The Way of the Wicked (Inactive)

Game Master HighonHolyWater

I'll probably try to squeeze some stuff in for the morning and evening. We'll see how scheduling goes.

And I'm back. Ready to go.

DMHW, I think we're waiting for you to update with the Cardinal's answer to Yzera's question.

DM's absence is 12 days and running

Yeah, I've noticed. I keep checking everyday, but...

I was enjoying this. I really don't want it to be done.

It's because I wouldn't sign the contract.
My bad.

I shot the sheriff;
But I didn't shoot the Deee-M.

If you'd only sign the damned contract, Azrin. But no, you had to be Mr. Snake Charming Contrarian. Well, Mr. Thorn might've been a snake, but he wasn't the kind you'd be able to charm.
Should've just signed. Nerd.

HHHmmmm.

So...I'm guessing that if the DM has been silent for 17 days, we're dead, huh?

Never a good sign.

Yeah, our other game with the same DM has been quiet for just as long.

Shame. It was a good group.

-Posted with Wayfinder

Well, well. Many apologies again for ditching this campaign and everything else. But that is in the past. Let's get this going again and have some more fun.

Everyone level to 2. Level 3 won't be too much further on either.

Any questions or problems?

Remember the changes/house rules are in the campaign tab. I am trying to come up with a way to make magic crafting easier so there is no need to worry about being less powerful because you sacrificed some feats just to craft the perfect piece of gear but I don't want to just make them free with no investment of any sort. I'm considering skill investments or scaling crafting feats as long as your spellcraft is maxed(why wouldn't it be).

Delicious.

Woot!

Can we read about what any nasty consequences for the characters that don't accept the Cardinal's terms (i.e. not continuing PCs)?

Yea i will fix that little scene. It should be quite entertaining.

Woohoo! We're back! I was really excited by this one, and I'm glad to be in it again.

One other thing. Are you guys ok with going on as 3? If you want a 4th arcaney focused sort then we can find one. It's totally upto you. I don't care either way one bit.

I find 5 is best. If someone goes on vacation, it's only 20% missing versus 33%, which you can start questioning whether or not to pause the game.

I'm running 7 in my own game and like it, too. Started with 8. You really don't miss anyone's absence. But it's definitely more DM work.

If you want, you could recruit more and tailor their backgrounds to fit that they've been working with the Cardinal already or something.

All that said, if you want 3 committed players, let's go! I'm not slowing us down.

cheers

I am still around. I am in another WotW campaign, so I may have some knowledge of the campaign, but would not mind playing again.

I definitely prefer smaller parties. Large parties invariably always end up waiting for 1 or 2 slow posters (I am up to about 40 campaigns now, and not a single large party has need up surviving without losing 1/2 the party to attrition.

If we need an arcane focussed character, I can switch up Yzera. Not sure to what, will have to look at the rest of the party. She will end up with some arcane spells from the Crimson Assassin PrC, but nowhere near full caster.

Could probably switch to Rogue/Arcanist or Slayer/Arcanist without changing her too much.

Ok let's just go with the 4 then with Yzera here for now.

Don't switch up your classes unless you really want to.

I'm going to work on the post to get into the next scene.

Meanwhile, I have totally lost track of any loot that you got from branderscar. So since level 3 will come before you leave the mansion you all have 3k worth of gold to spend by that time.

We also still have the veil, and the window that was on it.

Yzera, you can switch it up if you want, but I think we can manage without a full arcane character. We've got a lot of full attack power, and I can start preparing Summon spells if we think we'll need a little extra support. Fiendish templates for all the summons!

By the way, the timing of this starting up isn't 100% the best, as my wedding is today, with the honeymoon next week. I will still have cell service, and I'm going to make this campaign my focus for posting when I get the chance, but I may need to be GMPC'd.

I'm really excited to be back in this one, though. It was my first PbP on the site, and I definitely liked both it and the group we had.

"Married? Yes, mawwied."

Congratulations! Focus on that. We'll be here when you return.

cheers

When I say "focus for posting", what I mean is that when I have time, this is where I'm posting first. Obviously, the rest of the time I am going to focus on the wedding.

Sure. If you wanna keep that veil no worries. Who knows it could be useful for something in the future.

Hope the wedding goes well. We will make do with what you are able to post. I was at a friend's party tonight so I'm going to bed now and will have a post up in the morning.

There is 3 days that you wait for Cardinal Thorn to return and give you the next training.

