OOC (out-of-character)

[reefwood]

Jun 24, 2011 19:09:27 GMT -5 Rabbit said:

Can a character multiclass with more than one prestige class?

Not sure if it is what i really want but a cohort rogue/assassin with a dip in shadowdancer to get hide in plane sight could be a pretty sweet addition to the group.

basically hide in shadows and jump out to make a death attack every five rounds.

This seems like it would be fine. And awesome!

[michael]

Players' Concepts of Bases: For the other players, I am just curious about what kind of "bases" they are building. I am talking about in character motivations.

Is Brion building a castle for himself and his family? A temple/fortress to Gorum? A little bit of both?

Is Nihm looking into building a place to study and experiment in privacy away from public view?

I was starting with just a small structure that could be used as kind of a training/proving ground for my followers, but I was imagining we could expand it more and more to be a base for all of us. We could have separate structures that are all in one area, and maybe build a big wall around it at some point.

At this point, I think all of us should all hire people to build a base from our nonmagical good rewards package. It takes 1 week for each 10,000 gp worth of building costs. If each of us hires a separate crew to build separate buildings in the same general area, we can do 3 times the work in the same amount of time.

I copies reefwood's post about pricing. Between us, I think we can get a sizable compound going.

Stronghold Builder's Guide

This book measures area and rooms in "stronghold spaces" which are usually 20 ft wide x 20 ft long x 10 ft high. Some examples of what can fit in one stronghold space are an opulent bedroom, or two normal bedrooms, or quarters for six servants, or barracks for ten soldiers.

The system is fairly flexible, so a stronghold space can be a bit bigger or smaller without adjusting the price, and you don't need to have every detail measured or listed to determine price.

Walls are priced per stronghold space (ss) based on material. A structure can have exterior walls made of one material (masonry) and interior walls made of another (wood), and the percentage of each depends on the total size (1-5 ss = 20% interior/80% exterior; 21-45 ss = 50%/50%, 125 ss = 70% int/30& ext, etc).

Rooms are measured in stronghold spaces and have their own prices which include furnishings and whatnot. A barrack for 10 soldiers is 1 ss and costs 400 gp. Some rooms also require a staff to be functional. A luxury kitchen is 2 ss and costs 50,000 gp and needs 6 cooks.

Doors, windows, and locks have their own prices too.

One stronghold space with wooden walls costs 1,000 gp. These walls are 6 inch thick, have hardness 5, 60 hp, and break DC 20. There is a note that states "No cost for ground floor," but I'm not sure what that means because I can't imagine wooden walls would be free as long as the stronghold only has one floor. Or why a two-story wooden building would cost the same as a one-story wooden building.

Just as an example... masonry walls cost 2,500 gp per stronghold space, so a structure that is only 1 stronghold space with exterior masonry walls and interior wooden walls would cost: (1,000 gp x20%) + (2,500 gp x80%) = 200 + 2,000 = 2,200 gp. This means that a room in the corner of the structure could have masonry for its two exterior walls and wood for its two interior walls.

Anyway, the price for a completely wooden structure that is 20 ft long x 20 ft wide x 10 ft seems to be 1,000 gp. This can include interior wooden walls to create rooms inside, but these would be plain, empty rooms unless room types (i.e. bedroom, barracks, etc) were also purchased. Additionally, a strong wooden door costs 40 gp, and an amazing lock costs 150 gp. This is how I got the total of 1,190 gp.

[reefwood]

Scheduling

It seems like the gaming calender will be very open in July, and I do want to get everyone together for the last 2 missions. If we continue further, then it will probably go back to seeing who is available and interested, but that's down the road.

So, do people want to play next week? Or wait for two weeks? Will anyone be gone during part of July? Is there any particular day(s) of the week that doesn't work next month?

Also, I feel really confident that the next 2 missions will only require 1 session. The one we just wrapped up should have just needed 1 session, but I added the "stampede" part after pushing back the game night, and of course, that went much longer than expected... which was totally fine, but I'm doing to avoid adding anymore extras for now. Or at least leave them for after the main part of the mission, so it's no big deal if we don't get to them or handle them online.

