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After removing his gloves and receiving a mug of brandy, he raises and salutes, "To my fellow Pathfinders and brethen Andorans, Good health, happy fortunes, and a safe road!"

He begins to drink the flagon.

"Oh, good day, Freedom for all man, see you later"

"Ahhhh, I get it! 'That' kinda of lass! Well, in this city of charlatans, I would rather gamble my trust in a Varisian vixen pathfinder over one who isn't. 'Sides I like dangerous women."

He grins wide as well and glances at Violca. Then back to Menus.

"Well, safe travels where you go. I have all this day and the night before I must leave with the Longaxes. Until then, I can help watch this place and make certain no miscreant takes advantage of fair Violca. Methinks Urai is indisposed. The legend prolly drank the entire keg of Vjarik and knocked his lights out. So I'll be the next Ulfen legend to keep this place safe."

A sly smile, and wink at Violca, "Like, do I really look like such a lucky miscreant?

And with and a bow, Gaerath heads for the door,

"And with the Luck of Desna, I'll be back in a week to tell y'all of my adventures" He flips the barkeep a gold piece "I know you don't need it man, but it may be good for the help... And Violca, I'll send you a dream"

"Praise Desna, and Peace"

Magnus perks up upon hearing the words fight to the death.

"Well, sign me up, lass, and I’ll shorten the lines for ye!"

Gaerath wrote:

"Ah, very cute Violca, and I don't think but one man's enough."

Magus:"Well, another language to be learned...*sighs* Making it tough on good ole’ Magnus I see. Good, I like challenges," he quips, as Gaereth speaks to Violca who somewhat gives away the topic.

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"My point exactly, Gaerath.," replies Violca, smiling playfully at the Desnan priest.

"Tis Perfect! One woman’s not enough for me either! I know of this one retired Ulfen in the Society who has nine wives."

"Hah, like, I'm sure ye've flattened many a battle line warrior!" says Gaerath, giving the Ulfan a slap, on the back, and winking at Violca, "More than one women at a time!? Hmmmm, it's got to be in Desnan scripture somewhere!

And as for languages, dude, they're fun to play with. For instance..." says Gaerath, as he pauses to take a long drag from his reafer.
He exhales the funneling plume of smoke while saying in a hi pitched voice: "... Yip yap carrr tsuu,"

So just with a slight change of inflection or slur of a syllable, one can change the meaning of basically the same phrase."

"Where abouts you from friend? You've got my curiosity.

"Of my sixteen-something years, I've been through a few of the Orc-lands and of course Absalom. After learning the ways of Desna as a Pathfinder, I've been like all over this world. I've fought Devils, Demons, and the Undead. There's never a dull day.

And like what of you Host Menas? Did you start off in Magnimar, or meander over from Absalom or the like, too?"

Turning back towards Violca, after rolling 21=Lingustics, with a chuckle:

"Ah, very cute Violca, and I don't think but one man's enough."

Cormac looks at Gaerath inquisitively, "I saw a cleric once huff some herbs like that for like six hours, and then power seemed to radiate off him like heat wavering off a hot brand!"

Gaerath lights, the giant reafer and after a long inhale, he winks, and passes it towards Cormac with a wink, if he is so inclined.

"I will dance for you, if someone will give me music."

Gaerath lifts an eyebrow appraisingly

Before long Violca is dancing and spinning with swirl of skirts and a swish of colourful scarves. The bangles on her wrists and ankles chime in perfect time to music.

"By Desna's milky treats, I think I'm in love... again" Gaerath exhales a long plumb of blue smoke.

"Encore, Encore!"

He nudges Gaereth next to him and nods towards the stage. "The monument of Violca." He grips and shakes the map. "Tis right here on the map! Hehehehe.”

"Another goddess born, truly blessed by Desna!"

Menas starts handing out beverages over the counter.

"Mine thanks Barkeep, and a toast to Cayden!" he says lifting his mug.

"I'll have an Ulseberry Ale, Menas, and in the cleanest mug in the house," she orders giddily. "I'd forgotten how fun it is to do that without dodging halflings with greataxes between steps."

"The wee-folk with Great-Axe's, like I am already tripping!"

