Everybody come by and introduce yourselves. So far we have 3 fighters and a cleric, so I'm going to put a note in the RTJ that we're full up on fighters.

Hello, I will be playing Argon one of the mentioned fighters. He has come over from another game that went under, so thanks to our host for getting this up and running. Cheers.

Cymon.

Glad to have you, Argon. If we keep getting fighters knocking on our door, I may have to GMPC Raven so we have a thief. :-)

Hi, I'll be playing Leleanne, a cleric.

In terms of character creation, do you have a specific sheet you want us to use? Also, are we level 1?

Also (sorry), can we roll 6 scores for abilities and distribute them where we want, or have some kind of point buy system?

Ready to shoot N loot, Or since we are suing swords, Gut N Grab. :)

I hope to be putting up the character sheet tomorrow. I'll also post a link here to the rules for character creation but you can also find them in the rtj and the character creation thread.

Question for you guys:

I figure that party balance is far more important in the early editions than it is in 5th edition where there are so many half-casters. So I hesitate to bring in too many players who want to play one particular role. We began with two fighters right off the bat, and we have a cleric. But the next two people knocking on the door want to play a dwarf fighter and an elf fighter/magic-user. I'm especially torn because I like the dwarf's backstory a lot.

Since you're the ones who will have to do the dying if this goes sideways, I'll present you with an option. This is advisory, because I'm still the Dungeon Master, baby. :-)

The option is to take both fighters, and anyone else who comes in before the deadline (see below) and use the retainer rules to fill any glaring gaps, which at this point would just be a thief. The advantage is lots of combat power, the disadvantage is retainers, which I'm not a fan of. But retainers are old school, soooo...

The deadline: I would like to launch the game a week from Monday, on the 9th. I would turn off the new players sign on Wednesday or when we get to 6 players. As long as I put up the character sheets today or tomorrow, is there anyone who sees a problem being ready on the 9th?

 I am good with whatever works,GM.

BTW, I just updated the setting lore.

 I might be tempted to make a new character that is a n MU. The problem with that, at low levels, they are rather boring, due to limited spells,and weakness in Melee. if there where more meat plot wise for a beginning Sorcerer, that would be different.

That shouldn't be necessary, Veskard. Both of the new players have said they will change classes.

ok

BTW, I'm going to pull the trigger on this in the late evening on Monday, so everyone has until then to provide input. Tomorrow or Monday I'll have the character creation guidelines in the character creation thread. I think we'll start everyone at level 2.

My character has not two coppers two rub together. Former GM rolled crap on the money roll. Poor guy couldn't even afford a shield. How screwed is he?

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 9):

No I'm good for Monday.

I'm good too. Whatever works for everyone else.

Hey, guys -- I'm the dwarf fighter our GM mentioned. I'd like to play him, but I'm happy to turn in a sneaky human or halfling thief if that helps balance out the party.

Looking forward to the old school stuff either way.

I hope we can get started tonight.

Veskard, I was talking about Monday the 9th. We need some time to get the other characters finished.

Gillifian, if you could make a rogue that would be great. We'll then have two fighters, a cleric, a rogue and two elf F/M-U's.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 21):

Are we going to start at 2nd level ? I'll update Argon if we are.

 Oh... I am good with the 9th.....Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! :*(

Well, before the official start of the game, cane Veskard have a short side adventure that involves mugging?  He needs the money. :)

Now I want to play a Boogie

In reply to Veskard (msg # 24):

I was figuring we could say you and Argon came across some coin in the wizard's tower and you were able to buy a shield.

 Hey, great, so he can buy a shield, plate mail, +5 Hack Mamster, and a cloak of "They love me"..    ;)

Heh. Seriously, I'm going to have everyone roll their normal gold and have you and Argon roll for half to reflect what's left of treasure you took out of the Enon Tor milieu.

But even if your roll leaves you broke, busted and disgusted, we'll make sure you get a shield. "Um, I took it off a dead orc...who took it off some other guy, apparently. So, yeah."
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Works for me

Hello guys, I will be playing an Elf Magic-User. I set up my CS, all set to start on my end.

Hopefully tomorrow I will flesh him out more. Have fun!

Gilly is now a sneaky halfling thief.

He's short.

He's handsome.

And he's going to steal your heart -- if he can't steal your purse first!

LOL reminds me Bree from the Dungeons and Dragons comic.

Hello All, I am playing Glanduil Ulazana your friendly neighborhood Elven Fighter / Magic user. I am finalizing my character at the moment but should have that finished soon.

Hey, all! I'll be playing elven magic user Carnalore Hostine. More details as her back story develops!

 Me want to kill things and take their stuff. Ya know, One man's Adventurer,is another man's Bandit.  :)

Gilly--Love it! Do you want to keep the same character name? Has a nice ring to it, but I figure I should ask.

General question for the rest of you: We're definitely on track for a Monday start, but if we have the pieces in place to start earlier, would anyone have a problem?

None at all. Weekend posting for me is always sporadic, but I'll do my best.

No prob here!

I do not post on weekends, but I will pick up first thing Monday if you post before then.

Yes, I will keep the name Gilly -- it worked either way and I've come to think of him fondly now -- my own little bad boy

I tend not to be online weekends, so Monday's fine -- if not today!

