paizo.com Recent Discussion Posts for Masks of the Living God 5e conversionpaizo.com Recent Discussion Posts for Masks of the Living God 5e conversion2018-03-22T02:30:14Z2018-03-22T02:30:14ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1332019-07-08T11:55:45Z2019-07-08T11:55:45Z<p>Hi GM</p>
<p>Would you please set the game to inactive </p>
<p>Thanks</p>Hi GM
Would you please set the game to inactive
ThanksFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)2019-07-08T11:55:45ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1322019-07-02T22:46:02Z2019-07-02T22:46:02Z<p>Thanks for the game. Wish you all the best in real life.</p>
<p>Please don't forget to turn the lights off... meaning to set the campaign to inactive in the campaign info tab.</p>
<p>cheers</p>Thanks for the game. Wish you all the best in real life.
Please don't forget to turn the lights off... meaning to set the campaign to inactive in the campaign info tab.
cheersFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)2019-07-02T22:46:02ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionGreycastlehttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1312019-07-02T15:46:00Z2019-07-02T15:46:00Z<p>Thank you for the brief time that I was able to join. I’m in agreement with Lodric about your writing talent and I only hope things in your life can eventually smooth out and provide you with some comfort and stability. </p>
<p>I also really enjoyed many of the characters and interactions in this group. I felt playing Hansyn was challenging but rewarding. </p>
<p>I will look forward to you someday returning to the boards. Thanks again.
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Greycastle.</p>Thank you for the brief time that I was able to join. I’m in agreement with Lodric about your writing talent and I only hope things in your life can eventually smooth out and provide you with some comfort and stability.
I also really enjoyed many of the characters and interactions in this group. I felt playing Hansyn was challenging but rewarding.
I will look forward to you someday returning to the boards. Thanks again.
Greycastle.Greycastle2019-07-02T15:46:00ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionLodric Aegilson (alias of Grumbaki)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1302019-07-01T01:54:48Z2019-07-01T01:54:48Z<p>I completely understand and thank you for the message. While the game lasted you were a talented writer and made an enjoyable story. I wish you and yours all the best!</p>I completely understand and thank you for the message. While the game lasted you were a talented writer and made an enjoyable story. I wish you and yours all the best!Lodric Aegilson (alias of Grumbaki)2019-07-01T01:54:48ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionAtlas2112https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1292019-07-01T01:51:41Z2019-07-01T01:51:41Z<p>Can't say I'm surprised, but that doesn't make me not sad, all the same.</p>
<p>Would it bring you some measure of joy to write an epilogue for the story and for all characters involved?</p>
<p>Also....</p>
<p>better in a PM.</p>Can't say I'm surprised, but that doesn't make me not sad, all the same.
Would it bring you some measure of joy to write an epilogue for the story and for all characters involved?
Also....
better in a PM.Atlas21122019-07-01T01:51:41ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionKoldoonhttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1282019-07-01T01:36:29Z2019-07-01T01:36:29Z<p><b>ANNOUNCEMENT</b></p>
<p>I’ve been needing to make this announcement for over two weeks, and I just don’t want to do it. As much as this game has sputtered, I really do love it.</p>
<p>But I have to face reality. </p>
<p>When I started this session, I had a very different home and family life, and very different stressors to complicate my abilities to deliver the adventure. </p>
<p>Reluctantly, I have to conclude that the family and work stress—from taking in a teenage family member into our home, to my husband losing his job of eighteen years, to the passing of our dear pug at seventeen and a half (and the health decline that accompanied it)—has resulted in my own health and well-being being compromised. </p>
<p>I have a huge list of tasks in any given day and I used to juggle those with only occasional difficulty. Lately though, this game, as much as I love it, is one of the things that I can’t bring myself to get to. It’s not just a time issue. My social anxiety, usually confined to in person interactions, has escalated to include social media and internet interactions, and so while I might spend hours making tokens for the game and getting the map just right for the impending barroom brawl (which I have), I am currently not capable of taking the step to get that online, to post the interactions, and to be social and role play. </p>
<p>I am no longer meaningfully recovering the energy that allows me to be social and deal with people. That has occasionally happened to me in my life, but never to such a degree that even online interactions, usually the lowest of low stress, were implicated.</p>
