Aaand we're back.
Thanks for the updates Tarondor, sorry for all the troubles you're facing.
Looks like we're going to need a replacement for Yirrick once we get up and going again.
Glad to see we all seem to have made it through the outage.
Okee-dokee. I think we're ready to roll.
After more than a month, I've finally gotten Internet access again. Seems as though the site's been down most of that time, so not much loss there.
On the other hand, I'm leaving on Monday the 3rd for a week at the beach with my kids and won't have any access out there, either. I'll try to catch up this weekend at the least.
How do we all want to approach replacing Yirrik? I'm thinking we wait the week and then post in Recruitment.
I think he sounded pretty confident he'd be stepping back. Opening recruitment now might be most prudent.
Sure, but the wait was for me to get back from the beach.
Oops, must have glossed over that. I've had a coupla beers.
Have a nice vacation!
I suppose I could post the recruitment ad now so we're ready to go next weekend (I'll be back on Friday).
Needless to say, you should alert anyone you know who would be a good fit.
Also, if we get any takers, feel free to shoot me a PM about any thoughts you may have on the prospects.
Hello everyone! Your friendly rogue reporting for duty and fun!
How d'ya pronounce "Colcille"?
Everyone, how do you think Colcille ought to be introduced? The team isn't headed back to town just yet (but could, because Yirrik is leaving). We've already found one PC (Lilika) trussed up in spider's webs.
Kolsìl, like it was French.
I have reason to get to the Spire as well as Thornkeep, so anything is fine for me.
Hi, there! Welcome to the group.
@ Tarondor: I'm fine finding her here. As to how... I'm not sure what's ahead so I can't offer suggestions on that, but if she were to be fighting against the enemies on the first floor that the group never finished off, could we hear it from down here? If she's heading inside we could backtrack to help her. Especially if Yirrik's got to leave that way anyway.
Suddenly, Perfire hears a voice in his head. "Perfire, this is Abenard Royst. I am sending you a reinforcement. Meet Colcille at the edge of Spire Glade."
Nice opening move, Perfire!
Very nice and paladin-y move, Wymond!
Hello everyone. This weekend is Thanksgiving so I will very likely be unable to fit in a post. Please bot me if needed. I’ll be back to regular posting on Tuesday. Thanks for understanding, and I hope you have a great weekend!
Very nice and paladin-y move, Wymond!
Thank yew, thank yew! Roleplaying moments like this are what I live for!
Hello everyone. This weekend is Thanksgiving so I will very likely be unable to fit in a post. Please bot me if needed. I’ll be back to regular posting on Tuesday. Thanks for understanding, and I hope you have a great weekend!
Happy Thanksgiving to you from Canada's underpants! Our Thanksgiving won't be for another month. :P
Have a great holiday, Lilika!
Happy Thanksgiving to you from Canada's underpants!
Hahaha!
You had my attention before, NOW you have my interest! :D
Honestly, we'd been fighting so many things that were clearly evil just by action and nature I'd forgotten to use detect evil! Don't worry, I'm not gonna be one of those DetectSMITE/Lawful Stupid paladins! :P
I will be leaving on a family vacation tomorrow to Lake Geneva, WI, the birthplace of D&D! While I will have internet access for the five days of the trip, posting will most likely be phone-based and therefore sporadic and laconic.
Kewl beans! I've never been.
I wonder if they ever built that statue of Gary they planned?
Kewl beans! I've never been.
I wonder if they ever built that statue of Gary they planned?
It's more like a brick on the sidewalk.
Ha! Awesome!
The way I see it, it's less "circumventing lawful authorities" and more "taking our business elsewhere." Thornkeep isn't an ILLEGAL settlement as far as I'm aware, it's just a more rough-and-rowdy town, the Mos Eisley to Fort Inevitable's Canto Bight. So by choosing to sell our gear there to avoid Fort Inevitable's fees, we're not breaking Fort Inevitable's laws like we would if we tried to sneak into town or tried our hand at smuggling. Being a River Kingdoms man at heart, paying onerous tolls and having your face stamped on by the boot of authoritarianism irritate him despite his Lawfulness. He'll pay Fort Inevitable's tolls, though not without considerable grumbling, but if another, less expensive option like Thornkeep is available, why NOT take it?
