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Hm, please remind me, is Kai wounded and in heed of healing or is this just a missed edit?

That might have been old from the original Kai way back when you fought the rats he took a really nasty wound. I think since then that has been resolved due to time.

I'm not sure I follow the description of what's going on with this table (assuming it's important of course, if it's not then that's fine, just let me know).

Initially there was an "orb".



Now there's the description of a "square object" that appears to correspond to a matching hole in the table, which are both in the middle of the table.

How are the orb and the "square object" related?  Is the orb on top of the square object?  Are they side by side in the middle of the table?

Crap sorry about that. My notes are terrible. Let me correct that.

Generally expecting the people to be out of the secret room, maybe out of LoS of the orb, but on call.

I noticed that a few people are rolling and it's adding the rolls. Make sure when you roll you leave the default on.

In Savage worlds, you don't add the d6 that you roll with your skill, ability, etc.

You roll both and take the best of the two dice. Example:

you roll 2d6, you get 6, 5. You roll the 6 again because it explodes and gets a 3.

your total is not 6+5+3 = 14

It's 9. (6+3)

Your only keeping the highest out of the two rolls. Hope this clears up some confusion.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:18, Thu 28 Mar.

I guess you mean the roll would be 9 (6+3) not 11, as the original rolls (if I understood you right) are 6 and 5, and the acing roll it's a 3.

If the dice roller is set as d6,d6 in the manually enter dice (with the reroll max and record each die boxes checked), this would be shown as 9(6+3),5

Doh! Correct. Sorry thanks for that catch.

In reply to Vaelan Nightshade (msg # 7):

It depends on what it is, if it's a damage roll you do add the result of both dice together.  If it's an ability or trait check, well explained above.

That is correct but you can still keep the dice separate. I can manually add them for damage. It's not that big of a deal. If you want to switch back and forth that is fine too.

Also and update is coming for experience. It will no longer be drive by number of post. I have decided against this. Instead we will go with the standard milestone method. I will be getting with each of you at the end of this for rewards and balancing out the experience more without taking experience away from other players.

Just to be sure i understand the sitation well: we're where the star is, and the combat was heading up on the map. Is this right?

We're heading North/up from the star.  The dead end where Jenkins felt the moving air is east/right of the star.  Combat was around there, but the hidden room isn't on the map so there's no exact pinpoint.

I am going to update the map. It's on my work computer. I need to get it off and move it to my drive.

Forgot to chime in about the switch in experience- more than fine with that. I was always a fan of milestone/XP after each "adventure" kind of award instead of any other metric.

Lol,I'm not. I've had about four advancements so far, while normally on RPOL it's quite possible to go an entire year and you're still on the same adventure, still no advancement.

Then again, the way our beloved GM had it set up, there was plenty of advancement early on but it got slower and slower, thousands of xp between advancements. So say player X currently has 300 posts, and we have been playing for what, 9 months? So 400 posts/year, so when you need 2000 xp to get the next advancement then it gets ridiculous.

We could do it 250 posts or 500 posts between advancements or something. We could have it based off average posts, so we are all moving at the same rate. We could have it that Liriam amd I are donating posts to slower posting members.

Or, if we are doing it the "completing adventure" route, I would recommend more smaller amounts, ie after we complete the house, after we complete the maze we get something. Not after we defeat the Jester which could be another couple of years.

The good news I have a way to combat that too. Rather than getting advancements for posting. There will be two advancement tracks.

Personal - Personal will only happen when your character actives something that moves their story forward. Not related to the current plot.
Milestone - Will be focused on just minor/major events that happen in the game that create advancements similar to normal play.

While this sounds par for the course. It's not going to be at all. You will find that as your personal story gets woven into the plot there will be a more of chance for you to grow. Right now we have several characters with personal stories already moving forward. I have a few that we have not touched on but I would expect that over time I am going to grow this out.