Tuesday 11pm (4E D&D)

[TripMyHop]

Sweetness, see you guys on Friday!

[Esper]

Awesome game last night guys. Our new comrades CS will be up soon. Remember 400XP and an item of your choice of your level or lower.

[Esper]

Looking forward to tonight guys. Hope so see you all there.

[Esper]

600 xp for the night. Well done.

[Esper]

I would like all players to PM me. Tell me how you feel about the adventure so far. What you think could be going better and things you don't like. If you have any ideas you'd like to share do that as well. I shape these sessions with everyone in mind and give each character a chance to shin. Your personal input will make us both that much happier.

~Esper

[Esper]

Ok guys. Tomorrow is no game. I have a personal matter (see a funeral) that will be leaving me in no mood to DM.

[CRingerPrime]

Here's my guy.

Name: Meran Garrow
Level: 6
Class: Ranger
Race: Human
Size: Height is 6 ft, weight is 145 lb
Alignment: Unaligned
Diety: Erathis
Paragon Path: none
Epic Destiny: none
Movement: 6
Insight: 15
Perception: 22

Strength: 10
Constitution: 11
Dexterity: 21
Wisdom: 15
Intellect: 10
Charisma: 8

Max: 48
Bloodied: 24
Surge/Day: 6
Surge Value: 12

Battleaxe
Attack: 5
Roll: 1d10

Distance longbow +2
Attack: 13
Roll: 1d10+8

AC: 21
Fort: 16
Reflex: 21
Will: 17

Weapon Expertise (Bow)- Gain bonus to attack rolls with bows

Defensive Mobility- +2 to AC against opportunity attacks

Action Surge- +3 to attack when you spend an action point

Weapon Focus (Bow)- Gain +1 damage per tier with Bows

Lethal Hunter- Hunter's Quarry damage dice increase to d8s

Alertness- No combat advantage when surprised, +2 to Perception.

At-Will

Hunter's Quarry
Action: Minor
Attack: Bonus 1d6 to target
Target: Marked as Quarry
Range: Closest Enemy Only
Details: This ability allows Meran to target the closest enemy as their quarry and gives him bonus damage when attacking them. The effect is active until the target is defeated, the battle ends or a new target is chosen.

Careful Attack
Action: Standard
Attack: 15 vs AC
Hit: 1d10+3
Target: One creature
Range: Melee or Ranged weapon

Nimble Strike
Action: Standard
Attack: 13 vs. AC
Hit: 1d10+8
Target: One creature
Details: You shift one square before or after attacking.

Twin Strike
Action: Standard
Attack: 13 vs. AC
Hit: 1d10+3
Target: One or two creatures
Details: Two attacks, either both directed at the same creature or one each for two creatures.

Encounter

Evasive Strike
Action: Standard
Attack: 13 vs AC
Hit: 2d10+8
Target: One creature
Details: Meran can shift 3 spaces before or after his attack.

Thundertusk Boar Strike
Action: Standard
Attack: 13 vs AC
Hit: 1d10+8
Target: One or two targets
Details: Meran targets one or two creatures and shoots two arrows at them. If he shoots two different creature, each target is pushed back one space when hit; if he only shoots one target but hits them both times, they are pushed back three spaces.

Daily

Split the Tree
Action: Standard
Attack: 13 vs AC (two rolls, the higher number applying to both targets)
Hit: 2d10+8
Target: Two creatures within three squares of each other
Details: Meran chooses two targets and shoots them both at the same time..

Excruciating Shot
Action: Standard
Attack: 13 vs AC
Hit: 3d10+8 and target is weakened (save ends)
Miss: Half damage and target is not weakened
Target: One creature
Details: Meran aims and fires a well-placed arrow at a target.

Utility

Crucial Advice
Action: Immediate Reaction
Use: Encounter
Target: Party member making skill check with a skill you trained
Details: Grant the ally the ability to reroll the skill check with a power bonus of your Wisdom modifier (+2)

Skilled Companion
Action: Minor
Use: Daily
Target: Party member
Details: In any encounter, Meran may allow any one party member to use his Wisdom modifier (+2) with a skill check so long as it's a skill they aren't trained in but he is. They must be able to see or hear Meran to use the bonus.

