Council of Thieves

Game Master Mug

Yup, the Chelish Crux, said to contain the keys and locks which will ultimately allow (or lead to) access to Delvehaven. The Crux's last known location was the Asmodean Knot, thus the entire endeavor to gain access to the mayors house and then the Knot.

Delvehaven is suspected to house the reason behind the shadow creatures plaguing Westcrown, at least according to the pathfinder Ailyn Ghontasavos.

excessively busy day today, sorry folks. should be less busy tomorrow.

I'm a big fan of diving in with the first plan that works and dealing with problems as they come. Althought his complaint is coming from the guy who has little to nothing to offer our problem solving efforts. When we get back to town I must invest in a ladder and the materials to build a bridge. Perhaps a bag of holding?

You'll be like a giant gnome.

TIL that ability score damage doesn't actually reduce your ability scores.

Diseases, poisons, spells, and other abilities can all deal damage directly to your ability scores. This damage does not actually reduce an ability, but it does apply a penalty to the skills and statistics that are based on that ability.

For every 2 points of damage you take to a single ability, apply a –1 penalty to skills and statistics listed with the relevant ability.

So it looks like that -3 str isn't as debilitating as I thought it was, only weighing in at a -1 penalty on attack and damage. Huh.

Yeah it reduces your overall stat, not your bonus directly. Sorry if I wasn't clear with that before.

perfect! thanks!

At 5th level Sabinus can fly as an aspect of his flight hex! (For 5 minutes a day, divided into one minute increments.)

Level 5!

+1 Level in Spell-less Ranger (Rngr 4/Sorc1)

HPs: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

+1 BAB
+1 Fort Save
+1 Ref Save
+Hunter's Bond (Companions)
+Ranger Talent: Ranger Feat - Instead of a talent, you may choose a feat for which you qualify from your chosen combat style.

Feats
+Precise Shot (from Ranger Talent)
+Deadly Aim

Skill Points (7)
+2 Disable Device
+1 Perception
+2 Stealth
+1 Spellcraft
+1 Survival

Enko is going to take a level of Cleric! Sir Vorpal Kickasso! Mug, does Enko need to do Separatist to gain a 'forbidden' Domain? (Repose)

Thanks for posting that Caladius, and I'd appreciate it if everyone could do the same with their level 5 stat increases.

Enko - Yes.

Enko! What a SWEEEEEET! direction for Enko to go in. Man! I really, really like that, dude. Very cool choice!

Excellent. :) It makes sense, story-wise--he'll follow Iomedae, but in his own way, having had so many brushes with the undead, from those skeletons to the book he currently holds. A daring split from the Upper Reach to follow his own destiny.

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...plus Touch of Repose kicks butt when a monk wields it. (Staggering Critical, Lucon? :) )

Ok, so, leveling up....

+1 Level in Cleric of Iomedae
Separatist Archetype
Domains: Good, Repose
HP: 1d8 ⇒ 8 whoa!

+1 Fort
+1 Will

Good Domain: Touch of Good, 6x day, 1 round bonus granted to skill, ability, attack rolls.
Repose Domain: Gentle Rest, 5x day, staggers target 1 round.
Channel Energy 1d6 3x day
Domain spells: Protection From Evil

Feats: Eclectic

Skills:

+1 Acrobatics
+1 Kn (Religion)
+1 Perception
+1 Sense Motive

Sounds great, Enko. It seems like a cool and logical direction. I will probably not be able to post my level 5 details for a couple of days because I leave for my folks' place tomorrow.

HP: 1d8 ⇒ 8 whoa!

It seems Iomedae approves!

Oh, durr... I didn't format right and panicked for a second because I thought I'd lost my roll. Turns out they persist for days. So that's nice.

Health: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

Edit: Looking back through the archives, it turns out I've been taking the average with Ava. So I'll have to go with that instead. Ah well.

Is that the way it works?

Lucon will gain weapon training, a point of BAB and two ranks in heal (a prerequisite for the mantis style line, but also adding to the "gentle giant" thing Lucon has going on if we ever resort to nonmagical healing for some reason.

As for his feat, I've unfortunately reached the three feat gap between Combat Reflexes and Stunning Fist that I haven't the faintest idea what I want. Keeping in mind that Lucon is a beefy, battlefield displacement kind of fighter (and that I havent really opted for reach weapons with him, although I might have to make that investment in the future to stay relevent...)

Option One: I opt for Dodge, Mobility and Combat Patrol (APG) for a slight increase in the area I can threaten, helping me hold the line better.

