GM Kiora's Wrath of the Righteous

Game Master Kiora Atua

Remember favored enemy, Ehren! That's actually SIX damage.

Sheesh, I didn't think I'd need to provide two rounds of actions! Y'all were at it late last night ;)

I kept looking back, afraid that it had reached me again... and it had reached me like 40 minutes ago, every single time. :(

Important note: Favored enemy applies to a specific creature, not all creatures of that type!

his bond allows him to spend a move action to grant half his favored enemy bonus against a single target of the appropriate type to all allies within 30 feet who can see or hear him.

Though... I accept great leader's choice to buff me..? :3

Since we seem to have a lot of 'legendary item' going around, what rate does Legendary Power recuperate at? :)

For some reason I never realized how useful the mass cure/inflict spells actually are. Somehow I missed the fact that they 1) are area of effect spells and 2) have a higher maximum caster level than their counterparts. Will definitely have to keep this in mind for the future. :P

They come with the equivalent of selective channel built in as well, and you can add undead as targets at the same time as living creatures to do double duty.

Same here Ehren, its surprisingly much better than I ever though (I always dismissed the spell as being really weak). The fact that a cleric can spontaneously cast it makes it quite worthwhile.

But they're so high level~

I don't think I've ever been high enough to learn the spell. :o

Once we get there Markus is definitely learning it - but only mass inflict because he can use it to heal himself, his undead minions, and to deal damage to enemies at the same time.

Think about it this way - mass inflict moderate wounds takes up a 6th-level slot, sure, but I can target myself, five undead allies and six enemies with it and it deals 2d8+10 damage to the enemies and heals me and my allies for the same amount.

That's an average shift of 228 health over all of the targets.

I could, at the same time be casting circle of death and killing 30 HD of enemies, but I can catch my allies in that, and the saves reduce the effect to nothing, and I'll only affect one or two powerful enemies and that also doesn't heal me and my minions.

Yup, and by the time we've got 7th-8th level spells in play the 9lvl casters burn 5's and 6's like we'll use 1's and 2's in a couple levels.

You mean like how I can use 1st-level spells now? ;)

I love mid-level play. Level 8 will be an exciting time for me.

I think E8 and just removing full spellcasters are my favorite ways of stopping the epic-ness.

Another thing about the mass spells - without them I need to spend a spell on every individual creature that I want to heal.

Hey Markus - I just saw what i think is your really old email about accessing my mythic pdfs? did you get it working?

Sorry >_>; that gmail is my junk email and I don't check it often, lol

I did! It's in my google docs now. Thank you :)

Since we seem to have a lot of 'legendary item' going around, what rate does Legendary Power recuperate at? :)

1/day

For some reason I never realized how useful the mass cure/inflict spells actually are. Somehow I missed the fact that they 1) are area of effect spells and 2) have a higher maximum caster level than their counterparts. Will definitely have to keep this in mind for the future. :P

I'm just pleased to have someplace where Markus' immunity matters :O!!!!

I'm sure someone at some point will grab onto him and attempt an inflict, though. ;) If Ary and Valaria ever get out of the way..

It is pretty awesome that inflict spells and the like just don't do anything at all to me (except, well, heal me).

I'm excited.

I could just plane shift to the Negative Energy Plane and be totally fine.

I love mid-level play. Level 8 will be an exciting time for me.

I think E8 and just removing full spellcasters are my favorite ways of stopping the epic-ness.

You guys will be "stuck" at level 6/mythic 1 for a decent amount of time as I introduce some homebrew transition adventures in-between books 1 and 2.

Why?

• To evaluate the mythic nerfs and determine if any are too powerful or not enough powerful - before we get into book 2
  
• To evaluate how quickly you guys burn through mythic power and exactly how hard I have to press to get you to use it :P
  
• To better transition the heroes from "victor of one important battle in the Crusades" to "hotshots that lead entire armies into the Worldwound" than the AP does
  
• In addition, to ensure that the first time the heroes enter the Worldwound is NOT also while they are leading an army into it...
  
