DM Feral's Hellknight's Feast (Inactive)

Game Master Feral

Discuss things here.

Looks like we're 3 melee so far.

here and dotting in

Assuming nobody else shows up, who did you want as a pregen?

Never mind. We got a 4th.

4 Melee characters now (and a pet)... I don't think it counts as checking in until I get leveled up though.

Can't you ask some of the characters from the game in the queue if they want to join this?

@Sabrina: Nice to see you here as well :).

Is it too late for me to aquire some gear? I think I'll get an oil of bless weapon and a potion feather step. I should probably get an oil of magic weapon too, just in case.

Yeah that's fine.

4 Melee characters now (and a pet)... I don't think it counts as checking in until I get leveled up though.

Can't you ask some of the characters from the game in the queue if they want to join this?

@Sabrina: Nice to see you here as well :).

hello there.

I usually play two versions of characters I like, a PFS version and a non PFS version looks like you get both versions this time.

I only have 1 PFS character that I never used in any PbP game and he is in the Eyes of the ten at a table top group right now.

Buying 2 Runestones of power 1 and a potion of fly.

God help Paizo if their servers explode and that post is lost.

I always copy my posts to clipboard before posting. That way I can just post it again if it gets lost somehow.

With another level 5 character, is this still high tier?

I was just mathing that. We are now 6.75 so we'll be playing low tier.

just wanted to give a heads up tomorrow I go back to work after a week off, I do not have Paizo access at work and I may be putting in a 16 hour day.

Avril - how did you do the crazy lettering you did in this post? Never seen that on the Paizo boards. Was it a copy/paste of some strange characters?

I'm using this site to transform text to text with lots of things added to it. The site accepts it since it's technically normal text, just with loads of ''`´¨^ etc added to it. I haven't explored how much different unicode the site accepts, but I'm sure there is some range there too.

Interesting. I expected it was still text, since that's all the boards will really accept, but I had no idea how it was being created.

Is it not an option to go off to search for the missing courtesan?

You certainly could but Colson was pretty specific on what he wanted the party to do.

We're pretty close to the end of the scenario. Please do day job rolls now if you're so inclined and post your PFS/Character # along with an email address I can send your chronicle to. If you're private about email addresses feel free to shoot it to me in an email.

Wow, that was incredibly fast... Last scenario I played through took several months... I assume there is some final boss fight first though...

oyzar
Avril Axiel
149136-1
Dark Achives

Day Job: Fangwood Keep (1pp)

Advancement speed: Slow
Level: 5

Vahnt Aygu
80015-9
Day Job, Craft (alchemy): 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (12) + 17 = 29
Dark Archives

Slow track

You've got my email.

Sabrina De'Foe
PFS number 9406-6

day job: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Silver Crusade faction

I'm not sure if there is actually any way to detect a demon shape shifting. It's not a disguise/illusion and it's Su, so detect magic probably wouldn't work either. And if it got on an angelskin armor or something then detect evil wouldn't work either.

20056-12
No Dayjob
Silver Crusade

I'll let it go this round Avril but I suggest you get lunge or the reach evolution for your eidolon in the near future. You can't lance-charge and pounce with your eidolon currently because the lance puts your eidolon out of reach and pouncing puts the target inside your lance's deadzone.

Ah, but Ride-by-attack let's me continue to move after Avril's attack, letting Cryxial get close enough to pounce.

Hrm, good point. I suppose I've never seen ride-by-attack used that way.

I'm not sure that qualifies as a pounce since she has to stop to let Avril attack. At that point she's no longer charging herself.

And what point in a ride-by do you stop? That would be quite unnatural. Can you show me a movie or something of the horse stopping so the rider can strike the enemy then continuing on?

There's lots of stuff in d20 combat that doesn't make sense from a narrative point of view. Mechanically, it's move+attack and then move.

I'm sure there's GMs that would agree with your interpretation but it seems like a big gray area to me. My suggestion is to pick up lunge or reach attack with Cryxial and avoid the whole debate.

There is nothing saying the move again is a separate action. Pretty much all discussion I've found online agree with me on that you can pounce as long as you follow all the other rules of the charge for the mount (only move closer to the target, attack from the first square you are in range).

