GM WhtKnt's Giantslayer: Battle of Bloodmarch Hill (Inactive)

Game Master WhtKnt

Should we finish up here, or head back with Boram to pick up the new guys, and come back as a fuller group?

I'm good with either quite honestly. It might be easier if we have a full party, depending on how much is down here.

You might want a fuller party to finish this out.

I agree. Let's go back and get our two new members.

Works for me then.

I've read a bit, but yeah not really in the loop of what's going on. Anyone wanna give me the cliff notes version?

Short version. The captain of the town guard died and it looked like a suicide, but we found evidence that it's murder. That's about it really. We've been following leads, but finding surprisingly little other than that there's something at the abandoned plague house. We're still investigation that.

gotcha, onward then!

Yup, and a pair of assassination attempts on us.

Norasha thinks Rodrik's murder is part of a conspiracy to invade the town and thinks orcs are planning to attack. She is paranoid like any other dwarf. :)

Just wondering, how active is the posting rate of this game?

Normally a little more active than recently. I've been kind of busy. So, back to the Plague House to finish your investigation there?

Yup, back to the Plague House it is!

Back to the Plague House! We must solve this mystery and defeat evil!

Btw, I know most people don't like paladins do to some players playing them lawful stupid, but just curious here: how have I've done in not playing a lawful stupid paladin?

Whoops, didn't mean to go a week without answering this.
I'm liking Norasha. Definitely hasn't come off as restrictive or limiting or stupid in my opinion. Keep it up!

Been busy with work lately. I'll try and post tonight. Sorry about that y'all! :(

And thank you Rokar!

Sorry I haven't posted yet. Been super busy with work lately! I'll try and have something tomorrow. Again sorry.

No worries, I think it's the rat's turn anyway.

Sorry for unseemly delay. Been a hell week.

I don't think that lesser confusion requires unimpeded line of sight. It should just require line of effect, which I have. Unless you know something that I don't.

Actually now that I think about it I think the gm is right. Back in my dm days that question came up and I ruled it the same as well. Can't remember why though. It's been awhile but also that was 3.5 D&D too. So I could be wrong.

Also is the larger figure a giant or something? Because that's the only reason I can see for its attacks being that strong.

Actually, it is a Medium-sized troll.

Wait...so does a medium sized troll have the giant subtype?

Also I'm a bit a confused on the miss chance. How do we factor that into our attack rolls?

Do you want to do miss chance, or should we do it somehow?

Miss chance is 20% if you are within 5 feet of the target, or 50% if further. That's due to the fog. Basically, each time you swing, there is a 20% chance that the attack misses, regardless of the d20 roll. I just roll a d100, and if the result is 20% or below, the attack misses. You can feel free to roll it yourself, if you wish.

And yes, the humanoid does have the giant subtype. Your dwarf abilities work against it.

Sweet!

Do you use a specific language for Giant?

That was my question as well.

Sorry I haven't posted yet. Work has kept me busy as of late.

I just thought Giant was giant?

They meant for us to type in.

I use Norwegian, since that is probably the closest approximation to Jotun that we have available.

Works for me.

Sorry y'all if I've been slow lately posting. Work has been busy lately the past few weeks, but tomorrow I'm off so I should have a more detailed post up.

Again sorry about my slowness. I just need to think about what Norasha will say in reply to what everyone has said.

At this point we're just waiting for Corric to be done so he can meet up with us, right? Because I don't want to not post if the GM is expecting us to do something in town while Corric's busy.

No, that's the case. By now, your group should have found the authorities and are turning the two prisoners over to them and explaining what happened.

Oh, I thought there'd be a simultaneous posting or something. Apologies.

Unless I'm attacked, should be rejoining you guys in a post or two. Once again, apologies for the solo outing.

No worries.

Can someone remind me who Brinya Kelver is and why do we care about her?

She was Rodrik's half orc girlfriend and they had planned to get married despite Rodrik's father not being too happy about it. However, Rodrik while investigating the haunted house he lost the hope knife Brinya gave him (they had exchanged knives which is tradition for couples who want to get married). He told Brinya about it and she was...very ticked off about it, yelling at him (and probably hurling a vase or two). He was getting too close to whatever was going on namely what we learned from that half Orc and troll we captured and the evil mastermind (whoever it is...probably whoever is leading this attack) killed Rodrik and made it looked like a suicide. Brinya was heart broken as the last time she saw Rodrik alive was when they argued and yelled at each other over him losing her hope knife. So yeah, we care about her.

I'm going to bed now but I'll have something posted in the morning. It's a long post and my arms are about to fall off from trying to type this on my iPhone. Yeah I'm that tired. But I'm pulling out all the stops with this post!

So Rokar is built more for claw attacks, and Corric doesn't want a pointy weapon. Norasha/Aisha, feel strongly about the dagger?

I can take it, since I have a dagger as a back-up.

That works. Norasha mainly prefers hammers and axes.

Is there a roll20 update for this fight?

Yes, sorry. Set up the map but forgot to move the heroes over to it. Fixed now.

Right. Editing my last action. Aisha moves behind the others before using her spell. Also, it's probably best to assume that she stays near the back of the group when they're walking around. No reason to have the squish wizard at the front of the party.

I'll need to tell y'all something important. It'll only affect my posting for about 9 days but I'll tell you more tomorrow.

I hope I didn't scare anyone. No I'm not leaving (I'm having way too much fun with y'all in this adventure!).

So I've been looking for a new job (I still have a job, just trying to find one that pays a bit more and is closer to home), and I've been doing it on my iPhone. The problem is that I forgot to take into account that I'm on my parents' data plan and I forgot to keep an eye on how much data I was using. Long story short, I used up a lot of data. So, we have 8 days left in the billing cycle before our data usage resets.

While this will reduce my posting rate a bit, I'm going to try and keep on posting on my laptop before and after work if possible. I just wanted to let everyone know about this and I apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.

No problem. Thanks for letting us know.

Yeah, no rush. Play/Post when you can.
Good luck with the job search!