Esc's 4e Game, ON BREAK

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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

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Okay, gearing myself for the hate:



This is basically the map you got, as you see it. It's a map of Remican land, minus all the towns and stuff. I will add the major towns and cities shortly, however small towns will go unlisted, as they are on the REAL Remican map... So an area you expect to be wilderness or farmland may surprise you with a town. I will get an updated version up before next week's game, hopefully, but this should be good enough for you to work with tomorrow if need be. You may ask questions, but I may not be inclined to answer since I don't want to meta-things; this map wasn't meant to be seen by your characters, and so they likely won't know much of what they're looking at except "arrow points here" or "words are here".

Of course, if you ask me how long it will take for you all to get from one place to another, I will tell you, but the map's not perfectly to scale there... I did the best I could. The two weeks/1 month/etc, are not indicators of how long it takes to get to these places--they're just more words written on the map.

EDIT: I want gold total updates from those of you who aren't sending me character sheets (aka everyone who isn't Julie). Kraag and Jaisahn have been a bit spendy, so I want to know you guys are keeping track of this stuff.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Goddamn, you guys jumped.

You should be at 2950 exp total.

I felt like the energy wasn't totally there tonight--not sure if that's D&D drain or because we started with a combat. I'm working on tailoring things a little better and noting the kinds of stuff you guys like doing, and coming up with inventive combats, as I thought the tower thing would work out better than it did. I also was fumbling with my dice a bit when each attack came up, so I'll try to do better there too. I wonder if making DM macros beforehand and just rolling privately would work better to quicken things on my end. I don't want anyone bored.

Hopefully you guys are looking forward to next week.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Our group lacks a controller or any source of area of effect attack, so the large groups we fought tonight are going to take a very long time to resolve. Perhaps lowering the number of combatants and increasing their difficulty?

So is "Leave my donkey alone!" Jaisahns battle cry? He nuked someone from across the board with a critical hit using it. :)
 
Jay

Jay

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Personally, I was extremely tired and I went to bed a few minutes after the game. I felt particularly drained as I've started working out again and my body was killing me everywhere.

As far as the game goes, you need to realize that we got a Striker tanking with the same AC as the other people in the party. It's incredibly annoying to have my HP pool dwindle from max to needing a second wind during the first round when surrounded by 5 enemies who can crit you for 13 damage with a 40 HP pool. A few things can solve this issue. There could be less enemies during combat or come in different intervals, you can make them have shittier + to hit and damage, not roll consecutive crits! , provide more items that will increase the parities ability (I don't think we got a magical item beyond a side-grade for Kraag for 2nd chance which he never used thus far due to his LVL2 ability). Technically, we got a guy tanking with less defences than the spellcaster in the party.

I liked seeing Kraag scream at people to death to. RAWRRR! *5 guy heads explode*

:awesome:
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Our first encounter of the night lasted 10 full rounds and had several daily powers used, so maybe stronger but fewer opponents is the way to go. Without battlefield control, our fights are going to last a very long time.
 
Jay

Jay

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Yeah, low level characters don't have a whole lot they can do beyond round 3 other than doing At-Wills.
 
R

Runefyst

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Move the game to Sunday and I can provide a Controller. ;) Hehe, I kid, I kid. What were you guys fighting?
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Mangy humans.

This last session's combats were the first ones I used suggestions from the D&D Insider stuff for, thinking I could pare it down properly for the three of you, and that clearly didn't work out well. I note that the first night had combats of 2 strong enemies and 2 minions, and then 1 boss enemy and 3 re-spawnable minions, and those did seem to flow well. I don't want every combat to be the same length; I like the idea of one lasting two rounds and then another lasting five.

But I do see what you mean about number of enemies. Even though there were a ton of enemies in the second session, they were mostly minions and easily chopped through. I will experiment with some ideas on Sunday in how to implement the combats I intend for next Wednesday's game, and hopefully more stuff can happen so the combats feel like an integral part of the story and not road blocks.

