Hi everybody! I'm Andrew. I've gamed with some of you before, some I haven't yet had the pleasure. I'm looking forward to running your adventure!
This will be a Normal Mode PFS (not Core) game. We'll be starting as soon as folks are ready. Upkeep business:
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Andrew,
Thank you kindly for running this! I'm really looking forward to this!
So, I've used Skybek for mostly level 1-5 adventures, but I fear that now he is level 6, he is going to be getting into some very serious encounters as the scenarios get harder. He has been accumulating a lot of gold for a while. My chronicle sheets are home, but I am estimating he has upward of 10,000 gold pieces and I have not purchased any new magic items in a while. I am wondering what you all might suggest I purchase to help himself and consequently the rest of the party. At the moment, Skybek has the following magical items.
Magic Items:
pearl of power (1st level),
wand of cure light wounds;
breastplate +1,
light steel shield +1,
battleaxe +1,
cloak of resistance +1
Other Gear:
crossbow bolts (20), heavy mace, light crossbow, backpack, bedroll, belt pouch, crowbar, waterskin, wooden holy symbol of Tankard, wrist sheath, spring loaded (10 lb)
Please kindly give me your suggestions before we lose the opportunity to purchase needed equipment.
Sure thing!
Here and here are two excellent posts with great advice in that respect. And, as Painlord advises, approximately ten percent of your wealth should go into consumables.
For a cleric, that means you should stock a sizable scroll library of various utility spells that you'll need in particular situations but probably shouldn't prepare (more than once) every day. I suggest picking through the list of cleric spells and buying scrolls of various things that might be handy now and again. I am particularly fond of the remove X spells for my scroll libraries. In fact, most of my characters have some even if they can't cast those spells--I just hand the scroll to somebody who can.
Looking at your particular list of shtuff and 10000gp, I would advise:
pearl of power (2nd level) -- 4000gp
Headband of Inspired Wisdom +2 -- 4000gp
Scrolls/consumables -- 2000gp (see Painlord's post and cover what you can)
After that, Ring of Protection +1 (2000gp) will help your AC, boosting your cloak will help your saves, a belt of giant strength or belt of mighty constitution will help your battle prowess. Jingasa of the Fortunate Soldier (5000gp) is also an excellent choice -- +1 luck bonus to AC plus 1/day convert a critical hit or sneak attack to a normal hit.
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Ok, I've checked over my chronicle sheets and I have about 21,000 gold to spend. Here is what I've come up with. Before I put this list to pen on my inventory tracking sheet, what are your thoughts?
Pearl of Power (Level 2) 4000 gold
Headband of Mental Superiority +2 10,000 gold
Belt of Giant Strength +2 4000 gold
Scrollls (see below) 2425 gold
Total = 20,425 gold
Scrolls
Comprehend Languages 25 gold
Obscuring Mist, 25 gold
Protection from Evil, 25 gold
Endure Elements, 25 gold
Remove Paralysis, 150 gold
Lesser Restoration, 150 gold
Delay Poison, 150 gold
Daylight, 375 gold
Remove Blindness, 375 gold
Remove Curse, 375 gold
Remove Disease, 375 gold
Protection from Energy 375 gold
Ok, I've checked over my chronicle sheets and I have about 21,000 gold to spend. Here is what I've come up with. Before I put this list to pen on my inventory tracking sheet, what are your thoughts?
Lol, I have a lot of thoughts:
This first is, holy Cayden Cailean, have you not spent any money since 3rd level? On to the real stuff:
Headband: if you're not super worried about having high DCs on your offensive spells (such that you prepare, anyhow) then this is an okay choice. That said, consider how much you're getting out of a boosted Charisma (an extra channel per day and the opportunity to exclude only 2 enemies from your channel) for the cost of a much more expensive headband and a precious feat. Alternatively, you could boost your primary casting stat (gaining you more spells, esp. high level ones, higher DCs, better concentration checks, etc. etc.) by +2 and saving a bunch of gold for other stuff or even by +4.
Belt: my alchemist (Boom, whom you've met) has turned more and more tanky over time, but I never boosted her Str above the starting 14 via a belt. I instead spent on a higher Int and just prepared Bull's Str regularly. Since they don't stack, I'd rather take the +4 from Bull's and give myself another spell slot to prepare it in. The pearl of power will help with that too. For the belt slot, I recommend the Con route -- more HP means you survive another round to hit again. (Alternatively, just spend on the headband for now.)
Scrolls: A good list. I might add: share language (2nd), invisibility purge (3rd).
Overall: With that amount of gold hanging around, you may consider upping your weapon. For 6000gp you could make is a +2 or +1 shocking or similar, for 16000gp you could make it +3 (counting as cold iron and silver) or +1 holy or similar. That would still leave you enough for a headband of inspired wisdom +2 or a pearl of power (lower DCs, but more flexible) plus 1000gp worth of scrolls. If you went the +3 weapon route, along with a bull's strength, your attack bonus would increase by 50% from +8 to +12.
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Ok, Andrew, This is my purchase of magic items. I will record them on my Inventory Tracker and deduct my gold on my previous chronicle sheet.
