Guys go with the spirit of this or I'll have to vet every piece of gear. Part of this set up is you are supposed to not have all of your starting gear. Fredric is going to find a hole in his bag with a lot of gear gone in the fall.
No one should have more than a days worth of food.
Cards on the table I think they mean for the party to start off at an incredibly low point before climbing to heroic heights... lean into the misery, you'll be happier for it in the long run.
Righto! How about my gear minus the fighters kit then?
That'd be fine.
I practice what I preach on this I am playing an arcanist who joined a game at level 2... someday I hope to get my gear from the inn back... fairly sure that horse got eaten though.
"Not on person
Light Crossbow, Crossbow Bolts, Cold Iron (20), Crossbow Bolts, Alchemical Silver (10), Mwk Backpack, Compass, Scroll Case, Gear Maintenance Kit, Potion of Cure Light Woundsx2, Travellers Any Tool, Light Warhorse Combat Trained, Leather Barding"
Fair enough. I think some stuff lost is the best option for Fredric as I envisioned him basically having just arrived. And he could plausibly have not realised this yet, being both focused on immediate threats and not very perceptive.
Well, if we're supposed to have very little gear (as opposed to what we would have been carrying that day) I'll happily leave more stuff behind than I mentioned in the gameplay thread.
Claire was intending to try to join the crusades today (which is why she has all of her combat gear instead of just her rapier and scrolls), but I'll pretend she forgot her bow and arrows at home in her excitement, and that her holy water shattered in the fall. I imagined her as that teenager who carries her backpack with personal effects in it everywhere, so no one (MOM) snoops into her journal or her makeup kit or anything. But, I'll instead say she left it behind for the occasion. I had already lit a torch before you mentioned we might not have everything so I kept it.
That reduces her gear to:
cold iron rapier, scroll of cure light wounds (3), scroll case on belt, hide shirt, buckler, belt pouch containing chalk (pink, purple, yellow, white) and charcoal, Mom’s lucky tankard (on belt), amber necklace from an absent father, two pendants from the competitions, silver holy symbol of Cayden Cailean (belt buckle), waterskin, boozeskin, and a lit torch
...well when I say little gear... of a normal sort... their lives have taken a turn for the strange...
I bet this is the earliest in a campaign anyone has gotten a minor artifact?!?
Here's my list of gear, with anything on my person in bold. Anything else is under the care of my NPC sister.
Greataxe
Dagger (x2)
Chakram (x3)
Scale mail
Silver holy symbol
Backpack
Bedroll
Belt pouch
Crowbar
Holy text (adventuring, x1; cheap, x2)
Flint and steel
Hammer
Iron pot
Iron spike (x3)
Mess kit
Rope (hemp, 50 ft.)
Signal horn
Soap
Trail rations (5 days)
Waterskin
Whetstone
Potion of cure light wounds
On Hand
studded leather
arrows (20)
arrows (blunt) (20)
arrows (blunt) (cold iron) (20)
arrows (cold iron) (20)
bardiche[APG]
dagger (2)
longbow
spiked gauntlet
wooden holy symbol of Erastil
16 gp
Missing backpack, bedroll, belt pouch, flint and steel, hemp rope (50 ft.), holy text (Erastil)[UE], mess kit[UE], pot, soap, thieves' tools, torch (10), trail rations (5), waterskin,
Has
Combat Gear
Cold Iron Bastard Sword
Cold Iron Cestus
Dagger
Scale Mail
Doesn't
Backpack, a bedroll, a belt pouch, a clay mug, a dagger, two fishhooks, a flint and steel, a sewing needle, a signal whistle, 50 feet of string, 50 feet of thread, a waterskin, a week’s worth of trail rations, and a whetstone.
Not a one smite evil so far on the undead... I am surprised!
I didn't even think of that...Frederic! You know what to do!
Can't waste a 1/day resource on a simple undead mook!
At least, I hope it's a simple mook...
Yeah, assumed others would do that, which would lead to overkill.
There's a joke about overkilling undead in there somewhere...
Frederic needs to have his dice exorcised.
Damn straight! I imagine that blow will smash scenery no problem.
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Especially evil scenery.
If anyone sets up a loot doc put it here and I'll link it up top!
I would have volunteered by now, but I can't see Google Sheets at work, so I wouldn't be able to keep it updated outside of evenings.
I made a sheet here and put everything on it. It's not fancy like the other one (a master of spreadsheets I am NOT). It doesn't contain anything that I was sure someone claimed: Davok used a potion of cure light wounds and kept the other, Claire claimed a potion of cure light wounds and lesser restoration since no one else wanted it. Claire also claimed two pieces of jewelry that she's wearing, but she won't keep. They're still on the list so that we can sell them at a later date. And Sariel, did you claim the arrows? I think so, but I wasn't sure so they're still on the loot list.
Everyone take a look at the unclaimed loot and take whatever you want. Remove it when you do. Of particular note is the masterwork backpack, the caltrops, and the masterwork warhammer.
And... I think that's all I need to say. Haha.
Oh! And I almost forgot!
This weekend is Thanksgiving so I will very likely be unable to fit in a post. I’ll be back to regular posting on Tuesday. Feel free to bot me if needed (with great flair and panache!). Thanks for understanding, and I hope you have a great weekend!
I'll take the backpack. Kaeldron will gladly lug whatever we find around for the party. With Str20 and a masterwork backpack he should be able to handle the weight.
Thanks for the spreadsheet, and have fun!
