Good stuff and I like your main profile name KarlProsek .. fellow rifts fan here.
Love that setting. Rules are iffy but the world is awesome.
still looking for what you all would like or need in a character?
So Sorcerer,Monk healer, Magus, Summoner, inquisitor... hmmm
Eh. This summoner is more of a front-line tank than a caster; I wouldn't count on him to cast spells, personally.
I'm the FNG and I haven't taken a deep dive into everybody else's sheets but skimming the lineup it looks like we're good on melee FPS/direct damage and tanking. Utility casting and battlefield control could use some help. I don't know who our Face is, either (my guy has a high Cha but his Diplo mod is only +9).
If it were me introducing something new here I might go Witch or Arcanist. Or Druid, maybe.
there's a game I haven't played in thirty years... Rifts... Got to love the flexibility, but damn its Monty Haul ability is off the charts...
If I am going battlefield control it will be with a witch for sure. There is just nothing like it. Divine wise most likely a Evangelist Cleric for buffy mcbufferson goodness. I can get something with trap abilities in there using a trait for disable device or an archtype which grabs it if the group needs some rogue like loving. I can face with anything given the right traits.
So this game has been going on for a very long time and a lot has happened but since we have a some new players I will try to recap for you.
This adventure started with the group being contacted by a man called Sazed Khaim a scholar who needed an artifact recovered from a forgotten ruin. The group traveled to the The logging town of Falcon’s Hollow were they found that the town was being attacked by undead.
They defeated several groups of undead and eventually made their way to the ruin were Sazed had asked them to retrieve the artifact only to discover that the cultist of the whispering way had already arrived at that location and were using the artifact to create an army of undead.
The group cleared the ruins and retrieved the artifact from the cultist leader who driven insane by the artifact and the powers it granted him believed himself to be the whispering tyrant Tar-Baphon reborn (he was not). However at this location they also found a strange seal that had been broken.
When the group returned to falcon's hollow with the artifact they were attacked by a powerful undead knight that seemed impervious to all damage. Sazed khaim intervened and using a strange ability to increase his strength to absurd levels sent the creature flying into the distance.
Once safely inside a ship traveling to Absalom Sazed revealed to them to that the whispering way was working with Razmir to recover six powerful artifacts created by an ancient secret order called the Keekers. Razmir it seems has promised the cultist that if they recovered the artifacts he wanted he would use his power to free Tar-Baphon from his prison for them.
This order was responsible for the safekeeping of all knowledge and innumerable rare and powerful artifacts. Razmir it seems was once a member of this order but he betrayed them stealing one of their most precious relics and arranging for most of the order to be exterminated. Sazed it seems was one of the few survivors.
Sazed now had one of the artifacts that Razmir wanted and he knew that Razmir had another but 4 remain out in the world in hidden vaults built by the keepers. Sazed did not know the location of the other vaults so while he worked on securing the recovered artifacts and finding the location he asked the group to help him gather more information on their enemies.
Here we deviated from the home-brew stuff and played the adventure paths Masks of the Living God followed by City of Golden Death more or less as written with a few twist and elements from my own game added in. The group found out that the cult of Razmir was planning an expedition to the dreaded Isle of Terror thanks to information given to them by the cult of of the whispering way. Hidden within the island's negative energy storms, the secret treasure city of the wizard-king Tar-Baphon has lain sealed for centuries. Now masked cultists have opened the golden city of Xin-Grafar to claim the wealth of the legendary city for the Living God Razmir. The party followed them to the island and defeated the cultist and the entire city self-destructed because of a trap left behind by Tar-Baphon to prevent anyone from stealing his treasure. The cultist sent for this mission were hand picked by Razmir and it seems their orders were to secure a massive amount of wealth and to go to a contact in Thuvia to deliver it.
(I think it was around this time that Devyhn died?) He was later resurrected by during his time in the afterlife Devyhn was given a mission by his goddesses to investigate the theft of a soul from the realm of souls. The thief apparently was in Thuvia. He was also given the mission to stop Razmir as he was experimenting with something that the Goddess saw as a grave blasphemy against her.
