There's just something so funny to me about a gnoll named Pickle Tooth being the "party face."
Oh yes. Plucky and improbable underdogs (underhyenas?) are the way we roll.
Ahem, speaking of face characters...Ethel isn't. ;)
You're way out of order, Ethel's clearly here to make friends.
Also, I'll be on a work trip between tomorrow and friday. It shouldn't affect my posting, but in case it does please bot me as necessary. Have Ethel say something completely unfair, possibly wrong, and preferably unpleasant.
Ethel is like an automatic -4 to Diplomacy rolls for every scene! :D
Enjoy the work trip.
As long as we're talking about potential interruptions, I'll be having surgery on the 28th. I don't anticipate being out of commission for very long but, depending on how strong the pain meds are, my posting may be spotty for the first few days afterwards.
In my limited post-op experience, everything takes longer than expected to recover, just due to various annoying things. May yours be better!
I want to give you all a mild spoiler: not everything in this adventure is adequately explained. I think David Lynch was an inspiration.
Give me a bit to get caught up. Friday was an unplanned pediatrician visit. My son had strep throat along with staph where he scraped his knee last week. Saturday I woke up with a sore throat and immediately got an antibiotic prescribed for myself too.
Totally understandable, Pickle! May you all feel better soon.
For clarification, what ancestry is Mordha Lyons?
Oh! Sure. She's human, and some sort of Taldan stock.
Sorry for falling silent for a few days there- work this week was insane trying to get everything set up for the couple weeks I'll be out of my surgery. It's all done now and I should have a ton of time for posting next week, until the surgery on Friday. I probably won't post at all next weekend but I'm hoping that by Monday I'll be able to post one-handed, lol. I will be high (on the prescribed pain medication) but hopefully you won't be able to tell (or if you can hopefully it'll be funny and not disruptive).
I'll have a game play post up tomorrow.
Aaand I'm back from my trip. Damaged, but alive.
Welcome back, Dorgrum! And Ethel! Goodness! I fell down while playing soccer with my kid (don't play indoors with socks on) and bruised my wrist, but I have two intact hands. Heal up, y'all and let me know whether you are going to the Hill or talking with the folks at the Inn.
I have a question about multiple attack penalties... my bite has the agile quality which reduces the multi-attack penalty, but I'm unclear on how that works when combined with attack from weapons without that (like my axe). Does in affect the penalty for any attacks that follow it (so a bite followed by an axe swing would give the axe -3), or does it affect attacks with the bite regardless of what came before (so axe/axe/bite would be no penalty/-5/-6)?
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A weapon trait only works when you are attacking with that specific weapon. Finesse will not apply to an axe because your first Strike used a rapier, for example.
In your axe / axe / bite example, it would work like this for most characters:
1. axe: no MAP
2. axe: -5
3. bite (agile): -8
This means that, for most characters, three attacks in a round are a bit of a waste because that -10/-8 often means you'll only hit with a nat 20.
For a flurry ranger attacking their hunted prey, instead, it would be:
1. axe: no MAP
2. axe: -3
3. bite (agile): -4
Hope that helps!
That does help, thank you. Although, I think in the last example it should actually be:
1. axe- no MAP
2. axe- -3
3. bite- -5
Right? (I think, iirc, that flurry reduces the penalty to -3 normally and -2 for agile?)
Correct, Dorgrum— -2 and -4 for your second and third Ranger’s Flurry agile attacks.
Sorry, I was hoping to get one more gameplay post up but I’m in the hospital now getting all my pre-op shots and whatnot. I’ll try to post something on Monday.
I am potentially going to be slow as I arrange to move my mom to a different care facility. Old age is not for the faint of heart!
No problem for me.
Good luck to both of you, and hope everything goes well =)
I am back to availability, purty much. Hope you're feeling ok, Dorgrum!
Does anyone want to jump in the "interaction" with dog lady? Ethel can continue, but someone with higher charisma might be better in the long term.