Sariel will indeed claim the arrows. Thanks for setting this doc up!
Woohoo! +1 to hit at this level is huge.
#blessed
Indeed! That was quite worth being pious for a day
Cheers Claire!
Since the dwarf is ranting about hidden bodies I'll remind the all Paladin party that detect evil has conditions and reacts to different creatures differently... normal humanoids wont register under it unless they have four hit dice or higher (bar them being clerics, antipaladins etc).
An interesting meta-question is whether our characters are aware of those limitations. Presumably, they've possessed the ability to detect evil for a period of time prior to now, and it's reasonable to assume they would have an empirical basis to know that sometimes humans register as evil, and sometimes they don't. On the other hand, we're only level 1 paladins, so there's also an argument that we don't understand our full potential or the limitations of our abilities.
I say this because it came up in another game, where the paladin player didn't understand what a "faint" evil aura means, and their character then took that to mean that the target wasn't entirely evil, but redeemable. That was an interesting moment because it was actually the player who misunderstood the nature of the spell, with the character applying their own interpretation to the result.
Generally I'd say you know how your spell works but people can feel free to imagine their fresh faced paladin might not grasp the fine details.
Yeah, mine does't know jack. It's kind of her thing. Haha.
Yeah, mine does't know jack. It's kind of her thing. Haha.
Yeah, are you sure Claire's Intelligence is 10? That seems... off. :)
Anyway, my head-canon for the HD and creature type affecting detect evil is it represents how redeemable they are. An undead or outsider is highly unlikely going to be able to see the light, so it's safe to make judgments based on a detection spell. Higher levels of anything else are more set in their ways and unwilling to give up on the philosophies and methods that allowed them to achieve the power.
Divine design, maybe.
Ha! There's a reason I gave her 8 Wisdom...
She's a chosen one so... yeah...
So, Claire's not going to claim any of that recent loot at the moment, but she will after she recovers. Does anyone want anything out of the dwarf's gear before Alistair shoves some of it at her? There's a cloak of resistance in there.
None for me, I think.
Is Claire the only one with a UMD skill worth anything? If so, she might want to hang onto that scroll of resist energy.
I'll pass on the cloak for now since I'll usually be staying back, out of melee. Not that I won't want one eventually, but let's prioritize the front-liners first.
But when that +1 longbow comes along I'm jumping on it!
Fredric's made some suggestions: cloak to Davok, crossbow to someone who can shoot.
I see no reason why Sariel should not get first pick of longbows. :)
I’ll take the potion of CLW to replace the one I drank
Yup! Claire's got UMD. She'll take both the scrolls and the dagger. I'm fine with Davok taking the cloak if he wants it. I don't have a ranged weapon right now, so she could take the crossbow, but only if no one else wants it. She's not a great shot and she prefers her rapier.
Paladin morals fight!!!!
All right, Davok will take the cloak.
Paladin morals fight!!!!
Hooray!
Yay!
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I think some gear would be welcome, but Davok at least can't afford what he wants, which is a backpack, bedroll, 6 days worth of trail rations, and 50 ft. of hemp rope.
And I'm not sure if Freric can afford what he wants, which is a backpack, rope and grapple hook.
So let's try this. Anyone who wants to buy anything here, total up how much it is. Then we'll add the total together and we'll trade double the worth of that from the current loot sheet. (I'm assuming we'll have to double it, since mechanically we'd sell it at half price for gold.)
Davok: 7gp 1sp
Fredric: 4gp
Claire's going to trade in the dwarf's statuette. Since it's a trade good it should count as 75 gp to spend here. (It's the cheapest useless item we have).
Claire wants a backpack full of rations, a bedroll for each person, flint and steel, and 6 more torches.
No time to of the math on that right now. I will in a few hours.
Do they have holy water here?
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Backpack (2 gp)
Bedroll (1 sp x 8 people = 8 sp)
Candle (1 cp x 10 = 1 sp)
Flint and steel (1 gp)
Hammer (5 sp)
Piton (1 sp x 10 = 1 gp)
Torch (1 cp x 10 = 1 sp)
Rations (5 sp x 7 people x 5 days each = 17 gp 5 sp)
Waterskins filled with water (1 gp x 8 people = 8 gp)
Small barrel of fresh water?? cost?
= 31 gp
Added with Davok and Fredric's purchases that makes 42 gp and 1 sp
Other purchases?
(Note that if we're not going to spend all 75 we can trade a few platinum instead. We have 8 platinum pieces and some gold at our disposal if they'll take coins).
Good list Clare!
Fredric is not overly wise...
That and her words were confusing him. Just because you think someone is something, that doesn't necessarily make someone else something too. He...kind of understood? Maybe?
Hey, those are words of wisdom right there! It makes total sense. Haha.
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About the loot: since no one had anything else to add we'll pay them in coin instead of trading the idol. Claire will give them 4 platinum and 3 gold. I've already removed the coin from our inventory.
Any volunteers to help Claire carry it all? (I'm volunteering all of you! Haha.) Claire needs someone to carry the hammer and ten pitons, and everyone to chip in to help carry the bedrolls, food, and water.
Kaeldron will carry anything needed, no problem.
Yes, of course. Since I can't see the loot sheet from work, just tell me what I need to add to my character sheet, please.
Did we really have over 4 platinum in coins we've looted so far?
Yup! We had eight. Plus seven gold.
Wrath discussion
Claire could draw her weapon as part of her move and then standard action attack.