Lost Lands Mega-Campaign
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Game Master
Grimmy
Campaign Wiki
The Lost City of Barakus | Valley of the Shrines | The Wizard's Amulet
So it just tells you how many coins each PC has coming right? You have to add them manually still under the PC's own tab.
I believe that is correct
Cool, thanks GM Blood.
Did you just let the "dividing the spoils" tally run through the whole campaign or did you start it fresh for each big haul?
I believe is the gathering area of loot until the splitting/selling
OK gotcha.
I'm looking at the way you do your maps in google maps do you mind if I use the same sort of visual style / layout (green box with party tokens, red box with enemies, etc.)?
Nope feel free to use/copy as much as you want to!
Let's get this thing crackin again!
Hero Lab users, send me your .por's, I am working on the loot spreadsheet.
mooredm80 at gmail
Glad to see edwardsobel putting lots of content on the wiki page! +100 individual bonus XP to his character Janna.
Just popping in to say that your Wiki for the Lost Lands campaign looks pretty freakin' sweet, Grimmy!
Ah thanks man I'm workin' on it now.
I wish it had a game-world calendar instead of an RL calendar. Also they did away with the items section what's up with that?
What's your email I'll shoot u invite.
current battle map | Female Sylph Sorcerer 4 | HP 10 / 18 | Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +1 | AC 12, Tch 12, FF10 | Ft +1, R +3, W +4
DM Grimmy wrote: Glad to see edwardsobel putting lots of content on the wiki page! +100 individual bonus XP to his character Janna.
yayy, of course didn't do it for the xp, but I'l accept it anyway.
I see Raziel checked in!
Now put those creative writing skills to use and win some XP for you and your team!
Yessir!
Though... I am not really that familiar with the Obsidian Portal. What and where can I write down stuff? :D
What I'm interested in most right now is campaign journal/adventure logs, and character profiles on the obsidian portal site.
Journals:
Campaign Journal's are always good for netting the whole party XP.
Jerrid just posts his right in gameplay or discussion and I've been migrating them over to the adventure logs section on the obsidian portal page where they aren't buried under pages of posting.
logs/journals can take any form, from a diary, scrawled notes, or even ooc log of events.
I know MoD has only been adventuring together as a party for one day so there's only so much journaling possible, but I will say that sometimes the devil is in the details.
Profiles:
The Obsidian Portal character profile has just two sections, one for crunch and one for fluff.
100xp bribe is on the table for anyone who basically just fills out the profile with at least a non-trivial amount of content because I've been met with reluctance trying to get players registered there before but I really think it's going to be a key to the health of the campaign and the success of the party.
Any kind of fluff/bio/description is welcome but the best kind of fluff you can put here is a drive/motivation.
Another marathon long work day ahead but I should have a lot of downtime during show-call so I'll bring an ipad. Think I can even run combats from ipad now that I'm doing maps in googledocs, haven't tried yet though.
Wondering if obsidian portal let's you guys post directly to the adventure log as players, or can only I do it?
Can one of you who have joined maybe test?
Male Archer 2 / Falconer 1| 35/35 | Init +3 | Perc +9 | AC:16 Tch:13 FF:13 | Fort +7 Ref +5 Will +3 | CMD:18
Okay, I'm signed up for OP, but I don't know how to join the campaign. Or post anything for it. Someone want to walk a dummy like me through it?
Sweet baby jesus. I am home. 22 hour workday.
Completely nuts.
I have to tell you guys a funny story but first... sleep :D
Male Gnome Gunslinger (Bolt Ace archetype) 4 | HP 27/39 | Init +3 (+5 w/Grit) | Perc +10 (Low Light Vision) | AC: 19 T: 15 FF:15 | CMD: 16 | Fort +6 Ref +7 Will +3 | Grit: 2/2
Will try and nail something down with Vhillish on the OP this weekend DMG - work brutal, home manic too - once I get some quality downtime I'll hopefully get something up.
