Here's your place to be social and talk about whatever you like. The only rule is to be respectful of each other :)

As a general character creation question, will we need to worry about lodging/food while not adventuring?

Hello everyone!

@GM: I have an alternate character sheet template for Pathfinder, how set are you on having us use yours? (No worries if you want everyone to use the same one, I know it makes them easier to look through)

@Hisashi: no need to worry about such things. I'm not interested in the minor logistical details, since they don't add all that much to the larger story :)

@Oda: I just copied that format from another game I play in to be honest. I'm also happy if folks want to make a sheet on www.myth-weavers.com and just paste a link to their sheet. If you have another sheet template, as long as it isn't something wack, I'll probably be fine with it.

Hello!

I am looking forward to play in this game.
It would be cool if the three party would be working on something big together at the end. :)

Hi there!

Glad that you all seem as excited as I am.

While the 3 parties are separate at this time, the story lines I have cooked up for each are definitely linked in some fashion or another. I do plan to have some interaction between the parties at some point in the future, but that will be up to you guys just as much, if not more, than me :)

Hi everyone.  I will likely only be able to access this game during the day from my phone since this site is blocked by my work.  Figures...

But, I did at one point find an android app to send me reminders when there were updates to any messages in this group, so I just need to re-find that one and will be good to go.

So, I have been playing Pathfinder for a while, including GMing a few games of my own, but I am a relative amateur with regards to RPOL.  Just an FYI.

What about Hero Lab output?

Is that ok to link you too as well?

I'm honestly not familiar with it, but sure shoot me a link to it and I'm sure it will be fine :)

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 6):

Yeah, having the different groups on different missions that intersect seems cool.

Group 1 looks like it's mostly casters, group 2 is mostly martials, and group 3 is mixed, so it makes sense that the story lines for each would focus on different stuff.

The DM also split by our interests; politics-mystery-combat, so that will likely be a larger difference in the storylines.

Definitely makes sense that all the casters are in the politics group, but I'm a little surprised that all the martials wound up in the mystery group and the mixed group is the combat group. It's kinda an interesting study on game demographics.

Magical Mystery Monks! (TM)

It's like the Oriental version of Scooby Doo

You'd be surprised how many mysteries you can solve with proper applications of ass kicking.

In case of politics, based on my experience from rpg paranoia, bootlicking was the most important skill. I think we will be fine.

Actually, each party was made up of more than a single priority. The first group had both political intrigue and mystery & mysticism as their top 2 priorities. All of them had combat ranked last, so I put them together and their story lines will focus less on combat and more on matters of a political and/or esoteric nature.

The second group was a mixture of folks that rated mystery and combat among their first 2 priorities, with all of those PCs rating politics last. I expect that this group will actually see more combat than the other 2. Story lines will involve investigating matters of an esoteric nature, with plenty of combat and random encounters to keep the martial folks happy.

The third group is a mixture of all 3 aspects, and while combat will play a bigger role in their story lines than those of the first group, the encounters won't be as random, and instead will be more story driven and mixed in with both the political aspects and mystery-solving.

Asides from the playstyle priorities, I also tried to base the parties on the character concepts and how each respective backstory could work with those of other characters in the group.

I hope it will all work out well in the end :)

Multiple parties interacting this way is a really cool idea, and each one having a different narrative focus is pretty cool too.

Yeah, i'm really eager to see how each group's story will progress and possibly intersect!

Group 3 so far looks like a good mix!

What's the framework of the game going to be like? Are we part of an organization? Do we have an over arching mission? Or is it more of a 'you meet in a tavern, have fun' sort of gig?

That's basically what each party is tasked with figuring out this week before we get things rolling next Monday. I didn't have a specific framework in mind for that, and I figured it would be a good exercise in collaborative storytelling--and more fun for you guys--to talk about how each party became a "party" instead of me just making that decision for everyone :)

As far as an overarching mission, I wouldn't say that there is one per say. I have an overarching storyline in mind already, which will link the plots that each group will be pursuing respectively. I've already got something for each party to pursue once we get rolling as well. That being said, I do expect that the game will also have a bit of a "sandbox" feel to it, where your characters will have opportunities to explore the city/empire/continent, or engage in "side quests" for payment, pursue personal goals and other goodies.

Hey guys,

Just wanted to let y'all know that I'm moving this Wednesday. I'll be driving from Virginia to Texas, so my access to the interweb will be spotty at best. I'll do my best to keep up with things and post from my phone when I can, but just wanted to give y'all a heads up that things will be a bit slower for this week because of my move.

Welcome to Texas, y'all.  Hopefully the move into the warm and sunny Southlands is going without excess difficulty.

Hey guys. Talked to the GM and he won't have internet until Saturday. If we can, we should try and keep our threads moving amongst ourselves so we don't lose momentum.

Travel threads (group 2) are the perfect time to wax poetic about that scene where you had to had to pretend to be an orc to sneak into an enemy's stronghold... or aomething.  :)

I just now realized that a post I thought I'd made didn't actually post, and I've been too busy chasing Pokemon to realize it. That's what I get for using campus internet. I'll try to get something up in a bit.

