Clebsch GM Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path

Game Master Clebsch73

I mean... Sure? Lol

Stealth: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (15) - 2 = 13

With Elena pouring into the room right after Karas, stealth is probably not an option!

Karas nodded and laid an encouraging hand on Anarya's shoulder as he stepped through the breach and made ready to fight.

Karas ran in and spotted at least 3 opponents in the room to the west.

When Raine indicated that the lock was picked, Tauni nodded approvingly, impressed by the ranger's skills. Before the door was opened, Tauni cast a couple of spells to help her spot foes and to protect herself.

Casting See Invisible and Mage Armor.

This is effectively a surprise round, so you can only cast one spell.

With Elena pouring into the room right after Karas, stealth is probably not an option!

Position Ellena where she ends her movement. I've placed her at the door with the enemies.

Ellena: Stealth, full move: 1d20 - 6 - 5 ⇒ (6) - 6 - 5 = -5

Just to give me a definite number as a target for Perception checks. It may be a small thing, but one or more enemies might still roll lower.

Karas and Ellena led the charge into the garrison. Ellena blocked the doorway before any of the enemies could mobilize to get through. Two lightly armored tieflings swung short swords at Ellena but the blows were no threat to her in her plate armor and shield.

Round 1
Tauni (casts spell)
Rogue 5 (move, melee attack, miss)
Rogue 3 (move, melee attack, miss)
Karas
Rogue 4
Anarya
Raine
Rogue 2
Rogue 6
Avelina
Rogue 1
Ellena

Karas first round action is next.

Karas' eyes lit up again as he tried to shoulder check the tiefling out of his way into the next room.

I'd like to attempt a Bull Rush on the one in the doorway. Will roll the attempt and if it is possible

Bull Rush, Bless: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 9 + 2 = 21

By the way, since the initiative worked out that way, Tauni could cast both the spells she listed on Raine, doing one on the surprise round and the other at the start of round 1. She has a move action to take if she wants to move into the room.

If Karas does not want to move the extra 5 feet, he can stop just inside the door.

Another rogue put down his playing cards, grabbed his short sword, and nimbly skirted around Karas to come at him while his partner provided flanking assistance. But he too could not stab Karas. They were yelling but there was no one in the room across from the foyer to respond.

Round 2
Tauni (bless, MOG)
Rogue 5
Rogue 3
Karas (raging, PFEvil, bless, MOG)
Rogue 4

Totally hoped for the extra movement. ill take it.

Anarya stepped into the room and leveled an accusatory finger at one of the tieflings. "Cast down your blade, dark one," she commanded, divine authority in her tone.

Move inside, cast command (drop) on Tiefling #3. (DC 17 will save because he's a native outsider.)

I may be wrong, but I assume Tauni's buffs are on her, not me, since see invisibility is a personal spell and I'm already wearing armor. Also, I'm on my phone; if someone could move me 5-ft NW diagonal into the spot due east of Anarya, that'd be great!

Raine stepped through the door and oriented herself to the combat. She sent two arrows whistling over Ellena's shoulders at one of the enemy, slower to act than his fellows.

Rapid shot, pbs, bless/heroic echo, guidance, cover, vs #6: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 9 - 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 - 4 = 17
Damage, pbs: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 1 = 12

shot 2, no guidance: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

I may be wrong, but I assume Tauni's buffs are on her, not me, since see invisibility is a personal spell and I'm already wearing armor. ...

Seems I misinterpreted a pronoun. I'm sure you're correct.

Then Raine entered and sent two arrows into the fray. The first expertly avoided Ellena and another enemy to puncture the throat of a rogue still just reacting to the attack. 12 damage, unconscious, bleeding. Her second arrow missed any targets.

Another tiefling rogue joined the fight, attacking Karas, but without success.

Round 2
Tauni (bless, see invisible, Mage Armor, MOG)
Rogue 5
Rogue 3 (command: drop starts)
Karas (raging, PFEvil, bless, MOG)
Rogue 4
Anarya (bless, MOG)
Raine (guidance, see invisible, mage armor, bless, MOG)
Rogue 2
Rogue 6 (13 lethal, prone, unconscious, bleeding)

Avelina followed the others in, a little bewildered at the directness of their approach. She had expected more cloaked-figures-dropping-on-unsuspecting-villains-before-dragging-them-off- into-the-shadows from this whole sneaking mission thing. She certainly couldn't complain; she couldn't exactly call her attacks properly otherwise.

