I'm going to be around guys, but I thought I had ducked the tidal wave of flu and cold bugs going around my office, and now that everyone else has gotten over it, now I have one.
I may be a little spotty the next few days.
Ok, that makes sense then we'll wish him a nice break then. :)
Ok, that makes sense then we'll wish him a nice break then. :)
That was concerning me, i'm not sure about the GM. :P
Everything is fine. My wife was admitted on Wed for an emergency c-section and my son was born about 4 weeks premature. He's doing good, and we'll hopefully get him home inside of a week :D
I just didn't have access while I was at the hospital. That should change now and things will get a bit back to normal. Sorry about not being able to let you all know. Game is still live and kicking :)
Congratulations - take all the time you need to get things together.
Glad everything is alright.
Congrats on the addition to the family and take your time.
Yup. Your little one is not only your first priority, but all of ours I think it's safe to say. Take care of your family, yourself, and then your games :).
Woot! Congratz!
Whenever YOU are ready we will continue...
XD
That's good man, congrats on everything.
Suppose that makes this a great time to come down with this godawful flu that has been going around.
I'll be around, but i have not felt up to posting anything the last couple three days.
So just an update on things for me personally. My son is still in the NICU, but that's routine for a premie. He's eating really well (like a pig!), and they had him under the lights because he was jaundiced (again completely normal for any baby, but more of a concern for premies). Everything else is normal, and believe me they tested EVERYTHING. As long as he keeps eating and getting rid of waste, we should be able to take him home soon. My wife is sore, but doing well. So I'll try to maintain the one a day post at least, but things have calmed some after the chaos of the birth and getting my son stable and doing well.
Again, I'm glad you and your family are doing well. My youngest daughter had jaundice and the toughest part was seeing how they 'squeezed her heel' to get some blood for testing. :)
It sounds like you're in good hands so congrats!
That's amazing my son spent a little bit of time in the NICU as well but as long as he's eating and pooping and active that's all you want. Congrats again.
So who's tracking loot? :)
Let me know if Drakra's condescending comments get out of hand, or annoying. He does not really have a limiter on his mouth, or perhaps he just does not care when he finds a prime target for insults.
I think you should be true to the character. He's the only one of us that isn't ultra serious :). I hope you don't him getting scolded by the other characters though.
He probably does not have the common sense to pay attention to the scolding too much. If he had common sense, he would not have ended getting into the situations he has in his life, like ending up at the bottom of a cave created by a demon lord under a dead dragon - common sense would have had him on a beach drinking a daiquiri.
We have our son home from the NICU now, and although he isn't allowing us much sleep, work and other normal activities should settle back into routine.
Congratulations. He's going to cause you a lot of stress but bring even more joy.
Good deal!
Yeah and from a father of two teenagers, kids get better as they get older. Babies are for the mother. :)
Hey all,
First day back at work. Had this nasty flu going around, still not 100% but i'm alive and around.
Should be back up to speed later tonight.
Congrats and welcome back. With two boys running around, I know you have years of fun, and aggravation, ahead of you. It is all more than worth it though.
Ali mentioned that the map is hard to work with. Is that something that everyone is experiencing? And if there are hardships, what are they? I'm sure we can work around them. I want the map to be a help, not a hindrance.
The map is not bad. You can only move to where you can see, and if it is blocked, then you cannot move there. It took a little while to play around with it, but I was able to get it to work. I imagined this to be a much larger chamber/temple. I did not realize until I saw the map that the entire room is only like 40' across.
I do not know whether he is posting from a phone or something, as the Map works well from my computer.
My only issue is that I can only work with it from home so I wouldn't be able to move on the map for 8 more hours. I'm good with someone moving me to a somewhat appropriate position and letting me know what is happening so we don't get held up. Man we've got no range attacks :)
Perhaps if there were coordinates on the map, people who cannot move the avatars themselves could post how and to where they move, and then someone else, or the DM could move them.
right now my map is just a black field, with a white edge. i'm not really able to see anyone else or anything.
Selindra, try again, you should have control of your avatar and see the map. I think there may have been something going on with the light source on your token.
Sorry for lack of posts.
Be a couple of weeks till new computer, and my cheap tablet doesn't work so well.
Many apologies.
Into now my fourth week of the flu that won't die. Resorting to a lovely blend of nyquil, robitussin, and cough drops. needless to say, i think my ability to taste anything died a week ago.
I am here, I just have not felt up to doing much the last week.
I think I'm here. Although I may just be a figment of my imagination.
I think I'm here. Although I may just be a figment of my imagination.
Gnomish Court Bard. More like a fairy tale. ;)
Hey, easy on the fairy comments. My mother's third cousin's house guest was a fairy.