Hey folks,

Sorry about the delays. Got my internet hooked up at my new place, so I'll be updating threads today and getting back into the swing of things. Thanks for your patience guys :)

Glad to hear it!
Hope you're settled in well and that you will like your new place!

Congrats, DM!  Hopefully you haven't yet melted in the warm TX summer.  The sultry warmth of the South can be a presence all its own, but it is a big beautiful state. :)

Gz! It's always exciting to move.

GM, I'm okay if you want to roll reactionary checks on my behalf. That way there isn't a 3 day lag between calling for a check and moving on.

Thanks for the positive vibes y'all :) (see what I did there?)

Anyway, I've updated all threads. If I missed anything, please do PM me. I had some unanticipated things come up over the weekend, but I'm hoping to pick up the slack and get us all back into a good pace going forward. If anyone has any questions or concerns, feel free to PM with those as well.

Hey hey, everyone.  My character's almost ready.  Looking forward to playing with you all.

Welcome to the game!

Hello!

How's everybody doing?

Good morning!  Can't complain and all that.  Got my ancient Honda 'cycle running again.  It's old and rusty, underpowered and a mite too small for me, but dang it's fun to ride!  It makes the commute to work more than a little bearable. :)

Hopefully everybody else has a bit of brightness in their lives, as well.

~Cheers~!

Doing alright. Very busy.

So, hmmm.  Just checking in.  Hopefully our dread and mighty Dungeon Master and everyone else are doing well.

No activity over here either, and the GM hasn't logged in for over a week. He did just move though, so hopefully it's just a delay.

Things are pretty busy for me right now, so I don't mind that most of my games seem to be slowing down lately.

Hey guys,

Sorry for vanishing. Kinda checked out mentally last week, but I'm feeling better and will be updating threads shortly :)

Oh! Hope it's nothing too bad...
I know i don't know you that much, but if you ever need to talk, i'm a good listener!

Glad to know you are doing better!

Thanks man, I appreciate that!

Nothing serious fortunately :)

I have updated all threads. If I missed anything, feel free to poke me via PM.

Just FYI, I started my new job this week. I'm on my first week of training, so I'm likely gonna have limited availability for the next few weeks. That is to say, I will be mostly stick to posting in the evenings once I get home. Right now I'm posting from my phone, but won't be available until later this afternoon.

Thanks!

Congrats on the new gig, DM!  That's fine news!

Beyond, shall I post or wait for Ran's results?

Thank you!

I posted results. Got home late last night, but you are good to go and post.

Apologies, all.  Am on the road and in the back country until this evening.  Back tonight.

Hey folks,

I'm gonna try to update threads later tonight if rpol doesn't crash on me again. It's been very laggy and crashing a lot over the past few days, so I'm guessing they are having some server issues. I was in the middle of typing responses on two different occasions, and I ended up losing my posts :(

Alas, I've learned from that mistake and I'm typing my responses down in notepad first going forward!

Happy new year!

Happy new year everyone!

I've been poking Roarke's player to post, but from our conversation, I think we've lot him, so I'll continue on without waiting on him any longer. I'll leave it to the GM to determine how to write him out of the story.

In reply to Haji (msg # 50):

That's too bad.

@GM: Do you want anymore IC posts before we move on?

Yeah, Happy New Year and holidays everyone.

Still here.  Haji poked me a few days ago and I kept forgetting to log back in.

Hey hey just checking in on everyone!

Still here, myself, and eager to get going, but GM hasn't checked in on us in a couple of weeks.  Hopefully things're alright. :(

He may be a bit longer. I can't get  into details, but RL has occupied most of his attention at the time. I can't say when he'll next have time.

Alright, good to know. How about everyone else? We all still alive? Where's everyone at?

Our group is about to arrive at our destination after a fair amount of trouble on the road.

Yeah, we doin good, everyone alive.

We saw a good play, fought ninjas, survived and had a good meal.

T'was a pretty good day.

I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed, this game is a hoot, but progressively longer GM posts followed by a 3 week stretch without even a log-on is usually the kiss of death for online games.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:21, Mon 30 Jan 2017.

Would have been fun, all, but we're a month on sans official updates. :(

Hopefully DM is well and making progress with whatever's called him.  See you folks around RPoL.

Still about, having returned to RPoL.  Hopefully y'all are well.

I'm good. The GM's been away from RPOL for a while too, I know. Glad to see you're still around tho!

I'll admit, I rather miss this game and the group of PCs.  It seemed like there was very good chemistry in the characters.  That's unusual in RPoL games.

It's my hope that, someday, we'll see TheJagster return to take up the mantle, but it's been long enough I'm not encouraged that's going to happen.  If we can locate a gamemaster, would any of you be interested in continuing in another game?

You know it's funny, but I basically made this character for my first playthrough of Pathfinder: Kingmaker. I wouldn't be opposed, but finding a replacement GM is usually even harder than finding players to stick around.

I wouldn't mind, myself.