GM Dak - War for the Crown 2

Game Master Dakcenturi

With as social as this is for the most part. I'd rather not bot him just so I don't get his character wrong. I was planning on sending him back to the estate at the earliest opportunity.

Dropping a note in all my games. I will be away this weekend, potentially through Monday. Heading to Space Camp with my son for a cub scouts thing so likely won't get an opportunity to post.

I'm aliiiive!!!!

On the road to recovery with respect to work. I've decided to slowly pick up my games again. And this will be my first! Now that it's morning, it seems appropriate that Bimble can catch up, having retired early due to his old age.

So . . . what did the house spirits do to Bimble this time?

Ha! Is it still the house spirits? Sara had lovely dreams and last time they tied up Sara's hair into Rossana's.

Sorry for the bit of delay all. Was sick all last week. Much better now so I've been catching up.

Glad you are feeling better!

As some of you might know, I don’t have home internet access, walking instead to my local library to use their free wifi. Currently, I have a wifi hotspot on loan. The loan expires today, and while I don’t have to return it until the start of May, as I understand it the hotspot shuts down automatically when your loan period ends. With the library closed “until further notice”—‘til early April at the very least—I may be unable to post for the foreseeable future. If this happens, please bot my PC or have them step “offstage” temporarily if that’s more convenient.

Hopefully my hotspot keeps working and there won’t be an interruption in my ability to post…but if it doesn’t, my state’s pretty much in lockdown mode for God knows how long and I have no good posting options. I’m looking into assisted/emergency internet access, but the application process takes some time.

I’m hoping I’ll post to games as usual tomorrow, but if I can’t…Stay safe and I’ll get back in touch when I can.

GOOD LUCK CAPRICIA!!! I hope it stays on! My fingers will be crossed.

If not, we'll see you once libraries are back up. Stay safe as well!

Good luck, but stay safe and healthy first and foremost! Don't worry too much about Capricia in the meantime. We'll have a line of suitors for you to choose from when you're back. XD

Yup, be safe and we will be here.

Good luck, stay safe, and hope you find ways to stay connected to others even while locked down.

Do I roll as well, or do we just take Ros's?

Just one dance partner needs to roll.

Caspian will defer to the majority :)

OK, got a few questions about buying gear and other items. Stachys's Base Value is only 100 gp, but according to the Gamemastery Guide, that figure is for magic items.

Would a darkwood composite longbow (+1 Str)--worth 533 gp--be available? How about light warhorses?

Also, what do we currently have for travel resources? A carriage and horses?

Aside from basic mundane items you aren't going to find a lot in Stachys right now. Though you could find most things you need in Lotheeder, including what you are asking about.

As for current travel yes. You have the carriage, horses and driver for that to get around on long overland trips, but this obviously restricts you to using proper roadways.

Hello all, Sara is going to pick up insightful advice as her feat this level

Insightful Advice

I envision it being her being more of a sounding board for whatever your plans/ideas are instead of her being a fountain of great advice. More words of encouragement. She is a skill monkey so she has lots of trained skills, and the bonus lasts for an entire day(but only one skill), so if you want the bonus it only takes a minute to talk to her. I think it will be especially useful when we are back to working on our Personas.

She is also picking up a rank in dance so she needs dance lessons from one of you great dancers from the ball.

Sara Nole, level 5 bard(wit)
+6 hi points
fcb(+1 spell known, 1st level)
class abilities: On the Ball (may treat all initiative rolls as if it were a 10)
spells: liberating command(1st), honeyed tongue(2nd)
skills(9 - 3 transferred to background skills): bluff, diplomacy, intimidate, know(local), sense motive, stealth
background skills(2 + 3 transferred from skills): perform(dance), perform (oratory), profession(baker) +2, sleight of hand

Had to be a longsword didnt it? And here i am specialised in rapiers... hmm. Dak, since we're levelling could I retrain my daring champion level?

Wizard 5
+8 HP
Feat: Improved Initiative
Bonus Feat: Craft Wondrous Item
Skills: Appraise, Craft Propaganda, K. Arcana, K. Dungeoneering, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, K. History, K. Nature, K, Planes, K. Religion
Spells: Haste, Slow

Sure you have some time to work on retraining.

