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Julio would love to get out of town. I just need to update a few things.
I believe Julio is ready to go.
This seem like Julio's sort of town. Let me know if he needs any changes.
After things settle down a bit Julio pips up. "We can take the dragon back but we still have not achieved what we came her for. The children are still missing."
Julio flinches as the dragon explodes and covers him with gunk. He then stands in horror over the condition of his clothing.
Julio charges into the room and attempts to roll past the wyrmling and get to Blitz.
Julio is surprised at the sight of the dragon but quickly realizes that Meepo's pet is angry at being locked up in the is room. "Calm down Calcryx. We are here to free you from your captors and take you home.
Julio also watches Borux.
Julio pulls out his dagger and taps the goblin on the shoulder. He gives the goblin the univerals sign for silence and then runs his finger over his throat to get his point across.
Julio listens to all of this drama and decides to stay out of it. "These people live a very different lifestyle than I am used to." "I agree with the drow. Let's keep moving."
"Calcryx is the kobold's pet dragon. The goblins kidnapped it. The cage they kept it in was rather small so don't worry too much about it. All we have to do is convince it to return with Meepo."
Julio throws out an idea, "Maybe this is the time that we should move through the goblins territory. They seem to be easy and I would hate to break up the kobolds fun."
Julio limps along behind the party as they run off to see what is happening.
"Sound like the Kobold may need some help. What do you think Meepo?"
"If we are going to continue I will need some healing. That rat-dog's bite really hurts."
Julio laments the loss of his best pants.
Seeing the dark elf go down Julio run forward to skewer the beast. "Bad ugly dog! Bad! Leave that Mal'Kolenth alone.
Julio moves to the middle of the room to provide support (or maybe just to keep Akula between himself and that ugly dog).
"I would move into the room so we can shut the door but it's a little crowded right now."
Moving into the doorway, Julio looks in to get an idea of what the group is up against. "What are they saying?", he asks Meepo as he moves past him.
At the sound of combat Julio moves to southwest corner of the room and continues to watch the other doors. "I got your backs. Finish them off."
Julio follows along with this sunrod. He moves to the western door and listens to the voice to see if he can here what they are saying.
After a moment it is clear nothing can be learned. He then moves to the northwest corner of the room where he can watch the doors along those walls.
"I think we should keep moving. Sticking together will give us the greatest chance of success."
"The dragon also falls under the category of search and rescue, Meepo. We will do as Yusdrayl asked but we can't forget about the ones we originally came for."
Julio turns to address the dark elf, "It is a simple search and rescue mission. It seems that you have been added to the list of those who are to be rescued. Do you know of any others that have been captured."
Julio moves to the cage holding the gnome. He reaches through the bars and lays a hand on him and asks,"Are you alive Mr. Timbers?"
Julio enters behind Akula, "While I hate to see people imprisoned, it might be better to ask them a few questions before we release them. Simple things like who are you and why are you here." Seeing the three tied to the spike he calls out, "Meepo come in here. I think we may have found some friends of yours."
With the goblins dead Julio retrieve his daggers and watches as Savien leaves, "I think we have seen the end of Mr. Happy." "What are you talking about Meepo? A cat?" Julio turns to Blitz and Akula,"You guys finish up here and I will go see what he is talking about." Julio moves over to the cat.
With the goblins dead Julio retrieve his daggers and watches as Savien leaves, "I think we have seen the end of Mr. Happy." "What are you talking about Meepo? A cat?" Julio turns to Blitz and Akula,"You guys finish up here and I will go see what he is talking about." Julio moves over to the cat.
Julio moves up to try and finish off the goblins.
Julio sprints after the goblin, "Get back here with my daggers!"
Julio pulls his last dagger and flings it at the same goblin.
"Meepo, what are they saying?
Julio pulls his other dagger and flings it around the target dummy at the same goblin (blue).
"That's it Blitz. Don't let them tell you want to do."
Julio hurls a dagger at the goblin (blue) in the middle.
He then follows Akula's lead to get cover behind the target dummies. As he moves he yells out,"Meepo! Tell them that we are here for their women. That should confuse them."
Julio finally works up the courage to attack. He swings around the corner only to find that Blitz is kneeling before the goblins. The sound of Akula's bow brings him back to the present. Dropping his sunrod, he pulls a dagger out and begins to select a target. "Blitz what are you doing? Kill them!"
Julio continues to follow Savien.
Julio eyes the gory mess without comment as he follows closely behind Savien.
Hearing the fight begin Julio moves up next to Meepo. Holding his reaper in one hand and a dagger in the other he watches as Blitz and Akula reek havoc on the goblins. "Meepo, do you have any idea how many goblins live here?"
Once again with combat emanate Julio watches the rear of the party (and the escape route). "Be careful. I will make sure no one surprises us from the rear."
Julio frowns at his failed attempt but turns to Meepo on hearing that there may be a key. "We may need the key to recover Calcryx. We can ask her to try it in this door so that me can unravel the mystery of her disappearance."
Julio attempts to unlock the door.
"I have some skill at opening locks. Several ladies in my past have had locks put upon them by their lords. Who was I to argue when asked to release them."
Julio hears the conversation and looks about to see what is going on.
"It looks like this might be another way into or out of the citadel. That would be the reason that they boarded it up."
