GM SpiderBeard's Fall of Plaguestone: Group Two (Inactive)

Game Master Barvo Delancy

What am I doing right now, crawling through/under the pile of rubble in the room we're all in? That's what I inferred from your description.

Yeah. Basically consider the debris an impassable solid mound that has had a tunnel bored through it. Within the tunnel you have found a cave-in trap, and at the end of it, a hatch leading underground.

Hey, just out of curiosity, how close are we to level 2? In a general sense? Half way, pretty close? Long ways to go? Just wanted to get a feel for how we are doing.

All y'all butts should be clenched for level two. The upcoming encounters are the last before you level up.

Cool, thanks!

I'm getting Diplomacy trained... Didn't realize it would be such an essential part of L's personality!

I'm getting Diplomacy trained... Didn't realize it would be such an essential part of L's personality!

The best adventuring parties are workplace comedies where the office equipment is swords. :)

Hey guys life is lifing so no updates until the weekend or Monday. Thanks for your patience!

Do what you have to, hope what ever it is goes well.

I've been enjoying the game guys and gals. Hope we can keep it up.

Yep! Here and at it! Thanks Nosh :)

Oh, that wasn’t a prod. Just glad to have a good group!

+1

Hey team. I added a "Tactical Auto-pilot" section to Laurel's character profile (at the bottom), in the event someone needs to temporarily run him in my stead. Cheers!

Oh, that's good. I have some pre-formatted rolls in place on my profile (they're under the spoiler marked 'FIGHT!'), but maybe I ought to see if there's any way to put together some basic turn combinations like you did.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Thanks!

Posting this in all my games (GM and player):

My wife just had our third baby, a little bit ahead of schedule. my posting will be off and on for the next few weeks as i stay home and help my wife. i will still post when able, but posting consistently in multiple games takes a chunk of time, which i will not have for a little bit.

thank you for your patience! if this is a game where i am a PC please feel free to bot me. if this is one of the games i am running, thank you for your patience. feel free to fill the dead space with RP or discussion or just wait for my posts to return!

thanks all

Congrats and good luck, man!

Woo! Congratulations! I'll keep you on GMPC until further notice. :) No need to fret, we aren't going anywhere.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Enjoy!

I’m contemplating a rogue dedication dip. Any thoughts? So far it looks like it probably won’t have a huge impact good or bad.

Just figured I'd check in to say that I'm following what is happening, I'm just unconscious right now so there's not a whole lot I can do. I believe in you guys!

I am very uninformed on how death/unconsciousness/all that works in this edition, but don't you get some manner of roll to make each turn, to see if you stabilize (or, gods forbid, get worse)?

(scurries off to open his CRB)

Good point! Thankfully I stabilized (assuming I was only at dying 1 to begin with)

Awesome! Thank goodness, literally! :D

For the record, here are the relevant rules on AON.

The short of it is that you go to 0 hp and gain the dying value. The dying value increases every round through flat checks until dying 4, where you die.

If you are brought back, you come back as 'wounded' and if you go to 0hp again, that means your dying value is higher.

If you are knocked out by a crit, you start at dying 2.

Re: Rogue MCD - The second level Wizard Feats are Cantrip Expansion, Conceal Spell, and Enhanced Familiar. So, unless those first two are appealing, looks like picking up two additional skills (perhaps two Lore skills?) plus Surprise Attack might be worth the opportunity cost?... Nosh does have a bit of a "rogue" vibe so there's also that...

Yeah, Conceal spell is giving me pause. It would be cool to be able to disguise when I'm casting spells. So many feats, so little time.

Sorry guys busy couple of days will resumes posting tomorrow or day after.

Cutting in to briefly gush about how I love how epic 2e boss fights are. I've run a handful of boss fights in my in-person games and this is the first in my PbP games and they all feel like serious life or death battles.

The criticals help, ho boy. This sure feels brutal!

I didn't realize I was going to be this crap on damage. I feel like I'm not helping hardly at all. It might just be my spell choice. This is my first prepared caster so I'm having to adjust to that.

All in all, I think I like 2E so far.

The criticals help, ho boy. This sure feels brutal!

I didn't realize I was going to be this crap on damage. I feel like I'm not helping hardly at all. It might just be my spell choice. This is my first prepared caster so I'm having to adjust to that.

All in all, I think I like 2E so far.

Agree 100% on the first and last points. Won't judge on the middle bit, I hadn't been paying attention and it's not my place anyway. :)

If you're not feeling your character right now you'll have an opportunity to revisit things at level up as I'm pretty lenient about rebuilding characters when you hit 2nd level, particularly in a new system. Gust of wind may have had too much niche use to be a first level pick.

Also Nosh you're shorting your damage. Acid splash does 1d6+4 as you have a +4 int bonus.

That means your crit was 11 damage and last hit was 7. That's pretty decent.

I'm going to check in tonight and post if needed but if at any point this week you're waiting on me, autopilot Zurkha. My dad is kind of touch and go.

Wishing your dad the best.

I think the Int gets added in at 3rd level because its not explicit until Heightened (3rd).

I'm going to check in tonight and post if needed but if at any point this week you're waiting on me, autopilot Zurkha. My dad is kind of touch and go.

Best wishes for you and your family. Prayers if desired.

Hi, I'm posting this to all the games I'm in.

My father passed away this morning. He was in hospice care for the past week, between that and the Coronavirus outbreak that's why I've been absent for the past stretch.

My sincerest apologies, I didn't mean to excessively disrupt the game and I hope I didn't. I hope to get back on to something resembling a normal schedule by the end of the week.

Thanks for your understanding.

Take your time friend.

Condolences :( Take your time. We'll be here. I'm so sorry.

Welcome to level two everyone! Let me know if you ahve any questions about leveling up.

Not so much a question, more a general intent. I thought I could become trained in Diplomacy by selecting Skill Training as my 2nd level skill feat, but alas I lack the Intelligence requirement.

Thus, Laurel is interested in Retraining out of Deception (never uses) and into Diplomacy (uses frequently), so if/when the game allows it, he'd like to begin the process.

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Secondly, now that Laurel has the Quickdraw feat, he will be interested in stockpiling some daggers or throwing knives.

I am acknowledging the need to level up and post but I haven't hada good chance to yet. Hope to get that finished up sometime today.

probably won't get to levelling up today. should have it by the end of the weekend at least.

Hey Nosh, you gunna dive into Rogue as you had considered upthread? Or deeper into your magic so as to Conceal your spellcasting?

Take the weekend and level your stuff up.

Laurel, assume you have the time just because of the constraints of the module.

Hey guys, sorry for the spotty posting. My routine is messed up and things are weird. As a result I'm going to put the games I'm running on temporary hiatus for two weeks, resuming April 6th.

Hope you're all doing well. Sorry for taking this break but I'd prefer to run these properly and ensure I've got everything in place to commit to regular posting.

It's a messed up time for all - totally understandable.

In the meantime, if anyone wants help with 2nd Level, PM me.

See you all April 6th.