Gandal's Carrion Crown AP

Game Master Gandal

*Several* libraries? The population is only 300!!!

You can just say what the module calls library is really a single bookshelf with few books on it,in a dark corner hidden behind a wardrobe in the furthest room on the top of the tallest tower whose door has been kept locked for centuries.

In case Aemrelara doesn't make it in time to delete her last post,you can ignore it,i rolled knowledge arcana for her research on the whispering way and got a far better result.For this time i'll let her go with mine.
Of course i rolled before seeing her roll in the post.

Wow, it seems I missed a lot. I need ot catch up.

Don't worry guys, soon Ravengro will be less boring :)

So far so good! :-)

Sorry, comp died :'( only with phone now
Don't know for how long

Am with a PS3 now,but it doesn't load the page in the proper way,and anyway cannot update/post maps with it.The tech said i should have the Comp back for this Friday.

I'm having PC issues, too.

Hope to be back online tomorrow,sorry for this delay.

Not a problem Gandal, no need to apologize for things that are out of your control

@Sajan:don't want to be a pain,but in your languages you wrote (a few more to pick),i will need to know what languages you actually know,since your high Linguistics skill

@Aemrelara:please check your encumbrance/carried gear,also you recovered your bardic performance rounds/day.

Oups, will look into it right away!

For reference, round town, Jaylen carries just her dagger, hand-axe and belt-pouches. No armour, she instead wears a black vest, black 3/4-length pants and sandals.

I'll wait another half a day before advancing the scene for Beckett and Ishmell

Question: Gandal, as I stated in an earlier post, I'm quite happy to take 10 on my perception checks. In this latest case, I'd pass (as I get +9, meaning a 19 in total); what happens if, for example, the DC is 20? Are you going to allow me to roll or do I still take the 10? In a tabletop game, we wouldn't neccesarily know the DC so I could choose each time, as I saw fit. Obviously, in a PbP, it works slightly differently.

I know that normally a players shouldn't know the DC from the start,but in PbP is necessary.
I could try to include more info in the spoiler of the roll, something like this :

The following skill roll doesn't allow to take 20,but you can take 10;it cannot be tried untrained,but others can help

This way you know if you can do it by taking 10 or 20 or if you have to roll,and if so whether you can retry or get help.

Sounds good. Maybe we could have a code:

T10/20
TO trained only
AA aid another applies.

Using your example, it would read:

T10.TO.AA

An alternative would be to say what *doesn't* apply in a certain situation.

To be honest, we should all know the basic rules anyway; my question was more about the Take X rule when we know the DC, rather than to make more work for you. :)

Please don't tell me this dog is a cross between Scooby Doo and Lassie. :S

Please don't tell me this dog is a cross between Scooby Doo and Lassie. :S

The modules only gives the dog's name and nothing else!!!!!!!! i have to make everything out of my (spoiled) mind.

edit
The codes about skill roll spoilers is a good idea, we could ask for copyrights :)

double edit
Not fair, you opened my example spoiler without doing the skill roll

I've had some stuff happen and back out of the base, so I'm a little far behind. It seems like we jumped? Why are we outside on a road, and why did Kendra just walk away like that? What happened to talking and research?

Aemrelara andSajan said they would have liked to go see that monument,Kendra had to go to the Town Hall.Sajan said he would have done the researchs later.
And Kendra doesn't want to look at the dead chickens......and more important,there are events in the AP to unfold,and PC must be lead into them,if not rairoaded.

I thought i specified it in the description,but the book with a brass scarab cannot be read until you find the key or breaks the lock (it is very hard but can be forced open).Of course opening it by force will deny the payment.
And you still must uncover what it is,that can be done with a few hours on the lorrimor library without having to roll any knoledge skill.

I should update now, but it is 2:00 AM here and i cannot force my eyes opened.
See yah tomorrow with a real encounter ,for good or bad, depends how you see it :)

How high above the river is the ground we're on and how steep are the banks?

The module doesn't give such details.To not complicate too much i'l assume the ground is about 10'' high and the bank isn't so steep as to be trated as difficult terrain.
Am at work now,will see more into it tonight.

