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"I killed them all with one arrow." "One arrow!?" "That what I saaaaaid!"
Session 35 - Returned to camp
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Total XP: 12000xp (2400xp per PC, now dividing by 5)
Session 34 - met some apemen that lead you to the lair of 2 chimera
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Total XP: 17600 (5866 xp each, now 8816xp into 7th) Loot: - gloves of arrow snaring
Now that's a catfolk. I thought the one in Bestiary 3 looked a little too human in the face.
I experienced some performance combat while playing The Ruby Phoenix Tournament module. Specific events trigger a check to be made. If successful, the crowd attitude toward you improves. A failure will worsen their attitude. A good relationship with the crowd give you bonuses, a bad relationship will give penalties. Some checks are mandatory, others optional. If you manage to get an early good relationship going, then the bonuses can certainly matter. Failing checks can strip you of bonuses and give you penalties, so sometimes it's better to skip an optional check depending on the DC. Charisma buffs, gladiator weapons, BAB, Perform skill etc. offer bonuses to the check. In short, you're collecting cheers or boos from the audience, and it affects your ability to perform. How it benefits play depends on the situation, really. The party I played with in the module was so powerful, we just blasted through everything, so there was little opportunity to develop a very good or very bad relationship with the crowd. It's probably more up to GMs to figure out how to best make use of it and give players the incentive to take advantage of it.
1. For me the glory days would be in '83 or so, when I was GMing a guy through the giant modules all the way into Queen of the Demonweb Pits. I was hitting my personal stride as a GM and really getting a hang of the game. I liked experiencing all the modules that I saw listed as available products but before then had never had a chance to experience or read. 2. Most memorable - Ravenloft. I drove Strahd into his catacombs from the 2nd story of his mansion and knew we wouldn't survive if he had a chance to regenerate. So without resting, we pressed straight down into the most dangerous area of the castle just to find his coffin and do away with him. Very scary. Hated being scared. Loved the module. Same for Castle Amber. We were getting picked off one by one. Only 4 of us remained to take on the final chapter. Beating it felt very heroic.
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I use Skype or Mumble for voice typically.
You're going to make me buy my RotRL hardcover at PaizoCon and get it signed, aren't you? I wanted to avoid having to take books on the plane, curse you!
Congrats, Mike! And to the others! It was a long hard road - getting this far says a lot.
Session 32 - Found a shatterspike
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Note: You can use the Shackles expedition as a small town for cashing in treasure and acquiring items you want to purchase. I haven't decided on the max item value yet.
This will be my first PaizoCon as well. From what I have heard of prior PaizoCons, we can expect: - a greet and eat at a restaurant nearby the night before
and whatever else fans can dream up to offer.
This is the end fight as it began. Serpent Skull 2 End Boss Fight Here is what the Pillar of Light room looked like in TTopRPG:
Session 31 - Killed 3 mithral cobras (CR 3x3 = 2400xp)
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Total XP: 18400xp
Party is now 7th level. Congrats! You have an extra 450xp into 7th to work with. Mistake: Didn't add Int stat to boss's concentration checks!
Best I understand it, those with darkvision are not impeded in any way by the lack of light out to their darkvision range. In dark areas, everything is black and white. If shadowy light is present, you can still see fine, but I imagine surfaces only have a tinge of color to them. And of course, in normal and bright light, darkvision has no need or effect.
I haven't done a comparison myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if the scan revealed color dot components that go into the printed product. They make the graphics look very unattractive when zoomed in. I don't know if you'd have to resample the scan in a graphic app to a smaller size in order to get rid of those to get a good looking laser print.
Session 30 - Found elegantly written note warning that charau-ka are aware of the party's location, moved outside the walls to rest
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Total: 7600xp
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As I understand it, if a chronicle shows 4-6 as the level range, then the module had a starting level of 5th, so you can play any level 4-6 PFS PC with it. The "Starting level" for the 4-6 range you mention is not 4. The starting level for the module is 5th. The 4-6 range IS the range that puts a PC within 1 level of the starting level.
Is there any specific reason Malfeshnekor was chosen to be uncommon (instead of rare)? Such unique creatures seem more naturally to fit into the rare category to me, on the basis of usability of likely duplicates in a case. (In fact, I'd prefer these to be the apparent 'super rare' category). My guess is even though it is a named single NPC in the path, as a general creature it is plenty possible to encounter more than one in a different higher level campaign.
I liked the idea of holding a line against waves of unknown attackers, but not from behind the walls of a fortress... more like the street attack in Brindol of Red Hand of Doom. Additionally, that whole running around making a difference thing had a cool dynamic to it (I've seen similar things in the upper level AP mods, but having it all happen continuously with no rest looks interesting).
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