I probably won't start until Sunday night or Monday morning, assuming everyone's checked in by then.
Fair enough. It's good to take a rest. I will definitely let you know when we are done.
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"Kulik, 'Mira, come this way. I'll keep that coward from hurting you!", Tanrov cried as he continued to distract the other thug for Erin.
Tanrov Bodyguards for +6 AC. If you stand adjacent to him he can keep them off of you.
You kids and your "useful class abilities." Back in my day, we didn't HAVE Cavalier Archetypes; I ended up making my Animal Companion a showhorse and nobody truly appreciated my Taldan Banner. My fighter had to deal with only getting +2 AC every round for 3 attacks (after me soaking the first attack that hits.)
You kids and your "useful class abilities." Back in my day, we didn't HAVE Cavalier Archetypes; I ended up making my Animal Companion a showhorse and nobody truly appreciated my Taldan Banner. My fighter had to deal with only getting +2 AC every round for 3 attacks (after me soaking the first attack that hits.)"Kulik, 'Mira, come this way. I'll keep that coward from hurting you!", Tanrov cried as he continued to distract the other thug for Erin.
Tanrov Bodyguards for +6 AC. If you stand adjacent to him he can keep them off of you.
...and we were THANKFUL! ;-)
And we had to adventure in the snow uphill for miles! At least my mount cared enough to take a hit for me 1/round. I was thankful for that.
Well no one can know every single law in existence..
Fair enough. Amira should be an expert of said Act.
LOL. That would be awesome.
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That's 6, isn't it? Or did I miscount?
Odds are that I miscounted; I'm the best around at the math. Gonna recount this harder than a presidential election.
Edit: Champion of Maths has returned.
Attempting to cast Grace on the Defensive, Swift Action, DC 19: 1d20 + 3 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 7 = 13 Spell is lost
Moving 25 feet around the border of this platform (provoking from the one man.)
Assuming I'm still up, Channeling for: 6d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 6, 5, 2, 2) = 25 healing, selecting out the two hurt bads. (I think the movement puts Erin just barely in the burst as well. If not, I have 5 more feet of movement.)
0+1=1
• Selecting 3 out for my Standard Action Channel!: 6d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 2, 4, 5, 4) = 22
• Selecting 3 out for the follow-up Swift Channels: 6d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 2, 6, 4, 2) = 17. 4/8 Channels used.
1+3=4
Channel as a Standard: 6d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 1, 3, 6, 6) = 24 Selecting out ONLY the elf. The goon who still has a head is getting healed as I call out to said mook.
"By my jurisdiction as a member of the Eyes of the City, surrender or forfeit your right to a fair trial!"
4+1=5
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18 HA! Nothing wasted! Abadaaaarrrr.
• Moving 10 feet to where Erin was before
• Standard channeling (selecting out all 3 bads, just in case.): 6d6 ⇒ (1, 1, 2, 6, 5, 5) = 20 to everyone, including the tortured guy!
5+1=6
After getting hit by the first Fireball of her career that didn't involve her deity protecting her from flames, Amira reflexively channels in response to heal, selecting out 3 bads.
• Channel as a Standard: 6d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 6, 3, 5, 6) = 27
• 5 ft step diagonally back into the doorway, just south of Kulik.
• Amira draws her Metamagic Rod of Extend, Lesser, and wields it like a club to look like the most intimidating 7-Strength, 19-year-old bureaucrat ever.
6+1=7
[thecount] 7! 7 channels! Ah, ah, ah! [/thecount] I have one left, but still have all the spells (plus I'm gonna dole out my Imbue Spell Ability after this fight for someone.
Paging rogue Erin. You around?
Sweet. About the text, not the mandatory 8 hours overtime.
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Oh, as far as I know, it's not mandatory; just... really dumb to not do. Time-and-a-half and all that.
But since we've got a lull and I'm sitting here waiting for my No-Warning Overtime to start, I'm actually going to try to provoke more discussion on something a far less relevant to the scenario; Cavaliers. We've got 3 of what I'd consider "High-level Cavalier Players." How have/did you guys handle(d) PFS? I simply ignored my horse class features and made her the best Taldan Show-and-racehorse I could with only APG and CRB. Did the archetypes help a lot, Tanrov?
As a player with a level 12 one. It can be frustrating to be one. Tactician is just awful. While it was great when I could bring my mount, when I couldn't I just felt like a bad fighter. Tanrov has useful class features so I haven't seen it to be a problem, especially now with hosteling armor, something that didn't exist until after I reached retirement.
