If you are in the cloud, there is a miss chance. 20% if you are next to your target. 50% if you are two or more squares away. I will roll for you, if you don't get a chance at recap. But I always rather the players roll.
There is a token for Elektra's dog. What does it do? The Hound Archon is sick, but still out there. Brandark and Garrath need to make DC 21 Fort Saves. Brandark and Flynn need to take actions for Round Eight.
If you are able to take only a standard action on your turn, you can still charge, but you are only allowed to move up to your speed (instead of up to double your speed)(Core Rules PG 198)
Hucker and the Donkey Rat are in no condition to help.
Muck comes back to life and lashes out at Garrath, grabbing the big barbarian.
Elektra hits Muck with a glob of acid.
The Hound Archon moves back out of the cloud. He look at Elektra, "I apologize me lady, but I cannot assist you further this day. But, please call on me again." The Hound Archon departs.
Rounds effected:1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
A dog appears behind Hucker. It bites the eldest Graul son.
Flynn continues his heroic deeds.
Garrath ignores the cloud's effects and deals with Mammy, slicing his now over-sized Greatsword into the obese Necromancer.
Mammy cries out in pain, "Curse you all."
Brandark charges forward hacking at the floating fat woman. His axe cuts into layers of blubber.
Mammy lets out a final howl then crashes to the ground with a thud. The source of countless murders and terror in the region around Turtleback Ferry is dead.
Stone pulls out his Flaming Scimitar, but was unable to strike a vital area of the plant monster.
Seeing the plant come back to life, Shalelu continues to pump arrows into the massive flora. One arrow passes through the plants trunks, the other sticks as well.
I assume the party kills the now unarmed Hucker and his Rat? What further actions, if any, do you perform on the Tendriculous otherwise known as Muck Graul?
The party gets the upper hand and destroys the last of the Grauls, ending their abominable existence.
Victory
In the closet, the Donkey Rat stood upon a large chest. Flynn quickly learns that it is neither trapped or locked. Within lies an agate-studded gold ring worth 50 gp, a necklace of emeralds and silver worth 350 gp, a pair of small leather gloves studded with pearls, a rusty iron mace, a large sack filled with assorted coins (630 gp, 1356 sp, and 324 cp), and a ruby-inlaid red dragon-scale cloak clasp worth 600 gp.
In addition, Shalelu will note assorted gear typically worn by the Black Arrows including an elven-made shocking longbow that she indicates belongs to Jakardos.
Garrath steps out of the Stinking Cloud and lets the rage subside, leaning heavily on a wall as the fatigue washes over him. Fatigued for 22 rounds now
after rage goes down he's at 20 hp according to my tracking
Cleric of Sarenrae Init +4; Perc +4 AC 23 T 13, FF 21 Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +11 5/5 Channel 5d6
Stone will go over to Garreth and cast cure serous wound.
CSW:3d8 + 7 + 6 ⇒ (2, 2, 2) + 7 + 6 = 19 CMW burn instrument of agony:2d8 + 7 + 8 ⇒ (2, 8) + 7 + 8 = 25 You have done well rest for a moment.
Shalelu takes out a pint of oil and pours it over the junk in one of the rooms. As the party makes their way up, Shalelu sets the room ablaze.
By the time the party gives the three Black Arrows their gear, smoke begins to billow from the Graul house. As the party leaves the stench of the barn, the party sets it ablaze as well. The Graul house is fully developed. The blaze is powerful and amazing as if the heavens themselves want to cleanse the region of the Graul's persistance stain.
The party, along with the three Black Arrows, finds a place along the Skull River and near the trail heading north to Fort Rannick to make camp.
Does the party set up watches? And if so, who are on the watches?
Get your sleep i'll take watch, I have somethings to record anyway. We did some good work today Flynn sits somewhere beginning to write in a loose leather bound book recording the events of the mission in detail. Flynn in a rare event, smiles ever so slightly breaking his usual facade.
Exhausted the party gets a good night's sleep, even through a persistent rain.
