Off To War... Recriutment/Discussion

[HolyMan]

Experience May 1st- May 15th

ghostcat                            380xp
Myth and Legend                     530xp
Dragonwriter                        470xp
Deskjob                             230xp
Gondsman                            110xp
Frozen Messiah                      410xp

Looks like at the end of the month we may have two new level ups, ghostcat and Deskjob.

Wow Deskjob 11 months to get to level two, hey wait that is actually better than most games I am in now.

HM

 

[HolyMan]

I'm confused Deskjob, (nothing new there ) in your post are you playing up still that you don't want the Treylor to know that you know their language?? Or did I not specifi well enough they were Treylor hmm... I did just say they were elves opps.

Now that I think about it that will work. Let me go back and post.

HM

 

[Deskjob]

Deskjob

@HM: The Treylor understand us, there was no reason to speak in their tongue. The elven prisoner demonstrated his understanding of our language well enough. When Claude suggested Marko speak to them in High Elven, Marko knew their was no need. They understand him perfectly.

However, the Treylor don't know that Marko can understand them. The prisoner was never alerted to this as of yet. It could be a literal lifesaver should we get captured. Lolz.

I can edit if needed. -Deskjob

 

[HolyMan]

No sorry if it came off that the prisoner understood you (because he did not), he did understand the body language and such.

The Treylor have been out of contact with humans for over 600 years, and they think humans uncivilized barbarians it has kind of led to them not speaking common. At least not by the common soilder.

I took over Marko and had him speak to the elf for Vance also so he knows you know how to speak High Elven.

HM

 

[Deskjob]

Deskjob

@HM: Ah, I misunderstood that. Thanks for clarifying. I will tweak Marko's previous response Claude to better facilitate this new relationship. Good thinking.

 

[Myth and Legend]

OK long post but i've been away. HM, you have to approve my lvl 4 level up. OH, and LOL at the Elves surrounding the party with drawn bows Here is why (i really like this guy):

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GHzSg5P-Jw]YouTube - Four more points about bows[/ame]

 

[Gondsman]

Lora's relevant rolls: Knowledge: History (16), Nobility and Royalty (13), Local (9)

Craft: Drawing (18) - for the map.



ML, you may want to double check that +7 Modifier (same as me at L1 with 16 INT) i'm pretty sure they should be +11



Do we need to roll to see of Lora also read the Art of War while she was on posting vacation? I hate to do this, but reading her background, I wonder where she got this. barely city militia trained, and focused on arcana, it almost seems like she'd need a Knowledge (war) check or something. anyway, that's my take on what the characters bring to the table, and I always gave bonus xp to people who played their character as designed without plugging in new stuff.




and cool vid by the way, but i was under the impression that this was Fantasy, not Reality. It's like magic, one of the things these films always get wrong is magic, it doesn't really exist so i don't know why it is in there at all.

Childish yes, but i think i make my point.

 

[HolyMan]

think your approval is here I think (I know I do) people miss a post if more than one person posts by the time you get back around to checking.

HM

 

[HolyMan]

@deskjob: Thanks sorry I will try harder to get what is going on across

@Gondsman: Lora has always been a tactician (since post one) I believe somewhere she poted she read lots of books and some had to deal with her milita training.

And remmeber a PCs background can't have every detail, so new things will arrive and so long as they add to your character as a whole (and not make them little pieces glued together) it is all good.

ML has plans to go Eldritch Knight or some similar warrior/wizard combo so Lora nowing tactics is part of who she is.

HM

 

[Myth and Legend]

Lora has always been a tactician (since post one) I believe somewhere she poted she read lots of books and some had to deal with her milita training.

And remmeber a PCs background can't have every detail, so new things will arrive and so long as they add to your character as a whole (and not make them little pieces glued together) it is all good.

ML has plans to go Eldritch Knight or some similar warrior/wizard combo so Lora nowing tactics is part of who she is.

*nods*

Also, the modifier... Umm yeah i haven't updated my skills in the RG i guess. 4 at lvl 1 + 3 from lvl 2, 3 and 4 and +4 INT modifier = 11. Hmm, I'll edit the correct stats accordingly.

There is no Knowledge: Military, otherwise i'd have taken it and would have had Lora get that +11 modifier to it. I have been accused in metagaming in the past, I simply view this as flavor. If i hadn't told you quys where the quote was from i highly doubt you'd have guessed it. Again, as i have said before (but you haven't read every single post in the multiple threads of this year-long campaign for sure) - Lora doesn't have experience, she has just read books. It so happens that her tutor had various books on warfare apart from the arcane stuff. Knowledge: Nobility and Royalty and Knowledge: History both represent this. Reading battle reports for the combat during the Hundred Years War today IRL would count as researching history, no? Yet if you really liked reading these things, and suddenly ended up in medieval times, you could use that knowledge to your advantage, if you are smart enough.

The bows and fantasy - I like fantasy, I just don't like changing the laws of physics and when something backfires to just say "but it's fantasy!". Of course I'm not expecting everyone who posts here to have knowledge on medieval warfare and the like, hence i just point stuff out OOC or in Lora's thoughts, and you guys can use it as you will. For example, when she was looking at Claude leering over the stream, she though how if he got his bow wet it'd be unusable. I'm not expecting FM to know or think about this, but since Claude has the experience, he decided to use it his post later on and say he was careful not to get the weapon wet. So this has been working out great so far IMO.