Leorn you do relies that "summon monster 1" has a 1 round casting time and only lasts 2 rounds at this level right?
You might want to consider
disguise self (you have the cha and buff to pull it off)
forced quiet (great for taking down sentries like we are likely to do at this camp)
expeditious retreat (having good movement is great before full attacks)
Saving Finale (uses a immediate action and can really save someones bacon)
Also you have rather moderate cha so you might want to avoid spells that have a saving throw. Just some advise I don't want to be the stop having fun guy. However as far as I can see your main form of attack is not spells so you might want to just use your spells to supplement the other things you do. I'm a wizard I don't do much but cast spells so I don't have any other use for my actions. Your a bard and are good at a lot of other stuff so as far as I can see it makes sense for you to get spells that don't take you your actions ether because they use an immediate/swift action (bards get a lot of these, good ones too) or because you can cast it before combat (like min/lv buffs).
As I said this is just some opinion you likely know a lot more about bards then me seeing as I have never actually played one just built a few that new saw use.
Too late edit: Never mind forced quite I could do that and the fact that I have not even put that on my wish list means that it really does not make sense you someone with limited spells known to take it.
Also you might want to consider that bards get sleep which at low level is in about all ways better then grease. (I prohibited enchantment)
just put up that we have 229.5 gold in party funds. I am not counting the bow or the amulet. I am assuming we sold everything else.
I'm assuming the DC for tracking the bandits is probably either 8 or 13 unless it has rained or snowed since they left the trail. That's using a base DC of 10 or 15 for soft or firm ground, and allowing a -2 DC for 6 bandits, -1 since they were riding horses (large creatures), and +1 since it has been 24 hours since they left the trail. I'm prepared to find some of my assumptions to be incorrect, and of course this ignores circumstantial modifiers! Rain would add +1 DC per hour of rain, and fresh snow would add +10.
I'm posting this mostly for ease of reference.
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Yup, your right, and thanks for posting...saves me looking it all up..lol Seriously I do like it when you take the initiative and post this information. These are your characters, so you should know what they can do!! So never apologize for posting the references for a skill or ability...I encourage it!!!
Couple of things.............
1) Correct me if I'm wrong Daniel, but I was under the impression that during our interrogation of Happs, he drew us a map of the bandit's encampment (couldn't find this again after a very quick search though) AND gave us directions to it. If so, shouldn't this pre-empt the need to track?
EDIT: I found the bandit encampment map, but still thought Happs gave us direction to the site.
2) We'll probably need to travel slower than normal, to allow Damen (assuming he has the highest survival check) to forage for food. Still, I'd recommend buying whatever food Oleg will sell us and storing it in the wagon and/or on our horses. Make sense?
Everyone should roll survival there is not reason not to the DC is 10 and every 2 you beat it by is one more person fed and there are no penalties for rolling low besides the slower pace which we would have to do is one person is using survival anyways.
Do we really need to forage for food? I was also have Ulryk leave behind the wagon to increase our speed on this go around.
I see no reason why we need concern ourselves with foraging for food at this juncture. The bandits had little in the way of supplies on them, which suggests them being very near to the camp. My guess is that they are four hexes south of Olegs. Maybe less. We are all mounted. Using the exploration chart I would guess that it will probably take 12-17 hours to reach the bandits. A day's worth of food getting there. We can forage on the way back.
Unless everyone disagrees and you want to fully explore the hexes as we move south and reach the bandits when we reach them, instead of bee-lining for them?
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Happs gave you plans of the camp, but never actually told you where it was. The tracks are easy enough that Damen can follow them without much trouble. If asked, Oleg will be able to give you each 4 days worth of trail rations. Just from looking at the map you think it should not be more than 1 day's travel to get to this camp mounted. Maybe a little more because you need to track to the exact location. So the total trip (there and back again!!) should be 3 days tops.
Hope that helps
I guess we want to get there quickly to avoid the tracking getting difficult.
Among other reasons... Like keeping the element of surprise.
I'm good with heading straight to the bandits to knock out the camp, then we head back to Oleg's and can begin a more steady exploration of the hexes. So...no extra food needed yet.
Will post IC soon.
AHHHH!!! 23 POSTS! Good gods what am I suppose to do now I can't read all that and post. Can someone summarize.