Pearl of Power (Level 2) 4,000 gold
Headband of Inspired Wisdom +2 4,000 gold
Belt of Mighty Constitution +2 4,000 gold
Ring of Protection +1 2,000 gold
Handy Haversack 2,000 gold
Scrollls 2950 gold
Smoked Goggles 10 gp
Bladeguard 40 gp
Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds 300 gp
Potion of Touch of Sea 50 gp
Comprehend Languages 25 gold
Obscuring Mist, 25 gold
Protection from Evil, 25 gold
Endure Elements, 25 gold
Remove Paralysis, 150 gold
Lesser Restoration, 150 gold
Delay Poison, 150 gold
Share Language, 150 gold
Daylight, 375 gold
Remove Blindness, 375 gold
Remove Curse, 375 gold
Remove Disease, 375 gold
Protection from Energy 375 gold
Invisibility Purge 375 gold
Total Cost 19,350 gold
@ Kali: if you could please bold your character's speech text, like so:
Jimbo scratches his stubbled chin. "I swear I saw a monkey in here a minute ago." He shakes his head and pounds back another whiskey. "I must be seein' stuff."
@ Skybek: you can go ahead and roll your day job (if applicable), plus PFS #, Init mod, and Perception mod.
No worries! It'll become habit after a while.
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Apologies-busy weekend with pax and buying a car. I still need to finish scroll shopping and catch up on trading the past. I'll try to get it done between events today and tomorrow.
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@ Cott: I swear I'm not doing that on purpose. I put PCs in alphabetical order and then the baddies after them, every time. Maybe it's just the dice gods punishing you for attacking everything. :)
They're both probably nearing the end. About 45 minutes, I'd say.
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Andrew, couple questions. Why the trip roll for croc, and does throwing a weapon provoke an AoO from the croc like using a ranged weapon would?
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Andrew, couple questions. Why the trip roll for croc, and does throwing a weapon provoke an AoO from the croc like using a ranged weapon would?
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I may not be the DM, but I do know the answers...
a) That's what crocodiles get to do when they hit with their bite.
b) It absolutely does.
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Crocs grab when they bite. That's a grapple check, and it's included in the croc's rolls. Not sure what the trip check was for.
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The statistics for a croc define a death roll as "d8+6 plus trip" in the same way it does for "plus grab" for the bite. So the trip roll is there as well.
There is no AoO because you cannot make AoOs while grappled, and the croc has the grappled condition as well as its target.
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Ahh. Actually, I think I used death roll wrong the first time I summoned crocs. Upon rereading the ability while looking up the stats for the summon this time, it seemed like the croc wouldn't get to use it in the first round, when it initially grappled the enemy.
"Death Roll (Ex)
When grappling a foe of its size or smaller, a crocodile can perform a death roll upon making a successful grapple check. As it clings to its foe, it tucks in its legs and rolls rapidly, twisting and wrenching its victim. The crocodile inflicts its bite damage and knocks the creature prone. If successful, the crocodile maintains its grapple."
The way it's worded there made me think it has to start the round already grappling something, and if it makes a successful check to maintain the grapple, it can deathroll. I could be misinterpretting it though.
However, death roll doesn't include an attempt to trip. Ability says it does bite damage and knocks enemy prone, but doesn't mention needing an additional trip check.
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Special Attacks death roll (1d8+6 plus trip)
It's under special attacks, not in the fluff text.
And hmm, I guess you're right. That makes sense from an action economy standpoint as well (it is a CR 2 creature, after all). I'll modify the damage (it won't be a huge difference in the end, I think).
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Ahh ok, yeah I was just reading the fluff.
And yeah, exactly that was my thinking. Seemed too powerful to get three attacks, grapple, and trip in a single round.
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I apologize for the delay! Work has been steadily cutting into my PFS time. I've taken what little is left to close up some other games, so I should be mostly good to go now. I will get us going again tomorrow morning.
Cott/Khakil/others: please feel free to nag me. It is likely to facilitate pulling me away from work. (Don't feel like you have to though; it is my responsibility to be better about posting. Apologies again.)
This is becoming a nail-biter. ROLL WELL.
Our data analysis took waaaaaaaay longer than it was supposed to. I'm hopping on a plane now but I will have a post up tonight or tomorrow morning, I promise. Sorry again for slowing the game down so much.
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This spellcaster is really annoying me! I felt like we really mishandled that battle. I was panicked that she took off with our book and we were just about ready to lose our primary objective. I have a feeling we have already lost our secondary objective. Well, at least we are still alive. Well, barely!
I'm doing my best to annoy you :)
Helpfully, she's running out of spells.
Chronicles are HERE!
I really hope everyone had fun. It's a fantastic scenario and I know it got marred slightly by me being a bad GM and not keeping my posts up. I really enjoyed the RP-ing in particular from all of you, and I while I play often with Cott and Khakil and Skybek (and I always enjoy thoroughly), I very much hope I have a chance to see Kali and Quarr again as well before too long.
Thanks for gaming with me!