Out-of-character chatter continued...

What did Alisanfra do to Tauster? That predates me as player

In reply to Alisandra (msg # 2):

Oh sorry. The last time we visited Tauster, Alisandra tried to "motivate" him to help us by calling him a coward. He did not appreciate that.

Huh. Old me sounds a lot blunter than new me. ;-)

I'm pretty sure the affected party members were Alisandra, Heldig, and Snagger.

Yeah, sadly, I can't do anything with lay on hands for attribute damage. Merely curing the disease.

And Heldig went home.

Couple of clarifications:

1. Kuiper's house is on the river and halfway to Thurmaster so even if we can catch a barge, we'd be gone a couple of days to visit him.
   
2. The priest was one of the kidnapping victims, but we could ask if there's another healer in town (or possibly in Thurmaster).

I don't hate Alisandra's idea of seeing if the priest had any books though.

May have missed the point two but we'll just blame that on imperfect IC recollection lol.

The books are a good angle, I agree.

To the priest!

Sorry about my lack of posting, you guys were doing great but end of year real life is getting in the way of creative posting here.

Let me know what you want to do next, and post something in the game thread in that regard.

Groups a semi-arbitary. Feel free to suggest changes. For instance, Lorrain you don't need to be relegated to being shut up in a room if you don't want to.

@DM: it occurs to me that our dwarven fighter could use some plate armor too if he's going to keep tagging along. Probably should have gotten him that on the last trip to the surface.

Hey, DM. Could you look at my AC calculation (below) and make sure it's right? I don't think my previous player did it right, because the breastplate's got a Max Dex of +2 (unless it's masterwork or something).

Breastplate (14) + Dex (2) + Shield (2) + Defensive Fighting Style (1) = 19

Apologies for missing it up to now, but I just noticed this. A breastplate in Pathfinder/3.5 has a maximum Dex bonus of +3, so I didn't check until I was reading up on armor because of the discussion about improving Snagger and Sylviel's armor.

I'll be happy to learn that Alisandra's breastplate somehow has a +3 max Dex bonus...which segues nicely into "do you have improved armor (e.g., leather +2) in your campaign? This appears to be DM-by-DM in 5ED from what I have seen. If it is possible to have improved armor, what's the mechanism to improve it?

I know I don't have to be shut in a room but honestly, I don't mind since I haven't been as active as I would like. This time of year (usually starts around September/October), I tend to disappear a bit...I miss my mom a lot and so this time of year just...sucks. There are good times with my family yes, but there's still a hole. I try to be active as much as I am mentally able.