DALSINE AFFAIR CORE (Inactive)

Game Master JASON RODARTE

The site has been up and down for different people since this weekend, for better or worse. I've been able to log on at work, but not at home. Some have been able to log in on their phones or they needed a VPN. It's just been a mess. They have an idea of what's wrong, but they don't know when it will be fixed.

Thanks for the update!

The servers should be stable now.

I'll keep my finger's crossed. The last week has been really tough to post.

Let me see if I can move us along now that things SEEM to be working out.

Is the map working now?

Can you place your characters on one of the front pews please?

Do you have a copy of the map that's not so pixelated?

I had to expand it when I took it from the pdfextrator.

Would you mind a little help? I can replace the pixelated version with a crisper version since I have the original PDF it's based on.

I would appreciate that greatly!

I have GMed this scenario before, so I extracted the maps from the PDF and put them on my Google Drive. You can get them from my drive

here.

I think we're in the Vault of Sarenae.

Any chance we'll be done in time for the PbP Gameday 6 in late August?

Thank you so much.

I think that we have this and one more encounter.

Hey I can post again!

hoorAY

Terevalis a good shortcut is to roll initiative for everyone in the party then list the order with the names of the active players bolded.

An example.

That let's us jump right into combat instead of having to wait for all players to make a single roll.

That is how I do it I just got busy doing something else

Here is a starting point. Just remove the spaces after the first brackets and add the enemy's bonus.

[ dice=[ b]Liminy:[/b]]d20 +8[/dice]
[ dice=[ b]Hádanka:[/b]]d20 +2[/dice]
[ dice=[ b]Evarice:[/b]]d20 +5[/dice]
[ dice=[ b]Ragnar:[/b]]d20 +0[/dice]
[ dice=[ b]Gorok:[/b]]d20 +2[/dice]
[ dice=[ b]Garn:[/b]]d20 +4[/dice]
[ dice=[ b]Enemy#1:[/b]]d20 +[/dice]

Grazie, tu sei molto gentile! I am at the gym right now, will post when I get home.

Update tomorrow, has lots of things come up today

Ability damage and ability drain are 2 different things.
Ability damage heals 1 point a day or can be healed with Lesser Restoration.
Ability Drain doesn't heal by itself. You can spend 2PP or 380 gp (280 gp for the 7th level caster to cast it + 100gp for the material component.) to get it healed. Possibly during this scenario if we can find a church.

GM, can we confirm if it is con damage or con drain? I don't know what is in the scenario itself but although a typical faceless stalker has the blood drain ability, that actually does con damage, not con grain.

Blood Drain (Ex)

The creature drains blood at the end of its turn if it grapples a foe, inflicting Constitution damage.

Format: blood drain (1d2 Constitution); Location: Special Attacks.

Ah Good point. I assumed since it was called blood drain it was con drain. If it is Con damage then instead of that speech Liminy just pulls out a scroll of Lesser Restoration and hands it to Evarice to use as needed. It has 4 casts on it.

Blood Drain (Ex)
The creature drains blood at the end of its turn if it grapples a foe, inflicting Constitution damage.

Woot! Damage not Drain. So it can be healed by Lesser Restoration.

Hopefully we can be done in the next few days, I know some of you have plans for your characters.

The barbarian would get out of tier gold wouldn't he?

Yes, Hádanka will get out of tier gold.

It sounds like Garn and I are ok with diplomacy first then falling back to a bribe if worse comes to worst. I have no bonuses to Stealth and yeah, one bad roll will tip them off.

Diplo 2, Stealth 1

Liminy, Ragnar? What would you prefer?

I have played this before. Liminy would advise against combat but will go along with any of the other 3 options.

Make sure you are on the map and that you have your day rolls done, this is the last combat.

day job craft tattoo: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

day job profession trapper, masterwork tools: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 9 + 2 = 31

I rolled my day job on page one. Though I'll reroll it if I haven't used my folio reroll by the time we are done. craft books: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 27

Gorok pulls in 1 gold from his big 7 day job roll on page 1. I'm sure it was someone throwing him a coin to get him to go away.

FYI - The "Final Map" is view only if you are waiting for us to move tokens in.

I was using the "Saranae" map, since I can move my icon there.

That should work now.

I copied everyone's icons over to the map in the 'Final Map' link. I think I've got them all in the same locations.

day job profession trapper, masterwork tools: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 9 + 2 = 31

Oops, I had rolled his day job already so please ignore this. It was a 30 though so no diff.

[ dice=Liminy]d20 +8[/dice]
[ dice=Hádanka]d20 +2[/dice]
[ dice=Evarice]d20 +5[/dice]
[ dice=Ragnar]d20 +0[/dice]
[ dice=Gorok]d20 +2[/dice]
[ dice=Garn]d20 +4[/dice]
[ dice=Pasha Muhlia al-Jakri]d20 +[/dice]

Close the brackets, Preview the post to see the rolls, and then bold the active players.

Since this may kill my character, I just want to make sure Dalsine was within 5 feet of me. Otherwise he can't do spell combat, since it's a full-round action and he would need a move action to walk over to me.

He was

Sorry, Garn is in animal form and will take a standard action just to change back. By then it would be too late.

We did pick up a potion of cure moderate wounds. Could someone feed Evarice the potion? We didn't make it clear who carried it though, but it definitely wouldn't have been the dinosaur. Either Liminy or Hadanka could do it.

Hádanka or Gorok might be able to do an untrained heal check.
Maybe even Garn since it is just to stabilize.
Reasonable chance we gave Hádanka that potion of cure moderate wounds.

I didn't realize how deadly this guy was, this is the first time I have played a magus at other than 1st level.

He isn't exactly a Magus. He is a test of the magus concept before it was released as a class. He is also the reason I didn't want to start until we had 6 players.

Oh, I wasn't aware that this came out before Ultimate Magic.

They changed how Magus would work based on the complaints about this fight. On the plus side if he fails the Will save I think Garn and Snowball may have killed him.

Yeah, Dalsine is infamous for his one-hit kills. In my first time running this he missed and someone defeated him with Color Spray. The second time he hit the tank, doing almost 40 damage and dropping her to single digits. The third time I killed two PCs, haha!

So this was their test magus? That explains a lot about his attack bonus, actually.

Oh well, Evarice did everything she should have, so I can't complain much. Luckily she has enough PP to afford a raise.

About death and stabilization:

On the character’s next turn, after being reduced to negative hit points (but not dead), and on all subsequent turns, the character must make a DC 10 Constitution check to become stable. The character takes a penalty on this roll equal to his negative hit point total. A character that is stable does not need to make this check. A natural 20 on this check is an automatic success. If the character fails this check, he loses 1 hit point. If a dying creature has an amount of negative hit points equal to its Constitution score, it dies.

So I didn't need to roll my stabilization check yet, I should have done that in Round 2. However I will die if I reach -10 HP.

You didn't die!

gonna finish up some stuff and report the game later. Should have chronicles up by the end of the day.