Gm DevilDoc's Blood Under Absalom Tier 5-6 (Inactive)

Game Master Awenydd83

Hello, all!
Welcome to my table for the special Blood Under Absalom. Please dot in here and in gameplay, and then check out the maps link above. On the first slide, I would appreciate it if you could copy and paste your character avatar for use on the maps, and on the second page you will find the reporting information. Please fill these out as completely as you are able, and I will fill in the gold for the dayjob rolls.

As this is a timed special, please also note below any special quirks, abilities, items, or other such head scratchers you may be inclined to utilize during the game so that we can discuss this prior to them actually coming into play and stalling out the action.

I know several of you from the boards, but for those that I have not gamed with yet, please check my alias profile and read up on my expectations and how I normally handle things. Any questions? By all means, please ask them!

PatheticWretch here...thanks for running this! I have a couple of options for a character here, so I was thinking I'd wait to see what fits best for party composition. Looking forward to it!

Sounds great to me, PW. Glad to have you at my table again!

Oykiv here.

In this subtier I only have this character; Jhon Doe, a swashbuckler.

Daryus al-Kabib (Pendrak) checking in.

I've seen this as well. I have four options so I'm going to probably post when I have a better idea of what else we're running with.

Just to help yall that have yet to decide what character to bring, This is what is listed on the sign up sheet:

Peribras Sandlock: lvl 5 ranger
Jhon Doe: lvl 5 swashbuckler- Checked in
Daryus al-Kabib: lvl 5 Magus- Checked in
3 TBD

Present.

Looking forward to playing with you again DevilDoc. If I recall correctly, you were the GM in the game when my dwarf one-shot that minotaur.

HAHAHAHA Yes! Yes I was.. Very historic and memorable, that one! Glad to have you back. How is old Guntir doing?

Right now he's probably glouring over a mug of ale in a lodge somewhere.

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Hello fellow adventurers!

I like to describe myself as an "adventurer". Melee combatant - level 6, we'll leave it at that.

Hello all, I will be playing a 6th level Dwarven Investigator/Slayer. Alas, my only choice mid-tiers. Pardon the dust, still have to level him up to 6th.

Davorin: when you get some time, could you please put up a tagline for your character?

Was the plan. Was at work and noticed everything was from level 2.

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Ok great. Like I said, no rush! Thank you!

Everything should be updated.

Day Job(Craft(Painting)): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

PW, Caps, Oykiv, Pendrak, and Thereus: Could you please follow the maps link and input your info on the second slide for me please? No hurry, just whenever you get a chance.

profession, thief-catcher: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

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Perform (dance): 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 5 + 1 = 13

I have a boon that gives an extra +1 to day job roles that I applied to Daryus.

As far as tactics, Daryus doesn't do anything too crazy. He likes to get into melee and use shocking grasp when he needs to. He has a wand of enlarge person that he tends to use on the most powerful ally instead of himself, unless he happens to be the highest strength character. If anyone would benefit from invisibility or if the adventure is more stealth geared, I could prepare one or two of those instead of frigid touch.

The adventure covers several days of character time, so you will have an opportunity to prepare spells with a general idea of what is to come. I will say that this is extremely combat oriented.

day job craft alchemy with crafter's fortune: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (13) + 17 = 30

day job perform act: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

But it's posible I'll prefer to spend my time fighting for liberty!!! And checking faction boxes.

I will say that this is extremely combat oriented.

It is set during the events surrounding the Ruby Phoenix fighting tournament if that sets the stage at all.

Daryus: There is a post in Gameplay that gives quite a bit of background on the tournament and history. Maybe that will assist you as well?

At the request of the Overseers and the Powers That Be, I would like to remind you that this is going to be a very fast paced and time oriented game. It has been suggested that all players add in a "if you have to bot me" spoiler either somewhere in your character sheet or leave it here in discussion. I really don't care either way, but some direction would be nice.

Normally, I give a minimum of 24 hrs before I bot a person, and I do my best to play in a way that reflects the characters actions up to that point. Unless I see a very great need (I'm talking completely change the course of battle or save a fellow companion from real death) and have not been told otherwise, I will not use any consumables that you may have on your character.

I will have to be more on the ball with checking in and posting throughout the day, and I ask that each of you post a minimum of once a day as well. I do not know for sure, but I get the feeling from the GM thread that they are not factoring weekends off into the timeline.

13 January is coming up quickly!
Until then, Happy Holidays and may you find happiness and comfort with your family and friends this season.

happy new year to all of you. May the dice be kind to you in 2017!

