Welcome!
I always do my best to run a friendly game. I want people to have fun and everyone to be able to laugh when something crazy happens.
I like it if everyone can post at least once a day. If you are going to be away from the game for a short period (such as attending a convention, on a short vacation, or needing to do some business travel), I would ask that you please post that here so everyone involved knows.
Character Profiles
Please have a profile header displaying a brief overview of your character's current status. At the least it should include current/maximum hit points, AC (including flat footed and touch), saving throws, and any pools of expendable resources such as panache, grit, arcane pool, rounds of rage, rounds of bardic performance or other things that get expended as you use powers.
In the character profile, please include a complete stat block. You may put it under a spoiler if you wish, but if you do so please put it under a single spoiler. I do not want it split across multiple spoilers.
If you have your character sheet on a different site, please have a link to it in your character’s headers. This allows me to pull it up from any post by the character, rather than having to go to the profile and from there to the external sheet.
If you want examples, the PbP GM Kit has the pregenerated characters done in BB Code. Use those as a general guideline.
Botting
Botting is when someone else makes a roll or otherwise does something on behalf of your character. Bot is short for robot.
Please include botting instructions in your profile and a general tactics in case someone else needs to bot your character. It is alright if you put this in a separate spoiler from the stat block, but once again please don't split it over multiple spoilers.
If there are resources you don’t mind being used up by botting, please say so. If there are resources you never want a person botting using, it is alright to say that as well.
If it makes you more comfortable, you could specify who you want to run your character when you can’t post.
If your character has any abilities that interrupt play such as Swashbuckler Parry and Repost, Dual Cursed Oracle’s Misfortune Revelation, the Bard Spell Saving Finale or anything else that would interfere with resolving a check, I ask that you have something at the start of your Botting instructions about when you want this used. The reason is that it can really slow down a PbP if every action is serialized.
In my experience, creating a bot structure can help with your own posts as well. Assuming you put complete dice expressions in the botting directions, it makes it easy to cut and paste.
Initiative in PbP
I will roll all Initiative checks for PCs and NPCs, sort them, and organize them into blocks. I will bold the names of characters that should act. I will take the NPC actions in order and reserve the right to delay an NPC in order to make them act with a group of other NPCs.
When it is your turn to act, please post. Do not wait for someone else to post just because they had a higher Initiative. If you know what you want to do but want to wait for someone else’s action to go off first, just say that.
Here is an example of how you could post before another player but have it go off after another player:
Sir Cumference waits for the elven archer Mister Oakleaf to get done firing his arrow before charging the Wily Snark.
I (and many other PbP GMs) do grouped Initiative in order to keep the adventure moving. In PbP people will have different posting schedules and often live in different time zones. Waiting for everyone to post in exact initiative order could make a single round of combat take days to resolve.
Within the rules, it is as if everyone within the same Initiative block delayed until they could post.
Chronicle information
I use RPGChronicles as a GM tool to create the game chronicles. There is no need for a player to create an account.
Other character information:
I would like to know if you have a wayfinder, holy symbol, banner or other identifying iconography visible.
Rules Questions
If there are rules questions, please post them in the discussion thread rather than interrupting the gameplay thread with rules debates.
In Closing
Come join me for a fun game!
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No problem! Glad there was interest.
Gameday XIV will be starting soon.
It looks like everyone has at least checked in here. We need two more of you to sign in with the RPGChronicles link above.
If people could please put tokens on the slides and check their profiles to make sure they have a complete character sheet, that would be helpful. I tend to go through them a couple of days before the start of the games in order to create blocks of text I can just cut & paste in as needed for things like Initiative, Perception and sometimes Sense Motive.
It would also be great if you could have a botting spoiler in case something comes up and you can’t post for a day. As a player, I find them useful since I can just cut & paste in the dice expressions when I need them.
PbP Gameday XIV starts Sept 3rd. The start is at midnight UTC, so for most people you will still be on Sept 2nd when it starts.
As long as all the other players are willing to wait for Khellic, I have no objection.
Do you have a reasonable estimate of how delayed it would be?
Start of PBP Gameday XIV - September 4, 2025
End of PBP Gameday XIV - November 26, 2025
I would like to hear from the other players if they are willing to wait two weeks.
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Alright, let’s try to start on Sept 18th then.
@Khellek Please let me know if you find your other game doesn’t look like it will complete by then.
So looking in Khellek’s campaigns, the GM has helpfully put at the top of the combat summary
The combat isn’t done, but they are on the last combat.
Are people willing to continue waiting or shall we ask Aerondor to bring a different character?
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Khellek’s game is just finishing so we can get started.
Unfortunately I have an in person convention this weekend so my ability to post will be more limited than normal. Still, let’s get this going!
Did you know that of the characters, only Two Blades has a positive Sense Motive bonus when figuring in the penalties for acting in Dis?
Khellek has +14 from his versatile performance with oratory.
That was NOT obvious from looking at the profile nor the character sheet.
Good thing I checked on this, I will update my notes now.
Any other corrections?
Sorry. It's noted in the character sheet next to Sense Motive as "Use Oratory". I have several other skills where there is a "use X" noted next to them. I found that more helpful that putting the alternative bonus in as keeping them updated ended up being problematic.
Ah, found it! You note it in the name of the skill. I glossed right over it.
I will watch for that with the others.
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Khellek has +14 from his versatile performance with oratory.
That was NOT obvious from looking at the profile nor the character sheet.
Good thing I checked on this, I will update my notes now.
[dice=Khellek]d20+14-4
Any other corrections?
[dice=Doodle]d20+0-2
[dice=Grog]d20+0-4
[dice=Korvan]d20+3-4
[dice=Numair]d20+0-2
[dice=Two Blades]d20+9-4
No corrections here, unfortunately GM!
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In case anyone is wondering why the erinyes attack bonus changed, I realized that the stat block assumed Rapid Shot. They can’t rapid shot while flying, so when taking the single shot I needed to undo the penalty for rapid shot.
Erinyes are archers, they have the expected archer feats like Point-Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Rapid Shot. They have more feats, but you’ve now seen them using those which is why I mention them.
@Khellek,
You do know this is a death match, right? You only used CLW on Two Blades when both he and Korvan are low on hit points.
If you want to use a better spell, I will allow it still.
Let me know in either case.
Thanks,
Bret
Total Defense
You can defend yourself as a standard action. You get a +4 dodge bonus to your AC for 1 round. Your AC improves at the start of this action. You can't combine total defense with fighting defensively or with the benefit of the Combat Expertise feat. You can't make attacks of opportunity while using total defense.
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I see nothing in there that would prevent you from using it when prone.
One question though,
Shouldn’t it be +1 AC Haste +4 AC Total Defense +4 AC vs Ranged Prone for AC 31? As I recall Dodge is a bonus type that stacks.
Yup, found it on pg 179.
Dodge Bonuses: Dodge bonuses represent actively avoiding blows. Any situation that denies you your Dexterity bonus also denies you dodge bonuses. (Wearing armor, however, does not limit these bonuses the way it limits a Dexterity bonus to AC.) Unlike most sorts of bonuses, dodge bonuses stack with each other.
Thanks, that is what I missed.
I will not be able to update quite as much as normal until late Monday. I am driving out of town for a trip and suspect that I may only have time for one update a day.
My condolences on the death.
Sorry, spent most of the day on the road and am too tired to write a proper update. I will get one out tomorrow.