Coinage is on the sheet too if you scroll down a bit.
After reevaluating the traveling rules, your 5-11-17-23-30 path actually takes only two full days in each direction (using a 20-ft movement speed because of your caravan) since it's all over open plains. Sorry for the inconsistency, I'll be more careful about that going forward; we'll consider the land around Oleg's fully explored since you've already taken the time.
And since you're setting off again, let's address traveling vs exploring. It looks like Ventiine (and the others too I guess) marked your path as traveled but not explored. Traveling through a hex takes 8 hours; exploring it takes 2 days. You'll eventually need to spend the extra time exploring every hex to satisfy your charter, although you aren't on a schedule to do so.
So the question becomes: do you want to get back to Oleg's relatively quickly, or take the extra time exploring as you go? There's something noteworthy in almost every hex, but whether or not you see anything depends on how long you spend there. We'll say there's a 50/50 chance of finding something (where applicable) if you're just traveling through.
I'd say let's take the time to explore; it's what we're here for and we're not low on resources yet.
Adela is happy to take the two days exploring each hex. It's what we're here for.
Gotta do the exploring sooner or later, and I don't figure we have anything else pressing (except maybe retrieving a certain chest
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I'm all for exploring, and we can definitely see if we can retrieve the chest on the way back. If Dare or Yuki have rope with them we might have enough now.
Sadly no. With a str 8 she very limited on carried gear
Dare does have 50 ft of silk rope. Benefit of being able to build at 2nd level! We'll say Restov sent her with some resupply. :)
Exploring it is. Onward and upward!
Feel better soon, Erik/pad300!
Feel better Erik!
Dare, Yuki, let me know when you've recorded the wand and boots on your sheets, and I'll remove them from the loot list.
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I put the wand on my sheet.
boots on
I am travelling until June 25. I should be able to post, but things may be sporadic...
I know I'm writing 'elf', but if true seeing is ever used while she's in the current form, both elf and Kitsune will be seen
As the elf is her alternate form. Not one of the "realistic likeness" forms
I probably will not be able to post between tomorrow and Monday. Going to Origins this weekend!
(Finally got priced out of GenCon a few years back, which I'm really bummed about, but at least this way I can bring the kids.)
Enjoy the trip
I'm thinking we can do the actual shopping here, just throw in what you'd like to get from Bokken.
1 potion of CLW. That's all. And she will let people know where she keeps it so they can give it to her if she goes down in a fight
2 alchemist's fire 40gp
Silver weapon blanche 5gp
2 potions CLW 100gp
For simplicity's sake even split 160gp a piece,
I got the thing of anti plague. I've marked the money already from my sheet. If we're doing group expenses that's fine, I'll not for future.
On another note: with applogies for the late notice. I may be slow over the next three days. Please bot me if needed.
Oleg's award is a little different, being store credit instead of cash on the nail. So you could divvy it up and say each of you gets 200 gp of stuff to buy, but then you'll have to mark on your inventory that you have X gold pieces and Y store credit at Oleg's. Alternatively, you could discuss among yourselves what to purchase and have more credit go to some than to others.
Or, of course, you could purchase group items like a 1st-level wand (remember that magic items take a week to arrive).
Adela still has the Wand of cure light wounds in her inventory. Fully charged and unused. we've been lucky so far and not needed anything more than her healing magic.
She is looking to upgrade her armor. So she's saving for a masterwork breastplate.
Question: this is the first group I've played in in a long time that awards individual XP so I apologize if this seems like a stupid question: are we responsible for tracking our own XP and/or do we not level necessarily all at the same time? Since Dare and Yuki just joined, do we count ourselves at the beginning of level 2 even if the rest of the party is further along toward leveling?
I like the idea of using the store credit for group items, sort of a party fund, or to draw from if something necessary goes over what someone can actually afford.
Question: this is the first group I've played in in a long time that awards individual XP so I apologize if this seems like a stupid question: are we responsible for tracking our own XP and/or do we not level necessarily all at the same time? Since Dare and Yuki just joined, do we count ourselves at the beginning of level 2 even if the rest of the party is further along toward leveling?
You'll all get the same XP and level at the same time. I've been on both sides of having different XP totals among the party, and to me it just isn't much fun.
So you should all have 3,151 XP on the medium advancement track. If one of you should die (muahaha) and roll up a new character, your new character will have the same total.
I don't recall any leads we have at the moment.
So perhaps some mapping, head West doing hexes 4-3-2-1. The back east along 7-8-9? Clear some of the map.
