Skull & shackles (Inactive)

Game Master DBH

Not being American I have no idea how much Thanksgiving effected your time, so I've heard from our prospective new player and they are just about ready now.

a Merfolk Seawitch, with the Trapfinder trait and great skills in disarming devices and perception. So some more arcane punch and traps are handled.

Basically killed the last four days for me. Constant social obligations. No free time.

Also: Yessss another fishy friend

Heheh Hi everyone. Checking in!

Yeah, Thanksgiving is a pretty big deal here. It being on a Thrusday pretty much means it ends up taking half of a week if not more.

Yaaay!

Nice to meet you Callidora, welcome to the Unbound Drake.

A pleasure to be here!

Aye, welcome!

Callidora, do you wish to have boarded the Unbound Drake at Hell harbor, or are you planning another entrance?

I'm good with either. Wold the group rather RP me being introduced or handwaive it?

I'm happy for you to have signed on in Hell Harbour as Jane's replacement. Waiving the intro seems like the best bet now that we're in the thick of it.

Okay. Will post shortly

I reserve the right to backdate a post of when Callidora first arrived at the ship.

Fine with me.

Sorry all, no update tonight. Too tired.

Taking a stubborn senior citizen shopping for groceries is an exercise in tact and patience. :)

I can only imagine.

Again with an apology. The last few days have been hectic to say the least! My Mothers cruise ship docked in Wellington on Sunday, so we had a family meal at a waterfront restaurant.

Then my brother has gone in to hospital for treatment of his irregular heartbeat. Incurred during the coughing epidemic we had a couple of months ago.

Which has left me caring for his dog as well as my father, an insane German shepherd with too much energy. (The dog, not my father.)

Thankfully his treatment worked and he's fine again, so tomorrow I will be back to having some free time and will return to the updating.

Thanks for your patience.

Definitely. Hope things calm down a bit so you can take a breath.

Not a problem, sounds like you've got plenty on your plate.

Posting this to all my games, so sorry if you see it multiple times:

This week both my office and I personally are going to be moving. It's been crazy busy and I am not going to be able to post until Monday at the earliest. Please bot me if I am in your game, and if you are in a game I am running, I will get a post up as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

Ok, sorry for the gap. Tech problems with my Mothers computer, and being busy running around in extremely hot weather has left me unable to update anything I'm GMing.

Good news is tomorrow I'm home again and things will return to normal.

My Mothers PC doesn't have anywhere to plug in flash drives? Why?

cause it's a chromebook?

Cross-posting in all of my games; apologies if you see this more than once.

Tomorrow, I head out for a weeklong vacation to where there are beaches, sunshine, and tropical beverages. I intend to be taking utmost advantage of all of the above (especially the latter). As such, I may have difficulty posting while I'm away; please bot me if necessary.

That said, the resort does have free WiFi, and I just got a new keyboard for my iPad that should allow me to post better on vacation than I ever have been able to before. I will be trying to keep up with all of my games as much as possible.

I expect, though, that my posts will necessarily be brief, even to the point of simply making my rolls without much roleplay. If I am silent in social situations, or not posting my combats, please err on the side of botting me early, rather than waiting; it will likely be better for us all that way.

Thanks!

Note to self, pick up Hold Person, next time I gain spells.

T'is the season to be busy. No time to update today. And it will probably be spotty until boxing day thanks to it being a stinking hot summer down here. Summer and Christmas at the same time!

I think what happens next depends on your save Niobe

I just wanted to make this quick post to let you all know that I'm back! As you may have noticed, my goal to post during vacation was a complete failure, so I have a lot to get to; it could easily take me all day to catch up on all of my games.

I'm cross-posting this note to all of my games early. Please feel free to continue to bot me until I post in Gameplay, if there's an urgent need; otherwise, I'll post before the end of the day if my character is up. Thanks!

