[pnpgm] Game Update #111 - File # 867 - Party moves on....

[John Hooten]

  <EEEK major spell mutations, but costs lots too ;)
<I have had a few players hit El20 areas, very very rare. Easier for 
some innates especially if Fanatical.
<But it is easier to do with playing at a table meeting many days a week 
for years and powerful items to boost stats, and much easier if they 
were fortunate enough to get a supernatural key ability.
<A quick skim of old characters on file shows many have managed El10+ in 
learned spells, more have gotten there in innates.
<Sadly I only have maybe a hundred characters on file, many times that 
on paper but they are slower to look through
<PnP is hard on characters, many deaths. Worst was one of the new 
abysmal charts killing most the group, but they decided it was fair.
<Beware abysmals that detonate magical items nearby, some groups carry 
way too many!!!
<Fortunately the players decided it was their own stupidity, they had 
also voted to use the new charts. New characters were made, stories 
adjusted, and plot continued.
<I am actually playing a descendant of one of the dead characters from 
that in another game, conceived after the death actually, but that is 
another story ;)

<I have used a few rules requiring extra Mana for effects, I never tried 
one using experience or expertise pools. Definitely a unique approach.
<Pretty sure I have had starting characters with innates >10 before, but 
they tend to be of limited usefulness due to high Enl costs and slow 
recovery



<LOL I did not remember the bag at all other than in a vague way. 
Apparently I need to keep things in mind better, maybe I should write a 
journal? Some other games I play have stories hundreds of pages long. 
Looks like the last PnP game I ran in 2006 has a player journal 380 
pages long. I may have to continue that again someday, we just got 
sidetracked into other games. My active DnD game is 395 pages currently 
and is at about 1 year of play, likely it will finish up soon and we 
will start another one with a different ruleset. Sometimes multiple 
players write their own versions as seen by their characters, it can be 
quite hilarious to compare them.
<Raban would need me to write up much more backstory, not sure I am up 
to a novella right now though.



<New Actions?
<I do not know the status of Raban's arrow supplies. He has been working 
on making new ones but may have limited materials to do so. Since his 
arrows are larger he cannot just buy them. But he could purchase 
materials needed to make more such as arrow heads, feathers and possibly 
usable wood for shafts? If needed such could also be listed for others 
to purchase for him. Other possibilities in supplies are whatever needed 
for clothing repairs if such has not already been done. Even then more 
materials would be useful to get for later. Likely there are many things 
needed, more food etc.



Raban is embarrassed by his forgetting the bag. His Bardic memory 
training should have prevented such a failure but so much has been 
happening. So many things he would prefer to do but risks the mission. 
His soul is nagging at him, reminding him of his duties somewhat 
neglected. But how could he arrange a performance that would not also 
draw too much attention, no, such would not be in character for his 
role. This role limits itself mostly to Drums, Dancing well would be 
beyond belief. That leaves little other than crude displays of strength 
or physique and even that is best done in a public bath or perhaps at a 
well. If timed properly, removal of my shirt and dumping a bucket of 
water over myself to cool off would work. If they used a common well to 
wash clothing, that could serve quite well indeed...

Raban smiles to himself having worked out a means to get himself back 
into his Goddess's graces. Perhaps this next town will have what he needs.

When talk of entering the town comes up.. "There are supplies I need to 
purchase for making more arrows and repairs..."

<I wonder how many have figured out what his duties include? LOL
<Sorry, I cannot figure out much to say on the current story, so I left 
a lot open
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