GM Choon Presents: The (Gestalt) War of Dragonfires (Inactive)

Game Master Choon

I'm pretty sure allies don't obstruct movement.

That's not what I meant, with the orb there, we can get past but the only spaces are ones next to enemy troops or Aao I think, looking at it.

Also Gigantos IF you are large, that is 10'x10' on the base. IF so your going to hit by Akumu's aqueous orb as you get past to fight the Enemy.

GM are the enemy Troops stunned for this round?

They are staggered, so they won't be taking AoO

Arr great GM thanks

Thank Fate. ;)

Hi I just wanted to let you know that a number of real world commitment have come up that mean I will have a lot less time. I am having to make a call on what I use my free time for and I am going to have to cut the PbPs out. What this means is that After this battle I will be withdrawing from the game. GM could you Bot my PC from here, She will blast and support as needed. I know there are other players lined up so I have no fear my slot will be filled.

I wish you all the best guys, GM Panic.

No problem. Best of luck to you!

Obs mist is 1 min/ lv so 6 min.

All the best, Panic.

Someone moved me huh? That's fine, was gonna go all out lol. I hope someone can heal.

I can. Don't worry about that.

just one last post to help Celeste. Best of luck guys.

Celeste, does your jump provoke?

Yeah it did, but didn't you just say that no one could take aoo? I jumped during that round based on that information.

Yes, you're right. I was just curious.

See ya around, Panic! Thanks for hanging out.

In other news, it's about time Craven's life felt threatened. I've been getting off easy so far. >.>

Also, I have 5 cold resist.

Yes, you're right. I was just curious.

Meign don't do that, I thought I was about to get smashed by some invisible critters. lol.

Out of curiosity, were any of those in the burst evil?

Well in news, seems my big old site admin task is on hold as the site went live and fell, Developers say its going to take 4 more weeks to fix :( so I have time on my hands till then, so will be around a little longer, I'll see the combat out.

*laughs*

You silly geeks, you :P

4 more weeks to fix? What on earth did they miss?

After Legacy data interrogation for full live test, Clients legal compliance team [Who had it seems not bother to check the site's DB spec part,] flagged a massive "NO,NO!". Means a whole redesign of the User journey and back end for admins. Not my problem, it was client end, some other poor sods there is getting butt kicked over it. I'm just the software architect having to deal with it this end. Took me 2 days to redesign a fix. 3 weeks to re-code and test then 1 more week for legal compliance to check. Once done, then it will be 6 mouths of admin oversight and live fixes. Always the same, rushing to stand still.

Silly Lawyers.

who we waiting on guys.

I think thats veryone but
Areth gone this round.

waiting on you turn GM

Hindsight, don't ask me to heal in combat, Panic. In pathfinder you can't keep up with the damage dealt. If I had gone nuking - which was where the - did the burst of radiance do damage(which means they are evil), we might be one less mage now. I'm not going to reroll, so count this as good-bye.

Sorry to see you go. It did do some damage, yes. This particular group is evil. Sorry I didn't answer that sooner.

oh man sorry for getting injured guys. I would have used my maneuvers so gain some temp hp but I needed to refresh them first. Gonna help Craven right quick and then I will be right back to help push forward. The fog kinda messed up my game plan along with all the other various areas of effect stuff. Hard to be melee with casters shooting that kinda stuff right at you.

I am really sorry Akumu, I really mean that.

I had no idea the GM would roll a 20 on fate dice and dump 44 Fire on us + attacks. We have had some real bad look with that fate D20 :(. Would you think about this, your only at -7 so a con save could give you a round. Wand of infernal healing and you can be getting HP back.

I really wish I had looked at everyone's sheets had a better idea of what we had to work with, but felt funny about that.

We where told from the start this would be a high death count game.
Thing is we really need a cleric or two, just shows how impotent they are in buffing HP in fights like that. Selective channeling would have helped so much.

I am sorry to see you go Akumu and sorry if I make a mistake on that call.

GM rolling a 20 of fate was a downer.

@Areth That mage has moved into the open, with Akumu down the fog and orb go, could you take a shot and take him out? Give us a chance to save Akumu.

@GM Canaan seems to be NPC, he's fast could we have him take
Akumu's wand of infernal healing if Areth can take out the mage?
It would stabilize and revive Akumu, if we clear the ones at the back and next round come and get him.

@Akumu How dos that sound? its risky, but we save you and you have one hell of a story to tell Sargent Akumu, when drilling the next set of replacements. kind of 100% the commanders going to field promote you

Well I have sent PMs and now its in the hands of fate, lets see if she is kind.

Lets say you run some calculations. With the errata to oracle FCB, we're looking at a 5d6 channel with a 11k investment in phalactery of positive channeling (which would exclude the character in question from using a headband). Selective channel will probably unselect 3(if you're cleric), and 4(if you're oracle). In a massed battle? Forget it. Quick channel takes 2 uses. A channeling cleric would have 6 uses, say at 16 cha. Anything more then 16 is generally reserved for hangover clerics, of which they would be using their channeling offensively, which means the party wouldn't get any (they're negative channelers). 5d6 on average is...15.

