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Got it. You are trying to draw the worm by waiting until right before its turn to move, so you dont want to move right away. And in my original notes I had it with a 10 foot reach but then remembered I dropped it to 5 on the final which i didnt bother to look at so I had 10 foot reach on the brain....

K, OB, np. I'll just have Artaxes glare and occsionally pul his sword or something! So, Ameena brought something up that never really occured to me, well actually it did but I appear to have misunderstood something I was under the impression people in the UK used the same measuring system Americans ...

Yeah, a female timber wolf is somewhere around 110-120lbs. A large one is 130. Males are like 140or so and a large one is 160. Wolves are big, but not like 200 lb big. Trust me, my wolf dog was on the small side of average if she was a full blood wolf. But I'm 5 ft tall and weigh around 90 lbs, bas...

Hmm. Back in my day we just had pop-up books!

Kids now days...

The female seems reluctant to answer Artaxes, peering around her as if she expects an arrow to come flying out of a nearby tent or unfriendly eyes to be watching behind every bush. When Thiy asks her question, the female looks at her, eyes wide. Kassah gently scratches the delecate edge of a nostril...

So I take it Sssil moved to k9 when he backtracked, cuz that would be the farthest away from Nihss? I put you there in the map update. If you want me to move you, let me know. The worm's blunt head weaves back and forth, going from Sssil to Growlgra to the spear above it that Growlgra is attempting...

God, Ian. Thiy's having fun waving her arms around ineffectually lately ;) One thing I want to mention is I love how you guys give me a general idea of what happened based on how bad or good your rolls are (ie Thiy catching her sai in the robes, the loud smacking noise as Artaxes thwacks the lizar ...

Urrffrah looks around, trying to see if anything looks like things she recognized. Unfortunatelyy in this swamp, everything looks the same, just trees, trees with big leaves and some trees with green hangy bits like fure, others with bigger ones that look like the things she used to wrap around Nihs...

Yup. And I dig Isorropia! If everyone is agreed that its cool, that is the name of our world!

LOOL! OMG I love the Naked Gun and Leslie Nielson! That mental image made me laugh pretty hard. And Ian, I hate to break it to you but thats not quite the way it works. Normally a char can only make one AoO per round, and combat reflexes lets you make as many AoOs per round as you have dex bonus, n...

After whispering to his companions, Artaxes rushes up and deftly slices both sets of knots holding the double flap of the thin tent-fabric in place. Unfortunately, when he goes to look inside after opening it, a breeze catches the outermos tent flap and wraps it around his head! Although the fabric ...

Thanks. In case you havent figured from the weird parasite stuff I drop in the web thread, I find gross parasites fascinating. :D Although I havent found a species that does that to itself to raise offspring there is plenty of parasitic wasps that do that to other insects. i recently watched an ela...

Beo commented in him and Ameena's thread about the worm life cycle, so here's a little anecdote about why I think parasite stuff is so cool. When i was like 9 I grabbed a locust (we used to catch them as there is lots in my dad's field, and then play with them, feed them to other bugs or juts look a...

Alright, I threw this map together in like 5 mins. Obviously there is more trees, but since its a top down view, you wouldnt be able to see anything if I put trees in. So the "wall of bushes" is represented by the trees. From what Sssil can see, the lines are where the hole you all are pe...

The barghest slows down and looks around, trying to catch any scent of the dead-place. Unfortunately, all she can smell is the scents of the swamp, the water, the plants, and the tiny prey creatures nearby, especially the grey rodent with black stripes watching her with its beady black eyes from und...

I am incredibly amused by the image of Sssil near-botching his move silent and then 'sshhh'ing Nihiss every few feet! Perhaps thats why he botched. I mean *sneak, sneak* (Sssil looks at everyone nearby) "SSSHHH!" *sneak, sneak* :D. And the noise was probably less than 20 feet behind Urrff...

Its not so much what the races on the world call it as what the players call it. Its just so I can say "on (worldname)" without having to say "the planet" or "the earth". Cuz the planet just sounds dumb, and the Earth/Terra is the name of our planet. And like you said, ...

K, Ian, Im going to give you an update for your roll, but I'll wait on OB to actually advance. And yeah, its a perception (spot to be exact). Just to let you all know, I *rarely* use search, unless its when you are looking for multiple somethings that a spot couldnt show you but that you know are p...

Goblins are mammals. Therefore they have tits of some kind. Since they litter like 4 to 6 babies instead of just have one or two children at a time, based on biology it would be really likely that they have like 4 or 6 mammaries. So, in the interests of accuracy, im going to rule that they have fou...

Well now its July 4th. For those of you who might not know, thats the day in celebration of my ancestors (well, not really, I'm 1st generation on my moms side and like 3rd on my dads except for the native part that was here long before buncha white dudes showed up ;)) told you guy's ancestors off, a...

Alright, so the planet we are all on needs a name! The planes name is the Plane of Harmony/Balance, which fits based on everything we know about the world, but the only reference to the planet is whatever the heck it was called in the DM2 intro story, and there definately is the issue of if thats ev...

The DC of the knowledge nature to get the info Beo got was high enough that I'd rule that unless you were born/raised in the swamp or actively trained in swamp-life you probably wouldnt know what one was as they are pretty rare. There are other variations of the creature spread across the planet (w...

The drover looks less frightened at the conviction in Artaxes' voice. "Whatever it takes." he repeats. "Thank you, good human. I know that, if it becomes needed, you will not shy from doing what needs to be done. Rather that than let this thing consume me." He turns and glares at...

Hey Ameena, forgot to mention thanks for the PDF! I love it! Ok, so you can't run full-force due to the fact that you are not on any sort of path or road and are basically charging through swamp-undergrowth(so halfspeed compared to your typical run). You are also taking a bit of a penalty to your S...

Cool thanks. Note to everyone though, this map is kinda correct for my campaign, but not 100%. I had a minor work-emergency today, as in there I was minding my own business when suddenly my boss called and dropped a "I need this done in 9 hours, can you do it?" project on my ass. Sigh. Nee...

Hey, theres nothing in the human mercenaries guild charter about bonded mercs having to be of a certain race. Maybe if Urrffrah took payment in cattle on the hoof she could be the first ever bonded barghest merc! ;) And my philosophy is "detailed fluff is what brings the world to life". Yo...

Yeah. They're called Houses(not to be confused with the lizar Ten Noble Houses, which is the blood-kin of the ten noble familes of Makan and their servants/guards) in Zaanguard and Guilds in human lands. A self-merchant is the Zaangaardian word for a non-House affiliated merchant, as you guessed. Th...

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Kassah pulls the map out of her belt pouch and looks it over. "Four suns. Three if we hurry. I was hoping to get to the outer limits of the area actively patrolled by the Road guard in two suns, as they only patrol a sun or so outside of Makan, just past an area known as the Mother and Son rock...