GMG's PbP: PFS #7-07: Trouble in Tamran (Tier 4-5, 4-player adjustment) (Inactive)

Game Master Magabeus

Oleanders saves were so bad it wouldn't make much of a difference. The lowest they could be is 13, and she only just made that. Spell focus, or Int 14, or elemental focus all boosts that.

19 does seem a bit high though.

Bahh; I keep forgetting I can handle the wolf as a free action not a move one.

I don't mind spilling the beans now:

Start at 12 (10 + lvl 2)
INT 18 = +4
Spell Focus (Evocation)= +1
Arcanist Exploit (Potent Magic) = +2

Now you can guess what the GM counter is about....

I am going to be scarce for the next 3 days. I might check in from mobile, but my posts will be few and far between until Monday. Thank you for your patience!

Is that badger close to dead?

With just 13hp left, if it goes ape, Oleader will be spread over the room like a bad paint job.

I'm tempted to pull back and leave wolf in melee and draw a bow with which to do a few more arrows, but not sure we have enough fire power to actually bring the beast down.

Oleander: no, not close to death

I was going to start lobbing alchemist fires at it, but didn't want to catch everyone else in the flames...

While Oleander would be upset if Wolf was burned... she wouldn't be half as upset as having her innards become outards.

Normally as part of movement, if you have a BAB of +1 or better you can draw a weapon.

Does that not apply to movement during a withdraw action?

PRD link

I guess it does say "regular move", but to counter that, she is not moving as far as she could normally do with a withdraw.

Thinking about it, she would still have to put away her sword, she's not about to drop that with the badger from hell in the room.

"Drawing a weapon so that you can use it in combat, or putting it away so that you have a free hand, requires a move action..... If you have a base attack bonus of +1 or higher, you may draw a weapon as a free action combined with a regular move."

In my opinion a withdraw is not a regular move. It does not matter how far you move, your attention is at disengaging from the enemy. Now if you take a move action you can move, draw your bow in that move and use your standard as a move action to put away your sword. All at the minor cost of one attack of opportunity from a badger....

arrghh.. focus is on getting out from under the badger. I guess another option would have been to five foot step back and swap the weapons over.

Better think hard about your choices:

Badger? Badger? Badger? Badger?

Much room? Much room? Much room?

Bear in mind that here comes a SNAKE! It's a SNAKE!

*reads letters*

Hey, one of the guys from "Serpent's Rise," neat.

Many thanks for the game. That is a tough one. I thought we were a gonna a couple of times in there.

It is a tough one indeed. The fact that you played up also did not help... I am glad you had fun!

Chronicles As always, please let me know if something is amiss.

As for the slippers: only if you have the Zurnzal boon you get them.

Hmm, neat Boon (and we chose the one that complements me better)!

It's just as well, I think - I didn't wind up contributing to the discussion, but Nemesis's mercenary bent would have caused her to trust/sympathize with Guaril.

Thanks GM!

And with this, Sritaro is now level 4. The rage is finally out there :D

Now to get to level 7 so I can have a large Rageasaurus Rex.

I have been thinking about running the sanctioned content of Skulls and Shackles 1 (2-4) followed by Plunder and Peril (3-5, 4-6 and 5-7) ....

Any interest?

How does that work? We don't actually play pathfinders do we?

I don't suppose that priest was level 4 for FJC purposes?

My idea was to play through them with pathfinders.

For Skulls and Shackles 1 (S&S) you can either run the entire book using whatever rules the GM allows and earn credit as if you played the sanctioned part (one chapter) with a pre-gen. This is called campaign mode OR run only the sanctioned chapter with a PFS character. I do not want to run the entire book, but think the sanctioned chapter can be a nice bridge to Plunder and Peril (P&P).

For P&P it is the same, only here the sanctioned part is the entire module, split in three parts.

Off course there are alternatives:

1) Level new PFS characters to level 3 first and then do the sanctioned content of S&S. I don't mind running a Confirmation, Wounded Wisp, Thornkeep 1 and a tier 1-5 to get you to level 3.

2) Forget S&S 1 and do P&P in campaign mode, starting at level 4, using whatever rules we agree on

3) There is bound to be a nr 3 that I did not think of (yet)

Oleander: no, he was level 5 (sorry, could not resist) and he was also not a divine spellcaster (bloodrager).... because of Razmir, who is not really a god.

You can tick of the "accept surrender" for the pickpockets or "spend 100 gold per level on spellcasting" on the Silver Crusade card (Season 7)

I'd be in for some pirating. I may change the PC I use; I have a dearth of PCs in 3-5 range and need to see what would be better.

I love how you keep going and going; I feel like playing another character now, though (besides, Nemesis onboard a ship? AAAAAAAAHH!!!); I've got 3 level 2 characters who've been underserved.

I do have a drunken master buff monk who is level 4 and carries his own keg on his back for his drunken ki :P He could be the voice of reason for the party...

Also on the table is a brawler/warpriest who may or may not be themed after a certain namesake villain of an 80's cartoon show involving four reptiles. Working on making him a tekko-kagi holy tank.

Have a tengu barbarian fighter going through invulnerable rager. Just need to give him elven chain and swimming won't be a problem.

And of course, Sritaro, who at least front lines well :)

I'm looking at a Druid, a Bard, and an Occultist - all level 2.

Thanks for the game, GM!

Sure, I would be in, but also probably would change up characters. I have an ex-pirate that might be fun (level 2, I believe).

I have a level 4, some 2's, and some brand new characters available, depending on what the final decision on the game will be. I have no issues with whatever is decided, but in the interest of full disclosure I have run and am currently playing in a Skulls & Shackles campaign.

Silas, thanks for the disclosure. I trust that you can keep player knowledge away from character knowledge

Important question is whether you have received credit for Skulls and Shackles book 1 and (if you have) whether you want to burn a GM star replay for it.

It seems we are looking at a 5 person party of level 2's and a 5 person party. For skulls and shackles that will work well as the part is written for 4 lvl 3's with a 15 point buy.

For Plunder and Peril I might throw in book 2 of S&S to get you up an extra level after parts 1 and 2 (part 3 can be brutal). We will see when we get there how effective you are at level 5.

Discussion to be continued at: discussion thread for the new game(s)