Kingmaker (Inactive)

Game Master Dreaming Warforged

I think it worked out great. And I'll second the notion that if I am unavailable and I'm holding up a scene, I'm fine with having the DM run my character for a round or whatever it takes to keep everyone from being held up.

So far so great. If I may make a suggestion though, maybe, when the group is separated, post what happens on each side in spoiler? It keeps us on the edge.

Yeah that sounds really cool. I hadn't thought of doing that. Since it's no problem for me to split up the party (unlike a tabletop game) and we practically have two parties. Heck you guys could explore multiple hexes at once if you wanted later on.

Your attacks are fine too. Although as a heads up. If you're standing in grease and you haven't moved or made an acrobatics check, you're not flat-footed.

Ok, just to check if we are on the same page:

If the character in the Grease suffers damage from an attack, must he make an Acrobatics check? I would say "not sure, the text is fuzzy."

If the character in the Grease attacks someone, must he make an Acrobatics check? I would say "no, but only because it is not covered in the text."

Do we have the same reading? So if Corso comes to the man, he's better off not moving and attack me. But if I get myself a longspear, then I can attack him while he can't attack me, unless he moves, and then can attack him next while he's still flat-footed, or better yet, prone and flat-footed.

So it has a few effects. First everyone caught in the spell has to make a Reflex save or fall prone.

If you try to walk into, out of, or through you travel at half speed and have to make an Acrobatics check. (When you make an Acrobatics check in this manner you're flat-footed)

If you just stand up in the area and don't move anywhere then there's no penalty...aside from not being able to move.

There's no mention of what happens if they take damage, so no need for a check then. Same goes if they attack someone else.

So if he moves he's in trouble, if he stays put he can only shoot people. These bandits are not the greatest strategists though, little more then thugs.

Hurray you all won! Under certain definitions of winning!

After taking that arrow in the collarbone, I'm just happy to be alive! So yes, we won most spectacularly!

Nice job everyone :)

you have no idea how hard it is to go secure a live foe. it goes against every kill them all instinct in my gamer body.

you have no idea how hard it is to go secure a live foe. it goes against every kill them all instinct in my gamer body.

Your restraint is admirable. I don't feel my Cleric of Gorum would have been so inclined. He would have to had to at least bleed him a bit ;-).

lol, I planned on punching him into unconsciousness, but well there is this red dragon hatching on top of the man, and while I am not afraid of it, I am hesitant to test my armor against its teeth for no good reason.

In another game, I had a halfling rogue pummel a guy using improved feint, a high bluff score and sneak attack damage to brutalize him. It was oddly satisfying.

Today's my day at work where I can post as much as I like. Bring it on!

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1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

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I am loving this game, the rp & the combat, good stuff!

If OX continues down this path I many have to have him end up in the excutioners spot.

The avatars helmet would seem appropriate.

*buys a big Ole Axe*

It is great rp and combat so far. I'm enjoying it very much. I'm just trying not to push too hard so that players start to feel bossed around. :) At this point, Kalsgrim really doesn't believe they'll end up as anything more than marshalls, that any real rulership over the area once settled will be sent by the Swordlords at that time.

Well, to be honest I gave Ox the order of the lion becuase I wanted to show some deference, it fits the whole servant thing, though if his lord is lenient and requires him to treat him as another man, then he'll respect him all the more, it just makes it a more subtle roll of servant and lord.

Becoming Kings? What makes you think that'll happen? I have no idea why that thought would occur in the Kingmaker campaign.

I'd like to point out that Oleg was told by a trader that some guards had been sent to his trading post, and since they weren't you....maybe they're coming?

You folks may find this interesting but my RL group settled that combat by standing in the yard and the bandits showed up all grouped up on their horses. After a brief exchange and the bandits pretending to be simple traders (they didn't like the idea of thugging with 4 extra bodies in front of them wanted to come back with more numbers) the wizard stepped out from behind an illusion and Color Sprayed. He knocked out all of the bandits and their horses. > . <

Ohhhh, good point. That might save us from laying plans to kill the guards.

Also Garick is playing some texas holdem tonight So I bet he will probably be posting late late tongiht, and in couple hour or two I will probably call it a night.

Lol, those wizards can be tricky folks. thats a pretty impressive, I wonder how diffrently your Rl game and our game will end up.

Ohhhh, good point. That might save us from laying plans to kill the guards.

Kill the guards?

Well if we didn't think about that and we head out tomorrow and we go for the attack on the first group of armed people we see, well we might just have ambushed the guards. they'd think we were bandits and vise versus.

I.e. a big messy misunderstanding on the road.

Ooh....yeah that makes sense.

