Lilith Sylvari |
Wondering about fears myself Melo. I looked at your profile and it looks like you are short at least one, maybe two feats already. Shouldn't you have one for human, and one for 1st, 3rd, and 5th levels?
Melo |
Thanks for pointing that out, I've no idea how. I should only be down one since I still haven't picked my 7th level one, I'll have to take a look at my herolabs tomorrow and see what's missing and pick a feat.
Lilith Sylvari |
Thanks for pointing that out, I've no idea how. I should only be down one since I still haven't picked my 7th level one, I'll have to take a look at my herolabs tomorrow and see what's missing and pick a feat.
Unless you took the alternate human racial package you should now, at 7th level , have a total of 5 feats. Your profile shows 2. Unsure of the prerequisites but look at Planar Wild Shape.
Melo |
You know, I saw that and didn't think much of it at the time but. My wild shapes are basically once per day now because of the length, so I could squeeze that out with my skills and would help a lot with my super bad AC with the DR.
Thanks Lilith.
Valex |
Hey, all; sorry for the relative silence. This weekend is the move: phase 1. My access in the evenings will be virtually non-existent for the next 2 weeks. I will try to keep up during the day, but please do not let me hold up teh action - bot early and often!
Thanks!
Flynnvas Merryweather |
I swear losing access to your device these days feels like it must have felt losing electricity two decades ago!
I still freak out if I lose electricity :/
Lilith Sylvari |
So, I am back home and officially leveling to 7th level now.
HP: 1d6 ⇒ 5 If we roll. I can never remember.
BAB and Saves stay the same
I pick up another first and a new 4th spell slot and learn two new 4th level spells.
And I gain a feat. Taking Augment Summoning
+7 skill points, including favored class bonus. Plus one more skill point from Gift from Kurshu.
2 points into Arcana
2 points into Fly
2 points into Linguistics
1 point into Perception
1 point into spellcraft
Lilith Sylvari |
Thanks. Great trip, but its good to be home too.
I ended up taking Summon Monster IV and Dimension Door for my 4th level spells. I already had scrolls of Dragon's Breath, animal aspect (greater) from Dolbey so I also scrubbed those 4th level spells.
Melo |
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Have fun Valex I know just how draining it is when moving to a new house.
Fiendish are you watching Lion vs All Blacks? Provincial Barbarians right now but how is it down there? Is this a massive thing for NZ?
GM Fiendish |
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Valex, hope all goes well for you and your family moving in :)
Melo... Is rugby a massive thing for NZ? O.o
In every way shape and form!! It's the equivalent of football in the UK to the English, it's what everyone at work talks about!
Long story short I've been to a few games because I was invited to corporate boxes, but I'm not really in to rugby or football so I'll watch the highlights so I have things to talk about at the office ;)
Flynnvas Merryweather |
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Well in case you missed it, the Lions were pretty poor against the Provincial Barbarians. You could see they were rusty.
Faletau had a big game at 8 and Warburton and Jones were reliable as ever. Sexton didn't seem to get in the game at all, probably because the Barbars defence marshalled him so well but Farrell added a bit more directness to the Lions' play after half time.
Warren Gatland is the Lions' coach but his son was playing at fly half on the opposition team and had a very good game, lots of intelligent kicks out of defence and to put pressure on the Lion's backs.
Matt Matich was probably the best Barbar player on the field, very busy off the back of the scrum and caused problems consistently.
All in all it was a nervy start for the Brits but a win is a win and that's how they would have wanted to start the tour.
There you go Fiendish, you can surprise a few people with your assessment of the game now :)
Lenneth Barlow |
Hey folks, just a heads-up that I'll be heading out town Thursday morning to a convention and likely won't be back until either very late Sunday night or very early Monday morning. I'll have my Kindle and phone with me but I'll likely not be posting at all during that time. Please feel free to bot me as needed while I'm gone :)
Flynnvas Merryweather |
I am shortly going to jump on a train and be away for the weekend. I won't be able to post until Sunday
Lilith Sylvari |
Seems like I just got back (Its been 3 weeks plus) but I am about to be on another trip. This time I'll be gone from tonight until Sunday June 25 and will not eve have cell signal so I cannot check in. Please bot me as needed.
Flynnvas Merryweather |
Its a big change
Lenneth Barlow |
So, I realized that I never really gave much of a report on how my convention trip went. If anyone's curious...
It actually went quite well! A friend of my brother's from his WoW days flew out from Las Vegas and went with us; the three of us drove out to Collinsville, IL on that Thursday morning and met up at our hotel with another mutual friend of theirs that lived a bit closer (but was still far enough away to need to stay at the hotel). The rest of the evening was spent out in St. Louis meeting up with some other folks that the gang knew from WoW for dinner and ice-cream floats afterwards. If you're ever in St. Louis, I'd definitely check out Blueberry Hill; it's a great little eatery!
