GM Chyro [PFS] Frozen fingers of Midnight (Inactive)

Game Master Chyrone

It's warm & comfortable, perfect for discussing topics.

Keera sits near the fireplace of the tavern, and take a drink before start talking.

Nice to meet you again, guys.

And talking about pasts missiones. Being so near to the death has make me ponder my acts in combat. I´ve obtained a wand to cure you, so you can continue fighting, and a potion in case I go down. Had any of you thought again of that combat?

To those not before in my games;
I use google docs for maps, it's editable to move your own tokens.
I'll roll init and in combat saves to keep things going.

ranged fighter at your service

I want to double check my acrobatics: I have a speed of 25, I still get -4 penalty on jumps?

Faster Base Movement: Creatures with a base land speed above 30 feet receive a +4 racial bonus on Acrobatics checks made to jump for every 10 feet of their speed above 30 feet. Creatures with a base land speed below 30 feet receive a –4 racial bonus on Acrobatics checks made to jump for every 10 feet of their speed below 30 feet. No jump can allow you to exceed your maximum movement for the round.

Johnny Sniper and DoubleGold, i've read yesterday seasons 0-3 are written for 4 player teams.

I propose running Silent tide for you and fill the two slots with others, if that's okay. Let me know what you think of it.

As to the question on acro, if your race has the "base speed" of 25 then i'd think it would take the penalty.

To the other 4, hopefully you've brought some warm clothes, it's cold where you're headed.

Well, I can switch my free outfit to cold weather since he is level 1, unless you consider it too late since I dotted in gameplay.

as far as scenarios written, 4 is the balance, but 6 is the max, and 6 will more likely guarantee survival.

oh and Johnny Sniper/Doublegold is the same person.

I wouldn't contradict that on everything, with the villains' ambush on my group of 5 in 1st steps.

However going through the pdf, a party of 6 (7 including animal companion) would make this a walk in the park on the 1-2 tier.

Asami, Keera & Sele, your thoughts?

I can mess up any combat plan.. I'm not worried about numbers the pfs scenarios are really deadly.

Where's your pride? :D

In the particular thread, a VC even opted to follow a calc to determine tiers. That would make a party of 6 (7) fit for a tier 3 adventure...pfft.

I'm sure (some) people would agree a 7 on 1 NPC is a overkill joke. :)

1 NPC? That is probably 1 really powerful NPC. Also, throw us into tier 2, that would be mean we would get more gold if we played the higher tier right, or does it not work that way?

Nah, a squishy.

There's like with other scenarios tier for lvl 1-2, and tier for lvl 4-5.

All i'm saying is, if this one's run with 6 on 1st lvl, including the monk character the other (not alistar) has, it's a 1 round combat all the way. XD

Pride? This dice roller blows goats.. I have no confidence in my capability to pull off any action these days. And i keep running into rreally deadly situations .. ie a shadow for a level 1 party.. wtf.. if my character didn't have arcane strike we were dead.. as it was we very almost were.

Where was that? That's harsh.

Thornkeep.. oh year that's right after the Wight.. you know the creature with level drain against level 1's = instant death = 2 characters down.

Yikes :( , not cool.

Thornkeep 1 is really hard, also the ethereal creature before the wight isn´t easy with characters just created.

About the scenario, when you are level 1 the scenario is easy or letal depending on the dice. No one can survive a crit, you can easily be one shoted and don´t have money for all the contingency scrolls/equipment you could need. But life is hard, so I don´t mind a lot if we are only 4.

Anyway, i'm posting opening post already.

so how many people are we doing this with? Just everyone here?

and me. (gossamar4)

Aye, though i preferred the balanced 4, i did write the full boat and i'm not backing down on what i said was ok. Btw, Baru you splash your weapons for 6 already don't you, care giving the others fun too? You frag like probably everything in 1 hit.

Get yer half frozen asses in gameplay ;)

Sele is wearing his new cold weather gear.. snakes no likey the cold..

