All,
I am back, my wife is well. Thank you for managing my character for me while I was out. I have also leveled up to level 2, (Rouge 2) and what is this I see...a fight with no Pugs?? There is a God!!!
@ Kilarra: Welcome back!
@ Zhalet: Are you still in MN?
Nope. Portland, OR now. Considerably better weather although I do sometimes miss a true winter.
Oh, wow. I love Oregon. The Columbia Gorge and the Willamette. So pretty!
Yeah, that's why I said you keep going. You were down in Florence not long ago. Been down there a few times. :)
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Last summer I was in Portland inspecting some helidecks on some ships that were in the docks there. I went and hiked to the top of Multnomah Falls and ate at the Portland City Grill. The view at sunset was pretty amazing! Have you ever been there?
Yeah, that's why I said you keep going. You were down in Florence not long ago. Been down there a few times. :)
Yep. Have you ever eaten at the Traveler's Cove in Florence? Pretty good food there...
Last summer I was in Portland inspecting some helidecks on some ships that were in the docks there. I went and hiked to the top of Multnomah Falls and ate at the Portland City Grill. The view at sunset was pretty amazing! Have you ever been there?
I have not hiked to the top of Multnomah, but I have been to it a few times. It never gets old!
I've been to Portland City Grill a couple of times. It certainly is beautiful up there. Multnomah Falls many times. If you ever have an extra day for a hike around here go to Trillium Lake up at Mt. Hood. It's an alpine lake, gorgeous.
I haven't been to the Traveler's Cove. We've alway gone camping down there. There's a state park nearby that has yurts so we've mostly done our own cooking.
are the yurts covered in the traditional animal hides or something more modern and synthetic?
They're canvas. It's more the frame and design than the materials.
This sort of thing: Oregon State Park Yurts
nice...that is one step away from Glamping...and I approve!!
I'm traveling for a friend's wedding. My ability to post will be unreliable until Tuesday. Please bot me as needed.
Have fun and congratulate the lucky pair for us! ^_^
Play by post can be a little difficult to manage. I prefer to have people go ahead and post and don't worry so much about initiative order. If there are conflicting actions, I will read the intent in your post and try to resolve the action in an intelligent way. If I cannot do so due to movement or some other consideration, I will ask you to restate or for clarification.
So I guess the TL:DR version is just post your actions, I will assume smart characters when narrating.
And, as I said before, it seems to me the best way to deal with things. Waiting for your Initiative Moment can be quite frustrating sometimes; this way you just play (and can even propose a Plan B) and the GM puts the pieces together. Honestly, I don't suggest that in every other game I play just because it would be rude.
I actually thought it would help to add the round number to my post, so I strated doing it.
I'm very, very comfortable doing combats this way, so anything I can do to ease you load of work, please feel free to tell me.
Yeah, I'll do that. I have been mostly, but Zhalet has also been near the top of the initiative order. Since she's dead last in the current one, and I tend to be one of the first posters in a cycle, I figured I'd hold off this time until at least the first several people had posted. But it doesn't work out as well.
So in light of finding what is potentially our first real 'group loot item' (the alchemy lab) I have been wondering...
How are we, as a group, going to do loot. I see a couple of options:
Does anyone have any other ideas or would you guys like to go with one of these three?
Also, I have a trait that allows me to get better prices when buying and selling items in any market within Katapesh. I am willing to share this trait with the group to the tune of a guaranteed increase of the value of all items sold by 5% and a lowering of the price of any item bought by 5%. With that being said is everyone alright with me handling the buying and selling of items for the group?
If we choose a 'group loot' method then I would be willing to maintain the inventory for the group.
In regards to conducting a thorough search of the monastery, what I plan to do is the following:
I would like you all to first tell me if you are searching en masse or if you are splitting up to cover more ground faster. If you are splitting up I need to know who is searching which locations.
1) Most rooms will not actually require a search check as the items that are there to find, if any, are not particularly hidden.
2) Where a search check is required, rather than saying that such a check is needed and waiting for a response, I will simply make the roll with the appropriate searcher's check.
At the end I will tell you how much time has elapsed while you searched.
Does that work for everyone?