PW: Have you decided on what character to bring?

It's looking like a healer would be most helpful. I'll use my cleric 5.

Awesome. If you wouldn't mind, please fill out the table on the map link for me!

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Done!

day job take 10: 10 + 6 = 16

I figured with four days left to kickoff at least knowing who I am might be in order. ;-)

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Day job (or as I always say, night job): Perform (dance) 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Very good point, Davorin. Thank you for that!

Question: In a PbP how is this going to work? If we lose rubies every time we see one and don't act immediately, then we're going to have post our perception checks and wait for a response before we take action (location, type of check etc.).

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Adding on to Davorin's query: what sort of action is it to grab a ruby? and is it a free action to make the Perception check to spot one?

That was part 2 of my question. :-)

I think the general question is: what do we exactly need to do to get Rubies (in attempt to speed things up for you).

Sorry for the delay in posting. I expected to catch up over the weekend but spent literally all weekend helping my parents move. I hope to be caught up by the end of tomorrow.

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I am sorry that I was not explicit in this, and to be perfectly honest, the text is not clear on any of your questions. I was also not too clear on my instructions.. I apologize.

The way I interpret this section is that the rubies are still trying to be grabbed up. If you make a DC 20 Perception check, then you find a ruby within sight and reach. It is a standard action to grab one. Yes, I will treat this as drawing or stowing any other item, so be aware of AOO's.

So:
Free action to make perception check
Meet the DC and you see a ruby
You have a choice of trying to grab ruby or doing anything else you wish.
Grabbing/stowing actions will be standard actions as with any other retrieval/stowing action and will be subject to the same rules.

Nope, good with your response. Clear as day and that's all I was hoping for!

So free checks if we have combat reflexes (unfortunately I do not), but beyond that free check, everything is free perception and standard to recover.

So start every round with a perception!

Retrieve an stored item is just a move action http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/coreRulebook/combat.html, so can we in one round:

-Make a perception check, free
-Retrieve the ruby, standard. Risks AoO
-Store it, movement. Risks AoO

So in a lucky round we can catch and keep a ruby?

Edit. I'll wait to post my actions after you check about storing an item, but; can I move over the table with a 5 step or is a move action? (and how much the DC? 24 or 16, I can face the second, but not the first)

We will call an average table roughly 3 feet high, double the DC for no running start= DC 24. If the place wasn't a jam packed as it is, I would consider dropping that by quite a bit, but you literally have no room and are pressed closely together into this room. (We had a term for this in the military that I used at first, but edited it out for PG consumption!)

You have me on the standard/movement actions. You are correct in this.

Yes, in a lucky round you can catch and keep a ruby.. it was just the amount of other actions that you also took that caused the breakdown.

it was just the amount of other actions that you also took that caused the breakdown.

Tried to fix it, and to explain all my actions.

Also Swashbucklers can do a lot of actions, and I going to need to use a some conditionals.

Just doing the rounds - all seems to be going along ok :) Cool stuff!

Re:Military Term - Good to know it's a universal concept.

Something must have happened to the map temporarily. One open I saw Peribras, the next his icon was gone.

It's back again now.

And 18 damage to kill an aspis rogue? Grab more gems!

Well, 18 dmg on top of what was already done to him..

Hey guys. Can you, for a fellow player, do me a favor? When you're posting your attacks, can you also label the dice on damage? Without doing so your roll and damage die type blend into each other with no space , which makes it super hard to read.

Example (replace % for close tag slashes)

[dice=Sword of doom]1d20+10[%dice] [dice=Damage (Adamantine)]1d8+8[℅dice]

It should still fit on one line of output.

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Thank you, Davorin! I was going to leave it alone, but I do agree.. it makes it easier to sort out.

Just to clarify, since I think you got me and Davorin mixed up in the description of the scene (not hard to do, fairly similar names, but it was Davorin who tripped the ronin), is it Daryus or Davorin who has been challenged? And did my 23 to hit miss AC?

My mistake. Your attack hit and davorin is the recipient of the challenge. I will fix it.

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Sorry, last I was here it looked like we were trying to escape so I used obscuring mist. Obviously not what people wanted, so I'll dismiss the spell on my turn, on my phone so can't post.

Unfortunately with everything being difficult terrain, blocking sight in melee isn't going to help us flee and is slowing us down a bit more. If we were being pelted by ranged attackers, it would be a superb spell, but in this instance it's slowing our escape.

Do you have calm emotions or another spell like that? It would likely perform the effect you're looking for as it would get people to stop fighting, and we might be able to make a break for it.