[GM Striker's The Ruins of Azlant] Table 1

Game Master Sam Sturkie

Hey all, I'm so very sorry about my unexplained absence! Friday I came down with some sort of stomach bug that knocked me down HARD! I left work early Friday and then slept for 24 hours straight. I then spent the next three days in and out of variable levels of feverish consciousness. I don't know that I've ever been that weak from a sickness before, even when I got a bad case of the flu a few years ago.

I'll work on getting Delia leveled up later this evening.

Glad to still have you, ya this year the flu is really nasty. Hope you are doing better soon.

Bard (Sound Striker) 3
+6 HP (5+Con)
+1 BaB
+1 Fort
+1 Cantrip known (Sift)
+1 1st level spell per day and known (Chord of Shards)
+3 Bardic Performance Rounds (2+1 Half-Elf FCB)
Bardic Performance (Wordstrike)

Skills: (6+1)
+1 Diplomacy
+1 Knowledge: Arcana
+1 Knowledge: Nature
+1 Perception
+1 Sleight of Hand
+1 Survival
+1 Spellcraft

Background Skills:
+1 Knowledge: History
+1 Perform: Sing

Feats:
Point-Blank Shot

Thanks, Striker! I'm mostly back to normal now (first day back to work today), but I'm still getting tired quicker than normal.

Holy s#!! that sounds rough. Glad to hear you're feeling better.

Congrats on the gold. [Insert under-breath swearing and moping in Scandinavian]

Congrats on the gold. [Insert under-breath swearing and moping in Scandinavian]

Oh come on. You're kicking our butts right now. Norway is #1 in medal count and USA is like #5. Good job, but just wait till the summer olympics gets here. :)

[Insert under-breath swearing and moping in Scandinavian]

(I have yet to find the playfully moping font for situations like this one =/)

There may or may not have been more than a little hype building up the Norway-Sweden duel to come. But in all fairness it was an awesome sprint even if you guys unexpectedly decided to join in. ^^

And I think our king at some point decided that since we're probably never going to really matter politically, economically, militarily or more or less any other way, we'd just base our worth as a nation on how well we can run with sticks on our legs. xD

As for the summer olympics, I didn't really know we did those... or summer for that matter. :p

HAHAHA!

I’m not typically into the winter sports being from the central US in Kentucky, but man, biathlon is crazy fun to watch! Those people just killing it through hills and valleys and then stopping to fire off a bunch of shots at a tiny target? That’s awesome.

I know, right? For some reason, watching the last round of shooting is just ridiculously tense.

The only issue I have eith it is that one of our guys (who’s been competing for at lleast as long as I can remember) suddenly decided that things like old age was an excuse to stop.... Just feels weird watching without him there :p

I love watching the skiing events. Particularly the jumping.

Hey Striker, I am planning to take a little dip into Lore Oracle for a few Charisma options (Cha to all skills and AC/Ref) for mechanical and roleplay purposes. That said I like things to flow smoothly roleplay-wise and I was curious if there is a spot in the AP that would be appropriate for Delia to suddenly gain such powers?

I think after the final fight of this AP (When you will level again) there will be several weeks of downtime where you could learn new skill ect. I think book two will be when the ship returns.

I have once again failed my search for the Npc sheet. :(

Striker, could you throw the link up with the maps? I keep having to search through the entire campaign every time I forget who an Npc is. :p

So how are you all liking the new website? Do any of your post on dndbeyond? The new look sorta reminds of of it. The text looks smaller, but I like the font. :D

So far, I'm not a big fan of the new layout, but I think most of the things I don't like are going to be fixed. For example, I hate that links are the same font color as text and how all the names are black now as opposed to the different color formats. I like the new font, but not size. Also, I don't like that there is not any easy notifications for PMs. That said, I think most of that is being addressed, so time will tell more.

What I do like is the look of the new format, very sleek.

Not a fan so far. My only hope is that the site is more stable. If it is, I’ll learn to like it.

I agree, the look is cool, but I had difficulty finding some of the links.

When posting for Deth a few minutes age I noticed that and enter sign after a "[ooc]" format symbol caused the ooc font to end. I think that may be a bug.

My dislike mostly stems from everything having been reorganized. (I'm terrible with UI changes) But I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before I get used to it.

I like the changes, hopefully the new site will be more stable and as far as changes... I'm sure we'll all get used to it soon enough.

