Discussion dealing with the coming adventure

Hi there, Marina, courier and polearm master reporting for duty.

Should I post something in the intro?

No please dont, there are various things to discuss before we begin.

Ready when you are boss.

We are waiting on a few more characters to catch up. Ill be posting some things to get us started soon.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Okay, im not that focused in FR. Do you have any good reading from any books that could help me with this?

There are lots of books none specifically about Lantan. Ide just google Forgotten Realms and Lantan and read what you can.

Im really trying to get two other players before we start. The Adventure is written and ready to go but with out 4 players it just wont work.

Please Stay with me

Rac
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:06, Tue 02 Oct 2007.

Ok friends, Ive given people as much time as I can. I think I have 3 players now for sure and possibly a 4th. But who knows

Look for a begining sometime after 8pm EST tonight.

Good evening, gentlefolk.  Please allow me to introduce academician Garath Darkstar, recently arrived from Phlan on a trade fleet, and hailing originally from Cormyr.

What do we have so far?

Im an elf fighter, what are you guys? also what are we expecting Raconteur?

Garath is a human by birth, and a conjurer by vocation.

Scout by chose, thiefling by whim of destiny.

Close, suport and ranged any strategy here? I can do middle range attacks or close cuartes combat. But if surrounded it could get ugly.

Could throw a glove of darkness behind you so they cant flank you that easy with me at the side? What do you know od the play? after all this questions come from something right?

Haha, no I do not. But you are already in character if not, you are one at heart.

Ok I'm going to post some basic rules for posting soon and also get the game started. Our first adventure will be and exciting one with strange creatures and loads of interesting treasure.


Character Roster

Kratos Aureon Teifling Scout
Mariana Half Elf Fighter
Garath Darkstar Human Conjurer
Gibius Gladstone Kobold Artificer
Samber SeNorbert Dwarf Rogure/Cleric of Gond

A good group for sure. :)

Ive had a zillion PM's so if I missed any of your questions or questions there please send me a reminder.

Does the character action should be in a private line to the all powerful DM?

No is does not have to be a private line, it should be in red and in the format shown int he Rules and Regulations Thread. See example.

I wanted to ask: We cant post before someone higher in the initiative chain? Dont you think is can slow things up a bit?

Not at all, in all actuality is speed things up. I run quite a few games here on RPOL and this is a tried and true method.

For example if one person goes out of initiative order and then a person before him does something to effect the action of the person that went after him it could take days to fix the situation.

Also something I failed to mention is that you only get 24 hours in combat to post your action. So you get 24 hours from the previous persons post to take your action before I NPC your characters action.

I will take your word on that. Se how it works. :)

If you havent yet please get your introduction done. I want to do an update today if possible.

XP updated.

Final Character Roster.

Kratos Aureon Teifling Scout
Mariana Half Elf Fighter
Garath Darkstar Human Conjurer
Gibius Gladstone Kobold Artificer

Hi!  This is Gi... Gibius a friendly... gnome yes thats it gnome!  Just wanted to make my introduction, I'll be your resident mage-smith.

And don't listen to our DM, I'm not a Kobold... really!  Kobolds are vile dirty traitorous little vermin fit only to... (continues from there)
This message was last edited by the player at 14:48, Wed 10 Oct 2007.

What's an artificer?  Is this a reference to the gnome artificer PrC?  (Except, in Lantan, I guess everybody can be a "gnome" artificer?)

Well, things are still up in the air on that. The Artificer class isnt allowed in ROA we are being told. For now thats what he is though.

Sigh ... I guess I'll just have to rework my stats as a Wizard or something ...

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Hey Garath, nice to meet you (since you're not Syntari) this is DM Koboldking.

There is a prestige class for artificer in Magic of Faerun.

Prequisite Race: Gnomes

There's an option in the PHB 2 which allows you to change your race in play with some source of powerful magic.  Gix is about the only Kobold in Faerun who wouldn't mind that (it would allow him to learn 'gnomish secrets of artifice', read prestige class), and it would be an interesting quest option (do you have the PHB 2?  If not I can send you the details.)
This message was last edited by the player at 18:17, Wed 10 Oct 2007.

Yeah I have it what page are you referenceing.  Dont worry about though if you want to be a kobold thats fine we can work it into the story

You mean the PHB option?  Sounds great!  (And I'm pretty sure it's already appoved by RoA)
This message was last edited by the player at 18:20, Wed 10 Oct 2007.

Hey Gix!  I should've known you'd be playing a kobold :)

Garath speaks Draconic too, btw...

In addition to the MoF gnome artificer class, btw, you may want to look into the Faiths and Pantheons PrC "Techsmith".  Heavy Gond flavor, creates a quasi-golem instead of a familiar / animal companion, pretty nifty.

Already seen it, and I'm working out right now if it'd be feasible to go for both (Wizard/Techsmith/Gnome Artificer).

That is going to beat many monsters. A little crazy, sounds exentric... go for it ;P

Its nearly the weekend, so I should have time to rework the character sheet soon.

Adventure thread is up, thank you all for doing the introduction. I am sorry it took so long to get started. Expect a faster pace from now on.

My CS is almost done, I'll finish it tonight.

Reminder to take time to purchase your Birthday Present and send me the info on it.

Also, lets pick up the pace a bit. I would like to see 4-5 posts per week from you if possible

I've deicided to go for pure Techsmith/Wizard.  Character Sheet will be in very soon.

I'm glad RoA had it's birthday just as this game started!  The more magic gear my character has the better (:

Sorry, as it had been a while I forgot to check :P

[Private to DM Raconteur: Could I ask for a mithril breast plate somehow? I could place 1000 gp from my money and sell my normal one.]

