What a perfect occasion to roll Snake Eyes, Honeylyn! I'm laughing my behind off.
Yes, you have roleplayed the bad dice rolls really well :)
@GM, I'm adding 1 XP to my Gang Enforcer theme as I used my Unsavoury Reputation as a negative on that last roll - does that work?
You would know Penkus by reputation at least. He was a better-than-competent smuggler, who would have been a real force if it weren't for the drinking. And the fits of indiscriminate violence that come when he drinks. Even in Shadowshore, beating a client into a coma with a broken oar is bad for business.
Noted. But you're talking about Penkus in the past tense, is he dead then?
Going to be leaving tomorrow on a family trip to Milwaukee for a few days. I'll return on Friday, so if a post is needed from me in the meantime, please feel free to bot me. See you then! :D
What a perfect occasion to roll Snake Eyes, Honeylyn! I'm laughing my behind off.Yes, you have roleplayed the bad dice rolls really well :)
@GM, I'm adding 1 XP to my Gang Enforcer theme as I used my Unsavoury Reputation as a negative on that last roll - does that work?
Noted. But you're talking about Penkus in the past tense, is he dead then?You would know Penkus by reputation at least. He was a better-than-competent smuggler, who would have been a real force if it weren't for the drinking. And the fits of indiscriminate violence that come when he drinks. Even in Shadowshore, beating a client into a coma with a broken oar is bad for business.
Thank you.
Yes, add XP to Gang Enforcer theme. Add XP to your themes every time you use the weakness tag. That's what they're there for. If I ever don't call it out, chalk it up to chronic GM brain.
Sorry, I didn't add: Penkus hasn't been around much the last year or so. But apparently he was here with Vanthus five weeks ago.
Ahh, The monster work week is half over and I can finally get back here. Looks like Four Gameplay posts I have to read to catch up. Later today (Wed).
I'm back too!
Just chiming in to let everybody know that I'm here and following with interest.
I made this character far too much a fish out of water, didn't I? He really has nothing to offer right now
We just have to find the catnip bar
Just chiming in to let everybody know that I'm here and following with interest.
I made this character far too much a fish out of water, didn't I? He really has nothing to offer right now
Right now.
It's a long campaign with a lot of different environments.
And he can still offer commentary on how funny and convoluted city-folks have to make everything! :P
Marking XP for the unsavoury reputation tag in my most recent roll means I've marked three XP in that theme. What options are there? Do I add another tag or is there other stuff I can do?
I didn't give my PC any starting wealth or equipment -- just let the Master of Ceremonies dictate what resources I may or may not have at the start.
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Also, sorry for my slow posting this week -- mostly it's that I don't feel a lot of roleplay for Svetozar Lanezra here, sorta like Trail-in-the-Woods -- but also I've been struggling with a bout of insomnia this week and at work each day I've been sluggish, sorry & sleepy.
I didn't give my PC any starting wealth or equipment -- just let the Master of Ceremonies dictate what resources I may or may not have at the start.
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Also, sorry for my slow posting this week -- mostly it's that I don't feel a lot of roleplay for Svetozar Lanezra here, sorta like Trail-in-the-Woods -- but also I've been struggling with a bout of insomnia this week and at work each day I've been sluggish, sorry & sleepy.
No apology necessary. Life happens to us all.
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Marking XP for the unsavoury reputation tag in my most recent roll means I've marked three XP in that theme. What options are there? Do I add another tag or is there other stuff I can do?
Congratulations!
Taking a tag is the basic option.
You may instead Mark Promise (which will allow for some pretty potent advancements to your character when you reach 5).
You may instead choose one of the following special improvements:
* Face from the Past: Once per session, when you meet a character from your Past for the first time in the game, you may describe how your last meeting went and give them an appropriate tier-2 status.
* Lessons Learned: Once per session, when you roll a total of 6 or less, you may explain how this situation is familiar to you from your Past, reroll the dice, and take the new result.
* Not Letting Go: Whenever you burn a tag from this theme for Power, you can mark Abandon on any other theme instead of marking that tag as scratched.
* Put It Behind Me: Whenever anyone invokes one of this theme’s weakness tags, you can count the tag as a power tag instead. Mark Abandon instead of Improve.
* Vivid Memory: Once per session, when a weakness tag from this theme is invoked, you may discover (ask the Narrator) or reveal (decide yourself, Narrator approves) an important detail from your Past and gain an appropriate story tag or a tier-2 emotional status.
(the special improvements depend on the type of theme you have. This one seems to be a Past theme to me.
Thanks, that's great - I love the Put It Behind Me, I think that works well for this theme. I'll take that.
I think we're all agreed to pay this guy the 7 gold he's asking, so good to go on my part.
I can't imagine anyone not getting in the little boat -- we're not gonna wait for everyone to post a 'Yes' are we, before moving forward?
