[ACG Playtest] The Sarkorian Prophecy (Inactive)

Game Master RainyDayNinja

Opening.

Dotting.

I should have all the necessary changes to my character by this afternoon.

Davachido here, editing this Alias to be the Swashbuckler. Adding items and background as soon as I can. I will be able to start posting immediately though.

Also since we are doing this as a playtest I will comment on things I've noticed for my class. First things first, gaining the features of weapon finesse but not count as having the feat is terrible. It means I can't get all the finesse feats without taking it a second time! That was frustrating when I found out I couldn't take piranha strike.

Edit: Done very quick and dirty item selection, just to see without much optimisation on that front where I get, still got a bit of money to spend but I'll leave that for a bit later.

How long do we have to finalize the characters?

I'm not in a big rush. I say we take the weekend to finish up characters and do whatever you want in the mission briefing, before we get started on any actual encounters.

Sounds good, I don't want to have to do lots of editing to this character while I'm at work.

Reporting in. Nice to see I made it. Working on an alias and items now.

Hello! I'm checking in, having finished going through equipment lists. Just two thoughts for everyone to weigh in on, if they please. Is a rod of wonder too crazy a thing for a martial bard to carry, and would Lingering Performance work for the skald, at least for Dirge of Doom, or am I projecting my own overly generous GMing inclinations here?

Alias done. Noted my AC's stats in my header as well, I hope it doesn't bloat my posts too much.

I'll say feats like Lingering Performance work for rage song. Also, Rod of Wonder is OK, but I'm not sure if that much chaos is good for a playtest. Your call.

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Thanks for the clarification. You're right, though, I hadn't thought about the possible consequences of that much silliness. If you're OK with it, I don't mind holding onto it as a last resort / panic button for if I ever run out of song rounds or spells, but I'm open to alternatives if the rest of the table thinks something more reliable would be better. I was thinking of a Belt of Physical Might and an upgrade to my ranged weapon in that case.

Updated a lot of my crunch, still working on it but you can take a look in my profile.

Everyone sound off when you've got your gear and everything ready to go.

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I think I am ready. Ready for inspection anyway.

Here's the link for the first map on Roll20. Once everyone is ready, I'll get the first scene started.

Updated crunch finally.

I'm ready to go; I just had to make a note to specify what spell my dagger's currently storing.

whoops, forgot the spells. Let me just get that cleaned up. beyond this I'm ready: I just need to know how much it would cost to get enough food for my tiger for three weeks.

I'm ready now. I dislike the druid spell list. Entirely too much blasting requireing saves going on.

Don't worry about rations and such. The cost at this level is negligible.

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Can you link to the map in the header of the campaign, please, RDN?

I'm ready, be aware folks as well the discussion threads are constantly updating with new changes for the classes. Take a look every so often.

(like for example I can now use bucklers without penalty to my abilities.)

Cool! Hoping for some major change to the Warpriest, right now there's little it can do that a fighter/cleric can't.

edit: How the heck did it use that old alias? lol!

I'm ready, sorry for the update lag, I thought I posted earlier.

Sorry just got back from unexpected 20 hour roadtrip.

Still waiting on Arae to take her turn. And since everybody's making Strength checks, I think Ragesong might be just what the doctor ordered...

Ah well, going to say this here, going to reject any ragesong that comes my way. As it is almost always a detriment to me. So assume I don't get buffed if it is cast.

In this particular case, you need to make strength checks to move against the wind, so it will help even dex-based characters here.

RDN, can strong characters use a rope to help weaker ones?

Sure, just let me know how you're setting it up.

Well yes, but it gives me a +1 and negates the cornerstone of my entire fighting style. So if I get caught in the next few moments in an attack I'm doing nothing good. So yea.. not much use. I think the 5% extra chance of succeeding is not worth the loss of basically 4 of my feats.

Edit: Sorry my bad; +2 to the check, 8th level gives +4 str, though still not worth it in my situation.

Also looking through my deed abilities since I know ragesong negates a few of them due to skill pre-reqs I found this one:

Swift Feint (Ex): At 7th level, a swashbuckler with at least
1 panache point can spend a standard action to purposely
miss a creature that she could normally hit with a light
or one-handed weapon melee attack. When she does, that
creature is denied its Dexterity bonus to AC until the
start of her next turn.

I gain no benefit from this ability and most high CR mobs don't have much dex. It is helpful if there is a rogue in the party but almost always better just to smack your target. Another thing to chalk up to be improved.

What, you can't possibly think you'd have to do combat in this storm, do you? Isn't the howling wind, blinding sand, and incoming tornado enough of a challenge for you? What kind of GM would try to bait you like that? /evil grin

I'm actually expecting the storm to grow sword arms and lash out at us... I have no idea why... :)

Sorry for the delay, I had a friend in the hospital. He should be okay now, but it was a bit of a scare.

RDN, I'm marking off one 1st-level spell given up for CLW, and one Detect Evil prepared and cast. Would it make sense to say that Kasei would have cast it as soon as he prepared it, leaving the other slot, that he was planning to prepare Detect Good in, as yet unprepared?

Yeah, that sounds good

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A bit busier than I'd like, about to hop on a plane will post as soon as I can.

Revised Playtest is up! Let's finish this combat before you update characters.

I was coming here to suggest the same thing!

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Is there a link for the second map?
I don't know how far I am from an adjacent position.

The link is the same. I believe I have it fixed so you'll see the current map. Sorry about that.

Well, that took longer than I was hoping; we won't have time for another encounter before the playtest is over. Thanks for the run-through everybody! Please think over your experience, and post it in the playtest forums.

Can we maybe fast-forward, with GM railroading, to what the next scheduled encounter in the scenario would be, so we can at least try out combat with the revised builds as soon as we're done with them (I can update mine tonight.)

The playtest is over in 3 days, so we'd never have time.

Well, thanks everyone for a fun romp of demon killing. I appreciated the well thought out characters everyone had, and I hope to game with you sometime in the future.

If this is done, can we mark the campaign inactive?