<rules nerd>Actually... kitsune change shape works as alter self with its various specific exceptions. The ability itself says it works indefinitely, and there is nothing in polymorph descriptions that say that the transmuted individual reverts to their natural form when falling unconscious--ergo, a polymorph spell lasts until its duration ends, and kitsune change shape has no end to its duration, so he should retain his shapechanged form even when unconscious. Reverting to true form I believe is a feature specific to wild shape (where it also involves healing). </rules nerd>
Fine if he wants to stay in human form, we pluck him from head to toe. I'm not picky about my torture methods. :)
@ Suni. As it's a Dream form, I am going to say you retain your Human form as you have a bit of control here and would not want to relinquish the secret in such a way.
@ Dorn, sorry, no certificates accepted, only cold hard cash gains one boons on my gains outside of normal level increases :-)
@ Everyone, sorry for the delay. RL been hell lately.
Update now.
Also, fun fact, I begin running this same campaign table top in March!
The move is back on and now I am sick. So my posting may be slow.
I like how the level *zero* character apparently knows more about magic than a high ranking priest of Bane, and proceeds to critique him via metagame knowledge.
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just reflecting real world logical fallacies
The people with the least informed people are likely to rate themselves about as highly as the top twenty percent of people because they don't know how much they don't know
Furthermore, bards are the ones best at pretending to know more than they do
Thirdly........ I made that post while I had a bad fever XD (still kinda sick but I'm
Recovering)
Even zero level PCs are exceptional by virtue of being a PC. Dorn's spellcraft is high enough to ID any spell with a high enough roll for example.
Also Mirrormane is a priest, a divine caster. They don't need or utilize spellcraft as much as arcane casters. It's actually perfectly reasonable for priest to have little knowledge on how magic works sense their magic is faith based and granted. You don't need to know how it works, you just need to believe. ;P
Making a small retcon to my character, just background information on him.
Making a small retcon to my character, just background information on him.
OK.
Well, when I have more ranks in one skill than even a lvl 1 PC can have than your overshooting it :P after all I have 2 ranks in appraise from my "class"
Also, I'm not with the group as it seems, the rest of ya all went to the caravan and Suni slept in the tavern...
Uh... I think almost everyone who posted except Pox said they started off in their room in the inn. Except maybe Mawj, but his starting point was unclear. Some folks headed for the caravan upon waking, bit you could go with them if you wanted (or not).
Pox specifically volunteered to sleep with the caravan during the previous inn conversation. I'm not sure if anyone else did.
Vorik made it very clear he was staying at the inn.
Dorn's slept at the inn, in the best room, with a cabinet full wines and a catalog of hired company. Cause that's how merchant nobles roll. ;P
He went to his wagon as soon as he woke up and has been there ever sense.
Kyorruel is in the common room around now and he also had a room.
Vorik everyone had plans. Then a army encircled the city so no one can leave. Plans changed and at the moment the city reps are surrendering. So Dorn suggest you don't butt into that and wait for the other waterdeep merchants to come around. That way as a group we can deal with the army. A group of merchants from an allied city will hold some sway as opposed to not.
I don't see how that is unreasonable.
We were told the army was coming, were we not? We knew exactly what was about to happen.
He pauses, "Know that the Purple Dragon Legions will arrive tomorrow. You will not resist them of course as you would be foolish to do so".
He pauses again, "Your goal is to ingratiate yourselves with any one or more of their Commanders the best way you can enabling you to travel to Arabel".
Idk about you, but legions to me means an army.
Both of you are correct. I believe the intent of the orders from the church was to ensure we got out safely.
Coordinating with the merchant leaders before approaching the Cormyrians to be sure all are on the same page with the NPCs we are traveling with, before we make any moves to cooperate with the Cormyrians can be part and parcel to getting out safely. We do indeed need to make sure we "ingratiate ourselves" but can't do that if one of the NPCs in our caravan suddenly acts in opposition what the party is trying to achieve.
All goals are the same here.
OK, update now!
Thanks for the patience guys.
EDIT: OK, we gotta start somewhere!
Where's our cover city of origin from? I can't remember. Or are well all supposed to have been from Waterdeep?
Where's our cover city of origin from? I can't remember. Or are well all supposed to have been from Waterdeep?
Dorn - Waterdeep.
Ja'far - Shining South
Kyo & Suni the East
Pox & Edwin - Unclear, probably Waterdeep.
Vorik - Hired by Dorn so wherever you want to be from.
And of course there is a Native Cormyrean here!
Alright, better than my last stretch but not as good as I want it to be.
Good news is that I'll be filing the final Divorce paperwork tomorrow. Then a meeting with the Judge and that'll be behind me!
I am semi back. I have stable internet now but still in moving hell.
