We be Goblin(?) Kings, Kingmaker

Game Master Freddy Honeycutt

OK, so I don't need to drop everything to immediately get to you. Soon, but not immediately.

OK, so I don't need to drop everything to immediately get to you. Soon, but not immediately.

Nah, I'm cool, especially for however many rounds those dudes are asleep. There's only one melee bandit fighting, with the other running away, so it'd just be bad RNG if I get smacked now.

I've kind of got a tiger by the tail. Now that he's fascinated, what do I do with him? I'm hoping the nonlethal knocks him out soon...

Can you take any other actions, or would that break the Fascinate like it does with a Bard?

Q has a mental grip on the bandit, but is too far away to deal with the one remaining bandit....

I think I have to continue using the ability to keep him fascinated.

I am replacing the loot in the wagon with the gear taken from your friends. In other words the gear the PC iconics would normally have.

And your copies of the charters!

Also since you guys are small and wily I wanted to add a sipping rule to potions of cure light wounds. That is that such a potion has 10 points of healing in it and can be sipped to confer an exact healing amount (any whole number) between one and 10 (assuming a full potion).....

It is a move action to sip a potion.....

Also since you guys are small and wily I wanted to add a sipping rule to potions of cure light wounds. That is that such a potion has 10 points of healing in it and can be sipped to confer an exact healing amount (any whole number) between one and 10 (assuming a full potion).....

It is a move action to sip a potion.....

NICE!

@KK: Oh very cool, I love it! I'd never thought of partially drinking potions before, but in this circumstance it rather makes sense!

@Quuroog: lol, this is the difference between a 10 Wis and a 17 Wis. It's apparently correlative to our RL scores, as well, because I didn't even think about that stuff until she said it to Y.

@Colvin: Also, thank you for being the one to pay attention to the only threat we have left, though it would've been kind of funny (and stereotypically "monster" of us) to have gone off arguing about the wagon and left him prone and confused!

Paying attention to threats? This is Colvin's dinner! He doesn't get a chance to eat many longlegs! :-)

Paying attention to threats? This is Colvin's dinner! He doesn't get a chance to eat many longlegs! :-)

Charter text revision....

Lots of choices I am waiting to see what happens....

If you chase after the bandits you will likely meet them a day out from the trading post....after they taxed/robbed it.

If you ambush them here, you have several days to prepare....

You could get drunk and surround them!!!!

......

We gotta catch these monsters.

Or. Pick them off with summoned monkeys....gorilla warfare!!!

I'm sorry I've been absent. We had a bit of an emergency this week, but everything's settled now. The Kobold with the boomstick will return!

Hang in there, guys. Let's play these freaks!

Boomy sticky!!!!!

Quuroog has been much more assertive than I had planned. I think you know what she is thinking, but she's going to quiet back down as a reaction to her uncharacteristic outbursts. That, and I'm juggling a lot of stuff at the moment.

I think everyone will hit their stride soon and figure out their characters personalities.....

So far so good!

I think we're going to have some fun, once we get rolling.

I think we need to figure out how best to ambush this next group of bandits though part of me believes we should secure the charters first.

Yeah, let's go after them, then we won't have to deal with them later (hopefully).

How best? My thoughts - With them divided. Let them come back, get angry at what we've done, while we watch and wait for one or two of them to separate themselves, use the privy, what have you, and take them out. The gun is not going to be our best friend here - better to use stealth and let them come looking for the guy that doesn't come back.

Let them wonder what's going on for a day or two while we re-prepare meager resources, rinse and repeat.

I am just having a lot of trouble picturing us dealing with the bandits en masse without a good plan. Did the last to die ever tell us how many more there were?

If you guys want to use the bandit gear and camp layout you can designate areas for the two bags of caltrops....dig pits or whatever you like....

I'm guessing that this is over.

I was kind of assuming some of those pits will end up with spikes in them....

I was kind of assuming some of those pits will end up with spikes in them....

I think no, we may want to capture some of them alive... at least initially!

I'm still listening, but I'm trying to keep up with a full-time job and college classes. Plus Quuroog isn't really going to be driving the storyline - it's not her style.

What happened to our kobold?

Last remaining thing is a consensus on the "plan"

The way I understand it, is you are going to go out and meet the oncoming bandits.....and use hit and run tactics....arrows, summoned animals, etc

Then they get to the camp and you ambush them....along with the traps.

Am I missing anything?

I don't know how we can accomplish hit and run tactics when we give up so much speed compared to them. I thought it was about ambushing them when they returned to the camp.

I don't know how we can accomplish hit and run tactics when we give up so much speed compared to them. I thought it was about ambushing them when they returned to the camp.

Agreed. We need to stay in the high ground with ranged attacks and summoned creatures.

Yup.

OK with the bandits returning let me do a random encounter type event....

Two groups
1=Simultaneous or 2=delayed 1d2 ⇒ 2
If delayed, how long? 1d4 ⇒ 3

Group 1 Kressel; group 2 Happs
1d4 ⇒ 41d4 ⇒ 1
1= pits
2= caltrops
3= tree
4= clear

Bear with me to get the first post up.

OK.

Sounds good!

First post is up....
I will give the bandits one perception check to not be surprised....otherwise you might get two attacks before they respond....

Only one of you has to roll higher than the bandits for you to get to go first....

Will update tomorrow.

RL has me tied up. Please bot me as necessary and I will return in a day or two.

That was an intense two rounds! :-)

Where are our mite and kobold?

Did you PM them?

If they don't post Monday I will private message them....

Your mite said she was going to be unavailable for a few days. It just got worse before it got better and took a week. Here I am!

To be fair our gunslinger could target the second group of bandits who are approaching. Perhaps targeting Happs....

Private message sent.

Maybe we should get some new players.

I sent another private message.

I looked also and his last post looks like it was 2/12.

Sounds like it's time to recruit someone else who wants to play.