Which at the magnified damage we are taking, is insufficient. Not to mention to force someone to play a healbot is a bad thing to do (its boring as fk). Also, its questionable if everyone is even in 30 ft....

Pathfinder already favours offence over defence, at the levels we are playing, it's even more magnified. I should just roll a blaster and blow everything up, but I really don't care for that kind of playstyle, so I'll just let it drop here.

And the orb is on its last round, but spells do not dissappear with the death of their caster -> means mist is still around.

GM Panic - do not force people into a class or role. This is an experimental game, so people are more interested in doing their own stuff. In a long term campaign, yes I might put up that request, but since everyone is here just to test stuff out, there really is no point.

Hrm, if you guys let me attack that caster in front of akumu I can heal him for 7-12 hp but I have to be able to attack. It would be more but I didn't grab the higher level Silver crane maneuvers. Will pick up one if I level.

edit: actually I can heal double that using that reflected blade style maneuver and get to attack two people at the same time.....man that is awesome. So the minimum healing will be 14 hp, it doesn't even say they need to hit.

You just got heal for 23 hp boss.

edit: that was 1 hp short of my max, you lucky as hell.

GM Panic - do not force people into a class or role. This is an experimental game, so people are more interested in doing their own stuff. In a long term campaign, yes I might put up that request, but since everyone is here just to test stuff out, there really is no point.

I understand, my intent was to make up for the bad call. If your happy with the outcome of the fate dice, then I will not push it any more or anyone into a roll. But as it stands now Celeste came and give you payback for saving her. Its getting close and my hope is with your help and magic we my even live thought it, true is we need you, where all low on HP and still have this thumper and the other to deal with. Celeste I think also asked you to do something. So what ya say, how about we go kick some bad Guy butt.

Spells back in place, sorry had a brain fart then

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I think looking how this went we did good, we could have gone from the front but the Fire Bombs from the back would have hit us hard and two Thudders firing from each side + 3 mages hiding yakes, area affects and magic OUCH!. We would have been down low on hit points before we got close to taking out the crews on the catapults. So I think we went the right way, just that fate rolled high and we got hit hard in the attack. All I can say is mass battles are like this, bad calls are made, events don't go your way but one can only do ones bast. Myself I think we are lucky to have go this far.

I don't think we coordinated at all. Im pretty certain you can fight at edge of fog, melee wise, without any penalty. That would give a 20% miss chance of people hitting in, melee actually have no issue hitting out. Fighting within the mist itself would give 50% concealment from anything outside the mist.

Windwall is unlikely to work due to the nature of the ranged attacks.

There was also a possibility of entire party going mist and shadows style, but probably expecting people to think to such detail is...probably too much. Look at it this way, you can hit one guy at a time at melee, while multiple ranged can hit you at one go. The only other alternative is to mass control the environment, which, considering the scope of the battlefield, only 1 spell reaches that far, it requires special conditions, and gives a saving throw to avoid.

Fog doesn't bother me at all now lol.

I say you guys blast that thumper with whatever you can and let us run clean up on the guys around us since I need to do that anyways to regain my temp hp. Wish I could have saved the other giant but I think he got splattered in the other previous round that I was getting my butt kicked right? Is he dead or just dying?

@Celeste, I think that hes past Con and so dead, unless someone has breath of life etc or can heal him back to with in con this round.

@Just a Mort, I get where your coming from with the fog now, good logic, just missed it,. Yep we seemed to have gone all over the place. I think if we live and get another group in we work out "planes" in place of plan to have ways to go.

How did hell become heal? lol

Auto spell checker the bane of my life.

Looks like we have everyone gone but the Fatty_Halfling who I think is underground healing. Not 100% but I think that was what he was doing.

So lets see of the fate dice is nice this time,

And the chant starts...

roll Low Roll low Roll low

Also do our PCs get Medals of they survive?

Medals? This is your job. I'll give you a medal if you manage to get through one of these without significant damage. :P

The fates were kind. Battle complete. Well done everyone.

howdy. tenro's character here.

GM is it ok to loot but have the Quatermaters take so we have even playing for new comers. Idea being we only get what you think will keep the game from braking etc,

Hi tenro, welcome to the trenches.

Yes. If you want to RP looting and such that's fine.

Good luck, have fun. Since the only way that I can meaningfully contribute to this is by rolling a blaster, which I have no interest in doing - its just so crude, I'll bow out. I also have no interest in studying the psionic handbooks just for this. The last time I tried to study mythic and gestalt together, I made a mess of it and in the end couldn't even roll a character.

I've always been more of the behind the scenes type as opposed to seeing how much you can dish out.

That is, of course, your decision. I'm sorry to see you go, but thanks for playing.

Good to have ya, Mort. Thanks for hanging out!

Sorry to see you go Mort, was great to have you play, sorry for the Heal call and best of luck in your other games

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This is Anderlorn, I am volunteering this toon for the carnage if it is not too late and if this character is approved because of the following ...

Yes I know I added a Core Monk Archetype to Unchained Monk, and I added the rules that I used to do this inside the character sheet.