Ice Road Trackers (Inactive)

Game Master Greycastle

I need until this next weekend to sort this out if you all are okay with that.

Take your time.

Today was not a good day in class, but it was an important day in class.

Aesh. You wanna run the next one? Story line checks out. Turq could be exploring his feelings for Shaktal and my character is a goblin so maybe there was a temporary trade lol.

You mean take over from this point? Okay, I need to look at the module. Give me a week. School starts on Monday, and I am going to be swamped at work, but I can start from Saturday. Everyone feel free to RP getting to know Grey's gobbo!

Still waiting for Mir to get caught up so no big deal. Hope things are ok.

Yah, me too. I am going to establish the changeover.

:)

I should be leveled up now.

Aesh, what are the AL rules regarding Tasha's?

Are the Optional Class Features legal? What about replacement options?

Everything should be here. As near as I can tell, most of the options are good to go.

Nice. The initial info I was seeing was they had ruled against most of it. Awesome. Goblin Beastmaster Hunter coming online this evening.

Things seem to be working again after clearing cookies and other things.

That worked for me too - thanks!

Though, as my DM in another campaign pointed out, if every Paizo user has to delete cookies in order to use the site, it's going to be effed for a long time.

Got it.

I will try to start moving things along this weekend. Not sure if you all had more RP to invite Khitt along. I figure the Paizo Messageboard hiccup stalled that out.

Ugh... ok. Glad you guys posted about clearing cookies. I could not figure out what was going on lol. Umihk and I shall be caught up soon. Yes I had a little more rp I wanted to do but we can continue.

It is always welcome. Work busted my butt this week anyway...

Ugh, I hate clearing cookies and cache. Yeah yeah, good practice, but bleh. OK, back online! Thanks for the tip y'all, I was wondering how some folks were getting back on.

It might take a bit for people to catch on, but apparently this isn't something Paizo can fix. Someone said the server that stored the session information corresponding to those cookies took a hit during a storm, so it's gone forever.

It might take a bit for people to catch on, but apparently this isn't something Paizo can fix. Someone said the server that stored the session information corresponding to those cookies took a hit during a storm, so it's gone forever.

It seems with Emmett’s post that at least everyone in our party has checked in since the blip.

I was waiting for someone in the group to invite Khitt along...

Spent the weekend in bed. Catching up now.

Hope you're feeling better!

Yep yep, same here!

I am. Sleep can be such a good thing. Thank you for your well wishes!

Been a crazy week.

Rogues are mean. I wonder if going soulblade wouldn't be fun?

Rogues seem a bit OP to me - we have one in my irl game who regularly does twice the damage / round that my ranger can do with a powerful magic weapon. (Granted, rangers, even the Revised Rangers, are underpowered, but they are traditionally a 'warrior' class. It also doesn't make sense to me that the class with some of the most powerful out-of-combat skills can also be one of the most powerful in-combat.)

/rant

(Sorry - I have opinions about the lack of balance in 5e)

Rogues are o-kay, but they are not a favorite of mine. I tend to get bored of them after a few levels. However, they are effective. Having the highest quantity of skills, plus expertise. I like that they are limited to sneak attack once per turn (though that can be exploited by Battlemasters, or Attacks of Opportunity).

They can be overwhelmed, or targeted by Con based area effect to counter evasion, so they are okay but not great solo types. I also tend to be a little more finicky about Stealth, because it is not as all-purpose as people tend to believe, just as the Persuasion skill is not mind control. It just depends on the DM...

Sorry - I hope I haven't discouraged anyone. I've let my annoyance at one game slip into another.

Well it does allow me to ask how you want to handle hiding Aesh? Lol. I just used it to activate advantage for my next attack. What do you handle differently about it?

I have had many players try to hide with nothing to break line of sight. In your situation, you had the tent to hide yourself.

There is a reason that there are abilities like Hide in Plain Sight and Vanish that can help eliminate such needs.

As long as you are cognizant of, or ask me if there is enough cover to use Stealth to cross an area, I am usually flexible. It's just when people try to abuse it, that I get picky...

I once had a player that was using the Scout UA, where if someone came to within 5 ft of them, they could use their reaction to move half their move away... He just sniped away, and got his cleric killed, because it left the cleric tanking... :P

Stealth
While traveling at a slow pace, the characters can move stealthily. As long as they’re not in the open, they can try to surprise or sneak by other creatures they encounter. See the rules for hiding in chapter 7 "Using Ability Scores."

And much less help is:

Stealth
Make a Dexterity (Stealth) check when you attempt to conceal yourself from enemies, slink past guards, slip away without being noticed, or sneak up on someone without being seen or heard.

I do think that people who try to hide in a place where there is nothing to hide in are just asking for trouble. You cannot hide if there is nothing to hide in or around.

btw, glad you got your vaccine, Aeshuura!

Thanks! Thankfully, Hawaii believes that Education is priority 1A / 1B!

Fauche said he thinks by April it will be open for everyone to get a vaccine, late summer for herd immunity. I hope he’s right. I’d like to get things back to normal or at least whatever the new normal is going to be.

Oof, I'll try not to complain too much about Alberta politics on here.

Hopefully, we will have vaccinations by the fall and then maybe I can visit my mom and siblings for Christmas.

Hoping everyone can get it, but just be aware that that second shot is brutal... I got hit pretty hard, but have been able to manage it with Tylenol / Advil... It's the second day after and I am starting to get to feel a little better. Went to sleep at 6 pm last night and woke up several times over night. ^_^

NM wad trying to open school Feb 8 while still in red. Hybrid will be a joke. We will be expected to teach to 50% of a class in person.The rest remotely. We cannot write on out boards, give out handouts or abswer questions due to equity issues.

I'm actually grateful for people sharing what they feel like after the shots. Good to be prepared and know what to expect. No idea when we'll qualify for them but I hope it's soon.

I agree.

Lots of students are asking why bother going back if the teaching will be this wa6.

The decision to stay in remote until we go to green or the rest of the semester.

Ravenloft :(

Sorry, busy weekend!

No worries, I expect lower posting rates on Weekends...

I increased the area, because it is only 10 feet to the ceiling and though they are illusory, your subconscious treats the volume as the same... ^_^

I am going to wait until after Baldrick. Whether the zombie is up or not matters for my action.

Now they want all students and teachers back in class by April 5th,