I'm good with a group list, with a column for whw has the item. Usually I'm for whoever can best utilize the item regardless of even distribution, and selling things that people don't want. At our home tables if two or more people want an item we just dice off for it, and if you won the dice off, you weren't eligible until more even distribution was achieved.
ie... three players want the Ring of Protection. Player 1 wins the dice off. Later a hat of disguise is found that player 1 and player 3 both want. Player 3 gets by default. If player 2 and 3 wanted the Hat then another dice off. If only player 1 wanted the hat he get's.
I've never been real concerned with tracking individual wealth. I like OOC discussion where we can mention what our character desires, and the party can work towards that goal.
As far as the buying / selling I am fine with that and would greatly appreciate you tracking the loot. That seems to be a real challenge for some reason with PbP.
For inventory, assuming that Lurch is Ok with it, I was going to have a spot put in the top like the 'Maps' and 'Useful dice for GM' spot for inventory that I will update as we go. That way anyone can see what is in it at any time and also so that if I missed something then you guys can catch my error and tell me to add it.
The link at the top works well for me, Kilarra if you will just post a link to the document I can add the link.
Hey sorry, I was not totally clear on what I meant by "tell me who is searching where." What that means is something like "I am going to search the rooms by where we fought the baboons," "I am going to search rooms A4 through A10," or "we are all going to stick together and search in the same order we explored."
Then I can summarize what you find in any given rooms. What I do not want to do search square by square or room by room. There is not enough risk or reward here to warrant such a meticulously tracked search.
Both methods are fine to me, I'm with whatever you decide. If you pick the solo method, just assign me what you guys feel like. Right now I need to go and be back tomorrow.
I would like you all to first tell me if you are searching en masse or if you are splitting up to cover more ground faster. If you are splitting up I need to know who is searching which locations.
In the interest of time and simplicity I would like to make the following recommendation:
We all take 10 to search with Kilarra as the primary and all others assisting. I have a modifier of 10 which gives me a 20 with take 10. If all 5 of you assist me in searching the various rooms etc. then that puts us at a 30. If anything is harder to find than that then well...we probably wouldn't have much of a chance to find it anyway.
By taking 10 we minimize time and by assisting we maximize the quality of the search as well as making it easy on the GM by eliminating the need to roll a bajillion (that is a the technical word for it) dice rolls for all of us.
Everyone okay with that?
I prefer the loot method that required as little bean counting as possible. 3 sounds best to me, but I could work with 1. Please not 2.
I'm onboard with Kilarra's loot and search suggestions. I'll go ahead and leave an aid roll in gameplay.
Hey guys, so sorry about the lack of posting this weekend. That is my bad. I will get the next post out first thing in the morning.
Yeah, weekends are usually slow. Time to tend the family, happens to me too.
Btw, I'm changing my Internet company, so might be off for about 24h between today and tomorrow.
Update is coming. It is slow to write at work.
I'd recommend searching as a group... There's still that bird and whoever controls it.
I like how you did the search, MisterLurch. Seems a nice solution to not waste too much time in a PbP game.
I agree, very well done. It will keep things moving and eliminate a week or so of drudgery searching room corners.
Anyone have a preference on whether we handle loot in game or in discussion?
Not much among the stuff we've found that Zhalet would want. The silver holy symbol, and the book are about it. The brooch of shielding and +1 dagger and also possibilities, but neither are interesting enough to quibble over if anyone else wants them.
Nothing of interest for me, though I'd say it would be wise if we kept useful things like the chime, the book or the brooch.
I think in game we could just do a montage post about loot and do the rest in discussion.
Is there an actual loot spreadsheet yet?
I think it was discussed, but I don't see it anywhere yet.
No spreadsheet yet as far as I know.
I have one going. I am trying to figure out a good way that everyone can access it. In the mean time as far as I can tell here are the useful items and my vote as to what is done with them:
- Mace +1 - Any of our melee players even if maces are not your thing, sometimes being magical makes a huge difference.
- Dagger +1 - same as above, I 'can' use this right now though kukris are my preferred weapon, at present I am not locked into a specific weapon type. If anyone else wants this please take, otherwise I will use it in the mean time. (I plan to favor ranged attacks until we hit level 3)
- Phylactery of faithfulness (helps you make sure you don't do the bad with your god [worth 1000gp market value]) I vote either solomon or Zhalet gets this, if they do not want it then we sell it.
- Brooch of Shielding (market value is 1500 gp, I vote we sell this.