I can't imagine anyone not getting in the little boat -- we're not gonna wait for everyone to post a 'Yes' are we, before moving forward?
+1
Yeah, I was just afraid that it was gonna be, like three or four days of real time waiting for everyone to say, 'Yes.' I panicked. So glad to be here.
Since there is no interest in what is moving in the darkness, I'll be moving on when i have time to post again.
Sorry, busy weekend. Posting now
Is it totally dark down below now?
I don't know that we ever really got into gear. I would hope someone brought a lamp or torch, otherwise I will have to try again to make some light.
Is it totally dark down below now?
I don't know that we ever really got into gear. I would hope someone brought a lamp or torch, otherwise I will have to try again to make some light.
Correct that we didn't get into gear. I don't really feel like this system wants us to track every single thing you're carrying, but we are playing an AP built for a system that does make that assumption. Going forward, we may want to use backpack tags a bit more.
For now, I leave it to you guys. If anyone was carrying a source of light around with them while they were asking around the city, they would have it now.
Sorry, busy weekend. Posting now
Understood. Not trying to be a jerk. I lost momentum last week, so I'm trying to build it back up.
Is it totally dark down below now?
I don't know that we ever really got into gear. I would hope someone brought a lamp or torch, otherwise I will have to try again to make some light.
Correct that we didn't get into gear. I don't really feel like this system wants us to track every single thing you're carrying, but we are playing an AP built for a system that does make that assumption. Going forward, we may want to use backpack tags a bit more.
For now, I leave it to you guys. If anyone was carrying a source of light around with them while they were asking around the city, they would have it now.
Or I can do a little Narrator Fiat solution. :)
Or I can do a little Narrator Fiat solution. :)Is it totally dark down below now?
I don't know that we ever really got into gear. I would hope someone brought a lamp or torch, otherwise I will have to try again to make some light.
Correct that we didn't get into gear. I don't really feel like this system wants us to track every single thing you're carrying, but we are playing an AP built for a system that does make that assumption. Going forward, we may want to use backpack tags a bit more.
For now, I leave it to you guys. If anyone was carrying a source of light around with them while they were asking around the city, they would have it now.
Now to light them. I may have to see if I can light one without melting the whole thing at once.
Weekends are hit-or-miss for me for posting. This weekend I was 100% in on our tabletop Greyhawk campaign in Medegia. Mondays are often my busiest days; I try to post in the mornings but alas, especially on a Monday, it can be later. Note that this week is the new Financial Quarter so I will be SLAMMED with accounting and IRS stuff. But actually, it doesn't feel as nightmarish a Quarter as it often does so, wish me luck that it goes easy. BTW, I had a GREAT weekend of gaming -- and a GREAT Monday at my business for profit. So I'm a' Happy!
Sorry, busy weekend. Posting nowUnderstood. Not trying to be a jerk. I lost momentum last week, so I'm trying to build it back up.
I tottally get that, GM to GM :)
Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans!
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Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans!
And happy 101st birthday to the Caesar salad (Caesar Cardini invented it in Mexico in 1924)!
So... now that we're in an honest to goodness combat, we are going to make sure everyone gets a turn before we move on.
I will do my best to resolve each action as it happens, but if you're waiting for your turn, go ahead and post. If this requires some ret-conning to keep thigns straight, I'd rather do that than have each round take a week.
Is the geography such that Trail can get in there without knocking over more people? Perhaps by doing some cat like acrobatic stuff?
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Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans!And happy 101st birthday to the Caesar salad (Caesar Cardini invented it in Mexico in 1924)!
Any salad is a Caesar salad if you stab it enough times :)
Is the geography such that Trail can get in there without knocking over more people? Perhaps by doing some cat like acrobatic stuff?
Yes. If you narrate yourself squeezing past, you'll be able to. You'll have to take the [tight passage] as a -1 on your roll.
If you take a consequence, though, I get to narrate what happens. If you - for example - succeed on slipping past the others and attacking with your claws, but take a consequence, then the consequrnce won't take away your success. It could be as simple as you taking a status in return.
Svetozar failed on his roll AND ignored the tight passage in his post, so his consequences reflected that.
I mean, there's no Initiative function, right?
Svetozar Lanezra is supposed to wait for the front-liner?
What is everyone doing?
How far away are the four Undead?
at osme point I'm going to pay for these good dice rolls, I just know it.
I mean, there's no Initiative function, right?
Svetozar Lanezra is supposed to wait for the front-liner?
What is everyone doing?
How far away are the four Undead?
Initiative: at the table, I would give the spotlight to one of you at a time, reestablishing the scene in each case. Because that would take forever in a pbp environment, I'm opting to do it a little more freeform - you can each post when you're able, and when everyone has had a go, I'll reset the scene and we can start again.
