Mirror, Mirror: The Further Adventures

Game Master Terquem

Glad to hear the wedding went well. :)

I do not understand how the CR system is supposed to work.

I take this to mean that you think the fiend isn't enough of a challenge/threat?

We are a party of 5(6) level 6 characters. With just the 5 of us we are a APL of 6. I would expect the fiend (the BBEG?) to be CR 8 if facing off against the 5 of us. If Imrael was active our APL would increase to 7 and the fiend would bump to CR 9. Depending on other factors, you could even bump its CR by another 1 but you have to be careful as APL+3 can get wildly swingy. It really depends on the set up. Are we fresh? Environmental advantages? Access to resources/supplies? etc etc.

It is especially difficult when you are dealing with a single bad guy. His economy of actions is swamped by ours. Without minions/allies to help restrict the battlefield and even out the actions per side he is at a significant disadvantage.

I think it might also possibly help to more accurately track character movements/actions. It is possible to turn on a grid and coordinates overlay in Maptool for players to use to indicate movement. You might then see more AoO arise and what not.

The archtype I am using knife master gets d8 but restricts me to using daggers dor sneak attack.

Also with bleeding attack the monster will continue to bleed unless it has some manner of healing.

What now?

PbP games (mine anyway) can get easily bogged down when there really isn't anything left to discover, but the party hasn't figured that out yet

So to help move things along, I've tried to let you all know that there isn't anything else to discover here. The breaking of the mirror (for some reason) seems to have "banished" or "destroyed" the monster in some way.

The special mirror that you are looking for (you discovered clues about it in the the laboratory on the first floor, was never found. There is nothing left to do but return to the village and speak to It'Dupree's agent and let her know that you did not find it.

The next chapter in this adventure involves something, a hook, which I've experienced where almost universally players are not happy about

So, I'm going to try and pull it off, but if it starts to go south for any of you, please let me know and I'll try to steer us back to something we all can have fun with.

Ominous and foreboding. Universally unpopular?

Count my interest peaked.

Only time that something along the lines happened in my pbp experience is when I played a superhero and the gm kept changing how my character's powers worked from one moment to the next up until the point where I literally couldn't use them to do anything other than watch the other heroes do everything. I literally thought the gm might have hated me for something personal, but he swore he didn't in a response to my pm.

The next chapter in this adventure involves something, a hook, which I've experienced where almost universally players are not happy about

So, I'm going to try and pull it off, but if it starts to go south for any of you, please let me know and I'll try to steer us back to something we all can have fun with.

*begins rioting immediately*

;)

Begins running! Comes back because glutton for punishment, right?

I've added a map of the Alley, with a 20 foot radius Stinking Cloud centered approximately on the villain, and showing Niversal in a smoke cloud

Bud, Ballar, and Zae (who is still invisible riding on the back of Kamastra) can act now

down with bronchitis, but I hope to be up and posting in a couple of days

Sorry for the delay at this crucial moment

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

I will try to update the map links tonight showing both the ground floor and the first floor (oddly enough this map set must be made by some sort of them "E-Uropeon" types as they describe the maps as "ground floor" and "first floor" which to all other civilized people would be the first floor and the second floor, *sheesh*)

Will anyone be mad if I switch up the maps a bit?

I got the first floor turned upside down when I was planning and the ground floor location, the alley, has a ridiculous balcony on the first floor I hadn't noticed. So I will still be using an alley, on these two maps, but it will be a different alley, with a stair going to a door on the first floor. I am working on it now

Okay so the new alley maps are renamed Alley 00 and Alley 01

Ballar, Keryth, Zae, and Kamastra are on the ground floor, Alley 00 map, while Niversal and Bud are on the roofs of the rooms shown on Alley 01

Any questions?

THey look good

Heads up guys, I will be travelling July 16 to the 28th and probably won't have access to the internet during that time. Feel free to Bot, but please don't kill :)

I have a non serious family thing going on right now - will be back by Wednesday or Thursday to get a game post up

I am preparing and leaving for vacation starting this week and don't know how well I will be able to stay caught up on things so bot as needed for story and times sake until further notice.

Hey everyone, I'm off for a week of vacation starting today. Will do my best to post from phone.

