Adventure Path Reign of Winter

Game Master Almonihah

I think the most salient items that I know Quasit has gotten are the rimepelt, some elven riding boots (nonmagical) and that whiskey flask Quasit keeps waving around. She's also been carrying around a CLW wound that the GM gave us out of pity since we had no healer. But I'll do the full inventory for everyone to be sure.

Also, did I gain anything during my absence, since I also gained 2 lvls since then?

I'm hitting 90 hours this week. Holy hornblowers I'm tired, and I'm just starting my second, 12 hour long, shift today. Praise Winter for Red Bulls (not red Bulvi, thank goodness :).

I'm running through my whole sheet today to double check things. I already noticed I never wrote down my first hex. So, full audit time.

As for inventory, I know I picked up a masterwork composite longbow (+1 STR) off of a corpse in book 1 and that’s the bow I wish to enchant when the time comes. I also have a masterwork backpack...I think I purchased it though...

If you can, check your current wealth. I'll compare that against wealth / level guidelines and go from there for you all. @Selnena feel free to make a list of things along wealth / level guidelines. You won't have them yet,but I'll take the list and provide some things shortly after you meet the party. @Tezuzu lantern staff is fine. Might want to work on your bluff for needing it ;-)

Bulvi's wishlist was done up before I found out the ring could be fixed. Since they run for like 90k I think he's sorted.

That pricing always seemed oddly expensive to me. It doesn't exactly do much in combat, so you kinda need to survive a fight to really gain any benefit, which really just amounts to not buying potions, except you still need to buy potions since you need to survive a fight first.

Quasit, was the wand of CLW given to us by the GM or did we grab it off of Yu’s corpse after that first encounter? I was thinking it was the latter but could be mistaken...or were there two?

My current gold/inventory of note:

2222 gp, 4 sp, 9 cp
Masterwork Composite Longbow (+1 STR): picked up off of a corpse in book 1
Masterwork Backpack: think I purchased it

Wishlist (in order):
Enchant my composite longbow (above) to +1 (currently have the funds to do that)
Efficient Quiver
Cloak of Elvenkind
Boots of Elvenkind

Trying to check back to see when was the last time we divvied up gold/loot. I know it was before Maka and Hace had joined us...

Looks like we last split loot/gold at the end of book 1, just prior to Maka and Hace joining us last April...not sure how much loot we’ve gathered thus far in book 2...

Bulvi's wishlist was done up before I found out the ring could be fixed. Since they run for like 90k I think he's sorted.

While that is true, I agree with Selena. I don't think a ring of regeneration is worth you not having some good gear. It's nice, but I would be very happy if it wasn't the only thing you had personally. It's ok with the fast healer feat or a way to get shield other spell, but it's not all of your wealth good.

On the flip-side if you sold it and just split it with everyone except Tezuzu that would be an easy band-aid to get everyone mostly up to wealth.

Efficient Quiver

Cloak of Elvenkind
Boots of Elvenkind

I could craft all of those for you if I go for ritual hex at level 7. If you don't somehow have them by then.

Findurêl wrote:

Efficient Quiver

Cloak of Elvenkind
Boots of Elvenkind

I could craft all of those for you if I go for ritual hex at level 7. If you don't somehow have them by then.

Awesome! You’ll be nice to have around...

I don't think we've gotten much loot of consequence in book 2. The winter wolf cloak is the only thing that comes to mind for me.

This is what I have:
wand of cure light wounds (50 charges)
arrows (60)
dagger
shortbow
backpack
bedroll
basic clothes
1,541 gp, 18 sp, 1 cp

What I want?
- cloak of resistance
- amulet of natural armor or other stuff to bump my AC
- magical bow

Other than that, I don't know. I'm pretty weak at playing a sorcerer (which is why I picked it for this -- I want to get better).

