Master of Fallen Fortress (Inactive)

Game Master Just a Mort

Well, if he failed his reflex save...then the pot would have knocked him down.

so he stayed standing up but lost his concentration, did he take full damage or only half from the "heat"

Full. If you were to study spellcasting...

*taps Einar on head with quarterstaff*

You would realize concentration is 10+dmg taken(13) + spell level (2).

*taps Einar on head with quarterstaff*

LOL, so all I have to do is hit them really hard on the head with a big stick...got it ;)

edit: by the way your violet and green bard is a little funky. he looks like something from the 70's

LOL, so all I have to do is hit them really hard on the head with a big stick...got it ;)

Nevermind. Though you're not exactly wrong by saying that.

Also, Company Dinner later, so no posts.

Note to self: Take Daze and Acid Splash next adventure!

a javelin, a club @ 3

A masterwork silver dagger,

a masterwork light steel shield emblazoned with a leaping dolphin,

a banner depicting a bird made of living flame. the Band of the Phoenix, one of Absalom’s most famous hunting lodges during the Age of Blades. The banner is worth 100 gp but might be worth more much more to a historian or collector.

a silver brooch the shape of a butterfly worth 25 gp

a scroll of shatter,

a scroll of shield other

masterwork short sword,

15 cold iron shurikens,

two flasks of acid,

a potion of cat’s grace,

a potion of lesser restoration,

a wand of summon monster I (CL 3rd, 9 charges),

an amethyst worth 100 gp,

247 gp in assorted coins.

a jade statue of a frog, 500 gp

4 darts,

a mw scimitar

and a cloak of resistance

I think we used two of the three clw potions. does anyone remember for sure?

Also, shall we just keep the stuff we can use and sell the rest, spitting the cash or do we want to try and figure value of everything and split evenly?

I know Crummock said he picked up the small shield, what else does everyone want? Hmmm and BretI how do you normally do treasure, the last three mods. with Mort we went to fast to pick anything up...

Yeah 2/3 CLW. Also Mr Whiskers didn't take the scroll of shatter.

To be honest you and Luke didn't really need any items provided to finish the module.

I recommend actually for campaign work, since selling items(other then gems and stuff) has half value, don't bother trying to get an even split, rather, everyone takes what they find is useful out of the items, and then as a party decide what else you want, and once that is done, perhaps keeping a stash for party condition removal/clw wand, then split the rest among yourselves.

I know in my ROTR game, my cleric had to pay for all the wands of CLW out of his own pocket, the party wasn't really keen/didn't think to chip in. To be fair, I didn't ask them to, either. But I thought a character with a G for alignment shouldn't be that petty.

Don't worry about the CLW wand, I will make one available quite early in game (as loot), you'll need to find it. Unless you want to get 2. Though I rather that you take the opportunity to get miscellaneous stuff for adventuring.

Acid flasks can be used as a focus item to increase acid splash damage by 1.

Cadence you and Einar are the only ones who can use swords, do you want one of them?

GM Mort as for the hide, Crummock boots and Einar said a belt, so could we get both from the hide?

Einar would save for a breastplate to get the + 2 AC, he would need 175 gp., with the 25 gp. for the scale, depending on how we split, he would be willing to sell whichever sword Cadence doesn't want to add to the kitty.

What does everyone want and who wants to tell the merchant in game why the stuff is worth so much? I don't mind doing the accounting.

Don't worry about the breastplate. You'll find one soon, in ROW. I can tell you that.

ok, won't get too worried about the breastplate then.

The big problem I have with the Singapore run is the bbq dog. Good bbq takes at least eight hours with a good spice rub and preferably some unique flavored wood to smoke it over; mesquite, hickory even cherry. There's no way they took the time to do anything other than grill it and dump sauce on it...

hey Cadence are you wearing leather?

Sorry, down here our BBQ's are very simplistic. I know it offends your artistic sensibilities, but you basically get a whole load of charcoal, put up the grill and dump the meat in question over it(we're on budget(maybe because we spent too much money buying splatbooks ;) and ain't going to buy hickory wood - the prices here are also exorbitant).

I prefer my meats marinated for at least a day, yes, but I also know someone who will claim that a good steak only needs to be put on the grill and shake some crushed peppers and salt over it when it is cooking.

I'd just call it difference in style.

No problems in making boots and belts out of Snapjaw.

I don't really have any artistic sensibilities, unless your talking about paintings ;)

Oh no your right, steak on a grill salt and pepper is perfect! Whether you eating the steak with a side dish or slicing it thin for taco's: served on corn tortilla's with Spanish rice, blackbeans, cilantro, lime and a little goat cheese!

