GM Lamplighter: PFS #4-07 "Severing Ties" (Inactive)

Game Master Scott Young

Hmm, I think I will drop the Dual Cursed, and go with a simple Oracle. I would do that for the revelation "Awesome Display".

Awesome Display (Su): Your phantasmagoric displays accurately model the mysteries of the night sky, dumbfounding all who behold them. Each creature affected by your illusion (pattern) spells is treated as if its total number of Hit Dice were equal to its number of Hit Dice minus your Charisma modifier (if positive).

With a 20 charisma, each creature in the area of effect for any of my illusions, including Color Spray, would subtract five (until I get Charisma enhancing gear/levels) from their HD when determining the effect!

So, for instance, using Color Spray against a group of 7 HD creatures, they would be treated as 2 having 2 HD. So they would be blind, stunned, and unconsious for 2d4 rounds, blind and stunned for 1d4 additional rounds, and stunned for another 1 round. Makes the effectiveness of all the illusions much more potent.

Making CLW a class spell for UMD purposes would also be nice...

I'll just drop this here....

we used to play marvel all the time. I remember now is FASE RIP. Maybe FACE Rip...

Holy awesomeness... I have never met anyone who knows what this is. I found this on mistake and have fallen in love with it. I have been trying to get my normal group to play it, decided to run a test run on here :).

Yeah, I admit I spend way too much time researching Pathfinder stuff.

here is my redo of this particular character (To occur at 3 exp)

The Guide to Esmerelda

Can you actually drop your Str that low in PFS. I thought that 8 was the base lowest, and then -2 would be 6 (min), but I could be wrong. One thing I would suggest, as I've played a variaty of scenarios, PFS play really rewards characters that are not super specialized over those that do. I can see a few times when that Str might get you killed or stuck. Not saying don't do it, (and I understand why you are), just a warning. :) It does look really cool, though.

In PFS play, the lowest you can go is 7, before racial modifiers.

I have finished by rebuild, only took what? three weeks of planning, and 6 days of tweaking! Woot! I am efficient.

At any rate, I added it to the bottom of my current character sheet so I could report that it is being redone. I think that is supposed to get noted on a Chronicle sheet or some such thing. I wanted to change the name, but thought that might be too confusing to future GMs.

Still debating though. Eleanor Lokrien if I do decide to change it, else the pet will be Eleanor. Hard to decide at the moment, because it is way too late!

Night!

FYI - I have written and resolved the next post, but I will need to update the map and can't do it remotely for some reason. Will do it this evening. Suffice it to say, initiative has been rolled. :)

... and saving throws have been rolled ...

It occurs to me to ask, if anyone has a Paizo shirt, Character Folio or Campaign Coin which allows them to make re-rolls, or any other boon/feat which allows the same. Just asking. :)

What if I promise to go out and buy a folio tonight. :)

Yea, Lamplighter asking us that is never a good sign.

Welp... So much for ranvar, may he rest in peace lol

I have a folio. Will scan/link when home again

Update posted. I`ll trust you on the folio/etc. rerolls - just let me know if you want to use one at any point.

Also - I had to start using different top-down avatars for the PCs - it's too hard to use the message board ones without adding another level of effort to making the maps. I will try and keep the comments added, but once you are familiar enough with your image, we can get rid of the outlines.

I have both the shirt and a folio, and it is very likely I will be in need of it very soon.

Just a head's up, I always pick low for random rolls.

So if I have a 20% miss chance, 01-20 = failure.

My goal is to put him in a smoke screen so we cannot see it. Total concealment and all that, but at least no more statues! You can always poke me and ask me not to before the casting happens if you think it bad.

This is one of the few cases where that is a good idea. We want to be blind to fight this thing.

All miss chances will be "low" - so a 20% miss chance is just that, 01-20 indicates a miss.

Total Concealment does not affect gaze attacks, but Cover does.

It doesn't? So if neither of us can see the other, we're still subject to its gaze attack? Well we close our eyes in the smoke screen then.

All miss chances will be "low" - so a 20% miss chance is just that, 01-20 indicates a miss.

I've seen it done diffrent ways, so I just wanted to clarify for myself before I rolled. I've seen people pick at random 2 numbers on a d10, I've seen people roll high (80-00) or low (01-20), I've seen people switch between the two each roll, and I've seen DM's roll it for the everyone.

It doesn't? So if neither of us can see the other, we're still subject to its gaze attack? Well we close our eyes in the smoke screen then.

You don't actually need to see at all for (area) Gaze Attacks, but turning or closing your eyes are a form of cover (something is blocking the eye to eye line), or looking through a reflection is indirect.

That being said, I'm not trying to be a rule's lawyer here, and fr all I know the scenario has special rules.

:)

Gaze attacks work 2 ways, essentially: active and passive. I described passive mode on the in-game page, since that's the one players can control. The creature can also use its gaze attack actively, by targeting a single individual - in this case it doesn't matter if you're looking or not, you have to make a save. In this case only cover would apply. But that's on person per round, max. It is possible to require 2 saves in a round, one on your turn and one on the creature's turn.

