Kingmaker - GM ST

Game Master SodiumTelluride

Erik, you still with us?

So unless someone has an idea what she can do, she will be taking full defence as an action

Makes sense. Sounds like we need to get you a ranged weapon.

For times like this. For sure.

Yuki, if I'd known you didn't have a ranged weapon, I (a) could give you Dare's crossbow as it is a backup she is unlikely to ever need much (she'll use ranged cantrips first), and (b) would have suggested we get you one out of the 1,000 gp credit from Oleg. All we bought was Adela's 350 gp armor (GM, did I get my two potions of Shield of Faith?). So we're only 450 down, if I got my potions, and have plenty to spare. Would it be okay with everyone to use the credit to get that for you when we get back? My understanding is a lot of this adventure involves outdoor encounters so some are going to start from fairly far away--and as we get to higher levels, we may have to deal with flying enemies. So ranged weapon is gonna be useful (and I don't think it's really metagaming to consider that given our in character mission is to explore the wilderness).

As for helpful actions, I think you get a standard action. Total defense works, but you could also move and/or draw a weapon or take out another item you might want to use.

If I may selfishly suggest, also use a free action to draw Dare's attention to the actual spider. ;)

I didn't think we'd encounter a giant spider just yet. She's a melee build. Kinda. :P

Will sort it when back

I didn't think we'd encounter a giant spider just yet. She's a melee build. Kinda. :P

Will sort it when back

You've got a +3 to Dex. You can certainly use a ranged weapon competently enough; don't need a "ranged build," just be able to handle stuff when the attacker is in the sky or a tree or just far away.

(For this fight, I pictured the scene as we were much closer to the spider, FWIW. I honestly thought we were like 20 feet away at most.)

Yuki, if I'd known you didn't have a ranged weapon, I (a) could give you Dare's crossbow as it is a backup she is unlikely to ever need much (she'll use ranged cantrips first), and (b) would have suggested we get you one out of the 1,000 gp credit from Oleg. All we bought was Adela's 350 gp armor (GM, did I get my two potions of Shield of Faith?). So we're only 450 down, if I got my potions, and have plenty to spare. Would it be okay with everyone to use the credit to get that for you when we get back? My understanding is a lot of this adventure involves outdoor encounters so some are going to start from fairly far away--and as we get to higher levels, we may have to deal with flying enemies. So ranged weapon is gonna be useful (and I don't think it's really metagaming to consider that given our in character mission is to explore the wilderness).

As for helpful actions, I think you get a standard action. Total defense works, but you could also move and/or draw a weapon or take out another item you might want to use.

If I may selfishly suggest, also use a free action to draw Dare's attention to the actual spider. ;)

She did do that at least. She was pointing behind you at the SPIDER

It plays out better organically this way rather than trying to go back and retroactively decide she'd bought a weapon, IMO. No adventurer's perfect!

And sure Dare, assume you got the potions you wanted.

(For this fight, I pictured the scene as we were much closer to the spider, FWIW. I honestly thought we were like 20 feet away at most.)

I decided to give you all the benefit of not being that close, because the spider would've jumped you long before you got there.

Just waiting on Erik. Last post was 6/17, saying he'd be out until 6/25 which was two weeks ago. I hope everything is ok. (I'll bot him tomorrow if he hasn't checked in by then.)

Snooping into the player's profile, it looks like they are posting in their other games. I wonder if they aren't seeing post updates for the thread; that's happened to me on occasion. GM I'd suggest dropping a line to them via DM.

I am alive, just have been not feeling chatty...

Sprry everybody, been packing for a road trip. Will post shortly but yeah, Rhiann's good with taking point.

I wanted to ask, have you guys dealt with the bandit camp yet? Where those first bandits came from?

Yes, we've dealt with the Thorn river camp and Kressle.

Permanently. Dun Dun Duh!

Oki dokie. Good to know.

Thanks =^^=

I finally remembered to get her Art uploaded

Nice art.

I was lucky. I was looking for female Cleric pictures and the perfect one showed up almost instantly.

One of those where they match your image of your character perfectly.

I know the feeling

But I had this one made

So official art or how ever you want to label it :P

Ps

Too bad we aren't on the fast XP track. Would've been close to level 3 :P

@GM

I'm wondering if she can have a few prank items (the same type) she hands out or buries with those she thinks needs/would benefit from them in the after life?