"I am Urai Agmundr and I am told that there is Vjarik here. I will have it and also for any who would drink with me."

Urai Agmundr Chelaxian bodyguard branded with the Thasilonian Wrath-Rune.

"I am Urai Agmundr and I am told that there is Vjarik here. I will have it and also for any who would drink with me."

"Like spirits! Mmmmmm, er, ah, Chelax!?" Raising an eyebrow.

"I'll drink with ye lad, on one condition. Y've got to crack a smile! This aura of dread thing is harshing my buzz. I've travelled with hellknights seeking vengeance who were more chipper than you seem to be!"

"I'm in"

"I will smile if there truly is Vjarik here or if someone will tell me that Sheila has been stupidly spending Pathfinder's lives again."

"Dude, don't get me started on Sheila throwing us to the hells again!"

"A toast, PATHFINDERS!" bellows Gaerath jovially.

May the next monument in Magnimar be to liberty, freedom, and Andoran!

Hear Hear! Like freedom for all!!!

"So let me ask you this: If you have the Starstone in your grasp and became a goddess on the morrow, and you must choose between dance and quill, which of it would it be? What is your heart’s desire?”/QUOTE]

Hearing that last bit Gaerath looks up from his empty tankard and smiles at the question.
He pulls out of his haversack, a leaf-wrapped wad of herbs, and flint/steel.

"Anyone mind if I light up some herbs?"

I just put CURSE into my large +1 SPELL STORING Aklys. If the creature hit, misses his will save, he's cursed to have a 50% chance of doing NOTHING every round - SWEET!

Works exceptionally well before a chase. lol

and clearly, that japanese woman in the kimono must be an arcane spell caster. she's wearing a robe and clearly appears unarmed.

did she just pull an exotic curved knife out of her sleeve and shank my kidney?

i could have sworn she was a wizard. how did she deal all those D6's of damage?

Good example.

I like people to bring pictures of their characters, and good mini-fig representations... off of that I set perception DCs for monsters.

I DO-NOT like the opposed disguise/bluff check. That may be good at a dinner party, but NOT before an ambush :)

The guy in the pointy hat, with staff, and mystic symbols on his robe will usually draw a lot of fire. That's one reason I used to dress up a tank just like that.

I also had a character that brought a mule with him. Mounted-tied to the mule was a dummy dressed as a wizard. He drew enemy fire many times - I think he was nick-named 'pin-cusion'

ALWAYS try to bring a picture of your character with you to your game/games :D
If you don't have one, ask someone at the table to draw you one (most gamers with some drawing ability will be happy to do so:)

What is the make up of the party: Classes, Levels, AC's hp's ?
Is the problem TPK, or the elven wizard with no con and no hp?(which can arguably help lead to the TPK).

Would you say that they are smart players that run into a string of bad luck, or that the encounters have just been too powerful for them?

If they are at a level where they are facing Dragons and Cyclops, they should have a means to escape (Dimension door, word of recall, teleport etc..). If a couple party-members escape, they can come back with help (even to the extent of dead PCs playing some of the NPC 'rescue-squad').

Pulling punches as mentioned above, is usually necessary when the DM has made an error in setting up the encounter (blatantly overpowering it).

The key to a good encounter is good story writing. It's nice when the party can find clues to character-flaws that a boss-figure may have (Megalomanic, Monologer, Narcissist...).

Many times a boss/sub-boss likes to leave traps, or show up for part of a fight only to exit and show up again later. The story can have scenes written where the boss is a very busy guy, so if it looks like his monsters are getting the upper hand, he'll ride off to take care of other business. But if his goons are loosing, he'll summon some more or stay for the fight.

There are many plot devices that you can use. But if you feel that something like a cyclops 'crit-ability' is over-weighing the balance, then only use one cyclops, with other monsters as his back-up.

An ambush of 20 Drow Ranger-archers with truestrike, is way over-powered even if the CR says it's underpowered.

The mark of a good GM, is telling a good story without making things too easy or too hard, and as you know it's a bit tricky.

So just write a story, where your storyline allows you to either 'pull-punches' or 'punch-harder' intelligently.

Great encounters usually end with Whew and Wow :!)