Jakardos looks at the party, "Thank you for our rescue. Indeed you did good work. A great blight on the land has been removed. But there is another even greater. The Kreegs are a family of Ogres that have become powerful and aggressive. They recently took Fort Rannick from us. They had to have help." Jakardos almost breaks down with grief when thinking of the loss of the Fort, and more importantly his comrades.
But Jakardos regains his composure. He rummages through his recovered backpack, "Good. They are still there." He pulls out a leather case. Inside are charcoal sticks and sheets of vellum. He does a quick draft of Fort Rannick.
A link to "Fort Rannick Hand Drawn" is above.
"The Kreegs are more formidable than the Grauls. But they are not the brightest of sorts. I think we can retake the Fort. But we need a plan. Are you with me?"
hp52/52 AC 17|T 16 |FF 14, F +4|R +5|W +7, Init +4, Per +17
"I will aid you with all my powers!" OUCH I spend about $400 on a weekend trip to vienna, but then it´s just 4hours by car. And it was for my wive´s birthday.
I've done similar missions in the past. Sneak in, cut off the head of the leader, groups fall apart without leadership. After that, find way's to instill chaos and keep them apart, make their numbers mean nothing.
hp52/52 AC 17|T 16 |FF 14, F +4|R +5|W +7, Init +4, Per +17
"Absolutely. It is time to clean the nexthouse! Well has a right tone of that, it would be the third house we cleaned! Actually, actually it is high time we need a name for our group. Something like "Housecleaners for hire"! For a moment a rare smile comes up, but then Elektra is serious again. "No, how about the Radiant Blades, or Radiant Five. What do you think?"
Jakardros leads the party through a series of animal trails toward Fort Rannick. By mid-day, the Black Arrow stops at a point not far from the Fort, and toward the south side.
"We would have to cross an open field, then wade through the pond to get to the waterfall. There are Ogres in the towers on watch. Any ideas?" Jakardros looks at the party.
Hand drawn map updated. Yellow triangle for location of the party in the wood line. Red X location of the hidden passage behind the waterfall.
Just an FYI. Jakardros, Kaven, and Vale would have walked ahead of the horse to get to your current spot. Whatever the party elects to do, who watches the horses?
I am going ahead and opening up the discussion thread.
Once the party has been selected, I would like to get everyone's thoughts on ways to move the campaign forward. I am in another PBP campaign and sometimes it takes several days just to play through one round of initiatives.
Now I know that life has this crazy way of getting in the way of our gaming. Shame on it. But it happens. Like this Saturday I am taking a plane trip to Brookfield, CT where my wife is now visiting her sister. Saturday may be a tough day to post, but I am hopeful to get something in before the end of the day. We will be traveling for a good part of next week; but again I hope to have windows of time for posting. There may be a full day, maybe into the next, that I will be unavailable. If it is longer than three days then I am likely in a coma or meeting the Maker. So thoughts on how to handle the party when someone doesn't post for several days would be appreciated. I have prepped for posting situations that will allow you to meet and greet, plus the first encounter or two.
My goal is not only for some good RP but for some fun action packed encounters too.
I look forward to this opportunity to meet and make new friends.
The curse on this particular alias has finally been broken. I've changed the name three times, and not made it into three other PbP, so guess fourth time is the charm!
My thoughts on moving the campaign forward, especially during combat, is for you to roll party initiative, have everyone post their actions, then you sort it out if there is conflicting things. We, the players, have to trust you to figure out what each character would do based on what we have done in the past, and what we say in each post. For example, Kelvin is a sneaky boy, and he is not going to be out front like some tank saying "come and get me", unless I state it specifically in a post. So if what I say are my actions are impossible, I trust that you will take into account what he is (Rogue (scout)) and is not (Fighter (tank)) and have him act accordingly.
Dang, getting old means giving too much advice. heh.
Jeepers, my wife and I go to the local theatre in the round for a 1930's and 1940's song fest for a few hours, and when I come back the gameplay thread is being used....
Too soon? I am just taking advantage of my last few hours with my PC before it is Pad only for a while. The PC is far more versatile for piecing this stuff together. By the way, how do you activate maps in the Gameplay thread?
