Slow pace works for me chief - under the hammer at work :)
Will have a post up later tonight.
Will try to post more later, but Thanim would never knowingly allow an infected individual to have contact with others. At the very least, he would inspect anyone who wanted to come along.
As of right now you don't know if anyone is infected. You and Maja passed your inspection and you have not done an inspection on anyone else.
God bless the United States Military and thank all soldiers past and present for the gift of freedom. My heroes.
second that
Heads Up:
I am just getting home tonight. I will have posts up tomorrow for us.
Wednesday I leave for my anniversary vacation. I will have my laptop so I plan on making some posts when I have time...being lazy and enjoying the sun and the sand. I get back next Friday but I am not 100% sure of the internet connectivity as I will be on a private island in Turks and Caicos. I am told the internet is good but I am always leery of what islanders define as good after my experiences in the Bahamas and elsewhere. As soon as I get settled I will let you know.
Enjoy the trip and safe travels chief :)
Off to a BSA Troop campout. Be back Sunday.
I am back online. Although posting will be spotty due to the excursions we have planned.
@AllenDM, I am using the treatment option of Thanim's Specialized Healer's Satchel. It says that I can use my Heal check in place of the patient's Fortitude saving throw. Can I take 10/20 on this? Or do I need to roll?
@AllenDM, I am using the treatment option of Thanim's Specialized Healer's Satchel. It says that I can use my Heal check in place of the patient's Fortitude saving throw. Can I take 10/20 on this? Or do I need to roll?
You can take 10 but not 20. You will need to confirm with each player if they want to roll their fort or have you replace with heal and/or take 10. With a +13 that would give you a 23 with no other bonus or modifier included.
Jack
@AllenDM, I am using the treatment option of Thanim's Specialized Healer's Satchel. It says that I can use my Heal check in place of the patient's Fortitude saving throw. Can I take 10/20 on this? Or do I need to roll?
You can take 10 but not 20. You will need to confirm with each player if they want to roll their fort or have you replace with heal and/or take 10. With a +13 that would give you a 23 with no other bonus or modifier included.
Jack
Yeah, take 20 probably wouldn't be right. I have a +13 to heal, but I also have the synergy with anatomy and the circumstance bonus from the satchel (+2 each), so if I take 10, that would come to a total of 27.
@Perri, @Cerilis, and @Harry, want me to use my heal skill in place of your Fort roll?
One item of clarification, the satchel says that even if my heal roll does not meet the DC, that the patient still gets a +4 on their next Fort roll. Does that mean that the Heal check is a "free" save roll and that if it fails, that the patient still gets their own "true save" (with the aforementioned +4)?
@AllenDM, I am using the treatment option of Thanim's Specialized Healer's Satchel. It says that I can use my Heal check in place of the patient's Fortitude saving throw. Can I take 10/20 on this? Or do I need to roll?
You can take 10 but not 20. You will need to confirm with each player if they want to roll their fort or have you replace with heal and/or take 10. With a +13 that would give you a 23 with no other bonus or modifier included.
Jack
Yeah, take 20 probably wouldn't be right. I have a +13 to heal, but I also have the synergy with anatomy and the circumstance bonus from the satchel (+2 each), so if I take 10, that would come to a total of 27.
@Perri, @Cerilis, and @Harry, want me to use my heal skill in place of your Fort roll?
One item of clarification, the satchel says that even if my heal roll does not meet the DC, that the patient still gets a +4 on their next Fort roll. Does that mean that the Heal check is a "free" save roll and that if it fails, that the patient still gets their own "true save" (with the aforementioned +4)?
How I read it is on their NEXT save they get a +4. I might be incorrect but that is how it seems to read in totality.
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How I read it is on their NEXT save they get a +4. I might be incorrect but that is how it seems to read in totality.
Ok, I can see that.
Your "take 10" is the equivalent of a 15 on the die for this Fighter. YES, I would like for you to Take 10. If it turns out that ain't good enough, we'll learn something.
Edit: Reading the skill, I note that it specifically does NOT say to use the Heal check in place of a save, but to provide a bonus to the save. I think "next" is just poor writing in this case. I would rather have his bigger bonus than my own Fort. I really would. Not how I read it, though.
I'm with Perri here. Harry's Fort save bonus is only +4 so I don't see why he would not go with Thanim's roll here.