Option Two: I opt for Shield Focus, Saving Shield and Covering Defense, allowing me to give an AC boost to adjacent allies as an immediate or full round action.

Option Three: If I don't opt for either of these chains, Greater Overrun seems very worth it (free AoOs? yes please.), and the other two feats can go to weapon specialisation (in god knows what), another improved/greater maneuver, or defensive feats (toughness, save feats, etc.)

Option Four: I don't know... any better ideas?

Option 1 paired with a reach weapon would work really, really well with Disruptive if you commit to that particular feat chain.

Lunge would also be worth considering if you're looking to expand your threatened range.

The Viscount will take a level in ...... WIZZARD- with two z's.
HP dc1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Spells for spellbook:
Lvl 3: stinking cloud
Lvl 3: haste

Skills:
Fly
Appraise
Spellcraft
Knowledge arcana
Knowledge religion
linguistics (add language: terran)

I'm still debating on feats.
Feat:
Bonus magic feat:

Do you want me to roll to learn the spells in the 'borrowed' book?

aww yiss, level 3 spells. Now things are getting good.

Also: You can just take 10 on your spellcraft checks to learn them. Might take a while though, at 1 hour/spell level.

@Corneleous, yes or you can take 10 as Ava suggested. There's some time in-game before we need to press on so there's plenty of time to learn the spells in the spellbook. Also I left 1 spell for each spell level blank for you to choose what you wanted. So choose a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th level spell that you'd like to be in the borrowed spellbook.

Oh! Lucon, speaking of reach weapons, would you prefer to have Anvengen's Edge? Is there a feat out there somewhere that will let you wield a polearm or spear with one hand in conjuction with a shield?

Speaking of that, Mug, did we ever get stats for the glaive?

Alrighty, it's that time again - Post-dungeon loot.

From this little jaunt we managed to pull in 5700gp, 3230gp in valuable tomes and texts, 1600gp in precious stones and a 120gp gold ring.

(10650gp all up, 1775gp six-way split)

There's a bunch of loot that needs to be claimed or sold too:

From the Haversack (We kind of forgot about everything when the Runecurse came up)
- Scrolls: Chill Touch, Command Undead, Ray of Exhaustion, Vampiric Touch and False Life.
- Pearl of Power II

- Masterwork Full Plate
- Heavy Repeating Crossbow
- Mithril Scimitar
- Spyglass
- Mummy Dust

- Unholy Symbol of Asmodeus
- +1 Keen Longsword
- +1 Defending Longsword
- +1 Cold Iron Battleaxe
- Minor Crown of Blasting
- Ring of Feather Fall
- Wand of CLW (35 charges)
- Golembane Scarab
- Wand of Rusting Grasp (9 charges)

Ava doesn't really need any of it. A +1 weapon might be good, but they're also worth a pretty penny when sold.

A link to the equipment sheets. They're mostly correct... But I forgot to track arrows and wand charges. If you know the correct numbers, let me know!

Checking over the thread to see if I've missed anything.

Edit: Added some stuff to the list.

Edit Edit: Updated with appraised values! (ty Mug)

Caladius' current arrow count:
70 arrows
24 cold iron arrows
19 alchemical silver arrows
4 masterwork arrows

However, and this would have come up in-game, but none of the soul fragments retained their exact powers once they left the Knot. The glaive does remain magical, but is no longer sentient. It's now a +1 keen glaive and it's two powers (bleed at will, divine favor) are intact but cannot be used against an evil alignment. It's not evil, but it's evil sympathetic. ;)

How many precious stones remain? All of those obtained from Livia are 100gp each.

*EDIT*

- Golden Ring Drowned Jabe's chamber: 120 gp

Huh... A curious thought:

When using a Defending weapon, you keep your Masterwork attack bonus when you shift your enhancement bonus to AC. That's pretty neat.

Oh dang - it's not gonna drive Big C crazy any more?! I'm happy to trade out a great sword for a magical glaive if no one else cares to claim it? If someone else would prefer it, I'll just spend some cash on a better greatsword like I'd intended.

It makes sense that bleed can't be cast on an evil target, but divine favor is a buff. How's that work? Is it supposed to be no bleed on evil targets and no divine favor on good targets?

Anyone wanna call dibs on the glaive?

Huh... A curious thought:

When using a Defending weapon, you keep your Masterwork attack bonus when you shift your enhancement bonus to AC. That's pretty neat.

