OOC Chat

Welcome, kalajel! Sorry about the invitation, but I'm glad you're finally with us. Thanks for the heads-up about your absence; I'll keep that in mind if we get far enough to start before you're ready.

Happy Easter, adventurers!

Happy Easter!

Back at you! Returning from my business trip tonight, so back to regular posting this week…

Great opening post!

So -- just to be sure, we're playing both characters on the approach to the keep, to form introductions and connections and such. Then we'll break off into a single smaller party?

Thanks! Yes, the intro is just to funnel all your PCs into the keep before the main ones take over. I tried to hint at that in my prose, but here it is clearly. After the split, you can forget about your backup PCs or have them busy with some downtime activity. I don't think I could handle a party fifteen, lol.

Got it, cool. Hope to get posts up tonight.

I can only see Eltrezar's and Kraagor's rumors. I think you did it right.

Thanks, that's good to know. If anyone can see all the rumors, just let me know OOC and I'll see what I can do.

P.S.: For organization, deleted my OOC post in the gameplay thread since it was copied here.

Oh, well, never mind then...

This has turned into a monster week at work — sorry for posting delays. Move ahead if you’re waiting on my input; otherwise I hope to get to posting tonight or tomorrow night!

No problem; I also planned to post yesterday, but things got a little busy (which is why I couldn't run a daily game, lol). Expect that post today.

Friends, I a, very sorry, but I must withdraw. RL has gotten busy for me, and pulling me away from PbP. I hope everyone is well, and I’m sorry for any inconvenience this causes. Take care.

I'm sorry to see you go, WhiteDwarf, but I get how it can be. You take care as well, and I hope to see you around some time.

Hi hi! Still here! Just had a very rough week last week! I'll be catching up on everything I've missed shortly!

Hi, glad to have you back! I hope all is well. Next GM post will be coming soon.

Yes, we're using the Advanced Spell book rule. Go get yourself some new spells! Treat yo self!

According to the RAW (in OSE at least), an individual only has to cast Read Magic on a spell scroll or magical inscription once to be able to understand it. The ruling for spell books is weirdly vague, but I would rule that you need to cast Read Magic every time you want to understand it; to me, that's a big part of why copying from a spell book takes so long.

Also, for the future, note that copying a spell has a chance of failure based on the copier's Int score, with failure meaning that "the character can never learn the spell." That seems a little harsh to me, so I want to very creatively interpret that rule to say that failure means you can never learn the spell from that source. If you really wanted to learn, say, Fire Ball, but you failed to copy it from a scroll, you would have to find another one. You wouldn't be permanently unable to learn Fire Ball.