The Ironfang Invasion: Fangs of War

Game Master vayelan

@Vayelan, sounds like we're ready to take off. OOC, do we have a plan for how Aaron is getting introduced to the party?

I think the plan was to meet you guys early on in the valley, like soon after you land.

Sorry for the delay everyone. This was a particularly hectic week for me and my family.

I will get our proverbial ball rolling again straight away.

To clarify, the reason i am not buffing everyone with heroism or other spells now is that i don't have a clear idea of the scope of the valley and travel speed yet. Were it to take us hours to find anything worthwhile, all his 10 minute/level buffs like heroism would have expired. If Aaron only buffs himself initially he would lose only two spellslots were that to happen.

The AP book doesn't provide an encounter map for the encampment, so I will try to put one together tomorrow morning after I get home from work.

I just wanted to let you know thanks much for your efforts, we appreciate it.

Okay. Sorry for the delay. A strong bout of stomach illness jumped from the daycare into our household, so the past week has been very messy, both figuratively and literally.

Anyhow, I've updated the encounter map. The gray clouds represent the fog that covers the valley, with the non-magical equivalent of a Fog Cloud spell. You can hear the ogres somewhere within the fog, busying themselves among this part of the abandoned encampment.

You can adjust your starting positions on the map and roll initiative.

Glad you're feeling better Vayelan! Hope the missus and the little ones didn't have too hard a time

Im glad your feeling well too. Im going to post initiative and starting position tomorrow as I caught this late tonight.

Everyone doing okay? We've been on a slow patch lately :/

Daria is fine. Just waiting to see what is in the box...

I've been fighting a cold on and off for the past few weeks but Im still around.

Hey everyone,

I unfortunately have some bad news. As some of you know, I was recently promoted a few times at work in relatively quick succession. As such, my writing time has suffered greatly. I held off on this the longest time to see if it would improve, thinking it might just be me having to get used to things in the new positions, but it hasn't and is expected to get busier rather than cool down. As such, I am more or less forced to drop from at least a number of campaigns I was in. I ultimately decided to withdraw from this one as the newest one as well. I'm very sorry for this, as I know the group of writers is excellent. However, I can't pay the bills with PBP, sadly. I wish you all the best of luck and fun.

Kind regards,
Trevor/Aaron

Sorry to hear that Aaron.

@Vayelan, I’m happy to reconfigure my PC to take over trapfinding/disabling if you’d like. It’s only minor changes. Please let me know!

Unfortunately, I think I may have to retire from running this game, as well.

As you have undoubtedly noticed, my posting rate has suffered greatly due to real life troubles.

Since we have gotten so far in the AP, rather than ending the game entirely, should we search for a new GM to take the reins?

Hey Vayelan,

I'm sorry that real life has been giving you a hard time, I wish the best for you and yours. The world's really messy and messed up right now.

I would hate to see the game die after all this time, but I'll defer to the rest of the group's preferences.

Hi, I’ve been a bit busy, but I agree with Thorek for my part. I’d be happy to keep playing. I certainly have tried enough times - so many I almost think this module is cursed for me!

If we can find another GM it would be great.

It would, undoubtedly, be easier to recruit new party members than a new GM.

As long as you don't mind a slight delay in getting my posts up, I could try to continue running the game.

That’s fine with me. If you have no objections, I’ll make some changes to my PC to be able to do the trapfinding role alone.

So far you’ve been a good GM, and I was having fun, so I’d hate to lose you.

I’d be happy to keep playing too. Just let me know if I need to adjust anything as we move forward.

I would very much like this campaign not to wither on the vine--if you think you have the bandwidth to keep going, Vayelan, I'm happy to keep going with you at the helm. But I don't want you to feel like you have to keep going for our sakes if life's getting busy.

Okay. I think I can keep going.

That being said, should we recruit a new player or two to replace Aaron?

I’m happy to make minor adjustments in order to facilitate all the trapfinding/scouting but if you want to look for an arcane support it might be good. Iirc troops are really only vulnerable to aoes (I don’t know how much they'll come up again, though). I have a few myself but considering they’re sort of tertiary to my “build” there isn’t much.

Sorry to go back on my word, but I don't think I can continue, after all.

There have been some more significant changes in my life, and I'll actually be retiring from running games here on the forums.

I can leave the campaign active if you guys would like to search for a new GM.

Thank you all for playing.

Sorry to go back on my word, but I don't think I can continue, after all.

There have been some more significant changes in my life, and I'll actually be retiring from running games here on the forums.

I can leave the campaign active if you guys would like to search for a new GM.

Thank you all for playing.

Sorry to hear that, but life happens to us all. Thanks for the years of fun gaming!

Thank you for running games for us for all this time! Wishing you the best, Vayelan.

@party, I realize our momentum on this campaign has been quite low for a while now, but do we want to try to recruit a new GM and see if we can renew it?

I'm happy to make a post asking about a new GM, if anyone else is still interested. Could I get some confirmation either way, friends?

I would be good with a reinvigorated campaign or a graceful end, though I prefer to keep going if possible given the new people who have joined us and not gotten to do much yet. How much of the AP is left?

I think a little less than half. I'll be happy to keep playing if we can find another GM, and as I said, I can reconfigure my PC to fully serve the scout role easily so we don't have to find anyone else.

Longshadow is Book 3 (I know the general outline since I'd intended to run it for an IRL table) so we're right at the start of Book 4.

I'll put a feeler out in the Recruitment channel and see what we see

https://paizo.com/threads/rzs63muv?Replacement-GM-Save-Our-PBP#1

We have an offer! I don't remember if I've ever gamed with Spazmodeus before, but feel free to check out the thread. :)

I checked it out, no objections. Thanks for working on this.

I'm going to assume pre-emptively that I'll rebuild around solo-scouting and trapfinding.

I'd be happy with Spazmodeus! I could also adjust Daria if needed for the continuing campaign--I know many DM's have different adjudications on wild shape and may or may not want Herbalism to be in play.

Hi guys....hello again BG!

I'm not going to upset the balance you guys have been running with, it seems to have worked so far.

Feel free to re-gig , re-build as needed.

Looks like your Herbalism is just crafting re-skinned. I don't see anything wrong with it...yet :)

I'll be reading over the gameplay and discussion over the next week. Maybe looking to startup again by the end of next week, if all goes well.

Al

I'll also submit the request to take over the campaign and at somepoint copy all of the resources from the campaign tab to my own google drive!

Has anyone heard from Lily recently? last post from her was early December