To Wear the Carrion Crown (Group 2) (Inactive)
Game Master Haldhin

I like your home version better.

Hooray, now it's treated like a real burst of positive/negative energy.

I'm fine with those changes.

All done with my level up. My saves and AC both went up quite a bit, which is good since I seem to be the guy with the giant target above his head. :)

Holiday Hours
For those who might not know, USA Thanksgiving is this Thursday, November 22. I’m heading out of town, so I will not be posting on Thursday, Nov 22 or Friday, Nov 23. Everything should return to normal on Saturday, Nov 24.

If anybody else is traveling and/or celebrating, please be safe, and enjoy the holiday.

Certainly celebrating, if not traveling this year. Same to you Haldhin. Enjoy the upcoming holiday all.

Not traveling, but I will be busy cooking most of Thursday for the holiday. Happy Turkey Day everyone. :)

24 gp, 3 pp, and a single citrine (50 gp) (totals 104 gold)

Two healer’s kits
Vial of antitoxin x3
Vial of antiplague x3
Vial of soothe syrup x2
Bloodblock x3 doses
Smelling salt x2 doses
Potion of cure light wounds x4

Any thoughts on who gets what?

Lysa will take one of the kits and pass on the potions. I'll hold onto whatever else of the other stuff that people don't want to.

All the healing stuff is kinda communal, so I'm not too concerned who's holding it.

Having just been hit hard by poison in another game, so I think I'll snag one of the antitoxin's and antiplague's.

EDIT: I just realized Fir already has one each of those. Someone else should have these ones instead. Can be quite useful, particularly against a CON poison.

Firavel already has 2 CLW potions, so perhaps spread them to those who have less. Sometimes it's good to have a potion or two on hand in case of emergency.

I'll take a few things. Minus the stuff I took and Lysa's healing kit, here's what's left.

1 healer’s kit
Vial of antitoxin x2
Vial of antiplague x2
Vial of soothe syrup
Bloodblock x3 doses
Smelling salt
Potion of cure light wounds x3

I recommend the Bloodblock go to Lysa since they give bonuses to heal checks and she's the one most likely to be making those.

I put the 104 gp into a "party fund" that we can pull/divide from later.

Sounds good, we can use party fund for potions and (hopefully not needed) resurections

Apologies for not updating last night. Internet was down for me, and my 7 mo old was cranky. Will do my best to update asap.

Returning to town works for me. I don't think there is anything Mithias needs to do that evening.

Did any of the remaining equipment get taken by anyone?

1 healer’s kit
Vial of antitoxin x2
Vial of antiplague x2
Vial of soothe syrup
Bloodblock x3 doses
Smelling salt
Potion of cure light wounds x3

If no one else takes these things I will take the remaining basic and alchemical items. As well as 1 more of the Healing potions and 2 of the Holy waters.

There are spare holy waters? I didn't see them in Leon's list.

Lysa just picked up some holy water from Father Grimburrow after Leon posted his list. Lysa will also keep two of them and pass the rest on to the group.

Oops. I missed that part I guess. Thanks. Fir will snag a couple of the waters too, then.

There's ten of them. I think now 6 have been claimed.

4 left.

Leon and Sethis should both take a cure light wounds potion. Also Leon and Mithias should take two each of the Holy water Vials.

Mithias, I checked over your character sheet and saw that you could make your own healing potions so I figured it would be better for those of us without that ability or too a fair amount of healing potions to have a higher priority to gain a means to heal ourselves.

That ought to do it for our current load out of party equipment.

sure I'll take a cure light wounds and one holy water if possible

Free holy water? Sold. I'll take my 2.

No, Lysa made the diplomacy check so the good Father gave them to us for free. :)

That leaves one holy water and a potion for me.

Lysa, you should add the healing kit and the bloodblock to your inventory.

Will do. :)

I'll try to get a full treasure list together this weekend. Otherwise, just waiting for the group to head back into Harrowstone. :)

Oh I thought we were just heading back after a night of rest. So unless somebody else has something they need to do, we head back. Jean will grab his climbing gear and lead the way down. Grappling hook w/ a 50 foot rope to climb down.

Down with just a night of rest and then heading straight back after we grab some breakfast.

Sounds good.

yup, just enough sleep to restore his energy and allow him to recall his eidolon is good enough for Sethis. Plus someone could sell off any non useful loot while were back in town.

