I'm done at this point too. I'm sure we can find Beaumont & Gwen at the outpost if we need to pick them for more info.
Lol - I am guessing that finding Gwen will be easy. Just see who is chasing Ganit.
I'm done at this point too. I'm sure we can find Beaumont & Gwen at the outpost if we need to pick them for more info.Lol - I am guessing that finding Gwen will be easy. Just see who is chasing Ganit.
Lol, yeah making her a bit of a important character. You'll be running into a lot of NPCs when you start kingdom building and there will be certain...duties that you will have to abide by as rulers and aquiring the titles of Lords and Ladies.
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Lol, yeah making her a bit of a important character. You'll be running into a lot of NPCs when you start kingdom building and there will be certain...duties that you will have to abide by as rulers and aquiring the titles of Lords and Ladies.I'm done at this point too. I'm sure we can find Beaumont & Gwen at the outpost if we need to pick them for more info.Lol - I am guessing that finding Gwen will be easy. Just see who is chasing Ganit.
"He's saying the kings gotta make sure his royal prerogative is in order. Gotta keep the royal crown properly oiled. The kings sceptre needs ta stay polished. Gotta keep the fields to the kingdom sewn. Gotta marry a girl with huge...tracts of land."
"He's saying the kings gotta make sure his royal prerogative is in order. Gotta keep the royal crown properly oiled. The kings sceptre needs ta stay polished. Gotta keep the fields to the kingdom sewn. Gotta marry a girl with huge...tracts of land."Lol, yeah making her a bit of a important character. You'll be running into a lot of NPCs when you start kingdom building and there will be certain...duties that you will have to abide by as rulers and aquiring the titles of Lords and Ladies.I'm done at this point too. I'm sure we can find Beaumont & Gwen at the outpost if we need to pick them for more info.Lol - I am guessing that finding Gwen will be easy. Just see who is chasing Ganit.
Well I'd say to marry a girl to keep your "sceptre" polished.
Seriously, it brings up a lot of political things with marriage into certain families for advantages. For instance, a marriage to a noble family in Brevoy will mean that if Surtova do move against you, they will come to your aid for an attack on both fronts.
Or marriage to a local girl will prove that you don't think yourself above everyone else and puts you in good graces with your population.
Also I have many others that might bring in their own influences to your characters and the adventure over-all.
"He's saying the kings gotta make sure his royal prerogative is in order. Gotta keep the royal crown properly oiled. The kings sceptre needs ta stay polished. Gotta keep the fields to the kingdom sewn. Gotta marry a girl with huge...tracts of land."Lol, yeah making her a bit of a important character. You'll be running into a lot of NPCs when you start kingdom building and there will be certain...duties that you will have to abide by as rulers and aquiring the titles of Lords and Ladies.I'm done at this point too. I'm sure we can find Beaumont & Gwen at the outpost if we need to pick them for more info.Lol - I am guessing that finding Gwen will be easy. Just see who is chasing Ganit.
Oh ma goodness Telias - I woulda never thought ya'd be interested in a girls tracts.
"Druids appreciate fertile ground. Makes it more interestin ta sew our oats."
Wild oats?
Now yer tellin' me ya only like girls with nice tracts who are good for sewin'?
Now yer tellin' me ya only like girls with nice tracts who are good for sewin'?
"Yup. Dats good wife material that is. If she can make breakfast after a night of hard plowin on the fields. All the better."
Course once you've taught em to cook breakfast and plow the fields. The next thing they be wantin' to learn is animal husbandry, which 'll require extensive selective research 'n trainin' ta determine which stud is best for their flock.
Course once you've taught em to cook breakfast and plow the fields. The next thing they be wantin' to learn is animal husbandry, which 'll require extensive selective research 'n trainin' ta determine which stud is best for their flock.
This is starting to become Hermea, the island owned by the Golden Dragon who is doing that very thing, breeding the perfect human race.
Sorry guys, I think Bronwyn will be useless in this fight. Even the bardic performances won't do much here =(
No worries brother. I think they put swarms in for mages to feel bada$$
No worries brother. I think they put swarms in for mages to feel bada$$
No worries brother. I think they put swarms in for mages to feel bada$$
Case in point.
Best I can do is roll on them, I don't even have flasks of alchemist fire. I do wonder how both swarms got me?
Best I can do is roll on them, I don't even have flasks of alchemist fire. I do wonder how both swarms got me?
I might be wrong but they crossed over each other and occupied the same space. I know they can with other creatures but not sure with other swarms, however they are diminuative creates, case in point that they are the size of a thumb.
