Don't worry; I just noticed that myself, about the performance. I tuned the rest, but the performance requirement would have to be reduced to about 150 to scale...
Oh... it's one of those funky foreign words I learned to spell incorrectly.
"visad" = "facade"
They all look really cool though some are vastly more powerful than others. I do love all the names for them though. Heh, cheeky bastards.
Yeah, those are pretty cool. I might shoot for that buff one, and maybe try to kill a whole bunch of urdefhans in a single round...
And they're fun to come up with!
16. Hawkeye: Confirm 10 critical hits with a ranged weapon: Range increments increase by 5 with weapon used.
17. Oh no you didn't: Successfully feint 25 times: Gain a +2 bluff bonus when feinting.
18. Hidey-ho: Be invisible for 30 rounds of combat: Treat the CL of invisibility spells cast on you as 1 CL higher than they actually are.
19. Offensive superhero: Be under the effects of Enlarge Person in 15 different encounters: Ignore the size penalty bonus to AC when large.
20. Run away!: Successfully flee from a slaughter of a combat with every pc intact: Base speed increases by 5.
21. Oneness: Roll for max damage/healing on a channel energy of 4d6 or more: Channel Energy resistance DC goes up by 1. (can gain multiple times)
22. Annihilator: Fell 100 enemies: Gain the Zest for Battle trait as if you were a dwarf.
23. BLARG: Do 1000 damage in melee: Once per day, reroll damage for one attack with a melee weapon (even during a crit).
24. One-hit-wonder: One shot a daemon of your HD or higher: +2 unnamed bonus to intimidate checks made against evil outsiders.
Are these retroactive? If so, I think I qualify by crit-shocking that vulnadaemon in the tree in the shanty town back when we were level 5 or 6.
So fun. This kind of rapid fire creativity is why you're the GM, Trout!
They are retroactive. Link the post, and be rewarded.
And awww... you flatter me.
Couldn't we cheat on #20 by just fleeing? Expeditiously Retreating? I do love the idea of some adventure trait treats.
Trout--did you get my PM?
You have to flee an actual battle that's not going well for you, and while that spell may be involved, don't take the 'with everyone else' part for granted.
Also, the second Annihilator should become Wanton bloodshed
Also, if you're looking for inspiration, here are the Story Feats from Ultimate Campaign. There's also Local Feats and Achievement Feats.
Achievement unlocked, Drovya. You're a one-hit-wonder. XP
Hooray! I'm a wiener!
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Ok, just to put it out there. We didn't actually agree to anything with these guys, and part of me wants to give them no info whatsoever. And also maybe take them out and take their stuff. Am I playing a good aligned character? Nuts, I am.
Oh I totally agree with you. These guys are scum. Give me the word and I'll chop them down with the edge of my hand, err my blade.
Well I'm standing next to a mountain (of a man, named Talon Skyfall.)
Well I pick up all the pieces(of daemons) and make an island.
Eugh. Sounds a bit rank.
A tiny yamah in the sand? Lord knows you're a voodoo child.
So, are we going to attack these guys or what?
I wasn't planning on it. I'm not sure this is meant to be a combat encounter. I know you're intrigued by all those glowy things, but its probably easier to let them go on doing what they're doing and then sneak up from behind and pick them off one at a time.
It's up to you, players.
:)
You're probably right Han. Shall we tell these scumbags about the two urdefhan we encountered? (I think we have the necklaces they were wearing and the rest of their gear too)
Wasn't it just one? But, yes, Rohini agrees we should tell them about the encounter, since they have provided us with information. Han is posing as the leader of the group, so he should do the telling.
Aye, Han, take the lead. Don't reveal more than needed!
They didn't have time to examine the rhoka closely... that's what I've decided due to my mistake in thinking it was sheathed. No one's going after them, right? That was never made clear. I only got 2 'onwards'.
I'm waiting to hear from the others... If they want to go after them, we can... :P
I'm ok with letting them go. Seems like the wiser choice of action, and we don't need to fight everything we encounter...
Yea, it is the wiser choice..
Yeah, not fighting them.
Yes, Rohini is not going to start a fight with them. Ok to proceed.
Okay, looks like Haka will fight them on his own.
Oh shush now.
By the way, folks, I am going camping next week, so I'm going to be a bit absent in the near future. We leave Sunday and come back the following Friday. Trout can direct Rohini's actions as necessary. I'll continue to post tomorrow and possibly on Saturday.
I'll be camping too! Also leaving Sunday, I'll be back on Thursday for one day, then off to PaizoCon with my 12-year-old son. So will be out of contact for a full week, with a chance of a post in the middle there.
Happy Fourth!
Summerschool will keep me occupied.
Do you play Pathfinder with your son, Haka? I've been GMing for my 8 year old and some of his friends. I hope it continues...
I can't wait until my son is old enough to play. What age did you guys start with your kids?
