The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[Nathan of the FoS]

P.S.: Due to scribing costs, Lia does not have enough cash to scribe any Fly scrolls right now. You'll have to wait and hope flight is unneeded until we hit book 7. Incidentally, do you guys still want her to write in Keen Edge, or has that ship sailed?

Nah, scrap it. It won't be needed now that I got deathstrike bracers from another source.

[NeoTiamat]

Alright! First off, if anyone wants to have the ores smelted into odd and mysterious things, you can talk to Ivor in addition to Tomas.

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Secondly, this got a bit lost during the Feedback, but I would like to hear some opinions on using a non-random HP system, similar to what 4E has.

The most logical one would be using the average-rolled HP, (so that a d10 gets 5.5 HP per level, rounded down). Anything else would mess up the Balance too much unless I did it for NPCs/Monsters also, and then all you get is slower fights.

It'd basically be a continuation of the 'Character Creation via Point Buy' system, in that it removes chance from the character creation. (I dislike making your character's durability utterly random).

Now, if people really don't want to do it, so be it. But I'd like to have some votes here, see what people think:

-Yea?
-Nay?
-Abstain/Don't Care?

[steveflam]

I say no for Ishaq.

[Nathan of the FoS]

Er...yea? That's what I've been doing all along, actually.

[Kaitou Kage]

I'm kind of indifferent. My hp is only slightly higher than average. I'd prefer it didn't go down but I won't be that bad off if I take a hit.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

I say Nay. I've been using the dice roller, or rolling dice, and I'm fine with it. If my hp aren't stellar, that just means I take a few more precautions.

[The Whistler]

I'm for it, but I'm biased by having rolled 2's and 3's almost every time I've leveled...seeing as I'm rebuilding as a Scout, though, and would have to reroll all my HP anyway, I wouldn't have a problem with trusting to fate if I'm outvoted.

Ooh, on that topic, I'm a Scout now! This means that I've lost Appraise, Open Lock, and Use Magic Device, but am newly stealthy and will be doing +4d6 damage per attack provided I keep moving. I figure it's worth it to be at least halfway useful in a firefight. Props to Neo and Isabella for the idea!

[Kaitou Kage]

Ranged attack Scouts are mean. I have fond memories of playing mine.

[Isabella]

FYI, Neo, I know some GMs who allow the option of a choice for each player; each level you have the choice of either taking the average of your die roll, or rolling and being stuck with what you get.

[NeoTiamat]

Hrm. Would anyone want this in exchange? (Even the people who choose to not go average would have to re-roll all the HP, so as to keep the element of chance.)

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Anyways, so far we've got two Yeas (Whistler and Nathan), two Nays (Rock and Tarlyn), and one Abstain (Kage)

Yalenus, DocBeard, Lostboy, do you want to make your voices heard?

[lostboy]

Can't say Im bothered either way, so I'll be doing some fence sitting then...

[yalenusveler]

I'm gonna go nay on this. I'm used to the random element being present.

[Kaitou Kage]

I'm all for Isabella's suggestion. My DM IRL lets us do the same thing, you just have to pick whichever option at creation and stay with it for the rest of your character.

[NeoTiamat]

So we've got two Yeas, two Abstentations, and four Nays (DocBeard went Nay when I asked him earlier, as I recall). I'd have preferred otherwise, but majority rules, it seems.

Well, so be it. I will leave the option open of going for the average HP if you are interested in it.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

If the numbers are reasonable, (i.e., no more than 2-3 people), we'll do it as in Phiraz, via AIM to save time).

Umm, objection? Lately, you especially have been coming online a lot later than I should still be sitting in front of a computer screen, boiling my eyeballs. If AIM is possible, that's fine, but it isn't always going to be ...