Seraphimpunk's [core] Godsmouth Heresy (Inactive)

Game Master Seraphimpunk

Discussion thread, for out of character conversations.

Hey, This is my first PbP/PFS game, so some guidance once in a while would be great, for the rest, Im glad I finally managed to join something :)

no problem.

one thing i advise:
edit your profile, and in the class/level entry , put in a small stat block like the following:

Alchemist 6 (hp: 52/52 | AC: 18 | T: 12 | FF: 16 | Fort: +7 | Ref: +7 | Will: +2 | Init: +2 | Perception: +9 | Darkvision 60ft.)

it makes it easy to grab certain things, like at a glance telling if i hit with a monster's attack roll, or if an ability calls for a reflex save, i'll sometimes roll for you to speed up play ( if you have something that modifies it on the fly, you can apply it after the fact, just say in your next post that you want to use it ), or if everyone needs to make perception checks, initiative checks, etc. i'll just post a block of dice rolls, and put you all in init order.

Thnx, think I fixed that now.

awesome.
will get started fri or sat once i'm sure everyone's arrived.
if you'd like, dot the gameplay thread with your character, it'll add it to the list of Players for the campiagn so i know you're "present"

dot as in, post a dot?

yup.
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or you can do a little character intro / describe your character to set the stage.
main purpose: it will link your alias as a "character" in this "campaign" once you make a comment in the gameplay thread, and then you'll show up in the "characters" / "players" section and i can visually see that everyone's ready

Entered the gameplay thread

Is my statblock ok like this or are there things I should add?

looks fine, i can see the things i need like ac, hp, and saves =)

we do appear to just be 3
if we end up as three, any preferences for who among the Iconics you would like to join you?
We have a halfling Druid w/ a wolverine, a gnome sorcerer? and an elven druid
maybe a gnome druid w/ snow leopard companion to round out the all woodland themed party?
a human huntress with her wolf companion?

left to my own devices, i may send the Investigator with you. as this is partially a mystery, and who doesn't like a good who-done-it in an ossuary.

.. hmm. Eleanor , check the settings so seraphimunk@gmail.com has permission to view your character sheet? or post the contents of the sheet into the "About Eleanor Anima'Har" part of your Alias' profile. Tried to view it today but wasn't able to view the sheet.

Rika, Adinomo, your sheets look fine. i can see them, but haven't read them over, i try not to ahead of time, just if i see stuff that doesn't add up. So i'm not pre-biased to stuff the enemies wouldn't know beyond what they've seen.

hah, oh right, we're core. i guess Lini the Druid, or maybe Sajan the Monk? Seelah? keep the pregen choices core too =) i don't know if there are core pregens , but i think they're already all core.

I think all pregens with classes from the core rulebook are core only / can be used in core games.

I prefer either Lini to round out the woodland team or Lem as an additional member of team small ;-)

I don't really mind it too much, more flavor more better, who cares about meta'ing :P.

link should be fine now btw

I vote for Lem. Bards are always fun to have along.

will update tonight w/ the next stuff.
gah, stupid work.

Should belong here, the discussion, but thanks for the clarification. looks a lot clearer indeed, but already was amazed by how the dice system worked after I figured it out finally that I didn't want to screw it up again so just included all the modifiers into one number. :P

oh, you can lump it all into one, sometimes all the bonuses are so numerous that its more confusing to include the five +1's than to just say +4 =P , i like adgnomo's guidance,stealth method so far.

I'd rather include 5 +1's then one +4 ;-)

croak

Guys, just a bit of a heads up that things are extremely chaotic here at the moment. Tijn and me are both stressed out of our heads. I hope it lets off over the next few days, but just to warn you: I might not be posting as regularly as I should.

no worries, relax, and don't let this worry you.
i probably won't post as much on the weekends since i'm away from computers most of the time.
and its not a problem if we need to take a little break.

[r4]: [20: rika], [20: lem], [15: adinomo], [10: eleanor]

[r3]: [26: darkness],

Can you explain this? I am not sure where we are in initiative now. Did the darkmantle take it's round 4 action or not?

wribbit.

nope, i just copy pasted, and forgot to change the 3 to a 5

Auke will be joining us, don't mind the noise of the tomb opening up and someone else coming in. if we're quiet a few hours, he'll stumble into the darkmantle on his own.

