Feel free to chat and ask questions here, but try to keep it out of character. Since you players won't be interacting with each other as much as in other games, there could be a temptation to brag or compare notes about the dungeon. Just remember, the other players are the competition! If they snag a treasure hoard before you do, it's gone. You're not running separate "instances" of the dungeon like in an MMO!

What if we want to use fewer than 8 points when making our party? Say, for instance, that we wanted a Standard Adventuring Party the way they tended to be in old-school CRPGs. Would there be any benefit in having unused points?

I could see something like more favorable stat rolls -- maybe 2 points would add a die to each stat roll (so it would be 5d6 in order, or 4d6 flexible). Someone crazy enough to try a solo character would have 6 points to spend this way, giving them 7d6/6d6 on stat rolls (but still taking the best 3 dice).

The Shields of Silvermoon are here and ready for action!

@Typical - I think the benefit of not using all of your character points to make a party of eight is that your party can advance faster. XP and treasure is split between fewer characters, and if not many of those characters are multiclassed, then the party gets more powerful faster...if it survives.

Besides, this is old school D&D, where your ability scores aren't really all that important. I'm in a fairly by-the-book AD&D game here, and my primary PC there is a Halfling Fighter 4/Thief 5 and he has no bonus to Str or Con, and only a slight bonus from Dex to AC and thief skills. He's managed to prosper in that game, being part of parties that have taken on ogres, evil wizards, hordes of humanoids, and even took down a green dragon (back when he was only F 2/T3 IIRC).

Okay, I think The Flames of the Sun adventuring party is about ready...

I haven't found the rules about encumbrance yet... is encumbrance going to be strict?

Can our clerics and cavaliers have our own gods, or are there gods of this setting that must be used?

Anything else I should know about anything?

I'm ready as well. I brought up the encumbrance question too, but other than that I'm 100%.

In reply to The Typical Party (msg # 6):

...Maybe this is why monsters have hordes of coins and treasure-- it's too heavy to carry and move it, so they just keep it all in one defensible location and guard it.

Maybe this is why all characters got castles/keeps at 9th level in the old/early D&D-- because they're just another type of monster and by 9th level they need someplace to store their heavy treasures

I added a section on encumbrance/carrying capacity in the RTJ thread. It may be confusingly worded. It was a quick first draft while my son was napping. If anyone has questions, post them here.

As for deities, my town has a pantheon of celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, the Zodiac signs). In the dungeon are references to classical, Norse and Celtic deities, Lovecraftian Great Old Ones, etc. Pick whatever you like for your holy rollers.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 8):



Okay, I see it now. It makes sense to me, in that it is not confusing, but I wish we didn't have to deal with encumberance at all. In what way could keeping track of encumbrance make the game more fun instead of less? I'm really not looking forward to figuring it out, and looking forward even less to keeping track of it every time I pick up or drop things (or am unable to carry things back to town)...




Okay, so smorgasbord. Groovy. I sort of like the idea, though... maybe I'll try it some other time. A Libra cavalier or Aquarius cleric could be neat...

Almost ready to go - just got to get everybody typed in!

For a competitive dungeon delve game, I think relatively strict encumbrance is a good thing. Players shouldn't be looking to fight everything they face and scrounge every last copper piece. They should be focused on finding high end treasure hoards to get the most bang out of every delve.

For simplicity's sake, we could just assume a backpack carries all normal gear and treasure just goes in large/small sacks and belt pouches.

I'll post the effects of encumbrance on speed later (again, by the book).

I'd like to suggest something else to reduce bookkeeping.

Adding bonus Experience Points for a high prime requisite score is pretty standard for older editions, but it had one headache: you had to keep doing math on it. Every time you gained XP, you needed to add 5% or 10%; this required constant rounding (which was inaccurate) or having a decimal point on your XP value (which made it look too picky).

An easier method is to instead reduce the amount needed to gain a level. That way you're only keeping track of a single change. Lower the goal, instead of raising the reward.

Now, the obvious question: doesn't that mean that characters need less XP to gain a level than in the original system? Yes, but the difference is pretty slight:

• A fighter with a 5% XP bonus would need 1905 + 95 = 2000 XP. In the other method, he needs 1900 XP.
• A fighter with a 10% XP bonus would need 1819 + 182 = 2001 XP. In the other method, he needs 1800 XP.

This also means that if someone somehow improves their stats and qualifies for a higher XP bonus, you still just change the one value.

Pardon me for double-posting, but this is unrelated.

I made a spreadsheet in Google Sheets that will help you plan out your party. Just plug in the stats you rolled, and when you pick your race and class(es) it will limit you to the ones you qualify for.

https://docs.google.com/spread...fO8/edit?usp=sharing

That's pretty awesome, Typical! Thanks for that. I'm fairly computer savvy, but not really a spreadsheet guy. I basically just use them for keeping grades for my students and that's about it.

I'll get the movement/encumbrance chart up soon, and then start looking over everyone's parties. I'll hopefully get everyone into the dungeon by Halloween at the latest. I've actually got a bit of DM-side prep that I need to finish up to make this easier for me. All my notes for the dungeon are hand-written. I'm typing them up so I can easily copy/paste when a party enters a certain area. I should have enough of that done this week or early next to get everyone going.

I think my halfling team I ready to go

OK, I looked over everyone's character sheets/party rosters. A few of you still need to total encumbrance for your characters and see how much room you have left over to carry treasure.

I rolled for a few extra spells in spell books for magic-users and illusionists.

I gave a few rumors to each party.

If I missed you (it's late, nearly midnight my time zone) let me know and I'll get that done tomorrow.

I'll be starting an "in town" thread soon so you can all do a bit of role play, search for additional information, do any last minute shopping, try to hire any followers you may wish to bring along, etc. When you've done with that (or just want to 'skip to the end' like Prince Humperdinck on his wedding day) let me know and I'll create a thread for your party's first delve.

"Good luck storming the castle."

A player asked about PvP in a PM.

I'm not opposed to it if it happens in the dungeon, but in town authorities will step in to punish instigators (if they survive). But remember, at low levels especially, the party with initiative is most likely going to win, especially if they have a sleep spell.

If the majority of you players would rather not have PvP, then I will disallow it.

If it's all the same with you guys, I'd rather gamble against you in the taverns for money rather than fight against you in the dungeon. It's going to be hard enough surviving the labyrinth without fighting against the other players. Running for the treasures first is one thing, but having that all-thief group backstab me every time I left town would suck.

I'm with TAW on this. Let us compete over bragging rights, or place side bets on how we do in the dungeons. Either make it a gentlemen's agreement that town is neutral territory, or have an Adventurers' Guild that stomps down hard on PvP.