• To add some story elements that focus on things that the AP totally skims over- stuff about Sarkoris (and the surviving Sarkorians)
  
• To show off the Crusades as a nuanced faction that both contains heroic NPCs and villainous NPCs, and I don't just mean traitors :)
  

I hope that you guys will be fine with that. If you are not, now is the time to speak up so I can think about moving things around, possibly letting you guys get 7 or 8 in the interim (7 more likely than 8)

Sounds fine to me, although Isilme won't have any big MP spenders until Tier 3 really when she starts getting mythic spells and gains access to polymorph via MP.

Sounds good to me. What will you be doing with characters who are too weak?

I trust you to give us a fun experience regardless of the fact that we're stuck at 6th level.

I can probably promise you that we'll be stuck at 6th level for a shorter time than I've been stuck at 1st level in another PbP.

Sounds good to me. What will you be doing with characters who are too weak?

Either reverse or soften some of the nerfs, and offer free-retraining.

Or homebrew stuff if its PF rules being lame, not mythic rules being lame (like someone trying to specialize in heavy crossbows - I'd probably be forced to houserule)

Sounds fine to me. I don't think I'm even taking anything that even takes MP except my Champion's Strike until higher tiers. A lot of my powers are passive buffs. More for surges I guess.

I'm similar to Valaria in how Ary works within Mythic. I'll have a lot of passive stuff, and then i'll have doozies (like unswerving loyalty). The thing I'll burn through faster is legendary power, probably. Especially once I get confidence which will let me sport some free surges (that will likely get used with perfect aid :p).

Right now, a lot of the mythic stuff I want is very cool but less strong. Like, the 'become a demigod' stuff is decidedly less great for a ranger, but taking two of the three would be great to represent her ascendancy to a Herald or the like.

Similarly, if I weren't feat-starved, Shield Focus and Mythic Shield Focus go together beautifully to make her a little more untouchable (blocking spells with her shield? Heck yes!), but in practice it's not super good... unless I have rules for Ary burning mythic power as immediate actions when I have no idea what's going on. And that's bad. I'm already going to be using her legendary power to surge saving throws, after all. :|

Okay, good!

My f2f players are almost done with their interim adventures. They are starting to complain about not being level 7 yet, so I am concerned about you guys (since you will assuredly be stuck...longer)

But I care way more about the story than progression (probably due to only DMing >_>) and I think you guys will be able to work with the story elements/NPCs better than my roleplay-lite f2f group.

In particular, I had to toss out the stuff about crusader villains - they reacted really horribly to them and instead of focusing their ire on the problems (*cough*liotr*cough*) they started hating the entire crusader faction. Which is a shame, because I didn't want to portray them as like... blackandwhite ULTIMATE GOOD GUYS, I wanted some shades of grey in there - but c'est la vie.

The ultimate point is to have the PCs gain prestige/experience rapidly so that when the leaders of the crusades hand you guys the reins to an army it doesn't come across as weird ;)

Now you have me all intrigued. This sounds like it's going to be fun.

Believe me, I am far more concerned with being a part of a good story than I am with blowing away enemies left and right with mythic abilities. I am looking forward to the additional RP opportunities. :)

Since like, half the party seems to want to take Leadership, it might make that feel more natural as well. ;P

I will wallow in the self pity of outrunning every other campaign I have been in for more than a year with this campaign. :P

I -really- am looking forward to level 7 (+mythic 2?), and you know why. :)

Honestly having NPCs that matter really makes it hard to pass on leadership. I *want* Aravashnial to be hanging around for the rest of the campaign :)

And it definitely sounds like fun. I'm perfectly fine with spending more time working through it if we're doing things that matter to the story. Leveling and getting new abilities is neat, but I think at this point we're all here for the story first ;)

My problem is that I like too many NPCs. :|

In order of Ary <3s it:

Anevia, Klarah, Fenna, Horgus, Avi, everyone else.

