GM Bigrin's Giantslayer (Inactive)

Game Master bigrin42

Yeah. Go, me. :p

So now that Gods & Magic is out, I can say I spent a lot of time thinking about Storn while I was writing one section. Hope it lived up to the legend.

Holy crap, I am delighted and honoured! Reading it as soon as my game updates are done today. Thank you for keeping my favorite hairy maniac in mind. :D

Lads and Quill,

Aebliss posted in another of my games that he has been ill, so I am going to DMPC him until he posts that he is better able to post.

Evil Eyes for everyone!

Thanks for the update. Please pass along our well wishes.

Much appreciated. ^_^ I'm back-ish.

Lol it's a miracle? Glad you're back(ish).

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!

On this day, five years ago, we launched a new game. A game of excitement, of giants and orcs, and of Dieter (and his various incarnations) getting smashed over and over again. Most of you have been with this game since the beginning, and I really appreciate your commitment and great gameplay. For those that came in to fill spots, thank you for joining this merry band of misfits.

Thank you all!

Nice!

WOO!

WOO!

Shouldn't that be STORN!?

Congrats to all of us. ^_^

Also, apologies for my absence. I should be more reliable going forward. ^^;

FYI, I got asked to help out on a late project, so I may be a little slow to post in my PBPs until I get it done. Will still try to post daily, though.

If big boy survives to my next round, I'll try hitting him with a Dispel magic. Hopefully that'll lower his defenses some.

Is he in range of your hexes (maybe with twilight haze)? Evil eye is a huge potential help, -4 to his AC to start, then -4 to his attack rolls next round.

Twilight haze does nothing for my hexes, I'm afraid. I'll need to get eyes on him, and then big boy needs to fail his Will save against DC 18.
I'll try to Evil eye him next round, then Dispel after.

The hex will always work for 1 round minimum. Get cackle and you can keep it going even if enemies don't fail their saves. It's incredibly versatile.

Which is the fog spell that lets you use hexes on anything inside them? Obviously not twilight haze ... :)

Barrow Haze maybe?

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/b/barrow-haze/

Ah. I don't have that one ... yet.

Yeah, that was it. Thanks, Chwaer.

Maaan this is to the wire. If Storn goes out he'll have died as he lived, screaming incoherently and hitting whatever is in front of him.

Talked to GM - he'll offline for the next 2-3 days.

Hey guys, sorry for the silence. Being without internet kinda sucks!

But, I'm back now so let the frivolity commence.

What are you guys doing? There is a chest that you haven't opened yet, stairways leading up, a legendary forge to repair (or not), a whole room full of papers and maps you didn't have time to read, and a blind giantess to answer to.

I think we're waiting for you to resolve my attempt to open the chest. After that, we were going to rest, but I'm not sure I realized there were stairs still leading up.

Do we want to hit that before retreating to rest, all?

Somehow, despite rereading the interim posts twice, I missed your chest roll. My apologies.

I expect you'll have a lot of discussion as to what to do next while you level up your characters. To summarize some of the info you have learned:

Thanks for the recap. It’s really helpful.

I’ll get Quill leveled up this weekend.

So before I level, I'm open to suggestions. My bombs are obviously very useful ... but also of limited amounts. I have 13 of them, which is a full five rounds of combat if I'm not careful. I've already taken Extra Bombs, and I don't think there's any other way to get more

I'm trying to decide what to do for non-bomb rounds. I feel like I'll get squashed pretty quickly in melee -- I could add blur to my extract list and get a little more protection, but I'm likely to get hit just about every time if I'm in melee. And I'm Small and don't have Strength to speak of, so I'm not sure I'd be doing much damage even if I add in Bull Strength.

Same is true of my sling, though I could make that a little more useful if I take Rapid Reload as my feat this turn. IIRC, I'd originally planned to use my sling and poison, but realized that if we're going up against high-Fortitude save giants, that's not very effective.

I could spend a little more time crafting some alchemical stuff, but even that's typically doing 2d6 at most, which isn't that helpful. I was thinking maybe a lot of tanglefoot bags? I could also perhaps get giant bane on my sling to make it a touch more effective...

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Also, following up on that last idea, what do we want to do with the forge? Getting more powerful magic items might be worth the time/energy/risk to get this reactivated.

+1 on the recap - thanks!

Level 9 is uncharted territory for me. I'm open to any and all suggestions.

So before I level, I'm open to suggestions. My bombs are obviously very useful ... but also of limited amounts. I have 13 of them, which is a full five rounds of combat if I'm not careful. I've already taken Extra Bombs, and I don't think there's any other way to get more

Uh, you can take that feat more than once.

Also, any chance you have UMD for a wand of something? But also, failing that, then maybe getting a ton of just normal fire/acid flasks to toss might be a plan.