Still in a funk about ruining his paint Julio move to the stairs and look up them.
He holds back Akula and says, "Let me go up first. I am lighter than you and these stairs do not look all sturdy." He hold is sunrod high and tests each step before putting his full weight on it.
I lost of track of where we are on the map. It looks like there was a door just south of the jail cells that we did not open. Is that the door that is barred or was it further back?
Julio looks at the bite on his leg. "Ruined. I will never be able to mend these pants and have them look as good as they were." Pulling up the pant leg to reveal his wound he begins to find it. "I guess I will have to come up with an amazing story for the ladies about this wonderful scar I am going to have. I hope it doesn't fester."
Well, I'm looking at Star Trek as my guide here, and I see tons of weapons and armor and force field being charged by ships, and stations and such and no fees being charged at all. The only time battery capacity comes up are those times they are on an away mission in a non-technological area (for the most part). There are ammunition weapons used in Star Trek too, but they are rare and used for very specific things. The Problem comes from scarcity model. Is the production of energy so difficult that energy is scarce in space? Is renewable energy, such as Solar not available? I think in a space run game where people can fly to the fricking sun and live on it, that solar power would be readily available to all people. SOOOO... I can't see charging for it. I can see charging a convenience fee, or use fee if you have the only charger on the station. But the power itself? no. This is one of those areas where I'll be house-ruling this to bring my game more into Sci and less into fantasy I suppose. This said: would solar power (or other renewables) be available in the Drift? I'm guessing not. And with trips that can take a month to complete, that battery charge be pretty worrisome. Even more so if you don't know if you can recharge once you transition back to normal space.
Old school here from when the class list looked like this: CHARACTERS:
and the races were human, dwarf, elf, halfling. this is how it was done for stats: DETERMINATION OF ABILITIES:
NOTE: the the REFEREE rolled your stats! lol. Anyone seen my glasses and my teeth? I left 'em round heres somwhur...
You are the only one disagreeing with RAW and stating that a character would be subject to an AoO when the creature making the AoO does not threaten his square. No, he's not the only one. I'll just leave this here: Ten commandments of practical Optimization by Caelic
1. Not everything needs to be stated explicitly in the rules; some things just are.
Party "Leader": "Hey new guy, climb down the rope and see what's at the bottom of this pit. Me: "okay!" grabs rope and goes down... Tiger rolls a crit and kills me with one claw swipe before I can do anything.... Party "leader": "Damnit. Did anyone see what it was?" Everyone else: "no." That was my very first character and that was his very first encounter. LOL Next character was a wizard, and the DM had a house rule that you couldn't pick your spells, they had to be rolled randomly. This was back in the day before the word "Advanced" was put in front of D & D. I got one spell at first level... rolled.... wait for it.... Comprehend languages.... I was soooo very useful. lol. Next pit he jumped in without the rope...
you could simulate this real easy. Have a friend pick a random youtube video of some politician somewhere saying something about some issue, but not tell you what it is. now get several other of your friends to try and kill you while your friend with the video, at some point during the mess, hits the play button and then pause it after about 30 seconds. (note that is about 5 combat rounds, nice LOOOOONG spell) can you tell EXACTLY what point the politician was trying to make? did you even notice the video? try it with someone speaking a language you only have a non fluent familiarity with, making gestures that may not be the same in your culture... "distracted?" Bah... that's an understatement. lol
using spellcraft in combat is a bit dicey. If your dodging around trying not to get slammed by that Orc and his buddies, it's not likely your going to see every move, hear every word, and such that the squishy mage across the room is doing/saying. Having been in a few all out bar fights, I can tell you your not usually paying attention to anyone expect those in your immediate reach, and if you are paying attention across the room, your going get smacked with a chair. So if someone calls Spell craft in the middle of combat, I'm going to ask if they want the negative modifier on their AC/CMD or on the spellcraft check. how big that modifier is will vary, but it's gonna be at least a 2 for starters.
Well, I think what is being missed here is that profession can cover a wide range of skills. For example: I am a librarian, You might not think about it but I have to know an awful lot about a good many things and a little bit about an amazing number more just to be able to navigate certain topics that my patrons may need. In game terms that means I could dump a few points into a bunch of knowledge skills, to represent wide passing knowledge, or I could put all of those points into profession and get the same effect. I grew up on a farm, Profession in farmer lets me sink points in a being able to: heal with herbs, cookery, riding, healing animals, survival, animal handling, biology, botany, carpentry, lore of plant, earths, rocks, minerals, weather, basic blacksmithing, as well as diplomacy with other farmers, appeaser for the market both to sell and buy, wagon wain righting, etc... etc... profession lets you have a ton of skills for few points. the way I keep this from being broken is that these skills are all general level and cannot be used in combat without me giving it a nod, so usually these are used in conjunction with taking 10 or 20. a person who points all their points in ride is a SUPER rider, where as a farmer who rides a horse from time to time isn't usually in combat doing it. Exceptions might be diplomacy against a like member of the profession, needed in a hurry to bluff by the NPC or some such. doesn't happen often. Basically if your running a ROLE-PLAYING group, this is really useful, if your playing hack and slash, likely not. My games are about story telling more than killing things, so It's a great skill at my table. |
