DM themed play-by-post D&D game : OOC thread

[ian_scho]

Yeah all sounds good to me. Bandage up the folks a bit first, then explore around, taking particular care with the central tomb... Hmmmm. He should pick up a club or two me thinks!

The first person to post after Beowuuf resolves the turn can tell Haynuus to do something

Feel free to open a door or two by Wednesday, eh? Ciaoooooooooooo!

[money]

I'm happy to take a break, I'll update when i get a few moments but things have been somewhat crazy this week and ready for a rest. I'll try and update on the story tonight or 1st thing tomorrow - but in general i'll be trying to help with the healing... You'll have to let me know if rolls will be required? i.e. how effective the heal is?

[beowuuf]

Hey, no problem, thought you might be distracted!

Ok, then I'll put a line under the conflict after you've posted money, or at some point on Saturday, and we can pick it up Monday. No rolls needed for healing, this is more RP. Just describe how you fix them up. The ranks in Healing let you stop someone from dying much, much better when their hp goes negative, and then you'll need the roll as your comrade bleeds to death!


Edit: Just removed the level gaining info, no point in posting it until everyone is back

[oh_brother]

Woo-hoo! We gain a level!

Back posting Monday, as I said if anyone is active over the weekend Westian will gratefully accept any healing and then sit down for a while. Have a good weekend everyone!

[Ameena]

I don't mind a break till Monday. I'm sure Ameena won't mind exploring the area, but first she has to be reassured that Haynuus and Westian aren't about to bleed to death. She'd probably love some close physical contact too (I mean, someone sitting right by her or giving her a hug or something until the shock effect wears off), but she's not really expecting to get any - she knows that because these guys aren't murafu they won't think the same way, so they might not understand some of her ways any more than she understands theirs.
Once she's recovered herself a bit, she'll do her own exploring and point out that armour she found (though she doesn't actually know it's armour yet - she didn't get as far as looking closely enough to really see it properly and study the shape). And as always she'll want a bit of a chat. She'll want to know what the hell that was that they just fought. Or rather, what it's known as - she knows different races have different names for stuff, so they each might call the scary-bandaged-undead-thing by a different name.
Aaaanyway...that's all once she's recovered a bit. And she might remember to take a closer look at that random button she found when they first arrived in this room.
And woot! Ding!

[beowuuf]

Aww, well Haynuus did want a hug too!

Ok, hugs and healing over the weekend it is then

And yeah - gratz!

[Ameena]

Yeah, I did notice that, but Ameena probably doesn't think that big scary tough half-orcs do such things as "hugs". Well, murafu don't either, really - they more kind of nuzzle/snuggle up to each other. Even when they're not in need of comforting, a group of them will happily do the rat thing of sleep-in-a-big-comfy-pile . The notion of "sleeping with someone else of your own species means that you want/are going to shag them" is a very bizarre concept to them. If there's ever a group conversation (during the RPG, I mean) where the various habits and lifestyles of their races come up, Ameena will probably just sit there and somewhat confusedly wonder at how strange all these other species can be .

[Ameena]

Rolling requested Perception check but won't make an IC post yet till I see what the others do - then I'll post a rection to stuff and have Ameena actually go dig out that breastplate or whatever. Rolling Perception I get...woohoo, 19 . Erm, plus whatever my bonus is...six?

[beowuuf]

You may as well write the IC post about the breastplate now, and I can adjust reference to it in the update. You'll want to consolodate some IC posts just now I think to make the exploration run quicker, while still being able to comment on lots of parts of it. Similarly, if there are any questions or comments you think Ameena would make, best to broach them now whilethe group is huddled and supposidly spending time doing nothing- like asking what it was the party faced!

There's a heck of a lot of minor things in the hall that do nothing except arm you and give you a small comfort. The two doors, and the mystery surrounding them, and the thing beyond them will be what you'll want to spend the bulk of your time and conversations on next week, trust me

So noted about Ameena's perception roll, that will kick in over the course of a few updates. Damn, and there was me thinking I'd set an ambitious DC for that one!

[Ameena]

I was gonna wait for reactions from the others before I post because apart from your update, mine is the last post on there - people might want to react to what Ameena's doing. Didn't see much point in making two posts in a row. Your post I see as more of a reference to the things I now know Ameena will find/see when she looks around, and which I'll look back on when I write my next post.

[beowuuf]

True enough.


Since I was tied to tidying the house yesterday, I'm going to leave going into work today and instead try to work on tidying up some of the rules threads (though so far so not working) and starting to work on firming up some of the background world. This second part is obviously very provisional, both to be influenced or contradicted by players, and more importantly any community people who would want to comment on it too. They're be a reason why the region map will be mostly black and white!

So don't be surprised if a 'world' thread appears at some point with stuff.

