Welcome to what I hope is going to be a long and eventually complete Kingmaker campaign.
Introduce yourselves and lets get started.
Greetings, fellow travelers!
Checking in!
Freya checking in!
Checking in as I head to work, so I won't have an intro post quite yet, but thank you for the selection! Looking forward to this adventure with you all.
In case anyone's wondering why it's gone quiet? It's because I'm now off to bed, it's 03.30 in the morning, why the hell am I awake?
Haha get some rest!
Howdy, folks. Just checking in...
The first question is getting to Oleg's trading post? Do you want to arrange horses and ponies for all, get some form of cart, or travel by foot (Mainly) as you are?
I've neither horse nor funds for one, but if the party is willing to travel at a 40' speed, I'm pretty quick on my feet.
I have a horse (let's hear it for the extra gold from the brigand trait). Like I said in the gameplay thread, worse comes to worse we can double up on horses or switch on and off to keep folks from being fatigued, if other arrangements can't be made.
I can only muster 30' speed. Nor funds. So I'm for a small cross country hike.
Do we know if Oleg's is an arduous trip from Restov, or rather close?
It depends on the means of travel, by foot it would take a full day to reach Oleg's. There is a road though as merchants do travel to Oleg's regularly. Both to deliver stock to Oleg's store, and collect the pelts the local trappers sell to Oleg.
I don't think a day's march will kill us, then.
Hmmm, had to really dig it up since the module didn't state it anywhere.
it's about 90 miles from Restov to Oleg's, which is about 7.5 hexes on the map. Average party speed of 30 covers a plains hex in 5 hours. There is the South Rostland road between Restov and Oleg's, so I'd say 4 hours a hex on a dirt road.
Which works out about 2 hexes a day, 3 if you push it past 8 hours travel. 2 days travel if pushing hard. 3 days travel if sticking to 8 hours a day.
There are two stops on the way.
Nivakta's Crossing is about 20 miles out of Restov. It has people living there.
Fort Serenko: maybe another 22-26 miles from Nivakta's, but is abandoned.
So a light wagon is 50 gold and can be pulled by 1 horse. Would that increase our pace? Plus having a wagon later may come in handy.
I can donate 10 gold to the purchase.
I'd throw my 10 gp in alao.
I have like 6 gold pieces - sorry, not much I can do. :(
I can contribute 10 to the fund.
Along with that I have a horse as well. My horse might be a better candidate for pulling the wagon than Rok's, as there is a significantly higher chance that she will make better use of being mounted than I would.
Rok can cover the wagon if need be, I still have quite a bit of gold left (Cavaliers start with a bit plus the Brigand feat). Kasper pulling the wagon is certainly a temporary solution, until we can afford a work horse.
Also I know it's a bit easier to do this in ooc discussion, but I find solving these problems in character to be a bit more fulfilling in the long run.
I'm on board with IC solution finding. Which is why I made mention both places. ;-P
Isabel has 23 gold, I'm sure she'd likely throw 10 in as well, leaving 10 to go. If Rock throws another 10 at it we'd have it and put less burden on her alone.
Looking at the movement tables a cart or wagon does 2 miles an hour, so 16 miles day. You'd walk faster than that at 3/hour - 24/day. Except you have a Halfling. :)
A light Wagon costs 50gp. A cart 15gp. A donkey or mule 8gp.
Who is driving the wagon?
Please put your HP, your full AC (Touch & Flat footed), Your saves. Init and perception in your headers thank you.
I will roll Perception checks, initiative and saves when needed. We will be using the block Init system.
Is there a skill associated with wagon driving? I forget.
I can give it a whirl.
Looks like it'd be a Handle Animal to do the Work trick. So in order of best drivers, not counting Roksana, we have:
Freya +2
Short list. Lol
Also, I noticed I didn't give myself Background Skills. Will edit to add appropriate skill ranks, (No Handle Animal to avoid Meta, lol)
Was just looking that up myself. Handle animal doesn't seem to apply.
Took a rank of Ride and Linguistics, to pick up Infernal as a language, seemed fitting being from Cheliax and all.
Left off background skills as well: added appraise, shifted the point in linguistics to the other background skill, and took Disguise.
Ok, deducting my promised 10 gold from my sheet.
Profession (driver) - Came up in a Jade Regent game I'm in, where you have to drive a caravan.
Rok paid for the wagon herself?
Yeah, to be paid back at a later date when you aren't all poor.
Going on the assumption it isn't common knowledge we are eventually going to be founding a small nation of our own. The current charter only mentions exploring, travel, and fighting banditry. Heh.
It's much easier when you haven't read the AP or peeked into any gameplay threads, as in my case - though I think I browsed Volume I about 5 years ago. Literally all I know is that a kingdom-founding is perhaps in the cards...exciting!
I offered to have the wagon hitched to my horse, given that the party opted for mule to pull the wagon, Freya would be on her yet to be named horse.
Okay, I'll change the map. Give me 5 minutes.
And done, you can adjust your placing if you wish. The map should be editable. Let me know if it's not.
GM_DBH: I'm pretty new to PbP - do you want us to start inputing our combat actions if our initiative or initiative block hasn't yet been called? Thanks.
GM_DBH: I'm pretty new to PbP - do you want us to start inputing our combat actions if our initiative or initiative block hasn't yet been called? Thanks.
Best to wait and see how the NPC's set up and then decide on your action.
Sorry for the long gap, as usual my plans for a quiet, peaceful weekend were ignored and I ended up being busy with family, friends and some amazing rugby.
Sorry people. Too sick at the moment to focus on posting an update. Normal service resumes tomorrow hopefully.
Spoils from your little encounter.
Leather armor 5.
Longbows 2 - 19 arrows each.
Longswords 2.
Shortswords 3.
Trail rations - 10 days total.
50gp - Total.
Suggest we let Rok take the coin - repayment toward the wagon?
Agreed.
I'm gonna snag a pair of arrows to refill my quiver. So that leaves 18 arrows for each bow.
Re: sleep spell casting time -
I see now no full round actions during the surprise round...I suppose you could assume I starting prepping the spell before the round occurred. You'll have to forgive the sloppiness - last time playing Pathfinder was five years ago.