Huh. I'm not sure how that happened since I didn't actually use the s-word in my post. Strange!
No worries. Life happens and the weekend is technically a one post expectation. So you're all good. BUT, I don't know if you're all good with that new Alias photo. You changed it to a smurf... I'm not sure how I feel about that in my minds eye as I read your post. lol.
Yeah the site changes your profile pic for that post if you have smurf in your post. I have no idea what triggered it in your original post though, lol.
Oh that is hilarious. Are there any other words that change your profile picture?
Standard action to collect the goods, move action to move where you did. Sounds good to me.
Sorry about this weekend. I went home early Friday from work with a stomach bug and
Yes, feel free to move your token when it is your turn. Describe where you move in your action. But yes I want you guys to have full control of where your token is going on the map.
I had posted from my phone and I can't move my token that way. I'll try to remember to move it when I get to my computer in the future.
The room that everyone is going into is dark and difficult for the human and the halfling have difficulties to see.
Erebus has darkvision, for better or worse.
The room that everyone is going into is dark and difficult for the human and the halfling have difficulties to see.Erebus has darkvision, for better or worse.
Then he can see perfectly in there.
I’ll let Ethyl take the belt pouch. Do we both need to spend an action to transfer the item or just one of us?
If she takes it and you are letting her take it from your hands it wouldn't cost you and actions.
Also, I went through and added a few minor bits of info and value of items to two items.
That's a move to take the pouch and a move to grab another imp weapon. Leaving 3 on the table.
Asrat also took in improvised weapon in an earlier post.
Ok that leaves two on the table for now which I will grab next round if no one else does. I can use them without penalty but I need to throw them.
I did not even realize we had a tracker. I took one of the improvised weapons but will give it up now that I have the knuckles.
I grabbed one of the improvised weapons as soon as I got out of the cell also.
[dice=Hit, last round rage, prone]1d20+7-4
[dice=Damage]1d3+4Bolkvar roared as he tried to punch at the monster’s knee, putting the last of his strength into the blow. In doing so he ended on his stomach, bleeding on the ground with his vision blurring. The anger faded, replaced with a deep fatigue. It was clear that if the others didn’t do something soon, then this would be the end of his story.
I will save this for next round.
Sorry about my delay. My son had ear tubes put in and his adenoids taken out yesterday.
Without a focus, I can't cast light and am effectively blind in the dark.
Touch of madness isn’t actually or spell (or, if it is, I wasn’t using the spell), it’s one of my domain powers. That’s a small point but I wanted to clarify since I hadn’t made a concentration check to cast on the defensive.
Clint,
You have a spot on the header for maps, but currently I can only get to the map by locating one of your posts in the gameplay section. Would you be able to put the map link up top too?
Thanks for the note! I indeed missed that one.
At anytime if there is something that I miss, or something that I could to improve your gameplay experience please let me know. I am always open to constructive criticism.
I want gestalt and mythic levels.
All joking aside you are doing great. I have no complaints, but if I have constructive criticism I’ll certainly share
I want gestalt and mythic levels.
All joking aside you are doing great. I have no complaints, but if I have constructive criticism I’ll certainly share
Thanks! The encouragement is always appreciated also.
The first game I ever played with a 3.0/3.5 campaign. It was myself and three other friends. The DM wanted to introduce us to the game, but he also wanted it to be epically memorable. And he introduced us to Gestalt on the first game.
I was a Fighter/Paladin, we had a Druid/Wizard and a Rogue/Monk. Each of us were broken and did not even realize how things would get crazy quick with the bonuses from both classes.Flurry of Blows +Sneak Attack was just NASTY. And for those who have been around long enough, we all know how insane Druids and Wizards got back then... I was a Paladin with more feats than a paladin knew what to do with. It was crazy fun.
I think we went from 1st through 13th or 14th level. I will have to dig out my old character sheet. I still have it.
After that little sidebar, what are your first character experiences?
Very first was when I was 5 or 6? The 1st ed with a 1 player choose your own adventure style.
2nd time which is when I really started to get into it was AD&D. I was a wizard by the name of Delmoth. After all my friends gave me crap for playing a female character I completely destroyed an encounter with a sleep spell. They did not say a single thing to me after that. The very next session I was the DM. This was also when I started to pick up the Planescape books, which to this day is still my favorite setting.
Lol- at the risk of outing myself as the old guy, my first character was an elf, back when humans could be a cleric, fighter, magic-user, or thief but if you were an elf or a dwarf that was class too.
First character was gestalt? Damn, that’s setting the bar!
I started with Warhammer Fantasy RP, V2. A very brutal system where death and mutation was a given. There aren’t any levels in the system, but my dwarf adventurer managed to survive to retirement with his mind intact. A true victory.
For pathfinder it was a monk. Not unchained. Just a monk. With strength 14 because I thought that was enough. Flurry of misses is an understatement. He was quickly replaced by an inquisitor-archer, found here. With my third character being a halforc Barbarian found here.
