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Meh, you are doing great Thod. Just keep doing what you are doing. We are all grateful to have a game, let alone have one with a great DM who actually builds and photographs the venues we are fighting in.
I think I'm contemplating to combine this with Google Docs. The photographs are great for atmosphere - but they don't work well in updating combat positions. Too many steps involved.
Ideally this is done ahead of the game. Build up, photograph, add a scale - and have them ready when needed. But yes - I'm also still learning what works and what is just a good idea but fails flat in the day to day posting when I have to disassemble to make space for breakfast, seem to misplace my camera, need a dedicated computer to download/process pictures while I prefer the postings from my iPad.
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Toren - no worry. It was a good reminder and just shout out earlier next time. These 'special abilities' are easily missed by a GM.
All - thanks for the feedback on the build ups. I'm working on a way to make it smoother for myself in the future. I guess the best is to build it up ahead of the game (the whole dungeon) while I have a) time and b) good lighting - and then take photos to set up the atmosphere.
In addition - take an overhead shot of the build up area to use a basis for a google map.
Fingers crossed - Gregor might turn the last in the album into one. I'm sure I will learn soon to do it myself - but I spend enough time in this for the moment.
I hope you like the pictures. The hobgoblins are old style Otherworld miniatures. They are 90% finished but I haven't yet done the eyes and some brush ups. Well - have to do ...
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Actually - interesting enough you can (in this case). I was just able to reproduce it. This wasn't possible around 1 or 1 1/2 years ago. I did some extensive research into online cheating on these boards at that time.
Seems they altered the algorithm and fixed one possible way to cheat. But this resulted in my dice rolling being altered. I didn't have time this morning to check it out - as I said - luck to Chanix.
I don't want to discuss in detail here a recipe how to do it as some people will just read it - and apply it. The system is quite clever - it stores a random seed with the post to a) ensure it is random and b) to ensure it can be reproduced if you do preview, editing etc.
In the past (when I analyzed it the last time) there was only one single random seed - now they have multiple for each dice type. So my 'hit' just dropped off the list when two of my rolls got assigned to a different seed.
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I probably shouldn't have done this but I moved a couple people on the map. This was based on their posted move actions and not for any other reason.
I also think it affects their round actions though. Specifically Toren, whose initiative is after the warriors. If they move to flank me then his round action doesn't work like he imagined it since the warriors wouldn't be within reach of his move anymore.
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Gregor
A quick note:
Non-lethal damage is healed twice as fast. So one charge should have been enough to heal up Toren to 95% (4 HP instead of 2). You can carry over the second charge for the morning.
I will also not count hours of sleep for Priscilla - she will have full spell casting back next morning.
There is a lot of discussion in regard to haunts. In my view - this one is mathematically broken. Still - I would like to play it out - but not drain all resources in the process.
Okay - I don't want to give too much away - as otherwise I could just stop here and now. But I feel we should go through it until the end.
wow - reading this can cause misinterpretation ... oh well ... Toren will find out soon enough ...
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Toren
Good you liked it. I did the haunt (mechanically) exactly as written. Yes - in one of the posts are 23 fortitude saves and 23 damage rolls.
I even transferred it into a spreadsheet with times of the day.
Off course I knew what roll would happen next and tried to weave the story around the rolls.
Haunts have got a pretty bad reputation in PFS. They are tough to GM and I probably wouldn't have been able to do this at a CON. But this the the beauty of PBP - you have time to tell a story.
Chronicles will go out over the weekend. This reminds me - Dayjob rolls please.
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Priscilla
I'm sorry your mission somehow got 'lost' With mission notes it helps if you give the GM a reminder. I declared a room as empty when I shouldn't have - and there have been made lots of other perception checks in that room.
I did concentrate on other (at the time more urgent?) bits and the mission notes at the end got missed out. At least PBP gives me options to track back to see how it happened and what people did - including a high perception from you for which I gave 'other information'.
So actually you should have found it much earlier as it should have been in the hobgoblin dungeon.
Mentioning that you still search something looking like X also can spawn others in helping you. So if you miss a perception check - often someone else makes it instead.
So don't be afraid and speak out before the GM declares the game finished.
And now I just hope I didn't miss out anyone else.
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All reported now. I only need to send out chronicles.
I will be off for holiday for nearly a week at the end of the month and don't intend to start anything before that - neither as GM nor as player.
One in the group offered to GM - that would be great if the group / part of it would be able to carry on.
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'twas I who offered to run something to give Thod a break and maybe have him join us as a player...but since he's going on holiday he declined. However I'm still interested in running something for the group if the majority are interested. If we keep a brisk pace we might be able to finish by the time Thod is ready to run another one.