Guild Meeting September 2013

DQ Guild Meeting 8th September 2013

Venue: Leys Institute Hall, Ponsonby

12:30 GMs Meeting

13 GMs Present.

Adventures Going Out

Current GMs may book themselves on adventures at this time.

Rules Issues

• E&E change (ver 2.1) play testing is going nowhere. Propose vote to accept or dump. Vote: Dump 8 Accept: 3 No Vote 2.
• Propose vote to accept Jono's version of Evil Eye. Vote: Yes 13 No: 0 No Vote 0.
• Propose we remove requirement to cast 5 times per when ranking, as almost nobody does it any more, it is tedious and it penalises only beginning characters ie often new players. Vote: Yes 13 No: 0 No Vote 0.
• Air and water predict weather talent accuracy should be related to rank - Agreed - Proposal Required
• Propose we remove the 100 charge rule from investment. It's not used and the problem it was supposed to solve was better addressed in other ways and/or it didn't work anyway. Vote: Yes 13 No: 0 No Vote 0.
• Warrior 3.02 Update to Abilities - final season of play testing

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.

• Drow planning to breach the Dragonspine Mts
• Blitz planning to disrupt the Ice Road and cut off the Drow offensive
• Western Kingdom fracturing and neighbours looking to extend their borders
• Refugees moving away from war zones, reeving, disorder, ...

1:00 Guild Meeting

Adventure Summaries

• A Cold return - GM: Jono Bean
• Just Deserts - GM: Dean Ellis
• The Wicked Witch of the Wet - GM: Keith Smith
• Red Red Wine - GM: Chris C
• A Brick wrapped in a Prophecy - GM:Ian Anderson
• The Good, Bad And Ugly - GM:Jeff Leddra

Adventure Announcements and Sign-up

• The Big Push - Multi-GM Campaign Event
  • Return of the Geomancers - High+ - Wed, Thur - GM: Jono Bean - Full
  • The battle of Simia Orichalcae - High - Tues - GM: William - 'Full
  • Kill Them All - Med-High - ? - GM: Ian Wood - thump fest in the Shattered Kingdom - 1 Space
  • Loyalty and honor - Low/medium - Mon? - GM Julia - Full
  • Pointed Diplomacy - Master Assassins - varies over a few nights/weekends - GM: Paul S. - 'FULL
• The Wood Wide Web - Low/medium - Tues/Thu - GM: Keith Smith - Please sign up on the wiki

Awards

• Smartest
  • Michael - Won - Clever use of Merchant - the new combat skill. Stopped a battle by pointing out the trade opportunities.
  • No Vote
• Bravest
  • Mario - Won - Engaged the big bads while the rest of the party got their hair up to his standards. Leaped through a window to engage a Celestial and Necro so they wouldn't be casting on the rest of the party while they came up the stairs.
  • No Vote
• Stupidest
  • Viola - Won - Lusting after the penguins that were trying to charm the party and getting her wish.
  • Pug -
  • No Vote
• Best Death
  • Haleg - Died twice at the hands of the same opponent in the same fight.
  • Pug - Won - Entering a portal genitals first, the rest of him didn't make it.
  • Liana - Squished by a castle she was attempting to drain.
  • Robinton - Flying in a fog of misdirection in a forest, the second tree got him.
  • No Vote
• Star of Alusia
• Jammiest B'stard
  • Elgar - For being an insectophile at just the right time
  • Michael - Won - Survived being Dark Titan bait, porting through a save or die barrier 4 times in the process.
  • Pug - Being dead (and a testicle) just when the powerful bads turned up for some personal revenge.

General Business

Racial Modifiers Chart