I am having issues posting from one if the computers I use during the day, please forgive the delay

It might be a cookie issue, one i cannot resolve

Posted from my phone

Anyone doing any 2nd edition playtesting? Thoughts to share? I have only skim read some of the rulebook.

Not yet, but looking to get a play test in soon.

I don't know how the rest of you were able to post, but I see I am six posts behind. I hope we are stable now.

Also - just curious, are all of you willing to keep a 1e Pathfinder game going or are you thinking of moving on to the new version

Just so you know - I did not buy into any of the new playtest material and do not intend to learn the new rules at all.

It has been really hit and miss. Down for seemingly days (week?) but with windows here and there in which one was able to post.

I have no plans at this point to switch to 2E. I wouldn't even consider it until the official release anyhow.

No plans to play 2e

I have a hard enough time keeping it RAW, but peer pressure me and I'll start flipping pages ;)

I've been out with medical issues since Aug 26th. I had a colonoscopy on the 27th and surgery on the 28th. This was planned but with all of the site problems I didn't get a chance to warn any of the games I am in. I'm home and out from work for at least 4-6 weeks. I don't know what my posting will be like but I'm sure will depend on how I feel and how the drugs work.

I was planning on starting a campaign before the surgery took place for my DM's and those I play in games with. I was going to use the time before surgery for recruitment and then start the game when I got out of the hospital. If I get it up and running I'll let you guys know. It's going to be a fun next few days getting used to being home again.

Take care of yourself and get better soon!

Wow, that's a real kick in the pants Bud. I hope the drugs are good and the recovery speedy. Yeah, I'd be game for a campaign with you. I can't guarantee a daily post rate, maybe every second day, but you've got my interest!

I have my recruitment up for my campaign here You are all welcome to apply.

I don't have the time for another game at this point, but thank you for the invite. :)

I just noticed that Terquem has not posted on the boards anywhere at all that I can tell since the 28th. That seems quite unusual for him. I hope things are ok.

Yes I'm fine. Just couldn't find time to check in and when I did it always seemed to be broken, but now it looks stable. Let's see if I can bring this back to life.
Thank you for caring, and being patient.

Glad to hear things are fine. :)

Out til Monday 33rd wedding anniversary please bot me

I will be updating games tomorrow. Sorry for the delay. Our daughter, who lives in Cambodia, suddenly arrived in the US to spend a couple of weeks with mom and dad and her brothers. It has been a bit hectic around the house.

Aye but that's the good kind of hectic!

Nivers, the 33rd is a long way off, are you sure you're coming back? :)

I am here!

God bless the United States Military and thank all soldiers past and present for the gift of freedom. My heroes.

I'm not sure if the rest of you are aware of a site bug that prevents a GM from editing the campaign, but this game is one of the ones affected by it. So I cannot change the map at the top of the page

Since this is the only game "terquem" is running, I am going to try to add the map to Terquem's profile, so we can try to keep track of what is going on as you enter the basement.

Thanks.

I knew there was some bug but not that it was effecting that.

I hope you are not a Vandals fan because we creamed them yesterday. Guess you could call them "whipped" potatoes. :)

Idaho colleges have sports teams?

I've been travelling for work and originally thought I'd be able to keep up, but I'm finding little time for keeping up. Please bare with my lulled activity a couple more days and then things should be back to normal.

I am traveling for work again up and through the weekend. My posting will be hampered if present if at all for the duration.

In Keryth's spoiler I talk about the old "portable hole in a bag of holding, bag of holding in a portable hole, conundrum, and I wanted to share with you folks my experience of the past two weeks.

I own a used Volkswagen Passat station wagon. Saturday the 8th I went to the local Shell station and filled up with 91 octane premium gasoline, only I didn't learn until Wednesday, after my car had been in the shop for three days, that the station had their delivery Saturday morning and the truck driver filled their premium tank with Diesel.

So this past week I learned you can put Diesel in a gas engine, and the results will be a costly series of repairs (The owners of the Shell station are paying for a new fuel pump, fuel filter, catalytic converter and fuel injectors, as well as removing the tank and draining/cleaning the system)

BUT, I leaned I was lucky because if you put Gasoline in a Diesel engine it can actually cause the engine to explode.

Glad the company is making it right. Hopefully they pay your rental fees as well while your car is getting repaired.

Ouch. That hurts. I'm glad to hear they are taking care of it though.