And if there isn't such a guild, maybe some of our characters could use their retirement (once they've gained some levels and loot) to start one. Nothing would keep low-level adventurers in line like a group of high-level adventurers telling them to play nice.

EDIT: Also, I edited my first in-character post to remove the "god-modding". I was honestly just trying to save a step. I have to get my group outside before curfew anyway, as they literally have zero coin left.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:41, Thu 02 Nov 2017.

No problem, Typical. The guards will always let you out after dark, they just won't let you back in until sunrise. And since I haven't specified a season yet, we'll say it's early summer so the days are long and you've still got a bit of sunlight left.

Thanks. Do we know where these ruins are, or do we have to ask around to find out?

They're about an hour or so walk north of town, so not hard to locate.

Typical - I'll get your first delve thread started later. I've got a map of Silverwood on my home computer, and maybe still one of some of the castle ruins my players made in a game I ran over G+ Hangouts a few years ago.

I agree, I don't want to fight with my fellow parties.

OK, 3 out of 5 players don't want to have PvP fights, so I'll take it off the table. When you're in the dungeon and happen to meet with another party, I'll let you negotiate with each other, but no battles.

Yeah, I'm not for pvp either. Negotiating etc is fine by me.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 26):

Honestly, if I'm down there and I come across another party, I'll want to HELP them.

So the main reason not to leave now is that we won't be allowed back in until sunrise?

Okay, my people will wait.

Hope sunrise comes soon, though, because we can't really afford to buy a ton more stuff...

Sorry all, family issues kept me busy all day, and I'm too drained to post. I'll get to everyone tomorrow.

Its okay, I got a similar thing going on myself.

As a parent with two little ones, I totally understand. Get rest when you can.

Sorry for the delays. Grading papers, getting a job application ready, dealing with the kids and my wife who suffers from depression especially in the fall and winter... Anyway, no excuses. Updating all the groups now.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 33):

"The First Delve - The Adventure Whores"

...So... We can all start now? Or just the party known as The Adventure Whores?

Whoops, forgot to make that for The Adventure Whores group.

I've been waiting for you to post in town and let me know you were headed out. Anyway, check your PMs and I'll get you started if you're ready.

Good luck, everybody!

I have severe tendonitis in my right wrist. Need to rest it over the weekend. Expect a few delays.

My wrist is recovering. I'll update all groups tomorrow. It's just past midnight in my time zone, I need to get some sleep.

When I describe room sizes in posts, I'll always start with the north-south size then the east-west size, if applicable. Some rooms are oriented off the square, or are oddly shaped, in which case I'll do the best I can. I made the dungeon maps years ago for face to face gaming, where if the players wanted exact mapping details I could sketch out any oddities for them. It's not so easy to do in text. If you want your maps to be fairly exact, please ask for more details if you need it. I don't mind.

I think I'm about to be the first TPK.

If you're in the States, I hope you enjoyed Thanksgiving! If elsewhere, hope you're having a great weekend.

I'm sitting here with a mountain of essays to grade, so don't expect updates until Monday morning (Eastern hemisphere)/Sunday night (Western hemisphere). :)

Okay, so I wasn't a TPK, but not through any brilliant play on my part. We let the paralyzed guy get eaten while we all ran away.

I did find a KEY, though. How are you guys doing?

I had the first death (with zero chance to do anything about it). Not proud of that. And I'm not in a position to go back and hire a replacement either. So I'm trying to do what I can until I've got something to show for it.

Sorry again for no posts over the weekend. I took my notes home from work this time, but just failed to find the energy to post when I had the time, or the time when I had the energy.

The good news is that the semester is almost over, and I should have plenty of time to post updates over the weekends in January and February, as well as during the week.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 44):

Is there ANYONE on RPol who isn't either an educator or working on their doctorate or both?

It seems to come up constantly, every time anyone mentions anything about their real life doin's.

Are we ALL just educators (or working on doctorates or both)?

Got the PhD last February, so that's out of the way.

I know quite a few non-academics in other games, but yeah, there seem to be lots of teachers/professors/students here on RPOL!

And all groups are up to date.

Former music teacher here. :^)

Nope, just a stay-at-home dad here. Between my wife's disabilities and illnesses, and the kids, I don't have time to pursue a higher education. Heck, I can't even get the time to put together a live gaming group -- this is the only outlet I have for my hobby.

I used to teach junior high school (ages 11-14) and I ran the After-School Game Club - all board and card games, but when the building switched principals the new one shut us down, so for the last six or eight weeks until the end of the year we played Basic D&D.

I've mentioned I'm in the USA, and I know our DM is in South Korea - am I the only one on my side of the world here?

USA here too. The main reason I tend to post late is that I can't usually do any RPoLling until the kids are in bed.

In reply to The Typical Party (msg # 50):

If a smart (human) character knows Goblin, can he also READ Goblin? Or does that not automatically follow?

I assume if you are literate, you are literate in all languages you can speak. If illiterate, you can speak but not read/write any known languages.

Groovy. Makes sense (in my opinion).

Mr. DM, sir. How many times per day can a dragonborn breathe his breath weapon? Thanks!

Once per Turn, but no more than three times per day.

Updated the House Rules thread with that information. Sorry I forgot to include it the first time!

My wife, older son and I just went and saw The Last Jedi. It was pretty good. A lot better than The Force Awakens. Not as action packed as Rogue One, but high on the drama and pretty well done.

I'm going to be digesting what I just saw (and students are coming for consultations all afternoon) so I might not get your posts updated today.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 57):

...

Sorry, the weekend was exhausting. Sick kids, Christmas shopping, a trip to the dentist, starting final print layout on an OSR game... I'm on my way to work where I can relax!

I'll update all groups shortly.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 59):

No problem i was just "wait it's Sunday, did I miss something or what"

Just a heads up. Today my students handed in their final papers. I've almost finished the first class...20 5-paragraph essays. After that, I've got a stack of 60-some short research papers to grade. I probably won't be posting heavily for the next few days.

The Whores hang their heads in sadness as they wait to see what the DM has planned for their third trip into the dungeon.  :^D

Each group is updated. Sorry for the delays, I've still got a mountain of grading to do. Plus Saturday night I'm a player in a video-chat game, Sunday I'm DMing, and Monday is of course Christmas.

I'll try to get some posts over the weekend, but no promises. :)

Happy holidays, everyone!

Merry Christmas everyone! I'll be away from RPoL until Tuesday, though that won't exclude me from playing around on Steam or my game consoles. (If you really want my Steam or PSN ID, PM me, but I'm not very chatty on them.)

Merry Christmas, everyone! Sorry for the delays. Christmas at our house was nice, but my second son's sleep patterns have been messed up lately meaning he's keeping me busy in the evenings when I'd otherwise have had time to post here. Well, that and trying to get my grading done...I'm about 2/3 done with that.

