Well so far three of us have weighed in. Just Alaric left and he might just be a bit busy.
I am leaving on a retreat on Thursday the 3rd and won't be back til Sunday afternoon. I will try to keep up on my phone, but it's very hard to post using it, so please bot me as necessary to keep the game flowing. Thanks
I'm confused.. didn't we just adjust our characters to the next level (3rd) already? or are we leveling again to 4th for this training?
also: took 'armor of the pit' for my bonus feat
Yup, I'm also confused, is that 4th with a bonus feat, or as we are now at 3rd with the bonus feat?
apologies; 3rd with a bonus FEAT.
understood, thanks for the clarification...
apologies had to travel for work and will be working this coming weekend.
Please let me know when your characters are ready to go
Alaric's shopping list:
cracked Pale Ruby Trillian ioun stone (+1 to stealth skill) 200 gp
cold iron dagger 4gp
sansetsukon (3-section staff, monk weapon) 8 gp
masterwork backpack 50 gp
he'll give 12 gp of his own money to make up the difference if that's okay.
total 262 gp
otherwise, forget the backpack and instead he'll get:
alchemists fire 20 gp
total 232 gp
My Character is updated with the feat from 3rd level and a bonus feat from training.
Added Mirror Image and Invisibility to my spell book.
So now I am good to go.
Elisa is ready, the bonus feat she ended up choosing is Imbue extract. So she can make extracts for others to use.
Not spending any money at the moment, saving for later.
Too sick and depressed and terrified to game right now... expect I'll be gone a day or two while I process recent events.. I WILL be back.
By the way if nobody objects I want to keep that platemail and sell my chainmail, let me know if there's any objections to this, you all can also split my 250 because I didn't see anything I wanted having gotten it earlier.
No problems with you taking the Platemail. Don't see any need to quibble over amounts of gold that minor.
If it's gear that's going to be used then that should be the first priority.
i agree.
the same here as well.
I will be helping a buddy move cross country over the next 5 days or so. Apologies for the bad timing.
Not actually quibling. Thanks to the loot we previously gathed and sold I just don't need the 250 so I'd prefer to see it reinvested.
Did we lose some people?
I'm still here.
just waiting on the plan for the incoming boat.
Same here.
Hoping to get some input from the other members.
Yeah its not the best of plans, but I don't see any real way to actually destroy the ship at range. Unless we got a fireball or two up our sleeves haha.
no fireballs, but lots of alchemist fires would have done the trick.
oil flasks, I just wanted to set a diversion but distracting them, coming back to help, killing them all and then scuttling the ship would work too.
I haven't looked into people sheets so I'm unsure of just how much alchemist fire we have. It would need to be a large amount, as any ship worth its sails would have an extra sail laying around. The way I see it. We are fighting them at some point, now. Or when they catch up with us again. At least at this point we have surprise on our side. With a decent diversion tactic.
I had aways intended to fight them now, never was planning on letting them go. Just thought it would be a much better fight with them on their own she aflame and us on ours shooting at them as they try to defend themselves and put out the fire. Yes they should have extra sails but they most likely will be destroyed in the fire.
Well my plan was similar, it just involves splitting their group up. My imp should drop the flasks the turn combat starts, which should cause a large distraction allowing us to divide and conquer as it were. Hopefully by the time they deal with the fire, or even before, we can have dealt with most of the ones on our ship. Expected the captain to at least tell his boys to shoot them though it doesn't seem terribly likely.
Setting them on fire and dealing with them at range first sounds good to me as well, I would much rather not deal with them up close until they've been weakened as much as we can.
well how many of us have bows? and how many of them likely have bows? even if half of them are distracted by the fire, thats 6 to 4, after they start to get the fire under control thats even more lopsided numbers and then the fire is gone. If there are more votes for that option however, Rythian would go along with the Majority whether he liked it or not for now. If it was a fight where the aim was to merely escape and things are good I could see that, but a fight like this, when heavily outnumbered, needs a decisive first strike and I'm not sure ranged is the way to do that.
Elisa has her Crossbow, and her bombs.
I have my spells and we also have the crew that is set up for range combat..
I am under the impression the captain is not getting involved in the fight. Particularly with that last comment from him. So that was my bad in misunderstanding that aspect.
bombs are more effective at the range we are at now, IIRC they are a 30ft range increment. If I am wrong on that please do correct me I have only played alchemist once a while ago.
also boarding planks are narrow, likely allowing 1 person across at a time per plank. like I said, if popular opinion is to set them alight before some come across, and I meant around 4 before then ambushing them and setting them alight I am fine with that. Rythian is more a up front killer, not as fun from afar. And I honestly thought it was a good idea. Especially with my channel evil ability for close quarters.
Not where I can easily check my sheet. I definitely have some alchemists fire not sure if i have a bow though.
you can forcibly take bows and arrows from the crew if need be.
Alaric has 5 alchemist fires and would happily donate them to 'the cause'...
For ranged weapons, he's got a sling.
You guys want me to have him drop the bombs now, before they connect the ships?
It was your plan. What did you intend to do with the timing. I am all for not letting them get on the ship...lol...Wizards tend to not like front line combat.
way I see it, I can wait until about 4-5 of them come across before blowing the bombs, which was what I had planned. Or I can do it now, and go with close range ranged combat similar to what you guys suggested. I'd go with majority vote.
Make the attack just as the knight gets to the middle of the plank.
Ooooo, I like the idea Szordrin, not sure if it would work, but I could totally see the argument for it.
Well it was a try....lol
So I am wondering how tall is the mast?
I am still travelling during the holidays to let the kids see grandparents and other family. I should be able to post tomorrow. Just fyi.
My internis off. Bot me as needed. Hopefully I won't be gone long.
I'll post tomorrow.
apologies, will post later, work issues.
I will be away for a few days... will have internet access in the evenings but not sure how reliable it will be... just a forewarning that I might be unable to post... if that happens, feel free to bot me as needed.
yes, but he is -good-, which means, we need to change that. Nothing better than corrupting a good soul to the dark side. Or in this case, the fiery side.