Here's the discussion board.
First item. I will be creating tokens to use with the maps, and I can use the Alias thumbnails you're using for the game, or if you want to send me a link to a piece of artwork you want to use, I can use that. Just let me know.
Alias is fine by me, I may try to do a bit of thumbnail searching to find one I like better, if I do I will let you know.
Thumbnail works for me. Gets confusing of people have more than one token.
NPCs of note are in the campaign tab.
Map is up. I'm working on a less klugey system for the fog of war
If you use MapTools, or most other programs likely, I found that it was much easier and cleaner to reverse the fog of war. Start by fogging/blacking out everything. Then only reveal what you want. This makes the maps cleaner and also eliminates corners from allowing sight lines if you don't quite connect vision blocking lines.
I'm actually thinking about using roll20.net Free for you, I've used it for VTT stuff, but I am now finding that you can use it for PbP too, since it leaves the "game" available even if the GM isn't checked in. It has dynamic lighting, which is nice and they have a work around for leaving the map that's already been discovered open. I'll let you know.
Sounds good. I had good luck with MapTools when I DMed a campaign. That is why I mentioned it. My technique was to create the map in MapTools, then export a picture of the map to Google Drive for everyone to view.
I have never used roll20.net, but as long as you leave links to the site, I imagine it will work just as well.
Ah, another few things I will say about my GM style too, that will help us all out.
Potions: I keep a spreadsheet that will list the color, consistency, smell and taste of each potion type, which will remain the same throughout the campaign (99% of the time ;) ). So, for instance, if you find a red potion with a cinnamon smell, viscous consistency and tastes of red peper, and it's a cure light wounds potion. Any potion that you find that matches that description is usually going to be a cure light wounds potion.
Detect Magic: The glow associated with each school will remain consistent, so if you detect magic on an item and it comes up Green, it will always be an item that has a Transmutation School aura.
Checks on an item to determine what kind of magic: Most of the time I'm just going to flat out tell you bonuses +1 sword, etc, rather than try to give you a "it helps cut through an opponents defenses" and then leave it up to you to figure out the bonus. It's a waste of all our time! ;) However, an item that has more than one ability will either require a higher roll on a spellcraft check, or multiple rolls. I will always let you know if there is more to discover.
I will put the list of these in the campaign tabs, as they're discovered.
Roll 20 will indeed work, but I have got some work to do before the maps will be ready.
Okay, we can try this. Here is the Roll20 link: https://app.roll20.net/join/627867/JCl0Pg
The dynamic lighting is on, and it does take some getting used to. Where you are there are a lot of large rocks and debris that block sight, so it makes for some really odd shadwos and angles. Once you're in registered into the game, give me the username you're using, so I can give control of your character to you (eg If your username were Conan, and you were playing Grey Mouser, I would need "Conan=Grey Mouser" so I know who's who.)
Then just check in to the chat on Roll20 so I know you're in.
I checked in, I think. Not really sure since all I see is a black screen.
Drakra, try now. I have to give you control of a character before you'll be able to see anything. I gave you control of Drakra.
Ok, checked in on roll20. Its either going to be Nick, or my account name of TheStrongAngel.
Yup, I can see it now.
I am not familiar with roll20, but if it works at all like MapTools, I found it easier to place the fog of war/vision blocking over the entire map, and then to "uncover" only what I wanted people to see. This way, I did not end up with the long narrow vision lines.
Before discovering this technique, I have been carefully drawing lines around all the walls on the map, which I found to be excruciatingly slow.
If you want these vision lines, then ignore this comment.
It's up to you guys, really. If you want the dynamic vision we can use it, otherwise, fog of war is really easy to do on Roll20 as well. The dynamic lighting on Roll20 is quick, once you get the hang of setting it up. I think the map there took about ten minutes, once I figured out what I was doing. That being said, I MAY have overdone it with too many rocks ;)
Selindra should be set now too.
Checked in on roll20.net.
So for the scales, we have
two resistance cold/electricity
one disguise
one levitate/conceal
one align weapon.
Seems to make sense that Drakra should take the Disguise. I'll take the align weapon if others don't mind. It stacks well with other warpriest abilities so Godwin can be the weapon buff guy.
Speaking of do you guys want to coordinate builds somewhat? We're a pretty martial group with two paladins and a warpriest. Never played a warpriest before so I'm getting to grips with the class. He probably won't be as reliable a damage dealer as Sellindra and Flynn since not full BAB but he should be pretty good regardless.
