OOC - Mad King's Monkey (Thread Closed)

[doghead]

@ Scott. You have my sympathy and understanding. Packing is @!#$.

Round 2 is written. I'll give it until tomorrow then post it. I like to try and turn around combat rounds every 48 hours.

A few thoughts while I am on the topic of writing up posts.

Pathfinder has a fairly good set of mechanics for determining the process of an action. But they are quite involved, with lots of fiddly little numbers. A significant portion of the time spent writing a post is spent checking rules and numbers. I do tend to rely on the players to provide the appropriate numbers (modifiers, die, ranges, durations, etc) for the declare actions of characters.

I also streamline (simplify) some of the more involved mechanics. Where this happens I will try an note it.

One example is Critical Hits. The streamlined version of this rule is that a natural 20 is a critical hit, and does maximum damage (ie 4 for a D4, 6 for a D6, 8 for 2D4 etc). If you want me to use the full process, make sure that you note all the relevant numbers in your post.

The intention is not to bias the game one way or the other, nor to fudge the outcomes. I am just trying to keep things manageable (cos i have a small brain) and the game moving.

If any of this is problematic for you, please let me know.

thotd

 

[doghead]

[MENTION=49929]Scott DeWar[/MENTION] - I think both opening the the window (Manipulate Item) and ready bow (Draw Weapon* and load) are Move Actions. Which means Jan will be able to shoot his bow the round after next (unless I am missing something, which is possible.) But I will allow Jan to do open window and ready his bow in one round while maintaining Inspire Courage with a successful Perform Check against DC15. Failure means it will take two rounds before he can shoot.

* Actually, in general in the case of bows I think it should be Retrieve Item rather than Draw Weapon, especially if the bow is not strung. But in this case we can assume bows were strung and go with Draw Weapon.


[MENTION=83982]Electric Wizard[/MENTION] - Uruguay. Cool. Never been to South America myself. Hopefully on day I will. I hope that the trip and the move go well. I you get a chance when posting, try and let me know what your character's intentions are (ie distract the wizard, aide the most pressed melee fighter, kill the leader). It will help if having to NPC Sukri.

thotd

 

[doghead]

note to self: draw long sword and dagger next round
since i have not remembered to actually do the above, I am guessing I have empty hands (?), so draw weapon: bow should be no problem?

I was aware that Jan had nothing in his hands. Initially you had presented Jan's actions as ...

move action 1 : keep up the poetry
move action 2 : open window
next round: move action 1 : keep up the poetry
std action: shoot arrow at gnoll 3

... which, as I read it, counted the draw weapon as a Free Action. Jan doesn't have the +1 BAB to draw a weapon as a free action. So I thought I would give him a way of achieving the same result with a skill check.

Which he has successfully done, so that's all good.

thotd

 

[doghead]

Still wondering how on earth he managed to mistake a pumpkin for a Gnoll, Libros reloads his crossbow and looks for another shot.

It was just a way of trying to write the 'Miss Chance' mechanic into the narrative.


I think that next time the characters are operating in poor illumination, I might just use a simple -2 modifier to all actions that are largely reliant on sight.

thotd.

 

[ghostcat]

It was just a way of trying to write the 'Miss Chance' mechanic into the narrative.


I think that next time the characters are operating in poor illumination, I might just use a simple -2 modifier to all actions that are largely reliant on sight.

thotd.

I realised that, just responding IC

 

[doghead]

@ Scott DeWar - Glad to hear that you made it safely to Nashville.

thotd

 

[doghead]

It seems to have gone very quiet around here.

thotd

 

[Scott DeWar]

Who's turn is it? Who needs to post still?

 

[doghead]

I was waiting on Axel (Bayar), EW (Sukri) and Fangor (Eban). EW I know is travelling so am expecting to have to NPC him a bit. Axel just posted, which is good. I didn't want to NPC Bayar again as the character is kind of in the centre of things at the moment.

I've got to get some sleep, then I'll finish off the Round.

thotd

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Oops, was it my turn? I will post in a few hours, need to finish up work and look at data sheet. Will have it in a few hours.