All standard Exploration Activities (see below), plus...
While the other Survivors work as a unit, Jystolo, 6 years old and overcome with grief and acting out, refuses to easily cooperate, and must essentially be chaperoned, else not only risk endangering the group as a whole, but also risk his own safety as a flight risk.
One or more PCs may take up this activity. As the party explores each location in Yua's Hope, anyone Watching Jystolo must make a Level One (DC 15, modified by difficulty) skill check to prevent him from endangering the group or himself. All it takes is one PC to succeed at this check. With a rolled critical success, Jystolo remains cooperative for the current location, as well as the next location, so long as the PC who critically succeeded continues to take this exploration activity (obviating the need to roll at the next location).
Hard Skills: Athletics, Deception, or Intimidation (easy)
Soft Skills: Diplomacy (moderate), Perception (hard)
Provisional Skills: Lore (moderate), Perform (hard)
Hard skills essentially "force" or "trick" compliance out of Jystolo, whereas "soft" skills apply a lighter and more honest touch (but are more difficult); these different approaches may have a long-term impact over his cooperativity. Provisional skills may be attempted once (per skill, not per PC), but become unusable after that one try, whether pass or fail. Creative uses of other skills, if applicable, will count as additional provisional skills (QM will modify DC accordingly and adjudicate "hardness"/"softness" accordingly).
Failure: Increase in Party Danger Points (see below).
Critical Failure: Increase in Party Danger Points and add one Complication.
Note: If multiple PCs are using this exploration activity, one PC's higher result, if two tiers higher, "bumps up" the party's lowest result by one step, cumulatively.
Zombies are slow, lumbering, stupid, easily distracted, but also sometimes unpredictable. While the other Survivors stick together as a group, you move ahead of or behind the party, looking out, throwing rocks or otherwise directing attention away from the group.
One or more PCs may take up this activity. As the party explores each location in Yua's Hope, anyone Evading Undead must make a Level One (DC 15, modified by difficulty) skill check to prevent the group from being cornered by the numerous undead herds roaming the streets and countryside. Doing so either adds or subtracts the number of Danger Points the party accrues as they explore the overrun settlement. Danger Points starts at 5, with higher numbers representing a greater probability of a chance encounter. At each location, GM will roll a flat check against a DC equal to the number of Danger Points the party has accrued, with a simple success averting any "random" encounters en route.
If no PC takes up this activity, a result of Critical Failure will be automatically applied at each new location!
Skills: Stealth or Undead Lore (easy), Acrobatics, Deception, or Religion (moderate), Athletics, Perception, or Thievery (hard)
Provisional Skills: Crafting or Lore (moderate), Reflex (hard)
Provisional skills may be attempted once (per skill, not per PC), but become unusable after that one try, whether pass or fail. Creative uses of other skills, if applicable, will count as additional provisional skills (QM will modify DC accordingly).
Critical Success: Lowers Danger Points by 2. If an encounter results, you may strategically place your Token on Map after knowing position of monsters, and party reactions are considered ready.
Success: Lowers Danger Points by 1. If an encounter results, QM will place standard Marching Order with monsters in front, and party reactions are considered ready.
Failure: Increases Danger Points by 1. If an encounter results, QM will place standard Marching Order with monsters behind, and party reactions are considered unready.
Critical Failure: Increases Danger Points by 2. If an encounter results, QM will split the party inconveniently, and party reactions are considered unready.
Note: All rolled Danger Points are cumulative. But, if multiple PCs are using this exploration activity, one PC's higher result, if two tiers higher, "bumps up" the party's lowest result by one step, cumulatively, in terms of position and reaction readiness.
Thresholds: An encounter triggered by 1 Danger Points will be Trivial, 3 will be Low, 5 will be Moderate, 7 will be Severe, and 9+ will be Extreme!
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Avoid Notice: Roll Stealth for initiative and may begin the encounter unnoticed, per usual.
Defend: Shield considered raised (or parry, shield spell etc.) and active prior to rolling initiative for any encounters triggered.
Detect Magic and Repeat a Spell: That spell is considered active prior to rolling initiative, including getting info for Detect Magic, etc, per usual.
Scout: +1 circumstance to party initiative, per usual. If someone rolls favorably to Evade Undead, you may share in their Token Placement boon as well!
