37 campfire posts? We need more marshmallows!
Wow that all got very Reservoir Dogs there... and we aren't even finished!
Maybe someone wants to take over Patrissa for the rest of the module :)
I have to say, Shifty, that I Attalas has got me laughing my ass off. I wanted to go to bed quite some time ago... but no, I had to stay up to catch up on the last 400+ posts of Heart of Journeys. Now it's 4 am. I had better get to bed.
Night everyone.
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Ha!
Glad you had fun. He's just a poor Ogre being taken on a merry dance.
Yay Ragnvald, you saved Nymeria!
...no...no I didn't.
OK well the character I was running is Aurichalcum from my profile.
The game he was in was a 20pt build game, but he was built on a 15 pt build as 'balance' and started as a L0 Pseudo-Dragon (ie an out of the book one with better 'stats', but nothing else).
I'm running it pretty sand-boxey so we haven't started LoF proper. I can drop you in when we start the monastery which will be a bit different from written. We could say you are looking for allies to run the gnolls out of your 'domain'.
this party sure ain't optimized, but that can lead to some really interesting developments :)
Morning.
OK well the character I was running is Aurichalcum from my profile.
The game he was in was a 20pt build game, but he was built on a 15 pt build as 'balance' and started as a L0 Pseudo-Dragon (ie an out of the book one with better 'stats', but nothing else).
I'm running it pretty sand-boxey so we haven't started LoF proper. I can drop you in when we start the monastery which will be a bit different from written. We could say you are looking for allies to run the gnolls out of your 'domain'.
this party sure ain't optimized, but that can lead to some really interesting developments :)
We are optimized to escape from trouble - I am sure the bard and wizard will start to memorize invisibility very quickly to go with a sneaky fighter and a thief. So a flying oracle would fit right in.
OK well by way of disclosure.
His progression was
L1 - L0 PD (no class)
L2 - L1 Oracle
L3 - L2 Oracle
Happy to leave him sitting outside the temple looking for people to come clear it.
The funny side about playing a Pseudodragon is working out that weapons and armour become rather problematic... I don't think people factored that one in!
OK well by way of disclosure.
His progression was
L1 - L0 PD (no class)
L2 - L1 Oracle
L3 - L2 OracleHappy to leave him sitting outside the temple looking for people to come clear it.
The funny side about playing a Pseudodragon is working out that weapons and armour become rather problematic... I don't think people factored that one in!
Personally, I think the drawbacks - lack of equipment, etc. Are sufficient. Perhaps consider some of the extra abilities - flight, poison, etc. to be his level 1 feat. If it was my vote I would say just start him as a 20 point buy level 1 Oracle. VooDoo should be able to balance things with equipment if necessary.
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I think we are at almost 60 posts on HoJ in the last 36 hours. Well over 100 if you include the 35 or more on this thread. Nice.
And all that has happened is a good ogre has killed a paladin and is planning on enjoying the foolish wench who charmed him. Hard to beat that although the 50+hp coup de gras comes close.
I think we are at almost 60 posts on HoJ in the last 36 hours. Well over 100 if you include the 35 or more on this thread. Nice.
It seems Ragnvald's original policy of "let them kill each other and let Gorum sort it out" really was the best option.
Please for the love of god do not type what happens next in any sort of detail I know my games run on the side of risque but only because I allow peoples imaginations do most of the work for me.
Yeah, that was a freaky intermezzo - never thought such a thing could happen^^
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Oh poor Patrissa... she has the tail by the lion...
Followed up my weekend concussion with the most evil of University surprises, the surprise week long group research project. I've spent four days learning how to program in Python and then staying up until 3am writing simulations. So many errors, so much coffee, more hours in the library than I spent there the entirety of last year. Just left the Uni library 2 hours ago and have finished writing up my part of the project. Hardest week of University so far by a long way.
Thinking about HoJ - what ever happened to the person who was going to join the freak show and replace Bilbo?
grmnbln - to destress, you need to read the last 48 hours of the HoJ campaign.
Wasn't able to update all campaigns now, will do so in the afternoon.
Daniel may not be getting anywhere, but James may have just gotten rid of his closest threat and given him a bit of breathing room.
FYI - I'll be out of town tomorrow, so probably won't get a chance to put in an update until Sunday evening my time (in roughly 48ish hours from this post).
Please DMPC me if required to keep things moving - my next action will be to attempt to blow the knee joint out of the Mjollnir with my mustache wax coated sausage of high-exposive ;)
Good Morning everyone.
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Mornin!
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Nighty!
Nighty!
;) Night Zyren.
Morning feytharn.
Actually, it's 3 am for me and I'm on my way to bed, so goodnight too :)
I'm going out of town this weekend, can't post until Sunday evening.
Just letting you know, DM Zyren, that I was still here and following the storyline for HOR. You guys are taking it on the chin it looks like from the bat. haha.
We're really in the final stages. Maybe you should already think about your arrival in Sandpoint.
I really wonder what happened to Bilbo :/
Yah me too. He was a dedicated poster. So strange for him to fall off like that. How long has it been since he last posted?
Nearly a month I think, hope he is all well.
Anyone had his mail address?
Morning all. I'll be headed out a bit later and will be gone for a few hours, and then tonight I think I'm going to the bar with some friends. I don't think I'm in much of a drinking mood lately, but that doesn't mean I won't get sloshed and come back to drunk post for you guys later :) Ignore my stupidity!
Storyline adjusted
A question for everyone:
Change the difficulty of modules or not?
The HOL party has just killed Waldur Crove - a Cleric CR 8, now they face his chaos beast CR7 and will soon meet the Yog-Sothoth (I won't tell you the CR, but it's high...).
I didn't play out Crove to his abilities, because I knew he and the chaos beast would already be enough for a TPK, but the beast itself seems too strong for the party...not to speak of the BBEG...
Now the question is: Follow the module and TPK everyone or reduce the monster's abilities?
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I am not a player in HoL, so I cannot comment on that game, but, since you asked everyone, I gues you wan't to know how your players would feel about you changing the difficulty of mods in general.
I say: go ahead, adjust the difficulty. Not to make the module trivial or more easy to solve, but to adjust it to fit the group and the flow of game (which is much different in a PbP anyway).
The difficulty of that final battle is so way over the top - I was really surprised.
I find it interesting that they are willing to give monsters that are over the top, but be very stingy with treasure.
^^ As above!
There seems to be a trend of AP's and modules way 'underpaying' the character WBL, and then expecting to throw ECL encounters that are hard etc.
Notwithstanding, HoR are doing ok, got a bit rough because of a few missed saves, but frankly it seems like my 'Harry Approach' of treating the place like the heavily trapped headquarters of a Thieves Guild was the right approach... can only suspect had we been touching stuff and having whole parties enter spaces we would have a few deaths on our hands so far.
HOL are a bit stuck, but thats also because we have ended up a bit light on players at the moment... not over yet though.
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NPCs are dropping like flies in HOJ: Now it's just Halgrak Half-toes and Killian the killer...
Problem is that the real baddies seem to be absent. Once Halgrak and Killian cop it I wonder what happens then?
How is US former foreign minister Dean Acheson pronounced ? (ache like in headache?)
I believe headache is correct. About 80% confident in this answer.
We don't have foreign ministers, we have Secretaries of State. But, yes, they, as with most politicians, specialize in causing headaches.
yaya^^
still the Skyrim curse? not much activity lately.
Ive definitely been struck by the Skyrim curse but I keep the PC close and still check in.