GM Blood's Age of Worms in Golarion

Game Master David James Olsen

I noticed that, excelleby! thank you everyone for a great game this year!

Wow! Great job GM Blood! And great job everyone!

This has really been an awesome game. Thanks GM Blood for all of the work to convert this to Pathfinder and thanks to all of the players for really sticking with it. Looking forward to another great year of this!

Brief public service announcement for your toothy inquisitor who clearly should have bitten the Faceless One last round and has imperiled us all by failing to put him out of his misery. The finalists for Valhalla Calling have been announced and my all too human alter ego has the god fortune to be one of the finalists. Vote early and vote often. Just kidding. You only get to vote once and can vote for as many pitches as you love. I hope mine is one of them :)

Kelkzar, feel free to take your bite, I think your character would have remembered

also, congrats!

Congrats on finishing part 2. You guys are doing great in some very tough incursions. "Good" news is you are now fighting the CE section of the triad so they be less organized (Though maybe a tad more vicious!)

Take a well deserved breather!

Thank you everyone for a truly enjoyable game this year. This wouldn't go as well without such a great group!

Part 2 - with 10 more to go, right? It's been a lot of fun so far, as I've tried to help where possible despite my spellcasting not accomplishing anything... though the hexes have definitely helped!

Part 2 - with 10 more to go, right? It's been a lot of fun so far, as I've tried to help where possible despite my spellcasting not accomplishing anything... though the hexes have definitely helped!

Wow. A fantastic game so far! I'm with Jirin... I'll work to make Rauno more effective. I ran out of spells early and was trying to help out where I could after that to less than stellar effect.

part 2 of chapter 2, still the third leg of the cult to go yet

Don't worry about it, we're all contributing and you guys will both really shine as we get to higher levels.

Lots of loot. I'll make a compiled list when I get a chance.

15 mw studded leather
1 mw dagger
19 dagger
13 shortbow
260 arrows
2 mw light crossbow
40 bolts
small lockbox

1395gp
2 small diamonds (100 gp each)
Two golden goblets (100 gp each)
bronze sacrifical dagger set with blood red rubies (400gp)
6 garnets worth 50gp each

30 sunrods
4 feather token (Bird)
5 vial of alchemist fire
2 vials of acid
complete alchemical toolkit

wand of magic missiles (38 charges)
dagger +1
Eyes of the Eagle
4x2??? scorching ray scrolls
4x3??? scrolls of web
scroll lightning bolt, summon monster III
potion of cure light wounds
bracers of armor +???
lesser metamagic rod (extend)
headband of intelligence +2
+1 heavy steel shield of blinding

Key to Lamashtu Section

Trevor could use the shield, but I'm not tied to it as I like fighting 2-handed.

And I'm not sure about a paladin using the blinding ability!

Quintus could use the shield; anything that helps keep the healer undamaged has to be a good thing, right?

Then grab it. Anyone else? Lots of caster items...

The Eyes of the Eagle would best to Jirin to help with finding traps, though Rowena has a higher base Perception so it would benefit the party as a whole more often if she had them.

Magic Missile isn't on Jirin's spell list and she doesn't have UMD, so Rauno's the only one that can use that particular wand. Rauno would also make much better use of the rod.

The headband is a toss-up as it benefits us equally, though I'd originally conceived of Jirin as focusing more debuff spells / hexes than it looks like Rauno has chosen for his spellbook (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

Jirin already has a Bracers of Armor, though it's only a +1.

Rauno should get the scrolls so he can copy them into his spellbook, and then create scrolls from there so that I can learn those that are on my list as wizards can't learn spells from witches, though witches can learn spells from a wizard's scroll.

the brackets found are +1

Working from a phone, GM B? That looks like a rogue autocorrect.

oops yep. also I am using Swype Beta and with my phone's upgrade to android Jellybean, in web browsers the auto space and capitalization is not currently working.

So that should be Bracers +1

Yeah, I just don't know where to start! Pretty much everything except the shield...

I think starting with the things no one else can use well. I think the wand of magic missiles would be Rauno's. The headband and rod would both be quite useful, but I don't want to scoop up everything. Especially with the benefit I'll be getting from those spellbooks.

EDIT:
GM Questions: Is the wand of magic missiles caster level 1? Scrolls caster levels: Scorching Ray caster level 3? Web caster level 3? Lightning Bolt and Summon Monster III caster level 5?