I had that post locked and loaded, I was just waiting for everyone to come back. :)
sorry, you'd need to be a Helpful Halfling to save Pickle from that dice roll.
sorry its taking so long to get a post up- between being in a haze from the drugs and just being out of it from the wildly erratic sleep schedule that the swings between pain and highness cause I haven't really been able to write coherent posts. i'm done with one the meds now, and my brain seems a bit clearer, so I'm hoping i might be able to post tomorrow or Sunday (but, like i said before, please feel free to bot me if you need to). Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Did...did you just apologize for having a surgery?
Seriously, no worries. Just glad that you're doing better.
I echo Pickle Tooth's perplexity. Take care of yourself and rest =)
No worries on my side as well, and hope you'll feel 100% again soon!
I had a surgery last year and oof, it took a while to recover. I even developed some post-surgery depression, which is REALLY not fun. (worth a Google if you suspect it's happening to you.) Hang in there, Dorgrum. We got time! :)
Thanks for the understanding! Trying to type one-handed on my phone has proven infeasible, and sitting at the computer gets pretty uncomfortable pretty quick. Still, I don't want to leave anyone hanging for too long, so I'm trying to start making a few posts each day. I think i should have one here today.
ouchie. Don't strain yourself. Hehe, I dare you to use voice to text. ;)
My days have gotten busy for a few myself--I spent most of today sorting boxes. Uyy!
Part of me finds it hilarious everyone's referring to the guy as sorry sack/sod because of Ethel. The other feels extremely guilty for potentially hurting a fictional character's feelings.
Oh, to be fair, he is a sad sack as written.
yay!
Yay indeed =)
Sorry, I didn't want to post too much so Dorgrum didn't have to catch up too much, but might have gotten carried away.
He will catch up! I meant to post but, Faire + Mother's Day.
Yay indeed =)
Sorry, I didn't want to post too much so Dorgrum didn't have to catch up too much, but might have gotten carried away.
That was my thought as well.
Sorry that took so long! I'm mostly off the drugs now and easing back into the daily grind by working mostly remotely. I'm about to read through the posts I missed and make a post myself (unless someone botted me already, which would be totally understandable). It might take a day or two to catch up on all my games but I should be back to regular posting by the end of the week.
No worries, Dorgrum. If it's all good with everyone else, feel free to keep posting at some sorta rate. :)
Just a heads-up: I might be a little slow on posting this week. Heading to a beach vacation with the family.
How we doing, everyone? :) I know I had a busy week, whew!
My vacation was a little rough. My mother in law was in town as well and she is a very lovely woman who just needs to figure out how to be just a tad self-sufficient. It was like having two 4 olds in the house.
I'm basically constantly annoyed at work now because bosses and HR are forcing me into a managerial position and that's the one thing I asked them not to do to me. I like words and commas and animals, not people. /rant
Yeah, I had a managerial position where I had to fire people. That sucked. I don't ever want to deal with HR or bosses or firing ever again...trying to freelance for these reasons.
Hey everyone, I’m really sorry for falling silent without any notice!
Last week I returned to normal/full-time work and it’s proved a bit more challenging than expected. I continue to recover well, but after being on the computer a lot at work (and all the little ways you use your shoulder throughout the day without really even thinking about it when you're not laid up at home recovering), I haven't been up to getting back on it afterwards to post. I’m getting to the point where I should be able to post during breaks and after work with some regularity again soon. And, I’m actually off tomorrow, so I’ll catch up on reading posts and get a post up in gameplay then.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
All good. I read the book "Pain Free At Your PC" by Pete Egoscue a long while ago, which helped with some ergonomic computer practices. :)
Apologies for the silence, last few days were very busy between work and etc. Will have something up soon!
I'm off to a boring, almost week-long social activity today. Will probably not be able to post at least for the next couple of days, possibly until Sunday.