Thron's Rise of the Runelords Campaign

Game Master Thron

Greetings to the Select Seven!

Please check in here and let me know you have found your way to the thread. Also, for those of you selected, feel free to start getting to know each other during the intervening time between now and game start. The setting remains the same, and will be continuous with the current happenings within the festival, in the same thread. However, time is passing and the festival will slowly be winding down as Wednesday approaches (my next day off, not counting the Super Bowl tomorrow).

I will spend tomorrow going over the actual crunch of the submissions and providing feedback. One thing I noticed at a glance: very few of you listed your encumbrances. Please do the math and list those values, as they will be a factor. If you have a lot of gear, you need to decide what it is you are carrying, what is left behind, what is on your mount, etc.

I'll probably be swapping out scorching ray for burning arc on Lorekeeper. Other than that, doubt there's any other changes forthcoming prior to proper start.

Meow.

Checking in.

Hey all, great to be here and thanks for the pick DM Thron. A small disclaimer, I'm currently travelling through the Highlands of Vietnam, and getting online is very difficult. I've got 3g on my phone, but it's not much good for long gameplay posts. I'll be trying my best overvthe weekend, and by Monday I should be back at home and able to post normally.

Looks like a great crew. Excited to be on board.

Mor: I post a lot from mobile devices too, so I understand. I do not require lengthy posts every time. In depth, well thought out posts are nice, don't get me wrong. But sometimes it's just not practical, and I understand that.

So this is a one day festival? No chance it's multiple days with lots of rest *under breath*and time to recover spells? *innocent smile*

*evil DM grin*

I am here. I was GMing PFS all day.

*Runs behind Eugeni* He made me do it!*ducks*

BTW I have my equipment weight figured but it is on my work computer. If you don't mind I'll update on Monday. Otherwise let me know what doesn't make sense or where you see a mistake.

I'm also traveling, but hopefully it won't impact anything.

I'll probably hold off posting in the Gameplay thread until GM Thron's made his entrance. To be honest, I don't think I've got time to make sense of the last couple of hundred posts right now! :-)

Since most of those posts were from characters that are now gone, you could probably read from Ravboom's thrown mug post here if you wanted to jump in now. It isn't that much of a read and should give you enough to get an intro worked out.

Then again if you're traveling with limited internet that may not work either.

Alright, I updated my character sheet with detailed weight breakdowns and encumbrance limits. I have it set up with what the mount, when I get it, will be carrying as well.

I'll be buying the lance after I get the horse, but carrying some of the stuff it's currently carrying.

My total weight carried will be 135.76 lbs. which puts me into medium encumbrance. Medium encumbrance has the same penalties or less than my scale mail, so no difference in stats.

Also, if everybody could mirror Kala's stat info in the Class/Level line of their profile I'd appreciate it.

I just realized that one of my blessings only works on melee weapons. I'm going to look through the list again and see if there's anything that would be more useful for me before we get started.

Edit: I guess I'll take plant instead of good. It appears they made a mistake and didn't name the minor blessing. The PDF just says "Name". So I'm going to call it entangling strike for now.

Also, heads up to high BAB/high strength people. I can do this: As a standard action you can touch one ally to grant it feral features. The ally gains 2 claw attacks that deal 1d6 points of damage (if the creature is Medium, 1d4 if it is Small) or 1 bite attack that deals 1d8 points of damage (if the creature is Medium, 1d6 if it is Small). These are primary natural attacks that replace any similar primary natural attacks the ally might have. This effect lasts for 1 minute.

It's not very useful for Eugeni, but if anyone would benefit from that, please let me know so I know who to use it on. Looking at the people who've posted so far, it appears Kala would benefit most from it. Giving her a bite would net her three attacks along with her shield and short sword. But mixing natural and maufactured attacks turns the natural into secondary.

