Just want to give everyone a heads up, I'll likely be unavailable June 26 through July 1/2. I'm going on a hiking trip to the Rockwall Pass in B.C and won't have access to the internet.
I figured I'd also mention that my summer is pretty full with weekend trips generally. I hope that the game pace is sufficient for the most part and that you are all enjoying playing. I am enjoying running and know that a slow pace can be a bit annoying as a player.
I will similarly have several periods in the near future (July 1-5, 8-12, and 15-19) where I won't have internet, so feel free to bot me then if it's necessary to maintain momentum.
I'm definitely still enjoying the game. Some slowdown during summer is to be expected.
Crazy time for me. We are waiting to close on the sale of our house and the house we are buying. Also my wife is five months pregnant.
My posting rare is down but I will catch up.
Thanks for the heads up Claustipher and good luck with the house!
I'll be out until next week. More prep required for the house than expected.
speaking of houses... we just went under contract to buy a house, so at some point my time is going to get a bit more tied up. but at least we are only buying and not trying to sell a house at the same time.
gahhhhhh.... closing pushed back to July 3rd. Convenient to close right before a holiday weekend. :(
Not to rush anyone, we are all understandably busy, but I am going to wait for everyone to respond in someway before moving forward. I feel that this is a key moment that shouldn't be glossed over and moved forward past. But please do it in your own time and don't feel rushed.
I'm out for the weekend and back on Sunday. Have a good weekend everyone.
Kaleb and Jaena?
Looks like there are just 2 of my NPC connections alive, I'll give them both a level (Mariam and Janine)
I'll level up Lirosa, Taidel, Ionela, Lars, and Yorc (unless Yorc isn't an option, in which case I'll do Aubrin instead).
I'll go with Jennifer and Mia.
I'll update levels this week. Also, just wanted to let you know I'm here still, waiting on actions/decisions to move forward.
About the loot, I don't think Olivia will need any of it since I rolled well on VP and wields a two-handed weapon.
I'm not able to post Thursday through Monday, so I will leave you guys to it to plan.
So, since nothing has been decided about the loot.
I think Falcon should have the +2 Con belt, being the one with the lowest CA.
The +1 buckler doesn't improve Olivia's AC but would allow her to switch weapons faster and reduce her ACP, so I'll have it if no one wants it.
Sorry guys. Wrote my car off about a week ago now, and insurance stuff plus buying a new car is all happening this week. Not sure how much time I'll have.
EDIT:
Also, I'm out all this week end so until next Monday is probably a bit of a write off. If you guys get a plan together or start roleplaying/information gathering with Yorc I'll try to answer questions as they come up.
Just figured I would bring it up.
Per the verbal component rules, you must speak in a "strong" voice. I would not consider a whisper to be "strong".
I didn't bother with it as an issue this time, but in the future please remember.
Also, if anyone knows actual good rules for trying to hide spell casting a bit please let me know I would like to read them. I think there does need to be something between normal pathfinder and having to take the still/silent spell feats, but I've never seen anything I've liked.
Okay, makes sense. I'll keep that in mind.
I just want to give everyone a heads up, but I will likely be unavailable from August 31 to September 18. I am doing a canoeing trip over the long weekend and then need to get ready for a two week trip I'm leaving for on the Wednesday.
My plan is to move the combat along as well as I can and hopefully finish it before starting vacation. This will hopefully leave you all with a good spot to stop and plan for a bit, or at least talk about decisions to be made.
If I disappear tomorrow, the centre of Dorian is passing by less than a km from my house. Feel free to bot.
I hope everything went well Falcon.
To everyone, I will update tomorrow.
Sorry about the delay. Snow storm+wedding+thanksgiving and parents coming over tonight gave me far less time than expected. I should be able to post tomorrow.
I really love that spell. it has been super useful so far in this game. even more useful with this sort of map where we aren't all mixed in with the enemies yet but they are all bunched up.
