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After Cat accept his "gift" he was looking a lot more charming and persuasive!

Cat is very persuasive. He is also very, very stealthy. Not that you would know with all your loud clanking and bantering and bright lights. Though you appear to be a good capable-in-battle party to join up with, you are also very likely to attract more battles than necessary. So Cat had to observe ...

The party set up watches for the evening and began their resting. During the night, a tall, golden-haired, male, elf opened the door and looked in. He asked the party members on watch if he could come in. The party was suspicious, but let him stand just inside the door and explain himself. He said h...

We talked before the game and agreed that November/December is the likely time frame for starting Invisible Sun. We may meet earlier to discuss characters, though, and get the set up. Of course, if Ravenloft folks would accept the Count's invitation and go have dinner with him now, then we could sta...

I can cast another Healing Spirt before we go back to the Dwarves.

I wonder if Chip should pretend to be a dead body, being carried out by Sedon? Put lots of blood on Chip to disguise his features, etc.

Where does the Ravenloft group stand? Are they nearing The Big Bad?

Has anyone gotten their kit yet?

I was thinking if we get them this month, perhaps we could start in Sept or Oct?

My schedule should be changing by then.

When do you think we will start Invisible Sun?

Re: Notes from 5/2/19 - Looted So, after resting, what is our plan? -Eclipse

So, after resting, what is our plan?

-Eclipse

If Eclipse could sell or trade the + greataxe for a + scimitar that would be ideal. But I suspect trading posts are few and far between. At least the greataxe is a + weapon for situations where only + weapons will do damage. Otherwise, we seem pretty even on magic items now.

Re: Notes from 4/11/19 - Skirting conflict Did we pop? lol

Did we pop? lol

Is the goal to find Sedon's daughter first? Or protect the god first?

Could we plan here before the next session?

Or, fish nibbled away at the rope tied to the rocks at the bottom of the lake - and Deelo's bloated body bobbed to the surface - where it was found and animated by a Necromancer... Since then, "Deelo the Deviously-Controlled Deceased" has been havocking local hamlets. Agents of the underwo...

A messenger delivers a coded message to Belle. She reads it, pales, crumples the paper and throws it in the fire. "I must leave immediately," she tells her companions. "My apologies. Let us wish each other luck. I have found our time together pleasantly challenging. I hope we may meet...

Belle and Blue, her panther, are called away on another mission. I am taking a hiatus from Ravenloft. I realized that thurs are dinner nights, with later starts, so I would have to log off after only 30 to 40 mins most nights (considering setup time moves us to 8:30 or 8:45 but the time we are under...

Forgottne Realms tends to start earlier. So it seems to me to be more okay for Eclipse to poof out early from that. Perhaps she finds her own special dagger of something-slaying and it transports her away and back as Mercy did that time...

How about a ghost (could be ghost of Belle) who appears and gives warnings and communicates visions... ??

I don't mind introducing a new PC who is not a fighter. Alternatively or Additionally, I might ask Kili to take over my PC for later part of the evenings. Alternatively, I might role play an NPC monster or such part of the time and be a DM lackie. Alternatively, I could skip the Thur games for a whi...

I am looking to either modify Belle or introduce another PC who can hang out with the party part-time. She would need to leave the party between 9 and 9:30pm. (Explanation in group email.) I am thinking a healer Cleric, for instance, who comes in and heals and casts boons/spells. role-plays, and may...

Meta discussion: First, I was hoping Shar was just on the other side of the portal and you all would go and talk to her while I did my new character sheet, which I didn't understand I was supposed to be doing while we debated. :? Next, I hoped you would all come back and we would all go through the ...

-We could rate items we find on a scale of 1 to 10. -10 is an epic item or an item necessary to complete a quest. -1 is a non-magical (mundane) item, such as: a starting weapon, musical instrument, or fine pair of boots. -We rate items as best we can in the first couple days we have them. -We vote o...

If owner of site could delete the Logistics thread? I will start over here in a less complicated manner... Treasure Division Suggestion: 1.) DM enters day's loot list in game table to be posted on Vita. 2.) Veracity picks up lists from post and creates tables (as Brianna used to do) tracking who ha...

Yes, we issued IOUs and we used "cash out values" of spare loot. I'm just concerned that we don't get "enough" gp anymore and don't have any place to "cash out" spare loot anymore. It's possible that in Ravenloft, where we are paying in coin for food and lodging, we cou...

Veracity wrote: --The method should have ways of "appraising" an item even when we can't immediately discern everything about an item. It's not at all clear how this can be done, but I'll reserve judgement until I hear the proposed details. In other words, I do not "agree to the foll...

Please post here = your "new" treasure and gp you have aquired since we started adventuring together. (Skip things you got in starting package at L1) DM = I know this is asking a lot and not really your responsibility, but could you post the party gp loot awards to date, as a one-time favo...

Could Fuma enter the prophecies/rumors/clues he has noted here?

