Here's the discussion thread! Mira has craft wondrous item so you can assume that you got all your wondrous items at half price. Just list what you want so she can make sure she could hit the required spellcraft check taking 10.
Gameplay will be up very soon.
Cheers for selecting me, Caster!
I actually spent most of my gold on wondrous items, so Mira's help would open up a few more options. :)
Here they are:
Headband of alluring charisma +2 4000
Muleback Cords 1000g
2 Tree Feather Tokens 800g
"You have called, and Zoltan has been summoned! Your wish is my command."
I will work up purchases shortly, but good to have a crafter on board!
"Hello, friends. What has been up lately?"
Interesting party composition we have there. We have a lot of healing.
Zoltan: My intent was that, in-character, you guys ad-lib as if you have adventured together. But let's roll with what Zoltan did. It'll work fine.
I totally forgot that, but now that you reminded me... oops.
Zoltan does have memory loss, so I suppose everyone could have been adventuring together and know that he keeps reintroducing himself....
Have we met during day 1 then adventure aka classic tavern meeting/kill gobos or only met sometime later and adventure ever since?
That's up to you guys to improvise. Who knows how long you've been together and what you've done? Like your character backstory, the team backstory is up to you. Why are you guys in Northern Andoran right now? What have you done lately? Have fun with it and give yourselves a RP foundation to work with. You might be used to Zoltan's memory loss by now and be really good at reminding him what's going on.
But if you guys don't like/want to compose a shared backstory, I'll give you one.
Zoltan has made his purchases:
Boots of Levitation (3750 gp)
Headband of alluring charisma +2 (2000 gp)
Dagger x2 (4 gp)
Dart X 10 (5 gp; 5 lb)
Alchemist's Fire x 2 (40 gp, 4 lb)
Acid x 4 (40 gp, 4 lb)
Camel (150 gp)
I already made one for Lenna and how we meet. There are still a lot of holes for the others to fill. Basically, killing Gobos (before she meet the party) and dealing with fey (party intro) are what she remembered. The missing memories of their further adventures may be due the lasting effects of their memory altering magic. Stupid fairies...
Yep, Mira can craft everything mentioned so far, including Lenna's haversack. It's kind of fun that the martial in the party is crafting for the casters for a change. Speaking of which, it was definitely interesting to pull up some profiles and notice that literally every other character in the party has 20 Charisma. Not your typical party composition, that's for sure!
As for group backstory, I'm going to assume that we've worked together in the past, but that we probably don't know each other all that well. That way we have a bit of room to get familiar with one another in character - I'll try to "yes, and" whatever we come up with.
With that much charisma, we have a good chance of talking ourselves out of trouble if there are any social scenarios/enemies who listen to what we say in the crawl.
Yeah it's a very charisma heavy party!
I'm thinking Sunreturn will explain everything about why he's here, but a little slowly. While he's no ent, I am drawing some inspiration from those!
Well, that's 2,900g freed up for Sunreturn, plus the 89g he had left, so here are a few more items for him:
Quarterstaff 0g
Circlet of Persuasion 2,250g (down from 4,500g)
Another 3 tree feather tokens 600g
Leaving 139g
FYI, I firmly believe in the rule of two by which I will move us along once two players indicate a course of action. I'm perfectly fine with you guys staying in the hut to chat a little longer if you wish but once two people say they're heading out, I'll move us onto the next scene.
Right now, it seems like Sunreturn is ready to move along but not particularly in a hurry so we'll stick with this scene.
I agree with that rule. And that's an accurate assessment.
I didn't know we started yesterday. I missed out a lot. Will be posting.
NP, Lenna. It was just an introduction/exposition scene. We're starting to get into the meat of it now. I try to keep my games fast-paced.
When you guys get a chance, put basic stats: AC, HP, Perc, saves, AoO, and what you would do if I needed to bot you in combat, in your header. I don't care how you format it as long as I can find those things. The bot action for you might be to cast a damaging cantrip, take an attack, etc.