Given that some of you don't go online on weekends, we'll go ahead and start Monday.

If you come by on Monday and find a boatload of new content (in the lore thread, new threads, etc.) don't feel like you have to read it before posting. Just jump in and post in the main IC thread.

Ok I have pretty much completed my character sheet. Can you check it and see if I missed anything?

Also, will we need horses?

Do we have starting spells or can we choose freely from the list?
This message was last edited by the player at 13:46, Sat 07 Oct 2017.

By The Way

I am going to run a board game on here - Fortress America. I will be the moderator and coordinate the game. If anyone is interested I am going to run a Talisman game here. I wanted to give you the first choice here.

If you never played Talisman the board game its fun

Here are the rules available on the web site from the company

https://images-cdn.fantasyflig...alisman%20Rules2.pdf

Here is a wiki link on the game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talisman_(board_game)

You can go ahead and choose your spells.

In reply to Leleanne Gethell (msg # 18):

Me as well

F***, the dice roller on here. Sheez

Nicely done, y'all. I'll post in the morning.

 Hmmmm.

Thanks for posting that, Veskard. I had miscounted who had posted and thought we still needed an action. I had planned to come by here today and say "So and so has until Monday to post" or some such, but still...Mea Culpa.

I'll get the round post up as soon as I'm able. It may be sometime on the weekend. Also, I have a question for you all:

In this ruleset, we roll initiative every round. I'm willing to waive that and use the one-roll-for-the-whole-encounter initiative that has become standard. Please post here declaring your preference. No need to take up your time arguing for or against because I'm going to make the decision based solely on a majority vote.

 I vote for party Init.

Definitely one for the encounter.

I like by the book -- part of playing older rule sets -- but don't mind if we house rule it.

One for the whole encounter.

In reply to Wyrran Galaeth (msg # 52):

I think one for the whole encounter - it will I think make it easier for the DM and the players

Whatever makes it easier for you. It gets to be a lot of dice rolling and keeping track of stuff, so feel free to roll once.

One roll.

OK, starting with the next encounter we'll do one initiative roll.

Carnalore has until Wednesday morning to post, then we'll move forward.

I have a couple of optional rules I'd like input on. Sorry that this is a long post.

So let's talk about death. There are 3 options, arranged from most harsh to most forgiving:

RAW: Hit zero HP and you're dead, dead, deadski. Only way to fix it is a raise dead spell, which in this ruleset is something you need a 10th level cleric for.

Save vs. death: Hit zero HP and you must save vs. Death Ray to avoid death. If the save is failed, the character is immediately dead. If the save is made, the character remains alive for 2d10 rounds; if the character's wounds are bound (or he or she receives healing magic) within this time frame, death is averted. The character remains unconscious for the full 2d10 rounds rolled, either dying if left untreated or awakening if his or her wounds are bound.

Binding the wounds of the dying character stabilizes him or her at zero hit points. Non-magical healing will require a full week to restore the first hit point; after this, healing proceeds at the normal rate.

Negative HP: Characters have a negative HP score which is either 10 or the number of their Constitution score, whichever is greater. Attacks do not intrude into this score; if you have 4 hp and a sword hit does 8 damage, you're at zero. At the end of each round after this, the character loses an additional hit point. When the character runs out of negative hp, they're dead. Before this point is reached, the character may have his or her wounds bound and/or receive magical healing, which will stabilize them. The injured character may not move more than a few feet without help, nor fight, nor cast spells, until his or her hit points are again greater than zero.

Let me know which of these you prefer. I lean toward character preservation, but if you prefer the instant death vibe of the oldest of the old school, I'll roll with it.
OK with your impending death? Good, now let's talk XP.

One of the features I really like about the old school is XP coming straight from treasure. My question for you is whether we set the ratio at 1 gp = 1 XP or at 1 gp = 1/2 XP.

I've always been a dog's chance sort of GM with the players. NPCs -- no problem they get down to zero HP, they're dead. PC's -- they get a chance to pull through. So I would vote for the Save Vs. Death route.

As the XP, you get to be the arbiter of this because you control how much gold we recover. Given that this will eventually dominate the economics of the game, I would suggest you go with 1 to 1 just to keep the math easier. It will generally increase the value of money in that you will provide lesser quantities of treasure to control the advancement rate, and the less money there is in an economy, the more value it has.

Save vs Death

I would go save versus death as well

As far as XP goes I have always one 1gp=1exp point but that's how I roll (pun intended)

I'm with Gilli on this, too.

Save vs. death, same as everyone else for gold.

I like the Save Vs. Death optional rule in Basic Fantasy.

I also like the 1:1 GP:XP optional rule in Basic Fantasy.

Ditto for gold

 I don't wanna wait til wenesday. :*(

Sorry, just making sure she has a grace period and I have time to post.

On edit: will try to post tomorrow.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:30, Mon 16 Oct 2017.

Post will be tomorrow, today blew up on Facebook.

OK, today is looking terrible too. Sorry folks, this won't be a pattern.

Oh, and I am going to avoid posting from my phone as often as possible from now on, because I just noticed that autocorrect turned "blew up in my face" to "Blew up on Facebook" and may have given everyone the impression I put social media in front of you. Totally not the case.

