder Online - New Sandbox MMO set in the River Kingdoms of the Pathfinder setting.

I updated the campaign info specifically around gameflow and combat. Please take a look and let me know if there are any questions and concerns. Not that this is a problem here, just implementing it across all my games.

Looks good. Is this to try to speed the game up? That would be awesome. That's really my only complaint, but I'm otherwise loving it. My stats are correct in the DM rolls sections.

Yes that is the main objective to get things moving along a little faster. I know there were some serious slowdowns on my part but my hope is we can get back into the swing of things and move forward at a good pace. Like I said it's not because it is directly a problem here, just I wanted to set expectations for how I plan to handle things moving forward.

Sound good. I check in a few times a day, but often don't really have anything to add.

Looks good to me. The style guidelines will be nice to get everyone on the same page as far as posting format is concerned. Thanks for adding that.

I like it very much. I would like to make a few observations.

GM Rolls: I am great with this, even saving throws or AoOs if appropriate. I know some players can be superstitious (and I not judging, just observing), but it is not anything that's a concern for me.

I like the way you do initiative order. Would you consider something like italicize anyone who has gone already, or bold the people that are up? Or both?

And depending on how much time I have to post, I do try to be descriptive. A lot of times, I will either write a descriptive paragraph, and then break it down into actions and rolls later. Or, I'll write the descriptive paragraph and use out of text markers to detail the game terms of the actions. If you don't have a preference, I probably will end up switching back and forth between the two styles periodically.

And I have no problem with any of the other players calling for us. We've been playing together long enough that I trust their judgment. :)

I like the way you do initiative order. Would you consider something like italicize anyone who has gone already, or bold the people that are up? Or both?

Good idea. I will try this out and see how it feels.

Something I have begun to do in my games is to insert () after each person, and as they take damage, put a -3 or whatever in there. It gives an indication on how much a person has been hit (or healed) without giving away too much of enemies HP. It also helps players to keep track of how much they have taken, especially in larger fights where a lot of things are being rolled.

On the DM's side, I just copy the last one I posted and then add these things as I go.

So it might look like:

Round 1
Germain (-2), Thugs (#1 -4) (#2) (#3 -1), Rest of Party

Can you all not see the Green bars on Roll20? I keep track of the HP there.

Honestly, I've never noticed it before, but right now I can't see the map at all. No Minis, nothing. It's all blank.

A question: what is the date, in-game?

Life got complicated this week. Sorry for the delay. Things are back to normal now. I'll get a post in tonight or tomorrow morning.

No worries Judah. Valia it is 4713, or are you looking for the exact month/day date?

Sorry for the delay. I would have posted today but was away from the PC all day. Will be around tomorrow and get a post up!

DIMRAL SMASH PUNY CRATES!!!!!!!!!!!!

:P

Just a heads up. Wife had an emergency c-section today. Everything ok so far will probably be away for a couple days.

Hope everything goes well. You and the family are in my prayers.