On the map, the curvy arrow sort of represents the acro roll, but in my post I 5ft-stepped closer so the jump and charge actually align.
The straight arrow is the charge + flying kick.
"Get away from her, ye s@$$!"
That's enough sass outta you, Random Swear Filter!
I am still swamped at work. Please bot me as needed.
I apologize for being absent the past 2.5 weeks, first the work convention, then inundated with family and friends Thanksgiving week, and then there was this week, let's just say it was one of those weeks. I'd like to join back in, but would understand if my protracted absence is problematic. Again, I apologize and would hope you can let me join in the fun again.
It's no problem. So my general policy is a month without a gameplay post and then I bring it up with the rest of the group. So if you still want to play as far as I'm concerned you never left.
It's the holiday season—totally understandable!
Edited house rules to replace continual flame with continual light. This brings the spell more in line with other light producing spells and making it clear that it is not a fire spell.
Edited Delmoth's FAQ for questions about how pyrotechnics interacts with other spells and for how long the cackle and chant hexes can be used.
Just a heads up my mom tripped and broke 3 ribs. As you can imagine this may affect my availability.
Oh, no! Sorry to hear that!
Posting to all my games: I will be traveling for the holidays from December 21st-26th. I'll have my phone and may do some posting, but feel free to bot me as needed.
I've lost internet access for the last couple of days, hoping it will be fixed soon.
Posting from my phone is a complete pain - please bot me as needed.
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Just for fun, made cookies, one of which is loosely based on VV. (Sadly, the one next to her is 10x more fashionable.)
Gingerbread Fairies, Gingerzons and Gingerbeards!
Names of all, L-to-R:
• (a rose)
• Fluffinetta
• Hanako
• Hannah Heavenscent
• Tuti
• Rosy Dustpan
• The Vermilion Vixen
• Yodalina
• Tom O'Granite
• The Five O'Clock Shadow
• (a brick doily, ♥-shaped)
• Moosturd, the Rollerskating Wiener Dog!
• Gravity Sam
• Grody Tooth O'Macs
• Three-Eyed Monty
I have survived the holiday family visit and am back! Hope everyone else is having a good time.
I was far too lazy for my day off.
Lol good deductions! And from a monster lore roll no less. Lots more to discover of course.
The monster lore roll helped a lot, especially combined with the earlier roll/revelation that we were sort of but not quite on the material plane. She could be wrong, (jumping to conclusions is definitely a flaw for her), but it seems like the most logical conclusion.
Just a heads up I'm fairly certain we've lost Miyuki and Erisa. Assuming we don't hear from them by the 6th I'd like to open a recruitment thread for replacements.
That's a shame, but I agree - no posts from either of them for quite some time now.
Also agree. It's hard to work with only three PCs, and it makes more work for the GM having to bot them. I'll send them both PMs, but if they don't respond by the 6th then opening up recruitment makes sense.
Just a heads up I'm fairly certain we've lost Miyuki and Erisa. Assuming we don't hear from them by the 6th I'd like to open a recruitment thread for replacements.
Sorry to lose players—especially one who invited me to join in the first place!—but yeah, I think recruiting is fine.
I'll reach out to one player who is in a game that is entering its 4th year, but has slowed to a crawl.
(@Saiya, I mean Ahto's player, but the four-year-old campaign is not on this site.)
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Hi guys n gals,
If any of you are looking for another game and are rabid Tolkien fans, I am going to run a 5e campaign set in Middle-Earth. There's a sourcebook that you have to buy, but it costs all of one dollar and is available here (and fifteen dollars buys you a bunch of the most amazing sourcebooks you will ever read).
If you're interested, the recruitment thread is here.
Just a heads up I'm fairly certain we've lost Miyuki and Erisa. Assuming we don't hear from them by the 6th I'd like to open a recruitment thread for replacements.
The player I contacted is interested in joining us. Saiya knows the player (as Crack-Jawed Ahto), and I’ve RP’d with him for the past four years.
I let him know there’s an opening or two here, and he’s working on a sorceress.
Sounds good I'll let you know when I have the recruitment thread up so you can point them in the right direction. There were 3 Strange Aeons games that I was following that tanked for various reasons. From that pool I was going to invite 10 or so people to apply. If anyone else wants to invite someone feel free.
I was thinking about accepting 3. What I've done in the past for re-recruitment is each current player will make a list of their top 3 applicants in order of preference. I'll cast some mathamancy to get the most preferred applicants.
Recruitment is up and attached to the campaign.
Miyuki shakes her head in denial. "I can´t, but it is indeed a useful spell!"
The short of it is I've asked Miyuki leave the game and she agreed. My reasoning is we've had roughly two posts from her in the last two months and I made a reasonable effort to contact her before we started recruiting to replace her. I hope everyone understands and the game can move forward.
I have closed recruitment please, in the next couple of days, look over the applicants.
Because we have so many applications and three seats to fill please give me a list of 5 in order of preference. With 1 being the most preferred person to play with. If you can't decide feel free to rank as many or as few as you like. If you don't want to post your vote here feel free to PM me.
I'm going to hold off on moving things along in gameplay until we've selected the new players.
#1. Ci Ci - After four years, I trust the player.
#2. Amestri - She comes with an R2D2.
#3. Lily Le - Observes martial artists and speaks Tien.
#4. Mizuko - Loving the Tien swashbuckler!