I hear ya and Siri is no help at all either with all the words she gets wrong!

Ha! And here I thought you might be mod in an RPG group on FB that did indeed blow up yesterday after an inappropriate post. I could actually see your day kind of getting busy and stressful!

This, then, is the best social media. So prioritize appropriately! ^_^
This message was last edited by the player at 18:45, Wed 18 Oct 2017.

Glan--a couple of days ago I use the phrase frozen embryos and autocorrect capitalized the word Frozen as if I was talking about the movie. So that was a thing.

I just realized I made it sound in my post as if only Veskard could roll party initiative. That is not the case. Whoever reads this first, roll party initiative even if you're not ready to post anything else yet.

Glanduil, you should have no trouble grabbing the dagger and making the throw, because even if I were pedantic about it, we could still count getting the dagger as your move action.

Veskard has until 25 October to post, then we move on.

My mom  Saturday yesterday. just npc Veskard for the moment, or you can drop me. Whatever is better for the game.

Do you mean your Mom passed away? If so, I'm very sorry and you should take whatever time you need.

Yes, she passed away. F**King typos. thanks

My condolences, Veskard. We'll be here when you come back!

That's very sad news. Please accept my condolences at this difficult time.

I'll NPC Veskard until you come back. Take all the time you need.

I am so sorry to hear the news. Your family is in my family's thoughts and prayers

Post is up. I'm also retconning something: The knights wear deep blue with stylized white waves, not deep red. The heraldry is supposed to be a reference to the sea off Slateholm, so I have no idea why I  wrote it as red.

I'm going to be traveling for a few days and will not be able to post until next week. Gilly will go on flirting with pretty girls and looking for quick money wherever he can!

Argon will loot bodies, hes not proud.

 I am back, more or less. I need the diversion.

I know what you mean. Hope we can be a help to you.

This is advance notice that from Monday until Sunday I'll be away on vacation. I should have internet access while away, so do expect to be posting. However it'll likely be sporadic, so I apologise in advance if my rate is slower than usual.

The heads-up is much appreciated. Safe travels.

Shall we press on with the adventure? :)

Yes. May post today, tomorrow morning if not.

Post (or posts, as I'm addressing different locales in different posts.) will come in the morning. Sorry for the delay, buried in writing work at the moment.

I'm going to try to respond to your actions on an individual basis as much as possible so things move more quickly and I don't have to carve out time to write a longer post.

I'm assuming Leleanne has rented a room at the Inn. Let me know if you want to play that out IC. I'll wait a bit before posting IC to give her time to have a bath :-)

Yep, we can skip that. A room is 1gp per night, and use of the tub costs 1sp, but the innkeeper, Lorynn, seems quite stricken by you and gives you the bath for free.

Anybody but Wyrran who feels their role playing is done for now can either post "jump" in this thread or put it in orange at the end of their next post in the IC. When everyone's ready to jump we'll reconvene in the Toothless Dragon in the evening.

 Argon will take both a room and a bath. Jump.

 Veskard spends most of his "vast" wealth on drink,and seeing if he can get one of the serving wenches to go out to the barn with him and roll in the hay. Common room from him.

Sorry had no internet this weekend just catching up - probably will post tomorrow

Jump.

Series of posts upcoming. Stand by until you see the one addressing you. :-)

Clarification: Didn't do a post concerning Leleanne because she checked in at the inn, took a bath and said "Jump." We're ready to move forward.

Yuzzah!

Let's approach it this way: Is there anyone who feels they still have business to conclude or roleplaying to accomplish? If not, we can bring the party back together in the Toothless Dragon in the evening hours. I'm pretty sure Wyrran will want to at least take his leave of the Baronet, but the rest of you--other than Leleanne--are in a spot where concluding or continuing both make sense.

I vote to move things along as soon as possible - being in a virtual bath is boring :-)

I vote that a pretty wench rolls in the hay with Veskard. I refuse to move on until that happens. Holds the plot line hostage,til he gets what he wants.

Her Dad's pretty big. Character death rules may get a test drive. ;-)

I could benefit from a bow but alas I am short on the coinage so I would say lets push on mighty DM

Whats the ruling / clarification in the rule book?

Magic-Users may learn spells by being taught by another
Magic-User, or by studying another Magic-User's
spellbook. If being taught, a spell can be learned in a
single day; researching another Magic-User's spellbook
takes one day per spell level. In either case, the spell
learned must be transcribed into the Magic-User's own
spellbook, at a cost of 500 gp per spell level transcribed.

Does that mean if two consenting Magic Users want to trade spells it would still cost each one 500 gp to trade a 1st level spell?

Waves

GM, here GM. Gets the Blood Hounds ready.

Sorry, work has been insane. Will be moving us forward today or tomorrow.

Just a note: Feel free to ask questions or argue points in OOC if you'd prefer to do it here.

Do you all feel this has been resolved, or should we keep the discussion open?

I am for heading to the Keep.

In reply to Veskard (msg # 112):

Same, Keep it is.

Same here

Fine by me.

Given what Gilly and Carnalore had to say in the IC thread, that's at least 6 votes for the island keep.

I'm going to start you out on the island tomorrow, unless anyone has an objection. Today let's establish marching orders. Let's do 1 single file and one 2 by 2.

