Discussion stuff here. I have players fill their info into the slides for the game, so no need to add it here. You are welcome to make dayjob rolls here or in gameplay during your introductions. You can also wait till the end of the session to make them. Go ahead and fill out pages 1 and 2 on the slides with as much info as you know. Things may change between now and the start date, that is totally fine!
I tend to prefer in game questions to just use the OOC tags in the gameplay thread so everything is kept in the same place.
But you all are welcome to use this for non-game related discourse or general chat!
I'll start...
My favorite color is Purple, food is Cheese Rarebit and I'm a bit of a cinephile (but not a cine-snob).
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Damiar and I are still in the same scenario. I checked with the GM and she says we have "two more combat encounters and another brief RP section before we wrap up." We have just started the first of those two combat encounters.
We should know by the 27th if we will finish in time or not. If not, that would still give you a chance to find replacement players.
I think that I will stay out of this gameplay until we have a better idea if the other game will finish in time. I will keep you posted as things progress.
It’s all good. There will be no issues if you two can’t continue once the mission starts.
I'll be checking in periodically over the holidays here, but might be busy at times.
We may very well delay until the 14th since there are a few things up in the air. The holidays have been quite busy for me too.
Let’s wait until the fourth to make any strong decisions and see where the elf sisters are at that point. Officially I will check in to see where everyone stands just after the new year and go from there.
I’ve seen games cruise through combats one a week and also... one in two months, so sometimes it’s hard to know when one could end.
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My favorite color is Purple, food is Cheese Rarebit and I'm a bit of a cinephile (but not a cine-snob).
Hrm, I guess my favorite color would be green. Food is a tough one, I like most all foods. I enjoy the outdoors and seasons quite a lot. Ice fishing season, maple syrup making season, gardening season, mushroom foraging season (this one is 4 months long!).
How are the Apastron sisters doing? On the final fight yet?
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Ice fishing has always sounded fun, never been able to do it yet though.
Gardening is quite rewarding. Hopefully this year I'll be able to get back into it, biggest kiddo is just now old enough to maybe start one with.
I've been mushroom foraging once with my father in law, it was awesome. Hopefully get to go back out soon (we have a spring and fall season here for that).
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Favorite color is Orange. I'm partially colorblind and it happens to be a color I can typically differentiate. :-P
Food...Good Calamari (not the stuff I've found within the USA) or my mom's meatloaf recipe.
I love rock climbing and mountain climbing. Sadly the closest suitable mountains to where I live are approximately a 12-16 hour drive.
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Fishing is quite enjoyable. I haven't got around to trying out Ice fishing yet either, but would like to do so at some point.
My wife loves doing the gardening thing. I personally never got into it. She specializes in the stuff that can kill you; Belladonna, Mandrake, etc. What types of stuff do you focus on?
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We just started the final battle last night. Still resolving the surprise round we got.
I could never get into fishing. The only part of fishing I liked was the part where you eat the catch. I really didn’t like ice fishing, too cold!
I like bicycling. We have a lot of good bike paths around here, didn’t do much this year because the paths tended to be crowded with people. Hopefully I will be able to do some this summer.
I also enjoy Aikido. Once again the pandemic has put a stop to most of that. Tough to do a throw without getting within 6’ of a person. :)
There are so many great foods to choose from, tough to choose a favorite. For me it would probably be pizza. I love a great deep dish, although a lot of places can’t do them correctly. Second choice is a thin crust.
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There are some secrets to enjoyable icefishing I've learned over the years:
1. Proper gear to avoid being cold. If you are cold you aren't going to enjoy yourself. (Unless the fishing is OMG good, then you forget about cold and hunger pretty fast.)
2. Good company/food. If you aren't out there strictly for the solitude and chasing monster fish, then good company, food, and warm feet will make anyone have a good time.
3. Action! People that are new to it, or are kids, etc aren't there to chase a state record fish. They just want something to show interest in their jig or bait. Even better: go after panfish like perch. Faster fishing and really tasty to eat. Great to keep kids busy.
Gardening:
I just grow veggies, although this coming year I'm going to attempt to grow mushrooms in my wood chip garden paths and start a small egg laying chicken flock.
Mushrooms:
As far as a spring season I'm assuming you mean morels. Unfortunately for me they aren't in my local area. If they were I could start hunting in late May for those. Mostly I start with chanterelles which around here start popping around July 1. Late season mushrooms are oysters and matsutaki.
