OT: D&D 4e or: Wanna slaughter some minions?

[douglas]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
15 + Con score is 29 - Where's the extra 5 HP come from?

Oh - If you dropped the torches, you could afford plate. The Standard Adventurers' Kit...Wait a minute, SAK?

Well, you've got sunrods in that sack you're carrying around...

Now that's a witty and appropriate acronym!

As already noted, Toughness and I'm not proficient with plate. I could spend a feat on plate proficiency, but that would require freeing up enough points from strength to boost con to 15. 1 point of AC now instead of at level 4 vs 1 point of attack and damage for all time, I think I'll take the attack and damage boost.

The SAK includes sunrods? I hadn't noticed that little detail. Oh well, torches are cheap anyway - 1 sp each.

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Just to note, secondary statistics are more important in 4e - Check the powers list; if you've got a 20 in a stat, which I remember in a couple sheets, you may want to diversify.

For Fighters, not so much. Wisdom gives a small boost (attack bonus on opportunity attacks) and your choice of weapon gives one secondary ability score. Nothing else gives any benefit beyond the base that everyone gets.

narf poit chez BOOM said:
We'll have to reschedule, the idiot who runs the game forgot a doctors' appointment.

Would either later today or tomorrow work? My weekend's open.

[Astorax]

I'm game anytime. Not sure about JFries and sacarasc hasn't even submitted a character sheet (or read the books) yet. Its looking more like next weekend is a better time for everyone. It will give everyone a chance to tweak their characters, submit their characters sheet (or resubmit - Hi Narf!) and make some macros in Maptools for abilities you'd like it to roll automatically with some flavor text. I have macros for Stealth, Initiative, all my powers with and without combat advantage and damage rolls for various things - 1W + mod + SA and 3W + mod + SA and the mundane versions of same.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I'm open for the rest of the day (That I know of), but I think Nocturnal is in his day cycle (Asleep)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Maptool server 'Test' up, for anyone who wants to, uh, test something.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I think the crashing is a heat issue. I turned the AC up yesterday and it stopped crashing. I've turned it up again and put the server back on.

Also, server 'Test' back up.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Eh, I'm taking a nap and taking the server down.

If you want a pre-game meet, set up a time.

Might want to talk about schedules, too.

[Astorax]

Yeah, everyone should atleast open their own copies of Maptool and setup some macros for themselves and we should definetly all get together on Narf's server way before the next weekend? whenever the game ends up being so we can test whether it will comfortably handle it.

As stated previously, I'm open for whenever.

[Nocturnal]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
I'm open for the rest of the day (That I know of), but I think Nocturnal is in his day cycle (Asleep)

That's right: Eladrin can get away with a 4-hour trance but unfortunately I do need occasional sleep.

narf poit chez BOOM said:
I think the crashing is a heat issue. I turned the AC up yesterday and it stopped crashing. I've turned it up again and put the server back on.

That's what it sounded like to me too. Try opening your computer's case and putting a fan near and facing it to improve airflow. Also check that your CPU fan is still working well. It is a temporary measure, but worked for a few computers that had heating issues.

Astorax said:
Yeah, everyone should atleast open their own copies of Maptool and setup some macros for themselves and we should definetly all get together on Narf's server way before the next weekend? whenever the game ends up being so we can test whether it will comfortably handle it.

As stated previously, I'm open for whenever.

It's a good idea to stress-test the system with anyone who can get together at any time. I totally agree. If we can't get everyone together at once, you can even go ahead without me and gain some XP until I can join. The game's "standard party size" according to stuff like foraging and rituals is 5 people anyway, so if we miss one or two, that's fine. We already have one of each "role" so if even three or four of us besides the GM can get together, they should try it and have the others join when they can.

How do we make macros in Maptool? Is there a tutorial or forum topic on that someplace?

It's still weekend for most of you right? I am at work but can be available at the same time tonight (1900 GMT or 1200 PST, 22/06/08) but not sure yet about the rest of the week.

If we end up waiting for next weekend it'd be better to try Friday evening first, which is a weekend for everyone (that's Saturday morning for me.) Some of us might have cleared our schedules only to have it moved at the last minute. (Hope no one did?) Does anybody actually want more time to tweak characters?

Randallw said:
Here's my CS, part 1.
seems I can't fit them together. Maybe because they only have a quality of 5.

Cool! If you beat the stuffing out of someone who's language you can speak, you might be able to intimidate them into surrendering!

[Randallw]

Yes, you can see I won't be letting people hoodwink me, and if they try I'll lie to them or failing that just threaten them till they backdown.

[Astorax]

Nocturnal, I think Maptool does have its own forums but I don't have the link (just google maptool and browse the site) but here is a couple pointers:

The numbered buttons on the bottom right - rightclick on one of them to bring up its properties. There you can name it, do the macro commands and tell it to broadcast the name you chose when you click on it. Example:

Button #1: I rightclicked it and for label I put Stealth. I didn't hotkey but you can if you like. Under command, I put /me fades into the shadows ... hit enter to start a new line and then put [1d20 + 9] so it would autoroll a d20 dice and add my +9 to stealth to the result. I was through for commands so I then ticked the Include Label button so it would say whatever label I gave the button before it did any of the commands. So, when I click the button I labeled Stealth this is what happens:

Stealth

/me fades into the shadows ...
[1d20 + 9]=[12 + 9 = 21] [21]

That above wouldn't, of course, be /me it would be whatever my name is.