Just to let you know the only roads are going back to Restov and deeper Rostland to the east. There's no paths or roads to really speak of in the Greenbelt.

btw. I would find it extremely ironic if a paladin lied to save a mans life.

Being Chaotic Good, Ox and Sevrayn may be adhering to the letter of the law a tiny bit strictly. Everyone else is acting right in the definition of their alignment.

Just tossing it out there since you guys are doing a great job roleplaying. This might be a game where your alignments should reflect your actions or else the alignment may change over time.

Like I said about the LG paladin alignment thing before, I'm not a stickler on it, but it may be fun to keep track of it for you guys :)

Just tossing it out there since you guys are doing a great job roleplaying. This might be a game where your alignments should reflect your actions or else the alignment may change over time.

Servayn is using the letter of the law to justify wanting to execute the man, because, frankly, he thinks attempting to build a prison for him and feed him and keep an eye on him lest he return to his pillaging and raping ways sounds like a lot of hard work...

He's not generally a stickler for the letter of the law, and is just as likely to argue for saving people who *do* seem repentent, depending on the situation.

I'm personally a big fan of pulling together repentent bandits to form some of the new citizenry, but this guy just isn't convincing me. :)

Well, Kalsgrim is actually leaning toward executing this man. We have a witness that he has been engaged in repeated banditry and Kal's look into his heart was not pleasant.

Oleg appears to have cast the deciding vote on the matter...

On the one hand, he is the wounded party, having had his belongings stolen and his wife threatened.

On the other hand, he's not the one who was empowered by the crown to execute bandits.

On the other, other hand, he's not really a subject of the crown, at the moment, so he probably doesn't give a rat's bum about the laws of Brevoy, being still technically a resident of the River Kingdoms, at the moment...

Our first moral dilemna! <sniff> They grow up so fast...

I was just getting ready to put up a post for Gerick. I was catching up on the posts I had missed while I was out when I got to the last two Olag posts. I had a few things to say too. Oh well I am sure there will be more opportunities. nice to see the interaction and the fact that there are defiantly different camps and those in between should make for a very fun in depth game as long as everyone can separate character from person which since we are all adults with quite a bit of gaming under our belts should be doable.

This game makes me grin with pride. I like that.

Sorry about cutting you off, Dorgar. I hope no one minded me stepping in and kinda wrapping that up. I also hope that I did it in a manner that evoked some sort of emotion making it an enjoyable read.

Yes, there will be plenty of bandits and moral dilemmas! I think the question now is "ride out and get the surprise" or "rest the day and night and strike tomorrow while refreshed and restored"

Either way is fine for the game. Heck, even holing up in the fort is on option. Although probably not a very good way to "map the greenbelt"

oh no worries I think all in all a rather satisfying conclusion the aggrieved party stepped in and settled things. Just a shame the man had to step in and handle the dirty work. whoops Garick slipped out there for a minute ;)

Defend chaos 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

I was. originally going to make him dig his own grave.

Yeah, if I was Oleg looking at us almost quarrel like that in that situation, I wold have done the same. And it was actually a good lesson for my sorcerer, being chaotic and all, he'd now think to take action into his own hands when a decision can't be made.

Yes, it was a very hard lesson for Kalsgrim. Very well played all around, I thought!

I'm unclear....is Kalsgrim following Corso and Garick un-stealthily in his scale mail?

I kinda left him out of the last post until I was sure cause he'd be a bit easy to spot clunking along.

You know, I just realized that would have been a great post to spoiler for the rest of the group. Ah well, now you know what they see when they tell you later.

No, Kalsgrim is not trying to scout on the camp with the others. My comment was meant to convey that between the outpost and the bandit camp, Kal was listening to any instructions that Garick may have been giving, considering that he was the experienced woodsman.

noisy people wait here hahahaha

Oh yeah, laugh it up now...

"We're right behind you, Garick! Only further back..."

"If you get into trouble, make a sound like a dying giraffe."

"Can you imitate the sound of a ruptured spleen?"

"Hey Servayn. Did that sound like a dying giraffe to you, or more like a distressed water buffalo? My animal noises are a little rusty and I'd hate to charge in early..."

Hey guys, Garick is having some internet issues, he is hoping they are fairly temporary. Scipion, would you like me to run him for now , or do you want to npc him for the time being?

I'll just work him in my posts, no biggie.

Okie dok, he is not pleased with the internet goblins that are after him.

I know how that is, most infuriating demons ever.

agreed

Nevermind, aparently the internet just wanted me to tell everyone he was having trouble so it could make me look foolish and give the net back.

Oh, well I prefer looking silly.