General Chatter

[sulldawga]

This weekend was my wife's birthday so I was out and about all weekend. Will update the game tomorrow.

Gars has time to take an action before I roll for the snake. Your teammates chose violence.

[sulldawga]

Went into the city for work today and met a friend for a drink afterward and now I am tired. Will update tomorrow.

[Rex]

Sounds like a good day.

[sulldawga]

I know we're about to go on hiatus for a week when I go on vacation but I wanted to get The Wanderer into the game as quickly as possible. We'll make it easy for him to get across the river and join you in exploring the Ruin.

[Rex]

Excellent.

[sulldawga]

Glad we don't use material spell components.

I was assuming he was extracting what is magically useful, like we did previously for resale. (If you want it to be Survival instead of Magic, it is 13 instead of 15. I hoped magic was useful there.)

A good opportunity to discuss, though. Gars doesn't cast spells but he can make magic items, such as single use potions or calyx that mimic a spell. (p.92) This requires that he gather components by adventuring. In the book it recommends "devoting a game session to an ingredient" but in PbP that is months of play and really selfish. It also requires you as GM to write an adventure around the thing i am seeking which violates your point crawl. In other games (and i recommend for this one) we implemented gathering suitable components from the creatures fought in the normal gameplay -- it then puts the onus back on me as a player to propose what magic item i can devise from what we acquired instead of forming the adventure around what i desire. In this case, you would say "giant snake antecedents for x000sp" and that's the value for magic item creation. This also helps control inflation of coin, because actually hordes large enough to fund even the simplest potions at book prices is an issue. I would recommend you allow the full value of an antecedent for magic item creation and a value of no more than 50% if we try to sell it to other mages instead.

This also goes with the idea of Occult Exemplars (p.264). A wonderful component of WWN, you can add non-useful magical trinkets from past ages (random generators have great ideas) that bump up the flavor of otherwise empty rooms. You assign the sp value to it and it is useful as parts for making other magic items in downtime. This again puts the impetus for utility back on me as the player and slows monty haul acquisition. Again, i would allow retail at 50% or less.

Tl:dr - when i have time to investigate giant/strange creatures, i am hoping to roll Magic and gather useful parts that you assign a sp value to for item creation (prices are in thousands on page 92, so the parts are saleable at less than 50%)

Pulling this lengthy comment into OOC for a response.

Let me review the rules but I will always make sure the game provides what a player needs to fully play his/her PC.

And the beauty of PbP play is that, if we have a couple weeks of in-game downtime, we can run a short solo game on the side to get you some specialized components, if you're interested.

[sulldawga]

Well, we didn't get a chance to do much more than introduce The Wanderer but let's go ahead and put the game on pause for a week.

Go ahead and get a few hours of Baldur's Gate 3 in while I'm gone!

[Rex]

Enjoy your vacation!

[sulldawga]

I'm back from the beach. Are we all ready to start the game up again?

[Rex]

All set here.

[Marullus]

Leaving for the beach in a few moments, don't expect internet access until Saturday night. I am good, though, with you NPCing Garm to keep things moving.

[sulldawga]

Leaving for the beach in a few moments, don't expect internet access until Saturday night. I am good, though, with you NPCing Garm to keep things moving.

Have fun! We'll do our best to keep you alive.

[Rex]

Enjoy the beach!

[The_Wanderer]

I'm back from the beach. Are we all ready to start the game up again?

Ready to go!

[Marullus]

Enjoy the beach!

I found I have a signal on my phone while my toes are in white Caribbean sand, so here we are.


...I think I am still waiting for adjudication for my vivisection of the giant snake for magic item parts? I don't have more to say yet.

[sulldawga]

...I think I am still waiting for adjudication for my vivisection of the giant snake for magic item parts? I don't have more to say yet.

I am fine with you collecting monster parts as components for non-permanent magic items. I think we'll stick with RAW for now when it comes to permanent magic items.

[Marullus]

Sounds good to me.

[sulldawga]

giving Enoch one more day to post.

[sulldawga]

No Enoch so we're moving on without him.

Another reminder to please spell out your actions during combat in OOC brackets. Wanderer, I know you're new here so the request is to have you list actions by type so I can see what you're trying to do. It also helps me know whether or not your actions are "legal". For example, if you list "Draw handaxe" under On-Turn action, I have a reasonable expectation that the handaxe is Readied and didn't require a Main action to draw.

I am not as up to speed on each of your PCs abilities as you are so you spending 30 seconds to do this saves me minutes of time each combat. Marullus, especially helpful for you since I have to open up an entirely new book and find the Accursed entry every time you fire up one of your Arts.

Please identify which enemy you're attacking. Each of the skeletons has a number. Again, a tiny bit of extra effort from each of you saves me a lot of time, especially when I'm trying to sneak a round of combat in at lunch time to keep the game moving.

While we're on the subject, one might assume from the name of the Art that Weeping Wounds requires a wound that is weeping with blood, but there's no language to that effect so I think it works on undead.

[sulldawga]

How are we doing, folks? I hope we all enjoyed a great Labor Day weekend and are ready to get back to gaming! If so, please post in the IC thread if you want to investigate the source of the wandering skeletons!