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OOC VI:  There and OOC Again.

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Hamble Setzhammer
player, 71 posts
Fri 23 Oct 2015
at 20:52
  • msg #24

Re: OOC VI:  A Thread To Be Named Later

Petra:
My investment in 100+ HP is totally going to pay off.
*envy*
Maren Dahl
player, 193 posts
Fri 23 Oct 2015
at 22:42
  • msg #25

Re: OOC VI:  A Thread To Be Named Later

whoa, I have evasion!
/team halfling survives!
This message was last edited by the player at 22:42, Fri 23 Oct 2015.
Hamble Setzhammer
player, 72 posts
Fri 23 Oct 2015
at 22:51
  • msg #26

Re: OOC VI:  A Thread To Be Named Later

hee hee.  I only hope the rest of team -those not ridiculously tall- manage as well!
Mobley?
GM
GM, 9161 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Sun 25 Oct 2015
at 23:32
  • msg #27

Re: OOC VI:  A Thread To Be Named Later

Who has Hero Points to spend?  As in ... 2 to figure out how you don't die if you fail that reflex save?  <asks the GM before rolling the damage from death throes>
Hamble Setzhammer
player, 74 posts
Sun 25 Oct 2015
at 23:35
  • msg #28

Re: OOC VI:  A Thread To Be Named Later

Hamble does.
GM
GM, 9163 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Mon 26 Oct 2015
at 00:32
  • msg #29

Rolls needed

Someone who is NOT in Mobley's thread, please make the following rolls =:

  • the frost worm's death throws damage as a SECRET roll:  12d6 cold and 8d6 piercing.
  • Emil's REF save:  d20+2
  • Retta's REF save:  d20+4
  • Horses' reflex saves:  there are four still within range -- the ones ridden by Retta and Emil (which is Petra's), and the ones ridden by Hamble and Mobley -- the others have all skedaddled.  d20+6, four times.  Rolls will be applied in alphabetical order by rider's name.  (Anyone whose horse fails and is killed will have to make a Ride check DC 15 to avoid taking another d6 in damage and becoming prone ... though with the worm dead, prone doesn't really matter.  Roll a natural one on that Ride check and the horse falls on the N/PC. 


Why is the death throes damage roll secret?  Because players who might be inclined to spend Hero Points to get an automatic "I'm not dead yet!" declaration have to make that decision before they know if the death throes damage will kill them.

game Wiki:
All PCs (both 3.5 and Pathfinder) receive Hero Points in accordance with the Pathfinder Hero Points model (with the exception that you can't use them for "return from the dead," as the general game rule of dead = dead still applies).  New PCs start with two Action Points; additional points are earned with each level-up, except you can never have more than three at a time.  NPCs will not have Hero Points.

More on that Dead is dead bit: There's no coming back from the great beyond here, even with Hero Points. (It's the difference between using Hero Points to "cheat death" -- and not get killed in the first place -- versus using them to come back from the dead.) ...

Hero Points might be useable in some pre-death way to help set you up to do something reckless or foolhardy or AMAZINGLY CINEMATIC without actually getting killed.


If damage is high enough to kill you, and you have NOT declared the use of the Hero Points before the result is known, then the PC is dead.  (And if you declare the use of Hero Points, but the damage turns out to be NOT enough to kill you, the points are still spent.)
Garflin
player, 486 posts
Hp 46/46
Channel: 4/5
Mon 26 Oct 2015
at 00:54
  • msg #30

Rolls needed

Got you ma'am
GM
GM, 9167 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Mon 26 Oct 2015
at 01:00
  • msg #31

Rolls needed

Thanks, Garflin.

I spent my available time on behind-the-scenes stuff, and finally posting for my spouse.  Priorities tomorrow are starting from the bottom of the list with Elijah and moving up ... and resolving the death throes for the frost worm, with or without a post from Mobley (whose player I think has had real life pressures like mine ..)
Dagobert Nimbletoes
player, 335 posts
Mon 26 Oct 2015
at 09:13
  • msg #32

Rolls needed

 Not that I thrive on people dying horrible deaths... but it seems like Sherat and Samad are within range too (if the map is a 5ft-grid).
GM
GM, 9168 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 00:16
  • msg #33

Rolls needed

That's a function of the GM mis-counting how to treat the "every other square on the diagonal counts as 10 feet."  They (and the horses beyond them) are supposed to be out of range.
Abby Lightfoot
player, 120 posts
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 01:12
  • msg #34

Rolls needed

GM:
Garflin rolled 39 cold and 21 piercing damage.  He also rolled failed reflex saves for all the horses (including Hamble's and Mobley's) and Emil and Retta.  Mobley takes an additional 2 (!) in falling damage as he failed his ride check (DC 15).


