Play-by-Post D&D: The Lounge

[BlueBard]

Ambrose kind of watches in a mute combination of disgust and curiosity at Og's adventures in cooking.

I can only guess at what Ambrose is thinking...

Does he get XP for making that concoction?  Or from eating it?

Improves his Constitution.  Also helps keep him regular.

[Viking]

Improves his Constitution.  Also helps keep him regular.

It's like I always say...  Nothing helps craft a great D&D game like a great BM.

Uh... GM!  I meant GM!

[BlueBard]

New for breakfast from Killogg's:  Ogre-O's!

A tasty cereal made from spoiled oats loaded with sugar and cholesterol and preserved and fortified with 10 essential alchemical toxins and mineral oils.  Your Ogre will love 'em!

(Not for human consumption)

[BentonGrey]

LOL!

[Glitch Girl]

And here I was wondering if we could get through this without the poo jokes.  Silly me.  ;)

[Panther_Gunn]

I'm glad I could provide others with such inspiration.   :lol:

[Uncle Yuan]

Given Og's digestive system, inspiration is the last thing I want to do . . .

[Viking]

And here I was wondering if we could get through this without the poo jokes.  Silly me.  ;)

Just be glad that I didn't opt to play a Chinese alchemist who began his career throwing bag of flaming animal dung.

His name?  Hu Flung Pu.

He had a twin brother who followed much the same career path - Yu Flung Pu.

Sometimes the two of them collaborated in their alchemical works, putting their assorted creations together so that they could compare and contrast.  They called it their Pu Pu Platter.  Indeed, they had phenomenal platter control.

[Glitch Girl]

Viking, go sit in the corner.  :P

[Panther_Gunn]

OOC: I'll sing, if that helps you any. ^_^

Og:  "The wheels of cart go round and round...."

[Glitch Girl]

Apparently the dice are in a snit tonight. We had only one sucessful spot check (and it was only a 15), and someone botched.  I'll let you guess who. 

[BlueBard]

Apparently the dice are in a snit tonight. We had only one sucessful spot check (and it was only a 15), and someone botched.  I'll let you guess who. 

Man, don't tell me the freaking ranger is still missing his spot checks.  You'd think an Elf with the Spot skill would pass a few spot checks every now and then.

Maybe I need to mail you a new set of dice.

[Viking]

Clearly, the leftovers from Og's breakfast have given you a -10 circumstance penalty to Spot checks.

[Glitch Girl]

BB, I seem to get the really crappy rolls when I use the online dice roller ('cause I was too lazy to get my dice out of the car)  I'm starting to think I should just leave a real d20 near my PC at work and at home and use that instead. The highest was an 18 (Orloid's) followed by the next highest being an eight (Og).

Could be worse though: I had a game where I had everyone roll a spot check and all three players rolled a 1.

[Uncle Yuan]

Could be worse though: I had a game where I had everyone roll a spot check and all three players rolled a 1.

Critical failure on a spot check?

GM: "Um, yeah.  Inexplicably the entire party is struck blind.  What do you do?"

[Panther_Gunn]

The highest was an 18 (Orloid's) followed by the next highest being an eight (Og).

"Og am observant.  Sometimes, Og can even find door!  However, on botch, Og forget where butt is."  :lol:

[BlueBard]

BB, I seem to get the really crappy rolls when I use the online dice roller ('cause I was too lazy to get my dice out of the car)  I'm starting to think I should just leave a real d20 near my PC at work and at home and use that instead. The highest was an 18 (Orloid's) followed by the next highest being an eight (Og).

Could be worse though: I had a game where I had everyone roll a spot check and all three players rolled a 1.

I agree; online dice rollers tend to suck.  Comes from having poorly designed randomizer algorithms.  Or so I would understand, not being a mathematician myself. The html-based D&D dice roller I found on a WotC resource page is especially bad, as it would get 'stuck' and deliver the same roll over and over and had to be started over from scratch.

Lately I've been using Dice Tool from www.rptools.net.  So far it seems to be okay, and it's freeware.  Not quite as easy to use, but not bad for the basics.  The distribution of rolls seems to vary nicely for the most part.  You can set up tabs with collections of different dice and dice modifiers (such as 3D6+1).  So you could literally have one tab for each character with all of their most common die rolls and relevant modifiers right at your fingertips, if you want to bother to set that up.  I just use the basic stuff and don't get too fancy.  The fancy stuff is more than I want to deal with.

Anyone else found a better freeware die-roller program?  Speak up!  Enquiring GM's want to know!

[Uncle Yuan]

"We're all very nonchalant, aren't we . . . ."

"Enough of this," roared the sea elf, turning upon the shadowy pursuers with azure eyes blazing.  "I have had enough of running, it is time that my blade dealt with those who would stand in my way!"

Why, yes.  Yes, we are.