And Jay, I swear I rolled two 20s in a row. I could've fudged it and ignored the second, but when will that ever happen again? (Unlike your 4 1's in a row :p.)
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Just goofing around with Jaisahn to see how he will play at epic level.

His level 30 Healing Word :)

Targets both Aurora and Kraag at the same time,
They can each spend a healing surge and gain and extra 11d6+63 hp
They each gain +6 to defenses until the end of my next turn
It has a range of 16
And I gain 1/2 the hp granted to each target

Crazy but looking at the monsters at that level, I will most likely use that every round before going to alternate sources of healing.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

If we get there :p. I have a story in mind for this, and while I don't know what level it will end at (you guys seem to level pretty fast, probably because I throw in too many minions and there's only three people to divide experience between), I don't know that the campaign will last to level 30. My intention is to play through the story as it involves certain stuff going on in Remica, and what situations involve your characters both personally and not. If I start a sequel campaign or not, who knows.

My brother may be joining your group in late August/early September when he gets back from Vegas. He's never played D&D before, but he's listened in on some of our sessions with Shawn and he wants to give it a try. Not sure if he'll be able to play past December when wrestling season starts (and if his grades start slipping, I'm going to kick him out on principle), but you'd have a fourth for a while, and odds are he'd like to play a Defender, though I'll let him be whatever he likes.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

I'd rather follow a story too. Jaisahn is one of my few characters that I have already mapped out to level 30 for progression, mostly because there are very few methods of not dealing damage if you want to be a pacifist cleric. I was looking at dragons last night and wondered how the three of us would fair vs an ancient dragon. Scary fight, really emphasizing effects over damage as a prerequisite for survival.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

:D If it was helpless, it would still take over 800 rounds coup-de-gracing it for us to kill the beast. That's over five hours of in game combat.:D
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Sounds like an easy DMing night. No improvised tavern meetings or clues left unobserved. Just let the dragon lie comatose and keep track of HP.


I'm kidding, of course. The hijinks of you three are what make the game.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Jaisahn is Captain Endurance!

Fights in a blazing fire! Fights in a wharehouse! Drives TWO carts all night while blind! Fights in a police station! Fights in an underground crab factory!

Without a rest to be seen!
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

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Fights in an underground crab factory!
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Crabs to the left of me! Grues to the right! Small children! Angry barbarians! Matronly warlocks! And Jaisahn Jangelles with his trusty seeing eye dog Bo in the thick of battle with naught but his gods guidance and a pack of menthols to get him through the last day. Daily powers, gone, resources depleted, yet he slugged on and on never doing damage until the day was won!
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

This has been a hell of a day for poor Jaisahn. Kraag slept in the back of the cart while you drove all night, got arrested, fought dragonborn, battled a grue, and nearly drowned.

Between RP and combat, you guys gain 525 xp.

Items:

30 gold (so 10 each)
Dagger of Shared Wrath +1
Talon Amulet +1
Spiked Jacket +1 (can be Hide or Leather, I'll say)
Belt of Endurance +1
10 days of rations
One small, crazed little girl
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

I think that exploding sound that was heard in Quebec tonight was Jay's head when I rolled 4!! natural 20's while using Astral Seal :)

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so 3475 xp total thus far,

Kraag gave Jaisahn the Circlet of Second Chances, the rest of the items are pretty straight forward as to who should receive them.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

I think Kraag would've appreciated those rolls.

It seemed like people were more into it tonight, even though the Grue battle didn't go exactly as planned. Hopefully that can keep going. :)

You guys seem to go for interrogating for solving problems, and Julie is wanting to make Grand Inquisitor be Aurora's official title. Just need to think of how to break it up so you guys don't get bored, as you've had more interrogations than sessions at this point.
 