#5. Yue - Halfling oracle = cute + healing…
…but the stats are broken on #5. CHA 21 is illegal by Sams’ houserule, which still uses the same PF max: 18@Lv.1, 19@Lv.4, 20@Lv.8… so only at Lv.20 can you have one stat at 23 + racial. If you could increase the same stat every level, VV would have STR 39 in her future.
I assume you didn’t change this, Delmoth, but that the player misunderstood. Which I get. At Lv.2, it of course doesn’t look broken.
I get what you're saying and why. I'll update the house rules to make that explicit, it will have to be a table because it will be a little higher than what you're saying to account for ability increases that you're not getting from belts and headbands. You'd top out at 31 @20th level. Good catch.
I had noticed Yue's stats and was planning on a crunch review after we chose someone.
Right. The +1 @ every 4th doesn’t account for items. And THAT is fine.
What I like about this houserule is that you’re forced to improve multiple skills (like in SF and PF2, but better because it’s 1 at every level instead of a bunch of stat points at Lv.5).
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Hi Delmoth
Thanks for organising this :)
I've just finished a massive recruitment thread so I may need a day to recover before I to through the submissions for this one!
Hi Delmoth
Thanks for organising this :)
I've just finished a massive recruitment thread so I may need a day to recover before I to through the submissions for this one!
Give it until Friday? I'll have my thoughts up soonish.
Things I was looking at in particular: the vignettes suggested by the memories, is the race interesting, did they select a campaign trait not currently in the party, how well the role fits in the party.
1. Lahrehn, somehow made an ooze PC. And made it work.
2. Cerise "Ci Ci" Barchetta, probably would have topped my list if the ability score spread weren't so utterly typical for a sorceress. But I get there is a reason for that.
3. Allegra Gavrospex, player is currently in my Planescape game and it is better for her inclusion. My gut tells me she'll have a lot in common with Jassminder, for better or worse.
4. Yue, is a face and I liked the memories. But child-like halfling will cause some problems.
5. Amestri al-Marah, I invited her from another failed SA game. If she submitted a version of her other character (a ratfolk) would have ranked higher.
I’m not quite sure I understand the table.
Max ability score possible by level (before racial adjustments)
1: 18
2: 18
3: 18
4: 19
5: 19
6: 20
7: 21
8: 22
9: 22
10: 22
11: 23
12: 24
13: 25
14: 25
15: 26
16: 27
17: 28
18: 28
19: 28
20: 29
Is it because of items, or is this an APB thing we’re doing instead of +2/+4/+6 items?
I’m not quite sure I understand the table.
** spoiler omitted **
Is it because of items, or is this an APB thing we’re doing instead of +2/+4/+6 items?
It is because of ABP. They would normally hit at level 6 and then increase at level 11 and 15. ABP would allow a 2 point increase at those levels but since you only increase a score 1 at a time I only listed the maximum possible at every level.
Oh! So do you mean, we don’t get the bonuses from ABP, but what we do get is the ability to increase our top stat ten times, if so inclined?
Yes removing the stat increases from ABP was a part of the compromise I proposed when I was first taking the game over. Sorry if that wasn't very clear. You'll still get an approximation of a normal ability progression, actually a little better, but the increases will happen in a smoother line.
It’s fine. I like getting one point each level instead of 5 ever. I’ll have to adjust my character’s stat increases now, though!
This is a tough one to resolve, in large part because we have an even number of votes. There are a number of times where it will come out to a tie. If everyone is ok with it I'd like to be able to tie break.
Ha! Even with the ranking system, someone’s first is someone else’s second, and so-on. Break ties as needed!
New people can you let me know when you're done putting your crunch together so I can review it.
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Hello! Thanks for accepting me.
I believe everything is in good order with my crunch.
I made some adjustments in the interim to have her stats better reflect her implied backstory (family of jewelers).
If anything I entered seems incorrect, or if you prefer I change it back, I will be happy to do so.
Good to have you here, “Ci Ci!” Welcome other new peeps!
Yes removing the stat increases from ABP was a part of the compromise I proposed when I was first taking the game over. Sorry if that wasn't very clear. You'll still get an approximation of a normal ability progression, actually a little better, but the increases will happen in a smoother line.
No problem at all… I just figured I would adjust my spreadsheet accordingly.
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Hey guys! Happy to be here! Thanks for the invite. Please feel free to let me know if I need to change anything on her - Lahrehn is quite complex being... you know, a blob of something. Hehe
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Hello everyone! Appreciate the invite and looking forward to fighting some eldritch horrors together.
Think I have everything sorted in her profile, if anything seems out of sorts or there are questions please let me know.
Looks good to me. I'll have an update for each of you for the story so far soon. It's going to be a busy week for me as I'm selling my old house next week.
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The gang’s all here, at least here in the discussion thread! Looking forward to a Brady-Bunchesque merging of our two trios in gameplay!
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I'd also like to welcome our new arrivals to the asylum! Looking forward to gaming with you all.
Post is up, everyone should be in but the party hasn't quite met up yet.
It occurs to me that the presence of so many Dopplegangers would probably make us more cautious about encountering people who appear to be familiar to us - but it also occurs to me that making the new players prove that they aren't dopplegangers doesn't sound like much fun.
So I'm happy to handwave it if everyone else is. (Of course, if anyone thinks that sounds like a really fun bit of roleplaying then knock yourselves out)