[OOC] Graveyard Shift

Not sure you're out of this decision. I mean, gee, did the groundskeeper just leave his stuff sitting there unattended?

Drink his booze!!! Help him help himself, and yourself to several fingers of rot gut.

Hey everyone, life has gotten pretty busy and I don't think I'll be able to continue playing. Thank you all for the fun experience. I really enjoyed playing with you!

Very sorry to see you go, arMedBeta! It's been a pleasure having you in the game. Barvek is a really fun character. You have a spot waiting for you should things ease up in the future.

By the way, folks: Happy November! Here's your 5 XP monthly award. Please let me know how you intend to spend it, or if you want to bank it for later.

Bank for now.

I'll bank for now, and I'll look at the options when I have some more time :D

I wanted to let everyone know that I've recruited a new player, emsquared, to join us. He's a longtime Gamers Plane user who frequently GMs Star Wars here, a game that uses the same system as Genesys. I'm excited to have him on board! We'll introduce his character when it makes sense to do so.

Hey everybody! Lotta familiar faces, stoked that SavageBob has invited me to join this game.

Look forward to catching up on what's happened, and figuring out how my PC might fit in.

Also, just realized I still need to do my Heroic Ability... is it okay to ask what everyone else ended up taking?

Welcome aboard emsquared! I picked Paragon - Stealth.

I think all character sheets should be publicly viewable; that's my preference in games I GM, anyway. Nekurr, our priest, has Foretelling, which ties into his worship of the goddess Fortuna. Hildar, our Elf mage, has Paragon - Arcana. Tronus, our Dwarf fighter, has Influential, representing his stern way with words.

This is a good reminder though: You've all surpassed 50 earned XP! That means you all get 1 Ability Point to use to choose an upgrade for your Heroic Ability. I know not all of you have the book, so here are the options:

Duration: The ability lasts 1 additional turn.

Frequency: You can now use your Heroic Ability twice per session. (Requires 2 Ability Points, so if you want this, you have to bank this one.)

Power: Your Heroic Ability is now the Improved version.
*Foretelling: While this ability is active, you may reroll one skill check relevant to a question you asked the GM.
*Influential: While this ability is active, your character only needs to spend Adv Adv to trigger a "critical remark" (see the sidebar on page 123 of the Genesys Core Rulebook) and inflict 5 strain on the target. Your character can inflict multiple critical remarks with a single check.
*Paragon: While this ability is active, you may remove Setback of your choice from the results of checks using your chosen skill.

Secondary Effect: When you use your Heroic Ability, it does something extra: Devastating (+2 damage on your attacks while the ability is active), Diminish (enemies add Setback to checks within short range while your ability is active), Drain (when you use the Heroic Ability, enemies within short range suffer 2 strain), Empowered (when your ability is active, you add boost to all checks), Empower Allies (when the ability is active, allies within short range add boost to checks), Rejuvenation (when your ability is active, you heal 2 strain each round), Rejuvenate Allies (when your ability is active, all allies within short range heal 2 strain)

Story: Your Heroic Ability only costs 1 Story Point to use, rather than 2.

Should being the operative word here ;) a couple are but I had missed where somebox had written theirs. See it now.

So, Paragon, the Know a Thing one, what about the dwarf and wizard?

Paragon (Arcana) for Hildar, and Influential (cause extra strain in social combats) for Tronus.

Empowered sounds pretty handy, I'll take it.

Hey mcsquared! welcome to the mystery :D

Getting to answers per session instead of one could be a big boost for investigations actually... I'll probably bank this for now

Hi Emsquared! Huh, didn't realise I'd not shared Hildar. I've done it now if anyone wants to take a look.

As for XP that takes me to 10 unspent so I'm buying a T2 talent - Signature Spell

Hildars Helpers
Conjure (1), Additional Summon (+1), Grand Summon (+2) Summon Ally (+1)
Base Difficulty of above would be 5 dice, down to 4 due to the Talent or 3 with the wand.

Thanks for the welcome, all!I kind of want to make it hard on Bob, and take the Foretelling one...

Seems also helpful for investigations, but not completely doubling up on something we already have. But man do I hate dealing with these kinds of abilities as a GM :P so I understand if there's a veto waiting for me on that.

CESN's character has Foretelling, so it would be doubling up, technically. But we can run with two forms of divination if that's what you want! It's limited to yes/no questions and doesn't give you the evidence to prove what you find, so there's still plenty of room to work with two foretellers.

My bad, away from books.

I thought there was one that was like "You know facts." and then another that was like, "You can see glimpses of the future." I'll revisit tonight.