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Hi
I'm recently moved to Crosby and I am looking for a game.
I'm male and in my forties and have been playing various games for more than 30years
I'm particularly interested in Pathfinder or D&D 5th but will play other games too.
I would prefer evenings, Friday and Thursday will probably be best,I cannot guarantee more than about 90% attendance due to work and family commitments
anyone out there please?
thanks
R

how many creatures can an archer shoot through and still attack his target

an example a (medium size) archer is in a 5ft wide corridor
he comes across 3 (medium size) orcs, the front two are fighters the back one is a wizard so the archer shoots at the wizard, can he do this?
what is his minus to attack?
what if there are 4 orcs in front of the orc wizard (or 40!)
what if the archer has improved precise shot

what rules are pertinent to this?
what else needs to be considered

Hi!
I am looking to start up a game, preferably pathfinder but something else will do,
I dont really want to GM (on occasion maybe)
I work odd hours and can't commit to a lot
(I had a really good game here in Worthing but i had to leave because it started too early and i could not make it much of the time!)

My thoughts for this game are as follows;
we play in person at least once a month
and also use these boards in between games (to keep the continuity going), so this game will be a hybrid PHB and "normal" face to face game

I am thinking that we play from 8pm to about 11 or 12pm on a tuesday wednesday, thursday or friday

I probably need to others to make this work, one of whom will be willing to GM
any takers?

obviously the specifics are not set in stone and we can change times and frequency a bit

and please just reply if you live near me! perhaps we can come up with something else
Ravi

i have just started dming a campaign but am a few players short
so i need one or two more
i need players who can post most days during the week
the game will be high on action, but as it is a PBP there will still be plenty of roleplaying,
anybody interested? please make up a charcter and join in!
more info on the discussion and PBP threads

some info below

I have had some thoughts about running a dragon campaign before, I appreciate some of the difficulties involved and realise that a dragon campaign is automatically a medium to high level when it starts

My thoughts are that we count the dragons’ hit dice as levels and that being a dragon is a class, when enough exp is gained to go up a level the dragon levels up, if the dragon then has enough HD to be a dragon of a higher age category then it gains all the abilities as if it had aged, we start with all dragons at 8HD.

The dragon PCs will be like gestalt characters (multiclass) they pick ONE and only one class which they run alongside their dragon class (e.g. they are a level 8 paladin and level 8 dragon).

The dragon class has d12 hp, good base attack progression, all saves being good and 6 skill point’s level
So the other class adds special abilities, feats, spells and extra class skills (a rogue would also have two extra skill points a level)

My idea is that....
The dragon’s souls have been magically joined with humanoid ones (this happens while they are still eggs)
Basically all the dragons will have two true shapes, their normal dragon shape and their medium size (or small) humanoid shape (standard races only), PCs can freely (a standard action) change between the two shapes
In humanoid form they keep their abilities and senses, stats only change due to size modifiers, they do lose their natural armour bonus though. When in their humanoid shape they count as a member of that race for purposes of magic. They do not get any extra abilities that the humanoid race has

I have used the old council of wyrms setting for some inspiration. Your characters are all hatchlings, dragons learn much while they are eggs, and you have had a lot of magic used in your creation so
the game will start with you being born,

take the base dragon stats
then add one of these to each stat
8,6,4,2,2,0

hitpoints are max level 1 and 7 for other levels

you have 10000gp worth of items that will be in a chest nearby
you can have anything you like from core rules

btw i will allow most magical items to work in either form
but armour will not
all pc's will also get a backpack of holding that will hold 300 lbs and only wiegh 10 lbs (i dont want us caught up in encumberance rules)
this backpack tranforms to fit dragon or humanoid

please note that weapons do not change size

BTW for encounters i will start with counting you as 3-4 level higher

Drumas asks "any questions?"

we will continue here...

Recap.......

I have had some thoughts about running a dragon campaign before, I appreciate some of the difficulties involved and realise that a dragon campaign is automatically a medium to high level when it starts

My thoughts are that we count the dragons’ hit dice as levels and that being a dragon is a class, when enough exp is gained to go up a level the dragon levels up, if the dragon then has enough HD to be a dragon of a higher age category then it gains all the abilities as if it had aged, we start with all dragons at 8HD.

The dragon PCs will be like gestalt characters (multiclass) they pick ONE and only one class which they run alongside their dragon class (e.g. they are a level 8 paladin and level 8 dragon).