Once the grading is done later this week, posting here should be back to normal. Updating all groups now.

Because of this post, I realized you're in the 5E West Marches game. I'm a player there, too - Ravenwood and Fanglin are my PCs in that game.

Just a heads up post: After about 2 months of inactivity, I'm going to be removing The Shire.

The Typical Party is currently inactive, but it's been less than a month and I hope he/she returns.

I'll try recruiting a few new players next month. Right now I don't have lots of spare time to devote to that.

The Flames of the Sun and The Adventure Whores, thanks for both posting often and making this game fun for me to run!

Typical, I was having fun with your game, too, and if you're not posting due to RL issues, and have time to post a quick note and let us know you intend to be back, that would be great.

Hi, TTP here. Sadly, I think I'm going to have to bow out. My group had a pretty unlucky start, plus IRL computer troubles stalled things. I don't have access to the map I was making, either.

Best o' luck to the rest of you! Go kill a goblin for me!

Sorry to see you go, TTP. And it wasn't that bad of a start! You only lost 1 PC in your first encounter...  :D And you've made an ally and all that.

Hope you get your computer sorted out quickly.

If the map is the problem, I could help you out with re-mapping the bits you've over.

I appreciate the offer, but I think I'll have to pass. Just remember the clue I left behind, should the others come the same way.

In reply to The Typical Party (msg # 70):

Yep, got the clue in my notes. You can leave the game content that you left your mark on it.

Best of luck to you!

Oh, and since this is post 500, all characters (yes, each character, not divided by the party) gets 150 bonus XP.

Huzzah! Thanks, DM!

Sorry that things have been a bit slow lately. I'm formatting a game PDF for printing and it's taking a lot of time to find all the little formatting errors, adjust tables, etc. I'm nearly done.

Again, sorry for the delays. I'm actually getting a week of staycation and that means my wife is keeping me busier than normal. While she's out at badminton practice, I can finally update your threads.

Alright, things should be back on track again. This weekend was both my wife's and my father-in-law's birthdays, plus the Olympics going on (I'm nowhere near Pyeongchang, but my boys are trying to watch as much coverage as they can), and I'm publishing an OSR gamebook as well.

Expect regular updates every day this week.

Once again, apologies. My wife's depression has been especially bad the past few days, so I'm exhausted. I'll try to update every group tomorrow.

I come back from my little break to find two parties ambushed by enemies... Mwahahaha!

Sorry about the interruption in the game last week. Things are looking better this week now that the holiday (Lunar New Year) is over.

Broke my arm ice skating. Expect delays.

Status update: So a month ago I broke my arm ice skating with my son. He was all excited about the Olympics, thinking he could be South Korea's next big speed skating sensation (he's also planning to be the next big tennis sensation, and I think he may actually have some potential there). My right arm (I'm right handed) was broken in two places. The radius was broken completely just below the wrist. The doctor performed surgery to put a plate in my arm to hold the bone together while it heals. Also, the tip of the ulna was broken off.

Because of the surgery, I was only in a half-splint with sports wrapping until last week. They needed to be able to inspect and disinfect the incision while it healed. That left the ulna untreated, and typing was a pain.

Last week, they took out the stitches and put my arm in a full cast so the ulna can heal. After a week in the cast, I can now type without pain from the ulna fracture. So I'll be getting this game going again soon.

Tomorrow is my face-to-face game, though, and it's now midnight here, so I'll get you guys updated tomorrow or Monday my time.

Sorry again for the lack of updates. This week, work has been crazy and to be honest, my home life has been a bit crazy lately too. Next week doesn't look much better (midterms plus we need to take a trip up to Seoul for some business).

I'll try to get the game back on track as soon as possible.

Alright, the game is back in operation! All current groups have been updated. We have a new player making a new group. I've got my midterm grading caught up.

Full speed ahead! [Or carefully testing each 10' square with your 10' pole, as the case may be.]

Welcome, Blackthorns! Have fun storming the castle! See you around town soon!

Signed, Nelson, Ralph, Bart, Milhouse, Lisa, Homer, Marge, and Maggie - The Party Posse.

Today's Buddha's Birthday (public holiday in Korea) so I'm at home and our home computer died last night (power supply priblem I think) and our computer guy is closed. Updates tomorrow when I'm at work.

Mr. DM, you had me laughing out loud when you called us the Adventure Harlots. Now what else can we be....


Slovenly trull
Expensive doxy
Brazen strumpet
Haughty courtesan
Cheap trollop
Aged madam
Typical streetwalker
Wealthy procuress
Saucy tart
Sly pimp
Wanton wench
Rich panderer

I like the Adventure Trollops for the next group.  :^D

What can I say? Busy innkeepers have better things to do than keep track of the names of every group of 1st level would-be legends that come through town. :D

https://shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=729

Hi Folks.

I just joined and am working on a party.  Looking forward to some fun and challenges. : )

Welcome! I am the resident expert on getting your characters killed, as I hold the record - two characters down inside the first game week.

But I found level two already....  :^D

Yeah, but who's ready for level 2? My people don't even feel ready for level 1...

Oh, I'm not ready for it, but I found a way down.  :^)

How bad could it be? ;)

I meant to bring my dungeon notes home from the office for the weekend, but I forgot. Updates Monday (or Sunday evening depending on your time zone, and when I get time to post on Monday).

We took a day trip to Gyeongju, a city about an hour north of Busan today. It was the capital of the old Silla kingdom (roughly 4th to 11th centuries). I managed to post in all of my games as a player that needed posting, but I'm exhausted and headed for bed.

The good news is that I have the day off tomorrow while my boys will go to school/day care and my wife goes to her morning class. Plenty of time to post updates after I get a good sleep and more aloe on my sunburns. :D

Huzzah! 1000!

1000 posts means 250 bonus xp to each character! And yes, each character, not each party.

Blackthorns and Uncalled Four, this includes you guys too if you haven't given up on the game.

Double Huzzah! Thanks, DM!

Hi, all!

Welcome!

I have to say the group I was building in my head did not turn out to be the one I ended up with on paper.

No idea how this will work out, but it will be fun to try.

Quick questions:

How does death work in this game?  Dead at 0 or is there some variation of the 'Death's Door" rule?

What is the encumbrance of a spellbook?
This message was last edited by the player at 01:29, Fri 28 Sept 2018.

As the record-holders at getting PCs killed:  0 = dead.

And spell books are 200 cn encumbrance.


I just happen to be awake and checking, or I'd have let our illustious DM answer.

0 is dead?  I should have bought my meat shields better armor.

Serves them right, though.  Next time they should roll less strength and more some other stat.

