Nakatura Valley -- OOC thread

[mfrench]

Great, that saves me a bit of work. I like what you've done with him. I suppose I should link it here, for those of you that wish to add to the Rogues Gallery for yourself. I would like to get some sort of common format for them; right now I am using Kerim's sheet as a baseline.

As for the prophecy, I've got to admit, it is lifted mostly from the Old Testament. What can I say, sixteen years of Catholic school ought to amount to something. If I knew any specifics about the Koran, I'd probably steal from there. I'm not much for inventing new things, but I'm good at twisting old material to suit a theme.

 

[GlassEye]

I used a Living ENWorld sheet. Here's a LINK. It's a bit more complete than the one I used for Kerim; over time I've added and deleted and while it's mostly the same, it's not quite the original. (The file is in post #76. For some reason, for me, it links up a couple of posts so it's not immediately apparent where the sheet is.)

I noticed the biblical influence in the prophecy but you've made it your own and I like it. Now I just have to figure out how Kerim would react to it...

 

[mfrench]

All the IC threads have been updated. As you've no doubt seen, DrZombie will unfortunately be out for a while, but Li will probably be meditating by the fountain during his absence, so I don't anticipate him missing much.

For the ninja, he could use a good disguise, so he could pose as a messenger from House Kaiu to House Katsuki, down at the ford.

 

[mfrench]

All the IC threads are updated again. How are people feeling about the pace? Things got slow with holidays, but I'm going to try to step up and post once every day or two in each thread. If I don't get a response, I'm trying to move things along without stepping on the PC's toes too much. Once more people get IC, it should be much smoother.

 

[GlassEye]

I think the pace of the section I'm involved in is pretty good. I'm comfortable with once a day or two.

 

[Lorthanoth]

I'm going to be away for probably 2 weeks or so. Sorry guys!

 

[mfrench]

OnlytheStrong, I brought Sen into the IC thread. He came across this traveler on the road with a broken arm, who begged him for aid. With him, you are now looking for shelter on this hill. You've seen the outline of the tower on top of it.

Once Lorthanoth returns, I will likely just introduce whoever is left to the IC thread. If people from the Traveler's Prologue aren't around by then (DrZ excepted), I'll simply move on without them.

I'm going to put Ninja's Prologue on hiatus for now. We might come back to it later if we are both interested.

 

[OnlytheStrong]

Sounds good to me.

 

[mfrench]

Hello people that are still around, the plan is this:

DrZ can show up as a wandering monk at basically any time. Lorthanoth should be back around the end of the week.

As the others have been MIA for at least 3 weeks, I'm going to consider them out. This changes the party dynamic sigfinicantly. With a Wu Jen, a Ranger, and a Ninja as the primaries, and a Monk as a possibility, their is a need for healing at this point. Also, three of you are basically completely denied armor, making the party a low-HP, low-AC, low-healing group. So I have two suggested rules changes that ought to make things a little more fun, and I think that they happen to fit the campaign style anyway.

The first is an additional class-based Defense bonus. The two things I've considered for this are based on BAB or Base Reflex save, added to AC as a bonus like Dex. Choosing Ref would hose the Wu Jen, and BAB would favor the Ranger slightly. The other option is the Class-based bonus from UA, which is pretty big. Of course, NPCs would get them too, so consider that as well.

The second is Reserve HP, a system where you had a reserve pool as large as you HP pool, and one minute of rest moves one point from the reserve pool back to the HP pool. This means you can take more punishment in a day, but not more in one battle.

I'd also consider an armor as DR sort of varient, people should chime in with their thoughts, I just want to get the rules set before any major combat takes place.

And in terms of players dropping out, while I hope none of the rest of you do, I'm willing to run this with as few as will play, because despite the slow pace, I've been extremely pleased with how the flavor of the setting has emerged, and I've been very entertained by the introductory stuff so far. The PCs have great personality, I'm looking forward to putting them in real danger!

 

[OnlytheStrong]

Sen is happy with whatever you decide. Just off the top of my head though, the reflex thing would make him harder to hit (AC of 19 instead of 15). But I'm not sure how good a AC of 19 would be lol. I will be uset if this game even gets close to dying. Its my favorite one so far. lol