[PFS] Your Ghenett Manor ✊ (Inactive)

Game Master Yours is mined

Throw down your gauntlet HERE!

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Should we Ninja the game-play thread or wait a bit?

Welcome, Petrok!

I’m OK with opening gameplay for dotting. DONE ✓

I am nearly finished prepping Ghenett Manor and am very much looking forward to running it for you all.

Feel free to fill in your PC details >>HERE<<

Once everyone has a chance to sign in, I will tell you a little about my play style and request the usual PFS info.

Chak is signed in. He's currently sitting at 1 xp from level 9, but I'm planning on playing him twice at a local con at the end of February so he'll be level 9 when this starts.

Chak can cover a good number of roles. He can fight, especially up close when he can strike vital areas, he has trapfinding skills, he can talk his way out of some situations or maybe he talks so much that people eventually become confused and just give in (Orator feat), and he can even "cast" spells, assuming he has the right scroll for the job (Esoteric Linguistics feat).

Hi Chak!

It’s great to have someone along with a knack for the rules and the diplomacy skills to match!

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I’ll post the ground rules now in case there are any questions. If you have gamed with GMs like DebugAMP, Hmm or Shifty there shouldn’t be any surprises.

⛺ Please make it obvious what buffs you have active and what your AC is.

⛺ I will roll group initiative and track character actions. In the example below, the PCs highlighted in bold text can post actions in any order and I will adjudicate those actions in the order they were posted.

You can delay to a later position in the initiative sequence, as usual.

Active conditions: Bless, Haste, Inspire Courage +2 on party

Chak (invisibility)
Lathlo (-9 hp)
Petrok

Ser Jaime Lannister (prone, lost a hand)
Cersei Lannister (nauseated, total b!~#@)

Torean
Seren's Seven (4 Mirror Images)

BOLD may act!

The MAP will be in my header AND at the top of the page.

⛺ Miss is always low if a miss chance applies. For example, if there is a 50% miss chance on a melee attack, a result of 1-50 on d100 is a miss.

⛺ I generally allow PCs to roll their own saving throws and Attacks of Opportunity (AoO). However …

⛺ I like a relatively fast-paced scenario. I find when a game loses momentum, the fun is quickly sucked out of it.

As such, if you do not post an action within 24 hours from when I invite you to post, I reserve the right to take actions for your character.

⛺ If at all possible, please let me know if something comes up that prevents you from posting.

⛺ If I make a mistake on the current combat round, please let me know and I will try to make it right.

Questions? Let me know in Discussion or via PM.

Torean is ready. He's a save specialist, especially against magic, though he can dish out some serious damage with his warhammer too.

Day Job (Blacksmith): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Hey, Torean!

From your Main Forum Handle, I assume you are a fellow fan of the Holy Grail?

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The game is prepped and the maps are done.

I am champing at the bit to start, though the official start date of March 5 is not too far away now.

I will muster everyone who hasn’t checked in about a week before kick-off.

Oh, if anyone has GM’d Ghenett Manor before, can you please let me know by PM?

Unfortunately, I need to step away from this game. I ca remove my info from the outpost spreadsheet. I hope you all have a great game!

Hey guys, just checking in. Seren will reach level 8 after Race finishes online soon. I've placed her info on your sheet Yours for the next level.

Seren's a spirit dancer medium, so I can jump combat roles as we need, but she's champion focused for damage when the party doesn't need her filling other roles.

Day Job (Performance Dance): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (14) + 15 = 29

Thank-you for the info, Seren and welcome to the Manor!

We are still about two weeks away from starting, and I see some Outpost GMs have already begun formal mustering.

I expect some of you may still be playing in other games. So I plan to start getting the formal pre-game stuff out of the way in about a week.

Any questions or problems in the meantime, feel free to discuss them here.

Hello. I will be bringing:

Surumi Gajutai
Neutral Good Nagaji Spell Warrior Skald 7 / Oracle of Metal 1

PC details filled out.

Day Job Perform Sing: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (5) + 21 = 26

Checking in. Extensive character background is in profile. Need to get the rest input.

