Legendary Planet - an Adventure beyond this World

Game Master Zesdead

Are we doing 12 hour sleep cycles? I'd assumed we'd be doing 10 hour ones with only one person on watch.

I think two on a watch is safest... They can help keep each other awake.

So, I finally realized what a good visual representation of Relas would be...and it's this mount from World of Warcraft. Relas doesn't have the fancy headgear or anything like that, but otherwise it's pretty accurate :)

And even better, here is some fan art of said mount, which is perfect!

Some more visualizations...

Too small wings though

Dragon winged and injured

Awesome visualization, if a bit too big (and too white)

Probably the perfect visualization given it has no equipment

To my games,
I'm on steroids and antibiotics. I've been cycling being well and sick since Christmas, and it appears my lungs were trying to develop pneumonia again. So bear with me and apologies for not posting as regularly as I could have, been a lot more tired/distracted than I realized.

Ugh! Pneumonia is no joke, so definitely rest up and feel better! We'll be here when you're up to posting :)

Sorry to hear that!

I had terrible bout of pneumonia about 15 years ago, and would not wish that on anyone!

Get well soon!

I've had pneuomonia twice in my life, first time I was 12ish and spent a week under an oxygen tent in a hospital.

Second time I was 22, with no health insurance, and spent a month in bed at home and lost my job over it.

I had it four years ago and while I didn't have to be hospitalized, I did miss two weeks of work recovering at home. Definitely the sickest I've ever been :(

Yeah Pneumonia is nothing to laugh about. Rest up Rav!

I don’t think I’ve ever had pneumonia thankfully. But, I had the flu when I was a teenager and it totally whipped me.

So, it looks like we have lost Locke - it's been since before christmas that he last posted on the boards. I recall that something similar occurred last year (around about the same time) and it was a good few months before he managed to get stuff straight and return to posting... that time around, the game was in a state where reintegrating him into the adventure was quite straightforward - this time around, a little less so. I think that I'll GMPC him for a short while more... but when we arrive at the next settlement, if the player hasn't resurfaced, I will be writing him out of the game.

His player has disappeared in another one of my games and left us in quite a lurch. I understand your reasoning completely. I do hope he’s alright, though.

Bummer, but it happens :\

Hi all,
Feeling better, which is good, because I leave on vacation today. Getting sick the week before vacation sucks.

I'll be driving all day today, but will begin vacation posting Thursday. Going to be a bit of a boring vacation (visiting in-laws in the boondocks, so not much to do). Should be able to post frequently.

MDT

Sorry for disappearing yet again! My available time for online gaming is still limited, although I am hoping more will free up this month. It seems that every time I try to post, the site is either down or too sluggish to trust.

I had intended to update all of my games Saturday night while I was hanging out at my neighborhood bar. (They have good wifi.) But some of my friends dropped in, and I decided to be social instead. I only managed to update my very, very slow Ravenloft game.

BTW: If you think Rav with a permanent marker is dangerous, wait until he finishes designing his 'magic talk board', which will be the size of a paperback book, until you take it out and press it to a wall, at which point it will grow to fill the wall with a pristine white surface. After which, you can press any colored stick to it, and wherever you press it, the surface turns that color. You can clean it with a bright white cloth, wiping the color away without staining the white cloth!

Magical expanding white board with multiple colored markers

Hi, folks.

I am dealing with some elder care issues from 300 miles away. I'm not sure when I'll be able to resume regular posting.

Thanks for understanding.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm very sorry to hear that Zoreck. Hang in there and we'll be here when you're able and up to posting again.

Been there, done that (although it was 600 miles away). Had to move them 15 miles away, so you may need to think of that. Depending on how mobile they are, if you need to move them, you might rent an RV. We did, it made things much easier. Having a bathroom and a bed everywhere you go makes a huge difference when you're transporting an elderly relative.

Hi, folks. I think I'm back for now. I gave a short summary of what's going on in my life in the discussion thread of Zed's Shattered Star game, if anyone is interested.

