I'm still writing out the full background, but so that we can start making connections, I'll post the short version below.
roll20 website
once you have signed on I can assign your toon for your movement.
Rolling on the table for Grenon and Sorogar:
Friend of a friend; it's possible we're from the same general area, and you could've helped the militia through the forest at one point, making friends with one of the soldiers to the point that I'd heard of you.
Best friends! I'm not really sure how that could be given our backstories, however. Maybe we became fast friends when we met in Anderia? Or it says "you've seen enough of Durvans," I could be one such Durvan and we could be pen pals from that point? Idk, seems unlikely given you grew up in an orc tribe.
Rival is in the bio: Lord Mishra
Two goals are pending. Again, busy busy day...
In roll20 I need all to please label their toons by game name so I can assign the movement to each of you.
THanks
I assigned each pic to the player I think they are. LOL hope i'm right. let me know in discussion if I messed up somewhere when you try to move your toon.
In roll20 I need all to please label their toons by game name so I can assign the movement to each of you.
THanks
I assigned each pic to the player I think they are. LOL hope i'm right. let me know in discussion if I messed up somewhere when you try to move your toon.
I just checked, I can click on mine and none others, I'm good
I can move mine and no one else. I am good.
Possible Warren Connections: There are some possibilities there. One thought I had, was that it could have been possible for me to be hired on as a wilderness guide to the party that rescued you?
Krokkin, Mosely and Sorogar: It looks like we've all kind of done the same career for a while, hiring ourselves out to caravans and expeditions as guides and/or muscle. It's very possible we could've been on some of the same jobs together.
Quite likely, or at least heard of one another. Word gets around in these small specialist communities with just one or two bases of operations from which you can work.
Possible Warren Connections: There are some possibilities there. One thought I had, was that it could have been possible for me to be hired on as a wilderness guide to the party that rescued you?
Krokkin, Mosely and Sorogar: It looks like we've all kind of done the same career for a while, hiring ourselves out to caravans and expeditions as guides and/or muscle. It's very possible we could've been on some of the same jobs together.
Works for me. I think Sorogar's duties as a clan shaman keep her from doing such a thing as a fulltime job, but perhaps she's managed it a few times under the guise of some diplomatic relations mission. She'd definitely have reached out to the others since this upcoming mission is of great importance to her personally.
Those already chosen please post a spoiler with the follwing information for me.
1.) in game connection
2.) in game rival (can be more than a person ie guild, organization etc.)
3.)2 goals your toon has for game.
1.) Still working on those, see above.
2.) Retal is a rival. He was a caravan master on one of Grenon's later jobs. Retal's caravan struck disaster, and due to several unforseen circumstances he lost a lot of peaple, carts and goods that day, and he blames Grenon. At first Retal tried to make Grenon compensate him for the losing so much. HYe has moved on from that, but has tried to make Grenon's life misserable whenever their paths cross.
3.) -Find their parents and find out how they got lost
-Learn how to blend into society--specifically they would like to learn how to blend at a major social event
Works for me. I think Sorogar's duties as a clan shaman keep her from doing such a thing as a fulltime job, but perhaps she's managed it a few times under the guise of some diplomatic relations mission. She'd definitely have reached out to the others since this upcoming mission is of great importance to her personally.Possible Warren Connections: There are some possibilities there. One thought I had, was that it could have been possible for me to be hired on as a wilderness guide to the party that rescued you?
Krokkin, Mosely and Sorogar: It looks like we've all kind of done the same career for a while, hiring ourselves out to caravans and expeditions as guides and/or muscle. It's very possible we could've been on some of the same jobs together.
Ah, I'm sorry, I read some of your earlier comments as saying that you did that on the reg. But if not, no need to change things up. If you would have reached out to us on being hired, that's a good connection.
Alternatively, I'm likely the oldest of us and have been doing this for a long time. It's definitely possible that I've led some sort of expedition through your tribe's lands, maybe as a shaman, I might have interfaced with you for one such expedition?
