OOC Thread...

I am assuming we can still assume that even though their players are gone, as they are still in the party, we can still assume Alvila, Dododir, Jhaeryx, and Tahldor can take turns. I assume we would not have civilians, like the Stenfells, take watch.

Ayden, Dane, and Baldric are scouting the mine.

So I believe for watch that leaves Alvila, Crysannia, Dododir, Feff, Jhaeryx, Kilari, Sir Tomas, and Tahldor.

What do people think about this?
Alvila and Crysannia (both female, new member with old member, both midling combat (cleric & bard), etc)
Kilari and Dododir (relatively new member with old member, poor fighter with good fighter (mage), etc)
Feff and Jhaeryx (relatively new member with old member, midling combat (druid) with good fighter, etc)
Sir Tomas & Tahldor (let Tahldor rest)


As far as teleporting tomorrow, Kilari plans to bring city-folk with her, not party members. It's just a supply run for food - it doesn't need the special skills of adventurers. But the town needs the special skills of adventures; to figure out what is going on, in case Keiser comes back, to determine what to do after the scouting mission, to start to set up a peaceable government - as many PCs as possible should be staying there. Kilari just needs people who are relatively strong and can carry a good amount - there should be plenty of those in a mining town.

OK, that sounds good, but Jhaeryx and Ryalas were sent on their scouting mission to spy up in the mountains...

You're right - I can't believe I forgot that. Probably just three longer watches then:

Alvila and Crysannia
Kilari and Feff
Sir Tomas and Dododir

Does that seem good to everyone?

Tomas only needs 2 hours of sleep, so he'll take them at the beginning of Alvila and Crysannia's watch, and help keep watch for the rest of the time.  If anybody is going to do anything untoward, they'll probably do it later, rather than sooner.

Are we waiting on something?

I was waiting on the party in town to respond, but I will keep going with you guys until they post. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have stopped with you guys at the mine.

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OK OK...hold your horses...

What are we waiting on?

I'm waiting:
1. to see if Ryalas is back
2. to see if Sir Tomas says anything like "no, I didn't tell you that..."

Ryalas went to scout the mines in the mountains for us?

I know you're all waiting on my lame ass.  I'll go get caught up now.

I think our private thread is done and we are ready to get back to doing things?

OK. That conversation only lasted a few minutes anyways.

From your post, I'm assuming all the PCs are currently together. Let me know if that is not the case.

All of you are together until you send Baldric to get Tahldor.

OK, what are we going to do after the guards have been questioned?

I think a lot depends on the answers we get.

Kilari might still teleport out to get food - that was her original plan and how she prepared the spells. But that shouldn't take long.

I want to thank Kilari for all she's done during my ... flakiness.   I'm hoping to get things back under control during the holiday season.  Let's hope for the best.

What's second in command for? :)

Real Life hits everyone. Don't worry about it, my friend. :)

*sigh* I have forgotten where we hid the treasure? Was it around here?

Along a "path" leading up to the mine. You hid it off to the side under some brush. With the new snow, it'll be a bit harder to locate.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.

OK, we'll bring Alvila, Crysannia and Dododir with us to fetch the treasure and then Feff will have a group to travel back with. I really don't blame him. Valls is a very dangerous place right now.

Then, once Kilari has teleported away with me, Dain and Ayden back to Trail's End to fetch supplies, we can kickstart this game again. I've been wanting to find this rose now for YEARS of real game time.

As long as they're willing to come along.

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. Going with my tradition, for your gift, you can either raise your LOWEST attribute by 1, or have 5 skill points. Please message me with your wish. :)

Merry Christmas! And thank you!

And a Happy New Year?

Hey guys.

Because I'm on holidays I'm in an area with vad reception (flinders ranges, australia).

I'll try get a post out today but if I can't I'll be in adelaide in a few days.

Happy new year to all

Someday I'm going to get to Australia!

Any recommendations on places that I can't miss when I do vacation there?

Um, Baldric, I think the two threads are happening at the same time - I don't think you can post in both of them.

Yeah, I just saw that as well. Baldric, you are in Trail's End with Dain, Ayden and Kilari, remember? :)

BB,

Tomas has healing powers of his own.  If he can help the sick, then he will be going to the temple every morning to do what he can.

In addition to healing hit-points, he can restore up to six attribute points per day, so if the disease is depressing people's Constitution (the usual game mechanic for weakening someone until they die), he can at least delay the disease for the sickest folks.

You're going to be busy...

Ooops. Sorry about that. I completely forgot.

In reply to Big Boss (msg # 37):

Paladin.

Kind of goes with the territory.

The party was looking for a Field Provisions Box. I forgot which book that was out of.

That is certainly a possibility, but it's only good for 15 people a day - so doesn't completely solve anything.
http://dnd.arkalseif.info/item...-box--400/index.html

Hey guys.

I apologise for the absence....with the holiday and the fires in Australia, internet has been perodical. I am home now and will catch up the next 24 hours and post

Excellent! Just in time for some shopping!

How much cash total did we get? So that we can divide it out and see what even is reasonable for each of us to purchase?

I take it that you're going to unload everything here at Thalan's shop?

With the extent of the stuff he has here, I'd say yes. It took me a second to figure out what the numbers were, but when I did, I was surprised what he had here. How the heck did he get a Cubic Gate?

Anyways, if I remember correctly, Feff carried the Chests with the gold in it and other members of the party carried the rest to the place where we hid it on the trail. Then players started leaving and were NPC'd by BB. Did we keep what they carried?

To be fair, we'll say they at least had a suit of armor, a weapon and some coin (100gp each) and then went on their way...where ever that may have been.

Treasure found thread has been updated from the Hill Giant Complex.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:11, Mon 13 Jan 2020.

Yeah, Cubic Gate is quite a surprise :)

So at least there would be a wand of See Invisibility (4,500) - we might default to that.

Remo might have something too...

He might, but along with money, you'll owe him a favor. I still owe him one favor for the ring.

OK, Gems we can sell at regular price. What about Jewelry?
This message was last edited by the player at 17:19, Tue 14 Jan 2020.

Jewelry is half value when sold.

I wouldn't think jewelry would be that much less valuable - at that point, people would just be popping out the gems and melting down the settings. I would think at least 75%.

If it is 50%, I suggest we do just that - sell it as gems instead of jewelry.

Also, if the first spellbook disintegrated when he tried to identify it, Kilari would have tried to stop him from potentially disintegrating the second. They had looked similar so there was a high likelihood the other would disintegrate too...

Also, I believe Kilari has been to the Capital before, correct?