The half-orc is one of my all time favorite characters as he took clothing from defeated enemies as trophies. By the time I stopped playing him he had the following:
Looted Clothing:
* Pants: Taken during the "Segang Expedition." Ran into a party of three tomb raiders. The third was taken prisoner and his pants were taken as a trophy.
* Boots: Taken during "Trouble in Tamran." Cultists tried to ambush the party. One of them was taken alive. His boots were taken from him as a trophy.
* Shirt: Holy Shirt of Karcau! Taken during the Darkest Vengeance from a wizard working for a local crime family. The man was captured and stripped of his shirt.
* Hat: Taken from a Sylph during Tyranny of the Winds in the Azure Hall library upon the plane of air.
For that character I even kept a list of all of his PFS adventurers, found in that profile. Helped me track his gold as well as what he accomplished. Good times!
My first D&D character was made around 2000/2001 when I was in college. We played 3.0 right about when it came out. I made a cleric and based him somewhat on a cleric character I had in the MMORPG Everquest. I didn't have much tabletop experience prior so I had to learn that D&D did not play out the same way as an MMO did. But I still had a lot of fun.
I have a few memorable experience from that campaign.
One was, we were fighting a black dragon on his home turf in a swamp. Our wizard polymorphed himself into a fish to scout ahead and was promptly eaten by the dragon. The dragon then scooped up the fighter and dropped him on top of a huge ruined tower. It then returned to fight the remaining two of us who were sitting in a tiny canoe in the swamp thinking we were screwed. I think we did end up winning somehow though.
Another was, we attacked a giant fortress and created a magical blender by combining darkness, silence, and blade barrier over the only entrance/exit. The giants all ran out to attack us but couldn't see or hear what happened to each one running through. It got messy.
One last one I remember, we defeated a lich, but not knowing much about liches, did not destroy its phylactery and decided to keep its head for a trophy. Well, it reformed right where we were and used mage's disjunction which in 3.0 basically destroyed almost every magic item we were carrying. I think we ended the campaign soon after because losing all your items at high level is a lot to recover from.
My friends and I mostly stuck with 3.5 as our preferred RPG system and Pathfinder was basically an extension of that. We thought D&D 4th edition was trash so Pathfinder was a way to keep playing the ruleset we enjoyed. D&D 5th edition is not bad. Neither is Pathfinder 2E. But I've been playing D&D 3.5/Pathfinder 1E for so long, I'm mostly sticking with that.
My friends and I mostly stuck with 3.5 as our preferred RPG system and Pathfinder was basically an extension of that. We thought D&D 4th edition was trash so Pathfinder was a way to keep playing the ruleset we enjoyed. D&D 5th edition is not bad. Neither is Pathfinder 2E. But I've been playing D&D 3.5/Pathfinder 1E for so long, I'm mostly sticking with that.
Same
I was in the D&D open at Gen Con right when 3.0 came out. Which means no one knew the rules except the DMs. It was me and one of my friends from HS. So the rest of our group was abunch of randos cause everyone else came with their groups. We actually got to the final round which was highly unexpected and blew it because the DM described a scene wrong. We used a super powered artifact on the wrong encounter.
That was also the year I had just enough money to buy a beta black lotus, but declined cause I wanted to get the new ed. Oh well.
My first character was also gestalt. Rogue/Sorcerer > Shadow Adept. Lots of illusion spells to boost the stealthy aspect of the character. That was around 2004 or 2005 I guess. That character was scrapped 3 or 4 sessions in after the DM went into rehab for pills.
After that I made Spellthief 2 who multiclassed into a Beguiler 6 and then prestiged into a Master of Masks 5/ Spymaster 7. To date, that is the only character I've ever played that's gone from level 1 to 20.
This was also when I started to pick up the Planescape books, which to this day is still my favorite setting.
I have always been interested in the concept of Planescape. I have never played anything with it or know anything about it, but my first game I played in had some hinting of Sigil and possibly going there. But we ended the campaign saving the world. It was based in Kalamar.
First character was gestalt? Damn, that’s setting the bar!
It did take a few campaigns/characters after that first one to really retrain the brain to what is "normal" with characters. I now have a homebrew world where all of our retired PCs have found a home as Kings/Queens/Rulers or past champions of the land. Its a slew of fun.
My first D&D character was made around 2000/2001 when I was in college. We played 3.0 right about when it came out. I made a cleric and based him somewhat on a cleric character I had in the MMORPG Everquest. I didn't have much tabletop experience prior so I had to learn that D&D did not play out the same way as an MMO did. But I still had a lot of fun.
My friends and I mostly stuck with 3.5 as our preferred RPG system and Pathfinder was basically an extension of that.... But I've been playing D&D 3.5/Pathfinder 1E for so long, I'm mostly sticking with that.
I played a TON of EQ through high school. One of my friends got me hooked using his account towards the end of him playing it, so I continued from there. I think his parents unknowingly kept paying for his subscription for 2 or 3 years before they canceled it and I had to start paying for it. Oh those were some fun times.