I think what happens next depends on your save Niobe

Doesn't really matter; even if charmed, I'm still confused. Confusion will cause you to attack your allies, charm forces me to count you as an ally, end result is that I'm still stabbing (if that's the confusion roll for the round).

Ah. True.

I have a moment to myself so I'm dropping in to wish everyone a very merry Christmas!

Have a wonderful (and safe) holiday people.

Merry Christmas to all.

I'll be at the in-laws until Dec 30th with only my phone, so apologies if my posting is spotty. Normal service will resume ASAP.

Happy Holidays everyone!

So I am posting from work:
Apologies about not posting sooner, but I have been down internet wise for roughly a week, and will not have internet back up yet for a week or so.
This means that I haven't had internet for the last 4 days (as we had 4 days off at my work for the holiday).
It's been...an experience where I learned that I use the internet more than I thought I did.
With all of that being said, I will try to post from work as I can, but if I am in your game, please bot me as needed.
If I am running your game, please bear with me while I try to post when I can. Hopefully, sooner than better, but I want to be up front about this issue.
again, I apologize about the delay.

So who's back and ready to go?

Here!

Finally have internet again, so I'm here now!

Here! The holidays are over and the regular schedule has fallen back into place.

Works for me. Try again now that someone else has posted?

For me I hit post, then I have to refresh the page before my post appears.

Pooooost

What was happening before was, I would hit Submit Post, and it would go to a Preview page instead. Hitting Submit Post would never actually finalize and go back to reading the page. (This is different from "post and it doesn't show up until I refresh"; this was "hit post and it never actually submits the post".)

Yeah something's wrong with the coding of this site. Different friends of mine are having different problems depending on platform and country.

Sorry for going quiet, my health is very bad at the moment. I will update everyone as to how things are after Monday and the Doctors appointment.

I am posting this to all of my games, so apologies if you see this multiple times:

Unfortunately, I have some bad news.

A combination of work-related stuff has lead to me having to take some time off from the forums. I am, in all honesty, going to need to be gone for several months, as I am going to be travelling for extended periods of time (weeks or more) and I'll likely not have good access to the internet.

As I am not someone who would want to have you all sit and wait for me here, I am going to be withdrawing/closing all of my open forum games.

I want to thank everyone who I have had the pleasure to game with over the last couple of years here, as I have immensely enjoyed my time on the forums, and hopefully, once my work stabilizes, I will be able to rejoin the community.

Thank you again for your time and energy, and I am sorry that I won't be able to keep things moving forward in any of the games that I am running.

Hope things aren't too bad GM, sounds like you've had a rough time of it recently.

Sad to see you go Maddie, I hope you can rejoin us when things settle down.

Safe travels, and don't let work stress you out too much.

Sorry to hear that Maddie, hope to see you gaming again in the future.

Health wise I'm waiting on getting an appointment as my problems seem to be a bad tooth that's triggering other problems, once that's gone things should improve.

So while I wait I'll try to get things moving. Again. (Finally).

We seem to be well covered for Arcane casters, should we keep it to four or look to recruit?

I'd be inclined to recruit for a 5th player. Not sure I'm wedded to another arcane caster though.

Hmm.. arcane/melee, arcane, divine, melee. The higher level you go a tank never hurts. Ranged might be useful for ship to ship combat.

I think Kung and I do OK up front. We're not really tanks in the classical sense but I think we kill things quickly enough that that's not a big deal. We've never really had a lot of ranged, other than some spells. Might be interesting to see how that works out.

Along the way, Kung took a couple of levels of a rogue archetype to get some class abilities that help him move around on ships. That means that he technically also has sneak attack, but very rarely gets to use it. It's just at the 1d6 level--and won't improve from there--so it's largely overshadowed by his normal damage output, but having another body in melee so it's easier for Kung to flank wouldn't make me upset. :)

Yeah, a ranged attacker could be useful.

Kung if you really want sneak attacks you could start investing in the feat Accomplished Sneak Attacker.