Giant Slayer PbP (Inactive)

Game Master Batpony

Less than 24 hours, it's practically a sting.

I have 4 Endure elements memorized.

My furniture is arriving, let me settle the house matters then i'll get us back up and running. Probably by the weekend.

Enjoy your new setup! :)

Enjoy your new trappings of civilization! :)

PS: I could use a 1-2 week break myself due to a pretty serious medical procedure I'm going through on Monday and Tuesday... if you don't see me post by Wed or Thu, May 1 or 2... consider replacing Theodric with someone else... wish me luck!

Wish you well!
Hope the procedure will go well. Take care.

Theodric best of luck! Hope you're OK.

@GM hope it goes well too.

All the best Theodric!

Let's take a breather for a week then, unpacking itself is a chore but I did not realise how much cleaning and Organizing comes about with it.

Great part about it though is all my pathfinder stuff has arrived, including pawns. So I can run a decent game for my local lodge.

I could use a 1-2 week break myself due to a pretty serious medical procedure I'm going through on Monday and Tuesday... if you don't see me post by Wed or Thu, May 1 or 2... consider replacing Theodric with someone else... wish me luck!

Wishing you a speedy recovery!

Hope you recover quickly and without any complications Theodric.

Thank you all for your best wishes! greatly appreciated!

What was a routine procedure turned out to be a nightmare... eat your vegetables folks, and check your cholesterol. Do it early, and do it often. I'm still shaky, but no longer in negative HPs! you might want to bot me if I'm slowing you down in the next few days though...

Thank you all for the wishes of good luck as they may have made the difference! Also send a thank you prayer for Mike: a guy who had wisely listened during his classes and maxed his ranks in Heal. Without his expert knowledge and his leadership with another half-dozen wide eyed professionals who had NOT maxed up their ranks in Heal (and had instead cross-trained in Performance: Drinking Games), I probably wouldn't be here today.

Happy to hear you get better!
Best wishes of recovery ;-)

I'm French so I eat a lot of vegetables (and other things too) :p
But more importantly I eat regularly, with small portion and I avoid excess.

You forgot the ones who maxed their rank in Bluff :'(

Thank you Mark then !

Glad you're on the mend. :)

Thank you gentlemen!

I'm good to continue the game. I appreciate you all took a break!

I'll get the game back on the road Saturday morning!

I'm going to fly to PaizoCon this afternoon! So my posting rate will be slow till monday evening :)
If needed, bot me.

Any requests? I was thinking of Mass Ghost Bane Dirge to deal with the Witchfire or Blessing of Fervor.

Any requests? I was thinking of Mass Ghost Bane Dirge to deal with the Witchfire or Blessing of Fervor.

Anything to deal with the will o wisps?

Mass Ghost bane dirge might be good. Or channel to harm undead if you can reach them?

Any requests? I was thinking of Mass Ghost Bane Dirge to deal with the Witchfire or Blessing of Fervor.

Dispel magic the will-o-wisps... they will be a nightmare to overcome by melee and we don't have magic missile... their will saves are pretty good which means they might bust through Glaube's sanctuary effect...

@GM: Theodric has magic circle vs. evil active... if they summoned the creatures on top of us like this the spell should have failed. If they summoned them outside, the creatures would be hedged out.

Magic Circle is subject to SR...

Good point, haven't had this situation arise before so I'm a little confused myself. They definitely attempted to summon the wisp inside the circle. So that means the wisp just don't get summoned?

Nope magic circle vs. evil and protection vs. evil are NOT subject to SR. Furthermore: "Spell Resistance can allow a creature to overcome this protection and touch the warded creature."

Will-o-wisps do not have SR.

Good point, haven't had this situation arise before so I'm a little confused myself. They definitely attempted to summon the wisp inside the circle. So that means the wisp just don't get summoned?

Yes, spell fails.

From Summon Monster:
"Creatures cannot be summoned into an environment that cannot support them."

From Magic Circle vs. Evil:
"All creatures within the area gain the effects of a protection from evil spell, and evil summoned creatures cannot enter the area either."

For me, a creature immune to magic allowing SR bypass the protection from the Circle.