Hmm. I'm not great at UMD, but I could sink some ranks into it.

And/or I could grab two more bombs (especially since looking more closely I *haven't* yet taken that feat, even if I can take it multiple times), though really that's just one more round of combat...

This is an easy level up for a warpriest. The good s*$~ comes at level 10.

+8 hp

Increase to intimidate, sense motive, knowledge religion.

Feat is (reluctantly) greater weapon focus greatsword. Heartspit is better for fighting giants but maybe there's an opportunity to do a weapon upgrade or find an even better sword.

I'd also recommend UMD for certain wands (HASTE?), and for extra bombs. Giant bane on your sling would be VERY useful from this point on.

I'e always found bomb alchemists to be great novas, but they can't really sustain the damage. On single-target action the giant's bane sling would be best, and use bombs for the BIG guys or multi-targets.

Thanks. I'm liking these ideas.

Also, I just noticed Rapid Reload is only for crossbows. Is there any way to get multiple attacks on slings? (Otherwise it probably makes sense to switch to a light crossbow at the next opportunity.)

And one more question: Has anyone been keeping track of treasure? I don't think we've sold any since we started this book, so if need be I can try to go through in the next week to compile everything.

The loot sheet is up to date (I think)

As GM I would allow Rapid Reload to work for a sling.

Alternatively, there is the Warslinger ART for halflings.

Oh s@!$ I get two feats! Well in THAT case weapon specialization greatsword.

Can I retrain for/retcon in warslinger? Maybe that would make sense to do. :)

Yep, I would easily allow that.

OK, finally got a chance to level up:
Level 9 alchemist
+7 hp
+1 Will save
+1 bomb/day, +1d6 bomb damage (note, my macros also were slightly off on bomb damage after last level -- should have been +4 because of my Int boost, not +3, so I fixed those)
+1 third-level extract per day
+2 formulae (1 for FCB): displacement and bull's strength
+1 feat: Rapid Reload
+8 ranks for skills (also noticed, that I didn't bump up the extra ranks when I increased my Int to 18 last round, so adding those in too; 72 ranks total (9 levels * [4+4 Int]): +2 Acrobatics, +1 Craft (alchemy), +2 Fly, +1 Heal, +1 Know (arcana), +1 Perception, +1 Spellcraft, +1 Stealth, +7 UMD

Sorry for spotty posting, I put the games I'm running on hold for a lil bit while I recombobulate to life as it is but will continue with the games I'm playing in.

ANYWAYS.

Apologies for my absence. The world feels like a very strange place right now, and I'm ... off-balance. Not to mention constantly anxious. =_=

Okay... level-up.

Witch 8 / Brawler 1

Base atk. +1 (+5)
Will save +1 (+7)

I get a new Hex, so let's go with... fortune.

Additional spell slots for 3rd and 4th.
Spells/day:
4 / 5 / 4 / 4 / 3
New spells: Secure shelter (so done with roughing it in the great outdoors) annnd Inflict serious wounds.

HP: 7 (55)

Skill points: 2 + 4 Int. + 1 favoured class = 7
Acrobatics +1 (+18)
Fly +1 (+7)
Knowledge (arcana) +1 (+16)
Knowledge (planes) +1 (+10)
Linguistics + 1 (Aquan) (+9)
Sense motive +1 (+16)
Spellcraft +1 (+16)

New feat... Empower spell.

Game on.

Today's spell selection:

0 - Detect magic, Light, Message, Stabilize
1- Burning hands, Cure light wounds x 2, Mage armor, Sleep
2 - False life, Inflict moderate wounds, Twilight haze, Vomit swarm
3 - Dispel magic, Empowered burning hands, Lightning bolt, Summon monster III
4 - Empowered inflict moderate wounds, Secure shelter, Summon monster IV

If we ever get anywhere that can sell us spell scrolls, I'll try to pick up Barrow haze and Dimension door. Black tentacles would be pretty useless against Giants...

Wow. That's a deep dive into the rules! :)

Water are you even doing here with this s~@+ in my good, serious PbP game?

I'm just wetting my whistle for my own games.

As a GM, sometimes you must dive into the depths to find things out. Surface knowledge is fine for players, but GMs need a deep understanding to be shore they get things as close to right as possible. If we were scoring these games, a GM could get docked points for merely hand-waving, but would reel in extra points for fathoming the actual content. But, there is a place for all types of playstyles. Whatever floats your boat.

Also, there is Google. ;-)

I apologize for my absence.
My aunt died around midnight last night, and I do not really feel like playing right now.
I shall try to get back to posting over the weekend.

Sorry to hear that Molly :(

Dude, I am so sorry to hear that. Don't worry about us, we can muddle through. Take as much time as you need.