Dark's Curse of the Crimson Throne: Team Ragtag

Game Master Darkmeer

Here is where we will discuss and everything.

Hi All! Looking forward to gaming with you!

Hello all! Happy to be here! Very curious what was said that got me into this group.

Very happy to be here. Super curious about the AP.

Happy to oblige Riren. Also, I will be posting again tomorrow evening, tomorrow is the first day of the school year, so it will be a busy day. Expect 8-9 pm postings for a few weeks as I adjust. I may be able to post on my lunch at work, too, but not often.

Wow, you go back early. Another couple of weeks before school starts here in the UK.

I need to spend time looking for a different avatar. While the current one works well for a generic sailor/swashbuckler, the coloration is all wrong for Varisian stock.

@Maria: Agreed.

And sadly, Maria, I have kids that I have to get up and go to school and get into a routine. I have to fight tooth and nail every day for a few weeks to make that happen.

@Tawni: I don't mind the Avatar at all. It's a good swashbuckler. I get that it's not particularly Varisian, but hey. Also, sorry about the snipe on the in-character. It was the first chance I had since the forums came back up. Sad nature of the beast, though.

Zero stress. It IS the nature of the beast. That's why I adapted and rolled with it.

I think the new avatar is a better combination for Varisian Swashbuckler, even if the character is older than Tawni.

Sorry for no post last night. The forum issues got me. I will be advancing tonight got. I do not have time for a proper post this morning.

Got me the last couple of days too. I'll get caught up today.

Forums appear to be stable. I will have harrows up tonight when I can access my notes.

I couldn't post at all for the past week.

I sure missed my games! Though a mini vacation was nice.

Thanks all. There will be another delay. I am sorry. My young daughter is puking her guts up and laying on my lap. Notes are on the PC. I am going to be a good dad and comfort her and post tomorrow. Sorry all

I 100% understand. My daughter turned 1 yesterday. 2 days ago she got, what we think is, Rotovirus. She was puking all day.

Then the fun thing happened, where she got better, and both her mom and me are enjoying a 101 degree fevers.

Take care of your little one.

Family first. Always.

I am uncertain how to do so, but with the site issues, I will be setting up a discord server. A player in my other game has done so, and I created this one for this game. Server

Feel free to pop in and provide color commentary. The paizo forum instability makes me want to ensure a way to communicate.

Hi guys. After the Instability I was off grid at a festival. Just got back

Welcome back, I thought we had lost you!

Rule Lawyer hat..

I think summons take 1 round to perform. So you start casting and the summon appears at the beginning of the next round. Which leaves you open to getting interrupted.

Up to GM to decide if that is how he wants to run summons, but that is just something I have had to stick to with my table. Figured I would mention it here.

I have a feat that reduces them to 1 round thanks to my training at the Academae. It was suggested by Alleziella in the recruitment thread.

EDIT: although I have just relooked at the feat and she does need a fortitude check to avoid becoming fatigued.

I will make the check here

Fortitude check (dc16): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11

Ah.. I forgot about that. I guess it's in the Curse of the Crimson thrown players guide too.

It does mean that you have to do a Fort save every time you shorten the cast time. Or you become fatigued. Then make you exhausted if you fail again.

I don't want to be that guy.. so I am going to stop. Summons are something I have always wanted to try out, but they can be such a pain at the table. Very cool though. Either way, death by summon bird!

No, please do be that guy. I am prone to forgetting rules, and I only noticed the fatigue roll because I looked up the feat again to check it after you brought it up.

I am never going to be offended by a friendly rules reminder.

Ok good. Glad I was not too annoying about it. Quick summons is pretty nice, but being fatigued, then exhausted are going to be rough too.

I think its a pretty fun trade off.

Yes. Given the high chance of fatigue I may need to be strategic about when fast casting is actually necessary, although I quite like it - it reminds me of raistlin majere.

I have two sick kids, so probably no more posts today, but I did want to get some advancement going. Sorry for the delay.

No problem. Family comes first

No worries.

On another note, I am going to be going on a mini vacation Thursday Night till Sunday. I don't think I will have internet, but I plan on bringing my laptop to post if I can.

