Was just waiting for Terry as Ashley would like to speak last again
I did--before Reg, in fact. (It was a little post, though.)
ETA: Re posting from smartphones, the Android keyboard puts square brackets several layers deep; makes it really tedious to insert markups.
I did--before Reg, in fact. (It was a little post, though.)
ETA: Re posting from smartphones, the Android keyboard puts square brackets several layers deep; makes it really tedious to insert markups.
oops! missed it! Posting...
Ash why do you have to post last its kinda wierd doing that just waiting so you can post last shouldnt you just post whenever you check in lol
just struck me as odd
Okay, there is a very important announcement.
I work in retail.
It is the holiday season here in America.
I am in school.
It is nearing the end of the semester here.
I am busy as h$#%
This means my posting will be minimal at best. I apologize for this inconvenience and I hope to be back to regular posting habit in January. But until then I may miss days completely. I appreciate your understanding and hope that you can all bear with me. I will not end any campaigns unless they die out due to drop outs. That is all.
No problem. 'Tis the season, and all that. Good luck!
I might similarly lag in my posts. I apologize for their possible brevity beforehand.
through thick and thin :)
We're in it for the long haul mate. ; )
Okay I need to go over magic. This world is vastly different from Golorion and magic and magic based classes WILL NOT work the same.
First off. The only reason you would use the spells out of the Pathfinder books is if they are part of your class or race or some other source.
Classes do not gain spells in the same manner.
Divine classes DO NOT get spells. They get spiritual powers granted by their Domain/Spirits
This world does not have Deities. It has Spirits. The Chief spirits are Fire, Wind, Earth, Water, Light, Dark, Life, and Death. There are lesser spirits that govern domains and or Mysteries
Now the spells that divine classes are awarded for their domains and such. do not function like normal spells. They are on command and do not require casting. They happen at the player's will and do not provoke attacks of opportunity. They do not require any components to use either. Unless touch is required. If the spell requires touch, ranged or otherwise, then you must be able to touch to use it.
Different Arcane classes have different spell lists. Sorcerers use the eight main powers
Wizards use whatever spellbooks they can get their hands on.
Bards use Arcane techniques not spells.
Witches get only a handful of spells and all witch spells work like hexes
Summoners use any conjuration spells and those only
Now I know that taking away spells from the divine classes is mean but in a world with limited magic foes or magic in general, this is actually a good thing. Sorcerer classes are meant to be the most powerful magic class period. Plus it is a gesalt game so you are not really lacking in power. Not to mention the custom spells I allow for sorcerers are ridiculously powerful. I tried to modify other classes, but I just don't have the time. In the end I did not see it as necessary.
Now that's settled. Be sure and ask questions about your classes when relevant.
Gotcha Boss!
And Shano, can you perhaps paste this post into the Campaign info tab? Along with any other pertinent info?
Hey shano what was the process in designing new spells in your game I know Terry was trying earlier but I cant seem to find the exact page or something
Gah, Magic Stone at will, not so great.
Can I pleeeeeeease change Magic Stone out for Stone Fist? It makes so much more sense for my character, but its the spell for Mountain domain, not Earth domain, because it is an APG spell.
Also, if I understand this, I get my Acid Dart from my domain 5 times per day, and Magic Stone at will? Do I also get Summon Nature's Ally I?
On a side note, I effectively get 9 Acid darts per day, as the Acid Dart and Elemental Ray are the same exact power, for Druid and Sorcerer.
With Gesalt we add in the hp and skill points for each level in each class yes?
So for 1st level in Oracle:
Ah ok, cool. Thanks Reg!
hey terry trent is kinda waiting on you to answer him lol sorry thought id say that incase the two of them needed to have a discussion
Sorry, missed that for some reason, thought I was caught up, and was waiting for someone else to post. I'll blame it on the holiday week :-S.
Just so you guys are aware. I am a bit too busy to study my game notes right now. You are going to probably have to wait until January before I can get this going at the pace we had it. Too much homework and my job is in retail. Not to mention I will be out of town for the last week in the year. So I will try to post but it may only be once or twice a week. Cool.
That's fine, just glad you gave a heads-up, unlike some of my other pbp's...
I'll be waiting, whenever you can get back into it.
That's fine, just glad you gave a heads-up, unlike some of my other pbp's...
I'll be waiting, whenever you can get back into it.
Ditto.
And in case don't can't to say it before they arrive, Happy Holidays All!
Hey everyone wanted to check in and say MERRY HOLIDAYS anyways thought id see whose around got done with college here but wanted to say Hi see you all after the holidays
Hey, happy holidays to you too! Does done with college mean the semester, or you have your degree finished? If the latter, congrats!
Nah just the semester though starting in spring I go to the large university and start working on my actual degree hopefully I can do everything right like last semester and land an internship over the summer
What are you looking to go into in university?
My last day of work for the year is Thursday, and then the place is closed until 1/3. Looking forward to sleeping in....
I handle quality assurance, environmental compliance, and laboratory safety for the Nuclear Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. It's generally a fun job, and if I am lucky there won't be any emergencies while we're shut down.
Merry Christmas to you too!
Good news guys, I may decide to start this thing up a bit sooner. So what I need from you guys is to chime in and let me know if you are ready to get started. I am only just now getting back into it and I will but posting a notice for all my campaigns soon. But you guys are a very easy going and by far are my favorite group of players. You adapted very well to my rule modifications without complaint so I would like to start you guys up first.