<p>I was really impressed with the quality of you all as a group.</p>
<p>Finlogan: You were reliable, and showed sparks of roleplay that made me really excited for this adventure. As a healthy fighter with arcane talent, you were the ideal recruit for the Living God, and I was looking forward to that interplay.</p>
<p>Venssa: You played in character perfectly, coming up with actions that made perfect sense for a gnome and a druid that I was never quite prepared for. It was refreshing and I always looked forward to your understated contributions.</p>
<p>Hansyn: You showed an ability to really play with a character’s background and especially after Rankev returned, I thought we had some really great opportunities. I wish we’d been able to explore those more.</p>
<p>Rankev: You managed to be an instigator and verbose and it was wonderful. I missed you after your departure from the first adventure, and I was looking forward to seeing you here.</p>
<p>Lodric: Man, this was an interesting character, and seeing how Lodric would react to the agents of the Living God, especially as a clerk who wasn’t anxious for bloodshed or fighting? That had me so anxious to see that happen. </p>
<p>You were great players. I wish I could continue. But right now I can’t even guarantee a weekly post, and that’s not fair to any of you.</p>
<p>I am, with reluctance, shutting the game down.</p>ANNOUNCEMENT
I’ve been needing to make this announcement for over two weeks, and I just don’t want to do it. As much as this game has sputtered, I really do love it.
But I have to face reality.
When I started this session, I had a very different home and family life, and very different stressors to complicate my abilities to deliver the adventure.
Reluctantly, I have to conclude that the family and work stress—from taking in a teenage family member into our home, to my husband losing his...Koldoon2019-07-01T01:36:29ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1272019-05-29T02:25:38Z2019-05-29T02:25:38Z<p>I’m on a biz trip until Saturday. Bot me until then. </p>
<p>Cheers</p>I’m on a biz trip until Saturday. Bot me until then.
CheersFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)2019-05-29T02:25:38ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionLodric Aegilson (alias of Grumbaki)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1262019-05-28T17:22:27Z2019-05-28T17:22:27Z<p>Back from training! Still exhausted. Funny thing. In uniform I can walk and run around all day. Come home, and big open sores on the bottom of my feet makes me feel like I can't move at all. I'm sure someone smarter than me can comment on the psychology of that.</p>Back from training! Still exhausted. Funny thing. In uniform I can walk and run around all day. Come home, and big open sores on the bottom of my feet makes me feel like I can't move at all. I'm sure someone smarter than me can comment on the psychology of that.Lodric Aegilson (alias of Grumbaki)2019-05-28T17:22:27ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionKoldoonhttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1252019-05-28T16:05:00Z2019-05-28T16:05:00Z<p>Losing a pup is horrifying. Even when she was so clearly telling us it was time. For it to come at a time when I couldn't take off work to deal with it sort of made it a little explosive.</p>
<p>It was time, and that's horrifying and I miss her horribly. But seventeen is a very very very old age for a pug. </p>
<p>My mom suggested we keep an eye out for a rescue from a place where she's rescued from before. In a case of perfect timing, they had a beautiful litter of beagle-mix puppies. We've spent the last two weeks getting the rescue scads of information and our application was accepted, so one of those pups came home to us from Tennessee over the holiday weekend.</p>
<p>—-</p>
<p>Game stuff. I think what this needs may be a more forceful push. I'm not going to do anything so forceful that there aren't options, but it will be an overwhelming push... so some of how it turns out may be luck.</p>
<p>I know you aren't thinking this way, but there is a little bit of a clock... there was an elven woman who Kassen adventured with who he purported had the third part of the key. The ghost seemed quite determined that the three pieces being united again was a bad thing. </p>
<p>I'm setting up tokens and a battle map, but this will evolve shortly into a combat encounter. I don't think Rankev is wrong in that those do tend to inject some energy into the game, and I think that's what the game needs.</p>
<p>Puppy permitting, that will go up tonight, but if it doesn't, I do have tomorrow off (I took some time now that Commencement is over to help make sure the pup gets housetrained properly. The fewer accidents early, the better for that). So certainly if it doesn't happen tonight it will tomorrow.</p>Losing a pup is horrifying. Even when she was so clearly telling us it was time. For it to come at a time when I couldn't take off work to deal with it sort of made it a little explosive.
