Awesome! Glad you could make it and thanks for replying so quickly. I'll make an introductory post for you both momentarily.
Again, here is the opening post for Part 3. You are welcome to peruse through to where we are now and we'll call that your "briefing" on happenings so far.
Sorry for a delay with the update, been feeling sick to my stomach the past few days and now that my class for today has been cancelled, I'm heading back to bed. I'll finish cobbling together dice salad when I get up again.
I am feeling better, thanks. ^_^ That anti-nausea medicine sure is nice when you need it, but boy it knocks me right out. I think I slept almost all day yesterday. Thanks for being patient!
I had a nice, LONG Easter weekend, so I'll be turning in early and update everyone in 12 hours or so. Get ready to kick into a higher gear this next week! ^_^
I am furiously ironing and polishing things like a champ.
We have ANZAC Day this week, which is 'kind of a big deal', and I have been dirked with a whole bunch of activities - of course each activity requires different uniforms, and they all run together... so the house smells of Brasso, leather polish, and ironing aid (and my fave smell - spray starch).
Easter, whats an Easter? :p
Ok, added the faction mission links to the Campaign Info tab for quick reference. We're chugging along pretty well now, so stay with me folks! ^_^
My son is 13 today! And sorry I haven't checked in, just a little busy as of late. I'll probably spin out an update in about 12 hours. Go ahead and agree on your next destination, if you haven't already. ^_^
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Hey Bluedove, Congratulations on your son, btw! I have a two-and-a-half year old boy, so I can appreciate some of what you have gone through, at least the early parts (as my son climbs on my head while I type). :-)
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A question or two for anybody:
I was reading the rules for the Surprise Round and I'm wondering if I have been doing things wrong, since, in my games, I've been allowing a swift action and a possible 5' step in the surprise round. It does say, though, that your allowed "a standard or move action" and, specifically, free actions, but doesn't mention the two I am wondering about.
In other sections, there is an analogy made between swift actions and free actions, noting the limit of one swift action per turn, and the section of 5-foot steps does say "You can move 5 feet in any round when you don't perform any other kind of movement.", although I may be reading too much into "in any round".
Curiously, you can take a 5-foot as part of a readied action and can ready a standard or move action, so presumably you could ready a standard action in the surprise round and take a 5-foot step as part of that...
It seems, from at least one rules forum post, that the 5' step falls into the 'not really a regular action' category and that a surprise round is still a round, so that you could do both.
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You can take a swift action any time you could take a free action, but you are only allowed one per round. The idea is, I think, that swift actions take the same amount of time (almost none) as a free action, but are unique in a way that requires a certain sort of 'recovery' time before you can take another. So you can take a swift action during the surprise round. A 5-ft step is 'not an action' and can be done at any time during a round in which you do not otherwise move, including as part of another action. So you can do both during a surprise round. The only thing you can't do is take both a move and a standard, or a full-round action, unless you have a special ability that allows you to do so.
As you well know, I often look to the more experienced among us, but that is how I understood it as well.
Check me out, my cable guy was actually competent for once (or at least he did not look at the cable card sticking out of our gaming tower which tunes and DVRs for the 60" flatscreen like it was some unholy abomination XD) and we got to chatting about gaming and he lamented about really enjoying and missing tabletop play, and I recruited him to play PFS! ^_^
You made me chuckle about a toddler climbing on your head. I have a nearly 5yo daughter as well, so I'm not too far removed from that. We're in the "No sweetie, you can't marry Daddy when you grow up. No, not your brother either, or your cousin."
I'm starting to worry she may come home from her first day of kindergarten with a fiancee! >_<
I enjoy puzzles and riddles myself, but I know it's not everyone's cup of tea. All of the groups are progressing quite well with minimal hints, though! One even started opening the hiding places before the gnome told them about them! ^_^
I think it's unlikely we'll complete part 4 before the end of the event, but we should get it started at least. I am going to leave out the optional encounter for this one since scenario had 5 combat encounters and all the puzzling out too. I think this one would be a lot of fun in person, but would be a long one!
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Yeah, Ive seen a 42" inch pressed into service as a computer monitor, and it was rather ridiculous. When I heard about a 60 inch screen, all I could think of was that one episode of Seinfeld (I think it was Seinfeld atleast) where they get high definition TV and he complains about being able to see peoples nose hair and food stuck in their teeth.
It does overpower my smallish living room, but my family's idea of decor has always been "put family pictures on the wall and point all furniture at the TV", it works for us. =P
We wall mounted it up high so it has a nice theater effect. I am indeed planning to use the google drawing maps for my home games just like I do here since I was always too cheap to buy many miniatures!
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Yes, thank you.
I was to supposed to be at the dentist, of all things, for the dental school's final exams but they were cancelled because of E. coli in the city's water supply and a boil water notice. Poor dentists-to-be now have to wait until things are rescheduled.
Instead, I spent a much more pleasant weekend at the park, hanging around the house, and going to the county fair with the kiddo (2.75 y.o.). He was fascinated by the snakes, much to his mother's chagrin.
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Funny you should mention your child's fascination with the snakes - my 6-year-old daughter spent an entire Memorial Day cookout searching for snakes in the field behind my buddy's house. She and half-a-dozen other 5- to 7-year-old kids wielding buckets and butterfly nets stomping around a field looking for some poor snake. Never found any, though that's not really a surprise as loud as they were.
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Heh!
That reminds me of a camp out I went on as a kid, where about 10 of us waded about waste deep in this stream for probably a mile looking for frogs. Also not surprisingly, we didn't find or catch any. We did get very properly muddy, so it wasn't a total loss. :)
Once, I was pleased to see this enormous, blunt-headed, black snake coming back for a neighborhood pool near Dallas, Texas, and was all excited, but my wife and her sister were already running far away by the time I started to explain the harmlessness of snakes, that their striking distance is quite limited, that they don't chase humans, etc. I seem to have been completely wrong on the species, though, so maybe they were right to run after all.
My husband is one of those nut-jobs (said affectionately) that used to hunt rattle snakes for cash in west Texas. He's never been bitten, but got scratched by a fang or two in his time. Dude is fearless.
I, on the other hand, met a coachwhip snake in my yard when I was little that stood up as tall as I did and ran even faster! o.O
Needless to say, I'm a big scaredy cat and have been ever since. I had a friend in school who kept LOTS of snakes, but she could only ever get me to handle the young boas.
Sorry folks, I injured my neck over the weekend and have been resting it. I'm working on the updates now!
My husband is one of those nut-jobs (said affectionately) that used to hunt rattle snakes for cash in west Texas. He's never been bitten, but got scratched by a fang or two in his time. Dude is fearless.
We just call that 'living in Australia'.
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Sorry, they seemed to prefer me bringing up the rear before. So I was waiting for them to move into the room.
I moved in to get things going.
Trying to remember, is there another scenario in the series after this one? If there is, do we think it could get it completed prior to GenCon (mid August). Not a deal breaker if we can't. But it would be nice to have all my characters available.
Yes, I am planning to run the fourth and I sincerely hope I can rap it up by mid-August, but I have been running at a slower pace than intended. I damaged my laptop again and I'm slower to get an update processed without it.
Darkest Vengeance is indeed one I want to run, but it's very possible I might take a break for a bit after #4.