Yeah, just join in 'further down the road'.

Is this 'The Twilight Tomb: The Rains Fell On Furthinghome' what you mean?   I couldn't find anything that said further down the road.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:13, Sat 08 Mar 2008.

Yeah, that's the thread. Your group is hundred-odd feet down the road from Coby, Jorn and Slove. You're all travelling towards the Yuirwood.

Okie dokie, I'll do my best, then.  :p

Btw, I saw the cost of a heavy horse and will not pay 200 gp for a mount. Gurgun still buys a large working horse, but something in between a light and heavy horse. I've deducted 120 gp for the mount and simple riding gear (saddle, etc).

Oh, that's right!  Remind me tonight or something to look that stuff over.

Gurgun, if you'd like the heavy horse instead of what you got, just let me know.  Perhaps DM BCM will let me buy one for you using DM XPs I've earned.  I don't remember off the top of my head how much gold Authiel has.  :p

EDIT: BCM, may I get all three of us a horse, saddle, and saddlebags using DM XP?  Three heavy horses (not that Authiel needs one, per se, but it kinda makes sense they'd all have similar horses from wherever they got them), three military saddles (+2 to ride checks), and three saddlebags would run 672 gp or 3360 DM XP.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:55, Sat 08 Mar 2008.

Sweet!

Coby's player has chosen to retire due to RL work time problems, not because of his argument with Slove. Goodbye Coby.

You don't need to make checks again. I'm using the ones I asked for earlier.

Ah, ok.

No map this time. Not for a random encounter. :)

There's no real need to follow the initiative order, as the NPCs will all act last. Jorn's player is unwell, so I'll be NPCing him too.

I assume you all bought ordinary horses. If for some reason you have a warhorse, then it doesn't get startled.

And how did you know they were going to be gnolls, hmm? Large furry barking dog-like creatures could have been, umm, werewolves, or, uh, some obscure monster race.

Do I need to make any kind of check for dismounting?  It's highly unlikely Authiel could keep either horse calm, let alone both.  And if one gets spooked the other would have no choice but to go with that one as I sort of tied them together after a fashion.

You can mount or dismount as a move action, with no check. If you make a DC 20 Ride check, you can do it as a free action, and failure just has you do it with a move action.

Actions I'm not so good at...If I dismount as a move action, I would still have a standard action during which I could cast a spell, if I so choose?  (So long as the casting time was a standard action, of course.)

Yep, that's right.

Gurgun clearly stated he was guessing ;-)

And I always thought werewolves, errr, howled... :-)

Sorry.  Looks like this was a game I missed with my notice that I'd be out last week.  Hopefully BadCatMan saw it in the Lounge.  I'm back now, but still having problems.  I'll be doing my best to keep up.

Those poor clumsy gnolls. :(

Welcome back. I did see the message and was about to NPC you.

*giggles*

Too bad we can't cast unlimited MM each and every day.  :p

I should probably be thankful you're not a Warlock or something.

*giggles*  How funny!  I was just going to say that a warmage is almost as good as a warlock!  :p

Last night, I was busily RoAing when our power blacked out, just for a moment. Then it came back on, my computer restarted, and we noticed an odd smell and a cloud of smoke in the room.

Cue a lot of frantic searching and unplugging and switching off of electrical equipment, fearing a fire somewhere.

Eventually we tracked down the source - the power supply of my computer, industriously pumping out fumes. Something must have shorted or whatever during the blackout.

Just in time for the Easter break too*. :(

So my computer and internet access will be limited for a time until we get this fixed. I have this unfamiliar other computer to work on, but all my notes and resources were on the now-broken one. And I have to share this one with family.

After Easter, I'll get back to work and my office computer so my access will improve then, but I won't be fully operational until my home computer is fixed.

Until then, continue to shoot retreating gnolls in the back like the brave heroes you are. :p

* Additionally, our Foxtel account expired (we only get free intro offers over summer; lots of NatGeo documentaries). We'd hoped all the shows we taped could still be watched over Easter, but they're now inaccessible.

Long weekend at home. No computer and no tv make BadCatMan a very dull boy...

Okay, the computer now has a new power supply and I'm back to relatively normal operation.

That battle was almost over before it started, but there you go.

A new PC will be coming in soon, of the Cleric variety.