Aardvark's "Nothing Venture Captained, Nothing Gained" Shattered Star Campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Troy Malovich

I guess I need to see who we are going to need to talk to first.

Well, we're looking for Zograthy or whatever his name is - plenty of people around to ask for directions if you're so inclined =)

We might use someone with more flashy spells even though my sword will be able to cast a spell per day from my spellbook.

Maybe Dareon could become a diviner since he likes to know things.

Hey Tanj, glad to see you are back!

I had some really good red today at Garcias. Yummy stuff!

Not gonna be no dang wizard, Elrawien. Grr. (although I'd likely be a diviner if I were, good job).

LOL.

So for my feats I want to take greater spell focus and either still or/and silent spell. Are there any other feats that would be good for an enchantress?

Persuasive or Deceitful would be good. Spell Mastery (hideous laughter) would be an excellent choice. Item creation feats are decent. Other metamagics would be okay. Depending on your want for Knowledges or languages, Cosmopolitan and Scholar would be decent choices as well.

Thanks!

I wonder what I've gotten myself into over here by myself at the docks :I Hopefully Zogarthy sends you guys this way with his local check, assuming he has one.

You know, something tells me that the slavers don't really matter as much as the common criminals of the area.

Hey Tanj, glad to see you are back!

I had some really good red today at Garcias. Yummy stuff!

Thanks! Man, that sounds good.

It was very good!

Well, it was about that time that I notice that girl scout was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era.

I just realized I'd never taken the 'extra skill point for a craft, profession, or performance' as the house rules indicated. I updated my character sheet with a craft (metallurgy). It's what Gaileyon would have been doing for his family while getting trained by his Great Uncle.

Did everyone have a good 4th of July? The mother board on my PC died today.
I was told that if I get a new computer the harddrive should be ok. I have my dissertation on it.

That is interesting, you can even do dice that technically do not exist.

El, once you've had your fortune read, I think we'll be looking to you to try and diplomacy our way into having to fork over MUCH less than 50 gps for this info =)

And that sucks about your mother board. Hopefully the hard drive is still intact. Losing important work like that is just sickening =\

Those are my plans.

I was told that the Hard Drive should be ok.

It was something with the graphics card. All better now. I am glad because I despise Windows 8.

Sorry for the delay, have family visiting during the holiday weekend. I will try to have a post up Sat or Sun.

So, in case you missed it, I really like the harrow deck and harrow readings.

If you've played CotCT, each module has an ability score related to it. With the harrowing, you will be getting harrow points that you can spend during the module to get certain benefits associated with the ability score.

It took me a while poring over the module to find which stat was best for which module. For this first book, it is Intelligence. I will put the Harrow points and the possible uses in the campaign tab.

I like the card that was picked for me, lol.

I didn't pick them, you guys rolled them for yourselves with the d9 I had you roll. It seems the website dice know Elrawien well.

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POWER! UNLIMITED POWEER!

I thought of an interesting idea for Dareon.

So when he takes alchemist levels, I might not end up going with the aforementioned archetypes, unless Aardvark is willing to houserule something. That's the thing I'll ask first.

So Aardvark, in the Master Chymist PrC, it says that it stacks with alchemist levels with regard to bombs. If I take the vivisectionist archetype, can it stack with regards to sneak attack instead? If not, i won't be taking that archetype, because I want to go into Master Chymist.

So my idea: when Dareon takes alchemist levels, and he drinks his first mutagen, he's thrilled by the increase of combat prowess that it gives him. It'll give him potency in battle that he's never known before, that his knightly training never instilled in him and never will. He'll still occasionally take a cavalier level, but by the time he's a cavalier3/alchemist4, he'll have grown addicted to the mutagen, and will go into master chymist, developing an alternate personality that revels in the savage kind of battle, that wants to stick around but knows that he can't because of the time limit on the mutagen. He'll endeavor to mutate during every battle, and Dareon will love it.

what do you guys think?