PM

[Private to Marina: You could buy one with the ROA birthday present I would guess.

Check out the following URL if you havent yet.

link to a message in "RoA: OOC Forum"]

Be sure to roll the appropriate knowledge skill for identifying the ant creatures before you make a post otherwise your metagaming.




They are outsiders, so that would require Knowledge: The Planes (DC 11) to identify them as Formian Workers, higher difficulty to discern what class they are up from worker.....Warrior Taskmaster, Myrmarch or Queen

Thanks

DM

I did that in character as in he doesn't might know of them, but could know a lot about natural things like normal or monstrous ants.

Understood.  Garath happens to have a Knowledge (Planes) skill modifier of +11, so he's already aware of most kinds of outsiders, at least by reputation.  Definitely an academician type...

Cool, just a reminder.

Ill be gone the days. I will return on the 19th

Take care master.

Have a good trip!  And watch out for nasty evil little back-stabbing kobolds!  They're sneaky things they are ...

Dont get bitten by any angry kobolds!! :D

Gix Speaks: "Heh, good thing I'm not angry!  I just despise those horrible  backwards barbaric wretched debased infantile cowardly simplistic small-minded brainwashed lizard-worshiping half-wit laughingstock traitorous little wretches that dare to call themselves my kin!!!  But I'm not angry ..." ( :

Safe travels, and pleasant sojourn.  And don't get bitten by any non-angry kobolds either.

Godspeed. :)

}will post tomorrow.... make it less than 16 hours.

Please consider your Birthday Present Items a down payment from Artemis for takeing on this task.

Ok so are any of you there?

just litle ol me. :P

just trying to figure what to do with that.

I'm here.

Here!

We need to decide whether to pool the gold right? Either we each get 30 GP in goods or we all get 120 GP in goods.

Well, Ill give ya another week to post but after that perhaps we can discuss the problem your having posting.

I say we pool it. I dont want it to go to the trash in a few small things when we can get a bigger one.

Sounds good to me, any suggestions on what we should get. I lack my books at the moment so I forget the costs of items, but it should be something befitting everyone in the party.

I think smokesticks would be generally useful - block off a tunnel from archers.  Of course, no need to pool for those, we could each get one.

Caltrops might be good too.  Generally, I'm thinking items that shape the battlefield (yes, battlefield; Garath is a little blood-shy, but I'm not...) so as to let us focus on a few foes at a time.

Sounds good to me.

Have you lost interest or something? Have I done something wrong?

Whats up?

1 post every two weeks aint gonna cut it.

I'm just not sure what to post (other than a list of what I buy, which I'll get to you today).

Make that tomorrow actually ...

My other games are slow now too, I think it might be final exams period or somesuch - it isn't something specific to this campaign.

But I also agree with Gix, there isn't that much for us to post in response to.  You already have Garath's requisitions list, for example.

If you want to shepherd the campaign forward, notwithstanding exams, you could always prod us with the NPCs / storyline...

"The man pointed out to you as the foreman is a burly, black-haired brute of a man with disconcertingly intelligent eyes.  'So, you are the trouble-shootin' squad, eh?' he asks, approaching your group.  'I'm told you have questions for me.  Well, and with the mine outta commission, I got nothing better to do than answer them, so fire away.'"  [or something like that]

Ok, in and effort to get you guys interested in the game Im eliminateing all of my rules and will just go with the flow.

Its up to you now.

Sorry, my old CPU died on me, and the date... well, it was difficult with all the family. GOt a new one, but as its not configured at the moment. Sorry :'(

Ive added a couple new players and will revive this game as soon as they are all settled in.

We will "imagine" they were here from the beginning for ease of play and those that are not posting will be eased out.

I will begin the next scene as you are almost at the mine. So be prepared for that.

Roger.

Any chance of getting a map of the mine, with indications of where the attacks were?

Quinlan Fairfellow here, used to adventure with Garath up in Phlan.

Welcome, Quin!  Good to see you here.

One more day to let new players get in the game and then Ill move us on to the mine.

Hi guys,

i'm joining as a human fighter using both bow and sword and board. I'm going to join in as if i'd been there all along. I think if another person arrives along with Quin it looks like i'm after a bounty. I hope you'll forgive the intrusion into the storyline.

G.

Welcome aboard, Gareth!

Hi,

RL got a little hectic but should be now.

Any players here other than Quin, Gareth and me?

if not at least we have a strong line in quips.

We could just carry on regardless, well not regardless altered EL's and such so we don't become paste.

But carry on anyhow.

Please carry on...ILl adjust accordingly

Is there a reason for the pause? Just curious.

Many Reasons

Ah, those... ;-)

Sorry for being the gum in the gears here.  Real Life is hell this week.

Do to some unforseen events Ill be gone untill the 16th of March. Please stand by

Will do!

Ok Im back early, but lost all my maps and information for the game in the "unforeen event". So, Ill do my best to continue the game.


DM Raconteur

Is the game on hold?

it would seem so.

While waiting for Raconteurs return I've applied to an orphanage adventure: the freak show

Have fun at the costume ball!

I figure I'll finally get to bring out my hat of disguise!

Hi,

I'm going to be away till next Monday. Off to foreign climates for a wedding.

Have Fun.

We'll hold the fort!

First I want to apologise for my lack of communication.  I am truely sorry.

Second, I will no longer be DMing for ROA, so as far as my involement goes this game is at an end. My life has become much to busy with a new job and a new baby on the way.

So again, please forgive and thanks for the fun we did have.

Derek (Raconteur)

Congratulations on the new job, and, more importantly, the new baby!  Bright paths and broad horizons to you...

Sorry for the late response, but congratulations on the extended family and the new job!