Table Chatter

Mike has been absent from the other forum I see him on, as well, so... might be having some PC problems.

We're back online. One of our moron maintenance men drove a snow plow into our building's cable box. Sorry I wasn't able to get to the library I'll catch up and post tonight

Welcome back! Glad all is well.

My story is, I have no story:

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From Finora's character sheet:

Background:
If you have just met Finora the Wolf Slayer, you know as much about her as she does herself. Since the morning that farmboy Yan Elgenland found her battered, bruised, and bleeding in the meadow where the family's cows graze, she has been struggling to discover her true past. The single memory that she owns is a name – her name, or at least what she believes to be her name. Perhaps the gods will someday decide that not even that is as it seems.

When she looks at herself in the mirror, she sees a woman of average height, fairly muscular build, reddish-brown hair, and a myriad of ink markings like those worn by the savages of distant lands. The marks are of different styles, varying colors, and disjointed motifs, creating a patchwork of her body that not even the greatest of scholars could ever decipher. She can only assume that the body she inhabits has traveled well and far to have collected these marks, though she has no stories to tell beyond the Elgenland farm.

Since the family has nursed her back to health, the only thing that has felt familiar to her, that has felt as it should, is a sword in her hand and the heft of chainmail on her back. She does not wield a blade like a master – she'll be the first to tell you that – but she is training. And slowly but surely, the body and mind are remembering who they once were, even if the soul does not.

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So Mike can do whatever he'd like to get me into the story.

We haven't seen anything from Tagor since November, so I sent an email. If I need to choose between Tagor staying in Vulyar or turning him into an NPC to travel with the party, which option would you vote for? Thanks!

That's one vote for NPC-transmogrification.. more votes please

Agree that we would use a hireling cleric if Tagor does not return - might as well stick with what we have if that's cool with you, Mike.

cool.. one more for transmogrification, and i'll get out Calvin's Cardboard Box.

If everyone is ok with it, I'll jump things ahead to the following morning in the main action thread later tomorrow.. speak up over there if you desire further Townish interactionisms.

Cole or SpaceMonkey, you need to vote on whether we leave Tagor behind or bring him along as an NPC.

Something to keep in mind - in LL rules, clerics get one spell at first level - and they get to level two at 1565 xp, so they can pretty quickly get two first level spells. Not bad to have around for healing...

Oh, hey... didn't we pick up a potion on our first adventure? We need to test that out and find out what it is!

A couple quick thoughts about Tagor, Mike... If he does become an NPC or a hireling of sorts, we should move his character sheet to a thread you can update and then get it updated. He has plenty of money now to get some much better armour than leather. And he has a scroll that we found and gave to him to hold and I can't remember what the spell was... Bless, maybe?

ehiker133 wrote:

A couple quick thoughts about Tagor, Mike... If he does become an NPC or a hireling of sorts, we should move his character sheet to a thread you can update and then get it updated. He has plenty of money now to get some much better armour than leather. And he has a scroll that we found and gave to him to hold and I can't remember what the spell was... Bless, maybe?

I can update it now... heh. [flex]

Yeah, I believe it was bless, and yeah I'll upgrade his armor - good call!

xp updated, but only slightly

Check it out Cole.. hehe

Love it!

Yeah, we should probably bring Tagor along.

DM wrote:

Check it out Cole.. hehe

That's out of control. How much is dogplate?

Hmm.. I'm going to say.. one third of regular price heh

edit: And by regular price, I mean the price for human size armor.

Llama wrote:

ooc - my alerts seem to have turned off, my apologies for the absence!

Yeah, it just seems to happen once in a while that the board logs you out and you stop getting alerts.. I'll dig around and see if there's anything I can do about it. It's served as more than a passing pain in the ass on several occasions.

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Now that you have a bit of hard-earned treasure to spend, this is to let you know I'm using some basic 'xp for carousing' rules. Feel free to ask!

Experience points for spending money: This is a very old system, first used by Dave Arneson. In addition to gaining experience for defeating monsters and obstacles, for safely returning hard-won treasure, and for ingenuity and roleplaying, experience may also be awarded at a rate of 1xp per gold piece value of earned treasure spent. If the treasure was not hard-won in the course of adventure, its spending garners no reward. The treasure must be spent on something which has no game-mechanic benefit, but which is appropriate to the flavour of the character. Players may ask before spending if the planned outlay will reward experience or not.

Mike, this is the only information you have posted on the Sticky Rules regarding XP awards. With a new person in the game, it might not be a bad idea to briefly outline all of the different ways in which a person can gain XP (i.e. it's more than just killing bad guys)...

ehiker133 wrote:

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Now that you have a bit of hard-earned treasure to spend, this is to let you know I'm using some basic 'xp for carousing' rules. Feel free to ask!

Experience points for spending money: This is a very old system, first used by Dave Arneson. In addition to gaining experience for defeating monsters and obstacles, for safely returning hard-won treasure, and for ingenuity and roleplaying, experience may also be awarded at a rate of 1xp per gold piece value of earned treasure spent. If the treasure was not hard-won in the course of adventure, its spending garners no reward. The treasure must be spent on something which has no game-mechanic benefit, but which is appropriate to the flavour of the character. Players may ask before spending if the planned outlay will reward experience or not.

Mike, this is the only information you have posted on the Sticky Rules regarding XP awards. With a new person in the game, it might not be a bad idea to briefly outline all of the different ways in which a person can gain XP (i.e. it's more than just killing bad guys)...

good idea - I'll add on to it today sometime

DM wrote:

ehiker133 wrote:

Quote :

Now that you have a bit of hard-earned treasure to spend, this is to let you know I'm using some basic 'xp for carousing' rules. Feel free to ask!

Experience points for spending money: This is a very old system, first used by Dave Arneson. In addition to gaining experience for defeating monsters and obstacles, for safely returning hard-won treasure, and for ingenuity and roleplaying, experience may also be awarded at a rate of 1xp per gold piece value of earned treasure spent. If the treasure was not hard-won in the course of adventure, its spending garners no reward. The treasure must be spent on something which has no game-mechanic benefit, but which is appropriate to the flavour of the character. Players may ask before spending if the planned outlay will reward experience or not.

Mike, this is the only information you have posted on the Sticky Rules regarding XP awards. With a new person in the game, it might not be a bad idea to briefly outline all of the different ways in which a person can gain XP (i.e. it's more than just killing bad guys)...

good idea - I'll add on to it today sometime

Bump.

ehiker133 wrote:

And... once we get the directions, then that is where we'll go.

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Oi vey!! I got freexin logged out again

Will answer after I fix supper.. Mrs. is ill and had to stay home from work today