GM XaveTheNerd's Emerald Spire Full Run (Inactive)

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K. I'll get the chronicles fixed after my midterm tomorrow and we should be set to begin exploring the second floor. Recently played it and enjoyed it. I've got a few things I'll do differently than my GM though. Should help add to the experience.

Will update here when I've fixed the chronicle sheets.

Okay. Chronicles updated. I'll begin set up for the next level of the Spire and make the first post in gameplay. In the meantime, if there's STILL a problem with the chronicles, let me know.

Also, this floor can be a trudge here in PbP. I'll try out a few things. Let me know if I'm going to fast or slow once we actually find something.

Assuming Merritt relays that information and doesn't want to go first.

This sounds like a great module to establish a "standard door procedure" for our exploration. I propose that Merritt always search for traps (Perception +7, +1 trapfinding) and Torrak always open the door. @GM I'm perfectly comfortable with you rolling for Merritt's part of this if it helps keep us moving.

I'll add detect magic to the SDP™. And also suggest that unless we have obvious time constraints, we take 20. I'm GMing a dungeon crawl right now and once the party's picked their next door, just assume the perception/traps/locks person take 20. Well except on traps because you can't. But you get what I mean.

No arguments here!

Nor here.

A hearty apology. I appear to have come down with the flu (or a REALLY bad cold). It didn't give me any warning, so I was bedridden the entire weekend, there. Took all my effort to finish my assignments, so didn't have time to post here.

Welcome back :D Glad to hear you're on the mend.

No worries! I had some kind of thing that wiped me out for a good 5 days a couple of months ago. No PbP, no nothing. I was dead to the world.

General heads-up to all my PbP groups: I have a local PFS con Friday 4/12 and Saturday 4/13 with games from 8am-10+PM MST. I don't foresee being able to update my PbP games during this time (these twice-yearly cons are fun but also kinda grueling).

I'll try to get some basic botting up for my PC games. My GM games probably won't be updated until Sunday or Monday.

My parents will be in town this weekend, so a lot of my time will be spent with them. On top of that, I'll be GMing the entirety of the Ruby Phoenix Tournament from 8am to 10pm Friday at a local con (same one as Zelphar), so I will very likely be unable to post Friday, and the possibility of posting Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are still up in the air. In my Player games, please bot where necessary. In my GM games, thank you for your continued patience. I REALLY hope everything goes back to normal come Tuesday.

Enjoy! :D

No problems here; my posting goes down on the weekend as a rule anyway. Enjoy your con!

I'm getting sick of these interruptions.

Final week of my final undergraduate semester, and 2 of my 3 classes released 2 surprise homeworks. I THINK I finally have time to spare, again, so I'll be able to post tonight once I get back to my home computer with the scenario on it.

Gah! This looks so bad on me to just vanish so much.

Sorry again.

No worries GM, keep it up!

Hey all, I apologize for being MIA again. I’ve had some life/work issues I don’t really want to get into but they’ve kept me from my PbP games for a few days and I’m sorry. I’m not going to bail on our game; I’ll catch back up when I can, hopefully by tomorrow.

No worries Zelphar!

My finals are done. Bachelor's degree complete. PbP should officially go back to daily posting on my part by the end of the week.

Congratulations!

Now go have fun! :D

Hi team, my apologies for disappearing at the end of last week. My life took a bit of a messy turn, but I'm getting it back on track. I don't know that I'll catch up entirely today, it may be until tomorrow or Thursday until I get get back on track with all of my games. Thanks for any botting you've done, and please feel free to keep botting until you see a post from me in Gameplay. Thanks!

...we healed after that last fight, right?

I... think so? It’s been quite a long time and I usually assume folks “heal” themselves even if my character is the one tapping the wand.

I thought read magic (which I have prepared) lets you auto-succeed on identifying scrolls.

Yup, it does. Merritt doesn't have read magic (as an alchemist), so needs to make the Spellcraft check instead.

Decipher the Writing: The writing on a scroll must be deciphered before a character can use it or know exactly what spell it contains. This requires a read magic spell or a successful Spellcraft check (DC 20 + spell level). Deciphering a scroll is a full-round action.

As a nice (well, nicer) GM, if the question of "were we healed" is asked. I TYPICALLY respond with "yeah." Especially in Play by Post where I can easily move things on too quickly and things can be overlooked due to duration of things.

Thanks GM!

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8 2 charges to get back to full, current damage has been resolved in my tagline.

Tseghet, are you the only one with a Wand of CLW? I will spend 2PP after this level to get the party another one. Or a wand of Infernal Healing so, theoretically, we could have two people administering healing when we need it.

I think we all discussed getting the wand off the previous chronicle with 20 charges. Since we're all in this together, it makes more sense to just take charges off our own wand unless someone specifies otherwise.

