It's Tomb of Horrors

Game Master Kelsey MacAilbert

I can has Gunslinger? If you really don't want guns, I can has Paladin?

Gunslinger is okay, though I suspect a paladin would be handy to have along from a healing perspective.

Paladin would be nice -- I don't know if you can afford a holy avenger or holy sword.

I can has a Paladin with a gun? There's an archetype for that.

Yes, that's fine. Should be interesting.

I'll get to crunching!

Bringing a gun into Tomb of Horrors, I thought it would be sacrilege, but I like it.

On second thought, I'll build an Urban Ranger. The Holy Gun is a really, really weak archetype.

Rolling HP

8d10 ⇒ (8, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 5, 10) = 36

>.>

<.<

Gotta reroll HP.

8d8 ⇒ (4, 6, 3, 4, 8, 5, 1, 5) = 36

I ended up creating a Magus. Here she is:

Will she work?

I'll have fluff and name tomorrow.

Should be alright, though you'll have to define the 'cat's luck' and 'sprinter' racial abilities for me.

Anyway, I'm about ready to get started again. Should have a post up later this evening.

Thanks Chris-- Wesley was designed to be the best trapfinding character ever created. I am sure ToH will challenge him.

Cat's Luck (Ex)

Once per day when a catfolk makes a Reflex saving throw, it can roll the saving throw twice and take the better result. It must decide to use this ability before the saving throw is attempted.

Sprinter (Ex)

A catfolk gains a 10-foot racial bonus to its speed when using the charge, run, or withdraw actions.

All set, Chris.

Oh, and can my mithril have a bronzish sheen instead of being silvery? Going for a specific look.

Back in the discussion earlier I was going for a faerie cohort with my leadership feat. I didn't want to have an extra figure to account for, the idea was a fairy or pixie that hung out in my hood that I could deploy from time to time to scout. I was thinking of a high charisma oracle for her class.

Oh, erm, btw, when I built my character I kinda forgot to buy a Crowbar... *Gives DM Chris Banks Bambi eyes*

@ Wesley: This is the part where that low charisma score comes back to bite you, I'm afraid. Wesley's leadership score is 7, which means he can attract a 5th level cohort. Pixies are listed as a level 8 equivalent, and I can see why, given they're small, intelligent, loaded with magic and can fly. I think a pseudodragon with two class levels is about right, and if you like you can use the stats for a pseudodragon to represent a faerie.

@ Dresmond: I see you haven't picked out your spells for the day yet. Kind of an important thing to sort out, since you may find yourself needing to cast them at some point.

@ Victor: Yeah, I think we can take crowbars as a given. Go ahead and add it.

@ Kelsey: No problems with bronzed-looking mithral. In fact, I'm unlikely to take any issue with purely cosmetic choices.

For my own amusement, I think I'll upgrade Marius to your mysterious patron, the one who put you onto the tomb in the first place and will be paying for the inevitable raise deads and the like. He's here for the first day to observe you in action (you know, make sure his money's being well spent), after which he's heading back to town.

A quick note: Although I have no problem with people taking 10 or 20 on checks, do bear in mind that this represents ten or twenty minutes of effort. As such, other players may like to consider what they're doing with that time. Potentially checking the rest of a room for traps, for instance.

Methinks I should do my spells for today, too.

On to important character details.

Actually, according to the rules, taking 20 means it would take 20 times as long as the skill would normally take, which means for a 1 round skill (6 seconds) it would take 20 rounds (20*6=120 seconds) or 2 minutes. And taking ten is vague, but I would say from the rules that it was just a 1 round thing, given you aren't trying your hardest with the skill, but if you really wanted to impose a time limit on it, then I would suggest 1 minute (10*6).

Huh, so it does. Not sure where I picked up the 10-20 minutes from, but I daresay I'll be a bit more willing to take 10 or 20 in future.

Just remember, if anything bad happens when taking 20 you are assumed to have rolled a 1 before a 20. So disarming locks where you could break a pick or jam the tumblers taking 20 is not always so good.

Obviously checking a room over with a fine toothcomb taking 20 is going to take forever, it does depend on the task you're doing, but you can't be in any danger if you choose to take 20, and 10 as well I think.

Okay, it's now been a week with no activity since my last post, so I think I can safely conclude that the game's run out of steam and may as well be abandoned. Do I hear any dissenting voices?

Sorry--I posted just before you in gameplay.

I am game to continue, even after missing the riddle.

Thanks Chris for your work, the maps have been nice too. I appreciate you trying to save this. I hope others want to continue, but the way of the PbP adventure is a fickle one. Over half my games are now abandoned not counting this one.

Life got busy for me, and with all the dead time while things changed over I guess my character died a little. PbP's can be hard to keep going sometimes, at the moment I suspect Pugwampi's are killing my Legacy of Fire campaign I'm running.

Wesley, if you're happy to try post once a dayish, I'll try inject some life back into my character and do the same.

Let's not keep it going for only two PCs. I know Wareagle is busy with his two new starts--Hommlett and Shackled City.

I kind of like the burglar build--maybe I can pick everyone else but Victor's pockets while we wait. I'll split the loot with you.

Tomb of Horrors is a niche market unlike the gazillion kingmaker or carrion crown APs.

I suspect it plays a bit better in person as well. There isn't really a great deal of NPC interaction to hold players' attention, and the necessary caution drags out a bit when combined with the slow pace of the play by post format.

Mmmmm, you're right, I'm finding it harder because of the slower pace, it doesn't translate as well into a PbP, which is a shame because it sounded like a really interesting concept.

I guess dungeon crawls like ToH make for less popular PbP.

I'm still here to so leave me loot alone :)

I am enjoying the game and if all are willing to continue I will gladly be involved I just find it a little hard to keep my player knowledge behind me especially for ToH.

OK, lets go.

I'll post soon, Emily has just fallen pregnant with our second child, so been running around like a mad thing.

Congratulations. Say no more. You can kill us later.

Alright, apologies all around, but I'm going to have to pull the plug. When I realise it's been a week since my last post, it's a good indication that life's gotten in the way of GMing and between studies and extracurricular activities, it isn't likely to let up any time soon.