The Darkness Below Maure Castle.... (Inactive)

Game Master Lord Thasmudyan

I have never heard of rolling under one's stat.

In 3.5 anyway, an ability check was just like a skill check that has no ranks, 1d20 + ability modifier.

I agree, only 2e did you have to get under, and 3+ editions you have to just roll and pass the DMs check

I have never heard of rolling under one's stat.

In 3.5 anyway, an ability check was just like a skill check that has no ranks, 1d20 + ability modifier.

no one said anything about rolling under a stat it was a d20 + ability mod neither of them made the check so its a moot point at this point.

Also by the way Nexumis the one who was supposed to play but never post is going to drop in this round or next as soon as I hear from him

ok

Ha ha! You guys are awesome! Gelik & Malcom and Chirinide & Drake to the rescue!

Get 'em you guys!!! :)

Gelik is the bane of clustered groups of corporeal undead :) Although I'm afraid he can perish if 3-4 of them give him their mean look next round :(

Thankfully for you they are too far away and have lots of difficult terrain between you and them

Lord Thasmudyan, I don't know too much about google docs' spreadsheet kerjigger, but is it possible to open the editing of the fields so we can move our character letters about? Might help visualizing the descriptions of actions.

Love the doc BTW...as close to a flip map as we can get on a PbP.

not that I am aware of, I will check when I get home, on a side note me and dougfungus (malcom's player) are working on a alternative way to see the maps as google docs is a limited in its ability. hopefully we will be using that soon, I did up some tokens for each character but doug is really good from his own game with the maptools so it may work much better. doug could tell you how easily it will be editable but it should help with visualizing what I am describing even more so.

Cool! And Thanks!!

Google doca can be set to allow others to edit( i think you add them to a list) some people were recruiting to play just on google docs

Also doesn't maptools require being on at the same and linking up?

Third I havent found out how to do fog of war on maptools (in fact I am mostly sure it hasn't been added yet, only seen that feature on a rather expensive program) but with excel its easy,

Though I would suggest having a color for walls and a different color for what we havent seen.

Google doca can be set to allow others to edit( i think you add them to a list) some people were recruiting to play just on google docs

Also doesn't maptools require being on at the same and linking up?

Third I havent found out how to do fog of war on maptools (in fact I am mostly sure it hasn't been added yet, only seen that feature on a rather expensive program) but with excel its easy,

Though I would suggest having a color for walls and a different color for what we havent seen.

From what doug was saying with the maptools I would have to upload to a cloud like thing such as skydrive and then just have to give you access to it via your email address. Which I can already do with google docs if I wanted to be more secure so that only we could view it I will see if I can also give editing capability when i get home in a little bit. regardless of which route we go I need everyones email address so I can make give access to the maps more easily, you can just pm me, once I have seen what doug did I can always upload to the skydrive I was going to use and we can vote on which one the party wants to go with

PM'ed it.

If they were entangled when on the last round and they haven't moved how come I am not able to shoot them from the same spot that I was before when I shot them?

because the ones you shot the first round were the front two who were in the t-intersection. they were killed by malcom, you and gelik. the next line of them didn't move because they are still either entangled or would need to move through an entangle square

Oh I did not know that they died my fault. I am sorry about that I will post attack and what not shortly

Thas, am I up this round, or next round?

DougFungus could tell you how easily it will be editable but it should help with visualizing what I am describing even more so.

The devil is in the details, which we can have lots of if we switched to Maptools Maps. As for editing, that would be up to Lord Thasmudyan. Maptools has quite the learning curve but it can do some pretty amazing things. It all depends on who is using it.

The reason I recommended the change in the first place is because I cant see the spreadsheet on my mobile phone which is where I do the majority of my posting from. Changing the map to an image would correct that problem.

Also doesn't maptools require being on at the same and linking up?

Only if you want to play live online games. It also comes with a handy feature that lets you export screenshots which are convenient for PBP games and so on.

Third I havent found out how to do fog of war on maptools (in fact I am mostly sure it hasn't been added yet, only seen that feature on a rather expensive program)

Mpatools does fog of war quite well. As I mentioned above, it has that learning curve. I guarantee it exists though.

From what DougFungus was saying with the maptools I would have to upload to a cloud like thing such as skydrive and then just have to give you access to it via your email address.

The method that I use in my PBP is extreme overkill in terms of complexity. The reason I do what I do is because I like to challenge my players with making independent decisions and to eliminate Metagaming based on line of sight. For something like this I'd probably recommend uploading to Photobucket or something similar and just linking the maps to the Play Thread. That would be a lot easier.

In any case I'll have the map complete tonight. What happens with it after that is not up to me.

I will say that I play in one of Doug's games on this board and what he does with maps is nothing short of amazing. I can attest that what he says can be done, can in fact be done.

Thanks Aelaeron.

This map, if used is very bare bones though. Don't expect anything too fancy.

Fancy can be added at any time though.

sorry for the quiet thanks doug for your input I have looked at what you sent me, been in homework hell for the past couple of hours serves me right going back to school to finish my BSIT...freaking windows servers class.

Yes you are Aelearon. to everyone else I will post the results for this round in the morning like I said been doing homework tonight and it is kicking my evil dm butt :(

Cup of coffee is a + 2 to homework if I remember...
:)

lol only if u dont work at 8 in the morning which i do. 5 hours of sleep here i come......

Ugh I do not miss the days of school AND work

funny, school is what I look forward too after work. It gets me away from home, work, and I learn cool stuff(I could do without the essays though).

Hey DM Thasmudyn did you get my message

Welcome Nexumis! Perfect timing...and a great RP chance here :) Do our characters know you yet?

Hey DM Thasmudyn did you get my message

the last one I have from you had your email address on it, I added it to the google docs list as available for edit and viewing, did it not email you a link?

I'll have my turn posted tonight. The amount of typing required to make a full attack + saves is not possible from my phone.

you did but I can't seem to view it

you did but I can't seem to view it

okay when I get to the house after work which won't be till around 430 cst i will check the map and make sure it has your email and is viewable. How are trying to view it? computer or phone?

computer

hmm...well like I said I will look when I get home don't have access to it at this exact moment

ANNOUNCEMENT!

I'm not going to be available to make posts July 4 - July 8 because I'm going to be away at A Music Festival. I'll have my phone with me to check on things but there is a strong chance I'll be having too much fun to post anything substantial. I hope this doesn't inconvenience anybody too much.

Awesome that sounds like a lot of fun DougFungus

No worries doug have fun we can just Eric the Red u is all :)

All I will post the results of the combat round in the morning have school work that I need to finish tonight

re added you Zaldane let me know if it works now

DougFungus...is that in Canada? Awesome...I miss going up there (I used to live in Ohio)

Do I have to have a password or something to use it? Cause its not letting me view it just days password and email required

Login with gmail account. I originally sent him a hotmail one, but then I re-sent him my gmail account so it could be all in one place.

Didn't see the battle update...just making sure I didn't miss something.

nope sorry been busy at work....about to post in the next 20 minutes working on typing out the results of the round

Cool thanks!

posted just now

Woot

can you give us a summary of how many enemies are left?

I am having trouble seeing the map for the game again. please add

krumthi@gmail.com to your list of people so that I can see it thank you

I only have 1 email account, and it isn't Gmail, so I'll have to get a Gmail account?

I will add you again drake and zaldane I can send you an invite to gmail if you want?

Oh and there are 2 of the 6 bodaks left one is pretty beat up the other not as much