Sai Ling's Untitled Campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Sai Ling

true fen but i meant for the classes we have as our party we have a lot of healing potential, and for havok i think it is Infusion discovery that would let others make use of your extracts.

That's the one!

@ Fen: Yes, I was just thinking we should have a chat about that. There IS an unattended parrot on board, as well as a wide array of rats, spiders and centipedes. There is probably a cat or two as well, and I'd believe it if you said there was a monkey stowed away atop the mainmast as well. I'm open to any other familiar that you want, provided you can make a case for it being on a ship at sea.
You could make one of the chickens from the mess your familiar.
There are also stats for dwarf caimans (tiny crocodiles), seals, dodos and giant isopods (jumbo shrimp?) in the module.

Oooh, could you get a talking isopod and have it say: "I'm not a shrimp, I'm a king prawn"?

i think we would have to wait till someone can cast something that would let that isopod talk in common, be it share language or comp language. but still that would be awesome. all bow down to the king prawn

OK
Off to teh RL Pathfinder game, won't (probably) be back til tomorrow.

I think I'm gonna go with the monkey. Seems like it would fit my character and the campaign the best.

then i will get the parrot, even if only as a pet. it has character.

Does the parrot have a wooden beak? :)

Most fun that I've had with any campaign in a long time. I think I need to play goblins more often

I'm saying there is a pi(arrrrrr squared) percent chance the parrot has a wooden beak.

A question regarding transparency. What I'd been thinking is that when you are attempting to win friends and influence people, you dice it out and you roleplay your action, and your results are delivered in the NPCs role-played response (as with Ornotck/Tilly).
This puts you, the player, at a bit of a disadvantage, not knowing the game-effect of your schmoozing, which blinds you a little. On the other hand, it feels like better story-telling. I'm of two minds on it, so weigh in if you have thoughts. Would you guys prefer to be told the status changes in no uncertain terms, or keep it RPed?

I'm fine with keeping it RP'd.

For some reason I want to watch Muppet Treasure Island today. :)

that's my favorite Muppet movie

Tim Curry helps make it awesome.

Speaking of Tim Curry, just watched Rocky Horror for the first time a few weeks ago. It's my wife's favorite movie so I was surprised she didn't get me to watch it sooner. She said that every boyfriend she has ever had was never able to make it past the part where Tim Curry comes down in the elevator in full drag.

So she was happy to know that I thought the movie was awesome

I approve of your wife's taste in movies. My husband had watched the whole thing through before we even met, so I didn't have to make him watch it. :)

And muppet related, but not Tim Curry related, everyone should watch Labyrinth. One of my favorite movies from childhood. :)

We watched Labyrinth right after Rocky Horror as I hadn't seen that one either. Also a favorite of the wife.

Bah. Missed questions when the page turned. Sorry.
YES, Fen, you little lush. Two rations of rum=the effects twice.
Yes, Lorelei, the rum is not your friend. It's there to keep you docile. It's also only a DC 10 stealth to dump it.

@ Havok: To my eternal glory and/or shame, once upon a time, I played Riff (the butler) in a Rocky Horror floor show. It was a lot of fun.
@ Lorelei: I was also a big fan of Labyrinth, and (to bring it back to Tim Curry) Legend, which has defined goblins for me ever since. Sadly, I'm pretty much the only one who sees them that way.

I loved the dance scene with the dress and Curry was great as the Darkness. He does well in scary rolls, I can't watch him as the clown in Stephen King's IT.

Haha, what a funny bunch of players we have here. My wife was a long time attendee to the local midnight showing of Rocky Horror, and dragged me along when we started dating. And yes, I made it through the whole thing.

Funny, I was just talking about Labyrinth yesterday with some friends, who hadn't seen it since childhood and I was making plans to watch it with them to remedy that. Dance, magic dance.

What's weird is a friend at work was talking about seeing David Bowie all the time in the West Village and I completely made a Labyrinth reference moments ago.

Make it a double feature, Labyrinth followed by The Dark Crystal.

But which version of Legend? I personally prefer the original version with the Tangerine Dream soundtrack.

Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought Flash Gordon and Highlander would make a good double feature - all Queen soundtracks!

Who wants to live forever anyway?

Original version for me.

Those would be an interesting double feature. I watched the Highlander series when it was on. (Mostly for Adrian Paul)

I watched Highlander the other year, and was struck by how simple the fight scenes were. No wuxia crap with wires, just two guys beating the crap out of each other with swords in a parking garage. I had a fit of nostalgia and had to watch Iron Monkey.

And oddly, was listening to queen while doing dishes yesterday.

What is the other version of Legend?

Haha! Iron Monkey's great stuff. We put in on in the car while we were driving out of state to do fireworks on the 4th of July.

i say we role play out the relationship and when they do something helpful to us, might put it on a chart to show us who is on our side, or at least who is friendly to who. ie if tally finds me sneaking latter and just ignores it, update the chart to show she is friendly to Ornotck, as an idea. or another idea is a chart to show who has interacted with who of the crew. so we dont have to go through pages of game play to see who we tried to influence or had meaningful interaction with. well other then being whiped

I watched Highlander the other year, and was struck by how simple the fight scenes were. No wuxia crap with wires, just two guys beating the crap out of each other with swords in a parking garage. I had a fit of nostalgia and had to watch Iron Monkey.

And oddly, was listening to queen while doing dishes yesterday.

What is the other version of Legend?

There's nothing different about it except for the soundtrack: the trippy '80s synthpop and pan-pipes was replaced with generic orchestration.

@ Ornotck: well, I'm tracking it, just because that's the joy of being the GM. I was just wondering if you wanted to be informed or just play it out.

Poor Planning Department:
I've never run one of these online before. Thoughts on how to handle the combat map?

I'm perfectly happy to just do it in text and try to be reasonable about things like threatened squares, line of effect and flanking. That means relying on my judgement a lot, which I know my RL group would scream bloody murder about.

There's various options, all of which I'm comfortable with:

• Hand-wave and not worry about it. In a PbP, this is sometimes a good option just to keep things moving more quickly. It's pretty much how we did things back in 2nd Edition and nobody really complained - but then the game has changed significantly since then too.

• Google Docs. You can use a spreadsheet to create the map grid, and use text and colors to define the map. It's not pretty, but it's functional and you can even allow players to modify the map to make their own movements if you desire. example

• Image hosting. Pull the image from the PDF, number the grid, and host it somewhere like box.com, dropbox, whatever. This is the method I've used most when running games, because it allows the players to see the pretty artwork. If you've got some skill, you can also add effects such as darkness, lighting, etc to the map. example

• Combination. I've seen combinations of all these, such as pulling the images from the PDF and then hosting it on google docs with movable tokens for each player. Little bit more work, but the payoff can be really nice. example

Also, I don't mind if you roll initiative for us instead of asking for it and then having to wait for all of our posts, and then all of our turns.

lil cthulhu

I'm fine if you want to roll init for us too.

Same, for rolling init. it should speed things up a lot.

lil cthulhu

This... makes me want to have kids.

ok so this fight what it looks like so far,
round 1
Lorelei cast grease, sy fell down
Odiseo cast cause fear-seems maheem failed
foes
Maheem trys to run but slips on the grease
sy attacks havock from prone and missis
Aretta moves off grease to F5 attacks Lorelei for 3 nonleathal
Fipps trys to trip ornotck and fails
jape hits ornotck for 3 non leathal
Ragnar attacks aretta and misses
fen talks
havok five foot steps back and drinks an extract of shield
Ornotck trys to put a rat in fipps mouth but fails

round 2
Lorelei attacks aretta but misses
Odiseo talks in aklo and uses gift of madness on fipps-fipps fails
foes
fipps hits himself for 3 damage
Maheem runs up to the deck
sy stands up and attacks ornotck for 3 non leathal
jape moves to flank ornotck f3, and trips ornotck
aretta attacks ragnar hits for 2 non leathal
ragnar attacks jape and misses
fen talks
havok bites aretta and gets a crit for 3 damage
ornotck stands and attacks jape missing

round 3
lorelei attacks sy hits for 4 non leathal
odiseo
foes
aretta trys to go up the stairs but slips

only trying to keep things strait. and round three is my understanding of what is going on.

