stonegod's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: Ch. I [OOC]

[DEFCON 1]

Jarrith's quite happy getting a full night of uninterrupted sleep. Or so he's laying his head down to believe.

 

[Stormwind]

Well the watch schedule I proposed above allows everybody to get a full nights rest (2 hours for Ashlyn and Tessa and 8 hours for everyone else). I also organised the schedule to try and make best use of everyone abilities, for example: Janis has the dusk watch as she has the best spot and listen modifiers and the light at dusk allows her to make best use of them; each of the the night watches have one person with darkvision (Ladreth or Marot); the dawn watch has the characters with the 2nd and 3rd best spot checks; and Ashlyn and Tessa provide an extra pair of eyes during the night watches. However if Ladreth wants to stay awake for both the night watches (2nd and 3rd watches), then feel free. It is his call after all

... and after all this is Barovia. As they say "It's not paranoia if everyone is out to get you"

 

[ethandrew]

I understand the reasoning behind the schedule and it is very sound. Ladreth is willing, though it is doubtful anyone would wake him up but for his watch. If that is the case, he might stay up for the last watch as well. Better an extra pair of ears and one working eye.

 

[pathfinderq1]

That schedule of watches is fine for Tessa

 

[James Heard]

I'm fine with it, though I might point out that Janis could just as easily take her watch with the bear and I don't think we'd suffer for it. Ashlyn could get a little more sleep, or knit, or whatever...

 

[stonegod]

DEFCON: For obvious reasons, you get to sit the next combat out. You, of course, can cheer for your favorite side.

 

[s@squ@tch]

We need to knock him out -- only way to do that is to make his non-lethal damage exceed his current hitpoints.

A good strategy might be to hit him once or twice (and not hope for crits) and then switch to non-lethal, or just go with non-lethal all the way.

Marot would be pretty poor at dealing non-lethal damage -- he couldn't use his eldritch blast for that, and he is a lousy melee combatant (with a -4 non-lethal penalty to hit)

I may hit him once with an eldritch blast, but Marot would feel incredibly guilty and remorseful, possibly unable to bring himself to it, unless he rationalized it some way in his mind.

And, I think this needs the obligatory "You be evil Stonegod" from your sig.

 

[stonegod]

And, I think this needs the obligatory "You be evil Stonegod" from your sig.

Its the dice. I was actually surprised when Jarrith failed the save.

I'm not saying there wasn't an evil grin somewhere though.

 

[ethandrew]

As soon as Ladreth is awake, he will try to Grapple Jarrith, and if'n that doesn't work, he'll try to isolate the fight between the two of them, so that no one else can get bitten.

 

[Stormwind]

Janis is still lying down; Landreth and the bear are asleep. I am assuming it is dark unless Ashlyn kept her torch out (which I don't think you did).

Ashlyn's everburning torch should be out ... she did place on the ground so as to illuminate the area in which they were camping. It was her intent to keep it out all night so that those without darkvision could see on their watch.

... She then retrieves an everburning torch from the same saddlebags and places it upright in the earth such that it illuminates the clearing.