I cook on a grill a ton; everything from vegetables, pork, beef, chicken fish. I use gas (propane) instead of coals, its easier and quicker.

The people who "Do BBQ" smoke It for hours, there are multiple methods throughout the states; different marinades, different spice rubs, different sauces, different wood for smoking, some use a shorter cook time 4 or 5 hours, some cover a pig in charcoal for a day. Sometimes it also depends on the meat their doing.

The "BBQ snobs" insist that real BBQ takes several hours at low heat to tenderize a normally tough piece of meat.

I don't even have a smoker, I just cook on my gas grill, so I go out for "BBQ"

Cooking is an art =) When people ruin food, I shudder.

I think our definition of BBQ is more like what you would call a grill. As I said, its Charcoal, Mesh, and Meat. Done.

In SG you don't have the space to smoke it for hours.

Forgive me if I am being cheaty, but why don't you use commercial tenderizers, or if you're doing the natural version, squeeze a bit of ginger juice over the meat in question? (Unless you don't like ginger).

Seems like several hours at low heat is too much work...

yeah me too, when I was younger BBQ in the Midwest was exactly the same as yours; cook a piece of meat put sauce on it. But the places who "do BBQ" let us know we were wrong ;)

You can get a small smoker but it's a lot of work, for just a meal or two.

historically, BBQ was developed by people who couldn't afford expensive cuts of meat, and it became popular.

I would say that more people actually cook with tenderizers or marinades than they do smokers, very few people use smokers, that's why restaurants or food trucks who specialize in smoking are popular.

People use marinades whether their cooking inside or out, using different spices and liquids depending on what style of cooking they are wanting to imitate.

I use a marinade, if it's part of a recipe. But normally when I cook I want the prep to be quick; so yeah, several hours at low heat is too much work... ;)

I will try to find a place in Singapore that serves up authentic BBQ. Educational purposes :)

Chinese cooking there's something they call a braise, where they fry the meat(to caramalize it), then cook it in the pot at low heat for hours. Since there's no open flame you can start it in the morning, and it'll be ready by lunch kind of thing. Quite convenient since you can dump it there, no need to keep an eye on it (no fire hazard or risk of your stuff getting burnt). I've never personally done it before, because the first thing you think when you wake up in the morning isn't the "I'm going to have braise for lunch" and so you don't have the time to set it in the pot.

It sounds a lot like cooking with a crockpot It's a slow cooker that you can plug in so you don't need to leave the stove turned on. Unfortunately it doesn't get hot enough to braze first. The nice thing is you can transport the meal/food in it and plug it back in to keep the food warm If you want to.

I don't use a crockpot much, unless I'm making nacho dip.

Of the stuff we found, Mr. Whiskers would want:

MW Silver Dagger if it is for size small creatures (bonus to hit!)
Scroll of Shatter
Enough cash to inscribe the Shatter spell into his spellbook.

I think everyone except possibly Einar could use the Wand of Summon Monster I, but if the group would rather sell it that is fine.

I would say we should keep the flasks of acid and two potions, but don't really care who has them. Einar may want the one of Lesser Restoration in case he needs to get rid of fatigue sometime.

The wand of summon monster 1 is useful. It should go on either Mr. Whiskers or Crummock. I'm voting Mr. Whiskers. A summon monster spell has a million and one uses, and Mr. Whiskers has a very devious mind.

I want the pretty phoenix banner.

Although the scimitar is a lovely up close weapon, I'm not sure about my carrying capacity. I don't want to go to medium encumbrance. I may have to play with hero lab and see if I can afford it. Or I may have to buy a donkey from the caravan.

EDIT: What the heck. Let me keep the MW scimitar. We'll buy a donkey as a team so that we can off load some gear to it. Sound good?

The shield is interesting. Would Crummock want it? Crummock, as a Desnan, do you want the butterfly brooch?

SUMMATION:

Cadence wants:
The pretty phoenix banner
The MW scimitar for close-up work.

On food:

Y'all are going to be amused hearing this from the vegetarian, but the accepted practice for meat in the crock pot is to brown or sear it quickly in a pan with your favorite oil and seasonings, and then drop it in the crockpot.

On Pacing:

Can we discuss this a bit?

I would not mind putting a bot me spoiler in my profile so that you guys can cut and paste bot me in combat without too much strain. You want to do 25 combat posts at 2 in the morning my time, okay.

If there is a social encounter or anyone we might want to talk to... can we please slow down for those? Does this sound like a fair compromise?