OK, we'll settle at 75% of Value for jewelry and you stop Thalan from trying to play with the 2nd book..I was just trying to FF the game a bit.

As for the Capital, yes, you've been there before when there was a fire there.

I remember that I stayed on the boat.

Thalan will buy everything from you, knowing full well that you'll be buying stuff back with him, so I'll add up the magical items and you'll have "Store Credit", so to speak. The treasure thread is just a list of what you all have. What you do with it is up to you.

The weapons with +X will be straight, unless it's +2. For Example, Weapons +1 will be magical +1 and +2 weapons will either be a +1 weapon with a +1 ability, or a straight +2 weapon. Anything beyond a "+2", you'll have to ask Thalan.

Feff already owns a pair of Gauntlets of Ogre Power.

I updated the treasure thread.

I forgot Feff had those.

So if there is anything that a party member would want, I think we have generally said that they can have it for the price we would otherwise get for it from their share?

So it looks like our total gain is 228,068 gold 3 silver

(Including 50% of each item [other than unknown value spellbook] or 19,580 -
Immovable Rod---Give to party member? 2,500
4 Potions of Water Breathing---Give to party member? 1,500 total
Ring of protection +2---Give to party member who doesn't have one? 4,000
Gauntlets of Ogre Power---Give to party member who doesn't have one? 2,000
Ring of Protection +2---give to party member who doesn't have one? 4,000
Cloak of resistance +3---give to party member who doesn't have one? 4,500
Wand of Silence 12 charges---Give to Cleric? 1,080
1 spell book*-Unknown properties. When trying to read other book, book disintegrated. UNKNOWN )

Unless I am mistaken, we have 6 party members (Dain, Ayden, Sir Tomas, Feff, Baldric, Kilari) and if we put an equal share in the party treasure, we would divide that by 7. So we each should get 32,581 gold (1 gold, 3 silver left over - I'd stick in the party fund)


I suggest we keep the potions of water breathing (1,500), the immovable rod (2,500), and the unknown spellbook in the party treasure and that we buy the Bag of Holding 3 (7,500) and the Decanter of Endless Water (9,000) for the party treasure, using them for the benefit of the town (carry food, provide a truly clean source of water in case he plague is related to the drinking water). And a wand of "see invisibility" so that we can fight the ogre mage more reasonably (4,500) So that is 25,000 for party (town) items and that would leave 7,582 gold 3 silver for the party fund. Obviously, I would suggest we keep that in gem form instead of coin to reduce weight. We would also pay for the food from the party treasure, but that should be minor.


Does that seem reasonable to everyone?
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:31, Wed 22 Jan 2020.

I like that. Are you going to go to the Capital for Feff's Belt?

Added the Port Capital of Heliogabalus to Game map H.

I don't expect to go to the Capital now: Probably tomorrow in game - not today - I only memorized 2 today. I'll memorize 3 or so for tomorrow - bring a list of what is available, see what Feff and Sir Tomas want, then go to the Capital with whomever wishes to join both to see what is there and to get a second load of food, then here (if there is anything else to get) then back.



Ayden, Dain, your money is yours to spend as you wish :)

Get the food and supplies here from Trail's End, then teleport back to Valls?

Yes, for today

And Ayden, if my estimates are correct, you should have enough gold to get everything on the wish list you put up :)

Because it's been so long out of character...

I thought it was of Selune?

That's the thing about rumors and stories...

did we know what the items sold yielded?

Yes. OOC thread, message #57

Thanks....missed that one

Did we lose Dain?

Hope not

Ayden - the extra coin is yours to spend as you want. If you don't want more, you can simply carry gems with you to spend when you find something you want.

Dain, do you really not want anything for your character? Armor or weapons? There's also a Cloak of Resistance +2 and an +2 CON Ioun Stone, either of which would seem to match your character well.

Okay, I'll take them, raise my hitpoints and saves. I can't put it on my sheet though, uneditable.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:10, Fri 24 Jan 2020.

OK, perhaps a little explanation is in order. I can totally understand what might be going on here. If I was a player and the game just started giving me stuff, I'd be "What the heck?". But, the story goes like this:

I've been running this game since 2005. There have been times where I was burnt out with this game due to real life crap happening and players quit because of it. I totally understand that. The treasure gathered here was the loot the party got from the adventure they had in the mountains while fighting Hill Giants. The players that quit had a share of the treasure, but the new players that joined....Dain and Ayden, get that share, since the old players quit.

So, take advantage of it while you can, because it doesn't come along all that often. Also, with the way things are going and with the party talk, you're going to need any advantage you can get.

I'm coming out with arms full of arrows....have a cache of them. They will help for sure

Dain, I hope you take advantage of this, or else he might get killed up there. We're fighting Hill Giants.

Is Sir Tomas in the house that we see?

Kilari would ask him, Tahldor, or Mr. Stenfell about food distribution, in that order, as the people helping ensure the city is organized and fed.

Yeah, him, Feff, Tahldor and Bollar are in the living room discussing what the town could do, now that they are "free"....for now.

Wow! I didn't know Bolar's wife was that pretty. How did he land her??

I have skillz. :)

I sent Sir Tomas a PM asking him if he's OK. If I don't hear from him soon, I'll NPC him to get the game going again.

Post 18,000! wow!

Sorry, I have had a number of health issues over the last couple of weeks.  I'm reading over everything now to catch up.

Glad your back and doing better.

Good to hear your improving thomas

Yes, agreed. Medical issues are a pain - usually quite literally.

Glad you're back.

Thanks all.  Just had a cluster of bad medical luck all land on me at once.  Nothing life threatening, but I don't bounce back from pain and surgery (minor though it might be) as quickly as I used to when I was young and invulnerable.

I'll be 59 in 2 months, I know what you mean!

In character, in game, there's a lot to be done - food distribution, helping the kid settle in, perhaps giving him a tour, questioning various people (some with things like detect thoughts), etc.

But I think political intrigue is probably not where the most fun lies in a play-by-post game... That takes lots of interactions...

Would it make sense to say that we all help as we can for the rest of the day (until and unless something odd happens), Kilari uses her memorized spells and the wand to ensure that at least one person watching each watch can see invisible so that we are not surprised, and move forward?

For that matter, even for the actions tomorrow, teleporting elsewhere to see what magical items can be purchased, making purchases of them and food, and returning - that also is challenging in a play-by-post game.

Would it make sense to basically fast forward in the in-game thread to when we set off for the mine and handle purchasing items in the OoC - or a separate - thread?

