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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 29 Apr 2009 : 02:26:37
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If Lithoniel's going to scout, then one of the smaller PCs should ride with her.
One of the poor horses is going to carry two full grown men. |
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Tyr
Learned Scribe
225 Posts |
Posted - 29 Apr 2009 : 13:59:37
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luckily my horse has a 25 str :D
Keldon can train Varak to be a whirling windmill of metal death while he points over his shoulder shooting fireballs! |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 29 Apr 2009 : 14:03:00
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| Hmm... Probably makes more sense to take Nagrath instead of Cyr. If we find anything, I'd rather the healer was with the main group. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
Posted - 29 Apr 2009 : 14:21:29
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| Yup. Nagrath will have to ride with Cyr. Everything should be now reflected on the spreadsheets, including Cyr's healing on Keldon. |
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Ghost King
Learned Scribe
USA
253 Posts |
Posted - 29 Apr 2009 : 18:04:11
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quote:
Originally posted by Tyr
luckily my horse has a 25 str :D
Keldon can train Varak to be a whirling windmill of metal death while he points over his shoulder shooting fireballs!
lol Sounds good man. |
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Eye of Horus-Re
Acolyte
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 29 Apr 2009 : 21:35:11
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| Sorry to nose in on your game guys. I havent played this way before. Could someone give me a quick explanation? |
Long live 1384 and that which came before....!!! |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 29 Apr 2009 : 22:04:56
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It works pretty much the way it sounds: instead of all sitting around a single table talking, we're posting what our characters say. Instead of rolling dice for all to see, we're using a site that rolls and stores them for us. Instead of paper character sheets and maps drawn on white boards, we're posting info into online spreadsheets.
The advantage is that it allows people from all over to play in a game, which we wouldn't otherwise. It also allows us to delve more into what the characters are thinking and feeling, and share them with the other players, than you would normally at the table. The downside is that it takes MUCH longer. We've been going for a couple of weeks now, and everything we've done could have been accomplished in an hour at the gaming table, two at most.
Is there anything in particular you're wondering about? Feel free to read through the game thread to get a sample of it in progress, if you want. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
Posted - 30 Apr 2009 : 01:43:56
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| This game is going lightning fast, believe it or not, compared to many other play-by-post games I've been in. |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 30 Apr 2009 : 02:04:59
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| Tell me about it. I'm stuck in the General Briefing That Just Won't Wrap Up in a pbp Shadowrun game on another forum. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 30 Apr 2009 : 02:47:18
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| Hey Ashe, unless I'm misreading the map, the bird thingies *came* from the trees. You'd have to run past/under them to get to the trees. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3256 Posts |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 30 Apr 2009 : 04:48:24
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| Thanks for clarifying things, Barshevy. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
Posted - 30 Apr 2009 : 07:04:50
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| BTW, I've added a new tab on the spreadsheet entitled "Round Actions". It starts at -1, because we are two rounds away from melee with the monsters. The current round will always be highlighted in gray. |
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
Posted - 30 Apr 2009 : 07:05:20
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| BTW, I've added a new tab on the spreadsheet entitled "Round Actions". It starts at -1, because we are two rounds away from melee with the monsters. The current round will always be highlighted in gray. |
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Eye of Horus-Re
Acolyte
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 30 Apr 2009 : 17:53:49
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| Thanks a lot guys! I will try to catch the next one! |
Long live 1384 and that which came before....!!! |
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Cardoc
Seeker
59 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 01:14:22
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Hey all, I've been following along too and really enjoy what I've been reading. A good group of roleplayers here, and it will be fun to watch some character develop. I particulalry like Nagrath, he's hilarious.
Barshevy is right when he said this is moving lightning fast for a pbp game. The Star Wars pbp games I play usually get about one post per week from each player, so this is fantastic.
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 01:34:20
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| Barshevy, Nagrath also gets at least one dart attack (or more, since ROF is 3/1) as they dive in. Probably around medium range, so he would have time to switch back to his sword. |
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 01:42:36
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| That's fine, but he and Lith would be further away from the group at the start of round 1. Would that OK? |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 01:51:04
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| Huh? You can shoot a bow on the run, why can't you throw a dart on the run? The odds of hitting are lower, sure, but it should still be possible. |
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 02:01:24
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Well, like a baseball pitcher, you have to throw your body forward behind the projectile, if you want to give it any speed or distance. Yes you could still throw it without stopping, but it would be a weak shot.
I'll give you one shot, at -5. You and Lith will end up on the same place on the combat map. |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 03:03:24
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That's fair. C'mon 20!  |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 03:20:43
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Okay, that bites, we already had our weapons readied before ini, we just wanted them a bit closer..... Sigh.
Guess I don't see how we were denied a chance to use our ranged weapons when we saw them leave the trees and we readied our ranged weapons while they were still flying. How did they go from the trees to us that quickly? Shrug.
Guess I figured they were at long range because of the -5.... so I'm confused on what happened to the short and medium range. :) Because if they were at short and medium range, why the -5? Short range has no -'s and medium is only at -2..... According to the PHB on page 95.
I think maybe we need to clear up how far away they were originally because I'm really confused on how far they were originally. I can't reference the old map because you changed it but you said something about each square being 40 yards, so with a sling, we should have had time to at least get one or two attacks in before melee, depending on how far away they were. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Edited by - Kuje on 01 May 2009 03:43:46 |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 04:46:56
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I don't usually look up monsters during a fight, but I got curious about a stirge's movement rate. Turns out their fly speed is 18. This means a few things:
1) Nagrath is well and truly screwed if it comes to running away.
2) Since we were already in combat rounds, they can cover 180 feet in a round.
3) 180 feet translates into 4.5 boxes, when a box is 40 feet.
4) This means that if Lith and Nagrath had been willing to stop, they could have gotten off one complete round of missile fire before the stirges reaches them. Since we were running for our lives, I'm not going to complain with what we got.
5) However, the rest of the party would be able to get at least two whole rounds of missile fire off before the stirges could reach them, simply due to distance.
So, the sequence should probably have looked something like this:
Round 1: Stirge Groups A and B fly, L/N run, Nagrath gets one dart off, party gets one full round of actions.
Round 2: Stirge Group A reaches L/N and those five melee. Stirge Group B continues to fly. Rest of the party gets another full round.
Round 3: Second round of melee between L/N and Group A; First round of melee between rest of party and Group B. |
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Edited by - Hoondatha on 01 May 2009 04:47:48 |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 05:21:18
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Thanks Hoondatha, that's basically what I thought and was trying to clarify.
Round one, Tyr and I held out actions but we readied our slings. Round two we would have gotten our attacks off because the stirges would have been closer then long range or at -5. Then round three we would have been in melee.
It just felt to me that Tyr's and my ranged attacks got over-looked even though we were ready with our slings.
But I don't mean to harp on this, it just felt that we basically got screwed over cause we held our attacks so that the stirges were closer but not yet within melee range. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Edited by - Kuje on 01 May 2009 05:34:52 |
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 06:00:15
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Also, if Lith and Nag stayed where they were, I would not have split the stirges off into two groups. They would have swarmed the two in full force. In other words, running saved their lives.
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Tyr
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 01 May 2009 : 09:51:37
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| It doesn't really matter, as there's only 4 of them left it should be ok so long as we don't get really bad luck. |
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Barshevy
Learned Scribe
275 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2009 : 09:58:03
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| BTW, the combat map now updates automatically every time I make a change. So you can see whether you kill your enemy or not as the round progresses. |
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