Jay

Jay

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Yeah, that's why Kraag snapped his neck. I'm not dragging a whiny bitch for no reason. Especially when he could follow simple orders. *snaps neck*

That Hide leather is awesomesauce and I can perhaps finally stop getting hit on every attack. LOL. Are we LVL 4 yet?

I think Aurora can best make use of that Endurance Belt.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

escushion said:
You guys seem to go for interrogating for solving problems, and Julie is wanting to make Grand Inquisitor be Aurora's official title. Just need to think of how to break it up so you guys don't get bored, as you've had more interrogations than sessions at this point.
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And it's getting harder to think of ideas to get Jaisahn to wonder away while acts of unspeakable violence are performed.

300 more xp to 4th Jay. Hopefully we can make it back to town by then. As I still need a full day to master my ritual.

Also, could we get a defined magic item level for magic ice boxes?
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

I love the juxtaposition that occurs when you play in multiple campaigns. The magic items in this game are fresh and interesting and 200 gp is a fortune to be carrying around, but on Tuesday I am struggling to find something useful to spend 16,000 gp on. And I always freak out when I see the HP differences...especially when Tuesdays HS value is more than Wednesdays HP total. :aaahhh:
 
Jay

Jay

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hey Darryl, I won't be making it to the game this week. It's my woman's bday and we've decided to go out on a romp in town. Hopefully you'll understand.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Jay said:
hey Darryl, I won't be making it to the game this week. It's my woman's bday and we've decided to go out on a romp in town. Hopefully you'll understand.
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Lies! He's using the time to devise fiendish plots to kill your characters in his game the next night!
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

I understand. BTW I can't make your first game due to SEX.

If the party had left off being on the road, I'd say we could have a game without Kraag; however, since you guys are on the verge of going after an NPC important to one character's story, the game will have to be postponed to the next week. I have contingency plans for if one member can't be present, but they only work if you guys aren't in the middle of a sequence of events.

No big deal. This gives me more time to get the town-filled map online.
 
Jay

Jay

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

I'm really sorry about this but look at the bright side, her birthday only come once a year. :)
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Okay, 6:30 PM, Wednesday night, no women to please, am I right? :p

And as I said a while ago, here is the full Remica map:



Note:

---This is not the entirety of town in Remica, nor all its geography--this is only what they put on the maps currently. There are some small towns dotted around, and so while you should bring proper rations along if you trek between big areas of seeming wilderness, don't be too shocked if a town pops up.
---The times "2 weeks, 1 month, etc." are not telling of distances from place to place; they are words written on the map by whoever drew the arrows. If you bought a similar map from a store, it would not have the red marks or time messages.
---Towns/cities with a big black X mean they are major trading spots and places you could reasonably expect to find magical weapons/armor for sale, or rituals, etc. Stuff of higher variation and quality. Other towns may have stuff like this dotted around, but it shouldn't be expected, more like something you'd have to search for. In other words, black X = big city, everywhere else, could be industrial, mining, farming, fishing... you'll have to see, or get good History checks.

Any questions, let me know.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Due to Julie's poor planning, game needs to be delayed to by 30 minutes. It probably still won't run past 10 though.

Sorry.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Esc's 4e Game, UPDATE: seeking another member (or two!)

Jaisahn, you found a Scroll of Familiar Mount, as well as another Vager Co. marked map.

Aurora, on the girls' bodies you found two rubies, each worth 50g, the black-haired girl wore a very pretty though revealing gown, and a Brooch of No Regrets +1.

Of the bodies in total, you found 30g between them.

In the crew rooms, you found 120g between them, though 30g of that belong to a crew member you left alive.

Under Mosiah's bed, Jaisahn found a cache of 900 gold pieces, which he may choose whether or not to disclose to the others.

And you get a boat--YACHT!


For experience, you guys get 450 xp, which should bring you to level 4, so get those sheets to me before Wednesday next week. I'm gonna talk to my brother this weekend and see if he wants to join you all--it won't be the next session, but maybe after, if he takes interest.
 
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