Okay, so I couldn't find a good customizable chargen app (except for fight club but I couldn't find any files for it and I'm not building them anytime soon), so I had to go with pathbuilder. There's not any pfs changes to normal rules I might be forgetting is there? ( I remember the hp rule but I'm not sure about others)

Anyways, so barring any "don't forget this pfs legality" I'll start adjusting my sheet. I was missing a hex (I think it was because I never decided between healing and flight originally, so I went with healing since I did plenty of that before via spells. I'll grab flight next time).

As for equipment, some protection that doesn't interfere with her spellcasting, that item that gives monk powers would fit nice as she is a follower of Irori and took imp unarmed strike for better touch spell offense (especially since the spear was not working out very well), but that might be too high a level just yet. Other than that, something to empower her spells, since multiclasing keeps her to lower level level spells (she hasn't reached SL 2 yet and a single class would be at SL 3 by now). I don't mind the drop in SL as much as the drop in CL, if the CL kept up it would make it a lot easier to keep up usefulness despite the lower SL options. (If you want something custom, the grimiore she has can easily be a good source of interesting things to make, for myself or others)

I otherwise don't really have specific items in mind.

EDIT;
Oh, a small shield might be nice, depending on how you handle the SFC from them. If I keep my other hand open for spellcasting and touch attacks, I don't see why I should suffer SFC (SFC from a shield makes sense when you use your shield hand to do the spellcasting cause your other hand is holding a weapon usually). But RAW probably disagrees with me on this point.

EDIT2;
Or a way to learn what is normally my go to spell, Silent Image. A spell of vast and awesome potential.

Other than that, I don't know.

If you’re looking for some fun ideas outside the normal big items,

As for myself I’m at wealth by level so I don’t need anything, but once I have some more gold I will probably buy a few small things, mostly foci for spells I might want to use later.

@GM: Are Fin's papers for Jadwiga clan or foreign guest of the Jadwiga clan (or does it even matter)? Just want to know how to RP if/when confronted or asked. From your earlier post, I assumed either Jaswiga or for their foreign guests could wield weapons/armor but I may have been mistaken. From Greta thinking it odd an Elf would be there, I wasn't sure if my Elven features might out Fin as not being Jadwiga and therefore foreign guest might be better...

@ Find. I assumed foreign guest because of the whole elf thing. Was just copy / pasting so I didn't go into that kind of detail in thread.

Roger that, GM. Was thinking that, just wanted to make sure I didn't stumble over it during RP...

Always good to check. Much appreciated.

Thanks Tez, never heard of many of those. The staff is awesome.

If I had to spend the gold directly, I'd likely go with,
ring of sustenance (2500gp)
bracers of armor +2 (2000gp)
2 runes of power (2000gp x2)

Leaving me with a bit under 2k to spend on stuff, probably a shield and maybe additional spells added to Winter.

Also, GM, pretty sure my character is up to date (not including spells prepped, which I'll choose when I find out what situation I'm starting in).

Broader discussion here needed in terms of the previous GM's handling of 'The Black Rider' from book one.

From what I am seeing from the post history not all of the current PCs were a part of the game when the black rider was initially encountered and some joined after his death. Can you all give me a quick run down of the following.

1. Were you in the game when the black rider was encountered?
2. What does your character know of the black rider?
3. Beyond regular character advancement, did the GM communicate any additional boons for characters?

1. Yes I was.
2. My recollection is that we had just fought Teb Knotten and his small army of winter fey, and while we were checking for loot he appeared. The GM posted a collection of 6-8 spoiler text answers to questions we might ask him, then declared he was dead. Among the spoiler answers he identified himself as some sort of herald of Baba Yaga who had been mortally wounded by the minions of Queen Elvanna. He tasked us with finding the Hut and using it to help Baba Yaga return to Golarion. And for some reason that still escapes me, our characters all said 'Sure!'
3. Nope.

1. Yes
2. What Quasit said...though she recalls more details than I...
3. No

1 yes
2 what Quasit said, though I looked him on wiki since my character grew up with stories about the three riders for context
3 no boons

1 yes
2 What Quasit said
3 No

** is there an echo in here... **

:-)

The encounter is on page 25 a little ways down. Not much to it but it's there. I'd link it, but I don't know how to link specific posts.

