What I mean by having my mount guard is that during my 3-hour period I'll be having her help me. I just went and re-read my post and confused myself so I wanted to clarify that. I'm not going to tell my mount to stay awake all night and not get any rest, because that would just be mean. And it would make her less effective as a man-eating horse.
Percival, since we are seeing the tree and we already came across the reference jokes...im doing so again.
"an ancient big life tree, hopefully the evil corporation isn't going to cut it down."
If we cut it down, do we get to meet Tim Curry? If we do, I say screw the forest, I wanna meet Dr. Frank N. Furter.
Don't think so Michael.....
Still, if we survive the snakes, just for the non-sense sake of the situation, i might look up what movies/games have such a beautiful tree threatened by corporations.
Hey guys could you do me a huge favor and update your profiles with info like bonuses to hit and such? Take a look at how Michael and Silas have it done. It makes it easier for me to roll AoO's/Damage and keep combat going smoothly and quickly.
On a related note, how do you guys like combat in this format? Is there anything I could be doing better?
Combat is fine for me.
Combat is working for me as well. Also, I added my more frequent attacks to my stats. I kept having to double check my own profile for it, so I figured that was something that needed to be added there.
If we still have those berries we should use them to tend those hurt by the tatzlwyrns before we reach the hut.
I'm updating my character sheet now, or at least I will when the newest version of Herolab's Pathfinder rules finishes downloading, and I need to know what loot was put to use from the Tatzlwyrms and what wasn't so that I can get everything right for the improvised party loot sack.
I figure since I've got a mount, I can carry the stuff at the very least.
I took the bow, I think the other stuff is unassigned, although Hecktor may have the ring.
Just an FYI, my posting may become a bit slower and more erratic over the next week. I'm going on vacation starting Saturday night. I'll try to make sure that I keep at least a single post a day, but I'm not sure if I'll have access to a computer, and posting using a cell phone is tedious work.
NP Michael, I'll move you if we are waiting. Let me know when your back.
It struck me looking at Niles' map, we are one melee heavy party! Mechanically I slightly regret giving up inspire courage, although I love the RP aspects of Satire.
If you guys are wanting to loot the place, then we can smash the cauldron, loot the place, and then burn it. But I highly doubt we're going to find anything if we just grab whatever's in reach before running and torching the place.
I think Silas would find a spot of Cauldron smashing cathartic.
Mind you if it has hardness 10 (it is metal...) he probably can't damage it anyway!
Slashing it won't be effective either. Either something firm and blunt. Though torching the place may remove the possession over the cauldron. But don't quote me on that, i'm just guessing a possible scenario.
If it just has hardness, and not damage reduction, then slashing should work fine.
But I have a hard time believing that a module for level 1 would throw something with hardness 10 at us, because level 1's just wouldn't be able to reliably do damage to it. Maybe if it has an AC of around 10 and we're hitting it reliably it could have a hardness of 10, but even then it would be a pretty tough fight if it had more than 15 hp because we'd be dealing maybe 1 damage per hit. For a group of 4 people, that's at least 4 rounds of combat. If the hit against Silas is anything to go by, 4 rounds of combat provides ample opportunity for at least one PC to go down.
I've got no doubt that this is supposed to be a hard fight, since it's at one of the 3 things we absolutely need to get, but I don't figure it's supposed to be a TPK without a lot of failed rolls on our end. I think hardness 10 would put this fight as being an almost guaranteed TPK. But then again, maybe we aren't supposed to fight it and we're supposed to run like our current plan seems to be.
Maybe I've tweaked it and given it extra abilities to match a 6 player party =P
FYI, it has hardness 5 not hardness 10, its old and rusty.
@Lucanor Silas can't move out of the hut right now, his path is blocked which is why I had the complex if X happens do Y setup.
NP. that's why he said 'if you can' as well as 'when you can'. He's worried about our battered bardic buddy ;)
Niles, i'm on vacation from the 13th of september until 23rd. I am unsure if there is any wifi. Just saying this in advance, and near that time again.
Where you guys at? No posts in almost 24 hours......
We're almost done with the module, just a few more encounters to go!
Also, if you guys don't like the way I'm doing something please let me know via this board or PM.
Nah, no problems here. If there had been problems they'd likely had been commented on earlier.
Sorry GM, I tend to let others take the lead when it gets to the point of "Door number 1 is made of oak, with jackal tracks! Door number 3 smells of kerosene. Horrible laughter is coming behind door number 2!" I'll try and pick things up. Liking the campaign fine so far.
I'm going to speculate on this, i think the ???? is the spider we ticked off previously or a buddy from the dead guy who maybe was in hiding.
I checked the website of the hotel i'll be staying at for my vacation in 2 weeks. It has internet.
I'm also going on holiday in 2 weeks, no idea if the apartment has WiFi or not. Will ask the wife.
Re-did the turn to throw a bomb instead of a dart, didn't quite understand how people had moved. Is that a problem?
Percival, only if you set us on fire. :)
I return from my vacation, and now I'm working on reading the 50-ish new posts that I missed. Apparently Sprint has next to no coverage around Myrtle Beach, SC and I didn't have internet where I was staying so I've got a lot of catching up to do.
Sorry about that.
So how was the vacation michael?