Fighting style (Archer)- Gain Defensive Mobility as a bonus feature.

Hunter's Quarry- Minor ation, designate nearest enemy you see as quarry; deal extra damage to quarry once per round.

Prime Shot- If no allies are closer to target than you, get +1 on ranged attacks against that target.

[8]Acrobatics:
[3]Arcana:
[8]Athletics:
[2]Bluff:
[2]Diplomacy:
[10]Dungeoneering:
[3]Endurance:
[10]Heal:
[3]History:
[5]Insight:
[2]Intimidate:
[10]Nature:
[13]Perception:
[3]Religion:
[13]Stealth:
[2]Streetwise:
[8]Thievery:

Common, Dwarven

Distance Longbow +2
Skybound Leather Armor +1
Lucky Charm +1

Adventurer Kit
Arrows (180)
Disguise Kit
Hunter Kit
Identification Papers, Standard
Journeybread
Battleaxe

5 pp, 22 gp

Backstory: Meran Garrow was born into a wealthy family, the only son of a lord who ruled over his city of order and prosperity. His father, who liked to hunt, was mortally wounded by a boar in one of his many journeys out into the dangerous wilds outside the city gates. The young Meran, now a Lord himself, chose to never leave civilization and die like his father did. Soon he was married, and not much later was expecting his first child.

But one night, as several guards left their post at the Eastern wall to go drinking, as a servant forgot to close and lock the side entrance of the manor, as Meran's wife stayed up late to wait for him to return home from visiting the captain of the watch, a creature of the wild entered the town for the first time in decades.

Meran came home to a bloodbath. Guards, servants, his wife and unborn child, all slaughtered by an enormous black wolf with a gray stripe. Stinking of blood and decay, the beast looked deeply into his eyes for several seconds before it ran past the petrified Meran and back into the wild. Not ten minutes later Meran was stepping on dirt and grass, his city behind him instead of around him for the first time, carrying a bag of supplies, wearing his father's hunting gear and the long-dead lord's bow.

Two years later, he continues searching for the wolf, killing any beasts he finds along the way. Stories are told in inns and around campfires of the crazed lord, young with long dark hair and a gray stripe, searching for the beast with eyes like his. Being spotted while on journeys is seen as a good omen to travelers who are assured by the Hunting Lord's presence that no creatures of the wild will be attacking them any time soon.

[Esper]

Looks fine save for that you can have a small village of 7-8 houses, protected by a wall if you wish. You are still entitled to the land, but for the time being it is under control of the King of Silvertheria and you'll need to appeal to him to get it back. All in the sheet checks out.

[CRingerPrime]

Looks fine save for that you can have a small village of 7-8 houses, protected by a wall if you wish. You are still entitled to the land, but for the time being it is under control of the King of Silvertheria and you'll need to appeal to him to get it back. All in the sheet checks out.

Thanks. That's good to hear.

So Jorick tells me that the group's currently at a werewolf village. If you want to use it, I came up with a simple reason for my guy being there.

Recently Meran's been living in the woods near the werewolf village and they aren't big fans of that. Maybe they asked him to come to the village and explain his presence in the woods, which can lead to him joining the group, or (to make him have a similar entrance to the beginning characters) he's been captured and held prisoner by them. Either way, I'm sure they'll let him go if he promises to never enter their territory again.

If you don't like those ideas, I'm okay with him having any entrance you want.

[Esper]

Thanks. That's good to hear.

So Jorick tells me that the group's currently at a werewolf village. If you want to use it, I came up with a simple reason for my guy being there.

Recently Meran's been living in the woods near the werewolf village and they aren't big fans of that. Maybe they asked him to come to the village and explain his presence in the woods, which can lead to him joining the group, or (to make him have a similar entrance to the beginning characters) he's been captured and held prisoner by them. Either way, I'm sure they'll let him go if he promises to never enter their territory again.

If you don't like those ideas, I'm okay with him having any entrance you want.

Coincidentally we just beat down a group of people looking for Ebonfang. You can be one of the captured in that case.