Search: If there is a Hazard, your Perception is assessed against it's Stealth DC prior to triggering, per usual.
Investigate (chosen skill): Party skill checks to Recall Knowledge using the chosen skill get a +1 circumstance bonus for the encounter. If encountering a Hazard that has a Disable check that matches the chosen skill, Party skill checks to Disable it get a +1 circumstance bonus for the encounter too.
Final Note: Any activities that might draw unwanted attention (example: Repeat a Spell w/ Courageous Anthem) will have proportional consequences as QM sees fit!
Looking at this, I'd say that since Squishy has Undead Lore we probably want them doing Evade Undead instead of Watch Jystolo.
I have a +8 on Diplomacy, so can be one of the people doing the Watch Jystolo activity. I could also do Deception/Intimidate, but hopefully can make the roll on Diplomacy to gain the more long-term benefits. Does anyone else want to help with that activity?
So, there are the general rules for this portion of the game.
Soon, I'm going to share how the other Survivors can help out (you won all of their Boons, except Jystolo).
Also, a reminder that Constan died before being able to feed everyone today, and it's already only a few hours before dark. After exploring the Town, we will have to start dealing with that.
Last note: I lost track of Hero Points spent getting the Survivors to come along. If you could give me a quick update for your character, it would be much appreciated!
(You started the Adventure with 5, and many of you have Campaign Coins)
I have used 1 Hero Point during the Influence portion. I thought we all started with a Campaign Coin. If so, I haven't used mine.
Current Hero Points
Barlespin @ ☘️(☑□□□□/□)
Malendyl @ ☘️?
Marius @ ☘️?
Red @ ☘️?
Squishy @ ☘️?
Current Hero Points
Barlespin @ ☘️(☑□□□□/□)
Malendyl @ ☘️(☑☑□□□/☑)
Marius @ ☘️?
Red @ ☘️?
Squishy @ ☘️?
I haven't used any Hero Point or Campaign Coin so far.
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Looking at this, I'd say that since Squishy has Undead Lore we probably want them doing Evade Undead instead of Watch Jystolo.
I have a +8 on Diplomacy, so can be one of the people doing the Watch Jystolo activity. I could also do Deception/Intimidate, but hopefully can make the roll on Diplomacy to gain the more long-term benefits. Does anyone else want to help with that activity?
Yeah, that's interesting. Thematically, Squishy makes the most sense to watch Jystolo, as they have the best ties to him, but Undead Lore is also good to have for Watch Undead.
I'd be crap at watching Jystolo, but I could do Evade Undead if people want. It would mean I don't get my Surprise Attack bonus, but I'm okay with that. Though ideally someone else takes this up.
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Long weekend away. Going to catch up here ASAP.
Current Hero Points
Barlespin @ ☘️(☑□□□□/□)
Malendyl @ ☘️(☑☑□□□/☑)
Marius @ ☘️?
Red @ ☘️(☑☑□□□/□)
Squishy @ ☘️(□□□□□/□)
It doesn't matter given the roll for this first location, but a consideration for future locations: Agnes does appear to have a decent Stealth rating, so she could help with Evade Undead. I know that "Search" might be useful in general at finding things we don't want to be surprised by, but in this scenario I feel like mitigating the Danger Points is probably the more important goal.
By my count, Marius has used three hero points so far.
Thank you! Updating my Alias line shortly
Current Hero Points
Barlespin @ ☘️(☑□□□□/□)
Malendyl @ ☘️(☑☑□□□/☑)
Marius @ ☘️(☑☑☑□□)
Red @ ☘️(☑☑□□□/□)
Squishy @ ☘️(□□□□□/□)
Nice job absorbing all that info.
We will reset Exploration Modes between Locations.
With 5 hours of daylight left, you can expect about 5 Locations to be Searchable before Camping. Depending on events / rolls / short rests.
This is Day 1 of Fasting. So far, no ill effect...
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Looking for a Bot for Marius - I will move us forward tomorrow afternoon / evening either way.
Sorry for the delay. Near the end of a busy work trip and forgot to come back here. Thanks for botting.
I will set up this Encounter this evening!
Table is set - let's go!
Don't forget to post Actions and Reactions (example):
◆) Stride
◆) Strike
◆) Reload
↺) Reactive Strike
With text / links at first if you please (save me time looking up, etc)
I'm going to go in order of post, so no retroactive flanking.