Or is there someone who has things that they really want to do in character in town that such would prevent? I don't want to prevent anyone from doing something they want, but it feels - to me - like everyone is ready to move on but we need to get some sundry stuff out of the way first.

Would that make sense to everyone and be a good way forward?

I don't have any problems with this. Letting the town council know about the food, it will be handed out properly. And as long as there are no attacks on the town, the council seems to be getting things in order again, except for the plague.

Thalan told you guys where to go in Heliogabalus to find the Belt of Giant strength. It'a a +4 bonus and costs 20,000 gold. Kilari has been to the capital before, so she can Teleport there with no problems and get the same amount of food, and more from there. You'll just have to tell me how much money you want to spend on food and make sure you can transport it back to Valls.

So Kilari would plan do the following the next day:
* Teleport to Heliogabalus with any volunteers to accompany her (Dain has volunteered)
* Find what magical items are available and buy relevant stuff (For example, the Belt of Giant Strength for Feff). She didn't spend her money at Trail's End because although they had some decent stuff, they didn't have any of the things she most wanted. This would include full loads of food (what can be carried in the bag and put a heavy load on herself and anyone joining), as well as probably a string of donkeys loaded down with food (so she is bringing back as many "creatures" as the spell allows here) - donkeys can carry a decent amount of extra food to town (about 150 lbs each), do various work around town and, in a pinch, can be used as a food source. For a few carrots, they should be willing to follow. We have more than 7,000 gold in the party fund, and we're not buying fancy food, things like flour, salt, sugar, salted or dried meats, veggies, fruits that stay good for a while (like apples) or are dried, etc. So it shouldn't be anywhere near that cost.
* If she didn't find everything they wanted at Heliogabalus, teleport to Trail's End to buy some of the items there (if we found everything, skip this step)
* Teleport back to Valls

Is there anything I'm missing, anyone?
This message was last edited by the player at 00:38, Sun 08 Mar 2020.

Sounds good to me.

Dain can wear the belt and carry everything! ;-)

That's a plan as well.

I'll wait for everyone's opinion.

Ayden? Feff? Sir Tomas?

I'm fine with it. I'll finally be getting my Belt ! :)

Works for me.

<jean luc picard>Make it so, number one</jlp>

OK, I have the items listed of what's available in the shop when Kilari teleports to Heliogabalus.

I'm assuming Dain and Ayden will teleport with her, so a donkey could be brought back with a full load.

Do you want to get the food here?

Yes, get a donkey and buy food in Helio, enough for all of us and the bag of holding. Tempt the donkey into being willing with a carrot or sugar cube.

We will go back to Trail's End given the lack of selection at Helio.

Feff and Sir Tomas, was there anything else you wanted? Kilari would have told you about the options at Trail's End.

Ayden and Dain, I think you already purchased what you wanted. Is there anything else you want?

Enhancement bonuses don't stack, so she really can't use the intellect ioun stone.

So we each got 32,581 gold
For the items:
Feff: Belt of Giant 20,000.

Can't add the gold to my sheet, uneditable.

You added the items you already bought, right?

Yup

Your money was spent on your items and I added your left over to your sheet.

What about me, BB? I guess I'll just stay in the house and work on my gem cutting skills and watch Bollar's fine looking wife.

Being dead, your nether parts might fall off, watch yourself! ;-)

In the morning, Kilari would have pulled out the infamous Wheel of Fortune and let everyone roll who wants to!

Effects last 24 hours, may only have one effect at a time per person
1: red: -1 on attacks and saves
2: orange: +2 luck on STR checks and based skills
3: yellow: +2 luck on DEX checks and based skills
4: green: +2 luck on CON checks and based skills
5: blue: +2 luck on INT checks and based skills
6: indigo: +2 luck on WIS checks and based skills
7: violet: +2 luck on CHA checks and based skills
8: white: 10 tempporary hit points


22:40, Today: Kilari Foxfire rolled 3 using 1d8.  fortune! Kilari is extra agile today :)

10 extra hitpoints.  Not a bad bonus for the day.

10:43, Today: Dain Stoneshoulder rolled 2 using 1d8.  wheel of fortune.

2: orange: +2 luck on STR checks and based skills

Trying to suppress my chuckles in real life.

Um, I really appreciate the thought but ... I'm already wearing one.

I think we can safely return it for a refund.

But I really really do appreciate the thoughtfulness.

I looked that Helm up and you should keep it. It's considered a Relic and to have 2 in your possession is really rare.

You already have one?

Seriously?

Even though the player didn't know, I would expect the character would known, and probably wouldn't have bought it. Oh well, I didn't see anything that I thought Sir Tomas would like better. I wonder if a magical helm could be given to a mount like your dragonnel? After all, horse armor had the equivalent of helms (chanfron).

In character message edited.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:10, Mon 16 Mar 2020.

Seriously.

And yes, Kilari would absolutely know since it's big and shiny and sits on his head with the ridiculous looking dragon wings.

It's not really something a normal person (or even drakkenstead) could use. You have to be either a high level spellcaster, or a devotee of Bahamut to use it.  Morventh is neither (he just puts up with Tomas's strangeness), so it's best if we just put it back.

The only thing he's really looking for is something to give him darkvision.  But they're either too expensive, take up a slot already in use, or just don't work long enough to be worth the hassle.  For a game with powerful wizards, they don't seem to make a lot of really useful items.  Especially since 3.5 when everything suddenly became only usable 3 times per day.

Cast Dark Vision and then Permanency.

I haven't yet been able to find a scroll of permanency to be able to copy it into my spellbook - I'd probably do see invisible myself, but darkvision is nice too, for sure. Next time we go up in level, rather than taking a more powerful spell, I may have to just take permanency...
This message was last edited by the player at 01:23, Tue 17 Mar 2020.

There's not many good spells to make permanent on another player. Only an animal companion. And the XP cost is alot, too.

But, anyways, I'm going to do a summary now on the things the party has done for the town and get things moving again.

I always ignored the XP cost for spells, just always used the material costs. ;-)

Just to make sure that I'm clear - we got to the outside of the mine, then?

No, Tahldor came back with mine maps. It's currently night time. The mine is only a couple miles away from Valls, if you wanted to travel tonight.

Would anyone object then to getting a good night's sleep and leaving at first light?

I'm good with that.

Another day matters not to me.

You all ready to go??

Yes

yes, ready

Yes, let's head on out.

OK, here we go! :)

Kilari would delay to give Ayden a few minutes to do his main scouting - but as we're taking care of the horses, can we assume that a few minutes have passed?

With you talking with Baldric and Feff moving stuff around in the building so the horses will fit comfortably, we can say it's been over 5 minutes.