So...this is probably a bit out of the blue, but conversation in a different game led me to write the following and I thought it deserved being posted here, too.

It's kind of a sappy, 'I love you guyyyyys' thing except without the alcohol? :)

Apologies to those of you who'll see this more than once, heh. And though I think it posted it elsewhere, and earlier, welcome back Zoreck!

Ok, everyone in concert....

"awwwwwwwww, kuwai!"

Sorry, anime channeling time. :P

I like the thought, and if anything happens to me, my wife will likely log in and let everyone know. Not that I expect anything anytime soon.

I usually try to respond to OOC and IC stuff. Sometimes I fail, and other times I just don't see that it needs a response (Like a post that you're going to be at a game con over the weekend). If you feel like I"m ignoring you, please let me know, it's more likely that I missed it or thought I responded and forgot, or the forums ate my post (they do that a lot! Grrrr).

Let me echo the intent of the last two posts. Like everyone else, work gets crazy sometimes and I can barely get a game post up, let alone anything further. But if anyone needs to talk, wants a word of encouragement, or just wants someone to vent at, just let me know. I’m happy to help! All of you are my friends, even if we’ve never met in person.

Just echoing what others have said here... my inbox is always open for folks who want to PM and, if you ever see me seemingly ignoring posts in the Discussion Thread then its just 'cause I'm an absent-minded, juggling loads of balls at work then returning home to a 6 yo / 9 yo pair of boys, fellow... I saw Palomia's / Ladile's Walking Dead game suddenly stop and it is kind of sad - and, I suppose, always a risk of running long games that we get emotionally invested in. I consider everyone here a friend - goodness knows I've played on these boards with you folks for a good few years... I'm not on Facebook, Google Hangouts or the like - but, e-mail is a thing :)

I'm not planning on going AWOL anytime soon - four of my five GM games are long campaigns (Shattered Star soon to finish book two of six, Legendary Planet halfway through the second book proper, the Emerald Spire at the thirteenth level of sixteen... and the Blight only just started along its long road) - but I'm going to PM players my e-mail address - just as an insurance against the 'has my GM dropped off the face of the world?' syndrome - if I do ever go long term in absentia, you'll have another way of reaching out...

Oh of course, sometimes life gets busy and we all miss things from time to time - no big deal! I just sometimes get all sappy when I think about the fun I've had here on the forums and all the cool people that I've met :)

Working ye olde graveyard shift tonight guys so I'll try to catch up on Gameplay when I can!

If Relas is going to continue to scout, we need to do something about his stealth checks, they're abysmal at this level. Back at level 1 it wasn't that big a deal. But now he's just a giant clattery 'gong' to everything in the cave. :P

Tattoo's on his hide for magic items? (Slotless items so they don't take up slots on Palomia)?

Good thing to look into either next level or when we finally get some dang money to spend :P

But yeah, he's definitely falling behind in that regard. Which I can look into working on if we still want him to backup scout but if it'd work better to have Rav do it then I can shift that focus elsewhere :)

Well, you don't have to max him out on it, but Relas has one ability that Rav doesn't (flight). So a single evolution point into a +8 racial bonus, or some skill points in stealth (or both) would be good. You don't want him doing flying scouting right now, as his low stealth would mean he'd get pincushioned out of the sky even at night.

Oh for sure, that's something I can definitely do next time we level up! And I guess it works that we've not (yet) had too many instances where flying stealthery would be really handy...

Hi, folks.

I am still alive, and things are looking a bit better with my mom. I installed a washer/dryer on the main floor of the house, converted the dining room into a bedroom, and hired both a home health care aide and a housekeeper. Between the hired help, my sister, and one of my cousins (both of whom live in the area), I think things are on a more even keel, and I won't have to spend my weekends out-of-state.

I'm actually taking a much-needed vacation right now. (Greetings from Los Angeles!).