-Good luck Corren

PS watch Dorkness Rising again lol

Would channelling positive energy heal outsiders from 'positive-planes' ?

Would it heal EiDolons?

The Eidolon is considered an Outsider and if u read the healing spells and channel energy carefuly u cant heal outsiders with out a certain feat.

Yeah, REALY ODD one that...

Sounds like a very bad mechanic.

Just my 2 cents :D

"...Elemental Plane of Extra Limbs" - Nice one:!)

Normally any sort of dimensional travel takes everything you wear with you so I'd be inclined to treat it as such also because it prevents the half hour of equipping you'd have to do every morning.

As a side point nothing says the gear is a sideproduct of the creature the gear merely is and as such farming them would be an acceptable interpretation of RAW but just like in this case the use of a small amount of logic makes the entire situation less stupid. No sleep spell ->loot eidolon's goods -> run at least not in my game and no summon-> loot-> profit either.

"Hmmm so I could have my EiDolon pic up loot, and then dismiss it to it's home plane!?"

Sahweeeeeeeet

Fun topic, I do hope that some of you will respond some 4-5 years later.

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned:
Karl E. Wagner's anti-hero Kane. That's a very hard one to beat, especially since the very first D&D sup-Module "Blackmoor" was based on Bloodstone where Kane takes over the 'Temple of the Frog'.

Elric & Corum both greats! Of course Conan.

I wish that Zelazny had written more of Dilvish the Damned. He was a lot of fun with his invisible sword and mighty 'Words of Power' that he learned from his years of banishment in Hell.

Brust's Vlad Taltos was very cool too.

I'd have liked to have seen more of the neat characters come back from the classic Niven and Vance stories. Espcially Vance's "Morian" which had the very first Ioun Stones, Time-Stop Spell, and so much more of what D&D was founded on :)

The characters from Jack Vance's Adventure Planet, and Demon Prince stories were also a hoot.

Robert Aspen also had a bunch of fun characters.

:D

Hmmm, interesting thoughts.

How would you handle a character mounted on a centaur?

I suppose you'd need the ride skill just to stay on, but I would think that you would still be an effective combatant (as would the centaur).

I understand and appreciate the idea of making it work with evolutions rather than 'skins'. "Reskinning is not allowed/limited in PFS" - I'll use that fine quote too :)

Eidolon's aside, the idea of two characters occupying the same space... Is that covered at all in Pathfinder? A strong porter has a barrel strapped onto his back. Inside resides a small character.
How would that work?

A character is knocked unconscious, and his loyal PC rolls him in a rug, and throws him over his shoulder to bug out. They now occupy the same space so what happens when the are attacked by various things?

A mighty fighter carries a halfling-sorcerer under one arm while fighting with the other.
He's running with the halfling out of the dungeon.
The sorcerer is making concentration checks to try to sling spells to cover their exit.

How do these situations work? The sorcerer obivously doesn't need to make a ride check, though the fighter may need an acrobatics (say DC 10) check if he gets hit by something big, to make sure he doesn't drop his burden.

A small character being transported wether in a box, trunk, or barrel via a cart or characters back (whatever) would have full cover (until it's crate was blasted away) and would be limited to casting spells that would affect just himself for the most part since he can't see anything else.

Is any of that covered in PFS so that one wouldn't have to look for/towards a homebrew?

What kinds of threads on this site address characters in the same space?

Thanks again :D

Great stuff:!)

Here's an idea for an agoraphobic gnome/eidolon:

EiDolon

Hope y'all get a laugh :P

Thanks for the Coding Odea.

As for cover in general, I suppose if you had a Medium fighter in 'fat-man's' armor; you'd have plenty of room to hide a 3' gnome.

That being stated, and the 'fantastical' look of our eidolon up to us; I don't know that it couldn't look like that.

Someone will surely have a specific answer :P

As for ride-skill, I thought of that, but he's more being 'carried' than riding...
So if you were say, casting a spell out of a stage-coach, you'd probably just need a concentration check, rather than a ride-check.

Any spell casting is most likely to be on the Eidolon itself.

I'm curious to see more evolution crop up.

I do appreciate all the input.