A Push of the Fates.... Zakhara... You Jewel!

Game Master Insnare

Hi, is everyone still here?

Yep, still here. Just haven’t had anything to add.

I'm here. It's the weekend, so waiting till the week starts for people to comment.

Still here too!

Yep, just been busy.

Coming back from vacations ;)

Sweet, feel free to attack...

Yessir!

Is there anything I can do to stabilize Nura?

You can use the Healing Proficiency but since you are not proficient where a character would normally be able to give the injured character 1d3 Hp, here I will allow you to staunch the bleeding and stop her from dying.

If I were to cast a sleep spell right now, would it also affect the rest of the party?

You can angle it so you can avoid the party but do not forget to roll 2d4 to dictate what HD of enemies you can put to sleep.

Okay.

I'll do the healing since I'm still waiting on my gen.

Hi, I put a map of NW Zakhara in the Campaign Info tab. I marked where Muluk is, the Weeping Desert is and Al-Anwahr.

Zakhara Map

Huzuz is pretty far.

Not getting anything but a blank image at that URL... is that happening to everyone, or is it me?

Zakhara

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Zakhara?file=Zakhara.jpg

Okay, thanks... I also looked up Huzuz here

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Huzuz

and compared it to the bigger map so I could see where it was. I appreciate you giving us links so we could picture it. :)

Huzuz is the capitol of all of Zakhara, which is run by the Grand Caliph, whereas Muluk is run by the Calipha. The party has not done desert trekking in awhile so it should be fun.

So basically, the group needs to purchase camels and supplies for the trip. You do have food stores and water on your ship and I think Nura and Fadilah have either donkeys or camels. Agrammar has a mount as well. If you have looked at the maps, you will be marching inland following the river until Sakina Falls and continuing towards Talv.

I am waiting on an Fadi with an Identify spell to dole out XP for the last adventure.

FYI, I am going to be on vacation from this Friday through next week. Feel free to bot me, or have my character get sick and unable to get out of bed, or whatever. :)

HI, does anyone have any questions? You can either tell me what you want or I could put together a "Ye Olde Fast Pack" sorry had to do the Lost City reference.

I suppose that a DM-made pack of desert equipment that we could buy would speed things up. :)

I agree. Should the reference be taken to infer that we are about to embark upon that classic adventure?

At this point, the group should be leaving to find the scroll for Hanoushin. Also looking to get clues on where Yodfah is.

I figure each of you will get two camels, one for riding and one for carrying supplies. Each camel is listed for 75 gp for a desert one x 10 = 750. Lets' round all of the supplies to 1000gp. Which gives each player 200gp to play with to kit themselves out. Agrammar might have a little more because he does not need a camel.

Any questions?

Sorry, I got pretty sick last week and for a hot minute it looked like I would wind up in surgery. My doctor told me to tough it out and I have some tests on Thursday.

I am glad you are ok!

Hope you are feeling better Fadilah.

Guys, I need your help - I am having a hard time remembering the AD&D rules. My character sheet is still not complete, etc.

Will you give me a hand? Looking over my alias and let me know what I am missing? For starters I do not think I have any gear - what is the starting wealth? :P

I know I found the rules online somewhere, not just AD&D (which I did find on a website), but for this sub-setting "Al-Qadim Arabian Adventures" (which I found in PDF form).

I have no idea where off the top of my head though, sorry. And it wouldn't do any good to have me look over your sheet... this is reaching pretty far back for me too, so I am mostly just faking it and looking stuff up when I get stuck.

This site is good for the majority of rules AD&D

Starting gold is standard times your level.

Agrammar, it seems like your crunchy stuff is legit but you need armor, weapons and equipment.

Thanks for the audit guys! And for the link GMEDWIN.

I will look into equipment now.

Ok, I am going to hand out XP for the Adventure "Invitation to a Funeral"

Surving the bushwack = 250 xp
Ghast Raschid =700
Ghouls x 4 = 700
898 gp= 898 xp
2318 sp = 232xp
5278 cp= 53 xp

Locating Muli = 250
Muli = 975
Mustanir =975
Forcing Hanzala to withdraw = 600
Retainers x 3 = 105
Bringing Muli to justice =500 xp

= 6238 xp divided by 5 =1248xp each

There may be a little extra XP due to some other GP that I may have forgotten but if you are able to level up please do so.

Since I fulfill the prime requisites for my class, I get a 10% XP bonus, right?

yes

No level up for Nura. :(

No level up for me yet either.

Hi, it seems that Fadilah and Zairiah definitely should level up. Agrammar maybe.

Hurricane time. Please be patient and, gods willing, I'll see you on the other side.

Sorry Nura. Let us know when it is past so we know you are okay.

Level Up:

HP: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Put points into find/remove traps, pick pockets, and climb walls:

Pick Pockets: 40%
Open Locks: 95%
Find/Remove Traps: 75%
Move Silently: 20%
Hide in Shadows: 10%
Detect Noise: 20%
Climb Walls: 65%
Read Languages: 20%

Backstab goes up to x3

THAC0 goes down by one (18 / 16 with bow)
Saving throws go down (now PPD 12/RSW 12/PoP 11/Breath 15/Spell 13)

Err, I think that is all? Am I missing anything?

I am still trying to discern if Aggrammar levels up or not :P

Money: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 1) = 11

110gp starting money
Level 4 = 440gp

Armor:
Chain Mail 75gp
Shield --

So my regular AC should be 4 (9 if with Shield only) I believe. Should I go for the Banded Mail at 200gp?

EDIT: According to my math, and the initial posts when we were recruited, Aggrammar should now have 7600XP+1248=8848, which puts him in Fighter3/Cleric3 land. Wohoooo!! I will level him as soon as possible.

From the Al-Qadim book:

While adventuring in the AL-QADIMTM
campaign, characters wearing armor better than
studded leather or ring mail—that is, better than AC
7—suffer a penalty to attack rolls, as well as to
proficiency and ability checks. This penalty is -1 per
class of armor better than 7. Hence, an AC 6 character
suffers a -1 penalty to attack rolls as well as proficiency
and ability checks, and an AC 5 character suffers a -2
penalty to the same. A fighter in plate armor with a
shield, who is Armor Class 2, suffers a -5 penalty to
the rolls noted above.
These penalties apply only to Armor Class ratings due
directly to items that are worn. Natural Armor Classes
are unaffected. For example, a lizard-man in Zakhara is
still Armor Class 5. He suffers no penalties unless he
dons a suit of heavy armor, in which case he would incur
a -1 penalty for every level of improvement.
Bonuses due to an armor’s magic rather than its
weight or strength also do not count toward this
penalty. For example, if Fatima dons a suit of +2
leather, her Armor Class becomes 6, but she suffers no
penalties. If she wears a suit of +4 field plate armor, her
effective Armor Class becomes -2, but she suffers the
same penalty as a character wearing normal field plate:
-5. In other words, a character wearing magical armor
suffers no more penalty than an individual wearing
normal armor of the same type.

There is a set of lamellar armor that is magical but its exact nature has not been discerned.

Ok, then I will go with studded leather or ring mail. Don't want any penalties.

Why is ring mail so much more expensive?

Going out of town this morning, be back tomorrow night. If anything happens in the meantime other than a peaceful sleep, Zairiah will help, but someone might have to roll for me.

Gonna be spending all weekend moving a bunch of stuff and won't be available until Monday.

Moving is always so... Fun (not) :P