The Reign of Winter

Game Master Nayr Trebrot

Not me. I figure when we go into init, Ques can cast his spell.

FYI - I live in Wilmington, NC and am in the path of this storm. If I lose power later this week, I may disappear for a bit.

Color spray is a ridiculously overpowered spell at first level...

Awesome! We'll either be killed outright or taken prisoner. I've never felt such a thrill of actually having something momentous happen! Go fey! Go us! What will happen?!?!

As this...ahem, may come up...they do plan on killing you from what you've seen. And, they can each color spray 1/day; 2 of the 3 have used theirs already. Hopefully, we don't have a TPK, but feel free to consider some alternate character option rebuilds in case.

Maybe each of you have long lost twins with exactly the same abilities;)

After the posting yesterday, I'm already working on one. Let's hope it's not needed.

Tpk in the first day of the adventure! Pretty spiffy.

I'm up for whatever happens.

Yes, better now than later. And it's not like I can't come up with another interesting character. But in the immortal words of Monty Python, I'm not dead yet.

Sooooo....no chance that's a 17 attack roll....or it's against touch?

Just trying to eek out a bit on a 17 ac lol

Instead of fighting them you might want to goad them and lead them on a merry chase to buy time! Definitely spread out so that a color spray only gets one of you at a time. Right now we are all AOE meat.

Sooooo....no chance that's a 17 attack roll....or it's against touch?

Just trying to eek out a bit on a 17 ac lol

Nope! A miss!

Instead of fighting them you might want to goad them and lead them on a merry chase to buy time! Definitely spread out so that a color spray only gets one of you at a time. Right now we are all AOE meat.

Not a bad idea. And after missing thrice maybe Ana will consider doing something different!

Also: note to GM - it seems like color spray was meant to have its effects determined on a target by target basis. I think Arsiel should get his own 2d4 duration roll.

Quite right, thanks Ques!

I'm debating druid possibly, depending on what happens and what other folks think.

I was contemplating either a more traditional healer or a samurai. Open to ideas though.

Oh, and of course, it would have to be a non-standard race.

If we do have a TPK, would you guys be willing to build into some roles I have in order to move the storyline along? Specifically, I'd be looking for:

A merc for hire who has taken on with what he's finding to be the wrong group

A woodsy type who works with the High Sentinel Lodge as a scout

A trained troop type who has been sent out by his or her boss to find the Lady Argentea

That sounds fair to me. With the concepts I have, either the merc or trained troop would work. But I am willing to adapt.

Yeah those could work for me

Sure. Ana and Garland are not dead yet. Somehow. Not that they can hit the broad side of a barn. Maybe that's what they are trying to hit, only it's in another county...

As a suggestion being prone actually helps against missiles. Full defense also helps.

Keep them coming Ques. I’ll admit I hadn’t considered either of those options...

:)

It passes the time while my character lies there unconscious!

Yeah, and Reign of Winter is particularly rough...the forums all warned me, but still...geez. And, that doesn't even take into account the environment, which sucks. Don't worry, once you level up, things will get better

Yeah i saw it was hard, but wow

It's been nice playing with you guys.

So about that back-up character...

Lol, darn dice got you again! That, and the fact that these sprites are CE, so they're going to delight in carving you up;)

There's still hope! Maybe...Ques has a BFG stowed away.

As I truly am working on a backup character and thinking of going with the concept you gave of "Trained troop with a boss looking for Lady Argentea", are there specific details you want me to incorporate? Like the name or region that this boss comes from?

Oppara, if you please. You were hired by the Malassene family once word came of her return by canal to the capital city, from Zimar. You arrive in Heldren and hear of her kidnapping, and "boom" plot-hooked

Lol, darn dice got you again! That, and the fact that these sprites are CE, so they're going to delight in carving you up;)

There's still hope! Maybe...Ques has a BFG stowed away.

No BFG. What is a BFG? Big friendly giant? Nope. Just a mostly dead smokey guy and a bunch of useless 1st level summons that may serve to distract them. We shall see.

;) Big "bleeping" gun

Hi all. I’m moving for the next few days so i May be slow to respond. Although both as I’m stunned it may not matter...

Gotcha; good luck with the move!

Thanks! And I’ve got at least two rounds before i can do something helpful.

Who's up at this point?

Unless I'm mixed up, Ques is up with his action. He took an AOO, but didn't act after that. I can bot him; have any suggestions?

I thought I took actions for him. Infernal Healing and collect a missile weapon. Or did we move on from there?

Um. Where's my post. Something ate it!

I guess Ill repost.

No worries man! I honestly was going to bot you at some point, but got busy, so wan't as concerned

The healing hits at the beginning of your turn, I think that's how fast healing works.

K thought so

So...one of the tougher parts about this is that you're not set to advance up a level until after a significant ordeal you have to overcome - at least, by the book. If it becomes a bigger issue, we'll address it, but for now....no level up:(

I wasn't srsly thinking we had even had enough xp-worthy combat or encounters, which is why I asked if we'd hit 1st level. Also a play on the fact we are so terribad, it's like we are 0-level characters. Well, Ana is. Not having the capacity to hit something further than 30' ft away is priiittty silly. I wonder if kinetic blasts can go further than 1 range increment....

I feel your pain, Ana. Garland is the healer that can't stay alive...or heal. Great build there. From what I have seen, kinetic blasts don't work like ranged weapons and have a set range. However, the extended blast infusion can extend to 120 ft.

To me one of our biggest issues is that we are basic characters with zilch for equipment. Usually we would find ourselves faced with an encounter to warm us up and provide some cash so that we could buy cold iron weapons, healing scrolls/potions, and the like in preparation for a tough mission. We went into a tough mission with crap for gear.

Ah, gotcha Ana

Yeah, not many places to find any good loot either - it's "stomp through the snow, fight, then stomp through the snow"

And...you can get back to town before sundown.

Eh. Back when I started roleplaying, we trudged through snow twice as thick as this just to get to the game, and we didn't name our characters until they were 3rd level. Encounters being deadly was all part of the experience.

I'm going to consider retiring Ana and making something new. I'm still undecided. I like Ana's character and I'm fond of the kineticist in theory, but I'm not sure after this whether Ana would want to head out again...

Do you want us to RP the sale of the loot and purchase of items or just list them here? I think the breastplate should go to Arsiel.

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