Brvheart's Skull&Shackles

Game Master brvheart

brvheart wrote:

MannyGoblin wrote:

Manny drops some fire,fire FIRE! on the monkeys.

[dice=Touch,Alchemist Fire]1d20+7;1d6+2 Plus 50% is 12

Plus 50%???

I thought swarms took extra damage

They do.

A swarm takes half again as much damage (+50%) from spells or effects that affect an area, such as splash weapons and many evocation spells.

So guys, where are we on the name thing? Everyone has their suggestions locked in? Can we start the eliminations?

Breaking Wind - Callum (?)
Fever Dream - Capricia
Thunderbirds Fury - Emerald
Sea Serpent - Lief
Wild Ride - Manny
Salty Approach - Nuts
Besmara's Blessing - Vikla

There was Queen's Grace in Emerald's list, but that's just my previous suggestion, really. I won't ask for royalties if someone wants to use it as their suggestion, but in spirit of fair play, everyone should have just one name in the list. Also, Salty Approach was in it twice.

Those were 2 separate elimination list because 2 rolls came up on the same name, so I had to take the rest and roll off between them, and the DM gets a pick too only because the brace method requires 8 in the list for elimination.

I don't need a pick. I just put one in there for Nut's suggestion of doing brackets.

MannyGoblin wrote:

brvheart wrote:

MannyGoblin wrote:

Manny drops some fire,fire FIRE! on the monkeys.

[dice=Touch,Alchemist Fire]1d20+7;1d6+2 Plus 50% is 12

Plus 50%???

I thought swarms took extra damage

They do.

Quote:

A swarm takes half again as much damage (+50%) from spells or effects that affect an area, such as splash weapons and many evocation spells.

So guys, where are we on the name thing? Everyone has their suggestions locked in? Can we start the eliminations?

Breaking Wind - Callum (?)
Fever Dream - Capricia
Thunderbirds Fury - Emerald
Sea Serpent - Lief
Wild Ride - Manny
Salty Approach - Nuts
Besmara's Blessing - Vikla

There was Queen's Grace in Emerald's list, but that's just my previous suggestion, really. I won't ask for royalties if someone wants to use it as their suggestion, but in spirit of fair play, everyone should have just one name in the list. Also, Salty Approach was in it twice.

Please start on eliminations Nuts.

I still like queens Grace and callum didn't want to use his suggestions because he said it in jest.

Queens Grace is a good dignified name, even over the Thematic Thunderbird Fury or even phoenix fury.

Wilde Ride could be interpreted as Jesters Journey or Harlequin Harper as both it and Sea Serpent were meant as innuendo between 2 guys.

Fever Dream is good too.

SALTY APPROACH is a very Old Salt

I'd be fine for my slot to be used for Queen's Grace, so that it remains in the running.

Alright, then. I assume people have had enough time to reconsider and resubmit their suggestion at this point, so I am going with this list:

Queen's Grace - Callum
1d100 ⇒ 2

Fever Dream - Capricia
1d100 ⇒ 70

Thunderbirds Fury - Emerald
1d100 ⇒ 74

Sea Serpent - Lief
1d100 ⇒ 54

Wild Ride - Manny
1d100 ⇒ 44

Salty Approach - Nuts
1d100 ⇒ 90

Besmara's Blessing - Vikla
1d100 ⇒ 40

I have put the results into a poll maker and here's your link to submit your votes.

https://www.polltab.com/bracket-poll/1f6eXLvHVrfyO

Each round is set to approximately 48 hrs so that everyone gets to put their vote in.

If you guys feel like we can do it faster here in the discussion thread, we can do that. Since there are 7 players, if a name within a bracket gets 4 or more votes within a round, it advances to the next round. If that is how you want to go about it, the candidate pairs are:

Salty Approach
Advances to round 2 by default to compete against the winner of Queen's Grace/Besmara's Blessing matchup.

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Queen's Grace
Besmara's Blessing

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Wild Ride
Sea Serpent

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Fever Dream
Thunderbird's Fury

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Note: Not sure why the polltab system put the last name I entered on top of the bracket, but we will mirror that here to avoid confusion later on.

Besmaras blessing

Wild Ride

Fever dream

I voted on the link, but to be sure

Queens Grace

Sea Serpent (ugh)

Thunderbird Fury

Queen's Grace

Sea Serpent

Fever Dream

I did vote via the link, but for transparency:

Queen's Grace

Wild Ride

Fever Dream

Interestingly enough, someone who voted via the link did not put a vote on the Wild Ride / Sea Serpent matchup. The other pairs have 4 votes, that one has 3.

I'll vote for Queen's Grace and Sea Serpent. I don't really like either option in the final bracket, so I guess I'll just vote for whichever one lets us finish the voting faster (Fever, it looks like?)

Also, sorry for still struggling to post quickly/regularly enough. Work continues to be rough.

Round 1 results are in. From the forum:

Queen's Grace - 4 (Emerald, Capricia, Nuts, Lief)

Besmara's Blessing - 1 (Vikla)

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Wild Ride - 2 (Vikla, Nuts)
Sea Serpent - 3 (Emerald, Capricia, Lief)

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Fever Dream - 3 (Vikla, Capricia, Nuts)
Thunderbird's Fury - 1 (Emerald)

From polltab

Queen's Grace 4

Besmara's Blessing

Wild Ride 1
Sea Serpent 2

Fever Dream 3
Thunderbird's Fury 1

Results are the same in both, so let's go ahead and start round 2:

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Salty Approach
Queen's Grace

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Sea Serpent
Fever Dream

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Suggestions with either 4 votes first or most votes after 48 hrs proceeds to round 3.

Link to polltab is the same: https://www.polltab.com/bracket-poll/1f6eXLvHVrfyO

My votes are Queen's Grace and Fever Dream.