My biggest problem with the group is that I'm super out of synch with you and I cannot keep staying up late to keep up, but I'm afraid that I'm going to miss story content. I like story content! I like diplomacy and puzzles. I don't mind combats either if we RP like we've been doing, but if I miss out on roleplay sections I might as well drop.

I love that you guys are fast moving. I love that you RP. I think this could be a fun tight group. But I've been exhausted by how much off-sync I am with you!

Hmm

Right. Your dawgs are here. You can bring them along with you.

I will appreciate it if you do not use them for anything other then movement in combat or carrying your stuff. I will also ignore them except with regard to AoE spells.

If you make them attack something, then yes I will have them attacked back.

Think of them as these even though it was not earlier indicated.

Also, use the following stats:

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yeah, we do the lazy crock pot thing, just toss all the stuff in.

Einar would keep one of the swords for a trophy but wouldn't use it much since he can use strength bonus at one and a half for his bite, or when he's raging use both natural attacks.

Cadence if your close on carry capacity, Einar can play pack animal. I think Crummock took the shield.

I'm assuming that we are keeping all the consumables,

Pacing:

Having a few attacks we can copy and paste would be awesome, that way the fights don't become the slow spot. Too many games grind to a halt while the waiting for someone to go full defense or something.

It would make sense to slow down and do most of the postings mornings and evenings in our respective time zones. We should earmark times when things will move quickly and if were AFK that we let each other know. The rest of the time we can putter along or wait so we can all RP.

Think of them as these even though it was not earlier indicated.

Awww, how did you know! I really like huskies. My dad raised them, at one point in time he had twenty four at his kennel. We had four at different times and my daughter still has a Husky/Shepard rescue she named 'Ghost' anyone want to guess what her favorite HBO show is ;)

So can we hook the three of them to a sled, soon enough we will be able to fix the "carry" problem ;)

I love the idea of having a dog sled! And thank you Einar for offering to be my pack animal, but the huskies should help. They're so cute! And useful.

We'll have to name them!

Mort, A question for you about versatile performance. Will you allow me to just retrain replaced perform ranks when I get them, or will I have to not take those skills until the versatile performances kick in?

Hmm

Let me think about how I want to handle the versatile performance issue.

You'll need the dawgs where you're going.

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Note that Scott's team never made it back...ponies, donkeys aren't suited for that kind of weather.

did we get two or three dogs?

It's funny that you said that the dogs wouldn't be in the fight, You have no idea!

When my daughters were little my dad gave a Husky. She was 1/16 wolf, it had my wife worried a little so we did some detailed study of huskies. found out a couple of things.

Genetically closest dog to wolves, back in the day they would be released in the summer so there was a possibility that there would be wolf/dog hybrids amongst them. They set up the pack like wolves, alpha female, alpha and beta males. Everyone gets in line.

The Siberian tribe that they were purchased from would only use them for pulling sleds. The females would whelp in the houses so the dogs were bred for two things, friendliness and running.

They were never used as guard or war dogs so the do not have a "protective" bone in their bodies! Their as likely to lick a robber as to bark at one. Just don't try and take their food while their eating ;)

Yeah, I'm a big fan of huskies also, accept they shed, they shed a lot. two layers of fur, one on top one underneath, they have hair in their ears and between their toes, did I mention they shed ;)

3 dogs. But again there are no limits as far as I know on how many dogs you can tie to a sled, I thought you can tie 5, 7 or any number?

Unscrupulous pathfinders here. That practice of forcing bought animals to fight for you should be banned, if it hasn't already. A combat trained tiger wrecks scenarios, and I don't want to talk about trampling auroches.

Even a standard riding dog has the hp of a lv 1 has the hp of a lv 1 fighter, one less attack bonus then a lv 1 fighter with 16 strength and has has a chance to trip on sucessful attack that deals damage, which a level 1 fighter cannot do.

My knowledge of dogs comes from Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London. The protagonists of the books(huskies) were more then happy to fight and kill.

I'm guessing life below zero, because one of the people they filmed there has a dog team?

Well, in PFS, there is now a rule to the effect of that you can't have a bought animal with a higher CR than you have a level...

I am also happy to maintain a loot list; I'll put something together today.

Also, Crummock will be happy to use the dogs as guard animals / pack animals / sled animals, but would have a... difference of opinion... with anyone who wanted to use them to fight in combat; he is a big believer in solving one's own problems ;-)

for normal use you can tie any number of dogs to a sled, 14-15 seems to be about the most that make sense, now if it's for racing the number is set.

The books are not wrong, there are a lot of sled dogs called in general terms "huskies." Many of them will fight with each other, even dogs in the same team. Especially back in the day before the Siberian huskies were bred into the general population.

