oh come on, Paizo! I can't access my private messages and I'm still stuck at the front of each thread.
Try clearing your cookies/history if you can. Or switch browsers - you may have more or less luck with destktop or mobile logins. I can’t resize Orik from mobile - does anyone know how to do so? He’s big during this round of ridiculous damage.
Bleah, it works in Safari, but not Chrome. I fiddled with extensions and cleared cookies, but no luck. I really prefer Chrome to Safari. Oh well!
Re: Orik resizing, unfortunately, you can only resize on a browser. I think I can change the drawing type so that you can do it from mobile, for the next map. :)
Oh well, I can just do it at night. I don’t always use my computer before bed, so I’m usually on my phone posting for the next month.
I'm out for 4 days backpacking--this is my last "non wifi" vacation, I think! ;)
Ahh, hold on! My bite was a nat 20 - which should always hit. Unless she had a special blur or something. As a side note - holy crap - AC 20 misses - what the heck...
Also, I was planning on staying behind the door and not going in (I couldn’t fit and didn’t have enough actions to stand in front of everyone) - staying with the party behind the door was the only place that I had room. Orik’s AC is 10 while enlarged - I wouldn’t have exposed him like that. With the enlarge up though, I had reach to hit her past the doorway from where he was. That means Ogon would’ve been able to step out - I wouldn’t have done this if it made him lose a turn - he’s the tank. I didn’t have a chance to use my computer yet tonight otherwise I would’ve made it all clear.
That said, It’d make sense if Orik was knocked unconscious after he hits her with the bite, which is fine, I just don’t want to be in front of anyone (I didn’t want to be :( )
As another minor side note - I’m still not sure how she enlarged and attacked in the same round - was she casting when I hit her with the bite? If so, she’d have to make a concentration check. Enlarge is 1 full round action to cast - except when drunk as a potion or using the domain power (then it manifests the same round). I’m sure there’s a reason but I just didn’t want you to overlook it before you obliterated poor Orik.
I’m so confused...Bleh, that’s why I wanted to wait until Ogon went, originally - I didn’t want to get knocked unconscious again.
Map fixed, Orik is positioned where he wanted to be - though he can still be unconscious.
Sorry about not fixing the map earlier, our situation with respect to where my computer is/where I am is odd. I gotta stay with my son at night until he gets to sleep, and can't move to my desktop (in a different part of the apartment) until that happens.
I'm also a little bit confused how we are nearing the end of the first module and still level 2. It feels like we haven't leveled up in ages. Sad Yrja.
LOLCATZ
You should have been Level 3 in Waldsby. hahahahaha! No wonder this felt so hard and the mandragorafight dragged out forever. Well, for a while it felt ok as you had cleverly gleaned so much info from the sergeant.
DM takes 500000 points of damage. But that was fun, right? (ok, maybe not)
Ok, here's what we're going to do. I'm about to be out for 3 days in the woods. Everyone please take the time to level up to Level 3... and we'll reset this fight at 3. Unless Orik wants to keep his rolls, and YES, duh, nat 20 auto-hits.
Then I'll return on Sunday, you can all take turns slapping the GM having teh dumb, and we'll get on our way.
She drank an Enlarge Person potion, btw, and did some prior buffs.
That’s cool with me - sorry for being a complainer. I hope I didn’t make you feel bad, you’re so nice to us. :)
Next time I’ll get myself better positioned when the attack goes off (on the map). And FYI, if she drinks her potion, she’s enlarged the same round she drinks it (unless you want to rule it differently). One of the super-cool benefits of potions of enlarge person. Will make her super big and full of reach for the round we start engaging, as well! And, you almost never can interrupt a potion of enlarge person.
Have fun backpacking and make sure to check for ticks thoroughly, this year is especially bad.
Leveluled.
Leveled. And with GM permission, Orik will cast “ice armor” and don the icy breastplate prior to opening the door, making him less of an embarrassing doofus of a liability to the party.
Hey, Orik, if you're intending to focus somewhat on ranged combat, do you want to at-some-point take Coordinated Shot? I am taking it anyway, because I essentially get a freebie teamwork feat regardless-- someday I might have an animal companion again, after all-- but even if I don't, it's not like I'm really passing up a better feat to take it. So if you intend to keep up bow focus as a cleric of Erastil it could potentially be useful, but just a suggestion.
GM: With your permission, I'm going to drop Chiquq's divine hunter archetype. I had a sense of RP stuff in the beginning with the character having to do with her faith in the giant pantheon that just hasn't really materialized in any interesting way-- I no longer feel there's an IC reason to keep up with that mechanical choice, and basic hunter is just simpler to deal with. So I'll retrograde into basic hunter if it's okay with you, but if not just say so.
