Maybe you already know this but in case you have forgotten: you are carrying a sack with a bunch of healing potions in it and your best fighter is staggering about at 0 hit points.
It's the kind of stuff which gets lost with the length of pbp games.
I've been unable to access the Paizo site for the last few days - some sort of technical glitch.
I'll update Daxius ASAP.
I was also unable to connect most of yesterday, although there were people who could.
Didn't work for me for several hours either.
What was weird was that I knew people in Indonesia and the Southwest US who were connecting with no problem, while I (central US), you (Wales, IIRC), and another fellow player from Scotland couldn't get on.
I couldn't connect from my house, but could from my cell phone at first (eventually it stopped too). At work I had absolutly no issues (in fact, it's usually real slow there, but worked much faster than usual at work).
See, I knew that the internet was haunted!
I'm going to be on the road and hard to reach for the next twelve hours or so. Pontia wants to talk to Master Titus, if possible, and that'll probably take more attention than I can give through a phone connection.
Is it possible to get to the bridge before the wagon and hide under it? Also, does anyone have thoughts about what would happen to the wagon if it went over a grease spell's area of effect? How about a pit from an expeditious excavation?
I wouldn't grease the bridge, on the off chance that the carraige went into the water. That would be bad for those locked inside.
I like the idea of a pit behind the carraige so it can't turn around and retreat.
Expeditious excavation clears a 5' square to a depth of 5', so if it opens up in front of a wagon wheel I don't see the wagon going anywhere for a while. If it's going fast enough that could break the wheel, or the axle.
18/19 seems fairer to me
Just an fyi I'll have diminished posting capacity for the next 48-72 hours. If you need me to do something, feel free to have me do it.
I'm having a really hard time reproducing the road map in maptools: I thought I could just copy in the map from the AP but it won't sync-up.
Maptools is great for indoor locations but outdoors is a challenge, work is busy too so I'll finish it tonight or Friday night.
I'm really enjoying your interaction and hate it when games peeter out after a good start.
Can I check, do you want any of the gang to come with you for the actual ambush?
I think as many as are willing and able should be with the distraction team; maybe they'll be able to defeat the armigers who go out after them. As for the ambush proper, that depends. Can Tarvi cast any spells?
ETA: Also, thanks for the update. WRT mapping, it's kind of crude but I use Google spreadsheets with the column width shrunk to match the row height and color them in. When I was first setting up to run a PbP, DM Talomyr showed me an example from his CoT campaign, which now that I think about it was actually the ambush at the bridge. In my KM game I've also imported images from the AP into MS Paint and used the Text tool to write character symbols.
I think I'll leave the planning to those who know what they're doing. I'll just pick the locks when I get a chance.
Currently, Tarvi can cast prestidigitation twice a day.
She'd better stay away, then, although having her change what color a couple peoples' clothes are could be useful.
I'm going to be on the road this evening and tomorrow, with little likelihood for an update before tomorrow night. All times as for GMT - 5.
Safe travels.
Pontia asked about taking 20 on stealth.
I would consider that preparation gives you a circumstance bonus but, ultimately, you have to maintain stealth in a circumstances where there is a penalty for failure: thus you cannot take 20.
If you were spending a day building a hide which gave a bonus to stealth, you could take 20 on that.
Yeah but we only have, what, 4 hours at the most?
Could be 5 minutes, for all we know.
exactly!
A circumstance bonus is reasonable. I was just thinking we should get something for prep time; with that set of rolls, though, we don't need much.
I'm going to assume that a couple of the gang ae looking after the horses in the woods.
Once I figure out how to do mounted foes in maptools we'll get going:
Just want to check the plan:
1. Coat bridge in oil
2. Hide
3. Let mounted guards pass
4. Ignite bridge
5. Use dig to stop carriage
6. Attack/breakout
yes?
Looks about right to me.
I thought we were also going to have some of Janiven's people shoot a few arrows at the convoy shortly before they reach the bridge, to maybe make them split off some more of the mounted guards to go after the shooters, who would break contact at that point. That puts more of their people at risk, though. It's up to them, since we're also counting on the fire to split the group.
I thought we were also going to have some of Janiven's people shoot a few arrows at the convoy shortly before they reach the bridge, to maybe make them split off some more of the mounted guards to go after the shooters, who would break contact at that point. That puts more of their people at risk, though. It's up to them, since we're also counting on the fire to split the group.
Okay, take a look at the first tab and decide who you want on archery duty.
Gorvio, Larko, Mathalen, and Rizzardo. Crossbows are fine to use (and Pontia will loan hers to one of them if need be); they just need to have some horses handy and a well-scouted escape route so they can run away from the pursuit.
Just one thing to add:
7. Be awesome
Sounds good to me.
I think we're waiting for the armigers.
Oh, yes you are, sorry.
I have been delayed lately by doing a lot of work and checking my internet during down-time at work, without my herolab, maptools, pdfs or books... That shoulf be getting better after next week.
I don't use HeroLab or MapTools for my campaigns, so I just put all the pdfs on a flash drive and carry that around. (OTOH, I spend a lot more time setting up maps on Google spreadsheets than I would if I used MapTools, so I suppose it evens out in the end.)
Cool map, btw!
It does look good--much better than spreadsheets. BTW, I'll be out of town this weekend for an SF convention, heading out tomorrow morning, and even though the hotel has decent internet I'm not sure how much time I'll have. If necessary, DMPC me. Pontia is going to cast expeditious excavation to try to pin the wagon in place at her action next round, then switch to light crossbow or acid dart against the signifier.
Ilove the maps but I wish I was more skilled so I could produce them more quickly.
I will also be away, but the hotel has wi-fi, and I will only have my fiancee's computer so there'll be no map updates over the weekend.
I'll try to keep up though, and DMPC Pontia if needs be.
I don't use HeroLab or MapTools for my campaigns, so I just put all the pdfs on a flash drive and carry that around. (OTOH, I spend a lot more time setting up maps on Google spreadsheets than I would if I used MapTools, so I suppose it evens out in the end.)
Maptools is written in Java so you can carry that around as well. It's pretty easy to get an image in there for the map and put the tokens in there as well.
Just a heads up that this weekend I will be attending a local anime convention to chaperone my youngest sister. My ability to post will be spotty.
I have sent Adam a PM, if he doesn't reply by the end of the day then I will DMPC Astra for a little and keep the game moving.
Talk about fail. I forgot Favored Enemy that ENTIRE battle.
I turned Nicolai into a token!
I am going to create NPCs using the token tool because it resizes and reshapes automatically, which is very handy. We can carry on with square pics for your characters or turn them into bordered tokens: what would you prefer?
I like the tokens. Tokentool lets you make square bordered tokens as well. Makes them more visible.
Very nice! It would help if you can make the PCs a different shape from the NPCs.
Whoo! Token!