Possible Warren Connections: There are some possibilities there. One thought I had, was that it could have been possible for me to be hired on as a wilderness guide to the party that rescued you?
Sounds good!
can everyone move their token in rolld20?
I would like to have party state the tie in with each of the other party members.
for instance
kronin - warren,grenon,soragar, mosely
That way I have them all in one place for building more of the world around you. If you can just update them in your profiles with a sentence or two that would be very helpful.
Also how close are we or are we ready to go?
If group is ready we can start. I know we are waiting for one more guy but he is kinda iffy so if he joins that is good we can work with it if not it will most likely be the 6 of us. (yes I am playing thats the fun of DMING)
Let me know please what you are all thinking.
I have now built most of your rivals and nemisis in Herolab. It took awhile but should be worth it. Still have a little bit of other work to do but I think we could start if everyone is ready.
I'm moving rolld20 maps to the caravan camp you are currently in. Let me know if you can't see it or move your toon. Please place your toons in the camp as well as to where you would like to be. This part of the caravan is only an outlier group. Main camp is huge in comparison.
I don't know how to add my toon to the map or rename my avatar (unless I'm just supposed to rename my "out-of-character" avatar).
All right, cool. I'll assume Sorogar knows Mosely and Grenon from brief encounters due to their professions as guides/explorers. Shall we say I reached out to the two of you for help in finding something of great value for my tribe, and that you offered to take me along on the expedition deep into the wilds in exchange for my services? A quid pro quo kind of deal?
Also, If I open the roll20 link, I only see a map of the village, not my player token. So I don't think i can test now If I can move it?
I don't know how to add my toon to the map or rename my avatar (unless I'm just supposed to rename my "out-of-character" avatar).
just rename the ooc name
All right, cool. I'll assume Sorogar knows Mosely and Grenon from brief encounters due to their professions as guides/explorers. Shall we say I reached out to the two of you for help in finding something of great value for my tribe, and that you offered to take me along on the expedition deep into the wilds in exchange for my services? A quid pro quo kind of deal?
Also, If I open the roll20 link, I only see a map of the village, not my player token. So I don't think i can test now If I can move it?
hmm not sure why I'll work on it with grenon and see if we can figure it out.
I think we got it figured out. tell me if there is still an issue.
I would say that I have heard of Grenon, and mosely from Warren who told me about this job. I think it would be fun to say that I dont know sorogar at all.
@Herkymr Thanks!
My post will be a little late today, my apologies.
@Herkymr Thanks!
My post will be a little late today, my apologies.
no worries. I work from 830 til 630 today so won't be doing much til then with game. thanks for letting us know.
So we officially start....lol
I need to have a typical marching order from you. It will make things easier if we know and can assume where each character is where. You can always change if you need to later.
I think my defense is probably the worst one, and I am technically the main healer. I will stay in the back somewhere.
Krokkin’s Pride, get it, and ego have him always at the front of the line
warren and soragar.
Can you set up your tag line like mosely and kronin please?
this allows me to see most of your stats easily.
Thanks
@harkyrm ok, ill get to it in a moment.
@warren, I apologize, the scene got fast forwarded into the next scene and into a possible combat situation before i had a chance to respond to your introduction (on a side note, Sorogar already introduced herself to Warren a few posts ago, since I assumed from the GM's posts that the five of us were already together). I'll get back to this new introduction after we get out of this fight (?), I hope.
@harkyrm ok, ill get to it in a moment.
@warren, I apologize, the scene got fast forwarded into the next scene and into a possible combat situation before i had a chance to respond to your introduction (on a side note, Sorogar already introduced herself to Warren a few posts ago, since I assumed from the GM's posts that the five of us were already together). I'll get back to this new introduction after we get out of this fight (?), I hope.
No worries, I have no problem rolling with it. I imagined since Warren didn't interact with anyone that he slept in. With an intelligence and wisdom of 9 each, I plan on playing him as mildly incompetent...until his skill set comes into play.