Player: Jim M (Uktar)
Character: Lathlo the Flatulent, Sarenrae's Privateer
Aasimar Whirling Dervish (swashbuckler arch) 5 / Thug (rogue arch) 3 / Urban Bloodrager 1 (celestial bloodline, of course)

(The character history might seem a bit weird: Lathlo started career as street-legal Aasimar Dawnflower Dervish bard, but languished unused once Advanced Class Guide came out and I could make dex builds without the bard stuff. Then Advanced Class Origins showed up and Lathlo retrained into Whirling Dervish swashbuckler and got back to adventuring...)

Petrok checking in..let me know when you want us to dot. No hurry, from me.

player:Lucklesshero
character (lv) Petrok (Shaman 6th)
PfS# 184087-5
faction Dark Archive
Dayjob: Craft tattoo take '10'

Looks like everyone has checked in.

If you have any unusual abilities or combinations of abilities, can you please advise me before the game starts. It will prevent any delays during the game if I ask questions now, rather than in the middle of combat.

Welcome, Lathlo! I trust Riptide & Sonic are well and busting heads somewhere.

@Petrok & Surumi, can you please add your full PC stats to your Profile Page. It will make the game flow much better if I have all the information I need in one place.

Petrok & everyone, feel free to dot into Gameplay and/or start roleplaying. Though the game won’t start officially until March 5.

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I am going to provide Faction Missions for this adventure. This is because at least one of them may provide useful background for the PCs. (Also, I love factions!)

However, there is NO OBLIGATION TO ACTUALLY DO THE MISSIONS, in order to get the full rewards for this scenario.

Questions? Ask me here or via PM.

1.) Seren is a Spirit Dancer, so unlike a standard medium she actually has a mechanic similar to if you combined Barbarian rage with bard song. She dances as a free action and chooses her spirit then, and after she stops she has a 1 minute cooldown before she can dance again. It basically means I can choose roles combat to combat, and anyone close to her gets bonuses based on the spirit just by being near rather than participating in a seance.

2.) She has haunt channeler, which means she can't be surprised by haunts, and can get a free attack in on them in the surprise round that lets her ask them one question. (They choose how to answer). It also gives her the choice of choosing to fail the save against it if it goes off, which lets the haunt possess her body, but it can't trigger its effect on the party.

Gajutai is a Spell Warrior Skald of 7th level

1) He sings the Song of Weapon, which enchants all the allies weapons in the 60' radius with a +2 enhancement bonus, or some weapon magic keywords from the list if the weapons are already magical. There is a bit of table variation with it, on whether each affected ally gets a choice of effects, or if the song bestows the same on all. I usually play with "all get the same" and the usual ones are keen+shocking or some other elemental damage one (I assume that at this level most of the allies already have a +1 or +2 weapon anyway).

2) Additionally, everybody whose weapons are affected by the song is benefitting from the Spirit Totem (20% miss chance for any ranged / reach attacks against them) and Lesser Spirit Totem (enemies adjacent get attacked by negative energy wisps using Gajutai's CHA+BAB for attack and 1d4+CHA mod for damage). It's usually 4-6 additional attacks, not very damaging though. At the IRL tables, I usually roll those.

3) He's got Improved and Greater Counterspell that allow him to counterspell just by using the spell-slots of the same level. But it's unlikely to ever come handy.

Hi Gajutai! So glad you took us up on the vacated spot!

1) With regard to Weapon Song (Su): and who chooses the enhancement bonus, I agree with your interpretation that (as decided by Gajutai):

"all get the same"

I would say if Gajutai does choose special ability equivalents of +2 (like keen+shock in your example), your allies would need to possess a magic weapon with at least a +1 enhancement, in order to participate in the Weapon Song concert.

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2) Thank-you for advising me about the effects of Spirit Totem and Lesser Spirit Totem on allies participating in the Raging Song.

• Do you plan to track your rounds of Raging Song in your header?

• You might need to remind me about the 20% miss chance for Spirit Totem, for ranged and non-adjacent melee opponents on ‘concert participants.’

• When you say “It's usually 4-6 additional attacks” that’s assuming you plus 3 to 5 allies are participating in the Raging Song, right?

Regardless, I agree that it is easier for everybody if Gajutai rolls any Lesser Spirit Totem attacks.

@Petrok, thanks for adding a skills list to your profile.

I make your take 10 craft tattoo day job would be 10 + 6 = 16 for 10 gp.

Chak is updated and ready to go.