I'm currently thinking a deck of cards in a box. And it basically lets you play "Pick up 52" when opened

Perhaps 3sp or 4sp?

Sure! As long as your items don't have any mechanical uses, we can say you have on hand whatever trinkets you like. (So no, like, "I use my card-scattering box to locate the invisible monster" or whatever. If you want to do that, we'll have to agree ahead of time what items you've got and what they can do.) Maybe like 2 gp to cover them all?

Awesome.

Much appreciated

Been on the road. Finally in Kansas. Will post in the morning

Traveling again. Will be back to regular posting on Friday

My shield is gone!

My shield is gone!

lol! Finally back home! Will get caught up and posting.

Forgive me if the RP is over much, Dare's just sulking (and thinks Bokken didn't warn them so they'd buy more healing potions). She'll get over it.

In the meantime, some personal s~$% has hit the fan and I will be taking a break for a couple days. Please bot me if needed.

Nothing to forgive, RP is all good. I think we're all here to do more than just roll dice.

The RP is fine, we keep getting new characters joining the party and the different personalities shaking up the dynamic are great.

Finding your characters voice and letting it come naturally makes role playing so much easier.

I know Adela hasn't spoken much with Dare and Yuki yet, that is more because I'm playing her as someone who is unexposed to a lot of the wider world. She feels like a fish out of water at times and tends to observe things until she feels she understands what's going on.

She is adjusting to the adventuring life, it was a bit of shock to a city girl at first.

Adela wasn't very happy with Bokken either, but she's still much more formal in expressing her disapproval. :)

I hope none of you as players feel like you were cheated here. Anytime you want more information about something, feel free to ask! Although I guess that's at least partly on me for not putting that info behind Knowledge (nature) spoilers-- I honestly didn't think about it because it isn't prompted for. I'll try to do more of that in the future.

So where to next?

I guess back to the original plan, exploring where we set out to. We only came back to avoid berry spoilage and heal up

correct, i like to think we scout the immediate area around oleg, and then as we travel we do the same :P

but thats just my brain going "know whats immediately around you"

Makes sense.

Sounds good to me. We've dealt with the Bandits, Mites & Kobolds. Time to explore and find out what other dangers await us. :)

I thought I posted here, but with the site problems over the past few days I guess I didn't.

So there's the quest to find Falgrim Sneeg, although you don't know where he is. (There's a bandit camp near this edge of the forest, but that's all you really have to go on right now.) There are also Wanted posters at Oleg's for the head of a tatzlwyrm and the head of a boar-monster named Tuskgutter, although (as far as I'm aware) you don't currently have any idea where they might be.

I am still sorting through some ... stuff. One disaster happened and then several more smaller but still concerning ones. I will be okay but I just do not have the wherewithal to post yet. Keep moving without me and I'll post IC as soon as I can. The general proposition to moving on is fine with me. If in doubt, Dare will set it on fire (provided it is reasonably not in danger of spreading).

All good on the RP commentary, being a newbie just want to be sure we're on the same page. And nope, I don't feel cheated. :)

I will be out of town this weekend, so will not be able to post until Monday.

While we're paused.

How about we check in at Oleg's and leave the cart there? We're going to be moving into the heavily wooded areas and it will become a hinderance for us.

Search hexes 1 - 14 and then come back searching hexes 7 - 9?

That makes sense to me. If we come across something too big to carry, we'll get it with the cart on a second pass.

Aren't we travelling by horse? It would have to be big if we can't have a horse lug it along

Yep. Though even horses have weight limits.

Yep. Though even horses have weight limits.

Yeah. But about 2 times a normal character :P

A light horse : light load max 150 to max 460. So it's something =^^=

Hi all, trying to get back into things. The cart folks're talking about, is that the caravan? Do we have the capacity to carry whatever we need to make camp without it?

I generally agree with Adela it might be a good idea to not try to bring the horses into areas they can't traverse easily. But we should probably note what we take with us if we leave them with Oleg.

I believe we've been using the cart we found at the bandit camp along with a horse to travel and carry more things than we could carry by ourselves.

What I'm suggesting is leaving the cart at Oleg's when we move to exploring the forest hexes. Not the best terrain for it.

As soon as she has enough saved Adela is getting a Handy haversack for herself. :)

Same. It'll make things a whole lot easier.