Valik has played The Golemworks Incident already, taking the GM XP keeps him on par with the group since he won't be playing the scenario.
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It's great to have you back, Vailis.
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Mel buys the following scrolls to replace what he used: grease, levitate, endure elements, unseen servant, open/close.
He also buys another scroll of unseen servant, a cloak, and a dagger.
Mel figures we're going to meet more things that need special metals, so he will replace his hand axe and light mace with a cold iron hand axe and a silvered light mace. How much does that cost?
He already had piercing, slashing, and bludgeoning covered. Now he'll have magic, silver, and cold iron. Should he invest in anything else?
Mel, a quick internet search should give you the answers that you require.
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Splash weapons, if he doesn't have any yet. Every Pathfinder should have some.
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I have burning hands and a bow... but some holy water might be a good idea. This is what Mel buys:
Scroll of Endure Elements 25
Scroll of Grease 25
Scroll of Unseen Servant 25
Scroll of Unseen Servant 25
Scroll of Levitate 150
Scroll of Open/Close 12.5
Patchwork cloak 5
dagger 2
Cold Iron Hand Ax 12
Silvered Light Mace 25
Holy Waterx2 50
sunrod 2
Wand of Cure Light Wounds 2PP
Total: 358.5 gold and 2PP
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Can I get a clarification. Disguise Self has 'range: personal' and 'target: you' So does Expeditious Retreat. However, a previous pathfinder adventure (not this group) seemed to require a wand of expeditious retreat be used on the party. So do wands allow you to cast all/most self-only spells on other people?
Coming around to the point... can I use my wand of disguise self to help Sarsczek get into a cogneeto by changing his gender?
Mel, spells with range: personal can only be cast on yourself. If the spell is on a wand, it can only be cast on the person that activated the wand. As an additional note, you cannot make a potion that has range: personal so, for instance, you'll never come across a potion of Shield.
I cannot speak for the previous adventure, but in ordinary cases the wand of Expeditious Retreat should have not have worked on anyone other than the person activating the wand.
Back to your point, no you cannot use a wand of disguise self on Sarsczek. If he had a high enough UMD and succeeded on the roll (or had the ability to cast the spell himself), he could use the wand on himself, however.
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Burning hands is great but sometimes you need to throw it over someone's head, or get it farther than burning hands can reach. I recommend Acid and Alchemist's Fire too. Pretty cheap to get 2x of each at this stage of Mel's career.
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Alright, time to post in gameplay. Sorry, wasn't getting the updates, I'll get to it within the next hour or two.
Ophelia's purchases are a cloak of resistance +2 (4,000 gp), and a spring-loaded wrist shealth (5 gp) containing a scroll of breath of life (1,125 gp). She can activate the scroll with a DC 10 caster level check (4 or more on the d20).
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I can't afford an adamantine weapon, but while we're shopping, I'll pick up a packet of adamantine weapon blanch and coat 10 of my crossbow bolts.
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Insanely busy day, will catch up tomorrow. If I'm holding up the war, sarsczek will Snoop around.
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I'll be on vacation Friday through Monday. I may sneak a post or two in within that period, but if you're waiting on Sarsczek to take any actions, I'd nominate my fellow rogue-ish buddy Mel to take control of my character. As a note, in combat Sarsczek will bite anything, no matter how gross or obviously dangerous. He has tasted multiple flavors of ooze and undead to date.
Since we are now on the last encounter, please make your Day Job (or other Downtime actions) at your convenience.
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Will be at a conference for work most of this week. I would be pretty busy but might find time to post. Go ahead and bot me if necessary.
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I'll be spotty at best from the 10th till the 18th. I should be able to get a post or two in on the 10th and 11th, but after that I'll be on business travel and will be up to the whims of my phone and hotel wifi. Since the Cosmic Captive special kicks off then I'll likely be giving that my top priority to update, but I'll keep you updated on my connectivity while I'm away. Either that or I'll be chewing on Black's face and reading my chronicle by then =P.
Thanks for the heads up. Once you guys actually reach Black I don't anticipate it taking very much longer.
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Mel has nimble moves, so the first 5' of difficult terrain is considered normal. I don't think that changes much in the overall picture though.
Also, I don't think I saw anything about Mel recharging his rapier after the last time he zapped someone. I was trying to be pretty methodical about that. He would have burned an arcane charge to recall shocking grasp and cast it into the rapier. Can we say he did that before going down the stairs? If not that's fine, I'm just glad to still be in the party :)
Not my turn, so nothing to post in the Gameplay thread.
No dayjob. I wonder if he should have 'cavorting expenses' instead :)
Checking resources.... while I was gone, Mel
* burned one arcane charge for combat bonuses
* discharged shocking grasp from his rapier
* cast mirror image
Anything else?
Welcome back, Mel. I'm fine with saying you added Shocking Grasp back to your Spell-Storing Rapier. I believe your list of spent Resources is correct.
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Cool, thanks.
More questions.... You told us that Black was human for combat calculations, but does Mel know/believe/suspect that he's human? I was thinking use darkness to shut him down while we approach. Standard action to cancel it, right? Grr, range of touch. Could he cast it on an arrow and shoot it near black? Spell combat, LOL. Could cast and fire all in one round!
Also, with all the broken porcelain on the floor, how much damage would a gust of wind cause? Wondering if that is a viable attack vs poking him with a sword.
Mel, in character you are pretty sure he's human. If you use a piece of debris on the floor to attack it would be treated as an improvised weapon. Gust of Wind won't lift enough debris off the floor to do any additional damage. Darkness works as the spell description.
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Oops, prolly cannot do spell combat with a bow. How about he just picks up a random piece of debris and lobs it in Black's general direction?
You explicitly cannot without a special archetype (that was not PFS legal last I checked)
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Sorry for all my silly rules questions. I am trying to get better and do research before asking. I think that has lead to less 'stupid' questions. On the other hand, I knew I was pushing it with the cast & throw, but I was just hoping there was something I missed. :)
For sanity's sake, though, I went and checked the AD&D 1E PHB. The Darkness 15' Radius spell had a range of 1"/level and created total darkness. So what i was planning did make sense in at least one ruleset :) But when I noticed that the range in pathfinder is touch, I was heartbroken. Refusing to give up, I started down the arrow/dagger/debris path, totally missing that it would only drop the light by one level to dim. That would have shut me up from the start. Oh well.
Plus I need to remember Mel is a magus, not a pure caster trying to perform crowd control. :)
Thanks for all of your time and patience. This is a fun group.
Ophelia, thanks for clearing that up. I thought the Feat only worked for healing spells that Quiella cast on herself.
Mel, no worries. I'd just suggest reading through some of abilities you want to use first before asking questions, it could save some time.