During that time please bot me if I don't respond in time. Though I will try.

An arcane wand of use to anyone else?

I can use it to free up a cantrip otherwise.

As a heads up to all, I have multiple members of my family in the hospital and ER right now. I will not likely be posting until Thursday. My apologies to all. When it rains, it pours.

I am pasting this to all my games.

Wow. Family first. Take care of them.

Take all the time you need.

Oof. I hope things get better for everyone involved, and soon. Good luck to you and yours DM_Darkmeer.

Family first! Take whatever time you need.

That awkward moment when you realize that you missed a lot of things in the discussion thread.

I'm very sorry about your family, GM. Take care!

I also wanted to warn you that I'll be on a student trip from Friday until Saturday. I won't have any access to the Internet during these three days, but will get back to normal on Monday.

Please feel free to bot Ernhild while I'm away, if you need to.

Thank you all for your well wishes. It's been an overwhelming time. My father and grandmother have been very ill at the same time. Nothing is certain yet other than "not cancer" fory grandmother and my father... My father is in another not cancer but bad catergory.

Needless to say, I have been busy with family stuff.

Moving to discussion for this.

PbP is a bit messy at times. Situations like this are even trickier. He is aware of us, not looking.. My character saw him go for a weapon, which sorta triggers the start of combat.

Honestly I am down for whatever DM_Darkmeer wants. I have 0 issue with retcons or having bits out of order. In my games my players often have blocks of text for something that happened awhile back, so backfill RP chances. As long as what we are doing is not bothering Darkmeer I will stick to that plan. Just don't want it to get too messy.

Currently my only issue, and its minor and am able to override it, is the lack of map. I am just having a hard time visualizing it. I think I tend to be an overly visual person. It is less about the specifics of combat, than it is the overall map picture. This is minor, and I am enjoying the game. But if there was ever a vote for "Should there be some form of map" my vote would be yes.

Again, thank you for DMing! And all the players. I am very excited to see where the game goes and how our characters interact within it.

Work is giving me a kicking at the moment. I'll probably not be able to post until Friday. Please bot as needed.

Life threw a couple of curve balls at me the past couple of days. Between my grandmother in the hospital and volunteer work, I am a bit exhausted. I will post a proper update in the morning.

I realized I had not updated this group. My apologies to all.

No problem. I understand that you have a lot on your plate and that this is not your only priority. Work is crazy for me at the moment, so happy to just flow along at whatever pace works for you

It is a problem we all share one way or another at one time or another.

Work has me putting in entire extra days right now, and we just rented a new place, so we're doing the whole moving our lives thing at the same time.

Not the emotional stress of family in the hospital, but a pretty serious drain on time.

It's all good. Totally understand how life comes first. Heck, due to local tornadoes, I just went 26 hours or so without electricity at home. ;)

Yeah, life takes precedence always. My wife and daughter are leaving for a 3 week long trip over seas. the last few days have been frantic packing or me wanting to spend as much time with my daughter before she leaves (only 1 year old).

Don't feel pressure to post if you have family to work with. Family first.

Ok team..

How do we want to track loot? I can make a google doc or something unless there are better ideas out there. Going to need a lot of appraise and spellcraft checks :)

I'm most used to a Google doc, but if someone's got a better idea, I'm all ears.

I've seen a "loot cart" NPC. Not really any easier or even especially better, but I've seen it.

I can set up a google doc later. Later next week if people are willing to wait.

Life is kinda crazy till Wednesday.

Given how fast I went back upstairs, I am pointedly NOT reacting to the head of our employer for now.

Tawni is currently blissfully ignorant. And I don't think I mind.

I find that mildly amusing, Tawni.

Doing some laundry then will be near the PC. Next update is later this evening.

My apologies. Been doing some preparation work, but it is time to knuckle down and focus.

Moving from my apartment to a rented home. Movers arrive Wednesday.

I hope to be reach a new normal schedule by Monday.

I'm not supposed to be without internet except while moving my home network, but . . ..

Understood Tawni. Will both as needed. If something comes up, I expect Tawni would be first in line to jump to protect the children?

There is an encounter table I have made for this.