I forgot it was Labor Day. Everyone get a post up by evening tomorrow, please!
Sorry for not posting. It's been a... busy couple of days.
It happens! Just let me know if you need to AFK for a while. The game has been crawling and I think we might have lost Iesha.
Thoughts on how to make this game the best?
I don't know. I think you're doing a great job running, and I appreciate that you have the time to devote to keeping things moving--your predecessors were also pretty competent, but lacking the latter makes for a slow game. Iesha and I are the only two original players left and I'd rather not lose her; we're friends on FB, though, and I just messaged her through there.
Eloise, next time you cast Bladed Dash, use Spell Combat. You take a -2 to hit with the attack Bladed Dash gives you, but you can then do your regular melee attacks (also at -2) when you're done dashing.
@Eloise: Shocking Grasp is no longer active once you cast Magic Missile last round.
"Touch Spells and Holding the Charge
In most cases, if you don't discharge a touch spell on the round you cast it, you can hold the charge (postpone the discharge of the spell) indefinitely. You can make touch attacks round after round until the spell is discharged. If you cast another spell, the touch spell dissipates."
I am leaving for vacation to North Carolina tomorrow evening and I will be gone until the 4th of October. I should still be able to update every day, but some days might prove inconsistent.
Enjoy!
The dice do NOT love me this fight...
GM, the last time the PCs leveled Peredur took favored enemy (lycanthrope) after some discussion with GM Aest. I've since seen a few comments on the boards that lead me to think that favored enemy (human) would apply against humans with lycanthropy (not elves, etc.), even in their hybrid forms. Your thoughts?
Do you still have a Bladed Dash ready, Eloise? It can get you out of trouble as fast as it got you in.
Lycanthropes have the type humanoid(shapechanger and human), provided that they are human lycanthropes. Lycanthrope isn't a legitimate favored enemy type. It needs to be either shapechanger or human. Favored enemy human would give the benefit you are looking for against human lycanthropes in their human form and their hybrid form, but not the animal form.
Choose either shapechanger (for all lycanthropes and others as well) or human as a replacement for lycanthrope.
Nope. Only one Dash. :-/ And it's gone.
I'll be traveling tomorrow, getting together with friends on Saturday, and traveling again Sunday. I'll try to keep up, but in case you need to bot me Peredur is going to go after the fey from the NE.
Also, I'll make his second favored enemy shapechanger.
Just a heads-up: my life (and identity) has gotten weird...and very -um- at risk?
Last weekend,while on vacation in Ohio, I lost almost ALL of my ID:
my driver's license
my military ID
my VA card
my Costco card
my (of all things) library card
Fortunately, I still have my Sam's Club card (which is also a charge card), my MAC card, and my social security card.
I'm in total shock/panic mode.
Yeah... That's not good. :( Keep us in the loop, but definitely get your life together before worrying about Pathfinder!
Hope everything is ok.
Sonuva*bleep*! 0_0
Better start making calls to cancel those cards if you haven't already! Good luck...
Good luck getting that resolved. Hopefully it'll be found by someone reasonable.
@Iesha: Glad you are back, but can you update your tagline with your actual spells and channels remaining rather than your total spells? Makes it hard to bot you when I don't know what you have left.
Folks, I want to refer you back to an old post, wherein we split the loot from Harrowstone.
A lot of good gear seems not to have made it onto people's character sheets. Most importantly, there's a ring of protection +1 and a heavy mace +1 that should be on Iesha's, and a handaxe +1 and masterwork thieves' tools that should be on Peredur's. I also suspect that a number of potions and magic ammo and at least one scroll never got written down either, though I haven't gone post-by-post to see. Please have a look.
I try to keep the Loot Speadsheet updated that is linked at the top of the thread, so I will add all of that into the spreadsheet!
Thanks SH!
Edit: Spreadsheet has everyone's Masterwork or better gear on it! There are some unclaimed items! I added Talia's gear to the general pile.
Sorry for the delay...I just got back from our last vacation trip (to the same area I lost my ID in...no one is reporting finding any of it).
I thought I was out of spells and channels, I'll be sure to keep better track for our next battle - now that we seem to have survived THIS one!
BTW, just how things differ...when I ran this for my home group, we walked all over those two. The found this escape route and came in through here. Our alchemist tossed in a few firebombs and they sealed the door, trapping the alchemical zombies inside; they also managed not to awaken Grine & Vorkstag and fought them both inside their rooms.
