Pathfinder: Burnt Offerings

[CanadienneBacon]

Take the time you need to enjoy your baby, your wife, and life as a burgeoning family. It's a very sweet time. Speaking only from my own experience, I found that while it seems like you've been tired forever and ever with no end in sight, the whole of it is actually very short.

When I didn't see too much of you here earlier this week I had taken to wondering if maybe your wife had given birth. Some days you'll have time, other days you won't. Thanks for the head's up, though.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

...and we're off!

Welcome to Paizo's Burnt Offerings, folks.

 

[Insight]

CB, we never really resolved the issue with Craft, so what I'm going to do is just pay for the Longbow and arrows and we can figure something out later, if necessary.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Well, that certainly explains the feeling I've had that I'd left something undone! Thanks for reminding me, Insight. Yeah, Craft bugs me too. It's a touch complicated. I'll see if I can attempt a rework of that particular skill over the weekend. When I initially brought up the issue, my main question was whether you were wanting to take bowery or fletchery but you've already answered that by stating you prefer bowery.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Somehow it seems rather fitting that Penn missed both the Spot and Listen checks. He was probably thinking about something totally irrelevant instead of paying attention to what was going on around him!

At least he managed to get second in the initiative order (and so he should with a +8 modifier!).

Olaf the Stout

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Insight, I see that in the IC you've linked to dice rolls for Gron. I double-checked the original post in this thread and to my dismay realized that I never included a statement to the effect that I'll be handling all rolls by hand. Realizing that this may be a sticking point for some, I hereby declare that as DM, I'm going to be handling all dice rolls. If this is untenable to anyone, you may want to take this opportunity to bow out of the game. I'm very, very sorry that I neglected to mention my intent to handle rolls. As players, you guys had the right to know that up front.

That said, it is very helpful to me and I definitely appreciate it when players post specific attack/damage/skill/ability score modifiers to whatever it is they're attempting to do at the bottom of the post. An example might look something like:

Grotz swings his greataxe at the dragon.

Greataxe +4, 1d12+6 dmg.

Rowan casts sleep at the kuo-toas and moves 20 feet.

Sleep, Will DC 15. Move 20 feet to square M13.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Will we get to know what our rolls results are CB? I imagine this information will be useful for characters using Power Attack for instance. Otherwise we won't know if we missed because you rolled a 2 for our character or that we hit AC 20 but it still wasn't good enough.

Olaf the Stout

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Sure, I can do that. It'll help keep combat modifiers straight and will probably lend a sense of surity that you're not getting screwed over by the DM. I'll slap it in spoiler tags at the bottom of every combat round.

On yet another side note, I don't intend to map for this game. I map for my three other games here and it by far and away takes the most time. I'll be nixing mapping for this and all my future PbP endeavors. If we get into the throes of a combat and everyone can't seem to keep their bearings straight, I may post a map for a round or two just to get us all on the level. That'll be about it, though. When the module provides visuals (a rarity), I'll scan and post those for your viewing pleasure.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I'm not worried about you screwing us over on our rolls (there are many other ways DM's can do this to players if they really want to anyway), it was more from us being able to make the best decisions tactically for our PC's.

As for mapping, as long as you give us a clear idea of distances between us, our enemies, etc., it shouldn't cause us too much trouble.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Insight]

That's fine, CB. Just ignore my results then. Would you like us to sblock our game mechanic related stuff?