Oh man, it was absolutely wonderful. Sunny days all week, staying at the best house I've ever been in, and all told the entire trip cost me less than $400. It was a whole-family vacation to a house that was owned by a friend who probably makes more in a day or two than all of us make in a month.
The house was in a gated community, right beside a golf course, and was only a 15 minute golf cart ride from the beach itself. But I didn't bother going to the beach at all because the house had a heated salt water pool and connected hot tub. On the other end of the pool was a patio-type area, with a gas-powered fire pit(all the joy of a wood fire pit, none of the hassle!), and a set of granite countertops with a sink, natural gas grill, and a 2-burner gas range. Oh, and there was a full set of outdoor speakers to go with the in-wall speakers in every room of the house.
And did I mention the complimentary BMW 6-series convertible that was parked in the garage? Yea...
Sounds like a modest version of something you'd see in an episode of MTV cribs.
Me and Silas as well are going on vacations. Separate that is to say.
But i'll likely have internet access.
I absolutely hate how limited the mobile versions of google drive/docs are. I downloaded the pdf for the latest AP onto my phone, thinking that I could upload it from there and then view it using my work PC, but it won't let you upload pdfs over mobile. It will only let you upload pictures and text documents.
On the other hand, one thing that I do like about the mobile version is that it lets you create new PDF documents by "scanning" them with your phone. Basically, you take pictures of whatever you're wanting to upload and it converts it to a PDF.
But then it makes me wonder, if they can create and upload a PDF, why the heck can't it upload an already created one?! It makes no sense to me. I also don't really understand why tablets can't modify files. I can kinda understand not being able to modify files using a phone, since the screen is tiny and touchscreens are inherently inaccurate(unless you're something like the Galaxy Note), but tablets have larger screens and can be slightly more accurate. You should at least be able to modify files that you own.
You should be able to edit docs within the drive app.
The more I look at the map, the more I want to clear this place out completely and claim it as my own mini-fortress. Get a dwarven cleric to come in and consecrate the area, bring a repair crew in to fix up the place and maybe add an extra room or two. Definitely need to put up some form of roof over at least part of the courtyard and turn that part into a small stable. Rebuild room 12 into kitchen, room 9 would probably become a common area, room 16 is probably already supposed to be a bedroom.
Yea, I think I can see this place becoming a nice little keep from which to wage my war on everything and everyone. Especially if there's a second story to the place. Maybe I could have the repair crews build one...
Also, I completely, 100%, forgot about the shield sconce that I bought before we left town... I could have been carrying a torch in the thing for this entire time rather than having to rely on light spells. And it doesn't give me any AC penalty or require a free hand. But now I'm about to get into combat and don't have time to dig a torch out of my backpack, light it, and place it in the sconce before I start getting my eyes poked at by monsters. Great. Way to go, memory.
Having a base of operations could be kinda cool.
Firing into melee sucks without the feats :) I wonder if I'd be better off using a long spear?
Once again, the aid another action is always available and was kinda made for these instances. But yes, using a reach weapon in this case would be optimal.
That's true but you have to be in melee range to aid another.
I'll houserule that you have to be within 30'.
O...kay...
So basically we interrupted the warg's daily "session" and killed his lackeys who jumped us. All in a day's work i suppose. :)
I'm unsure if i want to attempt to talk our way out of that one....
So for the sake of it, a roll on weither i should try any social action on the warg.
...not to do.
Well, my fumbled roll may work out for the better! Now we get to kill the things and steal, err... Acquire ourselves a nice little fort. Though, even if it had succeeded I'd say we should come back and kill the things anyways just so we can take the place.
Actually, maybe not kill them. Knock em out, stabilize em, and chain them up as guard wolves. Yea... I like that idea better...
Worgs are cunning evil things, and we did kill a couple of his pack that attacked us, so I kind of doubt diplomacy will work. Mind you the party seem keen to give it a try, so lets assume Silas doesn't use Satire until things go south?
Hrmmm... I suppose we did kill some of his pack. I just didn't realize it because it was one of the combats that happened during my vacation, and I just skimmed those posts for important looking bits. And not only that, but apparently I put the hurt to one of them myself. Oh well.
It's not as if I rolled high enough to make a difference. So combat and destruction it is! I say that once we get them below 0, we stabilize them, tie/chain them up, and then make them pets. We should be able to make some makeshift muzzles with some of my rope, and then we tie their legs so that they can still walk but they get tripped up if they try to run.
Waltz into town bearing not only the cure to the disease, but a pack of wolves and their leader! Talk about a hero's welcome.
The worg i can't train, however on normal animals like dogs, handle animal could be used for training purposes. Maybe wolves who taste defeat can become obedient npc party members?
Needless to say, the worg must die first.
Seems it wants us to do it's dirty work, hoping we'd get ourselves killed or eliminate several rivals, all for the princely sum of a mushroom it doesn't care about. I suspect we should just take the shrooms and defend ourselves if they attack.
I say we agree to do it, then just take as many mushrooms as we want. When he gets mad and attacks, we kill him. In the end, we get what we came for and we don't have to worry about clearing anything out later when we claim this as our home.
It's a win-win!
I'm going on vacation tomorrow morning. I will however, be able to post tomorrow night, if not then the day after that. Wifi&tablet combo ftw.
Ok, cool. If I need I'll post on your behalf but I hope this fight is finished by then.