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The advantage of sitting right next to the GM. I didn't want to go through the 4-or-so posts required for my turn to move, see stuff, move, attack, and so forth. Suffice it to say there are corpses, they move to attack (of opportunity) Shivi, and she hits back. Apparently the internet is being dodgy in Vredendal, so Isi hasn't been posting.
Shivi rides with Beaky to R36S37, and attacks the animated corpse at R35, Damage ; leaving Beaky the free choice on who to attack.
Shivi rides Beaky to W33-X34 and readies an attack in case a surprise comes out of the door; she urges Beaky to do likewise. Pointing at the golem on the floor: "Quickly see if that construct holds anything we can use, or clues - or at least deny the enemy the use of his weapons and items. We'll open the door after."
"Nice work Derrin! But we cannot pass on until we destroy this abomination - the souls of the elves whose skin forms this thing cannot rest easy yet." Shivi nudges Beaky forward and they attack!
Shivi shouts a question at Derrin: "Do these flesh golems burn easily?" ...then seeing him nod she smirks, "Then Sarenrae will cleanse this abomination!" Shivi rides with Beaky sheathing her scimitar - a majestic leap of the giant bird gets it legs onto the body of the golem and a vicious swipe of the beak descends on the abomination before leaping off again to come to a rest to the side of the creature. Shivi shouts an incantation to Sarenrae and from her hands springs forth a blade that looks nearly like the scimitar she usually wields - bright and deadly - but the new one is fashioned from pure fire.
Shivi channels the healing power of Sarenrae to grant herself and her allies life. Then she steers Beaky to spring attack the large monster and return backwards to just behind Variel (M15).
Shivi shouts: "Derrin! Need some inspiring backup here!
Shivi rides Beaky to N,O/15,16 (flanking the drow with Variel), and Shivi attacks the drow.
Shivi rides Beaky to S11, hiding behind the statue and both Beaky and Shivi ready to attack should something come within their range.
Shivi delays with Beaky until they can see a drow on the surface - if so they will charge (with Shivi dealing the charge attack). Otherwise they hold their turn until Variel and Lien are closer to the entrance.
"Derrin - be careful; keep yourself as safe by looking for good cover and keep your defenses high. We'll try to breach the gate and we'll need to your support now, and later - don't die!" And to Beaky: "Okay my pretty, it's time to show them why you are called an axebeak!"
I suggest that we don't keep in initiative order for posting in combat rounds - to prevent post-delay as A waits for B who posts tomorrow etc. If, however, an action requires some coordination then the players can discuss it in gtalk or email before posting.
Shivi hands Emrin a set of 3 scrolls of Darkness and while he casts those, feeds a potion of antitoxin to Beaky. "You have one too Derrin.", as she tosses him a vial of antitoxin. "Sarenrae, you - who's bright beauty guides us all - be with us today and guide our eyes and blades true into the heart of thine enemies."
"No. Let us take our rest - we might not get a chance to sleep well for a while; the Dawnflower's blessings be with us all."
"On that note, antitoxins will probably come in handy. If you have the gold to spare - I'd recommend using it if your constitution cannot handle it."
"Furthermore, I feel the plans as they are laid out now are good - we'll attempt to assault the main entrance in the south as swiftly as possible; the less time and resources we lose challenging them, the better. Once we breach their position, we'll attempt to purge the building of their presence. In this case the assault on the other entrances and our invasion of the building should pin enemy movements in place."
"These consorts of demons will try to veil themselves in darkness - I suggest making use of scrolls of darkvision to enable us to take the fight to them without suffering the fight on their terms. I will place my order of 3 scrolls right away."
"I believe it is time to strike at the heart of these wretched beings. I and my trusted steed volunteer to charge the main entrance."
"We'll meet in the main tent, as usual - though be quick about the merchants, Eviana might call the meeting earlier. We'll hear out Shalelu first. Oh, if you have a chance - could you look up Beaky for me? She should be on the way to the merchants. Just check that she isn't trying to get to the honeysacks again.
