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[Heron TSG]

I was thinking of Fire Archons, which IIRC are neutral Elemental type things.

EDIT: I found out that all this week I have late XC practices. I'll have to leave after two hours, but I'll be back in the 4th (or 4.5, not sure) hour of the session, if it's still running.

[Robocorn]

I looked that up and only found some extremely unbalanced homebrew race.

I'll miss Eafoth's imput a bit, but can we assume he'll heal us and cast flame wall? With any luck you'll be in for the first battle and just avoid the character development and the trekking through the wilderness that makes us appreciate all that shonus has done to create this world.

Besides, with the maptool, we should go through all of shonus's awesome battles with much more speed and accuracy. 

[Lord Shonus]

There's no XP for buttering up the DM.

[RAM]

What is Story/Quest/Roleplaying XP?

[Lord Shonus]

You can go ahead and join the IRC now, and then we'll start getting everyone conencted.

[Robocorn]

XP? I'd settle for not having the merchants pour beer on me and getting me eaten by hobos.

I think it's 25.

Naren got 25 for  Social Combat and Aryana and I got 25 for character development

[Lord Shonus]

E got 3300 xp
Naren got 4000

Loot:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
Shield, heavy steel MW (170 gp, 15 lb)
Bolts (50) (5 gp, 5 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
Shield, heavy steel MW (170 gp, 15 lb)
Bolts (50) (5 gp, 5 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
Shield, heavy steel MW (170 gp, 15 lb)
Bolts (50) (5 gp, 5 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
Shield, heavy steel MW (170 gp, 15 lb)
Bolts (50) (5 gp, 5 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
Shield, heavy steel MW (170 gp, 15 lb)
Bolts (50) (5 gp, 5 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
Shield, heavy steel MW (170 gp, 15 lb)
Bolts (50) (5 gp, 5 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Large Crossbow, heavy +1 (2400 gp, 16 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
Bolts (50) (5 gp, 5 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Large Crossbow, heavy +1 (2400 gp, 16 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
Bolts (50) (5 gp, 5 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Large Crossbow, heavy +1 (2400 gp, 16 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
49 Bolts  (0.1 gp, 0.1 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)
Large Crossbow, heavy +1 (2400 gp, 16 lb)
Longsword MW (315 gp, 4 lb)
49 Bolts  (0.1 gp, 0.1 lb)
Half-plate (600 gp, 50 lb)
 (0 gp, 0 lb)

[Shoruke]

I've been fiddling with the MapTools macros a little bit. I made an attack macro that will automagically roll to confirm crit if necessary.

Spoiler: bare bones attack code (click to show/hide)

[h:AttackRoll=1d20]

Attack: [r:AttackRoll+M]  [r:if(AttackRoll >= C, "<br><b>Confirm Crit: " + (AttackRoll+M),"")]

Make sure you substitute your attack modifier for M and the lowest end of your critical threat range for C. So, if you usually roll 1d20+10 for attack and your weapon only gets a critical threat on a 20, then change AttackRoll+M to AttackRoll+10 (you should have to do this twice), and change AttackRoll >= C to AttackRoll >=20.

I'll do more fiddling with the macros some other day, when it's not 2 in the morning and I'm not sleepy. Also I guess I need to do another journal entry, I'm falling behind.

EDIT: I looked at this post again and saw that apparently, the Bay12 forums take HTML code, so I had to use some basic coding trickery to get the code to show up here properly.

[Heron TSG]

Sorry about disconnecting, the power went out for some reason. Did I miss much?

As far as loot, I'll take 100 bolts, but otherwise there's nothing there I need.

[Shoruke]

I'll take the +1 bows, to sell/trade later, but I'll put the money towards the group pot.

Spoiler: My personal Full Attack macro, as a demonstration (click to show/hide)

[h:AttackRollOne=1d20]
[h:AttackRollTwo=1d20]
[h:AttackRollThree=1d20]
[h:AttackRollFour=1d20]
[h:AttackRollFive=1d20]

Holy Dagger First Attack: [r:AttackRollOne+13] [r:if(AttackRollOne >=17,"<br><b>Confirm Crit: </b>" + (1d20+13),"")] <br>

Holy Dagger Second Attack: [r:AttackRollTwo+8] [r:if(AttackRollTwo >=17,"<br><b>Confirm Crit: </b>" + (1d20+7),"")] <br>

Holy Dagger Haste Attack: [r:AttackRollThree+13] [r:if(AttackRollThree >=17,"<br><b>Confirm Crit: </b>" + (1d20+13),"")] <br>

Acid Dagger First Attack: [r:AttackRollFour+12] [r:if(AttackRollFour >=19,"<br><b>Confirm Crit: </b>" + (1d20+12),"")] <br>

