We should have two left, we started the last fight with three and used one.
As it stands the magic missiles are not working because of the shields and the summons wouldn't work either. But please let my wizard ghost have a little fun with those. Yo can either smash them to pieces or ignore them while they try in vin to bite you with their +1.
Because the alternative would be worse (for you). Kill the ghost already so we can get over it.
Which wall did he go through? It there a door leading to the other side? Maybe Grergof and I can bust into that room and scare the crap out of the ghost.
The room is surrounded by cells which can all be entered. The only problem is that you would have to guess into which one. And that your movement is limited due to difficult terrain.
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12|RRRRRRR|4
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10|09|08|7|6
You see on the map which of the cells have still walls and doors. The ghost disappeared into cell no 13. At least he wen't through the wall there. Let's play hide and seek.
You need 60ft of movement to move through the room vertically or horizontally (on the map. In reality you need fly to move vertically :)
Did I not kill off a rat?
Post edited. Walking away whistling.
Haha I changed my last post like 3 times trying to decide what to do. Gah. Then saw how much damage Grergof took so decided to heal instead.
We'll see how that works out. Generally action economy tells that healing in combat is a bad thing, as you can never heal as much damage as you'll get in another round. Only exception is if you have nothing else to do. Or special occasions like when your enemy heals on your bleeding. But we'll see.
Never tell me the odds. ;) haha
I was trying to disrupt the spell thus the readied action.... did I not get a chance to do that on the magic missle? The full force of the missle was exactly what I was trying to avoid with the readied action.
Obviously I failed my concentration check. I read it as though you wanted to shoot him once he shows up.
Wow, This ghost is nasty and has a ton of hit points.
By my calculations we did 19 damage to the ghost last fight and 41 damage so far this fight.
Assuming it did not heal between fights, That's freaking 60 damage to a Incorporeal Mage. That is some serious damage that ghost can suck up. No wonder you talked about us dying last time we were here....
We seem to be doing better this time, but it still feels like we have about 2 rounds before the ghost takes me out.
And I found where you got the 4 more.
Not going to argue on the points... I just did a quick back of the envelope calculation because I realized we did a ton.
This really does feel like a suitable Nasty fight to end a adventure path book.... Nice job whoever wrote this, and to you GM Foxy for making this feel so nasty.
PS, oh and thanks for the push to get the full on bow... This helped a ton this fight.
The foreword of the AP is titled 'Welcome to your doom'.
It's my job to provide this doom. I'm glad it worked.
This I my busiest Pbp thread and I'm having a lot of fun with it. Great job by the GM :)
This is my busiest thread too, and lots of fun. Sadly I'm going to have to slow down in a couple days when I start at a new client for work. At that point I'll probably only be able to post a couple times a day.
Grergof, please ignore the net and just kill it. If not, breaking the net is at least a standard if not a full action.
What's the impact of the net besides the fact that I can't move next to the spider?
If I'm entangled then I need to shoot with my bow at -2 to attack and -4 to dex right? So that's a combined -4 to hit. Go ahead an just tack that on my roll and we can move forward.
Edit: There fixed the action to only be a shot.
It's a -2 on attack and -4 dex. The roll is good enough to hit it on AC 14.
@Darious.
It's a consolation that not only I fail to read the post correctly :P
I totes thought it was another trick of the ghost :)
What time zone is everyone in, I feel like I am behind the rest of you guys, I am EST in Ontario, Canada.
I'm in South Africa. So I'm like 8 hours ahead of everyone in the states, give or take an hour or two.
Grergof in Chicago, CDT.
Spugnoir in EST, Maine.
But Spugnoir has an interesting sleeping habit as he is awake when I write the first posts in the morning. So it feels like Darius and Spugnoir are on my timezone. And Grergof and You are like eight hours behind.
Only reason I'm alwake is cos I usually go to sleep around 3am and wake up at like 9am. Give or take :)
Actually due to the time change (Daylight savings ended) we are back on CST for the next few months.
But yes I know the feeling, I got myself in the habit of checking this early in the day and rarely checking after about 3PM my time.
Either this fight really captured your thoughts or you're a very special lot of adventurers. At the table when the last monster's heart has stopped beating everything is stripped to their socks and checked for value. And here you would leave after the Endboss-Fight without even checking.
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to encourage speed looting. But a little meta-gamy looking thoroughly around if there is something would help me unload the hard earned goods (plural) on you. Just as a hint before you run away with the sword you fished out of the prison's swimming pool. Even when you're not too much into diving in there.
I sometimes forget about the looting part of the game when I'm just glad to have survived a fight.
I'm pushing a little just so we don't fall behind the required loot curve. But honestly Grergof could really care less about loot. Helping people or killing monsters, sure, but loot, not so much. Someone else will have to push for the whole looting thing.
That's fine. Actually you were the one who offered the hook for me to start the pointing to loot.
But I guess your in character opinion would change, once you can't hit your enemies any more because their equipment is better than yours. Even though it's only the minions.
Insomnia so I stay up all hours
Spugnoir seem to be short sighted. How about you remove the grate and do a dive?
Yep, well aware of the required loot curve. Get a couple pluses behind and fights start to go bonkers a few levels from now.
Plus If things get that bad, then I'll pick up craft arms/armor and that swings the loot curve back.
That's not going to happen. You think this adventure gives you time and place to do crafting? You'll be lucky to get sleep! ;)
Well, we have a mandatory 25 more days of down time coming up. So It can't be that bad.... Can it? <scared look around>
But you have 25 more days no level up to take the feat. And once you're out of town...
... But you're right to be scared. There is still someone around trying to get you. Muhahaha.
What no level up after clearing this place?
Any bets on how fast we gain a level at the start of book 2 then...
What are we back to 1st Ed where 1 gp = 1 xp? Just because we skip the loot doesn't mean we skip the level ;)
Treasure found
+1 dagger
Mithril Dagger
Ring of Protection +1
The dagger is a +1 Mithril dagger. There are not two daggers.
And don't forget the +1 Keen Longsword.
+1 Mithril Dagger
+1 Keen longsword
Ring of Protection +1
From a meta gaming point of view Stam is at AC16 with mage armor and won't go into melee if it can be avoided. I have a front line sorcerer that could easily beat all the front liners in AC by casting shield and mage armor until mid levels when full plate became an affordable option. Once the ghosts are done with and the enemies become more corporeal the one who stands in first row will need the deflection more.
And for the dagger: Stam could throw it once (I don't think he's going into melee). And with his crossbow he'll do more damage. I thought this mithral dagger is perfect for a front line Barbarian ;)
Just my two cents worth.
Stam is not going to call dips on anything really since he has not big need for it. All he really needs is some quiet time and money to be able to copy the remaining spells.
Did anything happen to the spell book?
You mean besides Darius ripping comprehend languages out?
yes, besides that haha.
It is still mouldy, but once you have some time you can check on it again. If you get Darius to hand it to you.
All proof of my misreading your action again has been removed.
Thanks for the +1 Keen Longsword, should definitely improve my damage output. I think between me and Gregof we won't do too bad in the frontline.