GM Turmoil's GD VI: The Heresy of Man series (Inactive)

Game Master Korolan

They're working on it.

Running a small local con at the Jet City Comic Show Saturday and Sunday, so my posts over the weekend will likely be short and sweet, lacking my usual excessive verbosity.

I've arrived, and I do have some internet. I'm not sure if it was just the recent site issues or my location, but have had a lot of trouble.

This is one of my first times getting on at all. There is a strong possibility I will be away from internet for the next 3-5 days.

Glad to hear you got over there and there weren't any major issues.

Sorry for the lack of posting. I basically threw my hands in the air after all the site issues and didn't even bother with it this weekend. But weekends do tend to be slower since it's family time for me.

FYI

I will be at a training course all day tomorrow and will probably not have any time to post.

Heh, I hate it when I fail the knowledge rolls and don't know what element to use =)

Heh, I hate it when I fail the knowledge rolls and don't know what element to use =)

Well a 25 Int wizard is smart enough to know that the undead fire genie doing heat damage is probably less vulnerable to fire :)

Ya, that's what I was going with there... just would rather have known where to go to!

Now watch it be immune to cold =) Milo needs more reasons to get angry!

I know we still have a week to go before the end of Gameday, but I'm going to roll for the boons now. There is still one more part after this combat, but it's really just RP and should go fairly quick.

Glen Fiddich: 1d20 ⇒ 13
Prophet: 1d20 ⇒ 3
Guang: 1d20 ⇒ 18
Lurgh: 1d20 ⇒ 14
Milo: 1d20 ⇒ 9
GM: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Also, I did send a PM to Prophet to check if he will be able to continue with the last part or if he'll have to bow out due to the deployment. If it comes to it, and he does have to back out, do the rest of you want me to try to find another player, or just roll with the 4 of you? I have not had a chance to read through it yet, so I really don't have a feel for the difficulty of it.

Hopefully, we can get the Prophet back.
But the scenarios were designed for four players, so I'm okay with rolling with what we've got.

So I did hear back from Prophet, today was the first time he was able to get online again since his last post over a week ago. He really doesn't foresee his access to internet to become more frequent, so he won't be joining us for the last part. Again, I'm fine running it with just the four of you or I can try to find another if any of you prefer.

Going to roll your day job checks for this scenario based on your previous posts from part one, so I can get the chronicles made.

Milo, Craft Alchemy: 1d20 + 18 + 5 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 18 + 5 + 2 + 2 = 44
Lurgh, Profession Fisherman: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Glen, Heal: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34
Prophet, Heal: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

Chronicles are finished, you can find them HERE, and I've already reported the scenario.

Once we finish this last little bit, I'll give everyone a few days to make any purchases they want and I'll probably kick off the next one this weekend or Monday. I don't expecting a high posting rate over next week though due to the holiday.

As for replacing Prophet, only Glen has chimed in so far, and I really don't care what you all decide. I did get a chance to read over the next part, and I will say some of the combats look like they could be challenging, so make sure you come well prepared. They are the type of encounters where a couple of unlucky rolls could certainly turn deadly.

Glen advances to Inquisitor 9. Yay!

I'm swamped with reporting the PbP Gameday VI sessions to Paizo and prepping and distributing the GM and player boons.

I'm at a convention this weekend, so a few days gap is not bad for me.

As regards Prophet: I don't mind playing with 4, honestly, hopefully we can rise to the challenge.

I want to give you all a heads up that my posting may become a bit sporadic over the next month or so. Obviously the holidays are a busy time for many of us, but on top of that, I start a new job at the beginning of December and we are also in the middle of house hunting. I plan on cutting back on the number of games I play in as well, and with only four people in this one, my hope is we don't slow down too much.

Lurgh will be spending 8000 gp to upgrade his cloak of resistance from +1 to +3.

I'll post an updated PC tagline and highlights of Glen's advancement to Level 9 tomorrow morning. It's almost midnight here.

I have to say, having just played a number of the season 9 scenarios that tie into a lot of the story-arc stuff from Heresy, this is pretty fun for me, seeing how all the pieces are tying together in a cohesive whole. For those of you who get a chance, Salvation of the Sages is a fun one to play with Heresy in your character's background, though there's a number of other scenarios that have some hooks to things like Mirza as well.

I'm kind of impressed they wove it all together out of scenario roots 6 seasons ago.

Anyway, back from con. I don't think I have any big purchases for Guang but I'll check.

I take it back, I do have some purchases I'll get. Upgrading cloak to a +2 cloak of resistance and picking up a planar amulet of mighty fists, if these are obtainable without trouble in Manaket. Replacing antiplague and antitoxin.

Upon attaining Level 9, Glen Fiddich purchased boots of speed for 12,000gp. He took the feat "Cornugon Smash" and the inquisitor's bonus feat "Shake It Off." As his FCB, Glen took an additional 2nd level spell, See Inivisibility. He selected Coordinated Effort as his new 3rd level spell.