Ok. I knew swarms had to occupy my space to attack me, but I didn't know they could stack on themselves.
wow I just realized Bron is probably the "tank" of this party. Although James could do it even better than my sorry bard, his fighting style focuses on Ride-By charges, which would ideally leave him far from the enemies.
*gulp*
Well, Bron does keep claiming that he is a famous knight.
Well given the wide open spaces we have at our disposal and the massive battle field control as presented by three full casters im surprised we even bother entering melee except to let jameson skewer something once in a while when it manages to escape the entangles greases and what not. Could just pop arrows in everything. :P
Gonna start popping it with magic missiles next round. Figured I would buff Bron first in case it gets close.
Sad face :(
I love casters, but I feel they tend to make the game too easy. I DMed for years a FR campaign where the entire party was composed of casters (bard, wizard, druid, cleric). The enemies would rarely get to act twice.
Although I did get my kicks when the enemy wizard reflected the cleric's destruction spell.
That's when our DM will start hitting us with mage slaying inquisitors and superstitious barbarians along with other crap that makes it melee range and roughs us up. I'm in the same boat as Carina, Zorestar and Telias at these low levels. Keeping distance is the best defense we really have.
...I sont think Jameson's been paying attention. <_<
I missed one line in 22 posts, although it would have made more sense to orient the spell so I could use my 10 foot reach and still hit the boar anyway.
I'm heading up for class now; tonight I will post the epic battle where the group killed the bear while Bron was distracting it by being eaten.
Oh, so there is more to the story! Take your time, Bron. I know these tales can be long!
You think I can pull a Scheherazade?
Err, this is a little off-topic, but since we have two good GMs reading this thread that can provide me an answer, I'll try it here first:
I just download MapTools and been fidgeting around with it. I planned to use it to generate battlemaps to print out and use in table and maybe in the distant future make maps for a play-by-post. My question is:
Is there any way to rearrange the program's grid with the ones your map already has? e.g. DM Aron has a battlemap for the Mite's Lair. That .jpg file already includes a grid. When that is loaded into the program, it creates its own grid which it will use to adjucate token placement, movement, etc. So, repeating, is there an easy way to rearrange the program's grid to match the ones on the image used as base?
Bron, the way to adjust the grid to line it up with the background map is to use Adjust Grid found under the map menu. If a grid is already on the jpeg you use as a background then I just line it up over the other.
Yup. Unfortunately thats about the only way to do it and it can be incredibly fiddly- you'll often have to settle for 'good enough' rather than 'perfect fit'.
The two best first steps for Maptools-
1. Watch everything rptoolstutorials has to offer.
2. Download the bigass torrent file with images in it, as its a great start to a decent image library. Theres a link to it on rptoolstutorials.
I just started playing with MapTools - I also discovered that it is nigh impossible to get the grids to fit. It is more for fun for me, but what I am doing is to import the black and white map and then drawing my map off of map (think of it like tracing). When I am done with that, I plan on deleting the map so that all you see is the drawn MapTools Map. That way I will not have the map grid problem. I am sure that this is not the easiest technique, but since I am working with a very old module, I do not have the pretty pictures on the new modules/APs.
Oh, and Bron - while I am not a regular DM, we actually have at least 4 very good ones here Zorestar and I have played on and off for over 30 years and I am in 2 great pbp games run by Telias as well. I have not played with DMAK, but considering his advice I would give him the thumbs up. And obviously we have DM Aron who does an excellent job. So, you should probably get as good, if not better, advice on this discussion board as on any general discussion board on the site.
Yes as everyone has said I've only managed to get it to fit well. When you've moved to a new area I generally had to re-align the grid since the best I could do was align a single area, but not the entire map.
I'm sure you've done this already, but what I did with the older adventures was take a screen print and then past it in paint, cut off the edges and save it as a image before importing it as a background object.
As Alex stated, you'll only be able to get "good enough" but if the map is aligned in that picture and part of combat then that's fine as long as you don't have someone running around on the other side of the map.
Yeah, I called on those two because they're two forum GMs I know for sure that use MapTools with regularity, but the response was way better than I hoped.
Seeing as I'm having a lotta fun on this game, I'm thinking about starting a Kingmaker game in the boards after we finish Book 1. I like the fact Aron's has maps for every encounter, and I'd like to be able to do that too (in fact if you guys could share some of the already-used maps it could help me a LOT).
My first attempt at a map is the Village of Homlet from the Temple of Elemental Evil. For some reason I am guessing a village with 30+ buildings, lots of trees, three hills and a river was probably not the easiest first map. But it has been fun so far.
