Hey, I appreciate your honesty on the topic.
Sorry! And also thank you for the honesty.
Ok, thanks for letting us know.
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Thank you for your time GM Red. I hope to see you on the boards again either as a player or DM.
I am up for continuing if everyone else is...
I’m in if you guys are.
Assuming we can find a GM then I am all for continuing.
I'm in but my interest is waning as is my frequency on the board. I'd still like to see this book through if possible.
I we find a DM, I'm find continuing.
Cool!
@GM Red: Not sure if you are still monitoring this, but can you let us (and the next GM) know where we are and what we have left to do?
Thank you GM Red!
Hello all! I took a look over your situation and think I can help you out (if you want me). I have tried to play this AP 3 times and each died, so I understand the pain. :)
I am older (over 30 years RPG under my belt), been on Paizo forums for about 2 years now, and only play PbP (mostly due to schedule). My pace varies - I used to be pretty strict about once a day, but since the board problems, a few have really slowed down, and I find that's ok too. Having said that, I primarily leave the pace up to the group, so if you are all looking to pick it up, I am good with that too.
Click through my name and you can check out some of my games to see if you think its a good fit.
I have one group in RotR right now, they are just entering the glassworks, so about 1/3 of the book behind you.
Woot! I am always happy to get a chance to finish a campaign, so often they die off. I tend to have a rather hectic schedule myself so I understand that. But with the weather getting colder and work slowing down due to that I should start getting a little more consistent.
Do you have any questions for us?
Edit: Oh and do you have an issue with me going the summoning route since I keep ending up in melee and I am so bad at it.
Woot!
Welcome and thanks for coming to our rescue!
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by summoning route, but I have no problems with summoning. In fact, many of my characters do a lot of that, so it should be fine.
It sounds like we have some acceptance. We can continue in this thread if that's ok with Red, and then once finishing book 1 we can move to a new one with anyone who cares to continue.
You can send an email to Paizo, and they will make you the owner/GM of this thread.
Some people do not like summoning so I wanted to ask.
Ah, yes - I have heard some of that.
No, I have no problems with any paizo materials. A few rules don't make sense to me, but I tend to find house rules more trouble than they are worth. I shy away from 3rd party stuff, but only because I don't want to spend the time and money to absorb even more sets of rules. :) But I have occasionally allowed something.
I spent some time last night reading back posts. This one battle is over 3 months long! And it looks like your townsfolk are not long time companions. I am surprised they are all still alive.
It does look like everyone is still in, so lets see if we can jump back in.
Right, let's finish this fight, send the peons back to town, and press on with Rising to be Runelords!
Hello GM Fuzzfoot thank you for helping out.
Indeed! Thank you!
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I’m taking a bunch of Cub Scouts camping this weekend, so don’t expect any posts out of me until, and unless, I survive and return!
Good luck!
Thanks - no worries. I don't think it is slowing us down right now.
Is the area we're currently in normal or bright light? We're outside, but in an underbrush-y area that I'm not sure extends overhead or not. Asking for shadowmind, which is pointless to cast if we're in bright light.
I would say you are in normal light, not bright. So this would cause the targets to believe they are in dim light.
OK, so I wasn't really sure what you all had done and not done, so I spent a few hours reading the entire thread (Discussion and Gameplay). You all are a great RP group, and based on what I saw, you have more posts and less delays when you are doing that as opposed to combat, which really slows down. So, in the interest of playing to the crowd, I am going to try and structure more that way. So I think if everyone is still game, we can get this game back moving!
Towards that end, I have learned that room by room searching of a dungeon can get extremely bogged down in the PbP environment, so I am going to fast-forward a bit to get us back to the story line.
My understanding is that Tsuto and Lyrie are alive and in jail, Orik is currently free and friendly - but leaving town, Ameiko is alive and well, and Nualia is yet to be encountered.
Other NPCs I could not go back far enough to read, so I could use a short summary of what your interactions were with them (if any).
Shalelu Andosana - She-Elf ranger
Aldern Foxglove - Fairly well-off noble from Magnimar, may have taken you hunting
Shayliss Vindler - shop keepers daughter
Any other (of the many) townsfolk?
I also think it is a good time to regroup on treasure and supplied. I found the loot sheet and it matches what notes I was making while reading - although there are some scrolls that appear to be lost (or used??) - Scroll of comprehend languages, scroll of minor image, scroll of see invisibility, scroll of sleep, scroll of whispering wind.
Do you all prefer a common location for gear/loot? If so, I have a format that seems to work well that I can setup (Google Sheet on steroids). But I am perfectly happy to let you all keep your own loot on your sheets, as long as you keep it up to date. I think many groups have trouble with this.
Finally, would everyone update their status line (Using Class/Race fields on profile) with some basic info? I see Aurora has a good one (way more than I need, but extra is fine). I would like to see:
Alignment Gender Race Class Levels | HP: Max AC: xx Tch: xx FF: xx CMD: xx | F: +1 R: +2 W: +1
I will track HP, active mods for AC, etc in a party status block. I also have Perception and Initiative, so you don't need that unless you want it.
