DMummy's Mask

Game Master Elmdorprime

Honestly I totally forgot Shad was your aoe damage dealer back at the start so I'm fine just closing the door and moving forward.

Wish MiniGM would come back. Worried.

Yeah, me too. Great player.

I tried messaging him several times but never got anything back. I know he was busy with his work at the end so I wonder if he just decided to drop and was away so long he was embarassed to come back?

Hope it's that simple and nothing went wrong anyway, he's a good dude.

Sorry about slow posting this week. My mom fell and was hospitalized with head injury. I flew to Florida and will be spending much of my time at hospital.

That is awful. Vibes.

This game has helped keep me sane through this last year. Thanks everyone for playing.

I'm sorry to hear that man, I hope she's doing well!

Dwali I hope your mom is okay. My mom is declining quickly and I don’t know how much longer she can remain living at home with my dad. My neighbor is in the hospital for liver issues, it’s hard because we can’t go into hospitals yet here in CA. Having an older parent is like having a little kid that can tell you what to do. ;).

Best of vibes sent.

Vibes

Thanks all. My mom had a mini stroke, which caused her to fall and bump her head. She also has a small clot and some other issues from before. They are doing more diagnostic procedures tomorrow, but she has improved a fair amount already the past 2 days. Sorry for the erratic posting. I appreciate the extra thoughts, vibes and prayers. Same to you and your parents. :)

Do we need to get a replacement for Shad? We seem to be hurting in the blast category and the final chapters may need more than just hammer and rapier to defeat.

silver-and-jasper ankle bracelet worth 250 gp inset with three elemental gems (air, earth and fire), a +2 earth outsider bane khopesh (its hilt indicates the weapon’s name in Ancient Osiriani is “Duhua,” meaning “vortex”), a 1-foot-high malachite statuette of a jackal-headed man worth 750 gp which has an internal compartment that holds a golembane scarab, and a wand of lightning bolt whose carvings mirror the runes on the map.

I guess I can get the Earth elemental gem

Trying to determine Dwalindor’s next level. Barbarian would be very strong as he could get pounce rage power. However melee is not as much of a problem as things like swarms were. Vs swarms as we saw, Tariq and Dwalindor would be mostly ineffective. Noonan has some AoE spells but trying to decide if a dip in a class to get arcane spells would help (his dwarven charisma will rule out choices like Rage profit, Oracle, Skald, Bloodrager, Dragon disciple etc ). I just want to make sure he has a way to contribute next time.

Dwali, your character has carried us on his shoulders through many encounters. By himself Tariq is pretty powerful, but kind of a glass cannon compared to Dwali. Noonan and I are kind of supporting characters to Dwali’s raw power. Keep in mind we don’t have the Cat with us and Shad is holding open the portal for us. I think the DM does a good job of NPCing Shad. We have a great and active group here.

As long as it can be injured with weapons, Dwalindor can probably handle. Same with Tariq and his awesome sneak damage (golem scarab is good for those non sneaky foes )

I forgot do we not have the cat or chance to get another with new level?

Noonan is going to start getting his world shaking spells and soon pass us both.

Definitely great group and cudos to GM for sticking with us this long!!!

I can summon elementals to sweep up swarms and burn them.

Wonderful! Dwalindor going with pouncing Barbie then. :)

If you know anybody Dwalindor that'd be fine? Not sure they'd want to stick with us so long!

I am not sure I know any who would want to jump into the game this late. 14th level is a big jump.

Oddly, my younger son has just started playing Starfinder and enjoys that more than Pathfinder.

Starfinder's classes give you more toys as part of the class but I wasn't a huge fan of how they managed magic and weapon damage.

Personally I think Pathfinder 2 is qualitatively better than Starfinder but that's just me.

I have yet to look into PF2. Starfinder is different game, but the mechanics is similar enough. Still learning all of the nuances.

Starfinder is pretty much halfway between PF1 and PF2.

PF2 is really good for the medium skill player - it's really easy to make a great character and hard to make a bad one.

The three action combat and attack of opportunities are a big change but aside from that most of the changes are in how the math works so it's impossible to create the encounter destruction PCs - magic is less overpowered compared to martial damage so if you like martial classes you'll love it, if you like being able to oneshot encounters as a caster you'll hate it.

It is much easier and more fun to run as a GM however in my opinion, very much a GM-centered game vs. Pathfinder which is balanced more towards players and good PC builds in my opinion.

Hey, so I may have missed something, but did we lose Baset the cat? Do we need to use a Rez or wait 24hrs to recall a new, younger edition of her? Especially since we are only 3 instead of 4 PCs?

Oh, no, I just forgot to put her on the map. Sorry!

I was wondering why we froze the game after I posted ;)

Map updated.

You had one of a man, one of a cloaked figure without legs, one of a giant bird, one of a huge earth elemental, one of a mummified lizard, and one of a shaitan.

Hey guys, second vaccine shot has totally laid me out this weekend. Two posts tomorrow to make it up!

Hey no worries. Take time, as that seems to be the norm for 1-3 days. Get rest. :)

Yeah man, my second kicked my ass! Tylenol helped me.

Get better soon!

How is everyone doing? Is RL kicking everyone’s ass?

Mine definitely, sorry. We had someone leave work who was a huge part of our quarterly reporting right when it came due.

Oh man. We have people leaving every week.

I'll probably need to rest and get some Remove Curse spells

Treasure

trace of alteration magic off of a pendant he's wearing.

I mean, to speed this up - all the rooms will be the same, with a trapped door.

We can probably leave these for later

Hi guys my mom has a disease called MSA-C. My dad tried to bring her home from the nursing home she was in. It didn’t go well. She got sepsis and went into septic shock which sent her to the Emergency Room. After which, she had a heart event that placed her in critical care. All this caused my dad, who was understandably stressed out, to go through a spell of high potassium which sent him to the emergency room. My mom is now in a nursing home 40 miles from my house and my dad is home. The Delta Variant just hit the nursing home my mom is in and they are now in a two week lockdown. I am sorry for disappearing. I am trying to catch up with all my games now. Sheeesh!

Oh no! Best wishes to your family!

I can relate and our thoughts and prayers for your mom. My mom is in nursing home with GPA and recovering from her stroke 4 months ago. Taking care of parents is hard and if you need a break from here please take it. We understand and will be here for you. Family always comes first!

Holy moly! Yeah, you don't have to apologize that's a lot going on so all I can do is echo Noonan, hope your parents are doing better!

Hey Tariq, just wanted to post here in case you saw it, hope everything is going well!

@Gm - if pounce is going to be too OP I can swap it out for another rage power. As we get to higher levels the combats will get more like rocket tag. Hitting stuff is all I built him to do (not my usual play style) . Bottom line I want to make sure fun for all.

Since we seem to be down to two players and DM, having Dwal being able to Rip and Tear through things doesn't sound too much.

Oh it's fine, just silly. Honestly we should probably talk about stopping - when we started this journey oh so long ago I didn't realize Mummy's Mask would turn out to largely be a dungeon crawl.

There's nothing wrong with a good dungeon crawl but it's awful for PbP.

No brakes on this train, toot! Toot!

I am onboard for as long as you are willing to drive. :)

Y'all are gluttons for punishment.

Very well but I don't want to DMPC and DM the whole last book so...pick up a toon I suppose?