Your "take 10" is the equivalent of a 15 on the die for this Fighter. YES, I would like for you to Take 10. If it turns out that ain't good enough, we'll learn something.
Edit: Reading the skill, I note that it specifically does NOT say to use the Heal check in place of a save, but to provide a bonus to the save. I think "next" is just poor writing in this case. I would rather have his bigger bonus than my own Fort. I really would. Not how I read it, though.
The replacement option comes from the amazing Healer's Satchel under the Treatment option.
... The wielder can expend two uses of the satchel when using the Heal skill to treat poison or disease to use her Heal check result in place of the creature’s next Fortitude saving throw against the poison or disease. If the Heal check result doesn’t equal or exceed the DC of the disease or poison, she still adds a +4 competence bonus to the creature’s next saving throw against the disease or poison.
This is Thanim's only magic item, so I'm glad (I guess?) to be getting some use out of it!
Ah, so, if you succeed, the character gets a success on the check without needing to roll. If you fail, the character gets the normal success benefit, a bonus to their own saving throw roll. The kicker to show this is it says "the next" roll in both success and failure cases.
Nice item. Almost bought it for Perri, but decided to go in a different direction and settled for a normal healer's kit. Forgot about that ability. VERY nice item.
It is nice, especially for this world. :) It does require the specialized healer's satchel instead of the normal healer's satchel to get this benefit, however.
Just to be clear, so we're on the same page and you realize what you may be getting yourself into... What we are saying from the above conversation is that if Thanim's Heal check fails, the save for which his heal check is being substituted also fails. It would be the following fort save that would benefit from the +4 (right, @AllenDM?).
EDIT: I just realized what you are saying about the "the next" phrasing. I see your point regarding the consistency of use. What do you think @AllenDM?
It is nice, especially for this world. :) It does require the specialized healer's satchel instead of the normal healer's satchel to get this benefit, however.
Just to be clear, so we're on the same page and you realize what you may be getting yourself into... What we are saying from the above conversation is that if Thanim's Heal check fails, the save for which his heal check is being substituted also fails. It would be the following fort save that would benefit from the +4 (right, @AllenDM?).
EDIT: I just realized what you are saying about the "the next" phrasing. I see your point regarding the consistency of use. What do you think @AllenDM?
I agree with that as I reread it.
I will take Thanim's help as It is far better than my fort save.
All,
I am working on getting a macros doc for Skills and Save checks completed. Will have it done and set up for access by the end of this weekend. It makes it easy for me to do checks on the fly.
I will attach it to the Campaign page as well.
If there is any other information you would like attached/linked to the Campaign page or any other suggestions please let me know.
Jack
For those of you in the States. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving weekend. Be safe!
Gang - just a wee heads up that my last grandparent passed this morning :(
My Granny Connie was 97 and the matriarchal fulcrum of our pretty big extended family. I'm being pretty philosophical about it and the good life she led, but just a heads up that if I'm off beat over the next wee while please bear with.
Cheers
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I'm sorry to hear that. Know that you have my sympathies. Even when it has been a good life and may be expected, it is difficult.
I will have posts up for us by no later than tonight.
Gang - just a wee heads up that my last grandparent passed this morning :(
My Granny Connie was 97 and the matriarchal fulcrum of our pretty big extended family. I'm being pretty philosophical about it and the good life she led, but just a heads up that if I'm off beat over the next wee while please bear with.
Cheers
My condolences for the loss of your Granny. Losing a grandmother is tough.
Fell ill during international travels (ironically enough), I'll be fine, but please bot me for now.
Will do. Hope you feel better soon!
Things are going to get a little creepy. If you are not supposed to read the spoilers I suggest you don't it will help drive the mood/imagery of the story. Characters will see and do things (they think) while in reality they doing something else. I am going to be using spoilers a lot to capture what characters are seeing/doing in their own minds/around them.
I will do my best to capture this as best I can...first time doing this in PBP :)
Jack
I had a very long day and just getting finished now. Too tired to post, will have one up sometime tomorrow.
I have to get in for a rather big meeting with my senior leadership at work so I might not be able to post tonight.
Good luck chief.
Wee heads up folks - me and the missus are heading off to Dubai for our annual festive break with my brother-in-law and family from tomorrow.
