No such rod was ever printed.

Hi, V. Glad to see you back. How are you feeling now?

Yeah it is probably overpowered.

In reply to Eldryn Duskryn (msg # 208):

Steady but busy. I'm looking to round up CC here, and remove whomever needs to be. I told Maynitra, as I talk to her as a user, that July 4th was going to be the last day I expected to get in the way of things until Thanksgiving. Both are more American holidays. The former I know is, the latter is a matter of interpretation. Anyway, I've been doing work on the underside here, but I really would like people to consider their cohort, and if you don't have your main sheet done, I'm afraid I'll have to move on.

I'll put the relevant (above) in the proper thread, but suffice to say RL is looking up, but it's...seriously, it's like a metaphorical siege of epic proportion. The wolves are back at the door and I'm regaining ground. Soon the hounds will be out and hunting. That is to say, literally, I'm feeling more secure than I did before I was homeless.

I am also going to need to freeze this game when I clean house so that I can oversee everything. NPCs and PCs too.

I have epic procrastination, as I couldn't come up with a character concept for this level. I came up with one a couple of nights ago, and yesterday I put together the class build. Now I just have to fill the sheet. I will have that done in the next day or two. But there is no need to wait on me to finish if you want to get started.

Also, very glad that you are doing a bit better. Keep your chin up.

I will finish my sheet as well during the next weekend and cohort as well.

Well, have like 60K equipment, and 25K for the general equipment fund left to spend and Vyth is done.

Ran out a bit of time in finishing my cohort but everything else is complete. The cohort is nearly done (just need to run the math gear-wise). Some commanded undead creatures I may add also when I can as Hathra's main big power as minionmancer comes from his captured/commanded powerful undead.

Ok, completed everything now with the cohort. Followers I could tinker with more precision wise but leave it as it is as it needs approval by GM anyways (for list of commanded undead anyways).

You have more than 24 hours from now to post freely. In approximately 32 hours, I will be closing every thread I am reviewing, and then after that, or duirng, I will be making a new thread to discuss character creation topics. I will be making them all in view of all players, so that other players can help me meditate on all our behalf. Each character will have a thread, named for them, but any player can post there, as long as they remain focused on the eponymous thread.

I expect we'll be starting the game this month, at the latest end of July.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:46, Thu 06 July 2023.

I just saw this last message, and I won't have time to complete my character before threads get locked. Sorry. I am afraid then that I will have to step out of the game, much as I would like to play in it. I haven't had much time because my mother in law is in hospital, and my partner and I have been spending all of our free time there with her. She will likely be in hospital for at least the next few days.

Sad see you fall off Eldryn, but good luck in IRL with the mother in law and things working out for the better.

Sorry to see you go, Eldryn

In reply to Eldryn Duskryn (msg # 217):

Very sorry to hear about your mother, but it makes perfect sense to spend your time with her. Good luck and take care!

By the way, I'm home now as well, so ready to go!

In reply to Eldryn Duskryn (msg # 217):

You're not removed from the game, nor am I going to punish you with benefits accrued in game, by the group, during your RL struggles. Just because I'm moving on doesn't mean you've missed the one and only chance to play. I am disappointed as this statistic, but most likely we will lose players by them not enjoying the game in progress. I hope to beat the odds. Everyone here has gotten waaaay past the immediate fix stage.

In any case,  I welcome you to check in and report when you have a better time IRL. I'm not locking the sheets permanently; just until I can review what's there and copy it.

So hold in there. Your RL struggles are more important than this game. You don't have to give up this game though. Just because you made the right choice, to focus on your family, doesn't mean this game isn't going to be a choice later.

Best wishes for you and your family.

Thanks, everyone. My mother in law was in hospital a couple of weeks ago, and they released her too early. She developed what turned out to be a bladder infection and started getting confused and slurring her words, so we took her back just two days later. Luckily we got to her before she became delirious, which from her late husband's experience would be the next step.

V, I just responded to your PM. To let everyone know, V has said I don't have to leave the game over this, so I will continue to build my character as and when I have time. Then once I am done, I will join in the game.

Glad to have you stay. :)

I'm going over everyone's sheets this week and next. July 4th, I overdid myself on sleep deprivation. I am suffering from a sleep deficit, and so need to sleep more, more often, until that's caught up. So I'm behind the curve I set.

I'll open character threads probably within four days.

So had an idea, but needed to clarify something. A portal to a demiplane is usually fixed, but if you set it up in your stronghold and the stronghold itself has movement abilities does the portal stay in the first place set up or does it go with the stronghold?

In reply to Vythisk (msg # 224):

It depends on how the portal is created, and what the stronghold does to be mobile. Cubic gates are mobile and random. I can't answer this without looking into the exact instance.

Some will move with the location, others are static, even if the location moves. A Gate Spell on a sailing ship will hover over the water where the ship vacated. A key to the planes, IIRC, can link two areas specifically. That portal, while mobile is a discrete location; a "doorway" is the same doorway even if not in the same city. While still others, like a portal to worlds, the "cursed" item, will orient to a new world based on where it is in the "home" world.

 I'll fill in maps where there are none, and we'll work to make sure what maps I pick capture locations the best they can. We sort of...need maps, to be battlemap versions. So if empty white space with lines for walls is what players of certain location prefer, that'll be what we use. I'd like to try to use imagery that while not 100% accurate are still battlemap friendly and have traits like stairs, and objects that can be interacted with. I can much easier add .pngs too. Stairs to connect maps. Candles, a brazier, grave stones. I don't want to start from scratch though. If I have to do that, I'll probably do it once or twice, and good or ill that'll be the canon. Most likely if I need to from scratch we'll have to use bland white maps, or texture patterns, and then just lines for walls.

In reply to Narrator V (msg # 226):

I'm also happy to help with maps, when I have a chance. (They'll be similar to those I've put up for my locations, for good and/or ill.) Just PM me with an idea of what you'd like, and we can figure out the details (again, as I have time).

We can triage that as I sort through all sheets, and then extraneous sheets and then sites.

I wish someone had managed to make a stronghold builder tool of some sort. That book is really not well designed.

In reply to Vythisk (msg # 229):

Yeah, it has lots of complex math involved.

And not well organized.