Herk, I will go ahead and set up Warren's tagline. With an AC of 18, Warren's pretty squishy, so he'll probably want to hang out in the middle. He's a debuffer primarily though, so more like second (right behind the high AC front-liner, Krokkin).
In case you hadn't noticed I'm the actual high AC front-liner with a 22. :)
Yeah, I was just thinking that...even when you're ranging, you're at a 19 to his 18. Hell, I have the same AC as him...and Grenon is second. So really, it should be Mosely, Warren, Sorogar, Krokkin, Grenon. But it sounds like in roleplay, Krokkin isn't going to allow that, and he's going to push in front of you...which is fine, since he's a mobile martial character.
Yeah I think it makes for better playing dynamics even though the stats say different. By the way I am really enjoying the posts. They tell a lot and give a lot to play with as well.
I don't usually post this often especially on sundays but it is my day off and I am rather bored and doing stuff on the comp so just keeping game open.
Yeah, I'm enjoying the roleplaying and everyone's posts as well! Good work, everyone. Let me know if I'm too active or if you have some other advice; I'm still learning the ropes and I know from my first campaign that I had a tendancy to post too often, which I'm trying to dial back.
Playing Catch up a bit as I don't normally post on Sundays.
no worries I don't usually but yesterday was an unusual day. I got bored even with all my kids in the house and had stuff to do on the comp anyway so I just kept up with game to.
That shouldn't happen very often. Like I said I never expect anyone to post on Sundays.
Also been trying to catch up. Should be caught up soon.
Got hit with that fun bug where the board doesn't notify you that there are new posts, so I spent the last couple days not realizing that the scene had moved on.
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
That freaking sucked. I have for years writing my dice rolls and then previewed the results prior to writing the story. I have always loved this about Paizo is that you can see the number and it wont change between the preview and the final post.
Tonight it failed me. I rolled a 16 on knowledge nature and a total of 19 on the strength check. I wrote the story and put in the attack action I wanted leaving a cliff hanger for the attack so that either I would score a hit or miss. I then copied the post just in case the page timed out. When I went to post I got an error stating that there were too many back clicks. Something I have only seen recently.
No big deal I thought and posted again. Well you can see the result. the strength check is now a failure so I updated the post to reflect that. I don't want to "Bug the DM to go up a level" this early in the game. Still irritated though.
@herkymr
My placement looks good on the roll 20 map.
@Krokkin odd.
I do know that the rolls are 'stored' in order, and that if you add additional rolls in between that it gets messed up. But it sounds like a different bug...
@ Everyone, I only see a very small portion of the map (5x5?) and not where the enemy vine/vines are. Do you have the same?
I wasn't using he map on this one. Figured it was simple enough to explain ot that we didn't need one.
Ill post somethinkg like in the future when we use one.
Sorry that was my bad.
Sorry, I was working on posting this morning.
I did have one question though, do we not get reflex saves for entangle?
I forgot that. oops!
So that I understand correctly. From the initiative I need to write one more round of combat prior to the spell that Grenon cast taking effect.
Am I correct in that. I dont want to use something that hasnt happened yet. But I can use it if it is available.
So that I understand correctly. From the initiative I need to write one more round of combat prior to the spell that Grenon cast taking effect.
Am I correct in that. I dont want to use something that hasnt happened yet. But I can use it if it is available.
Correct. Grenons will take place in initiative order.
@herkymr
How do you want us to handle HP tracking. I was thinking and there are a couple of different options.
* Update the stat line. This to me seems a bit cumbersome
* HP Update Spoiler. This would be easier but do we leave it in game or in discussion.
Other ideas?
spoiler works well. I'd just as soon it stay in game so I can check them easier.
What do you all think?
BTW I will track XP for you all. I'm kinda doing it like I did before with general amount to level but usually based of objectives/situations accomplished or over come.
I habitually track my hit points in my status bar, just so it's easy for anyone to see at any moment where I'm at (that way the healers know what to do...).
Im used to tracking it in my status bar. Never had problems with that.
By the way, whose turn is it now? Warren's? The vines?
I track on status bar as well, but I can do whatever you need.