You have a wagon driven by your cook, Valria -- though in the upcoming sequence, you will be making a fast raid to storm an underground bandit lair, so you will be moving quickly with just the gear you need to fight.

Hey boss. So how much wealth at L2? Use the WBL chart (900 gp)? Or some method of rolling llike you suggested?

OK, money is an issue in whatever reality you live in. Here's what I had in mind for new characters: The PHB (page 111) gives starting gold by class:



It then goes on to say that 2nd level characters get 900 gold. That does not compute for me. Way too much money for grunts in the army. My thinking for these guys is that they roll for their gold at each level but the multiplier at level 1 is 10 and the multiplier at level 2 is 20. So a Barbarian character would roll 4d4 twice. The first roll gets multiplied by 10 and the second roll gets multiplied by 20

MAX: 160 + 320 = 480
MIN: 40 + 80 = 120

Sorry about the confusion.

Also remember that this world does not have magic for sale -- no potions, scrolls, magic items, etc. They MAY exist (as they may in 21st century USA) but if you buy one, you are probably being fleeced.

I'm hoping to get a post up today to get us all on track with raiding the bandit lair Amaya found.

So we new guys joined up at Five Eyes before the raid?

New guys will have been in the fort at Five Eyes and will be sent as part of the raid.

OK, hopefully, we can get the game rolling again. We have two new recruits and three existing players. Adentare and Cormac are NPC's though other players have been pitching in through our last encounter. They should feel free to post for their second characters if they wish or pass them back to me.

This encounter is a fairly straightforward small labyrinth with traps and bad guys, but these can often be difficult to play at RPOL -- the detailed action bogs down quickly. I will try to keep things moving, but I welcome feedback on how to do it better.

Your characters are foot soldiers in the Aquilonian army. You each have your own pictures of what you look like, but at a glance you look like Roman legionaries with leather armor, a short sword (gladius), and a shield. Some of you carry bows, others spears.

Spiked chain and sling here. Chain Shirt and Dastana.

Does a whetstone only work on slashing weapons, or does it affect piercing weapons as well?

From my point of view, a spear is a dagger on the end of a stick, an arrow typically has a triangle shape (at least the war arrows) which are essentially sharp edges narrowing up to a point. Not sure if this is the same for a rapier, but that's not available in this campaign anyway.

I was wondering if the spikes on a spiked chain could gain the advantage of whetstone sharpening or not?

What benefit would that be?

Sharpening with a whetstone adds +1 equipment damage to the first attack that you hit with that day. Although now that I think about it I think that was an adjustment made by Pathfinder, not D&D 3.5.

That sounds like Pathfinder, yes.

Will Amaya get access to some special materials? Some alchemical stuff to maximize smoke creation (ie. used for smokesticks) or fire accelerator (ie. stuff used for alchemist's fire). She did mention the idea to make the rear entrance too hot to pass through and drop stuff into the bandit's campfire to force them out.

Um... may I ask for a reply to my question above? Please?

Character types such as alchemists do exist in the Hyborian Age, but they are very rare and Five Eyes is a remote fort. I will allow that the small town has a herbalist where she can ask for what she wants in character.

Very cool, thanks :)

I seem to have missed quite a lot of action. Am I still around? I've lost track somewhat.

1 gold crown = 10 silver shillings = 100 copper pennies

1/3/6 is 1 crown, 3 shillings and 6 pence
2/3 is 2 shillings and 3 pence

After a night spent in the barracks at Five Eyes, the Aquilonian legionnaires are back on the road again, headed back down the way they came to stage a raid on the hidden camp Amaya and the late Kesta of Makkalet discovered when they tracked the bandits who had waylaid the pilgrims at the ford. On the way they will pass the village of Hompton where they all stayed that first night after the encounter with the bandits.

At the time, Kesta had suspected that someone from the village was helping the bandits.

It will take almost all day to reach the village and another two hours beyond that to the hidden camp. The commander of the troops at Five Eyes has also sent Valeria with the wagon to carry supplies and help with any wounded on the way back.

Amaya has a plan to smoke the bandits out of their underground lair. There seem to be two distinct entrances, one in the woods, a narrow cave, and another onto the river's edge, two wider caves. There is also a fissure in the rocks above the likely location of an interior cavern where Amaya and Kesta smelled smoke from a cooking fire.

That's the setup. Cormac is asking what the plan is as you travel back down the road towards the village and the bandit lair. Feel free to make suggestions.

You have a couple of new soldiers from the barracks assigned to make up for your losses against the Winged Darkness. And Dawn, the cleric, has gone ahead to the Sun Dome Temple to present them with the scroll you found in the cave of the Winged Darkness yesterday afternoon.

Traveling this week. Will post as I can.

Guys, there has been very little action in this game for a few weeks now. I think I am going to close it down. I have downloaded all the threads (210 pages in a Work doc -- so we did pretty good!) If you want a copy let me know and I'll find somewhere to post it.

I was under the impression we were waiting on you.

I know you posted about the plan, but no one else has. Are you interested in continuing in an effectively solo game?

Hyborian Age? Hell yes!

Sorry, part of it was my fault but with just two active players it is very difficult to continue an adventure - at least from my point of view. I like Amaya very much, even though she is very low level compared to all other games I participate in. I'd be sad to see the game go.