Acid Dagger Second Attack: [r:AttackRollFive+12] [r:if(AttackRollFive>=19,"<br><b>Confirm Crit: </b>" + (1d20+7),"")] <br>

Spoiler: Huge picture displaying the results of that macro (click to show/hide)

As you can see from the picture, I keep my damage macros removed from the attack rolls, to avoid unnecessary clutter from attacks that miss. Also, I keep the damage in sections: basic dagger damage is kept separate from the Holy damage and sneak attack damage, because they don't always activate. Sometime after I get home from work I'll make a second full attack macro that will ask me for any temporary bonuses I have to my attack roll (such as from haste, flanking, Inspire Courage, etc). Also, I made a macro for taking damage (like RAM was doing during the battle); it pops up a box to ask how much damage I took, and subtracts that much from my token's HP.

[Lucus Casius]

So then, we are now landowners?

[Lord Shonus]

The mission isn't over yet. We fought one battle, then I decided to end it because it was getting late, and I was tired of running 3 PCs. Aryana's trouble enough.

[Lucus Casius]

The mission isn't over yet. We fought one battle, then I decided to end it because it was getting late, and I was tired of running 3 PCs. Aryana's trouble enough.

Ah, okay then.

[RAM]

A couple of problems with that macro, the DM requested to see the rolls, maybe it would suffice to remove the h:s but it would still get complicated trying to keep the confirmation rolls sensible.

Well, not really a problem so much but more of a request, would you be willing to include dialogues for additional increases or decreases to attack and damage, such as from flanking, bardic inspiration, or power attack? My dialogues seemed to have trouble sticking, some macros worked fine, some kept asking for variables that should already have been set, just weird, it would remember power attack, hmmm...

Spoiler: warning: code (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

[h:PA=user_input_Power_Attack]
[h:miscA=user_input_Temporary_Attack_modifiers]
[h:miscD=user_input_Temp_Damage_modifiers]
[h:BAB=10]
[h:str=6]
[h:ench=1]
Power attack:[r:PA]<br>
/me 's claw hits [1d20+BAB-5+str+ench+miscA-PA] AC with<br>
[1d6+ench+str/2+miscD+PA] magic piercing+slashing+bludgeoning damage.

produces the following output with the following inputs
user_input_Power_Attack = 1
user_input_Temporary_Attack_modifiers = 2
miscD=user_input_Temp_Damage_modifiers = 3
BAB = 4
str = 5
ench = 6
miscA = 7
PA = 8
ench = 9
str = 10
miscD = 11
PA = 12

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Gurk:
Power attack:1
* Gurk 's claw hits « 1d20+BAB-5+str+ench+miscA-PA = 11 + 4 - 5 + 5 + 6 + 7 - 8 = 20 » AC with
« 1d6+ench+str/2+miscD+PA = 6 + 9 + 10 / 2 + 11 + 12 = 43 » magic piercing+slashing+bludgeoning damage.
So it sets PA to the input from user_input_Power_Attack and remembers it until the seventh line, but then doesn't use that for the actual calculations, it really is terribly irritating...

conversely

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[h:power_attack=user_input_PA]
[h:temporary_attack_bonuses=user_input_Temp_Attack]
[h:temporary_damage_bonuses=user_input_Temp_Damage]
[h:base_attack_bonus=10]
[h:ability_bonus=6]
[h:weapon_enchantment=1]
Power attack:[r:power_attack]
hits [1d20+base_attack_bonus+ability_bonus+weapon_enchantment+temporary_attack_bonuses-power_attack] AC with [1d20+weapon_enchantment+ability_bonus*1.5+temporary_damage_bonuses+power_attack*2] magic piercing damage.
results in

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Gurk:
Power attack:1 hits « 1d20+base_attack_bonus+ability_bonus+weapon_enchantment+temporary_attack_bonuses-power_attack = 4 + 10 + 6 + 1 + 2 - 1 = 22 » AC with
« 1d20+weapon_enchantment+ability_bonus*1.5+temporary_damage_bonuses+power_attack*2 = 17 + 1 + 6 * 1.5 + 3 + 1 * 2 = 32.0 » magic piercing damage.
With only 3 inputs. The options all seem to be identical, one is named "Bite" and its sort prefix is "bear" while the other is called "Single Attack(scythe)" with the prefix of "orc" but otherwise no difference that I can see. I tried removing the
s but that doesn't seem to have done anything. It just doesn't make any sense that I can discern at this point... If I could get the accursed variables to behave themselves I could just calculate this stuff before the roll and abandon my policy of proliferation of information...

[Shoruke]

It might just be that you're rambling a bit, but I can't see what problem it is you're trying to point out.