You don't have to wait for the front liner, but do be aware of the situation. Last time you were in a tight corridor where there wasn't room to pass each other easily. Now, you have room, so you won't cause that sort of trouble. A note on the flow of play... I never roll. Consequences are incurred by rolling 9 or under, or by ignoring a threat.
This system is not as tactical as D&D... so exact distances aren't really a part of the conversation. If they're coming at you, you can assume they'll reach you unless you put an obstruction (even just some distance) between you. If it's a longer range scenario, I'll describe the distance and give you a sense of when they'll close. I will try to make things clearer as we go.
I think we're all learning this new system together, and that also means unleaerning some of the Paizo/D&D stuff we take for granted about how games work.
fwiw, I find your explainations very clear :)
Yes. I am just anxious for more frequent posting.
I think we're all learning this new system together, and that also means unleaerning some of the Paizo/D&D stuff we take for granted about how games work.
fwiw, I find your explainations very clear :)
Thanks!
And yeah, it's very different from Pathfinder/D&D.
Yes. I am just anxious for more frequent posting.
Life is working me over pretty good these days, but hopefully things will slow down soon.
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Regarding Holy Warrior, I was intending that more for Demons, Devils & Fiends -- more like Smite Evil. Using it for other fights feels wrong. But, you know, a Vampire Sorcerer BBEG, or a Rakshasa, or a Demon Priest of Graz'zt -- that's my intention for Holy Warrior. Using it against a mindless zombie, drunken bar-fly, or even the average Goblin or Orc feels wrong. .... What do you think?
In this case, my rolls have been so poor that a +1 or +2 would not have mattered. I need more practice tossing 2d6. I'll get better -- if I survive, LOL!
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I would say, holy warrior would count on an undead. Smite evil does extra on an undead the first hit for comparison.
Regarding Holy Warrior, I was intending that more for Demons, Devils & Fiends -- more like Smite Evil. Using it for other fights feels wrong. But, you know, a Vampire Sorcerer BBEG, or a Rakshasa, or a Demon Priest of Graz'zt -- that's my intention for Holy Warrior. Using it against a mindless zombie, drunken bar-fly, or even the average Goblin or Orc feels wrong. .... What do you think?
In this case, my rolls have been so poor that a +1 or +2 would not have mattered. I need more practice tossing 2d6. I'll get better -- if I survive, LOL!
Mainly I meant that question as a check in - engagement and understanding. It sounds like a choice you made intentionally, which is great with me.
And yeah, you need to swap out your dice!
I would say, holy warrior would count on an undead. Smite evil does extra on an undead the first hit for comparison.
I agree.
I also think gaming has maybe jaded us to the point where a dead thing brought to ravenous, murderous, life isn't both evil and supernatural. To a person living in a world where such things are possible, it may be more fearsome.
Nevertheless, it's your choice, it's solid, and (like you said) it wouldn't make a difference.
I would say, holy warrior would count on an undead. Smite evil does extra on an undead the first hit for comparison.I agree.
I also think gaming has maybe jaded us to the point where a dead thing brought to ravenous, murderous, life isn't both evil and supernatural. To a person living in a world where such things are possible, it may be more fearsome.
Nevertheless, it's your choice, it's solid, and (like you said) it wouldn't make a difference.
Is there maybe a distcintion to be made between animated things like zombies (or whatever these are) and actively conscious/sentient/malevolent undead? Maybe Svetozar's Holy Warrior tag would work against the second but not the first?
Obvsiously it's his tag so it plays how he likes :)
And it would have mattered more here if I hadn't rolled, you know, a 1 and a 2, LOL. It's like, maybe I should've been Flanking but I rolled a nat 1, so....
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It's my hope, and my trust, that my PC will get to shine at what his design intention is to do -- maybe not at the earliest Levels of the game -- but in time.
I like to be able to trick Evil Villains and mooks to gather information (before killing them); I like to possess great lore and knowledge to fully immerse into the setting and background; and I like being a good Holy Warrior against the terribly Evil and Wicked.
So maybe I'm not great in a regular fight -- only when I can reach inward and lash out with zealous righteousness.
The system means less to me than the Flavor of the character and roleplay.
All that said, I still need to do my best to contribute to the team. So I shall try.
Sorry for my delay in posting. Life got away from me. Should be under control again though
Going to give Honeylyn another day to post.
At which point I will figure out the result Trail's action (and her's). Then we will have finished round 2.
Then Annelise has begun round 3.
Inconceivable
Inconceivable
The dicebot is not being good to you :(
Inconceivable
You keep using that word...
(somebody had to take the bait)
InconceivableYou keep using that word...
(somebody had to take the bait)
As you wish.
So I have marked usage on two of my themes now. So I get to make new tags to add to them, is that correct?
InconceivableYou keep using that word...
(somebody had to take the bait)
As you wish.
So I have marked usage on two of my themes now. So I get to make new tags to add to them, is that correct?
When you have marked it 3x for that theme, you can add a tag to that theme.