Thanks for the summary - that helps. Also, I love my action: Fen talks.

Extremely helpful.
Probably something like what a responsible DM would post at the top of each new round.
If only we had a responsible DM....

round 3 (updated)
lorelei attacks sy hits for 4 non leathal
odiseo enmaddens(?) Jape
foes
aretta trys to go up the stairs but slips: returns and stomps Havok. So actually, that stomp should be next round
Jape self-abuses
sy and fipp both land punches
havok bites and misses
fen aims to please

While running the Godsmouth Ossuary pbp, I would break it down like this at the top of each round:
Initiative
Kua- 22 (step back)
Zombie- 19 (attack)
Uwais/Waya- 14
Sister Mara- 12
Detressa- 7
Yang- 5
Slotting in who had already declared actions, where they were moving, etc. It does require a lot of book-keeping to DM online, but it does also keep everyone on the same page to have a round by round list and a post to wrap up everyone's actions and reveal the results.

Definitely a good idea, that will be implemented.
Thanks.

House Rule
I use critical fumbles, which work like critical hits.
If you roll a 1, roll the attack again. If you miss again, your bowstring breaks, you drop your weapon, you fall on your butt, etc. To "fix" whatever broke will take your whole next round if you are out of melee (stringing your bow), or make you take a move and provoke an AoO in melee (get on your feet, pick up your weapon). Obviously, you aren't required to restring your bow or get off the ground, it's just the most likely result.

Hey guys and dolls, if anyone is interested in playing a Golarion mobster, check out Voice's campaign. Just post in the recruitment forum or message Voice

The Blood Knives

Currently we are looking for one person, preferably a front liner. This is a CN or evilish campaign.

Not that I'm not enjoying getting pirates to punch themselves, but I can't wait to add some new tricks to Odiseo's repertoire.

Hey that's ok, I can't wait to be able to do...anything ;)

cant you do your hexes without your pet? also funny thought to cast putrefy food and water on that bully's meal when you get your pet. seeing as it is a cantrip.

also funny how as far as we know our orical is just talking funny at the foes. no visible effect after all.

Technically, I suppose I could, but my hexes aren't really combat hexes (yet!). Although if anyone in the party falls I'll certainly help them get back up and probably inadvertently use the healing hex.

Anyways, she doesn't know she's a witch yet. That'll come soon.

Soon, soon, soon.
I'm going to be on the road through the weekend, so pretty sporadic about posting for the next few days. Your tasks for the day:
Fen 1d6 ⇒ 6 It's been a day since Captain Harrigan killed anyone in cold blood. To help stave off his depression, the officers are preparing a feast. You are to slaughter one of the pigs (DC 10 Prof. Cook or survival)
Ragnar 1d6 ⇒ 5 You're manning the crow's nest today. DC 10 climb and DC 10 Perception. Watch out for sea gulls.
Ornotck 1d6 ⇒ 4 Ropework. Hauling, knotting, etc. DC 10 Prof. Sailor or Str and DC 10 Con to avoid fatigue.
Havok 1d6 ⇒ 3 Swabbing the decks. Scrubbing them with sandstone and then mopping. Fun. The good news is, you can't fail. The bad news? DC 10 Str or Con to avoid fatigue.
Lorelei 1d6 ⇒ 1 Manning the bilges. Vile and sweaty work cleaning out the lowest part of the ship. DC 12 Str to do the job and DC 10 Con to avoid fatigue.
Odiseo 1d6 ⇒ 6 Repairs: keeping up the maintenance of all the junk on the ship. DC 10 Dex or Prof. Sailor.

OK, moving your tasks to the gameplay thread. Go ahead and dice out daytime actions (as before) and your jobs and I'll explain the results as I have the time.

we did fairly well for that fight, five days for five rounds of combat. not bad at all.

where'd everyone go? It's so quiet