*My nephew is colorblind. To him everything is a shade of yellow. My Dad was also a bit colorblind, but not as severely.
YAY!!!
That is wonderful news to hear. I shall get us moving on the 14th then. Excellent work getting that finished up, this should be a fun group.
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Finished leveling her.
Melee attack bonus went from +2 to +6, which means she now at least has a chance of hitting! Not great, but much better than it was. Core rogue, I needed to spend a feat for Weapon Finesse.
She has Trap Spotter.
As a diviner wizard she always acts in surprise rounds.
I've got a door procedure for when we are not rushed going through doors, desks, chests or other things where there are likely to be traps.
Being a worshipper of Desna, her Arcane Bond is a butterfly clasp.
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Excellent work Iovo. You all will definitely need some sort of damage other than Ironshanks so hitting is good. I love Forewarned, tis a great ability. I'll try to use your door procedure if needed in this scenario (and also roll secretly for trap spotter as needed).
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So, we will get started today. HOWEVER, I'm well aware of the server issues so I will give quite a bit of leeway to anyone who is late checking in. I can totally see some players not even noticing they are logged out and just wondering why there aren't any post updates for a few days. Especially if they are like most players and only check in once or twice a day.
Hey Top!
Between all the cookie issues and my crazy work schedule, I am having trouble being a good PBP citizen right now. I am going to drop out of this game now rather than slow you down.
I hope you all have a wonderful game, and sorry for the inconvenience.
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No worries, thanks for letting us know!
"Pretty sure its hard to get more imitation than that already... oleo... yuck." His sickened stomach burps up another blast of boiler makers from lunch.
As hard as it is to believe, there are such things as imitation margarine. I was surprised a few years ago when I came across it. Pretty sure it was a Poppa John’s delivery some of my friends had that included a small container of it.
Looking at the Wiki article it appears there is a minimum fat content that some places require in order to qualify.
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That is staggeringly horrible. Not to mention it makes sense. People will always come up with 'imitation x' to save money or make more money. Margarine is terrible, we ate it as kids. My grandmother still calls it 'oleo' and my Mom still eats it. The one redeeming quality for it is its spreadability while cold.
The most interesting Margarine stony I have is that back when it was introduced, the butter lobby managed to convince the government of a few states to require margarine to be dyed pink so it wouldn't be 'confused' as butter. Obviously dying it pink really hurt the ability to sell it.
I'll bot him this morning, just haven't gotten around to it yet. I texted him yesterday but sometimes work and home life are crazy, so I figure he's just super busy.
Guidance is a competence bonus so it won't stack with IC for attack rolls, so it's less useful than it could be. I'll probably just have him channel to wipe out most of the damage in the group. Seems like the best use of his abilities and he has 6 of those so using one up doesn't seem that harmful for a bot.
Expect an update soon, sorry things dragged to a halt here!
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Now I see why 2.0 focused on reducing the volume of stackable buffs. I went through all the buffs I had to check on types for stacking, and completely forgot/didn't realize that IC gives a bonus vs fear!
Now that I read into IC closely, it has two different bonus types: morale for the bonus to saves, and competence for the bonus to attack and damage. Heroism also gives a morale bonus to saves. Looks like indeed they will not stack.
If I'm incorrect on this I'll be happy to adjust.
They do not stack and bless also doesn’t stack. :(
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Durvak has Remove Fear prepared. I finally made contact with him and while he can't post right now he's good with a bot to cast Remove Fear. If you can get your action in Khellek, I can move us along with that Bot happening to get Ironshanks back in the game before I get busy this evening.
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Very glad Durvak had Remove Fear.
Iovo is not front line material. Depending on the foe, she might be able to hold out for a round or two but Chill Touch, lucky critical hit, or (if she gets a flanking opportunity) sneak attack are the only effective ways she can damage this creature.
Fortunately the SR roll was a success and you only have to check once.
I mean... to be fair... you all are incredibly lucky with penetrating SR so far. So if anything Ironshanks, blame the casters for stealing your good numbers. ;-)
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Speaking of which, I believe the IC bonus to damage would affect the hp damage that Iovo does with chill touch, but not the ability damage.
Inspire courage says “a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls.”
Chill Touch says “A touch from your hand, which glows with blue energy, disrupts the life force of living creatures. Each touch channels negative energy that deals 1d6 points of damage.”
That is why I thought that IC would not add to the damage of Chill Touch.