The group traveled to the land of Thuvia to investigate the murder of a merchant who had paid the church of Pharasma in advance to resurrect him in the event of his death. However every attempt to resurrect him it seems had failed because his soul was missing. Apparently stolen away after it had reached the real of souls (something that should be impossible and Pharasma herself was a bit peeved about it)
The merchant Anvanory it seems had just recently won the bid to purchase the fabled Sun Orchid Elixir. The potion of eternal youth. Only six vials of this potion are sold each years and each one sells for hundreds of thousands of gold.
The daughter of the merchant had receive a ransom not. Her father's soul would be returned if she gave them the elixir in exchange.
The group contacted the daughter Naila Anvanory and she hired them to retrieve her father's soul and find those responsible for his murder.
The group investigated the murder checking all of the merchant's rivals and even traveling to the Boneyard to visit the scene of the crime (were the soul was taken) evidence found at the scene indicated that the thief was none other than a protean a creature of pure chaos. Joined by an Inevitable from the plane of Axis the group traveled to the plane of Limbo and tracked down the Protean responsible for stealing the soul. The one who had bound the Protean and forced it to steal the soul was none other than the High priest of Pharasma in Thuvia. A man who was working with agents of Razmir (and who had lost his cleric powers months ago and was faking it fooling everyone into thinking he still had Pharasma's favor) but had in his old age become afraid of dying and was planning to to steal the sun orchid elixir for himself.
The group attacked the false priest and exposed him to his followers and recovered the lost soul but even so were then apprehended by the town guard for the murder of a high priest pending an investigation.
The group was in prison when a paladin of Sarenrea came to their rescue and told them Anvanory manor was under attack and that the one who had arranged for their imprisoned was an agent of Razmir.
The merchant had been revived and the elixir had been delivered and the cultist of Razmir were making a desperate attempt to steal it before Anvanory could drink it.
The group arrived just in time to save the merchant and his daughter and defeat the agents of Razmir once more.
Once the group had left Thuvia they receive news that Razmir was making an offense that half the river kingdoms had been conquered and that he was even threatening to take over Lastwall.
Sazed however had located another of the artifacts that were likely the key to defeating Razmir. This one was located in a Keeper vault hidden underneath the city of Kaer Maga.
This vault had recently been discovered and news was spreading as dozens of expedition of mercenaries had entered the place and returned with hordes of treasure and rare artifacts.
However the majority of those who entered never returned at all and those who did warned that the place was a maze of death with traps, monster and clockwork guards around every corner.
And that's more or less were you are now.
Feel free to add or correct me I wrote this mostly from memory.
Achren used to have haste, I can memorise it.. added by me.
Arkanost has haste!
I've got that too! And a few other fun toys as well.
Not sure about welcoming a necromancer to the group. Do you summon undead? That might pose a problem because to worshippers of Pharasma that is a terrible blasphemy and this group has an inquisitor of phaarasma and has met her herald twice and will likely do so again.
Arkanost is only NG, but would also be mighty uncomfortable around undead.
Damn, DM. That's a hell of a game. Thanks for the recap.
Achren still has Haste. The only thing I switched out was Reduce Person for Infernal Healing. Everything else is the same.
I used to run a LN necromancer who justified using mindless undead by saying that 1- it wasn't taking the person's soul out of their place in the River of Souls and 2- it's like recycling. Why just leave perfectly useful bodies lying around when they can kill bad guys for you? Granted, she was tipping toward LE, but she didn't do anything big-e Evil unless you really buy into the 'necromancy spells are inherently Evil' thing, which I don't really.
@Anatoli I think that would be preferable thank you. I normally don't have an issue with necromancers but sometimes they aren't the best choice.
@Achren that works with some groups but the church of Pharasma considers the creation of any undead souless or not a disruption of the natural order and in their eyes it is a crime. (usually punishable by death but not always -it depends how many you made and if they believe you intent to make more or not) I read a book that looks into this quite a bit called deaths heretic. The entire novel is from the point of view of an inquisitor of pharasma and I used a lot of the content of that book for my adventure.