I'm not back until the PM of 30th of Dec, and while I hope to post if/when I can, we may be pretty busy so presume it'll be sporadic at best.
I'll get some posting done throughout today, but likely tomorrow will be too busy and wanted to give everyone the heads up now.
- ALLENDM please bot Bynoth as necessary - you've a pretty decent handle on how he'll approach problems :)
Regardless all have a superb festive holiday when it comes everyone - looking forward to continuing our Greyhawk misadventures into the new year!
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Wee heads up folks - me and the missus are heading off to Dubai for our annual festive break with my brother-in-law and family from tomorrow.
I'm not back until the PM of 30th of Dec, and while I hope to post if/when I can, we may be pretty busy so presume it'll be sporadic at best.
I'll get some posting done throughout today, but likely tomorrow will be too busy and wanted to give everyone the heads up now.
- ALLENDM please bot Bynoth as necessary - you've a pretty decent handle on how he'll approach problems :)
Regardless all have a superb festive holiday when it comes everyone - looking forward to continuing our Greyhawk misadventures into the new year!
Have fun and enjoy the holidays with your family. I will do my absolute best to handle Bynoth...he is a tough nut :)
All,
I will have a post up tonight I was holding off because it sounded like you wanted to do some things prior to dealing with the barkers. With the holidays fast approaching posting will be slow..no problem at all. We can pick our pace back up after the holidays.
I will be posting sporadically over the next few days as I am heading to Angel Fire for our annual ski trip. I am on the road the entire day Wednesday but after that you should see some posting from me. I get back next Thursday. I will have my laptop as I have some work projects I need to stay on top of while gone. I will be posting but the rate will be slow.
I hope everyone has a great Holiday and Merry Christmas.
So I am a little behind... Did too much skiing in two days. I will have posts up tonight for us. If you want to get in the barrier/trap additions please do so.
I don't believe anyone has Craft: Trap Making but in this case Survival and Knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge Nature. I don't mind using alternative skills to get the desired result. Another word, you can be creative with your skills if you can explain it :)
Planning on getting posts up for us today.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!
All,
I am waiting on Maja and Sylas to respond so we can coordinate the outside defenses. I am going to put a post up on what is going on inside the cabin today at some point. I would like for us to get this rolling again, might not be until after the Holidays settle because I know several people are traveling and away from their computers.
Hope everyone has a wonderful New Years!
Even though Harry is asleep now, I would recommend we set the barriers up around the cabin perimeter, spacing the fire pits evenly around the diameter, and creating a choke point in the front of the cabin clearing. This will prevent the wolves from encircling us and cutting off our escape route, and shut down any charge lanes.
AllenDM I am not able to edit the map page to show what I envision this to look like but I hope that explanation helps out.
Thoughts guys?
I agree that we should space the firepits evenly around the cabin (for light more than as a barrier), but I'd say that rather than distribute the barriers around the cabin, we put one in front of each window and use the remainder to form a chute that the dogs/wolves have to run down before they can get to us. Ideally, we'd force them to run uphill, but in looking at the map, I don't think that is possible while remaining in the cabin. So what I'm suggesting is that we use one side of the cabin (probably the front) as the base of a more or less isosceles triangle with the barriers forming the sides and also a chute running down the center (along the path from the front door).
What do we have as far as ranged resources? Thanim has a light crossbow, though he is not particularly good with it. It would be great to have an archer on the roof, but Perri is sick.
What do you think of this? Or some variation?
Thanim, as long as we can create a chokepoint here where the wolves have to attack through a narrow space, then I am all for your idea here.
I think Harry can handle the ranged attacks by using his spells here, though I am hesitant to rely on his magic here since I believe this plague is more virulent against spellcasters. Still some of his spells would be most useful here, even though he has no fire-based spells.
Good point regarding the spells.
With reduced personnel, I believe it will be hard to defend a circle around the entire cabin against a large number of dogs. That's why I was thinking of just reinforcing weak points (windows, for example. Maybe we'll even put one in front of the door?) with the barriers and use the remainder to form the chute/choke point. Thanim can use his crossbow, and hopefully none of the ill will even need to get involved if we set this up right. :)
Apologies on the tardy posting gang - fell down the rabbit hole that is post-festive-work-catch-up.
Will try and get updated and back into it proper o'er the weekend.
I will make sure everyone can edit the map by tomorrow morning.