Still here and still game - might need a reworking of Mholg's backstory somewhat as he was indeed tied into Kiley.
@All: Just an update from Al/Spazmodeus, I reached out to him via his personal email and he got back to me earlier today.
Think he's planning to touch base with his games, but covid and RL/work drained him of physical and mental energy at the beginning of the year. Good news is he's on the mend and thoughts are turning to the boards and games... bad news is alas this game is a stretch too far at the moment.
While I'm disappointed, I am stoked to hear Al is well and getting better and he gave me his blessing to be the bearer of the tidings.
Think this game would have been a hoot and you all had some great concepts. Look forward to (hopefully) sharing the virtual tabletop with you all down the line.
Cheers
BD/Gary
Hey Mohlg, you apparently know "Al/Spazmodeus"; it's been more than a month since he posted about getting this started again. Is this back to being dead?
Thought so, but maybe he's hit another RL speedbump. I can drop him an email see what pops.
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Molg is right...RL raised it's ugly head again!
I'll try to get a start post up in the next day or so! But might have to wait for the weekend
Thanks again for your patience.
This will be the new profile I'll use for the RP.
Big storm went through.....no power till Tuesday earliest, so no update from me till then.
Sorry for the delay....power was out a bit longer than expected, then I had to catch up with work and help hubby with girl's dance recital activities!
Expect a starting post in the next couple of days!
Hey guys
Sorry for the new absence, seems RL just doesn't want to give me the time to run this and my other games; more work, some more health issues, etc.
I was going to get a post in, but I'm off to a cottage for two weeks to decompress and re-charge, so didn't seem fair to post then disappear for another two weeks.
Expect a starting post around the 24th of July.
Al
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I hope you're able to recover from RL.
I was under the impression this was dead again... I guess not.
Hmmmm, Morrolan, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I'm still dubious...
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Definitely not a jerk....any doubt and skepticism you may have is no one's fault but my own.
Your continued patience is greatly appreciated!
I will be travelling starting today until the 14th; posting may be irregular. Please bot me if necessary.
Hmmmm, Morrolan, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I'm still dubious...
And we can now safely say that the points go to Onnello...
TBF, The GM did reply to me when I asked about the date. The GM said that it could start this weekend.
Long weekend up here in Canada....I'll get us started tonite.
Hey GM Spazmodeus, thanks for contacting me.
I hope the game gets up and running and you all have a good time. But all the energy and excitement I had to play Onnello died a while back, so I'm going to sit this one out.
Good luck and good gaming everyone.
Hey Onnello,
That's unfortunate but understandable. My apologies again for the lengthy delay in getting started.
I see Morrollan has posted.
That leaves Molg, Briar rose and Krystal.
Hope to see each of you posting soon!
AL
Hey Onnello,
That's unfortunate but understandable. My apologies again for the lengthy delay in getting started.
I see Morrollan has posted.
That leaves Molg, Briar rose and Krystal.Hope to see each of you posting soon!
AL
Morrolan has posted, and will put up a bigger starting/prep post, but it will be a while, I have stuff to do...
Giving Molg ( on vacation I think ) and Briar some extra time to post .
Posted. Apologies on the delay.
@GM Spaz: Have kept Kiley as part of Mholg's background. See them (Kiley) concocting a double pronged plan to have them be free of Riddleport and their respective crime lord keepers.
- Kiley and Mholg have shaken down several pick pockets working for Split-Face Knocmar. She's fled the city with those takings, urging Mholg to see out the Gold Goblin plan - befriend Saul, betray his trust and steal the casinos takings.
- Mholg's employer Clegg knows of the plan, but not of Kiley's larger betrayal.
Its a risky gambit but one the pair think could work. What has happened to Kiley is up to you - she could be caught by Split-Face and his cronies? Perhaps she just ghosts him? Leave you to weave that one into the saga to come :)
Oh yeah. Remember all the knowledge checks we did on each other.
Work is nasty busy right now and I’m still sick so I won’t be up to speed to write a proper post until at least tomorrow. Gotta rest up today
Feel better!
Between still being sick and my doctor saying I probably have another month of this, and my work being crazy busy I think I just cannot be as available to post as y’all deserve. I wanted to try to make this work for y’all, but I think I’m going to need to need to drop this game. Sorry, everyone. Real life is just too much right now
That's ok, take care of yourself.
I'll put up a quick recruitment, see if we can't get one or two interested parties...
The rest of us can keep rp-ing until the new blood joins the party.
I hope you feel better.
Remember that you'll have to use the same modified traits from that other recruitment thread.
So how long are you going to let the recruitment go for?
Deadline is the 6th.
Me as well!
So there has been a successful recruitment of new blood has there...to get the new guys up to speed:
Posts you should read and maybe make checks for...
Thanks Morrolan for the helpful post!
And welcome to the newcomers....mingle, gamble, gossip...
