Inner Sea Megadungeon: Delving the Drowning Stones

Game Master Garden Tool

"A mention of women specific clothing and these poor souls can't help but get all hot and bothered. Is that all it takes?"

Nicoleta smirks. "Even less, sometimes," she replies dryly. "Everyone hears what they want to hear..."

Uhhh yeah, most of the time.

Checking in, and avoiding the small clothes discussion. :)

Ojore is ready to roll. I will reserve final spell selection until after I hear the initial setting, but feats and traits and equipment has been good for a coupe of days.

Good luck to you all. There are some great builds here, representing a lot of hard work. I plan to reference this recruitment link for future character ideas.

Remembering tomorrow is supposed to be the day of "The Choosing" Brak splurges and drinks not one, but two kegs of grog and does his best rendition of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" at "Sing-A-Long" night at the local tavern...

Polyglot: "Kahle kakhulu umuntu ukunqoba"

@ Wolfwaker: Welcome. Barbarian/druid sounds pretty awesome. Remain active and contribute often.

Thanks. I'm busier on the weekend usually but I'm working on the character now.

"Kahle kakhulu umuntu ukunqoba"

Actual translation: Who's that dippin' in the Cadillac? Snoop Dogg

Nesipho Inkosi wrote:

"Kahle kakhulu umuntu ukunqoba"

Actual translation: Who's that dippin' in the Cadillac? Snoop Dogg

Haha. I think your translator is broken.

Fahd is complete now.

On UK time here (7.00am) and at work until 10.30pm tonight so I may not pick up much today.

Cheers

I just spent an hour putting together my character details. I should be asleep so I will just post the basics right now.

Second time failed too! Now I will just sum up until I have more time.

Snoop Dog?

= gnoll rogue?

(Coat=got)

Good Morning Thread.

I'm back from fighting Goblins and Gnolls in the woods and am ready to do so on the boards, if I'm so lucky.

I hope everyone's weekend went well. I hope Daria has managed to keep her small clothes counted while I was away, as that seems to be the important event of the weekend.

Indeed! Seeing as how today is supposed to be the "big day" good luck to all!

Indeed! Good luck to all!

Many great builds. The bar is very high and whoever gets in has some mojo.

Well done folks

Sadly, I have to withdraw from consideration.

Good luck to everyone!

Had a very tough time establishing an internet connection this morning due to the office move over the weekend. Putting together my roster now.

So everyone understands my process, this is basically going to be a mental round-up and literal review of all my high-participation regulars (so: most everyone present) and a pair down of the list from there. My goal is to end up with a balanced team of 5 PCs and 5 correspondingly well-suited players. Cutting deserving submitters is literally unavoidable - so please don't be offended if you are not selected. There are more deserving participants here than there are seats at the virtual table. This will not be an easy draft.

Brak spending time with kids most of day today and he wondering when Master Tool is thinking he should check back to see if his services have been asked for? :)

(And good luck to everyone - a lot of good stuff here!!)

"I don' envy ye yer choice. Jest be knowin' tha' no one's gonna be comin' lookin' fer ye if'n ye don' pick us. Well, probably no'."

Just think, it's better to have too many qualified applicants than not enough. :)

@Everyone: Best of luck out there.

That includes you GT. Hopefully you can remain sane during the process.

Good luck to everyone!

If I cast summon bribe, I can do it as a standard action, right?

Edit: and before anybody misreads that as summon briDe, just remember that casting that spell is a good way to get one's ears boxed.

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After much deliberation, I have decided on a campaign roster with combat, skills, scouting, crowd control, and problem-solving abilities all fairly well-covered:

Kargath Thunderstrike, bigrin42's dwarven fighter. Close combat and physical crowd control will go a long way in the dungeon.

Nicoleta Mashrava, Shisumo's human inquisitor. Highly mobile scouting, decent healing and fighting capabilities, and utility spells offer a lot to the team, and monster knowledge is kind of a big deal.

Ojore, Skorn's human druid. Druids have a lot going for them - access to virtually all genres of offensive and defensive spells, useful in combat, mobile, and possessed of a very powerful animal companion.

Elsir Thran, Celeador's elven diviner. Divination, problem solving, and problem-fixing spells are invaluable.

Nesipho Inkosi, bbangerter's human magus/rogue. Combat capabilities and offensive arcane spells are always useful, and trapfinding is a must.

There were several PC submissions that it really kills me to pass over (I really could have put together a great second team), and I'd like to thank everyone for their participation. Spectators will be more than welcome in the discussion thread and any post-game recruitment that needs to take place may very likely draw from known spectators.

Campaign info and gameplay thread are yet to come. We'll get started tomorrow, probably. To bigrin42, Shisumo, Skorn, Celeador, and bbangerter: stand by and stick around. Please do not get into official "in character" dialogues yet - save it for the gameplay thread.

I'll be going over character sheets a little more closely now, and I'll be posting some general and specific campaign info shortly.

Thanks again to everyone who participated.

GT: you probably meant for bbangerter to stick around and be ready instead of me:)

Congrats to all and have fun!

Edit: and before anybody misreads that as summon briDe, just remember that casting that spell is a good way to get one's ears boxed.

Does the success rate of that spell increase if you are in Russia?

I honestly can't believe how fast you made the decision. Having (semi) recently gone through character selection myself, I do not envy you the decision making process. So many good characters to choose from.

GT: you probably meant for bbangerter to stick around and be ready instead of me:)

Edited; you are correct, though you were in the running for a large percentage of the decision process (I really like your paladin, and I would've enjoyed making Kargath play with an orc for a companion, hence the leftover typo). I had to do some shuffling because I couldn't leave the team without a trapfinder.

