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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghostfoot View Post
    Can't have you just prancing round meadows making skill checks all campaign
    I was enjoying the gentle moving carts, picking flowers and petting stray dogs. It felt much safer!
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    Now we have a hard decision. Attempt to pursue, or return and report.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeacefulOak View Post
    Now we have a hard decision. Attempt to pursue, or return and report.
    Pursue! Better try and fail than not try
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    ouch, we need someone to track em, up and at em Peaceful!
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    Signy the only daughter left.
    Signy is your DMPC. So no daughters left!

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    WE MUST AVENGE OUR HONOR, AND THE JARLS HONOR (also, he might kill us if we return without them)

    FIND THEM OR VALHALLA!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BelGareth View Post
    WE MUST AVENGE OUR HONOR, AND THE JARLS HONOR (also, he might kill us if we return without them)

    FIND THEM OR VALHALLA!
    definitely this sums up the spirit of the campaign!

    PF so this is survival right?

    Survival - (1d20+4)[7]
    yep that's the one. just roll higher :-)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghostfoot View Post
    definitely this sums up the spirit of the campaign!



    yep that's the one. just roll higher :-)
    just roll higher, lol, story of my life!

    THEN IT IS VALHALLA!

    (side note, Last kingdom season 3 just came out on netflix, woot!)
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    Ok, totally mean question here.... but could I have used Odin's Blessing to reroll that Will Save?

    I'm fine with having failed if that makes the plot easier, but I totally would have done it given the option.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeacefulOak View Post
    Ok, totally mean question here.... but could I have used Odin's Blessing to reroll that Will Save?

    I'm fine with having failed if that makes the plot easier, but I totally would have done it given the option.
    Fair question - you could have used it, and perhaps have endured a round or two longer, but would have eventually succumbed (ongoing effect, DC increases each round, and also the event is important to the plot).

    Then I would have given you back your Odin's Blessing in the spirit of fairness.

    I figured it simpler to cut-out the rerolling. Here it is, for completeness:

    Round 1
    Will DC15 or sleep (Odin's Blessing reroll)
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    DDW (1d20+1)[21]
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    Round 2
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    DDW (1d20+1)[15]
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    Skorri (1d20+1)[17]

    Round 3
    Will DC17 or sleep
    Skorri (1d20+1)[19]

    Round 4
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    Skorri (1d20+1)[9]
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    DM cast's impending doom!

    it has a scaling DC!

    Pwned!

    Ah well, worth a try. Let's go get our Honor back!
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    Skorri could've totally taken out all the enemies by himself in just 3 rounds~

    The sensible thing to do would be to let the jarl know what has happened... *eyes Wisdom score*... LEROY JENKINS!!!


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    So that natural 1 was BS, so here goes a Boon Roll!

    (1d20+6)[13]

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeacefulOak View Post
    So that natural 1 was BS, so here goes a Boon Roll!

    [roll0]
    Glad someone managed the DC12!!

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    And DDW’s great rolling trend continues! ><

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    Do I know if the hills will be easier to pass on horseback than the fens?
    Travelling through the Moors should be quicker than winding through the Hills.

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    Ok, thanks. I was thinking of the ground conditions, like if the moors were softer earth than the hills the horses could maintain higher speed in the hills, so I appreciate the confirmation.

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    SOO much knowledges!!

    awesome stuff, i tried to channel my inner Uhtred!

    Just finished season 3 of last kingdom, SOOOOO good!
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    So DDW will get the horses if he can (awful rolls notwithstanding), and catch up with the group if they want to start following.

    Can I take 10 on survival to track them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeacefulOak View Post
    Ok, thanks. I was thinking of the ground conditions, like if the moors were softer earth than the hills the horses could maintain higher speed in the hills, so I appreciate the confirmation.
    The path through the Trollfist Hills will be winding and stony/ uneven, but possibly less perilous if it has recently been cleared out by the jarl's men. Travelling through the Moors should be quicker but will pass through more of the Barrow Lands, which are well known to be hazardous.

    Quote Originally Posted by PeacefulOak View Post
    So DDW will get the horses if he can (awful rolls notwithstanding), and catch up with the group if they want to start following.