One thing about Godwin is that he has ALMOST NO SKILLS. I'd like to make him somewhat of a diplomat but really with two paladins and a bard it might be better to focus on something else though. Only two skill points on level up means that I really need to pick two skills to focus on and pretty much forget everything else. Would make sense to not max Perception as I do on almost every other of my characters and RP it as Godwin's weird eyes. How do you guys see your characters progressing? (Really hope no one dies :O )
Godwin, you should be set on Roll20. I've removed the LOS from some of the smaller rocks, so it should be a bit easier to navigate. Give me feedback on the map, so I can adjust it if needed. Roll20 is new to dynamic lighting, and I'm new to Roll20, so anything that'll make things better for both of us is appreciated.
Sorry for being absent over the holiday. Will try to have an action post up later today, but have year end closing at the office, so probably can't do it justice right for the moment.
On Godwin's subject that he brought up, of coordinating builds. I have a question for Flynn and for Ali.
Are either of you guys going to have a strong representation in healing? Godwin is going champion, so I am going to assume possibly that you are either going to go some kind of hybrid or more combat focused.
I am curious for a couple of reasons. Both of you are going Heirophant path. I am uncertain of what either of you intend to do for your builds. I have been doing some additional reading and thinking, and have come to the conclusion that perhaps I made the wrong path choice for her mythic path.
Mind we have just started out, and so we haven't really had a chance to test anything. I am just musing here. I am looking things over and sort of wavering between the guardian and marshal paths. both of them are very appealing to what I want my character to accomplish, and I am just wondering which would be best, and if I made the right decision.
Keep in mind too that you don't HAVE to follow the mythic path that your background trait suggests, so you do still have time to decide.
Ooh, cool, ok. I thought that was locked in. i will keep that in mind then.
Oops, I just found this thread so excuse my lack of posting here.
As for builds, Ali will NOT be a full healer and I don't think we have any full healers, which I think is fine. Not putting all your eggs in one basket and all that.
Ali will be built as a melee/healer with heavy dose of sense motive/intimidate.
I still don't know much about mythic but I figured that I have time to learn. :)
I have also not decided whether I will take an archetype. I don't like teamwork feats so either a cold iron warden or preacher sound much more appealing to me.
Thoughts?
BTW, my roll20 id is Fabian B.
Thanks!
Inquisitors are pretty skill heavy characters aren't they Ali? Mechanically both Cold iron and Preacher seem strong though Cold Iron seems to fit way better with what Ali has just gone through.
Inquisitors are pretty skill heavy characters aren't they Ali? Mechanically both Cold iron and Preacher seem strong though Cold Iron seems to fit way better with what Ali has just gone through.
Yes, they get 6 skill ranks per level so yes that qualifies as pretty skill heavy. I'll be putting some of those into knowledge planes and religion.
With regards to the cold iron warden, it makes sense.
I don't mind losing the teamwork feats. Losing track is not that much of a big deal. However, the modification to bane would 'normally' not be a good thing but I figured that we'll fight lots of demons here so that's good.
I don't like the swap of discern lies for translate telepathy (too short a distance to be useful).
Abysal scourge is too weak to use on anything but swarms but that could be useful.
Favored judgment is good.
All in all, I think it's good trade-off for this campaign so I'll take cold iron scourge.
Hey GM Shathira,
Are you waiting on us for anything to post in the Gameplay Thread?
Because, I think we have all agreed on a course of action and are waiting on some 'results/outcomes?
Just a friendly check, that's all.
Game on!
Yeah we're throwing rocks at giant spiders at the moment :)
Personally, I like Teamwork feats. You can use them by yourself, and if anyone else wants to take one, they have you as a teammate. I am yet to play an Inquisitor though, so my opinions might not count as much, but I usually look to trade out the Judgement, and keep the Teamwork stuff when considering Inquisitor builds.
Flynn, are you set on Roll20? I haven't seen you check in, but I do have 5 players in the game.
I know for sure which players are linked to drakra, godwin, selindra and Ali, but haven't seen you check in either here or on roll20. Let me know though, because I have to give you control of your token and set up your vision stuff, so you can see on the map. ;)
Bah made my first mistake of the campaign. Is it possible for the player 'Azih' to be disabled?
Sure, Godwin, what would be the new player name?
