***** WELCOME *****
Hello! I hope you all have a good time here. My aim is to increase the RPG-fun in my life, I hope that this game does the same for you.
A couple of guidelines to make gameplay fun for all, in no particular order:
* Don't be a jerk.
* Read each other's posts. Work as a team. The GM is the adjudicator of the game, not the leader of the players. Talk with the other players, both in character and on the Discussion board.
* Make as many posts as you want, but please limit it to one turn's worth of actions between GM Posts. (From the CRB: In a normal round, you can perform a standard action and a move action, or you can perform a full-round action. You can also perform one swift action and one or more free actions. You can always take a move action in place of a standard action.) Speaking is a free action.
* Use the Discussion Board for questions and anything that is OOC (Out Of Character), including issues with the game. A good Discussion board can really make a game a lot more fun.
* Please post regularly. If you can't post for a few days please tell us in advance or find a minute to post that you will be AWOL for a few days.
Note on my posting schedule. I live in Spokane, Washington, and have an unusual work schedule. I work Thursday nights from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am. Saturdays and Sundays I work from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. Sometimes I can sneak a post in while I'm working but that isn't guaranteed.
That's fine. I wanted a game with lower pressure on posting. Let's leave the fast paced games for those who can manage two or three posts each day.
I live near Sydney, Australia, so the time zone differences can be interesting sometimes.
And I open with a 1...
I didn't do too much better. Perhaps we should get seeing eye dogs? :-)
Grifo will behave now...
This is a rally great start to the game, I love the interaction between you all already. I'll post in the gameplay later tonight.
I should have asked you for perception rolls... I prefer to ask for rolls ahead normally, or to put the results in spoilers - I don't know why I didn't do that tonight. I typed most of this between interviews at hte parent teacher interviews tonight (I teach high school mathematics).
I've been browsing your character sheets. I'm impressed. Everything is clear and easy to find, thank you.
Ah I'm making up for my dice rolls from certain other games... Lol
I'm also going through your character sheet for accuracy. Please do not take offence but I will be asking about little details. And I'll get to everyone during the week.
Tobold: I think you forgot about the Small size penalty to CMB and CMD. And you AC etc is different from you profile to character sheet (I guess the profile one is correct).
I'm also going through your character sheet for accuracy. Please do not take offence but I will be asking about little details. And I'll get to everyone during the week.
Tobold: I think you forgot about the Small size penalty to CMB and CMD. And you AC etc is different from you profile to character sheet (I guess the profile one is correct).
I did forget about size penalty there, normally play medium sized, thanks for catching that. Character sheet reflects mage armor being cast, profile is currently correct. I try to keep profile current for everything, ac, hp, status, don't always get character sheet updated.
Tobold: that's a good idea. However you've missed the Small size +1 to AC.
Tobold: that's a good idea. However you've missed the Small size +1 to AC.
I was just wrong in so many ways on AC. I adjusted the size and used the correct dex this time. I've updated the character sheet as well to reflect with and without mage armor. Hopefully I've got it right now.
Tobold, the rest of your character looks fine, thank you.
Grifo, can you please include your Skills, Feat and Gear on your alias profile please. It is then just one less thing to go looking for.
Peony, you have another skill point to spend, and I think you ranged attacks should be higher (forgot the size bonus perhaps), and your CMD should be one higher
It seems Grifo and Tobold have included the Favoured Class bonus, and seeing as I would've also done this I'd like to give Khazak and Peony the opportunity to add the Favoured Class bonus too.
EDIT, page 31, it is Core.
Either way, the offer still stands, Favoured Class bonuses all round.
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No problem. I've added my skills and feat to the profile and my gear.
I've also added my CMD and CMB... Please don't grapple me... Lol
Khazak, I think I found your favoured class bonus in your skills, right? And I can't find anything missing in your character sheet. Thank you.
My apologies, I should have made that clear. It's just that I've been generating a lot of characters to experiment with different builds and options and I take the Favored class bonus as a skill point so often that it's something I take for granted.
Note for the other players, when I generate a small size character I always try to take the Escape Artist skill if there's any way I can shoehorn it in.
Btw, I use spoilers just to keep things clear as to who can hear and see what. I expect that all the players would read them anyway, I know I would.
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I guess it's time to head to Bree and tell Gandalf it was a old man with a cold... Mission complete. How much exp do we get?
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I guess it's time to head to Bree and tell Gandalf it was a old man with a cold... Mission complete. How much exp do we get?