On a sidenote, being that my cavalier was kind of a coward, I gave my horse bodyguard and into harm's way. :)
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The best way to approach any super specialized class like the cavalier is ask yourself 'Do I need everything this class has to offer in order to have fun?'
You're playing a cloistered cleric so you're obviously not a bleeding edge optimizer (which I appreciate =P) but in general if you're the sort of player that is frustrated by having class features that you don't have access to 100% of the time I'd suggest you avoid cavalier all together.
The archetypes helped a little. I've essentially traded armor training for bigger mount access (which is largely flavor before the bull isn't much better than the default horse - if I were an optimizer I'd have a big cat like everyone else), tactician for power attack and improved bullrush, and Cavalier's Charge for Bodyguard. It's not a huge increase in power/effectiveness but it certainly helps peel the feeling away that a cavalier is married to his horse.
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See, I went into the class with the mission statement "I'm going to be a horrible fighter, in comparison to a Fighter." I through my level 13 cav's career, he only used his horse in combat once, and two times in a non-combat situations (one of which has been recently clarified to be impossible to do.) I've even denied taking my horse places where she could legitimately go and be useful, like the first two scenarios of season 2. But by then, I said "Why would I take Malinda to *redacted*? Such a muggy hellscape is unfit for the greatest horse in Taldor."
The irony here by comparison to "The Business", my Taldan Cav was almost suicidally brave, but it can hardly be considered "suicidal" when you're regularly packing 40+ AC at 12th. By the end of his career, had UC came out and I considered a two-level dip into Master Of Many Styles to learn "Taldan Swan Style," so I could deflect a single melee hit a round, as well. I eventually decided against it, as even that was too silly for Hernando Ruiz, Taldan Knight of the Shield.
My damage output was hilarious though. It ranged from, at 1st level, 1d8+4 to 1d8+5 at 13th. Go, +1 Taldan Returning Trident! (Note: Taldan just means it had 4 points and was shaped like the Taldan Crown. The returning was added after I lost my first 3 tridents.)
You're playing a cloistered cleric so you're obviously not a bleeding edge optimizer (which I appreciate =P)
Do ho ho, I can optimize when the situation calls for it. +19 Profession Sailor at 1st level in Skull and Shackles? Right here.
This character was merely a concept character that fit my "GOOD FOR CONVENTION PLAY" standards and was supposed to be paired with Erin's Paladin to cover his weakness in skills and "always paired with no healers" flaw (who has already been surpassed by 4 levels.)
How about your main class feature and one of the few that doesn't happen to be terrible? Yes Tanrov has circumvented it by trading away the bad specialized ones for more general and useful ones. I mean I was basically a bad fighter w/o armor training, bravery, or weapon training. In exchange I got challenge(which is amazing don't get me wrong), and a mount which when it is allowed to actually be involved helped out a lot.
Well "Business" did rock AC in the mid 30s by level 11, but his saves were terrible and he still got hit by things that hit really hard. You'd think an enervated remmorhaz with 8 negative levels would miss me, much less grapple me. Was not the case.
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You'd think an enervated remmorhaz with 8 negative levels would miss me, much less grapple me. Was not the case.
That guy was the end of MW Trident #2. "I hit!" "Your trident melts!" "Oh, damn."
I did challenge a scorpion who was grappling me, though. I threw mundane javelins at him as my party caught up (because Taldor Required It.)
Yea, my rapier barely survived that encounter mainly spent the majority of the fight trying to break free and it didn't notice my party shooting it to death. Taldor requires some odd things. Like this one time in Kaer Maga...
You traded in tactician and useless charging related class features to get bonus feats so you're closer to an actual fighter. And Tanrov also has rage, boosted speed in full plate which helps mitigate some of the lacklusterness. But as a pure standard cavalier w/o 3 archetypes, life is rough.
That sounds rough. Don't apologize, I just didn't want to have to NPC you unless it was really needed. I'm updating the bad guys turn now.
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Okay, regarding the talk about Cavalier here:
I tried like mad to fit Cavalier into my silly charging Druid build since the animal companion abilities stack, but the Cavalier's limitations on mount types made me ultimately give up.
The only archetype I've personally liked so far, since PFS doesn't use the squire archetypes in Knights of the Inner Sea, is the Standard Bearer archetype, and that's cos it delays the mount class feature in favor of the banner class feature.
Paging Kulik and Amira. A certain rogue could use some help.