Might be possible. I write an exam on Monday and Wednesday though
@Jimmy
Congratulations on writing the 1001st discussion post.
Whoot Whoot!
Not specific to this campaign, but a concept I came up with. Could I ask you to weigh in please?
Clicky Clicky here for link to the paizo forum
Didn't I deal with your issues in my second post? Telling my players is something I would have to do, but I was thinking of making it sort of specific to that one area/dungeon
I have no issues :)
I just described a solution, where you don't have to tell anyone and you can just subtract a dice from the damage, tell then a round early that their summoned monster vanishes and it's a simple mechanic that works for every spell and every magic item without coming up with different rulings for every effect.
Actually I could write my ruling in two short sentences:
For every hour you spend in this cave you and every magic item you bring loses 1 CL. After leaving it they are restored at 1 CL per half hour.
Can you do that with yours?
Well yes I could if I REALLY wanted to. But I like yours more. :P
What do you think of the idea though?
Depends on what you want to achieve. As you might have noticed I would let them run into this without telling.
Having a lot of fun letting them guess about the cause and get into panic about it. But that would only be fun, if everyone in the party would have to suffer.
To set a pace to shoo them through the dungeon I would use something with brute force. Like 20 rounds after you enter the room explodes. Or something big, blind, slow with scent following them around.
Or more set up front. Damsel caught in magical torture/kill device with two hours left and the key at the end of the dungeon.
You know your goal, I don't.
I like your ideas and will muse on them. I like the combo of big evil thing with time based spell loss. Puts the clock on to get in and out as fast as possible so if you fight it you have spells you can use.
What I would do is say something like "You can feel your magic draining slowly, you are not sure where to or why, but you can tell your spells will be less powerful
@Jimmy
You noticed, that we aren't alone anymore?
Need to duck a while. So sorry
I'm off to offline play.
Good night.
G'night.
I'm off to walking the dog and after that I'm off to bed :o).
I was just preparing a post with Tauriell preparing to unlock the door just to find out that it is already open, but your approach is even more funny :)
With a strength check of 18 and a charge you would have gotten the same result against the locked door. With unlocked I just meant that someone could have used the handle and opened it. Not that it hangs ajar.
Gwenhwyfar only asked because she didn't want to be the first one in.
@Jimmy
You're going to defend yourself?
The grapple monster dragged me to movies last night. Sorry
I hope for you, it wasn't a romantic comedy :P
It was "The Revenant". So no, no it wasnt
So dragging away was more like 'Wanna see The Revenant. My treat?' :o)
It was more "If we don't go out I might go stir crazy." She suggested the movie
Edited my post. Your decision, if you stab her first and save then, or the other way around.
Doesnt matter :P
You're coming out of the basement any time soon, or shall we let you sit there and fight the attackers meanwhile?
I was arriving home from a family dinner so was taking a while. Sorry. But i am trying to move the ladder now
@Jimmy
You might remember our visit to the guard tower earlier?
These are no guards. Also, worst thing happening would be an alignment shift. If nobody gets away talking :P
What about my ladder plan? Does it work?
Sure
And now that we are done with the first part of the adventure lets think about that:
We had it a bit easier, as the entrance through the roof prevented Natalya and her goblins shooting us from cover while we are balancing over beams in the roof.
And all of that as level one characters with nothing more than your starting equipment.
Funny thought, isn't it?
Was the roof not supposed to be written in?
No you should have crawled through the beams of the roof fought some stirges, fall down several times while fighting, or when stepping on the sawed ones.
And for other options nothing is written in. As always. But one has to learn to provide the fun, when the party chooses to leave the given (ugly, stinking) path ;)
That is HORRIBLE! We would all be dead as lvl 1 characters to that. DEAD!
You would at least loose a characer or two. And then on your last two HP you would crawl out into the arms of the ambush set by the gal and her thugs and hand her everything you found.
And then it is: Dear GM think about something, how they could get that thing back. Because usually the shard gives you the next lead. But now you don't have that. It was really depressing as I tried that the first time. But now it's actually fun. Even if it still stinks to high heaven.
So how does the campaign actually go from there? Are you supposed to kinda level up a bit on other quests first?
It sounds horribly written
Cliffhanger here.
I have to go to bed.
Good night.
Hello Jimmy,
how was your exam today?
Sorry to leave you now that it gets interesting again, but it's bedtime for me.
Good night.
So how does the campaign actually go from there? Are you supposed to kinda level up a bit on other quests first?
It sounds horribly written
I missed the question part when the post was new.
The party should actually become 2nd level after the encounter with Natalya and that other woman.
And If you manage to bring Natalya and the shard back you wold even get some money. But If you fail you have to get creative.
But there are still two leads left for us now, that we could follow on for additional fun in the town.
The slavers thing and that fortune teller.
We really should do that. More fun and lootses
"I don't mind the cold... What do you have on you of import?" Jimmy asks with a grin
Sorry, but I don't get that. From the context I could guess that it maybe an innuendo about showering together with Gwen.
But why "I don't mind the cold". Cold outside? Cold water?
And what has that to do with important things Gwen has on her?
You totally lost me there.
There is a fish pond a very short distance away :p. Jimmy doesnt want to destroy any scrolls when he throws Gwen in and then jumps in himself
Har, har.
You know, Gwen didn't fall into that s#!~. She is in no need of a bath.
First thought coming to mind is Gwen running screaming if she notices it.
If not you should only do that if you like your girl frigid. In all meanings of the word :P
Time flies and no sufficient posting rate was achieved!
We had a party here. And now I'm off to my training.
Enjoy
I have a question about mechanics on weapon enhancements. Its something i think works but want to check. And i think it fits "somewhat" with Jimmy and his non lethal damage tendency.
A +1 merciful, vicious spear.
How does merciful and vicious interact?
Merciful: The weapon deals an extra 1d6 points of damage, and all damage it deals is nonlethal damage.
I'd say I'd rule it as stated. Yay for non leathal flaming burst damage.
Yay for 1d8 + 3d6 + 1 for the price of a +3 weapon. And yay for healing all the nonlethal i do to myself with vicious
Have you seen 18kgp somewhere lying in the bushes?
Also you have to roll your damage separately. So if you're out of luck vicious might damage you more than your opponent.
There is that chance yes. Which is crappy. Buy i just enjoy the theory crafting of it
I searched for the ideal weapon too, but I don't think there is one. Even mercyful starts to suck, once you're opposed by a horde of undead.