Yeah! Great campaign guys, really well done.
That's the first full campaign I've played in a while.
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion there might be slightly more involved?
I guess it's time to head to Bree and tell Gandalf it was a old man with a cold... Mission complete. How much exp do we get?Yeah! Great campaign guys, really well done.
That's the first full campaign I've played in a while.
But how much exp do we get?! Lol
But how much exp do we get?! LolI guess it's time to head to Bree and tell Gandalf it was a old man with a cold... Mission complete. How much exp do we get?Yeah! Great campaign guys, really well done.
That's the first full campaign I've played in a while.
20,000xp for the party.
Thanks for coming.
So stealthing huh? You all rolled so well...
My stealth is -2... Also I worry that if we are going stealthy we'll be going slow...
Ahem. Three hobbits and a dwarf aren't going to end up going all that fast anyway. :-)
Following tracks is slow anyway and while they may hear you coming they may think you're alone.
I'll give it a go then.
The chase rules in short:
Each turn choose one of the obstacle's options and attempt to overcome it to move through that obstacle.
Or
Attempt to move through two obstacles by attempting to overcome one of the checks from each of the obstacles. However, if you fail one you move through the first obstacle only. If you fail both you don't move forward at all AND you can only attempt one obstacle on your next turn.
Alternatively
You can perform some other action such as casting a spell, making a ranged attack or retrieving a potion form your pack and drinking it.
You can only make melee attacks (or similar actions) when you're at the same obstacle as your quarry at the start of your turn. You are considered to be engaged in combat with your enemy at the same obstacle. If they attempt to overcome the obstacle you do gain an Attack of Opportunity against them.
Awesome! Sounds fun :) though Grifo sucks at skills. lol
Haven't done a chase in a bit. Ran one in my RL game and it was a pain for the party it was so long. Was running a module with it in there.
Just as a suggestion you might want to do initiatives in the future as I think it speeds up things a bit, but it's up to you.
Haven't done a chase in a bit. Ran one in my RL game and it was a pain for the party it was so long.
That has been my experience too. I hope that it will run more smoothly in PbP, that my reinterpretation of the rules makes things clearer, and that my DCs here are about right.
Just as a suggestion you might want to do initiatives in the future as I think it speeds up things a bit, but it's up to you.
Yes, you're right. I'll go fix that now.
I wasn't trying to say it was bad. I enjoyed and they seemed to but there were some parts of the chase that some of the characters just couldn't get past, the DCs were higher and they ended up needing to aid another and get high rolls to get over. The rogue did the best and almost caught what we were chasing (it was killed by it's boss, the correct ending for catching the person)
Shouldn't your climb bonus be +1 Tobold? (+2 Halfling bonus, -1 Str) not that will help for that roll but... Maybe the next one...
Sure-Footed: Halflings receive a +2 racial bonus on Acrobatics and Climb skill checks.
Good catch Grifo, never played a halfling before. Should have been a +2 to both of those rolls.
Totally missed that we get a climb bonus, sweet.
@Oberon, thanks, I completely spaced on that extra skill point, I'll go through my sheet and look at it again. I think I accidentally factored in deadly aim for all my ranged attacks.
@Khazak, hey, I'm in Tacoma, Washington, small world.
Gee, practically next door neighbors as far as the Internet is concerned. But that is the strange thing about the internet, it can be easier to interact with people half way around the world from you than it is trying to meet people who live on your street by using the web.
Well this is going well ;P
It's good to get all the crap rolls over with early on....
Thanks for the regular posting guys. The game is moving along nicely and I am rather enjoying it.
I am quit glad that I decided to go with only four players - in the past I have had bigger parties and it is a lot of work. Four players isn't too bad for a workload.
I am heading to Melbourne for the next four or five days. I'm not sure that I'll be able to post. On the other hand I might have a lot of time on my hands. I have to wait and see what happens. Either way I am very keen to keep this game going.
Enjoy! Think I recall you saying you live in New Zealand so your heading to Australia I'm guessing and not Florida. :)
Thanks!
Actually I'm in Australia, three hours west of Sydney. Either way though, you're right, in not heading to Florida.
You know us Americans, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, all the same place :) (ok, actually the average American, wouldn't have any idea exactly where New Guinea is)
Any more these days the government is letting everybody else into the country, why not an Australian too? :-)
So?...
Yes, I'll have time to make a post very soon.