Awesome, I'm going to wait to do my standard acttion after Kazador acts.
Ok. I didn't specify but feel free to distribute yourselves on the Sonder as you wish prior to acting. You had time.
On languages:
Common = English (obviously)
Celestial = Sinhala, picked for its pretty script
Elven = Finnish, because that's what Tolkien based Sindarin on
Sylvan = Irish, because fey
Auran = Xhosa
Dwarven = early on Mel was using Lithuanian for Dwarven, picked for having lots of guttural consonants; but then Kazador came along and since he's a dwarf it made sense to let him pick what he wanted for that, and he chose to use RuneScribe to produce English transliterated into Scandinavian runes.
GM, it might be helpful to have a sheet for language reference somewhere in the campaign notes or something? So we don't have to dig through the Discussion thread if we want to check which language is which.
I am standing next to Kazador, that's all that really matters to me.
On languages:
Common = English (obviously)
Celestial = Sinhala, picked for its pretty script
Elven = Finnish, because that's what Tolkien based Sindarin on
Sylvan = Irish, because fey
Auran = XhosaDwarven = early on Mel was using Lithuanian for Dwarven, picked for having lots of guttural consonants; but then Kazador came along and since he's a dwarf it made sense to let him pick what he wanted for that, and he chose to use RuneScribe to produce English transliterated into Scandinavian runes.
GM, it might be helpful to have a sheet for language reference somewhere in the campaign notes or something? So we don't have to dig through the Discussion thread if we want to check which language is which.
Cool, in addition I used Afrikaans for Druidic
Just had an idea!
The captain looks like he is alone. We threw teleport aboard. You two Grapple him. I then teleport all four of us (enemy captain included) back to our ship!
He’d be flat footed. So his CMD would only be 10+BaB+Str. With two people grappling him, we’d just need to hold him down for a round.
It’s probably our best bet for taking him alive.
Thoughts?
Great idea, but we don't know where the captain is... :/
Just fyi, you definitely don't see van Beem on deck
Oh, never mind. Ready to go slaughter the deck. Everyone else ready?
Ready :D
I copy/pasted the language info into campaign info. Feel free to help me remember to update it.
Kazador, it's up to you whether or not Algric is on deck on the Sonder and firing. He doesn't like to be left out!
If he is, than I warded him against arrows instead of warding Blackskull for two hours.
He is on deck and firing! Want me to handle his rolls?
Yes! Thanks.
Can we say that I left one of the marines un-hasted, and cast instead the spell on Algric?
Sure. Sounds reasonable.
Kazador: I'm sorry that we had this mix-up. I glanced through Algric's stats when you first threw them together and everything seemed in keeping with a level 6 warrior. Somehow I missed the "Fighter" bonus feats. Warrior is an NPC class so it's a lot weaker than fighter. Basically just the fighter chassis. This was what I had in mind as Algric is a bit too powerful as a free follower otherwise. Whenever you have time to adjust, please do so. In the mean time, I'll just subtract a little damage from Algric's shots as a rough approximation. Apologies for not noticing this earlier. I generally don't comb through mechanics until something seems off and Algric's capabilities seemed a little off...
I'm a little miffed that two of my level 10 warriors rolled nat 1s to save against Fyrtor's trail... Puts a bit of a hitch in my plans... But don't worry. I'll keep things interesting. I've still got that one ace in the hole...
Quick question: where's Van Beem?
The narration made it sound like she was meleeing with Fyrtor, but I only see spike-armor blokes.
I think she threw daggers at him.
I'm on the atairs, so she's probably below deck stabbin me in the back. Dang that hurt:(
On a related note can I take a 5ft step to the left? It's off the staircase, but I do have nimble moves and a decent acrobatics skill.
Oh, is she not visible at all? I thought she emerged from the left hand exit and threw daggers at him. In that case my last post makes no sense at all -- I can't shoot someone I can't see!
Huh I see. Sorry about that!
Ok. Easy fix. He only has Weapon Focus, Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot, and no Bravery, Armor Training or Weapon Training.
Made the changes. He’s a lot less deadly now
Thanks, Kazador! No worries. My fault for not catching it earlier.
Van Beem is standing below Fyrtor on the stairs and ganked him good.
