The Crucible of Freya (Inactive)

Game Master Grimmy

Hey Grimmy - left a message on the recruitment thread. I've not got access to the Advanced Race Compendium which looks to have a tonne of extras on monstrous Midgard races. Was gauging to see if anyone had a copy and if it warranted picking up the pdf?

If so I'm interested in having another pass at the concept :)

I saw the message but that is one I do not have so I'll leave it to others to hopefully respond. I'll allow the stuff though if you get hold of it.

These are the times your poor hit point rolls can catch up to you :-)

I am still stuck on mobile only may not be able to make a proper gameplay post til late tomorow night

We'll keep till then. Though I have to admit, the suspense is killing me :P

Yeah I'm on a bus from New York to boston now, I don't want to try the gameplay post from mobile. On pause for now.

Ah you're kiling us Grimmy !!! :)

Just realized your other recruitment was a Midgard game! Gonna put a submission together...

Ah you're kiling us Grimmy !!! :)

Yeah, literally :P

I hope you enjoyed your trip to Brooklyn. My son goes to school there, So I make frequent trip into the city.

Oh wow. I love Brooklyn. I would move there if I could.

ok I home and... My laptops not here lol. Have to do this from mobile after all.

Haha, just where is it then? I hope you haven't lost it?

No I left it at a friends before going to NY. The same friend picked me up at bus station in Boston just now and took me home I could have had her bring it if I remembered it was there. Whoops.

If people end up bleeding out right now remember your hero points. I think it's 1 hero point to stabilize. And 2 can cheat death even at negative con.

Sam it looks like knotty hasn't saved against the first channel and you may have thrown the same knife twice?

Laptop recovered.

Oh sorry Sam, I read your equipment wrong I guess. Thought it said 1 dagger. Toss Knotty's saves for me and track his HP when you get a chance.

Making up his new alias as we speak.

Do not think we would keep Knotty in the area of effect after realizing there was a bottleneck. But, Save if needed, your call. Will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15 23 hp--15hp if in second channel range

Makes sense, 23 hp it is. You pilot his position from now though. Very nice Knotty avatar you found!

That fight was down to the wire guys 0_0

Was it ever! High level clerics are really good at winning through attrition.

+1 on the avatar for Knotty!

+2 I concur! Captures his botanical nature whot-whot!

XP Lesser Priest and Minions
Lesser Priest of Orcus 1200
Acolyte of Orcus 800
Four Orcs 800
Undead threat

2800=CR7

400 XP each

Thx for heal

I can't remember if I'm doing XP math right. I'm just adding up the values for a grand total and then dividing by players. This seems to cheat the players though, compared to using the chart that tells you "4 creatures = CR+4"

you do the xp the same as I do. so its alright with me.

I don't use CR much except to gauge the challenge to the party.

I had a PFS game night last night and didn't get home till near midnight.

was almost a TPK due to our really bad dice rolls. I survived (barely) and ended the threat with a final scorching ray from a scroll.

Just letting the group RP a bit, and then we can have Leo and Jerrid (and whoever else has knowledge skills) roll with bonuses from the library to decode the crypt thing's message and the words overheard by the priest.

Good to have a breather.

I'm away for a gaming weekend tomorrow followed by watching the Superbowl thru the night despite what happened to my beloved Packers.

Should re-surface some time on Monday.

Will try to post as and when, but feel free to make some knowledge rolls if you need to.

Cheers

Also geared up for the Superbowl FW.

Will likely post o'er the weekend though although I have my traditional post Superbowl Monday off so likely will be slow posting then.

I would say take 20 is not always a good idea for perception because you could set off traps.

This is true. Hopefully it hasn't caused any issues here but we'll keep it in mind for the future.

I've never been much of a football fan but I've no problems with a slower Sunday/Monday. I've got to work on my submission for DMG's other game anyway :P

I wish you well Damien. Did take a look at the recruitment, especially with how slow our other game is...but I'm no great aficionado on that world and its idiosyncrasies.

Good Luck Folks

P.S. Black Dow please say you aren't supporting the Pats? The Man U of the NFL.

I am in new england and our family is even lackluster about them now.

Good to hear.