Just a heads up, my mother is undergoing a surgery soon and I'll be taking care of her as she recuperates, which will take about one or two weeks. I have no idea if I'll be able to post during that time.
Thank you for letting us know. I hope your mother recovers well!
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Ki Throw is awesome, mitigated somewhat by things with extra legs getting bonuses versus trip.
My single-most effective combat action was through a Ki Throw with a Maneuver Master monk I used to play. I think we were 10th or 11th level, and our party was very weak on ranged. We were being harried by a black dragon that was huge sized and hurting us badly. It was perched on a ledge 20 feet above us, breathing on us way too often. My monk stood right below it, then cold high jumped 20 feet into the air, took the bite AoO from the surprised dragon, then grabbed the thing’s neck and flipped the dragon over her shoulder to the ground below. The 2d6 falling damage was nothing compared to now being prone and flanked by an 11th level inquisitor with dragon bane and an 11th paladin with smite evil and aura of justice activated.
This Friday my wife and I will be having our second daughter. My posting is going to be spotty, frankly this is also why it has been spotty. I am around and will post as much as I can.
Take what time you need and congratulations! I hope all goes well and its a joyous occasion for you.
Just want to let you know I'm here watching the discussion.
Sorry Alexandra I dont want to post with just you having gone. I've got a Christmas party tomorrow night so I'll post Saturday now.
Guys is everyone around to post still or are the holidays filling up a lot of time already?
Makes sense. I'm still fairly available, but I'd be okay with pausing if others are busy.
I'm going to put the game on pause until January, its better to stop here than try and struggle through a round of combat with 2-3 players being botted.
I'll check in again on January 2-3 and we can see where we go from there. Merry Christmas and happy New Year everyone.
Merry Christmas all.
Hey everyone, I'll be traveling until January 5th so please bot me as needed for that time. Happy holidays everyone!
I hope everyone had a good holiday season. Given Olivia's note above, is everyone okay with me starting with initiative for attacking the look out tower on Wednesday January 8?
Sounds good.
Yeah, that works.
sounds good
I'm back, sounds good to me as well!
Back and paying attention.
as for resting/spells, I believe we were fully rested/healed/equipped when setting out in the morning. we had one skirmish in the woods on the way out with the goblins shooting us from the trees. then we got to the camp.
I'd rather not bot Elyas this turn as its a pretty critical turn for him. I will move the game ahead tomorrow.
I'm travelling, so next post will be Sunday at the earliest.
Since there's been no correction to my post, I would like to bring up that Claustipher has been slain in combat. Straight up, at this point in the game there is not really anyway to bring him back readily.
Before moving on to what happens next, I'd like to say that I enjoyed running Claustipher through the first book of the Ironfang AP and I wish it had not been his time. I can honestly say that the last 2 and a bit years have been a fun time.
That being said, Twistlok what would you like to do going forward. I can easily introduce a new character into the refugee camp as either another refugee being found in the forest, or a hunter or other traveller getting off the road after realizing that an invasion is happening. If you feel that your time in this campaign is done, then I understand that as well. Let me know what you'd like to do and we will make it work.
depending on how this combat goes, there might be a few more of us needing to reroll some refugees.... this is brutal!
Yeah this one looks pretty bad. Lets see how it plays out while I go though the grieving process. I had really hoped that hiding in the trees would help him lol.
not much to do about getting a wizard hit by a 3X crit... not many wizards at our level would survive that, certainly not one with the 'old' modifiers.
Falcon isn’t going to make it to you, unless this guy fails his DC 13 Fort save, which isn’t likely.
Eventually, he’ll fail one of these Fort saves himself and fall unconscious.
With a 20ft movement speed I don't think Olivia can feasibly retreat, or that it would be in character for her to do so. I don't want to metagame here but I'm just saying that because if anyone wants to retreat you'll probably have to do so without her and I've seen many groups suffer a TPK because they want to retreat but no one wants to leave the other behind and so they all stay and die.