Lathlo’s combat posts might be a bit long and complicated, but I’ll use spoilers to cover conditionals to keep it as clean & short as possible. And I’ll begin spoiler efforts with this long post

Other stuff
- Controlled Bloodrage (just boosts one stat +4, usually Dex. No Will Save boost, no AC nerf, can still use mental skills, etc)
- Celestial Bloodline: when raging, weapons are considered good aligned.
- Swashbuckler stuff: Parry and Riposte (and combat reflexes, of course), Dodging Panache, Kipup, does +5 Precise dmg
- EVASION
+2d6 sneak dmg
- his adamantine scimitar is both furious and Cruel

Yours is mined, yes, you're spot on with your assumptions.

I hope I'll be up with round tracking in the header, but it's essentially 'whenever I post a combat round - the counter goes down', so I think I'll be fine. Can tick them in the post as well.

Seren has been updated to 8th level and should be ready to go for next week!

OK, Lathlo looks to be built around reducing melee enemies to blubbering, frightened messes, seriously in need of rethinking their life choices.

I have played with a highish-level inquisitor of Sarenrae with a similar concept, but Lathlo is like that guy TURNED UP TO ELEVEN!! ;)

During combat, can you please indicate the condition Lathlo is applying to the baddies, DC to avoid it and duration of the effect?

How do you plan to handle your parry/riposte rolls during combat?

The swashbucklers in Riptide & Antonella’s In Wrath’s Shadow game placed theirs under a spoiler tag, which seemed to work quite well.

But if you have a better way – no worries!

Lathlo has a boon that allows him to ignore size penalty when making Intimidate checks. Can PM a pdf scan of the chronicle--let me know.

Don’t worry about the scan, Lathlo :)

I am ready to go, go, go! But am not allowed to start until March 5.

In the meantime, let’s have the sub-tier chat.

⚀ Chak 9
⚁ Lathlo 9
⚂ Petrok 6
⚃ Seren’s 7 (duh) 8
⚄ Surumi Gajutai 8

Mark 2000 Subtier Calculator: 9 + 9 + 6 + 8 + 8 = 40/5 = 8

The nearest integer to 8 is (wait for it) 8!

There is no adjustment for different numbers of players in Season 3 scenarios.

So we are playing high sub-tier, and Petrok will receive out of tier gold rewards.

I am ready to go, go, go! But am not allowed to start until March 5.

In the meantime, let’s have the sub-tier chat.

⚀ Chak 9
⚁ Lathlo 9
⚂ Petrok 6
⚃ Seren’s 7 (duh) 8
⚄ Surumi Gajutai 8

[dice=Mark 2000 Subtier Calculator] 9 + 9 + 6 + 8 + 8 /5 = 8

The nearest integer to 8 is (wait for it) 8!

There is no adjustment for different numbers of players in Season 3 scenarios.

So we are playing high sub-tier, and Petrok will receive out of tier gold rewards.

Sounds great! I'm sure with all my high level friends running interference I'll be fine! If not...Petrok's had a good life, he's ready to meet Pharasma LOL...nah I think I have enough PP to have him raised from dead if it comes to that! Can't wait to start!

Greetings from a land roughly 12 hours in your future! ;)

March 5 has arrived here and I have started our game.

Let’s rock this!

Indeed I'll spoiler Parry & Riposte at end of normal combat post for potential use if something has the gall to attack him.
And I'll specify details on all the crazy conditions he may be applying, etc. (Next level he adds rogue's debilitating strike to the mix....yum, but not your headache this scenario.)

OK, Lathlo looks to be built around reducing melee enemies to blubbering, frightened messes, seriously in need of rethinking their life choices.

I have played with a highish-level inquisitor of Sarenrae with a similar concept, but Lathlo is like that guy TURNED UP TO ELEVEN!! ;)

During combat, can you please indicate the condition Lathlo is applying to the baddies, DC to avoid it and duration of the effect?

How do you plan to handle your parry/riposte rolls during combat?

The swashbucklers in Riptide & Antonella’s In Wrath’s Shadow game placed theirs under a spoiler tag, which seemed to work quite well.

But if you have a better way – no worries!

Lathlo wrote:

Lathlo has a boon that allows him to ignore size penalty when making Intimidate checks. Can PM a pdf scan of the chronicle--let me know.