Tried to boycott altogether but that lasted about a week. Too much of an institution here. Enthusiasm is lukewarm at best though.

P.S. Black Dow please say you aren't supporting the Pats? The Man U of the NFL.

Heheh. I'm not a Pats fan per say - but have good friends from Boston who are... also have nothing but admiration for the GOAT HC in Belichick, and the system New England run.

The fact they can continually plug in under achieving players/journeymen and make them play at an elite level is unparalleled in modern sports (in my humble opinion). I think they are more like the All-Blacks than Man U to be honest - as they also push the boundaries of the rules (and overstep them) - but I'm not naive enough to paint them as the villains of the piece - they just have a closer microscope on them... All teams push the legality - and the ones that don't (or haven't perfected the craft) remain average at best.

Just want an awesome game, but aye I'll be leaning toward the Pats... :)

It's not deflate gate that has my clan upset, it's the trump association!

I tried to get the library post done but I need to be at home with my notes to get it right and spoilered with knowledge dc's.

I'm going to use the football game as a chance to take a pause here and get organized because I'm also prepping my fey game and running the recruitment.

I would not ignore you though Nicos haha.

Be back to normal monday.

BTW, my dice rolls will always betray anything my character probably should know. I don't think I made any knowledge checks this entire adventure

Janna at least you carry it off with good RP :) FWIW there will be knowledge checks in the future that aren't monster ID's so you can use your take ten on those until your bad dice luck runs out :)

Hey DMG, we're on the fast XP track, right? So we'll have enough to level to 5th once we rest here, yeah?

Given our depleted health and once all our findings are on the table, it's very likely we'll have to dig in somewhere and wait till tomorrow anyway, at least unless those earthquakes force our hand. Just thinking people should probably start to think about their level up now, so we're ready when the time comes :)

Actually it's the medium track! Check out Janna's XP tracker she has all the level breaks written down.

Ah, okay. My quick math must have been wrong somewhere. I thought I remembered us switching to a faster track a long time ago but I think that was probably from slow to medium. My bad.

That layout is great Janna, thanks for staying so on top of it!

Looks like out tracker definitely needs an update though, I think it stops just before our current incursion. When we camped outside the walls.

Aye think its out - I thought I had Vhillish up to date with 11285/15000XP... questioning my maths now :S

Caryatid Columns Encounter - 800
Vortigern - 200
Wizard's Study - 285
Lesser Priest & Minions - 400

That will bring it up to date.

Begging your pardon but I'm not certain that's correct.

Unless I'm mistaken, the orcs currently listed last on the xp track are the ones we encountered on our first visit to the donjon, on page 75, just following the spiders. I initially made the same assumption that they were the ones after crawling down the well, but looking back I don't think so.

We seem to be missing the cultists, undead and the Demon Nazalgub on the basement level of the donjon, as well as the gelatinous cube in the pit. There were also the ghasts attacking Lannet, and Tavik the cultist. Then the enemies we faced on our return to the tower when we found "Berelli" and the orcs after emerging back in the donjon basement.

I'm probably missing a few things in there too but there is definitely a bunch of stuff not currently accounted for.

I imagine we'll still have a ways to go before hitting 5th so it can wait but we should catch up at some point.

Ohhhhh ok. I saw orcs and thought it was those last batch after popping up the well.

What a mess!

Such are the bookkeeping burdens of such a successful and long running adventure :P

Hey guys, long work day, just enough time to say I am here but need to get some sleep. will post tomorrow.

I seem to have just stopped giving out XP completely since the last level up. Lol.

--Level 4--
Parlay - 265
Plan of Attack - 265
Spiders - 265
Orcs - 265

Nazalgub - 400 XP
3 Acolytes - 300 XP
Skeleys - 200
Lots of Orcs - 400 XP
3 ghasts - 265
Tavik - 135
Ogre - 135
RP with Herl, Firean, Cullen - 200
Caryatid Columns Puzzle Encounter - 800
Vortigern - 200
Wizard's Study - 285
Lesser Priest & Minions - 400

That should do it. Gave full xp for the sleeping ogre and tavik who was actually killed by the ogre so it should be about fair. If I missed anything important let me know.

I count 13780 / 15k for next lvl

Huzzah! So close we can taste it sah!