It’s pretty late at night as I am writing this. I’ve been through a significant amount of struggles through the past two years (actually through the past 41 but especially the past 2). I’ve had worse stretches of time before but I believe that these past struggles were due to my own lack of maturity and self-awareness at the time those events took place.
Likely those events were necessary for me to experience to survive the events of the past two years and get through them as well as I have. Physical ailments, getting older and requiring more sleep, bankruptcy, and ultimately divorce. You know life is not going swimmingly when going to work feels like a vacation.
Regardless, when I first started getting involved in PbP on the boards it was a chance to play, finally! I’d been DMing for the bulk of the time that I’ve played table top that I was enjoying being able to be a player for once. Then with so many damn flaky GM’s I just started running games and well, things snow balled from there.
Life was fairly stable at the time the normal ups and downs. Then about two years ago, I started getting into PbP as a way to escape reality. Sort of the same ways drugs were casual and enjoyable for me as a teen and ultimately led me as close to suicide as I ever want to get again.
I am not saying that PbP has made me suicidal but I am saying that I recognize that I was using PbP as a coping mechanism to avoid a bad marriage. PbP did NOT lead to the failure of my marriage but it did contribute to my ability to tune it out.
I make a decent living but between bankruptcy and divorce I’ve little to show for it (well except for this killer book and RPG collection ). I could point the finger at my soon to be ex-wife but when you point one finger at a person, three more point back at you. I could have prevented things from becoming this bad and I chose not to. I did it, ironically, because I believed that if I had the marriage would have ended and ended badly, so much for best intentions. I am not going to second guess myself, what happened happened. As divorces go, this one has been rather amicable as we have put our daughter first and ourselves second.
Being married to someone who makes as much if not more money then you (depending on sales that year) places one in a position to “take it easy” when it comes to being aggressive about making money (well it placed me in such a position anyhow perhaps because making money does not move me).
Early on in my career I had an opportunity to become a premiere M&A Financial Services Tax Attorney in a Big 4 Firm. It’s a big deal and potentially a lot of money but I did not really want it because I knew I would be working a lot and traveling a lot. My ex agreed that I should turn it down as she did not want to be married to a workaholic and that was not who I wanted to be anyway. Nor do I want to be that person now. (In yet another twist of irony, she has become a workaholic, funny how things turn out).
I do not regret the decision though I do lament the loss of income that such a decision would have brought to me.
All of this rambling nonsense is leading to the point of this post, I need to work more. Not at my current job nor do I want to get a new job, I actually like being there as odd as that sounds (to me). I need to get a second and perhaps a third job, side gigs. At 41 about to turn 42 with no retirement and no savings for my daughters college, I can no longer hope that the ex’s business will come through as an investment plan. Even if it does, I will not be the beneficiary of that largesse. I need to make up for 11 years of being “comfortable” simply working.
Thus, it is with heavy heart that I am announcing that I will need to close down a number of the threads I run and withdraw from a number of the games I am a PC in.
I suppose this decision will not be a surprise to many of you as my posting rates have been abysmal since these events took a turn for the worse (in some respects the better to be honest) since Thanksgiving of 2017.
I am not generally a person that feels remorse or guilt but I do feel a level of disappointment with having to make this decision. I apologize for disappointing many of you who put work into PCs relying on my consistency as a GM/DM over the course of the past several years.
My plan had always been to run a hardcore dose of RPG’s until my daughter was a teenager and then, spend my free time writing the novel I had been working on since before she was born. I had hoped that over the next 9 years or so I could wrap up most of these campaigns and the few that remained would be more manageable.
Life has not worked out that way.
The good news is that I will still run several games but the current load is too much for me to handle in this transition. The further good news is that I believe this will allow for those games to move along much more quickly.
By tomorrow I will have made my decision as to which games I will keep and which I will shut down.
Thank you all for taking the journeys with me despite the lack of length or resolution of so many of them.
I will still be around just in a diminished capacity so this is not goodbye just a “be seeing less of you”.
Wow dude, take your time. Maybe try to relax while your at it sense it seems like your dealing with alot and stress is never good.
Take the time you need; it's clear you have been stretched thin awhile on a number of levels. I'm glad you've been able to self-reflect and figure out what you need. Take time for yourself. If that means the game ends or goes on an extended hiatus, so be it. If you're unable to commit and have real fun (rather than just escape) then it's not going to be fun for your players anyway.
Take care and I'm sure we will be understanding no matter the decision you come to make.
Thanks for the support guys.
Unfortunately, this is one of the games that I will need to close.
Good luck and good gaming all.
Understood. Hopes and prayers all goes well for you.
Is... is there a reason our old game thread is being updated all of a sudden by entirely different people, at seemingly a very rapid pace?
Hey DQ. Hope you are doing well.
Yep. I was running this game as a Table Top and a PbP. I had to drop the PbP because of the Divorce a few years back.
With the social distancing going on these days, I am using the thread to assist in running the Table Top game until we can play live again :-)