Woo-hoo! Here we go!
...Everything alright?
Sorry, Eliza and I had a pretty mad week with school. Thankfully its holiday now so I can catch up! :)
Welcome back!
We've got ourselves a nice haul to trade for stuff we need.
321 sp, 90 gp, a pair of silver earrings worth 250 gp, a wooden music box worth 90 gp,
three crates of furs and hides worth 50 gp per crate
polished wooden case of potent greenish herbal liquor. There are still eight bottles with liquor left in them, each worth 20 gp.
More practically 5 short swords and a pair of masterwork axes are also recovered. (One claimed by Serena)
Serena is taking the booze as well.
Heh, I think we'll be celebrating well tonight.
Any thoughts on the questions? I figure we're curious about the symbol, his leader, their leader's location, etc. etc.
Like, "How many more are there of you bandits?"
"Where are they?"
"What's that symbol of?"
Definitely how many more. And something in the vein of who their leader is.
I wonder who he meant when he referred to "his lady" -- was that the woman we killed, or someone else? If it was her, who did she report to?
Whenever you're ready ask in the gameplay thread! :)
That ain't my job! I ain't party face just because I have +3 to deal with this guy because he's a male criminal!
My lisp makes talking to strangers not my favorite thing to do. I'm way more effective as the strong silent type.
lmao!!!
Ha! Sorry, I usually take the lead on face things but I thought Serena was doing this and I didn't want to step on her toes!
There are in fact official rules for Changelings in covens, I have put them under the Campaign Info tab for your perusal.
OOhh cool. Should we play out the ritual in game?
ooo, cool, fun reading.
OOhh cool. Should we play out the ritual in game?
Sure thing! I'll set up the beginning shortly and then you guys can roll on from there.
I am unsurprised but a little disappointed. That's ok.
@Serena - Blindfighting can make fog cloud pretty devastating.
At the cost of three full-round actions, but I take your point. Fog cloud is a nice spell.
I'm thinking about tossing a few teamwork feats into the mix Serena, something like:
Coven Tactics: Each member of the coven ('the player') can treat other coven members as if they possessed the same teamwork feats as the player for the purpose of determining whether the player receives a bonus from her teamwork feats. Her allies do not receive any bonuses from these feats unless they actually possess the feats themselves. The allies’ positioning and actions must still meet the prerequisites listed in the teamwork feat for the player to receive the listed bonus.
and then a teamwork feat every few levels - would that help? :)
Free teamwork feats was definitely an exciting concept for me, so that is rather nice of you :)
That sounds good, GM Nikolaus! Can I suggest that for those of us with spellcasting, the coven spells always count as being on our spell lists, and that we automatically learn them at the levels the coven gains access to them?
Based on the wording, we will never gain anything more than the 1st-level spells, if I understand right.
Don't you have a feat that gives you the equivalent of the coven hex with a witch level?
Oh, I see - I do! I thought it was worse than it is, but it's still not promising. I thought it was "as a 1st-level witch".
Instead, it's "as a witch = 1/2 my character level".
For the purposes of casting you only need 3 of you doing the casting. So Serena (or Olyenna) could guard the rest while you cast if need be.
As to getting the spells onto your personal spell-lists... I'll think about it, but I fear it would get silly powerful rather quickly.
The reason I suggest it is because we will only have access to the lower-level spells, as Serena points out, since we have to use the lowest witch level in the coven to determine when we get them. Unless we incorporate a hag, of course... ;)
Wouldn't I have to just not be part of the coven in order to gain the higher-level spells?
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We need at least three witches, so either you or Eliza, and neither of you have full witch levels. But it seems counter to the spirit of the campaign if either of you aren't part of the coven!
I agree
That's why I'm saying I'm a little disappointed. That, and it gates all of the cool stuff way far back.
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Coven bonding done! I'm going to run all spell-casting from the level of the HIGHEST witch in the coven, not the lowest - so as long as Olyenna or Evelynda are involved in the casting you'll always have full access.
In addition you can all count towards each other's teamwork feats as I said above. Take a look in the campaign tab for full details. :)
That's awesome, GM! Yay spell-like abilities!
Olyenna, I'm convinced that your skill totals are calculated incorrectly. The only skills which have a higher modifier than your ability score modifier are Stealth, Swim, and Knowledge (engineering), and you have no racial or trait bonuses which modify your skills. This tells me that you've only assigned ranks to 3 skills.
You should have 6 trained skills (2 base + 2 Int + 2 background).
Your Know (engineering) should be +6 (1 rank, 2 Int, 3 class skill).
I have -2 to bluff, diplomacy and disguise
Do you have ranks in those skills..? What skills do you have ranks in?
I can pick up some knowledge geography next time we level. Serena's 11 might have to provide profession ranks though! *skill points envy*
You're right. I'd only assigned to Stealth and Swim under primary and Knowledge Engineering I was missing the class skill bonus.
Added ranks in Survival and Knowledge Dungeoneering. and Craft (Bowyer) as background.
So I say we sell/trade this stuff before leaving.
three crates of furs and hides worth 50 gp per crate 150g total
wooden music box worth 90 gp
a pair of silver earrings worth 250 gp
5 shortwords 50gp
total value 560g are we looking at half that for selling to Oleg and Svetlana, or even value trading?
We should keep :
Polished wood case with 87 Bottles of liquor. (20g each)
Those are all 'trade goods' so you'll get full value for them.
Cool! So ladies that's 140 each. Anything we need to buy before heading out?
What sorts of goods are available for purchase? Based on the bandit's description of his mistress, cold iron weapons might be wise. Evelynda always wants scrolls of mage armor and potions of enlarge person if Oleg has secured any.
Also, what kind of Knowledge checks could tell us about Tatzlwurms and Tuskgutters? I'll assume Arcane and Nature, respectively.
Tuskgutter is a specific creature so you'd need Local, but you'll get all the information about boars with that roll!
At the moment Oleg has goods to the value of 500gp - anything mundane within that limit you can have. If its something a bit more specific (like Cold Iron) you cna order it but you'll have to wait a week or so until he can order it from Restov. So you want 10 Longswords - that's 200 gp, fine. 10 Cold Iron Longswords - only 400gp, but more specialised, so you'll have to put an order in.
But that also means that he doesn't have magic items readily at his disposal?
The first things I want are a mwk buckler and mithral chain, but I can't afford either, so I'll just save.
Not until you ask him. If Evelynda lets him know that she wants scrolls and potions, then in future I will assume that he always has a couple available. Same if you tell him about the mithril chain - he can have the buckler easily.
It may be that not enough time has passed yet, but remember I asked Oleg about potions and scrolls before we left for the bandit camp. :)