Please move Avelina to the square just to the right of Raine

Avelina wasted no time in sending a scream at one of the rogues.

"Tremble before the Word of the Inheritor!"

Word of the Inheritor Ear-piercing Scream on Rogue 2: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5 Damage is sonic
He must make a DC 16 fort save or be dazed for one round. On a successful save, he'll also take half damage

Avelina enters the foyer and uttered a dreadful command that to one rogue sounded like his head was hit with shards of glass, leaving him bleeding from the ears and fingertips. 5 damage to rogue 2, dazed.

The last rogue to rise to the fight instead of attacking reached down and touched his fallen comrade. This tiefling looked a bit different than the others, more sickly, with grey skin and no hair. After touching the falling one, he stood, appearing a little stronger, while the one on the ground spasmed and lay still, not even bleeding.

Round 2
Tauni (bless, see invisible, Mage Armor, MOG)
Rogue 5
Rogue 3 (command: drop starts, 5 lethal, dazed)
Karas (raging, PFEvil, bless, MOG)
Rogue 4
Anarya (bless, MOG)
Raine (bless, MOG)
Rogue 2
Rogue 6 (13 lethal, prone, unconscious, bleeding)
Avelina (bless, MOG)
Rogue 1

Ellena took a 5' step forward, right beside Karas. She swung at the northern rogue threatening her.

Attack with Bless and MOG 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 10 + 1 + 1 = 26

Damage 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Keep in mind the bless effect is +2, thanks to Avelina's Heroic echo, and so when you use the moment of greatness, the bonus is double of +2. (Not that Ellena needed any of that in this case.)

Ellena entered the side room. The hapless rogue who first was enchanted by Anarya to drop his sword, then blasted with a spell by Avelina leaving him dazed, and then cut down by Ellena's sword. 12 to rogue 3, unconscious, bleeding.

Round 2
Tauni (bless, see invisible, Mage Armor, MOG)
Rogue 5
Rogue 3 (command: drop starts, 17 lethal, dazed, prone, unconscious, bleeding)
Karas (raging, PFEvil, bless, MOG)
Rogue 4
Anarya (bless, MOG)
Raine (bless, MOG)
Rogue 2
Rogue 6 (13 lethal, dead)
Avelina (bless, MOG)
Rogue 1
Ellena (bless)

Tauni continued to follow Ellena as she charged into the building.

Seeing the two warriors ripping through their foes, she decided to hold back on the power of the wand she held. Instead, she shot a simple spell of cold at one of the rogues.

Ray of Frost (targeting the one Ellena attacks if he doesn't fall, rogue 3 if Ellena's target does fall).
To hit 1d20 + 4 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 4 + 1 = 15 touch attack
Damage 1d3 ⇒ 2

GM, Avelina dazed Rogue #2, not the Rogue #3 I had disarmed.

The map is updated and corrected. The melee summary below is also corrected.

Round 2
Tauni (bless, see invisible, Mage Armor, MOG)
Rogue 5
Rogue 3 (command: drop starts, 12 lethal, prone, unconscious, bleeding)
Karas (raging, PFEvil, bless, MOG)
Rogue 4
Anarya (bless, MOG)
Raine (bless, MOG)
Rogue 2 (5 lethal, dazed)
Rogue 6 (13 lethal, dead)
Avelina (bless, MOG)
Rogue 1
Ellena (bless)

So Tauni can send her Ray at Rogue 2 who is dazed and has taken 5 points of damage, at rogue 4 or rogue 5, who are uninjured, or at rogue 6 who Tauni knows cast a spell on one of the fallen Tieflings (see spoiler two posts up). Which does she target?

Let's go with the caster (rogue 1? 6 is marked as dead) then, please.

The rogue facing Karas attacked with his short sword but could not hit him.

Round 3
Tauni (bless, see invisible, Mage Armor, MOG)
Rogue 5
Rogue 3 (command: drop starts, 13 lethal, prone, unconscious, bleeding)

In blind fury, Karas Advanced. Dropping his sword he brought his claws to bear on the poor rogues.

