GM ZD Beyond the Halflight Path Core Outpost (Inactive)

Game Master Z...D...

Welcome everyone.

Please fill out this FORM for me. It helps me when it comes time for chronicle sheets.

Hold off on making dayjob checks until the end. I will announce when we are close to wrapping it up and will ask for them then.

Make sure to have all pertinent information on your characters page, as well as the stat line filled out with basic information. IE HP, Perception, Init, AC and saves.

Reporting in.

Here for duty!

"Grog here.."

Reporting in! I will be determining my character closer to the game when I know who is available.

Howdy

Will be ready with Roderick my Alchemist-6

Aarvid, this is a core game. Do you have a core character in tier?

Oh crud. I thought I had put him on one of the three standard games. Well, bummer. I do have a CORE character. Lasaraleen...she will be 7th cleric, but is currently in the Race for Runecarved Key. I am not sure if that will finish by the time this starts. If not, I will have to drop. Sorry for the confusion.

Reporting in. Will do the survey later today.

Are we trending to high tier or low tier? I have both a level 3 and a couple level 6's that will be available for this game.

Right now we have 2 at level 4. 1 at level 5 and 1 at 6 right now.

Aarvid has yet to commit, but has a level 7 cleric to offer, which would most likely put us in high tier.

GM Andrew here. Think I will pick this character since it looks like we are high tier. Details coming. Waiting on the special to end.

It's the Transmuter Eldritch Knight party!

I'm no Eldritch Knight. Arcane Archer (which really ends up being way more "archer" and way less "arcane). ;)

lol I see we're all Transmuters here.

Special finished, chronicle received, and character updated! Good to go!

Committing with Lasaraleen-7 who just finished up with Gadget on another table.

I need to update her sheet, as she just leveled and I have 2 GM chronicles to apply.

OK....APL is 5.33 repeated. Rounded down to 5. with six players, we will be playing up with 4 player adjustment.

Lasaraleen's sheet is updated. Perception goes to +15 (eyes of the eagle) is probably the only significant change. Saves up by +1 each.

Nice I'll like the challenge.

Grog can I get your character number.

Florin, when you get a chance, can you fill out the survey at the top of this thread.

If you make purchases in scenario, please keep track of them and I will ask for them at the end of the scenario. I will try to remember them, but this scenario is pretty beefy and I may forget some things.

Survey done

Survey done

Thanks

Whoops it's 2072-27.

Whoops it's 2072-27.

Got it.

Confusion isn't too bad if most people save and then people don't get locked on each other, which hasn't happened yet. My real question is what happens with confusion when the black tentacles are "kind of" attacking them each round, since confusion states you attack your last attacker if you had one rather than roll... (Wouldn't apply to this round anyway since Confusion came after the tentacles)

I was wondering about the tentacles-but you cannot damage them, so do you just keep making grapple checks against them?

I've seen multiple rulings, ranging from "You attack the caster" to "You try to attack the tentacles ineffectually" to "It doesn't count as attacking you."

Which is why I'm curious. ;)

I'm more curious as to when did they start their casting. :)

I'm sorry for indiscriminate axe swinging.

I don't recall Lasaraleen casting Magic Circle Against Evil, but if she did (as her comment on those with 10' getting a save bonus implies), remember that deflection bonuses apply to CMD.
Even with that, I think those still grappled will be more likely to escape by their own efforts than by the tentacles failing a check, since the tentacles get +5 to maintain (though thankfully cannot pin).

Yeah...and this is with the four player adjustment. Their is a third caster in normal play.

I'll get a post up tomorrow. We got hit with a decent amount of snow and the communication center I work at is getting slammed.

Well shoot. My post with the circle vs evil must have been lost but the tag in her status line was not. Since it lasts over an hour (she usually extends it for close to 3 hours), she would cast it upon entering the complex.

Oh well, I will remove it from her status line and re-add the spell to her list.

Disregard people...nothing to see here...but lots of tentacles. I am interested to see if the halfling joins us.

Tentacles. Tentacles.
Sigh....

Sorry for lack of posting on my part..I work at an Emergency Communication Center and had winter storm hit us hard enough to cause people to become stupid...so I will post as soon as possible.

But we are making good progress.

It's fine. RL in this case comes first.

Don't worry, Florin, I see five ways out of this.
Caster (now in the tentacles) manages to dismiss; Lasaraleen gets off a Freedom of Movement; Lasaraleen channels to keep you alive; you get some good rolls and break out; or, we resort to the Duskwardens' tokens (which I think mean we accept failing the mission but don't die).
Potion of Gaseous Form, an old Red Box item, does start to look like a really nice Core investment.

I think it'll be fine. With Lasaraleen around, she can channel to keep people alive in the tentacles, and the ones out of the tentacles will have to handle the casters.

Of course, the caster dismissing the tentacles could be really good too. ;)

My problem is Confusion.

Who will I attack now?

You would attack closest, meaning Lasaraleen, unless she moves away

Move Lasaraleen! lol

I don't see the combat going past another round. Grog can probably drop the cleric.

Good job, all!
This fight started off really badly (getting beat on the initiative check and letting them get two potent spells off on us) but Lasaraleen's Command was a great tactic with a lucky break on the save.
I am particularly happy that my unoptimized, playing-up, Core-in-Season-9 PC did as well as he did. Good dice on his save and CMB check helped (he needed 10+ on the save and 17+ on the CMB).

Who wants the Ring of Protection? Florin?

i am glad it worked out as well. I was thinking the same thing. Two deadly spells for first round options. If we were playing up with no adjustment, there would have been a third.I think, a witch.

I'm still not done Sweating. lol

I am glad the command worked. Verbal only spell when grappled is about the best she could do.

Actually, Grog is one of the few who can do anything about a haunt, with his wand of CLW.

Would he know that? :)

FYI, the PDF for this scenario got updated. Here's some notes from Paizo:

• Created a new file of three chronicle sheets, one for each vault, for player use. Each sheet sorts treasure by story arc.
  
• Moved the existing chronicle sheet to the back of the file.
  
• Added DCs for saving throws to the sidebar about check DCs.
  
• Added clarification that GMs may select the ceiling height in each room to best fit the chosen encounters.
  
• Fixed various typos, including cleaning up the charts in the back of the book to make it clearer which monsters appear at which subtier.

Chronicles might be easier to fill out! ;)