Masks of the Living God 5e conversion

Game Master Koldoon

bump.

Koldoon, please push us!

thanks

I’m back! Until about October-ish. So ready for an intro. :)

My plan to quietly be at home for the holidays got sorta shot to the nine hells. Not so fun.

But congrats to you Lodric. I think if we can get this moving we'll be able to finish this leg of the journey before October-ish.

I'm going to push a bit more this year to keep us going. I let that go, and that's on me.

So, upwards and onwards.... it's a new year.

Oh, uh, hi guys.

I'm not dead. =)

So, in November I promised myself I was going to face the fire and reply to all those that sent me a "where the hell are you???" message from _last_ November. I thought it would end there.

But no! As soon as I started typing I was hooked. And it turns out that a few of the games I had been in were still going! In...one fashion or another. (Also, almost every one of them had an eerily timed loss of a PC that I was just able to fill. srsly, like, three or four, including this one.)

*chuckle* I've been communication with our illustrious DM all that time, waiting to make some kind of Big Entrance. I think it went well, and hopefully we can have some extra energy to keep it going.

Also! Hansyn, it looks like you're a fine addition to the party. However...since you are you and I am I, we're just gonna HAVE TO have a friendly rivalry.

I hope you don't mind. =)

Welcome back!

Welcome back Rankev!

Just as a note, we have a major snowstorm coming this weekend. I fully expect to be home and posting, but it's snow and ice, which means power outages are likely, so if you don't see anything, don't panic, it's probably just the weather being unkind to me.

Just as a note, we have a major snowstorm coming this weekend. I fully expect to be home and posting, but it's snow and ice, which means power outages are likely, so if you don't see anything, don't panic, it's probably just the weather being unkind to me.

You and me both... :P I think half the contiguous U.S. is under some kind of weather advisory for the next 48 hours. :D

So would it be too hard to write Lodric back in? Would it be preferable for me to make a new character?

I actually pieced together your return when she hinted at seeing my brother. I checked your acct and noticed you were active again. I’m happy to see your back and look forward to a sibling rivalry.

Thanks guys. =)

I actually pieced together your return when she hinted at seeing my brother. I checked your acct and noticed you were active again. I’m happy to see your back and look forward to a sibling rivalry.

Clever boy....

Mind you, if the rivalry gets too hot, you must tell me to stop. (Of course you'll have to say the "Rankev is the greatest in the universe" pledge first, but that applies for all families. Right?)

So would it be too hard to write Lodric back in? Would it be preferable for me to make a new character?

Lodric has remained with the party but has been preoccupied with the voices in his head. I was going to have him waylaid to be found by the party later if you decided to rejoin us, but they hadn't gotten to the appropriate place yet, so you're still there and welcome to chime in whenever you wish.

I'm traveling again on business next week. Any posts will be random and uncomplicated. Please bot me as necessary.

cheers

have a good trip!

I'm sorry, I don't seem to have grasped all that I've missed.

What exactly are we doing here, and what are we looking for?

You are investigating the defilement of the tomb at Kassen. There's suspicion (based, admittedly, on the ravings of a ghost) that someone was trying to assemble a key of some sort, of which amulets worn by Kassen and his erstwhile foe were a part.

According to the ghost the key was extraordinarily dangerous.

There's a fair amount of evidence that the priests of Razmir were involved or even behind the theft, and that the mission to steal the keys originated here.

Lodric, I admit I was ambivalent about throwing in with you, or even developing a character connection at all, based on your past posting patterns.

However, you are proving to be an active poster. I like that.

Thank you, I’ll strive not to disappoint

The thought of Venssa on Hansyn's shoulders under a mask and robe makes me giggle.

Leaving tonight for another week long business trip with limited, random access to post. Please bot me when necessary.

cheers

We just need a holocaust cloak and a wheel barrel.

All we need is a donkey, explosives and a loaded crossbow.

The rest is self explanatory.

Don't forget the wooden alpaca loaded with potato salad.

But you probably assumed we knew that.

And a few caged chickens!! Don't forget the chickens!!!
@ Rankev: I always wondered what the soap was for..but I assumed it went with the skis!!

Ah, the joys of having a High Int low Wis party :)

Good Morrow All!

I am posting to let you all know that effective immediately I have made the decision to leave the Paizo boards entirely. I'm exiting all three games that I was active in, so it's nothing personal to you all. I had a great deal of fun playing this game with you all. I wish you all great gaming. If you have the desire to keep in touch you can reach me on Discord (@Lukeinfehgamuhz#6868).

Your friend,
MendedWall/Aldelenna

Sorry to see ya go, but I will hit you up on Discord.

Okay, so that's a disappearance I'd rather not repeat.

I have a chronic medical condition. One that has been, for the most part, under control until recently. This flare up hit pretty seriously and while, looking back, there were signs, I didn't catch them early enough to do the proactive thing and call a temporary hiatus.

That left you all in the lurch. I'm so sorry!

It's with a lot of sadness that I'm returning to find that we've certainly lost Aldelenna as a player.

If folks are interested in continuing, I am trying to pull the pieces of my life back together, and that includes bringing this game back on track.

