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[Arctic Blast]

(you dodged a serious blow here, potential critical hit/double damage 8d6 wound!)

:o

Remind me to never again leave home without plate armor...

[Toonces]

As to our current encounter with the bandits- are we carrying bows and arrows? Long spears will out-reach our swords and I seem to recall we left our shields behind. Does out training cover parrying spear thrusts to get in close? If my 'charmed lance' is heavy enough for throwing then that is another option but it hasn't been made clear if it is merely a thrusting lance or not. If I have say then I'm making the obvious choice.  ;)

You are not carrying bows- you have the equipment on your character sheet only (although for this encounter you have only sword, spear (lance), dagger, clothes).  The parrying is covered during the opposed melee rolls.  Now, it is possible to fight defensively if you prefer (and state that during the determination segment of the melee round) and that will give you a bonus on your roll for a defensive action, at the expense of being able to strike offensively.

I don't actually know if you can throw a lance; I'll have to read more about the equipment.  I think the lances are more like spears than what we think of as true lances at this stage of the game.

[Toonces]

Godric- you have earned a lance skill check during the winter phase.  Don't let me forget!

[Barthheart]

Godric- you have earned a lance skill check during the winter phase.  Don't let me forget!

Woot!
8)

[Arctic Blast]

Since my lance seems to have broken during the battle with the bear, is that something I'll need to buy to replace or do we have a 'store' of such things?

[Toonces]

It will need to be replaced.  An opportunity will present itself, I'm sure.

[Toonces]

Hey guys.  I hope Old Garr didn't put you guys off!

Just a quick update.  I'm heading to the North Shore for the weekend with the family for Mother's Day, so I'll be out until either Sunday night or (more likely) Monday morning my time. 

Here's what we have next, without spoiling it:  once you decide on the dispensation of the bandits we're going to move into our first court scene where you will have a chance to meet some of the major NPC's in the campaign.  This will be challenging for me because it will stress my creativity, but it should be fun for all of us to figure our way through it.  I suspect this portion of the game will take us a week or two (probably two) and then we will actually start the true campaign using the Pendragon Campaign book that you haven't seen.  It starts off very aggressively and I think you guys will enjoy it.

Are you guys having fun?  Is this worthwhile to continue?  I'm enjoying it.  I am amazed at the things you guys have done already that were beyond what I anticipated.  How is the pace?  I'm trying to keep the story flowing, but I also strive to pause at decision points that make a difference in how the story will play out.  For some of our melee rounds in the future I don't think the "roll 6 d20's" convention will work as well and we may need to post round by round.  I didn't think that was really necessary for the confrontations we've had thus far, though.

Alright, see you guys in a couple of days.
Toonces

[Arctic Blast]

So far it's been very enjoyable, Toonces. You've done a good job running this under some very different circumstances for a table top RPG. And the pacing has seemed to fit, too. No complaints.

As for how to do the dice rolling and such, honestly I'm good with whatever works the best for you. You're the guy who has to actually 'plug in' those numbers to the system and flesh out the results, so go with whatever option is going to make that easier. And if we start doing one thing only for you to realize that you were wrong and another way might work better, change to that.

[Barthheart]

Hey Toonces,

Thsi is great fun. having never done anyting like ot before I was not sure what to expect. I'm enjoying coming up with the dialog to try and stay in character.
I definately want to continue. I hope others on the forum are reading our story too.

[Staggerwing]

I'm having a good time because this is all very novel to me as well. Trying to put myself in Maelgwyn's head and having him respond to the various challenges the way I've imagined him is a nice change of pace from the usual gaming fare. Keep up the good work!

[Haegan2005]

I've read several pages of the RPG and I must say I love the role playing being done by both the players and the GM!

I have always felt that a good GM is doing more then merely telling die results. They bring the world to life around the players and make the encounters memorable through good story telling.

Dang good GMing.

[Toonces]

Thank you for the compliment!

[Barthheart]

Yes, great job Toonces!

Sorry for my delays. Had the week off but my Honey Do list never seemed to get any shorter until today. It'll be nice to go back to work tomorrow and get some rest!

8)

[Toonces]

You guys ready to pick this back up?

[Staggerwing]

As long as we're still good with 1 post a day I should be good. Got to get back in the mood though. Any recommended 4th century fiction?