As it is, if we can't attack through the bars, we can't fight this thing. Unless Esmeralda is willing to close her eyes and walk next to the bars for a color spray in its general direction. That's the only thing I can think of to deal with this thing so we can get Ranvar back.

Yeah, obviously we have to kill it at some point. My suggestion of going to deal with the Lissalans was based on the thought that they might posses something that would help. Smoked Goggles or something?

I kind of doubt that they would have something like that or be willing to give us it. I still want to find a way into the room, I mean how did they get the basilisk in there?

Right, but if we just let it go, we all have to fight it with our eyes averted or something. Don't get me wrong, getting Ranvar back is the priority, but if we are all stone...

We could close our eyes and fight it. The 50/50 miss chance isn't that bad if it means being immune to its gaze. And all it's danger is in it's gaze attack. While it can fight, it's not a super facebeater or anything.

I would suggest against just closing your eyes. Try to fight a bear irl without opening your eyes, see how far you get :P. Now a blindfold might work work. Its just not easy to keep your eyes closed amidst a fight

Also note: Leastrie's knowledge indicated it has powerful jaws. As in, "maybe drop a 1st-level character" powerful. Of course, there are some higher-level folks here, so perhaps you could handle it.

Honestly, I'd rather have this character die than leave another character out of the game (or let them die).

Its cool :P

Hey fellas, we have no intention of letting Ranvar die. Our thought process is that after we confront the Lisallans, a way to kill the basilisk will present itself.

@ Leastrie. . . That is my thought as well. We have no idea who the pathfinder agent is, or how friendly some/any of the Lyssians will be. We should be able to restore Ranvar. As long as we get Ranvar restored, he should receive 1/2 to full credit for mission. (Assuming 1/2 of the mission is getting the 4 items we recovered to get here)

It's not that, its the fact that he's effectively sitting here and watching everyone else play but can not do a thing about it, which is a huge no-no in PFS. Assuming that someone survives the scenario and there is a feasible way to get him returned to flesh, (I think I can afford a casting), he should get full XP, GP, and PP.

Its cool guys. You don't have to move me away from the wall

I was doing it to avoid having to possibly risk comming back with a cure and getting zapped instead. My understanding is that the illusion will drop soon.

I can only maintain Silent Image as long as I concentrate. So it is my Standard Action. I can keep it up as long as I have standard actions to spare, but not beyond. :( Sorry it doesn't do much for Ranvar, but it minimizes the threat to the rest of us. . . or seems to at any rate. We are not to hurt the Lyssians for fear we may accidentally harm or expose our agent, but perhaps we can bully them a little.

Well, at the very least we can ask them about an entrance to the room with the basilisk so we can kill it and restore Ranvar. I have no problem strong arming one of them to get the info.

Yeah, my concern is "If this is just the trap, who is the enemy?" that thought scares me a little. . .

Still tweaking away on Esmerelda v. 2.0. I know the basics but I have not finalized. Will be done at the end of this campaign, or possibly the end of whatever comes after. I will let you know in the next couple days whether or not I am done enough to request a note on my Chronicle.

Just a heads up, between Feb 4-14th ish, I will be in the field, and may not be able to post much. If nt, please feel free to run my character, or if Ranvar wants to play him while he is out, I'm cool with that. I'll let you know more when I know.

Thanks!

Because I had way too much free time this weekend (I don't watch football, but everyone else I know does) I finally finished up my mini guide that this character is the playtest for! Yay!

Also, Lamplighter, would you please note on my chronicle that I am rebuilding my character following this?

The guide: Link to Google Doc

Will do!

The DC on the Stabilize check for my Animal Companion is currently 23, so if I roll a natural 20. If anyone wants to aid, that would be nice... if you can.

I'm just a dude pretending to be a dude, pretending to be another dude trash talking a dude. Some day I will pass a heal check. . . I really need ranks in heal. Sucks when you can't do anything but watch your animal companion wither up and bleed out. . .

Right. So we have the items, which IIRC are trapped with something horrible. As such, handing them to the man to open might be an attack. On the other hand, I have Color Spray ready and waiting, so we could trade the items, color spray the man, take the items from his unconscious form, and leave a quickly scrawled 'This is what you get for messing with the consortium' note on his body. . . Assuming the trapped box doesn't alleviate our problem for us.

Second, how much is Aliera healed?

Third, we have an entire complex to vandalize, and one way or another, I think we will have to eliminate the Basilisk. Depending on the value of the items we have (appraise anyone?) we might have more than one remove paralysis coming if the tide turns against us. If we are lucky, we have the blood and handing over the items is not necessary.

My 3 cp.

Well as long as we wait until after he heals ranvar, then I'm good wiht knocking him out and taking the items back so we can avoid the basilisk entirely.