I am honored with your choice and will do my best to live up to expectations. Looking forward to both the challenge and to meeting new friends.

Gameplay rules and info are up, but please DO NOT POST IN THE GAMEPLAY THREAD until the "official" in-game opening post sets the scene.

bbangerter & Skorn: Do either of you have an objection to your characters belonging to the same Zenj tribe?

I would prefer it. That sounds great. Perhaps we were brothers or good friends. I stayed and honored the family while Nesipho was the prodigal son... :)

I have no objection to that. Ojore can be the spoiled younger brother who had everything handed to him ;) Or more likely our parents, having seen me run off to make my own way in the world took extra care to insure Ojore didn't follow in my footsteps.

Xara Ozolins wrote:

Edit: and before anybody misreads that as summon briDe, just remember that casting that spell is a good way to get one's ears boxed.

Does the success rate of that spell increase if you are in Russia?

No, but it has a steep cost in material components of black market lawyer bribes and plane tickets.

Oh well, have a good game everybody.

Cool beans. Going over character sheets now. I understand that some may not be finished yet; that's fine. Though - on that note - could my players chime in with a "done" or "not done" update on character sheet completion?

@ bigrin42: Character write-up looks error-free. Could you somehow note your conditional modifiers (like your save bonus vs. fear and your stability bonus) next to the relevant scores?

Pretty sure Kargath is done and awaiting comments. I tried to get him finalized while the kids were napping this weekend.

Mostly done. :)

Sent you a PM that might have me switch the enchantment on my shield to my armor. I think that leaves my AC the same but saves me about 150 gold.

And I might want to choose specific spells to have memorized based on where I am and what has happened the the previous day. Other than that, done.

@ Skorn: Go ahead and remove "lion's movement" from your character sheet.

I don't see "Artifact Hunter" in any of the approved products, but I'm depending on the SRD at the moment. Was Artifact Hunter reprinted in the ISWG?

Woot! This going to be fun! I believe, other than spending that last 400 or so gold (probably on scrolls, at least mostly), that Nicoleta is ready to go mechanically as well. Her backstory will be added to the sheet tomorrow.

@ bigrin42: Whoops, I missed something. You appear to have no skills? Shouldn't take you long to spend those fighter skill points though, eh? When you do, please note your RANKS and MODIFIERS seperately. Also, where are your favored class benefits going?

If they're going to hp, you should have 33 hp.

10 (HD) + 5.5 (HD) + 5.5 (HD) + 3 (favored class) + 9 (Con x level).

You have 31, which suggests that only one of your favored class bonuses is going toward hp? Is this correct?

@ Skorn: Sounds good. Prepared spellcasters may mess with their spell lists before replying to the first in-game post, once it goes up.

One request: please note both your skill RANKS and your skill MODIFIERS on your character sheet.

@Garden: Elsir I believe is all done.

@ Shisumo: Your Fortitude saving throw modifier seems off by one point? Base 3 + 1 Con = +5. I don't see an extra from a trait feat.

Also, could you note your skill ranks along with your skill modifiers? You can list them somewhere else or put them in ooc text if you don't want to clutter your very nice-looking character sheet.

Also, what is "determination 2/day"? I feel like I'm going to feel dumb for asking, but I don't recognize this feature and a casual search on the SRD tells me nothing.

@Garden Tool: ...and this is why we have CS reviews :)

I'll update him tonight. All FC go to HP, and skills...well it might take me a while to invest all of those ;-)

@ Skorn: Go ahead and remove "lion's movement" from your character sheet.

I don't see "Artifact Hunter" in any of the approved products, but I'm depending on the SRD at the moment. Was Artifact Hunter reprinted in the ISWG?

Artifact Hunter (Inner Sea Guide primer)

I have that trait too. Can change if needed (forgot to read the fine print of where it came from).

Nesipho is also done (added a wand of shield with 10 charges then saving the remaining cash for now).

@ Celeador: You should have 19 hp, I believe? (Ouch.)

6 + 3.5 + 3.5 + 3 (Con x HD) + 3 (favored class)

EDIT: On the other hand, your initiative score is disturbingly correct.

By the way, I am going to go ahead and run with the "vanilla" wayfinder ruling for the sake of convenience and not having to make up a bunch of ioun stone powers, but I may include "extra effects" on some ioun stones, per the description of that item.

Alternately, if you want to just PM me a summary of the "random resonant powers" table, I'll use that. It's technically outside of the allowed sources, but I don't want to ignore part of the wayfinder's function (which is an allowed source and ought to be supported).

Done and done! Don't suppose I could convince you that Charisma is a silly stat to base Kargath's Intimidate off of, could I?

@ bbangerter: Both of your traits are outside of the allowed sources, and will need to change. Your hp is also wrong, I think?

8 (HD) + 4.5 (HD) + 4.5) + 3 (Con x HD) = 20 hp.

Lastly, I think you've spent only 21 skill points? I don't think that's right.

Without factoring favored class into it (where are your favored class benefits going, anyway?), you should have:

8 from rogue 1, 2 from magus 1, 2 from magus 2, 9 from (Int x 3), and 3 from being human.

@ bigrin42: Long answer: Low Charisma just means you come across poorly. You have no presence. A big, ugly, muscle-bound dwarf could have high-Charisma (carrying himself like a hardcore, stone-cold, hawk-eyed badass with a literal axe to grind) or low-Charisma (coming across as dim, nose-picking, inattentive, and loutish). Both are big, ugly, and musclebound... but one is a lot more intimidating.

Short answer: Take Intimidating Prowess. : P