Hey Mr. DM sir, did you realize we're about coming up on the one-year anniversary of the start of this game?

Sorry again for the delays this week. Had some important business to attend to, and it didn't go well. Things are looking up now that it's the weekend.

Oh, and we're actually past the anniversary of when I created the game.

100xp for all characters currently active in the game!

Happy Anniversary.  Glad things are starting to look up.

Thanks!

Thanks for the extra XP!

Sorry for the delay, guys. The past few weeks have continued to be busier than normal. I've got student writings to grade/correct every weekend, dealing with Korean and American bureaucracies for various issues, and now proofreading a new textbook for a colleague.

Things will probably be slow until December. But I'm not giving up on the game, just making it less of a priority for a few weeks.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 108):

Aaaargh left on a cliffhanger!

Ok, be safe and see you when you get back.

Next week, I'm collecting first drafts of all of my students' final papers (around 125 essays and short research papers written in the students' second language). After that, final grading shouldn't be too hard. Then I can get this game back up and running again.

Thanks for your continued patience!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

In reply to The Party Posse (msg # 111):

Happy! Happy! May your Eggs nog well throughout the year.

Merry Christmas! I will get the game going again soon, I promise.

Still here.

How's it looking, Mr. DM?

Please be patient. I'm teaching an intensive English camp for elementary kids until Saturday. Have a wedding to attend also on Saturday. My son has a tennis tournament in another city from Saturday to Monday. On Tuesday morning  we all fly out to the States.

I'll be in the U.S. for a month, my wife and boys for half a year. With all we need to bring I probably won't bother to bring RPG stuff. So this game will need to remain on hold for another month or so.

Gotcha.  I'll be around.

Post 1345! Which means absolutely nothing, but I just wanted to say hello to everyone!

I'm back everyone! Sorry to keep you all waiting for such a long time.

Posts are up for Dead Reckoning, The Adventure Whores, and The Party Posse.

The Great Explorers, if you're still interested in playing, feel free to ask questions here or via PM to get you started.

Welcome back.

Sorry to keep you all waiting. This past week was both the first week of the school year in Korea, and also I was converting my 5E West Marches face to face game to use these rules.

So I was pretty occupied.

I've made a few updates to the rules for my face to face game, based on the play-testing I've done here, but for now I'll keep these rules as they are. They seem to be working fine. Unless you guys are interested in possibly changing things up.

Again, delays. And again, apologies. I wanted to update this game before I left, but it's getting late and I have an early morning plane to catch tomorrow.

I'll be back in about a week.

Dead Reckoning, I want to talk in the Oak and Eagle but I'm wiped out tonight - tomorrow, we'll talk.   :^)

Sounds good.

I just snagged post 1500!

Funny! I got post 1500 over in your Star Frontiers game!

Are we done, Adventure Whores?

I'm willing to continue if you want, but I have no more questions or suggestions.

Nah, but if you ever want to buy a map of a chunk of Level One, let me know!  :^)

Dead Reckoning - also ready to head out again?

Close.  I just want to hire on the hirelings and outfit them and then I'm good to go.

Mr. DM, sir. As the guy who has characters who need less than 50 XP to go to 2nd level, were you going to award some XP for those of us here to hit the 1500th post?

In reply to The Adventure Whores (msg # 131):

Here I was, about to post something about how if you wanted to level up, you could have stayed in the dungeon longer than one encounter before heading back to town...

But 1500 posts is a milestone, especially considering we only have three active parties in this game, and I've been slow to post the past few months.

So yes, every character gets 250xp as a bonus for reaching 1500 posts in the game!

Huzzah!

Kog and Acidum went up to level two!  :^)
This message was last edited by the player at 12:46, Sat 25 May 2019.

Added some details about Brother Holger the alchemist to the Town of Silverwood thread. He has formulas for the listed potions and there is a chance he may have them in stock. If not, they can be commissioned for the listed prices and times.

If you find potions and bring them to him, he can duplicate the potion. If it's one he knows already, it reduces the cost (he can use a sample to help him along). If it's a new one for him, then he records his process in his notes and that type of potion will be added to the list.

[I'm running a face-to-face game, West Marches instead of a mega-dungeon, but I'm also using Silverwood as my home town in that campaign. The list of potions is based on what has been brought to Brother Holger in my other campaign.]

Got word back from a journal I submitted a paper to. They will publish it pending revisions, but need the revisions by the end of the week. I'll probably be a bit slow updating the game this week.

Things have been a little out of control the past couple days. Sorry for the delays. I'll get everyone back on track soon. Now, though, I need sleep.

Grading for the spring semester is completed, and my summer session classes are underway and going well now. So the game should be back on track for a few weeks.

At the end of July, I start a 3 week English camp which shouldn't impact posting too much. Last winter I just brought my dungeon notes to the camp and made updates during my hour and a half long lunch break. Should be the same.

At the end of August, I'll be flying back to the States for a week or so. That will definitely interrupt my posting schedule.

Exhausted after a long day of work (and a late night project last night).

Tomorrow morning I'm going to go see Spider-Man. When I get home, I promise I'll update every group (if I don't get them done before the movie).

And again, kinda stressed out this week. I'm applying for a tenure track position at the university where I worked until this year. I know they'd like to hire me, but I'm stressed out that I'll mess up the paperwork or someone better qualified will also apply. So updates on threads will be a bit slow for a while.

The interview for the position is tomorrow, and I'm teaching an intensive English camp this week and for the next two as well. I'll try to update things more regularly this week, but with the interview to prepare for, I'm swamped.

First interview went well. I've got a second interview with administration next Tuesday.

Thanks for your patience.

Good luck!

As you can see, I'm back!

And I got the job. I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor on Monday. Luckily, I'm returning to the university where I taught before (and did my graduate studies) so I'll be teaching the exact same classes I taught in last year's Fall semester.

Hey!  Congratulations!

Will you be teaching D&D 101?  =D

Huzzah! Skull Whomper Ales all around!

So...we are creeping up on 2000 posts and you gave an XP award for your birthday in 2017, but not in 2018.

Just throwing that out there =)

I was paying attention to that. And this is post 2000!

Each character gets 500xp as a bonus. Congrats!

Sweet!  Thanks!

Does level up happen immediately or back in town?
This message was last edited by the player at 01:48, Sat 19 Oct 2019.

Thanks from me as well!

Dead - you're not in combat, and in fact at a "safe spot" in the ruins, so go ahead and level up.

Great, thanks.

Side note: Not sure I like the nickname of "Dead".  I already have 4 casualties under my belt so, in retrospect, it does fit.  =)

Sorry for the long delay this week. I've just been exhausted every day. When I got home from work each day before today, I just didn't have the energy to post.

