Psilacetin's Solo Spectacle

Game Master Psilacetin

Provision Points: 28
Survivors:
Special - Aubrin the Green, Jett, Oreld (unconscious)
Commoners - 7
Warriors - 0
Experts - 0
Aristocrats - 1
Adepts - 2



A few things:

  • HP is max at EVERY level, so you'll want to add in those few extra points.
  • In the name of versatility, change your weapon focus from (Scimitar) to the fighter weapon group (Heavy Blades).
  • I noticed you changed your archetype to Teisatsu, however, the Teisatsu archetype replaces the 2nd level vigilante talent with a ki pool, so you'll have to drop Shield of Blades or switch to straight stalker.
  • Give Ulmah the Blood Drinker feat, on the house.
  • Equipment-wise, you should be fine with 1,000 gold given the amount of treasure this adventure throws at you early on.
  • Lastly, we'll need to figure out where you'll be starting. The adventures begins in the middle of the Market festival, which is a two day affair held once every three months where all manner of tradespeople surge into the town from the surrounding areas. The sun has just set on the first day of the festival, so the stalls have been closed up and most have taken to socializing, drinking, and carousing. Popular spots include Oreld's Fine Shop (the local herbalist's), the Phaendar Trading Company (trading post/smithy), the Riverwood Shrine (a temple to Erastil/Desna), or the Taproot Inn (aka "The Root"). You may begin the game at one of these places or even elsewhere in town should you have other ideas, in whichever social persona you wish.

    A Brief Bit About Phaendar:
    Being bordered by light forest, rolling farms, and the rumbling Marideth River, Phaendar is vanishingly small by the standards of outsiders, but also one of the largest settlements in southern Nirmathas. The town grew around the tumbledown ruins of an abandoned Chelish bastion, which itself was built atop an older trading post established by veterans of the Shining Crusade. A citizenry of fewer than 400—spread between the town and outlying farms—makes up its permanent population. On any given day, citizens spend a few hours each morning and evening tending their small holdings, and then retire during the afternoon to pursue various handicrafts. Nearly every resident is a talented woodcarver, weaver, or leatherworker, and Nirmathi homes from Tamran to Skelt eventually gather a few sturdy furnishings born in Phaendar workshops.

    Most of the town consists of wood and thatch structures, and even a few canvas-walled pavilions; monsters, bandits, and the occasional Molthuni raid destroy property too regularly for most Phaendari to feel the expense of longstanding stone buildings is worth the investment. Despite its simple construction, the town sees light trade in spring and fall as farmers, ranchers, and prospectors from the Nesmian Plains and the Hollow Hills gather to swap produce, ore, lumber, and livestock and to stock up on worked goods from the community’s many artisans.

    Like many similar communities across the nation, Phaendar has little oversight. An informal town council oversees the community—largely to organize festivals and collect funds for repairs—but the people of Phaendar generally resent anyone claiming real authority over the community and steadfastly refuse to elect anyone to positions like sheriff or mayor. What little law enforcement exists—what little is needed in such a small, tight-knight community—is handled by a makeshift posse or enforced by the nearby Chernasardo Rangers, who frequently resupply and recruit new members during the seasonal trading markets.


  • CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    Hooray!

    Updating health and feats now. Meant to drop Shield of Blades and forgot to.

    I'll start putting together my 1000gp worth of items. I'll definitely want a couple scrolls of lesser and normal animate dead. Would you be okay with me having a couple of simple zombie or skeleton minions that I've already animated (presumably people who Yolanda has preyed on at night?) and have them stored in a basement dungeon or something?

    I think starting the game at the Taproot Inn as Kristein would make sense. I'll be making separate character profiles for both Kristein and Yolanda, so that we will always know who said/did what. :)

    I still need to come up with a good backstory reason for Ulmah to have goblinoids as her favored enemy, so I'll think on that while I pick equipment. I'll do a deep read of the Players' Guide for the AP as well.

    As far as posting frequency, I normally will be able to update at least once a day on weekdays, often more than that since I can post at work with no issues. Weekends can be a bit more hit-or-miss, depending on family plans and things like that.


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    Okay I bought items (and dropped the Masterwork from my scimitar so that I could start with a bit more loose gold for items).