Echoing what Palo said: I consider all of you friends, and I am more than open to sharing my personal contact info with you. (Facebook, Tumblr, Google Hangouts, email, phone/MMS. Not on Instagram. I'm technically on Twitter, but never post.) Just drop me a PM.

I made the difficult decision to put my Ravenloft and Runelords campaigns on indefinite hiatus. This should allow me to post in the three games I'm playing in with much higher frequency.

So, now to catch up on the 70+ posts in the Gameplay thread...

Glad you're back!

We left you back in town, but we only just got to the mine, so no reason you couldn't show up about the time things go BOOOOM in the mine.

Welcome back Zoreck!

Hey folks, just a note that I'll be heading out of town later today for a work training trip and won't be back until late on Friday the 20th. I'll have my laptop but the amount of free time I'll have to use it after today (Sunday) is uncertain so please go ahead and bot Palo & Relas as needed; if I have enough time to check in and post I will but otherwise I'll catch up when I get home.

Oh and if I do end up with some free time my first posting priority will be to my GMed games so if you see posts from GM Ladile elsewhere but none here that'll be why. Hopefully that'll avoid any 'I SEE U POSTIN' Y U NO POST FOR <X> GAME!?!?' confusion :P

Oh, in case anyone wants to hear the song Zoreck was drunkenly singing in the tavern:

"Pour Your Brother Another Round" by Heather Alexander, from Wanderlust ©1994 Sea Fire Productions

On an unrelated note...

I will be going to PaizoCon next month!

(Well.. I plan to be going to PaizoCon next month, barring a repeat of what happened last year...)

Is anyone in this group planning to attend? If so, we have to meet up!

Sorry for the silence/delay guys, I've not felt well the past few days and it's largely kept me offline. Finally feeling a bit better now though, so I'm off to catch up on Gameplay!

Since we are about to head into another long journey here, I was thinking in addition to the hot weather outfits we should pool our resources for a magical source of water.

It looks like the cheapest source would be a wand of Create Water (375 gp). Since none of us is a cleric or druid it would require a UMD check to activate....risky but a good backup plan in case water is not readily available.

GM Zed: what is Trebelbet's purchase limit? Is one of those wands available?

If I could redo Palo's actual name I'd totally change it to Palomia the Grump :P

GM Zed: what is Trebelbet's purchase limit? Is one of those wands available?

There's nothing written down as to the detailed stats for Trebelbet - it is, after all, a small oasis in the practical middle of nowhere (as indeed are most villages / towns in Rythes) - so let's assume that, given the inhospitable nature of the wastelands, such wands are available... :)

Sounds good then Drancis will purchase one of those wands. I believe the purchase price is 375 gp?

Sounds good then Drancis will purchase one of those wands. I believe the purchase price is 375 gp?

Yep... go ahead and purchase... and then, ready to head out into the wilds?

Ready to leave the massive radiation sink at least.

Hey guys, I hope everyone has had a pleasant holiday weekend :)

And for those not in the States, I hope you've had a pleasant regular weekend :)

This was weird...

About an hour ago, I posted about getting ready to fight the gnolls, but my post just disappeared. I saw I had gotten ninja'd by the GM, so I wrote a second post to take that new info into account. That one disappeared, too.

I tried to post here to explain, and got a "Server Unavailable" error.

Looks like both of my original posts are up now.

There's definitely some site weirdness happening; posts are 'there' then 'not there', it keeps telling me I have new posts to look at when I've already looked at them all, etc. Just remember to keep calm and for all that's good and holy make sure you copy & save whatever posts you're working on!

PaizoCon was a total BLAST, by the way.

I am planning to go back next year!

Glad to hear it! I'm more and more tempted to try and plan to go next time myself, especially the more I get involved with PbP Pathfinder Society stuff! It's just a little intimidating since it's a trip I'd probably have to make by myself if I ever *do* go.

Traveling solo is usually no big deal. I do it all the time.

Eh, I know and I actually don't even mind flying; it's just general anxiety talking I think.