Well, this is the discussion thread, and I need to ask a question.
Am I annoying anybody with way I'm playing Astra?
Thinking back, her defining characteristic has been she is deathly afraid of facing a fight with nothing to protect her from blows besides her agility and luck. While this gives me a chance to grow the character a good bit throughout the adventure, I'm worried that, short term, playing her as a coward, or something close, will annoy and frustrate other players (not characters, that's just good RP IMO).
I understand if you're annoyed with me, it happened in a real life scenario except I was the one annoyed. Just let me know so I can fix it.
Naw, it's good RP imo. Now if you play her so she runs to the Hellknights and turns us all in kinda cowardice, there'll be some issues. I believe Hyngrot has some rope....
Considering she's most likely on the arrest-on-sight list, that's not a problem. Getting the rest of her gear though, that might be, but I have some ideas on that.
Let's see, problems directly caused by Astra's actions:
-Leaving all of her gear, except a punching dagger at her apartment
-rescuing one of the Armigers chasing the party
-(Dunno yet, but there's bound to be another, at least, to add to this list.)
Yep, this character is turning into our groups unlucky mascot.
PbemDM, I was just checking character sheets and realised: you nedd BAB+1 to take the Weapon Focus feat.
You need to choose another feat or, if it is important to you, you can save that feat to spend at level 2 (when you qualify).
Actually, that's me introducing a house rule. Is everyone happy with this houserule?
You may keep feat slots unused until a later level
Yep, incorporates light sources, and also takes account of Hyngrot's darkvision and any low-light vision.
However, if one member of the party can see it, you all can: which I don't mind, although it would be nice to have that represented in party communication.
The goblins are in the room: they don't have white backgrounds so unfortunately they can blend in with the floor texture.
I have seen another GM use initiative blocks to support pbp play and I like it.
How would other people feel about it?
For example, in this fight:
block 1
Nicolai
block 2
Goblin
Goblin
Janniven
block 3
Astra
Daxius
Armiger
block 4
Pontia
Morosino
Hyngrot
We would assume everyone in each block is so close that sometimes they go before and sometimes after each other - it could help speed up the times when not everyone is online in the correct order.
It's from the GMG: Pathfinder actually uses the wording 'Hero Points', that was my mistake.
Hero Points can be spent at any time and do not require an action to use (although the actions they modify consume part of your character’s turn as normal). You cannot spend more than 1 hero point during a single round of combat. Whenever a hero point is spent, it can have any one of the following effects.
Act Out of Turn: You can spend a hero point to take your turn immediately. Treat this as a readied action, moving your initiative to just before the currently acting creature. You may only take a move or a standard action on this turn.
Bonus: If used before a roll is made, a hero point grants you a +8 luck bonus to any one d20 roll. If used after a roll is made, this bonus is reduced to +4. You can use a hero point to grant this bonus to another character, as long as you are in the same location and your character can reasonably affect the outcome of the roll (such as distracting a monster, shouting words of encouragement, or otherwise aiding another with the check). Hero Points spent to aid another character grant only half the listed bonus (+4 before the roll, +2 after the roll).
Extra Action: You can spend a hero point on your turn to gain an additional standard or move action this turn.
Inspiration: If you feel stuck at one point in the adventure, you can spend a hero point and petition the GM for a hint about what to do next. If the GM feels that there is no information to be gained, the hero point is not spent.
Recall: You can spend a hero point to recall a spell you have already cast or to gain another use of a special ability that is otherwise limited. This should only be used on spells and abilities possessed by your character that recharge on a daily basis.
Reroll: You may spend a hero point to reroll any one d20 roll you just made. You must take the results of the second roll, even if it is worse.
Special: You can petition the GM to allow a hero point to be used to attempt nearly...
Things are looking a little hairy, thought you might like to be reminded of this. You got 1 each for Christmas.
Thank you, GME! I'll use it in good health (I hope). I wasn't sure Pontia was going to survive that; unarmored rogues and wizards don't usually do well in melee, even against goblins, but there wasn't anyone else. At least the goblins don't do a lot of damage per hit.
L2 HP:
Incrementing all existing skills by 1 rank except the obvious one, and picking up a rank of Knowledge (Nobility) in its place. Unless anyone has spell suggestions, she's going to take shield and enlarge person.
I apologize for the skill errors. I've made the updates on my sheet, plus a blurb on ACP at the bottom. When I get home tonight, I'll add in all the skills with appropriate modifiers (I don't believe I used any skill besides survival you listed, but I know I used Acrobatics, and I'm not sure but I don't think I took ACP into account for it).
Like Pontia said, there's no ACP for Survival, or is there another issue with it?
As far as the tools, I apologize to the rest of the group on that one. It's unfortunately a mistake I've made before as well (trap types are outside my general playstyle). The next time I have money and a chance I'll grab a set.
HP roll:
Skills: bumping all current skills by 1 (4+3+1(favored class) = 8 pts.
Discovery: taking 'precise bombs' for my 2nd level discovery.
Alchemist formula learned: keen senses