GM WhtKnt's Darkness Within: A Carrion Crown Adventure Path

Game Master WhtKnt

Sorry, folks. The site locked me out for a week and a half. I couldn't get back in no matter what I tried.

I figured that was the case. Now the game can "WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!" :P

Sorry, folks. The site locked me out for a week and a half. I couldn't get back in no matter what I tried.

I had to dump my cookies and clear the cache. I was also given a notice that there was a data breach at about the same time the storm took paizo's servers offline. I'm not sure if it was a flase positive, or if someone breached paizo's security during their repair

Either way, it's probably a good idea to run a security scan on your computer, and change your password.

I changed my password AND e-mail address just to be safe.

At this point, I think I'm resigned to Cassiel dying.

The dice are not our friend

At least you're not useless like me. T_T

Try me on my other games... not pretty

Sorry for the absence. Life got busy and the game fell off my radar for a little bit.

Eh, no worries! Glad you're here now!

Oh *NOW* I make a good roll. <_<

There's a storm front moving in here. Internet is expected to go out at some point. My ability to post will be unreliable for a few days.

Be safe

Seconded.

Thanks. There shouldn't be any actual danger. Temperatures aren't bad here, and I'm well stocked in case of a long power outage. The communication grid here is just notoriously unreliable. The first wave of the storm hit this morning and knocked out the internet for most of the area. I'm unaffected right now, but that could change anytime.

Still thanks for letting us no ahead of any potential problems!

Posting may be delayed the next two days

Tis cool, take your time!

I am going to be out-of-contact from Thursday, Apr 1 to Monday, April 11. I'm taking my niece and nephew to Disneyworld for their first visit! Please be patient and I will update after my return. I'll try to get one more update in before I leave.

Awesome trip!!! Have fun.

Does Healing magic leave scars, or just erase wounds like they were never there?

Does Healing magic leave scars, or just erase wounds like they were never there?

I don't think that'd really matter in terms of the Beast: he CAN'T be healed through magic, if I understand correctly.

Do we know that?

You're kidding, right? I somehow managed to make the exact same crappy rolls the GM made for me?!

I'm taking some poetic license with how summoners usually work, but I'm not arbitrarily granting a summoned creature telepathy. If the earth elemental notices anything, it will have to get Judah's attention some other way.

This seems like a pretty important roll not to fail. Is Aid Another allowed?

If we do fail, we might want to consider hiring a local investigator to do the legwork for us. I bet the lawyer knows a few.

Aid another is definitely permitted!

This is reaaaaally round about. Fair enough it's an investigation story but this is poor writing from Paizo in my opinion. It's multiple chances to fail. One failed roll across a chain of rolls? One poorly worded inquiry and poof... nothing.

No shade on WhKnt but if I ever get around to running this? I think I may simplify this some.

Yeah, that's a big reason why gumshoe sequences don't work well in Pathfinder. It's one of the weaknesses of the system.

There's a bunch of GM advice threads on how to handle it. Most of them advise taking a "no way to fail" approach to anything that is key to moving the plot forward. (adding complications or penalties for failed rolls, rather than just completely losing the trail of the mystery, seems to be the consensus)

How much time do we have before we are supposed to get cleaned up to testify in court?

Hoping we have time to do this chemist place but we may be able to do that after the 1st day of the trial

This is day one. We might have to do a night mission to the chemist works to gather stuff for day 2... I have no idea how we are gonna get to the other place and back to allow day 3

So, we're looking for tearaway clothes here?

No, just double layers. If we need a quick change we toss the top layer.

I love how we're all committing to the Reservoir Dogs bit with our avatars here!

You shamed me into doing it... :D

Hee hee hee!

I like Lorant's Hastur Cultist outfit. It's thematically appropriate.

"Ohhhhh, The Open Gate!" *sitcom laughtrack*

This whole disguise thing is pretty nifty

Looks like the map doesn't have tokens on it yet.

Is the dog-thing still within 5' adjust range of my elemental? Or charge range?

Uhm, yeah. I can put tokens on there. For now, just assume that it is within a 5' adjust range.

I'm not sure if we've moved to the next round or not.

We have, I've just been overwhelmed. Will try to get a post up tomorrow.

Between the 3 elementals I used for surveillance earlier, and the 2 I'm using in this fight, I'm rapidly running out of minions to summon later.

I still have most of my spells for the day, but they're a lot less versatile. I'm a little worried about the rest of this encounter now.

Rules quibble-

Shouldn't this be a surprise round? It seems like there should have been some kind of role to see if we caught them off guard or not.

I'll grant you that, although it is also logical that they might have heard the battle in the courtyard. :) Go ahead and make an opposed Stealth roll against their Perception. If you beat it, then you have one surprise round.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Stealth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

Whoohoo!

To make Lorant's action make sense, he would have had to have been right behind me, and taken a surprise round charge. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.

It just occurred to me that the splash weapons I'm carrying should go to Mathus.

Remind me later to pass them off.

Seems like people are pretty busy lately.

GM, what do you think about using a block initiative system for future battles? They tend to speed things up in PBP games.