Leleanne has chain so can be near the front.

Order of march suggestions:

Side by side - open territory

L  V

Gi C
W Gl

 A

Single file - open territory

L

V
C
Gi
W
Gl

A

Single file - sneaking

Gi

L
V
C
W
Gl

A

Thumbs up to Gilly!
Also, would there be a healing potion or something like that in Morgansfort for us to equip for our excursion?

Those orders work for me!

Wow, we're a bit thin on the ground armour-wise. Didn't realise Leleanne is the tank :-)

Given she's only got 1 Cure Light Wounds a day, I think we'll definitely need some healing potions.

Apologies I didn't post yesterday. A client issue blew up in my face and we were scrambling all day to get things locked down so it was good to go over the long weekend. hope those of you in the US have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.

Hello

Sorry to hear the work issues DM - hope all went well.

I myself am in US and will not have access until this Monday due to holiday weekend and will be able to post then.

Just to be clear, we're switching to the sneaky marching order so Gilly can move ahead and check for traps?

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 124):

Yes I believe so.

"Check for traps." Uh. Yeah.

Sorry for awol crazy at work after the holidays.. catching up

It's OK, Glanduil. Not that I don't want to hear from people, but as long as we don't move so fast people don't get a chance to post, I'm OK moving the plot forward with those who are posting. Until we get to combat that is...

I also lurk until triggered, go on. I follow the posts no prob.

I believe the dice roller on this site will eventually evolve into Skynet.

Right now I'm taking actions as occurring in the order that they're posted with the stirges going last, but next combat don't forget to include an initiative roll in your first post.

We still need a post from Glanduil, but as I noted in the IC thread, if I haven't seen one by Monday morning, we'll move on.

If we make the rule "move forward every 3 days no matter what" can everybody handle that?
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:51, Sat 09 Dec 2017.

About the 3-day rule: ok by me.
About the initiative rule: I thought we had a party initiative (i.e. one for all of us?) maybe I misunderstood.

No problem on the 3 day rule.

Hey GM, if we can have a party Init roll vs the bad guys, it will save time and headaches. Just this man's opinion.

Rules questions:

1. Due to the nature of play by post, I'm thinking we should go with Veskard's suggestion and adopt party initiative. We will do so unless I hear a strong objection.

2. RAW in this "edition" does not include critical hits on a nat 20. Should we house rule to include them, or leave it as is?

I like RAW.

Vote for RAW.

Why not

Argon and Gilly, I'll need attack rolls from you even though you're not using a weapon. Just roll a straight d20 and I'll figure out what modifier applies.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 138):

Done and added.

How are you folks going to be set as far as access to the site during the next couple of weeks? Anyone got school or work vacations that will take them out of communication?

My plan is to post in a little while. I'm hoping we could finish a round of posts by Wednesday and then again Friday, but that may be too ambitious, given our current pace.

I'll be online most days.

The same for me. I can check in from time to time with my phone from work.

I will be online no prob.

I'll be online each day.

I check most days

I'll be online every day this week, then more spottily for the next two. But if there's game to be had, I'll check in!

OK, I'll post now (sorry, client stuff came up this morning) and we'll try to cycle through twice between now and Saturday.

I'm going to post tomorrow whether we have had additional actions or not. If Veskard & Glanduil haven't posted, I'll NPC them to give them a fighting chance. Keep in mind that if the stirges are still on these guys they will do 1d4 damage and that may be more than your comrades can take at this point.

From now on, let's do party initiative, rolling a d6 with the characters winning any ties.

We may have lost Glanduil, it's been four weeks since he checked in. I'll NPC him for now until he returns or you go back to civilization.

I'll check back in on Tuesday. See you next year!

Well, I checked back before Tuesday, but what the heck.

A few notes:
I'll refrain from NPCing Glanduil from here forward unless necessary, but he was down to one hp and has no armor, so...

If his player doesn't return soon I'll have to construct a character sheet for him, since somehow it got lost in the shuffle and was not posted.

Back. Sorry for the silent routine, between work and the holidays, it was a zoo. But back in the saddle again. Happy New Year everyone.

Happy new year, everyone! I'll be back at work and therefore online consistently from Monday onward.

Just a note, folks: Gilly led the way into the southern room, not the northern room the stirges came from. I know that was contrary to the way your discussion was going, but your scout took off in that direction and I figured the party would follow, since he's checking for traps.

Thanks. I guess our actions stand?

Sure, we'll just apply them to this room.

EDIT: Our pace has been spotty, which is partly my fault. I think it might help if we have defined days and they are relatively frequent. Would anyone be opposed to agreeing to post on Monday, Wednesday and Friday?
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:27, Wed 10 Jan 2018.

Works for me.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 155):

Sounds good.

No probs

yep

I have no post for today (other than a note about what the coins look like), just would like to know if you're definitely going to the room to the north when you leave this one.

On Monday, unless someone has objected, I'll post what you find in the north room, and presume that Gilly checks for traps in the passage and the marching order reflects him scouting ahead. I'm not trying to hurry you along, it's just that (excuse me being metagamey) you have found all the information and treasure there is to find in the south room.