Can I get a Marching order please?

My suggestion:

Baldric takes the lead, followed by Feff, Tomas, Kilari, and Dain.   We're most likely to be attacked from the front, but I want a warrior in the back, just in case.

Kilari's fine with that.

Spacing between people?

10 feet would be my preference.

And remember to douse all lights.  If we have darkvision there's no point in advertising our presence.

And just to remind you (and the rest of the party), Tomas has a ring of the darkhidden.  He's invisible to anyone trying to see him with darkvision.

You be tricksy! *Laughs*

5-10 feet makes sense. Far enough that we can swing weapons, close enough we can see everyone except maybe the scout.

Baldric is way out in front.  I'm waiting for him to tell us what he's found before reacting.

I'd forgotten about Ayden.  Sorry Ayden.  We really can't wait outside for an hour or so while one of our party is potentially in enemy hands.

Is Kilari going to cast Arcane Eye to go spy?

I see your Pokemon reference, Feff, and raise you one.

I had to Google that and now I get it. *laughs*

Umberhulks. This should be interesting.

I've dealt with them before in another of BBs games.  I did not enjoy it then.  I will not enjoy it now.  I will not enjoy it with a cake. I will not enjoy it with a snake.  I will not enjoy it, Sam I Am.

I'm assuming 3 rounds to prepare is good for everyone :) If not - let me know.

Kilari won't have any problems with her preparations.

Just remember that the ceiling is 15 feet and the passage to the Drow that Kilari saw with her Arcane Eye has been blocked by rocks and dirt and only 5 feet of that is accessible at the top. That's why I was saying that Feff could only enter melee.

I'm assuming for the rest it would be a climb check, wouldn't it? Or Feff could give them a boost up?

And I'd think that Sir Tomas on his mount could reach - and someone else might be able to ride with him - right?

I think I'll wait in the back. LOL

Sir Tomas on Morventh can fight, but a rider with him can't. They will have to cast spells or use missile weapons or attempt to climb the side of the rubble barricade during the fight, which will result in attacks of opportunity for the enemy.

Alright - then I'll web them while others charge
This message was last edited by the player at 01:50, Sun 31 May 2020.

OK, if the party is ready for battle, I'm assuming you'll be charging in, yes?

If so, tell me the square on the battle map where you wish to be placed or wish to charge to.

About 20 feet back from the main party - no further away than Z24

As they're rushing in, will cast web on them to keep them there and make it easier for others to kill them

OK Kilari...you might need to refresh as Z24 on my map has you on the otherside of the barricade in the middle of the enemy...

Z44 - sorry

I'll be invisible at X-44

In reply to Baldric Freiger (msg # 154):

Where's the map?

I had to press the Game map button a couple times for it to pop up.

Sweet! It came up!

What's the legend, as in where is who?

Yes, where on the Main Map do you want me to place you? Behind the barricade, of course.

In reply to Big Boss (msg # 158):

Put me with everyone else.

BB-42. Feff will be on the edge of the darkness. Hopefully, somebody can make it light again so he can see.

Just waiting on Sir Tomas to say which spot on the map. This fight is going to be nasty and I don't want to make that decision for him.

Put me at U-44

The fact that they've used a darkness spell indicates they expect us to be using light like normal surface dwellers.  Our using darkvision just might give the element of surprise.  Furthermore, I'm invisible from darkvision, so that will help as well.

I'll head towards the north side of #4 so Kilari will know where I am and not scorch me with whatever spells she decides to throw.

The fight hasn't started yet?

Sorry for the hick-up. Did some house work and didn't have time for fun.

OK, I have a question. Kilari did draw where the enemy was while spying with her Arcane Eye for the party to see....in the dirt or on the back of the map Tahldor gave the party...doesn't matter. You want me to leave the enemy up on the map, even though things will change that you don't know about?

Right now, they are off, but I can change that.

I'd prefer them on - but perhaps they can be a different color or mark to show that they are where they were last seen and may have moved?

It's up to you, BB. I'm just happy to have a map at all!

Just waiting on the others to post their actions....

I'll give Sir Tomas until Thursday nite (PST) and then I'll NPC him.

"FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!"  - Rocky Rhodes, Chicken Run, 2000.

LOL Sir Tomas

I have a question. Since the Blistering Radiance does damage over several rounds, does a Spell Penetration check need to be done for each round, or only once at the beginning?

I found that answer on pg. 299 DMG under Effect Spells.
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:47, Sat 27 June 2020.

In reply to Big Boss (msg # 171):

Just the beginning, correct?

Yes, so you need to roll a good spell penetration check.

In reply to Big Boss (msg # 173):

Or it is wasted. I hate SR!

Hi Dain
Agreed - going last does suck! But you don't have to post last of the group if you don't want to :)

I give players the chance to post and only NPC them if necessary.

Did we have another hiccup?

Yes I did. We have to start taking our temperatures at work now, which is making things slower for me. Also, been doing things around the house and it's hot outside. By the time I get inside, all I want to do is sit in my chair and watch tv :/

Temps here are going into the 90's, so I know what you're talking about.

I also have another case of Lyme.  Or at least I'm sure of it.  Finally got the doctor to agree to test me.

Half the time I feel too tired to procrastinate.

Sorry. Been working some OT at work, which is essential. We make electrical heaters for the military and medical industries and when they order stuff, they needed it yesterday. Plus, it's getting hot here...triple digits yesterday :(

Ahhh, you're Zell!

Guilty as charged.

I haven't forgotten anyone. Just really busy right now with work.

I'll be vacationing tomorrow until Aug 2

Have fun. :)

I was going to update, but I've run into some confusion and need an answer from Sir Tomas. Waiting on his reply before updating.

Sorry for the wait. :(

Yep, my fault. But at least the resolution is in our favor for once.

I've responded to BB.

Sorry for the slow posting on my part. :( This Covid19 crap has made my work schedule heavy and the weather is sucking ass right now.

I completely understand.

Everything is out of whack.

I live in Blythe. Come out here if you want hot and humidity from the river.

I knew it! More Drow came out of the hole. I will post when I get home from work today.

Yeah, I'm going to have to put the game on halt until Kilari's player returns. I goofed on something major and it's a mess...

According to her post, she should be back tomorrow, so the wait shouldn't be too bad.

What did you goof on? Things seemed to flow pretty good.

I'm back!

Um... Aren't elves - like Kilari - immune to sleep? Am I missing something? What should I roll at this point? I'm not sure what you're waiting on me for if I'm unconscious?

