GM Shady's Hell's Rebels (Inactive)

Game Master GM Shady

I'm a bit tapped out on my max games at the moment or I would help Kessa. Good luck!

Kessa - I'm happy to get involved if you like - sorry should have replied when you asked on Mummy's Mask thread. Just PM me if you want to go ahead.

Ariela's player posted on another game that some personal issues have intervened. I botted her move.

This didn't affect Ariela but as you can see, I think we have another PC down. This is why I was holding off on Zakli's turn - we have some decidedly unmartial characters and a sequence of very martial encounters.

One possibility is to have the new player join when their character runs into the fray to help; this might even the odds sufficiently to get through this encounter.

Let me know.

At any rate I'll chase the player and see if they want to join. Otherwise I can probably get a new player quite quickly.

Yeaaah we need that player nowish. Damn this is brutal

I just created Eamae, what do I need to start posting? :)

(I'm new to Paizo forum PbP, but use PbP elsewhere)

Well, welcome to our little band!

Also Killian is at exactly zero, and he's a bit...upset right now. He'll likely take another swing at the guy in front of Kessa before he goes down.

@Eamae - please:

- put your stat block in the profile for Eamae (in the big text block) and
- put the key stats in one of the fields, e.g. in the Classes/Levels field, much like the ones you can see for Ariela and Killian above (you can copy/paste and then edit from there - don't worry about whether it's multiple colours etc.)

Ok, I stole Ariela's :)

Sorry, this week has been a nightmare at work. Should be back to normal service tomorrow.

Just looking at Gameplay thread (spectacular rolling Killian, I have had my doubts about Paizo's dice randomiser for a while) - are we using fumbles then?

I'm not sure what you mean by using fumbles. I take it this is an optional rule?

It tends to be a house rule. I don't tend to play fumbles - is there something about Tengu that I'm missing or is this just an option?

No, that's my bad. I must have been confused.

Killian's just been hit on the head too many times!

What does Kessa already know about the Silver Ravens? It seems likely that the followers of Milani would have maintained at least a little knowledge even when House Thrune tried to clean up the history books. I'm thinking along the lines of a vague, not necessarily all true legend.

What does Kessa already know about the Silver Ravens? It seems likely that the followers of Milani would have maintained at least a little knowledge even when House Thrune tried to clean up the history books. I'm thinking along the lines of a vague, not necessarily all true legend.

There are two Silver Ravens groups, one that of legend and the other a kind of revival group operating until recently - it's not clear the two are linked. Per your "historian of the rebellion" trait, it would seem the history of the legendary group has been redacted from the records. The more recent group - has gone quiet (see Players Guide p. 16). If the Milani religion knew anything about the original Silver Ravens at this point, it would be "Robin Hood was true, he wasn't a myth; he wasn't called Robin Hood; we don't know his real name (and for that matter, in this case there isn't a Robin Hood name either, just the idea that there was once the Merry Men)."

So, everyone has heard of the original Silver Ravens, nobody is quite sure whether they're a myth or not.

Information about them will emerge over the course of the campaign though.

I've set up Roll20 and put all the characters, plus Rexus, in front of the Livery building, whose doors are ajar. Can you please log in and identify yourselves in chat - I'll give you control over your respective counters.

Hi, I've had a few nightmare weeks at work (I'll tell you over a drink some time) but think I am back in the saddle now.

Just separately, I'm currently running an interest check on a Midgard campaign. My general practice is to offer slots first to players already involved in existing campaigns. So if you're interested please give me a shout via PM.

No worries! It happens to all of us!

I will be mostly offline from Thurs-Sun. I will try to check in, but feel free to bot me rather than wait. Thanks!

Everyone - This is the week leading up to the huge bocce tournament that I run. I take off the whole week to prepare and I'm ridiculously busy getting ready. My posting this week will be scarce.

Thanks!

OK - also everyone I am on vacation - have wifi access but posting may be sporadic due to family dictates - 9 Aug through 24 Aug.

Just FYI I have set up XP tracking (see the spoiler area at the top).

