If the GM links me to a creature's stats, which DH did, and says, 'okay, here's it's stats, you guys figure out how to do your plan'.... am I then expected to ignore the information the GM gave me, because that would be metagaming to use it?
And it's still honestly not what I would consider metagaming, to expect an 900-lb animal, to not be able to make a 20-foot vertical jump, when it would be obvious to people who exist in that world that a 20-ft jump is ridiculously hard to make.
I adjust jump DCs by size, and creature type.
Expect a grasshopper or scarlet spider sized up by Giant Vermin to be able to jump hundreds of feet. Expect the Terrasque to be able to jump like The Hulk.
The Jump DCs are based on a medium sized creature and get silly fast when adjusting for size. It's an 80 DC for you to jump 20 fee upt. It's a DC 12 for you to jump 3 feet up. It's also a DC 12 for an elephant to jump 3 feet up, and elephants are physically unable to jump. It's also a DC 12 for a Titan to jump up 3 feet, in spite of the fact that their feet clear more than five feet every time they take a step. In theory an awakened slug with a few ranks in jump and no other adjustment could jump onto a person's chest with an average roll. I'm all for fantastic, but I draw the line at ridiculous.
Essentially, I treat Jump the same way the rules treat the Fly skill. The DCs and what the skill can be used for are adjusted based on a creature's size and "maneuverability"
Fair enough.
Apparently, I misunderstood the plan a bit? I figured we had assumed the wolf couldn't get up here and we were just going to wake it up and have a big scary watchdog. Chalk it up to the language barrier, I guess.
Nah, that's more or less what I understood it to be as well, Teral. It's all good. Learning experience.
We're learning, and we haven't even gotten to the academy yet! :)
Of course. Knowledge is power, after all, and if Arch is after anything...
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So for those of us not playing with Fido, what is the timeline like? I know we were doing a partial rest earlier to recover a spell or heal some, have we had time for any more rest during the dire wolf Benny Hill sketch or did that happen during the partial rest?
It has been 5 hours.
Our resident Wolf-pack just got back at the tail end of that time and tied up their new pet.
Everyone's probably expecting rest to be able to continue, but things are about to go down.
Going to post in game in a bit, but as a heads-up, I'm going to be at DundraCon Friday through Monday. I'll have Internet, but I'll also be playing or GMing roughly 12 hours of PFS a day, so while I will try and check in after my games, please feel free to bot me during that interval rather than letting me hold up the action.
I don't seem to be in the initiative order. Am I Talen?
Somehow you were missed. Sorry abotu that. For my mistake, put yourself in Group A.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/rare-cantrips
Are these accessible in this game? I was looking at breeze and drench to continue with my storms theme.
I'm fine with Breeze and Drench. They suit your character.
In case it comes up, the reason there were no perception checks allowed to see what the Orcs were doing at the far sides of the tree line is because between distance, darkness and cover, there was no way anyone could have made those checks.
Likewise, they didn't get checks to see what you folks were up to in most cases, though for them it would have been easier due to lack of cover and more light on your side.
Hey DM, I'm not sure which (if any) part of the platform is walled in as a room.
It's the middle of the tree. You should be able to see the open space in the middle of the tree on the map. It's a little 5x10 space.
Roger, thanks.
Got home from convention a few hours ago and have been trying to get caught up on my games, but I'm dead tired. Will post tomorrow, sorry.
I believe my delay from last round has pushed me down to Group B, so I'll wait til then unless you say different, DH.
Fine with me.
Sorry about the delay, the internet at the hotel I was at the last few days was not happy about the paizo site for some reason.
I'll allow the second attack with a sling while hasted as long as the sling was already loaded at the start of the round.
Normally someone could attack, then reload. While hasted, someone could attack, reload and take a free action attack. Then they'd be at one attack the following round.
I'll also allow Rapid Reload or the Reloading Hands spell to work with slings.
Unfortunately without training, slings are slow to reload.
's fine. Those all make sense. Talas isn't built as a ranged fighter anyway, ha, it was just an 'under-the-circumstances' thing.
DM, can I see the witch doctor at B-21 now that Ylmen has put out his fire screen? Latest perception was 19.
Yes you can. He's right next to the flames, so you can see him.
Good to know! 60' speed here I come! Witch doctor, you're about to get effed. Next round of course...
This weekend is pretty busy for me. I don't think I'll have time to update the game until Monday evening. Apologies for the delay.
I'm wiped out. Not going to get a post up tonight. I'll try for tomorrow.
No worries, DH! Take your time man, I know that feeling...
Hey all, just wanted to let you know that I'm heading to Florida for vacation/visit family (my mother is having a hysterectomy and colon resection on 3/9 to take out some cancer) on 3/11 and will be gone until 3/18. I will not have any of my resources with me so my activity will likely be minimal to nil during that time!
Since Kenna and Ylmen didn't act in group b last round I moved them to group A this round.
Also, I'm working from my tablet until the 16th, so I won't be able to update the map. (The Google Sheets App is just awful). Everyone will have to be responsible for positioning themselves until then.
Apologies for my slow dragging tail, everyone, midterms got on top of me.
... (The Google Sheets App is just awful)...
Not sure how it is for tablets, but might I recommend roll20.net? Takes a bit of getting used to for the GM, and we'd all need accounts in order to see it, but it's a pretty solid system. It lets you upload maps, draw your own, set tokens for each character complete with stats, and you can assign permissions for who can control which token and what info we can see. It's a cool tool.
I'll look into it. I've used roll20 as a player in a number of games, but never as a GM.
Sorry for the delays in posting lately. I've been traveling for the last couple weeks and hasn't had as much time to update the game as usual.
Expect an update tonight.
Happy Holidays, folks. I know quite a few of us have a busy weekend, so I'll delay moving the game forward. Expect an update tomorrow night, or Monday afternoon.
All you half-elves look the same to me...
The similar names don't help, I imagine~
It looks like Group B got doubled up on turns.
^ This?
Between the OOC chatter in gameplay and the shifting of people between initiative groups I lost track of where we were.
Eythil, don't worry about it. We'll give you the benifit of the mistake. When it comes around to you, you can either use that action as rolled, or pick a new one.
Group A is up.
Sorry for not playing my part, it seems that I've been the center (of death) for a long while. I probably scanned through at one point and got lost in the blue chat. I thought it just wasn't my turn.
Would you still like me to do that DC15 fort save? And no, I don't have any wrist strap or locked gauntlet.
Yes, please. The spoiler is still (possibly) important.
I might be completely wrong here, but DM are you certain that group A is up?
I'll just keep my actions the same from earlier when I posted out of turn.
@ Dolgrin: Doomed now has group B marked for going in his latest in game post.
I might be completely wrong here, but DM are you certain that group A is up?
YEah, it was just a copy/paste error this time. I caught it and fixed it. Thanks.
We are aaaaaalmost done here, folks. Just have to see if anyone doesn't make it to the circle in time.
Surprise!
Don't worry, this isn't going to last long. The Unhallow effect dropping right before the planar gate was just too cool not to do something.
Well I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm about to go Rick O'connel from the Mummy style on the things crawling around inside Dolgren.
Damn the Sickened chain is brutal.
In a combat scenario the entire party would have just been murdered. lol
Screw bleed, I'm gonna work towards nauseating people when I hit them.