DM Bloodgargler's Serpent's Skull
Game Master BinkyBo

Good to have you back E-Terah.
Never played a final fantasy game. Maybe I will try their next one. Srry fr the slow posting this week, took a temporary second job this month and my social life went to the garbage can. When I get home at the end of the day I can barely keep my eyes open.

I know that feel bro.it's either work and make money or be broke and socialize.

Social life? What's that?

And what are all of those % rolls in the spoiler Bloodgargler?

percentile dice ;)

just rolling what is in there. There are very few opportunities to gear up in this module...

Sorry all... I tried to insert something that worked really well in my table-top game. (They memorize bestiaries within a week of release) So I gave clues how to defeat the creature which was the subject of a unique curse.

What was (in my face-to-face game) 3 hours of info before conflict... was here many many months. (And I was sloppy on the clues of how this differed from similar creatures the player or character might know of)

So... this is a much lower CR mild take-off on a worm-that-walks. I made it equivalent to +2 level adjustment template added to an NPC with class levels.

In addition to what you have seen, and various pluses and minuses to things...

In swarm form it has the stats of a chew spider swarm (except mental stats and buffs), and swarm traits.

In human form it has a DR vs piercing and slashing, and the same amount of magic resist. It is vulnerable to area effect damage (half again as much damage)

other things you have learned...
>smoke slows it
>funeral rites remove the curse
>the chew spiders (which are the curse.. in addition to everlasting life) want to live forever, the cursed wants to die.

However you care to use this, present the insight or epiphany go ahead.. you have made enough checks.
I promise not to go off-book for bestiaries again!

I admit i was a bit lost here, i completely forgot hints from past posts (after months....) and i wouldn't know where to go looking for them now.
Iolana has no skill to exploit this creature's weaknesses anyway.

edit:i know players that memorize every monster in a given bestiary are a pain. At my table i usually simply force the players to check their PCs knowledge skills to see if the character knows it,not the guy playing it....everyone knows he memorized the creature.

Yeah. I was like,when in doubt,set it on fire.

Gatherine is going to go ahead and use her Flare cartridges on it to burn it. Her pick is useless. And her war razor isn't going to do much damage.

My second gig is over and today my father returned home. He had a minor stroke and spend the last week at the hospital. But now life is finally getting back to "normal".

Man, I feel so tired... But its good to have a little time for myself again.

Glad to hear. And my prayers be with you and yours.

Happy for you Merck.

Thx for the messages guys.

Last day of school tomorrow. My posting should be far less erratic for the next few months.

School is important,but i really want to get Souls for Smuggler Shiv done with, once and for all.

edit:maybe it is a bit early to ask this, but are we planning to go on and play Racing to Ruin? You know,already happened (Kingmaker) to me to finish the first book in more than a year only to see the master disappear at the beginning of second chapter.

Hoping to... it will be a much easier module for me to run.