Sounds good Vhillish. My work has been brutal too, I've been getting show-call's.
Hopefully it isn't too hard to get people back and posting after my absence. It was totally unforeseeable but kind of a funny story.
Usually when I work big touring productions I'm just a stagehand, and I don't get show-called (I get cut when the actual curtains open, and called back when the show ends). But this week there were a lot of sick calls in the costumes/wigs department so I was staying for showcall doing costume quick-changes on stage.
Male Half-Elf Arcane Duelist 4 | HP 8 / 34 | AC 17; T 13; FF 15 | CMD 20 | F +3; R +7; W +6 | Init +2 | Per +8
I'm sure we'll be back and rolling in not time DMG.
Nothing to worry about, you were only out a couple days and we all understand about work getting crazy. Just glad you made it through in one piece. I know just how nuts even small stage productions can be!
Long hours is par for the course but this was long hours with no down-time.
male--hp =12/28--AC19/touch 15/ff14 Appears as small human youth Rogue 4(burglar)/Init: +10--Perception: +10(+11 traps)/F +2; R+7; W+2 CMD 15
Sam here.
Just want to throw my 2cp in.
The number one threat to a good PbP is apathy and nonparticipation.
So, stay involved and active!!
Thanks DM Grimmy!
I just slept for like two days straight :-(
Male Half-Elf Arcane Duelist 4 | HP 8 / 34 | AC 17; T 13; FF 15 | CMD 20 | F +3; R +7; W +6 | Init +2 | Per +8
Must have really needed it!
Yeah, I guess I really did. Too bad, I was hoping to get some good gaming in on my days off but I slept like a bear instead.
HP: 17/34, - AC: 16/T: 12/FF: 14 – Perception +3 - Initiative: +4 - F: +6: R +3/ W: +2(+1 vs Fear) - CMB: +6 - CMD: 18, Speed: 30 Acrobatics +3, Climb +7, Heal +2, Intimidate +2, Perception +4, Sense Motive +7, Stealth +3, Survival +7
It's ok, I understand the need! I've been going non-stop as well. I have been checking in regularly, but have only been commenting while necessary. I promise I'm not going anywhere!
Checking in from the road :)
Running sound for a concert at Stonehill College in Mass today. I spotted an open PC in the student center so I'm hopping on between soundchecks ;)
I Should have iPad and WIFI at the hotel later too.
Cool, I have a few days to devote to the campaign. Breather from the busy spring work schedule.
We're getting close to the point where the different parties feel each other's presence in the game world, so I'm going to be looking at a couple of resources to support that aspect of the campaign.
I purchased D20Pro, Realmworks, and an Ascendent account on Obsidian Portal.
I also figured out how to layer a numbered hex-grid over the campaign maps in GIMP. Next I'm going to work on re-making the map to be more legible and easy to understand visually.
Female Half-Elf Druid(Treesinger)/3 - HP: 27/27; AC16, T15, FF11; F+4,R+2,W+7; Per +12; Init +1
Have you tried MapTools? It is really easy to just import a pdf and then drop a grid on it. Takes a few minutes to get the grid sized right, but once you have done this it is pretty easy.
If you do this, I discovered that it is much easier to use the vision blocking tools to black out everything, and then just make the parts you want visible visible.
EDIT - ah, stupid hex grid. Yeh, I have a hard time believing this, but have not yet seen how to do a hex grid in Maptools.
MapTools seems really cool, I did mess around with it a while back. I bought D20Pro though because they happen to have a whole bunch of content specific to these adventures I'm running. I don't know if I'll end up actually using it as intended (VTT) any time soon, but I can grab screen captures of the maps and throw them up on google docs for the PbP combats. I think this has a couple advantages over pulling them out of the pdf's and doing the same thing. For example a lot of the pdf dungeon maps are at a 1 square = 10', and the D20Pro content is already gridded at 1 square = 5'. That's the biggest thing. Maybe I can get some use out of the fog of war too. At the very least I'm supporting a cool company.