[Ameena]

If you want any info on the murafu, I can tell you pretty much any fact you'd like to know. Just because not much has come up in-game doesn't mean that I don't have a detailed knowledge of the structure of how various murafu live .
I also thought of maybe starting Ameena's life story as a story, as an excuse to get out a whole bunch more murafu stuff. You know, start with her being born and learning about life as a murafu, and venturing forth into the strange world of other creatures and stuff .

[money]

Falkors rolls as requested: Perception (1d20=9) and Heal (1d20=6)

Apologies for no posts, been one of those weekends and noticed it was quiet with everyone else too - next post for story tomorrow morning ready for the week ahead.

[beowuuf]

Hope it's all calmed down for you!

You don't need to wait for the resolution of the rolls (infact you won't know why I asked or them for a while) so post IC when you are ready to, and post a list of what you want to examine/check here to kick off the week's fun

[Ameena]

Just as a reminder, I'll be on tomorrow morning around 9am for a few minutes, then not till after 11pm as I have club. DnD is moving to Mondays and I just finished creating my new character- after bugging him about various races listed in the character creator and being told "no", the DM finally decided I can have a Kobold, so woot, I am no longer a boring fleshy Halfling . I spent half the day doing a pic of her in Photoshop just so I could have something that wasn't one of the pre-drawn pics (none of which are Kobolds and the nearest of which to one is a Dragonborn, which is a bit...tall).
Aaaaanyway, I will post when I am available. Yes, I'm dong another five-day week next week but hopefully after that I should get a few three-day ones again before they ask me in for extra hours over Christmas (usually late October-ish till late January-ish).

[beowuuf]

No need to roll checks, just tell me if it's a thorough investigation poking every nook and cranny for traps and switches and tiny jewelry (take 20) or if you are simply going to each tomb and moving the big pieces of broken bits and looking for obvious items (take 10). You can queue up several actions here, you aren't really under any time pressure unless anyone does anything significant, then I need to work out where everyone would be and how far they got based n the timing of their various actions.

@money: By Ian's rules, you have Haynuus

[oh_brother]

I rolled a 15 + 3 = 18 for the perception check. When Westian is bandaged and feeling steady on his feet he will examine the room, and any items found.

[beowuuf]

Ok, can I get a rough order of preference? Also, take 10 (normal checking) or take 20 (thorough checking)

[money]

Falkor will be thorough for each search,

[beowuuf]

I guess with Ameena coming in late tonight then that will push the next update to tomorrow morning unless I can't get to sleep tonight!

So Ian shouldn't miss too much.

Just to confirm, everyone seems to be intent on checking the visible contents of the room (basically the tombs), not checking either of the doors for now, right?

[beowuuf]

@money: Ok, cool. I assume carrying on round the room systematically. Ian did mention checking out the central tomb - do you want Haynuus to checl that out, or help Falkor?


@everyone:
One last thing - instead of advancing you a level after this area is done, you kicked mummy arse so well I'm boosting your characters to third level now.

How this will break down:

a) Everyone gets to pick another feat from the general feats list. Ian, you aren't limited to fighter feats, and this will be the last chance to pick a non-fighter feat until Haynuus has six levels. The choice is yours

b) Your characters will be eligible for multiple classes (see which below), but may only take one level in a single class. So you become either 3rd level <current class>, or 2nd level <current class> 1st level <new class>.

If you take a new class, you get everything associated with that class at 1st level, except the 4 x skill points. You only get the normal number of skill points for advancing a level instead.
- previous cross-class skills might become class skills. You don't double the ranks you had in them. However, the ceiling is higher, so you can assign more points into those skills than before.
- you might get better weapon/armour proficiencies. Your character will feel nauseous, then realise he had somehow forgotten that training until now. If your class has worse proficiencies, you keep your better ones. If either class has penalties for using certain items, these don't go away.

Haynuus: he can advance as a fighter as normal, or choose to advance as a rogue for his sneaky thinking and club natural 20!
Westian: he can advance as a cleric as normal, or choose to advance as a fighter.
Falkor: he can advance as a wizard as normal, or choose to advance as a rogue for entering the fray, and general sneaky curiosity/questions.
Ameena: she can advance as a rogue as normal, or by choosing to enter the fight boldly for several rounds can also choose to take a fighter level instead.

I can list a cheat sheet for you all once you know how you would like to advance, but I'll leave you to try it yourself first

This was the post I didn't do on Friday/Saturday. Ameena's already advanced over the weekend.

[oh_brother]

Westian will examine the doors. The doors themselves, and also listening in case he can hear anything behind them. He will take 20. After he has examined the doors he will move onto the tombs - I don't know how long that will take.

Also he said 2 prayers in my last IC post - if we are spending 20 minutes here at least I assume the time for 2 level 0 spells is negligible? If not, then he could go from a take 20 to a take 10.