...what was said above applies to Bulvi too.

Maka came in after that point.

Thank you for the clarity and post reference.

Thanks Tez,

No problem, glad I could help.

I believe the DM skipped over the black rider mantle boons and the only ones who haven’t been here since the start are Maka and Tez. So outside a knowledge check or whatever the other party members have told is my guess on what we know.

Yeah, that's what it looked like to me. Wanted to be sure. Once Selena joins I need to do some tweaking for party size of encounters. Presence / absence of boon was something I wanted to take into account as I do that.

1. Maka was still in Taldor. Her and Hace crossed the portal a bit before the party closed it and met up with the party in a tavern. I want to say in Waldsbry.

2. Not much but the party has told her the story.

3. Nope, just regular character advancement.

In taking a look at the next batch of encounters it looks like the most straight forward way to address party size in terms of difficulty is to simply hold off on having you all level.

As written, the AP would have you all level here shortly. My plan is to hold off on having the party level so as to minimize the amount of tweaking I need to do for encounters. This will also let us maintain momentum in terms of my prep time.

There will shortly be a chance in game for selling / buying so the party should be equipped as they would prefer going into this next bit.

With that in mind, how does holding off on leveling sound to you all?

I just leveled to 5, so I'm good. :)

Oof, I'm always down to make things easier for the DM but I get a lot of nice stuff next level. I don't mind holding off though. My next 3 levels give me toys so I'll be eyeing them no matter what.

Yeah, Fin gets a very nice feat at 6th level as well..but no worries, GM, I have no problem delaying if it's less work for you and keeps our momentum going...

Holding off on leveling a bit is fine with me too.

Also, be assured that Sakitu's attitude toward Selena will change soon.

Thank you. The in character friction makes sense. I trust you all to do this well. There would still be another level bump this book, but just not timed as written. I'll keep you all posted.

I'm still compiling the loot list. Sorry it's taking me so long, but I had a lot of 12 hour shifts this last week. I'll try and submit it tonight or tomorrow.

Fin, on the healing wand front, we actually have 2 CLW wands pre-Selena. The first is Yu Khan's wand, which Fin picked up and used to save us in our first few near-TPKs. The second was Ibona's wand, which the GM was nice enough to say Ibona left behind when she left the party. Quasit picked up that second wand and has been using it, though she loaned it to Hace for a bit. I've been counting charges as I go through the old posts.

On the leveling front, I think a gear upgrade will help me more than a new level, so I'm fine with a delay there as well as long as we finally get a chance to cash all this loot in and get some decent gear. Running around with a leather shirt and a steak knife just isn't going to cut it much longer. No pun intended.

I will lament the lack of 3rd level spells, but do what you think is best.

My only worry would be not having easy access to remove curse, remove blindness, and remove disease given our environment. Missing out on the fly spell before fighting a dragon is also a bit of a drag considering they can have a bad habit of staying out of reach and spamming breath weapons, but the party isn’t entirely melee locked and we have quite a few ranged characters.

The friction in game is fine by me, as it makes sense in RP. But I wanted to double down on no hard feelings ooc. If you would like to tone it down at all I can so just ask.

Thanks for tracking all that stuff, Q; I'll go through my posts and see how many charges are left on Yu's wand. Think there were thifty-something last time I checked, but it's been a while...

For loot I personally use a simple excel google sheet. Link

Anyone can edit it and write to add what they want to claim in the claims box with a separate sheet for party loot and shared resources. It makes tracking claims/loot/sell value easier for the games I am in at least. It might be easier than negotiating things out via post here.

Feel free to use it if y’all like. Just don’t edit anything in the grey boxes.

Thanks all for your work in these matters. Sounds like we have a plan forward.

