Jaymin and Garret both charge out of the back of the tent at the sounds of battle (or carnage anyway...) beyond, passing the fiendish dogs ravaging Aydan,
I'm specifically asking if this was just playing off what happened to me last round, or this round before the dissapear.
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Wasn't actually delaying, but no big deal.
As mentioned somewhere above, that's my default DM's assumption for characters when the player hasn't posted between my DM updates. It's either assume that, take control of the character (which I'd rather not do), or delay posting for another day on the off chance that player posts in the meantime (which I also try to avoid if possible). Hope that makes sense and sounds fair to everyone?
I want to clarify by saying I really like playing Aydan and I do not want to get him killed off, but I'd be remiss if I didnt ask: That Mastiff who's "ravaging" Aydan's knocked out arse... is he dealing damage?
Nope, they all vanished before they managed to inflict any additional damage.
Prof, et al,
I just wanted to let you know that due to work, I usually don't post on Thursdays or Sundays. I typically go into work the day before around 2 pm and leave that morning around 6 am. This leaves me sleeping most of the day and doing other things once I wake.
Good to know, thanks. If it helps, feel free to post common / likely options your character will take if there happens to be a combat going on when you last manage to post - that way I'll have an idea of what your guy is doing on the days you don't get a chance to post (otherwise he's likely to just keep delaying...).
I am such a twit. First I got the attack bonuses of my two paladins mixed up, and now I was getting the special abilities mixed up too. Sir Jaymin just now gets lay on hands, so ignore his earlier remark about having lay on hands to offer!
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Level 2 Cavalier adjustments
HP +5 +1 Con + 1 Favored Class = 7 (18 total)
+1 BAB (+1 CMD & CMD)
+1 rank Sense Motive
+1 rank Ride
+1 rank Handle Animal
+1 rank Knowledge (Nobility)
Gain Order Ability - +2 to will saves as long as Garrett stays LN
+1 Fort Save
Mount gains +1 HD, +1 Will Save, +1 skill (perception) and 1 feat (toughness)
Sorry, DM Rennick is me (easy to guess actually), I must have clicked the wrong name when I posted. my bad.
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Hey Prof, question: Do us casters gain our new spell slots right away, or do we need to rest for the day to get them?
Hmmm... Well none of you are 'study' type spellcasters... and you'll need all the help you can get chasing this guy down - so go ahead and get them now. :)
Sorry, DM Rennick is me (easy to guess actually), I must have clicked the wrong name when I posted. my bad.
I've been usurped! ;)
I'd call myself 'DM ProfPotts'... but it always reminds me of 'MC'... and you do not want to hear me rap... :)
I'm going to be out of town until next Tuesday, so I won't be able to post.
Hey guys. I just started a new summer job serving/bartending and doing setups and takedowns for special events and banquets. We had a huge event this weekend that clocked about 35 hrs of work. This would be why I haven't been around. sorry if I slowed things down!
On a business trip, probably won't be able to post for a couple days. Aydan will help take the figitive back with the others.
see everyone soon!
Just wanted to give an apology if my last post came off as bossy. I didn't have a lot of time to write it and it came off as more curt than I intended it. So sorry if I rubbed anyone the wrong way.
PS: Kick his butt Clarius!
I just took it to be Ayden and his inappropriate demeanour concerning all things Rebecca. Oh there goes Ayden forgetting he's a commoner again.
It's half and half. As a character Aydan feels his duties as Forrester and an advisor trump his social status. As a player I wanted to keep the game flowing and I don't always have many chances in a day to post because of my job. thanks for understanding though! He does get quite protective of Rebecca. :p
Also, before I do post:
Prof: In regards to the Baron's instructions about the prisoner. Is that for Aydan and Alaina specifically, or everyone? I'm not sure what the others priorities should be in regards to the prisoner or the tournament.
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Just wanted to give an apology if my last post came off as bossy. I didn't have a lot of time to write it and it came off as more curt than I intended it. So sorry if I rubbed anyone the wrong way.
