The Past Returns (Inactive)

Game Master sunshadow21

Discussion thread for The Past Returns, a Rise of the Runelords game.

Signing in, do you have any issues with Pavro's crunch or backstory VoW? I've just lowered Aressa's hp from 11 to 7 as I believe she should recieve half+1 for her first HD instead of max.

Pavro, here is the link to the other discussion thread. This will be for the second game so as not to confuse anyone still in the recruitment thread.

Checking in.

Voice, do you mind opening up the gameplay thread so we can put placeholder posts up. It's a lot easier for me to track games when they're in my campaigns page.

I'll try to get to it later tonight.

Thanks!

I sent you a PM about something else as well.

Just popping in.

Hello adventurers! Will be fun to see how 2 people both RP their Angelkin differently
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Hail and well met.

Hi!!!

Hello adventurers! Will be fun to see how 2 people both RP their Angelkin differently

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Indeed. Should also be interesting to see how a more level-headed monk handles an impulsive barbarian. :D

Hey guys, very excited to be a part of this, again appreciate the opportunity since I came in so late into the recruitment.

Greetings,

what's next on the agenda then?

I'll give you a few days to finalize characters, and decide what, if any, connections exist between them. Probably looking to start play Thursday.

If it's okay with you Voice, I'd suggest we just count the RP in the recruitment thread as cannon.

That gets most of the in-character intro stuff out of the way.

I'm good with that. Though we still need to incorporate Morstalla and Wyran somehow.

That's cool with me if that's how you want to play it. I had been planning on simply starting with the festival with this group, and adding in Morstralla and Wyran should be simple enough.

Sounds good!

Same here. So was the recruitment thread the day before?

Somewhere in the days leading up to the festival. I'm not really going to try to pinpoint precisely when everyone showed up or when that particular conversation occurred. Not really important to the game as a whole.

Mag was raised by the Ulfen right? I didn't think she'd have been so easily embarrassed.

It was a fun moment regardless.

Yup, but her family isn't the typical Ulfen clan.

And thanks, I figured being fairly sheltered stuff like that would embarrass her.

Now, if you did the same thing to a Rogue I'm playing in a WotW campaign, then that would have been hilarious. Poor Gwyn, so easily flustered.

I'd love to get in there and RP with the group but I need an in, lol T_T

You're not really in a place I could see the group wandering in. =/

Wyran, you would have heard about Magnhlidr's stories from the north that she told during the morning, perhaps even listened to a few of them. Given those, and her appearance making her hard to miss in a crowd, you could easily approach her in seeking out more information about her travels and homeland, as there might be something there to direct your own quest.

Or just listen for the inevitable laughter and yelling as Copperscale says something that sends Magnhildr chasing after him.

Krojun is also rather loud (hence the name).

Yea, I'm playing(or trying to) play him like he came from a society like from The Giver. I imagine Hermea to be this Utopian society where your life mate is picked based on genetics and statistics as opposed choosing your own. So Rohan's never really had a chance to think about that sort of thing. It's all still new to him. The only reason he has no problems drinking is due to all those months as a sailor. So I think we're in for some hilarious times. I'm sure Copper thinks so.

Yep, it'll be a blast.

Oh boy, this is going to be fun. Two of the more tanky characters are the two biggest prudes so far. Heh, someone should have been a Calistrian and played up the more lustful side of the faith. :D

There's a reason that Pavro is in the other group. I don't mind that kind of thing to a point, but Pavro in this group would mean that's all that would occur, and that would get a little tiresome.

Hmm, Point taken. Though she would eventually get tired of it.

Yeah, his posts aren't bothering me right now as it fits the scene, but I do like that he will eventually have to focus on the actual adventure at some point in that group. In this group, that would be much harder.

Voice, what hours are you typically on and posting?

Yea, I suppose we should get to the actual mod at some point. Though I really like the interpersonal stuff. And Rohan isn't a prude, he's just really naive and young. He needs to be brought out of his shell. Which with this group, should happen pretty fluidly.

During the week, most actual updates will come between 7 and 10 pm central standard time, though I'm around and may respond to simple questions and such at other times of the day.

Just realized we have no full arcane casting! Excited to see how a game will pan out without one. I will do my best to cover a few more knowledges as well, but it won't be much until later.

Krojun, where did you pick up d12 HD and Rage as a bard? The 19 HP at 1st level is a little startling haha

Oops, rage shouldn't be there. That's a leftover from when Krojun was level 2.

I'd intended to start barbarian 1 before going into bard but I wanted to start bard with this group to help support you guys. Voice let me take the HD I was going to get for barbarian this level and I'll get my bard HD next level.

But with the exception of HP I'm a level 1 bard for all other purposes.

Just because we're in combat doesn't mean we can't chatter.

Note: I will be at a Software Dev conference from sunday night to wednesday night out of town, so posting will be infrequent and during nights only. Feel free to NPC me as much as needed during that time.

Oh of course not, Magnhildr is just a little preoccupied with how she's going to spin the pathetic swing she just put out.

These aren't necessarily your stock goblins, and many of them are too busy to be using their shields anyway, so as long as you didn't hit one already actively fighting, a 15 is sufficient to kill one of these. They didn't exactly choose the best and the brightest for this particular task.

Ah, sorry, I guess it's a good thing I rolled damage anyway :D

Wyran is out of town on business and mentioned that he should be NPCed until Wednesday.

Sorry, had a busy day yesterday, and blanked on that. I'll have a post up first thing when I get home from work today.

Myyy bad, I totally forgot to post some attack/damage rolls like I promised. Snuck out of the conference early (IT s!$$ way over my head as a student haha) so have some posting time :)

Shame on you!

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I forgive you.

Guys at the top of the round, there's no reason you can't post your actions when the guys at the bottom of the round are up (as long as you label your rounds properly). That way, when Voice updates he can process your actions right away, do the monster's actions, and go back to waiting for the guys at the bottom of the round.

Doing things the way we are now means that each combat round is 2-2.5 IRL days. If the guys at the top post when the guys at the bottom are acting, we can get through a round a day easily.

Heh, sorry. But on the bright side I think combat is over.