Went back and checked...and I used a CLW wand 28 times. However, back then I was thinking we only had one wand; so to keep it simple, I'll say those were all from Yu's wand that Fin picked up, so it has 22 charges left...

Going back through those posts reminded me how much we got hammered in the first part of book 1...absolutely brutal. There were at least three occasions where a TPK was a distinct possibility...

As we work through gear and purchases, just want to clarify the ring Bulvi has. It should not be counted toward wealth. I don't want to give anything away so just hold on for now.

Oh dear, well I guess he'll be getting some gear before too long then. Sash of the War Champion here I come!

OK, I've finished tallying loot. A few caveats.

First, we fought a lot of mooks who dropped a sword, a crossbow, some armor. In general, I don't think our characters bothered to strip them and lug that stuff with us, certainly not before we found the bag of holding. So, I'm not going to include that.

Second, we have different categories of stuff. The coins and art pieces I think are probably just straight cash. We also have lots of scrolls and potions. In and of themselves, most don't have a high cash value, so I'm going to just list them all in a bunch (minus the ones that were claimed). The magic items are going to be listed at half value, since that's what we can sell them for, traditionally.

Third, going back and reading the posts, I'm pretty sure the previous GM did not always give us everything that was coming to us, just based on the AC of some enemies vs the gear that they dropped. Radosek especially comes to mind. But that's life in the big city, I think we just live with that.

Fourth, it looks like the Ibona/Quasit CLW wand is used up. The Yu/Fin wand still has charges (22 left by my count). Selena has a CLW wand as well that by my count has 39 charges left. It can be a little hard sometimes to tell who was casting healing spells with which wand, and whether it was a wand or a spell, so I'm not really confident about those tallies. But Quasit's wand is clearly dead.

Finally, we did a loot split after returning Lady Malassene to Heldren. I'm going to assume that was correct and go from there.

Part 1-Rescue of Lady Malassene
152g 5s to Bulvi, Fin, Quasit, Sakitu
Findurel claimed a Composite Longbow (+1 Strength). -- note, this was NOT a masterwork bow, it came from a dead local farmer
Findurel claimed a spyglass
Quasit claimed 2 oil of Taggit, MW Thieves Tools, elven riding boots

Not counted in the loot split was a Cloak of the Yeti (2000g)

Part 2-Through the Woods to the Portal

2 KEYS TO BABA YAGAS HUT (Lock of White Hair from a Frost Giant, Plague Doctor Mask)
2 +1 Animal Bane Arrows (20g each)
hip flask with applejack (Quasit claimed)
weasel tooth (given to Bulvi)
4x Potion of Featherstep (25g each)
coins and art pieces: 4973g 9s -- 994g 8s each to Bulvi, Findurel, Quasit, Selena, Sakitu

Part 3-Waldsby thru Pale Tower
7 potions CLW (25g, Quasit & Bulvi each claimed one)
8 potions of Endure Elements (25g each)
2 potions of Interrogation (25g each)
2 Screaming Bolts (133g each)
1 Attentive Mirror (900g)
4 potions CMW (150g)
1 Cloak of Resistance +1 (500g) (nobody claimed this yet I think)
2 potions of Undetectable Alignment (150g)
1 scroll Magic Weapon (12.5g)
MW longsword (158g)
MW greatsword (175g)
MW throwing axe (154g)
Elixir of Truth (250g)
3 potions of Feather Fall (25g each)
Silver Dagger +1 (1045g, Quasit claimed)
Icicle Wand (6125g) -unclaimed? This seems like a real prize that someone should keep
Wand of Color Spray (172.5g Sakitu claimed)
"Ring of Regeneration" (Bulvi claimed)
Bird feather token (75g)
Tree feather token (100g)
Robe of Useful Items (3500g)
Bag of Holding type II (2500g) --party is using
2 potions Enlarge Person (150g each)
2 potions Reduce Person (150g each)
3 Oils of Mask Dweomer (25g each)
21 scrolls of various spells (Selena used Scroll of Dispel Magic to cure Bulvi's magical blindness)(1450g total value)
7094g 91s worth of coins, art pieces, trade bars -- 1418g 9s 8c each to Bulvi, Findurel, Quasit, Sakitu & Selena