As long as enough players are interested in continuing, I will start this up again with posts this weekend, with the anticipation of returning to a daily (or nearly so) posting schedule.

Let me know in this thread, so I can work in appropriate fates for characters who don't wish to continue.

Again, I'm so sorry. My condition is magnified by stress, and between a family job loss and additional live-in family members, and two part time jobs on top of my full-time day job, there's been quite a lot of that.

No hard feelings if folks aren't comfortable continuing. I'm just trying to assess whether the game is salvageable for any who do.

Buncha stuff, buncha stuff.

1) I, of course, hold no grudge for extended delays. ^_^ Welcome back.

2) I have a RL friend that is just now getting in to PBP. He has already learned 5E. (He has a penchant for halfling thieves, but he's also versatile. He also enjoys a nice Ranger.) Hence, as the old saying goes, we have reserves.

3) Depending on who is left, I have no problem playing another character. Rankev left before and he may again.
3.5) I have YET to see a party that can not be made purposeful with the addition of a Cleric of War. And I looooove playing me some WarCleric. If that is what is needed then so be it. (Wait, did you have a prohibition against clerics? I can't remember.)

Anyway, the others will, I think, need to be PMd. Do that first and we'll see. =)

Rankev -

I've sent messages to everyone else remaining except Aldelenna, who already posted about bowing out of the Paizo forums entirely.

For the party not to have a major deficiency we need, in addition to you:

At least one of: (fighter/melee role)

Cole or Finlogan

At least one of: (healing and supplemental spell casting)

Venssa or Lodric

And importantly:

Hansyn (rogue stuff + supplemental casting)

An NPC might be able to patch one of those three roles fairly well, or two with some deficiencies. For now we just have to wait to see if folks are willing to take a chance on the game again.

I'm struggling to unhide the campaign.

What's the recipe?

thanks

Sorry to hear about the health problems. I’m here!

Figured it out. So, I'm in

So, in good news some folks have been answering messages (and posting here).

I'm still waiting for a few responses. Here's what we have so far:

Aldelenna: out (left paizo boards entirely)
Rankev: in
Finlogan: in
Lodric: in
Cole: out (has already replaced the game in his roster)
Hansyn: ? - waiting on response
Venssa: ? - waiting on response

I will send additional messages to the remaining two folks today, but it is a weekend, and a number of our players had struggles posting on weekends... I don't want to count them out after my own long absence because they might be on a family trip or some other such over a weekend.

That said, I think three players having interest in the game continuing is enough to safely say the game is salvageable. If we can't get Venssa and/or Hansyn to return, we can turn to Rankev's reserves for an additional player, or reopen the discussion thread.

The structure of the adventure would let us start the game back up without having to actually wait for that new player to join, because there are several logical spots to have that new player join in coming up pretty much immediately.

I am here and back and ready to go!!!!

Also still here. Glad to hear the game will not end. Sorry about your recent difficulties.

Excellent! This brings us back to five players and means the party has all the crucial roles adventures are built around.

Now that I know who is back, I'll build a reintroductory post to bring the game back into place. I expect that will post sometime tomorrow evening Eastern time.

Thanks for bearing with me during the hard time and I look forward to getting this game running again!

Sweet!

(Um, that doesn't leave us a bit short in the "someone needs to stand in the front and get beaten" department?)

Not that I want Finlogan to get beaten. He's built for it

Sweet!

(Um, that doesn't leave us a bit short in the "someone needs to stand in the front and get beaten" department?)

It leaves Fin as the only "tank", but in combat, Venssa usually also goes into melee. Hansyn also has combat as part of his skill set.

Remember also that Cole preferred ranged combat when he could, firing arrows as often as entering melee.

Does this create a more fraught and thoughtful combat situation for spell-reliant? Probably.

Rankev will love it.

I'm not able to post tonight, but will update the gameplay thread in the morning.

I'm traveling again on business for the week, so my posting will be random and non-combat. Please bot me as necessary.

cheers

thanks for letting me know, Fin!

Yeah, guys, I'm sorry but I don't see any good way into this, and that just means I just wanna bash something. I say we just ambush and kill priests until we all have masks and then go in as a group.

If anyone has anything better, go for it.

Of course I think the DM still has to respond to Vanssa...?

Frankly, that's what I thought we were going to do. Ambush a squad of those priests and steal their masks. Classic movie scene.

That's why I didn't know what that last scene was about.

cheers

I'm sorry to have been a little absent this week. I work in public relations at a college and we had an incident implode that had us at all hands on deck.

Thankfully news cycles are short.

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This is dragging because frankly I couldn't post for almost a week, and you're deciding to go off the script of what the adventure expects, while I'm trying to point to the hints of what's expected.

You haven't gotten it. And that's okay.

Going off script is fine.

It's going to make this more complicated, but that can be the spice of adventure.

I'm heading into the thread to respond to everyone. Now that I have some clarity on where you thought this was headed, I can maybe steer things a bit better.

Yep, I got nothin'.

As I said, it's okay. You're going off script a bit, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Anyone else just wanna go to straight combat right now?

I know this sounds crazy but I keep getting the vibe that we're "supposed" to front-door 'em.