[BentonGrey]

Well, we were........ :unsure:

[Glitch Girl]

Says the blue elf about to go on the warpath.  ;) :D

[Panther_Gunn]

Does anyone have a steam whistle that Og can sound as he charges his way through an impression of the Plot Train?   :lol:

[Viking]

Does anyone have a steam whistle that Og can sound as he charges his way through an impression of the Plot Train?   :lol:

Starbuck has Pipes of Sounding, though he'd rather not lend them to Og.  It, uh... might make him lose his balance as he charges.  But Starbuck will be happy to be the Sound Effects guy in the background.

[BlueBard]

Viking,

Okay, I want to know...

Did you make up that Gilbert and Sullivan-ish Xena ditty, or did you find it somewhere?

If you made it up, you're thrice the bard I ever thought about being, a great scholar, and you have way too much time on your hands.

If you found it somewhere, where?

[Glitch Girl]

I think he found it here: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/filk/xena.htm

It even has the footnotes.

HOW he found it in the first place though, I have no idea.

[Viking]

Kevin Wald, the author, was a good friend of mine in college.  (We were both keen Gilbert & Sullivan fans, and did improv theater together.)  He sent me a copy after he first wrote it, which I found hysterical.  Complete with the footnotes written in a straight-man, scholarly fashion.

Sometimes, being a bard just means having a great repertoire.

[Glitch Girl]

Mental note: next time instead of a whole lot of enemies, I'll just sic one nigh-indestructable one at you.  Easier to keep track of.  ;)

On a slightly more serious note: how did combat go?  DO I need to speed it up, more detail, less detail, comments, criticisms?

[BentonGrey]

I think things moved along pretty well, I'm just curious if there is more I can do than say 'I take a swing at X.'  I have the disarm feat, I know, but anything else?  My memory is legendary....notorious, is actually a better word.

[Viking]

Hm.... I wonder if we'll end up with any prisoners to question, or if they'll all end up dead.  My regular D&D group has this annoying tendency to leave no survivors for questioning, and my cleric really doesn't like dedicating spell slots to Speak With Dead.

I have no problem with the flow of combat here - it went just fine, in my book.  Granted, I was playing the less glamorous support role, but I have no problems with that.  Guarding Nathan against random GM-induced hazards is a Good Thing.

Still, I'm curious as to how many quivers of arrows Whisper is carrying.  One thing I learned on my archer-cleric in my face-to-face D&D game: Haste + Rapid Shot = Out Of Ammo Soon.

[BlueBard]

Hm.... I wonder if we'll end up with any prisoners to question, or if they'll all end up dead.  My regular D&D group has this annoying tendency to leave no survivors for questioning, and my cleric really doesn't like dedicating spell slots to Speak With Dead.

I have no problem with the flow of combat here - it went just fine, in my book.  Granted, I was playing the less glamorous support role, but I have no problems with that.  Guarding Nathan against random GM-induced hazards is a Good Thing.

Still, I'm curious as to how many quivers of arrows Whisper is carrying.  One thing I learned on my archer-cleric in my face-to-face D&D game: Haste + Rapid Shot = Out Of Ammo Soon.

I assume I was carrying a full score of arrows when we started (20).  So I've used quite a few, but should have some left and I fully intend to try to salvage arrows at the end of the fight.  Rough estimate I've used 10 arrows give or take, not counting the current round.  Probably half or more of those are unsalvageable.  Whatever arrows our enemies may possess I will claim as part of the spoils.  So I expect to have at least 7 arrows left over plus whatever I can retrieve.  This is partly why Whisper took the Bowsmith skill, so I could try to replace arrows if I have to.  Even poor-quality arrows crafted in the field are better than none.  But I'll be happy to buy as many as I can afford and load up a beast of burden with whatever I can't carry.

I probably wouldn't have done Rapid Shot under less-fortuitous conditions, but as long as I was able to apply the Point Blank bonuses on top of the Haste bonus nearly every shot counted.  When I didn't have PB, I didn't declare RS.

I was happy with the flow of battle.  It went better than I expected, actually.  None of us took more than token damage but the foe was decimated.  The map was very, very helpful.  How did you create it, GG?

Oh, and Whisper has started an Arrow-Replacement Fund and is accepting donations.  ;)

[Panther_Gunn]

Sorry I didn't post early enough.  Og *would* have pounded her earlier, but I just didn't have much of a chance to post.  Was kind of hoping that his stated intent to move back to #5 after 9 was done would have been enough.  No biggie, though....no one got hurt any more because of it.....except Og's larder.  :P

Oh, and Whisper has started an Arrow-Replacement Fund and is accepting donations.  ;)

"ooh, Og have one for elfy-man.....wait......it right around here, somewhere....." *looks down at his side, and begins to slowly turn in a circle, like a dog chasing it's tail*