For example:
--Sedon's related visions and communications from his book and his daughter, etc.
--The blind wagon driver's information.
--The prophecy from the underground halfling town.
--The original "chosen ones" legend.

Could the PCs list their "new" stuff here? Meaning anything aquired after coming through the mists.

Also, if anyone is holding anything "for the party," list that here too.

Could Calder enter the proshesies here?

I will list out the key items and places, etc and add that to the information I'm creating to track treasure and gp.

Please no point system. We have gp - let's use gp. Even if items can't be sold at the moment, they have a gp value. Let's use that. If we do adopt this system, then just assign each hoard a value, and divide by the number of characters - as in the past. Assigning a "hoard value" and divid...

Veracity wrote: --The method should NOT require DMs to "plant" items unless it relates to a particular quest. Yes, but what?! This is just a bizarre statement. It's their world. Both DMs commented on not being expected to plant PC-specific items for us to find unless it is essential to a ...

Being aware of the short amount of game time tonight, I've been assertive (and yes provocative) in trying to get us to start coming to a consensus. These are all at the proposal stage until we all weigh in and agree. But that doesn't mean we should debate until Christmas... Come on, guys. Let's star...

Yeah, I'm aware of the short window. That's why I maybe jumped the gun on trying to get us moved along here. If we can continue the talk in the forums I'm happy to NOT talk during about these topics during game nights.

Veracity volunteers to create the tables listing treasure found and assigned. Veracity volunteers to work with 2 or more other players to create a point system for valuing items found. (IMO, ideally, two DMs and at least 2 players should work on this via skype sessions out of game.) Suggestion (to a...

Assuming we have agreed to the following... Let's talk implementation/logistics here. I'll start. Please change/add. Distribute gp and magic values roughly evenly over time : (A) Create tables that list current holdings of party and individuals (B) Create either a gp value system or a point value sy...

Summary = Have we agreed to the following? --We will go with a method that distributes gp and magic values roughly evenly over time. --The method should allow individual choice. --The method should NOT require DMs to "plant" items unless it relates to a particular quest. --The method shoul...

If someone "at the table" will send me nightly lists, I will be happy to track and value. I will undertake to create tables and I will modify my own PCs such that they can each cast Identify. Again, I propose that dividing values, "buying from the party," and issuing IOUs be part...

Brianna,
I have sympathy for your frustrations and apologize for offending you.If feel that the current party in your current world is being underserved in treasure by my presence, I will withdraw.
-Veracity

Still begs the question of assigning values in closed systems and being able to "buy" from the party.

I'm willing to step into the role of tracking loot. But to make that feasible, I need someone "on the other end" who is sitting at the table - to make the nightly lists. My audio breaks up and the folks at the table continue talking and I miss stuff. But creating the tables and such offlin...

Brianna, It was wonderful of you to consider all of us in the treasure you placed. I was very stupid. I was frustrated at not getting gp of my own to pursue plans of my own and was blinded by that. This tread is not intended to beat up on you in any way. I appreciate your efforts very much. I'm sorr...

Mercy, your suggestion is well-intentioned and explains why you behave as you do during our treasure divisions. My problem with that approach is that the goal is "for everyone to get something" after every battle in which there is loot. IMO, the goal should be to make sure everyone has equ...

I'll say that given that I strive to ensure the opportunities for everyone balance out over the medium-short run. So it might not balance by encounter, but it should by episode arc. But there are some limitations based upon what works in the adventure. Seston and Brianna, I believe that you both ha...

My understanding is that: (a) there are communities (though few and far between) where we will be able to buy/barter items (b) we expect to eventually be able to pass through the mist (c) we expect to eventually return the apocalyptic world to "normal" and/or move through portals to other ...

Deed to the Windmill... Caldor I believe Caldor originally picked it up at the haunted house and carried it around without indicating one way or the other that he was claiming it. But since he had it in his possession we started calling it his. And we starting telling the hags he owned the Windmill...

People have their own visions of what their characters want and what they want for their characters. We should be allowed to make our own choices - even if they are dumb choices in the eyes of the DM or other players. There are random treasure generators in the DMG. I have no problem with those bein...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTwBQniLSc

showing that armor was not as cumbersome as we imagine..

Hurdles in the two worlds we are currently playing: --In M's world, we have been transported to an apocalyptic future, where we don't currently know of anywhere to have items appraised or to buy stuff. --In B's world, we have entered a region surrounded by impenetrable mist, so we are similarly limi...

It is my hope that we will discuss this here - in the forum - as players - before the next game. I do NOT want to have this discussion in game as PCs. As PCs we have an obligation to roll play that we crave gems or weapons or scrolls or want a Lawful Good plan or an NC plan, etc. Then we aren't talk...

Wasn't this the method of treasure division suggested by Brianna that we adopted fairly recently but not universally? It's a good system, but perhaps each party should role play its merits. I believe we did start out with dice rolls for who "got to pick first." And then folks started gett...

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