Saul Gibson
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Now, S, you may be a first level wizard with 9 HP and 13 AC, but I am a first level investigator with a 15 AC and 10 HP, only marginally better, and now I am facing down two devils with a non-silver spear.
Thanks for that...
Saul Gibson
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I agree, let's see what happens. I probably have enough money now to buy a silver spear.
| Meliandri Chastain-Aulamaxa |
The thing that makes Lemures dangerous isn't the damage. It's how long it takes to kill them. Let's figure out how to hit them and do damage, then see if we can get there without silver.
EDIT: Is it the Lemures' turn?
| Meliandri Chastain-Aulamaxa |
I have a feeling that Bless and Inspire Courage might do the same thing.
Saul Gibson
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Inspire courage is a competence bonus to hit and damage, while bless is a morale bonus to hit. So they stack!
| Meliandri Chastain-Aulamaxa |
Nifty. I've never actually read Bless, since I usually don't play divine casters.
Saul Gibson
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jhen's action he just took-- also should have bless on it, if it matters
Saul Gibson
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oh shoot.
it is below fhingle and above meli on the map?
if it is below fhingle, I simply run out of movement there. I can't go any further. And now some acrobatics to see if I wipe out.
Saul Gibson
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argggghhh! terrible rolls. The acrobatics didn't matter so much, because my movement ended anyway. But then to fail on the reflex save! Grrr.
| Salonius Barradin |
Hope that wall is not in anyone on our sides way, we did not seem to be having much luck with the grease. Salonius can always "open a hole in it" or simply drop the illusion and he will mouth "illusion" to the group if you want to be able to make the save to see through it, which gives a +4.
It looks like cold iron spikes so hopefully the Grimples will think twice about touching it.
Saul Gibson
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even if I think it is real, do you think Saul could stab his spear through it? Maybe enemies have cover if I don't realize it is an illusion
edit: ah, it is a solid wall. i was imagining a gate of sorts made of iron spikes.
| Salonius Barradin |
Yup, I wanted to block line of sight to stop the grease spells. If you made your save you ought to be able to see through and stab through without penalty, but that would probably give all the Grimple's a free will save since they are seeing evidence that the wall is unreal.
| Meliandri Chastain-Aulamaxa |
Bad news. While Mels is vomiting, she's not very inspiring. No Inspire Courage for a bit.
Saul Gibson
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Mels, is that just a rules thing or a realism thing? I'm just curious. Your reasoning is sound. :)
| Meliandri Chastain-Aulamaxa |
Mels can't take a free action to maintain it because she's nauseated. When you're nauseated, your ONLY action is a single move action, and as far as I know, there's no way to trade a move into a free.
| Foxy Quickpaw |
Nauseated
Creatures with the nauseated condition experience stomach distress. Nauseated creatures are unable to attack, cast spells, concentrate on spells, or do anything else requiring attention. The only action such a character can take is a single move action per turn.
Seems to be a rules thing.
| Meliandri Chastain-Aulamaxa |
This is Mels's second time encountering Grimples (two run-throughs of the first 2/3 of book 1). She's been reduced to a puking mess both times.
Saul Gibson
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I was guessing that they probably valued those shiny silver buttons most of all, but Saul didn't know that.
| Salonius Barradin |
I am specifically thinking of Infernal Healing by trying to take Devil Blood, which is technically an evil spell, but excellent very efficient healing that a wizard can cast. If anyone has an objection Salonius will back off quickly as he does not relish the process of extracting it and OOC we have plenty of healing anyway. I suppose that technically devil blood is free and thus should be in a spell component pouch anyway, but that never made much sense to me - I guess its a way for tieflings to make a bit of money?
Saul Gibson
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I don't think Saul would want infernal healing, except in emergencies. That stuff is pretty messed up
Saul Gibson
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Well there are no mechanistic effects, but there are definitely RP effects if Saul chooses to be a big baby about it.
Saul Gibson
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Isn't Rexus with us down here? He can start looking through these documents.
| Foxy Quickpaw |
I didn't say there are none. Just that we have to come up with some.
Like feeling as if a devil would breath down your neck while the spell is active.
Or Salonius telling you that this is without any side effects: You won't grow horns and hoofs, or whatever you associate with devils. At least I've never heard of it. Well, actually once, but that was with a tiefling. That one should have had horns to start with.
| Salonius Barradin |
It would be very much for emergencies since we have a decent amount of healing, and in all likelihood Salonius will just prepare a few scrolls of it for desperate times. He thinks it more a matter of being slightly tainted by the blood than being an evil action, as such, and so be largely okay with it as an emergency measure.
A party in one of my games bought eight wands of it and made liberal use of them, so I started giving them small non-mechanical blemishes boils, yellowing teeth and eye whites, etc. I also started tracking their uses. One drop of devil blood no biggie one hundred, the barbarian was getting there fast, a bit of a different matter... Was actually pretty fun to RP as the party had several quite compelling ideas for the reason behind their afflictions.
Also if you were a powerful demon and wanted a way to control people, distributing hundreds of wands made using your blood, and getting the money for them to is win win.
Saul Gibson
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If no one else wants, Saul could use the cloak of elvenkind.
Foxy, I apologize if you told us this already, how do you want us to determine value of sellable items, and then, is it full price to sell those or half-price?
Saul can unload what he is carrying and give the group a little infusion of cash.
| Salonius Barradin |
GM Foxy can I ask about the availability of spells to copy into Salonius's spell book from the Academy? Is it restricted, or just pay the standard fee? Other? The standard is a fee of half the scribing cost, but that assumes availability which is a pretty big assumption.
Nothing Salonius wants dibs on - I might want to scribe the scrolls if they are not otherwise available. I imagine we take a Silver Raven each? Selling them would seem very dangerous. Peeko will not be happy ;)