I didn't plan that, actually. Didn't use the word buglike in my character submission once, since I couldn't figure out how to highlight his small abdominal region in the right way. I mostly just liked the way the gs sounded.
I may still have a few prices off, but it is pretty clear to me that the originals are far behind the curve here. Sometime's I think these AP's are written as if expecting random encounters to make up the difference, but I don't tend to add much in that regard.
So, we can try to remedy that by balancing as we go, or I would also allow some basic readjustment now. You could just increase some pluses on your current equipment if you like, or make some of the masterwork items +1 or even +2. Before you leave the lodge, let's see if we can get everyone up to about 33,000. If you really want something brand new, let me know and we'll see if we can make it not too abrupt.
Tara currently only possesses two magic items that can be upgraded: her armor and dagger.
If possible Tara would have like to have put in for an order for:
Headband of Inspired Wisdom +2 (4000 gp)
Cloak of Resistance +2 (4000 gp)
Bag of Holding Type I (2500 gp)
Conductive Weapon Enchantment (6000 gp)
diamond dust (1000 gp)
Total of 17500 gp and add 500 gp to her total.
Otherwise, Tara will do the following:
Conductive Weapon Enchantment on her dagger (6000 gp)
Masterwork Transformation on her crossbow (300 gp)
+1 Enhancement on her crossbow (2000 gp)
Light Fortification on her armor (3000 gp)
diamond dust (2000 gp)
Total of 13300 gp and add 4700 gp to her total. The intent will be to purchase at least one of her wishlist items when we hit the next town.
Because you would have had time before, go ahead with the full list you wanted.
Sorry to hear about your furnace breaking, hope it gets repaired soon. Ours broke in early December and it took weeks to get it fully working again. Stay warm!
It's hard to avoid switching into past tense. In the game I GM, we decided to use past tense, and so that's what I'm more used to.
By the way, I hope Im not over stepping my bounds, having just joined the group, of posting like that. At times Doro will take the back seat, others he will speak up. I see him as not a typical half orc. Hes reasonable and clear headed and not against peaceful resolution if possible. But fierce and relentless in a fight when it comes to a fight, ..even headstrong when his blood up
All fine with me, Doro. I just wasn’t sure how closely you’d want to align with a demon-worshipping antipaladin, and Niculaie has serious reservations about it on his own.
That said, Niculaie will go along with the group if there is a consensus to go another way.
Sorry about my absence; I'm currently dealing with a minor health issue that is causing me to be exhausted half the time and tired the other half. According to my doctor it should clear itself up in a month or two.
Best wishes for a complete (and speedy) recovery, Tara.
Take care Tara!
Indeed. well wishes and hopefully its not too serious.
Take care and don't worry about here. Hope you are feeling better soon.
Best wishes Tara, and no worries at all. Take care of yourself!
I don't think we can say yet, but maybe Gregor is too optimized? I can rebuild him a bit to lower some of his stats if that starts to seem like a good idea.
Two things occurred to me yesterday. When a character is uber-optimized, it can be certainly satisfying to see it work as intended, but it sort of takes the fun out of playing it if there is no challenge. Now, as a GM, I would generally try to scale to make it challenging, but with the published AP, it gets hard to try and make those adjustments on the fly without accidentally going too far (and getting a TPK!) Having said that, though, I wouldn't worry about it too much. There are likely to be plenty of variety where this won't always be the case. And if does make it more interesting for me to have to give it some thought!
The other issue here, though, is that this is a heavy AoO build, and in PbP that will tend to slow the game down a lot since we have to either stop and wait for a decision, or write a choose-your-own-adventure book to account for all the possibilities. In face-to-face, this is certainly not a problem.
In any case, I say don't worry about it right now - let's see if we can find a rhythm that works first. Since this isn't a terribly fast moving group anyway, I think it will be ok.
I agree with most of what you said. I will add that I don't think Gregor is unreasonably built, he certainly doesn't have a tumor familiar using wands every turn, for example. I also feel that he has weaknesses. For example, in wolf form, werewolves have more than two legs, so they get a bonus against tripping. He also has a mediocre Will save, and in certain circumstances his AC could dip to 20, which is not that much for an 8th level frontliner.
Anyway, so far I feel I've been able to resolve AoOs quickly enough. We shall see how things go.
Re dimensional steps, as far as I can tell there's no disorientation for people taken along.
This leads to an interesting question about conflicting spell effects. Until Estovian succeeds at a Will save against Niculaie's oneiric horror, Estovian will spend his full attack every round against an illusory creature only he can see. He has already failed until the end of his next turn. If Estovian had failed his save against Doro's Knight's Calling, compelling him to move towards Doro, which effect would win out?
I was wondering that too, but since he saved, I didn't need to answer it yet!
My daughter and son-in-law are visiting tonight through Saturday morning, and we're going museum crawling tomorrow--posting will hence be scarce.
When the vision ends, Desna grants each of you a boon
That is a very nice boon!
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This is the third campaign I've played Pontia in as a conjuration specialist wizard, and the last time I'd tried to play her was as a LE Chelaxian in an interesting homebrew campaign. In that game, she had a commune effect with Lamashtu, and survived the experience.
Definitely preferring Desna, here.
While you might not have gotten the information you wanted, the information you got could come in handy.