PS: Kick his butt Clarius!
No need to apologize. I agree with Nazard that it was very appropriate for your character. Aydan is so used to being a part of the group that he forgets the inherent social structure. Clarius was only amused by it.
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Prof: In regards to the Baron's instructions about the prisoner. Is that for Aydan and Alaina specifically, or everyone? I'm not sure what the others priorities should be in regards to the prisoner or the tournament.
It's an open invitation for any PCs interested, really.
Prof,
How do we do this joust? I have been looking forward to finally getting to this point and am excited to begin.
The joust's actually pretty simple, compared with one of the 'duels'. Since it's simply three passes, all you need do is roll a charge attack with the lance (plus damage, which will be non-lethal), and a roll to see how well you stay on your own horse, per pass - you can even make all three sets of rolls at once (although, obviously, it may turn out that either you, or your opponent, is unhorsed before all three passes are made - making all the rolls at once just speeds things up a bit).
A 'solid hit' (beating the opponent's AC) breaks a lance, and counts as a 'point'. Unseating your opponent is an automatic win (either by him failing a Ride check after being hit, you inflicting enough damage to KO him and him failing the % chance to remain in the saddle - 75% for a military saddle, 50% for a riding saddle), or using the Unseat Feat (if anyone happens to have it). If, after three passes, it's a tie for 'points' then, at the contestants' option, the contest can be declared a draw, or continue on foot as a duel.
So, in summery, each of the three passes requires:
A DC 5 Ride check to 'guide with knees' - if failed the knight loses the use of his shield for that pass ('cos he'll not want to lose the use of his lance...).
A DC 5 Ride check to 'stay in saddle' - in case you take damage that pass.
An attack roll for the lance attack (including the +2 for charging).
A damage roll for the lance attack (doubled, as normal for a mounted charge with a lance) - in case you happen to hit your opponent.
It'd also help me out if you noted your current AC and Hit Points in such posts (to save me from having to keep refering back to people's character sheets).
And that's basically it. If you can persuade some helpful PC magic-using type to cast helpful spells on you to help you out, then more power to you... but I'm not sure that any of our helpful PC magic-using types chose any spells like that... ;)
Having a healer on-hand (in case you get KO'd but luck out and don't fall, for example) can also be helpful. Or, at the very least, a friend armed with some smelling salts (APG page 185)...
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Sorry, I thought the sword fighting was a big free for all. I guess Sir Jaymin thought so, too!
I'm not sure what you mean by that? :/ ( <- confused smiley)
The sword duels are, well, duels - like Garrett's mace duel with Lord Geoffrey. The 'grand melee' on the second day of the tournament is 'a big free for all'. Jaymin signed up for the grand melee, the joust, and the sword duel. Did you think he'd just signed up for the joust and the grand melee perhaps? Or did you think that the sword duel itself was a big free for all?
In any case, what is Jaymin going to do in-character? Withdraw from the sword duel? Go ahead with it? Whatever you decide, we'll obviously need an in-character post to find out, to advance from here.
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By the way, I haven't been reading the IC posts regarding the happenings in the dungeon, so if there is something people want Clarius to know they will have to tell him. (That can be as easy saying OOC in the IC: "X tells Clarius everything that happened" and I will read the posts. If you want to keep something back, please do, but just tell me what you want Clarius to know. I love the lack of foreknowledge and especially failing every one of the Sense Motive rolls so I get to walk around oblivious to what's staring me in the face.
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I wouldn't go so far as assuming they have quit the game. I looked and Ellipsis, Nazard and Talomyr have posted as one alias or another in the past 48 hours. Let's give them a chance to respond here or in the game thread. I would think that after this long they wouldn't just up and leave without a word of goodbye.
EDIT: Dragonborn3 also posted in the last 48 hours.