Some thoughts on item distribution (at least until we've cleared this place out; then we can revisit):
Rauno only: wand of magic missiles (38 charges)
Dagger +1, anyone.
Eyes of the Eagle, a scout (Rowena?).
2x Scroll: Scorching Ray (Rauno only)
3x Scroll: Web (Rauno or Jirin)
1x Scroll: Lightning Bolt, Summon Monster III (Rauno or Jirin)
Potion Cure Light Wounds (anyone).
Bracers of Armor +1 (anyone).
Lesser Metamagic rod: Extend. (Jirin, Rauno or Quintus).
Headband of Intelligence +2 (Rauno or Jirin)
Heavy Steel Shield +1 of blinding (Quintus)

I don't think anything in this batch is terribly appealing to Kelkzar so have at it. I'm sure there will be loot down the road that will work well for him. Improving armor and mobility and heavy hitting two-handed weapons are at the top of his list. Not planning to switch him to sword and board so that shield is fine to go to Quintus.

OK, I added that to Quintus' character sheet. Is anyone else interested in either of the mw light crossbows? Quintus can use one of those, too.

I'm going to stick with the bow from earlier since that has a strength bonus.

The only thing I'd specifically request is the Headband to help with the resist DC for my Evil Eye hex.

I'm going to stick with the bow from earlier since that has a strength bonus.

same here.

I'll take one of the masterwork crossbows for now. It gives me a +1 when I have to resort to it.

I'm okay with Jirin taking the headband. I'll take the metamagic rod then.

Here is my currently-prepared spell selection. Suggestions/recommendations?

1 (2/day) Cure Moderate Wounds, Hold Person (DC 17)
1 (4/day) Burning Hands (DC 16), Cause Fear (DC 16), Mage Armor, Ray of Enfeeblement (DC 16)
0 (at will) Daze (DC 15), Dancing Lights, Guidance, Spark (DC 15)

Also, did Rowena take the Eyes of the Eagle item? It's a free +5 to Perception checks!

I think she did. I'll update her sheet.

I will be mostly out of touch this weekend.

I'm going to be at a con this weekend, and am not sure how much access I'll have. (Haven't checked if hotel internet is free.)

Which con will you be at? I just secured my hotel for GaryCon in March in Lake Geneva. Got some old school gaming in my future!

ConFusion, in Michigan . A friend in Madison does a lot with GaryCon.

Last year I went with a couple friends at the last moment. We ended up doing a couple 1st ed and a Stargate game. This year we are staying in town and for an extra day and hoping to get a Dungeon Crawl Classic game in (and another StarGate game if that GM does it again)

Ah yes. How do you choose which you like more: the resounding clang of an armored faller or the satisfying wet slap of the unskilled? For a GM, its like asking to pick which child you like best!

In my last Monday night home campaign we did Carrion Crown. There were two paladin and a dwarf cleric in full plate with a rogue. At One point climbing down a rope was needed and much hilarity ensued.

I think we just got to that point in the CC game I'm playing in on the boards--at least (avoiding spoilers) if you're talking about the part where you land in cold water. The party I'm in is a witch, a dirge bard, a magus, a cleric, and an urban ranger (me), so we're not exactly rocking the AC scores, though.

That sounds about right to me. It is funny when the DC 5 climb check was missed from 3 out of the 4 member. Anytime there was any kind of dexterity check the rogue would do something to up the DC to rub it in, like a balance check was need to cross something and he would do a cartwheel!

Trevor is doing a cartwheel.

He hasn't landed yet...

Assuming you're all still in Harrowstone, my PbP group is on the upper floor. I'm an oracle of life and we have a battle oracle, a rogue, a barbarian and a necromancer. So, we're not really rocking it on AC either.

I was all ready to start updating when I found out that when I updated java I broke my maptools so I could do a map for this fight. Just now fixed it, but time to register for Gary Con events! Update coming....

I'll be mostly away from computer until Monday, so posting will be accidental. Feel free to move along without me if needed. I'll catch up.

Totally forgot that 9 days ago was out 1 year anniversary! Congrats!

3,260 posts which averages out to almost 9 posts a day!

We're flying, too. Halfway through 3 Faces, or more than that? (Or would that be telling?)

Wow, hadn't realized I missed it. That is a pretty good pace.

more than two thirds of it! :)

I wasn't sure if there was going to be anything on the scale of the temples after we (hopefully!) finish off the Lamashtu temple.

So we're more than 2/3 through the second of 12 modules in the whole AP (basically, 1/6 finished)? Zoikes!

I am heading out on a vacation and I’ll be away from my computer from Friday until the 24th. I don’t know if I’ll have any internet access and if so how much. Please DMPC me to keep the story going and I’ll catch up as quickly as I can when I get back.