Out of curiosity, are we all still separate, or have we gathered together again? I can't recall who was with which group.
It doesn't matter either way, it's been pretty busy at work since I got back, so my posting ability has been a little low. If we're still apart, my last post still applies, if not, I'll try to get something down soon.
We are still apart.
Hadrian and Ariso are busy breaking into a noble pile; Kelvanthus, Tessara and Khita are in a tavern trying to suss out/recruit "champions".
Ah, yes, he is human. By default, NPCs will be human if the race isn't mentioned.
Silly humans, taking over after all us pompous nobles left..
What do you think Hadrian, raise or fold? I have a summon monster up my sleeve, which should help, and otherwise I'm buffing and spearing, or backing around the room crossbowing 8-/
Or I can cast obscuring mist if you want to pull back.... I favour fighting on ;) But I'm a bit silly like that.
You're a priest of Loki, right? Got any fire up your sleeve? Swarms tend to hate that. If we can keep between things and stop them from surrounding us, we might be able to bottleneck them.
Forgot to bring my sleeve-fire today :) I do have a tanglefoot bag and some caltrops... We should be right. Let's see how hard they hit before we flee.
Don't forget you can roll twice and take the better one :)
I believe we are pretty much done with them for now. Time to meet up with everyone else and sharr knowledge.
Splash critical - No. All creatures take normal splash damage. Energy damage normally is not multiplied
@ Hadrian: Erm, I think you'll find they get AoO if you leave the square they're in...
Good to leave.
Why would they? Reach of 0 is pretty clear. They don't threaten. They can attack creatures they share a square with on their turn, but I don't think they get AoOs.
Think about standing in a pile of rats? How hard is it to raise a foot higher than they can reach, and hop a few feet away? It's not like they dogpile you any more when you move. That's why swarms auto hit, but don't get to take AoOs.
If I'm wrong then I'll just take the attacks. It's better than standing there out in the open and getting chewed on.
No AoOs for the rats.
Whew.
Cool :)
I believe the plan at the moment.is to meet the others to share info. May help to know more about the enemy before we go to the druids.
I recall no plan made by the characters to follow Hadrian and Ariso to the estate. However metagamewise it will be more fun to regroup - we should pick up Ellismus en route. Being split up is sad when one group gets all the... mutant rat swarms... :)
Personally I can't see the druids providing much material aid nor much information useful to us yet - regarding the muster. I feel they may be useful later...
* An aside - Ariso/Hadrian - seeing as you guys have known each other for less than a day as characters how do you both as players reconcile battle tactics chat in this thread? I don't mean to be narky, just, perhaps I'm merely a... giant pain in the ass. Littlehewy/Ariso knows me for a...let us say... slightly vociferous and at times volatile champion of "due process" in all its forms. Battle-hardened gamers know and can devise a lot more options strategies and techniques over long time periods via PbP than can two newly met adventurers in the midst of being swarmed...
Now - Hadrian's directions to Ariso re: flasks on belt - in character - all good IMHO. And hey, don't take me for some fun-policeman, I'm just saying is all. All gamestyles are different, and I'm not upset or anything. I won't be posing any recommendations here, but I'll make comments aplenty about how fun this all is!!!
I guess I'm happy for us to handwave our interactions and just say we have apprised each other of our various offensive and defensive capabilities, though perhaps some of us are more reticent in being completely open/ less willing to divulge.
We do have a free action every round to speak you know... ;) [/end rant]
No problem.
I'm treating the situation from the perspective of someone who is a competent and prepared combatant who's just found himself paired with someone who's obviously smart, but who's capabilities are as yet unknown.
Hence all the directions Hadrian is barking.
Ariso can choose to ignore them if he wants. So far the majority of the tactics discussed have been "do you have fire? I have some fire." and "Think they can eat us if we move away from them?" I don't think that's getting too meta.
GM: What's the chances of me being able to throw the oil and have it light up another square this round? It takes a full-round action to make and light a fuse, but if I can ignite it off Hadrian's existing flame that's better. If I can, what squares would be possible, and how would you rule my chances?
Khita: I hear what you're saying. But I don't think it's actually leaked into our characters' decisions much at this stage - so you're point is timely!
@Hadrian/Ariso - No worries! As you were. I'm actually finding the mechanics discussion refreshing and illuminating - Tiny creatures, AoO's etc - its funny how much of he ruleset is difficult to remember and must be constantly re-examined.
Khita, my bad. I thought earlier in the thread the idea was to meet around midday for lunch with the group.
'Sokay Kel - from a quick reread, Hadrian and Ariso didn't leave for the Manor until after lunch - they really aren't that much ahead of us, though we still have to pick up Ellismus and then get past the guards... ;)
The oil may catch fire- given you throw it at something burning or it has a lit fuse, still 50/50. Simple ruling- if you throw the oil at a flame, even a modestly small one, it will burn like alchemist fire 50% of the time as though you prepared the fuse. The other half of the time, it'll burn too slowly to no significant effect.
The attack most be aimed right at the flame, so same target as Hadrian, for the same burst effect.
The group in the city might meet up with Ellismus before going to the manor. I'm trying to see what he wanted to do, once I get word from him, we'll go from there.
The oil may catch fire- given you throw it at something burning or it has a lit fuse, still 50/50. Simple ruling- if you throw the oil at a flame, even a modestly small one, it will burn like alchemist fire 50% of the time as though you prepared the fuse. The other half of the time, it'll burn too slowly to no significant effect.
The attack most be aimed right at the flame, so same target as Hadrian, for the same burst effect.
Sweet, thanks GM :)
Ahh, sorry. I was sick the last couple of days so wasn't online. Doesn't matter to me if we meet at the manor or someone happens to pick me up on the way.
That sounds fine to me. There's going to be a 4 hour period in the middle of the day that I'll be busy, but other than that I'll be free to post and will check frequently.
Yep sounds good. I'm free all weekend.
Well, at least your group is dedicated, right?
GM Nightskies: So did Ellismus encounter the guards at the estate gate Ariso gave money to? Or were they at the city gate? If so, did we encounter them?
Nope, good to go! Just couldn't figure out where they were...
Probably out drinking with my money...
My shout after we (you) kill these rat-beasts, H.
1+ dex mod, but yeah, you're right. I mixed up my strength and dex.
You can draw a weapon and make a normal move as a move action. ;)
Oh ok, cool. I thought you needed a BAB of +1 for that. I'll do that then.
Pfff completely forgot we were level 2... Like I said, I'll do that then!
Works for me.
What I really want is to find a place in the room where they can't swarm us so easy. >.<
As for the finding a place they can't swarm so easily, that'd require you to squeeze into a small space. There aren't any in sight.
Shadowven: Its pretty easy. Just make a recruitment thread in the recruitment forum, it will automatically make it a campaign, from which you can intuitively link campaign threads, discussion threads, etc.
Feel free to post a link here, I'll give it consideration. I'm involved in 6 campaigns now, 4 of which I'm the GM for, why not make it 7?