Hi Guys, I am moving house tomorrow and won't have the internet installed until the 1st Feb or at lease that is what they have said, fingers crossed. I should be able to check in a couple of times. Thanks.

Cymon.

Thanks for the heads up. If you'd like, I can NPC Argon for a bit.

In unrelated news, I'll be posting a new game map tomorrow.

The game map has been updated. As you might guess, you're in room 3.

I'm traveling for work T-Th and will most likely not be on. Feel free to NPC Carnalore.

Thanks for the heads up.

Will you folks be searching the room or moving on?

Leleanne's nose has already voted to move on :-)

Move on

If you are moving on, I'll need to know whether you're going west from the intersection or returning to the first intersection at the bottom of the stairs from the surface.

I vote west.

Works for me

Yea I say let our frontline decide anyways since there is no preference based on plot at the moment.

Hi, Just an update. The expected install on the 1st did not happen and we have now descended in the black abyss of inspections not being signed off so they have to be rescheduled for the 13th and the actual install is who knows. So sorry hopefully we will be up and running gain in a week or so.

Cymon

Thanks for the heads up, Cymon.

Sorry, no map today. One of the tires came off my truck last night, so I'll be dealing with that part of the morning.

New dungeon map is up. Jump in, the water's fine...

Given that they already tripped one trap, Gilly has had a chance to see how the trap was triggered. He will look especially carefully for that kind of trigger again.

Good point. I'll apply a 10% bonus to your roll if there's such a trap in the area you're searching.

I rolled for your search, but I'm waiting to post until tomorrow so others have time to get in before the Friday post. I will say you found no traps, but I'm considering this roll to only cover the first two squares of the hallway, since you folks may want to go cell by cell. In other words, Gilly, Veskard and Leleanne are now in front of the doors of cells a and d.

I'll need you folks to indicate if you're going to search the whole hallway for traps before exploring cells, or if you're going to do something with either a or d right now.

If you search the whole hallway, I'll roll for Gilly one more time. If you're going cell by cell, I'll do the same and apply the roll to all 20 feet and the arch of the next room, even though the searching will happen at different times.

If you search a cell, I'm going to limit the number of people who can enter a cell and effectively search it to four at a time.

OK, I have screwed up.

There is yellow mold under that bag. And yes, I called for Gilly to make a perception check--the d20 roll was to see if you rolled less than your wisdom.

So why is there a problem? Because I read this text in the room description when I first read the module, but somehow missed it while we were playing:

Growing under and around the bag is a patch of Yellow Mold, automatically noticeable if the player character is looking out for trouble.

So I guess it's not much of a problem, because I caught it before Gilly died horribly as fungus ate his flesh. I promise to be more careful going forward.

Thanks!

I am back after pulling teeth to get back online.

Cymon.

Welcome back!

Will anyone be doing anything with either of these cells, or will you be moving on?

Sorry, lost track of this game. I vote to keep moving.

I vote for moving on too. Explore ahead.

Move on.

Hi, all. I'm going to drop out of this game. Will see you around, I'm sure -- and I'd play with any of you again in the future.

I'm afraid I've decided to leave as well. It was good RPing with you all, and I hope our paths cross again in the future. Good luck with the game, and thanks to the DM for your support.

Fair winds and a following sea to you both.

Will you mind if I recruit new players for these characters?

To be honest, Leleanne is a character I've had for a number of years, so unfortunately I don't feel comfortable with someone else playing her. Sorry about that.

I completely understand. Just keep in mind I will have to NPC her until the party leaves the dungeon. Then we'll "put her on a bus" and recruit a new cleric.

You can assign someone new to Carnalore without any concerns on my end. May she live 1,000 years. (You can also drop in a new character as though they'd always been there! I wouldn't wait to leave, necessarily, but that's your call.)

No worries, and thanks.

I say we return to 1, then hang a right.

So, we went past the cells and came to a room at the end of the corridor that was the torture chamber, right? Just that the map ends there.

Rather than going back to room 1, how about we go back past the cells and hang a left towards the steps?

Do they go up or down?

Down.

I'll update the map but basically the torture room is kind of a modified round shape and has no exits

 I want to make sure we clear out this level before we go down.

Works for me. Good thinking.

In reply to Veskard (msg # 198):

Yes, clear the level. If there is time Argon will search the cells before moving on.

I'll have to ask the group if there's time for that search. They seem satisfied that there's nothing to find and are moving on. Chime in and tell me what you think about Argon searching these cells. Also Argon, keep in mind that the cell with the coins definitely has some yellow mold that will eat your flesh if you fail your save.

Are you all decided on returning to 1 and going down the passage to the south? Or is that still under discussion? The basic options are:

Turn west, then north
Go back through 1 and keep going east
Go back to 1 and turn south

Argon will follow the rest IC, but I would opt for Turn west, then north.

Works for me

So we have two votes (and possibly a third from Gilly) to go west.

How would you guys feel about just letting Gilly decide turns and such since he's in the lead? On the one hand, it speeds up the decisions, but on the other, the rest of you would have no input.

Also, since we're down to 4 players (Glanduil has not posted in 3 months) that means we could have a tie, so if we do the group vote option we'll need a tie breaker. Possible options include a die roll or having me vote on behalf of one of the people I'm NPCing. That in turn could be based on a die roll, or what I think the character would do.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:58, Mon 05 Mar 2018.