5ft move, drop sword, full attack

Magic Claw Attack 1 vs Rogue 5, +2Bless, Power Attack: 1d20 + 9 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 9 + 2 - 2 = 17
Claw Damage, Power Attack: 1d6 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 5 + 4 = 11
Magic Claw Attack 2 vs Rogue 5, +2Bless, Power Attack: 1d20 + 9 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 9 + 2 - 2 = 10
Claw Damage, Power Attack: 1d6 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 4 = 13

I'll use MoG to boost my damage

My interpretation of the Moment of Greatness effect is that it gives you a one time doubling of an existing morale bonus. So if you are using it on your bless bonus, currently +2, then you can double the bonus to +4 on one to hit roll. It can't be transferred to a damage roll. So the first attack does 7 instead of 11. Consider the MOG bonus unspent.

The rogue closest to the south wall #4 stepped closer to the door and attacked Ellena. His short sword hit at an armor joint and stabbed Ellena for a minor wound 2 points.

Round 3
Tauni (bless, see invisible, Mage Armor, MOG)
Rogue 5 (7 lethal)
Rogue 3 (command: drop starts, 13 lethal, prone, unconscious, bleeding)
Karas (raging, PFEvil, bless, MOG)
Rogue 4

I think Karas might be talking about using it for his damage not via bless, but because the bonus conveyed by his bloodrage is a morale bonus. Karas can correct or clarify, though.

Raine's mouth tightened as she observed one cultist draining the life of another to empower himself.

"No honor or love lost among these scum, is there," she said in a low growl, before taking a step for a better line of sight and once more loosing arrows. That was the line that set them apart from cultist filth, she thought to herself: even though the defenders of Kenebres might not always get along, there was cameraderie there. You didn't stab your fellow in the back to let yourself live longer...

Going to use my MOG on the first attack

Rapid shot, Vs Rogue 2, bless/Heroic Echo, MOG, PBS, cover: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 9 - 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 - 4 = 18
Damage, PBS: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 1 = 12
Rapid shot, Vs Rogue 2, PBS, bless/Heroic Echo, cover: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 2 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 9 - 2 + 2 + 1 - 4 = 16
Damage, PBS: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 = 5

Raine has it correct. I have not modified my above rolls for MoG at all though. Karas' class do 1d6+5+4 when power attacking base. Bloodrage is a morale bonus and I thought was clarified to work to double my morale to strength for the damage of 1 attack? Avelina was the clarification source though. Regardless the above attack is at least 11 damage.

Yeah, I had previously suggested Karas use a tactic I use on my Skald in PFS to double the morale bonus to strength from bloodrage (not bless) on the damage roll.

Seeing that no one had received any major wounds, Anarya stepped into the room, moving to the left of the door. This left her open to a counterattack from the closest tiefling, but Anarya took the risk and swung her weapon at him, surging with strength from Avelina's boost to her wand's magic.

Attack (MoG, bless, echo): 1d20 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 3 + 4 = 14
Damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1 (+1 if he's an evil outsider)

(That brought up a good question. Does an evil-aligned tiefling count as an "evil outsider?" They are "evil" and they are "outsiders" but they don't have the evil subtype. I'd imagine the exact same answer would apply to an evil ifrit, or an evil aasimar. Do they take damage from holy water? The rules are unclear and I've found no consensus online.)

(I don't think so because they're native outsiders, but also as you say they don't have the 'evil' subtype; evil's a choice they get to make, instead, but it doesn't qualify them for mechanical things aimed at EOs. Otherwise I'd be figuring in my F.E. bonuses. ;) )

yup they have to have the evil subtype. Also woops used my pcs character on accident last post lol

Raine's first arrow dropped dazed rogue.

Raine's second arrow will also hit provided she chooses another target, as the rogue she hit first will fall prone, adding a -4 penalty to hit him. Which gets the 2nd arrow, Rogue 1 or 4?

I did not realize that the bloodrager Str and Con bonuses were morale bonuses, so I that the bless was the only morale bonus affecting Karas. I was also confused because the post said the MOG would be used to boost damage, but nothing was actually added in the damage roll beyond the normal strength bonus and Power Attack bonus. If he did 11 points of damage without the moment of greatness bonus, then he puts the rogue down and the details about how the MOG affects the situation are mainly to determine how negative the rogue will be. I don't think it will be an important as you guys are cutting through these rogues like a lawnmower through daisies. If this is something that's going to get used a lot, we should work out exactly how Karas can use it with his bloodrage ability bonuses.

