Could Craft Alchemy give any info on that sludge?
I thinks so give me a tick
Yes alchemy is the correct check.
Also sorry.for the two days off. I literally had two days off in a row dor the first time in like a year and my body told me to sleep for like galf of it.
Not going to lie, I am enjoying the crap out of playing Irizzle :)
I am enjoying all the RP in this game. I wish I got this kind of engagement out of my f2f game.
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"Take Heart" is an interesting thing for an android to say, unless that android is also jack-the-ripper. Then it makes perfect sense.
Hey androids have hearts. Weird synthetic ones that pump 'blood' like fluid.
Keths not inside but yes the idea was to investigate what the ropefists were doing investigating and what their motivation was. thugs dont normally go adventuring or investigating.
if you want to tussle with them. make sure you are loud so Keth can take out his guard with Woolfs helop then bust in ;)
I mean you can certainly go that route but probably not smart to start a brawl on the gangs home turf in public. But I am also not going to limit your player agency :)
Irizzle gets impatient.
He walks up to the biggest Ropefist he can see and says "Hey, are you the boss? If not, could you take me to the boss, I think there is some business we can do."
Trying to think of the most satisfying way to resolve this current conflict will put a post up in a bit.
Sorry to Meila / Treasurefox if Garmen and the Staff are creepy they are written in a way to be that way well at least Garmen is. I played the dealer by ear trying to get you to spend more money XD
Creepy? Meila didn't find him creepy. Meila got a huge lady boner
Lol
I am gonna make a few assumptions to make the next part flow a little better.
I am assuming you are all gonna go straight to Joram and have him cast his water breating spell and than head straight to the cave entrance. Instead of wasting forum space rolling a ton of swim checks and seeing the results I am assuming you are going to take 10 and the stronger members will help the weaker members make up for their in ability.
That sound fair?
fair
Yes’m sounds good
Sounds good to me
Roger Roger!
oops forgot his suvival roll
[rant]I'm probably a bit more frustrated by this than I should be, but is there any reason Sgrack decided to jump 3 spots in initiative, including an enemy?
When I went to bed last night, I checked Roll20 and saw a perfect 15ft cone shot lined up for Irizzle to make his grand entrance combat wise to potentially hit all 3 bugs(having not even managed to sight an enemy the first time round), but it was still Meila's turn, and had been so for less than half a day, so I decide to go to bed and post in the morning.
I wake up to find Sgrack has just jumped on in, and I feel like it robbed Irizzle of a moment to show what he can do beyond saying weird things and being annoying.[/rant]
Note: This is just venting some frustration - I don't want or expect anything to be changed.
Doing Irizzle's turn now - I see that Meila had her turn while I was writing this.
In almost ever PBP I've played, it is assumed that we can post our actions when we get the chance and then the GM will get it sorted once everyone has posted. It is even common for GMs to group all players together to even speed things up., or even bot us (players) when needed.
The luxury of waiting everyone to post in turn usually is something PBP can't handle, otherwise combats would last forever, specially in simpler encounters like this.
Taking as example this same combat, we can see three of us (Sron, Meila and Irizzle), then a single bug, then Sgrack, two more bugs and then finally Keth and Wolf. It took more than 24h for all the three to answer to his post. Then the GM would have to post the action of a single bug (which would probably be dead by one of the three's actions) for me to post, and Keth would have to wait for another of the GM's post to act... a single round of this apparently simple combat would perhaps take 2-3 days!
I'm sorry if by trying to speed things up if have ruined anything for anyone. If you wish we can do it the slow way of course, but I do not advise it.
Apologies wasn't trying to undermine Irizzle I just allowed Sgrack to go because he posted first and didn't think it was a problem. This is also my first time running PbP. Maybe I can throw in a bonus to init for people until they act first than reset that way everyone gets a chance to shine. But also remember pathfinder is a team game so it may not be a bad idea to throw a post out about strategy if you think it worth while before anyone takes an action.
On a second note, How is Meilas Magic Missile doing 3d4 at level one. If it is valid that is fine I just don't understand it with what is on your sheet.
All that said the bug Meila targeted is still up and Irrizles shot misses . I am not sure we ever discussed hero points but I like them so go ahead and assume everyone has one and if you want to reroll and aim in a way that you can hit the last 2 that may be useful.
Whoops! That's my bad. 5th edition d&d starts with three missiles at level 1. I mixed them up. It would be 3 damage rather than 7.
what I find Paradise is its best do the following...
let everyone post their actions then as gm you move through them in order of initiative. sometimes adjusting where a player moves to take into account a downed foe.
When I do initiative for my games, I lump the average initiative for all enemies into a single roll. First round has some PCs going first, followed by the enemies. Then I just have everyone post anew with PCs, then enemies, then PCs, etc. If there's ever a conflict, I just look at the initiative rolls and determine who would have acted first.
Not saying what I do is the best method, or the right method. Just that it works well with my players.
Whatever method decided I'm good with it.
To be honest, I was surprised with this whole thing, simply because I've never considered it would be important who/how an enemy is dealt with, as the others have pointed out this is certainly a team game.
Regard robbing each other's moment, I believe that we'll have plenty of time to show our characters in many occasions in the future, both in combat and out of combat. If Sgrack took Irizzle's thunder by hitting a bug, the same would happen if Irizzle had hit the three bugs, denying Sgrack the chance of hitting a single one, even considering Sgrack is only good at hit things and not dying, while Irizzle will be useful in many more occasions. I believe this kind of discussion will not lead us to a better experience and will only erode the team mentality. I'm saying this with total respect for each other's opinion and it is not my wish to point fingers or anything like that!
Regarding some sort of strategy, I'd advise us refraining from using our limited resources when not needed. This encounter is really simple IMHO: three weak enemies with that have no troublesome abilities. We have Sgrack, Sron, Woolf and Keth who can dish a good amount of damage without spending any resources. I know we all want to "show" what we can do, but in the long run these resources (Keth's and Meila's spells, Irizzle's bombs) could be the difference between a success and a failure. When these limited resources are gone, it is not guaranteed that we'll be able to rest without some dire consequences. Once again, I'm not trying to say how you should play your characters... you do you, but keep this in mind.
Hope everyone is ok haven't seen any new posts but it is in your guys hand at the moment to decide which way to go.
Ive been actually waiting for you to chime in on the fire beetle glands removal....
Sorry the gland removal os fairly trivial.
Also sorry for rushing you guys and than not posting have been very busy at work.
Sorry about all the delays working during this pandemic is more draining than normal with all the extra precautions. Gonna try and do better.
If there were ever a time for everyone to be kind to themselves it's now.
The Paizo randomizer is not being nice to you guys using touch attacks lol. Hopefully you start hitting the medium numbers soon lol.
One day, I'll be able to teleport between planets
For now, I sneeze fire dust
This Covid issues is making my normal retail job much more stressful so I keep coming home and forgetting to post. I have said sorry before but I will say it again and try to remember to post at least once before passing out each night :)
Thanks for continuing to push through and keep this game running, GM.
No worries from me.
Just been a bit busy with work will get somthing going on sunday.
Will update Irizzle’s map position when I get home in a few hours.
I moved you 10 closer and responded accordingly.
Ive been looking in daily, thought about just taking Keths turn but thought that Sgraack probably smooshed it. so held off to see if that was the case