In the future, if you would like to Delay (◇), spoiler your combat rolls, and I will resolve it in that new order
Confirm.
You rolled well enough during exploration that i am not assigning tokens to the Survivors, and they are not part of this encounter, instead off-screen.
But if, in the future, you roll poorly...
Let's say quorum of three for the decision
You have 5 hours daylight, about 1 location per hour if things go well, which yes, mostly includes searching the locations for usable items.
(If you want to turn in early, or travel at night, I will make those preparations instead).When you get into the Cathedral, I will describe it.
Looks like the party wants to heal up before moving in.
Awaiting those rolls, and how much time is spent doing so.
Spending a lot of time healing would subtract from those 5 hours, yes.
I will be doing "GM rounding" rather than counting exactly 300 minutes.
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Sorry, I deleted that post as soon as I submitted it. I misunderstood the situation. I thought we *were* in the cathedral, which is why I voted for healing.
Nope, all good!
It got me thinking about what a reasonable estimation PC-side could look like. So let's do this.
If the party Short Rests for 10 minutes or less, let's round that off, not counting against time.
But any Short Rest for 20 minutes are longer will "count against" the party's overall time limit of "5 hours of daylight".
Searching each location will be rolled into the "1 hour per location" estimation. I will roll secret Search checks for those that Search, to represent remaining within that limit.
Sound good?
=)
Works for me.
Yes.
Think of it as like a party that has "between encounter" procedures being quick as able to get more done overall.
My interpretation was that while we're doing the 1-hour search of the Cathedral, we can do various 10-minute Treat Wounds (or Focus or whatever) activities without detracting from the overall timeline ... which makes sense, because we have like a dozen people to do the searching.
I have a Chirurgeon who just got remastered in another game, so am figuring out how the Remastered version works. Alchemists regain 2 versatile vials every 10 minutes, even while doing other activities ... so they can Treat Wounds on someone for 10 minutes (or explore, travel, etc.) and still regain 2 of their versatile vials.
The big limitation on versatile vial healing comes from the "coagulant" trait, which means any single person can only benefit from one versatile vial healing every 10 minutes.
My vote is that we have Malendyl Scout (and Avoid Notice) for the potential +2 initiative bonus, but the rest of us Search since there's really nothing anybody else needs to be doing. Sound good?
Sounds good to me.
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I have a Chirurgeon who just got remastered in another game, so am figuring out how the Remastered version works. Alchemists regain 2 versatile vials every 10 minutes, even while doing other activities ... so they can Treat Wounds on someone for 10 minutes (or explore, travel, etc.) and still regain 2 of their versatile vials.
The big limitation on versatile vial healing comes from the "coagulant" trait, which means any single person can only benefit from one versatile vial healing every 10 minutes.
But the big thing is, Squishy can heal 2d6 HP every 10 minutes without spending time and resources, and given that a location takes 60 minutes, an injured person could theoretically visit Squishy 5 or 6 times and heal 10d6 worth of hit points.
Maybe that's gaming it a little too much, but my point is that healing should not be a big issue if we want it to. Which kind of takes the tension away, but at least speeds up gameplay.
But the big thing is, Squishy can heal 2d6 HP every 10 minutes without spending time and resources, and given that a location takes 60 minutes, an injured person could theoretically visit Squishy 5 or 6 times and heal 10d6 worth of hit points.
Maybe that's gaming it a little too much, but my point is that healing should not be a big issue if we want it to. Which kind of takes the tension away, but at least speeds up gameplay.
If they visit 6 times in one hour, they're healing 6d6, not 10d6. The 2d6 you mentioned is for 2 visits over a 10-minute (technically 11-minute) period, not per individual visit. If you timed it perfectly, you could heal 7d6 in one hour ... one at the beginning, and then one at every 10 minute mark. But, given that we don't have watches with alarm clocks, that's probably pushing it. ;)
But yes, with no expenditure of Resources, we have around 5d6 healing per hour, plus Treat Wounds. The Remastered Chirurgeon has become quite the Exploration healing machine. ;)
Here is how I’m going to rule it: Can’t have it both ways.
