GM Samy's Strange Aeons

Game Master Samy

While waking in an hour is fine, I do have a question:

I *think* I made my stabilize roll {LINK}, done as a Fort Save because I wasn't sure how, but a natural 18 probably worked anyway. If CON -4, which I guess is Saiya's roll, that would be a 14.

Would that mean Jass' successful healing check would have me awake now?

(If you click the link and find the narrative odd, as I just did, I meant to type "foe," not "for.")

Jass' check would have stabilized you if you hadn't stabilized on your own, but I don't think the Heal skill helps with regaining consciousness.

http://legacy.aonprd.com/coreRulebook/skills/heal.html

No biggie. Waking in an hour then.

Wow! Malarra gets a lot of 20s when the Vixen sleeps. Third in a row, right? If this keeps up, our characters definitely alternate on watch duties!

Heh... I am convinced I have a feast or famine trait with regards to dice... its either really high or really low, rarely in the middle.

(Checking in on my sleeping Vixen, but didn't want to post her saying "zzz.")

Are we waiting on something specific? Like finalized watch order?

I think we're waiting to see if the people behind the barricade answer your question. Once that's done the few people still outside can come into the boiler room and we'll head off to bed.

I'm waiting for an in-game hour to pass so I can wake up with 1 HP.

Though I can't post at the moment, a note regarding the future:

I have houseguests over for the weekend, so I may not be online much, and on Monday my students start school! So going forward, I'll likely check for new posts after work (and probably *not* before work).

Agreed: I think we're waiting on Samy.

I'm flying to London Sunday and Monday - I'll be on different hours while I'm there and on maybe once a day for a week.

@Erisa,
Enjoy your trip!

@Samy,
Haven't heard from you since August 13th. Hope all is well.

Have fun on your trip, Erisa.

In regards to our GM, I did send her a PM about the game a few days back but have not heard anything yet.

I also sent Samy a PM a little over a week ago and haven’t heard anything. I really do hope they’re alright.

If Samy doesn’t return, how do people feel about trying to find a new GM? We’d likely have to do some character rebuilding given the many house rules, but I’m really enjoying this group and would like to continue if at all possible.

I'm fine with that.

I like Samy's houserule for leveling stats, but I imagine a new GM would either need to do their own thing with XP or just level us up at certain points.

I'd like to avoid a rebuild if we can, but I suppose that's a discussion for when we have a willing GM.

I am hoping that this is a non-issue and that Samy will be back soon. Real life happens, after all. That said, if it became abundantly clear that the game needed a new GM and folks wanted to try and replace her, I would want to continue playing. (I like Malarra, truthfully, so I want to see her get her memories back.)

I am not sure how I feel about rebuilding characters. It is true that if the incoming GM didn't want to play using her house rules it might be needed... but I am not sure how we would explain in game how they suddenly got stronger.

Still here. Let's see whether Samy comes back - as Malarra says, RL happens to all of us.

Yeah, I agree there's no rush and I do hope Samy will be back.

My thoughts:
• Give Samy time. 2-4 weeks? I'm flexible.
• No rebuild. It takes no effort for the GM to let us get +2 to each stat every level, whereas it takes a lot of effort to re-stat our characters, potentially making feats we performed previously no longer possible.
• The motive is the love of our cast. In other words, I'm hoping we get a GM who gets that.

I think that makes sense. Still no word from Samy on my end.

Additionally, Dorian is approaching my way, estimated to be coming through tomorrow. Should not be an issue, I am not in a major flood zone, but if I am suddenly quiet for a bit that is possibly why.

Stay safe.

Well, knocking on wood but it seems to have passed us with not too much damage. We got a decent amount of rain and the winds caused us to lose power for about 5 or 6 hours (not too bad restoral times under the circumstances) but we are back up and running again now. Thanks for the well wishes.

Glad all well! I think that means that everyone I am gaming with who was in its path has survived unscathed :)

I'm back from my vacation - I'm really hoping Samy comes back.

Welcome back—and same here regarding Samy. More than anything, I hope she's okay. Whatever her reason for dropping offline, I don't hold it against Samy and I'm glad the rest of you feel that way.

Been crazy-busy myself all week, but I did remember to bring my iPad to pass the hours between dismissal bell and parent meetings last night. For those who care to look:
• sketch drawn yesterday
• and finished today

Has anyone heard anything?

Unfortunately not :(

If at least four of us want to continue, I'm happy to post in recruitment to see if we can find a new GM.

I'm at least one of us! Count me in.

No :(

Still here, still interested in going ahead.

Assuming Erisa that your ‘no’ was just in response to the question about hearing anything and not the one about continuing, that gives us three yeses and three we haven’t heard from yet. Anyone else up for trying to continue?