I like Thomas, the littlest tiefling. He's precious.

Also Anevia, Klarah, Irabeth, and the others. Such a good AP for NPCs.

Ary, you're getting +2 hit/dam from favored enemy right? Are you only adding +1/+1 from inspire courage? Or am I reading your bonuses wrong?

And yes, lots of fun NPCs to choose from, a veritable cornucopia! ;)

I like Thomas, the littlest tiefling. He's precious.

I named him Thomas so that I can mentally call him "Thomas the Tiny Tiefling" which sounds like the name of a children's book in Golarion :3

I think I liked Lann best, oddly enough. He was pretty chill. I hope we get to see the underfolk kick some ass. ;P

I only did 1 hit and damage from inspire courage both rounds. I forgot you're a high level fancypants bard. :) (so fierce!)

Updated :)

Or... wait. Is there a reason it should be +2/+2?

Edit: Unfixed for now? What is your inspiration bonus?

Lann was great. The entire stay in Neathholm was fun.

Speaking of which, if Markus is going to put together a cult of talented spellcasting kids, I'm going to have to demand he get a legendary item that functions as a floating chair, boot Gwerm out of his manor and start "Professor M's School for Rifted Youngsters"

I named him Thomas so that I can mentally call him "Thomas the Tiny Tiefling" which sounds like the name of a children's book in Golarion :3

This reminds me of a time a party I had rescued a little girl from a dark ritual and she got turned into a tiefling as a result. They ended up adopting her. It was so cute seeing the haughty elf wizard cooing over a nine year old.

It is +2, Isilme performs Inspire Courage as a level 6 bard now :)

It'll be nice at 8 and 9 when we can double up on performances too. Isilme will be able to Dirge of Doom and Inspire Greatness when Val's doing courage.

Oh, favored class? Gotcha.

Multiple Bards in one party, the surefire way to stack all of the buffs.

Yup, and with Mythic performance I'll be able to run two buffs myself for a good number of rounds a day. Also mythic dirge stacks with Markus's fear spells :)

RIFTED YOUNGSTERS

that's good

the only problem is that Markus isn't disabled (and don't you dare, Kiora).

Side note of importance, that Ary would have pointed out had I not been in a rush: Now that we're in a fight... the whole building will likely know we're here. Telepathic Demons. :|

One does not need to be disabled in order to appreciate Good Lumbar Support.

Also, the other problem is that we could probably actually convince Horgus to invest in the Kenabres School of Witchcraft and Wizardry without kicking him out of his home. Give every child chores in addition to coursework, and set them to work making the town a beautiful place; appeal to his sentiments. As a follower of Abadar, showing him that this is for the good and betterment of society (aka, playing him like a fiddle) is much more effective. :)

Just being really lazy in your chair is good enough for me Markus :p

Ary: Yeah, it may be that an alarm went up, but imagine the reverse situation. We go inside and start fighting, and mid fight these three show up because they got the telepathic warning :p

Oh fine... Horgus can keep his home if he'll house the children ;p

Edit: Out for the evening! May or may not be back later tonight :)

I'm trying to get my levelup ducks in order, and I'm curious about some things related to stacking.

And yeah, I get that. Sneaky is -not- what we do in a building full of demons. But she'd have mentioned it. :) I suppose it doesn't hurt to have it come up after. :)

:) Yay, no homeless Horgus!

RIFTED YOUNGSTERS

that's good

the only problem is that Markus isn't disabled (and don't you dare, Kiora).

Mwhahaha!

Also, Rifted Youngsters makes me -really- want to replay this with a group that is 100% composed of Riftwarden Orphans.

Do you even rift?

All this chat is is really getting me excited about the game...

sooooo.... I've decided to ask some questions!

You'll spend about half of this AP in other planes :)

I'm also taking you to the moon~