GM Endless Forms' PFS 04-16 The Fabric of Reality (5-9) (Inactive)

Game Master Mike Tuholski

Hello everyone!

Hello! And happy not quite 2014.

Here's my obligatory spell list, subject to change/approval by the other clerics:
4th - death ward, freedom of movement, restoration, dimension door*
3rd - invisibility purge, magic circle against evil (DC 17), open slot, remove blindness, stone shape*
2nd - delay poison, resist energy, spiritual weapon x2, stone to mud*
1st - bless, liberating command (+14), remove fear, shield of faith (+3 deflection, 2), longstrider*
0th - detect magic , guidance, light , stabilize

Also, I suppose I will buy a Tian courtier's outfit. I already have the jewelry.

Checking in!

Modified my spell loadout:
4th - death ward, dimensional anchor, freedom of movement, dimension door*
3rd - blindness/deafness (DC 17), daylight, dispel magic, remove blindness, fly*
2nd - delay poison, resist energy, silence, spiritual weapon, locate object*
1st - bless, liberating command (+14), remove sickness, shield of faith (+3 deflection, 2), longstrider*
0th - detect magic , guidance, light , stabilize

Do I have a good enough description of the book to use my locate object?

So without doing the math it looks like we're safely in the high tier, correct?

Safely? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Lol. Season 4 high tier, here we come!

Hey Giovanni, I'm trying to fail my diplomacy checks fast enough to get us into combat! Just give me a moment :) Patience!

Please do NOT mistake the character's behavior for the player's preferences. I am actually happy with game sessions where we manage to succeed without causing or creating a fight.

Giovanni's a little different than I am. I hope.

Oh, I wasn't making that mistake. Just amused at my abysmal dice rolls more then anything else.

Blinding someone with uncanny dodge. Well, that takes some of the sting out of that spell.

I was about to go on a rules lawyer nerd lecture about how monk bonus is a dodge bonus and doesn't apply when blinded, but then thought "she probably has uncanny dodge" and out rules lawyered my own objection.

Improved Uncanny Dodge, yeah. Although I didn't even think about that when I did it, so thanks for reminding me. She's still taking a miss chance and obviously as an assassin her death attack was her one good thing and you prevented her from being able to do it, so it certainly helped.

Uncanny Dodge is one highly overlooked feature of rogues and barbarians; well, most barbarians don't get that use out of it, but it does prevent the invisible crowd from sneak attacking them.

Quite the set of statistics we've got going for this fight...

Quite the set of statistics we've got going for this fight...

You've never played with Giovanni I guess?

Yeah, not a lot of people choose to play this kind of fighter. They prefer to hack stuff to bits.

Giovanni is, well, different.

I was thinking of the unusual number low rolls from the fighters, but also the bad guys. Lots of x where x << 10

I do appreciate Giovanni's build, though. Very clever.

Ok, now the dice rolls are just getting funny. If it's any consolation, in a tabletop game I once rolled seven 1's in a row.

Another question: are the library facilities at the lodge (or nearby libraries) adequate enough to do untrained knowledge skills? That way more folk could help.

Sure. You'll also be getting Amara Li and Aram Zey bonuses.

If I hit Aram Zey with the flat of my great sword will that get more bonus out of him?

May I use a GM star reroll on the K(religion) check?

Sure.

This is why I asked if I could beat him for more bonus.

This weekend I am helping run the Winter Camporee for the local Boy Scout District. I MIGHT (depending on when I leave work) try to make a post Friday before I head out to the campsite, but I won't be back until Sunday.

As a Cleric of Abadar, I've somehow feel that I am failing horribly on account of not knowing anything about my own religion. :(

Bah, it's ok. That seems fairly realistic, after all.

I feel it would be a more serious issue in a world where empirical evidence of god(s) is trivial to come by.

I will be visiting my brother for his birthday tomorrow and moving back to Bloomington on Sunday (GMing Reign of Winter that night) so updates may be slow for the rest of the weekend.

My personal understanding is that spiritual weapon occupies does not block a space (the token is merely representative), so Alan (or anyone else) could have moved in there if so desired.

I would just like to mention that if I missed by 5 or less, I still popped an image, on the off chance Ascular has sucky wizard AC

Ah, thanks! I always forget about that aspect of the spell. I think a lot of people do. I'll try to remember that from now on.

I was wondering, how do you decide whether you hit an image or the real one. In this case, do you roll a d5 and it hits the real on a 1?

Basically. Since it had 4 images at the time, I rolled a 5 and on a 1 you hit the real thing, on anything else you just pop an image. In real life where I don't have a d5, I usually reach for a d6 or d8 depending on how many images there are and reroll if I get a number that's too big (so in this example, reroll on a six).

Ezrek, you might want to check the alchemist section on bombs. It has a specific clause regarding bomb crits.

It wasn't an actual alchemist bomb, it was a combination of an acid flask and alchemist fire made with a hybridization funnel. You are correct though that alchemist bombs are only double int and 1 more d6 on a crit.

Ezrek, you might want to check the alchemist section on bombs. It has a specific clause regarding bomb crits.

So it looks like 4 pts need to come out of that die roll. That's what I get for copy and pasting.

My spiritual weapon popped the last image. He has no more.

I'm so used to the standard, don't look at a spoiler unless it's addressed to you or has a DC listed, that I neglected to check your attack spoiler.

Usually it doesn't come up with the spoilers ;)

And I have no idea how admixtures crit! Like bombs, maybe? *shrug*

They crit like normal weapons since they fall under alchemical weapons and are not considered alchemist bombs.

Yep, that wasn't even a bomb. It was an acid and alchemist's fire mixed in a hybridization funnel.

For the record, EF, in cases like the Reposition where you're "not sure", just tell me no and to do something else (or even have it fail because . . ..) and just keep moving. I'm not going to get angry or suicidal or anything.

You could also use the potion cure mod. "free healing"

It appears there has been an erratta to Ultimate Combat that has changed how crane wing works. You can download it here

Just to expand on my previous post here is a more PFS specific thread.

No problem Brachus

I didn't want to make you feel left out ;)

This is the last fight if you guys would like to post your PFS numbers and make Day Job rolls.

Of course, after the fight you still have to figure out how to do the ritual but that shouldn't take too long (hopefully).

PFS nr. 13475-1
No Day job roll

7514-6
Take 10 for 25 on heal for 50 gups.