That is pretty neat! I'd never considered that before. So with a +1 weapon, you're really trading +1 damage for +1 AC. Not too shabby!

It makes sense that bleed can't be cast on an evil target, but divine favor is a buff. How's that work? Is it supposed to be no bleed on evil targets and no divine favor on good targets?

Yes, that's what I was intending to say. No Divine Favor on good targets, and no bleed on evil targets. It's sell value is 5900gp, fyi.

Awww man. I think it might be worth keeping. Ava, Corneleous and I think Sabinus would all be valid targets for the divine favor, plus anything Corneleous might summon as well.

Edit: With a CL of 13, that's a SWEET +3/+3 *luck* bonus to attacks and damage.

Still, for 6k I could swap it for a +1 adamantine greatsword, which sounds downright lovely, to be honest.

Thoughts/Suggestions from anyone else?

Keep it! looks awesome.

I think Ava might be the only one who can use it to full effect, with Divine Favour being a Personal range spell. This level sees significant upgrades to her martial abilities with the power attack bump and enough gold for some shiny equipment, and that +3/+3 might even let her be a full-on frontliner alongside Lucon.

If that's the case, I might even choose (glaive) for weapon focus. (Ugh, weapon focus is so prohibitive... But I need it as a prereq for Low Templar. My homegroup houserules it to apply to fighter weapon groups rather than single weapons. It's pretty nice.[/tangent])

Awwww yeah! In that case the glaive is yours, Ava!

Group comments: The Viscount will put in a shingle for the crown, you know nobility and all ;).

I'm also stuck on which feats to add- I get a magic feat this level. I could take a magic craft one, otherwise I'm looking at metamagics or one that enhances my summons.

Any feedback on what items people would want crafted ?

GM:

Spellbook choices:

Level 1: feather fall
Level 2: Glitterdust
Level 3: FIRE-Freakin-ball
Level 4: Stoneskin

To learn the spells from level 1-3:
9 first level spells= DC 16 (one conjuration = +2)
10 second DC17 (one conj +2)
7 3rd level DC 18 (two conj +2)

90g + 400g + 630g = 1120 gold cost materials. I could memorize each time I need them from the borrowed spellbook, but I'd have to roll every day. That would be more economical, I suppose.

Learning: I would absolutely take 10 on Summon Monster III and Fireball.
I'll risk the dice on others.

Craft wondrous would save us a lot of money in our down-time, but I fear that it will simply take too long to make the higher-level items in the long run unless we get whole weeks off for crafting.

If you do get it though, I imagine everyone could do with a +2 Ability item; and I'm sure our friendly neighbourhood cleric could provide the spells needed. But that would take... almost a month of crafting. Criminy. Or we could craft half of them and buy the rest, so whoever needs one effectively only needs to pay 3000. I plan on picking up a Belt of Giant Strength either way.

A little less expensive is the Cloak of the Hedge Wizard (Ultimate Equipment p.264) at 2500gp. The Transmutation version gives Enlarge Person and Expeditious Retreat 1/day each, which would be handy for Ava or Lucon to help in positioning an' stuff. Large size with reach(!)

We still get an item crafted one time for us by...um...that guy, right? Is it a one time thing? (I am on my phone on route to another fattening feast)

I'd love to get that Agile AOMF if I can afford it now...

Yes you do get one item crafted by that eccentric guy, and it is a one time thing. :)

Oh my gosh, how long have I had a Ring of Protection and not been using it? Maybe I was using Hero Lab for the iPad at the time.

I will take 2000 gp to Dellano and get an Agile Amulet of Mighty Fists, +0. :) It is 50% of list price, yes?

Ava--Enko has used one silver blanch, the flash powder, and the Elixir of Tumbling. Oh, and he tossed oil on Caladius' brother (?).

I like the idea of crafting some +2 ability items and buying the others, as a way of splitting the difference.

Oh. Huh. I guess I should pump Dex for fights. I'll buy two potions of Cat's Grace as well.

Any feedback on what items people would want crafted?

I've actually got a wish-list spoilered under my profile. Here it is for ease of reference.

!!!!

Materialism is not of the Upper Reach, Caladius.

-makes a note to make a big whopping monk item wishlist-

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Materialism is not of the Upper Reach, Caladius.

-makes a note to make a big whopping monk item wishlist-

Good thing you defected over to the Inheritor then, eh? =P

sorry I've been incommunicado -- busy family and travel stuff. I've read what I've missed and I'll post today. I don't think Sabinus had much to contribute in what I missed other than identification of items.