Male Half-Elf Arcane Duelist 4 | HP 8 / 34 | AC 17; T 13; FF 15 | CMD 20 | F +3; R +7; W +6 | Init +2 | Per +8
For of war would be useful for indoor combats. But yeah, I agree that the best part is being able to adapt the maps built at 10ft squares easily. That us always a huge pain when I run games.
I'm excited to hear you're upgrading the already excellent quality of this campaign. I look forward to seeing the new world map!
Yeah, it has been problematic using the world map I have had so far. It's a low-res scan of a hand-drawn fan made map made by someone on the necromancer games forum years ago.
Most of the players have found it illegible. When I look at it, I have no trouble making out the labels, but I guess that could be because I'm so familiar with the place names and layout, so I know what I'm looking at. If the text is a little blurry, I guess my mind just fills in the blanks because my brain knows "of course that's Bard's Gate" or whatever.
Anyway, I have been thinking about trying to make a better map in GIMP for a while but the only thing is, the official ones are not that far from being released. It would be a lot of work to do only to have the official maps come out, and I knew I'd be especially frustrated if there was a significant difference and the maps I made were rendered obsolete, because then I'd have continuity issues.
Bill Webb was cool enough to email me a sneak preview of the working copy of the master map though, hand-drawn by Greg Vaughan! So now I know the fan-made hand-drawn map I've been using is consistent with what they have coming out. So I'm going to go ahead and make a more legible copy in GIMP from what I have.
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I have no experience with GIMP, though I have been wanting to give it a serious look for a long time now. Strangely my days don't seem to stretch beyond 24 hours, no matter how hard I try ;)
Grimmy, you were talking about 'official maps' - what maps would these be? Another release from Frog God Games, or Paizo?
And also, I hope everyone had a happy Easter :D
HP: 17/34, - AC: 16/T: 12/FF: 14 – Perception +3 - Initiative: +4 - F: +6: R +3/ W: +2(+1 vs Fear) - CMB: +6 - CMD: 18, Speed: 30 Acrobatics +3, Climb +7, Heal +2, Intimidate +2, Perception +4, Sense Motive +7, Stealth +3, Survival +7
I've used GIMP quite a few times, but not for anything particularly advanced. There are a lot of youtube tutorials though, so that's what's helped me really figure stuff out. My crowning achievement was morphing my friend into the Monopoly guy.
Frog God, Raz, the official maps have already been kickstarted.
Male Human Inquisitor of Muir 3 Init +3 | Per +8 | HP 25/29 | AC 16 FF 15 T 11 | F +5 R +2 W +5 | CMD 17
But you're paralyzed, that's no fun. And you smell like a ghoul.
Male Half-Elf Arcane Duelist 4 | HP 8 / 34 | AC 17; T 13; FF 15 | CMD 20 | F +3; R +7; W +6 | Init +2 | Per +8
Eww, I really hate ghouls...
Male Human Inquisitor of Muir 3 Init +3 | Per +8 | HP 25/29 | AC 16 FF 15 T 11 | F +5 R +2 W +5 | CMD 17
At least it isn't a wet ghoul, ask Samduc Dawnbringer about that....
Female Half-Elf Druid(Treesinger)/3 - HP: 27/27; AC16, T15, FF11; F+4,R+2,W+7; Per +12; Init +1
Contrary to popular belief, I am not here. Wait, sorry, that is the other me that is not here.
Male Half-Elf Arcane Duelist 4 | HP 8 / 34 | AC 17; T 13; FF 15 | CMD 20 | F +3; R +7; W +6 | Init +2 | Per +8
I'll have to do that later Andrek, I just got shot by a level 5 brigand of some sort! So not cool :P
Raziel is always around... Lurking in shadows... Waiting...
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