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... Put it this way - if he was a Paladin or a Cleric that would have easily been a powers-stripping act. Beating an unconscious man to death with your bare hands is a definitly evil act, no matter how much you may happen to dislike the chap, or how evil you happen to think he is (although there actually was very little proof that this guy had done anything wrong - mostly just assumptions, logical though those assumptions may have been). What's more, he had just helped bandage Clarius up (instead of, you know, bludgeoning him to death whilst he was unconscious...), and had only taken a swing at him (rather than, for example, summoning some monster to tear Clarius limb from limb) after some pretty intense verbal (and a little physical IIRC) incitement...
... Of course, one evil act doesn't turn you into an Anti-Paladin or anything, but you may want to think about shifting his alignment to Neutral rather than Good... 'Cos good guys just don't so that sort of stuff! ;)
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I fully agree that it was an evil act. It certainly warrants an alignment shift. As for Clarius' perceptions of the man, those are based strictly upon his having assaulted Rebecca and Beatrix then summoning monsters against the rest of the party (most importantly, nearly killing Clarius). I do disagree that there was very little proof that he had done anything wrong. That proof was overwhelming.
If Clarius sat there for hours dwelling upon it, he would have come to the conclusion that the killing was a necessary evil because of the man's previous actions against Clarius, and so many others, at the tourney, coupled with the implied threat that the man made in saying he only needed to wait until the next day to be able to make his own way out. (I took that to mean that he was depleted and could no longer summon anything today) Clarius could not have stopped him on the morrow. Further, Clarius believes that the other man would have killed him if he had knocked out Clarius first.
Hell, at this point, I figure Clarius is well and truly screwed. The only remaining torture of any effect is for the Lady Ailith, or whatever she is, to confront him and he realize that is was she that froze him and took the sword (No, Clarius hasn't come to that conclusion himself). Of course, this admission gives you the opportunity to further twist his heartstrings in any way you like. =D
Worse comes to worst, there's always the next character...
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Princess Anne and her husband Admiral Lawrence. To be honest it was my sister who was really meeting them (it being the occassion of her Doctoral graduation), and she had a good long chat with both - I was just lurking in the background as 'support', but at least I got to shake the Admiral's hand.
It was actually the best graduation I've ever seen, as it was at the National Defense Academy. We got to hang around tanks and bombs and stuff, and the path to the ceremony was through the 'hall of ammunition' which was kind of cool. The ceremony itself was great, because the service-people from around the world all graduated in uniform, so there was a pretty dazzling variety of the world's armed forces up on stage.
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Congrats to your sister!
Just a reminder that I am... Er, I guess I didn't mention here that I am leaving for a trip this morning. I am going to be gone until sometime late Sunday, CDT. Sorry for the last minute notice. Please push through without me. ProfPotts may run Clarius. He knows I like to be kept at one hit point. ;)
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Would have put this in the OOC... but it's been so long that it's gone, not even in the archives.
Sorry Clarius I had a full update before Prof's... but my browser crashed again. I'll include the info in my next update,
Proff: Is Knowledge (Local) the only applicable skill in this case? If so Aydan's usefulness as a guide just ran out.
The threads seem to fall out of view on the OOC board really quickly, but I find it's simple enough to locate them in the list of my own posts and go from there - they still exist, they're just a pain to find. ;)
Knowledge (local) means you know a path across the moors, so can lead others across safely and quickly. Relying on Survival means you have to go a lot slower as you try to find a path.
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Would have put this in the OOC... but it's been so long that it's gone, not even in the archives.
Sorry Clarius I had a full update before Prof's... but my browser crashed again. I'll include the info in my next update,
Proff: Is Knowledge (Local) the only applicable skill in this case? If so Aydan's usefulness as a guide just ran out.
The threads seem to fall out of view on the OOC board really quickly, but I find it's simple enough to locate them in the list of my own posts and go from there - they still exist, they're just a pain to find. ;)
Knowledge (local) means you know a path across the moors, so can lead others across safely and quickly. Relying on Survival means you have to go a lot slower as you try to find a path.
That makes perfect sense. Thanks for explaining it.