Well Azih is how I post not in game and it's irritating to have it showing up in the Players list because I used it mistakenly in the gameplay thread :). If it's not possible to remove it from the player's list and it's not bothering anybody else then we can just leave it alone.
The only thing we'll be using roll20 for is moving tokens around, so shouldn't be a big deal. I can remove it as soon as roll20 comes back up.
I think you can change the display name for the campaign too. Haven't looked into that yet, though. I think Drakra already did that though?
Yup, I changed it on Roll20. No clue how I did it though. Must have been pretty easy though, since I do not recall spending much time doing it.
If you want an avatar removed from the players/game thread, I think there is a way for the DM to make an avatar "inactive", which should kick it into the inactive status and remove the avatar from showing up under the characters' tab.
Ah sorry for the confusion, didn't mean on roll20. Meant on paizo
http://paizo.com/campaigns/GMShathirasWrathOfTheRighteousTable2/characters
Yeh, GM Shathiras should be able to remove individual avatars from the Character's list. (You can only change the name if you have made less than 10 posts with an avatar). If your name is incorrect on the avatar you want to use, the easiest thing to do is to copy all your profile info (cut and paste) to another new avatar with the correct name, and then just use the new avatar with the correct name. Once you do this, the GM can move the old alias to inactive.
Lacking a better way to do this, I've dropped red "x"'s on the map where I'd want you to stop before continuing further. With the dynamic lighting on, feel free to move around the map as much as you'd like, until you see one of the X's. Just try to give others a chance to move around as well.
I don't want to go round by round movement as we could in a face to face game or even a VTT game, so just be aware of your fellow players and if they've moved around some before you attempt to uncover all of the map ;). If you get to an x, just stop, as there's something of interest either there, or coming up, and I'll want to drop into a more controlled movement phase.
This is the first time using the roll20 dynamic lighting for a PbP so I'll be feeling it out just like you guys. So please, give feedback. Let me know if you think of something that'll help or something I can do different. It may wind up that the dynamic lighting gets turned off, if we find it's just not suited for PbP, which is entirely possible.
Hey GM:
I like the map and the ability to move my PC about (instead of telling you to move my PC to certain coordinates/locations).
However, I don't like it for 'exploring'. I would prefer to tell you to go either left or right or whatever and then you tell us what we see until a new situation is set up. Once a situation comes up that requires positioning (like combat) then we would revert back to the map.
Quite frankly, I wouldn't even ask 'do you want to go left or right?'. In my games, I just roll for a random direction unless there's something different that would influence a selection.
Hope this helps.
That was kind of my concern too. I can leave the maps for just combats and special locales then. no worries.
For group perception rolls, can we assume everyone in the group knows what the scout finds out or is that poor etiquette? Don't want to step on anyone's toes.
That'd be the player's call. Do you mind my putting that in a general setting, or would you rather me put that info in a spoiler for you? Either way works for me.
I think since Drakra is by far the best scout of the group we should leave it up to him. I'm good either way :)
While I like to be creative and descriptive in what Drakra sees, he would tell people everything. In all likelihood, he would put his own twist on it with the color only a gnomish court bard can use, but would still relay the information. Thus, I see no reason for people to wait for me to post.
Also, I am starting a new job this week which will likely cut down on my posting during the day. I expect to get at least one post in each evening, and may be able to post at lunch, but I will not know exactly until I start.
Drakra, I think you have Mage Hand and can grab the pack with that. Don't make Godwin Solace have to climb up all that way!
Mage Hand is only good for 5 pounds I think, depends on how light the pack is. Also, knowing Drakra, he would probably let you get all the way up before remembering that he has the spell.
Hey all, are we waiting on something to know the results of my awesome nat 20 climb roll? :)
Four days without posts or notice from the GM.
Everything alright?
Hrm, I took a peek at the GM's posing history and I saw this in another thread:
"On the real life biting us in the butt front. We just got word that they may have to induce my wife's labor a little early. Our due date was supposed to be Feb 10, but they may induce as soon as next week. I'll do my best to let you know ahead of time, but I may not get the warning myself. I know I'll be busy when he comes, but I also know that sitting down to write up the game will be a quick, nice diversion, so I may not miss any time at all. First child so almost all of it is unknown ;)"
So let's just assume that DM is busy counting toesies woesies and learning the joys of changing diapers for the next little bit at least :).