The AP provides zero guidance on XP grants for the initial riot, unless somehow you just run away at the start. I went through your victims and you'll be pleased to know that you got about the same XP as if you had run away.

For Em joining, I took the initial encounter and multiplied by 1.2 and have divided the running total by 6. Everyone's on the same number.

I'm not a fan of auto-levelling everyone when you get to a particular point in the AP, so am planning on using XP in the regular way. Hopefully everyone is OK with that.

Hi - we're tomorrow morning (its currently 11pm here) going on our annual family vacation, for 2 weeks. I believe I'll have Internet access throughout but will try to avoid getting too dragged into the computer.

I will however try to post at least once a day.

Have fun! :)

Hey guys I'm back just in time to see the GM leave! :)

Still around. Currently at JFK waiting for my connecting flight.

Re Take 10/20. I need to put this in the policy bit in the campaign resources. I think Take 10/20 is a bit broken in PbP.

Take 10 I allow on anything not in initiative, if you initiate the roll ("I'm going to do x and am taking 10 for it"). If not (e.g. to notice something where you wouldn't normally look) then I reserve the right to withhold it, but I'll indicate this is the case.

Take 20 is a good way of avoiding a series of inconsequential rolls, but I generally don't permit if the pass DC has been published. I also assume:

- the failures it's meant to encompass are noisy and can attract attention.
- time - my general policy for tracking time is 10 mins for a location without an encounter and an hour for a location with an encounter, including any subsequent searches. Take 20 on search doubles the time in question (and can have an impact on other rolls, for example on travel while under an initial Take 20 stealth roll)

@Ariela - no problem, should have clarified this all up front.

Please bot me as needed, temporary Internet issue, few days expected.

Hi - flying back home tonight, end of vacation (unfortunately). Should pick up regular pace again from Wednesday, UK time.

Hey gang I'm headed off to a work conference for a week, I'll be back late next week. If I get in the way and hold things up please GMPC me Shady.

DM, would you be so kind as to give me access to moving Killian on Roll20? I tried again tonight, but am still unable.

DM, would you be so kind as to give me access to moving Killian on Roll20? I tried again tonight, but am still unable.

Done - sorry hadn't realised you had identified yourself.

Not to worry!

I'm back! sorries! :(

Welcome back! :)

I will be traveling for work for the next week and a half, my posting schedule will become spotty.

Hi - sorry. Got back from a trip to the US and acquired an infection - have been in hospital this last week. Got out yesterday and finally online today. I'm just going round updating my various games; will try and get things back on track tomorrow (but I have a fair bit of catching up to do). Apologies again.

Oh no :( I'm sorry to hear you got sick! It must of been pretty bad to be hospitalized. I'm happy to see you've gotten better to leave. I was getting worried!

Oh no :( I'm sorry to hear you got sick! It must of been pretty bad to be hospitalized. I'm happy to see you've gotten better to leave. I was getting worried!

So was I! Thanks. Felt v rough for about 48 hours but then it was just keeping me under observation so although my sleep cycle is all over the place I think I'm OK (famous last words ...).

sorry guys, real life ongoing emergency. Please bot as needed; OK to use spells and consumables if needed.

Hope everything is ok Kessa!

I'm back. An elderly family member was diagnosed with cancer that cannot be treated, a few weeks to live. My posting may be a little spotty, and I may disappear again, but I'm here for now.

:( I'm sorry to hear that. I hope that everything will be comfortable for them.

Hope everything is ok!

Our GM has been missing for about 3 weeks, not just from this campaign but from the boards. I hope he's OK. My suggestion would be we wait another week and then discuss what we want to do.

He said he had some medical condition, hopefully he's still just recovering.

Yep, I agree Kessa. It sounded like GM was on the mend, so hopefully it is just a matter of catching back up in RL first.

Yeah I was thinking he is still in recovery. I'm checking back every few days or so to see if there's any message from him. I hope everything is ok.

So has anyone heard anything?

Nothing yet.

Damn it right after my fun reveal too...