Reach costs 3 evolution points (over 40% of my evolution points at this point). Lunge is not available until level 10. Neither are realistic options at this point.

Sadly most mounted rules in pathfinder are quite unclear, a grey inheritance from the D&D predecessors.

When you are mounted and use the charge action, you may move and attack as if with a standard charge and then move again (continuing the straight line of the charge). Your total movement for the round can't exceed double your mounted speed. You and your mount do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the opponent that you attack.

Bold and italics for emphasis.

There's lots of discussions on these forums that only fly by the most generous reading of the rules (and end up being proven wrong by developer errata/clarifications). Take anything said here with a grain of salt.

In any case, it's unlikely to come up again in this combat. I'm just warning you for future reference.

Here is an official ruling on the matter.

Sean's rulings aren't official by any stretch of the imagination.

Fair enough.

@Vahnt: Just curious, where is the +4 to hit/damage on your attacks coming from?

ok getting caught up. from what I read Sabrina has 2 rounds of actions?

if not I request a complete breakdown of each round and everyone's actions.

please explain the first round and why some party members get a bonus round in the beginning. also can sabrina charge? if not then someone please change your action to allow the Paladin that is built to kill demons to get in there?

also as was posted earlier, Sabrina was the first to head to the garden so she should have been among the first there.

Also is there anything left for Sabrina to fight?

The intative order was:
Vahnt/Avril
Demons
Sabrina/Titus

Which explains why we got an "extra" round.

The succubus is left. I believe it has plenty of health left. I think you can charge, though I could be wrong. You are probably better off walking around to flank with Titus though(remember you get +30 feet movement from haste).

the haste would not be in effect yet for me also Sabrina would get to go before Avril and Vahnt went again, so technically right now Sabrina does not have haste neither does titus yet also your second round of attacks and stepping back did not happen so where where you before your last action and where was Vahnt before his last action.

I realize that technically it is the whole party is up but by being quick to post you actually have deprived Sabrina and titus a full round and possibly forced me to choose a different action that I should have gotten.

Sorry if I sound a bit wacky, or whatever, but I am rather anal when it comes to this kind of stuff. I do not like denying opportunities to other players and I do not like being denied opportunities.

I have already been feeling like my Paladin abilities have been nullified somewhat, I would like to know exactly what the succubus was using to mask from detect evil, but will wait till the scenario is completed before getting that answer cause that would be the only time I should know. (no spoilers)

Vahnt and Avril won init vs the bad guy so they got to go first. Then the bad guys went then the whole party went. Most DMs resolve actions based on who posted first. So since Avril posted first, everyone else got hasted which is good for us. The succubus probably has nondetection or undetectable alignment or something which defeats detect evil easily. Also me and you are playing down to tier 5-6 so that is why everything seems easy and you feel like you're not needed. I haven't power attacked once so everyone has a better chance to fight. Please just post so we can keep the game moving.

already posted. I always hated that kind of posting. guess its the penalty I pay for working 16 hours

We all work. It happens. In this case, it benefited the party that Avril posted first.

Also if you post right now you can probably score the kill.

Thanks for playing guys. I hope everyone had fun.

The game's been reported and chronicles are going out now.

@Vahnt: Just curious, where is the +4 to hit/damage on your attacks coming from?

From my post in gameplay:

Drink extracts of cat's grace and reduce person, net effect is +4 AC, +4 attack and damage, damage die goes to 1d4.

Thanks for running.

It was fun, thanks for running.

@Sabrina: Delaying and readying actions are there in pathfinder to allow people to work together. For example to set up attacks so two people can attack with flank or to wait for a buff (or debuff) to go off so the recipient gets more out of his or her turn. That said I much prefer the block imitative model in pbp, it just makes thing so much smoother.

I do wonder what the influence is for... Is it linked to other scenario(s), if so which?

@Vahnt: Those effects should only be +3 to damage (though also +3 to init and ref), right?

I'm actually not sure but I've missed a good chunk of season 5.

We finished the scenario in exactly one week, that's pretty impressive :).