I will be on vacation starting tomorrow. I won't be posting much until next Tuesday. My daughter is graduating and we are taking her to the beach and camping.
Warning warrented! I'll take this time to dedicate myself to other posts. Have a good one, and cherish the time. Don't do what my girlfriend's father did. They went to the bahamas and spent 100 dollars on local cuisine, so he got furious that they spent too much and tore up a 100 dollar bill AFTER he spent 100 bucks. Not a clever man, to say the least... That said, really, enjoy yourself :D
Have fun, no worries, I will be looking forward to whatever posts do come up. Have fun at the beach and of course camping is a lot of fun. I remember when I went to Philmont, NM for a 10 day hike.
The person playing a druid went hiking.
It's fun to just get away sometimes, unplug to the extreme.
Hiking is the bees knees...
I guess it's a good weekend for the gm to go on vacation. I'm on a small vacation myself. Got into my hotel room last night, followed by drunken fun.
*Rests chin on laced fingers* Continue...
Step 1 - I'm a dude, gf's birthday party went south so I had to make it better.
Step 2 - When building Tallina I tried to envision this character as male, wasn't working very well. Pictured it as a female character and it makes a lot of sense in my imagination.
So who's up next in the gameplay? By my count, it's Tobongo and the dead guy.
Tobongo is on guard duty, he's not joining this combat unfortunately.
Step 1 - I'm a dude, gf's birthday party went south so I had to make it better.
Step 2 - When building Tallina I tried to envision this character as male, wasn't working very well. Pictured it as a female character and it makes a lot of sense in my imagination.
That was the joke.. all people on the internet are men unless proof is given, still good you had a good time.
Welcome back everybody. I am on my iPad for the day, but Amtrak has wifi so I am good.
Can we freely move through a friendly character's square? Because the only way Luci can get a hit in is if she moves through Tallina and into the square to the left of the dwarf, risking an AoO in the process.
Yes, you can move through friendly squares.
Of course... it's a zombie, or something entirely different. I guess we won't know until we smash it to bits.
Thats what Enlarged Greatswords are for.
My money is on Huecava
Crushed Huecuva soon enough.
Yes, a Huecuva. You failed to confirm your critical Verim, but still did enough damage to reduce it to zero hp.
*fistpump* You could not hope to Defeat the Verim Megazord. Oh and randomly, Mia your ward is a deflection bonus.. not a dodge.. which in some cases is alot better because it applies to your Flat Footed and to your CMD.
Should Luci have made a perception check as she went outside to the others?
No, It will quickly become apparent. I just need to give Tallina time to respond.
I saw that, I always get the ooc and dice mixed up as well.
I wish we could just knock him out and drag him on a stretcher.
We could.. nothing is wrong with that. its just the carrying duty will be up to someone.
I am most definitely not, but I figure I can avoid one combat at the cost of it. I'm not particularly willing to ditch the armor to catch some guy who's probably gotten himself killed already, however.
I think hog tying and gagging him would be within the paladin code if it's the only way to get him out safely. Saving him from himself, as it were.
He's not being harmed... physically, plus he's being rude, teaching him a lesson would not be a bad idea. All in favor of hog tying him and having Tobongo drag him around if we catch him say aye.
First we reason with him one more time AFTER we save his life.. If Not, by Arqueros' law I must ensure his survival or fall in the eyes of my lord. Aye
Let's see, I'll wear the hide coat, pick up the breastplate and the other suit of armor carrying them under my arms. I'm almost out of magic and my melee attacks aren't anything special so I'll be the pack mule.
Tobongo has a climb speed, GM, could Tobongo charge in a straight line to whatever it is?
No, the cavern bends and you cannot charge through another character.
Travel times through the tunnels between caverns are defined within the scenario. The distances and times are significant enough that people with slower movement rates will not catch up before the current conflict is resolved.
On the plus side, I get to congratulate myself on successfully splitting the party. Now I just have to dig out the random encounter table for the caverns.
Oh god. Hopefully nothing too ridiculous for me and Mia, or we actually will die.
DM, just to be sure, did the enemies use a spell or Spell-like.. or a supernatural/Extraordinary ability? The first two provoke without making a concentration check. Reason being, Verim will take any AoO he can get.
SLA. The northern one went first. Go ahead and take your AoO. Luciana will also get an AoO.
Are you retreating from the current encounter or staying to fight?
Retreat.
We technically won, I was waiting on you... Because after us its them, but you havent posted anything yet. IE it was their turn, if they were going to do nothing it would have been nice to know.
Both monsters used Darkness and retreated back to the ceiling as their actions. Horgus ran. I was unsure what everyone else was doing.
I will move gameplay along, with the party regrouping.
On the plus side: there is no penalty for a low diplomacy roll at this point.....
Define plus side? He'd already at Dick attitude/Unhelpful and cant get worse?
Are we tracking xp, or are we just leveling up at various points like the AP's allow.
You were not rolling for Horgus.
The social encounters here are far more important than the combat encounters. Nobody will care about maggots or darkmantles in 5 levels, but the social encounters have implications that last the entire campaign.
I see the issue there is assuming someone randomly has diplomacy or assuming those are the ones who get to roll, then seems somewhat random. You might be basing it upon interaction, I'm not sure nor complaining just stating an observation. As if it were for say us saving Horgus, I would think Luciana would get a roll.. but that doesnt seem to be the case. And I assume the combat encounters have some effect on said social encounters. I will say if it continues, assume Verim took a 10.
I was going to level the party at the points the AP recommends.
If I was tracking XP, I would have to add in extra encounters to compensate for a 6 man party.
(And the group has missed half the xp to date. Non-combat encounters are huge in this AP.)
I see the issue there is assuming someone randomly has diplomacy or assuming those are the ones who get to roll, then seems somewhat random. You might be basing it upon interaction, I'm not sure nor complaining just stating an observation. As if it were for say us saving Horgus, I would think Luciana would get a roll.. but that doesnt seem to be the case. And I assume the combat encounters have some effect on said social encounters. I will say if it continues, assume Verim took a 10.
I've been basing it on verbal interaction with the PC's. I know Luciana has the best diplomacy, but I'm giving everyone who hits an NPC trigger a roll. None of the DC's are over 20, most are over 10.
I've also been trying to provide as many opportunities as possible for the party to hit the triggers. Some of the social encounters to date have been random opportunities, some are planned encounters with xp rewards and specified outcomes based on party response.
Saving Horgus will give a circumstance bonus to improve his attitude, but talking to him is still important. Anevia and Aravashnial have their own set of triggers that can improve or harm their attitudes. You and Tallina happened to give Aravashnial what he was looking for. Tallina's speech also helped with Horgus (who is an ass by nature).
I assumed as much, I didnt even base it on Luciana having the best Diplomacy, just interaction in general.. Either way IC Verim has very little need for diplomacy because he assumes common sense in most situations will get his word across and is not the most skillfull. So for consistency sake thats why I say assume he takes a 10.. for 11 and most likely just assists another person unless he is the only one.. then I might roll depending on DM prompt.
I'm taking a shot in the dark here, is Horgus by any chance claustrophobic? Just a hunch.