Spontaneous Kingmaker Campaign

Game Master Tiaburn

Thanks for your thoughts, all.

At this point, I'm presuming you will head towards the bandit camp, see what you find, then turn around and return to Oleg's, either before or after a fight (if there is one).

If you would like to make inventory changes before you leave Oleg's, you may do so retroactively from the next gameplay post, so long as your logic for doing so is consistent with IC choices.

For now, to assist with your party's traveling speed, I'm going to presume that you have an extra horse with you that is acting as a pack animal, to help keep your speed up as high as possible. For now, I'm mostly assuming that you are mostly around 40' or 50' / round in terms of overland speed, as the difference between the two is minimal.

Mostly, y'all should be around 50' / round for speed, except for Calum, whose weight and armor are probably a little much even for William.

Otherwise, I'll press forward. Let me know if you have further questions!

Brandt would want to pick up the following:

Tent
Saddlebags
Manacles

Actually, reading back through things, my apologies. Calum did point out an interest in heading West first, instead of South. Others indicated a desire to head straight for the bandit camp.

Calum, we haven't heard from you since then about this, and I wanted to confirm if you had objections before proceeding. I can adapt to either choice.

Isla would probably pick up a small tent for herself, since large tents only fit four and she is the most obvious choice for bunking alone. She'd also still want the saddlebag, if that wasn't already subtracted.

Also, for the Coinpurse/Capitol Tracker tab of the Ledger did you also want to add our starting gold...because I had 28.47 initial money that I never spent (and I imagine I'm not the only one who had leftover).

Otherwise I have no issues with pressing forward.

Calum has pretty much everything he needs except for maybe a tent which he would want to grab one. He has saddlebags already. As for role, I was thinking Vanguard since he's not that good at scouting but he can take down anything that sneaks up from behind.

Calum wanted to head west since taking on a bandit camp with no idea of how many bandits are in the area seems foolish to him. No use in doing heroic deeds if you die and don't have songs written about you. But he also has no problem heading south.

Geliglee had 1 gold and 9 silver to start.

I think we should go for the bandits first, but take the time to explore hexes on the way there and the way back.

Geliglee would also like to borrow the cart.

@Geliglee: I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't have any healing left from the previous day. I could theoretically cast it twice more today, but would be hesitant to do so knowing we will reach the bandit camp.

Edit: Also, I didn't think we've found any potions or scrolls. Once we get a little more money, Isla will probably suggest splitting the cost of a Wand of Cure Light Wounds.

Sorry, I thought we camped.

Hi, all! Just wanted to check in with you quick. Hope you had a good weekend.

I know making tactical decisions can take a while via PBP, but I do want to encourage everyone to pitch in to the conversation, whether that's just to agree with the tactics already proposed, or to offer something new.

Let me know if you have any questions about the lay of the land or the environment. Keep posting! :)

Sorry working two doubles this weekend. Lets see what other tricks we can come up with.

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Thanks! I put down some ideas, but Brandt's great plan usually devolves to 'get em' until he's had more experience with people who aren't Ulfen and don't quite think in that way.

I'm bringing planning into discussion, since it seems like we have stalled a little bit and this might be easier. I hope that's okay.

I like what (I think) Calum is suggesting:
Isla and/or Geliglee use Ghost Sound (and possibly Silent Image) to lure bandits away from their camp, by making them think someone is snooping around.

To expand a little...

Possible Outcomes:

• They see through the ruse and don't move -> At which point we should probably fall back and re-strategize.
  
• They send a small group to investigate ->Illusions lead the smaller group to an ambush site and we take them out. Then, we heal up and try to take out the rest.
  
• They come after us as a large group ->Illusions lead them away from the camp, while the others seize the camp, taking out any remaining bandits and seizing the watch posts. When the others return, we take them out using their own defenses.
  

Other Points:

• I think we should create tracks leading away from our camp, then try to cover up the rest of our tracks as we move. That way, if we choose not to fight the group we lure away, they could get distracted trying to track us.
  
• When the time comes to fight the big group, we should probably focus our fire on Kressle. If she goes down, it probably won't be hard to convince the others to surrender.

Thanks, Isla! Votes / objections?

Great summary, thanks!
I put an ooc in gamethread, about my character role in all of this.

I like the plan!!!

While Nalys may not be great in combat, a summoned Eagle would be very helpful to our cause here. Brandt is pretty beatstick, so I can dish it out well, and hopefully have a high enough AC not to get smashed myself.

@Nayls: It might not be a terrible idea to wait a day. If they get unlucky on their saves, Entangle could really shut down a large group like this. Even the ones who do make their save and escape the area would likely be easy pickings for Calum and Brandt.

Also, if we wait a day, Isla could probably heal the poor riding dog...

Sounds like a plan. Any objections that would keep us from proceeding with healing up the riding dog and waiting out the ambush until tomorrow?

Sorry for my delay all - hosting a big event at work tonight, so I'll be back online tomorrow.

It's okay, I'm just trying to get a day off from work atm so I can organize myself between the two jobs I'm holding. Calum wouldn't be opposed to waiting an extra day, patience is a virtue after all and he's practically a paladin.