(1800's to mid 1900's) Dogs for sleds were crossbred a lot, looking for size and stamina. The Siberian huskies were brought over on two separate occasions, late 1800's and early 1900's purchased from a specific Siberian tribe. After the communists took over they forced a lot of tribes to integrate and give up local customs. So the Siberian huskies were no longer available.

They were bred specifically to be gentle and to run. Even though the are a medium size dog, smaller than many of the other breeds they would outlast/outrun larger dogs like the malamute. Also, because of breeding, they didn't fight amongst themselves like other dogs did. For those two reasons they have bevome the most associated with sled racing and almost all sled dogs now have a large percentage of the breed in them.

Since then "Siberian Husky" has become an AKC breed, like the Alaskan husky or the malamute. There are other dogs and dog breeds not AKC registered that also race sleds, but most of them have heavy influence from the Siberian huskies.

Edit: sorry about the rant about huskies, It just brings back fond memories of some of my favorite dogs.

The module technically has ended, so you all don't need to do the 1 day/post thing, but feel free to RP among yourselves.

so what needs to be worked out before we start RoW?

What you want to sell and buy. And posting. Naming your dogs, what tricks you want to teach them(Int 2)...etc. Who's driving the dog sled. Not sure if Mr Whiskers would want to ride a dog.

Mw silver dagger is medium sized, sorry.

Cadence, I will let you retrain performance ranks.

Random thoughts about dogs and ponies in polar conditions

Also, there's this

I never knew horses could become omnivores...

Alright, I have created a loot page.

Linked on Crummock's profile.

I think I have covered all of the things that we were planning to keep; the Potion of CLW is also something we are keeping.

***In addition to the claimed items, once we have sold stuff, we will each gain 251.5gp.***

As to the tricks, I recommend (since they will be pack/guard animals):

Come
Exclusive
Heel
Stay
Track
Watch

noted, I will put the items with my gear, I'm also keeping the three javelins.

Since the MW Silver Dagger is sized for a medium character, I would suggest either Crummock or Einar take it. Neither of them currently has a silver weapon.

I realized overnight that the dagger wouldn't have done Mr. Whiskers any good since he would be at 1d3-2 for damage with it between the strength and alchemical silver on a slashing/piercing weapon.

If someone has a piece of equipment they wanted but were just short of the amount of money needed, let me know.

That link on the sled dogs was interesting, Mort. I will note that our dogs will be buddies. We aim to keep them alive!

Someone else will have to carry the two extra flasks of acid. If Mr. Whiskers carries them, he goes to Medium encumbrance.

GM Mort, is it alright if I just pay the funds and scribe Shatter into my spellbook? One less step before we begin RoW.

Hmmm... Well, in that case, we might be better off selling the dagger (and buying our own 'preferred' weapons) - I can't use it effectively, and our bloodrager can't two-handed power attack with it, either.

***Doing this would net each player a further 40.25gp***

EDIT: If we do so, can someone loan me 5gp, so I can offered to pay for a 'Masterwork Transformation' on my starknife?

happy to loan the 5 gp, also should we combine some cash and purchase a clw wand?

If we could exchange weapons to the ones of our choice I'd rather have an MW guisarme. But I don't think we can afford it.

Hmm

Well, instead of taking the scimitar, you could pay for Masterwork Transformation on your existing glaive...

EDIT: or keep the scimitar, and borrow a few gp from someone, to pay for it.

Hmm. Ok I'll let you exchange any MW item for one of your choice. So you want 1 MW glaive, 1 MW Guisarme, 1 MW Starknife? Standard material.

Mr Whiskers, happy scribing with your funds.

If no one wants the MW Silver dagger, sure sell it.

As for a CLW wand, GM Mort has already suggested they would rather we wait and find one rather than purchase one.

I don't mind the idea of having a small group fund. As for loaning money, Mr. Whiskers could certainly help people get the items they need. I think he is pretty well set right now, feel free to point out any equipment you think he is missing.

For weapons, I think everyone should make sure they have a one-handed weapon (in case of grappling), a silver weapon and a cold iron weapon. Mr. Whiskers has all of those in two weapons, along with one weapon of each damage type.

Now, I would like to shift topics a little bit back to that of posting and pacing.

Both Hmm and I were staying up way too early in order to try and keep up. We can not maintain that sort of thing, expect us to quit posting about 3 hours earlier than those posts.

Botting a lot of combat is a little difficult for my character because spells are so limited. There is no problem botting cantrips, it is the higher level spells and arcane pool that are precious.

I would prefer we not skip straight to the next combat when there is potential role-play to be done. Allowing it to be ret-conned was alright here, but it does make reading through the gameplay more difficult.