GM Rednal's Jade Regent (Inactive)

Game Master Rednal

Hey Rednal, I know you're pretty chill about retraining in our other game. Does that hold true here? If so, how would you feel about me retraining my Mystic levels for Prodigy ones? Narratively I don't see that my character's fighting style needs to change too much, and while it's been nice to give PoW a bit of a run, I think I don't really care for it and I'm going to find it kind of unmanagable as time goes on. I'd like to do shoot either pure Prodigy or Sorcerer (sphere sorcerer) 1/Prodigy X but I haven't looked that close yet.

I wouldn't bother to retrain it until next level up, but I figured as long as there's a little down time I'd ask.

Yeah, retraining in this game is fine. ^^ Especially when testing out a system you haven't really used before. Sometimes the ideas you come up with just don't work out all that well, and it's not fun to be stuck with choices that just aren't working out.

Cool. :-)

In other happenings... any word on where Shutai went?

Well, I know they're active. o wo Poke them?

I'm terribly sorry, I thought I'd posted. Work is being rather...draining, so In haven't been checking games without posting to see if it's me we're waiting for. I'll post now.

FYI, I'm leaving for a road trip next Wednesday, June 7th, and will be out of town until June 18th. I will likely make some posts from my phone but expect it to be sporadic as I won't be bringing my laptop. On top of that, looks like my fiancée and I will be buying a new vehicle this week (which, with wheelchair accessible vans means we're driving a little way to and from the dealership)... and my best friend is getting married this weekend... so it could be as early as tomorrow that my posting becomes unreliable. I know we generally don't in this game, but you may still feel free to bot me to move things along if desired. Thanks!

Well, that was unanticipated. Double the level up, double the fun.

Right? XD

Book: They should level up when they enter the main floor. And when they enter the dungeon.

Me: *Looks at the 3-4 encounters on the floor* ...Uh. Okay.

... dang! You know, it had felt like it'd been a while since a level up, but sure wasn't bargaining on two. Alright I'll work to get on my rebuild ASAP, but it could take a short bit (turning 30 this Sunday has me pretty tied up these next couple days).

P.S. I dig the narrative twist for why we missed a level. :-P

Will work on leveling today. As posted in other games I'm on vacation this next week as well. Leaving tomorrow. I will have my phone, so I'm fine going through the rooms but once we hit the final encounter I would prefer to be at a computer to make post as formatting on phone is tedious.

Rednal where do you stand on Broken Wing Gambit and solo tactics. I'm of the camp I hit give them the bonus then when they attack me I get an AoO, but wanted to see where you were before selecting. Thanks.

"Your allies", in this game, is functionally the same as "you and your allies" except when it would be impossible. With Solo Tactics, you totally get the chance to make an AoO yourself, but you still need to have an ally threatening the enemy in question. Gotta meet those positioning prerequisites, after all.

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Also, what's basically an extra attack against many foes every round for the price of one feat would be faaaaaar too strong in what's already a pretty high-power game. XD Positioning is the limiter that makes Solo Tactics reasonable, rather than totally broken.

Oh yes for sure, I agree there.

That is why you take eldritch heritage and get a familiar :) I agree also really strong especially with combat reflexes. So yeah if I did in now and just took combat reflexes and broken wing no big deal situational, but next level take eldritch heritage to get a familiar and now

Taka wins init and rushes in striking the bad guy. Bad guy smiles as they get full attack unaware that Taka strikes them back twice in return.

I agree we are quite strong and I will not go down this line, theme wise I like it for a samurai sword saint sort feel but very strong. I mean I'm already playing a synth summoner so... :)

Thanks.

I know Taka’s on vacation but just wanted to check in; my computer doesn’t stay plugged in very well and its battery went dead on Saturday. My new battery should be here tomorrow, so I should be able to catch up before he comes back but if I don’t, that’s probably why. Thanks for your patience. :-)

I'm just being slow with updating due to personal issues.

Y'okay. ^^ It's all good.

I assume this is one of those 'blast first, ask there charred, melty corpses later' situations? Or do we want to try and talk them down?

That... is entirely up to you. o wo

...or is it?

yeah the boards are back. Just got on for first time. Leaving early for a day event tomorrow. Will make a GP post late tomorrow or Sunday.

Ready for you in gameplay, Rednal.

Shutai?

Yeah we have an Oni to slay :)

Sorry, I is dead. 33 points of damage takes me to -13, and my Con is 13, so...dooped. Busy talking to Rednal about what happens next, I'm afraid.

*Whispers* Say you used Cure Serious Wounds on yourself while approaching the troll area and forgot to mention it earlier. Because healing up after previous fights is completely normal and it's easy to lose track of that in PbP given the slow speed, and especially with the recent site outage. Rednal will totally fall for it.

Yeah I didn't even realize you were so hurt going into this. We have the wand and knew we were approaching Trolls at lease I would have healed you back then. Speak up when your hurt :)

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Down to 17/50 charges

There you were at full going in.

Thank you Yidra, perhaps now goddess of wisdom or common sense :)

OK, cool. Normally I wouldn't retcon like this - it's my fault if I forget - but on this occasion, I did remember...and then the site insanity.

This has turned into a very very long weekend. I'll need to catch up with a post tomorrow. (Soon, my fiance will start her new job and we'll be done with dog training, and then my life should finally return to some normalcy...)

Hurication is over. We have power and we are now back to work. I will be playing catch up. I hope to read through and make a game play post. Thank you all for the patience. We were lucky and just had debris with no damage at home.