Just a reminder...let's all keep our minds clean with that last one, shall we? :)
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Just a reminder...let's all keep our minds clean with that last one, shall we? :)
I tried to... honest I did... :)
Hey Prof, I meant to ask you. How easy/expensive is it to get PFRPG products in England? I'm moving to Essex next month and wanted to know if I should try and figure out a way to get my books there, or if it'd be worth it.
My FLGS (the Games Room on Elm Hill in Norwich) stocks 'em, and orders anything specific I may require, although it'll always be a week or so after they hit the shelves in the USA (and however much time it is behind the subscription pdfs and all that stuff Paizo does - I just like to keep supporting the shop!).
As to prices, they seem okay to me... An AP book priced at 19.99 USD cost 14.99 GBP, for example, which is probably a bit of a mark-up, but like I said, I'm happy to keep supporting the store (after all, I'd never have even heard about Pathfinder if it wasn't for that shop!).
That's just my local shop, mind you - the quality of role-play shops in the UK seems to vary a lot, although they're all usually pretty small affairs. The Games Room's a dedicated gamer shop, but there are some comics shops or bookshops which sell some role-play stuff, although the selection can be limited in such places. There's also the Games Workshop chain, but they only really sell their own stuff, and its pretty much all (over-priced) miniatures gaming these days. Some of the Games Workshop war-gaming terrain is pretty nice though.
Oh... and be prepared to hear a lot of (rude) jokes about Essex girls... ;)
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Garrett is updated to Level 3.
As originally planned, he is still heading toward Battle Herald, so with that level 3 was Level 1 of Bard (Arcane Duelist)
+0 BAB, CMB, CMD
+2 Reflex and Will
+6 HP (5 + 1 CON Bonus)
Skills (6 Ranks + 1 Rank for being Human)
1 - Bluff
1 - Diplomacy
1 - Intimidate
1 - Perception
1 - Perform (Oratory)
1 - Knowledge (Local)
1 - Profession (Soldier)
Abilities - Bardic Performance (Rally Cry replaces Countersong) and Arcane Strike replaces Bardic Knowledge
Spells - 0 Level: Light, Message, Mending, Detect Magic; 1st Level: Cure Light Wounds, Timely Inspiration
3rd Level Feat = Shield Focus
This will be the only level of bard Garrett takes, but needed to take one for Inspire Courage. Remaing Levels will be split between Cavalier and Battle Herald (once he qualifies for the class)
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Looking good!
By the way, if you want to swap out Garrett's tactician class feature teamwork Feat (which I'm pretty sure he's never used) for one of the new ones in Ultimate Combat (assuming it's one he'd have qualified for at level 1), then I'm fine with that. Just the APG selection is a bit limited after all.
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Prof, I was actually planning to dip into Cavalier this level to cement Clarius' place as a knight. My thought was to take up the Order of the Sword. When you introduced Lady Ailith, I jumped at the opportunity and began developing a relationship with the character in the hopes that I could place Clarius' devotion in her. Everything seemed to going well, but now I, the player don't know if I should proceed in this direction.
Sir Clarius has not thought about what exactly happened in the baron's bedroom nor who did what. I have continued to play him as though his (new) love is yet another victim of this vicious attack on Redwyrm. I think I would still like to go with this idea, but was hoping to find a role play opportunity to explain the devotion to Lady Ailith. Is it enough to announce my intentions to my companions or should it be done in the presence of someone of authority, i.e.; the lord of Grimsmoor?
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Prof, your description of our campsite instantly put me in mind of the Weathertop from Lord of the Rings. Just to clarify.
Sorry for mine as well, power was knocked out.
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Prof, your description of our campsite instantly put me in mind of the Weathertop from Lord of the Rings. Just to clarify.
Ah, gotcha! A fieldstone roundhouse isn't quite the fortified watchtower I believe Weathertop was meant to be, but I see where you're coming from... and now I have to have wraiths turn up... ;)
As for the non-posters... I suppose 'act of God' is as good an excuse as any for lack of posting... this time... ;)