Welcome Back!

Immune to a sleep spell the same as sleep poison? IDK.

Unfortunately not.  Drow Sleep Poison doesn't cause a magical sleep effect, it causes unconsciousness due to it being a poison.

Drow Unconsciousness Poison doesn't really roll off the tongue.

It does say that the poison isn't magical so it will affect elves.

I thought so.

Hello? Did we have a hiccup again?

BB hasn't logged in since August 4th.

Yeah, been busy with work. Sorry for my absense. :(

OK, Kilari's Elemental Skin made her immune to sleep and poison. I didn't even think of that while running the rounds. I was thinking "fire" and that was it. So, the drow sleep poison shouldn't have worked on her while this spell was going. Instead of deleting several posts, Kilari will get 2 actions this round plus the original action that was supposed to happen.
 Then I will update the post to get this fight started again. :)

Sorry for the delay.

Thank you - that seems best and easiest for everyone involved!

I agree.

Sorry for my absence. Work, weather and laziness got the better of me. :(

Sorry for my current delay in a long line of delays.  Family health issues (not mine for once) have caused problems.  I'll get my post up today.

Lost power 18 hours ago.  Love our highly reliable power grid.  At least phone-based internet is still available.

That happens to me at least once a month out in the desert. If it lasts more than an hour, I turn on the generator so my food won't spoil.

In reply to Baldric Freiger (msg # 208):

Thunderstorm zapped my modem, connection may be iffy for a bit if I don't answer in a timely way, I'll be back.

Waiting to see what else I see from where I am...

If I don't hear from Sir Tomas by tonight, I'll NPC him tomorrow and update the round. Sorry for the delay. I thought he was going to post, but I think he might still have some RL stuff happening.

Yeah, real life is a bitch at the moment.  But serendipitously, I just happened to get the time and mental energy to log in an and post tonight. Working on it right now, should be up in just a couple minutes.

Got some PM I'm waiting an answer for.

For once it isn't me.  I'm just laying back and relaxing.

OK, I updated the map to show more. That's all I can get because of where Baldric is located.

I'll give Kilari another day to edit her action and location (If any) because of the map problem.

Can Kilari see the priestess turn to a cloud of pests?

If so, she'll try to dispel magic on the priestess so she can be something that can be fought...

Give me a Spot Check DC 14. If you make it, you see her change. If you don't, you were focused on the spiders at the time.

I'm going to wait for BB to tell us what happens with the Dispel and where it takes place in the grand scheme of things.

I'm going to predict, however, that our Drow Lady is not going to be terribly happy.   Spell Resistance does not apply to Dispel Magic.

Actually, anyone who has an initiative before Kilari, please post your action since you don't know what she's doing.

Dain? Sir Tomas?

Falling asleep at the moment.  Will post my move tomorrow morning.

Is drow 10 the priestess?

Would the darkness spell affect Baldric? Every movie I've seen with undead in it, darkness never affected them.

Yes. Sorry I wasn't more clear.



Hmmm...never thought about that. All the Walking Dead episodes I've seen, the dark never affected them. Just noise.

Opinions, anyone?

RAR states that undead see with the equivalent of normal vision ... even skeletons ... specifically, 60' darkvision.  And since darkness affects darkvision, it would affect him normally.

Based on the rules, I agree that seems to be the desired game effect. Otherwise they would have been given something like tremorsense or something.

"What is this stuff that saves you from my punches?"
-- Grug, The Croods.

What is the spell the priestess is using?  It's incredibly effective in negating damage.

A variant of Stone Skin.

Shame, shame, SIR Tomas.

I'd checked out Stoneskin as a possibility.  But it only removes the first 10 points of damage from an attack, the rest still applies.  It's effectively DR 10/Adamantine.

And since the priestess didn't seem to be taking any damage at all, I'd ruled stoneskin out.

Not everything is taken out of the books. The more powerful you get, the more powerful they can get.

I'm not complaining.  I love a challenge.

I'm just saying that being a variant of stoneskin isn't as obvious as you might think.

As nice as Stoneskin is, it's so expensive that I've never seen it as a high use spell...

Who are we waiting on?

Mostly me. I'm trying to plan a hiking trip in Palm Springs and I've been on the phone with various people and by the time I get off the phone with them, I want to eat dinner and then watch TV. :(

I will be on vacation for a week, starting tomorrow :) Please NPC me if needed.

Dain:

A reminder of one of BB's house rules:

3. All healing spells done out of combat due full effects..example 2d8+3 does 19 healing. In Combat, you roll. Same with potions. Full effect outside of combat, roll while combat is happening.

I do believe that we're currently out of combat.

I wonder if that works with damage spells? If we ambush an enemy, they don't know they're in combat? *smiles*

OK, what are we doing?

Digging a drainage ditch to keep the chicken run from flooding when these hurricane remnants drop ten inches of rain on us.  I can't even imagine what it's like to be on the gulf coast and get hit directly.

Oh, you mean in the game?  Sorry.  Posting in character now.

OK, there might be some confusion, so I'll clear it up.

The fight with the Drow and the Umberhulks was on Game Map 4 (Area 1 on Map3). The party is already past that and now you are on Game Map 5 (Area 2 on Game Map 3).

Oh! Let me edit.

So we glanced in the side caverns and didn't see any sign of Ayden... Dang

Dain - in the edit, Kilari's asking your opinion :) You're a valuable member of our party!

Elemental Body lasts 1 hour / level

We're not taking that long of a rest

I can edit that, but you're still going to be affected.

Under normal circumstances, I'd say we retreat and regroup.  But we can't leave Ayden behind. Let's find him as quickly as we can.

Given that paladins are immune to disease, this has to be magical in nature.  I have to admit that I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to investigate this.

I'm not sure how to investigate either... I agree - we need to find Ayden and then leave.

It also can't be poisoning, if Kilari is affected when in Elemental Body, as the Elemental Body is immune to that.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure what that leaves...

So after we rest for about half an hour, I recommend sweeping the area for signs of Ayden.

Agreed.  That should give Baldric enough time to check things out and report back.

OK, another thing I need to point out about Garl. He doesn't speak common.

Elven, Illuskan, Draconic, Chondathan, Halfling, Sylvan, Damaran ?

I assumed he didn't from our initial meeting.

I know he speaks elvish

I don't speak dwarven or elvish.  I do speak undercommon.  But I'm willing to let the others do the translation to keep things moving.

Anyone have any ideas how to proceed, other that what I've suggested In Character?

If we leave these tunnels, the drow might collapse them, which means the plague kills everyone on the surface (bad dwarves!) until we can first find the gem, then get someone even more powerful to break the curse on it.