I already use the "let the guys in front decide" approach in our game from the start.

Map updated.

I'm thinking that Gilly would be asking the others what they think about where to go. he's really just a kid with not much experience.

How about we do this, Gilly: If you're in favor of turning west when you leave the cell block, that would make you vote number three for that, so just go ahead and narrate that in the IC thread. While that's going on, we can resolve how we're going to handle it in the future.

If you prefer to head back to room 1, we're going to need Wyrran to chime in.

West and north vote here too.

 I voter for getting the group moving again. So I go with the majority.

OK, since we have 75% of the vote minimum for west & north, I'll describe that in the IC and post a new map tomorrow.

Map updated. Let me know if it start's getting too small and I'll change it to a whole-dungeon-map and a map focusing on your immediate environs.

Will you be continuing west or turning north?

And as for determining direction, how about we do this: When you have a choice to make, I'll ask in the OOC. If we haven't had a clear answer by the next posting day (Monday, Wednesday or Friday) Gilly chooses because he's in the lead.

Any objections?

No, sounds good and I vote for continuing West. Thanks.

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 Are the wolves to close for bow work?

Yes. When I posted, I assumed you were at the back of the formation, but you're still definitely in range.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:32, Wed 21 Mar 2018.

Hi everyone, How many PC's do we have left ? I have a couple of good players who are likely to be keen if this seems like a sensible place to introduce some new blood ?


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I think I know the number but how about we all sound off?

Please do, yes

Arrrrrrgh! Not Gilly, too!

[Mutters incoherently and angrily]

OK, today is crazy for me, so I'll have to post tomorrow.

Is the general consensus go back to town, or would you like to let Gilly and the gals go and just happen to find some new party members tied up in the dungeon somewhere?

I'm sorry, my opinion was to let new players in, yes, but not going back to town now. Just my opinion though, I'll go with whatever you like.

Oh, that's how I took your comment, Wyrran, as approval of new players.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 222):

Lets not go back to town just yet.

Unless we have other players chime in and ask to go back to town, I'll keep the four of you in the dungeon (Muwahahahaha!!!!) and you'll come across the new characters in one of the rooms ahead.

So, the party now consists of Wyrran, Glanduil (I'll continue to NPC him until town), Argon and Veskard.

Veskard, chime in if you would.

I figure the marching order until we have new players will be:
Argon,
Glanduil
Wyrran
Veskard

Lastly, I assume you're taking the passage to the north near the secret door, as Argon suggested?

No ones piped up otherwise so lets go with it.

Hello ladies and gentlemen! Smiles is here with a daily dose of a damsel in distress.

I'm a bit new to playing with systems so I hope that you would all be able to bear with me as I learn. Nice to be playing with you guys/gals!

In reply to Smiles (msg # 227):

Welcome and good luck.

Nice to be playing with you all as well.

 I bid a heary welcome to the new vic...ahem.. the new players. :)
This message was last edited by the player at 23:22, Mon 09 Apr 2018.

I'm glad to be with you as well. I'm excited to be playing in this game.

I'm starting to think that this dice roller doesn't like me too much. I guess I need to pray more.

I guess Smiles developed a cramp from being tied up for hours. :-)

Looks like we have our final player. Phelan and Smiles, one of your missing compatriots is a gnome ranger named Maksim Munzuk. If you want to make up who the others are (and they would likely be fighter and magic user types, naturally), feel free.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 234):

Sounds good. Smiles, I sent you a pm about our backstory. Let me know if you have ideas for the other character names.

To DM:
By the way, thanks for not letting the game die (and bringing in other players like me). I have started several p2p games that died shortly after getting started. This is the only way I have to play as I don't have two hour chunks to sit and game (wish I did!). Anyway, having fun already!

De nada, Phelan!

OK, I'm giving Veskard until Monday, which is when I'm posting the latter half of the round.

Sounds good.

Sorry for the delay all. I was out of town and intended to post while I was away, but it was a busy trip. I'm back now, but will be gone next week as well. I should be able to post then, but don't worry if I don't.

Glanduil: Noted. Safe travels.

Wyrran: Still need a round 3 post from you. You have until Monday.

Have a great weekend, folks. Will post this weekend if I see a post from Glanduil or on Monday if I don't.

Sorry guys, I was under the impression that the orcs would flee and we were happy with that, I'll take a swing at them let's see how the dice roller is feeling tonight!

Nothing is enough for Smiles!

On another note, poor Argon. I feel your pain, man.

Still hanging in here ready to play. Hope everyone is doing ok.

Gaaaaah. I got sick. I'm on the road to recovery but the chills and aches are still here. D:

I hope everyone is doing better!

In reply to Smiles (msg # 244):

Oh no! Get lots of rest. I had the flu this winter and was on the couch for a week. Take good care of yourself!

Oh shoot, the flu. That sounds awful - and it was a bad hit this year too.

Thankfully, I think it's just a cold but I have been downing Nyquil the last few days. Usually when I'm sick (and it doesn't happen too often) I'm bedridden. I haven't gotten to that point yet - just perpetually drowsy. Nyquil dreams make it near impossible to sleep peacefully.