Luckily, the semester is almost over and I should be posting more frequently once I've gotten through all the final essays and research papers I'm making my students write!

No worries.

Hey guys, I'm mulling over a few changes to the Fighter. One of the characters in my face-to-face game got lucky with an 18 Strength, and found a sword +2. That PC also has Weapon Specialization at 4th level, so they get a +9 to hit (+3 BAB, +3 Strength, +2 magic, +1 specialization) and +7 to damage (+3 Strength, +2 magic, +2 specialization).

Granted, it's a rare occurrence to have a character like this, but it did show me that I may have gone too far with my Fighter house rules. I don't want to get rid of specialization, since that's been a stand-out ability for Fighters for a long time. But I'm thinking of changing it this way:

Weapon Specialization: The fighter chooses any one weapon. They gain a +1 bonus to attacks, and when they hit, they have advantage on damage rolls (roll twice, take the better result).

Other changes I'm thinking about:
Sweep: At 2nd level, when facing opponents with 1HD or less, the fighter makes one attack per level.

Multiple Attacks: At 8th level, when facing opponents with 1+1HD or more, the fighter makes two attacks per round. At 12th level, they make three attacks per round.

Smash: At 9th level, the fighter can choose to make a single attack in a round at -5 to hit. If the attack succeeds, they add their entire Strength score to the damage in addition to any normal bonuses (including the Str bonus).

Everything else would remain the same. What do you think?

A few comments:

Weapon Specialization: The fighter chooses any one weapon. They gain a +1 bonus to attacks, and when they hit, they have advantage on damage rolls (roll twice, take the better result).

This is probably the equivalent of giving a +1 instead of a +2 to damage, statistically speaking, and depending on what die type is being rolled.

Maybe just a flat +2 to hit with weapon type works too?  Increasing total hits by 5% over 100 attacks is significant.

Or maybe +1 to hit and +1 to damage?  Which is equivalent to being the next category up in Strength Score, but only with one weapon type?

I'm a bit unsure of your concern about too much damage when Smash is an option?

Other changes I'm thinking about:
Sweep: At 2nd level, when facing opponents with 1HD or less, the fighter makes one attack per level.

Multiple Attacks: At 8th level, when facing opponents with 1+1HD or more, the fighter makes two attacks per round. At 12th level, they make three attacks per round.

Are you familiar wit 3rd edition?  Perhaps use the Cleave Feat (if a Fighter drops/kills a foe he gets to take a free attack on an adjacent foe).  This eliminates the need to track HD and is useful at any level of play and less situational.

Smash: At 9th level, the fighter can choose to make a single attack in a round at -5 to hit. If the attack succeeds, they add their entire Strength score to the damage in addition to any normal bonuses (including the Str bonus).

Would this replace the current Combat Options ability that allows you to make 2 attacks or to Smash?

Everything else would remain the same. What do you think?

I good with whatever you decide.  I'm a game mechanics junky so I'll talk about this stuff all day if you want.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:27, Sat 16 Nov 2019.

You're the boss.  :^)

I'd like to have my weapon specialization grandfathered in, please, since I'll probably forget to roll twice for damage for my fighters. But whatever - I'll make it work.  :^)

Haha!  There is that too.

Plus, it may make a beast out of a Fighter with 18 strength (low chance) it also makes fighters who have lower strength (much higher chance) something more than a 0-level Man-at-Arms mook.

Good points. I did the math, and switching to a roll twice keep the better result would give the following averages, which range from 0.6 to just shy of 2 points higher, with better results for larger die types:

d4: 2.5 -> 3.125
d6: 3.5 -> 4.472
d8: 4.5 -> 5.813
2d4: 5  -> 6.086
d10: 5.5 -> 7.15
d12: 6.5 -> 8.486

So I may keep weapon specialization as it is. That is one of the big advantages of being a fighter, after all, the class that traditionally doesn't get anything flashy so gets undervalued.

Regarding sweep and multiple attacks, yes, I've played plenty of 3E. And cleave is maybe a bit too  situational. Playing a fighter/thief in Nemrac, I haven't found it a hassle to ask the DM if I get multiple attacks or not when fighting monsters. Of course, 1E is stricter than me, only allowing it on creatures with less than 1HD.

And playing high level Classic D&D back in the day, getting two attacks per round at high level was a good way to keep the Fighter relevant amid all the fireballs and whatnot. And avoiding the 3/2 rates of AD&D which is a pain to track.

Regarding Smash, it hasn't changed, actually, it was just decoupled from multiple attacks (which start a level earlier in the new system). And compared to the current 18 Str fighter in my face to face game, who is only 4th level, I think smash is still reasonable (it's from the Companion Set). The fighter takes -5 to hit, and only gets one attack. IF it hits, they do massive damage. Useful at high levels for fighting giants and dragons and malferas and liches and beholders and...

I keep meaning to update your threads when I get home every day, but I'm in the middle of grading final essays and research papers. And my wife (who's in the U.S. while I'm in Korea) is home hunting and calls every evening to discuss it.

I'll get them updated soon, don't worry!

No worries, DM.

Just a heads up: we looted everything while you were gone.

While the DM is away, the PCs will play!  =)
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 18:47, Thu 05 Dec 2019.

Oh, I see. [Does quick math...]

Everyone gets 452,947xp. You win. I'll close the game down next week.  ;)

Yay!  We win!  We win!



Boo!  We lose!  We lose!

Well played, sir.


"Thank you for playing. Game Over."

Well, the hard part of my grading is done. Got through the first drafts of my seniors' research papers (around 50 papers, but only 3-4 pages). Lots of plagiarism (they don't teach not to do that in Korea and China) so I'll be having a lot of student consults next week as they revise and correct the drafts before submitting them. Not exactly fun, but the students do learn a lot from this class.

And the best part is, the revisions of these papers, and my sophomore level class's 5-paragraph essays (around 70 of those) aren't due until the 17th/18th respectively, but they can submit them early if they want. So I can get the grading done little by little, unlike these past two weekends where I had to get a bunch of papers checked quickly.

So expect more regular updates for the next few weeks until I take a vacation back to the States at the end of January and through most of February.

Happy birthday and Merry Christmas!

I knew I should have asked to start a second group earlier.

Thanks for the XP.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:19, Wed 11 Dec 2019.

Well, there's always next year!

I just read through the entirety of "Around Town in Silverwood".  There's some hilarious stuff in there!

The Adventure Whores aren't allowed to go into the Grantie Cup because they gave Ivanus a bottle filled with a choking gas.  That was pretty darn funny.

What happened to the other groups?  The Shire?  The Typical Party?  The Flames of the Sun?  Did the players disappear or TPKs?

The amount of detail within the Dungeon appears vast.  Awesome work, DM!

