OOC Kingdom of Ashes VI (Welcome to the Springer Dimension)

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Right - though you can just invent a cohort for yourself, I'd prefer it if you chose someone (and talked to me about it) from the ranks of current NPCs. If no one is apropriate, we may have to create someone new, anyway - but just having a random 14th level character *appear* in Hyrwl is something I'd like to avoid, if possible.

Indeed - Justice hasn't decided if she is going to have a cohort at all. But, if she does, Preston, Dorn, or Varis are up at the top of the list of possibilities...

 

[Laurel]

So they are only level 14 or less! I guess for common being 1 that is still impressive... just with all they could do they seemed higher

heh- Xath and Cawys and AA...

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

They actually aren't all 14 level or less - Cawys is 15... and I thought that Dorn and Preston were 15, as well...

But, the required level of a newly recruited cohort is something that is questionable at current... however, I'm assuming that Kennon has decided that they can be one level lower... but, I don't know what his final word is.

 

[Laurel]

Horns cool, but I can just see someone rolling a 1 on listen. So can we agree if someone isn't there in a round we message them?

So we each get a horn- do we have to take skill ranks in (perform) for this task? We aren't trying to make music. I am assuming we would be the ones to have and use the horns.

Forgot to ask this before- we have seen Caer Albion, but know the defenders have been forced further and further inside the big walls. What is the outer wall distance? -not the diameter or radius, but the actual wall length.... about/approximately--

 

[Laurel]

They actually aren't all 14 level or less - Cawys is 15... and I thought that Dorn and Preston were 15, as well...

But, the required level of a newly recruited cohort is something that is questionable at current... however, I'm assuming that Kennon has decided that they can be one level lower... but, I don't know what his final word is.

Well, for those of us outside the convo. if someone can just let the group in general know the final outcome.

It does say in the leadership feat discription that the highest level a cohort can be is 2 or more levels lower. But not sure what is being said, so just let us know.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Horns cool, but I can just see someone rolling a 1 on listen. So can we agree if someone isn't there in a round we message them?

So we each get a horn- do we have to take skill ranks in (perform) for this task? We aren't trying to make music. I am assuming we would be the ones to have and use the horns.

Forgot to ask this before- we have seen Caer Albion, but know the defenders have been forced further and further inside the big walls. What is the outer wall distance? -not the diameter or radius, but the actual wall length.... about/approximately--

What message spell are we talking about? (I'm not familiar with the arcane spell list... and the only spell I can think of is Sending which is 4th level Cleric, I believe...)

 

[Laurel]

What message spell are we talking about? (I'm not familiar with the arcane spell list... and the only spell I can think of is Sending which is 4th level Cleric, I believe...)

Message

Transmutation [Language-Dependent] Level: Brd 0, Sor/Wiz 0 Components: V, S, F Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) Targets: One creature/level Duration: 10 min./level Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No
You can whisper messages and receive whispered replies with little chance of being overheard. You point your finger at each creature you want to receive the message. When you whisper, the whispered message is audible to all targeted creatures within range. Magical silence, 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal (or a thin sheet of lead), or 3 feet of wood or dirt blocks the spell. The message does not have to travel in a straight line. It can circumvent a barrier if there is an open path between you and the subject, and the path’s entire length lies within the spell’s range. The creatures that receive the message can whisper a reply that you hear. The spell transmits sound, not meaning. It doesn’t transcend language barriers.

Note: To speak a message, you must mouth the words and whisper, possibly allowing observers the opportunity to read your lips.

There is also one for Druids and rangers that takes longer and has to be a written message, and the sending one for Clerics and sorc. that is more complex since it is more a comversation and not short 'hi get over now.' So enough options for all if things get bad and someone fails the listen check. Just don't want total dependence on the horn.

 

[The_Universe]

They actually aren't all 14 level or less - Cawys is 15... and I thought that Dorn and Preston were 15, as well...

But, the required level of a newly recruited cohort is something that is questionable at current... however, I'm assuming that Kennon has decided that they can be one level lower... but, I don't know what his final word is.

The epic leadership feat in the SRD says that they can't be higher than 1 level below the PC's current level. Even though I'm not going to require that feat to use those scores, I am going to stick with the level limitation.

Most of the powerful NPCs in Hyrwl are 15th level. Dorn, Preston, Cawys, Randall, etc. The difference is that most of them are single-classed (or at least fewer multi-classed) so they're closer to the maximums for each of their sets of abilities.

 

[The_Universe]

Horns cool, but I can just see someone rolling a 1 on listen. So can we agree if someone isn't there in a round we message them?

So we each get a horn- do we have to take skill ranks in (perform) for this task? We aren't trying to make music. I am assuming we would be the ones to have and use the horns.

Forgot to ask this before- we have seen Caer Albion, but know the defenders have been forced further and further inside the big walls. What is the outer wall distance? -not the diameter or radius, but the actual wall length.... about/approximately--

You just need lungs to blow on a warhorn to get it to make sound.

You could have a singaler blow the horn for you - it really doesn't matter who produces the sound, as long as the sound is produced!

The Northern and Southern walls of Caer Albion are almost exactly 6 miles in length, while the Eastern and Western Walls are only about 3 miles long. As such, the part of the city that's still occupied (since the people outside the walls would have been brought in when the siege started) is about 18 square miles. It's a large city (geographically) but not the largest in the Falcon Kingdom.

 

[The_Universe]

There is also one for Druids and rangers that takes longer and has to be a written message, and the sending one for Clerics and sorc. that is more complex since it is more a comversation and not short 'hi get over now.' So enough options for all if things get bad and someone fails the listen check. Just don't want total dependence on the horn.

Message is only useful at a maximum distance of 100 yards (300 feet), and assuming that one of you is casting it, 260 feet - that means you have to stay fairly close in order to stay in communication range.

Assuming that you all want to begin the battle leading troops of your own, it's highly unlikely that you'll be that close together, unless you organize your troops into narrow columns and all march on the same general part of the battlefield.