- Silver holy symbol of Sarenrae (worth 25gp, no game mechanic effect, just cool.) vote this goes to either Solomon of Zhalet.
- Ring of Feather falling: Market value: 2,200 gp. Should go to whoever we will send to be the first one to climb something. The one who climbs up or across something to get a rope set for others. Barring that it should go to the guy who fell into the pit of cactus because well....that's just embarrassing.
- Chime of opening: Market value 1200 (with 4 charges), great item for when you just can't seem to get that stupid thing open. Should be kept as party loot for when we really want to get something open but can't.
- Geier eggs, if someone knows what to do with these things then I am all for keeping them around. If they are just going to rot instead then well, sell them post haste.
Kilarra, put the spreadsheet on google docs and give me the share link. I will post the link up where I did for the maps...
Also, @ Lurch. There are two types of maces: Light mace and heavy mace. Which is this?
Ok, I need to simplify my spreadsheet... it is 21 MB large with pivot tables etc and google docs is freaking out...give me some time and I will get it to you. Basically I have to recreate it.
View-able version
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_nMk0ff9Qs9MTYzUjFzTUgxb28
Unless you guys have a burning objection, in order to prevent accidental double entries etc. I would like to keep the editing limited to one person.
Also, we should decide what to do with the party loot (who's going to carry what) and what to do with common money pool (if we want one, or we just split everything and each one on their own).
Nice Spreadsheet, Kilarra, I vote you for extra XP ;)
The link is posted in the same place the map links are posted. Thanks for taking front on this Kilarra. Since I do not award xp in a PbP, I will think up a suitable reward for you.
lol, thanks. My personal vote is this:
Just as with mundane ammunition I have never really cared about who is carrying what except in 2 cases:
- especially rare or unique items
- especially heavy items
everything else I have just hand waved personally. Lurch, how do you want to handle this aspect?
Concerning distribution - At time of sale, all party members get an equal share of the total sold. If we decide there is something that we want to purchase for the group, like a bag of holding, portable hole or handy haversack so we can more easily take the big stuff too, then at that time we can deduct equal portions from each player to pay from that item or items.
Additionally, to make it easy on everyone I can add a tab on the spreadsheet that tracks each player's total wealth if that is to your liking. If we were to do it this way then when I complete a sale I can just update everyone's gold total. Furthermore, since I am able to get everyone a discount on items that I buy for you all you would need to do is tell me what you want and I will deduct the associated amount from your total based upon what I manage to negotiate on your behalf. Is everyone ok with this?
lol, thanks. My personal vote is this:
Just as with mundane ammunition I have never really cared about who is carrying what except in 2 cases:
- especially rare or unique items
- especially heavy itemseverything else I have just hand waved personally. Lurch, how do you want to handle this aspect?
Concerning distribution - At time of sale, all party members get an equal share of the total sold. If we decide there is something that we want to purchase for the group, like a bag of holding, portable hole or handy haversack so we can more easily take the big stuff too, then at that time we can deduct equal portions from each player to pay from that item or items.
Additionally, to make it easy on everyone I can add a tab on the spreadsheet that tracks each player's total wealth if that is to your liking. If we were to do it this way then when I complete a sale I can just update everyone's gold total. Furthermore, since I am able to get everyone a discount on items that I buy for you all you would need to do is tell me what you want and I will deduct the associated amount from your total based upon what I manage to negotiate on your behalf. Is everyone ok with this?
The First Bank of Kilarra is open for business.... ;)
But yes, I agree. For the most part I will simply handwave what loot items you are all carrying. Particularly in cases like this one where you have a relatively safe base of operations where the items can be stored and a caravan to help haul when the time comes.
Oh, yes... Mostly, I meant during adventures, for things like "Ups, the Fireball hit the one who was carrying the scroll of Dispel Magic..."
About splitting, I'm fine. If someone keeps some loot, that should be added to his total wealth and, of course, we may sometimes decide to invest from our parts in something we think someone needs ("let's get the warrior a proper shield", etc.).
The only thing in the loot list I'm interested in is the Ring of Feather Fall. I'd be fine not getting it though.
Erizi would be interested in the +1 Small Warhammer... though I supose it would be a throwing hammer for him?
I think you would take a -2 penalty for using it, and without the Throw Anythign feat it would count as an Improvised Weapon because it isnt' designed to be thrown.
(frustrating, I know)