The Ricochet Game - Closed (Inactive)

Game Master Elmdorprime

Creating the Discussion Thread.

Would it be a stupid question to ask if the Stag Lord rumors are true? I wasn't clear on how much of the guide was stuff we (in-character) actually knew. Sorry if I should've cleared that up sooner.

In general, I assume the information offered in the guide is common knowledge.

Thanks - that clears things up for me, and hopefully my comments as Dom so far haven't been too out of it.

Oh, and I've edited my character page with a link to Rory's full character sheet.

Anyone know if there is a way to subscribe to threads, so we can get update notifications? Or do we just have to check the site often?

I check the site, I'm unaware of an alert function.

That's a bummer. We should send them feedback - "Alerts please!"

Sounds like it would behoove me to prepare spells this evening, which leads me to two questions...but the first might preclude the second...

1 - Would it be better for us to work out good selections in-character?

Although we would be happy to help you with selections out of character as the cleric has quite a list, the general assumption is that in character you would understand your abilities much more than we would.

Also, remember you do not have to select the Cure Light Wounds. You can always "abort" to that if you need to heal. Prot Evil might be good. Bane, Shield of Faith, Obscuring Mist can all be good at 1st Level.

Bless is a good one, too.

Would it make sense to take both Bless and Bane?

Does Obscuring Mist make your lives harder?

Obscuring Mist is a good slowing-down tactic. For example if we're on one side of the fence and the enemy is on the other, Obscuring Mist makes it hard for them to charge through the gates to get to us. Think of it as battlefield control. Considering there's one gate into the trading post, placing a mist at the entryway slows down people trying to get in and makes it easier on us to counter those who finally get through.

I'd take Bane or Bless, one or the other. Which you take depends on whether you're more interested in making things harder for an enemy (Bane) or easier for an ally (Bless).

Also remember your 0-level spells you pick and can use at will during the day. The effects are minor, but repeatable.

I'm taking Shield (self-defence), Grease (battlefield control by making treacherous terrain), and Sleep (offensive spell, takes enemies out of combat) for my level 1 spells.

For non-spontanious spell casters, doesn't a 0 level spell take up .5 slots?

Clerics and Wizards both get a number of 0-level spells, called orisons and cantrips. These are cast like other spells but are not expended. They are used in the number of 0-level spells we're allowed per day.

I am happy to disguise myself as Oleg and kick things off in the Morning.

Ok - what do you think about these selections?

Lvl 0: Guidance, Virtue, and Create Water
Lvl 1: Bless and Obscuring mist, with Protection From Chaos as domain selection. (I'm assuming bandits would be Chaotic...)

I'll only take Create Water in this instance if there's creative things it can be used for. I didn't know if dumping water on one of the bandits could be useful as a distraction, or if we could follow their drips or something...

Sound good to me

I am happy to disguise myself as Oleg and kick things off in the Morning.

Just saw the updates in this tab from Tuesday on. I'm ready for the next part too actually, mainly just interested in my inside vs. outside question for RP purposes at this point. If the party wants to wave off any battle decisions till the morning, that's fine too.

I'll defer to you guys on battle planning -- I'm new to these combat rules. I think I'll just need to stick close enough to heal.

What's the best-practice on that, by the way? With channel energy I can heal from a distance, but with Calming Touch I'd have to be at close range to the target. Would you come to me, or would I come to you? (I'd probably want to exhaust both of those options before taking a spell slot, right?)

It depends on the build but in general you want to channel out of combat - without the Selective Channeling feat you heal enemies in your combat radius as well.

On undead that's groovy - against, presumably, non-undead bandits not so groovy.

Selective Channeling?! I didn't see that one, and it sounds more useful than Combat Casting for me...but I'm a noob. Can/should I switch?

Sorry - some a combination of some real-life stuff and the purchase of Dark Souls 3 has made me delinquent.

I'll chime in on the gameplay thread, but wanted to ask something here: Is Guidance a good enough benefit that I should apply it to Berrik, for instance, before he goes out and chats with the neighbors? Otherwise I would think I'd want to chill somewhere a safe distance away. (And I'll make the spell list from a few posts ago official for the encounter.

Also, I swapped out the feat I had for Selective Channeling, if that's ok...

Chill and heal as needed

Then not only will I chill, but I shall max and relax.

No combat yet, so it don't matter to me - Combat Casting is really good though.

I'm an impressionable noob, so I'll go with what you/the team thinks is a better choice. Maybe with Calming Touch and Spontaneous Casting I'm enough of a healbot already...

Either way, sorry for the feat confusion.

No worries, feeling your way around is definitely a good idea.

Aaaaand I'm back.

What's the most helpful way for us to keep track of spells and abilities? Should I, for example, always tack on a remaining spells list and remaining duration of buffs?

To over use the meme: Scary wizard is scary.

I mostly rely on honesty and that works pretty well.

But if you cross me you will be punished. Doom. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Basically I'm assisting Big Head and giving a heavy dose of "Don't try me, I'm half-crazy by birth."

Linda and I have played through book 2 of Kingmaker, as such we do not need to be the ones picking which hexes we go to.

I do have the whole Stolen lands in a photoshop format. I can run the Greenbelt map, and put in a "Fog of War" overlay and we can explore. I can upload map updates as we go.

That would be great! I've got the map of the Greenbelt in the Campaign Info above (I put it in the full info instead of the short description, apologies.)

Don't know if anyone's interested but I'm a player down in another game I'm GM'ing of Mummy's Mask - they just hit Book 3 and we lost one of our players into the ether I'm afraid.

It's currently a barbarian/ranger, a cleric and an occultist (replacing a rogue who inexplicably put on a cursed item and became DM property) wandering around Tephu trying to find out more information to help their friend the rogue.

Where are we now?

Oleg's Trading Post

I'll do the Map tonight!

Full Map

Greenbelt

Ack! I just meant the Sotto Voce stuff during the battle! Sorry for unintentionally stepping on your toes, Prof

Ack! I just meant the Sotto Voce stuff during the battle! Sorry for unintentionally stepping on your toes, Prof

Naw, I figured it was one of the scary things I did and not an actual execution. The Prof may be a harsh judge and jury, but he's not entirely bloodthirsty. Just halfway.

FYI (and apology) - my posting frequency will be down this week, and relegated to the evenings. Sorry for any delay.

I am going to be at Summer camp with my son for a week, starting tomorrow, BTW but Linda can run Berrik for me.

Sorry for my delinquency of late - I recently got a new job at which I am unable to reach this page to post. I'll try to be better about posting regularly at night.

Gotcha! Congrats on the new job by the way. You can also try the Wayfinder app for smartphones!

I need to find that app - that'll help quite a bit.

As for the current spot in the game - do I need to make a knowledge roll? I think I'm missing something. Is there some planar thing going on?

Is there a worthy app for iOS? Looks like the Wayfinder app is android only...