Ret-con: Karas' first claw attack cut down the rogue #5.

Anarya entered the fray drawing an ineffective stab from the rogue who attacked Ellena #4. Her own attack on him missed as well.

Just to help me comment on the question regarding outsiders vs native outsiders, what is the particular source of the +1 bonus to damage versus evil outsiders.

Avelina is next. Available targets are Rogue 1 or, if she moves a bit, Rogue 4.

(Wow, surprised a 16 hit. In that case, second arrow into rogue #1 then, please.)

Avelina drew her magic missile wand, twirling it through her fingers.

"They melt away from our advance. How unsurprising."

She drew back the wand as if it was an arrow and then activated it, firing at one of the remaining rogues (rogue 1)

Volley of Holy Arrows Magic Missile CL 3 from wand vs Rogue 1: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 4) + 2 = 8

in the future I can mark it in the roll or ooc after as +2 damage from MpG if that works?

The rogue near the back first was hit by Raine's second arrow and then by two missiles from Avelina's wand. His feeling of superiority over his fellows evaporated as he fell backwards and moved no more. Total of 13 damage, rogue 1 is prone, unconscious, dying.

I would just do the standard procedure of placing all the modifiers separated by commas in the dice roll and add the modifiers to the roll in the same order. It is the easiest way for me to review what is being applied.

Round 3
Tauni (bless, see invisible, Mage Armor, MOG)
Rogue 5 (11 lethal, prone, dying)
Rogue 3 (command: drop starts, 13 lethal, prone, dying)
Karas (raging, PFEvil, bless, MOG)
Rogue 4
Anarya (bless, MOG)
Raine (bless, MOG)
Rogue 2 (17 lethal, dazed, dying)
Rogue 6 (13 lethal, dead)
Avelina (bless, MOG)
Rogue 1 (13 lethal, 1 THP, +2 Str, dying)
Ellena (bless, 2 lethal)

Ellena has dibs on the last rogue standing, #4, followed by Tauni and Karas.

Ellena noticed the rogue next to her still on his feet. She used Radiance to attempt to remove him, so the group could concentrate on more serious threats deeper in the garrison.

Attack with Bless 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 10 + 1 = 19

Damage 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

With the battle well in hand, Tauni moved across the room. She stood in the opposite doorway, keeping watch in case the noise drew more foes.

Move (as shown on map) and ready action o use wand of ice spears on any foe coming through the door across from her.

Ellena's glowing blade easily got through the rogue's light armor and put him near death, but he till fought on.

Tauni kept watch on the next room.

Round 4
Tauni (bless, see invisible, Mage Armor, MOG)
Rogue 5 (11 lethal, stable)
Rogue 3 (14 lethal, dying)

Karas stepped up to the wounded rogue to finish it off.

Magic Claw 1, Power Attack, Bless+: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 9 - 2 + 2 = 14
Magic Claw Damage,Power attack: 1d6 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 5 + 4 = 11

Magic Claw 2, Power Attack, Bless+: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 9 - 2 + 2 = 25
Magic Claw Damage,Power attack: 1d6 + 5 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 5 + 4 = 12

The rogue manages to dodge Karas' first attack, but was savagely wounded by his second. Rogue 4 takes 12 points and is dying.

Melee is over

As the battle ended, the heroes finally got a good look at this room.

The faces of the portraits that hang on the walls of this room had been slashed. Two marble planters lay smashed in pieces on the ground, and mud streaked across the white stone floor. The rogues had been playing cards around a large table, apparently using severed body parts as chips.

Raine moved to the door to scan for anyone else in the room even as Karas dropped the last one. She snapped her head to left and right but the threat was neutralized.

Her eyes flickered over the pointless desecration of the portraits, the pointless destruction of the planters, and the gruesome display on the table.

"Normally I'd say we try and wake one to see what else is ahead, but interrogations take time and you gotta stop 'em shouting to bring more," she said bluntly. "My advice is we keep moving, fast clip. Anyone hurt?"

She turned the other way, sliding past Tauni to the next room (barring anything from the GM's rolled checks for her that might show it being dangerous, of course!). Arrow on the string still, she listened intently for any sounds of footsteps above them, or ahead.

(As I understand it I'm letting you roll her active perceptions, Clebsch, but let me know if I have it wrong.)