Posting level up shortly.
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Hey folks - this all seems very confusing! :)
I'll read the gameplay and get my level up done shortly!
*slaps GM with a wet fish* (that was for the 'flame war' pun!)
EDIT: all levelled. (Need a GM ruling on the 'resolve' class feature - I don't have 'Challenge' so is it possible for me to regain resolve or not? I assume it isn't but wanted to check.)
Haven't made a gameplay post since we're restarting the fight :)
How are we doing HP?
I took 1/2 + 1 since that was what I had for level 2...
Sure, it’ll be a while though. Lots of prerequisite stuff to get through - which is why I’m switch hitting until 6 or 7. I *just* got pbs. But I could grab a ring of tactical precision ASAP and you could load in whatever feats you want me to use - that would work pretty well even prior to level 7. Coordinated shot looks like it works best with an archer/melee pair anyway, not two archers. So I can’t take it in time for it to help you in the near term. Maybe you can get a new AC soon (feel free to take Sasha - Axolotl said I’d get her back as soon as we left). So if coordinated shot was a reason to drop Divine Hunter you may want to wait! Don’t drop it on account of me to get more teamwork synergy - that’ll be a while :(. If it’s for RP reasons that’s a different story.
That said, I really like Divine Hunter for archer hunters. The celestial companion and domain open up so much flexibility for buffs and survivablity! Teamwork feats are good - but so is a companion with smite evil :D.
I'd offer to take it, but since my archetype trades out ranged kinetic blast I'd have no use for PBS what-so-ever...
No worries, Ogon. It's pretty rare I'm even in a group that has more than one ranged dedicated character.
Orik: yeah, it's mostly for RP reasons, not for the teamwork feats. And yes, Coordinated Shot is considerably more useful if a melee critter has it too-- in theory, if I got an animal companion back down the line, the three of us having the feat would benefit both you and me. But it's not pressing-- I would take it now just because it's a free feat, but you could take it well down the road. That said, the ring is a good suggestion and might be better than you blowing a feat on it.
IDK. I'll consider keeping divine hunter, as you say the buffs are nice. *chinhands into the distance*
Domains that I like on a Hunter - the powers have utility and the spells are either good, not on hunter list, or have some benefit for being able to cast spontaneously:
Alchemy (magic) - they have self buffs that they can infuse into potions and pass around. Decent spells (including dispel magic, amplify elixir, and touch injection).
Cooperation (community) - if you do pick up a teamwork feat (better for melee with free outflank) you can share it, and then later you can share it with multiple people via coordinated effort. Decent spells that aren’t on the Hunter list.
Exploration (travel) - faster movement, and free scouting through doors, typically enough to scout every one in an adventure. Later gets teleport self, which is bonkers. Amazing spells, especially fly, ddoor and teleport, none on the Hunter list, all great, and all benefiting from spontaneous.
Good, Archon, Azata - all have different flavors of excellent powers - including auras and ways to debuff and buff. Good spells not on the Hunter list that you don’t know if you need (including fly on Azata).
Self Realization/Liberation - Self Realization gets you paragon surge (omg!) regardless of race, and has a scaling bonus on saves against polymorph and transmutation effects. Okay spells, some on the Hunter list, but great to have spontaneously (liberation clears a bunch of status effects). Liberation is good on its own too.
Luck - all luck domains are always good - but maybe less so on pbp. New spells, some better than others, some on list/ some not, often good for spontaneous.
Elemental Ones - resistances are always nice and it’s not bad to get free damage for weapons (subdomains that swap out the elemental damage rays are best)
Animal and subdomains - boosts to companion, feather has decent spells, otherwise mediocre additions to the list.
Heroism (glory) - the channeling boost is trash but heroism spontaneously is great and the aura of heroism is great too. Pretty good spells otherwise.
Less appropriate for RoW but good - martyr (nobility) - gets a ranged longish-lasting morale boost (equivalent to heroism) many times per day and can sacrifice self to prevent damage to others. Amazing spells that aren’t on list, like divine favor and magic vestment.
Yeah, there's a lot of good stuff there, but most of them aren't in the original domain/god I'd chosen for my divine hunter thing. I thiiink what I might do-- again, contingent on the GM being okay with it, since it's a change from what I originally submitted-- is run with the notion of Ila's spirit being the thing that is guiding her rather than a sort of obscure giant-pantheon god as I originally had it. Er, not that you know who Ila is, but it's her dead animal companion, haha.