If we don't leave the tunnels, everyone on the surface dies (bad bad bad dwarves!) unless the gem is somehow still down here.

We split the the party, leaving some down here to keep the drow away while the rest go after the gem.

Thoughts?

By the way, Ayden still hasn't told us how he got captured the way he did.

He got caught with his pants down *laughs*

OK, so what's the plan? You know your mission.

I think we're going to bring the bodies back, but waiting on the boss' final decision.

OK, Sir Tomas and Kilari are most likely busy for Thanksgiving, so I'm going to say that he agrees with Garl's plan to bring up the dead bodies to take back to town so the citizens of Valls can identify them.

I was waiting for Sir Tomas

Polymorph will last for 12 minutes - and an ankheg has a burrow speed of 20. There are 10 rounds in a minute. So Dain should be able to burrow through (12roundsx10rounds/minutex20ft) about 2,400 feet. I would think at it would have time to get the first hole big enough for Feff without problem, and likely the second...

I wish I could Teleport. I just have a feeling we're going to be doing this all day, then we'll get into the map area and fight those drow again.

I forgot how powerful those bugs were. Editing my previous post to reflect that.

And done. I deleted Dain's post because it wasn't required.

Did we stop again??

Yes, waiting on the Boss, but if I don't hear from him in the next 24 hours, Kilari's command will determine your next actions.

Sorry ... again.  Bad time at work.  Google "Solarwinds hack" for details of our latest fiasco.

Posting now.

OK folks, it's Christmas time again. :)

You can either choose to raise your lowest attribute by +1 or get 5 skill points.

In reply to Big Boss (msg # 264):

Lowest required? That raises my Int to 11. I'd rather raise my Wisdom to 17. Or 5 skill points. Give me 4 in Heal and 1 in Spellcraft.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:55, Sun 20 Dec 2020.

Yep, it's raising the lowest stat.  If you have two or more that are tied for lowest, you can choose which one.

Neither raising the lowest stat or 5 skill points gives a major advantage by themselves, but if you stick with the game for a decade like some of us, it really does add up over time.

Excellent! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Thanks....

Thanks! Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I'll be out for about a week

OK, I'll NPC you if necessary.

OK, final notice on those who didn't PM me with their Christmas bonus.

In reply to Big Boss (msg # 273):

In reply to Big Boss (msg # 273):
This message was last edited by the player at 01:25, Tue 29 Dec 2020.

OK folks, I'm ready to update the round. I just need people to answer Baldric's question before I move on.

And to round out the glorious decade from hell that was 2020 ... I spilled hot chocolate on my laptop and fried it.

Got a new one now, so I'm back and ready to go.

Mmmm...Hot Chocolate with Jack Daniels...:)

As soon as Baldric answers my PM, we'll be on our way. :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:57, Wed 06 Jan 2021.

Peppermint Schnapps, but we're on the same wavelength.

OK folks...here we go.

Do the rest of us see the drow and/or umber hulks?

No, Baldric has informed you of them. That's why you're "off the map". But, you can count how far away he saw them.

9 hours...

OK, here we go...

Just waiting on Ayden and then I'll update the round.

Ayden, you better hurry up, dude! We're running away!

I'm a comming!

FYI: I'm taking advantage of some major OT at work, which is rare for my job because the owners are cheap, so if I'm a tad slow, I apologize. :)

OK, since Kilari was waiting for the spiders to mix in with the Umberhulks, I added a couple rounds to the fight since all but her are running.

I think that's only going to get you, Dain and Ayden. :(

Sorry for my absence. I stated previously that I was working OT at work and now I got some free time.

With several of the party hasted and trying to flee, I'll update the rounds and the map to a location that you won't be able to avoid.

OK, I've been making a really bad error for a long time and I didn't even realize it. I feel really stupid now and I'm sorry :(

20 foot radius circle is 62.832 feet

How heavy is the mine cart with the bodies in it? Can Feff heft it up like the Strong men contests and push it over the barricade? Feff's 8'7" tall and his lift over head is 2932 pounds.

Human skeletons weigh around 30 pounds, so I wouldn't think those sucked out husks of those miners weigh even 100 pounds. I don't recall how many are in the cart, but I'd say the cart can't be over 500 pounds. So, if Feff can dead lift almost 3000 pounds, I'd say he can do it. But, that's up to BB.

At least according to this page, this person has seen ore carts that weigh between 700 to 1,500 pounds https://www.ruxtons.com/dynapage/IP1200.htm

Wow, I didn't think it would weigh that much, but I like that link. That's how I envision a mine cart.

Yes, Feff will be able to lift the cart and push it over the barricade. Give me a Strength check DC 12. If you fail, you drop the cart. If you make it, you lift it and push it over the dirt barricade. Some bodies will still spill out though while it goes over the edge on the otherside.

In reply to Big Boss (msg # 297):

After lighting the arrow, Dain will help Feff with the cart. He's a dwarf, strong back!

Um, I am confused. Big Boss, on your last post, you now have a wizard and umberhulks, but I don't see any mention of them. Are they ahead or behind us? Or can only certain of us see them?

Judging by the map, it appears that Feff and Sir Tomas will see them.

Question, BB. Can we reach the spiders on the ceiling above us?
This message was last edited by the player at 12:30, Mon 05 Apr 2021.

Sorry for the confusion about the new arrivals. I was going to let Feff and/or Sir Tomas say something when they saw them on the map.

Yes, you can reach the spiders on the ceiling.

And my update is message #666 LOL....

I will be out on vacation for a week starting tomorrow

Have fun!

Private

I will be out for a week

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas. I miss this game.

In reply to Baldric Freiger (msg # 308):

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of you as well.

I still hold out hope that we'll someday get back on track.  But I'm willing to wait however long it takes.

OK, let's get this game back on track again.

I was honestly burnt out on this game for awhile and focused on the Forest of Wyrms, but I couldn't let my 1st game on RPoL disappear, so I'm giving it another spark of life after I saw that players were still logging into the game. :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:43, Sat 26 Feb 2022.

We're not leaving unless you throw us out and lock the door.

That said, I do need to catch up.  But post tomorrow at the latest.

Now let's give these enemies that I hardly remember anything about what for!

YES! I was just looking at this this morning. I'm happy that you're starting it up again. I know exactly what you mean by getting burnt out on something, but I'm glad you didn't delete this game.

I'll NPC Ayden until he logs back on. He might not know this game still has a heart beat.

According to BB's update post, you splatted a spider, so I'd say you're in combat.

