The -20 penalty is to make and maintain the grapple, so since I didn't see a -20 in any of the checks, I didn't worry overmuch about that option. But as you said, the orc is deceased.
Not at all! Thanks for really marking up the map! If the orcs had stabbed you that turn would've been a real pain without them.
Standard action to break free by my reading.
The Banner of the Ancient Kings
I've got a bard who has literally not spent a copper on himself for his first few levels as he saves up for that thing!
A reminder/heads up about gazes and their mitigation:
If you start your turn within the Bodak's range you'll have to take a Fort Save, but if you avert your eyes (and give it concealment) you get a 50% chance to negate the effect. If you close your eyes, or face entirely the other way, you don't have to take the save at all, but are effectively blind.
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Given that there was advance warning, was there time to avert ze eyes?
Also, I'm a total ditz when it goes to figuring out level stuff for drain, so could someone please run the numbers or give me a cheat sheet, because it looks like Andrietta is heading towards Ragewraith status herself at this point?
Thanks in advance. Distracted this evening, she'll be total defense and averting her eyes because cold old bones are slow.
There is absolutely time for Andrietta to avert her gaze and go for full defense. Here's your cheat sheet for Negative Levels: for each Negative Level you have, take a -1 on any d20 roll you make, lose 5 hp from your current and maximum hp, and count as one level lower for things that have changing numbers based on what level you are (like smite, or a fireball's damage)
And Celie, with as often as transparent and translucent are conflated, I'd need Wall of Blindness/Deafness to call out that it blocked line of sight/effect/what have you in more than a potentially inferential way before I'd be comfortable with that ruling.
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As far as I can tell, Andrietta, only one of those attacks hit you, if your AC is 26.
Negative levels don't actually reduce your level, of course, but impose penalties:
For each negative level a creature has, it takes a cumulative –1 penalty on all ability checks, attack rolls, combat maneuver checks, Combat Maneuver Defense, saving throws, and skill checks. In addition, the creature reduces its current and total hit points by 5 for each negative level it possesses. The creature is also treated as one level lower for the purpose of level-dependent variables (such as spellcasting) for each negative level possessed. Spellcasters do not lose any prepared spells or slots as a result of negative levels. If a creature’s negative levels equal or exceed its total Hit Dice, it dies.
So, -1 to your attack, CMB, CMD, skill checks, and saving throws, and -5 to your max and current HP. Your smite will do 1 less damage, since it's level dependent, and spells with a level-dependent duration or effect will be lower.
It would certainly be unable to target people with its gaze as a standard action, but, while I think it would be a reasonable house rule, I don't think there's strong support for blinding them removing the passive effects of their gaze attack.
My big precedent there is that if you're in darkness, it only matters if you yourself have darkvision, not if the gazing creature does.
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Reading the entry on gaze attacks it says
A gaze special attack takes effect when foes look at the attacking creature’s eyes.
So the passive effect certainly reads as you looking at it. Some forms of blindness might however damage the eyes (maybe giving them milky cataracts?) that would be pure GM ruling though.
Handy!
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This weekend is going to be hectic (my wife just had surgery this morning). I will try to keep up, but please bot me if I'm the only one you're waiting for.
In regards to this fight, if the bodak is still alive when these nearby ragewights are dispatched, Jillia will focus on that. (Rolling fort saves, not averting her eyes. It's gotta go.) Unless it has been significantly damaged, she'll challenge it as well.
Thanks!
Gotcha - Thanks for the botting instructions, and I hope recovery goes well for your wife!
From getting punched/stabbed by a wight that is correct, but the Bodak's gaze does allow a Fort Save
No worries!
The damage was still enough to finish off the Bodak, but since I'm not sure when you'll remove the negative level, I'll note for any future smiting that your smite damage is reduced by 1 by a negative level.
Okay guys. Today's gonna be a bit of a lull since we'll be hitting a new encounter literally tomorrow. Any healing you post up is still a good idea, any buffs you decide to take will be assumed to have been passed around right before moving out. (If I get a great outcry from you guys I'll throw monsters at you, but there's nothing currently available that could realistically be finished within a day.)
Spending Prestige Points on spells is totally reasonable.
I'm not sure you're in a settlement of 5,000 or more, but since that restriction is there to make sure you can find nearby Pathfinders, I think waiving that surcharge is appropriate while in the midst of a Society Throng.
Okay Rhuul, I've gotta know. Do you reuse jokes between adventures?
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Probably, although not intentionally.
Sometimes there are topics that there are limited jokes for - undead. And after seven or eight rounds of combat with them, I'm bound to repeat.
I just love the idea of a dwarf that tells jokes.
As noted, Rhuul is not exactly an optimized character. Even with versatile performance, skill focus(comedy) and prodigy (dance and comedy) are not exactly top tier feats.
And picking a race with a penalty to chr for a casting class based off Chr...
So I try to make up for it a bit with his personality, and jokes!
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Jilla could spend 2 PP to get Restoration cast on herself which would take care of her strength damage and the temporary negative level in one go.
Maybe we could apply the 3 point lesser restoration to Rhuul instead? And Johann could help out with casting one to take care of the remaining Int damage? 1 point of damage isn't that big a deal, but if there's more shades in the next encounter, one point could possibly be the difference between death and survival.
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Aww, and I was enjoying sinking to candle and elf jokes.
Really, the +2 to knowledge checks probably isn't worth it - if they are going he'll take them, but I'd put that well down the list of priorities.
Of course the sanity of the rest of the group may be improved with his intelligence restored :-)
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If Jillia *wants* to do that, I would be amenable to it.
Alternatively, if someone wanted to spend 1 PP to somehow automagically get a scroll with 6 Lesser Restorations on it, that could be used instead of the wand?
I'm kind of guarding Andrietta's PP atm, though, because she's a front-liner lacking hp and I see the possibility of her getting whacked hard.
At the start of an encounter, each PC can choose to gain the Precise Strike feat (Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide 167) for the duration of the encounter. Each PC can use this benefit once before the end of the adventure
Each PC can use martial flexibility as a 1st-level brawler (Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide 23) once before the end of the adventure; if a PC already has the martial flexibility class feature, she gains 1 additional use per day for the rest of the adventure.
Each PC chooses either the Acrobatic or Athletic feat and gains it for the rest of the adventure
Each PC gains the Nimble Moves feat until the end of the adventure.
Each PC gains a +5 bonus on any Day Job checks performed at the end of this adventure.
Before attempting a Bluff, Escape Artist, Perform, or Sleight of Hand check during this adventure, a PC can decide to roll twice and take the higher result. Each PC can use this benefit once before the end of the adventure.
PCs gain a +1 on attack and damage rolls against animals and magical beasts for the rest of the adventure.
Okay, we're heading into the closing stretch so I'm gonna roll for everyone's boons.
Womp womp.
Oh, and Johann, I still need this for your chronicles.
1. Player/Forum Name
2. Character's Name
3. Class and Level
4. PFS# (and dash)
5. Faction
6. Day job Roll (if any)