Feral's Giantslayer: #5 Anvil of Fire - Sanctioned Seeker Adventure (Inactive)

Game Master Feral

Psst. Hey Purs, I think your last axe attack was a crit threat.

Exiel: Rhon needs help so I am going to start attacking the enemies around him next turn. I will leave you to mop up those ones near you. Try not to actually get grappled.

Alright, Calculations galore.

Rhon CMD vs. Giant Sunder
Base 10
BAB +14
Str +6
Size +1
Deflection +2
Haste +1 (dodge bonus)
Defensive Stance +2 (dodge bonus)
Racial vs. Giants +4 (dodge bonus)
Jingasa +1 (Insight)
Stonestrike +3
Total 44 (41 w/o Stonestrike)

Armor Hardness & HP
Hardness
Full Plate 10+(4 (ehancement)*2)=18
HP
({10*5)*2)+(10*4)=140
((Armor bonus x 5)x2 Large size due to being Enlarged)+(10 HP x 4 Enhancement)

Ah, I'd forgotten about stone strike affecting CMD. Thanks for the breakdown.

I'm dubious on enlarge person increasing the hitpoints of your gear. Also, I think your math is off. The armor bonus on full plate is +9. I suppose it's fine for enlarge person to increase your armor's effective HP. Just keep in mind that when the spell wears off your armor loses the extra HP and potentially instantly fall apart.

It would be ((9 armor * 5) * 2 large) + 10 * 4 enhancement = 130 hp.

Your fullplate is currently at 70/130 damage taken.

The extra point of AC is from the feat Armor Focus which specifically increases the armor bonus by 1.

Absolutely my armor is going to crumble when the enlarge person wears off but hopefully it keeps me alive through this melee. :)

Good point on armor focus. It's still broken at this point but it's at 70/140 damage taken.

GM: By my calculation I am showing my armor to be a 74/140. Did I miss something or goof up a number? See calculation below.

140-(35-18)-(33-18)-(33-18)-(37-18)=74

You're right. I miscounted the number of hits that I had to adjust damage for when I had the hardness wrong. Your armor is not broken quite yet.

It's worth mentioning that you should count damage up rather than HP down, especially in the case of your armor losing a ton of durability as soon as your enlarge wears off.

I am just running it off a spreadsheet so as soon as the Enlarge Person wears off I will just remove the x2 from the HP formula and watch my armor crumble.

Thank goodness for the Enlarge Person spell at the moment or my armor would be ripped to shreds at the moment. I don't suppose anyone has Make Whole in their repertoire of spells at the moment?

I really need to remember to get myself several scrolls of Make Whole for just this reason.

Rhon: Do not forget the caster level for the spell must exceed the caster level of your item for the spell to work. But I would not want you to bear the cost of repairs again after I sundered your ax in the last game. Fortunately, this time you are playing with Ralph. If the caster level for your armor does not exceed 18, I can fix your armor before the game ends. But I cannot cast the spell without terminating my current object possession spell, and it will take some time to cast.

Exiel can cast mage armor and barkskin on you as an interim measure.

Feral: Are any of the salamanders are wearing armor? How much longer will my CL14 enlarge person on Rhon last and what is the best suit of armor we have seen any of the giants wearing so far?

I can cast make whole, greater at the end of the adventure?

Purs: Either one of us can cast it at the end of the adventure, but Ralph can cast it at CL18.

Feral: In an earlier PM I asked you whether I could cast overland flight on Rhon if I temporarily possessed him using magic jar and then casting overland flight using his body. You ruled that the overland flight spell was a mental effect rather than a physical effect and so it would not remain with Rhon's body. By that same token, would I be right to say that my own overland flight spell now affects my statue-form?

Yes. I believe you asked that earlier and I agreed.

Feral: I must have missed your reply. As you said, reading is hard. Thank you. That will make this fight easier.

Shouldn't Exiel still be down 10 hp? He got hit for 62. Did he have DR 10 from something?

Feral: It looks like he messed something up in both his current and max hp. Based on his character sheet his hp should be 85/95.

6 dragons in one fight is also quite onerous. What is the CR of this encounter supposed to be?

It's a CR 17 encounter. The little dragons are only CR 10s and the wyrms are CR 8s.

Believe it or not the previous encounter was mathematically harder. It was CR 17+.

Feral: It is not just the numbers. The tactical elements of this fight are obnoxiously stacked against the players. An elder dragon that starts hidden and invisible and 5 younger dragons starting in a cave far above the range of most spells. Not to mention 6 highly mobile strikers in a large arena that gives them the full advantage of their mobility. If Exiel had not won initiative so he could use EFS and if I had not been in a stone body to tank a lot of those hits we would have fallen long ago. This would have TPKed a less optimal party. I thought Sean K Reynolds would have been experienced enough to balance this fight a little better.

I'm aware of concepts like line of sight. Please stop. If I have a question on what you're trying to do, I will ask as I have been. You are making this game a chore and I have better things to do than participate in games with players that do not respect my time.

Feral: A simple misunderstanding. I put the line there for Exiel's benefit so he would not move into the giant's line of sight and thereby give them a free saving throw.

Posting this in all my games: My father passed away a couple days ago. I’m going to be occupied helping my siblings make the usual arrangements and get his estate in order. I apologize for the absence. Please bot me as needed. If this is a game I’m GMing, just hang tight and I’ll catch up with everything when I can.

Perhaps under the circumstances it would be best to end the adventure here. It seems you will have enough on your mind for now and in the near to mid future.

The paragraph from pages 12-13 of the guide to organized play allows players to get full credit for a module or sanctioned AP book if they complete at least half of it. As GM you also would get full credit.

My condolences on your loss Feral.

Sorry for your loss Feral.

@Ralph that sounds ok with me. Are you guys doing part 6?

That's rough mate. Take it easy.

Purs, Ralph was gonna run book 6 of Reign of Winter after this. He's run books 1-5 already. Rhon and I did book 5 before this game.

ok

Sorry, what did I miss?

Perhaps under the circumstances it would be best to end the adventure here. It seems you will have enough on your mind for now and in the near to mid future.

The paragraph from pages 12-13 of the guide to organized play allows players to get full credit for a module or sanctioned AP book if they complete at least half of it. As GM you also would get full credit.

Feral: I proposed this in light of your current situation with your father.

Exiel and Purs are amenable.

Rhon has not expressed a view either way.

If guys would like to end the game, we can.

I'll get things reported tomorrow. Please PM me your email addresses so I can send out chronicles.