D'oh, thank you Tseghet. I had forgotten all about it!

Should we discuss our trapfinding strategy? Merritt doesn't have the Trap Sense/Danger Sense ability that detects traps automatically. We established a pretty good door strategy, but it's clear now that's not enough!

How do we want to approach halls? Mechanically speaking, Take 20 to move down a hallway would take forever.

Thoughts?

Well, what's everyone's Take 10? GM, would you allow everyone to assist Merritt's Take 10 Perception check with everyone else's (looks like a 23 in total)? That would certainly speed things along.

EDIT: A lvl 2 Trap Breaker Alchemist should have trapfinding, giving a total of 24

Yes, he has Trapfinding (the bonus to Perception vs. traps) but doesn't get the rogue class ability that lets you check vs traps within 10' automatically.

I'll allow the take 10 for the main, but the rules call out that you can't take 10 on a skill check to aid another (or everybody would almost always be aiding). So a take 10 from others, plus the rolls from the other 3 is perfectly acceptable. Just note that all of the halls here are 2x2, so the two in the back ARE at a -1 due to distance.

All this together to say: I'll allow take 10 plus rolls to aid from now on. This means you're moving 10 feet every 6 seconds, assuming you're constantly doing it. I need to know if you plan to do it through all the rooms, or just through things that are notably hallways and passageways?

I suspect that since we do not yet have long term buffs up yet, that we will probably do this all the time.

Any other thoughts?

In Torrak's world, metal stuff isn't going to care about getting a little toasty. He is 100% unconcerned with scrolls or anything else that could be flammable (at least at this point ins his mercenary career). Torrak thinks this is a great plan, but feel free to disagree! :)

No post tonight. I've got a big interview tomorrow. Wish me luck!

GET. THAT. JOOOOOOB!

Best of luck!

Torrak's got a flint and steel, so we could just use that to light the torches.

Sorry for disappearing like that. Been stressing out about whether or not I've gotten the job I got all the way through the interview process for. And I did! Yay!

So, I've finished finals, graduated, and gotten a job. Hopefully, as life stabilizes, I'll get back to regular posting. Thanks for holding out as my life gets all turbulent.

Grats on getting the job! I'm anxiously awaiting an offer myself. I had two interviews and I felt like they went really well, so fingers crossed...

WOOOO! Time to celebrate! Congratulations GM!

Posting this in all of my games:

As of yesterday, I have moved to London!

1. This should not impact my posting regularity, but it will change when I can post (around five hours earlier now).

2. If you live in London and enjoy playing with me/in my games, shoot me a PM! I'd love to get involved in the local PFS, a homegame, or even 5e (although I'd be brand new at that).

Welcome to this side of the pond! I'm a few more hours east in HEL, but let me know if you ever run a Roll20 or other "live" online game!

To all: My new job starts up on Monday, and my main home game moved to Tuesday nights, so things may get skipped and such as my schedule begins to finally settle down. I will still attempt to post every day during the week, and now that I've not got 3 games over the weekend, I should be able to get a post out once a weekend, too.

Thanks again for dealing with my absences during this strange transitional period. A LOT of things have changed for the better.

Gonna see if the explosion reveals anything before posting! If, for some reason, I need to be botted to keep this moving, Torrak will do his best to smash the spider!

Hey y’all, I need to apologize again for the absence. I’m still going through some rough stuff in my real life and haven’t been able to make PbP a priority. But I really do want to continue to participate. I’ve had a lot of fun so far and I want to get back to it.

I intended to post right now but my laptop must have accidentally gotten unplugged and is dead (I took it to the park for some peace and quiet and pleasant surroundings). I have my home adventure path group tonight but I fully intend on posting tomorrow and get back to posting regularly.

I do feel bad about my delays of late. It’s like the longer I wait, the worse I feel about wasting your time and the more I dread trying to get it done. Anyway, like I said, I fully intend to post tomorrow and continue posting regularly..

Hang in there Zelphar! You can do it. Looking forward to when you can post regularly.

Dear all. I'm in the process of changing my sleeping schedule, so please forgive a few dropped posts here or there.

As such I'll be changing my posting time to after I wake up instead of before bed. To you, this should be about a 6 hour change forward (I used to post at 12:30am MST, now I'll hopefully be posting at around 6:30am MST.

Hi team! Festival season is upon us; I am going to be camping in the woods without cell service from now through Sunday PM. Please bot me as necessary!

Sorry all. I keep leaving my copy of Emerald Spire at home, and then I forget to post when I get home. I'll have to get myself a PDF now that payday is upon us.

Until then, I'll try to post at home again.

I will be on vacation with limited to no internet access. I'll post if I can, but otherwise will need to be botted. Regular posting will resume on July 2nd.