It was time, and that's horrifying and I miss her horribly. But seventeen is a very very very old age for a pug.
My mom suggested we keep an eye out for a rescue from a place where she's rescued from before. In a case of perfect timing, they had a beautiful litter of beagle-mix puppies. We've spent the...Koldoon2019-05-28T16:05:00ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionHansyn Vargidan (alias of Greycastle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1242019-05-16T16:56:09Z2019-05-16T16:53:32Z<p>Hansyn would be uncomfortable with Rankev’s suggestion. He has no love for the priests to be sure, but killing people isn’t something that he has had to come to terms with at his age. That being said, I have a feeling that sometime during this adventure, he will have to address and get over his discomfort. </p>
<p>He would be more receptive to Finlogan’s plan. I also like the idea of accelerating this section as well. </p>
<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>on a side note, I’m sorry to hear about your pug. I have three aging pups myself and have been in your shoes before. It’s never easy but he/she had a long life and that should be something to be happy about. </span></p>Hansyn would be uncomfortable with Rankev’s suggestion. He has no love for the priests to be sure, but killing people isn’t something that he has had to come to terms with at his age. That being said, I have a feeling that sometime during this adventure, he will have to address and get over his discomfort.
He would be more receptive to Finlogan’s plan. I also like the idea of accelerating this section as well.
on a side note, I’m sorry to hear about your pug. I have three aging pups myself...Hansyn Vargidan (alias of Greycastle)2019-05-16T16:53:32ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionKoldoonhttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1232019-05-14T23:44:27Z2019-05-14T23:44:27Z<p>I lost my seventeen year old pug this weekend, and am still out of it. I will try to post by tomorrow.</p>I lost my seventeen year old pug this weekend, and am still out of it. I will try to post by tomorrow.Koldoon2019-05-14T23:44:27ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionRankev "Power" Davis (alias of Atlas2112)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1222019-05-14T22:25:07Z2019-05-14T22:25:07Z<p>I vote for option 1. </p>
<p>We're by a river/dock. We can just follow the long and noble tradition of dumping the body in the water. =)</p>I vote for option 1.
We're by a river/dock. We can just follow the long and noble tradition of dumping the body in the water. =)Rankev "Power" Davis (alias of Atlas2112)2019-05-14T22:25:07ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1212019-05-12T17:12:40Z2019-05-12T17:12:40Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Hansyn Vargidan wrote:</div><blockquote> <span class=messageboard-ooc>ok, so we know we have some priest’s here. What is our plan from this point? Follow them out and confront/question? They do not have their masks with them, so getting disguises won’t happen but we could learn more about the organization. Keep in mind that if we capture one, we will need to know what we want to do with him/her after we question them. IE kill or bind and somehow keep captured until our work is done. </span> </blockquote><p>Let's take this discussion into Discussion. OK, so we found unmasked priests. What do we do?
<p>1. Follow them out. Whack them before they get to their destination. Interrogate them for information. What to do with the hostages/bodies?</p>
<p>2. Follow them to their destination. Full on reconnaissance. I don't think we're on a clock, so we can learn everything we can by watching them. Where they eat? Where they sleep? How do they mask?</p>
<p>I would suggest that we let the GM accelerate this game by letting us watch these guys long enough to understand their routines. </p>
<p>Then, we can decide how to take their masks and investigate the interior of the temple.</p>Hansyn Vargidan wrote:ok, so we know we have some priest’s here. What is our plan from this point? Follow them out and confront/question? They do not have their masks with them, so getting disguises won’t happen but we could learn more about the organization. Keep in mind that if we capture one, we will need to know what we want to do with him/her after we question them. IE kill or bind and somehow keep captured until our work is done.