I just posted about the 'Wanted: Falgrim Sneeg' quest, although you also have the 'Gathering Fangberries' quest (which has been marked on the map) and two other quests which have not been personally given to you but are posted on Oleg's public bulletin board.
That said, you are more than welcome to do some exploring/mapping at any time.
Forgive me if I've missed it, but what is in Oleg's stores? I found this list at the beginning of the adventure, but I don't know if he's added to the stock since then:
purchase: a suit of leather armor, a heavy wooden shield, two hand axes, five javelins, a longbow, two dozen arrows, a scythe, two spears, two potions of cure light wounds, a potion of shield of faith +2, two vials of antitoxin, six torches, two weeks of trail rations, a number of animal furs worth a total of 120 gold pieces,
Ok, shall we head SW to the Fangberries going through Hexes 22-28. That's one we have a location for.
Forgive me if I've missed it, but what is in Oleg's stores? I found this list at the beginning of the adventure, but I don't know if he's added to the stock since then:
purchase: a suit of leather armor, a heavy wooden shield, two hand axes, five javelins, a longbow, two dozen arrows, a scythe, two spears, two potions of cure light wounds, a potion of shield of faith +2, two vials of antitoxin, six torches, two weeks of trail rations, a number of animal furs worth a total of 120 gold pieces,
I've handwaved his stock and gold supply to say he has any mundane items you need. He can also provide magic items, but they take a week to arrive.
That sounds like a good idea. It's fresh on our minds, and without something else pressing, makes sense to take care of now.
Cool on the supplies. I guess everyone see if there's anything you want to shop for before we head out.
Adela will put in an order with Oleg for a MW breastplate for herself.
She wants a better AC and has no Dex to worry about. :)
Hopefully it will be ready when we return.
If the award from Oleg is an item worth up to 1,000 gp for each of us, Dare would ask for a wand of magic missile.
If it's combined (i.e., the party cannot total spend more than 1,000 gp), she'd ask instead for two potions of shield of faith.
I agree on looking for the fangberries, but if we find the bandit on the way, awesome.
The 1,000 gp of store credit is for the entire party (you can think of it as representing everything he has on hand right now, but mechanically that's what you receive).
Masterwork breastplate is certainly doable, it would be 350 gp of the 1,000 gp reward (unless Adela is paying cash for it).
I wholeheartedly support our cleric getting as much AC as we can afford. That's an investment that helps the whole party.
go for it, im saving up to get mithril chain shirt armor
Five of us. Adela will take 200gp as her share of the credit and put up the rest of the gold.
I bet the moment she gets the breastplate and pays for it we'll find something better. :)
Heh. Probably.
Five of us. Adela will take 200gp as her share of the credit and put up the rest of the gold.
I bet the moment she gets the breastplate and pays for it we'll find something better. :)
Dude, get the breastplate. No one else has asked for anything and like I said, it is selfishly in the rest of our best interests for you to be well equipped protectively. I mean, folks are welcome to disagree with me but IMO giving up the opportunity to improve your gear hurts us more than helps so there's nothing honorable in waiting or asking for an event split.
It doesn't make sense to necessarily split the cost evenly when there's probably also other gear that might benefit the party as a whole (like should we get a chirurgeon's kit maybe? Or a cache of alchemical weapons for any of us to use in a pinch? If someone else also really needs AC I also support them getting that.
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It's done. Adela has gotten fitter wandering the Stolen lands the last month so feels she can handle being encased in metal now. :)
*lightning strike*
Awesome! Ok so this next group of baddies call themselves the Shocking Grasp Bandits, but it's probably nothing.
Awesome! Ok so this next group of baddies call themselves the Shocking Grasp Bandits, but it's probably nothing.
Better than the Wet Bandits?
lol
Spider is fine. SPIDER is not :P
No phobia. Just survival. As she's not the outdoorsy :P ironic. I know.
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Hey, there's a big difference between outdoorsy and outsidey. I have a friend who loves being outside, gardening and going for walks and such. She also has never been camping or backpacking and doesn't have the slightest desire to do either. So maybe Yuki is more like that.
Hey, there's a big difference between outdoorsy and outsidey. I have a friend who loves being outside, gardening and going for walks and such. She also has never been camping or backpacking and doesn't have the slightest desire to do either. So maybe Yuki is more like that.
Correct. She can go outside. She's here after all
She'd love to help in CC, but this is a hairy arachnid that has no business being this big
I can't Aid Another with range. So not sure what to do to help atm