Okay, let's take a quick moment to figure out where we are and what we're doing.

We came to the Bloodstone Pass for two reasons.  The first was a mission that I've already completely forgotten about, but we took care of it.  So, yeah us!

The second was to find a magical rose that does something that I've forgotten the details of.  Long life?  Healing?  Just can't remember.

The rose was supposed to be in a dragon's horde, but the dragon was killed by giants and the horde plundered.

We killed the giants, but the rose was missing.  We've been told it's somewhere near the giant's fort, but we got distracted and had to come to Valls.

Valls is a town/city that had been being attacked by those same giants.  The previous mayor had died and the town was taken over by Lord Keiser and his band of mercenaries.  Bad mercenaries, not like us.

Anyway, Keiser was in league with the giants.  So we came to town and kicked his butt.  He fled back to where the giant's fort is.  We also learned that the town is cursed and its citizens are dying from some plague.

We tracked the plague back to the nearby mines, which are being used by the drow, who are also in league with Keiser.  It turns out somebody ransacked a dwarven burial ground, stole a gem, and released one of those "are you fucking kidding me?" curses.

We've just escaped the mines, where the drow are being totally uncooperative.  We have in tow a bunch of bodies, which are comprised of the friends/co-conspirators of the idiot who stole the gem.  Our plan was to take them back to town, both for a proper burial, but also to see if anyone can identify them and give us a lead on who the missing member is, whom we assume is the one that stole the jewel.

So we need to:

1) Find the jewel and return it to stop the curse, otherwise, the entire planet dies.  And since we're part of the planet, this absolutely affects us.

2) Kill Keiser

3) Find the rose.

Does anyone have any corrections or additions?

Edit: Just read the start of the last thread.  I forgot about the Ogre Magi, the sword "Midnight", and that thrice damned wizard, Alexis.  Add all that to the list.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:07, Fri 11 Mar 2022.

I was rereading the giant threads because I remembered something and I found it. The giant that Crysannia charmed mentioned the bad mojo place. I can't quote it because the thread is closed, but it's message #456 Re: 1373: The Year of Madness: Day 001-006

"Bad Mojo place is up in the mountains more." Murgul explained pointing North "This Summer was hot. Patrol of 10 scouting area and find 3 Stone Giants and capture them. Took shelter under big rock for the shade. One scout find old stone stairs going up. He go look and not come back. Then scream. Another one go look for him. He no come back and then another scream. Three go up there and they no come back. They all scream. Scout party leave with Stone Giant prisoners and nobody go up there again. Bad mojo."

Want to add that to the list? I'd like to investigate what can make Hill Giants scream.

What are we doing now?

We're waiting for someone to come out here and either over-rule the guards, or identify who these people are.

I'll be out on vacation for a week

I will be on an extended vacation from December 8 - 25. Please NPC as necessary.

Wow, nice! :)

Okay, it's been six months and it's now a new year.

What do we need to do to get this game moving again?  I know most of the players are still around because I'm in other games with them.  The rest ... well, we'll see.

What does everyone think the problem is?

As I see it, the number one thing we need to do is get the identity of the actual thief of the jewel so we can beat the crap out of him and get it back and stop the plague.  And kill a lot of drow, but that's just a perk.

I've been trying to work on that, but every time we get a couple of posts done and then we run into a dead-end with the townsfolk, who seem to be more than happy to die as long as they make things difficult for us.

Does anyone have any ideas on how we should proceed?

Or should we proceed with it?  Maybe should we head out and look for What's-His-Name and stop him from searching for the rose?  Not to mention the Ogre-mage and the sword. I have enough healing to keep us alive from the curse. If the townsfolk aren't interested in living, it's not my place to force them.  Maybe if we let 10% of them die, they'll start being a bit more cooperative.

Lastly, should I not bother and just let the game go?  I really don't want to.  I've been playing this game since 2005.

I miss this game as well. I was really hoping to see if Baldric becomes human again, or possibly a powerful undead sorcerer.

I vote we stay and stop the town from rioting so we can find the thief who stole the gem. I have a feeling it's still in town because nobody has left because of the guards not letting anyone leave.

If we find this gem, we return it and then go back into the mountains to stop ?? (I forgot also) from finding this rose. I honestly don't remember what it was supposed to do.

Are you guys trying to make me feel bad? :(

I'll get started in getting this game up and running again.

I appreciate it, but as I said above, we need to figure out what we're doing, otherwise the posts just trail off to nothing again.

I'm looking forward to the game restarting!

I also agree with Sir Tomas that we need to figure out what we're going to do.

I don't think we need to worry about the number of players returning.  Most of the long-term ones will.  Let's concentrate on just getting a narrative flowing again and then we can worry about party size.

So if, as Baldric and I believe, finding the jewel thief is the most important thread to pursue ... how are we going to do it?  Any ideas?  The townsfolk seem less than willing to cooperate despite being told they're all going to die if they don't help.  If certain death doesn't inspire them to help, I don't know what will.

I figure if we can just get enough details on the thief, we can use <insert spell here> to figure out where he is.  I'm not sure what spells our spellcasters have access to, so that will have to be part of the conversation as well.

I think that once we find out what miners are missing, we can narrow that down to the thief. I don't remember the Miner's wife's name, but she was telling the party who was who.

I don't suppose anyone has access to the spell Divination?  It might, if BB is feeling generous let us know the name of the thief or what direction he's in.

Locate Creature would be great, but have to have personally seen him.

Grrr.  Divination spells in D&D are so useless!

I got this. No spells required.

As we've been together so long, I have no problem with assuming that at least some of the people know what's currently in Kilari's spellbook.

Spellbook:
1: Charm Person, Comprehend Languages, Endure Elements, Grease, Know Protections, Mage Armor, Magic Missile, Magic Weapon, Net of Shadows, Ray of Enfeeblement, Shelgarn's Persistent Blade, Tenser's Floating Disk, True Strike, Unseen Servant
2: Alter Self, Darkvision, Continual Flame, Darkness, Detect Thoughts, Gedlee's Electric Loop, Invisibility, Knock, Rope Trick, See Invisibility, Web
3: Clairaudience/Clairvoyance, Corpse Candle, Dispel Magic, Dragon Breath, Haste,
Invisibility Sphere, Magic Circle Against Evil, Prismatic Mist, Reverse Arrows (SC)
4: Arcane Eye, Blistering Radiance (CA), Charm Monster, Mass Darkvision,
Polymorph, Wall of Fire, Wall of Sand (FRCS)
5: Break Enchantment, Dismissal, Friend to Foe (PHB2) Flight of the Dragon (D), Persistent Image, Telekineses, Teleport
6: Permanent Image, Probe Thoughts (CD/SC), Wages of Sin (BED), Analyze Dweomer, Stone to Flesh, Flesh to Stone
7: Greater Teleport, Bite of the Werebear (SC), Elemental Body (SC)

She also bought a number of scrolls, with the intent that in down-time she can copy into her spellbook, including Locate Object.