What now?
I'm sure it will! I didn't intend my last post as a complaint (and neither did Niculaie) - just thinking about the problem at hand.
And speaking of the problem at hand, maybe I'm not as clear on what it is as I thought. The rest of you probably realized this already, but Estovian said that Mathus Mordrinacht and his ally Cybrisa Dorznahev were at the top of the tower - was Mathus the werewolf Doro killed in the mist that was covering the Dusk Moth (and did we ever loot his body)?
If he was, is our next step is to track down Vrood and the rest of his Whispering Way buddies to find the heart?
Sorry to be thick-headed about this.
I'm pretty sure the next step is to track down Vrood, the Whispering Way, and find the heart. I don't think we looted the body.
Yes Mathus was the werewolf and the caster that got away was the ally spoken of.
I agree we need to track down The Whispering Way.
I think a knowledge check of the whispering way might give us where these fights may be to happen. We know one of the clans of werewolves is tracking them, so if we knew which one we could try to find out which direction they are headed.
I believe you are correct about not looting the body, or Estovion for that matter. But let's just assume it was part of the cleansing.
Gear from the werewolf: potion of cure serious wounds, silversheen (4);
+1 mithral chain shirt, +1 bastard sword, masterwork dagger, cloak of resistance +1, 163 gp
While I expect that Pontia's elemental did in fact kill the ally, where her equipment landed is impossible to say.
What do you do with Estovion? He has been pretty quiet and compliant through all of this, although becoming a werewolf still is driving him nuts.
Also, there are still other werewolves in the area around the temple, and they are currently warring with each other.
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I am going to pause the game here for a couple weeks, folks. I am going to be mostly offline until June 10, and won't be able to GM appropriately during that time. Feel free to continue to roleplay and come up with a plan (although you don't need much of one).
When I come back on June 10, we can start your chase after the Whispering Way.
Thanks for the heads up
alrighty. ill be here when youre back
Sounds good - enjoy the break! And I should be less frenzied at work by then as well.
All, in case you haven't seen it, there is another excellent Paizo Humble Bundle running now, the Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary Humble Bundle. If you pay $25 or more, you receive the following PDFs:
- PF2 Core Rulebook
- PF2 Bestiary
- PF2 GameMastery Guide
- Lost Omens World Guide
- Lost Omens Gods & Magic
- The Extinction Curse Adventure Path
- Pathfinder 2E GM Screen
- Adventure: Little Trouble in Big Absalom
- 3 Second Edition Quests
- 3 Second Edition PFS Scenarios
- 6 Flip-Mats, 2 Map Packs
- 10 ebooks from the Pathfinder Tales short fiction line (before most of the novels)
If you increase your payment to $35, you receive all of the PDFs and a physical copy of the PF2 Bestiary (shipping not included).
I already have all the rulebooks and adventures, but I may still get the bundle just for the PDFs of the flip maps and map packs.
@GM: thanks for the head up!
@Nic: I'm not that much into 2d Edition, but thanks for the info!
I am just getting into 2e - I tried briefly at the beginning and it was too much new at the time, and I am runnin glike 5 APs in 1e, so it didn't seem worth the switch.
Since then, I played another game and had someone giving me constant advice, which actually gave me a whole new appreciation for it. So I already bought the bundle. I had a couple of the books already, but a whole AP for $25 sounded good to me. I have a huge Paizo library of PDFs, mostly from these Humble Bundles... they have worked quite well for me.
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Any chance y'all can have me back? I've caught up on the gameplay thread since I left.
I went ahead and updated my EQ based on WBL guidelines. These were the main purchases:
-3000gp upgrading cloak of resistance to +2
-8000gp amulet of natural armor +2
-5000gp dusty rose prism ioun stone
-3000gp lesser rod of metamagic, extend
My personal copy of my sheet is updated, but Paizo is erroring out every time I try to update the profile.
Welcome back caps! We are on a short break while I am travelling, but should pick back up in a few more days. I even have a way to bring you back in.
Excellent!
I am bummed I missed out on the Desna dream thing; Sophie has an odd charisma modifier.
Glad you're back, Caps!
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Thanks Tusk. I ended up taking 3 months off of work. I'm not 100% yet but I'm so much better than I was in December.
Very glad to hear you are on the mend!
Did we end up getting a night's rest after cleaning the Dusk Moth? I went back to look but if we did, I missed it.
I believe the cleansing took a full day, so I would say you rested once within that window.
At this point, though, you have been travelling a few days by horse, so you can consider yourself rested if you are asking about spells, etc.
I put a lime green path on the map to show the route.
Thanks!
Cool, thanks for the route.
Work has been taking up a lot of time the past few days; I'll try to catch up on the game today or tomorrow.
No worries - I will be out next few days as well, so we are going slow right now.
How soon will Sophie be introduced
Those lantern archons are pretty sweet. Is it worth picking up Summon Monster 5 without investing in the summoning feats you've done, Pontia?
I think the only feat she has that boosts them is superior summoning, which makes one extra archon. But the main combo seems to be lots of attacks which target touch (so the lower level summon's weak attack bonus doesn't matter) and bardic inspiration to boost damage.
The individual archons are fragile, but against something with poor touch AC and no ranged attacks they're dangerous.