Queen’s Grace and Sea Serpent

Queens Grace and Fevered Dream

Fever dream Queens Grace

Fever Dream and Queen's Grace

Alright, everyone, round 2 results:

Salty Approach - 0
Queen's Grace - 5 (Nuts, Lief, Emerald, Vikla, Manny)

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Sea Serpent - 1 (Lief)
Fever Dream - 4 (Nuts, Emerald, Vikla, Manny)

Again, the results on the forum are reflected in the linked poll.

https://www.polltab.com/bracket-poll/1f6eXLvHVrfyO

Cast your votes! Here or polltab, doesn't matter.

Queen's Grace
Fever Dream

First one to reach 4 is the winner.

Queens Grace

I went with Queen's Grace as well.

Fever Dream!

Queen's Grace from me.

https://www.polltab.com/bracket-poll/1f6eXLvHVrfyO

Alright, well, it seems neither name got 4 votes, but Queen's Grace got more. My own vote was Fever Dream, but I did not want to influence anyone and did not post it here. So it's 3 to 2 at the moment.

Queen's Grace - Emerald, Capricia, Callum
Fever Dream - Nuts, Manny

Not sure if we want to wait for Lief and Vikla to actually get a majority on one side, or just go with Queen's Grace since it got more votes in the last 48 hrs.

Up to you guys.

Well your ship has been squibbed and Capt Pegsworthy has christened it with the name of your choice so you need to finish this up so you can get out to sea. Pegsworthy needs to get his ship squibbed now.

No, move on, she is Queens Grace

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I had a lot of things to do over the weekend, normal posting will resume on monday evening my time.

I have added to Roll20 the foredeck (b2), aft deck (b3), and sterncastle (b4)

Hey all. Note I will be travelling over the weekend, so short posts only from my end. We're gonna toss some dice, smear our skin with fox blood, and dance naked in the light of a full moon.

Hey all. Note I will be travelling over the weekend, so short posts only from my end. We're gonna toss some dice, smear our skin with fox blood, and dance naked in the light of a full moon.

Good luck with that. Have...fun?

Ah, I remember the days! Have fun!

Could we not presume that the ballistae were loaded as we approached the ship (which, I think, were maybe about 4 rounds, or whatever the time period is for movement in ship combat)?

Could we not presume that the ballistae were loaded as we approached the ship (which, I think, were maybe about 4 rounds, or whatever the time period is for movement in ship combat)?

Sure, but do the rolls anyway at the same time.

Hello, everyone! This message is being posted in all my tables.

Friendly reminder that I will take two weeks off soon. I will be away from July 3rd up to July 18th, and I am unsure of my ability to make posts within that period. I will try, but no promises.

However, even if I can get online, I will probably put the tables I GM on hold, save for possible short posts. Thanks for understanding.

I will try to include a bot-me section in my PC profiles just in case.

Thanks for letting us know. We have family coming in from out of town next week so our availability from the 1st on will be limited for at least 4-5 days ourselves.

Hey everyone,
I'm really sorry for disappearing for a few weeks there. Work has not improved (in fact, due to people leaving over the recent changes I now have more responsibilities then when this all started), and now I'm looking for a new job on top of that. I definitely should have at least made time to give you all a heads up before now though, so (again) I apologize for that. I've gotten accustomed enough to the situation that I could probably start making some posts again--if you're open to that--but, truthfully, it wouldn't be everyday: more like a couple per week. If that's not often enough, or if I've already lost my spot, I totally understand. Please just let me know what you'd like me to do.
Lief

It is enevitable that people have RL issues now and again. This is part of why I made the party at seven people so the rest can go on in the meantime so if you can only post a couple of posts a week that is fine. We can even bot you if it comes necessary.

Apparently this was posted in the wrong area: B4. Sterncastle: This high deck sits behind the
mizzenmast, 20 feet above the main deck. A pair of light
ballistas sit upon this deck, next to a box containing a
dozen ballista bolts.

Hey all. Note I will be travelling over the weekend, so short posts only from my end. We're gonna toss some dice, smear our skin with fox blood, and dance naked in the light of a full moon.

Must be a English Fox hunt.

Being a descendant of Lord Ralph Grey Earl of Northumberland and Chieftain Andrew McFarland Baron of Arrochar, I've heard of such, but it's definitely nuts.

:)

if I recall, it's a right of passage under a full moon.

Over here, they do the same thing, but with deer. It's interesting how ancient traditions migrate with families. Also, how the church turns a blind eye to rituals that would have been unacceptable but in some cases embraced as simple fun.

Andrew

Thanks! And, sorry I haven't made a gameplay post yet... this is going to sound a little outrageous but, my SO's uncle was murdered by his ex-wife last week and things have been a little crazy since. The funeral, which we're both helping with, is tomorrow so, hopefully, I should be able to get a post up like Wednesday-ish.

That's wild. My condolences.

Jeez--two 1s for her attack and damage last round; two 2s this time.

Just wait 2 or 3 fights from now and you will be trialed for your war crimes.

My condolences, let us know if their is anything we can do.

The dice roller does seem fickle at times, the algorithms they use only emulate so well.

Thank you all for your understanding. I underestimated just how many posts I would have to catch up on for the 3 games I'm in... I'm reading now but might not get a post up until tomorrow.

My condolences for you and your family. Take as much time as you need.

So how does a land raid on a town/village work?

Does the surprise period start once we dock or bring a smaller boat ashore?

Do we know anything about the town's layout (and possible booty locations) and defenses?

We can start sapping/clubbing any guards and then see if they still want to fight.

Due to scedule changes I have to reduce my number of pbp games a bit, as such Vikla has been temporarily recalled for consultations.

Sorry everyone, but she may come back at some point.