Wing and Sword: a d20 Modern military campaign [METAGAME]

[Bobitron]

Shaman, email me your address at my work account and I'll get that book out to you tomorrow.

 

[The Shaman]

Shaman, email me your address at my work account and I'll get that book out to you tomorrow.

Wilco - thanks.

I take it you've had no luck with your computer at home?

 

[Bobitron]

I take it you've had no luck with your computer at home?

Correct. I'm at a loss. Some people at work gave me some ideas of things to check, but I am completely clueless. No access to Outlook or the internet, and I can't use dial-up because we don't have a land phone. Oh well.

 

[Bobitron]

No email yet, Mike. I only have access until 8pm EST, gaining it again on Thursday morning.

 

[The Shaman]

No email yet, Mike. I only have access until 8pm EST, gaining it again on Thursday morning.

*PLING!* You've got mail.

 

[Bobitron]

*PLING!* You've got mail.

And you have a reply, thankyouverymuch.

Edit: I'll have access for another half hour or so, working a little late.

 

[The Shaman]

He can barely make out the large square shape of a dumpster behind the fence, swearing under his breath as he peers into the night. I can't see a thing...

Wow - you predicted this all the way back in July!

Have I mentioned that I am not looking forward to a fight in the dark? :\

And you're up really late or really early...

In other news...

Bobitron and I are playing in a d20 Call of Cthulhu campaign here on ENWorld - a few weeks ago, our GM, Job, calculated that it was going to take several years to finish Beyond the Mountains of Madness. (If you've played it already, NO SPOILERS, please!)

In digging up Bobitron's quote on fighting at night, I realized that it's taking us about six months per engagement (encounter) right now - with our eight operations (adventures) and roughly fifty-four engagements, that suggets it will take us about twenty-seven years to finish this campaign!

That's more than three times as long as the war in Algeria itself.

And of course this doesn't include the 'drop-in' encounters I have planned, like various "forty-eight hour passes" for your off-duty shenanigans.

Our pace is about as good as it's going to ever be - a fact for which I'm quite grateful - so I think I may trim down a few engagements and see if we can't finish this campaign by 2020.

 

[The Shaman]

I wasn't feeling well today, so I took a day off, and with my unexpected free time I updated the House Rules Compendium again this morning: HRC.

There are five new feats that may be taken beginning at third level, a list of skill synergies from Knowledge skills, and two 'secondary skills', SNEAK and WATCH. I meant to include the latter before we reached the garage, so you could take advantage of them in the current engagement.

SNEAK and WATCH allow you to take the average of your Hide and Move Silently or Listen and Spot skill check modifiers and make a single roll for each combination where appropriate. Since I called for all four of these skill checks (!) when your characters reached the Esso station, I want to give all of you the option of using the secondary check if you like.

Barak and Bobitron, if you want to use SNEAK and/or WATCH, take the higher of the unmodified Hide/Move Silently and/or Listen/Spot rolls you already made and apply the SNEAK or WATCH modifier as appropriate - note the changes in your IC posts if you exercise this option. I won't post again until Thursday night to give you both a chance to decide if that's an option you want to pursue.

If you have questions or suggestions about the House Rules, please post them here, rather than in the Rogues Gallery thread - I don't check that one very often, but I look in on this one every day.

I hope some of these additions will prove useful to you.

 

[Barak]

Done.. Since my modifier on all four skills is.. +0, it's rather easy for me.

 

[Bobitron]

I'll stick with what I already posted for now, Shaman. Next time I'll use the new composite skill check.

Book is on it's way, you should see it in a few days.