The party reached the bandit camp and found a secluded place nearby to make our own camp. Svetlana and Brigid are going to sneak around and try to get a sense of the bandit numbers and such. Tomorrow I believe the plan is to attack the camp, but Kent's proposed that we ambush people coming and going to thin their numbers.
Um, so what was I doing this whole time?
You were proposed as a candidate to sneak around as well, and it would probably not be an issue to have you join the reconnoiters. I guess anything beyond that is in your hands.
Well if the place is not well fortified then we might as well just get it over with.
I have no idea what I am going do now. I am so lost and jarred.
While we wait for the new map, just wanted to make sure I understand where Svetlana and Brigid are. Using the hand-drawn bandit encampment map, am I correct in understanding that we are northbound on the trail? Also, how far is it from the wagon to the camp itself? Svetlana is cognizant of the blind on the west bank of the river, I'd like to scout things such that tomorrow we could potentially take out the west bank blind covertly first prior to an attack on the camp itself.
Sounds like a good plan Svetlana.
Leorn. No really worries at the moment. For this little bit, the rest of us are likely going to sit back and let brigid and Svetlana stealth about and do the majority of the posting.
Summery: We followed the trail for a good twelve hours and it is getting dark. We realized we were close to the bandits. A stealthy scout party was decided upon. Ulryk put up Leorn's name as a candidate, but in the end we decided on brigid and svetlana. Damen, Ulryk, Kent and Leorn are at a (Hopefully hidden) campsite that Damen found. When our scouts get back, we'll discuss the plan and strike at first light.
You can post some campfire talk or any suggestions of how to deal with the bandits. You haven't really missed much.
Okay, I need some time to digest what is going on a little better before I can post confidently. I hope to get something up soon.
It's a funny thing but wizards tend to know more about nature then Druids/rangers. I guess it's because Druids/rangers tend to learn it all from first hand experience well as wizards read up on on it. There's only so many animals a druid/ranger can expect to encounter well as you can expect to find books all over the place.
Of course Bards can be better still because they talk to all the Druids/rangers/wizards during their travels.
Yeah, I imagine Kent has poured through books on birds, their mating habits and nesting behaviors - complete with hand drawn pictures, while possibly never having seen it in the wild before.
I've even have read "5000 and 10 bird calls and their pronunciations".
Apparently I need a tutorial on how to do spoiler posts. I tried to follow the "how to format your text" guide but it didn't work. Who feels like helping?
You put "spoiler" in brackets like this [$poiler], then you put in your message, and finish with [/$poiler]
Of course using "spoiler".
OK thanks, well that part is easy enough. I was trying to figure out how to put "Daniel and Brigid" instead of "spoiler" as the tag line, but couldn't do it.
Oh, that's easy enough. Just put [$poiler=Whatever]
Just like when you put [di¢e=Mad skillz]
I had a feeling they might have a trip-wire alarm or some other 'trap' of that type. Can't really fault you two... your dice rolls weren't really bad per say... we just don't have a "proper burgler"
I am built to be a proper burglar which is why I should have gone on ahead.
Ah, well. We make our choices, take our lumps, and learn our lessons. With luck the bandits won't spot our heroines thanks to stealth rolls and assume it was some little animal or something. Without luck we'll just have to kill a bunch of bandits a little ahead of schedule.
Man, already used my bounded object for the day casting endure elements.
I agree with Damen; that's the risks you take scouting. No regrets, and would do it again. Let's see how it turns out!
@Daniel: Did they actually spot Svetlana? Her Stealth checks is higher than the bandits perception check. Maybe the alarm erases that though. Just want to get a sense of things.
I'm happy with my post for now.
I am going to keep myself willfully blind of everything that has been posted since the alarm was triggered. Just don't kill all the bandits, ladies.
I can't really help with the social aspects and if it comes to a fight you won't need my help to take down two bandits so I would rather not waste spells.
Not sure how dark it is, but if it hampers us a lot maybe a light or dancing lights spell might be of use.
Not prepared today anyone else got it? The darkness should cause the bandits just as much trouble.
I've got light. If we need it, I'll cast it.
It'd probably be helpful to get an explanation from Daniel what our circumstances are. Sounds like it's full night by now, and we're in a cold camp, so we might be effectively blind. That's, what, 50% miss chance?