Okay, I'm much happier with the new site now that a lot of the little bugs have been worked out. The rest is pretty much just relearning the new navigation of the site.

Some bookkeeping
Dividing by 6 to the 600gp of herbs for Alba gives 100gp per character and 100 gp for the party share. I have taken 110gp out of the party share for Everburning Torch and used up the 300gp credit with Alba by getting 1 Cure Light Potion for every character in addition to 2 doses of Bloodblock. This leaves 113gp in the party share.
We have 3 Tridents if anyone wants them.

Yay! Thanks for handling the books Deth! :D

Yes, thank you for handling all the book keeping, Deth.

Okay, so next round I can blast those things with Chord of Shards.

Also, GM Striker, what do you think about Delia's ability Word Strike working on these things? There's no indication that it requires an attack roll, so I'm curious what you think.

If Delia’s blast doesn’t work, or if the thundercloud doesn’t have an effect, we all need to run away IMHO.

I also have a flaming sphere I want to try. I'd hate to almost kill it and then leave it standing.

Word strike should affect the swarm as it deals sonic damage.

So what do you all think of Pathfinder 2nd edition? :O I assume it isn't going to impact this game and other existing games.

I haven't really read up on it, but a friend claimed it seemed like Pathfinder: 7th sea edition, which sounds pretty cool. Not sure if I like the thought of relearning the system though. :p

I used to run 7th Sea. It was a blast. I'm sorry to say its been a while since I've actually bought a pathfinder hard copy book (I think it was the 3rd Monster Manual), I've just picked up PDFs. That said, I usually just use what is on the PRD, so until that changes, I'm good.
For my two cents, the worst game mechanic in the original pathfinder is the combat maneuvers. Although an improvement over 3.5 I still think its wonky. So any improvement in those rules I'd be all for.

Hey, I'm still trying to get used to the new Paizo format. The old format had an alert that would appear when you received a PM. Although I"m sure this new version has one, I'm not certain and I'm getting tired to going to my account just to see if I got a message. So could someone PM me as a test. Thanks.

I think I'll look over the playtest rules this weekend. I'm both excited and worried...

Thanks for the PM's. I have replied. Whenever you have a personal message a small red dot appears on the upper right corner of My Account icon.

NP! I was actually curious about how it would show up too XD

I'm excited to see what's in the tower! :O A necromancer perhaps?!

I think Nox is right. It's probably going to be more construct based stuff. Although this does have an 'Umbrella Corporation' type of feel. Abandoned Research Facility out in the middle of nowhere. Maybe we should name our colony Racoon Town. :)

At the first sign of zombies I’m starting my own colony off shore.... unless they’re the kind of zombies who just strut along the sea floor.

Zombies don't have to breath. Just FYI. I don't think they can swim, so living on a boat may be an option.

Where could one find the playtest rules for Pathfinder 2E? I had a feeling it was coming, but I'm a little disappointed that Paizo announced they are stopping support for PFS1E after this year. Oh well... such is life I suppose.

I think it was the extremely popularity of Starfinder that really put the spin on PFS2E.

Starfinder?! Did somebody say Starfinder? I love Starfinder! (lol)

Rules should be released in Aug, from what I was reading.

Aug 3rd is what I have heard. Timed for Gen Con.

Ahah, I finally found it. So far it sounds interesting, although I'm curious as to which classes are making it into the Core book. Will it be just the Core classes? Or are they going to introduce some of the Paizo exclusives??

Where did you find the playtest rules? I haven't managed to find them. =/

Also, is anyone else having problems opening the formatting guide?

Sorry, I meant that I found the announcement that nothing will be released officially until August. Everything that I've read (beyond the stuff on the Podcasts) has been released in the blogs.

Ah, right! Too bad

Ok, seems like we are entering a dungeon crawl.

I suggest we devise a common practice for exploring. A marching order, a system of how we want to approach doors, etc. I say the trap spotter, device disabler takes the lead and becomes the “caller” so we don’t have to wait for everyone to vote before we take an action.

It’s easy to stall out in a dungeon in PBP.

I like the idea, Nox. Since Momo is our trap spotter/disabler, I suggest we make her the caller.

Also, is anyone else having problems opening the formatting guide?

Yes, I can't open it.

@Deth So it's probably some server/new layout bug then, good to know ^^

@Nox
Nice idea with the marching order, I think Deths order should work fine.