Farewell! I'm sure we'll see you around.
I think I'm not going to seek a replacement at this time. We'll see how it feels with five heads for a while.
See you around, Dru!
Hey all, I'll be out of town for a few days, probably won't be able to post until Sunday.
I've reviewed, and I don't seem to have any ranged capacity whatsoever. Tomorbataar would sooner let his siblings die and then try to run for it than touch a wight which just crawled out of the ground. I don't think there's really much I can do at all except roll intimidate checks to demoralize, which Tomorbataar still hasn't thought to do.
We do need to work on getting a couple of you ranged options... what Tomorbataar could do that seems in-character is order Mo to quit cowering and make himself useful, if I might make a suggestion.
We do need to work on getting a couple of you ranged options... what Tomorbataar could do that seems in-character is order Mo to quit cowering and make himself useful, if I might make a suggestion.
For Beachhead, I need to take the custom Poison Sspit feat that you came up with. There's also the Pyrohead and Cryohead custom feats. Another option for Beachhead and/or Tom is to houserule some sort of ranged weapon to the ninja and monk weapons list that you don't really need hands to use. Bolas don't seem out of place, and I can see a head spinning one around their horn before flinging it.
Thanks for the advice DM, makes sense. The only issue I see with the bolas solution is that I might run out of ammunition, although we do carry around a fancy bed, so maybe that's not such a concern. Tomorbataar would need any thrown projectiles to be cleaned off before he'd throw them again.
It looks like we're just waiting for Hothead to continue?
Yes, I guess if he doesn't post by the end of the day, I'll just bot him.
The boards are fked up, I can't see my campaign tab or dots, so I am trying to keep track of my various campaigns manually. If I screw up, sorry and please kick me by PM
Yeah, I had no idea. I just thought there was no activity.
Get it? Met their match? Like a match? For lighting a fire?
Where do the automatic notifications for posts come in? I've been checking manually this whole time...
Hey all, sorry for my absence. Lack of sleep, long work hours, and practices for an intense concert this weekend had taken their toll this last week, but I'm good now.
Happy you're back. What do you do that culminates in a concert?
I belong to several choirs in my area, as a hobby. It's a lot of fun!
Nice! It's good to have varied hobbies!
Glad you're well rested.
Glad to see you're back Hungry. I hear singing is very fun.
I want to join you singing too! Nevermind...for the sanity of the rest of the world, better not. I sound like a toad =(
No problem, Hungry! Good to 'see' you again! :D
Choral singing is definitely a lot of fun. I should get back into it again...
Hey, all. Are we considered to be flanking targets when those targets are within melee? Because if so, I can apply sneak attack damage, I believe.
Plus, if it does apply, I haven't been adding the +2 to attack.
Since I'm playing a bit loose with this battle, I'm going to say there's one drake that you can flank with a 5' movement of your head, but it's not the one that's already injured.
Ok, thanks. Let's stick with the target identified in my post, then. And I'll make a mental note that I can't always assume a target in melee range is flanked.
Resist urge to make repeated innuendos...resist...
Am I calculating this right? Beachhead has 33/33 hit points, and he took 16 points of regular damage, which brings him to 17/33. He also took 4 points of Constitution damage. The section for Ability Score Damage says regarding Constitution:
Constitution: Damage to your Constitution score causes you to take penalties on your Fortitude saving throws. In addition, multiply your total Hit Dice by this penalty and subtract that amount from your current and total hit points.
So, since 7 x 4 = 28, that brings Beachhead from 17/33 to -11/5. And he only has 9 Constitution before it was damaged!
The penalty is half the damage done. So 7x2 = 14, taking Beachhead from 17/33 --> 3/19, not -11/5.
Where do you see that it's half?
It's in the first sentence of the second paragraph.
For every 2 points of damage you take to a single ability, apply a –1 penalty to skills and statistics listed with the relevant ability.
Ah, I see now. Thanks.
Sorry, I can't really think of clever ideas. Kineticist basically is like the occult version of fighter. Sure we might get a few funky abilities, but we play out like fighters, in a fight. Good for dps but nothing else :(
We might want to bravely bravely run away.
It might not have to do with abilities. It could have more to do with understanding the situation. Why are the primitive side winning? Who were the losers?
I think the winners were the barbarians and the losers were the old cheliaxians.
Well maybe the barbarians overwhelmed the cheliaxians with brute numbers, maybe there was ambush, maybe the cheliaxians ran out of supplies after the supply lines were cut...there's lots of military things that could be going on.
The only thing I could think of was to ask the cheliaxian ghosties to help us, since we're technically on the same side.
Maybe we want to charge forward?
It might sound silly, but if we fly forward they can't really hit us, and we get to move towards the now hazier and more indistinct figures, to see if we can't see what's going on. We also get to be closer to the losers, which means we can potentially talk to them. If we run along the ground we'll trample some of them, at the very least.
Maybe our attacks are working, it's just not super apparent?
I'm a little bit at a loss. Fighter is basically the martial version of...fighter. If we all turtle up we won't take too much damage, but that con loss will kill quickly.
Most incorporeal thingies can fly, that's the problem.
There's also drop a fireball on ourselves in a worst case scenario.
Aren't hydra's vulnerable to fire? Like, won't the heads not grow back? I checked, we just grow back slower.
What about having a look with Pacem?
Standard action to poof him out. I could I suppose. Bright daylight? Or night?
Does anyone have magic fang or a similar spell that might help? Too bad there's not a ghost touch version.
Under automatic progression don't our weapons become +1?
Yes, your attuned natural weapon should be +1 because of ABP.
It's evening right now.
I wanna post again but I would still want to run away unless Hungry mentioned to me that I was doing something.
What's the initiative order?
I used this, in conjunction with Kinetic blade:
Physical composite blasts deal an amount of damage equal to 2d6+2 + the kineticist’s Constitution modifier, increasing by 2d6+2 for every 2 kineticist levels beyond 1st
At level 1:2d6+2
At level 3:4d6+4
At level 5:6d6+6
At level 7:8d6+8
Con modifier is 3 - total 8d6+11.
Kinetic blade lets me full attack, and this time I just pulled it out of my buffer, I didn't even bother with gather energy.
This IS my nova.
Under automatic progression don't our weapons become +1?
Oh, yeah.
I hadn't been keeping an initiative order, just you guys go, then they go. At this point, however, Tomorbataar would probably be able to tell that the wraiths are weakening, especially after Ziphora's assault.
Does 19 confirm/can it EVEN be confirmed :P
These things cannot be critted.
It is crazy to me that we have a party where not a single character knows how to use a longsword. I'm thinking we can negotiate with the humans for it, especially if we play up how it could be an artifact from their ancestors.
I don't think we could use a longsword. It has something to do with a lack of hands...
I mean there's this, but I don't think everyone shares my views :P
It might be useful if it has any special qualities (like, flaming, maybe?), but yeah, it's probably worth more in trade to the humans.
Sorry, Ziphora is a little too carefree to bother much about possessions...except hrmm...books on fairy tales with never an unhappy ending in sight? That would be nice...
I doubt the rest of hydra family would share my views.
Anyway about fairy tales having happy endings...yeah go look at Grimm brothers.