I will look to Add Anatoli to the adventure shortly.
DireMerc. Let me know if I'm ever pushing it too far with silly/strange uses of spells. My goal is only to use it for entertaining/fun thematic uses not to break the game or cheat the rules. I try not to push it beyond what I would allow my own players to do in a rules as intended scenario.
For example here, I am basically trying to use bluff for the core mechanical purpose of "give me that thing for free" and the warp metal is more of a flavor/fun "justification" or circumstance bonus type thing.
Nah that's fine. I don't mind fluff and actually encourage it. What I don't like is cheeze and gaming the system for an advantage.
I have a few ideas on how to introduce you to the group.
I will pm you in a bit to talk options.
I'm working some overtime hours this week doing 12 hours shifts everyday so I'm a bit tired taking a little break from posting for a few days will resume full steam Monday but will try to get a post in here and there.
all good
The liquid you used to turn the lead into gold could could also have been used to make a elixir of Resurrection by mixing it with a healing potion but I'm not sure what kind of check it would be to figure that out. Spellcraft? Knowledge alchemy probably but that's not really a skill hmm...
The elixir of Resurrection loses it's potency and becomes useless after 1 hour however so whether or not it would have been useful depends.
Pretty much LOL I was also curious was skills you have that you think would work spellcraft? knowledge arcana? Craft alchemy if you have ranks maybe.
In any case you could always whip up another batch.
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if we had a high level alchemist we could preserve the elixir of resurrection indefinately with the right alchemy. It would be main skill craft alchemy, then secondly spellcraft as it is not yet made, and to recognize it afterwards it would be know arcana. Last but not least anyone attempting to mix it without craft alchemy would have to go with use magic device I would think and attempt to activate a non class item... (talk about too much GM'ing what a geek I am)
Also not sure if I mentioned this before or not but I don't usually post on weekends much as during my days off I like to get away from the computer since I'm sitting in front of it the rest of the week.
Hehehe no of course not. Nothing unusual here.
That is for fighting defensibly and the rule is simply if you attempt to cast a spell defensibly you provoke attacks instead of losing the spell and if you get hit you make a concentration check dc 10 + damage dealt or lose the spell. (instead of juts losing the spell)
And yes this is one of my favourite rooms in this dungeon very well designed.
Around 80% of the traps, monster and layout used to make this place are taken from the adventure module Seven swords of Sin. I just had to modify it since it's a 7th level adventure and I needed to incorporate my own story elements into it.
Same, Achren didn't have any errands to do.
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Anyone keeping a loot list? We should at least liquidate the larger bulkier items to cash or gems for easy transport.
We have 10K of party gold now (the reward). Do we need to buy any communal items for healing or the like? Wands of Curing? Wand of Lesser Restoration? We could get both a wand of Lesser Restoration and a wand of Cure Mod for 9K. A wand of Cure Serious would be 11.25K. and for out of combat healing the cure light wands are the best "value".
I'm going away for a few days back on the 13th
Been having a lot of trouble accessing the site lately I was starting to wonder if I would ever be able to get back in.
I'd like everyone to sound of for the moment see who is still around.
Still here, good to go
I'm here. Hopefully the Ysoki got everything patched up for good this time.
I'll be away for a long weekend, returning Tuesday. Please feel free to bot me as needed. (If the servers even allow!)
nothing happening for the moment waiting on your guys to decide on course of action
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Nondetection
The warded creature or object becomes difficult to detect by divination spells such as clairaudience/clairvoyance, locate object, and detect spells. Nondetection also prevents location by such magic items as crystal balls. If a divination is attempted against the warded creature or item, the caster of the divination must succeed on a caster level check (1d20 + caster level) against a DC of 11 + the caster level of the spellcaster who cast nondetection. If you cast nondetection on yourself or on an item currently in your possession, the DC is 15 + your caster level.
If cast on a creature, nondetection wards the creature’s gear as well as the creature itself.
the DC to see me is 1d20+the caster level of the the person casting see invisibilty against DC 23 (+2 for use of arcane pool which is subtracted from my pool each day)