On a direct hit, an alchemist's bomb inflicts 1d6 points of fire damage + additional damage equal to the alchemist's Intelligence modifier. The damage of an alchemist's bomb increases by 1d6 points at every odd-numbered alchemist level (this bonus damage is not multiplied on a critical hit or by using feats such as Vital Strike). Splash damage from an alchemist bomb is always equal to the bomb's minimum damage (so if the bomb would deal 2d6+4 points of fire damage on a direct hit, its splash damage would be 6 points of fire damage).

1d6 (1st lvl) + int mod (+4) = 1d6+4

splash = min damage: 5

did I read something wrong?

Asami buys/trades for that cold weather outfit! Gotta stay warm! Brr...

Did I miss the Chronicles sheet for First Steps?

No? I sent them last friday.

I got mine

I also got mine.

But without day job, could we fix it in the next chronicle?

Ow, sure thing.

You roll twice then and i'll mention it on the chronicle.

Latest Thornkeep thing.. 2 fungal crawlers.. 26hp each, 3 attacks at +6, plus poison on the bite,
poison dc 14 1d2 con and str... cr 3 for level 1 characters..

My character plus his animal companion just survived 1 round against them.. and bugged out... after the wight and the shadow.. nope..

Was the writer feeling Baron von Murder when writing that?

That's just not right.

Worse than your 4 murder hobos in the street taking on the menagerie.. ;o)

XD, Sele, did i mention they wield Greataxes?

No? I sent them last friday.

Why, yes you did! I should check my secondary emails more often. Asami is missing her day job roll. Otherwise looks good. I assume the same? Roll twice and you will note them here?

The sheet will need a once over with the chronicles added. Can't do it until tonight (or as late as Thursday night - there's a few things I have to stress over between now and Thursday). Just so you know.

Yup, likewise on the dayjob.

I though you were ignoring the HA check because I usually only fail with a 1*, but I´ll do the checks from now.

The math is Cha -2, Skill +1, Trained, +3, Link +4, Training harness +2. Not so badtaking in account she has dumped Charisma.

*3 and less if he´s wounded or has taken any nonlethal damage or ability score damage.

It kinda occurred since i was reading one of my own adventures back at Murder on the Throaty Mermaid, where a druid kept making HA checks every turn to direct a roc. :)

It helped me achieve my faction goal, to steal the a statuette up front :D
Was that the calc? * Handwaves his own comment then*

Aaaannnnnnyway, Sele didn't get hit by a greataxe this fight. :)

Where there greataxes present?

Where?....=>There, in their bloodied hands.

Well they were described as such.

can't speak for everyone here, but I really like the humorous out of character comments you post. Leads me to believe that the GM is having fun with playing as well. Most games i've been in don't have this and it's entertaining. Thank you GM Chyro.

You're welcome, and i do like to pull one with ooc. :)

Asami/Keera can vouch that exploring a crows nest is dangerous work, since birds fly over eh? ;)

Whaddya know..

Hm?

Meaning.... Whaddya know.. there were greataxes present and i didn't get hit.. it's jubilee.

And you even finished off the last one.

Say Asami, how'd you end up with +8 on UMD?
It's no swashbuckler class skill. Even if it were, you'd be only at +7.

With it not being such, you'd have only +4 bonus, looking back you'd have only 10 at your 1st UMD attempt. Which, on a wand, is a mishap.

If you fail by 9 or less, you can't activate the device. If you fail by 10 or more, you suffer a mishap. A mishap means that magical energy gets released but doesn't do what you wanted it to do. The default mishaps are that the item affects the wrong target or that uncontrolled magical energy is released, dealing 2d6 points of damage to you.

Your reading the activate blindly section... further down is wands which only bad is rolling a 1

*Pinches nose between eyes*... >.> good morning.....

Get my confusion, two things on that page contradict on 1st glance.

Still, the +8 should be +4.

She has the trait Dangerously Curious, which make UMD a Class Skill and gives a +1..

And she doesn´t want to lend the wand to the druid, who can activate it without any check :P

Ok....

Lol...silly Asami failed to see the wisdom in that. Sometimes her wisdom runs at odds with her intelligence :P

And, Sele can do it too. Go figure.

Hmm, may be even Baru the alchemist. Not sure how the alchemy and the magic items interact, though.

With a mighty boom if it lands a nat 1.