I'm taking credit for the mw thieves' tools in my skill check, but you're right--I never wrote it down in gear. Same with the keen longsword--listed in attacks, not in gear. I'll update that.
And don't forget the +1 handaxe! It's a great offhand for Peredur. Wish Heck could use it, but it's not on the bard list.
That's right--Eloise is the only other one who can use it, and she's got a better weapon plus a need to keep her off hand free.
s'True. ^_^ I need that empty hand for spellcasting. If I ever take Still spell and Two-weapon fighting, though... ;p
@Eloise: Just so you know that won't work with Spell Combat. Spell Combat specifically states "To use this ability, the magus must have one hand free (even if the spell being cast does not have somatic components)..."
I was being facetious. ^_^ I have different plans for my feat progression; I'm getting ready for the Kirin Style chain.
:D
I figured Kirin will be really useful, given the kind of enemies we face. ^_^
Sorry, GM, I missed the post about loading up the wagon and spotting the body! Don't know how that happened. Uh, can we still be in sight of the alchemists when Heck calls for the watch and we spot the body?
The body is relatively close and calling the watch is possible while keeping an eye of both.
Alright, I think I have a general idea of what you are trying to accomplish.
I have two options:
1) I handwave most of the rest of the evidence-gathering and trial as it will be A LOT of roleplay. This would push us into Part III of the Second Book immediately.
2) We can roleplay out the trial with each of the four days. We will present evidence, make checks, roleplay, etc.
I am ok with either as I am a lawyer by trade, but I can understand if slogging through a trial is not really your thing and you just wanna get on with some action. Roleplaying real life isn't why we play Pathfinder, usually, so I am offering this option.
I've enjoyed roleplaying the trial so far. We did a day in court with Storycrafter and a day in court with Aest.
If you folks want to skip however much more trial there is because it's in danger of becoming the Sour Heck show, I can have Heck refuse to go to court for fear of the judges, so the other folks can take turns.
Heck no, I want the full trial!
We've had plenty of violence, now it's time to get to court. ^_^ And Sour Heck must be our spokesman: he's the right guy for the job.
I'm also good with letting Sour Heck do the talking again. It's worked out well so far. (Besides, Iesha is the only other reasonably charismatic person in the party, and she's a half-elf. IIRC, they're not too popular in Ustalav.)
Let's do the trial.
Sorry, Sour Heck, you're not getting out of this!
Strider, were you trying to tell us that the Trial is too much like what you do in RL for it to be any fun for you? If it's something you'd really rather skip, just let us know.
Of course not!
I should have kept you in the loop. (I thought I posted this, but it seems I didn't.) I am putting together the trial and should have a good look on it today to get us rolling. It gives you the general outline, but I'm filling in the blanks.
Whee! :D
On the extremely off chance that any of you are in the area of Lombard, Illinois, my wife and I are having a small party for our 25th anniversary. It's in Room 943 at the Westin Lombard, from 8 to midnight. Munchies, cake, and punch (of the nonalcoholic variety, as I am on some meds that don't play well with alcohol).
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Sorry. An ocean intervenes... ^_^;
Tonight? Aw man, I wish I could have been there! I'm still in Chicago, just an hour or two away. We should plan to meet up someday soon. Right now I've got a lot of wiggle room in my weekday schedule, and less on my evenings and weekends. What about you?
Happy 25th. Sorry I couldn't make it.
Pittsburgh, Pa to Lombard, Il. is just too long a drive, especially on a work night.
Happy birthday to Iesha's player!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy b-day! ^_^
Thank you all. :)
I am very glad you're on our side, Sour Heck. ^_^
So it looks like we might be doing some callbacks to some NPCs that haven't been in the game a while.
GM Bold Strider, can I ask you for a favor? I know you're running a bunch of games, so you're probably pressed for time, but would you mind reading through the scenes our old GMs ran with the Crooked Kin, etc.? There have been a few times where the NPCs we're interacting with are inexplicably changed from the NPCs as we met them before, and it's made it hard for me to make sense of what's going on.
It's more than NPC attitudes and behavior. For example, earlier GMs decided to portray Justice Daramid as a woman, and you've made her a man. I suspect that's not a conscious revision on your part, just a matter of not reading what's gone before very closely.
I realize it's extra work for you, and I suspect we'll leave many of these NPCs behind once the trial is over and we move on to the next adventure, but until then, it would really make a big difference to me if the NPCs seemed to be more or less the same people our characters met before.