Anyway, the next 2 missions will focus on winning this war with might and strategy, so you can expect plenty of combat, and you will start the day with better intel than last time. And as I said at the end of the last session, the missions will get considerably more difficult.

As an example from last time, the disintegrate ray that missed Sahme would have done 90 pts of damage. I don't think that would have been enough to take him out (?), but if he opted not to grapple the caster - who it turned out was pretty terrible at breaking free - and decided to heal or run or turn invisible, there could have been a lot more damage doled out. Also, it helped that Sahme - despite being the lowest level PC - challenged the highest level caster to a solo dual cos he was mostly built to take on large numbers of foes, but once the room filled up with Nemedoran soldiers and summoned monsters, he could have unleashed on everyone at once.

[Rabbit]

Jun 28, 2011 14:50:14 GMT -5 reefwood said:

So, do people want to play next week? Or wait for two weeks? Will anyone be gone during part of July? Is there any particular day(s) of the week that doesn't work next month?

I could play next week or even the following. In general I do not have any noted plans for July so am pretty open.

...the missions will get considerably more difficult.

Bring it!

[reefwood]

Re: Scheduling

Jun 29, 2011 12:06:24 GMT -5 Rabbit said:

Jun 28, 2011 14:50:14 GMT -5 reefwood said:

So, do people want to play next week? Or wait for two weeks? Will anyone be gone during part of July? Is there any particular day(s) of the week that doesn't work next month?

I could play next week or even the following. In general I do not have any noted plans for July so am pretty open.

Next week is coming up fast, and it turns out that I do want to keep the first days of the following week open for right now, so how does Thursday, July 14th sound?

[Rabbit]

Jun 30, 2011 15:53:49 GMT -5 reefwood said:

Next week is coming up fast, and it turns out that I do want to keep the first days of the following week open for right now, so how does Thursday, July 14th sound?

That day is Miranda's birthday and I know she has some plans. I'm not sure that I would be making it, one way or the other, but icnivad might be planning on going...

[reefwood]

Re: Scheduling

Jun 30, 2011 16:25:52 GMT -5 Rabbit said:

Jun 30, 2011 15:53:49 GMT -5 reefwood said:

Next week is coming up fast, and it turns out that I do want to keep the first days of the following week open for right now, so how does Thursday, July 14th sound?

That day is Miranda's birthday and I know she has some plans. I'm not sure that I would be making it, one way or the other, but icnivad might be planning on going...

That is good to know, and the more I think about it, we're better holding off until the following week.

How about Tuesday the 19th or Wed the 20th or Thursday the 21st?

[Rabbit]

Jul 1, 2011 0:55:17 GMT -5 reefwood said:

How about Tuesday the 19th or Wed the 20th or Thursday the 21st?

I could do any of those day. Would prefer Tuesday or Thursday.

[michael]

How about Tuesday the 19th or Wed the 20th or Thursday the 21st?

Thursday the 21st works best for me, but I'm also available any of those days.

[reefwood]

Re: Scheduling

Thursday the 21st it is! See you all then, if not sooner.

[reefwood]

Re: Scheduling

Jul 6, 2011 17:51:30 GMT -5 reefwood said:

Re: Scheduling

Thursday the 21st it is! See you all then, if not sooner.

Just a reminder that we are set to play Chapter 19 on Thursday. Woo!

[Rabbit]

Jul 18, 2011 10:09:18 GMT -5 reefwood said:

Re: Scheduling

Jul 6, 2011 17:51:30 GMT -5 reefwood said:

Re: Scheduling

Thursday the 21st it is! See you all then, if not sooner.

Just a reminder that we are set to play Chapter 19 on Thursday. Woo!

woo!

[reefwood]

Game Night - Chapter 19

Just a reminder that we are set to play this evening at 6pm. See you all then!

[icnivad]

Looking forward to it. Emailed you my final character sheet + cohort.

[reefwood]

Scheduling - Chapter 20

How do people feel about playing the first part of the last chapter in two weeks? Either Tues the 16th, or Wed the 17, or Thur the 18th?