"Good timing, Emrael was telling of a climax in this war - I was hoping that you could tell us more. As we are all in this together, the more we know, the better we can prepare."
Smiling at Derrin: "That is a good idea, me and Variel will be busy here for a while - but maybe you can see if she's not busy; she can come by and fill us in."
The only consideration I'd have about that is that I cannot really see the spell effect being appropriate for the body slot. Or any item slot on a character. Maybe add a x1.5 multiplier for out-of-slotness, or x2 to make it slotless? Though the idea of having a robe that actually expands and forms the tiny hut sphere is kinda cool. Edit: also note that the item would only be available after custom construction - i.e. at the next month's trade convention.
Shivi chuckles quietly to Emraeal: "Boys will be boys - I wonder when he'll gather the courage to confess."
Purchases applied to alias; about 1138 or so gp remaining
Shivi listens up, "A final blow? Have our forces located the nest of these vile hornets?"
I'm following the RAW, doing anything else is homebrew and needs DM aproval. On top of that you'll have to convince the other players, which currently you are not doing. RAW doesn't say anything about loot division relative to PCs/NPCs. It has a wealth progression chart - and my (original) suggestion abides by that chart. A cohort has a specific wealth progression given to him, as do all PC's, saying he should get higher than this is the same as saying the PC's deserve more too. Greedy, and so respectable, but eventually futile, a DM will never stand for giving a group of lvl 5 PC's 100,000gp each, for example. You apparently missed the bit where I say that he only *keeps* level-appropriate wealth. He's not being greedy - he's getting a fair share and will always be level appropriately equipped. Rather leave it up to the DM to make sure the cohort gets his wealth progression. The standard loot is designed for PC progression, as well as other sources. A cohort CANNOT follow these same sources, and I suggest we don't even try. Agreed, the DM should do it - its fine to abstract it away. It means we get less loot then we would otherwise - but we get to keep all of it for the PCs; the same as I had suggested previously - but with less maths and effort involved. The story will always be consistent: i.e. if we each get rewarded with a bag of 10000gp, then Derrin gets one too - it just happens to go to his impoverished family.
Shivi's face turns somber: "That is distressing to hear - with the blessings of the Dawnflower we've had good fortune accompany us, so it is easy to forget the suffering of others. Could the survivors describe what happened?"
Given this its better to say the loot ratio is rather 0.14 that of a higher lvl PC What you're doing is calculating the mechanically correct balanced amount. This isn't the intention: the job is to do things realistically for the game world. In the game world there is no distinction between PCs and NPCs as far as the story is concerned - if there is another party member, then he/she gets a share of the loot. I'm limiting it to a 0.5 share rather than a full share with the in-game argument of "he's not as big a contributor to the success of the party". (Though one shouldn't argue that line too far, as it obviously cannot be applied to PCs.) Of course, the character doesn't actually get to keep his full share - for balance reasons some of it is "puffed" into thin air. And as much as it hurts some PCs to see money go to "waste", it is the appropriate thing to do. PS - since I have an idea of what we getting at the end of the pdf, I do *not* think the discussion on "not having enough" is relevant. We'll have plenty. So don't worry about making "your share" of loot bigger - we won't have wealth issues. All characters will have about the right wealth level.
I still think 4.5 is appropriate:
I vote for keeping the horn of good.
Grrr, forums ate my post, but I was going to suggest using a 3rd party program like GameTable Or something similar for the combat mapping and keeping track of movements? Anyone know anything better or other options? I'm not really clued up on the PbP scene. GameTable is more for "live" action. We'll be posting hardcore, using something like this map here. Combat is theoretically turn-based; but everybody posts what they doing (possibly with GTalk coordination) in any order - and the GM compiles this (in appropriate order) into turn summaries. That way we don't have to wait for someone before posting. Also... if there is too much time before a char posted their turn (say a day), then that char gets auto-piloted for the turn.
Shivi present and accounted for. Note the charsheet when you click the name. |