Let's take this discussion into Discussion. OK, so we...Finlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)2019-05-12T17:12:40ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionKoldoonhttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1202019-05-02T01:55:44Z2019-05-02T01:55:44Z<p>Broken glasses definitely suck. I'm officially old, I'm getting bifocals, which is the wait - they finally came in today. Getting used to them is a trick though, and I'm getting headaches just putting them on. I'm told that's normal and not to worry unless it lasts more than a week.</p>
<p>My eyesight has been lousy most of my life, but my eye doc read me the riot act. computer glasses. bifocals. I'm spending a month's salary on glasses and being glad the insurance at least covered most of the appointment with the eye doctor.</p>
<p>Lodric: Thanks for the heads up. We'll keep you mostly on autopilot until you get back</p>Broken glasses definitely suck. I'm officially old, I'm getting bifocals, which is the wait - they finally came in today. Getting used to them is a trick though, and I'm getting headaches just putting them on. I'm told that's normal and not to worry unless it lasts more than a week.
My eyesight has been lousy most of my life, but my eye doc read me the riot act. computer glasses. bifocals. I'm spending a month's salary on glasses and being glad the insurance at least covered most of the...Koldoon2019-05-02T01:55:44ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionHansyn Vargidan (alias of Greycastle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1192019-05-01T15:59:12Z2019-05-01T15:59:12Z<p>Shame! Shame! Shame! Heh.</p>Shame! Shame! Shame! Heh.Hansyn Vargidan (alias of Greycastle)2019-05-01T15:59:12ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionRankev "Power" Davis (alias of Atlas2112)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1182019-05-01T14:19:00Z2019-05-01T14:19:00Z<p>Also, I'd be against the "joining is a good thing" line of attack just because...well, it didn't go very well for queen Cersei when she left all her guards and went alone into the creepy church, is what I'm sayin'. =)</p>Also, I'd be against the "joining is a good thing" line of attack just because...well, it didn't go very well for queen Cersei when she left all her guards and went alone into the creepy church, is what I'm sayin'. =)Rankev "Power" Davis (alias of Atlas2112)2019-05-01T14:19:00ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionRankev "Power" Davis (alias of Atlas2112)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1172019-05-01T14:17:55Z2019-05-01T14:17:55Z<p>Koldoon, are you in the US? The dollar store sells reading glasses for...a dollar. ^_^ Might be good for up-close.</p>
<p>I know because I just bought my mom a pair. They have every prescription range.</p>Koldoon, are you in the US? The dollar store sells reading glasses for...a dollar. ^_^ Might be good for up-close.
I know because I just bought my mom a pair. They have every prescription range.Rankev "Power" Davis (alias of Atlas2112)2019-05-01T14:17:55ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionHansyn Vargidan (alias of Greycastle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1162019-04-30T05:24:18Z2019-04-30T05:24:18Z<p>Thanks for the update and heads up.</p>Thanks for the update and heads up.Hansyn Vargidan (alias of Greycastle)2019-04-30T05:24:18ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionLodric Aegilson (alias of Grumbaki)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1152019-04-30T01:43:44Z2019-04-30T01:43:44Z<p>Broken glasses sucks. GL!</p>
<p>On my end I have national guard annual training. 28 days, will not have phone for about a week, maybe week and a half. Will post as much as I can.</p>Broken glasses sucks. GL!
