If Maris doesn't join up, Deni, you will be getting your swagger on IMMEDIATELY (though lurks declines to play right now, Zerg's DMing having temporarily soured her on the business). So I would recommend cobbling something together in the event that Maris doesn't understand how to answer PMs or doesn't even remember signing up or something equally likely.

In fact (I will say this for the third time), anyone who wants to play at any point should consider having a mostly-ready character in their pocket.

Oh god I would love to run a noir adventure so much and it dovetails neatly with my intentions for the guild

My apologies for sucking at DMing to the point that it turns off your players, Pang .___.

It's okay, little muchacho. Not everyone can be great like me. http://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/emot-smug.gif

I already told Pang to hold off on me until the Guild is ready. I'm a bit D&Ded out for the moment but those 20-sided dice haven't licked me for good yet!

edit: Oh, I missed that last page. This was to Deni but Pang already covered it. GJ PANG

edit2: I told you Zerg it's because I'm no good at combat STOP MAKING ME FEEL GUILTY GODDAMMIT :mad:

Lurks I have a lazy warlord waiting in the wings. Basically he doesn't attack anything, at least not competently anyway. He just stands there are tells everyone else to hit things for him.

I can build you one so you basically order everyone else around. Having a party of such lazy asses should be great fun!

I'm thinking that the "lazy warlord" gimmick would get kind of tired after the first time.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

I'm also trying to build a Seeker, but man are the power choices limited. Martial Classes get all the fun :(

All right, Pang. I'll rip something together on Thursday. If we do go Noir, I may need to find a small Goblin of questionable gender I drag around with me named My Gal Friday.

BTW, Pang, Deni. Do you happen to have the October 2010 updates? Or did Wizards eschew it again for Essentials releases?

Based on an initial eyeball of the October Errata, I don't think it will impact any of the games here.

The CB update is supposedly scheduled for the 12th. No Monster Builder update this month, again. No Dark Sun OR Essentials material in the CB, again. Just stuff from Dragon which has been pretty goddamn scanty itself. Even if it takes a while for a cracked patch to come out you'll not be missing out on much.

Aw dang. I wanted to see how Essentials change things around with the feats no longer tiered and such (without needing to read the books). :(

A question for your guild system. You said you'll be using inherent bonuses so we can accessorize more. Will you be sticking to the new player gear and cash rule (level +2 item, level+1 item, level+0 item, cash equivalent to level-1 item) or will you have a separate budget calculation?

Just don't entrust your Goblin to Zerg. >=(

Hay, I totally told Gary the Gallant Goblin to make his way back through the portal. Not my fault he didn't listen :(

A goblin? But... but there are so many puns to be had! Why not a ghoul? Or a gnoll? Or a golem?

"I don't pray. I'm incapable of kneeling as a consequence of my shoddy manufacture."

It's level-1 item, level+0 item, level+1 item. DMG pg. 143, #7. Unless when you say "new" you refer to some errata I'm not aware of.

But that ASIDE, valid question. With the inherent system the need for PCs to start with their "holy trinity" (+X weapon, +X armor, +X neck) is gone. Therefore players don't NEED to start with 3 magic items just to keep pace. You see where I'm going with this. I think it's more interesting for people to take their starting gold and spend it on a couple of items they find interesting than to waltz around with magic doodads practically spilling out of every pocket, and it makes the gold and items that they DO find all the more desirable.

I mean, the guidelines for the inherent system assume that you get magic items once in a blue moon or perhaps even never, so I don't feel that this is unfair.


EDIT: Not that these changes MATTER much, since maybe 1/4 of the character files I've ever received actually had their level-appropriate gear added by the player.

All right, so basically Adventurer's Pack, mundane weapons and armor, and cash equivalent to Level - 1? Goodbye, boons and tattoos.

Guess I'll have to rethink McLucas' gear, since it assumed the gear+1, +0, and -1 were sold for 100% cash and used to buy other doodads.

(And yes, I meant "new player", and it looks like I goofed with the +2 thing)

Mundane gear, kit, whatever. Technically speaking the guidelines say you can have as much mundane equipment as you want for free if you're starting above level 1, and that's fine by me. Have 20 bottles of wine, have 1000 feet of rope, go crazy.

As the gunpowder weapons aren't available in the Builder, what would otherwise be a very hilarious loophole in the reloading mechanic is avoided. And of course I reserve the right to stomp anyone who obviously intends to go on a reselling spree to artificially inflate their starting gold —

:mad:

Hawk, rules as written, you can't end a jump in mid-air. A little re-jiggling of events (Deft Strike+shift), then a run (moving a total of 10 squares), will let you end up at Row AR (I suggest maybe AR51).

http://upload.jetsam.org/images/Long%20Jump%20rules.png

Of course, maybe Pang can be persuaded to house-rule this, because frankly gravity and momentum do not work that way when you "run out of movement"!

Zerg, we already have a method in place for people who try to violate the laws of physics.

It's called "roll acrobatics".

And yeah I doubt I would let people just abruptly drop like a stone Looney Tunes style

In other news Maris hasn't even been on the board in days let alone answered my PM so if I haven't had a response by the Kraken's next turn I'll just roll Deni's initiative right then and there.

I should also mention, relevant to Deni's character, that I'm waiving the special weapon rules for small PCs in future. So if someone wants to make a halfling or gnome with a two-hander go nuts.

Or a corgi, corgis are also small. Never Forget About Corgis

Oh god. A gnome named Cloud wielding a giant 2 handed blade. Tempted to roll that just so I can throw him into the sea.

Epic.

So, how much of a bad idea would it be to leap onto the Kraken? Would I get any sort of to-hit or damage bonus the turn of the leap? Also would I actually be able to grab on to it or is its skin too slippery?

Man. Athletics to jump plus a grab. I like it.

Excellent I've had a kobold barbarian I was putting together that the weapon limits were really cramping his style.

Wvlf, I would rule that your anti-slippery boots are adequate to counteract the slipperiness of the Kraken's hide.

The kraken can't really do much to you while you're on top of it that it can't do anyway, so there's no special risk there. And it's awesome so take a +2 circumstance bonus to hit why not.

Deni, feel free to write yourself into the scene as you like. Your quick reference sheet is here:

Samwise Shadowspade | D&D 4E | Obsidian Portal

To view your powers, scroll down, click on misc, and you should then see the provided link at the top of the sheet. It's a little rudimentary right now but functional. And by all means let me know if you ever found a decent portrait image; I just stuck something up that amused me.

Moving forward the campaign wiki will be gradually moving to Obsidian Portal as — well, I'll be honest: all that amazing work Zerg did on fixing up new sheets for the new Saxypunch wiki? I accidentally destroyed it. All of it. Happened while installing the vb4 forum test. Tables = wiped. So while Zerg amazingly viewed this disaster as an opportunity to just rebuild something better, I decided it would be smarter to keep the campaign somewhere I couldn't break it so easily. I can't thank him enough for his help in all of this, but honestly it's time for us to stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Honestly I don't know why I didn't put this business on OP in the first place, other than pride.

Gra-fa-zut's sheet should also be Obsidian-ready by the time the next adventure starts, and from that day forward we can bid a fond farewell to MediaWiki, which has served us slowly and unreliably for many a month now.

Any of you who'd like to sign up for OP, feel free; let me know, and I'll invite you to the campaign and then, shit, you could edit your own sheet whoooooooa. This is optional, of course, but if you wanna then it's groovy with me.

This invitation does not extend to Skills, that cheaty fucker.

What promo code do we put in, Pang?