Sir, I saw Prince live. I saw Billy Idol, Metallica and a few others. Musically, none of them could touch Prince musically. Phenomenal musician and showman.

and I updated my sheet, really just the HP roll, which worked out nicely. but necessary :)

Prince was awesome, I mean Purple Rain come on.

I'm sorry to be leaving as well, but the amount of Rpol I enjoy has been weighing on my mind a fair bit lately.  There is an opportunity cost to everything and I've been closing my eyes and ignoring other things I could/should be doing that are more time bound due to physical ability.

I need to do those things now whilst I still can, there will be plenty of time for more Rpol in 10, 15 or even 20 years time.

Thanks so much to you all for being a part of my enjoyable online gaming experience, I hope to bump into you all in the future.  Graeme

The little gal lead singer of the Cranberries another talent lost. She reminded me of an elf.

Nice epilogue, Uthecar. Feel free to lurk if you've the inclination.

In reply to The Seer (msg # 8):

Need 545 xp +/- to level. ;-) Oh well!

You'll get that easy next go around.

In reply to The Seer (msg # 10):

I figured that.

Gives you something to look forward to! LOL.

In reply to The Seer (msg # 12):

Yup! ;-) We get a new player?

I am working on it. Hopefully the guy who played Zan picks up the new character.

In reply to The Seer (msg # 14):

Zan coming back? good!

Zan's dead. But I reached out to the player this morning to gauge his willingness to continue playing. We'll see.

In reply to The Seer (msg # 16):

Unscheduled death, I hope he's ready to move on again! We need you Zan.

Wow! Bruno's ready to get back at it. Let's do this!

I'll be in out all day, so if you don't hear from me, I'll touch base tonight to push things along. If I haven't mentioned, everyone is healed up via the potions and Nimea's healing.

Uthecar, I'm answering the question you asked in the IC thread in response to my earlier OOC post, which I probably should've put here to begin with... ;)

I'm 3rd lvl Fighter / 4th lvl Cleric (I just made 4th with these xp).

When The Seer returns he might just correct everything I've said about this, because I'm just guessing about everyone's levels and am bad with math and numbers generally -- I presumed that if I was 3/3 that means everyone else is 6th because I was splitting xp gained between both classes until recent days when I decided with The Seer's grace to focus on Cleric.

Still, your level isn't the issue. If I'm correct in the assumption that I made when writing what I wrote, The Seer knew that you were 4th and presumed that each of us were actually at whatever level we're supposed to be.

Zan has noted in the fairly recent past that he had failed to level his character and he's been in the game as long as me, so if he is supposed to be 4th or 6th, but is actually playing as a 2nd or 4th level character things are going to be off.

And THAT's my point. The Seer has warned us in the past that it's our responsibility to take care of this stuff, so if we don't the resulting situation is on us. (Having said this, please note that I understand we get busy in RL and it distracts us sometimes until too late to manage things here, so I'm honestly not trying to beat anyone up here, just trying to point out that things might be differently dire than they seem.)

Like The Seer says in the title of the current IC thread: we're learning things! ;)

In reply to Bruno Rhunthane (msg # 19):

That's cool. I started a little later than you guys too, maybe a level behind. Seer has his reasons for everything, I'll be 5th with 500 or so xp so no big deal. I'm just happy to be here, great game!

Let me say this: I started Ulrich at 4th level because that was appropriate. He missed the entirety of Quesqueton, and I couldn't in good conscience start him at first or second level. I could have started him at third, but I chose not to because he's specialist and at 4th level he gets a warhorse.

Having explained myself, I will add: I've found as a player that taking care of my own business is enough work without worrying about every one else. As DM that's my job. Trust me when I say: I look at your character sheets frequently and when I see something that needs correcting, I PM you. None of you have the same amount of Experience points. It's impossible for even longstanding characters to have the same amount of XP. Class is the biggest reason - get a hold of the PHB and scroll through the various classes - this ain't 3.5, if you'll forgive the slang.

Finally: The recommended levels as per the author of this module indicate 3rd-5th level. So all of you are peers. And I think all of you are at 4th level or above, except where Bruno notes that he's got seven total levels as of right now and that's because he's multi-class - and he's chosen to forego advancement in fighter to focus on Cleric.

All I ask is take care of your own character and don't worry about anything else. You have enough to worry about with all these undead critters trying to kill you.

Peace.

Question for everyone. I have an old PDF of the PHB that has no bookmarks or OCR. Does anyone know where to find THAC0 tables? I looked in the class description and combat and I didn't see it anywhere.

Question on the augury. This is a magic ability that will provide shortterm answers to questions we may have about whether to go forward? So we could ask it things like: What is the most effective way to harm whatever is inside this barrow? What is the way to destroy the undead inside this barrow without entering it? Etc.?

In reply to Gildan Stalker (msg # 22):

Page 74-76 in the Dungeon Master's guide gives you all you need to know about combat stats. It's broken down by class. It is a bit unwieldy, fwiw. For whatever reason, I can't copy and paste the tables directly from my PDF. I'll try to scan and email my Dungeon Master's Screen and see how that works.

Ah, that would explain why I can't find it in the PHB. Luckily, I have the DMG as well. Thanks.

In reply to Gildan Stalker (msg # 23):

Augury is a 2nd level Cleric spell and, yes, it works as you describe.

The caster asks about an a question and there is a 70% +1/level of an 'accurate', response indicating whether the action asked about will be benefential or harmful in the following 3 Turns.

Ah, so we can only ask yes/no questions?

Basically. From the spell description:

For example, assume that a party is considering the destruction of a weird seal which closes a portal. Augury is used to find if weal or woe will be the ultimate result
to the party.

So, we're going to have to finess it a bit. Something along the lines of...

"If we reenter the barrow in which our friends were slain would the creatures we fought before be more strong or less strong", or something like that. See, this is why I'm asking for help. ;) It's not quite a wish spell, but a poorly worded and/or ill-considered question isn't really going to be very helpful.

I'd like to help you with this one, but I've never been good at Augury.