Skull & shackles (Inactive)

Game Master DBH

Thanks for the notice.

Sorry, too tired to update tonight.

Just had my first shot of vaccine and it was fine. No real problems but I'm suffering from a headache so no update as I'm going to enjoy some bed time.

Sorry, the combination of work and GMing 3 games for GameDay has kept my player posting down today. Got a lot on the plate at home tonight, so I'm not hopeful, but you never know. I'll make Kung one of my first player posts tomorrow if I don't get one out tonight.

No Worries mate. (Standard Antipodean response. :))

Sorry no time to update tonight.

D&D Lamia
Pathfinder Lamia

And again I'm afraid.

@Callidora. Well clarified. :)

The hate-filled inheritors of an ancient curse, lamias appear as lean and attractive women from the waist up, while below they possess the bodies of powerful lions. Even their humanoid features bear distinctly feline traits, their eyes slitted and feral and their teeth like predatory fangs. The lamias presented here are but the most common and least powerful members of this cursed race, with others bearing serpentine, avian, and even more perverse forms.

The lamia's I'm used to seeing have been lionwomen, but it turns out the more powerful ones are snakewomen. It's very confusing.

I've been out most of the week helping my parents and will be staying with my father all next week while my mother is in hospital.

So just letting you know that next week will most likely be very quiet.

No worries GM, hope everyone's OK.

Just to let everyone know things went well and my mother comes home tomorrow. I'll be heading home over the weekend once she's settled in.

Still a few things to take care of out in Waikanae but that will only take a day trip or two next week.

Good news GM, I hope you and your dad are OK too.

Sorry, too much to do today. No time to update so Monday will be getting back into the thick of things.

Sorry, too busy to update tonight.

Sorry, still too busy to update ATM.

In other news my computer has died on me. I'm doing this with a very old computer I dug out of storage. It doesn't have all my files I'm afraid so updates will be delayed for a day or two.

Really been a week from hell for me. :(

Sounds like you're having a miserable time GM. I hope things pick up for you.

Sorry to hear that, hope things turn around.

Computer is in the shop. The PSU died and took a few other parts with it. :(

I'm waiting to hear the financial damage.

So a few more days I'm afraid.

Good news. It's been repaired and I shall pick it up on Wednesday. So we're back in action.

No update tonight. Father is back in hospital.

Hope he's OK GM.

Monday night my father was rushed to hospital with rectal bleeding. It was touch and go for a while and I ended up staying the night just in case.

He's slowly recovering but is still in a serious condition, not helped by how irrational he's become. So I'm spending most of my day either at the hospital or helping my mother.

He should be well enough to leave hospital by the end of the weekend and move back the retirement home. Which means I should have the time to get things moving again.

Thanks for your patience.

Wow. That's very stressful. I hope that matters settle back down soon, DB.

Absolutely, take all the time you need. I'm sorry that your family has to deal with this and hope things get back to relatively normal soon. Hang in there, and don't forget to take care of yourself too.

Don't worry about us, concentrate on your family.

Yeah, we're the least important thing going on in your life right now. Come back when you're ready--or when you just need a break from it all. We'll be here in either case.

An update. My Father had a relapse over the weekend, but recovered. There was a chance of him being released today but the Doctor said no to it.

Chances are he will be released tomorrow or Wednesday hopefully.

The family want him to go to a rest home but he's being a s@~# and refusing. So I may need to go out and assist if he can't be reasoned with and he goes home.

My Father is back home. They have arranged a care worker to visit daily thankfully.

Been a long day getting things set up, so we shall start things up tomorrow.

Thanks for your patience.

We will finish this AP in a few more days. Yay we did it!

What are peoples thoughts on the next AP?

I do think a 5th player would be helpful for the party as well.

Hooray! What a run!

I’ve played a lot at this point, I could do anything.

A fifth would surely help!

First post Jun 18th. 2016. Kung still with us as well. Marnir joined 5 days later. :)

I can't believe it's nearly over, nor that it's been five years.

I've had so much fun with this game, it's had so many cool characters, and has been run fantastically throughout.

We had a discussion about the next AP previously, I'll have to go back and have a look at what we said. A fifth player would be a good addition though.

Thanks for letting us join partway through. I've had a really great time playing Niobe. I hope she was fun for the rest of the team, even though I've discovered that high-level druids have some functionality gaps if you're not wildshaping all of the time. ;)

Looks like we got to a shortlist of Hell's Rebels, War for the Crown, and Curse of the Crimson Throne. Apparently I theorycrafted some characters, but I can't for the life of me remember who they were!

Well, if the group will still have me, I have a couple ideas. Some are a bit more of a longshot than others!

I'm totally down for going on and whatever AP is next. I tend to create characters that fill whatever gap there is in a party.

I think we start by deciding which AP to play. Then we can start working on PCs and recruit a fifth player.

My ranking:
Hell's Rebels
Curse of the Crimson Throne
War for the Crown

A great wrap up for a fantastic game.

Thanks to GM_DBH for a brilliantly run game, and thanks to my fellow PCs for being such great shipmates. I've had such a great time playing Marnir for the last five years, and I'm probably more sad about the end of my time with him than I've ever been about a PC before.

However, I'm looking forward to starting a new adventure with you all. I'm happy to go with Kung's ranking for the next AP.

In honor of the close of this Hoist the Colors!

Awesome; thanks so much DBH and all the players!

This is the first AP I've completed, either in person or on PbP. Joy!

I'm good with any of those. I'd personally move Hell's rebel's to the bottom because I'm already in a long-running one, but I'm cool with any of them. I'll always be able to come up with something.

I would argue that already playing makes that an automatic veto; let's not consider Hell's Rebels.

Given Niobe's reticence over a bad experience with War for the Crown, should we do Curse of the Crimson Throne then? That was a close second for me, anyway.

Sounds like a sensible plan. I've got three character concepts for CotCT that I've been working on today, so I'm cool with that.

We'll see what Niobe thinks and then I'll start a closed recruitment. I'll put the link here for you.

I have a few options in other games for our 5th player. People I know are good roleplayers. Does anyone have someone they would like to nominate?

I'm down with anything. My problem with Crown was just that I had, as usual, absolutely terrible rolls in the social gameplay, and there was no "catch up" system by which you could do anything useful if you just flat-out failed a bunch of rolls in a row. So whatever people are interested in would be fine!

Works for me

I'd be happy with Curse or War. I'd like to hear GM_DBH's opinion too.

I have both. I'll look through them over the weekend and make a decision.

I played Curse back when it was 3.5. The Curse AP I have is the anniversary edition thankfully.