Golarion: The Land of Dreams and Strangers

Game Master PixiePym

Feel free to transplant us to the throne room if you don't want to mess around with us in the temple. lol

We'll get there eventually either way :P

Transported :D

lol alright. i was haveing fun with you 2 lol

Now Clydwell has to learn Varisian, then I can speak with an accent too XD

I edited my response to Shotaro's request into my last post. I want to wait for Argil to post again.

Yoska used his Knowledge (nobility) just to make sure he knew the proper protocol when meeting a queen.

you gained a little more then just that. lol but yes you did

So, no guards are going with us, but is there a driver for the carriage? Does anyone in our group know how to drive a carriage? Unless I missed something, it sounds like everyone is climbing in the carriage or on the back of it. Please tell me that Shotaro is not driving!

Oh Id totally drive. How hard could it be?

There is a driver, a quite, meek dwarf named Grumroid. he wont participate in battles but will go where you point to on map. other then that he stays to himself. He cares for the horses and carriage as well so you wont have to

Oh. Ok. Adelita will sometimes sit next to him and be a lookout, (read: bother him senseless, pointing out nonsensical landmarks or regaling him with ultra-boring stories of "that time" her father "let" her take the ale barrels back on their wagon and similar...)

I'm fine with intra-party dice rolling/skill tests or even combat if it comes to it. If you are evil, and cause trouble, you should expect zero tolerance.

I'm enjoying folks' RP so far. I'll try not to let Adelita annoy anyone IRL too much...

I'm not a writer by nature so I always feel I could express myself better, but I'm enjoying the RP as well :)

I prefer to RP between characters till dice cannot be avoided. What has to happen has to happen and all that, but not my first instinct.

I prefer to RP between characters till dice cannot be avoided. What has to happen has to happen and all that, but not my first instinct.

I feel the same.

Also Roman got gameplay post 69! (childish giggling commences)

Heh heh. Yeah, and in it, he said:

"I can handle my veapon fine if need be."

[/my elementary school mentality]

oh god... what kinda group did i find lol

so, i wanna add random encounters but myself never did them online. how does that work for you experienced GMs out there

I suggest just doing the rolls offline and then deciding on the encounter that way. There are random encounter tables, it's just a pain to post them on the game thread cause the way the dice roller works you can end up either wasting time with piddling encounters or guaranteed wipe us out cause you rolled for us to encounter the Tarrasque at level 1...

So, find the appropriate biome, do a roll (or three) and then perhaps do a bit of tailoring to the monsters to fit your desired encounter. Sometimes you can take a weak encounter and make it just right by adding an extra creature of the same type, or taking one away, OR by having them be injured already... it's a living world and monsters don't fight just the PC's.

Otherwise, you can look at the NPC codex and whip up a bunch of bandits. There's always more bandits. Or goblins. -_-

If you still want some of the forum randomness involved, decide on a creature and then roll on the encounter post how many we fight. Like 1d4+1 goblins, or 1d3, or heck, 2d3 if you want there to be a better minimum but no more than a 6.

Also, since we're in a carriage, we can have things like running battle happen where we're trying to avoid monsters too strong for us to handle right now. OR fight off bandits trying to rob us stagecoach style (love those westerns right?) or have inclement weather conditions force us to park the carriage and shelter the horses, etc. Dynamic events like that are entertaining and usually easy to pull off. In chases, just have the carriage driver make some checks once a turn to keep going fast while the party takes actions to defend or fight off attackers, or even try to slow down pursuers.

@PixiePym - I think Roman got a good roll on his Knowledge (local) roll to know about Naia. But maybe she's not as famous as Adelita thinks she is...

she is not. fame only travels so far young one.

Clydwell's basically a paladin. Thieving leaves a bad taste in his mouth.

He probably should've spoken up when we were talking about destination.

Alas, he did not and here we are.

who said anything about stealing? no one but me knows what lies behind those doors. could be an old abandoned fishery that the guard is using to kill time or could be something else.

"I'll handle this." And then, she disappeared into thin air.

First 20! Yes!

I made tokens for everyone.

https://discord.gg/2UzXHPb

Made a discord if people want to idly chat. Pretty sure I did it right xD

Oh. Just saw the map. Adjust Adelita's action as necessary to fit where everyone is.

