Zyphen, he has offered 100gp each for scouting plus the possibility of bounties.  Not sure if you saw that.

I did not, thank you.  My message is edited.

Basically, it's 1 day per spell.  What I decided was to put 4 spells on the book, since I was waiting 4 days for the horse.

-K

You might as well scribe them all.  Those bandits aren't going anywhere.

DM Fletch,

For my ROA birthday gift, I would like to get some items enchanted while we were in town, if that's OK with you.  I would like:

+1 enchant to my bow (2,000 gp--it is currently masterwork)
turn my mithril chain shirt into a Mithralmist Shirt (Magic Item Compendium -- +1 Mithral shirt, seven times per day, activate as a swift action to fill your space with silver mist.  The mist grants you concealment but does not interfere with your vision.  Lasts 1 minute, doesn't move.) -- 2,300 gp (3,400 gp book, minus the 1,100 gp for the mithral chain shirt which I already have).

Total cost:  4,300 gp.

I also wanted to buy and sell a few other things before we left town, if that is ok with you:

- Sell 12 +1 arrows (included in below amount of money)
- Buy a sling (no cost) and sling bullets (pouch of 10, 1 sp)
- Masterwork Manacles - 50 gp
- Darkwood Buckler 215 gp

Grand Total:  4,565 gp, 1 sp
Have with birthday gift:  4,629
Remaining money:  63 gp, 9 sp!

Is all of that ok?  If so I will make the changes.  (Steel seems to be gone again for now, so I think it would be ok with him if I got your approval.)

Dear Santa Claus- er, DM Fletch
I've been very, very good all year.  Why, last year I even helped destroy a necromantic tome of evil, and in other games rooted out a necromancer, sought a dragonmark, fought a dragon, and recovered a huge dragonshard.  So, in light of this, and RPOL's birthday, may I please have a pair of gloves of dexterity +2?  Also, in my base game, I recently acquired a level of rogue.  Does that translate to here, or do I use the character sheet I already have here?

Your very, very, very good player,
M. Marmalade

I had actually been thinking about how to implement the RoA birthday gift given that you have the same characters in different games.  I was tempted to exclude it, but that seems rather mean-spirited, so go ahead.*  Please make sure that you mark any new gear purchased on your character sheet with 'RoA Birthday Gift' or something similar, just so I know if I need to check stuff later.

Update tomorrow morning.  Sleep now.

*But only if you've been very, very, very good :P

Well, actually, I don't mind having them excluded, but given that Steel seems to have fallen into the crack of the real life fissure again, you are now on the verge becoming our 'defacto DM'.

I'm trying to figure out what to do with my last year's gift.  I have yet to throughly price out the custom Harper Token, and I now think it's *way* underpriced.  I'm considering either modifying it somehow to at least bring it closer to 2000 mark, or, roll this year's 'gift money' into it so it's more valuable.

I'm still sort of waiting for Steel to drop by, since he's our official DM for the region, but it might be a wishful thinking...

-K

It appears that real life may have caught up with DM Darkchylde as well.  Please take it as read that you have a doughty dwarven cleric trailing along with you.  He's just very quiet.

Cuaglar, I didn't respond to your request about the level of rogue.  Since the games are separate you can't rely on experience there to help you here.  Don't worry though, since you should soon have plenty to level up.

That's what I thought.  I only tipped the scales because of bi-monthly experience thingamawhatsit.

Cuaglar,

They are passing PMs back and forth.  Which could potentially mean Zyphen is like, fighting or somehow getting into trouble or something :P

-K

Oooh...  Sometimes I'm so slow.  I don't understand why.  I got exceptional scores on my GED...

I've asked for Initiatives for this fight, but I favour a system in which actions happen in the order they are posted.  It is a disadvantage to those with high Dex or Improved Initiative etc., but it solves the difficulty of speculative posts e.g. If A happens then I do X, if B happens then I do Y.  What do you think?

What we used to do in Savage frontier is that the DM would take the average of our initiative rolls, and if it was higher than the initiative of our enemies, then we went first, with our actions being judged acccording to whoever posted first.  I think.  It encourages people to take a part in it, as they are typically left behind if they do not post often.

Crap, I haven't fixed my spells for the day yet.  In fact, I haven't changed my sheet to reflect any change (Spells and horsie).  Shall I stick to what I had from before?  Or will you let me adjust my sheet? :x

As for initiative, that's OK with me, although it'll screw me and everyone else, since I have the highest initiative, and the first thing I'll do is to Haste everyone and whoever post ahead of me will end up missing that effect...

-K

Since I haven't looked at your sheet recently, it's safe to say you can change spells etc. and I'll look the other way :P

Your example illustrates the point nicely, Kanir.  You can't be sure everyone will benefit from Haste unless you post early, but the 'No Initiative' method means that nobody has to go back and edit their post because the +1 from Haste turns a miss into a hit.

I'm not too fussed either way, I'm just seeking feedback at this point.

Also, is Dovain within 35' of me?

-K

Dovain?  Is that somebody's familiar or mount?  I don't recognise the name.

Sorry, Zyphen.  I'm in another game with him :P  Confused with different game :P

-K

Man, I messed up big time.  I was supposed to change my spells all around, and have a preparation the day before for the Insightful Divination.  I forgot to do all those...

-K

You have very good spell descriptions by the way, Kanir!  Do you make up those words or do you have some sort of tool that does it?

It sounds Elvish.  Are you Elvish?  I don't like elves.

Cookie for anyone who knows who doesn't like elves in Terry Pratchett.

I did a rather smashing description for a minor image spell the other day.  I think it spooked off the DM, who deleted the threads and scarpered.

I almost hate to ask what the image was of....

For the incantations, I invoke mighty god called Google, and asks for 'incantation generator' or something along that line :P

Then I check spell components.  Varbal, somatic, material, etcs.  In Haste's case, licorice root is indeed its material component (And as everyone should know by now, grease has piece of bacon as material component...)

I suppose I'm more visual guy.  I suck at trying to come up with good developed character background :P

-K

That's a cool trick!  I tried to Google it and came up empty.  Do you have a link?