Glen, cashing in PP for items is capped at one item per session. Page 22 of the Guide. :-\ I just got reminded of the rule at my con this weekend.

Thanks for pointing that out, dien. Never too old or too experienced to learn.

I'll belay all purchases except the potion of remove blindness.

If it makes you feel better I have 5 castings worth of lesser restoration on me already and I can cast daylight (aasimar).

I could drop 2 PP on the scrolls of remove curse but at this level the caster checks get kind of rough for that/low odds of success.

I will definitely have to check out those other scenarios, I wasn't aware there were any future tie ins to these.

Yeah, Salvation of the Sages does, and also #9-04, Unseen Inclusion. To an extent I think anything from the season 9 Scarab Sages focused scenarios might-- they touch on all the Mirza background stuff you spoilered, and the Usij show up, etc.

I guess that could qualify as super light spoilers but to anyone who's already played as far as we have in Heresy it's not really.

And there's #8-16 - the name alone might be a clue, hehe. 'Refugees of the Weary Sky'

Happy Thanksgiving!

Guang can have an extended mage armor as usual.

Unfortunately I don't think using a wand to charge your ioun stone will work. The ioun stone refers to the ring of spell storing (minor) which refers to the ring of spell storing which states:

A spellcaster can cast any spells into the ring, so long as the total spell levels do not add up to more than 5. Metamagic versions of spells take up storage space equal to their spell level modified by the metamagic feat. A spellcaster can use a scroll to put a spell into the minor ring of spell storing.

No mention of wands. I've always ruled that it has to be cast directly or come from a spell-completion item, but doesn't work with a spell-trigger item. I guess we'll have to wait for the GM to give a ruling on that.

Have always ruled it that way as well (ie: have to actually cast it).

Well, that's the first I've heard that interpretation in 6-odd years of play. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it's not how I've seen it treated. I'll defer to the GM and poke around the boards to see if there's anything official.

Only topic I could find on it on a quick look, but I'm on my tablet right now, so I may have missed more discussion somewhere.

GM, if you are on the 'no' side, could I have bought a few scrolls of shield in town?

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2rjga?Can-a-wand-be-used-on-a-Spell-Storing-ite m

Hmm, I've never had this come up before and I can honestly see both sides of the argument. I'm going to go with no though, based on the fact that the spell description specifically calls out allowing scrolls, but makes no mention of wands. That leads me to believe the intent was for a PC to cast the spell, while also allowing a specific exception for scrolls as well.

No issue at all allowing you to retcon a purchase though.

Gotcha. Well, I'll just clear it at tables in the future and have scrolls on hand if the GM says no on the wand, simple enough to fix.

I'll get a scroll with 4 castings of shield for 100 gold then.

Just want to encourage the team to maintain our energy level. Been sensing a waning moon last couple of weeks.

Cheer up everybody, let's have fun!

I'm still active, but I may not be able to post every day right now.

I sing in my church's choir and the Advent/Christmas seasons tend to be very busy. I'll be away from home almost this entire weekend.

I take the blame for not keeping this moving. This new job and the house hunting is taking up all of my time right now. On top of that, both my wife and son are sick so I'm having to do everything around the house.

Go do laundry, slacker! =)

Started typing, and realized I didn't have a slang term for all the schools of magic yet (only had 6 of 8)!

Fixed now!

'Course, now they'll probably never come up...

Just checking in...

Checking in again. Hope your family's feeling better.
Are we still good-to-go?

Still here whenever Turmoil can continue. I know the holidays always get busy.

Checking in again.
Are we still good-to-go?
Merry Christmas, everybody.

Still around.

No clue on Turmoil

I suggest we give him until January 3rd. If we don't hear from him by then, we make the call for a replacement GM. He hasn't posted at all since early December as far as I can tell.

Agree with Lurgh. Holidays are always crazy but we can give him a little more time.

I'm here, and things are finally calming down a bit. I apologize for my absence, but the last few weeks ended up being much busier than I could have anticipated. I'll get us going again tonight, already told my wife to leave me alone for a bit :)

Huzzah! Yeah, that's the holidays. Don't worry, we didn't go anywhere.

Lurgh will be spending 8000 gp to upgrade his cloak of resistance from +1 to +3.

Just noticed an error.

I had upgraded my cloak from +1 to +2 HERE but apparently recorded it incorrectly on my character sheet.

So I only needed to spend 5000 gp for the upgrade. It also means I had to fix my save bonuses as they were too high.

Just a heads up, I have no power because of the storm right now. I'll post once we have it back.

Sorry! Having computer issues and also madly trying to prep for a con this weekend, which is even worse due to the issues! Will squeeze in a post right now