I agree with Wymond. There are several arguments for paladins choosing Good over Lawful: having to follow every law, no matter how unfair, is more of a Lawful Stupid attitude. Especially since a paladin of Erastil is suppose to put his community and its traditions above everything else, a d Fort Inevitable goes against the rules and traditions of the River Kingdoms.
Good discussion.
My objection was not to taking your business elsewhere, but to cheating lawful authority, which is a real thing, even in the River Kingdoms. I don't see a problem with shifting your base to Thornkeep, but I do see a problem with only using Thornkeep to sell your loot - that's no different than going to a fence to sell stolen goods.
If you live in Fort Inevitable and accept their protection and the relative ease of obtaining trade goods, then the lawful duty is to pay their taxes, especially when you -agreed- to do so when you paid for the charter.
So shifting your whole operation to Thornkeep (and putting up with their capricious legal system) is kosher, but hiding your gains from taxation by the hellknights while still using hellknight facilities is not.
As for law versus good, I believe that while a paladin pushed to the point of no options might legitimately choose one over the other, any real paladin is going to attempt to hew to both as long as possible. This isn't the "orc baby" conundrum (which I would never do to a player) - it's just money.
That sounds fair to me, especially if we choose to side with the Foxes (and I vote for that) in the future.
So, if we don't want to keep anything (and we want to share between all of us), by my calculations each person's share is 822.55.
If you want to share it between the three of you for this time, I'm ok with that, I didn't earn it anyway. In that case you'd get 1096.73 coins each.
Hey, just an FYI, a crazy busy weekend crept up on me and I won't have a chance to post until later Sunday evening. Sorry if I hold up the game.
After selling the last of the unclaimed gear, selling the horn to Royst, and adding in the coin we have to split that added up to:
1,661 gp, 10 sp, 2 cp
Which divided by four makes 415 gp, 2 sp, 8 cp each.
Ah, ok, I was going by the Hellknights' count.
That included everything we found, not everything we wanted to sell.
Honestly not really sure what I should purchase. Sturdier armor? A masterwork weapon? Just more basic supplies in general like Alchemist's Fire or acid (for web-destroying purposes)?
Honestly shopping is always the hard part for me in these games...
Armor and a shield?
Looks like... bardiche is your go-to weapon, so you don't want a shield.
- Why not pick up a masterwork bardiche (313 gp) and invest in an affordable bludgeoning weapon (since you just faced a lot of creatures you needed bludgeoning damage to harm (skeletons)) like a club (free) or a warhammer (12 gp).
- I don't see any healing potions on your gear list and we've constantly been out of healing resources. Picking up an emergency potion of cure light wounds for when we're tapped out would be useful (50 gp).
- I also don't see any way for you to damage a swarm, so picking up two vials of acid (20 gp) will probably be useful.
- If you want a way to deal with webs specifically you could pick up a few pints of oil (1 sp each) which you could spray over the webs and light up with your flint and steel (that'd be slower than an alchemist's fire, but much more cost effective).
- I see you have composite short bow, but no strength modifier on it. You could spend 75 gp to make it composite (+1 strength), or 150 gp to make it +2 strength, or 225 gp to make it +3 strength.
- You could switch from scale mail up to chain mail (150 gp) which would increase your AC by 1.
- Contrariwise if you don't mind taking the lowered speed from heavy armour you could switch up to banded mail (250 gp) for a +2 increase to your AC.
Just some ideas for you since you asked.
I'll take those suggestions, Lilika! Thank you!
Only if you want to. They're just suggestions, and I only gave them because you asked. Haha. But, I'm glad they're helpful.
I always appreciate good advice on how to run my character. Despite having played for years, I'm still a novice in some aspects, and shopping's probably what I struggle with the most.
Oh yeah, I'm always open to advice. I try to play wildly different classes each time and it takes me awhile to get used to them. I usually really muff up the first 3-4 levels before I figure out what's going to work best.
Hey guys, I’m going to have a crazy busy weekend. It’s unlikely I’ll be able to post Saturday, and I definitely won’t be able to post Sunday. Sorry if I hold up the game. Feel free to bot me if needed.
Thanks!
That's okay! We'll be here when you get back! :)
Same for me this weekend, I'll be able to post until mid-day tomorrow and then largely unavailable until Sunday LATE
I always planned on going back for Grulk and to finish level 2.
Thank you, GM Tarondor, for not making being a paladin easy! :P