:) I might just have to have a big nasty creature in there now!
As long as someone can wait on the ledge over the cave that would perfectly acceptable.
As long as someone can wait on the ledge over the cave that would perfectly acceptable.
Yeah, Kevros will launch Quince on to the back of the green dragon ... ;-)
Awesome the old wolverine and colossus fastball special.if you are gonna fight something big shouldn't you be where they can't reach. Like the middle of their back. Sides that's where you can start hacking off their wings.
It works for me! :P
Posting shortly, he is the run down of my lack of posting:
I apologize for being away during a critical time, part of last and this week have been brutal, and it all started Saturday:
1. During a BIOS update for my home computer, it corrupted my OS and I was unable to recover. Fortunately, the BIOS update did not fry the motherboard’s CMOS BIOS#1. My motherboard has two CMOS chips to help mitigate CMOS BIOS corruption.
2. My home AC went down during Tropical Storm Andrea either from power glitches or normal wear and tear.
3. In addition, my Computer\Office Room Portable AC to cool the computer racks went down but I figure out that self contained AC's are not so self-contained after all and can still fill up their water reservoirs. Anyway, there are two spouts on the back of the unit, that I can drain water out of it and figured out that was the cause of the AC going offline. It is supposed to warn me that there was a problem with the reservoirs filling up, however this feature had a synaptic lapse and forgot to warn me.
4. On Sunday, I had to work and replace a firewall set with a new one. When I came home, that's when I continued recovering my PC.
5. Both Monday and Tuesday were horribly busy at work and our home AC is still down with the tech visiting regularly this week to fix it. I spent all day Monday fixing the new firewall set because of strange networking errors such as newer network devices auto-negotiating with Legacy Devices at 100-Half or causing the Interface to go offline. I had to force 100-Full on all interfaces. In addition, the old firewall had a bug in which one of the networks should not have worked and when it was migrated over to the new; it did what it was supposed to do, not work. I had to call in a Tier 5 Cisco engineer (basically a Guru) to help me with it. He was also perplexed of the previous configuration and just told me to stick to networking principles 101 in the future and do not get fixated on past strange conditions which may have been the result of a bug or directly connected connections that never cleared out of RAM after adding the incorrect route statement in. Here is a good reason why one should refresh their equipment or update their device code as regular as possible and safely.
Rotten luck. I take it your west coast Florida. I am from Ft. Lauderdale.
Rotten luck. I take it your west coast Florida. I am from Ft. Lauderdale.
North Carolina but Florida has a bad habit of sending their storms our way which is both good and bad... ;-) ... LOL
Most of NC's rainfall comes from Hurricanes and Tropical Storms. Every time we do not have one, we have problems with drought.
I lived in the Jacksonville area for 4 years and was never hit by a Hurricane, came close.
I was living in Florida when this picture was taken. Burrr, cold!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacksonville_Snow_2.jpg
Ahhh Florida snow
Good to know, sorry for that bad luck spree. Glad to have you back.
Sorry all, yesterday I had problems with Paizo, and today was crazy with family and work.
Sorry all, yesterday I had problems with Paizo, and today was crazy with family and work.
No worries, thanks for the heads up!
Happy Papa's Day to whom fit this category!
How I am doing as a DM?... I am looking for some constructive criticism.
I know how you feel Wolf, I've been through those slumps and have learned to just ignore it.
As for how are you doing, I think you are doing great! One thing I have noticed about PbP Gaming, people flake all the time. Probably because there are no real perceived commitments and it's not as personal as a table PnP.
To add and hopefully make you feel better, this is my longest running or most active campaign on the Paizo forums.
1. One campaign in which I was playing a Gestalt Monk\Psion, the GM poofed without a word.
2. One Campaign, a mix of Fallout using PF rules is on hold while the GM adjusts to summer break from college.
3. Another one, the GM had real life issues arise and a player is taking over as GM, so that game or new game is in an idle state.
4. I have one pending campaign and I am currently working on applying to another two.
I am bummed that the GM poofed on number 1, it was so much fun since I am a martial artist in real life. Actually, I think that GM was in your intense Kingmaker?! My oh my, the world is small. So we were both affected by his disappearance if that makes you happy ... :-)
I think you're doing great wolf. You keep things on track and moving.
Yeah its one if the risks associated with pbp....the flakiness if other humans ;D
I think you're doing great wolf. You keep things on track and moving.
I agree, the constant moving keeps everyone interested in a PbP game. Perhaps, the others ran into RL or could not keep up with the posting? Or maybe even took Kevros' outburst too serious even after I found a way to bring it all into perspective?
Please continue when you are ready.
Thanks for the support! :) I should be available most of tomorrow we will see how much movement happens. :P
You are doing great, I like the pace. I was sick the last few days and didn't check in which I'm sorry for. I wish my other two games would move at this pace.
