Thieves Conclave

Game Master jlighter

Welcome to those who made it. As I mentioned in my initial post for the recruitment, I also have one other person who will be joining us. I'll have him post here, you can introduce yourselves, and I'll put up the initial gameplay thread as soon as I have a chance to sit still for long enough to type it up. Congrats to all of you.

Howdy guys and gals. I look forward to having the pleasure of playing with y'all.

Indeed. My Favored Class bonus went to Hp, so I can't understand why I would think I had 4 skill points to use; let me fix that. I took the skill point out of intimidate for the time being.

So you can start your favored bonuses at level 1? I did not know that.

Interesting how it worked out that everyone has at least one human parent.

Also somewhat interesting that everyone has a neutral alignment, two NGs, two CNs, and me with LN.

Yup. Favored class starts as soon as you take a level in your favored class of choice, and applies any time you take a level in your favored class.

So whats everybodys battle plans?

I'm a Barbearian, so run in raged and transformed, kinda goes with the terotory; but let's see how that can work out for everybody aswell~

For now I'm backup, but I'll probably Multiclass to Sorcerer after a couple of levels 'cause we seem to be light on magic.

Anybody have an ability to PM Sarianna Vi, or a thread that s/he is following where they'd be able to reach hir? If not, then we may just begin without, and I can adapt things to work with the lack of magic in the party at low-level. Don't want to hold you lot up if we can help it.

I am planning on staying ranged as much as possible during any encounter, but if I need to get in the fray, I am not too bad with the greatsword.

Anybody have an ability to PM Sarianna Vi, or a thread that s/he is following where they'd be able to reach hir? If not, then we may just begin without, and I can adapt things to work with the lack of magic in the party at low-level. Don't want to hold you lot up if we can help it.

Well, according to his/her profile, his last post was about a week ago. I say if we don't get a response by tomorrow evening at the latest, either start and hope she checks back in in time to contribute, or move on to one of the other applicants. All things considered, I still say go with the former.

jlighter wrote:
Anybody have an ability to PM Sarianna Vi, or a thread that s/he is following where they'd be able to reach hir? If not, then we may just begin without, and I can adapt things to work with the lack of magic in the party at low-level. Don't want to hold you lot up if we can help it.
Well, according to his/her profile, his last post was about a week ago. I say if we don't get a response by tomorrow evening at the latest, either start and hope she checks back in in time to contribute, or move on to one of the other applicants. All things considered, I still say go with the former.

I agree with Kareta with what to do. Ultimately, it's up to you Jman.

Alright. If I don't see anything by tomorrow evening, we'll start things off, and I can run a DMPC caster alongside you all, or recruit somebody to meet up partway through. I believe that I'm safe in assuming that somebody of the healing persuasion would be preferable?

If you're taking preferences, how about calling the guy who did Norbat on the recruitment thread?

Were templates allowed, because Norbat had the celestial template applied. I think that may of had something to do with his not being picked.

By the way, Lyall is meant to be a trip monk, at least as much as one can with the stat spread he has.

Templates were not permitted, no. That was only part of the reason why I ultimately passed over Norbat, though.

As a note, Gameplay thread is up for those of you who want to get started. I don't have anything up for Sarianna this instant because I'm still waiting to hear back and see if she's in. Otherwise, I'll figure something out for you folks. Here's to a good round of gaming.

Didn't know how much to respond with XP Anyways, if that sorta amount is considered unnecessary I have no problems dialing back; normally in my games played before, my lengthy response was necessary, as everything was both action>counteraction>action form.

Okay. I think I'm calling Sarianna a no-show at this point. I'll see about getting a caster to fill in the gap.

Oh. I suppose I should throw this in before we get too deep into this. As far as my expectations:

I'm hoping you'll all be able to commit to checking the Gameplay thread once per day (more is always accepted), even if you don't post that day. If you miss one once in a while, that's fine. If you're going to miss a few days in a row, please let me know ahead of time so I can Bot your character. You've all been doing a good job of this, so keep it up. :)

I'll spoiler text that is only meant for certain characters. I won't discourage reading of text spoilered for other characters, but I may call you on it if you start acting on information I know I didn't give you.

As far as Initiative, I'll probably just roll it for the sake of speed. I'm not the kind of person who does Party Init and Foe Init. If you want to pre-post your actions out of Initiative, that's fine with me. Just give me what you'd like to do, and a backup option if circumstances prevent your initial action choice from occurring (such as the enemy you wanted to attack falling before your turn). Failing such, I can improvise your action using your stated action as a guideline, but it may not be perfect.

As far as combat maps, when they come up, is there a preferred method?

Okay. Before we go farther, since it may or may not be relevant, how do people feel about Roll20 for necessary maps? I'll be able to set it up so you can manipulate your own token, although you'll need an account for that.

Never used Roll20, but I do have account.

I do not know how offen I will be able to check it especially during weekends and holidays / end of year. I think it does not run on Android phones.

I also have semi- limited non-droid internet, but I can try.

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roll20 would be fine.

I am fine with whatever.

roll20 is fine with me, and I can use it from my phone too.

made an account today, taking a look at it so i'm not gonna be dumb using it.

So I guess Roll20 is a go...

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Okay. The alternative to Roll20 is me doing a frame-by-frame map with a Chess-style coordinate grid (letters down one side, numbers across the other). I'll do both just to make it easier. If those of you who have Roll20 accounts could all PM me with the e-mail addresses that you use for them, I can authorize your control of your character tokens on that. As far as getting the non-Roll20 map up, I'll start setting that up.

Okay. Having slight trouble getting Roll20 to work as well as the other program I use, so I'll post a screencap of that program with the visibility of the player who can see the most up. Currently, that's probably Auriona.

I hope there was not anything in my last post to discourage others from playing ;-)

Just waiting for the surprise round to be resolved.

Me too.

Sorry for taking so long to post my surprise round action.

Yay! Let's get back underway, shall we?

I am ready to kick some Hellknight ...!

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So, shall we play again?

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That would be nice.

Indeed.

My apologies, everybody. I had lost this campaign, and another one, from my Focused threads in the Messageboards. We shall resume at once. Thank you for your patience, all.

Wow, looks like praying to Abadar really does help :-)

Well, at least when you are a cleric of Abadar, he would be less likely to listen to the rest of our prayers.

So not to distract from combat, but how are folks liking this style of map presentation?

It is great.
Only suggestion I can think of is to mark the rows/columns with letters/numbers so that we may identify in ooc the exact spot the character is moving (casting,...) into.

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Are we still waiting for Auriona? Shouldn't we put some kind of time limit on actions in combat? That way if one of us is unavailable the GM can improvise our actions.

I'm willing to give a couple of days leeway, just because life occasionally comes up. I will post for players as needed. Something that might make that a little easier for me would be if people included in their stat blocks a Tactics section, like so:
Sample Character Stats

If my internet behaves tomorrow I'll see about getting some information into the class line.

Now I feel a little bad I wanted you to post for Auriona as it was a total fumble...

Life occasionally comes up and I am more than sure it will happen to me too. I will put the Tactics section up as soon as possible.

Don't worry about Auriona fumbling. He does that a lot in RL games, too.

Can somebody please help me? I'd rather not get killed on my first hit.

Can somebody please help me? I'd rather not get killed on my first hit.

Well, as I'm adjacent to you, I may be able to help in round 5, DC 15 heal check to stabilize and I only have +2 purely from wisdom, however I see issues with you being possibly under water and the hellknight next to me still being awake.

On the bright side, you are only at -5 right? So there's a few turns to get to you at least.