Oracle 5

HP: +6

Spells:
+1 2nd/day
1 - Positive Pulse
2 - Hold Person

Skills:
Bluff
Diplomacy
Knowledge (Local (+2), Nobility)
Sense Motive
Sleight of Hand
Stealth

Feat: Point Blank Shot

CAPRICIA LEVEL 5 UPDATES

5th level in Swashbuckler
8 hp (6 + 1 Con + 1 FC)
BAB +1 (now +5)
Swashbuckler weapon training +1 (one-handed and light piercing weapons; gain Improved Critical with such weapons)
Feat: Extra Panache (Hey, now I can do actual swashbuckler stuff!)

Skills (6: 4 class + 1 Int +1 skilled; +2 Background)
Acrobatics +1
Knowledge (local)
Perception +1
Sense Motive +1
Stealth +1
Swim +1
BG1 Knowledge (nobility) +1
BG2 Perform (dance) +1

Dropping a note in all my games. I am hoping things won't change too much, but wanted to forewarn my games that there may be some delays in my posting. My work schedule is usually busiest over the summer months and while it is slow right now I know at some point it will get crazy busy when I start getting shipments in of hundreds of new computers for a rebuild of one of my schools I manage. On top of this I am finishing up my dual MBA/MSIS this summer with three classes in a condensed 8-week semester.

All of this to say, I will do my best to keep up and if I know of major delays I will try to notify people (like when it is finals week), but if I do end up disappearing for a few days here or there just know it won't be long term. All the craziness I have going on over the next couple months should primarily be wrapped up near the end of July.

As always, if you need something quick you can generally ping me on Discord.

A little busy, I will find some time to do accounting and crafting; just won't be right away.

Okay, so I'm looking at the loot table finally, seems like we had some unidentified rings on there. Can we assume we've identified them all by now?

Dak--are you the one updating the loot table? It seems like our stuff is there. I'm a little scared to touch the loot table because I don't want to mess up someone else's good work. On the other hand, if something is missing, I want to be able to add it.

I don't add to the loot sheet, I let you all handle that, but yes rings can be considered IDed I will look it up at some point in the not too distant future.

We have an unidentified wand of shocking grasp and a ring of protection +1. We also have the Envoy Ring and Crossbow that are not fully identified.

I wanted to drop a note here to you all, with my busy schedule, I just haven't had the interest or mental bandwidth for my WftC games and I don't see that changing at least for awhile while my classes are going on.

I know I am in other games with some of you and you've likely seen me posting there with more frequency than here, so I just wanted to be upfront and let you know why I hadn't been posting here. My two WftC games seem to generally take the most creative effort and referential work on my part and I just hadn't been feeling it as of late for some reason. So, please be patient and prepare for a bit of lengthy delay. I'm not calling it quits at this point, but I have a feeling that at least until my classes over in another 5 weeks I may not get many, if any, posts in for this game.

While I know it may not be of consolation to you, just know that me taking this off my mental plate for right now has lifted a weight of concern with everything else going on so I appreciate your understanding.

No worries sir, we are at a good pausing point at the moment.

What Sara said. Good luck with your classes.

What Sara said. Good luck with your classes.

Thirded. :)

Understood--thank you for letting us know, and pause until you're done with classes makes perfect sense to me.

Understood. Make sure not to overextend.

Dropping a note in all my games. Finished up with school yesterday, just waiting on the audit for me to officially be done and graduate even though there are no commencements with the whole virus thing. Wife is doing better after brief stint in the hospital. Looking at starting to get back into my games and get posting again sometime this week. My work is really crazy as first kids were coming back on the 17th but now everything is going to be virtual for an indeterminate amount of time, but teachers are coming back still and there is a lot of questions floating out there so bare with me as I ease into catching up on things and getting back into a regular posting routine again over the next week or so.

I’ll be without internet access for a period, so please bot my character during my absence. I applied for assisted-rate access, but the process is taking a while. I’m hoping to be back online in a week or so; if things drag out beyond two weeks, I’ll do my best to find a way to hop online long enough to give an update.

