Lords of Themselves: A Kingmaker Adventure Path.

Game Master Red Ramage

Congrats GM

and happy thanks giving everyone!

Welcome back GM! How does it feel?

Apologies, all. I jumped the gun and thought I was ready to start back up. Clearly that's not yet the case. I'm back home now, but moving my wife in (and, exciting surprise, getting a better job) is occupying a good chunk of my time. I'm actually ready to get back into the swing of things now, but I'm only committing to one post per day for the next week or so. Thanks for your patience and for all the congratulations and well-wishes.

no worries, take your time!

Of course, I was surprised when you were back so soon. Congrats on the new job!

Woohoo! We're back!

ok, logistics time. Yay! The tunnels are ~5' tall and only wide enough for one abreast. Therefore, medium sized creatures must stoop and attack at -2. It's pitch black except for very near the entrance. I'll need marching order, light sources, and which direction you'll be starting out in - left or right.

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Well, I'll get the ball rolling with a suggested order.

Pretty - scouting ahead with Darkvision
Idris, Maja, Sera, Kivan, Cass.

The basic idea is that we'll hopefully all be able to attack. Idris holds the line, Maja reaches over with her spear, the rest of the party uses ranged attacks. Cass shields the casters from rear attacks. Pretty hopefully does something sneaky to get into flanking position with Idris (... is that overly optimistic?).

Maja and Sera can cast Light, so I think that's respectably covered.

Direction seems arbitrary. Follow tracks?

I would suggest casting light on Maja's spear and some item of Cassius's.

I'm ok with scouting a few feet ahead. It should be no problem for me to move past the enemies, since they are probably small and weak.
Direction: 1 is left, 2 is right.
1d2 ⇒ 1

I'm good with the proposed order and Sera will cast light on whatever Cass prefers. ^_^

I'm fine with the order.

Then the plan is a go!

Jacob, can we use the corners of the room (where the corridor begins) to hide?

Folks, I'm sorry, but I owe you closure. I recently got a new job that is taking up a lot of my time, as I'm sure you've all seen by my lack of posting. Two days ago, however, my family was hit by a very serious crisis. As such, I have to bow out of this group. Thank you for the good times.

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I hope you manage to get things into their proper place Jacob. Thanks for the time spent.

I don't know about the rest of you, but Pretty will look for another Kingmaker campaign, what do you think?

Maybe we could get someone to take over the campaign? I dunno. I like this character a lot.

I hope you overcome the crisis Jacob! Sorry it happened.

Well, thanks for letting us know. It's better than sitting around and wondering if anything is going to happen with the game. I'll probably also try and keep an eye out for another kingmaker campaign to put Seraphina in.

Hope matters improve for you soon, Jacob!

Hope the crisis gets over soon Jacob.

Do you guys want to just stop here, or do you want to see if we can get a replacement GM?

A replacement GM is at least worth a try. Can't hurt.

Sure, I like the group. If we could find another GM willing to step in, I'd be happy to continue.

Maja nods in agreement.

So, I'll make up a post and put it in the recruitment forum asking for volunteers, OK?

Sounds good - let me know if I can be of help.

@GM Jacob - thanks for the heads up, and best wishes to you and your family.

I'll look for it and dot there.

I think there is a way for a GM to change ownership of a campaign, does anyone know if that is true?

I think it is true, but it may be Paizo staff that makes the change. I'm not positive though.

Posted here

Maybe an e-mail to the Paizo staff who handles the forums will do, or we can start another thread to continue.

I notice some of you are PFS players, I've just opened a new recruiting thread for my PFS PBP. Come check it out if you're interested!

Unfortunately all my PFS characters are occupied in pbp campaigns, one of which has been going on for months.

Mine either, but thanks for the invitation.

So, Red Ramage has volunteered to take over the game. He sounds ok by me, so we might give it a shot. What do you say?

If he's willing I would say yes.

I like his style already. Let's do it!

Sounds good to me. I'll send Cassius a PM in case he hasn't been watching this thread recently.

Weather events... I'm shivering already! XD
Thanks Red Ramage for volunteering to take us on! ^_^

Absolutely! I'll need a sec to get organized and fog-o-war up a couple maps, but we should be rolling pronto.

A couple of conventions I'll be using, when we're in explore mode each post will be headed with current date/location/conditions IE:

Date: 12 Rova, 4534
Location: Hex 5B (swamp)
Weather: Clear, Strong wind (-2 ranged attacks)

For battles I like to use Google presentations set to "anyone with a link can edit" so people can move their own tokens. This avoids positioning confusion. Here's an example from an old game.

If I've understood correctly, so far you have defeated Happs and his bandit crew at Oleg's place, Kessle and her crew at the Thorn River camp, the radish patch kobolds, and one encounter in the mites' lair. You are currently in possession of a redeemable bandit whom you are working to get back on the straight and narrow. You are currently surprising a group of mites found torturing a kobold. Several members of the group are on the tail of a half-orc bandit named Xen, who has done grievous harm to you.

Is the shared revenge quest something you'd like to drive, or is it something I should write in?

Thanks again, you're quite up to date.

Bill is the bandit who got spared from the first executions, but we've let him go after the Thorn River Camp, if I'm not mistaken, although there wasn't much of a confirmation about it. I believe we've promised him that and that our judgement was he was not a bad person, so we've freed him. Also, two scouts saw the commotion on the Thorn River camp, and that's why we didn't spend the night on that hex.

I'm not among those Xen has wronged, so I'll let the others answer to that.

Also, to help keeping track of combat movement, I'd like to suggest we move our tokens and use arrows to keep track of the path, like we did here, then the DM can check if it's correct and delete the arrows on the monster's next turn.

I should also mention that each of us has a series of relationships in our characters' pasts, at the request of the first GM, in the form of Friend, Acquaintance, Rival and Enemy. Whether those individuals ever show up in person is up to you of course.

Maja thinks that Xen Fahis was responsible for her late husband's death because that's who he was tracking before he wound up dead. Whether that's the truth is something she wouldn't know. But Kivan had a real encounter with the fellow, and knows his depravity.

Question for Seraphina: it seems to me that you're playing down your draconic heritage. Am I right to assume that nothing about you looks draconic until you manifest your claws?

Yes, she's afraid to reveal it at this point. Probably more to her family than anyone else. She has a metallic cast to her hair and eyes, but with coppery colors being fairly common in the human color palette I supposed it to be subtle enough to not be obvious. But I mean for the character to embrace that part of her nature eventually.
*wonders idly if the people could get behind a Dragon Disciple Queen* XD

Dragon disciple is one of my favorite classes. I played a magus 4/ sorc 1/ DD through rise of the runelords, was a tremendously fun character.

new avatar, same great taste.

A draconic queen sounds awesome. The kobolds would like it! ;)

You're doing a great job Ramage!

And Cassius have not showed up yet, have he?

Thanks! And no, I PMed him as well. If he's not back by the time we finish the mites/kobolds situation, I'll start looking for a replacement