On my end I have national guard annual training. 28 days, will not have phone for about a week, maybe week and a half. Will post as much as I can.Lodric Aegilson (alias of Grumbaki)2019-04-30T01:43:44ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionKoldoonhttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1142019-04-29T21:17:06Z2019-04-29T21:17:06Z<p>I just wanted to post an update. I'm glad to see some activity and I feel bad because I've been now a week without posting. For once this is completely mundane. I broke my glasses Easter weekend and literally cannot read without them. New pair was due in at the end of last week, but hasn't arrived yet. They're saying now Wednesday.</p>
<p>I'm trying to make due with a twenty year old spare pair, which is getting me through work but the headaches are horrible. It's sufficient for distance, but not even close for reading.</p>
<p>I'll be back on and posting very soon.</p>
<p>(Hansyn: The mod expects you to infiltrate by trying to join the church. It wasn't that characters didn't get the possibility, it's that those who did dismissed it immediately as too dangerous - and they're not wrong. It is dangerous. You're working on an alternate plan. It's okay.)</p>
<p>Hold in there a couple more days so I have my glasses and can read more than two sentences without getting a spliting headache.</p>I just wanted to post an update. I'm glad to see some activity and I feel bad because I've been now a week without posting. For once this is completely mundane. I broke my glasses Easter weekend and literally cannot read without them. New pair was due in at the end of last week, but hasn't arrived yet. They're saying now Wednesday.
I'm trying to make due with a twenty year old spare pair, which is getting me through work but the headaches are horrible. It's sufficient for distance, but not...Koldoon2019-04-29T21:17:06ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionHansyn Vargidan (alias of Greycastle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1132019-04-25T16:23:11Z2019-04-25T16:23:11Z<p>Lol. I don’t know how I miss these posts sometimes but it just notified me that there were 13 posts in this thread lol. </p>
<p>I like the idea of luring them into a smaller group and taking them down rather than just me big confrontation. I think we are meant to get more information before taking on the entire Masked church. </p>
<p>Another alternative is for a little guidance on what the mod expects us to do and and perhaps we can steer our characters that direction without feeling too railroaded.</p>Lol. I don’t know how I miss these posts sometimes but it just notified me that there were 13 posts in this thread lol.
I like the idea of luring them into a smaller group and taking them down rather than just me big confrontation. I think we are meant to get more information before taking on the entire Masked church.
Another alternative is for a little guidance on what the mod expects us to do and and perhaps we can steer our characters that direction without feeling too railroaded.Hansyn Vargidan (alias of Greycastle)2019-04-25T16:23:11ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionKoldoonhttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1122019-04-22T23:51:08Z2019-04-22T23:51:08Z<p>Sorry I missed posting last night. I broke my glasses and my backup pair is only good for distance, not reading. </p>
<p>Sadly the opticians were all closed for Easter, so I couldn't even go to LensCrafters. </p>
<p>Catching up now.</p>Sorry I missed posting last night. I broke my glasses and my backup pair is only good for distance, not reading.
Sadly the opticians were all closed for Easter, so I couldn't even go to LensCrafters.
Catching up now.Koldoon2019-04-22T23:51:08ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)https://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1112019-04-21T22:38:01Z2019-04-21T22:38:01Z<p>Can we make a plan that Hansyn and Venssa lure a group of 4 priests into a blind alley where we can ambush them? Maybe at night. </p>
<p>Cheers</p>Can we make a plan that Hansyn and Venssa lure a group of 4 priests into a blind alley where we can ambush them? Maybe at night.
CheersFinlogan (alias of Jubal Breakbottle)2019-04-21T22:38:01ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionKoldoonhttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1102019-04-21T14:00:04Z2019-04-21T14:00:04Z<p>I see that Rankev posted this morning. It's Easter, and I have commitments early in the day, but will post this evening to try to help with the regrouping.</p>I see that Rankev posted this morning. It's Easter, and I have commitments early in the day, but will post this evening to try to help with the regrouping.Koldoon2019-04-21T14:00:04ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Masks of the Living God 5e conversion DiscussionKoldoonhttps://paizo.com/campaigns/MasksOfTheLivingGod5eConversion/discussion&page=3#1092019-04-19T01:00:31Z2019-04-19T01:00:31Z<p>I can't assume that this is what you all want, as it's a major choice for the party with potentially some significant downsides... someone needs to make the decision and act.</p>I can't assume that this is what you all want, as it's a major choice for the party with potentially some significant downsides... someone needs to make the decision and act.Koldoon2019-04-19T01:00:31Z