Hope you are doing okay and all goes well with your Internet access.

Does anyone here understand how the loot table works? I'm not sure how the tab marked LOOT compares to all of the other tabs that are separated by category. Shouldn't we have just one or the other?

The tab marked LOOT is the old table, that I'm not sure is updated anymore.

The tab marked Totals, or the Loot Table, works by automatically adding the 'value' of an item to a person's totals when an 'Owner' is typed in for an item in the other tabs, such as typing Rossana in the owner column for a short sword. Unsold items adds the values of all items in the Valuables tab that have 'no' typed into the sold column.

Ah, so I will disregard the LOOT table.

So if I want to start selling all the unclaimed stuff and add up the value, how do I do that? Can I create a person called "Sold" and assign stuff to Sold?

Now you can. In the other tabs, I was simply adding it all and then deleting the items once we agreed to sell to keep the tabs free of sold clutter. However, I just add a calculator to the Totals tab. Now you can type in "Selling" in the Owner column and it will calculate the value in gold for you. Once we sell it, we can delete the 'selling' items to clear up clutter.

Oh great, thank you for managing all this loot, Rossana. Really awesome! I guess what I want to do is to sell all the stuff nobody wants because I can then start crafting gear for folks. Seems like there's a lot of downtime in this particular part of the game so it's a good opportunity. Totally fine with deleting things that are sold.

So I put Selling by almost everything (except there's a Bag of Holding that someone should take), and it looks like we have 13,492.4 in GP. That's over 2k a person if divided five ways.

Are folks still here? With Dak working on getting started again, would be interested in getting a roll call and taking requests for crafting.

Once divided, it comes to 2698 gp, 4 sp, and 8 cp. Call today to get your free share. We will not be held responsible for any mismanagement of funds once it has been received.

As for Rossana, a nice Charisma Headband would do, but that would need Eagle's Splendor.

Present still! Not just to get Sara's share of the money :)

We can add in the cost of a scroll for Bimble to learn any and all attribute enhancements we'd love for him to craft for us. I thought the spell made things easier though, instead of being a hard requirement.

It's just +5 to the spellcraft check if you don't have the spell, for dedicated crafters that's pretty much irrelevant.

Caspian would like a belt of dex. ;) Preferably fancy with his family crest on there.

Yay! Glad everyone's still here!

Missing a spell component = +5 to DC to craft. Right now, base DC for these stat boosting items is 13, so without the spell it's 18, and accelerated it's 23. Bimble's Spellcraft is +12, so taking 10, he can get a 22 automatically. Crafting speed is 1,000 base value/day. So the following should be possible in terms of getting crafting done:

4 days - Headband of Intelligence for Bimble (will increase his Spellcraft and allow for faster crafting)
2 days - Headband of Charisma for Rossana
2 days - Belt of Dexterity for Caspian

And still time for more requests.

Sara would love a cloak of elvenkind and gloves of larceny. Boosting skills that will help her persona.

2.5 days - Cloak of Elvenkind and Gloves of Larceny for Sara.

We can assume Bimble will craft for Capricia whatever she might want.

Hello folks,

With permission from Dak, I am changing the Level 5 feat I just got from Improved Initiative to Craft Magic Arms and Armor. So there's a greater variety of crafting available. If you'd like more or different crafting as a result, just say the word!

Checking back in.

You folks were very kind to Capricia early in the campaign, so she's got most of the gear she needs to be fairly successful already, so if anyone needs some extra funds for something, she'd be willing to hand over some gold.

If everyone's set, a belt of Dexterity might be nice. Otherwise, maybe she should think about magicking her falcata.

I'll check back in before the weekend, but I've got catching up to do in my other games as well.

Welcome back, Capricia!

Between the gold you just got and the gold you already have, it should be possible to both get you a Belt of Dexterity and magic your falcata.

2 days - Belt of Dexterity for Capricia
1 day - +1 Falcata for Capricia

I touched base with Dak earlier today and he's tested positive for COVID and has been sick and out of commission for awhile and he still remains sick. He said to let everyone know he'll be back when he recovers.