Merry Christmas, all.

Merry Christmas, all! Sorry for the slow going. I do have all of my grading done. Of course, I've got to develop a syllabus for a new class that I was asked to teach yesterday (the asking was yesterday, syllabus won't be due for a while yet), and get my paper published. But I'll probably be a little more on top of things for a few weeks anyway.

The Shire was an all halfling party. The player's first encounter was a doozy (the cultists that Dead Reckoning managed to deal with) and the player quit after encountering them.

Typical Party and The Flames of the Sun both had some pretty good runs, but the players either got busy or lost interest.

And thanks for the complement. I appreciate it. I always have doubts about whether my quirky sense of humor and crazy ideas for the dungeon will translate well to others. So far, at least with you guys, it seems to be a good fit. :D

It's a matter of expectations, I suppose.  Pretty sure the Adventure Whores and I have similar backgrounds (I've been playing for 35+ years and I'm sure AW has close to, if not more, time invested in the hobby).

I think it's easier to have grown up playing this kind of game and then getting used to modern gaming expectations than it is to play modern games and then try to adapt to the unforgiving lethality of an older style.

One of the problems with PbP is that you can't see the reactions of the people playing with you.  And if you ask if someone thinks something is funny or if they enjoyed a scenario it will probably come across as needy or self-absorbed.  I haven't found a way navigate that except maybe using emote?  Though that would probably get obnoxious after 3 posts.

Anyway, I'm having a blast and I find the humor to be humorous.  My one complaint / wish is that we could post a whole lot more per day.  Sometimes the anticipation kills me.

I've been on RPOL for years now and just recently discovered 1 DM, 1 Player games and they have quickly become my favorite thing.  I like playing with multiple players, but waiting for days for decisions to be made via vote is a drag so I've really come to appreciate the one on one style, plus I really like what you did here with multiple characters in a party.  I love that!  Though I'm not sure if you think I'm crazy having my guys argue and hassle each other all the time.

I do have a second complaint...Runt shouldn't have died by falling off that stairway ;), but it worked out alright because I used it as a self-correcting moment.  After that, I delved back into my mind and started playing more like I was used to many, many moons ago (see second paragraph / sentence).  Which has been its own kind of fun.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:02, Sat 28 Dec 2019.

I just recently passed my 35 year anniversary of D&D on my birthday earlier in the month. And yeah, it's nice to play with veterans. My face to face game has had a few players who've been at it a long time, but most are fairly young or even just starting.

And yes, there are some grumbles from time to time about the lethality, but most players are on board. And like you say, it helps them to realize that games need consequences to be fun and engaging.

I did actually anguish over the thing with Runt. And I think it was a bit of a learning experience for me, too. I'm glad you stuck with the game, because it's also helping me in my continual quest to become a better DM.

As for posting speed, it's all on me these days. A lot of days I come home from work, get on the computer, my notes and maps are right here beside me...but I don't open them up. I'm hoping to ramp things up a bit over the next couple weeks before I head back to the States for a month. Try to get as much gaming in as possible before that. That's my goal, anyway. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm heading back to the USA for a month or so in two days. And my wife has me bringing so much stuff that I don't have room for my dungeon notes. So we'll have to take a break until late February.

Sorry to Dead Reckoning. Just starting your newest delve as we go into a break. I wanted to get you going sooner, but the past two weeks have been a grind.

Feel free to engage in RP in the Oak and Eagle as if you were all in town (or at one of the fine establishments in Nemrac) if you like.

No worries, enjoy your return.

I'm more than willing to chit chat.  It's what I do =)

Safe travels! Have fun in the snow!

What say you, Posse and Whores?  Shall we have a war council in the Oak and Eagle and exchange notes?

Made it safe and sound to Illinois yesterday. And there's snow in the forecast for today (a fair amount on the ground already, too). So different from Busan's mild winters.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 176):

Welcome back to the States.

We can do that. I've just been busy the last few days.  :^)

Sorry, Dead Reckoning - I'll get a post up later today.

No worries.  Looks like we have a month to fill so post at your convenience.\

You might have noticed a pause in Nemrac - I got sick as a dog this weekend, but when I get better, I will attend the meeting of minds.  :)

Hey guys, I'm back! Trying to get caught up at work, but the system won't let me log in. Kinda frustrating.

I'll get your adventures back on track by the weekend at the latest. Thanks for your patience!

Welcome back.  Hope you had a good trip.

Any trouble with customs because of the coronavirus quarantines?

No trouble at all! In fact, usually at Narita I need to go through a second security check to get to the transfer terminals. This time, they just let us out directly into Terminal 2's gate area.

I'm recovering from a chest cold, so was worried that I might be flagged for coughing often on the flight, but no one said anything.

I'd told my wife this before I left, and I think I was right. There is little risk of people coming from North America to Asia carrying the virus. The precautions are focused on the other direction.

Sorry it took me a bit longer than I hoped to get back to this game. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, my university keeps changing what they're doing to mitigate the effects.

I'm still on self quarantine for another week. Originally, they wanted me to upload materials and assignments for my classes for this week and next, with actual classes starting on the 16th. And since most of my classes are English Conversation classes, teaching it online via PPT/video lecture is pointless and hard to implement in any sort of actually effective manner. So I was busy getting that stuff ready. Now, they've postponed the start of the semester to the 16th, with two weeks of online classes.

Good news for you guys, I'll be updating your threads now!

Sorry I took so long, Dead Reckoning. We've had quite the last couple of weeks here. It was enough trying to keep my own games rolling.

No worries. I think it's going to be a bit hairy for everyone for a little while.

Sorry things have been slow this week. Due to the covid-19 outbreak, I'm having to run all of my classes online, including speaking classes. I was pretty busy all week with that, and checking student assignments, questions about dropping/adding/transferring classes, and administration directives that keep changing every other day.

Plus, paining minis and running a new d6 Star Wars game online for my regular group.

I'm thinking of starting a game here, running the same adventures. The four sessions I've run so far should be enough material to keep a PbP game going for quite a while. Either of you interested?

I appreciate the invite, but I just can't add another game system to my mix right now. Plus I'm just not that much of a Star Wars fan anymore. Although I do think the Baby Yoda is cute.  Besides, I still have lots more to explore here! :^)

I left my Star Wars fandom behind me too.  I do appreciate the offer, though.  Thank you.

No problem. If I start the game, like most I run, it'll probably peter out the first time I need to take a break.

Dead Reckoning got lucky: surprise and a "friendly" reaction from a basket full of cobras.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 192):

“Friendly “?

Now I feel bad.

Snake #1: “Hey fellas, these adventurers look like friendly fellows.  Let’s not attack them.”

