The Lounge

[Nanshork]

Update: I'll be driving back home on Friday so I will be ready to pick up Richard's reins on Saturday.  I'm still keeping up to date on what's going on though (sort of).

[jacemachine]

Awesome! Can't wait to have you back! 

[jacemachine]

I just couldn't resist voting, a bomb with that many possible skill checks is destined to go off  but I am still pulling for you guys and keeping my fingers crossed 

Too funny! I like that it kind of adds a little more edge to an otherwise "boring" failed bomb disposal. Afterall, there SHOULD be added tension! These guys are defusing a nasty bomb!

[Melblen_Cairn]

Yup, I do the same thing for my traps in fantasy campaigns. Have to take the Traps and Treachery books one step further for the rogues in my group so they don't get bored. (and so I don't get bored of blowing them up  )

[Tarotdragoon]

I could learn a thing or two from you guys.

you should write a book

"How to dispose of overconfident PC's"

or

"Traps, Bombs and skill checks there's more than one way to skin a halfling"

[Neull//]

*3/4 of a mile = Listen DC: 386  loooooooooooooooooooooool

I guess we cannot always follow the rules by the book...Even normal people (not fantastic heroes) could hear a gunshot within 1-2 kilometres in a rural environment..   

[Tarotdragoon]

im guessing thats just mostly flat with a bit of forest, we have a whole jungle between us and the gunshot, full of DC increasing monkeys and distracting bugs and birds and such.

have fun with Muta you two, he's lovely once you get to know him 

[jacemachine]

*3/4 of a mile = Listen DC: 386  loooooooooooooooooooooool

I guess we cannot always follow the rules by the book...Even normal people (not fantastic heroes) could hear a gunshot within 1-2 kilometres in a rural environment..   

Yeah, that is a crazy RAW Listen Check DC.

It is quite high though,even if we were to discount the the -1 per every ten feet. Jungles are often described as being as loud as any city, and if you take in account the rising and falling of the land, as well as the dense trees, and overhead jungle canopy-- I could see it... If anything, with the constant drizzle, it could have been mistaken for thunder in the distance, under all the other layers of sound.

Either way. I'm sticking with it in this case.

[Neull//]

have fun with Muta you two, he's lovely once you get to know him 

 

[BowenSilverclaw]

Hope Russo doesn't turn into whatever Muta has turned into

[Tarotdragoon]

Hope Russo doesn't turn into whatever Muta has turned into

now that would be interesting wouldn't it 


[spoiler]

Terrifying![/spoiler]

[joekap]

i had to vote also now its 50/50 nice!!!
i see the artifact has changed...im still a big fan...
i am going to run this sweet game again soon this incarnation like yours is going to have more horror in it. cuz scary is funner....thats right FUNNER.
good job guys, you all keep playing i'll keep reading....and stealing ideas Moohahahaha!

[jacemachine]

i had to vote also now its 50/50 nice!!!
i see the artifact has changed...im still a big fan...
i am going to run this sweet game again soon this incarnation like yours is going to have more horror in it. cuz scary is funner....thats right FUNNER.
good job guys, you all keep playing i'll keep reading....and stealing ideas Moohahahaha!

j0lt kept expecting an entire village of Zombies, (And since I own more than 20 zombie movies, I am sooo the guy to put them in there)... but it wasn't right for what I'm trying to accomplish tone-wise for the Prologue itself.

This PbP is the third time I've run The Prologue since I first started the first Artifact campaign... what four years or so ago? I keep telling them that this is the best version of this campaign to date, and it is. I've expanded Santa Boca, changed everything about Orino Perro (except the Grateful Goat Tavern )

I've redrawn every map that was used in the past and a complete overhaul of adventure pacing. Because this campaign has been in the works for sooo long, I have a much better idea of how and where to seed relevant game info (of course there are always red herrings )

The BIGGEST change is yet to come-- I've been getting a decent amount of interest by more players who have begun to follow the Artifact Prologue, and harbor interest in joining the "Main Game" when we get there. It's beginning to look like like I may enough players to run a Second Squad, of sorts. I've got a BUNCH of ideas I'm mulling over on exactly how this will work, but if this is the direction I decide to go... I think it will be something special.

[Melblen_Cairn]

Oooo a second squad.....let me know if that's going to happen, I might be down for that. Never played in a PbP before though, so I would be losing the proverbial PbP virginity to your game

[jacemachine]

Oooo a second squad.....let me know if that's going to happen, I might be down for that. Never played in a PbP before though, so I would be losing the proverbial PbP virginity to your game

Heh. No problem. I have a handful of friends for whom their PbP experience is near null, and many of them are the ones who are getting into this-- they've been following what's been happening, and they are excited about this game.

I'm just GUESSING, but based roughly on what needs to happen yet in the Prologue, and the general pace of the gameplay-- Think Thanksgiving or Christmas for the start of the main story.

[Tarotdragoon]

you mean lots of people have been watching our every move!? O_O

I feel stalked

[BowenSilverclaw]

Love the new poll by the way

[Nanshork]

I HAVE RETURNED!!!!!!!!


 

[jacemachine]

work was hell tonight. Hell.
But I'm alive.

Anyway, I'll have to try posting tomorrow before work if I can. Either way, it's the weekend; I'll post as soon as a can get a chance!

[jacemachine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X88b-axHQpM

This is another reason why I'm not feeling game savvy this evening...