So basically she'd have Shield bash +3/SSword +4/Bite +0 (1d8+2)

Corrected a couple of typos and filled in some missing info (weight, saves, AC, familiar info, etc) on my character sheet. I also adjusted my equipment and GP for Max GP.

The blessings work fine on bows/crossbows/blowguns too, they just don't work on thrown weapons.

The blessings work fine on bows/crossbows/blowguns too, they just don't work on thrown weapons.

Where are you getting that? The playtest document I have says "one melee weapon" for all the blessings that affect weapons.

Thron, would it be possible for Baern to "upgrade" my longbow into a composite longbow, or would I need to sell it and have him craft me a new one from scratch?

My bad, I was thinking of the Sacred Weapons class feature.

The actual creation of a composite longbow is far different than a standard longbow. As such, a new one would need to be made. After that, to increase the strength bonus, I will allow it to be adjusted.

I just noticed Kala and Alina have the same campaign trait. I wonder if their relatives, Alina's uncle, save the stable master's life together or if the guy is just accident prone. If it's the latter I suspect he gives away a lot of horses and will soon be out of business. ;)

What do think Kala, do you want to merry up that part of our backgrounds?

It's Kala's brother Ragnar that helped him and died in the helping. Kala is initially here to pay respects to her months dead brother. Cleaning out a goblin encampment isn't something that one does by oneself generally, so I see no problem with them (my brother and your uncle) knowing each other.

After 200 km by motorbike over some pretty high mountains and some mind-blowing jungle I'm back home. I'll be able to post normally . . . for a week, when I'm moving jobs, house and country, so there might be some further disruption, although I'll do my very best to manage it.

I've added stats under my profile as requested and totted up the weight of my gear on my character sheet. The evil DM in me approves of GM Thron's interest in monitoring encumbrance, it's so often handwaved but it can be a very interesting extra complication, especially for low-level characters. My old party had a high percentage of small, low-strength PCs who were nearly always struggling to work around their pathetic carrying capacities, but actually it was kind of fun. Says I, who was the DM.

Ok. The timeline is a bit different than I’d originally considered but I think I can adjust. Originally I’d envisioned Alina’s uncle as a retired adventurer who had been to Sandpoint years ago but I suppose he could still be adventuring. I suppose Alina could have learned of his adventures via his letters to his daughter, who then relayed them to Alina.

Either way, dem NPC's be dead!

I added some equipment to Alayna's character sheet nothing that you expect gameplay just couple role-playing items

Hah so much for dictating on the way home on Bluetooth. "should effect" became "you expect" some how.

Okay guys, it's official. We're starting!

Some of you have yet to put your stats in your profiles for quick reference as I requested, (Looking at you Baern, Xamarath, and Zoli). It's not a requirement, but it sure does help me out a lot, so please do so soon.

When it comes to your posting, I request you do so in the following format:

In character talk, descriptive test, etc.

"Speaking"
"Thinking"
__________
Out of character talk
Move Action: XXXXXX
Standard Action: XXXXXX
Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13
Damage: 1d100 + 1 ⇒ (78) + 1 = 79

I invite you to take initiative in your posts, and by that I mean if you roll well enough to kill a target, feel free to describe the killing blow. If you cast a spell, roll the target's save and describe the affects appropriately. I will post any opponent's relavent information in the Campaign info tab, so look it up there. When combat is going on, I only want to see in game posts in the gameplay thread. If you need to say something out of character and only out of character, post it here in the discussion thread, including comments about current combat. This is to prevent any dice roller abuse as was accused in the earlier recruitment. I'm not accusing anyone, just want to avoid any arguments later (not that I expect any).

At any rate, let's get crackin'! Thar be goblins ta kill!

Forgot to mention, but in the case of a tie in Initiative, as just happened in the gameplay thread, I will break the tie in the following manner:

1: Higher Initiative Bonus goes first.
2: If the same, Higher Dex Bonus goes first.
3: If the same, act simultaneously.