So, Squishy can either set up shop as a healer, and expend his versatile vials so as to heal folks continuously through the hour, in which anyone who receives healing from him (after the shared Short Rest) remains as his patient.
Or, he (and anyone else) can commit undivided attention to Searching (after the shared Short Rest), as well as anyone that is not his patient.
I understand you guys are an argumentative group, but you will have to make decisions here. You can either Search (or other Exploration Activity), or be a Healer / Patient, not both.
It’s possible that we extend the Short Rest if folks would like to do 20-30+ minutes of healing, and that’s fine, but again, can’t have it both ways. And anything over 10 minutes will cost you time.
Squishy, how do you want to play it?
In this case, Marius' 10 minutes of healing and one versatile vial got Agnes to full, so there's no reason for this rest to take more than 10 minutes, right?
Disregard the Treat Wounds I made for Agnes (did not realized Red was also Agnes until it's too late) and will spend the first ten minutes replenishing versatile vials and give one to Agnes to full HP. After that, will go Search.
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But the big thing is, Squishy can heal 2d6 HP every 10 minutes without spending time and resources, and given that a location takes 60 minutes, an injured person could theoretically visit Squishy 5 or 6 times and heal 10d6 worth of hit points.
Maybe that's gaming it a little too much, but my point is that healing should not be a big issue if we want it to. Which kind of takes the tension away, but at least speeds up gameplay.
If they visit 6 times in one hour, they're healing 6d6, not 10d6. The 2d6 you mentioned is for 2 visits over a 10-minute (technically 11-minute) period, not per individual visit. If you timed it perfectly, you could heal 7d6 in one hour ... one at the beginning, and then one at every 10 minute mark. But, given that we don't have watches with alarm clocks, that's probably pushing it. ;)
But yes, with no expenditure of Resources, we have around 5d6 healing per hour, plus Treat Wounds. The Remastered Chirurgeon has become quite the Exploration healing machine. ;)
Ergh, numbers, I keep making dumb maths mistakes. What I meant to say was, 2 vials restored every 10 minutes, and one person only benefiting from a vial, means two people can benefit from (up to) 5d6 each, 10d6 total, not one person for 10d6.
But that's all moot. Agree with GM's decision and I'll shut up about it now. :) Sorry for the sidetrack.
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In terms of time, I’m going to cut the “10 minutes + a couple rounds tops” scenario the following ways.
Since it is technically over 10 minutes, it will not count as zero time.
But since it’s only a few actions above 10 minutes, it’ll count as 10 minutes (instead of rounding up to 20).
Sound fair?
Was hoping to get caught up here, but dealing with work stuff after an AWS incident overnight.
Disregard the Treat Wounds I made for Agnes (did not realized Red was also Agnes until it's too late) and will spend the first ten minutes replenishing versatile vials and give one to Agnes to full HP. After that, will go Search.
You can create a field vial as part of Quick Alchemy, so don't even have to use one of your daily prep allotment (even though you get to replenish those, so it's not a big cost).
Moving forward with the math I did.
If you notice a discrepency, please kindly link every applicable post.
No problem. I was referencing this post from Agnes that said she was 25/36, but it looks like she my have missed the crit damage from this earlier post.
As well as the post directly after that - Squishy's Battle Medicine after the crit.
Have I mis-mathed?
I will move us along once I've heard from a couple others.
So far, I see Barlespin voting for option #1
As well as the post directly after that - Squishy's Battle Medicine after the crit.
Have I mis-mathed?
Ah, I missed the Battle Medicine. OK, that is what took Red Agnes from 10 HP up to the 25/36 that she identified.
Your math after that checks out if we ignore that Marius did a successful 10-point Treat Wounds and just go with Squishy's later Treat Wounds post. But since Marius' was earlier than Squishy's, it seems like Red Agnes would be at full HP.
I stand corrected then.
25/36 plus 10 from Marius Treat Wounds plus one of Squishy's Versatile Vials brings Agnes to full health.
I will proceed with Option #1 above then!
And in the future, will try to post an "after encounter HP status report" with greater diligence.
Posting now!
Exhausted, long day, will tackle tomorrow
Looks like Barlespin votes for Either.
First decision to recieve two more votes carries it.
My vote was for not going in.
It's just if I lose the vote, I wanted to make it clear that I have prep that would be useful.
Squishy, aren't you a Scrounger?