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basically, you get one of those every other combat (and it regens after an extended rest) usable once per combat, it gives you another standard action to use however you will during your turn

Iszi

6:43 AM

That's a 16 roll, and my Athletics is 11

Sohum

and you can have a max of 1, I think, at this leve

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

nope, no upper bound

it's just kinda silly to have more than 2

Sohum

fair enough

Iszi

You get one for every other encounter before an extended rest.

You can only use one per encounter.

RMorrisey

ok

Sohum

6:44 AM

right, and the extended rest resets it to 1

Iszi

Extended rests reset you to one, no matter how many you do/don't have.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

so... that's a 27?!

good grief.

Iszi

Seems like.

Yeah, I buffed him hard in Athletics.

Sohum

11 is what?

+5 Str mod + 6 ?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

um, yeah, you totally get that throw.

(it... probably won't be so easy in real combat because of silliness)

Iszi

6:46 AM

And, does it hit Sam?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

(but ... I dunno, it's cool... and spending an action to throw someone and knock them down is funny)

hrmmm

for sake of the narritive yes, it does.

Sohum

haha

okay

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

if you make a practice of it, we'll figure out combat rules later

Iszi

Hehe.

Sohum

so, what happens to Sam?

Iszi

6:47 AM

So, I'll just say they're both in the same space, prone.

Narrating...

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

works

Sohum

okay. getting up from prone is a move action, right?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

yeah

Sohum

mechanically: Sam gets up from prone, and Sneak's Tricks away

hey, don't I get a bonus to stealth because cover?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

um

I think you get ability to stealth because power

Sohum

6:50 AM

because power + cover

Iszi

Not quite done with my turn...

Intimidate vs both of them, to shout at them and try to convince them to be quiet - again?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

that's a standard action, and you've used them :)

er, yours

throwing them

Sohum

isn't making a check in combat a standard action... yea

Iszi

Okay... still a free action to shout, eh?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

yup :)

but stalking over to them and doing a proper "harumph" is standard

Sohum

6:52 AM

he totally should've got a -2 to the 27 because I have cover :P

but no, no bonus to stealth

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

needed to be 19

Sohum

yeesh

well done, man

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

and yeah, 19 is /hard/ at first level

Sohum

unless you have a +11 mod :P

Iszi

I missed something... what are we talking about, to do with 19?

@Sohum My Athletics is 5 for STR mod, 5 for training, -1 for armor, +2 for Background.

Sohum

6:55 AM

nicely done

anyway, my new stealth check is ..eek, awful. 3 + 9 = 12

hm. would Sam know that he hadn't hid himself well?

Iszi

I've got to turn in. This was just a fun little PvP mini-encounter, right?

RMorrisey

k, night dude

Sohum

Sam may have some other ideas. I'm waiting on Brian's ruling

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

argh

what's up?

sorry, was bioing

no, sam would not know

Iszi

I'll stick till it's done then.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

7:03 AM

is good?

Iszi

@BrianBallsunStanton Have we come around to where I can Intimidate the gnome again. Little bugger's pissing me off.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

honestly, that's not a skill check any more :)

Forgot that social skills only apply to NPCs, really...

feel free to make real threats that the other player will respect :)

you've got a very intimidating presence, so play it up

Iszi

Eh, was just wanting to do a small thing, that by now should be very effective due to recent events.

Sohum

really? even if he rolled a 1, he wouldn't know?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

yeah. Failures, especially trained failures on skills are not actually failures of your own talents usually

so, a low stealth roll from you, Mr. sneaky, is not that you suck at stealth, but that you don't accomplish your objective /despite/ being good at stealth

Sohum

7:06 AM

right, and a high X mod is how much you can salvage even a bad situation

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

yeah

Sohum

/me is liking 2d12 or 3d8 better and better :P

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

?

Sohum

in that case Sam does nothing more

Iszi

@Sohum Thanks.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

7:08 AM

I'll allow the other 3 to have a mini-scene or two and then we'll move onto the encounter my tomorrow morning

which is us eastern evening

Sohum

there was a question/optional houserule/thing about using 2d12 in place of the 1d20 in dnd

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

oh. Yeah, I'd use 3d6

cause hey, bellcurves are fun :)

Sohum

yea, that was another option

Iszi

Ok. Master Chief will do nothing notable, nor have anything notable done to him, for some time.

Sohum

and someone else suggested 3d8

Iszi

7:09 AM

Does iPlay4e have a die roller?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

right. Anyways. At the afternoon, the scouts will notice something ahead, sounds like talking coming from a clearing beside the road

integrated

feel free to end your personal narritives, with whatever integration with the rest of the party there, in the afternoon.

Sohum

nice

you can just click the skill or somesuch

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

yeah, with bonuses and everything

yup

okay, time for me to go back to work. cheers guys

RMorrisey

night Brian

Sohum

'ta

Iszi

7:10 AM

Oh FFS... really, squeaky?

RMorrisey

heh

Sohum

@RMorrisey at this point, I'm gonna haveta agree with Iszi

You, a tiny gnome, just got thrown bodily something like twenty feet

by a giant /dragonborn/

RMorrisey

yeah, and he's comin' after me like he's gonna hit me again

what else am I supposed to do?

Iszi

What?

Sohum

he didn't, though?

Iszi

7:12 AM

No, he's trying to walk away!

RMorrisey

Oh

Iszi

Just shot you a look and moved on!

Sohum

"Master Chief shoots one more deathly glare back at Squeaky, before moving forward again."

RMorrisey

I read that as, he looks at Squeaky and then comes towards him again

Sohum

oh

you read that as he goes toward Squeaky

/me nod

Iszi

7:13 AM

Ok... please redact Squeaky's last though. If not by actual deletion, then by OOC comment in the IC.

RMorrisey

yeah

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

I've asked for mod priviledges in that room

RMorrisey

I put in a comment

or I guess Brian can delete it

Iszi

Otherwise, I may have to remind the little twerp that he could probably fit quite nicely in my acid-breath filled maw.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

::snort:: and scene :)

I'll try to delete it tomorrow

Iszi

7:15 AM

Good times, everyone. And good night!

RMorrisey

ttyl

Sohum

night

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

7:42 AM

So anyone else here read HP:MoR?

Sohum

8:26 AM

I do, but you knew that

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

9:31 AM

yes

posted a question about it

::mutter::

35 points off from 2k

Sohum

that is probably the weirdest question I've seen on RPGExchange

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

which one?

Sohum

your hp:mor one

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

aww, thanks :)

Sohum

:P

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

9:43 AM

we need to start asking microscope questions then

Sohum

those would be a lot less weird

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

true, true...

Continuum?

blah, wrong channel.

Ugh. problem: quoting the HPMoR chapters made me want to re-read the damn thing

again.

Sohum

/me snrk

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

why is it the stragnest question?

Sohum

(I thought you said this was the wrong channel?)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

9:55 AM

yeah, but you ask annoying questions

:)

bah headache. Back to game game... I think we're going to need a player conflict subsystem

Sohum

yes, we probably are

everyone pisses off everyone else :P

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

yeah, it's like the real military

I'm tempted to allow you guys to just... brawl with each other?

but that wouldn't resolve dominance issues the way it would in a real military

Sohum

why not?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

Well, for one thing, some of you have horrible MBAs

Sohum

(oh, and, ftr, isn't a surprise round supposed to be a full round? meaning I should've had my move action as well?)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

9:58 AM

nope

Surprise round is one action

it's... funky

Sohum

huh.

okay, anyway, continue.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

OTOH, you might want to get that sniper feat

Sohum

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