In reply to Smiles (msg # 246):

Oh, I can't take any meds like that. I makes me a total zombie.

Hi folks, sorry I haven't posted. Unfortunately, I won't be able to do anything until at least Monday. This week is my 25th wedding anniversary, there's a big party, my parents are in town, etc.

twenty five years. congrats!

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 248):

Yes congrats.

Congrats! I hope there's cake!

Have a great time!

A new post will be up on Wed or Thurs no matter what I have to do. Thank you for your patience, the time following my anniversary was a time of fire and madness, to borrow a phrase from the Goblin Punch blog.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 253):

Awesome! Thanks for hanging in there yourself.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 253):

Great.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 253):

Sorry to hear that things got crazy but thanks again for sticking with us!

Fire and madness delay is over! PLAY BALL!

Argon and anyone else who wants to look, don't forget there are sacks piled by the door.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 258):

I have updated my post to include a preliminary look at the sacks. Cheers.

Are we ready to move out? I don't know what to do with the beetle pendant. Is our DM still with us?

I'm here. Will post tomorrow.

Unless you suspect the beetle necklace is magical, there's not much to do with it except keep it for later sale. It doesn't belong to Phelan or Smiles.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:11, Wed 30 May 2018.

BTW, we should probably establish a new marching order, since three people in the old one are no longer with us.

The old ones:

Side by side - open territory

Leleanne  Veskard

Gilly Carnalore
Wyrran Glanuil

 Argon

Single file - open territory

L

V
C
Gi
W
Gl

A

Single file - sneaking

Gi

L
V
C
W
Gl

A

Putting Phelan in Gilly's spot and Smiles in Leleanne's spot is the simplest change, IMHO. That would give us this:

Side by side - open territory

Smiles Veskard

Phelan Wyrran
Glanuil

Argon

Single file - open territory

S

V
P
W
Gl

A

Single file - sneaking

P

S
V
W
Gl

A

We could keep it like this, put one of the fighters where Smiles is (I seem to recall LeLeanne volunteered for point) or rotate who is the point man/woman.

Thoughts?

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 262):

That looks fine to me.

Does this mean that Phelan is leading while in the dungeon single file or only if we are sneaking? Are we always sneaking in a dungeon?

That's up to you guys of course, but that's the way the party has played it so far, or at least did until Gilly left. He scouted ahead for traps and they followed a distance behind.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 265):

Okey dokey

Game map has been updated.

I think we've lost Veskard, Smiles and Glanduil, though I will send them PM's.

I'll wait until Wednesday, then update.

Still here, just busy as can be. However, I shal attempt to be better at posting in the future.

New map is up. Notice that there is a secret door at the end of the passage you've just found.   That is revealed because Argon can hear someone or something making noise on the other side of the wall. I'll post in the IC thread shortly.

I need secret door rolls from everybody who is looking. You may roll with advantage (roll 2d6 and take the lower) because everyone knows what wall the secret door is on.

Argon rolled 2 using 2d6, keeping the lowest dice only with rolls of 2,4.  Secret door.

18:07, Today: Veskard rolled 4 using 2d6 with rolls of 3,1.  Secret door.

Hi folks, apologies for another delay. Good news bad news:

Bad news: I've been working 60 hours or more per week between a regular job, running my own business (where I sub out as a writer of marketing copy) and an elected position in local government. Today and parts of tomorrow I will have my hair on fire getting small pieces of several projects done. And the parts when I don't have my hair on fire are going to be when I'm at church and driving.

Good news: I've accepted a position with a local marketing agency as their head of content and will now work 40 hours a week making more money. (YAY!) So my next post will be during the day on Monday (going to Wisconsin for 3 days for a well-needed rest) and then I will post regularly in the evenings, Central Time.

OK, I guess I'm going to NPC Phelan as well as Glanduil.

Veskard, did you want to make an attack this round? If that was the case, make two attacks this next round.

Edited the IC thread to give you guys all the goblin info

Anyone who hasn't posted for this round has until Monday. I've heard from Argon, Veskard and Wyrran.

On Monday night I'll post the new round.

After that, I'd like to do a new combat round every 48 hours or so. Is there anyone who would not be able to keep up with that?

poke n nudge

Noted.

Well then.

Who other than Argon is left?

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 280):

Guess that is a no....

Here here! I thought I replied earlier!

OK, we'll continue tonight, but given that you are the only ones who answered up, we might need to have the party head back to fort for rest and such, and we can recruit more players.

What do you guys think?

Yeah, let's try starting fresh from the fort following another lead so new players can jump in better.

In reply to Wyrran Galaeth (msg # 284):

Agreed, but can we do a loot collection on the way out ?

Here!

Might be able to keep going with three ?

I think we can definitely do that, but for sure you'll need to at least rest so that Wyrran can get his spells back.

I'll put up the combat round sometime between now and bedtime. In the meantime, let's vote: Should the party head back to the fort after this combat, or continue in the dungeon?

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 288):

Rest and continue in the dungeon is my vote.

No prob, rest  it is.

OK, so that's 2 to 1 (or 3 to 0) for rest. Sorry I didn't put up a post, was sick as the proverbial dog all day yesterday.

Will work on it as I take workbreaks today.