DM: if you don't mind playing in Beckett's stead, then I imagine Raven would step forward and channel energy. He did say he was being kept away by real life.

I missed that part,hope he doesn't mind,i'll use Raven

Sorry, Beckett. Twas my suggestion. We didn't know how available you were.
Am I right in thinking you're in the military?

Marzio: whilst wearing medium or heavy armour, you move 4 squares a round. Unarmoured or light armour = 6 squares a round.

Incidentally, armour is the British-English way of spelling it. Armor is the American spelling.

Yes I am. I am back. I am just up a lot lately, but I'm still here. I'm not angry Jay, so no worries. I was being playful is all. It was kind of one of those epic successes followed by an even more epic failure, and I wasn't there for either by an hour or so.

:P

I had to test this party in combat (real combat,not the initial one) and undead can be used to throw in unexpected events in this part of the campaign,but my feeling is maybe it was too soon;i thought i needed some "strong emotion" to hook the PCs to the plot,but maybe i exagerated? Let me know.
Anyway it was a CR1 encounter, so the battle report is:
Amrelara-2 rounds of perfor. and 2 spells used
Raven Knight-1 channel use and went down
Sajan-2 spells used
More than 50% of party resources,so i'ld say it was pretty standard as outcome.

Sorry, peeps. That last lot of questions was supposed to be in this thread, not the game thread. :S

To be honest, I overused my spells. If I had my crossbow I probably would have only used one at the most.

I only asked what you was carrying,i never said what you had to carry :)

Ha ha ha, not that was my bad anyways. I was roleplaying. As a player I know that I should have had my crossbow with me. But Sajan not facing too many dungeons or adventures before would not know to always be ready.

^ In the last game of Dragon Age that I played, my charcter had to beat a monster to death with her bare hands; she hadn't taken any weapons with her as she didn't think she'd need them.

Similarly, Jaylen isn't walking round in her armour nor carrying her 2h-sword and longbow. (I think after the last two encounters, however, she could be forgiven for getting a little paranoid!!)

PS. Sajan...nice roll!! :)

DM: any pattern to the blood splatters?

If i were a PC in this town,i would be walking around full armored and armed all the time.

DM: any pattern to the blood splatters?

This is what i was saying in gameplay...you lack the knowledge of what is behind this event to recognize particular pattern.

^ Give the locals more reason to dislike you!! :P

Thanks, just wish it would have been for some momentous event.

Will update during the weekend,next week i'm at home from work,so hope to advance the adventure much more.

Once the father arrives,he will ask everyone to tell him what you know,then help him in bringing the undead (of course the locals won't touch them) to the restlands and bury them.Then he will ask you if you need healing /rest etc.
If you want to do something else in the meantime let me know,otherwise you can consider to spend the remaining day with the aforementioned activities.
You still have to look the other archives in Ravengro (that will require trust from the village,or a lot of money :-) )

I'm still around. Just waiting for others to catch up. :)

During weekends usually people don't post,so i'm waiting too.

So, who are we waiting on?

I listed the most probable options in my last post:

Once the father arrives,he will ask everyone to tell him what you know,then help him in bringing the undead (of course the locals won't touch them) to the restlands and bury them.Then he will ask you if you need healing /rest etc.
If you want to do something else in the meantime let me know,otherwise you can consider to spend the remaining day with the aforementioned activities.
You still have to look the other archives in Ravengro (that will require trust from the village,or a lot of money :-) )

Am waiting for your in game decisions.

Will update tomorrow guys.Have a nice Sunday.

You as well.

Jaylen's actions, depending on what the group decides to do after she mentions the statue monster:

-(let others handle the diplomatic stuff with the locals.)
-suggest to someone that they go and interview the people who live in the houses near to the memorial; did they see or hear anything? Maybe try to find out if any of the local 'lovers' have seen anything. Anyone suspicious hanging round lately?
-suggest that someone stays with Kendra for the day.

-go back to Kendra's house and collect my travelling gear.
-send letter back home
-do a wide search of the area surrounding the statue for more undead or other disturbance (tracks, etc)
-go and reconnoitre the ruins.