    My main problem with having scrolls and minions already is that there are hardly any sources for such unsavory goods around. I'm going to say no to the minions (having them might actually make early parts of the adventure more difficult if you wish to keep your identities separate), but I will allow you to keep the scrolls, which we can say you purchased from a lone treasure seeker who passed through town not too long ago. Half-crazed, he spoke of a crumbling, ancient fortress somewhere to the south filled with "miles of tombs, miles of treasure, miles of tombs, miles of treasure..."

    Also scrolls have their components "built into" them, so to speak, so you don't need to decide how onyx gems were used to create each scroll instead of having them loose in your inventory.

    On favored enemies, I believe you've already got a backstory reason via the Ironfang Survivor trait - "Whether you were serving in the military or simply beset by a surprise attack, you barely survived an encounter with the Ironfang Legion, one of Molthune’s infamous monster regiments. Maybe you even survived the horrors of the Ramgate Massacre." The Ramgate Massacre, just for reference, was a brutal rout of the Nirmathi-controlled Fort Ramsgate by the Ironfang Legion, and the last time anyone remembers hearing of the Legion.

    Good thought on the three aliases as well.


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1
    Psilacetin wrote:


    Also scrolls have their components "built into" them, so to speak, so you don't need to decide how onyx gems were used to create each scroll instead of having them loose in your inventory.

    That's fine, I just figured she'd have started to collect the gems anyway, for when she can start casting the spells herself.

    Psilacetin wrote:


    On favored enemies, I believe you've already got a backstory reason via the Ironfang Survivor trait - "Whether you were serving in the military or simply beset by a surprise attack, you barely survived an encounter with the Ironfang Legion, one of Molthune’s infamous monster regiments. Maybe you even survived the horrors of the Ramgate Massacre." The Ramgate Massacre, just for reference, was a brutal rout of the Nirmathi-controlled Fort Ramsgate by the Ironfang Legion, and the last time anyone remembers hearing of the Legion.

    Sounds great. I'll put a bit of that into her backstory tonight.

    I'm very excited to get things started!


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    Updated Ulmah's backstory and added some more about Kristein as well. :)

    I also just made a very generic post to introduce Kristein and describe some of her day so far at the Market Fair.


    Perfect, I have a very busy weekend ahead of me so I won't be able to post tonight, but once I have the time I'll get the ball rolling.


    Another matter: combat maps. Are you good with Roll20?


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    Roll20 is fine with me. I've used it a bunch.


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    Hey Psilacetin, I was just wondering if there is a general time that you will more often be posting, so that I'm not obsessively refreshing constantly during the work-day? LOL. I'm on Eastern time, so at the moment it's 10:15 am here. Most of your posts seem to be in the evening (my time) so far.


    I'm central time - I'll generally try to post around the middle of the day/evenings. There's been a ton of repairs going on in my apartment and I've been having to move all of my stuff around, so I've been just a bit busy. You can expect me to be a bit more active in the coming days.


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    No problem!


    Hmmm. All the posts in the gameplay and discussion threads have turned invisible on me for some reason. Hopefully the issue will resolve itself.


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    Seems to be fixed now. That was a strange one.


    Super bus, will post soon.


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    No problem, just didn't want to let it fall to the bottom of your campaign tab :)


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    How's it looking to jump back into this this week? I'm itching to kill more hobbies. :)


    It's go time! For this whole next week I'm going to have an absolutely brutal workload, so posting may be slow but I'll try to get at least a post a day in. After that I can pick up the pace again.


    Okay, change of plans - I'm far busier that I realized, so I'm just going to put posting on hold until Tuesday, when I've taken care of everything. Sorry for the delays.


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    That's fine, I'd rather you put things on hold for a few days than stress about it. I just like to know what's going on :)

    Talk to you Tuesday!


    33 pages, 9 cups of coffee, and 2 sock puppets later, and I am a college graduate! I'm going to go sleep for the next 24 hours and then its back to making horrible things happen to the people of Phaendar.

    Silver Crusade RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16

    Congratulations! I'm so far afield of undergraduate at this point that I can't even remember what it was like. :-D


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    *poke*


    CN Female dhampir magus 2 [CURRENTLY 1 WIS DAMAGE] | hp 10/15 | AC 14, T 11, FF 13 | Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +2 | Necro pool 4/5 | Init +1 | Percep +1

    *more poke*

    Any chance I could get an email address for you to poke you there? :-D

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