Normally if I GM I would try to post buffs/debuffs in the Initiative count, so everyone can just reference one location, but yeah at high tier it can be difficult still to track everything. I haven't GMed a high tier game over PbP.
If I'm not mistaken, the mist should move past Jaswinder on Tahari's next round, right? It wasn't moved last round. If that's the case, he'll delay until after Tahari goes, but Pratvah will continue to act normally.
I failed to identify Tahari and Ermias earlier, but didn't roll for Kitty...
Kn.(planes):1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
"Pratvah, just keep squeezing the life out of the one you already have. The Tiger only hunts 'civilized' prey, and after watching you eat I am sure it will not think you are such a foe!"
For the case of Incorporeal spells...I'm going to continue running as is.
That's understandable. Hopefully it gets clarified better for 2.0. I personally don't run incorporeal that way but have seen it run your way before.
Regardless of how GMs run it, I wonder how the author intended it to be run? Will be interesting to read through the GM Discussion thread after playing through this.
My guess is that's why this scenario has such a deadly reputation. Hopefully this difference doesn't result in ours ^_^
• Magic Fang is only 1 min/level.
• I failed to identify Tahiri as Incorporeal anyways.
• Greater Magic Fang is 1 hr/level, but I don't have a 3rd Level spellslot available to cast it.
• I would have the money to up my Wisdom for such a slot if I'd never bought that carpet =\
• Snakes don't get the Neck Item slot for an Amulet of Mighty Fists.
• Even if all of this happened, incorporeal creatures cannot be grappled or constricted anyways.
Most of the posts I found were from 2013 or 2014, and nothing newer, so it's possible a newer edition removed this language, but HERE are two quotes referencing "Likewise, its spells or spell-like abilities deal only half damage to corporeal creatures".
My guess is that this boss *seems* powerful because GMs aren't going by the idea that incorporeal can only affect corporeal half of the time.
Everything is equally reversed; incorporeal can harm other incorporeal just as corporeal can harm corporeal, but either targeting the other is at half effect.
I realize that particular entry may not explain it; I'll look to see where it comes from.
"I apologize profusely, Pratvah, but I don't know anything about these wretches. Why don't you see if you can wrap your coils around the uglier one."
Jaswinder steps back five feet, casts Gravity Bow(standard), commands his carpet to fly next to Tahiri (move), and orders Pratvah to use the Maneuver (Grapple) Trick (free action).
"Oh, yes, indeed, thank you very much! You know, outside of that infernal country, I have seen no end of fuss about their ways of healing. So long as it puts scales back on a snake, I am sure no snake would mind."
Jaswinder frantically pulls out his wand of Cure Light Wounds and sets to work on mending Pratvah (6 charges average).
"You know, Pratvah, weren't you just telling me that after this endeavor, it was time for you to shed off your skin? Now you don't have to pull it all off on your own!"
"Pratvah, my dear, would you be so ever kind as to fetch that bright little object down there at the bottom of the pool? Just pretend it's a frog or some such. But don't swallow it!"
As she slithers off of the carpet he hops on board.
When Jaswinder and Pratvah exit into the town center, he rubs his forearms together as though he were chilled.
"What extreme sadness that was! A child and his beloved pet, being led by that trickster to their doom! But at least I got a good glimpse of Tahiri. She was wearing a very intricate pendant. I won't forget how it glinted in the sunlight."
To Marouf, Jaswinder asks, "Would it be permitted for all of us to enter a door together? We are all well aware by now that this Tahiri is a mastermind at making things appear as they are not."
"You know, if it were anyone else at all, I might be worried, but seeing him stumbling about from door to door... I believe there is some Cayden parable about that or some such."
Jaswinder takes out a scroll made of scaly vellum and reads it (speak with animals).
"Pratvah, I realize I have told you time and time again NOT to climb down a hole when you aren't sure whether you can back your way out, but this time I am going to ask you to trust me," Jaswinder says as he guides his carpet, and Pratvah, into the Mindscape with him.