We will progress to the next part once everyone has their equipment.
3,000gp to spend.
Iron Circlet(works as Hat of Disguise).
Silver Holy Symbol of Asmodeus.

And properly leveled up. (Rosemary)

I am out all day tomorrow. I am still trying to figure what I can do to get some arcane power without changing Yzera too much. I am considering either rogue/arcanist or slayer/arcanist. This would still allow her to go Crimson/Red Mantis Assassin as a PrC if I want.

Might also drop the vampire route, although something else could be interesting. I have another character going the vampire route and want to try something else.

You aren't a vampire yet and I think we already have 2 going that way. Plenty of time to change your mind.

We're at level 2 correct?

Correct

Ok, we have the following:

Rosemary - anti-paladin/magus
Carnadine - anti-paladin/oracle
Kelvar - slayer/cleric
Yzera - slayer/warpriest

So, we have:
4x melee
3.5x divine (1/2 for war priest and anti-paladins)
1/2x arcane (although magus is really more melee in my opinion)
1/2x skill (slayer)

So, unless someone has a great opposition to it, I was thinking about rebuilding Yzera as a:
Rogue(unchained)/Sorcerer(Rakshasa Bloodline). I need to chat with DMHW about it, but I think that due to Yzera being beholden to another deity, the Cardinal and Tiadora could do some "educating" to her over the three days which would result in a change in her view of things, as well as a slight change in her body and personality.

Let me know what people think. She will end up being the arcane/skill character that we are missing and should still be fun to play for me.

Are people having problems posting?

There's some roleplay you can do atm. And figuring out what you want to spend your 3k gold on too.

Kelvar's 3000 is spent. I just haven't had the opportunity to post any actions yet.

Sorry, for some reason the thread was not updating.

Trying to finalize what I am doing with Yzera. DMHW, gonna send you a PM with some questions.

Yea i realised it didn't show me new posts either. Didn't see Carnadine had posted.

Sometimes you need to make everyone "Inactive", and the campaign. And then reactivate everyone to sort of reset things. I have not had this happen to a campaign in probably a year, but have had campaigns not show posts several times in the past.

Yea seems to be working now. All good Kelvar. I don't mind us having a slow start right now, with your wedding and all so I'm not trying to be onto anyone to be posting at any particular rate.

Ok all, probably not perfect, but I have a post up and have converted Yzera to a rogue/arcanist. I kept one slayer level since that was her real background. The post sort of explains the conversion. You can use your imagination as to what happened.

I'm back, married, and honeymooned. It was quite an enjoyable time.

Of course, now I have to catch up on everything (one of my games has 60 new gameplay posts. I was only gone a week!).

60, you are lucky. I went away for a week three years ago with little to no internet, and had over 500 posts to read in about 4 days that I had no internet, and then had to try to catch up on my phone.

Do we get the full 3k of equipment now, at level 2? Or after the test when we are presumably level 3?

Now. Sorry if I didn't elaborate. Tiadora is handling the requisition of gear for you while you stay there in safety.

Ok, equipment:

Mithral Shirt - 1100
Cloak of Resistance +1 - 1000
masterwork sawtooth sabre

Lots of normal stuff: (probably 150 gold total if we have to pay for them)
- Masterwork Backpack
- a belt pouch,
- caltrops
- chalk (10),
- flint and steel
- grappling hook,
- mess kit,
- mirror
- pitons (10)
- rope, silk
- soap
- masterwork thieves' tools
- lantern, bullseye
- trail rations (5 days)
- waterskin
- spell component pouch
- spellbook (gift? from Tiadora)

Will probably save the other money to get some scrolls for her spell book after we finish the next section, assuming we have time.

Let me know if all this is ok.

That's all fine Yzera

I'll wait for everyone to post before i post any more in gameplay

I will post a IC when I get home from work.

Hey, sorry guys. Massive weekend. I will usually like to update once or twice on the weekends too depending on your rates of posting but sometimes it just won't happen.

I am usually here, but we need to get the posting up if we plan on getting past the first part of this campaign. Even at a good pace, I have campaigns that are 3 and 4 years old and are only levels 6-10.

Yea I think once we get rolling again it should be ok.

My work computer no longer lets me use teamviewer! I will update my character sheet when I have access to Herolab. Otherwise I will use obvious things, like BAB advancement and HP gain.

My family and I are traveling out the country tomorrow until September 8. I will have infrequent access and opportunity to post. Bot me as necessary.

cheers