IC Story Thread: Ch.1,Ad.2 - The Far Reach

Alright, well if there are any last minute purchases you guys want to make (I might point out that you were all not very well equipped for breaking and entering, and there are Tools for that), go ahead do that, if there are any other questions go ahead and ask them. But following on that, we are heading into another "Journey Phase" here.

We can talk about this in characters or out of character or both, but if you remember from last time, we kind of assign these "Journey Roles" to folks - Scout , Hunter, etc - who may get called on for specific challenges and checks during the Journey, which all will affect basically the condition that you all will be in as we enter into the actual "Adventure Phase".

Ragnar was our Guide last time and so we need a new Guide, at least. And that may cause a general reconfiguration of Roles. So if you guys could maybe just review the Journey Roles and probably generally just refresh yourself on the Journey Phase section of the book as it's been a few months since we did this, and then volunteer yourselves for Roles?

And once we sort that out, our Guide can kick us off with a 1d12 Embarkation roll, modified by your Survival skill+1/2 Wis modifier (round down). And I'll factor in the Peril Rating on the back end.

So, there is a Journey Role of "Hunter" whose only job really is to provide food for the Company on the Journey. And by default the only time that they're assumed to have troubles doing that is if a randomly rolled Event declares it so. In which case it's a whole Skill check thing that isn't impacted by and doesn't consider/care how well you've provisioned yourselves anyway. (You could have bought 100 days of rations, and only be in the 20th day of the Journey, and if a Hunting Event says you're low on food, then in order to not completely gut the Journey mechanic, I would have to say, "Yes, this is a problem, you have no food. Even tho you bought 100 days on food..") And while that's a very mechanical, as opposed to narrative, way of looking at it, that's one factor to consider.

Also, you each have your Standard of Living associated with your Culture, which is assumed to cover and represent standard living expenses. - Which reminds me, you're each supposed to pay a cost associated with your Standard of Living, each Fellowship Phase, I believe... I'll look those up.

But anyway, while I don't know that your SoL is explicitly described as covering food for travel, it would cover your food if you were just sitting around at home. And so I feel like it's reasonable to think that it covers some amount of food, that you could take for travel?

And lastly, I'm frankly just not that interested in the level of book keeping entailed by day-to-day food tracking. I don't see much interesting gameplay nor a "fun" type of drama emerging from it.

It would basically just be a tax on your character for playing the game. Right? And instead of giving you gold only just to immediately take it away due to a formality, I'll just give you a tiny amount less gold and we assume you have adequate rations (not including during a Journey Event designed to create interesting gameplay around food supply)?

i.e. I'm inclined to say, don't worry about it. That kind of granular survival isn't the type of game we're really playing nor the kind of story I'm particularly interested in trying to tell outside of the Journey mechanics. Particularly in a populated land.

If we were venturing into the middle-of-nowhere desert, or the frozen wastes? Maybe we zoom in on that then. But not for this.

That's my thoughts anyway.

How do you guys feel about it?

@Drakis2,@Stefron,@Dr_B,@rpgventurer

Hello gang, just wanted to check in as things have been a bit intermittent/slow/quite in the past week or so.

Everyone doing alright? If you're experiencing IRL circumstances that are restricting your posting that's ofc fine, just please let us know your availability is changing (again, you never need to go into why, just a "I'm only going to be able to post once or twice a week for the foreseeable future." helps if that's what's going on).

Is anyone confused or hesitant on how to proceed? Or losing interest? etc. You won't offend me if so, I can frankly pivot this campaign fairly quickly if ppl would rather tell a different type of story?

If we're settling into a new normal, that is also fine, but I would want to consider bringing in a new player if so to help keep things moving.

So just a check in basically.

How's everyone doing?

No need to apologize I still feel good about our core group, and it's no single person, just generally as a whole the pace has slowed a bit.

Which I think is fine and natural, pbp ebbs and flows.

But I wouldn't see the harm in bringing a new player in, if the recent pace is just what it may be for awhile. Anyone have any strong feelings on that? I know it was mentioned before that 4 is a good number. I just don't want the game to peter out, and I can still see a good place to bring a new character in that's still coming, if that's what we wanted to do. But would probably be months for such an opportunity after that.

Ok. Journeying:

Duinhir - Scout
Seonaid - Hunter
Cirion - Lookout

That leaves Eothain as the Guide, which it looks like he is well enough suited for with Proficiency in Survival.

@rpgventurer would you want to kick off the Journey with an Embarkation roll? (1d12+Survival+1/2 WIS bonus round down)

@rpgventurer I believe we're looking for you to kick us off on the Journey with an Embarkation roll as described above...

If anyone/everyone else just wants to give some narrative heading into the travel that would be welcome at this point, to help us get things back in character.