Make sense, looks like the wisp dissipate before the materialise! So ignore that element of the last post.

@GM Batpony: please let me know if we are currently into the final battle for this book, as I have another group waiting patiently for Theodric. Do you think we can wrap this up in the next few days then take a summer break until the next Giantslayer book?

Good time you should bring it up, as I was contemplating on wrapping up this fight while waiting for Harsk to post.

While Skirkatla has quite a lot of health left, there's no way I see them winning the fight anymore with most of her outnumbered without support, she's also used up most of her special abilities.

Also in terms of adventure path completion, this combat pretty much completes the book objectives. There's quite a bit more dungeon to explore but at this time it's optional at this point, and dwells into a bit more of the lore but is mostly flavour. So we can conclude unless the party wishes to do more undead hunting.

I would definitely need a break as my family will be down in July so I won't have as much time to commit to hobbies, and I'm still unsettled on if I should run book 5 on PBP. Book 5 was extremely boring to run as written in real life.. it was essentially a flavourless dungeon crawl filler, and I'm not keen to go through it once more. Book 6 is much better though.

So the question remains, is everyone ok if we wrapped it up here?

I'm definitely ok wrapping up here as I have lots coming in July as well. If Book 5 is a boring dungeon crawl, I would agree with you that we skip it, but the Pokemon Collector in my would like that Chronicle Sheet regardless- how about you narrate main events and we just do the boss fight? the way APs are run vary wildly in PbP and based on time factor, GM style and how the adventure is written. I'm currenly running book 2 of Hell's Rebels for a group at Myth-Weavers and I am finding that the sandboxy nature of that Chapter makes PbP almost impossible as the city concept gives an overwhelming amount of options and tangents to the PCs. The dungeon crawl part of this book also took us almost three months in F2F gaming at the rate of one game a week, so in PbP I've decided to severely modify it and narrate sections of it...

PS: I was ready to tally my PPs and figure out if it was the end of Theodric or whether I could ressurect him / send Pathfinder recovery team... but with Glaube casting Heal on him, and Devko, Theo and Harsk still shooting away, I don't see these two foes lasting very long either. A big THANK YOU to you for running this, and rescuing this game from the GM whose real life got in the way of finishing this, and a big THANK YOU to Glaube for patching Theodric up, Devko for dancing the night away, Harsk for patiently reloading his crossbow over and over again, and Brother Theo for shining a searing light on most situations. I've had a blast guys, and look forward to continue this at a later time if GM Batpony is up to it! :)

Best regards.

Theodric / PDK

I'm ok with wrapping it up here. Thanks for running this!! What levels are book 6?

Thanks for GMing this, Batpony! I'm ok with however you wish to wrap this up. :)

Thank you for running this one. That has been the most undead I have fought in all the adventures I have played Brother Theo in PFS.

Book 5 is 14-16, and Book 6 is 15-17! Let me know if you guys will be likely within tier by September. Also anyone heading to Gencon?

Chronicles are here! Also, I don't think we've done dayjob rolls so I left it blank.

I will go to GenCon, but not GMing PFS/SFS for me this year and only friday to sunday.

Day Job Perform (Dance): 1d20 + 21 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 21 + 1 = 42

There is few chances that Devko will get that high without playing something to get him to 14th.

Anyway, thank you very much GM for GMing for us!

I am out of the running for book 5 and 6. Thank you once again for running it.

Dayjob Profession Chirurgeon: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (20) + 13 = 33

Theodric might not be level 14 by September, but I'm hoping he will one day. Are you open to running this later on?

Dayjob Intimidate: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (9) + 17 = 26

Yeah! Most definitely, I'll be running book 3&4 for another group likely, so maybe by the time they end we'll have a fair group within tier.

I will be running the morning sessions for PF2 academy (Thu-Sat) at gencon, so do drop by!

Would you guys like me to update your chronicles with dayjob or do you want to note it in yourselves?

day job hunting lodge survival: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (1) + 20 = 21

I can't make it to GenCon again this year. I haven't been since 2015. Maybe one day again!

Would you guys like me to update your chronicles with dayjob or do you want to note it in yourselves?

Don't worry I'll do it myself.. or not at all... it's really a drop in the bucket at this level...