4-18 The Veteran's Vault [Tier 1-5] (Inactive)

Game Master Michael Hallet

For OOC chatter.

Dot.

Nona has been updated to be a 1st level Summoner unchained. I've also got a witch I could play if it would help with the balance of the party. Looking forward to a great adventure.

Reporting in

Player Great Green God
Character Rilia, Sacred Hetaira
PFS # 139009-27
Faction Sovereign Court
Day Job Perform (oratory): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Michael, you've lost probably Uslad the Grumpy (dwarf crossbow gunslinger) from the original left-overs list. The character showed up in another PbP game with a character of mine on Sunday. I'm not sure if the Uslad's player is planning on diving in with another character. I'm sending him a quick post in the other thread to find out.

Any plans for Murderer's Mark after this? It was sort of my objective to play Rilia in that eventually. Gotta get her leveled up to her sweet spot as a bard 2/Cleric (of Calistria) X. You know a clever cleric with some skills. ;) Right now she stands at 2 xp.

Ser Willem Dargerion dotting in.

Ah Ser Willem, long time no see. How have you been? Busy I hope. Shonne's doing well considering the acid and fire burns she suffered at the hands of the party's alchemist back in Stolen Heir.

That was an unfortunate incident...it's good to hear that Shonne managed to avoid further such incidences... Willem has been looking for more work, but his time working directly for Lady Morilla has kept him busy.

Speaking of, is it table variance or a straight rule that you can only use Perform, Craft or Profession for the Day Job roll? Willem would probably use his Diplomacy when he's not working for the Pathfinders.

Is there an opening in this one? I have a level 1 character I'd like to bring.

Without a vanity (there's one that allows you to make a Sleight of Hand check for instance) that's pretty much it.

Not every Pathfinder works for the Society full time. Some are trained artisans, professionals, or performers and earn extra gold on the side, between missions. During these times, you can attempt a trained Craft, Perform, or Profession check to see how much extra money you earn—this is called a Day Job check. In the Pathfinder Society campaign, you may make one Day Job check after the end of each adventure. Certain Vanities (Pathfinder Society Field Guide 60) allow you to further modify your Day Job rolls, or even let you use skill ranks from other, more specialized skills like Heal or Sleight of Hand as Day Job rolls.

Permanent bonuses from equipment, feats, racial bonuses, and traits affect your Day Job check as they would any check for the rolled skill, but temporary bonuses such as those granted by spell effects, other than crafter’s fortune, do not contribute, as the duration over which the Day Job check is made is undefined and represents a longer amount of time than a spell’s duration would permit the bonus to remain. You may take 10 on a Day Job check, but you may not take 20 nor can you aid another....

And while it would be nice to say that Shonne has not had to ready a trip or grapple attempt to avoid having her recent companions not attempt to dive through an obviously trapped hallway with a -7 jump check penalty or have to follow them into magical darkness to find the two derro torturers with there poisoned crossbow bolts, (Shonne the last person standing after 30 rounds alone of hide and sneak with a strength of 6 down from 16 thanks to poison, went unconscious having nicked the last derro down to about 3 hp) I am afraid sir that I cannot.

Is there an opening in this one? I have a level 1 character I'd like to bring.

"It'th the Mathter!" Rilia sprays, mockingly. "What is it about Igors and their accents? And no fair following me from the other thread. I mean I'm sure Igor wouldn't want you to see him dressed like this."

Dot!

Dot! Thanks for running for us leftovers! :D

Player Mystery Cult
Character Kiddir
PFS # 198870-8
Faction Grand Lodge
Day Job No

P.S. Huge thanks for running this! )

Looks like everyone has dotted in.

I downloaded the adventure and it seems fairly straight forward to run. I might start earlier than intended if everyone is ready.

As for Murderer's Mark, I hadn't planned to run it, but I might be able to be convinced if there is enough interest. I played it before, and as low level modules go, it wasn't my favorite, but not sure it that's the adventure itself, the GM, or both.

No worries, I'm just glad you're giving us the chance to play this one. ;)

Please take a moment to open this presentation and fill in the requested details in the first slide. Once everyone has filled in their information, I will start the adventure.

Thank you for serving as GM.

Will Nona's eildolon get a separate initiative roll or will he go with Nona's roll? His is +1, hers is -1.

Let us know if you have a particular format for the information in the character's header slots. I'll be adding my basic stats there momentarily.

Michael: Thanks for running this! I look forward to giving my psychic another spin here. He may be a bit dusty since I made him, played him a few times, then promptly made a new character. I think his chronicles aren't up to date in his profile but I'll clear that up tonight.

Kiddir: Will be nice to play with you this time around. I was the GM for your Rage Against The Machine session. I mean... Trial by Machine.

Hey Michael! Here's my day job check for the presentation. I'm not sure how to add my icon to it though. Sorry.

Day Job Profession (Hunter): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Hey Michael! Here's my day job check for the presentation. I'm not sure how to add my icon to it though. Sorry.

What image would you like to use?

M'boka wrote:

Hey Michael! Here's my day job check for the presentation. I'm not sure how to add my icon to it though. Sorry.

What image would you like to use?

The one I've got on the alias will be fine! Thanks!

Does Nona have an image for her eidolon?

Does Nona have an image for her eidolon?

Yes. Coming up.

