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action sequences: the forgotten art of writing

weird i had to approve your post; but seems to be working now

'twas a group effort

Cleave - if killing a target with excess damage, cleave allows the user to redirect their swing, moving the extra damage onto an additional adjacent t...

Improved Feint is a DnD feat you might not be aware of but might be consistent with Zahir. This allows you to use your Distraction skill as a move ac...

The zombies with orders in the cannibal fight were on point and relatively seamless as far as basic strategy and implementation. If you want to build...

+9 -> 99xp

doesnt need a cap

This should clear out the errors that you were previously seeing (mostly with the indiscriminate slashing). At this level, I don't actually think...

"Last week the order was to stand out front and slash away anything in our way." - This was what I remembered. This would also result in them slash...

So "cleaning the jungle" does not match either last weeks in game orders or whats in your first post... The presence of far more zombies than you can...

NPC updates: Boh (all good)Talas (killed by a dinosaur, now a zombie)Zoltan the Ghost Pirate (abandoned or destroyed during an encounter with the ho...

Unlike when other players have been missing, we did NOT assume that you were just there as we did with the others. The presence of 20+ uncontrollable...

i will add a footnote regarding one of the monsters that they ran away from. referred to as the "Gloom Sower," this massive and deadly cloud of absol...

Map of your beach location. I turned the grid on for this ss to see if it helps explain a bit the various nuance. Each grid segment is 23miles. ...

+10 -> 90xp @ArthureExplored a small region of the bog due north of party beach. Traded with some colorful locals, and found a variety of monste...

yep

doesnt work that way. only earned xp counts. we came across this with teaching other people skills too. if you spend all your xp teaching someone ...

Unseen Expertise: skill that adds dmg/ranks - Dmg adds 1dRanks

When im in the forms I shapeshift into im keeping my stats and atts right- Right mammoth fine RD - passive stacking bonus needs to be capped by an...

Could I do a skill that decreases program time, capped by program skill? yeah, but its going to iterate out so that Rank20 is your breakeven 0 point...

+14=80xp @ValAfter spending days at the beach digging up bodies, you proceeded north through a large fruit grove, acquiring guides so that you made ...

To formalize:d15 -> average 8-2 ave Str -> 6Always round down cause of crit damage5.5 (average of 1d10) is the closest fit for die selection &...

Inspired Teaching Tactics: a skill to allow others to reroll nat ones, Ranks/day, it must be a skill I've SEEN SUCCEED - far too broad. as presente...

Map of Varangia with first leg of voyage into the northern jungles added, zig-zags not included  Week-1.PNG

+12 = 66xp @hylaYou were confronted with some Varangian heavy cavalry over the theft of mason supplies, but were able to buy your way out of it. 5 ...

who is physically carrying the group fund?

Ranks * 10' max distance you can travel from your body   "The psychic can not be surprised by..."- this is a good example of my caveat earlie...

No cash, nor really anything of obvious or intrinsic value like the ring. Masonry tools as well as cartography might interest you. It will take me a...