Ok, time to level up! I will have to have a think about it, but certainly from an RP perspective gaining a fighter level would be more appropriate - he has been throwing/kicking/swinging since he came into the dungeon (albeit not very successfully )!

Looking forward to the background history!

[beowuuf]

So noted! Both Westian and Haynuus get to restore 1hp (out of combat and for the good prayers, I think you'll find TPTB receptive without a roll).

The prayers and walking time will be negligable compared to the @2-3 minutes spent poking at each door and listening at each. So after five minutes you will start walking around the hall, assuming you don't change your mind after the update.

And lol, you have been successful at thumping things in the dungeon! Just sometimes sadly after the fact And you've RPed your clerical duties just fine. Remember, the cleric is a fighting priest at the end of the day. There is some cross-over. Your call if Westian had been just beligerant, or righteously smiting!


Oh, a note I forgot to add about levelling up for everyone - to make the original classes picked still mean something, multiclassing to another class will not get you the following:

Fighter: You do not get the 1st level bonus fighter feat. 2nd level onwards gives you bonus feats as normal, and the starting fighter bonuses are still good!
Rogue: No restriction - the lack of 3 x 8 skill points is enough!
Mage: You do not get the extra 0-level spell-like effects (so need to give up normal spell slots to invoke them).
Cleric: As mage for the 0-level priest-like effects.

That seems fair to me, since we don't have the multi-classing XP penalties in effect that would represent the effort needed to lean a second skill. Remember, any other weird quirks - like suddenly knowing more about wearing armour and weapons - will be a weird memory jog, making you feel nauseous!

[oh_brother]

Hmmm...maybe I will take a cleric level then. I would prefer to get a few levels (at least apprentice or journeyman) in that before cross-classing, I don't want to be the Zed of the group!

I didn't want to take levels that Westian has not "earned". But if you think the RP, prayers and smiting are enough I will go with that! Will alter the character sheet accordingly, just take a quick look when you get a chance to make sure I levelled up correctly.

Edit: I rolled a 3 for hp, but under house rules that goes to 6? So with constitution bonus it is 7.
Took 1 point in bluff (could not resist synergy bonuses) and 1 point in concentration (probably should start giving Westian some non-book knowledge).

[beowuuf]

For now everyone is playing their classes, so don't feel the need to self-penalise. Perhaps later the priest aspect will be more for defense and protection, and the fighter for attacking above everything, but for the moment Westian's clerical options are limited so your RP as much as anything else will determine how combat options are interpreted (fighter of cleric). Similarly Falkor is being both a the mage and rogue with his explorations and actions in combat, because his magic is limited. As long as money is using Falkor's magical skills and knowledge for the task I am happy for money to keep giving him mage levels, aswell as having the option for rogue levels.


For Westian levlling up, with an intelligence bonus of +1, you actually have 3 skill points to put into his skills. And remember the feat - that could be a fun thing to add And yes, you actually have 7hp. Adding the restored 1hp, Westian now feels refreshed and filled with renewed purpose, with a spanky 15/24hp!

[beowuuf]

Oops, I forgot bluff is not a class skill for you. And darn, now I remember a reason to not award the level 3 upage right away.

I'll finish checking over your character sheet, and then detail how I was going to handle domains for the cleric and 'schools' for the mage.

[beowuuf]

Ok, posting the domain choices in the rules section for Westian (and anyone else later)


Money, will be posting some schools information next for wizards although that might happen tomorrow as I'm getting tired (need sleep already!).

Since you sound busy, I can do the heavy lifting for you level gain calculations wise if you tell me how you want to advance. For now the choice of schools shouldn't affects your immediate actions so that choice can also be put off too!

[Ameena]

Got back early this evening. I was gonna wait to see what Ian posts, to see if anyone's gonna interact with Ameena - if not she'll come to herself anyway and go for a sniff around the room - details of what she's planning to sniff will come at the end of that post in an OOC note, or in here after I've made the IC post. Or posisbly in a post after that, since she's probably gonna go and try to lug out that massive huge heavy (to her) breastplate first.

[beowuuf]

Ian's not back until Wednesday, that's why I keep mentioned autopiloting Haynuus! My update's only awaiting Ameea's input, and me getting some sleep. WIll update tomorrow morning I think, give money a chance to say if he wants Haynuus.

The breastplate, only being a breastplate front, isn't that heavy. 15 - 20lb if I recall correctly, which is well within her lifting capacity. If it was a full breastplate or suit of armur, she'd be in for a tougher time!

Given Westian and Fakor taking their time around the room, you next set of actions can cover a variety of things not just one or two.

[Ameena]

I can only cover as far as I know what the results will be . I'm going to bed in a minute but I'll probably make an IC post tomorrow morning (normal shift at work so I get more time online before I go out). I'll tell you what Ameena will be sniffing at, and then you can tell me what she's gonna find there, and then I can post again to actually RP her finding whatever it is she's gonna find, and telling the others about it .