I always forget to apply my feats and such. I get better as I play the characters more. This is my first ever character focusing on ranged combat so I need to remember to use the feats
After we had to travel for an operation for my son and a stressful day of aftermath where I've also been trying to catch up on work, I'm completely wasted. Hopefully I'll have more time to post tomorrow.
Is he okay?
Yeah, the operation went without any problems.
Glad to hear it :). Kids going into surgery must be a stressful situation
Hope i never have to deal with it
Herm I thought you'd be more of a gentleman ;)
I guess you didn't see Tamara's post before sending yours but you might want to reconsider yours.
I honestly didn't sorry I rush posted as well
You still have 15 minutes to edit your post removing the leaving to the prison part and help her out of the rubble.
How are you working crits?
Your weapon has a crit range and a crit multiplier. In case of your earth breaker it is 20 and x3 (info given in the weapon table). Every time you roll a 20 (only the dice without modifier) you may roll again. If your second roll (including modifiers) is a hit too then it is a critical hit doing 3 times the damage.
As for practical matters you can simply edit your post if you see you rolled a 20 and add in the confirm and additional damage roll.
I only ask because some people roll 6 die on the crit or some people just simply multiply the damage done.
In theory the actual RAW way to do it is to roll additional dice and only multiply static modifiers. It prevents crits where you roll 1,1 +4 for 6 damage tripled, but also prevents 4,4 + 4 for 12 tripled.
You will find your crits all come to lie closer to 15 + 3 * mod
Your damage is 2d4+4. crit x3 results in 6d4+12.
Ok I don't think we have ever done it that way in my home games but I like that way.
i've always just been a fan of straight calculations, less work. multiplying the total of what you rolled
I like the raw way to do things. It's smaller variance than straight multiplication. Though the difference in work or variance is small either way. Rolling dice is fun too ;).
Well considering that we aren't even rolling dice, it is no more effort to type the 6 than the 2 :P
I'd like to see a crit on a two times intensified empowered shocking grasp caster level 15.
haha interesting. Mind you that is mid dmg, 44x6 = 264 so about half I guess.
The impressive part is not so much about the damage, but the number of dice if you roll that on the table :)
choke a small child
A sleep spell causes a magical slumber to come upon 4 HD of creatures. Creatures with the fewest HD are affected first. Among creatures with equal HD, those who are closest to the spell's point of origin are affected first. HD that are not sufficient to affect a creature are wasted. Sleeping creatures are helpless. Slapping or wounding awakens an affected creature, but normal noise does not. Awakening a creature is a standard action (an application of the aid another action). Sleep does not target unconscious creatures, constructs, or undead creatures.
Harrold tries harder :P
@Amira.
It's weird indeed. I wrote the move inside assuming you are up and come along (and didn't write it explicitly) and you didn't and wrote you wake up on the ground as everyone moved on already.
But such things happen. You only need to decide where you are now. You might as well stand dazzled outside having missed that everyone moved up the stairs and follow now. Or assume Herm took you with him and you're standing with the others inside. It's no big deal.
@Harrold
Make a strength check :P
Had to work some overtime at work, so not much time for playing... I'm sorry. I hope I don't stall things...
Bleh, sorry for bogging down game-play with all the rules questions... I just expected haunts to be played differently than how you've handled it. But you are the master, so let's just roll with that.
I thought the undead part gives enough information. Like: can be hurt with positive energy. And the DC to get to know the rest would be higher.
As for noticing the haunt. How much mystery do you want in the game?
Ah, I didn't realize it's an undead was part of the result (mostly since a lot of things that apply to undead are not true of haunts and vica versa). "Can be hurt by positive energy" is already quite a bit.
For me a great part of the fun of the game is using the skills and abilities of my character to deal with the encounters we face. It just so happens that Tamara has the perfect mix and match of such to combat haunts (knowledge religion, perception and channeling). Not being able to use those abilities... Well that's not what I consider fun.
Harold got to show of how cool his bombs can be against the rat swarm. I thought that was quite cool to see him get to use his abilities.
Herm got to smash the bugs.
I think it would be fun to get my share of the spotlight as well.
The alternative: You notice the door moving and channel to prevent this haunt from coming into action. That would be rather lame in comparison.
And what would happen if Tamara stopped it:
Screaming skulls and burning faces appear all over, but Tamara is quick to react and channels a wave of positive energy, stopping them from doing anything harmful. "What was that? What did you do?"
It's still there if it's neutralized, it just gets removed before it can cause harm.
Either way I don't want to change things back in time. Let's just continue with your way.
I thoroughly enjoy Foxy's gm'ing style.
Foxy will occasionally forego mechanics to tell a cool story, but she never does it in a situation where it will hurt your character. It almost always makes for a very VERY cool moment in game, and you will always be given moments to shine. In our other game, I asked to include the downtime rules so my character could rebuild the city, after a brief discussion on the rules and implementation: BAM, I am now busy building an orphanage.
Basically I just want to say that everything turns out well in the end. We are 13,191 posts deep in the other game and it is still an amazing story and great fun.
Can you link the maps in the Campaign info tab? Just so we can reference back if needs be? Without having to dig through posts?
Can you link the maps in the Campaign info tab? Just so we can reference back if needs be? Without having to dig through posts?
I didn't read the other spoilers other than Harrold's, the mystery magic is still alive in me :)
I much prefer if the links are under the GM alias, or at least on top of the page, as campaign info. It saves a lot of time navigating, especially on mobile.
Done as requested.
I added the relevant map links in the Campaign Info so they are now on top of every page in the thread
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I'm on a congress this weekend starting this afternoon. I will try to have a look for new posts now and then but I don't know if I have time and/or internet access. If it comes to the worst it may happen that I can't post before Monday evening (CEST). In best case you won't notice a difference to my usual posting.
I will create a roll 20 room with the map so we can edit
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Thank you.
I can work with roll20, but I would much prefer something else since roll20 require a premium subscription to use on mobile. I'm on mobile at least 50% of the time. If I'm getting it, it would be just for this. Google slides or sheets are even editable there, though Google drawing is fine too, at least I can watch there).
Hmmm. None of those are quite as nice to use. But I will see what I can do just now
Hi Jimmy. Have you taken a wrong turn and ended up here?
I am so used to selecting that alias, I get it wrong sometimes
Harhar, in my mind safes use dials, not keys
Energy Attacks
Energy attacks deal half damage to most objects. Divide the damage by 2 before applying the object's hardness. Some energy types might be particularly effective against certain objects, subject to GM discretion. For example, fire might do full damage against parchment, cloth, and other objects that burn easily. Sonic might do full damage against glass and crystal objects.
I don't think this works quite like you think. It doesn't ignore hardness at all. Say an object has 10 hardness you would need to deal 22 fire damage before the object takes even 1 damage.
Depending on how intent you are on opening the safe now there are several options.
a) leave it alone until you find the key
b) smash it open. It is steel and therefore has hardness 10
c) open it with disable device. Which should be manageable with the abilities of the party (assuming you can scrape together the 30 gold for the tools).
Hardness 10 means it's quite manageable to smash it open. I actually think the best option despite Tamara being worried about the sound.
Common thieves tools just remove a -2 penalty and actually allow me to make the check at 27 if i take off my bags rather than 25. Masterwork variants add 2 putting me at 29, still insufficient
guidance ;)
That would give me the plus 10 needed. Question then is how do we get the 100 gold for the tools?
Because we know that we can get it open with the tools, but our characters don't. So how does one go about suggesting the tools