Guild Meeting September 2014

DQ Guild Meeting 14th September 2014

Venue: Leys Institute Hall, Ponsonby

12:30 GMs Meeting

Adventures Going Out

Current GMs may book themselves on adventures at this time.

Rules Issues

1. Blowgun has no damage and notes which say: * The damage done by a blowgun dart depends upon the substance which coats the tip. This needs to change to the same as venomous animals, which have damage that only applies for purposes of bypassing armour. Suggest: add damage -3 and change notes to "If a blowgun dart does any effective damage, the damage is not scored against their victim but rather they suffer the effects of the substance which coats the tip." Vote: Yea 8 Nay 0 Abstain 1
2. Spy/stealth: the spy skill used to give 2% per rank. The change to spy changed it to 1% per rank. The text in stealth has not changed. Pick one. Vote: 1% 0 2% 9 Abstain 1
3. I suggest that the method of not applying rule changes until a printed version comes out is too conservative/old fashioned. How about changes apply immediately, and we keep an up to date wiki page, an updated errata pdf and updates are made to pdfs available online. Kelsie volunteers to do it to start with. Vote: Yea 8 Nay 1 Abstain 1
4. Out of College Counterspells - Are they General or Special Knowledge? The main impact is the mana cost to cast. I can see no specific reference in the rule book, with the following snips being as close as it gets:

"Adepts learn both Counterspells of their own college as part of their General Knowledge.

Characters may learn Counterspells from colleges other than their own. The Counterspells of other colleges are practised at Rank 0 and may not be ranked."

Dean inferred that all counters are Generals, while Stephen has inferred that out of college equals Special. Pick one. Vote: General 1 Special 7 Abstain 2

Campaign Report

What's going on and what's coming up from the campaign committee (that we need to know). And what other people could help with or contribute to.

• War Surplus Myrrh is still available
• Travel Advisories in the Seagate Times
• Shattered Alusia - North of Novalar
• Entity College Bonuses are doubled this season

1:00 Guild Meeting

Adventure Summaries

• Black Magic Woman - Mondays - GM : William
• Copper Sands and Broken Dice - Wednesdays - GM: Jono Bean
• Network of Sin - Th - DM: Jim
• The Cleansing of the Shire - Fri - GM: Jacqui
• Finding Harold - Tue - GM: Julia
• A Body for Pug - Low - GM : Miles

Adventure Announcements and Sign-up

• Tears of Salt - Medium - Fri - GM: Bernard Room for 4 more
• Blood in the Snow - Low-Med - Tue - GM: Chris
• The Bold and the Handsome - Frivolous - Tue - GM: Dean
• Reclaiming Walontaun - Med-High High - Tu We - GM: Craig
• Bandit Baiting in Bowcourt - Med-Low - We Tu - GM: Ian

Awards

• Smartest
  • Mebh Rescuing Serifan from Set by swapping places with him then swapping with a Dragon Warrior 10 Won
  • Father Broc Agreeing with Gabriel (the falling angel) and thus living 3
  • Sebastian Dark Sphere Spiral exit ramp 1
  • Quincy Having a giant by the balls and deploying him against a giant Croc. 5
  • Poppy Appeasing the summoned Dragon by feeding him cookies. 6
  • No Vote 0
• Bravest
  • Mordrin Telling Gabriel (the falling angel) that he was doing wrong to his face 1
  • Aryan Wielding a 5' Dark Sphere in close with a Night Hag while falling 5
  • Phaeton Entering melee (with dagger and wand) 7 Won
  • Poppy Standing up to and talking to the summoned dragon 5
  • Kilroy Closing with the Evil Mind Mages as they Teleported away to their base (survived and won). 5
  • No Vote 0
• Stupidest
  • Mordrin Continuing to tell Gabriel (the falling angel) that he was doing wrong to his face 1
  • Aryan Spilling state secrets to an ally who was having his mind read by Dantalion on a regular basis 7
  • Scab Chasing and cornering the fleeing E&E who turned and smacked him over 3
  • Father Broc Volunteering Michael's whereabouts and plans to Gabriel after we suspected he was acting wrong 8 Won
  • No Vote 0
• Best Death
  • Mordrin Cleaved in twain by the flaming sword of Gabriel (the falling angel) 3
  • Tari Survived 3 rounds of death vision from 4 See-hags only to be killed by the Death Ray of the Beholder 12 Won
  • Aleza Fled from the rain and Zombies into the barn with the Necromancer controlling them. Didn't actually die but it murdered her hair-do. 3
  • No Vote 0
• Star of Alusia
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• Jammiest B'stard
  • [[[SauRos]] Doubled enhanced Necrosis and killed all of the opposing Drow 4
  • Algernon Feared by Rat-creatures ran around chased by 30 of them without getting killed while the rest of the party completed the mission 11 Won
  • Aryan Having the named weapon Beauty when confronted by Beholders, slaying one of them with Beauty in it's Eye 7