GM, how lenient or otherwise do you feel like being with where my divine power as a divine hunter is coming from? Should I look at a domain and pitch it to you RP wise, or should I stick with an established deity, or...
Oh no, I read the entirety of the gameplay thread before I came in. It was sad. :(
I think you’ve got a good idea, too!
Aww, well, shucks. *toe in dirt*
I like the idea of Ila's spirit being a divine guide!
Howdy folks, I'm out of the wilderness but not out of the woods (much prepping of children for school tomorrow).
HP is a la PFS-- 1/2 HD + 1 (and another +1 if that's your favored class bonus)
Chiquq, you are welcome to drop the archetype should you so desire. Yeah, unfortunately I haven't been able to tie in -every- bit of everyone's backstory, and with some players dropping out our prophecies have gotten muddled (I blame Aroden on that one :D).
I think the idea of Ila guiding you is pretty darn majestic. I'm honestly open to lots of ideas via the rule of cool. Heck, if you wanted Ila to come back with the celestial template (hand waved resurrection), I'm not opposed to it. Of course, then there's the deity to figure out. Fandarra and Skode both work. But this is just me spinning, and it's your character. :) (and companion.)
Regarding domain, which one do you like? I think we can figure this out in a pleasing way. We can research deities first and if that doesn't work, handwavium leviosa.
Ogon--I gotta check the challenge/resolve mechanic! Very new to me, that archetype is. All cavalierish.
Yeah...looks like Kinetic Knight cannot regain resolve. Still a pretty good power to draw upon in dire circumstances!
OKay, I think I'll stick with divine hunter, but I'll have to revise me sheet accordingly. Let me try and sort out a domain and pitch it to you. And no worries about the RP thing-- that was me, not you, it just didn't fit organically with how Chiquq was playing.
Okay, I think what I'll do is switch over to Desna for my deity since she's a commonly-worshipped Kellid deity anyway and it won't have the whole 'trying to justify why this character worships a deity from the giant pantheon' thing that originally sounded cool to me but doesn't so much now. And then I'll likely take the (regular) travel domain, because it makes a lot of sense for Chiquq, RP-wise, as someone who was hiring out as a scout for others. I'll get the sheet updated, but the current one is pretty close to what is supposed to be there.
As for resurrecting Ila-- at the moment I'm fine with seeing where the story takes Chiquq without her baby mammoth-- I of course would love to have Ila back, too :P but losses like that only mean something if they stick with the character at least for a while.
As you wish, Chiquq! I forget who doesn't have Hero Lab--Orik, I think? Can people send me their updated Hero Lab sheets? And then we'll get this party re-started. Pun not intended (?)
Nah, I have it, I just don’t always have access to my computer this summer. I did update my statblock in the profile, though.
Are you okay with my ice armor idea?
updated my sheet, and emailed you the HL file. I'll probably still run with spirit!Ila guiding Chiquq, too, but in an RP sense rather than in any sort of animal domain mechanics sense.
Hey Orik, I missed that query and yes, Ice Armor prior to opening the door is fine.
Goodness! I just now was able to open the Paizo site after trying a few times today. I swear, I'm really close to moving this whole thing to Roll20 or something. I'm not an IT person but it really seems like they can't keep the forums stable. I apologize--I'll try to get a post up first thing tomorrow morning. :(
Looks like we’ve had a lot of issues today. Hopefully it gets cleared up for the long term.
Wow, I can get back on. Whew! By the way--I DID set up a campaign on Roll20 and figured out how to put maps on there. Just sayin'. ;)
Yeah, but then I can't add cat pictures to the map.
On the road until Sunday night, bot me as needed please.
Yrja--hehe. Oh wow, FINALLY, I can get back to this darn website.
test.
CATS.
Sorry for the delay, it was down for me until Friday. I'll try to get something up today.
I hope Orlov has less than or equal to an AC of 26 (22 with cover) while enlarged. If so, this time I speared her without a bite!
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That was a long time on the Plane of Oblivion.
Looks like we’re back again?
I think Dien may or may not be around at the moment, but with the website troubles it’s hard to keep track.
I think I recall that too--I shall bot her today.
Oi, I'm sorry, I have been around but this game wasn't showing any new relies for me, I just checked it on a whim thinking it was strange we hadn't picked back up since the site is doing steady....er. Steadier.
Sorry about that, but I'm here.
I haven't seen any notifications of new replies on the gameplay thread for at least a week. But I'm all caught up now.
I'll try to send up suborbital green flares for the Northern Hemisphere after each post.
Haha, well, I'm getting notifications NOW when there's posts in the gameplay. So that's something.