I will be out of pocket for a week or so on the beach. Internet connection will be spotty or non-existent, so please tame these wild lands without me. Heck, I may not even survive these traps...
DM PC Sala as you see fit. Will check in when I can, back to civilization on Sunday next.
Hey guys I am on the road for July 4th so my posting times may be sporadic or delayed. I will post tonight. In addition, my father-in-law's DSL connection does not work properly because they couldn't add a DSL filter to one of their old phones so sometimes it works and other times I need to be patient.
My goal is to post tonight, July 5th.
Sorry guys, I have been real busy, I picked up another shift just for yesterday (Saturday) kinda spur of the moment, though I don't work part of this next week.
No problem, you have to pay the bills and surplus cash for fun.
Family reunion this weekend, starting today, Friday until Sunday. I will likely not have internet, so if you don't see me post you know where I am.
Roger thanks for the heads up.
GM Wolf will have heard this 4 times by now, but i am traveling all day tomorrow moving from Houston area to Nashville area. Will check in as I can, but feel free to DM PC as you need to.
Save travels!
Please when you make a check please write next to it what check it is, much easier to read that than to guess what check you were doing.
Linguistics check
or another example
Acrobatics (Jump) check
Also if doing a knowledge check try to give me a few simple questions you are trying to get answered, then I can add some more flavor that can be beneficial directly to you.
Sounds good
Roger, I will as well.
Angeus has returned to the group with her escorts, Tristan, Sala, and Quince. :)
Talk and decide on what you are doing.
If heading straight back to Olegs, what pace will you be going, easy 4 hours ride 4 hours off, moderate 6 hours ride 3 hours off, or hard 8 hours ride 2 hour rest?
Did we finish with the woman's tent? I can't recall...if so then no other business here. I would vote for moderate ride.
Yes, we did, we have everything. I'll post later today or Saturday the latest. Still quite busy in real life due to an enterprise computer network refresh we are doing.
Ahhh the network refresh. I am trying to patch fiber today lables arent matching and I have no light to test with.
Ahhh the network refresh. I am trying to patch fiber today lables arent matching and I have no light to test with.
Err, ouch, that's not going to be fun!
That would be before you pick up the 4 bandits and the merchant waiting for you. Feel free to look back and tell me how many prisoners you have.
5 prisoners are in the cave with the group, yes/no? Many of the bandits that fought you were not killed outright, though the group waited at least a minute being caught up in talking to check on and possibly stabalize the bandits, thus 5.
Understood. Doesn't this present a problem? I dont want to raise another argument in character about treatment of bandits. But I am assuming there is no such thing as a prison system. And starting a prison would be a huge drain on resources. Is it our plan to turn Olegs into a prison colony?
It sure sounds that way, to give those a chance that don't want to be bandits to repay Oleg at least.
Right but we now have over a dozen (if any left with stalkers friends are alive). Oleg's is not exactly the Bastaille. My point was Oleg agreed to allow a few prisoners to fix a few things 15 prisoners even repentant ones seems a stretch and expensive. All our disscussion has been between killing them out right or allowing them the chance to repent. There is a big difference between not coup de gras'n them while they are down and taking them as prisoners for even a short time.
I bring it up here because the larger kill or not kill issue is somewhat settled at least until Kevros gets to say "I told you so." ;)
But the assumption that a small outpost on the edge of a feudal kingdom has the wealth and rescources to opperate a prison seems implausable to me.
Solutions we might consider jnstead of Oleg becoming a prison warden.
1-Turn them loose that the next offense will bring death.
2-A few wacks and turning them loose.
Just keep in mind, the more the better to rebuild or build new additions since we are receiving little help from Restov. We can have an reward program too with the #1 stipulation in play for the rest of their lives since we catalog our bandits to keep track of of them.
The only time would Kevros said "I told you so" is about the disease but we have learned a great deal about it.
If we do get to big, then yes we can always cut them loose after we catalog them. Going back to banditry will equal death.
Its not that we can't keep the prisoner and make them do work for us its the amount of security and resources it requires from us to do so. One guard is not going to be able to watch more than a dozen, with no cells, little investments in restraints other than rope.
We should role play this out.
Also half of the bandits were pressed into service, which means that given a job and away from bandits they are basically normal peasants, just a bit rugged on the appearance. Several will likely just want to go home.
Plus those at the Camp that you know are keeping the peace or will continue keeping the peace are: Siph, Saren, and the old wizard Alkron. Let alone Saren's Lizard/dragon mount.
Yes you will need to but it likely will be best when you get back to Oleg's. There are surprises to be had. :)
Fair enough.
Family Reunion for me this weekend, so you will likely not see me posting until Sunday night.
I copy, thanks for the heads up!
Have a good time
Sorry folks that I have been away for so long. I have been very busy with work, grading papers, and trying to get enough sleep to function with the more standard schedule than I am used to.
I will be catching up tomorrow.
Sounds good. Thanks for the update