Mira's stats get a bit fiddly when using rage or feral transformation, so I've just put her base stats in the header and the rest are in a spoiler at the top of her profile. Let me know if you'd like me to set it up differently.
Yes that will work. You can post under a beast shape alias during combat, if you like.
Header updated for battle. It's a shame though. Because of her chosen spirit, in return for better healing, Lenna cannot deal lethal damage at all for the duration of its stay. :(
Btw, don't forget about the shared seance boon bonus from Lenna. It gives +3 additional healing to healing abilities/spells.
That feeling when you put a single point into Linguistics, and the one language you learned happens to come up in the first encounter of the game.
Mira also has a shared seance boon, actually, a +2 bonus on all non-spell damage rolls. Unfortunately, Lenna's the only other one who can benefit from it, because you have to be within one step of chaotic good.
Sunreturn's header is up to date. He should probably find some armour to wear. I forgot I wasn't taking the Wood Armour revelation. I'm sure loot will provide. :)
I'm also fine with that marching order.
Is the rest of the party up again?
And speaking of which, I quite like our quirky party. Interesting and competent characters. :)
Lenna and Zoltan still have a turn.
Just a heads up that I will be on my phone at the moment as I cannot access the net from my computer due to my wifi keep getting shot for about 1-2 days. Do not grand posts from me during that time until it is fixed.
For Lenna's turn, can she stealth or is she being ovaerved?
K thanks for the notice. You have some cover and your friends are distracting. Go for it.
Even with wood bond, a masterwork weapon and flanking, no joy I imagine.
Still, I can crack out Shillelagh for the next fight if I fancy another bonus in melee. :)
@Lenna, hopefully your wifi gets back in order soon.
No need to worry about that now. It's not my wifi that was the problem. It was probably my computer. Since I am using my laptop now which works fine, I am back to regular posting schedule.
Are we waiting for something to happen or someone to act? Lenna is viewing the situation before she goes.
Just waiting for PCs to act. Sunreturn has.
Waiting to see what Mira does first. Even prone, her attack penalty got mitigated by Sunreturn's flank so I believe she can take care of this mook easily. If not, she still have Zoltan helping her. If that fails, Lenna will then act.
I am literally running out the door for a few days, so feel free to bot Zoltan as needed. I will try to check in by phone, but not sure that will happen.
Good luck!
Did Mira used her move action yet or did she full attack? Lenna's action will port her out if the dinosaur is not dead with her first world's echo. If not, she will do something else.
Mira full-attacked. That illusion idea is clever, though!
Illusion was a good idea, one to use again later!
I just remembered to describe Sunreturn's clothing. :)
That fight went pretty well, with a decent chunk of xp to boot!
Yep. Intro fight was fun. :)
Yeah, Lenna and Mira gets to show off their skills. Well, for Lenna, some of her skills.
Just a heads-up: I'll be traveling from tomorrow to Sunday, so my posting will be limited. I'll try to get something up when I can, but feel free to bot Mira whenever necessary. GM, you should have a pretty good feel for her fighting style by now.
Yep. Thanks for the heads-up.
FYI: I know that RAW, a rider occupies all the same squares as its mount. That is convenient for book-keeping but really weird. In general, I'm going to rule that the rider occupies the square above the center of its mount. If the mount is large, we'll just stick with the front left side of the mount. In the case of a huge triceratops, the kobold rider is 15 feet off the ground and located in the middle. Just wanted to let you guys know in case you're considering meleeing the rider. You can do it. It'd just require some reach.
Sounds sensible to me.
That is why we have Zoltan on the team for that.
Sure. I'm fine with that. I just think it should take a little extra work for a medium creature to hit someone on a huge mount.
If we're stuck, Sunreturn can march up and start stabbing.
I have to drive for a few hours then I will bot Mira if she hasn't posted by then so we'll be on to round 3. I know that she's getting back to her normal routine either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Safe travels.
Thanks! I'm heading to a collaborator's lab to genotype 1700 little crustaceans... so that's kind of fun. Lots of audiobooking for me.