Understood DM Thron. Just caught your gameplay post a moment ago, but it's nearly midnight here, so I'll post tomorrow (probably about 12 hours from now).

Cheers,

EDIT: I see I'm first in initiative, so I'll bash something off now!

Forgot to mention in the previous post, but the courtyard you guys are in is essentially filled with people. Not to the point that it will impede combat in any way, but they are present. Fleeing, but present. I just wasn't going to put another 50 random people on the map to account for when they served no purpose.

Also, I apologize in advance for my crude artistic ability, as well as the apparent MASSIVE size of the battle map I just made. I thought about going back and redoing it on a smaller scale, but when I realized I spent almost 4 hours on that crappy looking thing, I figured I might as well suck it up and post it.

Thirdly, If a block of PC's are up in initiative, feel free to post in any order, you do not have to necessarily wait your turn to post. I will sort it out with my round recap posts. I'd rather you go ahead and post when you have the time than wait and get held up.

Also, to keep things moving smoothly, I will, as I stated in the recruitment thread, give everyone one day to post their actions in combat, then I will post a request for an action. If I do not see an action post after another 24 hours, I reserve the right to NPC their turn for that round to move it along. I wont force a character to do anything stupid, but they will likely only do a basic attack and basic movement.

...or jump into the nearby portal that clearly leads to my demiplane balor trap. Something along those lines...

Already mentioned it to Thron, but dropping it here as well; going to swap out my familiar choice. The drawling raven just isn't jiving well in my mind for Xamarath, so I'm going to opt for something a little more colorful and outgoing (probably a thrush, but continuing to poke around).

Bye Trevor. Fly free somewhere.

I've tried a couple of different computers and so far I'm unable to see the map. My work computer blocks google drive, my home computer can't see the picture, and my ipad just gives an error. Is there another server, such as photobucket, we can use?

Very off topic but...why on earth does your work computer block Google drive?

If we do switch to something else please make it something that can zoom the image. However, map is working fine from my end.

My employer believes there is too much risk involved and blocks it to prevent security breaches, viruses, and other problems.

I can zoom it on my end. Any suggestions on a site to host the image? Google docs won't accept it.

Also, Baern, waiting for an action from ya. Alina, despite being surprised you can make a RP post like xamarath did.

I can usually see www.photobucket.com on all of my computers. I don't know if it allows for zooming. However most web browsers can zoom by pressing "control +" "control -" zooms out and "control 0" resets. Depending on the pic quality that may cause a bit of distortion though.

You could try making it a google docs drawing instead of whatever it is now (don't recognize that icon in the left corner). The image just has to be less than 2 MB.

I think you used photoshop to make it by looking at the image...you might want to try MapTool, that way you could zoom in on just the part we're fighting in currently and export a screenshot without having horrible distorted resolution.

Let me know if I can help in any way, I'm happy to explain how I do my maps in more detail if you want Thron.

He used the Pyromancers site I believe. More than likely, he just uploaded the picture file itself to Google Drive. Forgot about this myself but rediscovered it with my latest upload in Fang & Shackle—just create a new Google Drawing file and then copy and paste the image in there instead of uploading the image directly. Not sure if that will solve matters for Alina, but should make editing the battle map easier at least.

That's what I do also. Or you can go to insert->image and browse to it on your hard drive. Hopefully changing the type of google doc to a drawing would let Alina access it from home at least.

Alina, maybe try this one of jelani's

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tRHYFvgZVAr8CGstMdNlyYStd6YtZQnTGKu7Y24 LY2s/edit

(O_O)*

How did I just now realize you were Gyrfalcon!? Hey buddy ;)

Oh, that's pretty funny!

We gotta stop meeting like this.

Not sure if it was noticed but I posted an action and then deleted it when I noticed Morythine say there were only 2 goblins left. Figuring the combat is almost over, I'm going to try and check out the map and then post something more effective than what I'd origionally planned.