Part 4 - Maka & Hace join the long march to White Castle
Rimepelt (1675g, Quasit claimed & used)
Insidious Bear Trap (3150g)
Ushanka of the Northlands (2250g)
Wand of Spider Climb (16 charges, Hace claimed)
5 potions CLW (given by monastery)
2 potions CMW (given by monastery)
scroll of Hold Person (75g)
scroll of Resist Energy (cold) (75g)
ring of feather falling (1100g)
1719g -- 286g each to Bulvi, Findurel, Hace, Maka, Quasit, Sakitu

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So before we cash in magic items, potions, scrolls, etc., our characters have this much coin:

Bulvi -- 2852g 2s 8c
Findurel -- 2852g 2s 8c
Maka--286g
Quasit-- 2852g 2s 8c
Sakitu -- 2852g 2s 8c
Selena--2413g 7s 8c

If we cash in everything not already claimed (except that Icicle Wand and the Cloak of Resist +1, which someone should take, and the potions of CLW and CMW, which we want to keep) and divide it equally among the 6 pre-Tezuzu members of the group, adjusted by how many parts of the adventure they were in, the characters would have this much coin:

Bulvi -- 7460g 6s 8c
Findurel -- 7460g 6s 8c
Maka -- 1438g 1s
Quasit -- 7460g 6s 8c
Sakitu -- 7460g 6s 8c
Selena -- 4717g 9s 8c

Sorry Tezuzu, no soup for you. Yet.

Obviously those numbers are meant to give an idea of our actual character wealth, since it doesn't account for people claiming things, using things, etc. But it should at least give us an idea of how much equity your characters have earned toward item purchases.

I respectfully drop all that in the GMs lap to do with as he will.

Awesome, Q! Thanks for doing all that work...

Much appreciated. As Tezuzu created his character with wealth / level set at five, we'll leave them aside for now. Selena's a bit of different matter. I think Quasit's set up is fine and I messaged Selena earlier in terms of gear reflecting the levels since parting from the group. So beyond the specifics here, there may need to be some adjustments for Selena.

The group will have no issues selling what they choose to at the estimated 1/2 value. Just mention as much in game thread and I'll toss specifics there.

In terms of purchasing items that'll also be happening as discussed thus far in the game thread.

EDIT: Wealth by level (WbL) goal

Bulvi -- 7460g 6s 8c (3,040 gold for WbL)
Findurel -- 7460g 6s 8c (3,040 gold for WbL)
Maka -- 1438g 1s (9,062 gold for WbL)
Quasit -- 7460g 6s 8c (3,040 gold for WbL)
Sakitu -- 7460g 6s 8c (3,040 gold for WbL)

Selena -- 2413g 7s 8c / 4717g 9s 8c (8,037 / 5,783 gold for WbL)

For Bulvi, Findurel, Maka (especially!), Quasit, and Sakitu we'll aim for item(s) from your wish lists based on the listed wealth targets. Selena and I may need to do a bit of juggling so we'll figure that out.

Cool beans, thanks for doing that Quasit!

I don't remember a clw wand except for when Quasit took over for a short bit. I always assumed it was one of the ones the party had. I might be forgetting something though.

Excellent work Q. That must have taken some time I appreciate the effort you put in.

Sorry Tezuzu, no soup for you. Yet.

It's fine. I came in at WBL so I'm fine. George Costanza is basically Tezuzu's spirit animal.

21 scrolls of various spells

Obviously I get no say in this since the loot is all your call but, I'm sure that Selena can use the scrolls to add it to her familiars list of available spells the same way a wizard can add to his spell book.

Would it be too much trouble to list them? It might be worth expanding her list of available spells or just holding on to a few especially if we end up buying more of the same scrolls for the party use later at full cost?