So I woke up this morning and found Santa had gone earlier this year for me. Thank you all for your trust!
Now off to read the posts Morrolan has kindly pointed out for us.
So, mechanics talk!
Lizas current Skald Rage buff package is:
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+2 Morale to STR, +2 Morale to Con, +1 morale to will saves, -1 AC, cant cast spells.
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As far as I know, you can chose each turn if you wish to accept the rage or not, meaning it works reasonably well with a "buff then smesh" caster, but not really with a Magus. Still, more then 50% of the party is able to enjoy the buff so yay!
Rage powers:
Given the abundance of martials we got, Beast totem for free pounce (at level 12) seems like the best bet. The claws at level 3 are sadly "eh", (unless we are captured and disarmed, with some moron forgetting to gag Liza, which is rather unlikely because she has a bite attack) but the scaling +1 Nat AC at level 6 is quite reasonable. I cannot hand out Rage powers gained from "extra rage power" feats, but I can take "extra rage power" to grab savage intuition and automatically start performing, at start of combat, which is pretty good for the action economy.
When I am not picking beast totem stuff, I will probably just go for increased DR.
Spells: Liza is currently debuff centric, with murderous command and grease. She plans to pick up tears to wine, moment of greatness, liberating command for level 1 spells. Level 2 spells dont matter much, because heroism is a level 2 spell for her and everyone wants it.
Level 3 is probably haste, jesters jaunt for some utility.
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Another thing, at session zero we crested some NPCs for ourselves for the GM to use which isn't necessary. Then s former PC got us to create local knowledge checks of 10, 15, 20 and 25 to decipher anything our PCs may already know about your characters. Also not necessary.
Looks like Liza already has something.
Meanwhile, Liza is opening the "bribe pool" to bribe Corynt into picking up enlarge person. Maybe Mholg or Brand will contribute to it :).
You want me to pick Enlarge Person? I accept bribes for that.
Now, you want me to prepare it? That's another thing :p
Re: Skalds, honestly, I'm used to not being able to capitalise from their buffs anyway. Someone in the design team at the time decided it was fun to lock all friendly casting.
I mean, there are 2 archetypes, spell warrior and urban skald, who dont, and, if you really want the buff, you could pay a 1 dip and 1 feat tax for it (any Bloodrager and mad magic).
As a matter of fact, there is a probably good way for you to get the rage buff, well, actually a rage buff that benefits you considerably.
It does have a cost of a dip and a feat though, but I actually think its a worthwhile investment.
At level 3ish, you dip into Urban Bloodrager, taking mad magic as a feat (and probably picking Kyton or arcane bloodline, Kyton is no save sickened on a crit for 1 turn, Arcane is free pseduodisruptive feat while bloodraging).
This is a bloodrager archetype that allows you to rage for +4 Dex, as opposed to +4 con and +4 str.
A Skalds allies with a Rage or Bloodrage feature may use their own boni rather then the Skalds, which means you could RAI, use the Urban Bloodragers +4 morale to dex instead of my +2/+2 STR and Con while I inspire you. You would not get the bonus from your bloodline (its level 1 so its inconsequental mostly), and get my rage powers on top.
RAW, it does not work because the language for "use you own rage boosts" specifically says STR, CON, Willsaves, AC. But I would argue that RAI an Urban Bloodrage could use DEX instead.
Now, is delaying your spell progression by 1 and paying a feat worth +4 morale to Dex, as well as eventually pounce and some nat armor and DR? I think thats for you to decide! And also for the GM because RAW it does not work.
Actually take adopted to get half orc ferocity for a trait and go with this skald build
Feats
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1 ferocious Action
A racial heritage tengu
2
3 skalds vigor
6 rage power guarded life
7 Natural Spell
A rogue talent combat trick mad magic
9
10 rage power
11 greater skalds vigor
This allows a red tongue and totemic skald build which does it all
Also if you lose a player again GM Spaz let me know I would love to join you here too
You can also make Knowledge (local) checks on the three of us to see if your characters know a bit more about our own. The lowest one is DC 10 so you can try it even if you don't have ranks.
I grasp that we can post in Gameplay already?
PS: I'm probably not gonna cast Enlarge Person.
I grasp that we can post in Gameplay already?
PS: I'm probably not gonna cast Enlarge Person.
I'm guessing so. You can join in on the other PCs if you want.
I grasp that we can post in Gameplay already?
PS: I'm probably not gonna cast Enlarge Person.
what if the bribery escalates to level 1 pearls of power :) ? Alhtough, a wand, I have UMD, may be easier.
Everything fine here?
Our GM has been hot and cold for a while. We'll see how it does. I think we can converse with each other in-character in the meantime.
Yup, got a bit busy last week!
I'll get a post up tomorrow in response to your posts!
Eagerly awaiting the insult answers!
I'm on a holiday trip to Vienna until Sunday and thus my posting will suffer. Sorry all.