That sounds neat, Dareon, but don't you need to be able to do 3rd level extracts to get into Master Chymist? That's a minimum Alchemist level of 7 isn't it?

Hmm, you're right...that's kind of a bummer. It's gonna be awhile, then. Probably after 12th level, which sucks. I want 5 levels of cavalier for the free Mobility to both myself and my mount.

Diviner? :)

Hoping I can nab some mithril armor, but I might actually want to do that.

Actually, just a moment, I have a really demanding question for Aardvark. Would you mind if I retooled my character, mechanically, into a Lore Master or Strategist fighter? It would only be for the first level, and I likely would not change my stats. It's only been one combat, and that combat's only been with pugwampis, so it wouldn't impact much, but I would be much more incensed to go the Eldritch Knight route if I was a fighter instead of a cavalier, because I wouldn't feel like my challenge ability would be a waste of an ability.

What do you say?

Those both look like pretty solid options.

An interesting take would be to combine levels in LoreMaster or Pathfinder Chronicler.

I have no problem with you changing to the Tactician Fighter. As it was I warned about the problems with the mount. Now you get roughly the same build without having to worry about it.

Are you still looking at taking alchemist for your arcane? I'd let the vivisectionist keep stacking (as it says "Add the character’s alchemist and master chymist levels together to determine the damage done by her bombs"). Your bomb damage is in sneak attack form, so it would keep increasing as it would if you were a normal alchemist.

I'm still brainstorming it. I'll get back to you later with what I think is best, but I'm leaning more and more towards wizard.

She can teach you stuff, in more ways than one, lol.

Change made. I'm pretty sure that I'm wanting to go into wizard at this point. I can just eat the ASF chance, and I can grab some mithril breastplate and one of the arcane armor training feats for 4200gp and a feat. That'll get me all the way down to 5% failure. Totally fine by me.

What do you think of the Scroll Scholar Archetype for Dareon?

It is an interesting archetype especially if you are a member of the Society.

Do you know your level progression?

1 - fighter - Dodge, Mobility
2- wizard - Scribe Scroll bonus, diligent student (history)
3- wizard - Arcane Armor Training
4 - wizard - INT bonus
5 - wizard - Spring Attack
6 - wizard - Craft Wondrous Item bonus, diligent student (dungeoneering)
7 - eldritch knight - Combat Reflexes, Bodyguard bonus
8 - eldritch knight - DEX bonus
9 - eldritch knight - Improved Familiar (imp), In Harm's Way bonus

I'd be going diviner specialization, opposition schools enchantment and evocation.
I've totally hijacked this thread for a really long time...hmm...I should stop.

Elrawien, you could, but everyone is with you unless you want to split off from the group. I figured you had wanted to do it without someone in particular present?

I can wander off as I think the place I am going would be familiar with and to me?

Will you tell anyone (like Fade) where you're going? Or are you just going to veer off? It will be after you guys get into the upper district where you three rich kids are more at home.

She will wander off sneaky like.

Hey all, I want to try my hand at DMing a PbB for the first time and have a recruitment thread called Summer of Chaos for a Dragonlance game. I would like to invite you all.

Are we waiting on me to get back to the Manor, because Oz is most likely going to stick around till the shady characters show up.

Aard, I am going to send you a PM on what I am doing when I exit the camera :)

Okay, Elra

Oz, I was also going to mention that to them.

Since IC, no one knows what he's planning, this is why I asked you guys how long you are willing to wait for him to return.

I'll say Faedrin will get bored with waiting after an hour. Does that work for everyone?

Also, thanks for the invite, Shalafi, but I'm going to have to decline for the same reason I passed on that other DL game - I'm pretty well at my pbp capacity at this point.

It's tempting to sign up for other ones when every one of the games I'm in are moving slowly, but that quickly gets overwhelming when any of them inevitably pick up the pace. I read through your recruitment thread and it looks like you've put a lot of thought into bring the DL world into a Pathfinder ruleset so I hope you have a lot of fun and success with it!