Oh yeah the flute and the holy symbol are worth quite a bit. Probably hold off on buying anything till later, unless someone really thinks we need something now.

Let's get back to the ghostbusting.

Who ya gonna call?

Sorry guys, not going to have the treasure list tonight. Been fighting something and just haven't had the energy or time. It's a priority though, and hopefully I'm feeling well enough tomorrow or the next day to get to it.

Hey don't sweat it DM. Health, family, friends, employment and of course your personal enjoyment all come first when running a game. You just let us know when you're feeling up to it.

Sorry about the double post. Editing is a pain from my phone.

Mithas, do you have bombs or other grenades that don't do fire damage? Since it's flaming it's reasonable to assume it might be fire resistant.

True enough. For some reason I didn't think that alchemist bombs did fire damage.

I like how everyone that acted in the surprise round rolled a 20 on their initiative score.

I'm pretty sure alchemist bombs only do fire damage unless another ability alters the damage type.

The only archetype I can think of that doesn't is the Crypt Breaker, which does acid instead.

sorry about my delayed posting rate. holidays, etc. I'll try to have a post up tonight, but it might not happen until tomorrow.

Are we allowed to look at the GM screen rolls?

I don't mind. My main reason for hiding my rolls behind spoilers is to try and minimize clutter in the post.

Let me know if you have any questions (and/or if I failed my D&D Math skill check!).

Well, the highest roll in the last spoiler was a 21. Since you stated that I was fighting defensively when you DMPC'd me (which is exactly what I would have done, good call btw) my AC was a 22 (I think).

I don't mind taking the hit since a lot has happened because of it, but if Leon had died I might have asked for some leniency since it looks like he should have been missed.

I'm actually kind of enjoying the fact that Leon has become the game's punching bag. It'll make his choices in later levels make a whole lot of sense if I can manage to live that long.

All, these are some changes I'm considering; please review and let me know if any of them seem inappropriate or cause problems for you.

Most of you do some or most of these requests already, so hopefully I'm not asking for a significant time investment or additional work on your part.

I'm asking for these changes because over the past six months, I've figured out where many of my biggest "time sinks" happen as I'm running the games, and these adjustments will significantly reduce the amount of time it takes me to adjudicate the action and make appropriate responses. Thanks!

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Well, the highest roll in the last spoiler was a 21. Since you stated that I was fighting defensively when you DMPC'd me (which is exactly what I would have done, good call btw) my AC was a 22 (I think).

I don't mind taking the hit since a lot has happened because of it, but if Leon had died I might have asked for some leniency since it looks like he should have been missed.

I'm actually kind of enjoying the fact that Leon has become the game's punching bag. It'll make his choices in later levels make a whole lot of sense if I can manage to live that long.

Okay, well, I know what happened. Sort of embarrassing. :)

I make all of my rolls in initiative order - so when I made the roll for the skeleton, he had a 19 on the die. I figured out everything, rolled the damage, fire damage, did the math, and saw that Leon got knocked down to -13. I don't like to kill characters when I DMPC them, so I double-checked everything, confirmed the -13, and went on with initiative. Seeing he was finished, I put in my spoiler tags, and went on.

Firavel and Jean went, then I got to The Wyldling - who I was DMPCing - and decided he should attack with a claw ... he hit, rolling a 19. :/

So the 19 I originally rolled for the skeleton went to The Wyldling and I didn't catch it. You can see the 12 I rolled for the skeleton's damage, but like the d20 roll, the skeleton's original d6 of damage got taken by The Wyldling.

Anyway, royal mess up by yours truly, very sorry for the confusion. To answer your question, had I killed Leon, I would absolutely have figured out a retcon. I try to minimize mistakes, and when I make them, I try to make it as painless as possible for the players.

So... as it is, are you okay with leaving what happened as "real life" and continuing on? If not, let me know and we'll figure something out.

Yeah, I'm fine with not retconning things.

Pathfinder death threshold is negative Con, so even at -13 Leon wouldn't quite have been dead. Lysa's spell would have brought him up to -3, so I guess he's still unconscious. I'll RP that out in a bit.

Holiday hours:
My wife and I are loading the baby up and heading to see family on Christmas, Dec 25th. I do not anticipate being able to post that day. As of now, that is the only day I expect to be away from the computer.

I doubt I'll be able to post much if at all between the 24th and the 26th thanks to having to travel to six cities for six different xmases