If this is the ogre-mage that stole back the sword, Locate Object should work...

Yes it should. :)

Just to make sure because I'm confused.  In your previous post you said:



So I thought Bekert was already here.

Yeah...he's one of the dead bodies...

Okay, missed that.  Explains a lot.

Going through some RTJ's and either adding to the party, or creating a second group that Sir Tomas gives orders to. Also, bringing back Tahldor as a PC as you guys really need a priest.

So, what do you guys think? I've got some good RTJ's.

We definitely need a healer.  We have rogue, wizard, and fighter covered, although it's always good to have spares.  I'd be happy with one or two good additions.

I'm unsure how we'd work with a second group, although I'm willing to try it. I assume we give them a mission, send them off to do it, and have them report back?

What do the rest of you think?

In reply to Sir Tomas (msg # 339):

Hmmm, I thought I was a low level cleric?

I’m looking at either returing Ayden or altering him and filling the healer role so I have that covered

Two clerics? Sounds like trouble in our future.

In reply to Dain Stoneshoulder (msg # 340):

Sorry, it's been so long, I'd forgotten. <sigh>  I see dwarf and I think fighter. Stereotyping exists even in fantasy games.

So we'll have two clerics, a paladin, a ranger, a fighter, a wizard and a rogue.

Ayden, if you're not happy with your current character, is there something you'd prefer?  Three clerics is not out of the question if you'd like to go that way. I was once in a party of all clerics, all with different gods.  It was ... different.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:15, Tue 24 Jan 2023.

In reply to Sir Tomas (msg # 343):

Easy to forget me, I'm rather quiet here. In some games, I post 3 times a day or more. Here I post 3 or 4 times a month at most. I don't know why, just not super confident here for some reason.

Not to mention there weren't any posts at all in this game for over 6 months.

Which is why I'm hoping to get things back on track.  But, yes, I've forgotten a lot about who the players were and what we were doing. I'm going to have to go back over a lot of threads and try to figure things out.

I'm open for whatever we want to do.

Big Boss, how many players do we have now? Four? Tomas, Dain, Baldric, and I?

So paladin, cleric, rogue, and wizard?

We're in town, so anyone could join us, of any stripe. Perry could send reinforcements - and could recall others. So we're at a good place to mix things up if needed / wanted.

I’ll think in it….as there are two clerics and a paladin we have lots of healers…maybe go support and go a bard, or back up caster with sorcerer. Or stick with ranger

I'd say a backup Priest for Dain and a backup Wizard for Kilari. Keep Tahldor in town in case one of you gets killed. I read BB's post in the Wanted Players section and it says starting Level is 5, but will level quickly. I think that is good, as it will give the player something to work for.

Dain is a Cleric, but I think it would be good for you guys to have a back up cleric, so I like Baldric's idea of a back up cleric and wizard type character.

So far, I have several players that will create any character that we need, plus a few original ideas that might be interesting:

Dragonfire-Adept
Priest-Monk...reminds me of Roenthelm's character in the "Forest" game.
Ragechemist/Vivisectionist from the Pathfinder books. 'Jekyll and Hyde' or 'Banner and The Hulk.' type character.

What do you guys think?

Ragechemist/Vivisectionist? I'm not all that familiar with Pathfinder, so I have no clue what these classes do. But, it does sound interesting.

Dragonfire-Adept? Is that a specialized class? Cleric? Wizard?

Priest Monk sounds interesting and could definitely help out Dain, especially if we need to split up the party.

We also have other players that haven't come up with an idea, but willing to fill up the spot? I vote for a Warmage like Mattingly.

I’m gonna stick with Ayden - a ranged fighter may be pretty good since the healer is covered.

As for the new ones, either would work

Yeah, I have to admit I'm not familiar with any of them, except as far as Roen seems plenty capable and the dragonfire adept seems to be a distant cousin to Tomas.

Warmages are pretty damn effective.  Too effective at this level in my opinion.  That's why a switched out Mattingly for Tomas.  When you have someone capable of hitting the monsters for insane amounts of damage every round, it encourages the DM to send in tougher and tougher monsters.

As always, my only requirement of any new character is that they are willing to work with the team.

Priest-monk is always fun.

I don't know anything about dragonfire or ragechemist. Just by the name "vivisectionist" I tend to think that would not be a good-aligned character, and that it could cause some friction in the party, so am not sure that is the best idea.

Really, I'm more concerned with a good player.

The Priest-Monk sounds good and might understand Baldric's condition and not kill him, which is good. The Vivisectionist sounds interesting, but not for this game. That sounds like something for the Forest of Wyrms game where this type of character could have a lab really close by and that wouldn't work for this game, since we'll be traveling to different locations. I still vote for Warmage, though.

I have well over a dozen RTJ's and missed this one:

Sun Elven Beguiler (Possible relative to Kilari?)

Or are you guys wanting another Warmage?

So, is the Priest-Monk in?

If you guys want a Warmage, I have 3 RTJ's who are willing to fill that role for you to choose from.

The priest-monk sounds good.

I'm still leery of another warmage, but if that's what the others would like, I won't object.

I think we need to think of what we have.  if we need magical power, the warmage could work....but a beguiler and the priest-monk may work well

It's not just one or the other.  BB has several people that want in.

If we're going for sheer damage potential, the warmage and the priest-monk have that covered.

The beguiler does enchantment and illusion, so that would be more of a backup for Kilari.

Like most of you, I really have to wonder how a vivisectionist would fit in with a mercenary troop.

BB, how many folks are you thinking of?  You'd talked about either adding them directly to the team or setting up a secondary team.  Do you have a preference on which way you want to go?

I'm more concerned about the quality of the applicant (writing, being able to post, etc.) than I am about the character class, assuming non-evil of course.

Yeah, non-evil, but I'm sure BB already stated that. Beguiler sounds OK, but I liked the raw power of the Warmage and with us running into giants in the mountains, I don't want the fights taking forever like in the Forest game where Amara has to concentrate so we can kill those Trolls. Not like me playing Vernon is doing anything but spying, but if I was playing Nolan, those fights would have been over by now with him throwing Fireball after Fireball.