BTW. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Be sure and pipe in when you are ready to get this things started. You all have until January 12th to let me know your still here.
IM HERE IM HERE IM HERE!!!
Literally chomping at the bit here lol, ive reread our posts so many times now lol its ridiculous, my brother asks why you havent made this into a book yet lol
also been sitting on a speech that I have planned for trent for so long now now I go to go refresh myself on its fictional points lol
lol Trent ; )
And Hey! Merry Holidays to everyone!
And thanks for the praise and 1st start up honour Shano! What a nice holiday gift for us all. : )
All is Ready and Raring to go on my end! Whoo-hoo!
Truth is I was trying to write this as a book a long time ago. I couldn't quite get into it at the time though. I am taking a risk posting the plot here as I may make another attempt at writing it. Good to see you all haven't left me. I plan on going over the material and revisiting some of the posts tomorrow evening and Monday. I will have the next leg up either Monday night or Tuesday. It is easy to see you are all still here so I won't delay longer than that.
Why would you be risking it? Copyright law states anything written over the internet and submitted is protected by law
About risking the book plot by posting it here-just in case you don't know (as I didn't before I looked it up for a recent clidren's book I have written) legally, a copyright appears to any created work as soon as it is created. You can get 'extra protection' though by registering your work with the copyright agency here: http://www.copyright.gov/ for around $40 or so.
Im going to go read the gameply again hehe that way I can remember the epic speech trent was going to give after the leaders had gathered pity though that I remember Ashley is tied up to some tree the whole time with hours passing...
Well, Trent doesn't know anything about all of that of course ; ) And don't think it was hours...was it Shano??
Yep he doesnt he just knows ashley isnt down stairs
Hey if there's anyone interested in a Fallout style PbP there's just starting up over here. It's meant to be a BIG game looks like so it will need lots and lots of players. Hope ta see ya there!
I've been a bit busy and haven't been able to read much of our posting. I hope to have something up tomorrow.
Still here, ready to go.
Trent, I actually kind of fell into the safety/QA/etc. job--spent a few years as a bench chemist after I got my undergrad degree in chemistry, then went to grad school in materials science/metallurgy and got a postdoc at Argonne doing low-friction film development. A lot of internal upheavals later, I ended up supporting R&D instead of doing it myself. Less prestige, but also less late nights.
Hey Terry so does that mean youy're up on all the stuff that's been happenoing at Fukushima? I've been sent updates and reports from friends with underground news sources saying all kinds of terrifying stuff. Like how the escaped radiation levels are thousands of times higher than has been reported by government and mainstream media. How the government of Canada (and the USA I think) has secretly significantly increased the standards of what is considered 'safe' levels radiation so that they can still say that 'the levels of radiation are below acceptable limits'. That months ago the radiations had already spread across the entire northern hemisphere and that within a few more months will have crossed the (whatever you call it) barrier into the southern barrier as well meaning that the entire planet will have been exposed to severely harmful levels of radiation. And all kinds of more stuff along those lines.
Not to be a downer or anything but it's not every day I get to ask questions directly to a nuculear enginer/chemist kinda person and find out what's really true.
Okay after getting up to date on this campaign here is what I need from you guys before I will continue
@Ashley You do not gain the normal oracle spells because in this world Arcane casters are the only classes that can use magic extensively and at this point in the story, you are the only ones in the land that can be sorcerers, the most powerful class of spell caster. Now, Oracle gets a spell like ability to cast at will. It is an orison so you can cast 0 level SLA infinitely. You do not get a normal spell list though.
@Ashley and Terry, I would like the two of you to post.
Terry you need to respond to Trent please and Ash you need to respond to Salevok. Once that is done I will put forth the next leg.
Now just to inform you guys, combat will be happening soon and I have a few rule changes for you guys when we get there ok. So look forward to that scenario.
by posting next leg do you mean skipping ahead or picking up right where we left off? Just curious
More like moving on from where we left off. you all seem to have a lot you need to go over before we cut to the week long montage.
Also I need to let you all know. The reason I didn't want to start my games until January is because I will be out of town Friday to Monday. I am going somewhere that won't guarantee internet access. Therefore I may disappear for four days. Just a heads up.
Cool so dumb question should I refresh myself on the speech trent was going to give? Pretty much I planned on having him tell the assembled people that there was no prophecy. But he would be asking them to help them anyways because they have made it further than anyone thought they could and with their help all we could do is grow stronger and blah blah blah :)
SOOOOO who else is really excited to get this game back on lol tell you what after so many of my games fell through during finals all I could do was look forward to this game :)
Sorry I haven't been on in a while, what with holiday craziness. Just posting to let you know I'm still in.
Okay after getting up to date on this campaign here is what I need from you guys before I will continue
@Ashley You do not gain the normal oracle spells because in this world Arcane casters are the only classes that can use magic extensively and at this point in the story, you are the only ones in the land that can be sorcerers, the most powerful class of spell caster. Now, Oracle gets a spell like ability to cast at will. It is an orison so you can cast 0 level SLA infinitely. You do not get a normal spell list though.
Ok, so not sure if I understand correctly. Ashley will Never get Oracle any spells? Because if that is the case, the effectiveness of the class is like cut in half. Or do you have something else in mind?
Will post now though
Waiting on terry to respond to trent lol oh hey regi where are you at the time?