On a related question, what is the best way to create hills and changes in elevation? There are several hills on the map I am attempting to recreate and I cannot seem to get them good. Right now I am trying to find terrain that looks like a hill and then draw it in, but it is a slow process and when it gets to the edge of the tile, suddenly there is a break as the hill restarts on the other side of the tile.
Yeah, I called on those two because they're two forum GMs I know for sure that use MapTools with regularity, but the response was way better than I hoped.
Seeing as I'm having a lotta fun on this game, I'm thinking about starting a Kingmaker game in the boards after we finish Book 1. I like the fact Aron's has maps for every encounter, and I'd like to be able to do that too (in fact if you guys could share some of the already-used maps it could help me a LOT).
the only problem is you might spoil stuff as you need to read through all the books to get a grasp of what will happen and what has happened. For instance, you'd know all the secrets and with all these APs they mention the big boss you fight at the end of the AP in the first AP.
The encounters are easy. It just loads up a map with green area to be seen as grass and I hunted around online for a huge amount of the items to be used. There are a lot of people out there who took the time to make little items and monsters. Heck, one folder I have has beholders and a bunch of other D&D only beasts as well as the general ones that aren't trade-marked.
I find the more you play with it and the more you watch the tutorials (can't remember if they're in any other language than english unfortunatly) then you'll learn how to do all sorts of things like vision and the like. You guys have been quite lucky that I havn't rolls up a troll or something.
I'd share the maps, but I often fill up my hard drive so I usually deleted them after they've been put through use :p.
Anyway I'm sure if I ask Alex nicely he'll post links here of various places to download beasties you can put into maptools.
I'm pretty sad about beholders and mindflayers and the other illithids not being converted to pathfinder for silly legal reasons. It should be easy enough to write conversions but still...
On the up side, as a player I don't have to fight them!
Perhaps we should send a few greater beholders to WotC and see how they respond.
Who says you don't have to? I've been converting 3.5 monsters for sometime and could easily rebuild them for pathfinder :D
If you want them so much, perhaps I'll bring them in the next encounter mwhahahaha!
If I run ToEE, I will be converting AD&D monsters, traps, treasure, etc. That should be fun.
Really I'm happy they're not in PAthfinder. If you ahven't noticed Paizo's gotten some equally definitive monsters of its own now. :)
Just wondering, has anybody read Lords of Madness for 3.5? That book gave me some wicked quest ideas for an RL game we played with rotating DM's. Its a pretty neat book on its own. It gives all the little details about anatomy, biology and society of the big names in aberrations for that version of the game with enough variants and disturbing details to make an active imagination do some weird things to your dreams (1st hand experience on that one). It's fun stuff like that book that I miss about 3.5. Given the time it's taken for Paizo to write up the source books for Pathfinder I think they'll catch up in a year or so.
fire fire fire
I've been having fun reading the Green Ronin Book of Fiends. Only problem with is for OGL standards is can't post the fluff text, just the stats so I feel sorry for anyone who comes across the ones posted cause you have no idea what it looks like or what it's existance it.
On a side note if anyone has watched Game of Thrones then that is basically the political termoil that's in Brevoy at this time in the campaign, however most are remaining firm and not spilling each other's blood.
Never seen Game of Thrones, although it looks interesting. I did see Breaking Dawn the other night and I have to say that it was probably the worse film I have ever seen. It had no plot and other than one werewolf getting randomly pissed at everyone else, but not actually attacking anyone, it had no action.
Never seen Game of Thrones, although it looks interesting. I did see Breaking Dawn the other night and I have to say that it was probably the worse film I have ever seen. It had no plot and other than one werewolf getting randomly pissed at everyone else, but not actually attacking anyone, it had no action.
I'd check it out. I decided to check out Game of Thrones just to see what all the fuss was about that people make such a big deal about and honestly, I havn't found another series in such a long time that has me interested in learning what every single character in the story is doing and where they are.
Yeah, I heard that even Twilight fans HATE Breaking Dawn. Basically Stephine Mayer was being begged to make another half-assed, woman insulting, peice of shit and so she did. I repeat, it's so bad even the FANS don't like it because the writer clearly did not give a crap about what she was writing about even more.
Not to mention the whole werewolf marking a baby to be his mate making him the first ever pedo-werewolf I've ever heard of :p
Sorry about the rant...really loved vampires for years being brought up with films like Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stocker's Dracula (both Bella Lagosi and Gary Oldman) and so on then this series comes to light. *sigh*
Atleast you're certain of one thing in my campaing...my vampire will NOT SPARKLE!