Snake #2: “Yeah, they’re really nice.  See how they’re throwing a blanket over us to keep us warm and cozy?”

Snake #3: “It’s sure swell to make new friends!”

***Stomp! Stomp! Bash! Bash! Trample! Trample!***

In reply to Dead Reckoning (msg # 193):

I have been called the Mel Brooks of Dungeon Masters by a former group of mine. :D

Anyway, in this instance "friendly" got interpreted as well-fed and uninterested in giant metal-plated meat-sacks.

Anyone out there?

Sorry, my family returned to Korea from the US two weeks ago, and they've been quarantined in our apartment. I've been staying in a cheap motel (owned by a friend of a friend so I got a deal). That, plus midterm tests/essays.

Getting back on track this week.

I'm home, too, but the 3rd hospital stay was a long one.

Welcome back, both.

I hope everything is OK, DM?

Sorry for the delay. Been a lot going on IRL these days. Plus misplaced my dungeon notes for a while. I found them, finally, but didn't have time to post the last couple days. I'll get all the groups updated by the weekend at the latest.

Sounds good.

Updated in character.

Hey, mister DM, sir. For large purchases can we spend gems around town (plus that 3% fee of Arvel's)? I'd hate to lug a few hundred pounds of gold around town.  :^)

It depends on the shop/service. The Temple of the Sun or Rupert will gladly take gems at full value, as they sometimes have use for them for other things.

Also, if you deposit your treasure in the Town Hall (and pay the tax) you can write letters of credit to shopkeepers and Tallenhauser will deal the payment for your.

Looks like we're all back in town again. You want to try this? :^)

Assuming it is a dragon, is there any way we survive getting breathed on?

Maybe we both return to the dungeon together and send a scout team into to see what we'd be up against?

If it's little one - the Whores have two fighters with 21 and 19 hp, and the Posse has two with 22 and 18. If we see signs of a dragon though, I think it's too much, if it is something that can't breathe, I say we try it.

Do you have a thief or Illusionist you're willing to use as a scout?

I have a thief.

Dead Reckoning - sorry, meant to get to your town business today, but I'm kinda exhausted. Had an awesome live session of D&D today (via Hangouts/Roll20).

The party took part in an arena combat, where each round if they won they could drop out and take their prize, or continue to the next round but risk losing it all. I roll randomly on the wilderness encounter charts (in the Expert Set) for the creatures, including number appearing by the book. They went six rounds, some easy, some hard (there were 8 PCs, between 2nd and 5th level).

Round 1: 2 giant black widow spiders
Round 2: 10 Traders, 20 Caravan Guards, 2 Officers (2HD) and 1 Captain (4HD)
Round 3: 7 mules (my favorite)
Round 4: 4 frost giants [initiative and a wand of fireballs made this easier]
Round 5: 8 gnolls
Round 6: 3 flame salamanders

The round 4 prize was a random assortment (1d6) pieces of jewelry to each PC, so I spent a lot of time this evening rolling up jewelry, tabulating values and XP, and sending messaging all my players.

Luckily, there's a typhoon on the way to Korea tomorrow, so I should have time to get a post up then.

No worries.

Jeff and I are just debating joint ops to go get ourselves killed. =)

The Whores have a level 1 illusionist with 4 HP and a thief with 12 HP, and the Party Posse has a thief with 9 HP.

I have a pretty good thief too.

I mapped as I went.  There was a good sized cave we could use as an ambush spot.  Maybe we have the thieves take a look to see what we are up against and then lure whatever it is into the big cave to ambush it?  Spread out so, if it is a dragon, it can;t kill us all in 1 big cone of fiery death?

We can splurge and pick up Potions of Fire Resistance for designated fighters too.

Ready to make some purchases whenever you are, Mr. DM, sir.

I hope everything is OK.

Sorry, guys, been in a bit of a mental funk. Finishing up a paper, and imposter syndrome is rearing its ugly head, telling me this paper is crap and will not get published. And that's what's keeping me from the game. I need to submit it by the end of September, so hopefully I'll get it finished up soon, and then once it's out, nothing more to worry about. And I can get this game going again.

No worries, we've all been there.  If it helps any: I love this game.  You and Jeff do a fantastic job here on RPOL.

---------

Mental exercise time (brought on, in part, by the Twins and obvious greedy self-interest.)

In D&D: Treasure XP -Is the gold to XP value based on the literal value of a treasure / item?

For instance, The Twins sold wooden toys at the bizarre for 200 gp.  Is that 200 xp for them?

What if a thief gets a 10 gp gem in a dungeon, but convinces a mark that it's worth 100gp.  Is it worth 10 xp or 100 xp?  Or the reverse, if a merchant gives only 10 gp for a 100 gp gem?

When does treasure become XP?  Let's say a group gets 1000 gp in treasure from a dungeon, but the thief steals 100 gp of it?  Does the group get the 900 xp or the 1000 xp?  Or if the party is robbed in town before they spend or stash the treasure?

If I ever had a personal ruling on these they are long since lost to time.

Open question to you too, Jeff.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:46, Wed 26 Aug 2020.

I like the idea of a supergroup. The first thing we need is a killer name. I suggest the Dead Party Whores.




Or maybe not.  ;^)

The paper has been finished and sent off to the publisher for review. For the next few weeks I've got to prepare for a presentation at the end of the month, but that is no where near as hard. There's very little scrutiny of academic conference presentations, so the work goes a bit faster. So more time to devote to this game. :D

Let's get your town business wrapped up and get you in that next supergroup adventure!

Welcome back!

I think I'm ready to roll out.

Is this going to be all 3 groups in the supergroup?

I'm planning on it. I still have some things to buy, then I'm set.

We'll need to figure out the logistics for this.

If we plan on sneaking up on...whatever this thing is we'll need a plan.

Do either of your groups have invisibility or silence?

Nope. I have a wand of paralyzation, and we might get lucky if push came to shove.

To get things rolling I'm going to lay out a pseudo-plan and you tell me what works and what doesn't and we can hash it out from there.

We take the combined group down to the entrance.

We leave a rear guard at the entrance (I have a small squadron of hirelings for this)

The main parties go down to the big cave (I made a map, I'll see if I can scare it up)

We station the group in there (I found the half-eaten corpse in the big cave and heard the snoring in another tunnel)

We send scouts down to check out the snoring (I have a thief that will "volunteer") and then assess the situation from there.

The issue I see is, if it is a dragon, we have no way to survive a blast of dragon breath.

That works for me. You're right - if we see a dragon, we have to get out of range as fast as possible.

Question about scrolls:  Can you transcribe it into your spell book and still use it as a scroll or is it lost when it's transcribed?

It's lost if transcribed. You'd then have to memorize it to cast it.