I am on the fence. I want to keep playing with Malarra and all of you, but part of what made that fun was Samy. Plus any DM taking over might have to have us retool our characters to make sense to him/her, given the house rules would likely change. Not sure how I feel about that.

As such I am abstaining from this vote. I will go with whatever the group decides, but reserve the right to drop if we end up getting another DM and I don't like the direction they want to take this.

oh no, continuing is good - you are right the no was to the, "have I heard anything" question.

^Yay! That makes at least four!

any DM taking over might have to have us retool our characters to make sense to him/her, given the house rules would likely change.

I would hope we would not accept a GM who won't play by the houserules. True, they are unique, but they are not hard to follow.

AP - we add 2 attribute points per level. No effort on the GM's part.

HP - we roll and can opt to buy HP if the roll is less than the mex we can roll. My Google Sheet is actually set up to tell me the cost, in case anyone forgot. (If the GM wants to remove rolling and just give us max HP so we don't need to buy it, that's cool too.)

XP - the new GM can make that up for all I care, as long as we do actually level and get enough gold so I can afford a 1 when rolling for HP.

Everything else (gender, traits, etc.) was char-gen, so the new GM doesn't even need to deal with that. I don't think it's a big ask to want to play with the rules we agreed to up-front. But it IS a big ask for a new GM to have us re-stat our characters.

Recruitment thread is up! Hopefully someone out there will be interested.

Recruitment thread is up! Hopefully someone out there will be interested.

Thanks for taking the lead on this!

Thank you!

Delmoth sent me a PM today asking for access to VV's character sheet. Not saying it's time to uncork the champagne, but I take this as a sign she's seriously considering DM'ing for us.

Awesome! I took a quick look at some of her other campaigns, and I like what I've seen of her GMing style.

Check out the recruitment thread. Delmoth is willing, though she DOES want to change the AP houserule a bit. We get 4 more AP now at Lv.1, but progression is reduced to +1 @ each add'l level. She is also adding automatic bonus progression, HP is not rolled, and XP is we just level when the campaign says we should.

Anyway, I voted yes for Delmoth.

Please look at her post, which states her reasons for adjusting AP (countering MY reasons for leaving it as-is), and make your decisions.

SURE!

Awesome, Miyuki!

It sounds like we get to add 7 AP to our characters now, gaining 1 AP instead of 2 each level. And automatic bonus progression will be nice.

Delmoth will start a new campaign thread in a couple days, as long as we accept her as our new GM.

I say YES! (...to THIS.)

Let me start by saying I have absolutely nothing against Delmoth (as a person, player, or GM) and I think that she will be able to do a wonderful job taking over the helm. And I completely understand her rational for the retool.... but...

1) If I retool Malarra at all I will be too tempted to implement "lessons learned" from the game by changing other things about her mechanically. I honestly would not feel right doing this, but would feel equally wrong only "partially" retooling her. I am not sure if that makes sense at all or not to anyone else, but to me it would feel like I was cheating somehow.

2) I know some folks love ABP but I am in the pseudo-minority that do not. By itself this would not have been a dealbreaker, but combined with the retool it is enough.

So I would be voting no... but we have no other applicants to vote for and I do not want to hold you all up from being able to press forward on this.

I have thought about it and I think I am going to drop... it makes the most sense and is the least obtrusive answer. No hard feeling on my part toward anyone and I wish you all well!

Sorry to hear that Malarra, but I understand. Best of luck to you in future games!

For what it's worth, I wouldn't think you a cheater for retooling with some strategic changes. But if you want to drop, though I'm sorry to see you go, I respect your decision and wish you well in your other games. It was fun sharing a cell with Malarra!

"V.V"

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Is everyone else good with Delmoth? I don't want to keep her waiting too long.

Sorry for if I'm intruding but I wanted to post this here in case some of you weren't following the recruitment post. Link to discussion. Once at least 4 of you have dotted in I'll kick things off in the gameplay thread.

Likewise V... glad I could kill that shifter before everyone got turned to paste.

And I will see you around Saiya.... we are, after all, still running through a crypt together (my face first, ;) )

Good luck all, and thank you Del for taking over for everyone. Like I said, I think you will lead everyone left to greatness and fun (and terror, given the AP).

It's been a crazy couple of days - sorry for not being on since Saturday. I'll catch up today.

No worries Erisa. We're just waking up from our two month long naps :)

lol - I appreciate Malarra's points but I'd like to continue this AP - I like my character concept. I vote yes.

I've looked at the recruitment thread and I'm fine with whatever changes - to me the mechanics aren't the important part. These mechanics are strange enough I'm surprised any DM would take them on.

Glad to hear that, Erisa! We're already in-game now. The rest of us have only posted once or twice so far, having just woke up from an eight-hour rest.

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