Ok - back - and thanks for the planning! I have some time this afternoon to get the next day set up. For now, let's play out the assumption that you are waiting another day before attacking.

Sounds good, I think that is our intention.

Gah, sorry for the delay, all. We had a power outage last night, and PC was running while it happened. It appears to have overloaded the power supply, which is now refusing to turn on. I'm utilizing an old laptop/netbook that my wife no longer needs, but it's slow going. I'll get the post together here in the next little bit so that we're ready to move ahead with the plan.

@Isla - Feel free to cast any healing you would like on Geliglee's riding dog.

@Geliglee, sorry I ninja-ed before you, but I put my character motivation of B inside post and hopefully you won't mind.

Sorry, been working from 6am-11pm the past few days.

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Sorry to hear it - take your time!

Ok, here's what I'm hearing that you'll go with:

Realizing I made a typo on the map earlier - the posts are, indeed, per the AP, 20' in the air.

I think that is mostly right, but I didn't think Nayls is attacking from the east (he would just be entangling the people near the eastern post, since Entangle can be cast from 400ft away). I think what was in question is whether or not the rest of us would leave the western tower to him and attack from another direction.

Personally, I don't think there is a reason to separate if Nayls can entangle them from that far away. So my vote is that we all attack from the west.

Edit: Slight edit for clarity

Got it - map updated!

I thought we are advancing from north, but it matters not. If we can do it without splitting into groups, I am ready to do it as a team

The north-western woods are probably the best bet getting fairly close before being noticed.

Yes, no splitting up unless necessary is probably best.

Ok, proceeding from the northwest - here we go!

Friends: for your referral, please peruse the entry under "Forest Terrain" at the PRD. It will help detail some of the specifics, but one to be aware of in particular:

Vines, roots, and short bushes cover much of the ground in a forest. A space covered with light undergrowth costs 2 squares of movement to move into, and provides concealment.

Undergrowth increases the DC of Acrobatics and Stealth checks by 2 because the leaves and branches get in the way. Heavy undergrowth costs 4 squares of movement to move into and provides concealment with a 30% miss chance (instead of the usual 20%). It increases the DC of Acrobatics checks by 5.
Squares with undergrowth are often clustered together. Undergrowth and trees aren't mutually exclusive; it's common for a 5-foot square to have both a tree and undergrowth.

In the case of this map, the green shaded areas count as Undergrowth. When firing through Undergrowth with a ranged weapon, please include the concealment miss chance of 20%, to determine if your arrows or bolts are getting tangled up in the trees.

Oh, and if you see a brown circle, that's a tree trunk. For simplicity, I'm going to say that these are TYPICAL trees (If you stand on that space, you gain partial cover).

Thanks for the refresher!!!

@ GM

Nice work keeping this combat moving pretty snappily. I appreciate the pile of work you are doing for this, its pretty darn awesome.

:)

This week, I give all credit to the south' s inability to deal with ice and snow. I've only had to work three days in the past two weeks. Good times!

Should we group together, then all rush in to attack at the moment we drop the entangle?

Fine by me.

Although, I will probably hang back a little bit.

I think it will work better since we seem to be slightly stronger at range if we attempt to draw them to us??? I can be persuaded, Brandt is good in either direction.

Honestly, I don't think we need to over think things too much at this point. I think we have already strategized our way into a very favorable fight.

I'm of the mindset that everyone knows how their character should be played, so just focus on taking her down as fast as possible. For me, that means staying back and shooting, but that doesn't mean anyone else has to. If your best strategy is walking up and smacking her, I'd say do it.

Nayls...which gods of dice rolling are you worshipping? Because I am thinking of converting...

None :) The Paizo Diceroller is not an avatar of known gods, but manifestation of Great Story Spirit. I noticed that he likes jokes almost as bad as me: each time I post nonsense intent, he supports me. Like inproficient druid with longbow, shooting through leaves just to save his animal companion.

I don't think we ever declared what we were taking and what we were selling...

Isla would probably only re-stock the arrows she used during the fight (7 arrows).

Mites are creatures of fey nature. Nalys has some Knowledge (nature) and I'm wondering, how much should mites be trusted? Like comparing to kobolds... who is a better ally? One, who is not likely to strike in back?

Knowledge (nature): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

Hi all - I have to go out of town for work today through Sunday unexpectedly. I will try to post if possible. Feel free to RP it up.

I am organizing my first gameday this weekend. 8 sessions planned, GMs drop, players reregister. If I still be sane, I'll join you as soon as I can on Sunday or Monday.

Sorry been a busy weekend here.

Isla - I'd grab 8 arrows to reclaim what I shot during the encounters.

I'll take 5 arrows to recover those Nalys spent during the fight. My game day is over, now I will be more active

I vote we all work to train up some teams of laborers. They seem to be cheap, effective and are needed to develop into most other types of workers. Plus it fits really well into the roleplay of taking the prisoners. I would like to eventually train them into guards so we can send Captain Tightpants back to where he belongs.

Links from before: Any chance we could get these on the Gameplay Tab?

Here's a listing of the rooms you can build with Downtime Capital.

Here's a listing of the Teams you can recruit with Downtime Capital.

Downtime Rules.