One of the reasons I've often wondered why American always makes fun of Australians for there continent full of murder vermin is that you guys have murder weather instead. I'm not sure which I'd prefer. Other than neither, of course. Yay, Britannia.

Glad to hear your home and family came through well, though.

On the bright side, we're not South America. It's true that the Southeast US in particular gets whacked by Hurricanes, though.

This might just be TV's portrayal, but it seems like where you don't get Hurricanes you get tornadoes, and where you don't get tornadoes you get earthquakes. And the places that don't get those are on fire. Of course, TV is kinda overdramatic...

Yeah, I'd have said I preferred the murder weather, but storms are getting noticeably worse as the years pass so that's not my final anwer. But TV's portrayal is kinda wrong, because there is some overlap: for example, most hurricanes actually spawn tornadoes when they make landfall, but they're on the weaker side and don't get national news coverage when compared to the storm as a whole. Tornadoes in the midwest are where you get the single-cyclone town flatteners.

I live in the northmost tip of Tornado Alley but my city's in a river valley so most of the tornadoes happen around us. There was a storm about 3, 4 weeks ago that dropped 10 tornadoes across southern MN, and we definitely drove through the part of the storm that was dropping them on the highway when coming back into the town. Could only see the other cars' headlights in the driving rain, everything else was just gray and it was like, constant 40 mph winds. Then drove through this pitch black cloud, and on the other side it went from driving to just gusting in sheets. I thought for sure we were about to be picked up but no, it waited like 15 minutes before it was over a neighboring town to drop its like, 7th tornado of the day. Easily the scariest storm I've driven through... and that's saying something on rainstorms alone.

In MN we also have temperatures from -40 F some winters to 100 F in the summer. Not the largest temperature variance in the world (Siberia holds the record I think, and North Dakota is slightly worse as far as the US goes), but on both end its touching that threshold of "don't let elderly folk and children outside for the sake of their safety." It only lasts about a week each season though, and some winters are just miserable as opposed to brutal.

And uhh, earthquakes mostly happen southwest coast, but forest fires are kinda all over the west coast, concentrated in the middle? I guess I don't know if you have to deal with both in the same places, but they're adjacent, at least.

(You guys reawakened my 8 year old self, who was a huge meteorology nerd. And yeah, Shutai, I'm making you do the metric conversions yourself to make heads or tails of the numbers there. :-P)

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Anyway, all that said, I'm glad your back safe, Taka!

I'm afraid my wife is American, so I can use both. I'm bitemperature.

But yeah, my idea of bad weather is sometimes we get snow. Sometimes.

So, yeah, unless we use a sled we're not gonna get everything out. Note to self - buy a[u] sack of looting[/u] bag of holding next time.

So...what are we gonna plunder? We can also offer Ulf and the Merchant a share, because I don't think we're coming back.

*Looks at the long-distance journey theme of the AP*

That seems like a reasonable assumption. o wo

OK, so, here's the loot we found.

Jewellry - 150lbs - 2100gp
Copper Bars - 1000lbs - 1205gp
Silver Bars - 200lbs - 1000gp
Drinking Horns - 345gp
Aurouch Horn - 135gp

850gp, 1975gp, 3000cp

Bar the coin and the horns, which don't have a weight, We have 1350lbs worth of loot. Obviously, the copper bars are worth the least for there weight, so I would suggest our strong folk focus on splitting that 350lbs worth of stuff, and then taking as much copper as we can fill up on.

There were also some supplies on one of the lower levels, and the upper floor if we wanna take a peek?

(Just mundane stuff, not terribly valuable. Could probably find tools if you want any.)

If Taka's "we have the caravan come up and loot it plan" is for some reason out, then yeah, I think Shutai's idea is the bet way to go about it. I'm into getting supplies if that's going to help the caravan as we set out. But yeah, I guess I don't know if there's "caravan load limit" and "caravan's days of supplies" mechanics that we're keeping track of.

Waitin' for Rednal. :-)

Been knocked off my feet by some kind of sickness. Will resume posting when the brain fog clears.

will work on leveling today and tomorrow. Got a few things to knock out before the holiday at work.

I will also be working on my level up as the proximity to the holiday season permits.

The boards on semi-hiatus this time of year anyway, so yeah, no need to rush. XD

I'd completely forgotten this was a thing I was doing, but shall also get on it when I remember.

+9 HP
+1 BAB

Feat - Access Low Chakra Slot (Hands)
Bonus Feat - Craft Spell Tattoo

Revelation - Transcendental Bond.

Oracle Spells Known - 2nd - Lesser Restoration, 3rd - Remove Curse
+1 2nd and 3rd level spellslots.

Sorcerer Spells Known - 2nd - Arcane Disruption, Pugwampi's Grace
Bonus Spell - Fly
+1 2nd and 3rd level spellslots.

Skills - +1 Diplomacy, +1 Perception, Bluff +1, Knowledge (Arcana) +2.

Checking in, hope everyone had happy holidays. Barring unforeseen interruptions, I'll get my level up in today and be ready to resume the game. :-)

Proposed Level-Up

BAB: +1
Caster Level: +1
HP: +11 (+1 FCB)
Skill Points (8): Acrobatics +1, Knowledge (nature) +3, Perception +1, Spellcraft +1, Stealth +1, Survival +1
Feat (1): Combat Casting

Prodigy Class Features: Reflect Spell
Ranger Class Features: Hunter's Trick (Ranger's Counsel), Woodland Stride

Spheres (+1): Destruction - Shape Focus (buy-off)

I got knocked on my butt by some influenza last night, so I’m going to be out till at least the middle of the week.

So we still waiting for Taka's level up? And I'm back.