All I have to say is "OUCH!"
GM
GM, 9176 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 01:27
  • msg #35

Rolls needed

Finished for tonight.  Priority tomorrow:  Amira, et al.  Also need to PM Arlorian.
Dagobert Nimbletoes
player, 336 posts
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 09:42
  • msg #36

Rolls needed

 60 damage on 20d6 is not a bad deal. Things could have gone a LOT worse...
Maren Dahl
player, 195 posts
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 12:55
  • msg #37

Rolls needed

^that
Dagobert Nimbletoes
player, 338 posts
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 13:38
  • msg #38

Rolls needed

 So... after hugging a frost worm while it exploded, Petra is left with more hp than Dagobert had to begin with.
Petra
player, 367 posts
Walks Loudly
Carries a Big Hammer
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 13:53
  • msg #39

Rolls needed

She did, admittedly, have twenty one damage resistance between Hamble's influence and her own DR.

But, uh, Petra is made out of tough.
GM
GM, 9177 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 15:51
  • msg #40

Re: Rolls needed

Dagobert Nimbletoes:
So... after hugging a frost worm while it exploded, Petra is left with more hp than Dagobert had to begin with.


I found that amusing myself.  But that's a dwarven barbarian for you.
Maren Dahl
player, 196 posts
Tue 27 Oct 2015
at 17:27
  • msg #41

Rolls needed

In reply to Dagobert Nimbletoes (msg # 38):

....Same here <_<
Hamble Setzhammer
player, 75 posts
Thu 29 Oct 2015
at 15:57
  • msg #42

Re: Rolls needed

Dagobert Nimbletoes:
60 damage on 20d6 is not a bad deal. Things could have gone a LOT worse...
No argument on that!  I was worried.
Aisha Jasedd
player, 159 posts
Sun 1 Nov 2015
at 19:36
  • msg #43

Re: Rolls needed

GM:
I predict that the following PCs will level up:   This may depend upon whether a major case i have scheduled to go to trial in mid-November settles out ...



Wow...you are the most wonderful GM on the planet, to go and fight for our right to level up in court!   THANK you.    ^_^
GM
GM, 9189 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Mon 2 Nov 2015
at 02:06
  • msg #44

Re: Rolls needed

Finished for tonight.  Mobley's group is the priority tomorrow.
GM
GM, 9193 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Mon 2 Nov 2015
at 19:06
  • msg #45

Re: Rolls needed

Aisha Jasedd:
GM:
I predict that the following PCs will level up:   This may depend upon whether a major case i have scheduled to go to trial in mid-November settles out ...



Wow...you are the most wonderful GM on the planet, to go and fight for our right to level up in court!   THANK you.    ^_^


Well, opposing counsel has filed motions in limine to bar any evidence or argument in support of leveling up, but we'll see how it shakes out in the pretrial conference.

Seriously, all joking aside, this is the sort of case where we're all playing chicken ...  the judge doing everything in his power to motivate the parties to settlement; the parties on each side (our opponent being an insurance company doing everything to prove the adage of "insurers only want to take your premiums as long as they don't have to actually provide coverage"), us ...  I am so hoping someone blinks.
Maximiano de Espadero
player, 71 posts
Thu 5 Nov 2015
at 04:15
  • msg #46

Re: Rolls needed

Good luck. I have seen the combination of ego + momentum be disastrous. Settling often gets a bad rap.

As for me, I offer apologies, mostly to Donato, for being away. I traveled abroad for work (pretty damn far) and ended up with little to no free time.

Back home now and catching up.
GM
GM, 9195 posts
bevinflannery@gmail.com
Google Voice 267-570-3869
Fri 6 Nov 2015
at 01:17
  • msg #47

Re: Rolls needed

Maximiano de Espadero:
Good luck. I have seen the combination of ego + momentum be disastrous. Settling often gets a bad rap.


Very few cases actually go to trial.  And the judge has done everything he can to make sure this one doesn't; adverse rulings on Tuesday have us scrambling to revamp our strategy, with lots of emergency motions over the past few days.  <sigh>  I'm still hoping it will settle (it's possible), but its agonizing to spend so much time preparing for a trial that's probably not going to happen.

quote:
As for me, I offer apologies, mostly to Donato, for being away. I traveled abroad for work (pretty damn far) and ended up with little to no free time.

Back home now and catching up.


Welcome back.
Hamble Setzhammer
player, 77 posts
Sun 8 Nov 2015
at 22:11
  • msg #48

Re: Rolls needed

GM:
Very few cases actually go to trial.  ...<sigh>  I'm still hoping it will settle (it's possible), but its agonizing to spend so much time preparing for a trial that's probably not going to happen.
Isn't that the way, though.

Or the waiting on the client to perfect and provide instruction, to rush for court documents, to receive a transcript, to spend a weekend researching to do an application that the judge will decide has some merit, but properly needs to be addressed at the trial, with an admonishment for the Crown to relook at their file fairly, to have them decide on the date of second trial that maybe the offer of a year ago actually was indeed the right resolution before the thousands of dollars and year of court time was wasted.
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