Searlas Savy, good to see you, buddy! It was a great game .) Still waiting for the new techno-games from you ))

Might be a while. I'm GMing the Year of the Shadow Lodge special now, and plan to run something for a friend of mine afterwards, but possibly after that I'll pull out Silver Mount Collection or Technic Siege. I really want to run Technic Siege because I had a bad experience when I played it and would like to be a part of a more pleasant run of it. I just finished running The Paths we Choose for the same reason. Went much better this time.

Great. Hope I can participate. We'll see ))

The game has begun!

"If you don't have line of sight to the opponent at the start of your turn, you can't charge that opponent."

Is anyone holding a light source that would reach the creature with at least dim light?

Actually never mind, where it is standing currently it would be in dim light due to light coming from the streets above.

Lol )) Yes, that's else why I wrote "if I can" )

I'm curious how you would run the jumping rules in this case. If you run north on one side of the water, would that count as a running jump to the other side? Or does the direction jumped have to be in the same direction as movement just before?

If it does count, could you jump horizontally for 5 feet or would you have to jump diagonally for a 15 foot distance?

Here is how I would run it.

Look at this image

The PC (blue X) moves along the black arrow and jumps at the end of that movement in one of two paths.

1. The horizontal green dashed arrow

This would count as a running jump as the component of movement in that direction (the horizontal dotted yellow line) is at least 10 feet long.

2. The vertical red dashed arrow.

This would NOT count as a running jump as the component of movement in that direction (the vertical dotted yellow line) is not at least 10 feet long.

I just realized that my chronicle/purchase tracking section of my character sheet in my profile isn't up to date since I played this character twice in person. I'll get those updates into my profile once I get home and have access to my paper sheets. He has no gear that affects his overall stats that he purchased in the last couple scenarios, but he does have a mostly full (if not full) CLW wand, although he can't use it. His last 2 chronicles are Twisted Circle and Between the Lines, both from season 7.

Just a heads-up, I will be away most of the weekend with very limited access to internet.

That's reasonable. Thanks. So in the tunnels, one would have to jump a diagonal of 15 feet and get 15 feet of movement to count as a running start.

Between her low strength and dexterity and her ACP, Nona will need help to get across, as she is -4 to both swim and acrobatics. I'll check what Katzu's encumbrance would be if he carried her, as he has better numbers for both skills.

My work schedule has me working sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the evening in five week stretches. Usually it shifts every five weeks. At present I'm continuing to work mornings, which should continue until mid-July. I work Monday through Thursday. So I will try to check and post before I go to work, around 5-6 AM (Eastern US time). But I can usually post by 3 PM and check in the evening as well. I can usually post through the weekend, as I only go out of town about once a month for occasional camping or trips.

Out of combat, I will assume you can help each other across without worrying about rolls as you have time. It's really only in combat you have to worry about it.

Character sheet fixed to reflect paper copy's purchases.

I will be off the grid until Sunday afternoon. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

A storm has knocked out power in my area, so my ability to post will be limited for a while. Bot me if needed.

I moved everyone up a bit and got the next encounter started as there is nothing at all to find in those cells and I didn't want to waste too much time.

Whenever a creature moves more than 10 feet in one round in this room, there is a chance that the creature steps on one of the sharp tools.

Katzu does however manage to step on more of the tools and injure his feet even more.

I think Katzu moved only ten feet last turn. I thought that meant he would not risk further damage from the knives etc. Or did he move 15? I thought he was 2 squares west and 1 square north of his present position.

He would have been encumbered dragging Kiddir and his base speed is reduced by half from his current wound. So his speed was 20 feet reduced to 10 feet. This means Katzu can move 5 and not risk stepping in more stuff or 10 and do take the risk. You only had a single move since you needed a move to pick up Kiddir.

I'll have to take another look when I'm home, but it doesn't make sense to me that you can move your full speed without risk.

Makes sense. I had forgotten about the effect of encumbrance.

Yeah, carrying an ally is pretty much always at reduced speed unless you are a barbarian with ant haul. You are either carrying them out and being encumbered by their weight, dragging them and being encumbered by their weight, or making a reposition against a willing subject which is basically a very slow and short ranged drag. Either way you're stepping on Legos and d4s the whole way.

That being said, the scenario is specific about triggering on feet per round, so I'll change Katzu's up in the next update.

I think we are just waiting on an action from Ser Willem.

Bull rush! XD

I didn't remember this being so rough when I played it, but I played it at Tier 4-5 with a level 4 cleric. The difference between 1-2 and 4-5 is that the jinkin is a level 5 sorcerer instead of a level 2 sorcerer and there are 2 advanced darkmantles rather than 1 standard one.

I think what likely happened is that the room went dark and then my cleric pulled out an oil of daylight.

Yeah, in tier 4-5 darkness is much easier to handle. At tier 1-2 without an Aasimar in the party you pretty much eat the 50% miss chance and inability to cast targetted spells.

Honestly it depends on party too? Had we been the group setting off for the Lonely Mountain, no prob.

My previous game in that link on the other page had exactly one person in the group who could deal with the dark--the so-called invulnerable rager, who went down first. ;)

Hey there, folks. Just so you know, my in-laws are gonna be in town with us for the next week so I may not post as regularly. If it goes too long, feel free to bot me. I'll try to get in at least one post/weekday as usual if I can. If I'm not able to check in, hope any of you fellow Americans have a good 4th and that the rest of you enjoy your weekend!