    Can I take 10 on survival to track them?
    Yep, rounding up your horses and tracking the kidnappers through the night will be fine (I've rolled separately). I'll post to that effect in the next couple of days when I get a bit of spare time.

    Quote Originally Posted by BelGareth View Post
    SOO much knowledges!!

    awesome stuff, i tried to channel my inner Uhtred!

    Just finished season 3 of last kingdom, SOOOOO good!
    I've not seen Lost Kingdom, but I can sense the awesomeness!

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    I've not seen Lost Kingdom, but I can sense the awesomeness!
    the Last Kingdom

    It's amazing. focuses more on the Saxon part of the saxon and dane stories.

    Think Vikings but better. (post Ragnar)

    The author created a character (Uhtred), who is historically related to him, and is the lord of a minor fasthold called Bebbanburg. They had this weird tradition of calling each successor the same name, so it's impossibly hard to know which one did what, historically speaking. So he took a character he made, and inserted him into the major conflicts of the time, making him the crux of them all (and usually the reason why one side won or lost), but there is no historical reference to him being present, but because of how it's written, it works, and it's genius.

    Also, being english, and having grown up there, makes even better.

    Either way, i strongly recommend it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BelGareth View Post
    the Last Kingdom

    It's amazing. focuses more on the Saxon part of the saxon and dane stories.

    Think Vikings but better. (post Ragnar)

    The author created a character (Uhtred), who is historically related to him, and is the lord of a minor fasthold called Bebbanburg. They had this weird tradition of calling each successor the same name, so it's impossibly hard to know which one did what, historically speaking. So he took a character he made, and inserted him into the major conflicts of the time, making him the crux of them all (and usually the reason why one side won or lost), but there is no historical reference to him being present, but because of how it's written, it works, and it's genius.

    Also, being english, and having grown up there, makes even better.

    Either way, i strongly recommend it.
    The books are better. Also good is the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian trilogy for a dark ages feel of the King Arthur myth
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrK View Post
    The books are better. Also good is the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian trilogy for a dark ages feel of the King Arthur myth
    I bet, i need to read them. I thoroughly enjoyed the Ceaser books by Conn Iggulden. I'm trying to push through Dune right now, but Bernard's series and the expanse series are on my short list.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BelGareth View Post
    I bet, i need to read them. I thoroughly enjoyed the Ceaser books by Conn Iggulden. I'm trying to push through Dune right now, but Bernard's series and the expanse series are on my short list.
    Those ceasar books were really good. Loved the depiction of Brutus as this killing machine. His books about Atilla the Hun are also really good and I think he's started a medieval one.
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    Hustle would kill the horses, almost guaranteed.... but we'd get there quickly. I think our runner would be even worse off if we hustled on the horses.

    DDW doesn't have any method for healing at the moment, so that non-lethal damage would stick unless our wise woman has anything left?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeacefulOak View Post
    DDW doesn't have any method for healing at the moment, so that non-lethal damage would stick unless our wise woman has anything left?
    Healing comes online a little later (level 3?) for Signy's cunning woman archetype. She's out of potions.

    Skorri has CLW, but might find better uses for that.

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    Hmmm... normal for our walker plus forced march seems the optimal plan, otherwise we’re killing our horses and heavily damaging one of our heavy hitters.

    I think that’s probably what we should do?

    EDIT: Spell less Ranger also gets some healing at level 3. Yay future options!

    Totally forward-thinking here, what sorts of terrains tend to be around?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ghostfoot View Post
    Skorri has CLW, but might find better uses for that.
    He only gets two spells per day and as he's "totally not a caster" (*wink-wink*), they're pretty saved for emergency uses only i.e. someone falls into negative HP territory.

    That reminds me - I owe this game an IC post; I'll try to get something up today-ish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeacefulOak View Post
    Totally forward-thinking here, what sorts of terrains tend to be around?
    Around here it's mostly forest, moors & hills. And sea of course (and therefore lots of coast, whatever terrain that technically counts as). Further afield there are plenty of mountains ringing the North Sea, and as one heads further north (which you will get the chance to) you'll encounter sub-arctic & arctic versions of the same.

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    Had we decided to get aw riggle on and take the most direct route?
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