My dragonborn can speak Dragon - should we include one or two up front just in case the dragon's in a talking mood?

If so, they don't have infravision, do they?

I also thought we'd send only infravision users first, but what do you think?

Dragonborn do not have infravision.

That's what I thought.

In reply to The Party Posse (msg # 229):

My thief is human.

I have a dwarf fighter and elf bard.

Do you have any scout types with infrared vision?

Not with any hit points to speak of. My gnome illusionist has 4 hp and my elf MU has 6. My halfling thief has 12, but I've been playing AD&D too long, and thought he had infravision, but he doesn't.

I have a dwarf fighter who could go in unarmored that I'm not too attached to....  ;^)

In reply to The Party Posse (msg # 231):

Does the illusionist have phantasmal force?

I can have my thief scout with a candle and the illusionist can cover them with an illusion showing the area as if it’s dark.

No sorry - just 90' of infravision instead of the typical 60'.

Well we have to do something.

Let's move in and see what's what.

I did the last post so you should probably get some in.

Tomorrow - it's too late for me to think anymore.  ;^)

Is it okay if we save the ambush until Friday? I go into the hospital Thursday for a procedure and they say I'll be out all day, pretty much.

In reply to The Adventure Whores (msg # 236):

Fine with me but we should talk out tactics as much as we can I think.

I'll be back on later tonight with time to plan then.  :^)

Take your time. I've got a heap of midterm presentations to watch/grade this week(end) plus Halloween stuff for the boys.

Okay - tomorrow then.

Sorry, I was around.  Maybe I should have thrown out an OOC comment?

Nah - I'm just too tired to strategize right now.

:^)

Gary's wand is a Wand of Paralyzation. It's chancy but it might work if Gary can get a clean shot before the fighters engage. Of course if the thing breathes, Gary's toast for sure, save or no.

In reply to The Adventure Whores (msg # 243):

We can set him up along the wall on the right and spread everyone out in the room and the opposite tunnel without anyone bunched up.  If it breathes it won’t get everyone.  If Gary is way off to one side I doubt he’d be the target at the expense of getting a larger group.

Finally finished grading midterms, but now I need to get my paper edited by the 11th, so looks like a busy weekend for me. I'll try to post something here over the weekend, but don't hold your breath.

Thanks again for your patience.

Bump?

Sorry! I'll get your thread updated later today. [Just woke up and my dungeon notes are on my desk at work.]

Had some sudden paperwork, and a re-edit of the academic paper I'm publishing to do today. I'll try to get the update tomorrow.

The Whores's fighters have no missile weapons, nor do our clerics.

Same here.

In reply to The Party Posse (msg # 250):

I have a few bows on Postue and Melaris.

I think what we do is let them get chased to the cave entrance.  As the dragon follows we all attack its flank as it goes by.

Works for me.

So just these two on arrow duty?

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 253):

Yes, but Postue will end up drinking a potion of fire resistance and Melaris will remove his chain mail.

Awesome! The Whores and the Party Posse will do their bookkeeping tomorrow.

Let me know if you guys have more town business, or want to get your next adventure threads opened.

Grading is done for the semester. I need to deal with some students questioning their grades today. Then it's off to winter vacation! (Not going anywhere, just working on a research paper...) I should be posting more often for the next two months or so. :D

Good to hear!

Dead Reckoning rests up, refreshes its spell arsenals and prepares to set out in the morning.  I think we'll head back to the keep.

Did we explore the room the Caecilla were in?  Did it have tunnels leading out?

The caecillia room was a dead end. I'll get your new thread opened now, DR.

I have stuff to do, but it'll have to keep till I get home from the relatives.  :)

No problem! Enjoy west-central Illinois (if those are the relatives you're visiting)!

Sorry to keep you guys waiting so long.

I was just looking over the Great Dungeon Records thread and it amused me to note that 5 of the 11 characters in the graveyard are my group.  Dead Reckoning indeed!

In reply to Dead Reckoning (msg # 262):

How many stories does the Keep appear to have?

Four stories

Oh, before I forget, the group is going to invest in some silver weapons.

Are there any silver daggers available?

arrows?

Spear?

Silver daggers (30gp) and silver arrows (20gp for a quiver of 20, or 1gp each) are available. A spear could be forged for you. Pretty much any silver melee weapon is 10x the normal price.
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:22, Fri 14 May 2021.

Not to throw historical reality into your fantasy too much, but silver is too soft a metal to make good melee weapons. Sterling silver, though, may have been around, and our illustrious DM might decide that those weapons exist in his world.

True, but in a world where there are werewolves people would find a way to adapt.  Besides, daggers, arrows and spear tips are a simple spike, they don't need to be terribly functional for anything except stabbing werewolves.

Right, but a whole sword might be impractical if it was pure silver.  :^)

I always assumed a "silver dagger" was just a silver coating over an iron or steel core.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 270):

Silver coating?  You better have the blacksmith pack up shop and head for the hills if the PCs find out they are paying 10 times the cost of a weapon for a simple silver plating dip! ;)

Hey, do you want to fight werewolves or just look pretty? :D

Sorry for the lack of game updates. I'm in the final stretch of writing a research paper and that usually saps my will to update the game.

Also need to decide what that stench-bomb liquid could be reasonably converted into for you!

Still here.

Happy American Independence Day!

So....how are things going?

Not so good. Lots of stuff going on IRL these days. I'm barely keeping up with the games I'm in as a player right now.

I was considering shutting the game down, but I know you guys are enjoying it. So I'll see if my motivation picks up in the coming months or not.

If the game does end, at last I feel like I had a very good run of it. If not, so much the better!   ;^D

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 275):

I don’t mind waiting.  Thanks for checking in!

Hey guys, I think I am going to shut this game down. I'm having trouble getting enough "spoons" to keep two D&D campaigns going at the same time (the other one is my live game). I've got to focus on work stuff a bit more this year.

I am slowly working on notes for a Gamma World campaign that I'd like to run here on RPOL one of these days. If/When I get it up and running, I'll be sure to make an announcement over in Nemrac.

But first, I need to get another paper or two written and published.

Thanks for playing. I really enjoyed seeing how you guys explored my dungeon.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 278):

No worries, DM.   It happens.  I plan on recycling these characters in various forms so you might see them live on elsewhere.  Heck, Zed’s cousin is already over in Nemrac representing the Beardface clan.

I’d like a little time to copy paste a bunch of stuff before you close out if that’s ok?

Sure. I know Jeff is away from the internet for a while, so I'll keep this up until he's had a chance to see this and save anything that he might want to. It's not taking up any space or anything. :D

Give me about a week or so to save stuff, please. It's a busy weekend ahead.

No problem!

Still saving stuff - please don't delete yet!  :^D