And maybe I should ask (before we go through all of this), is everyone on board for continuing to book 2? We aren't quite there yet, but if many of you are looking to finish the book 1 and then go, it might not be worth shaking things up. I am more than happy to keep the ball rolling, though.
I’m a late add to the group, so I dunno who we’ve met and such. I’ll let the others answer.
I’m all for pressing on!
I’ve updated my headers as requested.
I joined before Skarn and miss the really early stuff. I am all for continuing to the end. And honestly I would add more to my header if I could but there is limited space :D
A common area for loot is fine. And if you can fast track things in dungeons that is perfectly fine by me. I have noticed that trend of slowing down in combat in almost all games.
I’m happy to use whatever spreadsheet you out up.
Wow! As the only original player from 5(!?) DM's ago. Let me see if I can remember.
I did meet Shalelu Andosana and she told us about the goblins to begin with.
I also met Aldern Foxglove. He did take us hunting and was smitten with an original cast member who departed. He gave Cordwin an open invitation to come visit him.
I am on board until PC death or the end of Book 6-whichever comes first!
Wow - 5 DMs, and still book 1? I know I starting running it (this is my second "table") because I had 3 or 4 runs as a player and all fizzled out. And actually, in two of those, I was a replacement player. It is a long commitment, to be sure.
I'm the second oldest player in this game. I was there for the Aldern boar hunting, but the only interaction I remember having with Shalelu consisted of some mini-goblin attack on one guy's house after the main raids (which I wasn't around for). She kind of fought with us on that, but mostly yelled encouragement while we fought the goblin(s)?
Shayliss Vindler as a shopkeeper's daughter sounds vaguely familiar. Is she a herbalist? I remember there was some NPC who told us a little about Nualia being pregnant (IIRC, that caused big issues between Nualia and her father)? I think she offered Aurora some herbal version of birth control. We may have then followed up by talking to a priest of some sort (Nualia's father? Or did her father die in the fire that supposedly killed Nualia? Maybe it was his replacement, not entirely sure).
We've also obviously met the sheriff. Our relationship seems to be mostly him asking us to do us, René grumbling about not being a hero, and then Aurora chastising him because what about the town guard? Which is how we ended up with a bunch of NPC guards with us (that and the fact a lot of the party isn't very combat oriented).
For the scrolls, it depends on where they were. I think we did not thoroughly explore everything and thus missed out on a bunch of loot, both due to difficulties with combat and a sense of urgency with updating the sheriff about what was going on (I know for the Ripnugget fight they were clearly planning an attack that we felt we needed to warn the town about).
I am fine with whatever for loot. One of the previous DMs asked for a volunteer to keep track of stuff, so I just made a quick spreadsheet. I'm also fine with fast-forwarding stuff. I like the occasional combat, but René is honestly pretty boring to play in fights right since he basically just sits around hexing everything while trying to think up reasons to explain why he's constantly laughing in battle. Maybe his combat will get more interesting when he's willing to be more obvious with the fact that he casts spells.
Also, unlike Cordwin, I'm on board even after PC death. Y'all ok with zombie!René, right? ;-)
So long as the zombie is prone to giggling then I am totally fine.
And I am fine moving on even if Aurora dies and for some reason can not be resurrected.
Also does anyone care if I claim the chain shirt so my AC goes up to 14?
Take the shirt!
Do we need to add a PC if we think we’re under strength?
I'm good with all that's be said. Tylur is here until he dies.
Skarn ain’t planning on dying ya ninnies! Skarn has set his goal of being the Runelord of Drinking!
Fuzzfoot: Can you drop Sherpa from the game please, since you’ve got the power now?
Fuzzfoot: Can you drop Sherpa from the game please, since you’ve got the power now?
Unfortunately, there is a bug in the system which is preventing me from editing the Campaign tab. GM Red is waiting to be dropped as well. Once it is fixed, I will get you cleaned up.
As far as combat goes, I think with soem loot and getting geared better, you should be ok. You have a dedicated fighter, and an inquisitor and bard, and Aurora will be summoning critters, so melee shouldn't be too much of a problem. Of course, the die roller hates you, but you will have to make amends there without my involvement. :)
I am not opposed to recruiting another character if you all would like, however.
For the record, Cordwin isn’t THAT kind of Bard, hahaha.
I prefer scholar personally. :P
I added a loot sheet for tracking (the $ after RotR-Red in my tag line).
Does anyone want more gear before goign back in, or are we good to move forward?
Lets move forward...we hace delayed getting to this demoness long enough! The Dawnflower demands retribution for her crimes!
There’s a bunch of good stuff on that list, especially healing and protection stuff that we should distribute!
I put my name on the chain shirt.
So we have wands of cure moderate wounds, bless, a full one of magic missiles, shield, and silent image.
Who has those on their known spell list.
The ring of protection is not claimed and I am not a front liner so someone else should have that. One of the meat shields. Along with the cloak of resistance
Looks like there are 2 potions cure lt and 3 cure mod.
And the pouch of weird things. What is in that and where did we find it?
I was going to ask you - the pouch of weird things was on the original loot list, but if you can give me an idea of where or when, I can probably determine what it was.
CMW and Bless are on my list.
I’m not opposed to improving my AC or saves.