That is mean! And not on Auke, but on Adinomo, asking him to stay quiet for a few hours....

wribbit. its a few hours out of character, not in character. in character you can still be loud and obnoxious or go help a dying badger-mole

wribbit. you've got darkvision, you don't have miss chance... you can see normally in this "light"

Darkmantles can grab (any size)

i know. i'm a little person. that's whats important!

Try Again: Yes, but if you ever roll a natural 1 while attempting to activate an item and you fail, then you can't try to activate that item again for 24 hours.

I actually read this rule as: The item was short circuited and can't be activated by anyone for 24 hours.

Hmm, I see you point, but that's not how I read it. If you take it literally it only says that "you" can't activate it again, not that "the item can't be used again".

"You can't take the sky from me."

If you blow a fuse you have to replace it, else you can't turn on the light. (but someone else can still turn it on? if someone else replaces the fuse, you can't still turn it on?). Sometimes literally is too literally.

i interpret it as meaning "you" can't activate "that" item, or another player could. you've just shorted out your ability to operate it. otherwise they could have said "if you roll a 1, that item won't work for anyone for 24 hours" , they didn't need to / chose to say "you" and "that". So i'm not reading any more than that into the text. You can pass the wand do anyone else who can still use it today.

I have always ran it like Vince, that also saves on the metagaming, now Adinomo could try again and again until he rolled a 1 and then hand it over to any other partymember, who all got CLW on their list...

Besides, sometimes magic makes no sense ;-).

I am away on vacation through Monday the 6th, with a lot of family and unknown internet connectivity. Do not count on me checking in before Tuesday. Please bot as necessary.

no prob. happy easter to all.
remember its international pillow fight day on the 4th =)

i interpret it as meaning "you" can't activate "that" item, or another player could. you've just shorted out your ability to operate it. otherwise they could have said "if you roll a 1, that item won't work for anyone for 24 hours" , they didn't need to / chose to say "you" and "that". So i'm not reading any more than that into the text. You can pass the wand do anyone else who can still use it today.

You are the GM, so your interpretation is right.

If you play on my table, it's better to have two partially charged wands instead of one full wand though! ;-)

The problem is the ambiguity of the word you, which can mean a single person, a group or even anybody.

oh yeah, was just settling how it is for this table.
i agree there's ambiguity.

why not ask the devs to clarify it on a rules forum =)

oh yeah, was just settling how it is for this table.

i agree there's ambiguity.

why not ask the devs to clarify it on a rules forum =)

I don't think Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Rich Baker, Andy Collins, David Noonan, Rich Redman, Bruce R. Cordell, John D. Rateliff, Thomas Reid and James Wyatt visit the rules forum that often. They wrote the original D20 srd and the ambiguity was in there from the start and only they could give the RAI meaning (15 years after they wrote it...). Current devs could only give their own interpretation.

And as I really think we need that wand to be functional for the party to survive this adventure, I'll drop the issue for now! ;-)

hehehe, smart man.
i created the ambiguity thread anyway just to see if the question can be raised, maybe plant the seed for them to fix it in another incarnation of the game someday.

sorry. MIA from the boards this weekend and today. will post later tonight and get rolling again tomorrow.

I will be out of country until next week Friday, May 1 with most likely no chance for posting. Please bot me if necessary.

Ill be gone this whole weekend until after monday too

FYI: On another PBP discussion thread also run by our great GM, he posted the following:

i'll be away for a long weekend in brussels thursday - monday, so posting will be ... er. slow to nonexistant =) depenging on wifi and when i can check it.

So he didn't forget about this thread, he just forgot to tell us he didn't forget about this thread

d'oh!

Quick check-in to let you know I'm still here, they were some busy weeks. Preparing for a camping weekend with the boys now, so no gameplay post. sorry!

I'm so sorry for the absense.... A bit too much happening with selling the house and stuff to arrange, rental place to get, making decisions for the house that still has to be build. And on top of that (or maybe because of that?) I've been having headaches/migraines for 3 weeks now. I may have to drop out of this :(