The dragon class has d12 hp, good base attack progression, all saves being good and 6 skill point’s level
So the other class adds special abilities, feats, spells and extra class skills (a rogue would also have two extra skill points a level)

My idea is that....
The dragon’s souls have been magically joined with humanoid ones (this happens while they are still eggs)
Basically all the dragons will have two true shapes, their normal dragon shape and their medium size (or small) humanoid shape (standard races only), PCs can freely (a standard action) change between the two shapes
In humanoid form they keep their abilities and senses, stats only change due to size modifiers, they do lose their natural armour bonus though. When in their humanoid shape they count as a member of that race for purposes of magic. They do not get any extra abilities that the humanoid race has

I have used the old council of wyrms setting for some inspiration. Your characters are all hatchlings, dragons learn much while they are eggs, and you have had a lot of magic used in your creation so
the game will start with you being born,

take the base dragon stats
then add one of these to each stat
8,6,4,2,2,0

hitpoints are max level 1 and 7 for other levels

you have 10000gp worth of items that will be in a chest nearby
you can have anything you like from core rules

btw i will allow most magical items to work in either form
but armour will not
all pc's will also get a backpack of holding that will hold 300 lbs and only wiegh 10 lbs (i dont want us caught up in encumberance rules)
this backpack tranforms to fit dragon or humanoid

please note that weapons do not change size

BTW for encounters i will start with counting you as 3-4 level higher

All of you have been called for an audience with your grandmother Divaste
You are all asked to wait outside the room she uses for meetings and are ushered in together (this is unsual she must have visitors)
The room has three people in it other than the PCs,
there is Divaste, Shalesser (Shal for short) and a dwarf

Divaste waits until you are all seated and says "welcome my children!
I have a very important mission for you"
Divaste smiles at you and says “you are going to rescue some dwarf younglings!”

I will hand over to my daughter

Shal continues “this is Master Orrin Stormhammer, son of the clan chief
His tribe need your help” (she grins mischievously!)

His tribe were running a mithral mine about a weeks travel away; they had found a good vein of it when they were attacked by Deurgar lead by some Drow from house R’zinn (the 9th house)
The dwarfs were outnumbered and overwhelmed; many had been away at the time,
The dwarfs want their home back; we are going to help them!

The main problem that master Orrin has is the hostages, there are 40 or so young dwarves who will be killed if the dwarves try to reclaim their home, there are also about 100 adult dwarves being used as slave labour. These dwarves are also to fearful to do anything because of their young

You lot are going to sneak in and secure the young dwarves at which point myself and 50 armed dwarves will come and join you, we will free the other dwarves and kill the Deurgar,
There are 8 Drow who need to be taken care of; they are your priority after the young are secured,
The younglings are being watched by a couple of gauth (beholderkin) obviously they need to be taken out too

So get in, kill the gauth, secure the young dwarves, deal with the R’zinn, and kill Deurgar!

Any Questions!!

Info on Shal

some info for you

you are based in Menzoberenzan (i will correct spelling later)
it is similar to "canon" forgotten realms with some differences

it is a city of 20000 drow
103 noble houses

100,000+ non drow

you belong to the 12th noble house

houses 1-8 run the city and are on a council

all other matron mothers want to be on this council

you matron mother would rather not be house number 12, she feels it attracts too much attention, she is slightly strange for a drow, she does no seem to particulaly want to be on the council
but if four more houses are destroyed she will be!

the houses are in a constant state of war
it is done secretly but it is encouraged
over time houses are destroyed and others move up

the idea is that only the strong survive

it is a mostly racist and sexist society
with female drows at the top of the pile

as a house you are more poweful than all those below you
what is not widely known is that you are probably more powerful than most above you

there are to your knowledge 100 noble drow in you house 500 non noble drow and several thousand slave soldiers

Rav’s Drow Adventures
I have an idea I would like to try
I have GMed a bit but not for a PBM
The (initial) setting would be a Drow city
All pc’s would be Drow level 6 (noble drow)
All part of the same noble house
Alignments any except chaotic evil and lawful good
No “psychotic evil” please, you can play someone evil but No random killings e.g. You can rob a merchant and kill him so you can’t be identified but don’t go and slaughter a caravan because you can.
Also you are essentially at war with the other ruling houses so you can kill other drow and still retain a non evil alignment
And please no major party infighting, you can insult each other and let each other down, i.e. leave someone in a fight but no “I’m going to cut his throat because I’m bored”
Also there is some family loyalty
You house matriarch does not want you killing each other for no reason, also she rewards and gives status according to ability rather than gender so in the house male and female are roughly equal although when in normal Drow society the male is subservient to the female
Your noble house would be a bit like a mafia family

You are all related to one another, for simplicities sake you are all cousins (or siblings), your grandmother is the Matriarch and you are the children of one of her eight children, you can’t be the child of her firstborn or seventh born or eighth born children

the focus will be more on ACTION than roleplay (it is a pbm so there will still be a lot of roleplay)
I will be using excel spreadsheets to sort out combat so i will need email adresses
i will try to post every weekday and will expect pcs to do the same

i need 4 or five players who will post regularly

Does this sound like a game for you?

ps there may be a few minor changes to the rules to make it easier in a pbm, iniative rolls for everyone will automatically be a 10
so people will know straight away when they are going to act
(i have noticed that sometimes you have to wait a few extra days just because someone has not rolled there iniative)