Friday morning we were up early for breakfast at Denny's with even more people that my brother and the other two members of our gang knew from past DieCons. Then it was out to the convention center for check-in, signing up for our game slots, and then a quick lunch at the nearby Mexican place before the con officially started with Session #1 at 2pm! For me, Session #1 was a Call of Cthulhu game, which I had never played before. The game was set in the days leading up to and during the voyage of the Titanic and was quite enjoyable! However, this particular game was quite investigation-heavy which is apparently unusual for the DM that ran it? I think his normal CoC games are more along the lines of, 'Group meets up and interacts for a bit, then s*** starts going down'. Either way, it was fun!
Session #2, later that same evening, was for a game of Deadlands - a system that I'd played before, but not in some years. Since I didn't have my own original character I ended up playing the pregen Mad Scientist - Gordon Sumatra! I built a more mobile hot air balloon! Huzzah! Fun was had by all. By the time Session #2 ended it was a little past 11pm so we all returned to the hotel to get our beauty rest for the next day!
Saturday was a blast, especially the first two sessions (#3 & #4). We started off with a FAST session of Call of Scooby Doo - yes, it's more or less what it sounds like. We played the Scooby Doo gang as they attempted to help special guest star Wednesday Addams claim her legacy by clearing the spirits out of a spooky old manor house. Fun! Puzzles! Sanity checks! It was grand :)
For Session #4 I decided to get my board/card games on and had signed up for a game simply called 'Jack the Ripper' by Crypt Monkey Studios, which seemed interesting. Turns out the company is both pretty new and pretty small, with the bulk of the work on the game having been done by the husband and wife team (Ty & Dawn) that own the company. I believe he did most of the writing and she did the artwork - and they had their kids as some of the playtesters, hehe. At any rate, even though there were only 3 of us that showed up for this session (myself, a kid that couldn't have been more than maybe 12, and an older woman there with her family) we had a great time playing as Ty showed us the ropes. By some strange quirk I ended up being 'Jack' for the first several games, enough so that Ty told me that when he saw me at next year's DieCon he'd be calling me by my new name. Guess this means I'll have to get a shirt to wear... >:)
The last session for Saturday (#5) was originally supposed to be the PFS special Race for the Runecarved Key and I was signed up on the Tier 1-2 table. Sadly they apparently didn't have enough signs up for the special to fire, so they had to do some quick shuffling of the tables and run some different scenarios as back-ups. The higher tier table ended up running Tome of Righteous Repose and the low tier table where I ended up ran through The Confirmation. Though I was a bit disappointed that the special didn't happen, I did enjoy the game that we had. I'd played Confirmation three or four times already in PbP but it was neat to be able to do it live as well. Plus it let me give my witch the last scenario she needed to reach 2nd level - huzzah!
Sunday, being the last day of the con, was a little more subdued as you might expect. Both of my sessions for this day (#6 & 7) were devoted to playing more PFS - specifically the very new two-parter series called Champion's Chalice. I won't spoil the scenarios except to say that playing the first part with a cavalier, a magus, a rogue, and my life oracle was...interesting. The only real bummer part about the experience was the behavior of one of the other players (who had also been at my Confirmation table the night before), though being relatively young (13/14) and obviously pretty new to Pathfinder, I was willing to cut him some slack and be patient.
After Session #7 ended, we said our goodbyes, packed up, and headed for home. It was a grand experience and I'm definitely hoping to be able to go again next year!
Random Takeaways
My brother and his friends (Becca & Chris) know some awesome people by way of this convention.
Now that we know how PFS sign-ups & Warhorn work for this convention, maybe next year my brother and I can actually play some PFS together. We'd hoped to do that this year and it sadly didn't work out.
I need more Call of Cthulhu and Deadlands in my life.
Bringing my laptop was completely unnecessary as I had next to no time to sit down and use it - I was either gaming, sleeping, or eating.
The concession stand is expensive! Next year, just bring an empty bottle to refill with water and some of those little flavor packets.
Playing PFS live is a nice change of pace, but I still prefer my PbP games.
At live tables, especially with strangers, one needs to be much more assertive or else they're liable to be drowned out by players with more vocal/dominant personalities.
Start saving 'fun money' now for next year's convention. There were soooo many things that I wanted to buy but didn't have the funds for. I did end up coming home with some shiny new (and green) FAST dice, my own copy of the Jack the Ripper game, as well as a card game called Super Fight.
Lilith Sylvari |
Hi all. I am back and catching up. Enjoyed your DieCon spoiler Lenneth. I would have had a good time there. :)
Flynnvas Merryweather |
Huzzah!
Lenneth Barlow |
Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans, happy Tuesday to the rest of the world! And remember kids, it's not a proper rendition of the 1812 Overture unless it has cannons!