Don’t worry about the scan, Lathlo :)

I'll wait for the others to pipe in...but, I'm inclined to have him wake naturally...Or try to wake him with mundane means ( doubt a few stiff slaps will work...but it might be fun!)

I don't think even potent magical sleeps, like Sleep Hex and such, can't be broken by what Seren just did. If it didn't help, than you certainly've got yourself some golden poison in that waterskin Lathlo.

I have my home game tonight and then I will be on the road tomorrow due to a death in the family. Expect nothing further from me until Monday.

I am sorry to hear that, Chak.

Take your time. We will be here when you return.

our condolences Chak...
GM is what we're looking at creatures around a table or a portrait of creatures around a table?

@Petrok, each ‘head shot’ token marked in rainbow colors around and (now) on the Banquet Hall table represents a complete monster, in the same way each PC’s ‘head shot’ token, represents each of them.

Hi Guys,

I'm going to the dentist today. Yay!

So expect me to move us forward in the next Seren's seven hours or so.

Hope the party'll forgive the wanton use of Intimidate to influence attitude. Often too risky to break it out when Diplomacy might do the trick, but seemed low risk here. Not like he's going to complain to local authorities and get us in trouble, and Venture Captains are used to his griping anyway...okay, perhaps Lathlo finds the thought of the VCs getting an extra helping of gripe from Bestah a bit amusing... (And if it messes up any secondary success, Lathlo is Grand Lodge and can fix it for the party)

Dealing with a dead boiler in my house and a lack of heat or hot water. I probably won't be online much today, so please bot as needed. I will try to check in tonight.

Good luck with it, Chak!

Hope your feathers help keep you and yours warm, Chak! Good luck.

@Petrok, you choose whether to dismiss Heightened Awareness or not before you actually roll initiative, I believe.

@Petrok, you choose whether to dismiss Heightened Awareness or not before you actually roll initiative, I believe.

hmm ok in that case I think he would have dismissed it... thx Gajutai

Just in case nobody has told you today …

You guys are great!

I’ve got a little bit going on for the next few hours, but I’ll update gameplay shortly after.

stats adjusted on profile to reflect no heighten awareness now..

Inside the heavy, double-locked iron door is a delicate mesh door of stylized interwoven brass filigree.

Chak, there’s still the internal door to open to reach the safe’s contents.

Sorry if this wasn’t clear.

Clarification on the map: Are those openings or windows on either side of the gray circle in the Atrium? If so, Lathlo will check those out first.

Those are alcoves set into the western wall of the atrium.

There’s nothing really to see/find there.

Hopefully the Updated Ghenett Manor map makes it clearer.

Shoot, that "Geography and Wildlife of the Mwangi Expanse" description really hits the suspension of disbelief kinda hard. Would Gajutai know the author is a Pathfinder? That is kinda getting meta. And if he is a Pathfinder, than what is this tome's worth at all, if it is a first edition of the book by somebody who's still alive and active?

I think they were put there to taunt us, as if these minor volumes by some little known pathfinders are of any real value
though I am hoping to run Lila in Eyes of the Ten some time soon...PbP profile is not up-to-date.

GM Yours, would Comprehend languages work on the sigils?

Unfortunately the scenario is specific about the type of check required.

The symbols are not a mundane ‘language’ per se.

If you are performing any specific actions or skill checks, please include your dice rolls or refresh my memory on what your take 10 numbers are please.

1) Blistering Invective reads "When you cast this spell, make an Intimidate check to demoralize each enemy within 30 feet of you. Enemies that are demoralized this way..." so that at least ought to override the default description of Demoralize action in the description of the Intimidate spell. I read it as them only needing to hear at and to be in range.

2) I didn't realize those were person-high obstacles, and not just table-high book postaments. If they were not, I am sure at least Blue and the Mirror Image caster would have line of sight on me.

3) Can I ask Chak to 5'-step down one square than if it invalidates all of my move and he still has the ability to do so? Or can I cast something else instead.

Hi Gajutai,

1. As you wrote, the Intimidate check to demoralize comes first. If they can’t clearly see you, you can’t demoralize them and the rest is moot.

2. Ahh … I can see how you thought the things that are library bookshelves were library tables.

3. Chak did not post that he moved. However, because you thought the bookshelves were tables, feel free to redo your standard action.

I wanted to make sure you were aware of this FAQ, in case it was relevant for Chak's attack roll.