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Thanks for your answers everyone. I think you've given me the confidence to proceed with my game. If you want to play Strange Aeons, you are invited! Recruitment posted here.

Love,

MayDay

I agree grouped init is the way to go, but how do you keep track of, and communicate, who still needs to post? In past I've done an init order bloc like this, which works super well, but takes forever to format. Even if I use a google doc i'm still adding back in the [bold] tags each round, or keeping lots of copies of the bloc in various states, in which case I get lost myself!

I wish I could just give everyone a penny and have them return 'em when they take their turn, haha!

round 15 actions remaining
Kevian
Lucilla
Jorgan
KillerbetaFries
Doomania
Monsters

Hm. Slothsy's suggestion of using spoilers for saves would be a load off.

Reflex save DC17!

Really glad I got that "1" roll out of the way though. It won't hit me in a game:)

Hello everyone! This year I took a sabbatical from pbp games for some personal reasons. But my mental state has improved and I'm thinking about jumping back in with an offering of Strange Aeons!

My question is about a dillema that just KILLS me as a GM in pbp. It seems like there would be infinite time in this medium, and therefore easy GMing. But that's not what I find. And the workload makes the games unfun after a few months. At a table I can roll some dice and say "Hey Quantos, what is your AC?" and get an instant response. But in pbp I have to it all and it sucks.

Here is the dillema:

ON THE ONE HAND In order avoid bogging down Combat to where people will lose interest I must check all the sheets, roll all the inits, resolve every little action, look up everyone's ACs, roll all the saves, double check everyone's feats, roll damage, check for modifiers, advance initiative, ect. ON THE OTHER HAND, in order to avoid losing interest in the game because this is such hard work I must NOT do all those things myself. I must post things like "okay everyone roll will saves", and "Okay, the monster attacks 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (1) + 22 = 23. Does that hit you, Quantos?"

The result is that many complicated combat posts, especially above level 5, just take hours to write. I have tried all the clever excel tracking sheets and macros and even C# console apps to make this easier, but the fact is, it's just too much.

Does anyone have any suggestions that can solve my dillema?

Me: Ah! It hurts!
Doctor: You're doing great. Just give me one more push.
Me: I can't!
Doctor: Yes you can, just one more push and you will have a beautiful baby level 11 character!
Me: Ack! Nooooo! Give me the epidural!
Doctor: We can't, it's too late, the character is crowning...
Me: Ahhhhhhhhh!

Hello! I am interested. I have not played books 4-6, but it looks like that's when the game gets exciting! Which makes this recruitment exciting:D

Edit: I think a "Angel Wings" Aasimar with a Lightning Bow will be my character concept.

Hey! We are in Molalla, Oregon (that's about 20 minutes South of Oregon City, 40 min South of Portland). Looking for a weekly or bi-weekly group. We have some interest in the Serpent Skull AP, but nothing's settled yet. Would also GM D&D 5e or Call of Cthulhu if that's what the group wants.

No experience needed, just peeps who will show up faithfully, take a turn bring Taco Bell once in a while, and have a good time. Venue is looking right now like it will be conference room of Grace Lutheran Church here in Molalla (IF we get the group together). Gm (me) cannot leave the area as I have 5 kids and this is all I can get my family to agree to!!!

PM me is you are interested.

Happy gaming!

Congratulations Trevor!

hahahahahhaah!

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Whew, back to normal...

Ack! It happened again!

Wait, what? I just showed up as a smurf. What the heck is going on here??

Joe Ducey, WHY is your papa smurf icon not available to anyone else??

Hey guys. I'm officially bowing out of Paizo life as of today. Looks like I'll be traveling for a while. I love you guys. I wish you grand adventures! Thank you all so much.

I made that poem up. Just now. Kapow.

hahaha! you guys are all hilarious.

But my deuling days are over. Arthritic shoulders, dontcha know. I'll have to go with poisoning my venture captain at the next event. Not as glamorous, but as Eliazar the Wizard always used to say:

He who hath hit pointh lathst, hath the lathst laugh.

Well I'll be a Gibbering Mouther's Uncle. Sure enough. There are bunches of them. We wee Oregon goblins are lucky!

How can there be no venture captians in Oregon? We love Paizo here.

Ill bet the next thing you say is "dude why don't YOU do it?"

Good Point.

I'm pretty much strickly pbp, what with like 5 kids at home, haha! But I've had the best time on these boards over the past few years. But don't tell my wife, it's a secret!

Yes, I like his idea of having kingdom building done in discussion thread. I never thought of that. it would be a fast game:)

Why is Kingmaker so popular with players on the boards? Is it because of the "oldschool" setting?

I would like to play a serious Tank of some kind. Hardly ever get to do that it seems as someone else usually calls dibs while I'm in the bathroom or something! haha!

I am interested. Never played kingmaker before. I realize that by the time you see this post your eyes will be glazed over with the super-long list of applicants and therefore my post will barely stand out! Even so, consider me interested.

Also, I recommend Zartana and Rysky above as shweet players.

Woof.

This exact same thing is happening to me:(

Rhea's Serpent Skull.

Everyone is excited but none of us can post t o the gameplay thread. Can someone help us figure out what to do?

Rysky, what are you doing here? This isn't the kind of joint you should be hangin about in!

Never mind Rysky folks, I'm her GM. I'm taking her back to that Legacy Game right now, you just go about your business...

I do not know what kind of effect the gift of Ahasuaria will have on a-- a rat. But i offered and you accepted. Prepare yourself, creature!

The wolf steps forward. He is a menacing evil looking thing. He opens his maw unaturally wide and from it, a hissing sound and a blueish plasma begins to exhume!

You realize this may be your last chance to change your mind before your life changes forever...

then the wolf speaks.

I am not afraid of death it says but perhaps we can make a deal. I can bestow upon a gift: the gift of the werewolf. If you let me live, I shall give this gift to one of you. What say you?


Available Ability: WEREWOLF
You can transform your body into that of a viscous werewolf.
While in this form you gain +3 to skill, but your luck is temporarily reduced to zero until you transform back...


Ahashuaria, goddess of the wolves, does not normally allow this. But perhaps she will understand, since you've killed Grettel-Howel, my bride.

Looking down, you notice that indeed, the wolf you killed was a female... if such a fact were important to you at all.

Ameiko's entire treasure room is outside the adventure path. I was trying to equip you guys for 4-player ROTRL with no cleric, but still keep from a feeling that the DM is just making the world up to accommodate the characters. So I rolled random treasure.

BABY PICS! PROUD DADDY

Yikes, i'm not sure what 'drop' initiative is. Is that when the DM rolls init for everybody?

My plan was to do it the same way we did earlier in the game: roll every Monster's initiative and get the average, then roll ever PC's initiative and get the average. Side with the highest average goes through all their actions first in the order they get posted. I rolled your initiatives this go-around thinking it would be easier, but if you guys like to do that yourself that's fine to. In this case having each of you roll might have worked better as it would have given everyone a chance to clock in, but I also wanted to simulate that Tinuviel just walked out the door alone into a dangerous situation and you are all kind of scrambling to handle that.

Thanks for the compliment! It actually means a ton:)

Freakin new bachelor season starts tonight...That's like 52 seasons and only 2 couples still together. Including the couple that just got married, like, last month. Let's watch it! (sarcasm. sort of. probably will actually watch it though.)

I'd like to do it. I will post a 1st level 'gypsy' themed Divination specialist wizard girl who has come to town to see if she can find employment with the legendary traveling carnival. I have not read the module of course, but it seems like the character concept would fit with your story. Will post character soon.