I am a 95% 3.5/Pathfinder 1e player. I have so much invested in books between the two systems that it would be rather silly for me to restart the collection of books in a new system.
I was in the D&D open at Gen Con right when 3.0 came out. Which means no one knew the rules except the DMs. It was me and one of my friends from HS. So the rest of our group was abunch of randos cause everyone else came with their groups. We actually got to the final round which was highly unexpected and blew it because the DM described a scene wrong. We used a super powered artifact on the wrong encounter.
That was also the year I had just enough money to buy a beta black lotus, but declined cause I wanted to get the new ed. Oh well.
Very cool about the Gen Con game. And as far as things go with the black lotus. I remember playing MTG where people were trading dual lands for the likes of a Shivan Dragon because they were giant beat sticks of doom. lol.
To everyone I really enjoyed a glimpse into your first characters. Very cool!
I've never had a character go to 20, unless you want to count Neverwinter Nights persistant world characters.
Oh man. NWN 1&2 and Baldur's Gate 1&2 are games I sank so much time into.
Wow, you guys went into way more detail than I did. Alright...
After starting with the D&D basic box, we moved on to AD&D for a little while before 2nd Edition came out. I dabbled with other systems (GURPS, Palladium, WhiteWolf) and then we switched over to 3rd Ed shortly after it came out. I played a halfling cleric in Everquest Online for a while even though it wasn't a great race/class combo, and built up enough of a reputation as a solid healer that when EQOA2 came out and halflings were better suited for being clerics my buddies all joked that it was because of me. I was also in a WoW raiding guild for a while (with a pally main who was primarily a healer).
We never played any 4th edition but started playing Pathfinder (1e) near the end of its Beta and have been at it ever since. I moved away from my last TT group a few years ago and have been playing almost exclusively PbP since. I think they've made the move to Pathfinder 2e but I've been busy enough with work and family that I haven't bothered to learn the new system yet.
Edit: oh, and I've put a lot of time into the Final Fantasy games, and the old Dragon Warrior game for the NES. I actually still have a working original NES with Final Fantasy 1 and Dragon Warrior. And the Elder Scrolls games, especially Oblivion and Skyrim.
Speaking of Pathfinder Beta... Here is my Beta PHB that I dug out a few months back when we moved. Crazy fun stuff during that time. Anyone else have the Beta book? I remember ordering it online when it came out.
Oh wow. No, I don't have a copy. I think I still have my 5E beta somewhere though. And I do have the PF2E playtest book.
I actually didn't start with any long-form rules-heavy systems until a couple of years ago, when some local friends in my PhD program (different departments) invited me to join a War for the Crown campaign. I built a happy bard, wonderfully naive with a minimally tragic backstory but numerous potential ties into the campaign. I was very green. The rest of the party was an alchemist, a brawler, and a vigilante. We didn't discover that the vigilante was actually a dhampir until he went down in combat before the first boss fight, after we tried feeding him a potion and nearly killed him. We managed to win the boss fight at the end of the dungeon, only to miss the perception DC for the next trap. Bloodied, we opened the exit door and found a pair of rogues who promptly killed all of us. TPK at level 2.
But back in the late 90s/early 2000s I did a lot of rules-light/system-agnostic PbP role-playing. I found a group of people who co-developed our own setting. My first character there discovered that he was the lost scion of a race descended from/created by phoenixes. Got involved in various intergalactic wars before taking his throne and having a family. That campaign lasted almost a decade.
I had the Pathfinder Beta book too. I don't think I have it anymore though.
I play the Final Fantasy 14 game online and that's about all I have time for right now.
Think "spanglish."
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A curse on you dice and your children. Lol
Edit:I apologize dice, it helps if I roll a 20 and not a 10
Nice hit!
Ngl, I feel bad because, for some reason, I thought Stabilize has a DF/M component but it's only V, S. I could've used my turn to stabilize Bolkvar.
I thought you were going to channel, which does need a symbol, because we have a number of injuries across the party.
Lol. I'm trying to channel but I don't know where my 'medallion' (holy symbol) is and Asrat didn't say anything when I mentioned that I needed it. Hopefully the one I'm drawing in my own blood will work.
Sorry. I'm trying to hand out these items as fast as I can. I'll try to get you that holy symbol next round.
I have been trying to play the lack of overt awareness, which has definitely kept me out of things. Channeling will be more effective than my cure spells, but I'll use those on my next turn. Short halfling legs and all...
Well that was a crazy battle. With that last round of acid splash and the shiv the group took the doppelgänger to -1.... yikes, that was a rough first combat.
Technically Asrat is lying, so that would be a bluff check. But, would any of the party members really have a reason to not believe you and would even feel the need to make a Sense Motive check... those are different questions
I'm glad I refreshed. I was just about to post something and it would have not made any sense given the update. I'll get something new whipped up.
Also, I love that bit of dialogue from Asrat.