Malvoisin's Savage Tide OOC Thread *Resurrected*

[stonegod]

Wow: A barbarian with a 14 wisdom? I've seen everything now!

Half-orc wizard with a 20 strength?

 

[Rhun]

Half-orc wizard with a 20 strength?

Good point.

 

[Rhun]

Anar takes the potion of invisibility

Leaving the potions of barkskin and the elixir of swimming

I'll take the swimming one, and I'd suggest Anar get the barkskin as he is going for more of a melee swashbuckler role.

Math looks right. I've got no problem with Anar carrying the potion of barskin (just in case), but we could always sell it as well. Either way.

I'm thinking I may progress Anar to 3rd level in rogue, and then start taking some levels in Swashbuckler. Combining the two with the Daring Outlaw feat (I think that is the right feat) would make for a pretty good combination. Of course, if he goes true fighter, he gets a lot more feats to use.

Good thing 4th level is still a long ways off!

 

[Malvoisin]

covaithe: Don't forget to post you character in the new RG. And Mal, you might want to update your sig and other links to it. Still points to the old.

Fixed my sig link.

 

[Rhun]

Okay, so help me break down the party's next move. After Anar, Kalen, and Bael clean up, is the party cutting out of the Vanderboren estate? If so, where are they headed? If not, what's the precise plan for the following day? Gather Info checks? A trip to the Taxidermist's Guildhall? Facials and pedicures at a Day Spa?

As much as Anar, Bael and Kalen would enjoy a day spent at the Day Spa or some House of Ill Repute, we've got work to do.

I believe the plan is to snap some hooded cloaks and leave the estate, so that we can move about relatively unseen. Then we are going to go retrieve Pinkus' bloated corpse for a little talk with dead action. Depending on the information gained there, we will then plan our assault, er, infilitration (?) of the Lotuses. Do I have the right of it, fellow players?

 

[stonegod]

I believe the plan is to snap some hooded cloaks and leave the estate, so that we can move about relatively unseen. Then we are going to go retrieve Pinkus' bloated corpse for a little talk with dead action. Depending on the information gained there, we will then plan our assault, er, infilitration (?) of the Lotuses. Do I have the right of it, fellow players?

Penkus is too bloated to carry around, and the party poo-poo'ed it last time. We need to find a reputable/discrete cleric who will come w/ us to cast it. That'll be about 150gp minimum.

 

[Malvoisin]

Well to be honest...I'm from the old 1E AD&D days. There was no real buying and selling of magic items when we played back then. What you found is what you got, and it went to the person who could use it most.

That's what I talkin' bout! OLD SKOOL!!!

Seriously, though, I think this speaks to an element of the game that has been lost in newer editions. These days, no one buys a potion of gaseous form, or a scroll of magic mouth, for example. But, back in the day, if you found something like that, you did your darndest to find a way to use it to help keep your PC alive (because there wasn't a mechanism in place to sell it). It really encouraged creativity.

That's part of why I'm only allowing for half an item's listed price if you should sell it. You can still sell unwanted loot, but it will be more efficient monetarily to try to find a use for what you've already got.

 

[Malvoisin]

Penkus is too bloated to carry around, and the party poo-poo'ed it last time. We need to find a reputable/discrete cleric who will come w/ us to cast it. That'll be about 150gp minimum.

It might just cost you more than that....

"You want me to accompany you into the undead-infested smugglers' tunnels under Parrot Island to speak with the resting spirit of a betrayed criminal who died horribly of a disease which caused his flesh to blacken and bloat like a pufferfish? I'd LOVE to!"

 

[Rhun]

Penkus is too bloated to carry around, and the party poo-poo'ed it last time. We need to find a reputable/discrete cleric who will come w/ us to cast it. That'll be about 150gp minimum.

Oh, alright...for some reason I thought that was still the plan. With that said, I think we should take the day to make some gather info checks and see what we can come up with about the Taxidermist Guildhall and the Lotus peeps.

 

[Rhun]

Seriously, though, I think this speaks to an element of the game that has been lost in newer editions. These days, no one buys a potion of gaseous form, or a scroll of magic mouth, for example. But, back in the day, if you found something like that, you did your darndest to find a way to use it to help keep your PC alive (because there wasn't a mechanism in place to sell it). It really encouraged creativity.

Well said, Mal. I miss having to come up with uses for magic items you would never, ever actually want, but have to use them because there isn't much choice.