Roll call!

Who is still here? I'd like to figure out a way to get back to a reasonable party strength and continue.

Here I guess

In reply to Wyrran Galaeth (msg # 293):

 Here

Here.

Here.

Is this going to fire up again?

Yes, let me get through the weekend and we'll move on.I presume we're sticking with our plan to rest in the dungeon instead of heading back to the fort?
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:48, Fri 25 Jan 2019.

Sounds good. Let me know how you'd like me to join the group at this point.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 298):

Yes I believe so.


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Does anyone have an objection to finding Maksim trussed up in the corner as you search the room before resting?

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 301):

No problem.

 Trussed  up? No problem at all. Question, where is the nearest slave market? ;)

Hey, I saw something moving in a corner there. It moans! :)

It suddenly occurs to me that I specifically agreed with Maksim that he'd be found as a prisoner in the next room, so...

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 305):

Great, good to be back.

I apologize for the slowdown.

The bad news is it will continue until next week. I may be able to find time for a post today or Thursday, otherwise we'll be looking at Friday.

Good news: I am reorganizing my schedule and it will include RPOL time nearly every day or close to it. Even better, this is part of a small but positive lifestyle change, so keeping it rolling will not be difficult.

So we will be back on track. I appreciate your patience.

Though I've only heard from two of you so far, based on the consensus to get moving, I'm putting you on the other side of the north door in the marching order I posted in the IC thread. If there are any objections to this, I'll do what I can to edit/correct/leave it but handle it differently next time as appropriate.

Sounds good! Refresh our memory please. We now stepped outside in the corridor north of room n.9? What do we see?

Wyrran, you're correct about which room and where. I just posted in the IC thread and also updated the map. Sorry for the delay.

Sorry for not posting, I just found out that the rpol notifier app for android has stopped working for some time now :).

OK, a new post is up.

I'd like to go to a Monday, Wednesday Friday posting schedule. Is there anyone who feels they couldn't maintain that pace? If your character isn't doing anything, you can just post "check" or something in the OOC.

If that's too fast, we could figure on one post a week, but I'd like it to be faster if we won't lose anyone as a result.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 312):

Sounds good.

Good here also

MWF works for me.

Cool. We'll see if Veskard chimes in. He has been logging into the game.

Map is updated.

Hi folks, if you're going to do anything in this room or do check out any doors other than the west door, make sure you post before we get too far into Monday.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 318):

I think Argon would focus on the door to the west.

Right, I specified the other doors because you were already checking them out.

I am going to be on holiday for a week from tomorrow and unlikely to have any internet access. I will try to look in if I am able. Cheer's.


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Thanks for the heads up. Sorry we haven't moved things along.

Cool game with a a great GM looking for players.

link to another game

You honor me.

What would you think about this: Let's say that the current players have a week to check in. I know that's a short amount of time, but either people will be on RPOL and see the indicator and the rmail I'll send or they won't.*

Once that week passes, we recruit new players and assign them to any characters that are still without a player. That gives us the ability to play in the dungeon without having to do some weird handwaving that puts us back in the fort mid-room.



*I would not give Veskard out to another player because of the circumstances under which he slowed his posting. If necessary I'd NPC him.

Sounds good!

 Reporting in.

Good to see you. How's it going?

Better, thanks for asking.

Checking in.

Good to have you.

On Monday I'm going to put out an announcement on Players Wanted and we'll see if we can get back on track.

General announcement: Last week involved some unexpected events and travel which will continue through today. I'll be reviewing new players tomorrow and sending out "one last chance" rmails to a couple of people.

I expect us to be back up and running on Monday the 29th.

 Still here. :0)

Hi folks. Start date is Monday. That's firm. DM "paperwork" will be accomplished Monday.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 333):

Great.

Going to Run through the Gardens of Ynn adventure using the original "Red Box" D&D rules if anyone is interested.

link to another game

Sorry for the delay. Every character except Wyrran now has a player, I'm taking one more shot at contacting him.

If anyone's waiting on something before posting, let us know.

In reply to Smiles (msg # 337):

Hello all, new player here with the character. Sorry for the delay! I look forward to jumping in to the game with everyone.

*Edit: I've skimmed through the game thread and posted. Could someone let me know where we are on the map? Thanks!
This message was last edited by the player at 10:00, Sun 18 Aug 2019.

We're in room 12.  It's described as a fat cross in the thread with doors in each direction.

In reply to Smiles (msg # 339):

Thanks for the confirmation!

I'm going to move us along tomorrow no matter what, so if you're waiting to post, let fly.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 341):

You don't need anything more from Argon ?

That's a good point Argon.  Everyone raise your hand if you're putting forth your last post in March as your most recent post.

I will admit I was expecting established characters to put up a new post to refresh their activities and remind folks what they were up to.

It kind of felt like Glanduil and Smiles were the only characters in the room, but with Argon's post I understand folks had already given their character's direction a while back and were just waiting on the next update.

Now we're rolling.

Yes, if you have a post from March that stands as your post, you don't need to do anything. I'll be back later today to move us along.

In reply to Dungeonmaster (msg # 344):

That was where I felt I was with Maksim.

Hey all. Back from vacation. Still taking count?

Are we rolling?