Thanks for the head's up Selindra. Get to feeling better! And Flynn, totally sympathize with the computer thing. I've been there, more than once. Both of you just keep us in the loop. I don't mind GMBotting for a while, as long as I know you're still around and still wanting to be in the game.
Sorry about the delay there, I was trying to give Selindra and Flynn a chance to post, and the last two days at home have been hectic. Brendan has become colicky and his bouts with it last from about 7pm - midnight, so I was lax on checking posts yesterday evening.
No worries, hope things settle down for all. Life is hectic, that's for sure.
*sobs as Selindra talks the group out of their money*
Bah - he will get lost, then we will find him hiding somewhere trying to fend off his own shadow.
Hit with a nasty flu bug. Going to try to keep posting, but if I don't tomorrow, you'll know why.
Get better.
I am off to TotalCon this weekend. Might be able to post, but it is likely to be light until Sunday night.
All I have to say is....insulate yourself from that flu bug. I didn't even feel like moving again till Friday night, and didn't really feel human till Saturday night. My stamina still hasn't come back, I got winded just carrying trash out this morning, but I'm back and looking forward to becoming active.
Back. Sorry for the delay folks. Lost my computer then lost my internet. Borrowing wife's comp for now.
Good to have you back, Flynn
I'm dropping this note on all of my games, please note that all of you have been good with either posting, or letting me know if/why you aren't posting regularly, but I figured if I was going to post to one game, I should do it to all.
I am going to start GMBotting for people who don't post at least once a day in combat situations. I think right now we are suffering from spotty posting.
If it continues to be a problem, I will drop people and recruit new. Please not that this does NOT apply to anyone that's either given me a head's up about absences through a PM, or in this forum. If you think you won't be able to post, all I ask is you let me know. Most everyone's been pretty good with that.
I check these boards multiple times a day, so if we get posts quickly enough, I can increase the pace. I've been trying to give people time to post every day, but that's lead to gaps of several days, or even a week or more between posts. The expectation was, barring abnormality, that everyone would post once a day. I've been lax on enforcing that, and the game has bogged a bit because of it, and that's entirely my fault. I'm also not saying that I'm going to be draconic about enforcing this, I understand life gets in the way, but when not posting for a week at a time becomes the norm, something needs to be done/said.
Trust me I hate these kind of notices as much as you do.
I agree that it is necessary to bot/move the game along. Those games I enjoy the least are those with big gaps where I lose track of what is going on. If people don't have the consideration to inform the game/DM when they will be away, except in rare actual emergencies (and I mean actual real emergencies), then botting and/or removal is necessary if the game is not going to fail.
Sounds fair and sadly necessary GM.
Question for you GM:
Normally Fighting Defensively is a standard action that goes with attacks. If I wanted to use my Antagonize feat, would you allow that to be used in conjunction with fighting defensively, or is that something that would have to be its own seperate action.
Makes a bit of a difference at the moment considering Selindra is not wearing her armor. >.<
If not, then I will probably just try to flank and fight defensively while getting a shot in.
Generally, Antagonize is a standard action, and Fighting Defensively is also a standard action. I don't think that you can do both, although the DM could rule otherwise.
Hence I ask. Fighting defensively depending on who you talk to is either an action of its own, though quite a few of my PFS GMs that I play with consider fighting defensively a mode of making attacks, as inside fighting defensively it does state that you make attacks during your fight defensively, or that you can simply do so as an action.
The definition of Fighting Defensively from the d20 web site is:
Fighting Defensively as a Standard Action
You can choose to fight defensively when attacking. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 to AC until the start of your next turn."
I do not know how this could be construed as anything except requiring that you are actually attacking. I was wrong when I said that Fighting Defensively is a standard action. It appears to be a non-action which modifies other attacks (standard or FRA). However, the wording specifically denotes that "you can choose to fight defensively when attacking". Thus, a necessary requirement to fight defensively would be that you are attacking.
To interpret this any other way would be to allow mages to "fight defensively" when casting spells, to allow the stacking of "fighting defensively" and "total defense", or any of a number of other options.
As I said, GM Shathira can interpret it any manner desired, but if I were the DM, I would find the wording of this particular action to not be ambiguous.
Fighting defensively and Antagonize are both standard actions, fighting while fighting defensively is assumed, so the attack you make, while fighting defensively constitutes your standard action. While you can sacrifice a standard action for a move action, the flip of that does not hold true, you cannot sacrifice your move action for a standard action. with the way that both abilities are worded it wouldn't be possible to do both in one round.
Selindra, if that diminishes Antagonize in your concept of the character, or how you envisioned it, PM me and we can work something out.