Pathfinder: Burnt Offerings

[Olaf the Stout]

Green?

I'm ok with green.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Blind Azathoth]

No problem, good Sir Olaf. Is dark orange any better? Or, if not that, then olive?

 

[Blind Azathoth]

Opted for olive.

I hope you don't mind that I handled the description of the cathedral, CB, though I left most of it fairly vague, in case you wish to fill in any other details yourself. I hope you also don't mind that I read the Sandpoint chapter of the book--but nothing else yet, I promise!

I also apologize for the probably hard-to-read speech--I'll try to keep Ravi's stuttering monologues to a minimum from now on.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Opted for olive.

I hope you don't mind that I handled the description of the cathedral, CB, though I left most of it fairly vague, in case you wish to fill in any other details yourself. I hope you also don't mind that I read the Sandpoint chapter of the book--but nothing else yet, I promise!

I also apologize for the probably hard-to-read speech--I'll try to keep Ravi's stuttering monologues to a minimum from now on.

That seems ok. Thanks for that Blind Azathoth.

Olaf the Stout

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I hope you don't mind that I handled the description of the cathedral, CB, though I left most of it fairly vague, in case you wish to fill in any other details yourself.

PbP is basically my creative writing outlet. I DM in this venue so that I can work on description and therefore am territorial about describing NPCs and locations. In this particular case, however, you acquitted yourself well in your description of the cathedral. About the only thing left to add in is that the cathedral contains not just stone and glass but open wood beams in the ceiling--a small but perhaps essential detail, given Rainier's participation in the party and the general noteworthiness of both the Scarnetti lumber industry and Sandpoint Carpenter's Guild.

All--I hope it's obvious but in case it isn't, I'm attempting to start play off with some roleplay in which I've paired you guys off into groups of two. Because Rainier expressed interest in the cathedral, I placed him with Ravi on the tour. Because Phythas and Penn are both pint-sized, I went with the obvious if a bit cliche method of pairing them together. Gron, largely an oddity, and also the fifth of the team, I put with an NPC as befitting the "outsider-looking-in" quality to his character. It's my hope that you'll run with these pairings or that, failing that, you'll break up and grab whomever best pleases you to be your initial partner in crime as we get the proverbial ball rolling.

I'll wait until tonight to see whether anything else shakes out in terms of non-combat roleplay and then I intend to further the story along to the next vignette. Thanks for your patience.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Kaodi, instead of both of us typing out our character's life stories, are you happy for me to just post that Penn and Phythas spend some time talking to each other and sharing stories?

I (still) haven't filled in all of Penn's background, etc., in his Rogue Gallery post but you would be able to assume that Phythas got a good idea of what his life story was (he tends to tell people a little more than he should at times ).

CB, are you ok with this or would you like us to play it out?

Olaf the Stout

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I'm fine with that, Olaf. I feel that we got our foot in the door and enjoyed a bit of social roleplay this week and are off to a start. At this point, I'm looking for a comfortable juncture at which to forward the story to this evening. Having broken you all up into three separate groups, I've made that task a little harder on myself but I think we're collectively coming to a head on things. I need to have Shayliss respond to Gron's offer of a walk in the woods, but other than that, I don't think there are more strings that I need to tie up before fast-forwarding.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Incidentally, I do count non-combat encounters toward XP--even when the module doesn't specifically prescribe doing so. Because PbP is notoriously slow, I also like to hand out what I term monthly active rp XP awards. I take your character's overall level and multiply it by 100 and award said amount at the end of the month to all players who have been posting regularly. A 3rd-level PC, for example, would get 300 XP per month simply for having the player owner post. If you were 2nd level for 29 days of the month but hit 3rd level on or before the last day of the month, you get 3rd-level XP. When players need or want to be absent, I usually go ahead and award the active rp bonus if that player has given us a head's up either here or to me via e-mail.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I'm fine with whatever XP method you use CB. Just as long as we don't get too far ahead in XP compared to what we should be for the encounters to be challenging for us.

I give XP for roleplaying in my face to face group. At one stage I had to really scale back the roleplaying XP because of several sessions without much combat or plot advancement. Everyone was still having fun but the PC's got a fair bit of XP without really achieving much in game. If things kept going the way they were going I would have had to adjust all the combat encounters to provide them with a challenge.

Just something to keep in mind.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

When players need or want to be absent, I usually go ahead and award the active rp bonus if that player has given us a head's up either here or to me via e-mail.

On that note CB, my wife is due to give birth today. Having said that, I'm guessing that she won't actually give birth until next week at the earliest. I just thought that I would let you know in case I suddenly disappear for a few days.

After the baby is born I'll be on annual leave for 3 weeks to help with the baby. I expect that I'll still be able to find 5 minutes in my day to post for my character so there shouldn't really be any interruption.

However, I guess there are a number of things that could happen that might stop me from posting. Should this be the case feel free to run my character for me. I'd prefer if you didn't kill my character in that time . (In all honesty though, do whatever you need to do to keep the game going, I can always make a new character should something go really wrong.)

Like I said though, if everything is relatively "normal" (like anything is normal after a baby! ) I should still be able to post regularly.

Olaf the Stout