Karas leaned heavy on a wall for 30 seconds before nodding to Raine.

Scowling at the gruesome game on the table, he kicked one of the corpses. "Bastards like them are the reason I have a hard time in the streets."

He picked up his sword and followed Raine to the next front. He couldn't look Anarya in the eye as he passed by.

When Raine moved up into the next room, Tauni slipped back. She cast a quick spell across the room, looking for any innocuous item that they may need as they advanced. Then she quickly went from rogue to rogue, quickly checking with a pat for bulges in their clothing or gear that could be keys. If anyone else is standing around the fallen, she'll tell them "If any of them have keys, it could help us move along more quickly and maybe surprise some of them."

Avelina walked over to the rogues and pulled out her characteristically smug smile from her repetoire.

"And that's why you don't indulge in gambling on the job!"

At Tauni's suggestion, she began rumaging through the rogues' gear using Long Arm of Justice Mage Hand.

Ellena stood by, ready for anyone who might try to ambush the group while they were still exploring the spoils of the recent battle. "They know we are coming, so there's no reason to rush. Maybe there's something here to use deeper in the place..."

Anarya breathed a sigh of relief as the last tiefling fell, and looked around the room. She shuddered as the gruesome tokens on the table, and took note of the mindless vandalism of the portraits. I hope someday this fortress is in righteous hands once more, she thought. It boiled her blood that the filth who consorted with demons and murdered their own allies held a fortress once consecrated to the goddess of valor.

She tried to meet Karas's gaze to offer him a smile as the group moved on, but he kept his eyes downcast. She was surprised for a moment, but realized what was bothering him. The people of Kenabres must have never let him forget what they thought of him, she thought. She set her jaw and pushed her way right beside the muscular tiefling and grabbed his clawed hand with her own. She waited until he met her gaze and smiled. "I'm glad you're with us, Karas."

Looking into the room to the east of the foyer, the room was perhaps once a shrine, allowing crusaders a place to kneel and pray before proceeding further into the garrison.

A bracket showed where a longsword once hung over a stylized gold sunburst affixed to the south wall. Lines of strange runes were carved into the walls on both sides of the sunburst (these were part of the original room not added by the occupiers). Dried blood and excrement had been smeared across the sunburst and across a short bench for kneeling that sat on the floor.

Two closed doors lead to other rooms.

Upon entering the defiled shrine, Karas, Tauni, Ellena, and Raine notice faint conversation coming through the walls from somewhere nearby. Once alerted, even Avelina can hear it and a few moments shifting about the room reveals it is apparently coming from the room to the east. The conversation is in a language some do not understand. The voices are high pitched but it might be a kind of falsetto, or else from relatively small creatures.

Irabeth looked into the garrison from outside. She did not say anything, just observed that everyone was alive.

Once people move out of the foyer, she signals and her squad of mongrelfolk quietly move into the building and take up positions in the meeting room, bows ready to provide back-up fire or cover.

Irabeth looked into the garrison from outside. She did not say anything, just observed that everyone was alive.

Once people moved out of the foyer, she signaled and her squad of mongrelfolk quietly moved into the building and took up positions in the meeting room, bows ready to provide back-up fire or cover.

When Anarya grabbed his hand Karas was dumbfounded for a moment, the act breaking into his bubble of self hatred. He stared at the angel's hand clenching his bloody claw, her perfect radiant skin marred by the enemy's blood but as he slowly met her gaze he saw the sheer resolve and care in her eyes.

After she spoke he stayed motionless a bit longer before a small smile broke and he embraced her. He held this hug for a few moments before drawing back so she could see his lips. "Thank you, that means the world to me."

Disgusted by the desecration, Tauni cast a simple spell, using its limited power to clear away some of the blood and excrement smeared there. Knowing they were limited on time, she only did this for a few moments while the others regrouped.

When she heard the voices and they were able to narrow down where they seemed to be coming from, she listened near the door.

She turned to the others and says quietly "They're speaking celestial, maybe prisoners?"

Ellena silently took her nonmagical long sword and placed it in the empty spot on the altar, where the other one once hung. "We will clean this right on our way out of here.". She gave Tauni an approving nod and smile after her magic quickly cleaned a good bit of the grime away.

"Let's hit them quickly, before they know we are ready for them!"