I am playing in a Second Darkness campaign, and the GM has a little link at the top of the Gameplay thread for "Map." It pulls up the current encounter.
Ah. Use the url= link. Look at 'how to format your text' button below this data entry box.
What I do as GM, is to use the "Race" and "Class/Levels" line on my GM alias for the "Tactical Maps" for each campaign that I am running, so they show up with every GM post.
For the "top of the page" link, once again use url= (see below) and then on the Campaign Info tab for this campaign, put it into the Short description entry.
Let me see how this location works for the current map in play.
I would like for everyone to format their PCs like Kelvins with base Stats added to the Class/Level line. This will help a lot when I do Initiative rolls and other rolls on behalf of your PC.
I am toying with the idea of using photos of miniatures with a handful of smaller encounters. Particularly encounters where Paizo does not have a map.
Please consider a Dungeons & Dragons Miniature (DDM) or a Pathfinder Battles Miniature (PFB) for your PC.
I have provided a link to a miniatures site (Plasticrypt). At the top is a link to the various manufacturers, and then by year of release the various sets.
Kelvin, how do you get that info into your stat line ?
If you edit your profile, you can put a lot more on the Class/Level line than just the Class and Level. You can put a good sized part of your stats. Kelvin's character profile is a good example of some of the information you can put on this line.
Gameplay Note: Ameiko tells Brandark that there are chests in each room for storing the bulk of your equipment. You could use your own lock for free, or for the 3cps rent a lock. The lance is another issue. It is too long for the chest. Ameiko suggest storing it under the bed, suggesting that if anyone tries to steal something that big, they will become easily noticed.
Kelvin, how do you get that info into your stat line ?
Sorry, missed the question. As Mazra says, edit the profile for the character, and on both the "Race" and the "Class/Levels" line you can put anything you want, and that includes most of the "How to format your text" including links, bold, italics, etc. I use it alot on my DM id for map links.
Wow...I feel like the snail in the group now. Had a rough afternoon/evening at work so didn't get to post till now. Super excited to be in the game. I'll format my tag line now. :D. Mazra, I've been looking at your maps all along and they've always come up well for me. :D the only thing I'm not seeing is a Garrath Token. I like how you've set up the background colors for the PCs so they're easy to find, because HOLY CRAP that's a lot of tokens! I just couldn't spot Garrath's
Still looking for the mini. I'm a bit of a mini nut myself, but probably won't be buying any soon. I bought into the Reaper Bones Kickstarter, and what started as about 20 minis, became 264...
This PBP format appears to be a great way to make use of the different languages. I like using the spoilers, showing the language spoken or any non-common languages.
hp52/52 AC 17|T 16 |FF 14, F +4|R +5|W +7, Init +4, Per +17
I picture her as a female jesuit monk. I know one who was a professor in Theology, politology, doctor of economics and psychology and spoke almost 2 dozen languages from all over the world. And was an extremly nice man!
I picture her as a female jesuit monk. I know one who was a professor in Theology, politology, doctor of economics and psychology and spoke almost 2 dozen languages from all over the world. And was an extremly nice man!
Sounds like one of those persons where it is truly a blessing and an honor when you are able to be with them.
One of my house rules, that I am not even sure is a house rule, is that when a monster falls dead or unconscious, his square or multiple squares become difficult terrain. I have been playing that way in my home brews since 1st edition.
One of my house rules, that I am not even sure is a house rule, is that when a monster falls dead or unconscious, his square or multiple squares become difficult terrain. I have been playing that way in my home brews since 1st edition.
Any thoughts?
I don't know if that is RAW or not, but it is a good rule. I think that I will be adopting that in my next campaign at home. I have been ignoring that there is a body in the square in the past.
Helikon, you got the pronunciation right, spelling is Sla'inte ;) (accent usually OVER the 'a' but can't do it here). Used to have a girlfriend that spoke fluent Gaelic (Scotts Gaelic), and she used to drill that stuff into my head.
Hopefully you should be able to move your tokens around the map. It is easy to get the underlying map out of sync with the tokens. The back button to the far left can undo any hiccups.