[sleep time] Bot Adelita if needed, as per the following broad guidelines:

Move Action: Studied Target for +1 atk/dam, ( don't forget +1 for bless)

Standard Action:

At reach
Longspear +4, 1d8+4

or if in close:
Spiked Gauntlet +4, 1d4+3

Immediate action: Grim commentary on bloodspray, strange wallpaper choices, brainsundering or similar.

Does Shotaro's strike hit and defeat it, and are we doing block init (enemies, then pcs, then enemies, etc)?

Seemed not to kill it:

Your attack hits the dog and seems to aggravate it, it lunges and trys to bite your arm.

Does Shotaro's strike hit and defeat it, and are we doing block init (enemies, then pcs, then enemies, etc)?

His attack didn't defeat it, its hurt badly but still alive. Im sorry guys, i wasn't expecting shotaro to attack the dog. Guess i worded the dogs actions incorrectly. to keep the peace and because its my mess up ill say shotaro indeed killed the dog so everyone dont need to be put in init. im sorry this was my bad

We can also, for the sake of sanity, just say I did nonlethal damage and knocked it out. And it's partially on my head for jumping the shark and not waiting for you to announce whether or not it was a fight.

If anybody is decent with handle animal, they could take Argil's hint and consider de-escalating? Otherwise the person in the building has a lot of reason to treat our group as hostile.

You mean because we didn't knock?

As with most things, this complicated situation can be easily remedied. Light the place up and sift through the ashes for what remains.

Amongst other things :)

I didn't really intend to play a paladin for this game, but that's sort of where Clydwell's personality landed(I didn't even pick the deity to be fair). You guys will probably glad to have a healer at some point :P

That said, he's not bound by a code or oaths so there is some wiggle-room here.

ok, shall we continue? sorry guys im a HORRIBLE GM online. Shotaro knocked out the dog with non lethal. we shall take it up from there.

ok, shall we continue? sorry guys im a HORRIBLE GM online. Shotaro knocked out the dog with non lethal. we shall take it up from there.

I don't think so :) This is a small thing, and very recoverable.

I'd certainly like to keep going. I think you're descriptions are great and I'm intrigued by the story you're setting up. The game mechanics will work out soon enough.

Yeah, let's do this! I'll be sort of hesitant with Clydwell until the evil shows up, but I'm sure it will. :)

It's just one of those funny, cringey things we'll talk about around a fire someday.

Is all good. I probably would have speared a charging dog just as much as Roman now didn't. ;)

Hey, I think everyone played to their characters. It's no one's particular fault that it happened like it did.

Besides, the blind man just karate chopped a dog. Easily explained as him still being defensive from living alone. I will write a post in a bit to help make that make sense.

Hey, I think everyone played to their characters. It's no one's particular fault that it happened like it did.

Besides, the blind man just karate chopped a dog. Easily explained as him still being defensive from living alone. I will write a post in a bit to help make that make sense.

Yup, I think we're all good so far. Argil will always be low on trust at first, and he has a ways to go with this group :)

Yeah, I like all the characters so far, for sure. I ended up with a more stuffy character than I originally intended, but it should work out. My characters tend to take on a life of their own so he just ended up that way.

Clydwell is still young and somewhat impressionable. I'm guessing he'll learn that real life isn't so cut and dry eventually.

sorry for the delay guys. i had to work out some kinks in the story line.

sorry for the delay guys. i had to work out some kinks in the story line.

Np. That's always worth the time.

No problem. I don't really post on the weekends unless I'm holding things up. Gotta get the errands done!

Kerda would be happy to act as scout for the group. Just be ready for bodies and empty treasure chests as you catch up.

The role I was suggesting was more of a meta role in order to keep things flowing. If you're locked into Kerda being the type that pockets loot ahead of the party(a character type I strongly advise against as a general rule), then we shouldn't have you do it. It takes a bit of trust on our part for the player piloting the scout to not lead us into too much trouble. It'll just cause issues if we have to worry about whether we get loot or not.

I usually lean with Clydwell here more mechanically than thematically. The game as it's designed relies and expects a certain level of equipment or at least wealth to acquire said equipment. While I don't play materialistic and like a good sneak thief with all their greeds, the balance of the game is calculated this way. Take all the precious stones and art you like but lets keep the party evenly equipped :)