I used to play with him a lot, not so much now. I ran him and a friend of his through some beginner box games last summer, and he was hooked (he was 11). He started GM'ing games for his friends, and then, miracle of miracles, a Pathfinder group got started as part of the after-school program at his middle school. So he played two afternoons a week, and the group soon started a weekend game, so he played 3 times a week for most of the school year. The guy who runs the group kept it going during the summer, and there are six middle-schoolers and their GM playing at my house right now. It has been a really great experience for him, he's made a ton of new friends and it's unleashed his creativity in many new ways (if only he'd write some of it down...)
I find the middle-school games a bit chaotic and insane to actually play in, but I help with character builds and suggestions, and get some respect from the kids for knowing the game reasonably well (and they all pore over my old D&D books and I get to brag about how I used to game with Erol Otus, who drew the cover for the old Deities and Demigods book, among many other things).
So my son and I talk a ton about Pathfinder - ideas, adventures, stories, etc. - but we don't play in the same game very often. But we've got a lot of gaming together lined up for PaizoCon - we got into a game run by Gary McBride, who wrote the Way of the Wicked adventure path, and I'm very excited about that.
Okay, probably more of an answer than anyone really wanted, but it's always hard to be brief when talking about one's children.
p.s. - Drovya - as I said, he was 11, but one of the kids he plays with started at 9 or so, and I think I was 9 or 10 when my brother first roped me into playing the then brand new D&D Basic Set.
Hm, 10 5/6 years to go! (for my son. Not that my daughter won't also be suckered into playing.)
I can hardly get my friends' children to leave us alone for a few minutes when playing. The six year old keeps rolling crits for the gm!
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Like he needed help to do that. Still, she got incredibly gleeful about killing her daddy.
Lol, I wish my parents taught me to game. I had to learn all on my own. :(
I started with my son when he was under 6, but I had to tell him everything to do. Really the best time to start is when they can read and do basic math, so they can take some ownership over their character sheet and die rolls. I'll probably try to start my daughter when she is 6, but it will still be a bit early. There are systems geared towards kids that may help teach some RPG skills earlier, but I was a bit afraid of getting stuck in a simpler system, so I just started with full blown Pathfinder.
Haka, can you tell more about why the middle school games are "a bit chaotic and insane to actually play in"? I'm curious to hear more about that. Would they let you GM? I'd sort of planned to try to keep that role, but probably someone will want to dethrone me at some point...
And I totally sympathize with your frustration that your son won't write more of his cool ideas down!
Rohini – the games my son plays in with his friends from school are a bit wild and loud, mostly because of how the kids all came to be playing together. They first got together at the after-school program I mentioned, and there’d be a dozen kids in a room all excited to play, and it could get quite a little crazy. The GM was much more tolerant and accommodating of their noisy kid natures than I probably would have been – and as a result he was much more successful than I would have been as well. But that’s the context in which they learned to play, and it has continued to some degree, even when they’re playing in the group outside of school.
Obviously, not all the kids are loud, and it tends to be one or two who make a lot of noise, and sometimes that’s enough to get everyone going – and that’s the chaotic, insane nature of the game that would make it a challenge for me to play in. If I were running the game, I’d probably feel a desire to ask the kids to be quieter and focus more on the game – which would likely make it less fun for all of us. Their GM is able to keep things roughly on track and let them express themselves quite freely, so he gets to run his game and the kids have a great time. (I should add that I’ve never felt that I’m particularly good as a GM, especially in the more free-form moments, so the notion of trying to run a game in that context seems like it would be a challenge.) And the kids are actually getting more focused and less nuts when they play these days, so perhaps I’m just a bit shell-shocked from my initial encounters with them.
Interesting, so who is the GM? Another parent?
I definitely hear you on the craziness. Running the games for 4-5 boys aged 8-9 tests my patience to the extreme. But they love it and I feel that over time we've managed to accomplish a fair amount.
I definitely hear you on feeling unsure as a GM. I see the pictures Trout paints with words, and I wish I could do that in the two games I run. It helps a lot to be running a Paizo AP with my adult group. With the kids it is mostly about stringing together a series of interesting combat encounters. Not much roleplaying possible!
The GM is an interesting fellow. He's a youngish, idealistic attorney who works part-time for a little non-profit and doesn't make much money, and who loves Pathfinder. So he set up these after-school classes, which he makes a little money from, and then the outside-of-school games, which the parents also pay him something for - so he's a professional GM, which you don't see very often. At one point the school was going to cancel his class for schedule reasons and the parents rose up in support of our RPG-mad kids and we all bonded around the issue, so it's a nicely tight-knit group, but I'm the only parent who also plays the game.
On GM'ing, I play in a number of PbPs, and my son has expressed interest in joining one, but they're pretty competitive to get into. So I'm thinking of running one for him and a couple of friends, which would be interesting, as I'd be running a game with more time to think and craft what I want to say. I'm also really looking forward to seeing the GM's at PaizoCon do their thing, as I'm sure I'll learn a lot.
Yay! I'm an aunt again!
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+1 nephew just got launched into our world.
:)
Huzzah! Dip him in the river Styx and make a mighty warrior of him!
Percy Jackson? :D