Indeed, so can I take that 5ft step? Or am I fighting my way out?
Ah yes thanks for repeating the question. We've got a whole lot going on so I missed it. I think nimble moves will allow you to 5 ft step onto the stairs if you want to avoid your own cloud. Seems like a good life choice.
Awseome, I don't have to :) tis sweetnes to me lol.
Haha. Really? You don't have poison immunity until your 9th druid level, I thought.
The spell says the recipient doesn't get affected by the effects.
Dang it! This is so exciting I keep refreshing my phone every two minutes lol :D
Ah nice. I haven't used that spell yet.
Haha. Yeah I don't have wifi at home so it's generally just text updates for me via phone in the evening, EST. So don't hold your breath! ;) But glad to hear the fight isn't boring.
Why don't you have Internet access at home?
I have “unlimited” data for my phone. When I need WiFi for my computer I make my phone a hotspot. That might help you out?
But glad to hear the fight isn't borin6g.
Definitely not :) thank you for the effort you put into creating this awesome battle.
Mel: We save some time and money by not doing much online at home. Natalie and I just finished a very rough game of Pandemic, for example. All five of the very helpful event cards were in the bottom 10 of the player deck. We almost won anyway but her role was the contingency planner, who can only be useful if event carss are played. We got none. :(
Kazador: Phone plan charges extra per month for hot spot capability. :P I'll keep us going tomorrow morning. We've got a great pace that I want to maintain here.
Well at least I went down in a blaze glory, two crits with sneak attack in the same round :D
Yes it was awesome! But you're not dead yet! A lucky roll or if your allies get to you soon... The pirates won't be stabbing your unconscious body until they have nothing better to do. An unconscious ally makes pretty good bait to distract combatants from pirate-crushing.
Given that Kazador is surrounded, I’m not sure if he can get healing down soon. Especially with the net he will need to pass a concentration test to cast and cast defensively as well.
Much higher! We just need to clear the deck so we can heal you. :p
Want to take over Algric until you’re guy is up?
No I'm good, I can watch :)
GM quick question, did you have each person in a cloud save again? They have to save every round they remain in a cloud. It's a stretch, but I'm hoping at least one more pirate is out of the fight for a bit.
Ah I did forget to have one of the warriors save. Good catch. Feel free to check.
He's fine for now.
GM, how do you interpret the rules on blindness and ranged attacks? I've seen different GMs run them in ways ranging from:
1) They fall under the "checks and activities that rely on vision" clause and thus automatically fail.
2) They work like normal, but with a 50% miss chance.
3) You have to make a listen-based perception check to determine where your opponent is. If you fail you either don't get the attack or target the wrong square. Either way you suffer that 50% miss chance.
4) You can only make ranged attacks at targets within 10 feet (I think this one was that GM's house rule), and suffer a 50% miss chance.
Basically 2 and 3. You can make an attack against any square you want based on memory, guessing, etc then roll 50% miss chance. A good perception check might help you figure out what square to target.
Ok, got it! Thanks. I think Mel's going to try to return the favor to the bard who glitterdusted her, on account of he can keep doing that and it's annoying.
Sounds fair! That's just about the only enemy worth targeting that doesn't risk hitting an ally. It also might continue Mel's habit of knocking out anything that casts spells in this fight... Look out Brolin and Fyrtor!! ^_^
If he weren't drunk, that pirate probably would have moved after casting. As it is... he felt perfectly safe right where his ally was knocked out...
Nope! His captain's orders saved his hide.
This just came up in one of my other games, though with the opposite trend. A player rolled 3d2 for miss chance and they all came up 2. Hits! But I'd like players to use ye old d100 for miss chance since, as an arbitrary roll, it needs to have a firm consensus.
Also, let it be noted that Mel has been more faithful to Ostara than most cleric PCs end up being to their deities.
Please tell us high or low for miss chance and what die to use (1d100 in this case)
I like having things streamlined :)
Woo, divine intervention! That's cool. Thanks!
And okay, I'll roll d100s since that's what you prefer. I don't think I understand what you mean by "firm consensus", though. The odds are identical either way. Numbers 1-50 on a d100 are functionally identical to one another; and so are 51-100.